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Nigeria, South Africa vie for Africa’a biggest economy
‘Femi Asu
Nigeria and South Africa, which emerged from recession in the second quarter of this year, are vying for the title of Africa’s biggest economy.
Deciding which African economy will be the biggest at the end of this year will depend on which exchange rate used, Bloomberg showed on a chart.
While the International Monetary Fund reckons Nigeria will come out on top with $395bn of output, it uses an average official exchange rate of N304 per dollar, which few companies or individuals get access to.
Using the market-determined price for the naira, known as Nigerian autonomous foreign exchange, and around 20 per cent weaker than the official one, means Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product will be smaller than South Africa’s $344bn, according to Renaissance Capital.
The Global Chief Economist at Renaissance Capital, Charles Robertson, said in a emailed noted, “GDP per capita has probably bottomed now in Egypt, Nigeria and a fair few others. The next move should be up again as we enter 2018. Nigeria may have lost out to SA in terms of being the largest economy in Africa in 2017 but this SA resurgence won’t last for too long.
“We continue to see Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, Ghana and Kenya as among those best placed to industrialise in the coming years.”
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Theophlus of Antioch
Scripture among the Apologists: Bibliography
January 6, 2017 November 18, 2016 / Jacob J. Prahlow / 1 Comment
Ancient Sources
Eccl. Hist. Eusebius. Ecclesiastical History: The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine. Translated by G. A. Williamson. Revised and edited by Andrew Louth. London: Penguin Books, 1989.
Lives Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men. Translated by Ernest Cushing Richardson. Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Vol. 3. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1892.
CA Josephus. Contra Apionem. Translated by William Whiston. The Works of Flavius Josephus in Four Volumes, Volume IV. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1974.
Dialogue Justin Martyr. Dialogue with Trypho. Translated by Thomas B. Falls. Revised by Thomas P. Halton. Selections from Fathers of the Church, Volume 3. Edited by Michael Slusser. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of American Press, 2003.
Apology –. First Apology. Translated by Leslie William Barnard. Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation 56. New York: Paulist Press, 1997.
Oration Tatian. Address to the Greeks. Translated by J.E. Ryland. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 2. Edited by Roberts, Donaldson, and Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.
Autolycum Theophilus of Antioch. Ad Autolycum. Translated by Robert M. Grant. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.
Acta The Martyrdom of the Holy Martyrs. Translated by Marcus Dods. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1885.
Scripture among the Apologists: Conclusions
This study has examined the manner in which two early Christian apologists, Justin Martyr in his Apology and Theophilus of Antioch in Ad Autolycum, employed written sources in their writings. This study argues that Justin and Theophilus both demonstrated the authority of specifically Christian writings, especially in their use of the Fourth Gospel and implementation of Johannine logos theology. This study also suggested that a contextualized methodology constitutes a necessary component for accurate study of early Christian literature; that Justin and Theophilus employed a wide matrix of scriptural authorities in their writings; and that comparison of Justin and Theophilus underline important similarities and differences between these writers which inform the understanding of second century Christianity. It is the hope of this study to have fulfilled Theophilus’ final dictum in Ad Autolycum, to have read “these books carefully in order that [we] may have a counselor and pledge of the truth.”[ii]
[i] Hagner, 233. [ii] Autolycum 3.30.
Scripture among the Apologists: Differences
Yet there are also considerable differences in these apologists’ approaches to written sources as well. Concerning Greco-Roman sources, while Justin remained primarily Platonic, Theophilus was more influenced by the Sibylline Oracles, Homer, and Hesiod. Justin’s philosophical background and prowess were considerably superior to Theophilus’ training, and Justin’s innovate recasting of Greco-Roman philosophical motifs was more innovate than anything Theophilus had to offer. Continue reading →
Scripture among the Apologists: Similarities
December 30, 2016 November 18, 2016 / Jacob J. Prahlow / 1 Comment
The argument of this paper, that Justin and Theophilus each view specifically Christian writings as useful authorities for the construction of their apologetic works, has already been demonstrated. To more fully engage the considerations of the authority with which these two second century apologists viewed Christian sources, this study now offers a comparative analysis of how these two writers conceived of and employed written sources in the construction of their apologetic theologies, paying special attention to the function of the Gospel of John and Logos for each. Continue reading →
Scripture among the Apologists: Theophilus on Scripture
Theophilus of Antioch clearly found numerous sources valuable for the construction of his apologetic Ad Autolycum, drawing upon numerous Greek, Jewish, and Christian sources in this writing. Especially important for his conception of scripture was the doctrine of the Logos, formed in Hellenistic Judaism and applied by Justin Martyr to Christian apologetics, but in Theophilus developed most clearly from the Gospel of John. This doctrine allowed Theophilus to locate writings inspired by the Logos, whether they were composed by the Sibyl, Moses, Paul, or someone else. The Logos is that with whom Greek philosophy must accord, that who inspired the prophets of Israel, and he who continues to serve God’s salvific nomos.[i] In this sense, Theophilus did not explicitly locate the Logos with any one “person,” but instead focused on the literary personification and work of the Logos, an endeavor with which those seeking God had to bring themselves into accordance. This is an admittedly Jewish way of thinking, leading Grant to posit that Theophilus’ Jewish-Christian perspective ultimately stands behind the later excesses of Antiochene exegetical theology.[ii] Continue reading →
Scripture among the Apologists: Theophilus’s Other Christian Sources
December 26, 2016 November 18, 2016 / Jacob J. Prahlow / 4 Comments
Theophilus also made use of a number of Pauline writings.[i] Evidence is most convincing for reliance on Romans,[ii] 1 Corinthians,[iii] 2 Corinthians,[iv] Philippians,[v] Colossians,[vi] 1 Timothy,[vii] and 2 Timothy.[viii] In addition to these literary connections, Theophilus reflects a broad knowledge of Pauline phraseology, indicated most clearly in his discussion of resurrection in Autolycum 1.8 and critique of idolatry in Autolycum 2.2.[ix] Continue reading →
Scripture among the Apologists: Theophilus’s Use of John
Perhaps the most important Christian writing for Theophilus was the Gospel According to John. There are numerous passages which rely on the Fourth Gospel, including Autolycum 1.4’s reference to the words of Thomas recorded in John 20.27[i] and Autolycum 2.23’s parallelism to John 16.21.[ii] Continue reading →
Scripture among the Apologists: Theophilus’s Christian Sources
Theophilus’ Ad Autolycum has an interesting claim to fame in its use of Christian sources: nowhere do these treatises mention or name the Historical Jesus of Nazareth.[i] While apologetic purposes may help explain this, some have taken this neglect to indicate that Theophilus represented a “Jesus-less” form of heretical Christianity or viewed Jesus as merely a human prophet.[ii] These responses, especially in view of the praise accorded Theophilus by Eusebius and Jerome, likely overstate problems with Theophilus’ theology. With Grant, then, it seems best to think that, “apologetic convention is probably responsible for his failure even to mention the name of Jesus…. But just here we might have expected a successor of Ignatius to escape from convention into religious reality.”[iii] Continue reading →
Scripture among the Apologists: Theophilus’s Jewish Sources
In the Antiochene context, Jews and Christians existed quite comfortably alongside each other until the seventh century.[i] It is not surprising, then, to see that Theophilus’ thought was indebted to Judaism.[ii] The influence of Jewish Sources on Ad Autolycum may be categorized into four classes: Hellenistic Judaistic Thought, Prophetic Materials, Wisdom Literature, and the Cosmogony of Genesis. While Theophilus may have been in contact with the exegetical work of rabbinic schools, it appears more likely that the Jewish elements of his exegesis arise from an encounter with an intellectual form of Hellenistic Judaism. [iii] Theophilus himself notes his reliance on Josephus and he also appears to employ the interpretive practices of Philo at times.[iv] Continue reading →
Scripture among the Apologists: Theophilus’ Greco-Roman Sources
Socrates and Plato
At face value, Theophilus appears to have had extensive training in Greek philosophy and rhetoric, as he draws upon a host of classical sources including Homer, Plato, Euripides, Orpheus, and the Sibyl.[i] Though he presents a plethora of quotes from a variety of philosophical schools of thought, most of his sources and quotations appear reliant upon existing anthologies and handbooks.[ii] Continue reading →
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Aptitude vs. Affluence: Educational Inequality in America’s Most Diverse City
David WilliamsJuly 5, 201800
Inequality in New York City schools have been the focal point of intense debate. Mayor Bill de Blasio is considering scrapping the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT), an SAT-esque examination that allows the highest scorers access to New York’s 8 elite high schools [1]. Many groups, parents, and alumni, particularly Asian-American groups, have expressed outrage at the potential measure because they feel the system will be diluted with less deserving students. Asian-American students make up over 50% of the elite high school system, creating calls for diversity and animus toward standardized tests as a method for determining intelligence.
The controversy around the potential SHSAT repeal is a conversation of socioeconomic status rather than race. Most U.S. school districts rely on local property taxes to fund schools which can lead to maldistributed resources due to fluctuations in household income and net worth as you cross district lines. New York City is a special case due to an extensive academic hierarchy and emphasis on standardized testing. Many students’ futures become tethered to formal examinations before even beginning middle school. Do students who consistently produce higher scores do so because they are gifted?… Or because their parents could afford extracurricular tutoring?
In March 2014 the Civil Rights Project, operating out of the University of California, Los Angeles, or UCLA, released an in-depth report depicting New York City as having the most segregated school system in the country [2]. The report induced a wake-up call to top administrators that greater consideration must be taken to diversify the system’s more promising facilities. New York’s public schools run on the doctrine of school choice, though empirical evidence has shown that when given a choice parents will flock to higher performing schools, ones lacking in diversity amongst the student body [3]. Compounded with increasing gentrification, and academic barriers to entry like SHSAT and the labyrinth-esque nature of the NYC school system, make access to a quality education difficult for low-income students.
Defenders of the SHSAT and the existing placement system argue that the students being placed into the system have earned their place through rigorous study and commitment to education. Juxtaposed with the feelings of SHSAT detractors who feel that they lack the resources to adequately prepare their children for the daunting exam. The vendetta here is that of aptitude vs. affluence.
Why You Should Care:
The New York City school system is the largest in the nation and some might say the most complex. Typically parents would just enroll their children into a school that is an acceptable distance away and fits the appropriate age range, ‘admission’ was a word saved for after high school. However, in New York admission begins in middle school with parents scrambling to prepare their children for the hyper-competitive system starting from 5th grade.
NYC middle schools admit students on a vast array of criteria from report cards to attendance records [4], with higher performing schools stratified to the wealthier areas of the city. Parents who are financially capable often hire counselors and firms to track deadlines, organize binders of records and extracurricular work, and prepare applications. Working and middle-class parents have to rely on online bulletins and the limited amount of school counselors that are available and hope that their child gets a seat. High school is even more competitive with most parents vying to send their children to schools that outperform their district of residence, creating a massive influx of applications to a select few seats leaving many students and parents disillusioned and underserved. Anyone who has done even a modicum of research into higher education knows that the high school you attend can carry great weight on a college admissions application. Per example, a student with a 3.5 Grade Point Average from a challenging high school is far more attractive than a 3.8 from a low performing one. The paramount importance of secondary education has polarized the population:
SHSAT supporters believe:
System promotes meritocracy
Removing test will dilute schools
Schools will suffer academically
Will disincentivize hard work
SHSAT opponents posit:
System promotes aristocracy
Diversity will improve campus composition
Upward social mobility will help minorities
More low-income students will have access to quality education
When UCLA released its initial report the city unveiled a“diversity plan” [5] which called for more admissions transparency and establishing ethnic quotas on certain student bodies. If passed, the test will be discontinued and student admission to the top high schools will be based on middle school grades, state examinations, and various criteria in order to create a more ‘holistic’ process. This system is flawed because grades and standardized test scores may fall into the same socioeconomic stratification as the SHSAT and give more admissions control to these schools may serve to worsen the lack of diversity.
. NYC schools should use their resources to establish a testing support unit to allow low-income students to have similar access to test preparation as more well of students.
Metrics to measure academic capability are inherently complex and often prove to be unreliable, however, standardized exams can create a level playing field if all other factors are equal. Additionally, specialized support should have a similar income threshold such as the free or reduced lunch price system to ensure that resources have a progressive effect on the student body. Next, the New York Department of education should make its system less intimidating and drop words like ‘admission’ when not referring to college. They should also make an appoint increase per-student spending in lower income areas to reduce competition.
Given the myriad of factors that a student can be assessed on standardized testing as a good strategy to differentiate between candidates and give everyone a fair chance to compete. But this competition can never be fair if some receive a head start or additional help along the way. Equal access is the only way to preserve a truly meritocratic education system, one where placement is solely dependent on scholastic aptitude and not familial affluence.
Do you believe the SHSAT should remain? Sign up here- https://change.org/p/carl-heastie-keep-shsat-as-the-sole-specialized-high-school-admissions-criterion
Want to see better preparation for the SHSAT? Track and support this bill- https://nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/s8212
Want a more in-depth examination of NYC inequality? Sample this article- https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/ny-norflet-report-placeholder/Kucsera-New-York-Extreme-Segregation-2014.pdf
Want a guide to the specialized high school system? Read this handbook- http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/39E5EC65-FA08-4A2A-91AD-9F7334670B3D/0/20172018SpecializedHighSchoolsStudentHandbookENGLISH.pdf
“Blasio Proposal Slammed” Spectrum News NY 1, accessed June 26, 2018. http://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2018/06/05/nyc-parents-alumni-asian-american-groups-slam-bill-de-blasio-push-to-scrap-shsat
“New York’s Extreme School Segregation: Inequality, Inaction, and a Damaged Future”, The Civil Rights Project, accessed June 26, 2018. https://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/ny-norflet-report-placeholder
“New York’s Separate and Unequal Schools”, The Nation, accessed June 26, 2018. https://thenation.com/article/new-yorks-separate-and-unequal-schools/
“Middle Schools”, Inside Schools, accessed June 26, 2018. https://insideschools.org/middle/how-to-apply
“Country’s largest segregated school system-” Chalk Beat, accessed June 26, 2018. https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2017/06/06/the-countrys-largest-school-system-and-one-of-the-most-segregated-just-released-its-school-diversity-plan-here-are-the-highlights/
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May 2, 1919 (died Jan 1, 2000)
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Location: Rushall Primary School / Educational Development Centre (EDC)
Project Works: New boiler house and replacement distribution pipework for the EDC and the refurbishment of the existing boiler house for the school.
Project Value: £900k
Project Duration: 62 weeks
Authorities Involved: Solihull Council and Walsall Council
Lead Partner: Dodd Group
The work carried out at Rushall Primary School and EDC was to install a new plant room as well as refurbish an existing one and replacing distribution pipework at the EDC.
Originally the whole building (EDC and Rushall Primary School) were served from one centralised plant room. New heating distribution pipework was installed throughout EDC; the existing pipework was stripped out where feasible.
A new water meter and gas enclosure were formed in the original boiler house to serve both the EDC and the primary school.
When the work in the EDC was complete, the main boiler house was refurbished to serve the Primary School.
The team involved with the work were highly professional, ensuring timescales were met.
"The work was carried out throughout the summer holidays, which as a result did not impact on the children's learning. The team involved with the work were highly professional, ensuring timescales were met. Timescales were extremely important, to ensure there was no disruption to the school. The management team worked effectively to liaise with us and the EDC, clearly communicating timescales throughout the project. I would like to thank the whole team for their hard work and professionalism throughout the project."
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Chineseness at the crossroads: Negotiations of Chineseness and the politics of liminality in diasporic Chinese women's lives in Australia
Meerwald, Agnes May Lin (2002) Chineseness at the crossroads: Negotiations of Chineseness and the politics of liminality in diasporic Chinese women's lives in Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University.
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Chineseness at the crossroads examines how Chineseness is negotiated by diasporic Chinese women in Australia. I question the essentialist notions of Chineseness by deploying Homi Bhabha's theory of liminality. This concept of being neither here nor there helped me examine the women's ambiguous experiences of acceptance and rejection, within and across marginal and dominant Australian circles. My position disrupts the binaric frames that divide the old from the new, and the eastern from the western practices for cultural appropriation. It recognises instead the past and the present in the creation of new but familiar versions of Chineseness.
I argue that essentialist norms are commuilicated through cultural semantics to inform how Chineseness is rehearsed. I assert that liminality exposes the power structures that inform these cultural semantics by disrupting the naturalised norms. I posit that the diasporic women's awareness of these interdependent processes enables them to question their practices and ideologies.
I used an autoethnographic technique to collapse the divide between the researcher and the researched. It created a liminal space between the researcher and the researched. This subverted norms of the researcher as the archaeologist of knowledge by enabling the other women's narratives to tell their stories alongside mine. This methodological frame also serves as a prism to examine the intersections of gender, sexuality, family, relationships, language, education, class, age, and religion with Chineseness in the lives of the 39 Malaysian and Singaporean women interviewed.
My results indicate that Chineseness is precarious and indeterminate, and specific to the particular moments of articulation at the crossroads of geopolitical and socioeconomic factors. The versions of Chineseness rehearsed are complexly influenced by the various cultural semantics that impact on the women's negotiations of who they are as diasporic Chinese women in Australia. I conclude with a discussion of how these results challenge current curriculum and pedagogical practices in English classrooms. I argue that a re-examination of these practices will contribute to a more inclusive Australia.
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US9253175B1 - Authentication of computing devices using augmented credentials to enable actions-per-group - Google Patents
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2013-04-30 Application filed by Marvell International Ltd filed Critical Marvell International Ltd
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In one or more embodiments, attributes other than a supplicant's MAC address can be used for the user name in the authentication process in a network computing environment. In at least some embodiments, doing so utilizes an association structure, such as a table, that is already resident at the authentication server. By using attributes other than a supplicant's MAC address, various matching scenarios can be provided by the authentication server in which authentication or authorization takes place responsive to satisfying conditions defined in the authentication server's association or database. Furthermore, a variety of non-authentication scenarios can be supported using the authentication server's association.
RELATED APPLICATION
The present disclosure is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/101,668, filed Apr. 11, 2008, which claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119(e) to U.S. Provisional Patent App. No. 60/911,383, filed Apr. 12, 2007 the disclosures of which are both incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
IEEE 802.1x is an IEEE standard for port-based Network Access Control and provides authentication to devices attached to a LAN port. This standard can work in connection with wired or wireless LAN networks and provides authentication for establishing point-to-point connections or preventing access from a particular port if authentication fails.
FIG. 1 illustrates a typical 802.1x environment 100. Environment 100 can include various computing devices such as a printer 102, computer 104, and/or any other type of computing device 106. Generally, computing devices such as computing device 106 include one or more processors, one or more computer readable media, and one or more applications than are executable by the processor(s). Environment 100 also includes an authenticator 108 having a plurality of ports 110 through which a connection to various computing devices can be made.
Environment 100 also includes an authentication server 112 (e.g., a RADIUS server) and various network-accessible resources 114. The authenticator 108, authentication server 112, and network-accessible resources 114 are communicatively linked via a suitable network diagrammatically represented at 116.
Generally, computing devices wishing to access network-accessible resources 114 are authenticated by the authentication server 112. The computing devices typically include what is known as supplicant software which enables communication with authenticator 108 and authentication server 112. There are different ways for a computing device (or supplicant) to be authenticated by the authentication server 112. A common, but not exclusive, way for authentication is as follows. When a new supplicant is detected, as by connecting with a port 110 on authenticator 108, the authenticator 108 sends an Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Request/Identity packet to the supplicant. At this point, the port 110 to which the supplicant is connected is in an “unauthorized” state. When the supplicant receives the EAP Request/Identity packet, the supplicant prepares and returns an EAP Response packet to the authenticator 108. This EAP Response packet or other subsequent communication with the authenticator 108 and/or authentication server 112 can include a set of credentials, e.g., a user name and password (or other information) for the associated supplicant. In many cases, the user name and password are the Media Access Control (MAC) address of the supplicant.
When the authenticator 108 receives the EAP Response packet, the authenticator 108 forwards the packet to the authentication server 112. The authentication server and the supplicant can then carry out a challenge/response dialog until the server decides to allow or deny the supplicant access. For example, the authentication server 112 can maintain a table that provides a mapping between user names and passwords. The authentication server 112 then looks up the user name and password in the table and can accept or reject the authentication attempt. If the authentication attempt is accepted, the authenticator 108 will set the associated port 110 to an “authorized” mode and allow normal traffic. Normal traffic can include allowing the supplicant access to the network-accessible resources 114.
One problem with the above-discussed authentication process pertains to the global nature by which a supplicant is authenticated. Specifically, by globally authenticating a supplicant based on the supplicant's MAC address (and/or any other information provided), the supplicant can access network-accessible resources from any authorized port.
This Summary is provided to introduce subject matter that is further described below in the Detailed Description and Drawings. Accordingly, the Summary should not be considered to describe essential features nor used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter.
In one or more embodiments, a method comprises storing, in a first network device, an association including a mapping between one or more user names entries and one or more passwords, the one or more user names entries being a name other than a MAC address associated with one or more second network devices to be authenticated by the first network device; and using the association to authenticate the one or more second network devices.
In yet other embodiments, a system comprises an authentication server; and an association associated with the authentication server, wherein the association provides a mapping between one or more user name entries and one or more passwords, the one or more user name entries comprising entries other than a MAC address of a network device to be authenticated by the authentication server, wherein the association is configured to be used by the authentication server to authenticate one or more network devices.
The same numbers are used throughout the drawings to reference like features.
FIG. 1 illustrates an example 802.1x environment.
FIG. 2 illustrates an example 802.1x environment in accordance with one or more embodiments.
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram that describes steps a method in accordance with one or more embodiments.
FIGS. 5-12 illustrate example devices in accordance with one or more embodiments.
In one or more embodiments, attributes other than a supplicant's MAC address can be used for the user name in the authentication process in a network computing environment—e.g., an 802.1x environment. In at least some embodiments, doing so utilizes an association structure, such as a table, that is already resident at the authentication server. By using attributes other than a supplicant's MAC address, various matching scenarios can be provided by the authentication server in which authentication or authorization takes place responsive to satisfying conditions defined in the authentication server's association or database. Furthermore, a variety of non-authentication scenarios can be supported using the authentication server's association.
In the discussion that follows, a section entitled “Using the Port ID of a Port for Authentication” is provided and describes one example operating environment in which one or more embodiments can be employed. Following this, a section entitled “Authentication and Other Operations Using Other Information” is provided and describes various extensions in accordance with one or more embodiments. Last, a section entitled “Example Devices” provides a description of some example devices that can utilize the embodiments described below.
Using the Port ID of a Port for Authentication
In one or more embodiments, a port ID (e.g., “E17”) of an authenticator is used as a user name that is communicated to an authentication server. A password associated with the user name can include any suitable password such as the MAC address of a supplicant. As an example, consider FIG. 2 which illustrates an example 802.1x environment 200 in accordance with one or more embodiments.
Environment 200 can include various computing devices—e.g., a printer 202, computer 204, and/or any other type of computing device 206. Typically, computing devices that can utilize the principles described herein include any network-capable device with a CPU or microcontroller. Networks can include, by way of example and not limitation, Ethernet networks or 802.11 WiFi Wireless LANS. Examples of computing devices include, by way of example and not limitation, personal computers, personal digital assistants, smart-phones with data-capability, network-attached storage, services and data-servers (including multimedia servers, set-top boxes, DMAs and DMSs), network-attached consumer electronic devices, VoIP end-units and PBX's, Webcams, Net-enabled security devices, remote sensors, printers, plotters, digitizers, and a variety of other devices. Generally, computing devices such as computing device 206 include one or more processors, one or more computer readable media, and one or more applications than are executable by the processor(s). Environment 200 also includes an authenticator 208 having a plurality of ports 210 through which a connection to various computing devices can be made. In one embodiment, each of the ports 210 has a corresponding port ID, e.g., E1, E2 and the like.
In this particular example, authentication server 212 maintains or otherwise has access to a table 218 which provides an association between user names and passwords. The table 218 can be stored in a database or memory (not shown) that is accessible by the authentication server 212. In one example, individual entries in the user name column reside in the form of a port ID associated with a particular port on authenticator 208. Specifically, in this example, two entries in the user name column are “E1” and “E2”. Notice also that in the password column, MAC addresses (i.e., “MAC X”) of a supplicant are provided. In this case, table 218 provides a mapping between port IDs and MAC addresses.
Now, when a particular supplicant having a particular MAC address connects to a port on authenticator 208, the authenticator 208 can send an associated port ID and MAC address to the authentication server 212 for authentication. In this way, specific supplicants can be limited to specific ports on the authenticator 208. So, in the present example, if a supplicant corresponding to MAC address “MAC X” attempts to connect to the authentication server 212 using a port other than “E1” or “E2”, authentication will fail. Alternately, the same supplicant connected through either of ports “E1” or “E2” will be successfully authenticated. By associating a particular port with a device and using the association as a basis for authentication, the problem of global authentication can be mitigated. Moreover, this approach is a better approach than configuring MAC-to-Port associations on the switch itself because this can be implemented in a central server rather than repeated in each switch. In addition, the methodology described above and below can enable scenarios such as using the same MAC as a password for two user names. In this case, a user can log in on any of the ports defined, but not in any other ports.
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram that describes steps in a method in accordance with one or more embodiments. The method can be implemented in connection with any suitable hardware, software, firmware, or combination thereof. In at least some embodiments, the steps can be implemented by a suitably configured authentication server operating in a network computing environment—e.g., 802.1x environment.
Step 300 provides an association, such as a table that includes a mapping between user names and passwords. The association can comprise any suitable association such as a general rule for users, a line-item per interface (e.g., per port, per-vlan) and the like. Step 302 provides, for the association, one or more user name entries other than a MAC address of an associated supplicant. One example of a user name entry other than a MAC address is the port ID of an associated port on an authenticator. Other user name entries can be used, as will become apparent below.
Step 304 provides, for the association, a password for an associated user name entry. Any suitable password can be provided. In at least some embodiments, the password comprises the MAC address of an associated supplicant.
Authentication and Other Operations Using Other Information
In one or more embodiments, information other than a port ID of an associated authenticator can be used as the user name. For example, typically authenticators have an associated IP address, a system name, a type, and/or a location. Each one of these items or a concatenation of two or more items can be used as a user name. For example, if location is used as a user name along with a particular MAC address for a supplicant, then authentication will only occur for the supplicant associated with the MAC address at the particular location identified by the user name. Thus, if the location specifies a particular building, then the associated supplicant will only be able to be authenticated when it is physically located in that building.
In yet other embodiments, a user name can include information such as a VLAN-ID, wild cards, or TLVs (Type/Length/Value sets) so that authentication can be extended to more than single ID cases. Including VLAN-ID information in a user name can allow actions-per-group, instead of just actions-per-single device. For example, if a VLAN-ID is sent, the same action can be applied to any and all devices assigned to the VLAN-ID. With respect to wild cards, a common action can be applied to any device assigned to a VLAN whose ID# starts with or otherwise includes a particular wild card or whose location code starts with or otherwise includes a particular wild card. With respect to TLVs, combinations of several attributes can be sent at once and a decision can be made for the attribute combination instead of being limited to a single ID. For example, a decision can be made for combination of which VLAN and which building (from location), or location and time-of-day. As an alternative to using a TLV, cycles of one ID string at a time can be sent, but can be repeated several times. A combination of answers received for the cycle can then be used for the whole group. Further, in at least some embodiments, encoding can be used to provide more robust information in the user name. For example, a DSA-TAG-like structure can be used to pass information associated with ingress interface (e.g. by which port/aggregated-link the frame came into the system), tagged/not (e.g. whether a frame was tagged with a VLAN ID when it was received into the system), LAG/Not (Link Aggregation Group) and the like. A DSA tag, which stands for “Distributed Switching Architecture” tag is a tag that is attached to frames that carry bit-encoded meta-attributes about an associated message to which it is attached. Such tags use a convention that can identify types which, in turn, identify information encoded in each bit or group of bits.
In one or more embodiments, the above-described approach can be used to not only allow access to a particular network, but for other purposes as well. For example, the above-described table mechanism can be used to enable or disable a particular resource such as a VLAN, or for quality of service issues. For example, a “question” can be sent to the server in the form of a pair of strings. Depending on the “answer” (e.g., “yes” or “no”), this answer can be used to enable/disable resources, or as a trigger to invoke configuration changes by suitable logic, including applying security and/or quality of service. Furthermore, other non-authentication scenarios can be supported using the above-described approach. For example, the above-described approach can be used for calling events. Consider, for example, an event called “weekend”. In this case, a fictitious user name (i.e., “weekend”) and password can be provided to the authentication server and can be used to ascertain whether the authentication server should enter into a weekend mode or not. This would avoid having to tell each authenticator to enter a weekend mode. Further, the above-described approach can be used to refine access such as by defining particular times of day that network resources can be accessed. For example, a string that is derived from the time of day can be sent to the server. The server can then make a decision based upon received information that includes the time of day.
In one or more embodiments, the above-described approach can be used in the context of 802.1x-aware devices that communicate with the authentication server using normal 802.1x protocols. However, leveraging the above-described approach can also allow for modifications that define how particular devices are allowed to interact with network-accessible resources. For example, an 802.1x-aware device may be authenticated to the system using its MAC address as both the user name and password. Additionally, however, table entries associated with that particular MAC address can define conditions associated with that device's interactions with the system. For example, there may be a table entry that indicates that for a particular device having a MAC address, access on the weekend is disallowed.
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram that describes steps in a method in accordance with one or more embodiments. The method can be implemented in connection with any suitable hardware, software, firmware, or combination thereof. In at least some embodiments, the steps can be implemented by a suitably configured authentication server operating in an 802.1x environment.
Step 400 provides an association, such as a table, that includes a mapping between user names and passwords. Examples of associations are provided above. Step 402 receives a user name entry other than a MAC address of a supplicant. Step 404 receives a password for the associated user name entry. Step 406 performs an operation based on the user name entry and its associated password.
In one or more embodiments, the operation performed at step 406 can be an authentication-related operation or one that is not associated with authentication. For example, as described above, an authentication-related operation can include authenticating a particular supplicant relative to a particular port ID, where the port ID is used as the user name and a supplicant's MAC address is used as the password. Alternately or additionally, different user names can be used to impart different types of functionality to the 802.1x environment. For example, using a user name in the form of an IP address in association with a MAC address as the password can enforce an IP-to-MAC association. Yet other user names can be used to define how and/or when a particular supplicant can interact with network-accessible resources.
Having now considered various embodiments, consider now a discussion of various types of devices that can utilize the inventive features described above. These examples constitute examples of devices, such as those shown in FIG. 2 at 202, 204 and 206 that can utilize the described embodiments. Other devices can be utilized without departing from the scope of the claimed subject matter.
Example Devices
Referring now to FIGS. 5-12, various example implementations of receiver environments are shown. The various receiver environments can utilize the techniques described above.
Referring to FIG. 5, a device may be embodied in a hard disk drive (HDD) 500 and may compromise part of its signal processing and/or control circuits which are generally identified at 502. In some implementations, signal processing and/or control circuit 502 and/or other circuits (not shown) in HDD 500 may process data, perform coding, decoding and/or encryption, perform calculations, and/or format data that is output to and/or received from a magnetic storage medium 506.
HDD 500 may communicate with a host device (not shown) such as a computer, mobile computing devices such as personal digital assistants, cellular phones, media or MP3 players and the like, and/or other devices via one or more wired or wireless communication links 508. HDD 500 may be connected to memory 509, such as random access memory (RAM), a low-latency nonvolatile memory such as flash memory, read only memory (ROM) and/or other suitable electronic data storage.
Referring now to FIG. 6, a device may be embodied in a digital versatile disc (DVD) drive 600 and may comprise part of its signal processing and/or control circuits, which are generally identified at 602. DVD drive 600 includes mass data storage 604, memory 606 and optical storage medium 608. Signal processing and/or control circuit 602 and/or other circuits (not shown) in DVD drive 600 may process data, perform coding, decoding and/or encryption, perform calculations, and/or format data that is read from and/or data written to an optical storage medium 608. In some implementations, signal processing and/or control circuit 602 and/or other circuits (not shown) in DVD drive 600 can also perform other functions such as encoding and/or decoding and/or any other signal processing functions associated with a DVD drive.
DVD drive 600 may communicate with an output device (not shown) such as a computer, television, or other device via one or more wired or wireless communication links 610. DVD drive 600 includes mass data storage 604 that stores data in a nonvolatile manner. Mass data storage 604 may include a hard disk drive (HDD) such as that shown in FIG. 5. The HDD may be a mini HDD that includes one or more platters having a diameter that is smaller than approximately 1.8″. DVD drive 600 may be connected to memory 606, such as RAM, ROM, low latency nonvolatile memory such as flash memory, and/or other suitable electronic data storage.
Referring now to FIG. 7, a device may be embodied in a high definition television (HDTV) 700 and may be implemented in either or both signal processing and/or control circuits, which are generally identified at 702, a wireless local area network (WLAN) interface 710 and/or mass data storage 706 of the HDTV 700. HDTV 700 receives HDTV input signals in either a wired or wireless format and generates HDTV output signals for a display 704. In some implementations, signal processing circuit and/or control circuit 702 and/or other circuits (not shown) of HDTV 700 may process data, perform coding, decoding and/or encryption, perform calculations, format data, and/or perform any other type of HDTV processing that may be required.
HDTV 700 may include mass data storage 706, which stores data in a nonvolatile manner such as optical and/or magnetic storage devices. At least one magnetic storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 5 and/or at least one optical storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 6. The magnetic storage device may be a mini HDD that includes one or more platters having a diameter that is smaller than approximately 1.8″. HDTV 700 may also include memory 708 such as RAM, ROM, low latency nonvolatile memory such as flash memory and/or other suitable electronic data storage. HDTV 700 also may support connections with a WLAN via a WLAN interface 710.
Referring now to FIG. 8, a device may be implemented as part of a communication system of a vehicle 800, a WLAN interface 818 and/or mass data storage 814 of the vehicle control system. In some implementations, a powertrain control system 802 receives inputs from one or more sensors 804 such as temperature sensors, pressure sensors, rotational sensors, airflow sensors, and/or any other suitable sensors that generate one or more output control signals 806, such as engine operating parameters, transmission operating parameters, braking parameters, and/or other control signals.
A device can be embodied in other control systems 808 of vehicle 800. Control system 808 may likewise receive signals from input sensors 810 and/or output control signals 812 to one or more output devices. In some implementations, control system 808 may be part of an anti-lock braking system (ABS), a navigation system, a telematics system, a vehicle telematics system, a lane departure system, an adaptive cruise control system, a vehicle entertainment system such as a stereo, DVD, compact disc, and the like. Still other implementations are contemplated.
Powertrain control system 802 may include mass data storage 814 that stores data in a nonvolatile manner. Mass data storage 814 may include optical and/or magnetic storage devices, for example, hard disk drives and/or DVD drives. At least one magnetic storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 5 and/or at least one optical storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 6. The magnetic storage device may be a mini HDD that includes one or more platters having a diameter that is smaller than approximately 1.8″. Powertrain control system 802 may be connected to memory 816 such as RAM, ROM, low latency nonvolatile memory such as flash memory, and/or other suitable electronic data storage. Powertrain control system 802 also may support connections with a WLAN via a WLAN interface 818. The control system 808 may also include mass data storage, memory, and/or a WLAN interface (all not shown).
Referring now to FIG. 9, the device may be embodied in a cellular phone 900 that may include a cellular antenna 902. The receiver may be implemented in connection with either or both signal processing and/or control circuits, which are generally identified in at 904, a WLAN interface 918, and/or mass data storage of the cellular phone 900. In some implementations, cellular phone 900 includes a microphone 906, an audio output 908 such as a speaker and/or audio output jack, a display 910 and/or an input device 912 such as a keypad, pointing device, voice actuation, and/or other input device. Signal processing and/or control circuits 904 and/or other circuits (not shown) in cellular phone 900 may process data, perform coding, decoding and/or encryption, perform calculations, format data, and/or perform other cellular phone functions.
Cellular phone 900 may include mass data storage 914, which stores data in a nonvolatile manner such as optical and/or magnetic storage devices, for example, hard disk drives and/or DVD drives. At least one magnetic storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 5 and/or at least one optical storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 6. The magnetic storage device may be a mini HDD that includes one or more platters having a diameter that is smaller than approximately 1.8″. Cellular phone 900 may be connected to memory 916 such as RAM, ROM, low latency nonvolatile memory such as flash memory, and/or other suitable electronic data storage. Cellular phone 900 also may support connections with a WLAN via WLAN interface 918.
Referring now to FIG. 10, a device may be embodied in a set top box 1000, which may be implemented by either or both signal processing and/or control circuits, which are generally identified at 1002, a WLAN interface 1010, and/or mass data storage 1006 of the set top box 1000. Set top box 1000 receives signals from a source such as a broadband source and outputs standard and/or high definition audio/video signals suitable for a display 1004 such as a television and/or monitor and/or other video and/or audio output devices. Signal processing and/or control circuits 1002 and/or other circuits (not shown) of the set top box 1000 may process data, perform coding, decoding and/or encryption, perform calculations, format data, and/or perform any other set top box function.
Set top box 1000 may include a mass data storage 1006 that stores data in a nonvolatile manner. Mass data storage 1006 may include optical and/or magnetic storage devices, for example, hard disk drives and/or DVD drives. At least one magnetic storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 5 and/or at least one optical storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 6. The magnetic storage device may be a mini HDD that includes one or more platters having a diameter that is smaller than approximately 1.8″. Set top box 1600 may be connected to memory 1008 such as RAM, ROM, low latency nonvolatile memory such as flash memory and/or other suitable electronic data storage. Set top box 1000 also may support connections with a WLAN via WLAN interface 1010.
Referring now to FIG. 11, a device may be embodied in a media player 1100 and may be implemented in connection with either or both signal processing and/or control circuits, which are generally identified at 1102, a WLAN interface 1114, and/or mass data storage 1110 of the media player 1100. In some implementations, media player 1100 includes a display 1104 and/or a user input 1106 such as a keypad, touchpad, and the like. In some implementations, media player 1100 may employ a graphical user interface (GUI) that typically employs menus, drop down menus, icons, and/or a point-and-click interface via display 1104 and/or user input 1106. Media player 1100 further includes an audio output 1108 such as a speaker and/or audio output jack. Signal processing and/or control circuits 1102 and/or other circuits (not shown) of media player 1100 may process data, perform coding, decoding and/or encryption, perform calculations, format data, and/or perform any other media player function.
Media player 1100 may include mass data storage 1110 that stores data such as compressed audio and/or video content in a nonvolatile manner. In some implementations, the compressed audio files include files that are compliant with MP3 format or other suitable compressed audio and/or video formats. The mass data storage may include optical and/or magnetic storage devices, for example, hard disk drives and/or DVD drives. At least one magnetic storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 5 and/or at least one optical storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 6. The magnetic storage device may be a mini HDD that includes one or more platters having a diameter that is smaller than approximately 1.8″. Media player 1100 may be connected to memory 1112 such as RAM, ROM, low latency nonvolatile memory such as flash memory, and/or other suitable electronic data storage. Media player 1100 also may support connections with a WLAN via WLAN interface 1114.
Referring to FIG. 12, a device may be embodied in connection with a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone 1200 that may include an antenna 1202 or, alternately or additionally, in connection with a VoIP box that enables a conventional telephone to be plugged in and utilized with VoIP technology. The device may be implemented in connection with either or both signal processing and/or control circuits, which are generally identified at 1204, a wireless interface 1214, and/or mass data storage 1216 of the VoIP phone 1200. In some implementations, VoIP phone 1200 includes, in part, a microphone 1206, an audio output 1208 such as a speaker and/or audio output jack, a display monitor 1210, an input device 1212 such as a keypad, pointing device, voice actuation, and/or other input devices, and a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) communication module 1214. Signal processing and/or control circuits 1204 and/or other circuits (not shown) in VoIP phone 1200 may process data, perform coding, decoding and/or encryption, perform calculations, format data, and/or perform other VoIP phone functions.
VoIP phone 1200 may include mass data storage 1216 that stores data in a nonvolatile manner such as optical and/or magnetic storage devices, for example, hard disk drives and/or DVD drives. At least one magnetic storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 5 and/or at least one optical storage device may have the configuration shown in FIG. 6. The magnetic storage device may be a mini HDD that includes one or more platters having a diameter that is smaller than approximately 1.8″. VoIP phone 1200 may be connected to memory 1218, which may be a RAM, ROM, low latency nonvolatile memory such as flash memory, and/or other suitable electronic data storage. VoIP phone 1200 is configured to establish communications link with a VoIP network (not shown) via Wi-Fi communication module 1214. Still other implementations in addition to those described above are contemplated.
In one or more embodiments, attributes other than a supplicant's MAC address can be used for the user name in the authentication process in a network computing environment, e.g. an 802.1x environment. In at least some embodiments, doing so utilizes structure, such as a table, that is already resident at the authentication server. By using attributes other than a supplicant's MAC address, various matching scenarios can be provided by the authentication server in which authentication or authorization takes place responsive to satisfying conditions defined in the authentication server's table or database. Furthermore, a variety of non-authentication scenarios can be supported using the authentication server's table.
Although the subject matter has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the subject matter defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described above. Rather, the specific features and acts described above are disclosed as example forms of implementing the claims. For example, one or more steps of methods described above can be performed in a different order or concurrently to achieve desirable results.
1. An authentication system comprising:
an authenticator;
an authentication server; and
an association table associated with the authentication server, the authenticator, and one or more computing devices capable of a network connection with the authenticator, the association table:
mapping ports of the authenticator and one or more credentials identifying the one or more computing devices, and
configured to be used by the authentication server to authenticate the one or more computing devices, the authentication being based on the one or more credentials mapped in the association table to the ports that connect the one or more computing devices to the authenticator, the authentication being effective to permit an enabling action or a disabling action of at least one of the one or more computing devices.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more credentials includes a MAC address associated with one of the computing devices.
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more credentials includes a password associated with one of the computing devices.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more credentials includes a user name associated with one of the computing devices.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing devices are capable of the network connection with the authenticator through the ports using a wireless local area network.
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing devices are capable of the network connection with the authenticator through the ports using a wired Ethernet network.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing devices are capable of network connection with the authenticator through the ports using a WiFi network.
8. The system of claim 1, wherein the association table is further configured to be used by the authentication server to enable or disable a particular resource or define particular times of day that network resources can be accessed.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the association table is further configured to be used by the authentication server for calling events.
10. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more credentials includes a VLAN-ID, the VLAN-ID enabling the authenticating to apply to an additional computing device of the one or more computing devices, the one of the one or more computing devices and the additional computing device assigned to the VLAN-ID.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the VLAN-ID further includes a wild card, the wild card enabling the authenticating to permit common actions to both the one of the one or more computing devices and the additional computing device assigned to the VLAN-ID.
12. An authentication server comprising:
one or more network connections to one or more computing devices;
an association table comprising one or more associations;
one or more processors; and
memory, coupled to the one or more processors, comprising instructions executable by the processors to:
receive a port identifier, from an authenticator, the port identifier being associated with one of a plurality of ports on the authenticator and associated with one of one or more computing devices connected to the authenticator;
identify the one of the computing devices using one or more credentials presented by the one of the computing devices, the one or more credentials including a location;
authenticate, using the one or more associations, the one of the computing devices based on the one or more credentials and the port identifier; and
permit an enabling action or a disabling action of the one of the computing devices.
13. The authentication server of claim 12, wherein the credentials includes a MAC address associated with the one of the computing devices.
14. The authentication server of claim 12, wherein the location specifies a building, and wherein the authenticating based on the credentials and the port identifier determines that the one of the computing devices is in the building.
15. The authentication server of claim 12, wherein the one of the computing devices and the one of the plurality of ports are connected through an Ethernet network.
16. The authentication server of claim 12, wherein the one of the computing devices and the one of the plurality of ports are connected through a wireless local area network.
17. The authentication server of claim 12, wherein the authentication is based on a mapping between the credentials and the port identifier and further comprising using the mapping to permit the enabling action or the disabling action of a particular resource, calling events, or to defining particular times of day that network resources can be accessed.
18. A computing device comprising:
a network connection;
a credential, the credential including a VLAN-ID;
a processor; and
memory, coupled to the processor, comprising instructions executable by the processor to:
connect to a port on an authenticator associated with the device;
send the credential to the authenticator; and
responsive to the credential satisfying a condition defined in an authentication server's association table, receive authentication for the computing device from the authentication server.
19. The computing device of claim 18, wherein the VLAN-ID further includes a wild card, the wild card enabling the authentication server to permit common actions to both the computing device and one of one or more additional computing devices that is assigned to the VLAN-ID.
20. The computing device of claim 18, wherein the device is capable of connection with the authenticator through the port using a wired or wireless Ethernet network.
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President-Elect Donald Trump to American People: “Spectacular Things” Headed Your Way
Following his Oval Office sit-down, President-elect Trump spent his afternoon with Congressional leadership.
FOX's Jared Halpern has more from the Capitol:
President-elect Trump emerged from a meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan, promising to work rapdily on a legislative agenda that will include health care, immigration and taxes:
(President-elect Trump) "I think we're going to do some absolutely spectacular things for the American people."
Speaker Ryan offered the President-elect a look at the inaugural platform being constructed where Mr. Trump will be sworn-in next year. A view the President-elect called really, really beautiful, as he was led into his next meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
At the Capitol, Jared Halpern, FOX News.
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Rail Solutions Asia 2014
Thales at Rail Solutions Asia 2014
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At the show Thales will be presenting some of it’s most famous and successful technologies from their urban signalling solutions, CBTC (Communication Based Train Control) to their ETCS main line rail signalling solution. The CBTC system is Thales solutions to operating trains with high-performance whilst achieving energy reductions up to 15%. The CBTC system has been used in over 60 different projects over 30 cities world wide. Their ETCS signalling solution is to promote their seamless operation across borders and rail networks through its secure functions. The ETCS system has been installed into countries including Malaysia, South Korea and Turkey.
Thales has been an active part in Asia’s transportation market, with their growing success has come more contracts for the region. For example, in Malaysia, Thales has won many contracts to fit their CBTC solution on Kuala Lumpur LRTs Ampang and Kelana Jaya lines and its ETCS systems on the citys monorail. Thales also has had presence in Singapore, where they provided their CBTC solution for re-signalling projects on the North-South and East-West Lines of the MRT. Another contract that was also given to Thales in the region was for an Integrated Supervisory Control System, which includes the traffic management of the MRT’s North-East Line.
In terms of the development of local talent, the Group has also shown that their presence has gained confidence and commitment to the region in 2013 through the opening of the Regional Integration Centre in Singapore and the signalling of an MOU with the Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High-Technology (MIGHT) to promote human capital development for the county’s rail industry.
Nicolas Duhamel de Fougeroux, Country Director for Thales in Malaysia said: Following the realisation of important urban rail projects in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, as well as our recent agreement with the Malaysian government to foster local talent for the rail industry,Thales will continue to accompany economic growth in this region through the implementation of new transport infrastructure and the modernisation of existing transport systems.
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State of the OS: Windows 2000 at 2 Years
Windows 2000 turns two years old this month. The operating system continues to enjoy a reputation for reliability and stability, and Windows 2000 made significant scalability strides in 2001.
Still migrations to the operating system continue to drag and serious doubts have emerged about Microsoft's ability to secure its products. Considerable confusion also exists about the direction Microsoft is taking with the next versions of Windows.
From a financial perspective, 2001 was an extremely tough year for IT to consider rolling out new technology. An ENT survey taken late in 2000 indicated that IT managers believed 2001 would be a huge year for the companies' Windows 2000 migration efforts.
Economic concerns and budget cuts meant many Windows 2000 migration budgets evaporated leaving truncated rollout programs or abandoned efforts. (See related story).
The planning and effort associated with migrations to the Active Directory also continued to be a tough sell in 2001. An IDC survey of enterprises found that Windows 2000 deployment is broad but shallow. Many organizations have servers running Windows 2000, but few are running more than half of their servers on Windows 2000 yet. Nonetheless, administrators seem to be overcoming the Active Directory learning curve. (See story).
At the same time, Microsoft brandished the stick to move users off Windows NT 4.0. Late last year, Microsoft published its roadmap for ending support on Windows NT 4.0.
Scalability got real in 2001. Microsoft established itself as king of the scalability benchmarks in 2000, with OLTP benchmark results built on clustered systems. Microsoft still has not produced reference customers implementing large scale databases using those clustering approaches.
But in 2001, Unisys culminated a campaign to prove that Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, running on 32-processor Unisys ES7000 servers, could compete with big iron systems from the Unix and AS/400 worlds. Last year, Unisys produced a top SAP performance benchmark and a top 10 result on the TPC-C benchmark.
At the same time, the large market for big boxes running Windows Datacenter hasn't materialized. Unisys' deals with Compaq and HP for those companies to resell ES7000s fell apart, and competitors claimed the market for large scale Windows systems didn't look like it would materialize before Intel releases its second-generation 64-bit processor, code-named McKinley.
Late last year, IBM rolled out systems built on its Summit chipset, which represents another approach to scaling up Windows/Intel systems. The Summit-based servers use a scale-out concept of ganging together four-processor bricks for systems capable of up to 16-way SMP. Like the Unisys ES7000, the IBM systems run either 32-bit or 64-bit Intel processors.
The last year saw major security flaws in Microsoft's IIS Web server, including the Windows 2000 version, Internet Information Services 5.0. A new class of worms, including Code Red and Nimda, exploited vulnerabilities in IIS and Outlook to launch attacks. An analyst with Gartner went so far as to recommend that IIS users investigate switching to Apache Web servers.
Then, last month, Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates issued a lengthy e-mail calling for a Trustworthy Computing initiative within Microsoft. The upshot is that Windows 2000 is getting the equivalent of a birthday bath -- as developers go through the code for security vulnerabilities during the month of February.
2001 saw the introduction of a second service pack for Windows 2001. SP3 is in the works. Microsoft also recently introduced a Security Rollup Package, called SRP1, which rolls together all security fixes since SP2. The idea is to make it easier for administrators to bring systems up to date. An SRP2 is also in development.
Windows 2000 Pro Already Obsolete
The client from the Windows 2000 family went obsolete in October 2001 with the release of Windows XP Professional Edition. While Windows 2000 Professional is still available, it's no longer the newest business desktop or workstation operating system Microsoft has available. While Windows NT 4.0 lasted from 1996 to 2000, Windows 2000 Professional was the top dog for a scant 20 months.
Windows .NET Server Confusion
Microsoft has had some trouble naming its next generation server operating system. Originally code-named Whistler, the term fell out of common use when Microsoft split Whistler into the Windows XP client for release in 2001 and the server family for release in 2002. Microsoft officially announced in early 2001 that the name of the server products would be Windows 2002. Then, in a quick reversal, Microsoft roped the server products into the whole .NET initiative by calling them the Windows .NET Server Family.
There will be four versions, Windows .NET Standard Server, Windows .NET Enterprise Server, Windows .NET Datacenter Server and Windows .NET Web Server.
Users in the midst of Windows 2000 Server rollouts have expressed uncertainty about whether to continue their rollouts or wait for the Windows .NET Server Family. Microsoft's position has been that customers should continue with rollouts and swap in Windows .NET Server Family versions in mid-rollout when they become available. Windows .NET Servers are an incremental improvement over the Windows 2000 Servers and should fit into Windows 2000 Server infrastructures far more smoothly than Windows 2000 Servers fit in Windows NT 4.0 environments.
It Wasn't Confusing Enough Before:
Bring on the New Names!
The Whistler generation of operating systems brings all new names to the Windows 2000 lineup.
Old name/New Name
Windows 2000 Professional --> Windows XP Professional Edition
Windows 2000 Server --> Windows .NET Standard Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server --> Windows .NET Enterprise Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server --> Windows .NET Datacenter Server
New SKU --> Windows .NET Web Server
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Going straight to the source: Student feedback drives improvements in college and career supports
The Kentridge High School team discussing how to improve financial aid completion by process-mapping their students' experiences with financial aid forms.
The Auburn High School team.
School staff members at an Aug. 2019 CCLi workshop.
School staff reflecting on student survey and focus group results.
Nearly every College and Career Leadership Institute workshop begins with this reminder to school staff:
“[Educators should] believe that all of their students can succeed rather than that failure is inevitable for some.”
The quote is from Gloria Ladson Billings’s 1994 book, “The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children.” CCLI organizers want school staff to be grounded in this belief as they work to improve college and career systems for the success of students of color and those who are the first in their families to go to college.
For the 19 Road Map Project region school teams—11 in the first cohort and eight in the second cohort—that participate in CCLI, listening to students is crucial. The teams hope to reach collective goals (such as raising financial aid application completion) through meaningful schoolwide improvements (such as integrating college and career planning into advisory).
To build towards these goals, CCLI relies on data to track progress. However, traditional methods of data collection—which focus only on student-level outcomes like graduation rates—are not enough. School teams need to understand how school climate, adult supports, and structural access are impacting student success. To get this qualitative data, they need to go straight to the source: the students. That’s why CCLI schools administer an annual student survey, facilitate listening sessions, and make systems-level recommendations based on student experiences. Findings from the first year of CCLI surveys, plus additional listening sessions with students, were compiled in a recent report, “Let Us Succeed.”
These educators are tackling what it truly means to listen to and believe in students—to understand that students’ self-reported information is legitimate data that educators should act on. For some, it’s a challenge to get colleagues on board with this idea. Becky Lamb, formerly the Hazen High School dean of students and now the Lindbergh High School assistant principal, described how her team at Hazen used CCLI student survey data to make changes. “We took [other school staff] the data and showed them this is what the students were saying. Some staff didn’t like it. They thought the survey was bad. But a survey’s not bad just because you don’t like what it’s telling you. And what it was telling us is that we need to do a better job listening to our students.”
When Becky was at Hazen last year, her team built their new homeroom structure based on results from the CCLI student survey. She believes that being equipped with information about what students want and need changed the way staff framed college and career responsibilities. “It’s important to let students know: ‘I hear you’ and then actually make a plan to follow through on what they’re asking for,” she said. “Listening is important, but listening without taking action is not enough.”
Jeff Gardner, Auburn High School principal, also shared his school’s journey. He says that students have often felt like they weren’t being heard, but that efforts to gather student input have also been challenging. “Sometimes, it wasn’t really fun for our staff to hear where kids are coming from. But we’ve regained our resolve and they’re really starting to see that being a culturally responsive school of education is really important. If we’re not doing that, we’re shortchanging our kids.”
The students in CCLI schools are diverse, ambitious, and deserving. Seventy-three percent of them are students of color, and 96 percent of them want to go to college. They live in a region that is rapidly changing, yet go to schools with systems and policies that are stagnant. CCLI is one way that educators are taking responsibility, investing in student success, and making intentional changes.
“We’re all talking about dismantling the system we’ve participated in and we’ve all benefited from. How do you do that? How do you go forward?” said Jeff. “Well, first you have to do better, do things differently to meet the needs of the twenty-first century learner. ‘Cause the world is different than when we went to school.”
In the 2019-2020 school year, CCLI will be building on past years’ work and embarking on new ways of putting students ideas into action. In addition to the annual student survey on college and career aspirations and supports and a staff survey, there will be focus groups and empathy interviews with Latinx students—who have the lowest overall postsecondary enrollment rates and are most likely to be first-generation college students. These ways of gathering qualitative student data intentionally position students as the experts in their own experiences.
The Auburn High School team is already seeing results with their early financial aid completion data and the number of parents who show up to their annual Paying for College event that confirms this approach. “I am so proud of the staff at our school who are taking this work, of educating a diverse population, seriously and with learner’s mindsets for continuous improvement.”
Student engagement will drive the work as all the school teams set goals for strengthening college and career supports, identify ways to improve, and evaluate change.
“Do I think it makes that big of a difference?” said Jeff, “I don’t know, I’d have to ask the kids.”
This story is the third in a series about the College and Career Leadership Institute. Read the first post “How educators can shape college and career readiness strategies together” and the second post “Exchanging best practices: Hazen High School educators visit Kent-Meridian.”
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Marvel Super Heroes In War of the Gems
Marvel Super Heroes In War of the Gems (マーヴルスーパーヒーローズ ウォーオブザジェム, Māvuru Supā Hīrōzu: Wō obu za Jemu) is a 2D action platformer video game developed by Capcom for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, based on the events of Marvel Comics' series, Infinity Gauntlet. In the game's plot, Adam Warlock calls upon Earth's greatest superheroes to seek out the Infinity Gems before they fall into the wrong hands.
Although War of the Gems is based on the same storyline as the Capcom arcade game Marvel Super Heroes, and each of the playable characters retains one of the special moves they had in that game, it is not a port; War of the Gems instead features gameplay similar to Final Fight and X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse.
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Anthony Weiner Contemplating Run for New York City Mayor
Collecting a Congressional pension after resigning for a sexting affair
Anthony Weiner, the former New York City congressman who resigned in 2011 after an uproar over risque online photos to at least a half-dozen women, is considering a run for mayor, according to published reports.
A New York Times Magazine profile of Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, portrays the former rising political star as spending much of his time doting on their 13-month-old son and venturing in a small orbit near their Park Avenue apartment.
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My New Short Game Video Series, USE THE BOUNCE 2.0 is Available
by Monte Scheinblum | Nov 21, 2017 | popular, Use the Bounce 2.0, Videos | 1 comment
I’m pleased to announce that my new short game video series, Use the Bounce 2.0, is now available for instant streaming on my new website, Rebellion Golf. This is an entirely new, massively updated, and refined take on my current short game philosophy. It’s well over twice as long as my original short game video, and covers a range of topics I didn’t touch upon in that video. I cover new shots like THE EASY FLOP SHOT, COMPLETELY EXPANDED AND IMPROVED BUNKER TECHNIQUES, LOOSE LIES, THE HYBRID CHIP, BUMP & RUN, PUTTING, and several more. It’s a completely new set of videos teaching a ton of new techniques. So if you owned my old short game video, this one is still for you. And if you’ve never heard of me or my “old short game video”, then you’re in luck, as this is not a bloated Hollywood sequel. No previous experience required!
More importantly, USE THE BOUNCE 2.0 is not just an expanded take on my short game philosophy. It’s also an enlightened one. Let me explain:
Modesty aside, it’s no secret that many people enjoyed my first short game video, USE THE BOUNCE. That video’s surprising popularity is what got me into the paid video business to begin with. However, what a lot of people don’t realize is that the success of the original USE THE BOUNCE also helped me overcome the significant stereotype of being a World Long Drive Champion trying to teach people short game. I probably don’t need to unpack that idea, but, just in case:
Conventional wisdom says that the worst person on earth to teach you anything about the short game is a World Long Drive Champion
And frankly, it’s hard to disagree with that logic. In turn, prior to the release of the original USE THE BOUNCE short game video, I had a hard time getting people to listen to me when it came to the short game. But after USE THE BOUNCE came out, things started to turn around. Suddenly the neanderthal had short game students. Even PGA tour players! And so, in the four years between these two videos, I had the pleasure of giving hundreds and hundreds of short game lessons to students who were suddenly receptive to my ideas.
And this is why I say that this new video is enlightened. Only a fool could teach over a thousand people to chip without learning anything about how to improve that process along the way. So again, modesty aside, this new video series is much, much, better, not because it’s new, but rather because I am now a much better short game instructor than I was in 2014.
BASIC MOTION SERIES
One of the things I’m trying to learn to do on video is to break down certain kinds of mechanics into basic, sequential steps. Anybody who follows my general teaching philosophy understands my initial reversion to the concept of STEP 1: do this, STEP 2: do that. I rarely teach that way in-person, because I find it much more beneficial to hone in on an individual’s flaw than it is to apply a cookie-cutter method to the golf swing. But when it comes to video, and especially to short game, I have learned (or rather, been told hundreds of times) that I needed to update my thinking in that regard. And so, USE THE BOUNCE 2 includes a BASIC MOTION SERIES that takes the viewer step-by-step through a series of movements designed to teach them my basic chipping method. We start by tossing balls at the target without a club, and end up doing drills that are more difficult than actually hitting a chip shot. The idea is to walk the viewer through a progression that begins with something hilariously basic (tossing balls), and ends with a legitimately great, easy-to-learn chipping motion.
BUNKERS SERIES
Of all the things I teach in golf, my basic bunker technique is probably the least conventional. And as many of you know, I don’t defy convention for the sake of being cute. I go against the grain when I see golfers struggling mightily to execute basic bunker shots, over and over and over again. The basic bunkers section of the video begins with one of my patented diatribes about the ruinous conventional wisdom of bunker technique, and goes on to teach you a MUCH EASIER, BETTER, SIMPLER way. Many students have expressed confounded amusement at just how easy and straightforward my bunker technique is compared to some of the more popular methods out there. Now everybody gets a turn to realize firsthand that conventional bunker technique is basically terrible.
STREAMING VIDEO, ORGANIZED BY CHAPTER, ON ALL DEVICES
The other exciting part of this new release is that it is my first video to be released on my new website, Rebellion Golf. Now that’s exciting because, for the first time ever, people can purchase my videos and immediately begin watching them in full 1080P glory, online, using any and all of their devices that handle something like Netflix. But even better, the Rebellion Golf website is built on a streaming video platform that allows me to break the video up into many individual chapters. This means you can now jump to whichever subject you want to watch and start there instantly.
LEGACY SHORT GAME VIDEOS INCLUDED WITH YOUR PURCHASE
A few highlights from the original USE THE BOUNCE, and all of the situational short game videos from CALL YOUR SHOT are included with your purchase of USE THE BOUNCE 2.0 at no additional charge. And no, we aren’t counting those old videos when we say that this new video series is over two hours long. We want USE THE BOUNCE 2.0 to be a comprehensive short game series, so naturally, it just made sense to give you guys everything we had in the archives (that wasn’t replaced by new content) to go along with everything that is new.
AND FINALLY, COMMENTS THREADS
Each chapter of USE THE BOUNCE 2.0 features a comments thread where you can ask yours truly about questions related to the videos. I like to think of this as a FREE SUPPORT PLAN with your purchase. Ask me anything you want about the short game, right on the website, and I’ll get back to you in short order. Right now, you will need to use a facebook account in order to post, but we plan on having a proper forum for paying customers in the first half of 2018 as well.
MUCH MORE TO COME
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Fleetwood Appeals Coleman Injunction
By: RVBusiness|Published on: Aug 22, 2003|Categories: Today’s Industry News| 0 comments
Fleetwood Folding Trailers Inc., a subsidiary of Fleetwood Enterprises Inc., will appeal a Kansas state court’s recent ruling requiring Fleetwood to stop using the Coleman brand name on its towable RVs.
The Kansas court ruled on Monday (Aug. 18) that until the dispute between Fleetwood and The Coleman Co. is concluded, “Fleetwood entities and all related parties are temporarily enjoined from any ongoing use of the ‘Coleman’ (trade) mark,” according to a statement issued today (Aug. 22) by Fleetwood.
“While the appeal is pending, the Fleetwood entities fully intend to comply with the temporary injunction,” according to the Fleetwood statement. “The Fleetwood entities intend to request an expedited hearing regarding the appeal.”
Fleetwood and its folding-trailer manufacturing subsidiary in Pennsylvania have, under the terms of a licensing agreement, built towable RVs under the Coleman brand name since 1989.
The Coleman Co., a manufacturer of camping and outdoor equipment, now is a unit of American Household Inc.
In May, Coleman terminated the licensing agreement it had with Fleetwood and the two companies have been fighting in court since then over the decision.
“Notwithstanding the outcome of the appeal, Fleetwood Folding Trailers intends to vigorously pursue its claims against The Coleman Co. due to what it believes was Coleman’s wrongful termination of the license agreement,” Fleetwood said in a statement today. “Also, Fleetwood Enterprises intends to vigorously pursue its rights received at the time of the 1989 purchase of the Coleman business to prohibit Coleman from using the ‘Coleman’ mark in the RV market. The trial regarding these matters is currently set for December 2003.”
Larry Marsh, a 33-year Coleman folding-trailers veteran and now Fleetwood’s vice president and general manager of the business in Somerset, Pa., said, “We have been operating in substantially the same manner since Fleetwood Enterprises acquired our operation in 1989. We intend to continue to manufacture and sell the highest quality family of folding trailers.”
Fleetwood’s operation in Pennsylvania is the retail market-share leader in folding campers by a wide margin. It had a 42.2% market share during the first half of this year, well ahead of No. 2 Forest River Inc., which had a 15.5% share in the same period, according to Statistical Surveys Inc., an independent market research firm.
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Seven Questions
How the Hijab Has Grown into a Fashion Industry
Egypt’s Eman Gaber, wearing a sports hijab during a practice session before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Kim Kyung Hoon/Reuters
Faegheh Shirazi
Nike, the well-known U.S. sportswear company, recently introduced a sports hijab. The reaction to this has been mixed: There are those who are applauding Nike for its inclusiveness of Muslim women who want to cover their hair, and there are those who accuse it of abetting women’s subjugation.
Nike, in fact, is not the first corporate brand to champion the hijab. I am the author of “Brand Islam,” and I have seen how it is commonly assumed, particularly in the West, that Muslim women are indifferent to fashion.
Nothing could be further from the truth: My research shows that Islamic fashion is a rapidly growing industry.
History of sports hijab
The use of an official sports hijab in competition dates back to July 2012 when the International Football Association Board (IFAB), custodians of the rules of soccer, overturned a 2007 ban which had argued that the hijab was “unsafe” for sports persons as it could “increase” the risk of neck injuries.
While overturning the ban, the IFAB noted that there was nothing in “the medical literature concerning injuries as a result of wearing a headscarf.” The sports hijab is secured in place with magnets. If it does get pulled off, another cap remains underneath, to cover the sports person’s hair without causing any injuries.
In 2012, Muslim athletes wearing the hijab received considerable media attention. Wearing the hijab set them apart from other Olympic athletes. Since then, several lesser-known, sports hijab companies – much before Nike’s pro hijab – have come to be in this business.
History of Islamic fashion
By Cungztkss – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37496466
The marketing of Islamic fashionable clothing, however, is older than the sports hijab.
In my research, I found that it started in the 1980s when ethnic grocery dealers in Western Europe and the United States began importing modest fashion clothing along with other items for the Muslim population. That proved to be a successful business.
Prior to that, most Muslim women would put together their own styles.
These small endeavors ultimately morphed into a competitive and lucrative Muslim fashion industry. Islamic fashion in general is understood as women wearing modest clothing with long sleeves, descending to the ankle and having a high neckline. The outfits are non-hugging, with some form of head covering that could be draped in a variety of styles. Women who prefer to wear pants combine them with a long sleeved top that covers the buttocks and has a high neckline, along with a head covering.
Over time, national and international designers came to be involved in the sale of chic Islamic fashions. Today, Muslim fashion is a lucrative global industry with countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkey leading the way outside the Western countries. In 2010 the Turkish newspaper Milliyet estimated the global Islamic clothing market to be worth around US$2.9 billion.
The Global Islamic Economy report for 2014-2015 indicated Muslim consumer spending on clothing and footwear had increased to $266 billion in 2013. This represents a growth of 11.9 percent of the global spending in a period of three years. The report predicted this market to reach $488 billion by 2019.
The Islamic brand
This growth has had its share of controversies: Many designers use the term “Islamic” for their clothing. Religious conservatives and Muslim scholars have raised questions about what types of apparel would fit that category and whether defining clothing as “Islamic” was even permitted or lawful by Islamic principles – a concept known as “halal.”
In particular, critics have objected to the fashion catwalk presentations, which actually draw the gaze and attention of spectators to the bodies of models, while the purpose of a hijab is to distract and move the gaze away from the body. In Iran, for example, Islamic fashion is viewed by the ulama (religious scholars) as another Western influence and referred to as “Western Hijab.”
Defining clothing as Islamic has been controversial. karmakazesal, CC BY
Nonetheless, the Islamic fashion industry has managed to initiate marketing campaigns that capitalize on the very core of Islamic precepts: Sharia, or the Islamic religious law. A Malaysian apparel company, Kivitz, for example, uses the phrase “Syar’i and Stylish.” In Malay, Syar’i is the same as Sharia.
In establishing a nominally Islamic brand, marketers make every effort to align their products with the core value of Islam. So, even when following the trendy fashionable seasonal colors and materials, clothing styles would include some sort of head covering.
Who are the consumers?
The question still remains: What led to such a rapid growth over a span of just three years?
My research has demonstrated that Muslims are more brand aware than the general population. However, in the past they were largely ignored by the fashion industry, perhaps, due to misconceptions that being a Muslim restricted people’s lifestyle.
And now, with a growing Muslim population, there is an increased demand for modest but also fashionable clothing for the youth, who have significant spending power. At the same time, traditional elite and wealthy Middle Eastern consumers who used to shop for fashionable clothing from European nations now prefer to shop from homegrown Muslim fashion designers.
Indeed, the halal logo on food and other products in addition to modesty in clothing has proved to be an effective strategy in creating a global Islamic identity.
As I have seen in my research, consumerism is changing what is means to be modern and Muslim today. As Vali Nasr, a Middle Eastern scholar, explains,
“The great battle for the soul of the Muslim world will be fought not over religion but over market capitalism.”
Faegheh Shirazi is a professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, the Islamic Studies program The University of Texas at Austin.
Tags: consumerism, fashion, hijab, Islam, Muslim women, sharia
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Muslim fashion is growing, with the growing population of Islamic religion of course the market for Muslim clothes grow.
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In my country, Now hijab being trend fashion so many hijab designer take the moment to business.
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February 6, 2017 by Serena
Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia at To Be Continued, formerly The Printed Page, has a permanent home at its own blog.
Also, each week, Leslie, Martha, and I will share the Books that Caught Our Eye from everyone’s weekly links.
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, which I purchased for Book Club reading.
Persepolis is the story of Satrapi’s unforgettable childhood and coming of age within a large and loving family in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution; of the contradictions between private life and public life in a country plagued by political upheaval; of her high school years in Vienna facing the trials of adolescence far from her family; of her homecoming–both sweet and terrible; and, finally, of her self-imposed exile from her beloved homeland. It is the chronicle of a girlhood and adolescence at once outrageous and familiar, a young life entwined with the history of her country yet filled with the universal trials and joys of growing up.
Edgy, searingly observant, and candid, often heartbreaking but threaded throughout with raw humor and hard-earned wisdom–Persepolis is a stunning work from one of the most highly regarded, singularly talented graphic artists at work today.
The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White, which is my first GoodReads giveaway win! This one comes out in April 2017.
Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It s not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren t helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous events that caused her marriage to fail.
Merilee finds some measure of peace in the cottage she is renting from town matriarch Sugar Prescott. Though stubborn and irascible, Sugar sees something of herself in Merilee something that allows her to open up about her own colorful past.
Sugar s stories give Merilee a different perspective on the town and its wealthy school moms in their tennis whites and shiny SUVs, and even on her new friendship with Heather Blackford. Merilee is charmed by the glamorous young mother s seemingly perfect life and finds herself drawn into Heather’s world.
In a town like Sweet Apple, where sins and secrets are as likely to be found behind the walls of gated mansions as in the dark woods surrounding Merilee s house, appearance is everything. But just how dangerous that deception can be will shock all three women….”
The Poetry of Weldon Kees: Vanishing as Presence by John T. Irwin for review in May.
Weldon Kees is one of those fascinating people you’ve likely never heard of. What is most captivating about Kees is that he disappeared without a trace on July 18, 1955. Police found his 1954 Plymouth Savoy abandoned on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge one day later. The keys were still in the ignition. Though Kees had alluded days prior to picking up and moving to Mexico, none of his poetry, art, or criticism has since surfaced either north or south of the Rio Grande.
Kees’s apparent suicide has led critics to compare him to another American modernist poet who committed suicide two decades earlier–Hart Crane. In comparison to Crane, Kees is certainly now a more obscure figure. John T. Irwin, however, is not content to allow Kees to fall out of the twentieth-century literary canon. In The Poetry of Weldon Kees, Irwin ties together elements of biography and literary criticism, spurring renewed interest in Kees as both an individual and as a poet.
Irwin acts the part of literary detective, following clues left behind by the poet to make sense of Kees’s fascination with death, disappearance, and the interpretation of an artist’s work. Arguing that Kees’s apparent suicide was a carefully-plotted final aesthetic act, Irwin uses the poet’s death as a lens through which to detect and interpret the structures, motifs, and images throughout his poems–as the author intended. The first rigorous literary engagement with Weldon Kees’s poetry, this book is an astonishing reassessment of one of the twentieth century’s most gifted writers.
The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero by Brett Favaro for review in April.
Favaro’s Carbon Code of Conduct is based on the four R’s: Reduce, Replace, Refine, and Rehabilitate. After outlining the scientific basics of climate change and explaining the logic of the code he prescribes, the author describes carbon-friendly technologies and behaviors we can adopt in our daily lives. However, he acknowledges that individual action, while vital, is insufficient. To achieve global sustainability, he insists that we must make the fight against climate change “go viral” through conspicuous conservation.
The Carbon Code is a tool of empowerment. People don’t need to be climate change experts to be part of the solution! In this book, Brett Favaro shows you how to take ownership of your carbon footprint and adopt a lifestyle of conspicuous conservation that will spur governments and corporations to do the same. Climate-friendly action is the best decision on every dimension–economics, health and well-being, and social justice. Saving the planet is, after all, about saving ourselves. The Carbon Code provides a framework to do this, and helps you to become a hero in the fight against climate change.
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Spatially Resolved Genomic, Stable Isotopic, and Lipid Analyses of a Modern Freshwater Microbialite from Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico
Nitti Nitti, University of South Florida
Camille Daniels, University of South Florida
Janet Siefert, Rice University
Valeria Souza, National Autonomous University of Mexico
David Hollander, University of South Florida
Microbial ecology, Microbe-mineral interactions, Microbial mats, Stromatolites, Genomics
https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2011.0812
Microbialites are biologically mediated carbonate deposits found in diverse environments worldwide. To explore the organisms and processes involved in microbialite formation, this study integrated genomic, lipid, and both organic and inorganic stable isotopic analyses to examine five discrete depth horizons spanning the surface 25 mm of a modern freshwater microbialite from Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico. Distinct bacterial communities and geochemical signatures were observed in each microbialite layer. Photoautotrophic organisms accounted for approximately 65% of the sequences in the surface community and produced biomass with distinctive lipid biomarker and isotopic (δ13C) signatures. This photoautotrophic biomass was efficiently degraded in the deeper layers by heterotrophic organisms, primarily sulfate-reducing proteobacteria. Two spatially distinct zones of carbonate precipitation were observed within the microbialite, with the first zone corresponding to the phototroph-dominated portion of the microbialite and the second zone associated with the presence of sulfate-reducing heterotrophs. The coupling of photoautotrophic production, heterotrophic decomposition, and remineralization of organic matter led to the incorporation of a characteristic biogenic signature into the inorganic CaCO3 matrix. Overall, spatially resolved multidisciplinary analyses of the microbialite enabled correlations to be made between the distribution of specific organisms, precipitation of carbonate, and preservation of unique lipid and isotopic geochemical signatures. These findings are critical for understanding the formation of modern microbialites and have implications for the interpretation of ancient microbialite records.
Astrobiology, v. 12, no. 7, p. 685-698
Nitti, Nitti; Daniels, Camille; Siefert, Janet; Souza, Valeria; Hollander, David; and Breitbart, Mya, "Spatially Resolved Genomic, Stable Isotopic, and Lipid Analyses of a Modern Freshwater Microbialite from Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico" (2012). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 732.
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Effect of Rutin on Cisplatin-induced Small Intestine (Jejunum) Damage in Rats
Ismail Topal, Ulas Emre Akbulut, Orhan Cimen, Abdulkerim Kolkiran, Selcuk Akturan, Ferda Keskin Cimen, Murat Cankaya, Arif Onur Eden, Zeynep Suleyman and Asli Ozbek Bilgin
Background and Objective: Cisplatin is an antineoplastic, platinum derivative used in the treatment of various cancers. Mucositis is a notable side effect of cisplatin treatment. Rutin (vitamin P1) is a drug with antioxidant, anticancer, antidiabetic and antimicrobial properties. The aim of this study was to biochemically, histopathologically and immunohistochemically investigate the effect of rutin on cisplatin-induced mucositis of the small intestine (jejunum) in rats. Materials and Methods: Twenty four rats were divided into four groups with six animals in each group: healthy group (HG), cisplatin-only group (CCG), 50 mg kg–1 of rutin plus cisplatin group (RG-50) and 100 mg kg–1 of rutin plus cisplatin group (RG-100). Rutin or distilled water were administered via an oral gavage. One hour after the administration of rutin or distilled water, the CCG, RG-50 and RG-100 were intraperitoneally injected with 5 mg kg–1 of cisplatin once every 2 for 8 days. At the end of this period, all the animals were sacrificed using a high-dose anesthetic and their small intestines (jejunum) were removed for biochemical and histopathological procedures. Differences between the groups were analyzed using a one-way analysis of variance, followed by Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test. Results: The levels of oxidants increased in all the cisplatin-treated groups, whereas those of antioxidants decreased. Rutin administered at a dose of 100 but not 50 mg kg–1 reduced oxidant levels and increased antioxidant levels to those of healthy tissues. Histopathologically, tissue damage was observed in jejunal tissue of the rats administered only cisplatin, whereas treatment with 100 mg kg–1 of rutin prevented cisplatin-induced histopathological damage. In the group administered 50 mg kg–1 of rutin, jejunal tissue showed a near-normal appearance, except for mildly dilated congested blood vessels. As shown immunohistochemically, rutin prevented cisplatin-induced jejunal damage more effectively when administered at a dose of 100 mg kg–1 than 50 mg kg–1. Conclusion: Rutin may be useful in the prevention of cisplatin-induced jejunal mucositis.
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Ismail Topal, Ulas Emre Akbulut, Orhan Cimen, Abdulkerim Kolkiran, Selcuk Akturan, Ferda Keskin Cimen, Murat Cankaya, Arif Onur Eden, Zeynep Suleyman and Asli Ozbek Bilgin, 2018. Effect of Rutin on Cisplatin-induced Small Intestine (Jejunum) Damage in Rats. International Journal of Pharmacology, 14: 1136-1144.
DOI: 10.3923/ijp.2018.1136.1144
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ijp.2018.1136.1144
Received: March 22, 2018; Accepted: August 19, 2018; Published: October 15, 2018
Copyright: © 2018. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the creative commons attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Cisplatin (cis-diamminedichloroplatinum II) is an antineoplastic agent that includes platinum (heavy metal) derivate and is used in the treatment of head, neck, lung, testicular and ovarian cancers1,2. The chemotherapeutic effect of cisplatin increases with an increasing dosage but an increased dosage causes adverse effects, such as nephrotoxicity, autotoxicity, neurotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, nausea, vomiting and in 67% of cases, diarrhea, thus restricting its clinical use3, 4. Mucositis is a notable side effect of cisplatin5. Although the mechanism of cisplatin toxicity is not fully understood, oxidative stress plays an important role in its development6. Cisplatin induces the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), thus causing DNA damage, followed by secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-1 beta from endothelial epithelial cells7,8. As a result, tissue damage and ulceration develop and mucosa becomes vulnerable to bacterial contamination9. Various treatments, such as palliative approaches, mucosal protective agents, topical antimicrobial agents and analgesics are frequently used in the prevention and treatment of mucositis but none of these are 100% effective10. Research aimed at reducing the effect of cisplatin toxicity on intestinal tissue is ongoing. According to a study, antioxidant treatment maybe useful in cisplatin-induced small intestinal toxicity4.
Vitamin P1, also known as rutin is a flavonoid and vital component of nutrition. It is abundant in plants, such as passion flower, buckwheat, tea and apple11. It has many properties, such as antioxidant, anticancer, antidiabetic, antiulcer and tissue renewal12-14. These beneficial properties of rutin suggest that it may be effective against cisplatin-induced jejunal damage. In the literature, no information was found on the protective effect of rutin against cisplatin-induced jejunal mucositis. The aim of this study was to biochemically, histopathologically and immunohistochemically investigate the effect of rutin on cisplatin-induced mucositis in rats.
Animals: In the study, 24 male albino Wistar rats weighing 230-240 g obtained from Atatürk University Medical Experimental Practice and Research Center were used. Prior to the experiment, the rats were maintained in the Pharmacology Laboratory in groups at normal room temperature (22°C), with access to food and water ad libitum. Ethics committee approval was obtained from Atatürk University animal experiments local ethics committee (8-24-2017, 7/102).
Chemicals: Sodium thiopental used in the experiment was purchased from IE Ulagay (Istanbul, Turkey), rutin was purchased from Solgar (N.J., USA) and cisplatin was purchased from Liba (Istanbul, Turkey).
Experimental design: The rats were divided into a healthy group (HG), cisplatin-only group (CCG), 50 mg kg–1 of rutin plus cisplatin group (RG-50) and 100 mg kg–1 of rutin plus cisplatin group (RG-100). Rutin or distilled water were administered via an oral gavage. One hour after the administration of rutin or distilled water, the CCG, RG-50 and RG-100 were intraperitoneally injected with 5 mg kg–1 of cisplatin once every 2 for 8 days. At the end of this period, all the animals were sacrificed using a high-dose anesthetic and their small intestines (jejunum) were removed. Malondialdehyde (MDA), nitric oxide (NO), total glutathione (tGSH), glutathione S-transferase (GST), glutathione peroxidase (GPO) and catalase (CAT) levels of small intestinal tissues were measured. All experimental results were evaluated comparatively.
Sample preparation: Tissue (25 mg weighed) was homogenized using a solution of 1.15% KCl (Merck, Germany). The homogenate was centrifuged at 4,000 rpm for 30 min at +4°C. The supernatants were then used for NO and MDA measurements. Tissues (25 mg) taken for tGSH analysis were washed with isotonic sodium chloride (I.E. Ulagay, Turkey). Phosphate buffer solution (0.213 g of NaH2PO4.2H2O,[Merck, Germany]+ 1.563 g of Na2HPO4.2H2O [Merck, Germany]+ 0.038 g of EDTA [Sigma-Aldrich, Germany]+100 mL of dH2O, pH = 7.4]) was then added to give a total volume of 2 mL. Subsequently, the tissue was homogenized in an icy environment. Subsequently, the tissues were centrifuged at 1,000 rpm for 15 min at +4°C. The supernatant was used as the sample for analysis. The protein concentration of the supernatant was measured using the method described by Bradford15.
Measurement of lipid peroxidation: According to the lipid peroxidation measurement method described by Ohkawa et al., MDA forms a pink-colored complex with thiobarbituric acid at 95°C and this complex can be measured using spectrophotometry at a wavelength of16 532 nm. A standard curve was obtained using 1,1,3,3-tetramethoxypropane (Sigma-Aldrich, Germany).
Measurement of NO activity: The NO levels of the tissues were measured as total nitrite plus nitrate levels using Griess reagent in a two-step process, as previously described17. Griess reagent consists of 1% sulfanilamide and 0.1% naphthylethylenediamine dihydrochloride in 2.5% phosphoric acid (Sigma-Aldrich, Germany). A standard curve was obtained using KNO3 (Merck, Germany).
Measurement of tGSH level: According to the method defined by Sedlak and Lindsay18, (5,5’-dithiobis (2- nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) disulfide is chromogenic in the medium and DTNB is reduced easily by sulfhydryl groups. The yellow color produced during the reduction is measured by spectrophotometry18 at 412 nm. A standard curve was obtained using GSSG (Sigma- Aldrich, Germany).
Measurement of GST and GPO activity: The GST activity was determined by the method described by Habig and Jakoby19. Briefly, GST activity was assayed spectrophotometrically at 340 nm in a 4 mL cuvette containing 0.1 M PBS (pH 6.5), 30 mM GSH, 30 mM 1-chloro-2,6-dinitrobenzene and tissue homogenate. The GPO activity was determined by the method described by Lawrence and Burk20.
Measurement of CAT activity: The CAT activity was determined by measuring the decrease in absorbance at 240 nm during the transformation21 of H2O2 to H2O.
Histopathological evaluation: Jejunal rat tissues were fixed for 24 h in 10% formalin solution. After routine tissue processing, sections 4 μm thick were cut from paraffin blocks and stained with hematoxylin and eosin. All sections were examined under a light microscope (Olympus BX 52, Tokyo, Japan) by two pathologists who were blinded to the treatment protocol.
Immunohistochemical procedures: For immunohistochemical staining, primary antibodies of Caspase-3 antibody (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, TX, Cell Signaling Technology, Inc.,MA) were used. The sections were stained using a fully automated immunohistochemistry device (Leica Bond-Max, LeicaBiosystems, Melbourne, Australia). After IHC processing, the sections were dehydrated through a graded series of ethanol to xylene and placed in a mounting medium (Entellan, Merck Millipore, Darmstadt, Germany). From the rat jejunal samples incubated in 10% formalin solution for immunohistochemical processing, sections 4 μm thick were cut on a positively charged microscope slide. The results of the analysis were evaluated under an Olympus BX51 microscope based on caspase-3 staining of jejunal tissue using a specific grading system. In this evaluation, diffuseness and intensity were considered separately. Diffuseness represented areas where dye was found and intensity represented the intensity of coloration. For diffuseness, grade I represented coloration in less than 10% of cells, grade II represented coloration in10-50% of cells and grade III represented coloration in more than 50% of cells. For coloration of cells, grade I represented mild, grade II represented intermediate and grade III represented intense.
Statistical analysis: The data from individual groups were presented as Mean±standard error (x±SEM). Differences between groups were analyzed using a one-way analysis of variance test, followed by post hoc Dunnett’s multiple comparisons test. All statistical analyses were performed using the IBM SPSS 20 (IBM Corp. Released 2011 IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows, Version 20.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp) and p<0.05 was considered significant.
Effect of rutin on cisplatin-induced lipid peroxidation: The MDA levels were significantly higher in the CCG than HG (p<0.01). Upon rutin use, MDA levels significantly decreased in RG-50 (p<0.05) and RG-100 (p<0.01) compared to the CCG (Fig. 1a).
Effect of rutin on jejunal NO activity: The NO levels were significantly lower in the CCG than HG (p<0.01). Rutin use caused a significant increase in NO levels in the RG-50 (p<0.05) and RG-100 (p<0.01) as compared with that in the CCG (Fig. 1b).
Effect of rutin on cisplatin-induced reductions in jejunal GSH activity: The GSH levels were significantly lower in the CCG than HG (p<0.001). GSH levels were significantly increased in the RG-50 (p<0.05) and RG-100 (p<0.01) as compared with those in the CCG (Fig. 1c).
Effect of rutin supplementation and cisplatin on jejunal antioxidant enzyme activities: The CAT activity was significantly decreased (p<0.001) in the CCG as compared with that in the HG.
Fig. 1(a-d): Effects of rutin on (a) MDA, (b) NO, (c) GSH levels and (d) CAT activity in the jejunal tissues of rats administered with cisplatin.
Bars are mean±SD. (λp<0.01, according to HG group, *p<0.05, according to CCG group,**p<0.01, according to CCG group)
Fig. 2(a-b): Effects of rutin and cisplatin on the activities of GST(A), GPO(B) in rat jejunum
Bars are Mean±SD. (λp<0.01, according to HG group, *p<0.05, according to CCG group, **p<0.01, according to CCG group, ***p<0.001, according to CCG group)
Rutin pretreatment at a dose of 50 mg significantly augmented CAT activity (p<0.05) in the RG-50 compared to the CCG. The higher dose of rutin (100 mg) also significantly increased CAT activity (p<0.01) in the RG-100 as compared with that in the CCG (Fig. 1d).
Effect of rutin supplementation and cisplatin on jejunal GST and GPO activity: The GST and GPO activity (both p<0.001) significantly decreased in the CCG as compared with that in the HG. The rutin group, which was administered 50 mg of rutin, had significantly higher GST (p<0.05) and GPO (p<0.01) levels as compared with those in the CCG. Moreover, the RG-100, which was administered 100 mg of rutin, had significantly higher GST (p<0.001) and GPO (p<0.001) as compared with that in the CCG (Fig. 2a, b).
Fig. 3(a-e):
Histopathological findings of the jejunum tissues, (a) Normal healthy jejunum of HG group(HEX100), (b) Dilated congested blood vessel (solid arrow) and hemorrhage (dashed arrow) in the serosa of the jejunum in CCG group, (c) Cryptitis in the jejunum (solid arrow), damage in crypt structure (round arrow), flattening and atrophy in the villus epithelium, atrophy (dashed arrow) and mixed inflammatory cell infiltration accompanied by PMNL in the mucosa (square arrow) of CCG group (HEX200), (d) Jejunum tissue of RG-50 group has near-normal appearance except the dilated congested blood vessel (HEX200) and (e) Jejunal tissue has near-normal tissue appearance in RG-100 group (HEX100)
Histopathological findings: Figure 3a showed the absence of pathological findings in jejunal tissue of the HG. However, damage in villus epithelial cells and dilated congested capillaries were observed in jejunal tissue of the CCG (Fig. 3b). Figure 3c showed near-total necrosis in villus structures, damage in villus epithelial cells and mucosal crypt damage, in addition to mixed inflammatory cell infiltration accompanied by polymorphonuclear leukocytes and eosinophils, in jejunal tissue of cisplatin-treated groups. As shown in Fig. 3d, mild irregularities in villus structures and dilated congested capillaries in mucosa were observed in jejunal tissue of the RG-50. In contrast, jejunal tissue in the RG-100 had a near-normal tissue appearance (Fig. 3e).
Immunohistochemical results: In the HG, diffuseness and intensity of coloring of jejunal tissue by caspase-3 regarded as grade I diffuseness and intensity (+) were observed (Fig. 4a). As shown in Fig. 4b, diffuseness in jejunal tissue in the CCG was classed as grade III, intensity (+++). Jejunal tissue in the RG-50 had diffuseness grade II, intensity (++) as shown in Fig. 4c. Jejunal tissue in the RG-100 had diffuseness grade I, intensity (+)(Fig. 4d).
In this study, the protective effect of rutin against cisplatin-induced jejunal mucositis in rats was investigated. The results showed that rutin treatment prior to cisplatin exposure provided protection against cisplatin-induced jejunal toxicity. The findings of this study demonstrated that rutin provides protection against cisplatin-induced jejunal toxicity, possibly by preventing oxidative stress and apoptotic tissue damage. Many studies on cisplatin, the primary drug used in chemotherapy have been performed with the aim of enhancing its effectiveness and reducing its toxicity2,4,6. Despite these studies, the rate of mucositis after cisplatin treatment remains high. In response to cisplatin treatment, ROS levels increase and antioxidant defense system reserves decrease.
Fig. 4(a-d):
Immunohistochemical evaluation of diffuseness and intensity of coloring jejunum tissues by caspase-3, (a) HG group’s jejunal tissue, diffuseness grade I, intensity(+) (HEX 100), (b) CCG group, diffuseness grade III, intensity (+++) (HEX200), (c) RG-50 group, diffuseness grade II, intensity (++) (HEX200) and (d) RG-100 group; diffuseness grade I, intensity (+)(HEX 200)
The ROS induces oxidative stress and triggers apoptosis, which contributes to the active oxygen small intestinal toxicity6, 22-24. An experimental study showed that the use of natural compounds with antioxidant, antiinflammatory and antiapoptotic potential, together with chemotherapeutics, increased the efficiency of chemotherapeutics and decreased systemic toxicity induced by chemotherapy24. Researches also demonstrated that rutin has important scavenging properties on oxidizing species, such as OH radicals, superoxide radicals and peroxyl radicals25. Also, rutin was superior to other flavonoids that act as pro-oxidizing agents and catalyze the production of oxygen radicals26. Thus, rutin appears to have potential as a nontoxic and non-oxidizable treatment agent.
Based on the biochemical results of the present study, upon cisplatin exposure, the level of MDA, which is an oxidizing molecule, increased in rat jejunum, whereas the levels of antioxidants, such as NO, GSH, GST, GPO and CAT decreased. Moreover, cisplatin caused jejunal cryptitis, crypt structure damage, villus epithelium flattening and atrophy, serosal blood vessel dilatation and mixed inflammatory cell infiltration. Rutin treatment prevented the increase in oxidants, decrease in antioxidants and histopathological jejunal tissue damage observed in the group treated only with cisplatin. Lipid peroxidation is an indicator of oxidative stress. In this study, the level of MDA, which is an end product of lipid peroxidation, was significantly elevated after cisplatin treatment in CCG. Moreover, upon oral administration of rutin prior to treatment, the cisplatin-induced increase in MDA levels significantly decreased. No studies in the literature appear to have investigated the effect of rutin on cisplatin-induced jejunal toxicity. However, one study examined the effect of rutin on methotrexate (MTX)-induced colon damage27. The authors showed that MTX increased MDA, an oxidation marker, in colon tissue and that intraperitoneal administration of rutin at doses of 50 and 100 mg kg–1 significantly inhibited MTX-induced increases in MDA27. In another study, rutin protected jejunal tissue from oxidative damage induced by radiation28. Furthermore, a combination of podophyllotoxin and rutin prevented radiation-induced gastrointestinal damage29.
GSH is a low-molecular weight tripeptide-containing cellular antioxidant, which is involved in the detoxification of ROS produced by chemotherapeutic agents, thus maintaining cellular homeostasis crucial for proper functioning of cells30. The GSH forms a conjugate with electrophiles, such as cisplatin, which triggers ROS production and protects lipid membranes from peroxidation31. In this study, GSH levels decreased upon cisplatin administration as compared with that in the healthy group. The GSH levels were restored in the groups treated with 50 and 100 mg kg–1 of rutin prior to cisplatin treatment, although the degree was dose dependent. There are no studies in the literature have investigated the effect of rutin on cisplatin-induced decreases in jejunal tGSH. However, a previous study reported that endogenous antioxidants, such as GSH, appeared to be elevated by MTX and decreased by intraperitoneal administration of rutin at doses27 of 50 and 100 mg kg–1. In addition, in this study oral administration of rutin significantly inhibited cisplatin-induced decreases in GST and GPO activities in jejunal tissue. These findings support the idea that rutin prevents the reduction in GSH induced by cisplatin. Previous research reported that phase-II detoxifying enzymes, such as GST, catalyzed the conjugation between GSH and cisplatin and thus GST activity decreased after cisplatin treatment32. In this study, rutin treatment significantly decreased GST levels. Moreover, the activities of antioxidant enzymes, such as GPO, CAT and NO, decreased in the cisplatin group , whereas they increased significantly in the groups treated with rutin before cisplatin administration. Although no previous studies have investigated the effect of rutin on the reduction of cisplatin-induced increases in CAT activity in jejunal tissue, previous research reported that rutin inhibited decreased CAT activity caused by MTX27.
Caspases are cysteine-dependent enzymes and are activated upon oxidative stress33. Caspase-3 plays an important role in regulating nuclear apoptosis, in addition to chromatin condensation. Caspase-3, an indicator of apoptosis, plays an essential role in processes associated with cellular damage and the formation of apoptotic bodies33. Previous research reported that caspase-3 was upregulated in rats treated with cisplatin33-35. In this study, caspase-3 expression significantly increased in the group treated only with cisplatin as compared with that in the healthy group. Pretreatment with rutin significantly reduced caspase-3 expression.
In this study, rutin treatment provided protection against the damage induced by cisplatin and prevented the disruption of the oxidant/antioxidant equilibrium in jejunal tissue of rats. In addition, rutin ameliorated histopathological disruption in jejunal tissue induced by cisplatin treatment. These results provide evidence of the protective effects of rutin against cisplatin-induced toxicity. To the best of our knowledge, there are no studies in the literature on the protective effect of rutin against cisplatin-induced jejunal mucositis.
The results of the present study indicated that oxidative stress and apoptosis were closely associated with cisplatin-induced toxicity. In this regard, rutin appeared to provide protection against cisplatin-induced jejunal toxicity via the attenuation of oxidative stress and apoptotic tissue damage. Rutin may be useful in the prevention of cisplatin-induced intestinal mucositis. The anticancer activity of cisplatin increases in accordance with increments in the dose but high doses cannot be administered in the clinical setting because they lead to small bowel damage. Rutin treatment during cisplatin chemotherapy may help to overcome this problem. The protection of rutin against cisplatin-induced small intestinal toxicity can be explored as a protective effect against the toxic effects of other chemotherapeutic drugs. In the present study, the protective effects of rutin against cisplatin-induced intestinal toxicity were better at a higher dose (100-50 mg kg–1).
SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT
This study discover the protective effect of rutin against cisplatin-induced oxidative damage that can be beneficial for preventing mucosal damage in patients using cisplatin. As is known, cisplatin causes oxidative damage in many tissues and organs, such as the gastrointestinal tract3,4. Although the protective effect of rutin against cisplatin-induced oxidative damage has been studied previously, this is the first study to investigate the protective effect of the drug against cisplatin-induced jejunal oxidative damage. The results revealed that rutin provided protection against cisplatin-induced decreases in the activity of jejunal antioxidant enzymes, including CAT. In the present study, rutin inhibited cisplatin-induced reductions in tGSH, GST and GPO levels. The findings indicate that rutin may be useful in reducing cisplatin-induced jejunal damage. Furthermore, rutin treatment could prevent treatment interruptions caused by intestinal damage. This study will help the researcher to uncover the critical areas of oxidative intestinal damage caused by cisplatin that many researchers were not able to explore. Thus a new theory on protective effects of rutin on cisplatin induced intestinal damage may be arrived at.
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Vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter/producer Xantoné Blacq’s music is a sonic adventure fusing jazz, funk and soul with music from around the world. Xan describes his sound as ‘ free-range sunshine music’… Think Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock and Stevie Wonder in the making… Xantoné’s first single releases were “Search For The Sun” and “The Dance” both receiving critical acclaim and club/radio airplay from international luminaries including Masters At Work, Gilles Peterson, Kyoto Jazz Massive and Jazzanova.
Xan has since remixed and recorded for groundbreaking international labels including Warner Music/Dro (Spain), Compost Records (Germany), Trama Records (Brazil) and Loop (New Zealand). He is also a highly sought after feature artist performing on the latest albums of Bruno E, Big Bang, Delgui, Soul Vigilantes. Last year he toured Brazil and Spain, and plans to perform in Japan to coincide with the release of his new album.
Xantoné Blacq in 2006
Xantoné Blacq releases his original “Yes I Do” and a future funk interpretation of the Beatles hit “Drive My Car” feat. “Pee Wee” Ellis on 12″ single this summer (Japan release date 3rd July / UK release date 17th July). Both tracks are aimed directly at the dancefloor with squelchy basses, fiery horn riffs and the funk madness taken to extremes by master Sax Funkster Alfred “Pee Wee” Ellis who played, wrote and arranged many of James Brown’s greatest hits.
The single precedes the release of Xantoné’s album “To The Heavens And Beyond” (Japan release date July 2006 / UK release date September 2006) which is filled to the brim with euphoria inducing Soul, Jazz and Funk. Guest performances by Brazilian vocalist Patricia Marx, Classical Indian vocalists Preeti and Unnati Dasgupta and Italian songstress Manuela Panizzo add global flavours to this colourful album.
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Social Media Politics
Why Dalits are accusing Twitter of casteism and communal bigotry
Around the world, the platform has been accused of pandering to authoritaranism. Some of those accusations are now being made in India.
Shoaib Daniyal
Twitter / @dilipmandal
Few social media websites are as conjoined with politics as the American microblogging website Twitter. In India, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party often runs Twitter political campaigns, a large chunk of prime time news seems to originate from topics being discussed on the site and politicians use it as a public address system.
As a consequence of this immense influence, the website has frequently come under attack for being biased, of boosting the reach of some types of users and suppressing the voices of others. In the United States, concerns have been raised that the website encourages White nationalism. In Britain, reporting has indicated that Far Right supporters of Brexit were helped by Twitter. In the Arab world, authoritarian regimes have often been accused of running bot armies in order to try and silence dissent.
Similar concerns have been raised about Twitter in India. Since Saturday, in fact, large numbers of users have been protesting on the website itself, accusing the company of encouraging casteist and communal attitudes by diminishing backward caste and minority voices even while acting as an amplifier for hate speech.
Online protests
The online protests were sparked off by restrictions placed on the Twitter account of Dilip Mandal on Friday. Mandal is an Adjunct Professor at the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication and consulting editor with the news website The Print.
Users of the website started by tweeting out their objection to Mandal being banned, using the hashtag #restoredilipmandal.
Indianisation of Twitter. ट्विटर का भारतीयकरण. #ब्राह्मणवादीट्विटर pic.twitter.com/na7sfFUe2U
— Prof. Dilip Mandal (@dilipmandal) November 3, 2019
The Twitter logo with the upper caste sacred thread imposed on it.
This protest soon segued into larger complaints about Twitter’s alleged social discrimination. Users then started to use hashtags like #CasteistTwitter, #JaiBhimTwitter (Jai Bhim, a a popular Dalit slogan, is a reference to Bhim Rao Ambedkar) and #BrahmanicalTwitter. Soon matters shifted to trying to get the hashtag #SackManishMaheshwari to trend – a Twitter feature that prominently features popular hashtags on the website. Maheshwari is the managing director for Twitter India.
In an interview to Scroll.in, Dilip Mandal pointed out why it is important for Twitter to act fairly. “Social media is part of what we call the public sphere now,” said Mandal. “In a democracy, this has a very important role to play and it’s vital it remain unbiased and fair to all users.”
Other grievances included the allegation that Twitter ensures upper caste people are easily verified – a Twitter feature where a “blue tick” is placed against a person’s name, signifying that the account is authentic and not an impersonation. Users also criticised what they felt were unfair bans and restrictions placed on backward caste and minority users.
“People speaking against the ruling dispensation are banned for bizarre reasons while handles associated with the ruling party can get away with extreme hate speech,” claimed Mandal.
Recent examples of hate being disseminated on Twitter include the mocking of the religious identity of a two-year old Christian boy who died in an accident as well as the fact the a “boycott Muslims” trend was not removed by the platform.
While Twitter took no action in these instances, it banned prominent Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Hegde for sharing a poem by noted Hindi writer Gorakh Pandey.
#ब्राह्मणवादीट्विटर #ब्राह्मणवादीट्विटर ट्विटर स्मृति के नियम -2 pic.twitter.com/hzpCxO4XDL
Twitter being compared to the Manu Smiriti, the ancient text that prescribes how caste must be observed.
Spilling over
This social media movement has attracted attention from wider Dalit circles. Sanjay Raut, Chairman of the Congress’ Scheduled Caste wing has tweeted out his support as has Udit Raj, former BJP MP who joined the Congress earlier this year.
On Monday, the Dalit rights organisation, the Bhim Army, staged a protest at Twitter India’s Mumbai office. The matter ended with the Bhim Army claiming that Twitter had promised to look into the matter. “They apologised to us,” said Ashok Kamble, the Bhim Army head for Maharashtra. “They told us to contact us if there are any issues.”
Representatives of the Bhim Army meet with Twitter executives in Mumbai on Monday. Credit: Ashok Kamble
Ashok Bharti, Chairman of the All India Ambedkar Mahasabha, sees the incident as a sign of changing social mores. “Twitter was essentially an elite, upper caste club,” he said. “Now the non-elite sections Dalits, Adivasis, minorities – they are now on Twitter and they want to raise their voice.”
Bharti sees Twitter’s current actions as an attempt to snuff out this change. “Dalits have used social media to great effect,” he said. “We organised the 2018 Bharat Bandh which forced the Supreme Court to take back its dilution of the SC/ST [Prevention of Atrocities] act. Now after seeing our success, curbs are being placed for greater SC/ST/OBC and minority participation in social media.”
Scroll.in has emailed Twitter to seek comment on these allegations. Twitter is yet to reply. This article will be updated if the company responds.
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Telephony expert Jon Arnold dissects enterprise VoIP basics -- including the technology's evolution and how it works -- and compares it with legacy telephony.
Jon Arnold, J Arnold & Associates
Voice over IP in the enterprise has clearly emerged as the successor to time-division multiplexing (TDM), offering businesses an overhaul of their telephony systems. In 2015, VoIP reached its 20-year milestone, so the technology has been with us for a long time. But as often happens in technology, the adoption process has been slow.
VoIP has been business-grade for many years. Its gradual adoption has reached critical mass, where most businesses now know about it and a growing number are using it. Before delving into the buying process, it's important to cover the VoIP basics, especially if you've never used it before.
Breaking down the VoIP basics
Let's start by breaking down the acronym, which incorporates two distinct ideas. Voice over Internet Protocol represents the intersection of telephony and the Internet. Telephony is the primary medium for voice -- but not the only one -- and has long operated independently from other communication channels. This approach served businesses well, as there was no need to integrate it with anything else until the Internet came along.
The Web has given rise to the Internet Protocol (IP), a set of standards that allows various forms of data to travel over a common network. Since legacy telephony -- TDM -- was not data, it initially remained separate, running on a dedicated voice network.
The prime driver for VoIP has always been cost savings, especially early on when legacy telephony was more expensive.
The common denominator for IP traffic is packetization, which transports digital packets across the Web in a highly efficient manner. The information flows at wire speed this way, with virtually no cost. Because the Web is a collection of interconnected networks, the operating principle is for packets to be routed over the most efficient path that consumes the least amount of network resources. Since many paths are possible, traffic rarely flows in a linear fashion, often making multiple hops en route to the final destination.
This approach is the polar opposite of TDM, which operates on the principle of a closed circuit between two parties. By having a dedicated connection, TDM calls are always clear, private and secure. But those circuits cannot be shared while in use, and compared to IP, TDM is a highly inefficient model for managing network resources. This is a key reason why the cost of legacy telephony is so high.
VoIP's pioneers recognized the opportunity and worked on bringing these worlds together. Once they could find a way to packetize voice, it could be added to the IP data stream and, from there, dramatic cost reductions in telephony service became possible. Early efforts were plagued by poor quality, but as the Web matured and broadband supplanted dial-up service, VoIP overcame those issues. Today, it is a bona fide replacement for legacy telephony.
Enterprise VoIP basics and components
When purchasing VoIP, businesses must understand two components are involved: the phone system and the service. They can be purchased together as a service, in which case there won't be any integration issues since the phones will already be IP-enabled. As explained above, VoIP travels on the data network, and the phones must be IP-based for the packets to convert into voice signals. Legacy-based phones are built around analog or digital technology, but will only work on the dedicated voice network -- not an IP network.
Although many businesses have sunk costs in legacy phone systems that are still going strong, they can still use VoIP -- so these businesses are not prevented from starting down this path now. To IP-enable these phones, you need an Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) or comparable peripheral for each endpoint. ATAs aren't expensive and provide a great bridge to continue using legacy phones until it's time to replace them -- along with getting the cost savings from VoIP today.
For businesses that have no existing telephony system configured, going with a full VoIP service and IP phones makes sense. With phone vendors and service providers both transitioning from legacy to VoIP, greenfield opportunities have many options to consider.
A different scenario could be a trigger event where the existing phone system needs to be replaced. Whether a breakdown occurs or capacity issues simply reach a point of no return, a change has to be made. This will likely lead to a wholesale switch for both the phones and the service.
How enterprise VoIP is sold
With legacy telephony, the two components -- phones and service -- were separate and not packaged as a system. Your incumbent carrier had a monopoly on the service, so there was no question about where to buy. Similarly, incumbent telephony vendors managed to keep customers captive with proprietary phone systems that were complex, inflexible and costly. In short, switching costs were high and choice was limited.
VoIP presents a broader playing field, mainly due to standardization. A core hallmark of the Web is using open systems that support interoperability. As a result, all IP phone systems will work with all VoIP services, so businesses can mix and match in ways they never could before.
Another twist with VoIP is that vendors can offer the service as well. The lines are blurring between carriers and vendors, as hosted VoIP is offered by a range of providers. Most telephony vendors offer their own turnkey VoIP services, hosted either in their own data centers or via third parties.
Businesses can choose to buy each component separately or as a service -- either from a vendor or a carrier. Each carrier has partnerships with IP phone vendors -- with a range of models and price points to choose from to make an all-in-one purchase. Beyond that, other channels cater to other types of buyers.
For small businesses -- especially small and home offices -- VoIP can be purchased online and, in some cases, even provisioned and managed. At the higher end, businesses can buy via dealers or resellers who are more involved with evaluating services to assist with the decision-making and deployment.
Why businesses buy VoIP
The prime driver for VoIP has always been cost savings, especially early on when legacy telephony was more expensive. Competition has driven prices down, so the savings are not as significant -- but still worthwhile. Many variables go into the total cost of telephony, but businesses can expect to reduce this expense in the range of 20% to 30%.
As the cost advantage shrinks -- and as IP communications mature -- businesses are starting to take a more strategic view of VoIP. A key benefit, aside from saving on telephony costs, is network convergence, where voice traffic is ported to the data network. With VoIP, telephony becomes a data stream, so there's no longer a need to maintain a separate network. This creates another form of cost savings by consolidating all media streams on to a single network.
Network convergence also creates an opportunity for IT to provide employees with a richer and more flexible set of communications applications. VoIP has a broader feature set than basic telephony, as it can integrate voice with other applications like click-to-call. This allows IT to switch from a costly, limited form of telephony to a richer alternative that does more than simply replicate TDM.
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I learned a lot about VoIP through the article, but I'm still not sold on it based on my previous experience. This may be different for larger enterprises that get their internet through more reliable sources, but in smaller companies that get their internet via cable, the voice quality suffers everytime the cable suffers, which can be fairly regularly.
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Loose lips and the Obama national security ship
By Adam Levine, with reporting from Pam Benson and Ann Colwell
The level of detail spilling out through media reports about crucial national security operations is raising the question of whether President Barack Obama's administration can keep a secret - or in some cases even wants to.
In just the past week, two tell-all articles about Obama's leadership as commander-in-chief have been published, dripping with insider details about his sleeves-rolled-up involvement in choosing terrorist targets for drone strikes and revelations about his amped-up cyber war on Iran.
Each article notes the reporters spoke to "current and former" American officials and presidential advisers, as well as sources from other countries.
"This is unbelievable ... absolutely stunning," a former senior intelligence official said about the level of detail contained in the cyberattack story.
The official noted that the article cited participants in sensitive White House meetings who then told the reporter about top secret discussions. The article "talks about President Obama giving direction for a cyberweapons attack during a time of peace against a United Nations member state."
The article follows on the heels of what many considered dangerous leaking of details about a mole who helped foil a plot by al Qaeda in Yemen. The revelations of the British national threatened what was described at the time as an ongoing operation.
"The leak really did endanger sources and methods," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California and chair of the Intelligence Committee, told Fox News.
The Yemen plot had many intelligence and national security officials flummoxed and angered by its public airing. Despite that, a senior administration official then briefed network counterterrorism analysts, including CNN's Frances Townsend, about parts of the operation.
But such briefings are an "obligation" for the administration once a story like the Yemen plot is publicized, insisted National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor.
"The reason that we brief former counterterrorism officials is because they are extremely conscientious about working with us about what can and cannot be said or disclosed," Vietor told Security Clearance. "They understand that there is an obligation for the U.S. to be transparent with American people about potential threats but will work with us to protect operational equities because they've walked in our shoes."
Subsequently, the intelligence committee initiated a review of its agencies to assess the leak. The FBI launched an investigation as well.
Perhaps the highest profile intelligence coup for the administration, the killing of Osama bin Laden, was followed almost immediately by criticism of how much detail was leaking out. Then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates complained that after officials agreed in the Situation Room not to reveal operational details, it was mere hours before that agreement was broken.
"The leaks that followed the successful bin Laden mission led to the arrest of Pakistanis and put in danger the mission's heroes and their families," Rep. Peter King, R-New York, said in an interview on CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront."
Questions were raised about why details of documents and other articles that were seized during the raid were discussed even before the intelligence community had time to review what they were holding.
Leon Panetta, who at the time was the director of the CIA and is now the defense secretary, penned a letter to CIA staff warning against loose lips.
In the letter, obtained by CNN, Panetta wrote that the operation, "led to an unprecedented amount of very sensitive - in fact, classified - information making its way into the press."
"Disclosure of classified information to anyone not cleared for it - reporters, friends, colleagues in the private sector or other agencies, former agency officers - does tremendous damage to our work. At worst, leaks endanger lives," the letter said.
In the latest case, the White House denied it was orchestrating the leak. Asked Friday if the Times' story detailing the cyberattack on Iran was an "authorized leak," White House spokesman Josh Earnest disagreed "in the strongest possible terms."
"That information is classified for a reason. Publicizing it would pose a threat to our national security," Earnest told reporters.
But the White House has tried to be more open about what have been secretive programs. The president himself became the first administration official to acknowledge U.S. drones were conducting attacks in Pakistan when he made a comment to a supporter in an online chat, even though officials through all the years of the program had never said publicly they were being conducted.
Then, in April, the president's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, John Brennan, publicly blew the cover off the drone program, saying in a speech that "yes, in full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al Qaeda terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones."
But that speech, Vietor told CNN's Security Clearance last month, was carefully considered for how revealing it could be.
"I'm not going to get into internal deliberations, but as a general matter we obviously push to be as transparent as we can while being mindful of our national security equities," Vietor said.
Post by: CNN's Adam Levine
Filed under: Analysis • drones • Obama • Pakistan • Yemen
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Kaleokualoha
"I know for a facrt he is NOT popular with the military"?
Au contraire! He is more popular than Romney with the military, according to military.com ( http://www.military.com/news/article/obama-gains-edge-in-military-campaign-donations.html?ESRC=dod.nl )
Robyn Bj
That is just plain stupid. I know for a fact the military does not like him. His "Wiggle room comment" drive's my husband nuts. Are you military? If you were then you would know when a secret operation goes down, that it is never let out who does it. Many units train for it and no one knows who did it except the unit chosen. Obama has a big mouth. He did his vistory dance and claimed glory and he did nothing but say "do it". He was on the golf course and had to be pulled off when it went down. He cares nothing for the military, if fhe did he would keep his mouth shut and consider that lives are more important then a glory moment for him.
Am I miliary? I am a retired USAF Intelligence Officer with 24 years of service. It's interesting to see how the anti-Obama ex-SEAL groups react to one of their own writing about the OBL raid.
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boodoss
Barry is not even Barrack Hussein Obama, he is really Frank Marshall Davis, Junior. Google it an look at the photos. He bears no resemblance to the chubby cheeked BHO Sr. Barry's mama was a groupie of Davis'.
". . . he is really Frank Marshall Davis, Junior"? My, what an ACTIVE imagination! There is no evidence that Obama's mother ever met Davis, much less that they were intimate. Such propaganda is par for the course in the Conservative Disinformation Network.
G. Markus
I am not American but I acknowledge the FACT that America's efforts in combating global terror is really paying off and has helped so much in keeping us-the rest of the world safer. Only God will bless them. In fact I won't forget how Prez Bush disturbed their cells every including in the most obscure locations of the earth-no wonder they hated him so intensely.
Though WMDs were not found with Saddam, it is a known fact by all that Saddam had the program. And by now if Saddam was left intact, the terrorists would possessed the bomb by now, and you and me might not be alive by now. They didn't find the bomb but ousted Saddam? Never mind! Some one said Saddam hid them in Syria close to the US invasion. Might be true. Man was something else.
Intel Agent
You are correct in some areas but it's not God Who Blesses the USA now it's Satan.
xx4zu1
Obama is straight gangsta and just wants to let the world know. Instead of standing in front of the world and making statements like "were gonna getcha", he plays cool, acts unfazed, then calls a hit on your @ss.
Dr. Scott
Yes, but unfortunately some of those on his hit list are cancer patients and little old ladies. Government sponsored terrorism against medical marijuana patients is treason. No more thugs in San Diego – Stop the Final Solution by Dirty Dumanis.
Don't worry Doc – Dumanis will lose her mayoral bid in San Diego because everyone knows she is an ugly thug.
June 3, 2012 at 1:57 pm |
0rangeW3dge
I suspect Republican sympathisers. Mitt Romney, last week, started hinting that the Republicans are "tougher" on national security than Democrats, but I also get flash-backs to the last election where John McCain tried to insinuate the same. But my question is: If the Republicans were so tough on security, how come we had 9/11, and especially since the Democrats warned George the Second about the intel?
Uh, you have forgotten that the Clintons neglected to kill osama.
And obozo allowed our latest stealth helicopter to fall into Paki hands, who then promptly sold it to the Russians.
It was the Chinese, pay attention...
Besides, it was Seal f*ckin Team 6, some of the most highly trained operatives in the world... If there was something confidential or classified on that chopper, they either took it or destroyed it.
June 4, 2012 at 11:15 am |
Mike in WA
Umm you seam to forget that it was the Clinton Administration who gave them the visas to come into the United States.
that is right Clinton was in office for 8 years, can't blame that one on Bush or the Republicans!
We had 911 shortly after 8 years of Clinton. Does that answer your question ?
Counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke warned the Bush administration about Al Qaeda activity, but his warnings were unheeded.
Bush wasn't in that long. How about Clinton who was golfing when they could have gotten Bin Laden and he didn't want to be disturbed. Obama and the liberals discovered a new fault line running under the DC area and they named it the Bush fault. Obama needs to man up. The the comment he made in SF while he was running in 2008 about the military you can tell lhe has no respect for them, but as a get relected ticket..
June 6, 2012 at 10:03 pm |
The terrorist threat during the Clinton administration was lower.
Clinton was too busy golfing or playing around with women.
The Terrorists took years to plan 9/11. Obama loves to leak help him get re-elected. What a stupid thing he did in naming Seal Team 6 and also going to visit the Aircraft carrier that disposed of Bin Laden's body. Hubby's a Navy man and he about had a heart attack when Obama did that. He said what a stupid thing to do putting men at risk. I know for a facrt he is NOT popular with the military.
Defeat Romney
BREAKING NEWS. Republican CEOs are conspiring with Republicans in Congress to hold off on hiring to keep the unemployment rate over 8%. PASS IT ON! DEMAND AN INVESTIGATION!
Why has he chosen to terrorize his base supporters with DEA thugs and closed ALL medical marijuana dispensaries in San Diego? He will lose the election and democrats will lose the senate in November.
Julie Julie Julie – hey babe, the current administration is acting like the hypocrites the are... Hope for Change...
Hey Jules, I happen to know first hand that it is the local government calling the DEA to come in not the president sending them in. The same thing happened in Montana and believe it or not it was the Republican leaders that were behind the raids. If fact in Montana the Republican legislature passed a law over turning the bill that was voted in by the citizens. How's that for government overstepping.
CNN is certainly cooperating in this effort! Turn on CNN TV and see how many foreigners they now employ! I am personally offended by this! I used to enjoy watching CNN when I get home from work (yes, I still have a job). Now, when Piers Morgan comes on, I change the channel and watch America citizens on Fox! True, I hate Fox and all their obviously slanted "reporting", but I refuse to watch a Brit (non-citizen) while so many highly qualified Americans are out of work!
If it seriously offends you that someone other than an American is working for CNN, you should probably never go outside, because half the people in your gated community have immigrants mowing their lawns...
rd medlin
...Hey Defeat Romney...Hiring is is a business decision,nothing more....I will hire 2 people as soon as ObamaScare is defeated...not before.., we dont need a conspiiracy to defeat Zippy...dont flatter yourself...RodLogic
franklovesfl
Go troll elsewhere
If Americans elect Romney, I pray that the U.S. fails is a huge way because it means the majority want to go back to the policies that got them into this mess in the first place. How STUPID can they be? LOL
ATF gave thousands of rifles to Drug Cartels so DOJ would repeal the 2nd Amendment.. pathetic hypocrites. Romney 2012 – Hope 4 Change...!!!
Anyone else remember the Obama's promises to 'go through the budget line by line with a scapel?'
lmao. Those were the days..
I hope you lose your job and your health insurance. M-orons like you should have your voting privileges revoked.
Mitt is IT – Hope 4 Change.
@Defeat Romney
People like you are why I support late term abortion. It's never to late, put a gun in your mouth and do us all a favor and pull the trigger.
We can always hope if your to much of a chicken that one of your fellow democrats drives by and sprays you just out of the fun of it. Got to love drive by shootings, the innocents are always fellow democrats.
Not the most important thing, although the debt under Obama is pertinent. I would say the most important thing is Obama's promise of transparency and commitment to the rule of law. We still have no way of having his assassinations of US citizens reviewed. He has carte blanche on which American he decides will die and hypocrites say they trust him even though the next president will inherit the precedent of murdering Americans without constitutional rights. Civil liberty groups have had to fight harder against Obama than they did against Bush. Yet somehow Obama is seen as a "good guy."
never before have i seen so many liberals in a single room supporting war. Obama really did bring 'change', didn't he?
He's a president, not a magician. The republiKKKons have done everything in their power to sink this economy. They all need to be thrown out.
You're either a troll or a typical liberal.
Going to go with the latter on this one.
Romney will win in November by a landslide -- Communist News Network (CNN) is sinking fast...
mauipm
let me ask you one question, if your lied to enough does it become true. Your defending the indefencable. I don't want to hear your talking points, just go through one by one all the things this president has said and truely ask yourself if you believe any of it. If you truely believe it then ask yourself again because you were not trying to be objective.
June 30, 2012 at 3:45 pm |
Obama has sunk his own ship. He has pours trillions down rat holes. He did not create jobs. He gave money to people how donated big to him (GE, ec.) Stop blaming the Repulicans, man up and realize that the " change you can believe in" you voted for came true, but not the way you wanted it to. He is at the helm of the ship and the buck stops there. Face the facts he and other liberals are not man enough to stand up and accept that they made a mistake and stop acting like a two year old and blaming others. In other words GROW UP! We are in the biggest debt ever and now face the biggest tax increase ever. He has spent more money than anyother other President in the history of the country and we have gone nowhere, don't blame the republicans Obama is the one spending the money like a drunken sailor.
DO YOU PEOPLE really think Obama made Hillary Secretary of State because he liked her? hell no, he made her that so he wouldn't have to run against her in 4 years.
Hillary 2012!!
republican here, I will vote for Hillary. Tried to first round, but the Obama thugs took her out in the primary so I never had a chance.
Top_News
Huh. I guess President Obama's definition of transparency meant loose lips concerning national security and closed doors concerning mandates, appointees, and legislation.
It takes a good Defense to stop a good Offense no matter if the Defense knows the play or not. Terrorist and Iran don't have good Defenses. Obama has shown time and time again he's pretty good at what he's been accomplishing, Drones are highly affective, although controversial, yet save many American lives and tax payer money. Cyber war with Iran, and most other governments around the globe, well it's been going on forever, if they didn't already know about it, it's been on the news before, just proves they have a terrible Defense.
J R Brown
When I wanted more transparency in the government, revealing top secret military info is NOT what I wanted. I wanted the daylight shone on the secret deals between congresspersons and lobbyists, etc...not our militay secrets told to all the world.
It would seem like this would just be a common sense thing...
dtz
We all say how much we hate politicians, yet we voted each and every last one into office. Now here comes November, and once again we're idiotically voting for the same old bullcrap (Obama and Romney). Here's a novel idea: if you don't like it, don't vote for it!
this guy in the wh is a total moron. Anyone else notice this?
more2bits
The leak is in Obama's brain–he is brain dead already and past help.
TruthDefender
Ah, so THIS is to be the right-wing avenue of attack against Obama promoted by Corporate News Network and all the other corporate-owned media desperate to discredit a president REMARKABLY effective on national security... Yeah we have no choice but to admit, he got Bin Laden and most of the al Queda hierarchy, but he BRAGGED about it and LEAKED about it! No, he didn't land on an aircraft carrier wearing a codpiece under a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner, he didn't show video or photos like Saddams dead sons or Saddams dental exam, but he (subtly) bragged by announcing to the world, the death of the mastermind of 9/11, occasionally mentioning it but certainly not beating his chest nor bashing his predecessors failure to achieve that . That should've never seen the light of day, by this hit-piece's logic. Pathetic and transparent, CNN! You can't credibly argue he didn't accomplish a MAJOR issue of national importance, so you seek to smear him and reduce the MASSIVE credit due to him, by claiming quite unconvincingly, that his accomplishment is negated because of what's come out since. ABSOLUTELY PATHETIC! This piece seeks to do nothing less, than deny Obama the credit he's due and replace it with yet more right-wing attack talking points. CNN...your credibility with the American people is already in jeopardy according to your ratings... Turn into FauxNoise and your journey to oblivion will accelerate. Suggestion to increase ratings: Abandon gimmicks and appeals to partisanship, and return to offering non-infotainment actual context-providing NEWS that America is starving for!
Obama didnt get bin laden.... The great american folks fighting for us, found him and killed him. Obama said yes its ok for you guys to do that.... just saying Thank you to our troops who actually did something, unlike Obama
You mean the same national security plans instituted by Bush and protested by liberals every day of Bush's term?
Those ones?
That you're now championing?
How partisan are you?
CNN has certainly reduced its relevance today, I agree!
I would suggest (and have suggested to them) that CNN stop hiring all these foreigners they now have delivering "news" into our homes! Why do I have to listen to Piers Morgan, and other foreigners every night??? Doesn't CNN understand that there are many qualified American citizens they could hire? Gotta love those H1B visas! Keeps the unemployment numbers high!
Gabrielle Luke
well said... I love the Obama bashers too bad for all of you that Romney is just not the man to beat him and the Obama thugs as you all call them will be out and in full support again this election so no worries here. Be blessed!!
and more dead people wll be vtng for him , can't blame Bush next time, time for him to man-up to his own mistakes but hey that is what you get for voting for a community organizer.
nolimits3333
Obama got Bin Laden and Gaddafi.
Bush and Reagan didn't.
You do realize that Gaddhafi was "gotten" by the Libyan people, right? And that the U.S. had virtually nothing to do with it, right?
Obama "got" nobody. He gave the order from a padded chair and braver men who actually serve in this country's military got Bin Laden. You also seem to forget that he acted like a dictator with Libya. Going to war without so much as notifying congress is illegal and is an impeachable offense. Even then it was the people of Libya who got Gaddafi. There was no order from the president and Americans didn't take him out. If Gaddafi is such a prize, why did you not give Bush such credit for getting Saddam who murdered and tortured thousands of his own citizens? The bias of how war is okay if it's your party doing it is disgusting.
I don't suppose it ever occurred to Mr. Levine that the Obama Administration -wanted- the information to come out? Little journalist fool.
He's got a BIGGG MOOUUTTHHH.......
Obama's a lot smarter than the author. We got Bin Laden under his watch, didn't we?
Cindy J.
Yeah – he's real good at terrorizing medical marijuana patients in San Diego using his hooded-thugs with guns... hypocrite.
Take your meds, Cindy.
T. Lee
Wanna re-do that comment Cindy-J?
Made absolutely nooooo sense at all.
TeenBo
We got Bin Laden under Obama's watch thanks the Bush.
Bush opened admitted on camera that he could care less about Osama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apLVd7_66ds&
bobbylei
What's all this about Obama being black. He's White!!!
hoosagolfer1
gawd..can't chat on Faux anymore , thought i'd check out this bunch of losers...not a word on Mitt Romney's Viet nam war time..you know the old dude is 65 and spent his Vnam war days in France...french fries anyone.....????
Super Gus
Look at all these anti-Obama comments. WAKE UP CNN CENSORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So what happened to freedom of speech. If CNN censored the anti Obama comments that would indeed show how bias the Liberal Media is. If people would have called for censoring all the Anti-Bush statements the Left would be screaming unfair. What is good for the goose is good for the gander..
Tr1Xen
Um... I think that's the point he was making. lol
Sorry so many anti comments. It is a very good point I agree!
The word for which you are looking is "biased," not "bias." You should probably proofread your posts before submitting them.
Will do, I am new at this, thanks!
Bush was a coward..joined the N guard...which didn't fight in vnam and now you have Romney as your choice and he spent his Vam years in France...you guys seem to lean toward cowards...french fries anyone??
Where was Obama???? Smoking pot I realise he isn't as old, but I can't see him in the military.
fekt
So CNN should be like FOX, they don't bother to censor their boards. They just shut them down because they don't want to be associated in anyway with their readers. Personally I don't blame them
Did it finally come out that Obama wants Bill Clinton to bring the girls to the party, the same girls or Porn stars that Clinton was photographed with last month. Bring them on Bill that is right up your alley.
SOMEONE SHOULD TELL BIEBER ABOUT THIS.
cityguy
"about President Obama giving direction for a cyberweapons attack during a time of peace against a United Nations member state"
Thats all I need to know about the Ego In Chief. He has to go.
Absolutely right. Well said.
"...well said..."??
Yeah – if you are a foaming-at-the-mouth divisive partisan moron !
He'sNotSoBad
Are you retarded? The last time the Iranian President spoke at the UN, he repeated again how the "Zionist" warmongering nation and its masters in the West are responsible for all the bad things in the world, and the Holocaust never happened, and he is going to wipe Israel off the map, yada yada yada...
The only reason there is peace between us and them is because he knows if he attacks us he will end up like Sadam and Osama!!
ramble3144
Axelrod thinks it doesn't matter. What matters is will it get Obie votes. Or community activity.
Now, I hear Obama is blaming the country, American citizens, for his failures. He says we have "Republican Fever." ????? Oh, well...at least he didn't mention Bush this time.
Actually, though, he has the completely wrong disease: what we truly suffer from is "Obama-itis." And, unlike Republican Fever," which manifests itself in common sense, patriotism, spending limits, cuts in ridiculous regulations and totally stupid spending, maturity of thought and actions, acceptance of responsibility, good work habits and ethics, compassion based on genuine care and not on welfare ideology, a refusal to become a slave to the STATE, and work and jobs for those who are able (even if they're NOT WILLING)...well, I'm afraid "Obama-itis" is FATAL. To America, to Americans, to work, to jobs, to a decent life, to the Constitution and to liberty and freedom. Gee, I frankly think I'd rather have "Republican Fever." It doesn't sound like it's too bad.
Wow, that's ten straw men in a single blow!
Cheryl – you're a star! Couldn't have said it better myself.
Wow...you are SOOOOOO DECEIVED @Cheryl !!!!
Eight of the last nine recessions have been under Republican presidents
Democratic presidents create twice as many jobs per year as Republican presidents.
Republican presidents' deficits are three times higher than Democrats' and twice as high as a percent of GDP.
The economy grows 41% faster under Democratic presidents.
Businesses invest three times as much under Democratic presidents.
Look it up for yourself – that is if you can break away from the Republican noise-machine long enough to try for some independent thought !
looks like someone is a Daily Kos nutter....
Its all Bush's fault. It is the do nothing congress fault. The sun got in my eyes, the dog ate my homework. Obama took care of the important stuff last week; he came out in support of gay marriage. Whew! I sure am
glad for his "laser focus" on what is important!
Thanks. That cheered me up. Great post.
bieber will fix it
Would the President be guilty of TREASON? If so, why is no one saying this?
I think that to refuse to give the Nation details of the Bin Laden raid – then hand them on a plate to Hollywood producers so they can make a film about it to boost his own ratings is pretty treasonous without all the rest. He's not fit to run a dogs' home let alone America.
Drone strikes on terrorists have increased tenfold in the last 3 years.
Thanks, President Obama.
Innocent Casualities are waaaay up too! Thanx Obama!
@nolimits3333–
Actually it is true. Not hard to look it up, of course most Government sites will lie so as not to make the drone strikes look to be as bad as they are.
Absolutely not true! Report just came out recently actually, google it, most likely easy to find. Quit blabbing false propaganda! Liar
And also NON-terrorists.
dreamer96
Reagan kept some secrets and look what he did..
Reagan closed all the Federal Mental Hospitals an sent 500,000 mentally ill men and women out into the streets with no food, except trash, no place to sleep except the alley, no medication....
Regan closed the Veterans homes to Vietnam Vets, ending over 100 years of providing a place for returning war veterans to live after combat, to readjust to civilian life...Reagan's political appointed leaders in the VA denied Vietnam Vets claims of exposure and damages to Agent Orange...while selling Saddam diluted Agent Orange in the form of Roundup to be used as a nerve gas..
Regan took Iraq off the list of terrorist nations in 1982 and sold duel use chemicals to Saddam..
Reagan sold Saddam in Iraq WMD's using his foreign policy of arming anyone that would fight our enemy for us...Iran...Reagan sold Saddam Anthrax, Sarin Gas, Tuban Gas, Mustard Gas, Botulism, Diluted Agent Orange, in the form of Roundup, to use as a nerve gas on the Iranian troops and the Iraqi Kurds...Reagan even sold Yellow Cake to Iraq, which was taken to Iran and is used in their Nuky weapons program now...
Reagan used his VP GHWBush the former head of the CIA to setup fake corporations to ship in the nasty chemicals from 1980-1989..the same years of the Iran-Iraq War...Reagan used Donald Rumsfeld as his point man to Saddam and Rumsfeld used his number one guy...Dick Cheney...
Reagan even had spies in Carter campaign office sending debate material to Reagan. The Gipper bought the other teams playbook..not very honorable at all..
Reagan sent people to talk to Iran's leader and promise to release Iranian bank assets and sell weapons, and parts and even SAM missiles to Iran..if Iran held the US Embassy Hostages till after the election...
Reagan approved selling shoulder launched missiles to Afghanistan, and helped make Bin Laden a hero and leader of Al-Qaeda...Reagan began the decline of the unions and salaries of the average worker..helped the rich keep more of their profits, share less with the workers, hide profits overseas away from Federal Tax Laws...
30 years of not pay Federal Taxes on income...40 to 100 billion each year in lost Federal Taxes from these Huge American Corporations...no help from them to pay for our military, pay for our Embassies, our Intelligence agencies..yet those same corporations use those US assets all the time for free...
Reagan kept too many things secret...that is why we had to fight Iraq twice to make sure we got all of Reagan's WMD's back...
You forgot Reagan was also A SOCIALIST !!!
By today's Tea Partiers/Conservative/etc standards – Reagan would be considered a Socialist because he taxed the wealthy (through the Earned Income Tax) and then directed the Treasury to disperse the revenue harvested to the poorest Americans many of whom did not work nor pay taxes.
While President Reagan was undoubtedly terrible on many levels, I don't think that justifies President Obama's purported leaks.
Gus – you must have noticed that every time anyone draws attention to Obama's lack of ability / intelligence / honesty – the terminally stupid Liberals rush for the history books to prove that someone else was worse!
These people are apologists for the worst president EVER!
@Pax:
Actually, the worst president ever was James Buchanan and, in my experience, "liberals" are no more likely to resort to this type of reasoning than are "conservatives." Let's not forget that it was Richard Nixon who justified his actions by claiming that Kennedy and Johnson were worse.
listen barry, the ECONOMY stinks and all you can do is fingerpoint 4 yrs later? take responsibility for once...stop passing the buck. Its so weak....hes like a kid who keeps saying, it wasnt me, it wasnt me...
admit it barry, you failed the american people...
what is it with people that STILL will vote for him...if he wasnt black articulate and good looking, would anyone vote for him? not a chance. The media is so complicit in attempting to persuade people to vote for him.
And the Faux MEDIA with their friendly rich oligarchs have been determined to wreck
his administration since the day he took office. Your propaganda minister, Limbaugh,
has been the "media" vehicle thru which your neo-facist attacks have been mounted.
What a crock! You're really following your leader with his snivelling "they won't play my game cause I'm black!" He knew he way out of his league from day one – HE set the scene as a safety device.
And btw – didn't the Democrats say EXACTLY the same thing about GWB from day one? Trouble with Barry is that he can dish it out but he can't take it. Like you really.
Exactly....Paxhomnibus hit the nail on the head. Obama's Ministry of Truth is reaping what they sowed. Too bad he can't run on his failed, discredited policies so has to resort to lame, vague character assasination. Pretty low, even for the Campaigner in Chief.
Ironic that you point the finger at Obama while complaining about him pointing the finger. Please try to stay on topic. Discuss the article, not the GOP vs Dem ideology.
IGNORANT PARTIASAN RANT
GW and Darth Cheney ran the economy off the cliff over an EIGHT YEAR PERIOD !!!
The damage was so severe it will take more than four years to correct – maybe even in eight – but most certainly NOT by returning the party of "The Horse & Sparrow" economic theory to power !!!!
AndyL
I'd vote for Donald Duck (or Daffy Duck, but he's black, too) over any contender in the Republican primaries. I might have voted for John Huntsman, but he was never a contender. I'm a Democrat, but I'm not crazy about Obama. You guys might have had a shot with a candidate that isn't a moron.
Oh I don't know, I think we still have a shot against the Moron that is in the WH.
My comment was meant as a response to the original post, not to T. Lee.
" I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing. . . . I believe there has been more alarm raised about potential unsafety and unsoundness than, in fact, exists."
– Barney Frank
the man will do anything for a vote...even sellout america's security.
And Obama haters will say and print anything, classified or not OR true or not, to get him
out of their very white White House...
And Racists like you will keep waving around the dead horse race card that expired long ago.
So the Secret Service agents are rebelling, and leaking secrets??...since they can not grab a prostitute and take them back to their hotel any more..they are trading White House secrets to female reporters for special servicing...
paulr50
This guy could not keep a secret to save his life. What a loser this Obama charater is. The Amature is right. Inept and currupt.
Obama and five others, kept a secret to end Bin Laden Life..and that worked pretty good...
Face it Paul.. You just can not get use to the idea of a non white old man in the White House...
dreamer96, The five might have kept it a secret on that mission, but this administration sure has
ruined future missions and the ability to get help from inside the countries when help is needed.
They kept it secret in case it FAILED!!!!! If it hadn't been a success it would STILL be a secret, Muppet!
Obama said from the start, No secrets. Let all people know who is doing what. An open Government.
Boater39
OBAMA is not the person who leaked. It's probably some two-bit programmer who wrote the thing and is now bragging about it to his friends..... Stop blaming him for things done by someone he probably has never even met!
He's always reminding us he's C-in-C. So the buck stops with him Or didn't you know that?
Seriously, "amature?" That dotted red line when you type something indicates that you have misspelled it!
sanchanim
There is no reason anyone needs to know anything, but the liberal government has blabbed out all over the place. It has cost lives. Then we had the guns for goons program and now drones flying over US skies.
Pathetic!
So Cheney was a liberal when he ratted out Valerie Plame and destroyed years of intelligence work and put agents' lives at risk? Interesting.
Richard Armitage disclosed her story. That's been proven now.
acajunthatsagun
Step up the drone attacks. Step up the drone attacks. Step up the drone attacks. Step up the drone attacks.
Step up the drone attacks. Step up the drone attacks. Step up the drone attacks. Step up the drone attacks
That was certainly a waste of my computer space. Please don' do it again.
It should be directed to you next time idiot...
So you want to step up the drone attacks?
This just shows how desperate Ovomit is that he is willing to throw those people under the bus that have helped in these missions. It has nothing to do with being transparent since nothing else has been transparent throught the long four years, especially his birth certificate and all his school records. This has been one of the least transparant four years in the history of the US.
M O R O N
I'm sorry you feel that way....perhaps you should read more.
@40 Acres: LIKE!
National security is what all Presidents do, the others are just not so full of themselves they don't have to blab it to the world. The BHO just wants the attention...ohhh look at me, look what I did.
Yeah, it like he donned a jump suit and landed on an aircraft carrier and declared Mission Accomplished, or something. That BHO, what an attention hog. Nyah nyah, look what I did, killed Osama bin Laden, nyah nyah nyah....
Yeah, not like BO got on National TV over and over and milked how he personally killed Bin Laden then tried to say how nobody else would do it but hiim, other than about 95% of the free world... But dont let that get in the way of your good story... continue..
Right....that never happens wih any other President. Ever consider that some things they want the "others" to know? Probably not....since it's obvious you have it in for Obama.
What is the purpose of the secrecy that Beatrix the Queen of the Netherlands is currently visiting the United States? Is it not in the interest of Americans to know this? People often remember that the British held land in the U.S., but they often forget the Dutch.
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
ldean50
How is this any worse than Cheney outing the CIA agents to the world. Valerie Plame carried a business card with a fake business as a cover – when Cheney outed her, he outed every other agent that used that business as a front. Wonder if anybody died as a result. If we don't penalize people for treason that have committed Treason, why go after Obama because of people "past officials and people in other countries." Besides, how don't you know when information is deliberately released as propoganda?
JWM
She was outed long before Cheney. It was a very public secret. She did some of it to herself.
Nice try. but that's completely false.
Why is it that we hear or see very little about Obama's heavy marijuana use as a younger man but reams about Romney cutting someone's hair as a youth? JUST WHY IS IT?
Maybe because people like you are just making it up? Besides, I'd vote for some who smoked weed before I voted for someone who was a homophobic, elitist bully that belonged to a cult.
#1. Mormons are NOT a cult #2 The It came out the the bulling incident was not as reported (the so called victim's family said that it wasn't true #3 There are pictures of Obama doing pot in his year book he thanked his dealer. Not only that but his high school classmates have said he did do pot, not to mention Obama himself.
Because smoking a j is a normal act of growing up that about 99% of all teenagers experiment with at one time or another, and assaulting a child because he was possibly gay and had long hair is a hate crime? Hmmmm....
I don't know where you get your numbers, they are way off. I didn't smoke or try that stuff or either did my friends. As for a hate crime, look up0 and see that the said incident was found not to be true.
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that Obama admitted it and Romney pretends he didn't remember it.... don't you see the difference in honesty? I do.
But if the "victims" family said it never happened why the HELL would Romney remember it??????? Are you educationally challenged?
If you remember right, which you don't he said he didn't remember and said if I did that then I am sorry, but I don't remember it.
Bin Laden and Gaddafi are dead. Al Qeada is decimated.
Good job, Obama.
SO SOME PEOPLE SAYS HE IS TOO TRANSPARENT AND OTHER SAYS HE IS NOT TRANSPARENT ENOUGH.
LMAO......poor Obama, Damn if he does and damn if he doesn't.
You need to understand that conservatives have basically put Obama in a unique kind of parallel universe in which 2 or more states of being are possible at the same time. Kind of like quantum physics, or Schrodinger's Cat. Faced with choices X or Y, Obama is wrong when he chooses either X or Y. Doesn't matter which he chooses, he is always wrong. Similarly, Obama is both Kenyan and Indonesian. He is both President of the United states and an anti-American foreigner. His is Hitler and Stalin. Fascist and Communist. I know, its confusing, but conservatives are smarter than us and have been able to resolve this seemingly contradictory outlook by fusing Tea Party politics with string theory.
Very well said "Oysters" – but you did omit noting that it could very well BE those "conservatives", Republicans, Tea-Partiers in position to know the content of what is being leaked who are doing the leaking themselves to cause embarassment and doubt regarding Obama and his administration.
After all – Republican dirty tricks and the mega-noise machine is an old story when it comes to them. Unfortunately there are enough citizens too stipid to recognize them and not fall again and again and again for the same old tactics.
There's "transparent" for the brainwashed Liberals and there's criminally irresponsible to the rest of Intelligent America!
And you're the fools who wanted the Pope's resignation because a member of staff snaffled some peivate correspondence from his desk??????? Bigotted sheep!
And unfortunately there is no sense in your post but I'll bet you blame that on Obama.
This is more than a problem for the current administration. It happened under previous presidents too. The public has a need to know everything and too many 'officials' are willing to compromise American security to be the anonymous informant. Americans think we have to know everything because we have been so often lied to and mislead.
What a pity you people didn't give the Pope the same courtesy?
Hypocrites one and all!
I doubt we know half of it Claire, the leaks are not unintended. When Bush did it it was OK, when Obama does it it's treason. We will never know what they know.
It's an election year. He's using what he can, cost be da....
papaw nick
When the secrets of the atom bomb was given to Russia by a man and his wife what would have happened if the NY Times had those secrets? Why they would have printed them on the front page. We have no reporters, publishers or media that wouldn't publish information that will harm or embarris this country. Netiher will they name the trators that give them the secrets.
I woudn't count on that one.
Redeye Dog
Welcome to America!
But you don't have any problem with the press demanding the Pope's resignation because a trusted member of staff snaffled private correspondence from his desk?
And you don't have a problem with that being used to harm the Pope's reputation?
Streuth, you Americans are soooo twisted in your reasoning! I blame your failed education system.
Pastor Dwayne Williamson
The recent news about the imminent danger due to floods to the nuclear plant in Nebraska is eye opening. First Japan and now this. If technologically advanced countries cannot handle this surely third world countries would also struggle. Quid pro quo transfer of nuclear technology by USA to third world countries such as India needs to be opposed on moral grounds. Billions of people live in that neighborhood and would be at risk from such catastrophes which I am sure the American people would not like to be a party to. We are all well aware that that region is prone to floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, and of course terrorism placing such nuclear installations at tremendous risks. US Congress and Obama Administration is urged to reconsider and cancel all the agreements for the transfer of such technologies due “Force Majeure”.
These indian bozos can't even run a train how the heck they are going to operate these american nuclear plants. Absolutely no way we should be giving them these handouts. Cancel all nuclear agreements with India.
You're a very racist fellow aren't you? the problem would not be in the running but in the design. Try to keep your racists feeling in check long enough to figure out where the problem originated.
Obelisk ©™
Some people don't get it first time. Try reading again. It is not about racism but putting 2.5 billion people at risk in and around India. Kapiche?
@ Pastor...Agreed . Americans will never be able to live with their conscience should millions be effected due to a nuclear accident. I full endorse cancelling all agreements taht pertain to transferring any or all nuclear technology to India.
Wilson BenWa
Pack your bags George and Weezy – you're movin' on OUT!
Ignorance noted.
I'm with ya "Claire". sad.
Resoet to you Claire,
Sorry Claire – should read respect to you.
Why would you use this forum to complain about someone named George and Weezy? Are they personal enemies of yours? You may want to find a different forum.
Obama isnt as bad as people make him out to be, this whole "Obama is a Socialist" crap is getting old. Do you know what would happen if our country was purely capitalist? Well, take a look at Wall Street and the downturn of the Economy the last 10 years, thats all due to the capitalism we have here, big companies and banks dont give a shit about the average person, they only care about profits, profits, and more profits...
The only way we are gonna be able to change all this crap is to rise up and remove these corrupt leaders from their posts and appoint ones who have the great citizens of this nation in their heart, not the size of its coffers.
It says it right in our constitution:
"...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
It goes on to say that no small matter should be the start of something like this, but i dont think the well-being of our nation is a small thing. It is time we stand up for the country our forefathers built for us, and show them that we will not let these greed mongering sycophants run us out of our jobs and our homes!
To close, i leave with a quote from Thomas Jefferson:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Im not trying to say literal blood, its figurative blood
PantyRaid
Nothing but enormous spending. Anyone with six trillion dollars could have milked it four four years like he did.
"The only way we are gonna be able to change all this crap is to rise up and remove these corrupt leaders from their posts."
Starting with the most corrupt liar ever to set foot in the Oval Office. Your right 'he's not so bad', HE'S WORSE!!!
List 2 factual reasons why Obama is worse than any other President...Im not asking for you're opinion either, give me 2 actual facts that make him a bad president
johnharry
[1] He apologised for his country because a few tatty books were burnt the same day that 4 of your troops were shot in the head by the people he was apologising to
[2] He allows HOLLYWOOD to have the details of the Bin Laden raid before the people who employ him [ YOU!]
[3] He intervened in the Trayvon case – making it a racial issue wjth his personal comments.
[4] He is lying about the economy [Please see my response to MarcTheDuck]
[5] He's an inept boss and the buck stops with him in regard to the security leaks
[6] He greeted the people of Kentucky with a rousing "Hi! It's great to be here in Texas!
[7] The job figures are abysmal
[8] The world Bank have dumped him as a failure....
I mean what does it take to convince the terminally thick Liberals that he is a mess of epic proportions?????
There's no doubt that Obama was handed a difficult situation, but these leaks are hurting our allies, our operatives and even our nation in the eyes of the world. People hated us when GWB was president, well they hate even worse now and don't respect us because they see Obama as weak.
You're wrong. I'm British and we lost people in 9/11 too. We – like YOU were glad to go after Iraq based on what we were told. And you're lying if you say that even though Bush and Blair mislead the world you/we regret going in. You only turned against Bush because it wasn't as QUICK as you wanted it!
Obama invaded Pakistan illegally to get Bin Laden. But being hypocrites you LOVED it because it was over in a couple of days. [If you got him at all – I mean – an old man needing regular dialysis for 10 years while living in caves?????? Come on! ]
But if Pakistan had developed into a fight because of the illegality , Obama would an American political leper now too.
Pax, you were happy to go after Iraq after what you were told???? Were you still happy after you found out you were told lies?
GaryOwen27
Well, at least they haen't blown the cover of any undercover CIA agents like Dick-less Cheany did.
Oh no they just leak the doctors name that helped the get Osama Bin lauden
Lives have been lost! Nobody wants to help us.. Nothing has happened in the past like now. Record number of securityy leaks and promises to "have wiggle room" when the clown is reelected. God forbid!
Obama did it on purpose he can't keep his mouth shut.
Did rush tell you that?
Everett Wallace
Well you know I used to read the holy bible and I began pondering. The crucifix is a LIE, the sermons given by jesus would have in actuality would have been given by Moses the MAN of GOD, we are way past the book of revalelations, I've never broken any of the ten commandments, I've never done anything in the book of leviticus, I know that GOD THE FATHER is the only Creator of the Heavens and Earth, I know that GOD THE HOLYSPIRIT has many forms two which are the air we breath " the breath of life" and rain is another form of the HOLYSPIRIT. I do know that the TRINITY are 3 GODS of the male gender and that the SON is in the United States in georgia in the FLESH. I do know that when you want to hear the voice of GOD THE FATHER it is thundering and lightning that's how HE SPeaks to us. So in other words I am saying the bible is NOT holy and it is no longer needed. WE are going to get the book of AMOS now to take our knowledge to the next level, I'm always learning and growing.
You're not learning and growing – you're just a boring old fart! Go back to your lego.
Growupalready
On the floor laughing . . . that was a good reply! LOL!
ObamaNoMore
This Clown-in-Chief must be defeated, before it is too late. Still can't believe I voted for him. We need Hilary!
I cannot believe I voted for him either. Will not make that mistake again.
Yeah because remember how well they kept secrets in the clinton/lewinsky WH? Hillary was the only one who didn't know anything. HAH!
Who else is there to vote for, Romney? Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. Then again, for you, that may be an improvement. Just saying.
I don't believe you voted for him either. Nice try though.
Is Israel leaking info?....Does the current Israel leadership like Mitt Romney better...maybe because Mitt has already named 15 or 17 members of GWBush administration to his staff....Israel I hope is not doing anything like that...Obama is fair, Mitt is bought and sold by the top 1%...
Romney doesn't play Chicago style politics unlike the current resident of the WH. I am tired of getting into debt and have the money poured rat holes. He rewards his buddies that supported his campaign. Talk about payoffs etc-Obama will go down in history as the most corrupt President ever, you wait and see. He was very inexperienced when he ran for President, he was given his chance and all he did was divid our country burden up with the greatest debt ever and shoved a health program that will end up giving us more debt and taking our health care to a new low level.
It's nice to know your brain is nice and clean......but you might want to put some facts in there after the washers are through with you. Just a suggestion....put real facts on your shelves, not cheap knockoffs like you get from the republicans.
Get a reality check. ...99% really? Where did you get your facts from Obama? Isn't he the one who said he visited all 57 states and he's sorry he doesn't speak Austrian?
Yes if you include the 50 states and US Territories and Commonwealths...It is 57..Obama was just thinking of everyone...something the GOP does not do...And by the way The US. won both Taiwan, and Cuba, in wars, and occupied the two islands with our military..and have never signed those islands over to anybody else under international law...So China might consider that Taiwan is US property....
You know he didn't mean it, because he acknowledged the goof. He had no experience and nobody knew much about him. He sealed up his past, he didn't vote in congress and his main thing was a party organizer. "We entrusted our country to him just to have triple the debt and all the money poured down the rat holes. He had his chance and now it is anothers turn. You can support him all you want, but in good conscience I can't.
beats434
Please say your are kidding and not just a dope. I think it is time to stop reading these comments.
Get treatment! McCarthy saw "Reds under the bed" you see Jews. Face it – you're either barking mad or you're just another example of the failed American education system!
Pax....Funny but the McCarthy joke is in the GOP's hand they just played that one...and just because I say something critical of the current Israel leadership does not make me into a Jew hater...you should know the current Israel leadership has a pretty dark history...
Beats434...Yes I'm joking and No I'm not joking...Israel sells our latest military technology to China...they have done that several times....like Israel sold a signal collection airplane that was based on our plane to China just months after one of ours was crash landed in China...or have you forgotten??...
I saved you for last because your hypocrisy is by far the classic best...
Mitt Romney is play Dallas Texas Politics...anything goes..dirty tricks are the best tricks..
80% of our deficit is from Reagan, who tripled the deficit, GHWBush and GWbush...GOP ...
Cheney and his no bid contracts to his old company mean anything to you?....You should check out the Carlyle Group..
And the GOP, the tea party have been out to divide the country from the very beginning of the Obama Presidency...They are the ones waving the racist posters of Obama as the joker, the african witch doctor..the birthers...the Lock and load and win back the White House...for old white men...
And every modern civilized country pays for universal health care..
The GOP really needs to look at German..second largest exporter in the world, high taxes, strong highly trained union worker force, the unemployed are retrained, the German banks are strong, and bailing out the rest of Europe...they have universal health care, rich doctors and better care then we have...unless you are the top 1% of course..
The GOP are protecting the oversea hidden bank accounts of the top 1%, and Obama is going after those unpaid taxes, with fines too...the GOP and tea party are fighting for a low 5% tax and no fine..30 years of hidden funds..40 to 100 billion each year in lost Federal Taxes to pay for our military, our Embassies, our Intelligence agencies ...
I still remember the picture of the white van and the Israelis all standing and kneeling in front of the van while the Twin Towers burned in the back ground..I found that picture a little upsetting as a DOD civilian with a TS clearance...
t3chn0ph0b3
The leaks are probably the result of radical conservatives trying to make our "socialist" president look bad so that Romney will get voted in. The leaks OBVIOUSLY have nothing to do with the president himself. So, bhs, it's your logic that's pathetic.
marctheduck
What a joke. Can't you read?
Blame everything on the conservatives, that"s what the liberals do best to hide their mistakes.
BULL COOKIES! Now the liberals are starting to sound like arabs. If anything goes wrong in an arab country they blame it on Israel. If a democrat can't keep hid mouth shut they blame it on a republican.
Please say your are kidding and not just a dope
Face the truth – Obama has no control over his own party; he is disrespected by other country's leaders; he is unprofessional and he is making a laughing stock of what was once a wonderful country.
Don't you DARE follow his example and blame everyone else – YOU and your dimwiited Liberal friends are responsible. YOU voted him in like the dozy termites you are and like the terminally brain dead you STILL defend him!!!!!! Duh!
Right Faux. we should follow your example and blame everything on Obama. Did you ever hear the saying "Those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it"? Do you understand what that means?
So why hasn't Obama learned anything?
Wrong. I blame Bush for the fiasco that is Iraq. But I blame Obama for amost tripling the national debt that Bush left and for being a total incompetent as leader. Im fairness I'd say that with his gift of the gab and faux charm he was probably a great community organizer.
It's pretty clear that the current administration does not have our national security in mind. When foreigners are allowed full access to our system, policies send our economy into record losses, it becomes pretty clear that there is a general lack of concern and experience. Pathetic ! ! ! !
Except for a few temporary upward blips, our economy has been trending steadily downward since the Reagan administration. The downward trend picked up steam right after 9/11.
Guess you were just born and don't the history of the previous REPUBLICAN president and his administration huh !
Started a war against a country that didn't attack us
Ran a robust economy and stock market off the cliff (after inheriting it and then claiming it was already in recession)
Ran the country as a "bunker mentality"
Need more idiot?
DeadGuy
Nah... He doesn't need any more idiots... You're idiot enough...
-Dg
Obviously the brain died before the body in your case "DeadGuy".
Republicans are all about one thing – them – not the country other than how they can profit from it. Everything else is just partisan-bs.
Obama IS the most pathetic president we've ever had, now suprassing the legendary jimmy carter. Feckless and willing to do anything to get re-elected. But Obama is toast. Only registered democrats are still supporting him now. He hasn't done anything right and no one (except the far left) are going to vote for him out of the sympathy vote ("I inherited these problems!"). "Forward" = Failure.
I'm a life long republican and unless there is a major shakeup in the political landscape, I plan on voting obama. he is the best candidate the republican party has offered us...
voting for Obama is like staying on a sinking ship.
"Blame you can believe in!" "Yes We Can (leak)!" "Dope and Blame!" "Failure"
Obama/Biden 2012
You're right. It's just showing the electorate that this Administration is not FIT to govern,
Palintwit – You're spouting "downward blips" – Thanks to Obama's number dyslexia you ain't seen nothing yet. Look and learn:-
USA ECONOMY
[1] Unfunded liabilities are $120 Trillion
[2] ALL Fed revenue from both Income and SS taxes is less than $2,4 Trillion a year [$120T / $2.4T = 50x]
That means every taxpayer would need to pay 50 years of taxes today just to break even!
[3] USA has 100% debt to GDP ratio and that's rising by 10% a year with $1.2T deficits – immediate problem!
[4] 60% of Public debt matures in less than 3 years – that means ....
[5] Astronomical money supply growth [printing money = massive inflation]
[6] That means the looming loss of the US Dollar status as the world's reserve currency.
But according to Obama and the phoney polls – the economy is hunky -dory???????
I'm English and I know this – why don't you Americans stop accepting your media spoon feed and find out for yourselves? And BTW it IS my business..........you go down – you take the rest of us with you!
If you are not enjoying the US...and it;s economy why don't you go back to your conservative Englanddddddd..stupid ass
We the people – I'm not in England, I moved to Canada – it is a fantastic country! Streuth , if you gave me a free house and $25,000 a week I wouldn't touch America.
You're just sore because you got shown up by a foreigner who knows a hell of a lot more about your failed economy than you do!!!!! Some Americans think they know everything; the intelligent ones give credit where it's due because they know whwt I say is FACT.
Instead of the usual abuse – give me your thoughts on the economy, please? Otherwise shut up.
Stay in England and stay out of American politics. Any person or leader from another country who had no grandparents or great-grand parents working, sweating, and sacraficing to build America, should stay out of American Politics. I don't care what country it is, you have not business in our business and Americans should never doom itself for an ally. As for your talk of phony polls. There is something on the web that talks about the billionaires and corporate heads supporting the GOP, allegedly have a secret agreement to layoff workers close to the election to jerk around the job numbers. Also, allegedly, there is an agreement with GOP supporters that a country who is an ally of the USA, will come up with phony war mongering evidence and cause an incident to screw with our elections and cost Americans lives.. This type of thing should not be tolerated by honest, decent, American citizens. The one thing that is certain is, this President has kept this country safe. We were hit on Bush/Cheney's watch. We have not been hit on this one. We Americabs must do what is right for America, not party. Rom has 17 or more of Bush people working for him and I fear what they will do to our country and kids while their kids stay home in comfort with million dollar trust funds. If the GOP destroys this country, they can live else where, because their money is in off shore accounts and in banks in other countries. Where will your money be and your kids or grandkids be when the GOP cause us to be attacked again?
Stay in England and stay out of American politics. Any person or leader from another country who had no grandparents or great-grand parents working, sweating, and sacraficing to build America, should stay out of American Politics. I don't care what country it is, you have no business in our business. Americans should never doom itself for an ally. As for your talk of phony polls. There is something on the web that talks about the billionaires and corporate heads supporting the GOP, allegedly have a secret agreement to layoff workers close to the election to jerk around the job numbers. Also, allegedly, there is an agreement with GOP supporters that a country who is an ally of the USA, will come up with phony war mongering evidence and cause an incident to screw with our elections and cost Americans lives.. This type of thing should not be tolerated by honest, decent, American citizens. The one thing that is certain is, this President has kept this country safe. We were hit on Bush/Cheney's watch. We have not been hit on this one. We Americans must do what is right for America, not party. Rom has 17 or more of Bush people working for him and I fear what they will do to our country, and kids, while their kids stay home in comfort with million dollar trust funds. If the GOP destroys this country, they can live else where.Their money is in off shore accounts and banks in other countries. Where will your money be and your kids or grandkids be when the GOP cause us to be attacked again?
You must be talking about Bush since all the record losses occurred under his watch. As a matter of fact, alot of the security breeches did too.
OBAMA cares only about himself. He cares not for national security or national anything.. remember.. "All this for a Damn Flag." As such it is to be expected.
Been a stupid partisan-troll long?
Couldn't be Republicans doing the leaking to embarass the current administration could it...oh...noooo....of course not...i
Ummm.... There is no question as to who is leaking the information. The White House openly acknowledges when they have invited liberal movie producers to come and interview persons in the know about an operation, or when potus himself has shared information ignorantly in the public record. Sorry!
HORHEY JONES
THE BIG NIGGER GOT TO GO!
Get back in your trailer, Cletus. Your sister is waiting for you.
TOM PAYNE
HEY, ASSHOLE, THIS IS A DEMOCRACY. FUCK SECURITY.
stepasidesue
Do you all live in a cave? The MEDIA is leaking the info (treason I think) probably fed to them by Republicans with their usual sickening agenda. Wake up you guys! You think Obama would deliberately keep a traitor on staff. He cares about this country and our troops more than any Republicans ever have. Do you remember that money making war in Vietnam and oh yeah Iraq. Many people made a lot of money on that war too.
So the DEMOCRATS inside the OVAL Office is allowing the REPUBLICANS to leak all of this? His HAND picked STAFF has NOTHING to do with it? Really? Either you are a Troll – which I hope – or you are completely naive. While the PRESIDENT is giving away our secrets, why don't we just bend over because the rest of the world will make us pay for it.
Oh my how you are so easily fooled.
CMoses
Did you miss the part of the article where it talks about Obama himself being the one that confirmed that we were using drone strikes while chatting online??? It's not about being a traitor of not loving America. It's about competency and experience.
Definitely a Republican source. This fascist coup of the new republican party have proven repeatedly lives don't matter as much as them winning.
Why not just blame the leaks on George Bush.
Bonehead! They listed the parties who had the information that was leaked right in the article. Obama administration officials. Open your eyes. Your messiah is just another narcissist who will do ANYTHING to get re-elected. Including jeopardizing national security and the lives of people abroad who have helped us. THIS one is not the Republicans fault (or George Bush's). Unbelievable!
Great real and stop blaming the republicans on everything man-up democrats, your golden boy likes to toot his horn and be in the spot light. He has a big mouth and doesn't need help from anyone. It must have been from all the sdrugs he did when he was young.
It was a Republican source.
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Aligning the Work, Worker and Workplace of the Future
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Mitel Corp.
Ottawa – three buildings, 408,000 sq.ft. reduced to 225,000 sq.ft., then increased to 265,000 sq.ft. to accommodate an acquisition
To consolidate Mitel Corp’s world headquarters by reducing space holdings by 50% without “upsetting the talent” and to upgrade the infrastructure of the computer labs while maintaining full functionality—all within a 12-month deadline.
MD Financial Management
112,000 sq.ft.
To help a vibrant business recover from the effects of a fire by developing a workplace strategy that met MD’s strategic goals of implementing a mix of fixed and mobile workers and dramatically increasing the number and size of their collaboration spaces.
approximately 20,000 sq.ft.
To help plan, organize and implement a pilot project that prioritized flexibility and a superb client experience in a workplace strategy that could be adopted by other regional offices throughout Canada.
Canadian Armed Forces (CF) and Department of National Defence (DND): Defence Headquarters Consolidation Project
Carling Campus 135,025 m2 (1,453,400 sq.ft.)
To work with leadership in order to help identify critical workplace transformation success factors, planning principles, and strategic objectives that would favourably reshape the work environment into a more effective, more performance-driven, and less costly space that transitions 23,000 occupants from 44 buildings to approximately 14.
Standards Council of Canada
To assist Standards Council of Canada executives to develop an organizational approach that helped employees understand, prepare for, adapt and adopt a new work environment as they transitioned from old, traditional offices to new, modern, open, collaborative workplaces.
Business Development Bank of Canada Headquarters
To reduce density from 220sq.ft./person to 175 sq.ft./person, increase collaborative “we” space and create a flexible workplace strategy that could be implemented progressively.
Public Prosecution Service of Canada
55,000 sq.ft.
To consolidate PPSC from multiple locations into one national headquarters and separate PPSC from the Department of Justice. Workplace 2.0 became a Government of Canada standard immediately after the final layouts were approved. To meet the new Workplace 2.0 standards, there was a need to re-profile the requirements, redistribute floors and lease reductions, and completely redesign the workplace.
Meredith Thatcher and her team have helped forward-thinking leaders in the private and public sectors across multiple industries to align the work, worker and workplace of the future. Here are examples of how Meredith has helped transform outdated, unfocused workspaces into optimized, agile and responsive workplaces.
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Question by Caroline Nichols on the Day Centres and with Council Leader's Reply
Funding opportunities for Day Centres in Spelthorne
The following question was formally asked at the Spelthorne Full Council Meeting on 23rd February 2006:
The government white paper entitled 'Our health, our care, our say - a new direction for community services' just published in January 2006 asks the Primary Care Trusts to work with local councils to combine health and social care opportunities. It specifically mentions community centres as appropriate locations for some types of primary health care and gives the promise that funding will be available.
This proposal offers potential financial respite for councils' community centres. Bearing this in mind, a decision to dispose of Stanwell and Sunbury's day centres would seem to be premature and contrary to government wishes. What options has Spelthorne Borough Council pursued with the PCT, and what other sources of funding has the council investigated with a view to preventing the closure of the day centres?
Caroline Nichols
The Council Leader's reply is given in full.
"The Council has been in discussion with Surrey County Council Social Service Department and the Primary Care Trust [PCT] for some four to five years. A group, led by the Chief Executive and Senior Officers, has been looking at opportunities to work together, including funding. The County does provide some funding at a subsidised level, but at the full cost to us to support services and this is mainly for those who have higher needs. Officers are continuing to look at different funding options as part of the final report to Executive."
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Two Questions for Managers of Learning Machines
FrontiersColumn May 26, 2016 Reading Time: 4 min
Theodore Kinni
Digital, Frontiers, Digital Business
What’s happening this week at the intersection of management and technology.
MIT SMR Frontiers
This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management.
Two questions that managers of intelligent machines should ask: It’s been a couple of years since Stephen Hawking warned that artificial intelligence could “spell the end of the human race.” The terminators aren’t here yet and unless they come very soon, the managers of AI-based technology have a couple of more immediate issues to address, according to Vasant Dhar of NYU’s Stern School of Business and Center for Data Science.
The first, which Dhar takes up in a new article on TechCrunch, is how to “design intelligent learning machines that minimize undesirable behavior.” Pointing to two high-profile juvenile delinquents, Microsoft’s Tay and Google’s Lexus, he reminds us that it’s very hard to control AI machines in complex settings. “There is no clear answer to this vexing issue,” says Dhar. But he does offer some guidance: Analyze the machine’s training errors; use an “adversary” — through means such as crowdsourcing — to try to trip up the machine; and estimate the cost of error scenarios to better manage risks.
The second question, which Dhar explores in an article for HBR.org, is when and when not to allow AI machines to make decisions. “We don’t have any framework for evaluating which decisions we should be comfortable delegating to algorithms and which ones humans should retain,” he writes. “That’s surprising, given the high stakes involved.” Dhar suggests addressing this issue with a risk-oriented framework that he calls a Decision Automation Map. The map plots decisions in two independent dimensions — predictability and cost per error — and suggest whether it would be better made by human or machine.
The DAO of blockchain business: In the middle of its month-long crowdfunding campaign, a new start-up company named DAO had raised the equivalent of $150 million in ethers (ETH) digital tokens. As yet, DAO has no products, no services, and thus, no sales — except for bits (bytes?) of itself. So, what are investors getting for their money? An ownership stake in a business structure built on blockchain technology.
A $150 million stake seems like a lot of money for what Michael del Castillo describes
Theodore Kinni is a business journalist, author, and ghostwriter. He blogs at Reading, Writing re: Management and tweets @tedkinni.
Tags: Blockchain, Cognitive Technologies, Digital, Frontiers, Innovation, Tech Savvy
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The New Industrial Engineering: Information Technology and Business Process Redesign
A new type of industrial engineering blends technological capabilities with business process redesign.
Adoption of Software Engineering Process Innovations: The Case of Object Orientation
CIOs seeking advice on new software process technologies can learn from other domains.
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Our story is a journey, a journey that starts with the writing of a children’s story book that would inspire the formation of Spitfire Heritage Trust that would deliver a Spitfire Tribute to Africa and on route create one of the finest gins in the world. In the spirit of the Spitfire created to be the best.
In early 2012 Ian Hewitt wrote The Ghost of Cameron Crowe a story of a Grandfather, his grandson and his secret Spitfire hidden out on the moss. Illustrated by Kayleigh Radcliffe the book has a heady quality best described as the dark side of Beatrix Potter.
The book was launched later that year at the Spirit of the Spitfire festival where Ian met David Spencer Evans the them Chairman of the Spitfire Society.
It was here that David told Ian another story. The story of how the African Kingdom of Lesotho.
Lesotho is one of the heroes of the Second World War. In 1940 Britain was on the brink of invasion. At this critical time the Kingdom of Lesotho (formerly known as Basutoland) presented Britain with twenty-four Spitfire fighter aircraft, sufficient to equip two entire RAF squadrons.
This was a disproportionately generous contribution from a Commonwealth country the size of Wales with a population of only 400,000 people.
No. 72 (Basutoland) Squadron is one of the relatively few Second World War squadrons that are still in existence. vans the them Chairman of the Spitfire Society.
Creating the Trust
Ian was one of those good punks in the 70s, he was into Rock Against Racism and the Anti Nazi League. Anyone who knows Ian will tell you that if Ian likes anything it is a campaign.
Inspired by the story of the Lesotho Spitfires Ian and David committed to pay tribute to and offer thanks on behalf of the rank and file of the British people to the people of Lesotho for their support. A rare example of international aid not being a one way street.
So the SPITFIRE HERITAGE TRUST was born….it’s mantra being that the Spitfire is much more than a vintage aircraft. It is a Great British icon that symbolises the coming together of all the nations of the Commonwealth, as we stood together in defence of our common human values and freedoms.
And so the Trust was born….it’s mantra being that the Spitfire is much more than a vintage aircraft. It is a Great British icon that symbolises the coming together of all the nations of the Commonwealth, as we stood together in defence of our common human values and freedoms.
The Trust would become robustly engaged in the strengthening of links and the development of programs that create opportunities, educate, celebrate and give thanks to our Commonwealth family of nations, and to our shared values that transcend culture, religion and gender.
The more we told the story of Lesotho’s Spitfires the more people wanted to say thank you to Lesotho.
In 2014 and with the help of the children of Castle Vale we presented a Spitfire prop to the Lesotho High Commissioner in London.
The Spitfire Heritage Trust would become robustly engaged in the strengthening of links and the development of programs that create opportunities, educate, celebrate and give thanks to our Commonwealth family of nations, and to our shared values that transcend culture, religion and gender.
But there is only one pace that a Spitfire prop belongs, so with the help of HRH Price Seeiso a plan was hatched to present a full sized Tribute Spitfire as a monument to be housed in the capital city of Maseru.
And with that our band of volunteers set out to build the Lesotho Tribute Spitfire. In doing so we created friendships that would last a life time. We engaged with both young and old people, removed the boundaries that can separate generations and hinder understanding and interaction.
We united in a common goal.
There is only one place that a Spitfire prop belongs, so with the help of HRH Prince Seeiso a plan was hatched to present a full sized Tribute Spitfire as a monument to be housed in the capital city of Maseru.
And with that our band of volunteers set out to build the Lesotho Tribute Spitfire.
In doing so we created friendships that would last a life time. We engaged with both young and older people, removed the boundaries that can separate generations and hinder understanding and interaction.
We approached potentially difficult conversations such as race, gender, inaquality, intollerance from the safe platform of the Spitfire,
Embracing our commonality and shared histories.
In January 2016 we received the official letter of invitation from the Lesotho Senate to present King Letsie III in November that year our Tribute Spitfire as part of the Lesotho 50th anniversary of independence celebrations. A final push was needed, but how to fund it!
Some serious out of the box thinking was required.
We needed a product, something worthy of the Spirit of the Spitfire and most importantly a product that we knew that the Great British public would buy.
Ian identified Gin as the great British tipple, it was of the correct calibre and most at home in officer's messes around the world.
He also knew that the girls of the ATA were known to have carried a snifter of gin as part of their kit bag.
Spitfire Heritage enlisted the talents of multi award winning Master Distiller Dr John Walters
The Gin was to include:
Rosemary for Remembrance, Borage for Courage , Blood Orange for the Fallen , English Rose Petals for the ladies of the ATA.
And with that John worked his alchemy to create a 1930’s retro gin of exceptional quality. In the spirit of the Spitfire created to be the best.
Is distilled in the heart of Blighty in hand beaten copper stills, housed in a stunning 300 year old barn next to a duck pond. It doesn’t get more British than that! The distillery is one of only a handful of Single Estate Distilleries in England.
Gin is made from Vodka!
Single Estate means that we sow our own crop (sugar beet) harvest it and distil into our own Vodka.
Most other small batch producers have to buy in vodka from larger suppliers who produce on an industrial scale. You can’t make perfect vodka on an industrial scale.
It's all about Heads and Tails
The first fraction off the product off the still is called the HEADS, the last fraction is called the TAILS.
The flavour of the vodka from the heads and tails is quite frankly horrid!
The bit in the middle is the HEART of the spirit.
The aim is to isolate the heart with no contamination either side from heads or tails.
The larger the still the larger the percentage of heads and tails.
We only distil in small batches, this allows us to rigorously remove the heads and tails.
Leaving only the creamy delicious heart.
Our gin starts with the perfect Vodka….not many can say that.
In fact so proud are we of our vodka we launched it, and what better name than SUPERMARINE the company that created the Spitfire.
Creating the brand
Confident that we had created one of the finest gins in the world, we now needed to create a brand to do it justice.
The 1930’s were the triumphant hey-day for gin, and the decade that saw the Birth of a Great British and Commonwealth icon.
The SPITFIRE.
The defender of our freedom to live and love and drink GIN with whomsoever we choose.
It took a certain type of person to fly a Spitfire. Strong, intelligent, self-assured and a little bit reckless. That’s why women made such great Spitfire pilots.
In the roaring 20s flapper girls were all the rage, but in the 30s and 40s young ladies learnt to fly.
Once again we went straight to the top enlisting the help of world renowned aviation illustrator ROMAIN HUGAULT to create our ATA girl character and brand mascot Bunny.
SPITFIRE HERITAGE GIN launched in May 2016 and was quickly picked up by the world’s leading department store HARRODs. Who after a blind tasting of their sommeliers added Spitfire Heritage in store describing Spitfire Heritage Gin as one of the finest Artisan Gins in Britain.
What of the LESOTHO TRIBUTE?
In November 2016 SPITFIRE HERITAGE TRUST presented His Majesty King Letsie III with a full sized Spitfire Tribute.
Located in Makoanyane Square in the capital city of Maseru. The Spitfire Tribute is to be ultimately housed in the soon to open Lesotho National Museum of History.
As part of the 50th Anniversary of Independence Celebrations the Spitfire serves as a permanent reminder of the strong bond of friendship between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Lesotho.
In addition to the Spitfire Tribute we shipped 270 mountain bikes for the children of Lesotho.
Donated by Merseyside Police these mountain bikes serve as a means on which to get to school for the children as well as serving as a central focus for youth bike based community activities.
The bond of friendship was further underlined by the creation of a special anniversary Basotho blanket, the national dress of the people of Lesotho. The blanket bares the Lesotho Royal Crest and the emblem of Spitfire Heritage Trust.
Not many Gin or Vodka brands can make claim to having their emblem on the national dress of a nation.
Spitfire Heritage Distillers continues to support the work of Spitfire Heritage Trust.
We are proud of our Spitfire Heritage and grateful for our freedom to live and love and drink gin with whomsoever we choose.
Chin Chin Darlings!
Current active projects
Expedition to reparation and renovate a Spitfire
shot down on the edge of the Artic Circle
TYPE 2K modern composite flying Spitfire build
BAHLABANI COLLECTION
Lesotho fashion brand develpoment
SPITFIRE HERITAGE DISTILLERS
continues to support the work of
SPITFIRE HERITAGE TRUST
We are proud of our Spitfire Heritage and grateful
for our freedom to live and love and drink gin with
whomsoever we choose.
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LIFE TECH
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood on DVD, Blu-ray & 4K December 11
Once upon a time in Hollywood there was an actor named Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio). He was once a big screen badass but by 1969 he’s a has-been small screen cowboy hanging out with his stunt double and only friend, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
Rick refuses to make spaghetti westerns and the TV roles he lands cast him as the villain. He also lives on Cielo Drive, right next door to director Roman Polanksi and his wife, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie). And there’s a psychopath named Charles Manson prowling about…
The 9th film by Quentin Tarantino ranks alongside Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill Vol. 1 as one of his very best. The storytelling is surprisingly linear – not that there’s a lot of plot to speak of, more a collage of colourful events and moments in the lives of its principle characters – and the recreation of late sixties LA is stunning, conjuring a palpable sense of time and place. Moreover, the film is as much a love letter to the television of the time as the Hollywood ethos. This is Tarantino playing in his own backyard and inviting viewers to unpack the toy box along with him, which is as much fun as it sounds.
Format: DVD, Blu-ray, 4K
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie
Interview with Quentin Tarantino and the cast
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Author(s): Pat Zietlow Miller
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"These days, it seems more important than ever for books to show young people how to act with thoughtfulness, civility, and kindness." --The New York Times Book Review
When Tanisha spills grape juice all over her new dress, her classmate wants to make her feel better, wondering: What does it mean to be kind?
From asking the new girl to play to standing up for someone being bullied, this moving story explores what kindness is, and how any act, big or small, can make a difference--or at least help a friend. With a gentle text from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash, Pat Zietlow Miller, and irresistible art from Jen Hill, Be Kind is an unforgettable story about how two simple words can change the world.
A thoughtful picture book illustrating the power of being kind, from the award-winning author of Sophie's Squash.
Pat Zietlow Miller is a children's book lover and a contributor at picturebookbuilders.com. Her picture books include Sophie's Squash, Sophie's Squash Go To School, Wherever You Go, Sharing the Bread, and The Quickest Kid in Clarksville. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Visit her online at patzietlowmiller.com Jen Hill is the illustrator of several picture books, including Diana's White House Garden by Elisa Carbone, Spring for Sophie by Yael Werber, and Doing Her Bit by Erin Hagar; and is also the author and illustrator of Percy and Tumtum: A Tale of Two Dogs. She is a graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her online at jenhillstudio.com
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Author : Pat Zietlow Miller
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Unrated,1 hr. 59 min.
Directed By: Alex Gibney
On DVD:
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley Reviews
What a strange person and strange situation.
Matt G
There's nothing terribly notable about this surface-level crime doc, except for the presence of Elizabeth Holmes herself. She's such a uniquely strange but charismatic individual, who perfectly embodies the problems with the formula for unearned Silicon Valley success.
Riff J
It's a really good doc but it's also very incomplete, and for the juiciest part too. It tells a nice story of how this nerd Elizabeth Thanos was a child star and dropped out of Stanford at 19. A few years later she's in Silicon Valley, with a powerful board and many media features proclaiming her genius. The only problem is that it was all based on bullshit. A great concept that was near impossible to execute (yet she went around proclaiming it was already executing to perfection). And that lie got her hundreds of millions in investments from VC's and uber millionaires. A combination of that and irresponsibly putting the public at risk via an agreement with Walgreens to roll out their faulty product/service.
Elizabeth made sure that employees were so scared of their monitoring and NDA's that they fear reprisals for letting the public know what was really going. That is except for 2 brave souls who took steps to confide in the Wall St Journal and the other to CMS a government regulatory agency. And between them they took a $10,000,000,000 down to less than $0. And that's where the documentary stops, and it only focused on the "less than $0" part for 5-10 min... when in fact, that story is the most exciting part. They never showed her being accountable for all her fraud and lies. Or the POV from swindled investors. Etc. So instead of being a 5* doc it settled at being a 4* doc. But that's still a compliment as the doc is very entertaining and interesting, and definitely worth a watch.
Nelson D
Elizabeth Holmes is a complete nut and sociopath!
Michael Y
I read John Carreyrou's book and was super excited to see this. It has all the traits of a great scandalous fraud story or at the very least a good episode of American Greed. HBO is so great at making documentaries, I kind of figured that this would be amazing. It really underwhelms. I would encourage you to go read the full book instead. If you're short for time, just read John Carreyrou's WSJ articles.
½ March 28, 2019
Very good overview of the case. It shows the profile of a commercial sociopath who was so blinded by ambition and the public spotlight that she didn't care who she hurt. What's even more disturbing is how so many people took her narrative solely on its face. A great cautionary tale for all of us.
Freeson W
The content is so interesting that I wish the filmmakers didn't go in such a stylistic direction. I wish there were more information jam packed in here. Still, fascinating documentary.
The Inventor works best when it focuses on the events and players involved in the rise and fall of Theranos. It takes a while to get there, with detours involving comparisons to Thomas Edison and questions surrounding human behavior and ethics which are somehow less interesting and effective.
Natalie B
Wish I could give this zero stars. The podcast was far more interesting. Itï¿ 1/2 1/2(TM)s like Gibney doesnï¿ 1/2 1/2(TM)t know what makes a scandal scandalous. Totally boring, never really gets to a point.
Frederic P
Fascinating dive into a mind: genius or lunatic?
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)
Elizabeth Holmes is the sleazy type of psycho/sociopath at whom people will near-blindly throw their money and trust. She and her cohort, "Sunny" (Ramesh Balwani), deserve their indictments, penalties, and any time they will serve.
I wish this documentary had been a 2-3 part series, as there is so much information about this woman and her lackeys that it simply could not be covered in 119 minutes. While Ms. Holmes is a real-life villain in this film, stories about the heroes (whistle-blowers) were far too brief.
While Elizabeth Holmes bamboozled so many investors and employees (even government agencies), it would be interesting to hear from WALGREENS. Why did they allow such an unproven "system" into their popular stores - putting people at serious risk?
Methinks the motive was more financial than altruistic...as with so many of Ms. Holmes "blind" investors and evangelists, including many feminists and tech worshippers.
-March 2019
Rob H
Great story.. terrible documentary
Walter J
I've never wanted to leave a review or have cared about leaving one until now. I don't believe that critics hold the correct view for any film, you should experience it yourself and form your own opinions about it. And if you liked it then good, because I did like some parts of this documentary.
I was very excited about this being made when I first heard about it, an in depth look at the mess that was Theranos; who was involved? Why did people who had doubts become convinced? Who really was Elizabeth Holmes? Who got hurt? What was the problem with the "Edison" blood devices ?
Sadly we only get a glimpse to of some these questions, rather than an in depth look. A few YouTube video can give you better answers then this documentary.
There were a few other things that were mentioned that got glanced over:
- A suicide of an employee (who was a very qualified individual for the job)
- Why Walgreens had said yes to allowing untested machines in there stores, and paying them to bring them in
- who was Elizabeth Holmes family
- her relationship with her employees and the manipulation that happened in the Theranos office
Now I don't know if this was intentional or not, for all I know they could've been threaten if they talked about certain things. The one thing you do learn is how they kept stretching the truth so that no one would see that there machines didn't work.
Other things they focused on: Elizabeth Holmes ambition, the machines that didn't work, and the people involved. I literally summarized the documentary for you, and it bums me out because I really wanted it to be so much more, especially since this was going to get more attention being aired on HBO.
What still bothering me is the employee suicide, they gave it only a little bit of attention to it, which is almost the way Theranos reacted to his death. Just like Theranos and there "Edison" machines, the documentary feels like a somewhat good idea, with an underwhelming result.
Could have been so much better. They took is easy on Holmes and Balwani in my opinion. More focus should have been placed on their shady dealings.
Lauren R
I did not like the documentary unfortunately. The book and podcast are so much better. It is not hard hitting. Makes her seem like someone with a big dream who just got caught up in the ethos of Silicon Valley. Way way way too sympathetic. I think that if people watch it without knowing anything else they will just see a naive passionate entrepreneur trying to keep up with her idols and peers.
Andres V
Otro gran trabajo de Gibney. En este documental queda claro como la locura de una persona puede arrastrar a tantos cegados por la avaricia asà se trate de jugar con la salud de sus compatriotas. Nada nuevo, pero es un grandioso ejemplo tomado de Silicon Valley.
Peter%20 S
Just okay. Expected much more out of this documentary, this topic had so much potential.
Hardy C
In an all too familiar tale of Americans being easily bedazzled and bamboozled by good looking, fast talking con artists with a smooth line of bull-caca, this film shows how capitalism really works in this country. Spin a good lie with plenty of schmoozing and boozing with the elite, cozy up to powerful people who flatter easily, hire lawyers to protect your lie and then Ponzi scheme your way to billions. Elizabeth Holmes had it all; looks, brains, confidence and mankind-saving charisma by the truckload. What she did not have was ethics, morality, a conscience or the protective sense that her house of cards could collapse with a few blown whistles and an intrepid reporter. Which is exactly what happened. This film is really a two hour version of "American Greed", which any fan of that show knows follows the predictable script written for Ms Holmes by the likes of Ken Lay, Bernie Madoff et al. Expect many more stories like this.
Matthew S
Average at best. Elizabeth Holmes is 35, she was 19 when she started Theranos and Gibney uses old timey footage for some reason to chronicle her life and redundant needle to skin cut screens. In addition it's also nothing terribly revealing. If you want a more penetrating docu check out the podcast: The Dropout.
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“12 Years” Best Picture, McConaughey & Blanchett win Critics’ Choice Awards!
This is starting to seem a little bit familiar. But thank god that “12 Years a Slave” won Best Picture, again. But aside from Lupita Nyong’O breaking through in Best Supporting Actress, “12 Years” only also won Best Adapted Screenplay for John Ridley but won NOTHING else. I guess McQueen was not satisfied that Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender didn’t win in their categories, and he lost AGAIN to Alphonse Cauron for Best Director for “Gravity”
But at least the Critics did the right thing and gave “12 Years” Best Picture. Director Steve McQueen looked more than a little pissed and gave a very brief almost waspish speech, like he couldn’t get off the stage fast enough. Consequently, the show seemed to end early.
Lupita was seen laughing and smiling and bouncing up and down in her seat in the audience, clearly the picture of happiness personified. What a beautiful night she must be having!
Matthew McConaughey won AGAIN for “Dallas Buyers Club” and Cate Blanchett won AGAIN for “Blue Jasmine” and they both gave nice speeches. She profusely thanked Woody Allen “for writing such great parts for women. I’m just the lucky girl who got the call,” she demured modestly.
Jared Leto at least acknowledged HIS award also for “Dallas Buyers Club” was “for people living with HIV-AIDS and all those that are trying to help them live.” That was beautiful.
But the shot of Leonardo DiCaprio’s face, as McConaughey was giving his SECOND acceptance speech of the past three days, was priceless. He looked fed up and unhappy. Like “So this is what’s going to happen now?” Since he did win the Best Comedy Actor award at the Golden Globes and again tonight, you could’ve said that it was down to him v. McConaughey. And now it seems clear that McConaughey is going to keep on winning. And “Wolf of Wall Street” and Leo and Martin Scorsese are NOT.
The highpoint for me was Lupita! Congratulations, young Hollywood’s newest Princess!
I don’t think Leo’s nominated for the SAG Award which is SATURDAY night(exhausted yet?) So we’ll see if McConaughey looses or beats Chiwetel.
And if Lupita triumphs again…
“American Hustle” won Best Comedy, Best Comic Actress Amy Adams, Best Ensemble.
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Comments on: "“12 Years” Best Picture, McConaughey & Blanchett win Critics’ Choice Awards!" (4)
Kevin said:
In agreement with “12 Years” being best picture. Just saw “Dallas Buyers Club” and McConaughey was definitely worthy as Best Actor. Jared Leto as supporting as well. I have yet to see “Wolf of Wall Street” and reserve the right to judge afterwards. But “Dallas etc.” really was superb and very real. I would still say that Cate Blanchett should win in Woody’s “Blue Jasmine” which I thought she did very well. I do hope “12 Years” gets it’s share. I loved the movie but, at times, the reality was so jarring that it hit like a block of ice. I will be looking in the coming weeks for more insights from this site.
stephenholtshow said:
Thank you for your thoughtful reply, Kevin. We are pretty much in agreement. This weekend will be very telling with the SAG and the DGA this weekend. Lupita’s acceptance at the BFCA was very moving. She was in tears. Oprah was in tears and standing and applauding.
I’ve seen “12 Years a Slave” three times now. It’s a masterpiece. I hope it just continues to grow and grow ~ awardswise.
Kenny G said:
Hi Stephen, I’m writing from the UK, always enjoy your posts.
I’ve seen 12YAS several times now and the scene of Patsy’s (almost offscreen) collapse in the background as Solomon escapes to his liberation becomes more powerful with every repeat viewing. The thought of what life holds for her without the emotional strength she has until that point drawn from Solomon is truly devastating. It is the profoundly affecting performance of Lupita Nyong’o in the film that makes the sequence so heartbreaking; we care for her deeply by this point and completely empathise with her despair. Consequently, I find Solomon’s homecoming scene immediately afterwards slightly anti-climatic because thoughts of Patsy are still lingering strong.
Regarding awards, it came as no surprise that Jennifer Lawrence won the Globe, a win for her there seemed to fit the bill. My fear is this – I expect Lupita to follow up her BFCA win with repeats at SAG and BAFTA, however, even with those victories I can foresee a situation where Lawrence is awarded the Oscar and that disappoints me.
AMPAS showed great support for American Hustle in yesterday’s nominations but Supporting Actress appears to be its only realistic chance of an ‘above the line’ win (if, as I do, you regard Matthew McConaughey as the frontrunner which will be affirmed when, as I predict, he secures SAG).
Do you think Lupita could be vulnerable even with BFCA, SAG and BAFTA under her belt?
If only Walter White had been on the Epps plantation: http://goo.gl/bXc3nA
Dear Kenny,
Very moved by your beautiful, well thought-out comment. Yes, Patsie’s fate haunts me, too. The truth is we just don’t know. I think it is not even known how or when or where Solomon Northup himself died. I’m no expert on slave history, so I don’t the details of most slaves’ passing. There is a burial scene towards the end of the movie. I imagine that many deaths occured like it did to the poor slave depicted in the film, who just fell over dead in the field. I thought that implied that that was a good way to go. Quickly. But seeing as how Patsie was borderline suicidal, she might have done what she asked Solomon to do to her, if she was pushed any further. Yes, that scene of his leaving her was crushing. I felt her despair all over again.But also, she had the protection of Master Epps who was obsessed with her. So perhaps she did live on and become his Mistress Shaw. Anything could’ve happened. We just don’t know.
And of course, the joyous thing is that Lupita’s brilliant performance has brought Patsie’s tragic circumstances to life on the screen forever.
I think she has a VERY good shot to keep on winning. Her BFCA speech moved Oprah Winfrey to tears and the whole audience was deeply moved, too, as we both were. I think SAG, tomorrow night, will tell us what may continue to happen. Lupita Nyong’O is a very special talent.
And Fox Searchligh has made arrangements with Martin Luther King’s estate and they are now running audio quotes from him under visuals from the film as one of the new ads I saw on TV this morning. It was equally moving. They ALSO introduced a new commercial featuring Chiwetel (and pronouncing his name correctly) and also Lupita. Front and center, in a TV ad running during a major network shows, I think it was Good Morning America. I think both these commercials show that Fox Searchlight is not letting any grass grow under their feet re: Chiwetel’s and Lupita’s much deserved nominations. If either of them wins SAG, it’s a step in the right direction. On Saturday night, we’ll know.
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OK Primary is 7/27 and Why We Should ALL Care – Wherever We Are
July 22, 2010 Stubborn_Facts 3 Comments
I’m in Nebraska.
Why do I care what happens in the Oklahoma primary election on July 27?
While I do have a number of friends and contacts there, that is not what drives my concern. I have come to believe that Oklahoma is at the tip of a spear that for so many reasons, is pointing in the right direction. Oklahoma has a very strong, organic movement comprised of resolute people committed to the Constitution. It is considered by many the home of State Sovereignty and it requires less digging to find some strong legislators at their Capitol than in my own and other states.
Senator Randy Brogdon
State Representative Charles Key and State Senator Randy Brogdon, are at the top of that list; they have taken on issues like State Sovereignty and REAL ID, just to name two.
Representative Charles Key
Oklahoma has a number of excellent Constitutional, liberty-minded candidates challenging incumbents. More, it seems than in many other states, and more that are rock-solid on core principles.
Further, as noted in a piece I wrote at the end of May, the mindset of registered Republican voters in Oklahoma, at least in the one place where I walked blocks, was palpably different from what I’d experienced in Nebraska. Few NE voters asked questions when presented with literature, and then only about party affiliation. If the candidate was Republican, with few exceptions, that was good enough for them. Oklahomans consistently asked questions, voiced dissatisfaction with the GOP, and were clearly intending upon investigating challengers in a race.
Having said all that, life at the tip of the spear is a tenuous business. My understanding of infantry is they take the brunt of the battle. Rep. Key and Sen. Brogdon have had successes, but they’ve also had disappointments. Challenging candidates and their supporters have been shut out from equal access by the GOP establishment. Supporters of State Sovereignty, individual liberty, and limited government have been called radicals, liars, and even insane. Entrenched power doesn’t go down easily. It gets really ugly, as a matter of fact, the more threatened it feels.
The people at the tip of the spear can’t hold their ground forever. Others need to join them. Infantry troops need backup. I’m in a state where the incumbents were re-elected across the board, with the most successful challenger garnering 37% of the vote. I want to see the movement back to core Constitutional principles, toward limited government, and a restoration of our Republic continue. Oklahoma is key in that fight. And when you see a success in the legislature or a candidate, it’s not really the one man you see leading the charge; he has a battalion of supporters working hard behind the scenes. They deserve and need reinforcement and support.
What will happen in Oklahoma next Tuesday? Will the discontent with entrenched power translate into the ousting of some incumbents? Perhaps. If some of the challengers had just a fraction of the support thrown at Scott Brown in Massachusetts, sending establishment, bail-out voting, Progressive Republicans packing would be much more certain.
It is no too late to provide support to some of these candidates. I’ve met each of these candidates personally, and worked with three of them on a regular basis.
Over the next couple of days, I will be writing about each one in more detail. In the meantime, I will list them here. Consider giving at least one of them your support.
Congressional Candidates:
RJ Harris is running in OK’s 4th District. RJ is one of the most impressive individuals I have come to know; his thorough knowledge of the Constitution and ability to articulate core principles clearly and succinctly is unmatched in my experience. His personal character, commitment to his family, and to the country are evident in his balancing of work and family life, and through his long military service. RJ’s race next Tuesday is of key importance; there is no Democrat on the ballot.
The winner of the GOP primary will determine with finality one Congressional seat.
RJ Harris website: http://rjharris2010.com
In OK CD02, Howard Houchen has displayed ceaseless energy in traveling his very large district to hear from voters and talk about the proper the role of government. I have personally found Howard to be not only hard working, but well read, a thorough researcher, and impressive in his reasoning. These qualities were quickly displayed while working with Howard directly on legislation development supportive of state sovereignty. Added to his many other qualities, Howard is one of the most affable, courteous personalities in politics today.
Howard Houchen’s website: http://www.houchenforcongress.com/
1st District Candidate Nathan Dahm is wise beyond his years, some having called him “an old soul”. His on the spot recall of historical context makes clear the depth of his knowledge. He is a man who lives his faith proven by his missionary service and ongoing charitable work. To be sure, he became a favorite with me before I met him – he is a homeschool graduate. But what impressed me most was his character and humility.
Nathan Dahm’s website: http://www.nathandahm.com/
Governor’s Race:
State Senator Randy Brogdon has already been mentioned here. Senator Brogdon sponsored the Sovereignty Resolution in the OK Senate, worked to increase transparency in taxation, and fought against the implementation of the privacy invasion that is Real ID.
Randy Brogdon’s website: http://www.randybrogdon.com/
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Will Nostalrius Drama Shift the Sleeping WoW Giant?
The developers however prefer to see the game continuously evolve and progress, and as such we have no plans to open classic realms or limited expansion content realms.
February 2011 repost of an earlier Blizzard response
People have been asking for a Vanilla server for a long time now. That quote is from the old forums, which are no longer available. When Tom Chilton stands up and loudly declares a vanilla server can’t be done and, even if it could be, that nobody would really want it, I believe his real motivation is encapsulated above. That has always been the sense of things that I have taken from the company and its statements. They want to move forward, that today is always better than yesterday, and that tomorrow will be better still.
That quote at the top was posted less than three months after the Cataclysm expansion removed the original 1-60 game content of Azeroth. But it was brought forward from the old forums, so it certainly pre-dates Cataclysm. The whole vanilla server idea isn’t new. It didn’t just come up this month. Customers asking for it isn’t new. Blizzard saying “no” isn’t new. Even this reminder that Blizzard knew people wanted the old world back when it was still current and available, yet decided to do nothing with it until enough time passed to allow Tom Chilton to say it is too hard isn’t even that new.
A day that will live in infamy…
What is new, what has sparked this constant smoldering hum of people asking for some sort of classic server… probably since The Burning Crusade launched… into an actual conflagration was Blizzard going after a private/pirate vanilla server that was an outlet for 150K players looking for that old school experience.
Serving the Nostalrius server with a cease and desist notice got people stirred up and brought the question of classic servers, long simmering, to a full boil. We got a few choice blog posts in our corner of the internet when this kicked off:
Priest with a Cause
Keen and Graev
The Light Falls Gracefully
In An Age
Gamer by Design
Blizzard immediately tried to dismiss the whole thing in the way they always have. However, the tide was already rushing in and, in a world where 5 million subscriptions, down from 10 million a little over a year ago, is the new normal somebody, and the game missed bringing in a billion dollars in revenue for the first time in a long stretch, somebody at Blizzard apparently decided that they might want to listen to that increasingly loud segment of the World of Warcraft fan base.
And so there was a blue post in the forums this morning, which I will quote in full at the end of the post.
It starts out with a statement that Blizzard’s silence on the subject shouldn’t be taken as a lack of attention on their part. After years of silence, punctuated by terse and glib dismissals of the idea, that seems a bit disingenuous. I mean, I have your pre-Cataclysm quotes handy if you want them. So I will take it as read that there has suddenly been enough noise of late that they are actually taking the idea seriously for the first time.
That is followed up by a statement that Blizzard has to protect its IP and doesn’t know how to grant Nostalrius any sort of license to operate that would also protect the World of Warcraft brand. I might suggest they check out what SOE did with Project 1999, but Blizzard hasn’t been interested in copying EverQuest since 2005 or so. So Nostalrius will likely remain dead.
Then there is the return to why Blizzard won’t do a classic server; because it is hard. If it were easy, of course they would do it, but it isn’t, so they won’t. Pre-Cataclysm Azeroth is forever gone from Blizzard servers.
The post then offers up the idea of some sort of special, fresh start server that sounds remarkably like something I outlined in a comment over at SynCaine’s blog and what Rohan wrote about at Blessing of Kings. (And refined in a follow up post.) My own statement from about two weeks back:
Blizz has never been a company to take a step in a direction that hasn’t been well trod or to take big steps when little steps would do. So them jumping to a Vanilla server, even if they could get past the mental block and do it without too much cost, seems unlikely.
I think they would first venture into an alternate rules server test, something like a “hard mode” server. Crank up MOB damage and hit points, tone down exp gain, normal mode dungeons tuned up to not be face rolls, no transfers or insta-level characters, no heirlooms, flying restricted to only in Outland after 60 70 and Northrend after 68, 78 and some bits and pieces like that. Throw in some special achievements… or maybe just a gold border on current achievements that you get when you do them in hard mode, and I bet that would be a draw.
That is, after all, pretty much all SOE is doing with their nostalgia servers.
I think there is some merit in that option. A fresh server experience with some differences and greater difficulty with everybody starting off at level 1 would be a draw for some. Bhagpuss has said in the past that he wouldn’t want to play what would be simply a more difficult version of the same content available on live servers. And that is a legitimate point of view, certainly. But some people would. I bet a lot of people would.
Yes, I know, that isn’t vanilla. While I actually like some of the 1-60 Cataclysm content myself, having run through every zone now for my attempt at the Loremaster achievement, it still isn’t the same. It isn’t old Westfall, old Deadmines, old Stranglethorn Vale with its myriad of pages to collect, or old Sunken Temple with its long series of challenges.
But it might be a start, a step in the right direction, an admission by Blizzard that their same old routine of the last eleven years of an expansion every two years with a one year content drought can’t just go on indefinitely. Maybe they are finally feeling the need to do something different, to offer up a server that isn’t PvE, PvP, PvE-RP, or PvP-RP.
World of Warcraft is still the cash cow at Blizzard. It still has a big team. It still could make a billion dollars a year in revenue if it could attract back some of the lapsed player base with something a little different. Maybe this is the first step to vanilla.
I doubt it. I think that so long as Tom Chilton is calling the shots, Blizzard will continue down its standard path. (He is becoming the Blizzard version of Smed when it comes to quotes, especially after calling Garrisons the WoW version of housing.) But it could happen.
Is today’s post a sign of a shift at Blizzard, or an attempt to calm people down and hope the whole issue goes away once the Warcraft movie premiers and the WoW Legion expansion launches?
Others writing on the topic, updated as they pop up:
Alt:ernative Chat
Massively OP
Techdirt (scathing on the IP issue)
Today’s blue post quoted in full after the cut:
To the WoW Community
We wanted to let you know that we’ve been closely following the Nostalrius discussion and we appreciate your constructive thoughts and suggestions.
Our silence on this subject definitely doesn’t reflect our level of engagement and passion around this topic. We hear you. Many of us across Blizzard and the WoW Dev team have been passionate players ever since classic WoW. In fact, I personally work at Blizzard because of my love for classic WoW.
We have been discussing classic servers for years – it’s a topic every BlizzCon – and especially over the past few weeks. From active internal team discussions to after-hours meetings with leadership, this subject has been highly debated. Some of our current thoughts:
Why not just let Nostalrius continue the way it was? The honest answer is, failure to protect against intellectual property infringement would damage Blizzard’s rights. This applies to anything that uses WoW’s IP, including unofficial servers. And while we’ve looked into the possibility – there is not a clear legal path to protect Blizzard’s IP and grant an operating license to a pirate server.
We explored options for developing classic servers and none could be executed without great difficulty. If we could push a button and all of this would be created, we would. However, there are tremendous operational challenges to integrating classic servers, not to mention the ongoing support of multiple live versions for every aspect of WoW.
So what can we do to capture that nostalgia of when WoW first launched? Over the years we have talked about a “pristine realm”. In essence that would turn off all leveling acceleration including character transfers, heirloom gear, character boosts, Recruit-A-Friend bonuses, WoW Token, and access to cross realm zones, as well as group finder. We aren’t sure whether this version of a clean slate is something that would appeal to the community and it’s still an open topic of discussion.
One other note – we’ve recently been in contact with some of the folks who operated Nostalrius. They obviously care deeply about the game, and we look forward to more conversations with them in the coming weeks.
You, the Blizzard community, are the most dedicated, passionate players out there. We thank you for your constructive thoughts and suggestions. We are listening.
This entry was posted in Blizzard, entertainment, World of Warcraft and tagged Nostalrius, Tom Chilton on April 26, 2016 by Wilhelm Arcturus.
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23 thoughts on “Will Nostalrius Drama Shift the Sleeping WoW Giant?”
Random poster April 26, 2016 at 4:54 pm
Rambling thoughts inbound, pain meds won’t let me focus so I apologize for any incoherence:
Me personally I wouldn’t play on a vanilla server, the game itself back then despite the rose colored glasses of nostalgia had a lot of issues. I don’t miss the game, what I do miss is the people, that made that part of the game so much fun for me, and that I will never get back. Too much time has passed too many people have moved on, hell I don’t even think half of my original guild still plays.
I can see where Blizzard is coming from and why they want to move ever onwards, the problem is they move too damn slow. I think a lot of the devs feel as I do and just can’t see the draw for it. Still there is obviously a demand for it 150k people is nothing to sneeze at. If it were any other MMO 150k joining or leaving could mean the difference between continued existence or shutting down.
Also GTFO of here with it would be too resource intensive to run a nostalgia server, if a bunch of unpaid people can run a server with 150k people on it I think Blizzard could manage.
And maybe the part where they are talking to those who were responsible for Nostalrius will bear some fruit.
And for those who are saying Blizzard is a huge ass for closing it down keep in mind they could have sued the people behind Nostalrius into debt for the rest of their natural lives so going with a simple cease and desist was rather nice of them.
Werd April 26, 2016 at 4:54 pm
I’ce played a lot of Diablo 3, I’ve also played a lot of Diablo 1 and 2 as well as large amounts of Path of Exile. I’ve done my time in hearthstone and heroes of the storm as well as playing a lot of league of legends/clash royale (even quite a bit of mgt). And I’ve been playing MMOs for 15 years including vanilla-wrath in wow with a few wasted hours in cata and garrisons online.
In my humble opinion blizzard has simply forgotten how to make good games.
They produce game with extreme production value and they really fine tune the gameplay into what their focus groups and years of research is telling them is right, but the result is shallow games which aren’t fun.
Sure you can ride the addiction or the social aspects, but at the core of it is gameplay which just isn’t fun.
The classic server drama illustrates why. They stopped making games they themselves want to play, and because they don’t play their own games they fully fail to understand why someone would want to play on a classic server.
Maybe they’ll change something with overwatch, but I honestly doubt it.
Balthazar April 26, 2016 at 5:02 pm
I agree its probably just a way to appease those clamoring for a vanilla server until the hype simmers down. But I also agree this pristine server idea is a step in the right direction for Blizzard, if they are truly considering it.
And, I honestly do question how many people really would want, longterm that is, i.e. more than just a stroll down memory lane adventure for a few months, old classes, old abilities, etc. I realize there are some good things that got thrown out along the way and classes have become far too homogenized, etc., but overall I think people just want a challenge again. At least, that is what I want. I want a reason to group to develop some community (other than queuing to faceroll 5-mans or LFR), vanilla-like leveling and challenging 5 man dungeons. I don’t want to go back to refreshing my seals/buffs every 3 min. and carrying around hundreds of arrows or deal with old bugs that have been fixed. To me, it is not about the specific content/classes that was available in vanilla WoW. Rather, it is more about creating an environment where the same and/or similar experiences can be had. This is not possible on live, but it should be possible with a “pristine server” type of environment.
I would play on a pristine server. I think this would appease most folks, but I know it would not appease everyone. However, knowing Blizzard they’ll make it into this huge project, spend millions of dollars researching its viability, tweaking the server rules, internal alpha testing, etc., and then cancel the project after 1-2 years of testing saying they couldn’t get it where they wanted it to be.
They could literally do a pristine server next week if they wanted to. Why not just try it? The whole “We aren’t sure whether this version of a clean slate is something that would appeal to the community and it’s still an open topic of discussion” seems like bullshit to me. Just do it. Throw the server up there. If it works out, keep it and open more. If it doesn’t, scrap it and try something else. How complicated is this?
I think it would be a step in the right direction for Blizzard to test the waters with different server types without much risk. If it works out, maybe they’d be willing to try a progression server, or some other type, and/or eventually a true classic server.
Not optimistic it will happen anytime soon though. So, I guess for now I’ll just look forward to Uthgard’s relaunch coming up with beta starting on May 7.
Personally a change I owuld liek to see would be somethign like this:
If Blizzard wants everyone to experience the story (see the content they worked so hard on)as it is told in Raids, instead of handing out actual rewards for the LFR, let it be a faceroll, and remove all reason for true raiders would ever have to do it. Get rid of the gear, Get rid of tokens/points that would let you buy gear, see how many people ACTUALLY care about what they miss in raids.
That would return some of the feeling of being special for having successfully raided. Keep that gear exclusive to the true raid level type players. And no I am not one of those elite level players, I have raided yes, but never been at the forefront of it and liked doing it mostly for the since of comraderie that build sup around raid teams.
Matt April 26, 2016 at 6:08 pm
The 150k Nostalrius accounts included some percentage who were in the middle of their nostalgia tour and hadn’t quit yet. The actual number of long term Nostalrius players was lower. It just means that the business case isn’t quite “run vanilla server, get 150k extra subscriptions.”
MMO Champion has a poll up about whether you’d play on a “pristine” server, and it’s running about 50/50 at the moment. Running this sort of server is more attractive since it doesn’t require unpacking and supporting legacy code. At the end of the day, Blizzard is a business and if there is a business case for doing this they will.
Jenks April 26, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Put up something half assed that no one wants, then use it as further evidence that you’re right, no one wants a vanilla server. This is funnier than any of their April fool’s jokes. I’m glad I’m paying for my sub with gold because giving Blizzard money at this point makes me feel gross. Awful people.
Wilhelm Arcturus Post author April 26, 2016 at 6:31 pm
@Matt – 150K players… or 800K players over the life of the server… tracked this server down, got an old version of the client, set up an account with some random unknowns on the internet, and then committed to playing on an imperfect reproduction of the original that was of dubious legality at best and could disappear at any time. If you’re trying to say that this is the measure which Blizzard should use and that 150K players is the top end they could possibly expect should they set up a supported and legal version of the original content, I am going to suggest you haven’t thought this through, or that you at least have no experience trying to play on such servers. I saw somebody suggest that it was easier to play on a pirate server than a live Blizzard server and I will tell you that is some straight up ignorant bullshit nonsense right there.
Yes, in the end, this is a business. But pretending there is some equivalence between a pirate server and what Blizzard would produce is to start off with some bogus assumptions when making a business plan.
bhagpuss April 26, 2016 at 6:52 pm
“I saw somebody suggest that it was easier to play on a pirate server than a live Blizzard server and I will tell you that is some straight up ignorant bullshit nonsense right there.”
Azuriel said that in his post on playing a Paladin on an illegal Vanilla server. I read him saying it just today!
As for myself, while it remains true that I wouldn’t want to play slowed-down, increased difficulty version of the exact same content available on Live on any MMO even I wouldn’t discount the attraction of That New Server Smell. I might sub up for one month just to see the fun. When you’re WoW, just that level of curiosity could be worth millions of dollars.
I’m going with the conspiracy that someone wants this to fail so they can say “we told you it wouldn’t work, now leave us alone”.
SynCaine April 26, 2016 at 6:54 pm
How would this pristine garbage can of a server be harder? It would be slower, but the Cata content would be the same faceroll junk it was before. The game was easy long before heirlooms and such made it even easier.
Regardless the fact remains that this is either just a stall tactic, and they hope this blows over, or its something they do to justify not actually doing vanilla servers correctly.
Fenjay April 26, 2016 at 7:24 pm
I would love to see a vanilla server. I would probably resub for it and just go hang out in Auberdine for hours, just drinking it in.
And, the blue post does give me a little hope. One, because it was J. Allen Brack and not Tom Chilton. Two because, unless he is making it up out of whole cloth, “From active internal team discussions to after-hours meetings with leadership, this subject has been highly debated.” sounds like a real thing that happens.
But it also makes me think that the design and planning is the real hard part. Technical challenges can be overcome. People do that all the time. Throw a small team of smart developers in a room and slide pizza under the door occasionally and I promise they’d be done inside of six months.
The hard part is figuring out the design.
If they start on Vanilla (world and classes) do they reintroduce all the old bugs?
Do they just run the current code with the old world? I think that has great risk of exposing bugs caused by code never meant to to run against a certain world version.
What if a previously undiscovered game-breaking bug is found in the old code? All three of these items eventually lead to a forked WOW codebase, which sounds nightmarish.
Do they introduce expansions? If so, when? (I don’t think Daybreak’s idea of voting for expansions is viable long-term, because you run out of expansions. Then again, it’s better than nothing).
If they don’t introduce updates, there will be a large section of people waiting until they introduce a BC server. Or Wrath. Or Cata. Etc.
If the server(s) becomes a ghost town due to the above, or the exhaustion of nostalgia, do they turn off the servers? That would then alienate the small core of hardcore vanilla-ites.
I’m pretty sure everyone in those “after-hours meetings” has a different viewpoint on the above and other issues, and getting everyone behind one plan is an enormous challenge they have to deal with before installing a single piece of code on a prospective vanilla server.
I’m saying that the number of long term nostalrius players was quite a bit less than 150k, which is the number people use to lobby Blizzard on this topic. I have no idea how many users it would take to turn a profit for Blizzard on this, but I highly doubt the number of people playing an official vanilla server is going to be much higher than what the private servers gather. People who pine for vanilla overlap pretty heavily with people who know about these servers.
@Matt – And I disagree strongly. I think an official stamp on that sort of server would bring out a lot of people dubious of the illegality of pirate servers. That, and the fact that such servers have to keep something of a low profile adds up to a pretty big barrier. I would admit that anybody really hardcore dying to play on vanilla is probably on such a server, but there is a lot of space between there and those who have no interest at all in vanilla.
The anecdotal story I have is that out of our five person regular WoW group, I am the only one who would dive into a pirate server. The rest said if it were official, they would join in too, but the dubious nature of such servers were a barrier. This is what you get when you group with lawyers.
And even your own data point, the poll over at MMO Champion, seems to indicate that a far larger group is interested in something else out of WoW than its current trajectory. Vanilla is a subset of that, but still likely not an insignificant minority. And, as we have seen with EverQuest, EverQuest II, and RuneScape, such servers can be popular and bring people back to the game.
Still, it probably isn’t going to be an issue. I have a strong suspicion that Blizzard’s post today is the corporate response equivalent of my parents saying we’ll discuss something later; they just don’t want to say “no” right now when passions are high. They’ll bring us a new expansion in a few months and hope that makes everything better.
And, adding to that, there is a very vocal “no special servers” group out there as well who, rightly given past experience, fear than any new project will just make getting content for the live servers just that much slower.
Blizzard has built themselves a fine mess.
Rob Kaichin April 26, 2016 at 8:44 pm
I’ve long wanted to play ‘the original WoW’ experience, but I’ve never played WoW in any way beyond the traditional 5 minutes on a friend’s account.
(As an un-affiliated third party)
I’d really like to see a vanilla server just so I have a chance to catch up to the game the ‘proper’ way.
Jim April 26, 2016 at 10:05 pm
Well blizzard has certainly been taken by surprise.
I personally do not know about legal matters but the fact that the nostalrius team immediately told that they WILL release their code or commit it back to mangos GPL project must have caused IMMEDIATE heartbreaks/strokes. Can you imagine the sheer amount of servers opening in the following weeks/months after that. We are talking about PR and Legal meltdown.
I honestly believe they are working their asses off at blizzard trying to find a way to legally bind that team from ever releasing that code but we all know that sharing a bunch of files off the internet CANNOT be stopped no matter how hard they try.
I don’t know if it will be easy to shut down a “educational” mangos project running under GPL, since it contains just server code and struct responses. Yea the map objects were “retrieved” from the client but they are in such a format now that it is absolutely impossible to prove that.
To conclude the post is just a way to stall and try to convince the pirate crew to reason. It all depends on whether they like the pristine server idea or if it can be bent to their liking.
R'nageo April 27, 2016 at 5:29 am
I think the main problem for Blizzard would be on the support side, not the technical side. If you’re playing on a pirate server run by enthusiasts, you are much more likely to forgive a bug or some other technical problem that shows up than if you play on an official server run by a big rich company.
Sure, they have the people to deal with those situations, but it’s still people they would have to divert from other projects, people that would have to learn how the code from 12+ years ago worked, …. and that’s neither easy nor fast.
For myself, I wouldn’t mind having the option to revisit the existing pre-cataclysm quests that were removed when they redid the 1-60 experience, but I’ll admit that it’s for nostalgia’s sake only and not content I’d like to do over and over. I’ve already lost enough time trying to find all the lost pages of Stranglethorn or running (not riding or flying) all the way from Auberdine to the south of the zone and back just to be sent a bit further away next time for who knows how many times…
What made great WoW back then was the group of players I hanged out with, and those have moved on, so I’d rather stay in the current version of the game where even if I mostly play solo I can still experience nearly all the content in the game.
Shintar April 27, 2016 at 5:34 am
On the subject of how easy or hard it is to play on a private server: Pointing the client at the right server, making an account and logging in is all fairly easy, but the tricky thing is getting the client. Azuriel seems to be used to torrenting all kinds of stuff, but if you’re not… I for one ended up having to go to some dodgy-looking site where everything was in Czech and my internet security warned me off repeatedly, and because I refused to register with them, the download took eight hours. I would consider that a not inconsiderable hurdle to playing. :P
Rob Kaichin April 27, 2016 at 8:22 am
Reading their response again, I’m surprised that they don’t hire the pirate devs to run their server for them. That’d be the easy way to do it, right?
Telwyn April 27, 2016 at 8:57 am
I do not see the Pristine server as a good solution to this issue. Playing through the Cataclysm content slightly slower (slower =/= harder) will not address the appeal of those wanting a classic WoW levelling experience. More fundamentally I think Blizzard needs to accept that they’ve damaged the levelling experience by the drastic class rebalances around various level-caps. Some classes can one-shot mobs right through to the last couple of expansions (e.g. Monk, Warrior)!
The questing content may be polished but the speed (super-fast) and difficulty (non-existent) doesn’t make for a good gameplay experience IMHO. I’m suppose Blizzard don’t really think of levelling as being equal in importance to raiding but it’s such a colossal waste of all that content to neglect the gameplay from 1-90 to this extent. Two friends and I recently levelled old characters through Pandaria to get them started on Draenor and even that, the closest expansion by level, is now face-roll easy. You can level from 85-90 in just over 2 of the zones!
jarhead April 27, 2016 at 10:23 am
“(flying) only in Outland after 60”
what are you? a wrath baby? flying in outland at 70 please.
I dont want to play cataclysm from 1-60. i want vanilla. i want 1000g epic mounts. i want no mount till 40. i want the shaman totem quests and rogue poison quest. i want 5 hour BRD runs. i want more than 3 boss, non-linear dungeons. i want to have to find soemone with a scholo key or a rogue. i want to join alterac valley and find it is the same one i left 24 hours ago. i want the AQ gate opening resource grind event. i want stranglethorn vale questing pvp and barrens chat. the blood plague is a bit much to ask for as is the bring the bomb to the AH bug but one can dream.
the problem with a new historic wow server built now is that it would be built by the team that brought you garrisons. if they thought that was a good idea what will they do to vanilla?
best you could hope for is a current server with a hard level cap at 60. an ilvl restriction of any BC item or higher with a balance pass done on every raid and dungeon. dont ever patch that server but release a 2nd one with similar settings but for BC and eventually each other expansion. allow character transfers off vanilla to BC server and any other higher sever so a group or individual can decide their own progression pace though my guess is people would prefer a reroll than getting rid of their raid geared toon to a higher teir. every 2 or 3 years reset one so it is a complete fresh start and disable transfers to it for a year.
tithian April 27, 2016 at 10:25 am
People saying that torrenting stuff is some sort of archaeic ritual only for the initated is mind boggling. Where I live everyone torrents stuff, from TV series, to movies, to games to books… everything. And I’m talking about people that the only thing they know about PCs is Facebook and double clicking icons on the desktop. Those same people cannot use Netflix, but they will download entire seasons of TV to watch.
Getting the 1.12 client simply imvolves googling “wow 1.12 client torrent” and you also get the sites for the more popular servers at the same time.
NetherLands April 27, 2016 at 12:23 pm
Blizzard seems to be bored with WoW and rather drains its resources on OverWatch and such (something the ‘no special ruleset servers!’ crowd likes to ignore), and are indeed probably just stalling and damage-controlling with this half-assed offer that almost literally means just flipping a couple of switches if it even gets done.
In general I find it a bit perplexing that the moment they might actually have to put in some work (they fed a similar line with e.g. levelling PvP being a total mess since Cataclysm removed Skill Ranks, and organised player outcry rose up to get it fixed) they balk at it. Call me blunt but aren’t they paid for doing sthat are difficult?
But I guess it can be called a plus that at least the idea of (more) special rule-set servers has taken ground (even if years after EQ and DAoC did it)
@NetherLands – Yeah, I was not impressed with their statement where they literally said if it was easy they would do it, but since it isn’t, they won’t. And Blizz having finally taken notice after all these years… well, the word “hubris” comes to mind. They probably never thought they would have to stoop to that… and then subscriptions dropped in half and, despite being pestered for it for years, they had no backup plan.
@jarhead – Sorry, I meant 70 and 78. I would have said no flying at all, except both expansions have content that require flight.
@tithian – So everyone you know is a criminal? You just wrote that they all happily steal content. And, while I am sure they all have some puffed up justification akin to “everybody cheats on their taxes” or “everybody lies on their resume” to make themselves feel better, in the end they are stealing. I am no fan of the MPAA or the RIAA or companies like UbiSoft who think literally everybody is stealing from them, but “torrents = theft” isn’t a huge logical leap either.
So, no, the technical means for installing and using BitTorrent are not a huge barrier, though your “Facebook only” people got help doing it I am sure, but there is also a moral chasm to jump there. Meanwhile, I hope you don’t have to support those Facebook level users when they download some innocently titled item that turns out to contain malware. All those situations end up in my lap in our family.
jim April 27, 2016 at 3:16 pm
@wilhelm since you know your way around software development, implementing this would be extremely easy for blizzard.
ALL open source ‘cores’ get EVERYTHING from the client right now. Why blizzard decided to put the vmap/nmap files as well with the dbc files within the client is beyond me. So the map files are required to implement path-finding (and LoS for spells) or generally where you can go or not in the map. The dbc files contain ALL of the game “rules”, the location of graveyards, the dialogs of npcs and whatever else you can think of.
For some reason the game itself ignores all of these files and everything is coordinated through the server so all those files are completely irrelevant but they are still within the client.
Here comes the catch. THEY ARE USING THE SAME THING even on current patch in wod.
There is trinitycore for 6.2.4 out and any dev in that community can confirm this. My understanding is that both the map files and the dbc files format has not changed at all over the years. The hard part is to port those dbc files into a db or reverse engineer them to a format that your software understands.
So all in all their current server sure has a lot more features in but they will NEVER have to reverse engineer the dbc files themselves because they already have the code for that. They will just need to restructure their login server to connect to battle.net v2 that is obviously a billing platform now on top of a network.
Or else they indeed will have to remake the old executables to make them compatible with the platform so that it checks your battlenet account for credentials and stuff. But that i say could be handled by the login server. They would only need to have a separate server for the legacy client logins. It would be as easy as changing your realmlist text file now.
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Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
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Original Theatrical Release Date: May 19, 1999
Director: George Lucas
Two Jedi Knights – Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) – are in the middle of a trade dispute and narrowly escape a hostile blockade by the Trade Federation army. Making their way to the desert planet of Tatooine, the two Jedi warriors find a young boy named Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd) who may be the one prophesied to bring balance to the Force. Qui-Gon takes an interest in freeing the boy from a savvy gambler named Watto (Andy Secombe), but meanwhile the threat of the Sith is rising – with a vicious Sith lord, Darth Maul (Ray Park), hot on the heels of the two Jedi.
I’ve been a Star Wars fan for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, I used to have hand-me-down action figures from my uncle. They came in a carrying case shaped like Darth Vader’s helmet and I would play with them for hours. So, naturally – when this movie came out during my high school years – back in 1999….I was more than excited. I’d seen previews where Darth Maul was speeding across the desert surface of Tatooine, only to leap from his speeder and attack some Jedi and it gave me goosebumps. Darth Maul truly looked like a badass.
The real experience in the theater wasn’t as amazing as I’d hoped. There was a certain quality to it that I didn’t like. Everything was too clean – even in the dirty, rundown slums of Tatooine. The CGI looked out of place for the Jim Henson style Star Wars experience I remembered as a kid. Everything was bright. The ships were polished and sounded like high-end vibrators. (Not that I’d know about that or anything)
In short, it didn’t feel real. Despite the excitement of the initial ambush sequence and the eventual podrace – I fell asleep in the theater. This is, to date, the only movie I’ve ever fallen asleep to during the time it was showing on the big screen. This hasn’t changed fifteen years later. The film boasts one of the best fight scenes in Star Wars history between Darth Maul, Obi-Wan, and Qui-Gon – but other than that it’s a lot of politics and talk of trade embargoes and underhanded dealings. Jar-Jar Binks is MUY ANNOYING and seeing Darth Vader as a youngster is sort of a letdown. And don’t get me started on Midichlorians.
Recently, I’ve reverted to watching the Star Wars films in the “Machete Order“. I recommend you do the same, which enables you to skip out on Episode I entirely. As snarky as some hardcore Star Wars fans are about the prequel films – there is actually some decent stuff in them. When combined into a single narrative with every film aside from Episode I – it actually makes a lot more sense and is more enjoyable to watch.
In any case, after all the hype – Episode I just has way too many problems as a film – let alone as an installment of a beloved franchise. So, while I may watch it once in a while (mostly for the fight scenes), I will usually avoid this Lucas offering altogether.
PS – In case you didn’t know – I cosplay as Obi-Wan Kenobi. Exhibit A –
I was recently at Super Megafest 2013 in Framingham, Mass last November and I ran into Ray Park (the actor who played Darth Maul in Episode I) at his booth. He was only doing one photo per person, but after finishing with mine (I let him use my lightsaber) he told me to pretend I was being impaled so he could get his “revenge” on me. Exhibit B –
Me with Ray Park (Darth Maul from Star Wars: Episode One) at Super Megafest
JOE Rating: ★★
Movie Trailer For Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
October 14, 2014 by joecarro in Action (Movies), Movie Reviews, Science Fiction (Movies) and tagged 1950's, 1990's, 1997, 23rd Century, Ace Levey, Ace Levy, Action, Adaptation, Aircraft, Alien, Armed Forces, Army, Asteroid, Author, Average JOE, Bare Chested Male Bondage, Bare-Chested Men, Bare-Chested Women, battle, Blood, Book, Brain Bug, Bugs, Bullets, Burial In Space, Carl Jenkins, Casper Van Dien, Citizen, Clancy Brown, Cult Film, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer, Dizzy Flores, Dystopia, Earth, Edward Neumeier, Fascist, Fascistic, Federation, Female Captain, Fight For Survival, Film, Friends, Fun, Future, Giant Alien Bugs, Guns, Horror, Hot, Infantry, Insects, Internet, Jake Busey, Jealousy, Jean Rasczak, Johnny Rico, Joseph Carro, Laser Tag, Lt. Carmen Ibanez, Marine, Mercy Killing, Michael Ironside, Militaristic, military, Military Scientist, Movie, Neil Patrick Harris, No Opening Credits, Novel, Nude Scene, Nuke, Patrick Muldoon, Paul Verhoeven, Pilot, Planets, Propaganda, Psychic, Retro, Review, Robert A. Heinlein, School, Sci Fi, Science Fiction, Self Sacrifice, Service, Seth Gilliam, Sexy, Sexy Women, Sgt. Zim, Shower Scene, Soldier, space, Spacecraft, Starship, Starship Troopers, Sugar Watkins, TAJRB, Topless Female Nudity, Topless Women, Unisex Shower, Violence, Whipped, Whipping, Writer, Zander Barcalow | 1 Comment
Original Theatrical Release Date: November 7, 1997
In the distant future, the world is a fascist and militaristic society where a person can only become a citizen by joining the military and its never ending fight against an insectoid alien race looking to destroy humanity. Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) is the son of two wealthy non-citizens who is looking to join his girlfriend Carmen (Denise Richards) in the armed forces in order to be with her and to gain his citizenship. Soon, though, the realities of military life and the hardships of the war separate Johnny, Carmen, and their friends from one another and they must overcome the chitinous tide of the Bugs if they are ever to reunite.
This film is based on the (much better) science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein – adapted to the screen by Edward Neumeier.
It’s been a while since the last time I watched this movie, but my brother gave me the DVD for my birthday this year. I was kind of interested to see how all the special effects and everything held up over the last 17 years. I was not disappointed to find out that most of it still looked pretty decent after all that time. The only thing that seemed dated at times was the retro-futuristic 1950’s-as-interpreted-by-the-late-1990’s hairdos and clothing styles for the characters. Other than that, though, I was transported through the film’s fun tongue-in-cheek narrative style.
I still have no idea where Casper Van Dien went to after the late 1990’s – but as Johnny Rico he was decent (if somewhat unbelievable) as the screaming, gun-firing, tough-guy lead. Denise Richards co-stars with her full and pouty lips as the always-effervescent (but still wooden) pilot Carmen Ibanez. Also, I was shocked to see Neil Patrick Harris in his role as Carl Jenkins – a role I forgot he’d done. (The last thing I remember him in was Harold And Kumar)
The bugs were creepy and not cheesy. The “internet” – style videos interspersed throughout the film add a nice touch, though the internet of the “future” looks pretty dated compared to our own, now. There is a creepy and unbelievable love triangle in the movie, but the real draw is the action sequences – which are peppered liberally throughout the movie. Still, the movie is a bit too long for an action flick.
All in all, not a perfect movie – but a nice flick to come back to every now and then if you want some sci-fi action.
JOE Rating: ★★★★
Movie Trailer For Starship Troopers
The Tall Man (2012)
October 13, 2014 by joecarro in Crime (Movies), Drama (Movies), Horror (Movies), Movie Reviews, Mystery (Movies), Thriller (Movies) and tagged 2010's, 2012, Abduction, Anger, Average JOE, Blog, Caves, Children, Christine, Cold Rock, Crazy Town, Crime, Doctor, Domestic Violence, Drama, Eve Harlow, Family, Fear, Film, Grieving Mothers, Horror, Jenny, Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland, Joseph Carro, Julia Denning, Kidnap, Lieutenant Dodd, Loss Of Child, Mass Killing, Missing, Missing Children, Mob, Movie, mystery, Nurse, Pascal Laugier, Police, Poor, Post, Poverty, Review, Samantha Ferris, Sexy, Sheriff, Sheriff Chestnut, Social Issues, Sorrow, Stephen McHattie, Surprise Ending, Teen, The Tall Man, Thriller, Tracy, Tunnel, Urban Legend, Washington State, William B. Davis, Women's Prison, Woods | Leave a comment
Original Theatrical Release Date: August 1, 2012
Director: Pascal Laugier
In the town of Cold Rock, the children are going missing and locals are blaming it on an entity from an urban legend, known as The Tall Man. A local nurse named Julia Denning (Jessica Biel) has a child of her own, which is taken in the night. As Julia searches for her child, the truth about the disappearances begins to surface and the townsfolk have a lot to say about it.
I’d never even heard of this film but my girlfriend and I picked it up at a local video store called Bull Moose here in Maine. Jessica Biel has never been on my short list of favorite actresses, but it seemed like it could be good so we bought it.
During the opening of the movie and probably through about half of it, it had me hooked. It had great atmosphere, an intriguing villain in the form of The Tall Man – and a cool-sounding, creepy town. I mean, Cold Rock – how much cooler can you get than that? However, the director and/or story aims to trick the viewer and basically lie to them in order to achieve its hidden message/twist ending. This could have been a decent horror flick but instead it turns out to be a benign sort of social commentary about bad parents.
Jessica Biel was just okay as Julia Denning, and unfortunately she was basically the only character we should’ve cared much about but she even failed to make me do that. If I were you, I’d avoid this confusing and misleading film but maybe it’s worth a single watch on a night when you have nothing else on your plate.
Movie Trailer For The Tall Man
October 13, 2014 by joecarro in Crime (Movies), Drama (Movies), Movie Reviews, Mystery (Movies), Thriller (Movies) and tagged 2010's, 2014, Adaptation, Amazing Amy, Amy Dunne, Andi Hardy, Author, Average JOE, Baby, Ben Affleck, Blood, Boobs, Book, Breasts, Butt, Carrie Coon, Court, Crime, Criminal, David Fincher, Desi Collings, Detective, Detective Rhonda Boney, Divorce, Drama, Emily Ratajkowski, Evil, Forced Sex, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Greta, Guilty, Innocent, Intense, Jail, Joseph Carro, Kill, Kim Dickens, Lawyer, Lies, Lisa Banes, Lola Kirke, Margo Dunne, Marriage, Marybeth Elliott, Media Circus, Missing Wife, Money, Murder, mystery, Neil Patrick Harris, News, News Anchor, Nick Dunne, Novel, Nude, Officer Jim Gilpin, Panties, Patrick Fugit, Police, Police Report, Rape, Rich Man, Rosamund Pike, Sela Ward, Sex, Sexy, Sharon Schieber, Subtext, TAJRB, Tanner Bolt, Thriller, Trauma, Twisted, Tyler Perry, Wife, Writing | Leave a comment
Original Theatrical Release Date: October 3, 2014
Director: David Fincher
Author Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) arrives home on the eve of his 5th wedding anniversary to find his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) is missing under mysterious circumstances. After calling the police, Nick finds himself in the middle of an intense media circus as the search for Amy goes underway. Soon, the clues begin to pile up and fingers begin to point Nick’s way.
I went to see this film with a couple of friends last night as I’d been hearing good things about it. I’ve never read the novel it’s based on by Gillian Flynn (who also penned the screenplay) but according to online sources, the movie differs only slightly in some ways from the book version. Movies always differ from their book counterparts, though, so this shouldn’t really be a surprise to anyone.
It’s rare for me to want to watch a hyper-realistic crime movie – they aren’t my thing. Still, all the good things I heard about the various performances given by the actors made me want to check it out, so that’s what I did. Every single one of the actors in this movie, even Ben Affleck, really turned it up a notch. Affleck kept his cool just enough during the film to make me waffle on whether or not he had anything to do with Amy’s disappearance. Rosamund Pike, however, carried this movie with her role (in my opinion). She is not only accessible and sexy – but also terrifying. Another surprise was Neil Patrick Harris in his short role which added a lot of subtext to the film, regardless of how small a part his character played in the overall story.
The direction was great – Fincher hardly ever fails at that (except maybe with Mulholland Drive). The music was low-key enough to not interfere but still added just enough mood for a thriller. The length was a bit too long, however, clocking in at a whopping 149 minutes. The only real reason I’m giving this film four stars instead of five is the ending – which I felt was maybe a little rushed. I dunno if it was due to time, or due to something else – but the entire movie built up the characters to be solid and absolutely believable within the context of the story, except for the last half hour or so, which was unbelievable and completely took me out of the movie. I’d love to see a director’s cut in the future to see if maybe the motivations of the characters were a little more clear before some of the film hit the cutting room floor.
All in all this is one worth watching at least a couple times so you can catch all the little “easter eggs” (like the Scott Peterson novel one of the characters are reading at one point) and nuances in background scenes and in the subtleties of the characters and their actions. Good job again, Fincher – you do great work.
Movie Trailer For Gone Girl
Big Trouble In Little China (1985)
October 13, 2014 by joecarro in Action (Movies), Adventure (Movies), Comedy (Movies), Fantasy (Movies), Horror (Movies), Movie Reviews and tagged 1980's, 1986, Action, Adventure, Airport, All-American, Allies, Average JOE, B Movie, battle, Big Trouble In Little China, Blades, Blog, Bordello, Bride, Brothel, Bumbling Hero, Bus Driver, Campy, Carter Wong, Chao Li Chi, Chinatown, Chinese Actor, Chinese Girl, Chinese Restaurant, Classic, Comedy, Comic Book, Creature, Cult Classic, David Lo Pan, David Z. Weinstein, Dennis Dun, Donald Li, Eddie Lee, Egg Shen, Enemies, Evil, Fantasy, Fiancee, Fight, Film, Flop, Friends, Gambling, Gang, Garter Belt, Gary Goldman, Good, Good VS Evil, Gracie Law, Green Eyes, Guns, Hells, Horror, Immortal, Jack Burton, James Hong, James Pax, John Carpenter, Joseph Carro, Kate Burton, Kidnap, Kim Cattrall, Knife, kung-fu, Kung-Fu Fantasy, Lightning, Magic, Margo, Marriage, Miao Yin, Monster, Movie, Mystical, Mystical Battle, Panties, Peter Kwong, Post, Prisoner, Rain, Rescue, Review, Sexy, Skeleton, Sorcery, Spells, Steamy, Supernatural Battle, Suzee Pai, TAJRB, Three Storms, Thunder, Trucker, Uncle Chu, Victor Wong, Wang Chi, Water | Leave a comment
Original Theatrical Release Date: July 2, 1986
Director: John Carpenter
Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) is an all-American truck driver with a penchant for gambling. When his friend in Chinatown, Wang Chi (Dennis Dun), loses a bet to Jack – he has to pay up. But first, he needs to pick up his girlfriend from the airport. However, all does not go as planned and instead ol’ Jack finds himself in the middle of a mystical battle between an evil Chinese sorcerer named Lo Pan (James Hong) and the forces of good, led by the cantankerous old Egg Shen (Victor Wong).
This film is a classic now, though it flopped when it was first released. If you haven’t seen it yet, I envy you because that means you can see it for the first time. Granted, some of the special effects in the movie are a bit dated (it was 1986, after all) but overall – the film has held up over time. Kurt Russell gives a great performance as Jack Burton – a sort of bumbling badass who manages to “accidentally” achieve his goals, though most of the time he just talks tough and likes to spout one-liners that don’t quite hit the mark. Kim Cattrall is great as the sexy-yet-annoying love interest, Gracie Law, and Dennis Dun is decent as the ass-kicking “sidekick” to Burton.
John Carpenter, for me, either is right on the money or far off base with his films. (John Carpenter’s Vampires was terrible, for instance) With Big Trouble In Little China – he did right by everyone. It’s got the right mix of adventure, style, horror and camp to make it an enduring franchise. Also – there is currently a comic book adaptation being published that relays events which take place after the film ends. You can check that out HERE. If you loved Army Of Darkness, then you’ll love this movie too.
Movie Trailer For Big Trouble In Little China
Red State (2011)
October 12, 2014 by joecarro in Action (Movies), Crime (Movies), Horror (Movies), Movie Reviews, Thriller (Movies) and tagged 2010's, 2011, Abigail, Abin Cooper, Action, Alexa Nikolas, Anna Gunn, ASAC Brooks, ATF, ATF Agent, Average JOE, Ball Gag, Bare Chested Male, Betty Aberlin, Billy-Ray, Blog, Blood, Boobs, Cage, Caleb, Cattle Prod, Chaos, Cheyenne, Church, Closet Homosexual, Cooper's Dell, Corpse, Craigslist, Crime, Cross, Dana, daughter, Death, Deputy Pete, Esther, Evil, father, Fear, Fellatio, Firefight, Five Points Church, Foursome, Friends, Fundamentalist Church, Gay, Gay Character, God, Good VS Evil, Government, Guns, Hate Crime, Hate Gospel, Homophobia, Homosexual, Hormones, Horn, Horror, Intense, Internet, James Parks, Jarod, Jennifer Schwalbach, Jesse, John Goodman, John Lacy, Joseph Carro, Joseph Keenan, Kaylee DeFer, Kerry Bishe, Kevin Pollack, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Smith, Kids, Killing, Kyle Gallner, Matricide, Matt Jones, Melissa Leo, Michael Angarano, Michael Park, Michael Parks, Middle-America, Monologue, Morals, Mordechai, Mother, Murder, Nicholas Braun, Nudity, Pastor, Plastic Wrap, Poignant, Police Officer, Police Officer Shot In Chest, Police Officer Shot In Head, Post, Prisoner, Protest, Racial Slur, Raid, Ralph Garman, Randy, Red State, Religion, Review, Ronnie Connell, Sara, Sermon, Service, Sex, Sexy, Sheriff Root, Sheriff Wynan, Sinister Agenda, Social Criticism, Soliciting Sex, Southern, Stephen Root, SWAT Team, Teenage Boys, Teens, Texas, Thriller, Torture, Travis, Twist Ending, Violence, WBC, Westboro Baptist Church, Zeal, Zealot | Leave a comment
Original Theatrical Release Date: September 01, 2011
Director: Kevin Smith
In middle-America, all is not as sleepy and peaceful as it would seem. A fundamentalist church called The Five Points Church, led by pastor Abin Cooper (Michael Parks), preaches anti-gay and almost anti-everything hate gospel. Unfortunately, their bite is worse than their bark and when three teenage boys; Travis (Michael Angarano), Billy-Ray (Nicholas Braun), and Jarod (Kyle Gallner) – find an older woman soliciting sex on an internet site similar to Craigslist – they agree to meeting up with her for a foursome, which lands them squarely in the hungry religious jaws of the Cooper clan.
This movie blew me away. If you’re a Kevin Smith/View Askew fan like myself, you’ve come to expect a certain quality and tone of movie from the man and the studio behind him which produced films such as Clerks, Dogma and Chasing Amy. Red State is NOTHING like those other films. This is intense, this is gritty. As Smith himself points out – the Jay and Silent Bob films are like a smooth milkshake while Red State is like drinking straight whiskey. This is a film that none other than Quentin Tarantino strongly endorses, if that gives you any sort of idea as to what the tone is.
First of all, the film is especially poignant and is almost like a satire of the Westboro Baptist Church. We see it in the news every day, but in reality – the crazy religious zeal of some of these people is one incident away from an actual, real-life horror film. Red State is part horror film, part thriller and absolutely riveting.
With Michael Parks as Abin Cooper – the charismatic and terrifying patriarch of the Five Points Church – Smith hit gold. Everyone cast in this film not only does their jobs, but does them well. This movie is often overlooked because it goes beyond the fandoms of the Jay And Silent Bob/View Askew universe, which is understandable in some ways because Red State is so different from those others that it’s almost like another director is at the helm – though Smith can definitely be felt within the context of the film by the acerbic dialogue.
This film is amazing. Absolutely amazing. Do yourself a favor and go watch it. You’ll be uneasy for a long while and it’s perfect for a Halloween horror movie night.
Movie Trailer For Red State
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
October 12, 2014 by joecarro in Comedy (Movies), Drama (Movies), Movie Reviews and tagged 2010's, 2014, Aaron Lezar, Abigail Spencer, Adam Driver, Adaptation, Adult Lives, Adultery, Affair, Altman Family, Annie Altman, Average JOE, Barry Weissman, Based On Novel, Ben Schwartz, Blog, Boner, Boobs, Boss, Brother, Cade Lappin, Chaos, Cheating, Cheating Wife, Childhood, Childhood Home, Cole, Comedy, Connie Britton, Corey Stoll, Dax Shepard, Death, Death In The Family, Death of Husband, Debra Monk, Drama, Dramady, Dying Wish, Dysfunctional Family, Extramarital Affair, Faith, Fake, Fake Boobs, Family, Family Reunion, father, Film, Funeral, Heartache, Hebrew, Hillary Altman, Horry Callen, Humor, Infidelity, Jane Fonda, Jason Bateman, Jew, Jewish, Jonathan Tropper, Joseph Carro, Judd Altman, Kathryn Hahn, Linda Callen, Man Child, Mother, Mourning, Movie, Novel, Past, Paul Altman, Penny Moore, Phillip Altman, Post, Quinn Altman, Rabbi Charles Grodner, Reconnect, Regret, Relationship, Review, Rose Byrne, Sex, Shawn Levy, Shiva, Siblings, Sister, Timothy Oliphant, Tina Fey, Tits, Tracy Sullivan, Unfaithfulness, Wade Beaufort, Wendy Altman, Wife | Leave a comment
Director: Shawn Levy
The Altman family siblings; Judd (Jason Bateman), Wendy (Tina Fey), Phillip (Adam Driver), and Paul (Corey Stoll) – are summoned by their mother, Hillary (Jane Fonda), to sit in mourning together for a week in a traditional Jewish practice called Shiva (which literally means ‘Seven’ in Hebrew) at their father’s dying request. This, despite their father being an atheist, brings them all together under one roof and into contact with people from their collective pasts. What ensues is loads of family antics.
I saw this film in the theater with my own siblings. It wasn’t really on my list of movies to see, but it turned out to be an okay film and I’m glad I went with my own brother and sister to see it because it really gave some nods to the sibling dynamics that we’ve all experienced.
Most of the movie has some decent moments but overall, there wasn’t much substance to grasp onto or to really sink your teeth into. It felt almost more like an episode of a long-running television show than it did a feature film. I think what really saved this was the comedian actors and actresses who headlined this movie – especially Tina Fey and Jason Bateman.
Is this a bad film? Not by any means. It just didn’t pack much punch. It wasn’t especially funny, nor especially deep or poignant. There are definitely enough laughs to merit at least one watch-through and I’m sure there are some people out there who will genuinely connect with the film more than I did. For me, it just didn’t go anywhere new. We’ve seen this movie before in multiple incarnations.
Movie Trailer For This Is Where I Leave You
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IOS 12 – All You Need To Know
June 27, 2019 August 17, 2018 by Senior Editor
Apple just announced iOS 12at its annual WWDC event the latest version of the most advanced mobile operating system, which will make daily tasks faster and more responsive. iOS 12 will ensure better Augmented Reality (AR) experiences and new ways to communicate.
The operating system introduces Siri Shortcuts which enabling Siri to work with any app, delivering a much faster way to get things done. The new update will be available this fall and it will be available to all devices which currently have iOS11. This means the iPhone 5s and later will be getting the update. Same goes for any iPad released since 2013.
Apple has focused big time on performance and that’s the first major improvement. The iOS 12 is now much faster with 70% faster camera, 40% faster app launch and huge optimizations under heavy load thanks to clever CPU boosts.
Apple also previewed macOS “Mojave”, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, with new features. A new “Dark Mode” transforms the desktop with a dramatic new look that puts the focus on user content.
The Photos app gets an extra For You tab. There you’ll find automatically generated albums, suggestions for effects, even sharing suggestions – such as sharing your dinner photos with people you’ve been together.
The popular feature FaceTime has got a major upgrade calledGroup chat. You can now add up to 32 people in a conversation. It will also be being integrated into the Messages app, with support for Animoji.T he latest version of WatchOS has some major changes and additions. These include more watch faces as well as improved health tracking features.
Will Virat Kohli join the select band of Indian captain..?
KL Rahul with Bollywood actress Niddhi Agarwal
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Humanoid species, Species with unknown names
Alien Ambassador's species
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Space captain
The Ambassadors of Death
The alien ambassador's species were peaceful, advanced, radiation-dependent humanoids who emitted deadly levels of radiation and could channel blasts of energy from their hands. Completely alien in many ways, they communicated via radio communication impulses rather than speech and were not susceptible to G-force. They were also impervious to bullets due to some kind of force field.
The species used enormous, half-mile wide, discoid-shaped spacecraft and could create different environments inside. They also possessed mind conditioning technology and weapons capable of destroying worlds.
Three alien ambassadors visited Earth some time after making contact with a human exploration mission on Mars, where one astronaut named Jim Daniels was accidentally killed because the ambassadors had no way of knowing their touch was fatal to humans. Carrington, the surviving astronaut from that mission, by then a high-ranking British army officer, kidnapped the ambassadors. After forcing them to carry out a series of raids and murders, his organisation planned to expose their existence to the world, stirring up public opinion and forcing world governments to launch a nuclear strike against their spacecraft. This plan was defeated by the Third Doctor and the ambassadors were returned. (TV: The Ambassadors of Death)
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Target ups its ad efforts with revamped media company, Roundel
Sarah Perez @sarahintampa / 9 months
A surprise addition to this year’s NewFronts, first-time participant Target today announced its plans to rebrand its media network formerly known as “Target Media Network” to be called “Roundel.” The goal with the repositioning is to better communicate to clients that its focus goes beyond display ads on Target.com. Instead, Roundel will create campaigns and content for its clients, which include brands and agencies — including brands that aren’t sold in Target’s stores — and deliver them either to Target’s own website or to “brand-safe” external channels like Pinterest, PopSugar and NBCUniversal.
To date, Target’s pitch has been that its data on consumers and their habits can help it create better campaigns and content for interested brands. Target Media Network had already been working with national advertisers, including those who didn’t sell products in Target, ahead of this rebranding. But the prior name limited its potential, the retailer believed.
Roundel’s nearly 1,000 partners (previously Target Media Network clients) have included Coca-Cola, Disney, Pepsi, P&G, Mastercard, Unilever, Dyson and others. The network, launched in 2016, has seen double-digit growth during this time.
AdWeek (paywalled) had the exclusive on Roundel’s launch. Target has now shared the details on its own website, as well.
According to AdWeek, Target wanted to announce Roundel at the NewFronts because it wasn’t only going to focus on display ads — it would also involve social, video and linear TV.
Roundel will leverage Target’s shopper insights to create personalized ad campaigns that can run on Target.com or elsewhere across 150 brand-safe channels, like Pinterest, PopSugar, NBCU and others. These channels may also be web, mobile or social sites, Target notes.
The advertisers don’t have to currently sell products at Target to work with Roundel. Other brands — like financial services, automotive and travel businesses — can also leverage Roundel’s offerings.
Contrary to rumors ahead of the event, however, Target doesn’t have plans to invest in original content like its rivals Walmart (Vudu) and Amazon (Prime Video).
The launch comes at a time when retailers are getting more directly involved in advertising both on their websites and through other media that goes beyond basic display ads. Amazon, for example, is now running a live-streamed QVC-like video network on Amazon.com called Amazon Live. It also has been building out a large and growing ad business that spans it properties, including Amazon.com, IMDb and Amazon Video, and is talking to clients about other ad types, including video.
In Q4 2018 its ad business topped $3 billion, but slowed in Q1 2019 to reach $2.7 billion after five quarters of 60%+ growth. It’s now the No. 3 three player behind Facebook and Google, but still very much a distant third.
Target had kept its plans well under wraps ahead of today’s event. But it wasn’t the only retailer catering to the advertisers at this week’s Digital Content NewFronts.
Yesterday, Walmart introduced a new video ad network, the Vudu Audience Extension network, which it claims will reach half of U.S. households, as well as its plans for interactive video and “shoppable” shows, and new original content. It has also been building out its advertising business and increasing its outreach to agencies to talk about new ad formats like video.
Target didn’t follow the usual course for these sorts of presentations. Its event was hosted in a unique environment, with little seating, pop-up talks in different spots and was bathed in red light.
I'm at Target's newfront now, and this setup is dif-fer-rent pic.twitter.com/lz99epxiwm
— Joan E. Solsman (@joan_e) May 2, 2019
For some unknown reason, Target has decided to host its Newfront in da club, authentic in its red neon lighting and a dearth of seating pic.twitter.com/Uazr0qKDhE
— Katie Deighton (@DollyDeighton) May 2, 2019
“When we influence emotions, we influence decisions” says Chief Creative Officer @toddwaterbury @Target @IAB #NewFronts pic.twitter.com/94PKmNJNKx
— iab (@iab) May 2, 2019
.@Target rebrands its in-house media network as Roundel. @IAB #NewFronts pic.twitter.com/CQUYnkja0R
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How Can I Get Data Off a Corrupted Drive?
Ivan from Brisbane, AUS
Ivan has a 2 drive NAS that has files he needs, but the RAID 1 hard drive are reading as corrupted. He believes it is the corruption of one, synced to the other. Leo says that the hardware is probably fine, there's just corruption in the files themselves. But it could be a physical issue making it worth using SpinRite to repair it. However, if the corruption has spread, that points to a software error in the files, not the hardware itself.
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Can my NAS be hacked?
Brett from Tacoma, WA
Brett is worried he's been hacked. He used UNRAID to create his own Network Attached Storage. But he recently got a message that he had 114 login attempts on his network. Leo says that it is very common. Any server that is online and attached to the internet will be attacked. Mostly by a bot that is programmed to look for servers online. Make sure you have security features that only allow logins from approved regions, IP addresses, or from your work. There should also be a feature that will lock out an IP address that keeps trying to log in.
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What Should I Get for Data Storage?
Gifford from Duarte, CA
Gifford is getting a new Mac but he also needs some storage for his 6TB of data. Is a Drobo a good option? Should he build a Hackintosh? Leo says that's a fun project, but it'll never be as reliable as a bonafide Mac.
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Why isn't my NAS visible on my network?
Paul from Lake Forest, CA
Paul's WD NAS can't be seen on his network after changing the cable connector. There's a red light that says "I'm not working." Leo says he could try to use another computer with the dashboard software and connect directly, bypassing the router. If he sees it, then there's some issue connecting through the router. Leo says that Western Digital's NAS is terrible. Definitely not his preferred NAS. They fail more often than others. Leo prefers Synology.
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Why is my NAS to slow?
Aaron from Hannibal, MS
Aaron has a Synology NAS, and he handles a lot of really large image files. But they load really slowly. Leo says that while loading it can bog down and there are several issues in the chain. He shouldn't treat his NAS as local storage. He should transfer his data to a hard drive. It still shouldn't be that slow, though. Leo suspects a misconfiguration issue. Aaron should make sure SMB File Sharing is turned on. That could help.
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Can I use network attached storage with my Chromebook?
Wade from Minneapolis, MN
Wade wants to know if he can use network attached storage (NAS) with his Chromebook? Leo says he can mount the NAS as a drive, and he can access his NAS through the web. But to do a direct backup using Chrome may be nontrivial. Wade should check out the Chrome extension Network File Share.
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Can I fix my crashed hard drive?
Chip from Cherry Hill, NJ
Chip has a failed hard drive and doesn't really want to spend over $500 to repair it. Is there a way to do it himself? Leo says that a hard drive dying can mean a lot of things. It could be a hardware failure or it could be a software failure. It could be a corrupt sector on the boot record. Software failures are easy to fix and inexpensive. Hardware failures will cost a lot. Drivesavers charge a lot because they have a clean room with all the parts, and can replace bad parts and recover the data.
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Why can't I use DropBox as a file server?
David from Austin, TX
David works with about ten other people in a small company, and they all share files using DropBox. They're getting conflicts, however with certain database files that they have stored on DropBox. Leo says if he has two programs accessing the same file at once, they will have problems. David wants to set up a VPN, and he was able to configure Hamachi. Leo says this won't fix the fundamental problem, though — it has to support record locking. David says that Microsoft Access supports locking, but it doesn't work with DropBox because people are accessing the file on their local systems.
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What can I do if my NAS has gone bad?
Bruce from Villa Park, CA
Bruce has a network attached storage (NAS) drive and he's getting an error message. He's worried he's lost the data. Leo says that if the network RAID was set to RAID 0 or "scary RAID" then there's a chance that's the case. But if it was set as "redundant" then if one drive has gone bad, replacing it will fix it. The error message Bruce is getting indicates the entire Western Digital NAS has been corrupted and the only thing he can do is reboot the NAS and see if it self-corrects. Bruce also said that the error occurred with all the drives taken out of the machine.
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Is online cloud backup encryption secure?
Brian from Nashville, TN
Brian wants to know how safe online encryption is. Leo says that as long as he has the only encryption key, he's safe. But if he doesn't even trust that, then Leo suggests using his own Network Attached Storage. Leo uses Synology, and he syncs it to all his computers using the web.
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HomeSportsBasketballMartin seeks growth as junior
Martin seeks growth as junior
Center Safiya Martin’s 23 rebounds lead the team after the first five games of 2015.
01 December 2015 Tom Dougherty Basketball, Sports, Women's Basketball
Every time junior center Safiya Martin puts on her Temple jersey before a game, she calls home to Fayetteville, Georgia after warm-ups to hear a pep talk from her mother, Charmaine Heard.
Since coming to Temple in August 2013, Martin has not traveled back to Georgia. Instead of going back home, Martin works closely with coach Willnett Crockett, who won two national championships playing for Connecticut, everyday to work on her game.
“I’ve always kind of been a hard worker, especially in the classroom because my mom always really hashed on stuff like that,” Martin said. “She always tells me to have confidence in myself, and it gives you that little boost of energy.”
Martin saw 741 minutes on the court in her sophomore campaign last year, leading the team with 50 blocks while collecting 161 rebounds.
The 6-foot-4-inch center said she saw more time than expected, but Martin scored a team-low 85 points in 2014-15.
“In the offseason, it was everyday being in the gym, just working on the little things and doing drills to become another option,” Martin said. “Granted, you have guards, but I don’t want to put all the pressure on them. Even know they can take it 100 percent, I want to contribute as well and be consistent.”
Martin, who averaged 2.8 points per game last season, said her goal this year is to become more of an offensive threat to help her team reach the Division I Women’s NCAA Tournament in March 2016.
In Temple’s season-opening 97-91 win against the University of Florida Nov. 13, Martin fouled out after playing 13 minutes totaling two rebounds, one block and no points.
When Temple traveled to La Salle Nov. 18, Martin went 3-of-5 from the field, totaling six points in Temple’s 77-48 victory.
Martin scored four total points in Temple’s two loses to Rutgers University Nov. 22 and Quinnipiac University Nov. 24.
“I have seen a difference in style of play, especially in the La Salle game,” Martin said. “But I want to continue that and be consistent with it, not just little spurts.”
Because Martin is an upperclassmen and a captain, coach Tonya Cardoza expects more assertiveness in her offensive presence.
“For Safiya, a lot of it is about being confident,” Cardoza said. “A lot of times last year she was just out there on the offensive side, and the man didn’t have to guard her.”
Martin, who totaled two double-figure scoring games in 2014-15, shot 42.4 percent from the field last year.
“She has put in the time and the effort,” Cardoza said. “She works at it all the time. It is just about being confident in game situations.”
Junior center Taylor Robinson scored 98 points last season, averaging 3.9 points per game. Robinson and Martin were the only two centers last season.
Robinson, who goes head to head with Martin at practice, said Martin’s summer preparation with Crockett is paying off.
“She’s definitely been more of a threat on the floor, and she can play a whole game,” Robinson said. “She can rebound, she is way better at scoring and got a ton better from freshman year till now.”
This season, Martin is averaging 2.8 points per game this season in 99 minutes of action. She is second on the team with 26 rebounds and has a team-high eight blocks.
“I am not the player I want to be,” Martin said. “I am not the player I could be.”
Connor Northrup can be reached at connor.northrup@temple.edu.
Tom Dougherty
Classical music, activism: not a ‘traditional narrative’
School demolition warrants community collaborations
Cummings pursues professional career
05 May 2015 Michael Guise Basketball, Men's Basketball, Sports
Will Cummings now hopes to land a spot on a pro roster, either in the NBA or internationally.
Officials: ‘momentum’ drives increase in 2015 applications
17 November 2015 Gillian McGoldrick News, Temple Administration
A record number of students attended the Open House Nov. 8.
Live music, alcohol, age: a restrictive combination
10 March 2015 Tim Mulhern Features, Music
Venues around the city cater to an older crowd because of alcohol restrictions, while some are more inclusive.
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Three Hedge Knights: Howland Reed, Elder Brother, and Sandor Clegane
Their Gallantry is Yet to be Demonstrated: The Winds of Winter prediction that a glamor spell disguises the Beast as a Beauty
Alayne laughed. “Are you louts?” she said, teasing. “Why, I took the three of you for gallant knights.”
“Knights they are,” said Petyr. “Their gallantry has yet to be demonstrated, but we may hope.Allow me to present Ser Byron, Ser Morgarth, and Ser Shadrich. Sers, the Lady Alayne, my natural and very clever daughter . . . with whom I must needs confer, if you will be so good as to excuse us.”
The three knights bowed and withdrew, though the tall one with the blond hair kissed her hand before taking his leave.(Alayne II, AFFC)
“Sweet one,” her father said gently, “listen to me. When you’re old enough, I will make you a match with a high lord who’s worthy of you, someone brave and gentle and strong.” (Sansa III, AGOT)
“He was going to take me back to Winterfell and marry me to some hedge knight[…]” (Sansa IV, AGOT on her misremembering her father’s words.)
First, the acknowledgements. This essay is possible because of the original post here by the invaluable contributor on the westeros.org forums, bemused in August of 2016. Bemused presented the case for the identities of Ser Shadrich and Ser Morgarth being Howland Reed and Elder Brother respectively. I was inclined to agree and even was able to find evidence to expand upon that idea. The only point of disagreement was on the identity of Ser Byron “the Beautiful,” who I am proposing is Sandor Clegane under a glamor. This essay sets out to show how this is even possible, how these three men work together in the plot, that this is what GRRM actually intends to happen, and to lay out the textual evidence and clues as clearly as possible. Other forum contributors who must be thanked for their astute reading and dogged assistance in building this theory are sweetsunray and Ashes of Westeros.
By Blue-Eyed Wolf
Note: To avoid bogging down an already long essay, I will provide links to smaller, less important quotes if needed for textual support.
Part I: The Importance of Reading the Three as One
Part II: Shadrich’s Intentions
Part III: The Case for Howland Reed
Part IV: The Quiet Isle, Elder Brother, and Ser Morgarth
Part V: Sandor Clegane and Ser Byron: The Beast Enchanted into a Beauty
Part VI: Brienne’s Symbolic Journey Down the Acorn and Ivy Path
Part VII: Tying Everything Together in Sansa’s POV
Before exploring the individual identities of our hedge knights, we should first look at how GRRM intends for us to view them: as a team. Even though it is Shadrich who we will be introduced to first in Brienne’s AFFC POV, the next two times we see him will be in the company of Morgarth and Byron in Alayne II, AFFC and in Alayne, TWOW sample chapter. It’s written as if we’re supposed to both see them and unsee them as Sansa’s attention is drawn elsewhere. Because the author places the men together in consecutive order we should be considering not just their individual identities, but also considering how they will fit together logically and thematically in the story. They should harmonize well together with each contributing something important for the task at hand.
This makes the name Shadrich all the more a significant choice if we look to the similarities with the biblical Shadrach and his companions Meshach and Abednego from the Book of Daniel. Just as a brief paraphrase of the story, those are the Babylonian names they’ve taken as appointed officials in the court of Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon. Their real Hebrew names are Hanania, Mishael, and Azaria. The king builds a golden statue and commands that all of his officials must bow down before it on pain of execution in a fiery furnace. Of course the three being Hebrew and godly men refuse to do so. When they are set to burn in the furnace, they are protected by God for their faithfulness (as depicted by a mysterious fourth man in there with them referred to as appearing like “the son of God”). They walk about the flames unharmed and eventually escape. So in this story we have themes of: three “godly” men under assumed names, a king that appoints them to positions in his court, the king will be defied, a fourth “man” who will join them, and an unexpected escape by supernatural means. These themes will become much more clearly fitting as we explore the clues in Brienne and Sansa’s AFFC arcs.
There are a few key points we should keep in mind for the hedge knight team even if they are exactly what they appear to be and only out to kidnap Sansa for a ransom:
For any plan, rescue or kidnapping, to work Littlefinger must believe they are exactly the hired swords they appear to be for him to be completely at ease and to allow them around “his daughter.”
Littlefinger must believe that there’s no way the hedge knights could know who Alayne really is.
Logically, there must be at least one member of the team that can positively ID Sansa through a disguise or physical changes brought on by time and puberty. Even if they are kidnapping her, there’s no reward for bringing the wrong girl back to King’s Landing.
We know by the fact that they were hired, came back with Littlefinger from Gulltown, spent hours in his solar drinking and talking, have been personally introduced to Alayne, and they have by TWOW sample chapter spent months at the Gates of the Moon without any cause for suspicion means all of the above points are true.
If the hedge knights are in fact under false identities, Littlefinger cannot in any way be previously familiar with any one of them or he would be immediately suspicious of their presence and intentions. He cannot be able to identify them as anyone other than the identities they have presented.
Shadrich succeeded in finding Sansa where all others had failed. This means he found the right information that lead him to Sansa. How he got that information is critically important question to answer.
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In this part we’ll be looking at the evidence in favor of Ser Shadrich being an ally and friend to Sansa, no matter if he is Howland Reed, someone else entirely, or simply the Mad Mouse. These clues will also directly connect him to associations with Sandor Clegane, an obvious ally to both Stark girls. But first and as equally important, we need to examine the reasons for Brienne being an unreliable narrator when it comes to analyzing Shadrich through her POV.
Brienne kept her face a mask, to hide her dismay. “Who is this Sansa Stark, and why do you seek her?”
“For love, why else?”
She furrowed her brow. “Love?”
“Aye, love of gold. Unlike your good Ser Creighton, I did fight upon the Blackwater, but on the losing side. My ransom ruined me. You know who Varys is, I trust? The eunuch has offered a plump bag of gold for this girl you’ve never heard of. I am not a greedy man. If some oversized wench would help me find this naughty child, I would split the Spider’s coin with her.” (Brienne I, AFFC)
This conversation Brienne has upon meeting Ser Shadrich is often cited as damning proof of him being simply a bounty hunter if we take it at face value. There’s subtle details here that indicate his motivations are not actually greedy, but helpful even to Brienne herself. Shadrich is telling her, actually warning her, that Ser Creighton and Ser Illifer are liars and frauds. This is something Shadrich assesses within moments of meeting them, which should be a confirmation of most readers’ first impressions of the two.
As we shall see from the examples presented, Brienne will show a persistent pattern * in AFFC of reading people wrong; therefore, she is an unreliable narrator in assessing Ser Shadrich and we should not fall into the trap of taking a POV character’s word as accurate without supporting evidence. Here’s a rundown of Brienne’s inability to read others accurately:
She fails to be suspicious of the grandiose and dubious claims of Creighton Longbough and his partner, Illifer the Penniless. After being with them a short time she refers to them as “decent men,” but their knightly status is likely fake as Brienne admits herself she’s never heard of them or the knights they claim to have slain at the Blackwater. Nor are their sigils recognizable to her. Yet, it never occurs to her to press them with more pointed questions or to even be particularly wary. With so many dead soldiers from the war, it isn’t difficult to find bits of armor to pass oneself off as a hedge knight. They are clearly using her as she pays their way at the inn at the old stone bridge. This is after the innkeeper makes plain that Creighton is a good-for-nothing freeloader. While they don’t appear to be as terrible as most outlaws, they do seem to be looking for the next big score. It would therefore be highly likely they would betray Brienne to get their hands on Sansa. That much should be obvious to the reader as much as it is to Shadrich. Even much later on her journey she will still think back that “perhaps she had made a mistake in abandoning Ser Creighton and Ser Illifer. They had seemed like honest men.” What makes them sohonest to her if she even admits she can’t verify their story? It’s most likely because she sees them as simply “old,” “vain,” and ridiculous, therefore they are harmless. So harmless then translates to seemingly decent and honest for her.
She tersely notes but immediately forgets the boy on the piebald horse (who turns out to be Podrick Payne) that is mentioned three times across Brienne I & II. It takes a fourth brush with him before it finally dawns on her she’s seen him before and should take an interest.
She constantly thinks of Nimble Dick Crabb as a murderous type, but he actually turns out to be just a starving petty conman who jumped at the opportunity for a little coin; however, unlike Creighton, he is described as “scrawny and ill-fed.” Nimble Dick is telling her the truth as he knew it about “fooling a fool,” who will turn out to be Shagwell of the Brave Companions, not Dontos Hollard. He only tells her about seeing two girls with the fool because Brienne gave him leading questions with promise of more coin. But what else does he do that warrants so much mistrust from her? Nothing. The worst thing he does is rattle Podrick with colorful stories by the campfire of “squishers” and his ancestor, Ser Clarence Crabb. Brienne will realize after poor Dick’s gruesome death at the hands of Shagwell that she should have trusted him.
Although she has reason to be doubtful of Ser Hyle Hunt at first for a cruel game at Highgarden, his actions thereafter are those of a helper and someone who wants to improve Brienne’s opinion of him. He carries the stinking, rotting heads of the Bloody Mummers all the way back to Maidenpool, which Brienne believe he plans to claim the credit for himself. Instead he gives Brienne and Podrick full credit for slaying the outlaws, publicly testifying to her bravery and skill. He stands up to Randall Tarly and leaves his service to join her, and seems genuinely attracted to her despite the teasing. The reward for finding Sansa Stark he speaks of is then likely not gold, but earning Brienne’s favor and her accepting him as a suitor. He also makes the auspicious suggestion to seek out Septon Meribald. She continues to think the worst of Hyle throughout, but her opinion begins to change after he helps her defend the orphans against Rorge and Biter. She even defends him before they are about to be hanged by Lady Stoneheart and the BwB.
To sum up, we have good reason to doubt Brienne’s first impressions of Ser Shadrich, because she nearly gets everyone she encounters in AFFC wrong.
* Sweetsunray has noticed Brienne shows a pattern in her internal monologue of being prone to thinking in overly literal terms. She fails to pick up on sarcasm. She has no ear for tone of voice, which is key to understanding others. Unlike most POV characters that do assess the eye movements, facial expressions and body language of others, Brienne focuses on mechanical movement and misinterprets subtle facial expressions if she notices them at all. If she does pick up on social cues, they have to be blatantly obvious. This is not to say she is unintellegent, but there seems to be an impairment there which has an impact on her ability to accurately judge others. She does have a general mistrust (of men especially) based on her life experience, but that is not the same as having good sense of what makes an individual trustworthy or untrustworthy. Sweetsunray goes into more details and examples of these patterns here and has proposed Brienne may have a Pragmatic Language Impairment.
Brienne’s AFFC arc is almost a parody of the knight errant story. The white knight is supposed to be the perfect hero to rescue the maiden. George would seem to have it otherwise. As one of the most honest, noble, pure-intentioned characters in the books as well as an excellent warrior, her skillset could not be worse for going up against the likes of Petyr Baelish. Consider how deftly he outmaneuvered the Lords Declarant who thought to oust him with direct confrontation, noble intentions, and show of military force. Even when she gives her best attempt at playing the deception game, she is painfully transparent. She tries to claim that she isn’t looking for Sansa, but an unnamed sister that looks exactly like Sansa. Shadrich calls her bluff in seconds and this is exactly the reason that he can’t ally himself with her. She places trust in the wrong people and she can’t lie. And again, Shadrich warns her that Creighton is not what he seems. The following quotes are from Brienne I, AFFC.
“I am searching for my sister.” She dared not mention Sansa’s name, with her accused of regicide. “She is a highborn maid and beautiful, with blue eyes and auburn hair. Perhaps you saw her with a portly knight of forty years, or a drunken fool.”
“The roads are full of drunken fools and despoiled maidens. As to portly knights, it is hard for any honest man to keep his belly round when so many lack for food . . . though your Ser Creighton has not hungered, it would seem.”
Ser Shadrich laughed. “Oh, I doubt that, but it may be that you and I share a quest. A little lost sister, is it? With blue eyes and auburn hair?” He laughed again. “You are not the only hunter in the woods. I seek for Sansa Stark as well.”
Brienne may keep her face straight and doesn’t mention Sansa by name, but she gave herself away easily. She mentions the description of Dontos: portly knight or drunken fool. Also, if she doesn’t know who Sansa Stark is, why does she care what Shadrich’s intentions are toward her?
“I know no Sansa Stark,” she insisted. “I am searching for my sister, a highborn girl . . .”
“. . . with blue eyes and auburn hair, aye. Pray, who is this knight who travels with your sister? Or did you name him fool?” Ser Shadrich did not wait for her answer, which was good, since she had none. “A certain fool vanished from King’s Landing the night King Joffrey died, a stout fellow with a nose full of broken veins, one Ser Dontos the Red, formerly of Duskendale. I pray your sister and her drunken fool are not mistaken for the Stark girl and Ser Dontos. That could be most unfortunate.” He put his heels into his courser and trotted on ahead.
Indeed, she isn’t fooling anyone. Now that we’ve looked at Brienne’s limitations as an unreliable narrator and complete ineptitude for subterfuge and detective work, we need to look at Shadrich himself for clues to his intentions. Let’s go back to this quote:
“Aye, love of gold. Unlike your good Ser Creighton, I did fight upon the Blackwater, but on the losing side. My ransom ruined me. You know who Varys is, I trust? The eunuch has offered a plump bag of gold for this girl you’ve never heard of. I am not a greedy man. If some oversized wench would help me find this naughty child, I would split the Spider’s coin with her.”
Shadrich also claimed that he was on the “losing side” at the Blackwater and that his “ransom ruined [him]” as his reasons for hunting Sansa Stark. It doesn’t quite make sense that a man as shrewd as Shadrich would be so forthcoming with his personal “ruined” situation and offering to split the reward with Brienne, someone he just met only minutes ago. Why would he even think at that point that this stranger would a merit a split of the reward? He also gives no details of who captured him or to whom he paid his ransom to. It’s a seemingly plausible, but unverifiable backstory. This exchange seems to be more about Shadrich sussing out Brienne’s intentions rather than the other way around. Creighton and Illifer he had figured out within seconds. His curiosity must have been piqued when he meets a lady warrior point-blank asking anyone she meets if they have seen her nameless sister who is obviously Sansa Stark. Again, he has to warn Brienne she isn’t “the only hunter in the woods.”
Keep in mind it had not even occurred to Brienne at this point that other people would start their search for Sansa and Dontos at Duskendale, where the Hollards had previously served House Darklyn. Shadrich had to spell this out for her. This will later be confirmed by the maester in Brienne II when she reaches the castle that several have already been there, including the gold cloaks. Duskendale was exactly where Creighton and Illifer said they were headed. Even they had sense enough not to discuss openly their purpose there, yet their destination should have been enough to make someone think they might be going there for the same reason as Brienne. It’s Shadrich she calls “unsavory,” but what has Shadrich actually done that was so unsavory? Has he been threatening? No. He called her a “wench.” Jaime’s done that. He mentions the bounty, but he repeatedly hints to her that her companions are frauds (true) and that the way she is going about her search is hopelessly inept (also true). It seems like the worst the Shadrich actually does is make her feel foolish.
This initial exchange with Shadrich reveals that plainly. He then was most likely mentioning the Blackwater, his financial ruin, and the split of the reward to give himself a plausible backstory and motivation. Also he’s likely trying to bait Brienne with promise of the reward to provoke a response. Although he can see she is not tempted by gold and would genuinely help Sansa, she would be a liability with her other limitations. This becomes even more apparent later when we find out Shadrich manages to enter Littlefinger’s service and spend months at the Gates of the Moon without raising any suspicion. It’s also an early hint that Shadrich is looking for the right allies for a special ops team. As great a warrior and as good a person as she is, she is unfit for a covert mission to find and retrieve the most wanted girl in Westeros. This scene is a perfect example of the recurring theme of ravens versus Baelor’s doves that GRRM often gives us. One seems ideal like a white knight on a noble quest, but it are really the clever and bold that are better equipped for the task… like a Mad Mouse and his crew.
While “love of gold” and “plump bag of gold” may point to avarice, this is also isn’t the first time gold is associated with a Stark girl and it relates directly to the helper, Sandor Clegane. At the tourney of the Hand, the day after Sandor reveals the secret of his scars to Sansa and she responds compassionately, Sandor saves Ser Loras from being killed by Gregor Clegane. In turn, he is declared the winner (which Sansa “knew the Hound would win”) and receives the purse of forty-thousand gold dragons. He also loses that purse when it is taken by the Brotherhood Without Banners. In return Sandor steals Arya from them with the plan of returning her to her family. (Greenbeard who also has the same idea but strictly for a ransom also refers to Arya as a “golden squirrel”). Sandor is firmly established as a character that cares little for gold any more than he does titles, so this bag of dragons is important to him for what it represents and the reasons he won it, not just its monetary value or practical use.
The gold, Stark girls, and Sandor associations continue again in TWOW with this exchange between Shadrich and Alayne Stone. There’s more to their scene than this, but let’s focus on these connections first.
Alayne turned abruptly from the yard…and bumped into a short, sharp-faced man with a brush of orange hair who had come up behind her. His hand shot out and caught her arm before she could fall. “My lady. My pardons if I took you unawares.”
“A good melee is all a hedge knight can hope for, unless he stumbles on a bag of dragons. And that’s not likely, is it?”
The only other person who catches Sansa by the arm to stop her from falling is Sandor (especially after she bumps into him). It happens twice in memorable scenes, once on the serpentine steps and once the night before the Blackwater. In the above scene Shadrich appears suddenly behind her after Sansa engages in an increasingly tense conversation with Lyn Cobray, a violent, quick-tempered man. Shadrich seeing the danger approaches and positions himself to “accidently” bump into Sansa, drawing her away from Ser Lyn. As if that wasn’t a clue enough that we should be thinking in terms of linking Shadrich to Sandor, then we also have Shadrich equating Sansa to a “bag of dragons,” which we’ve already established makes a literal and literary connection between Sandor and both Stark girls. Also another tiny detail, Ser Shadrich is described as having a very similar scar beneath his ear, the same as Hyle Hunt.
Using wordplay to simultaneously express honestly and to obscure one’s true thoughts is a hallmark of Sandor’s way of speaking, often termed “Sandorspeak” in the fandom. A few good examples of this are here where he is definitely not referring to Joffrey, but himself. Also here where he is deliberately obscuring if he’s referring to a man needing a woman or both women and men needing wine. Shadrich also does this in his quip to Ser Creighton after listening to him boast in the inn. In this sense, if we look at Shadrich claiming to be searching for Sansa “for love, why else?” it actually can be meant honestly before he pivots to “love of gold” in order to test Brienne’s reaction. From the pattern and Shadrich referring to Sansa as a “bag of dragons,” “love of gold” can just as easily mean “love of Ned’s daughter” too.
We have one last feature of Ser Shadrich that he has in common with other known helpers and Stark allies in the ASOIAF series: he rides specifically a chestnut courser. After saving Sansa from the mob in the bread riot of King’s Landing, Sandor mounts upon Sansa’s chestnut courser to carry her back to safety. Brynden “the Blackfish” Tully also rides one. So does Brienne’s helper Hyle Hunt, who rides with her on her quest to find Sansa. It’s established many times over that GRRM uses horses to reflect traits of the rider, named or unnamed. If we can prove three of these four are helpers and these are the only times a chestnut courser is ridden, it stands to reason that Ser Shadrich will also fit this pattern.
Other possible hints at his solidarity with Sansa Stark are in his “shock of orange hair” and in the sigil upon his shield.
[…]Ser Shadrich was a wiry, fox-faced man with a sharp nose and a shock of orange hair[…]”Ser Shadrich of the Shady Glen. Some call me the Mad Mouse.” He turned his shield to show her his sigil, a large white mouse with fierce red eyes, on bendy brown and blue. “The brown is for the lands I’ve roamed, the blue for the rivers that I’ve crossed. The mouse is me.” (Brienne I, AFFC)
While it is possible that someone could naturally have a very bright shade of copper that would appear orange, this may actually be from hair dye. Hair dye is something that is well known in the series. Tyroshi men use it for flamboyant decoration, but in Westeros it is most commonly used by characters for a disguise in numerous examples. Sansa’s hair is dyed “chestnut” brown (possibly drawing a connection to the chestnut coursers) to hide her true identity. Sansa will note Shadrich’s face is aged, so it’s very likely his natural hair color may have at least some gray. When a person with a significant amount of gray tries to dye their hair a pure red or copper shade, the white hairs appear much brighter and less natural. Reds can appear even pinkish and copper could appear a shocking orange. While the orange may seem overly conspicuous a choice, it may be sign of solidarity with Sansa’s natural hair that is lighter and more coppery than her mother’s.
The “orange” connection to helpfulness will turn up again repeatedly in Brienne’s arc in the form of Septon Meribald’s “rare and costly” oranges. Brienne also purchases an orange for Podrick, a rare treat gifted as an act of kindness toward him. These are not the blood oranges of Littlefinger or Prince Doran. The septon gives them away out of kindness and charity to the common people of the Riverlands. Their monetary value means nothing to him. This is purely a loving act. This connection to Shadrich’s hair may reinforce the idea he is indeed there “for love” and Sansa’s ransom actually means nothing to him. So Shadrich as a shocking orange may mean help is coming in the most unlikely and surprising of ways.
Whether naturally or unnaturally orange, Shadrich’s hair color seems symbolically significant when we look at the shield connection. The “white mouse with the fierce red eyes” upon Shadrich’s shield is a blatant weirwood face and color reference. This demands our attention that he has some affiliation with Northern First Men culture, which is very strange if Shadrich is passing himself off a knight, even a hedge knight. Knighthood is mainly part of Southron and Andal culture and a rarity in the North. Such an unusual sigil in this context should provoke many questions of Shadrich’s backstory. Tying that to his hair color, there is also a connection to being “kissed by fire and weirwood leaves have been compared to flames like this example here. GRRM makes a connection to specifically copper hair and a burning tree here with Addam Marbrand. Addam is one of the three people in the books described as having specifically “copper” hair along with Sansa (who has a weirwood connection by heritage and all the Stark children being wargs as confirmed by GRRM) and Melisandre (who is definitely connected to burning weirwoods as well as statues of the Seven and human sacrifice). Fire in real world mythology and in the books appears many times over as divine knowledge of the gods or “fire of the gods.” Biblical Shadrach, as already mentioned, has a connection to fire by being directly protected by God in the fiery furnace.
There will be closer examination of Shadrich’s sigil when we look at Howland Reed, but for now we can safely say there’s enough evidence here to start considering Shadrich an ally to Sansa, no matter if he has another identity or not. But this begs a very important question…
If Ser Shadrich is a helper and ally, then why is he a helper and ally? What does Sansa Stark mean to him? Why would a mere hedge knight nobody do this “for love” if he doesn’t have some pre-existing association with House Stark? To reveal Shadrich’s identity we need to look for someone deeply emotionally connected to House Stark and who has connections to the Old Gods.
In the next few parts we’ll be focusing on the cases for the individuals, but we will definitely not be leaving it there. Some physical descriptions and some parallels are simply not enough evidence to rely on. If the three are a team, it is equally important to present evidence for the team as a whole working towards a common objective.
There is a temptation to look at the physical descriptions of Meera and Jojen as a basis for Howland’s appearance to disqualify him being Shadich outright. Meera and Jojen are described as having brown hair and green eyes. There’s no mention of either of having fox-like features on their faces. Keep in mind they do also have a mother, who they may favor over their father. She is listed in the AFFC appendix as being Jyana Reed, Howland’s wife. It is perfectly reasonable that Howland could actually look completely different than his children.
This is Meera Reed’s telling of the little crannogman story that is obviously her father from Bran II, ASOS and note Howland’s traits:
He was small like all crannogmen, but brave and smart and strong as well. He grew up hunting and fishing and climbing trees, and learned all the magics of my people.
Bran was almost certain he had never heard this story. “Did he have green dreams like Jojen?”
“No,” said Meera, “but he could breathe mud and run on leaves, and change earth to water and water to earth with no more than a whispered word. He could talk to trees and weave words and make castles appear and disappear.”
“The lad knew the magics of the crannogs,” she continued, “but he wanted more. Our people seldom travel far from home, you know. We’re a small folk, and our ways seem queer to some, so the big people do not always treat us kindly. But this lad was bolder than most, and one day when he had grown to manhood he decided he would leave the crannogs and visit the Isle of Faces.
“No one visits the Isle of Faces,” objected Bran. “That’s where the green men live.”
“It was the green men he meant to find…”
All that winter the crannogman stayed on the isle, but when the spring broke he heard the wide world calling and knew the time had come to leave. His skin boat was just where he’d left it, so he said his farewells and paddled off toward shore.
Howland Reed is set apart from the average crannogman. He knows all the hunting and survival skills of the crannog as well as all their magic. He does not have Jojen’s greendreams, but he has an impressive magical repertoire and this is prior to his time on the Isle of Faces. He does not stay close to home like other crannog out of fear of larger people as he is “bolder than most.” He has ambition to learn even more magic. Upon manhood, he travels to stay a whole winter season with the greenmen on the Isle of Faces in the center of the lake called the God’s Eye to learn their secrets. Howland must have been exceptional to have been allowed this privilege, because as Bran says no one visits the Isle of Faces *. The isle is one of the few last known places in southern Westeros to have a living weirwood grove, not just individual trees.
* As a quick review of some Dawn Age history, it is said that the Isle of Faces is the site of the children calling down “the hammer of the waters” to break the arm of Dorne to stop further invasion of First Men from Essos. There’s some speculation that this particular form of magic involved blood sacrifice. While stopping the tide of First Men was too late, the demonstration of power apparently brought about “The Pact” for peace made on the Isle of Faces between the children and the First Men. This starts the beginning of the Age of Heroes. This same magic is probably the cause of the flooding of the Neck, where the crannogmen currently live. This caused a natural barrier to invasion from south. There is legend of crannogmen being small stature because of possible past intermarriage with the children of the forest.
We should also note that young Howland was able to travel alone, through hostile Frey territory, unseen.
“He passed beneath the Twins by night so the Freys would not attack him, and when he reached the Trident he climbed from the river and put his boat on his head and began to walk. It took him many a day, but finally he reached the Gods Eye, threw his boat in the lake, and paddled out to the Isle of Faces.” (Bran II, ASOS)
Even lugging a boat around over land for several days, this is testimony to the skill level of the crannog in stealthy movement and living off the land. Meera and Jojen’s skillsets would appear to confirm this. Her hunting has kept Bran and company living off the land as they move North in search of the three-eyed raven. They also haven’t been found out by any hostile parties along the way. Looking at what Jojen says about Meera and what Meera says about the little crannogman, we see many overlaps:
The gods give many gifts, Bran. My sister is a hunter. It is given to her to run swiftly, and stand so still she seems to vanish. She has sharp ears, keen eyes, a steady hand with net and spear. She can breathe mud and fly through trees. I could not do these things, no more than you could. To me the gods gave the green dreams, and to you . . . you could be more than me, Bran. You are the winged wolf, and there is no saying how far and high you might fly. . . if you had someone to teach you. How can I help you master a gift I do not understand? We remember the First Men in the Neck, and the children of the forest who were their friends . . . but so much is forgotten, and so much we never knew. (Bran I, ASOS)
Again the “breathing mud” and “flying through trees” (and what those things may actually mean we will be exploring later) is mentioned again. Meera has clearly inherited the survival and hunting skills of her father and Jojen has inherited a more mystical gift, even if Howland does not possess the power of prophetic dreams.
We also know of Howland Reed’s involvement of the events of the tourney at Harrenhal where he first met and befriended Brandon, Ned, Lyanna, and Benjen Stark. He was beaten and bullied by dishonorable squires for being a small-statured crannogman. It was Lyanna Stark in particular that drove off the offending squires, who insisted that he attend the tourney feast, and gave him a place among the Starks on the dais. It is also Lyanna that is widely believed to be the Knight of the Laughing Tree that avenged Howland and earned his undying loyalty to House Stark and Lyanna in particular. Meera explains as a crannog, he would not have the skillset needed to joust to avenge himself. That Howland Reed cannot compete as a tourney knight is a very important fact that the author makes very clear. Howland’s loyalty to House Stark will be demonstrated in his service to Ned Stark in Robert’s Rebellion and attempting to rescue Lyanna from the Tower of Joy. They failed to reach Lyanna in time to save her. I believe Howland would be particularly motivated to save her niece. Especially at the Vale tourney, where it would be the inverse of Harrenhal: a crannogman disguised as a knight saves a Stark girl.
Now let us take a pause before continuing to compare this to what we know of Ser Shadrich and compare him to Howland Reed. They are both small-statured, but proportional. Sansa says Shadrich is so short he might have been “taken for a squire.” So he could be mistaken for a youth if you didn’t see his aged face. Even sixteen-year-old Meera is described as being “scarcely taller than [almost nine-year-old] Bran.” Shadrich is then consistent with typical crannog body type.
The Mad Mouse is so named not because he is literally mentally ill as Brienne asks, but because he is a contradiction. He’s not a typical mouse. “Your common mouse will run from blood and battle. The mad mouse seeks them out.” he tells her. So like the little crannogman, he is “bold” and “brave.” They both are not typical of their own kind, whether it be mice or the shy crannog people. They are both unafraid of danger and experienced fighters. We don’t know exact details, but we do know that Howland Reed played a key role in Ned Stark surviving the Tower of Joy and in the death of Arthur Dayne, noted as one of the greatest warriors of his day.
They are both well-travelled, even through hostile enemy territory. Howland Reed travelling alone and undetected through Frey lands at about sixteen-years-old. He’s also travelled over great distances in his service to Eddard Stark during Robert’s Rebellion. Ser Shadrich references the device on his shield to point to his travels:
“Ser Shadrich of the Shady Glen *. Some call me the Mad Mouse.” He turned his shield to show her his sigil, a large white mouse with fierce red eyes, on bendy brown and blue. “The brown is for the lands I’ve roamed, the blue for the rivers that I’ve crossed. The mouse is me.” (Brienne I, AFFC.)
* The name Shady Glen is an interesting choice to claim to hail from as well. Shady Glen appears to be a play on Dusken and dale, both roughly meaning a darkened or shaded valley. Duskendale is also the location of the historic, daring one-man rescue operation of Ser Barristan Selmy the Bold who infiltrated the castle to rescue King Aerys from Lord Darklyn’s dungeons. Lord Tywin Lannister gave Barristan a day to execute his rescue mission before sacking the city. Selmy recalls he left at the “hour of the wolf” and returned at the “hour of the wolf’,” successfully saving his king. He refers to this event as “his finest hour.”
Ser Shadrich is obviously not alone when Brienne first meets him. He’s with the merchant, Hibald, and his servants but says he’s only travelling with them as far as Duskendale. Why not alone? Because he’s travelling to a large town, not an off-the-grid island. For practical reasons there is not only some safety in numbers when travelling on main roads, but also there’s news and gossip to be found by fellow travellers passing by or at inns. By the time we meet Shadrich again at the Gates of the Moon, we know he’s travelled and tracked quite a distance to exactly the right place. This is very much like how Howland Reed left the Isle of Faces at the most auspicious time to arrive at Harrenhal for the historically significant tourney. And now in TWOW, we have the tourney of the Winged Knights on the horizon. Exactly how Shadrich finds his way to Sansa will be explored in the timeline of events.
The “breathing mud” ability attributed to Howland Reed is most likely referring to how well-adapted the crannog are in the harsh environment of the Neck. Anyone else would easily get hopelessly lost. Knights have drowned in the bogs and there are poisonous plants and lizard lions. They are disparaged for seeming to live in a primitive manner in an uncivilized place, but they have made this place home for thousands of years. This is what Theon describes of the Neck and how dangerous it is:
The swampy ground beyond the causeway was impassable, an endless morass of suckholes, quicksands, and glistening green swards that looked solid to the unwary eye but turned to water the instant you trod upon them, the whole of it infested with venomous serpents and poisonous flowers and monstrous lizard lions with teeth like daggers. Just as dangerous were its people, seldom seen but always lurking, the swamp-dwellers, the frog-eaters, the mud-men. (Reek II, ADWD)
This is precisely the talent one needs for navigating the mud and sinkholes that surround the Quiet Isle at low tide. In Brienne V, Meribald warns Podrick to stay off the mud as “it will open up and swallow you” if you step in the wrong place. Meribald is experienced with coming to the isle for many years, so he knows how to get to the isle on foot safely. It’s a long, winding path guided by “feeling” around the mud with his staff first. This should be nothing for Howland Reed, who has been navigating through more dangerous mud his entire life. No ferry to the isle necessary.
We should also be drawing a connection between Shadrich’s weirwood-colored mouse sigil and to The Knight of the Laughing Tree’s weirwood sigil shield. Both the Mad Mouse and the Laughing Tree sigils are contradictions. Actual weirwoods are not depicted as smiling or laughing. Their carved out expressions are supposed to look pained or frightening. The events of the mystery knight avenging Howland also remind us that he cannot avenge himself because he is not a tourney knight. Now look at Ser Shadrich’s statements about himself:
“…’Tis true, I am no tourney knight. I save my valor for the battlefield, woman.” (Brienne I, AFFC)
In TWOW Alayne sample chapter, Myranda Royce asks him if he will be competing in the joust for a position in Robert Arryn’s Winged Knights:
“Will you be seeking wings?” the Royce girl said.
“A mouse with wings would be a silly sight.”
“Perhaps you will try the melee instead?” Alayne suggested. The melee was an afterthought, a sop for all the brothers, uncles, fathers, and friends who had accompanied the competitors to the Gates of the Moon to see them win their silver wings, but there would be prizes for the champions, and a chance to win ransoms.
So again, no jousting for Ser Shadrich. His skillset is for the battlefield or a melee. We’ll also be exploring the importance and parallels between tourneys later, but this exchange between Shadrich and Sansa has some very interesting word play. “A mouse with wings” being a “silly sight” seems to be a twist on the connections to bats in Sansa’s arc and her Whent grandmother on Catelyn’s side. A bat is often humorously albeit inaccurately called a “flying mouse,” especially in the Old German word for bat, fledermaus. Sansa has compared a fluttering inside her to swallowing a bat and she was rumored to escape the Purple Wedding by turning herself into a wolf with bat wings. Bats are also on the sigil of House Whent, who hosted the aforementioned tourney at Harrenhal. Also the bat is the sigil of the much-maligned House Lothston *, previous owners of Harrenhal before the Whents, who once served them. This has led many to reasonably speculate that Sansa’s future arc may somehow intersect with Harrenhal owing to these connections as well as the fact that Littlefinger is the current Lord of Harrenhal.
* The last Lothston, red-haired “Mad” Danelle was mysteriously brought down by (most likely false or grossly over-exaggerated) accusations of dark sorcery, child kidnapping, murder, and cannibalism. This is not unlike Sansa being rumored to use sorcery to kill Joffrey and escape the Red Keep. Danelle is also connected to Bloodraven, known sorcerer and greenseer, in The Mystery Knight novella. So there’s a kissed-by-fire, magic, bats, and Harrenhal connection with the “Mad” moniker as well.
The importance of this cannot be overstated: Ser Shadrich’s shield is a direct reference to the Old Gods, weirwoods, the Harrenhal tourney and the Knight of the Laughing Tree. It’s the pivotal moment that earns Howland Reed’s fierce loyalty to the Starks. That generation of Starks stood up for him, befriended him, and treated him as an equal. Except for a brief mention of being at the Tower of Joy, GRRM has not featured Howland Reed in any other story except the tourney at Harrenhal. When Howland Reed re-enters the story, it makes literary sense for the author to establish him with Harrenhal and Old Gods references.
The “flying mouse” motif may point to a larger idea connected to weirwoods and magic. Children of the Forest have been described as squirrels by the giants. Arya herself has been called a squirrel many times. Bran draws comparisons to Arya in both Meera Reed and one of the children who he will call Leaf. Squirrels do fit that motif if we consider the way they can flit among tree branches with ease (as well at there being a species called a flying squirrel). This comes full circle with Meera and Howland being able to “fly through trees” and “run on leaves.” Also note that Shadrich’s sigil colors are on a bendy, the same as House Lothston and both with a “mouse” related to magic at it’s center. It’s well-known that GRRM has drawn upon Yggdrasil from Norse mythology with his weirwood concept. There is a squirrel related to Yggdrasil named Ratatoskr who acts as a messenger running up and down the tree between an unnamed eagle at the top and the wyrm>, Níðhǫggr, at the roots (very much like the dragon, Bloodraven, seated at the weirwood’s roots).
We can also make magical associations to another animal Ser Shadrich is connected to: the fox. Shadrich has a fox-like face and fox orange hair. He also comes across as being sly and cunning. Foxes in real world folklore have been connected to magic, illusion, and deception such as in the Japanese kitsune. There’s also the very popular medieval folk tales of Reynard the Fox, which GRRM is familiar with. They were so popular, renard came to replace the old French word for fox. Reynard is an anthropomorphic fox character and trickster figure whose stories usually involve him deceiving or cunningly escaping other anthropomorphic animal characters. His character was often used in parodies of medieval courtly love and chanson de geste, or songs of heroic deeds (think Shadrich’s meeting Brienne on her hapless quest to rescue Sansa) as well as satire of political and religious institutions.
There are some very interesting parallels between Reynard and Howland Reed. Reynard’s castle home is called Maleperduis, which is described as having hidden tunnels, entrances and exits, and confusing pathways to elude his enemies from finding him *. This is strikingly similar to descriptions of Greywater Watch, Howland’s seat, which is built to move elusively (“he can make castles appear and disappear”) and cannot be found by outsiders or ravens. The name Reynard is theorized to have derived from the old Germanic man’s name, Reginhard. The word regin meaning “divine powers of the Old Germanic religion” plus hard meaning “made hard by the Gods.” It could also mean regin + harti or “strong counsel,” denoting someone wise and clever.
* There is solid proof GRRM is familiar with the Reynard stories. In the story of Tywin Lannister obliterating House Reyne, Tywin drives Ser Reynard Reyne and his people into the mining tunnels of Castamere, very much like Maleperduis, but with a tragic end:
“To the ignorant eye, Castamere seemed a modest holding, a fit seat for a landed knight or small lord, but those who knew its secrets knew that nine-tenths of the castle was beneath the ground.
It was to those deep chambers that the Reynes retreated now. Feverish and weak from loss of blood, the Red Lion was in no fit state to lead. Ser Reynard, his brother, assumed command in his stead. Less headstrong but more cunning than his brother, Reynard knew he did not have the men to defend the castle walls, so he abandoned the surface entirely to the foe and fell back beneath the earth. Once all his folk were safe inside the tunnels, Ser Reynard sent word to Ser Tywin above, offering terms. But Tywin Lannister did not honor Ser Reynard’s offer with a reply. Instead he commanded that the mines be sealed…” (The Westerlands: House Lannister Under the Dragons, TWOIAF.)
One Reynard story that has parallels with Shadrich’s role in Sansa’s arc and has that familiar feature of clever word play is in one where he tricks Bruin the Bear, a likely Lothor Brune connection. Brune is made captain of the guards by Petyr, so he is in command over the hedge knights. In this story, Reynard steals Bruin’s honey (which calls back to the Bear and the Maiden Fair) or butter depending on the telling. First, Reynard comes to live with Bruin (like entering service at the Gates of the Moon) and pretends to leave to attend a christening. He’s really going to sneak back into the house to eat some honey. When Bruin asks him what the baby’s christened name was, he replies “Just Begun.” A second time he says he needs to attend a christening, he does the same thing and tells Bruin the baby’s name was “Half-Eaten.” This same scenario happens a third time with the baby’s name being “All Gone,” at which point Bruin realizes his honey (as a symbol of Sansa) that he was supposed to be guarding is now gone.
And even more importantly to note, one of Reynard’s primary adversaries in his stories is a wolf character dressed up in monks robes named Ysengrim, who is not particularly pious and is used as a parody of the Church. This has some obvious parallels to Sandor as the gravedigger and the strange bedfellow relationship between the two will make even more sense when we explore Brienne’s journey through the Riverlands on a symbolic level in Part VI.
If there’s any doubt about Howland Reed’s continued deeply personal devotion to House Stark, consider this: Howland Reed sent his only children, his only heirs, alone to aid Bran and Rickon after Ned was executed. This is more than the loyalty of vassal to liege lord. This decision was based on a greendream of Jojen’s, which shows not only their commitment to Ned’s children and also their faith in the mystical for guidance. That the Reeds’ role in the story is not only to protect, but also offer their knowledge of the Old Gods’ magic and mysticism. Jojen and Meera get Bran to the three-eyed raven, so that he can fully realize his power as a greenseer and a warg. Robb has his army, his mother, and Greywind. Jon has Ghost and his own arc in the North. Bran has Meera, Jojen, Hodor, and Summer. Rickon has Osha and Shaggydog. Arya is lost and presumed dead after Ned’s execution. Sansa is the one Stark child that is alone in enemy hands and who desperately needs allies.
We don’t know the details of Jojen’s greendream that he shared with his father, but it does not make sense that Howland Reed would send his children to Winterfell and he would stay in the Neck. His wife, Jyana, would still be at Greywater Watch during the War of the Five Kings. Recall that Shadrich said he was at the Blackwater and was on the “losing side” of the battle. Does that mean Howland Reed had fought for Stannis? Perhaps, as Ned believed Stannis was Robert’s rightful heir. Yet, there is no indication in our comparison of Howland and Shadrich that his motives are remotely political. Sansa is imprisoned in Maegor’s Holdfast, the castle within a castle, where the royal family and Hand of the King have their chambers. Even if there was a way for Ser Shadrich to enter the castle, it is highly unlikely he could get so far inside the Red Keep and get Sansa out undetected. If Stannis had succeeded in sacking King’s Landing, Sansa would likely then be moved from from the Red Keep to Stannis’s camp, potentially presenting the opportunity to rescue her. This did not happen. Hence being on the “losing side” for the lost opportunity, forcing him to wait patiently for another to arise.
It won’t be until the Purple Wedding on the first day of the year 300 that Sansa finally escapes and disappears, but she is headed for her next prison, not freedom. There is a hint to how her prayers will be answered when Sansa is changing clothes in the godswood to escape King’s Landing:
“Sansa felt as though she were in a dream. “Joffrey is dead,” she told the trees, to see if that would wake her.” (Sansa V, ACOK)
Dontos is not the real Florian and this is no true rescue. The true answer to her prayers and her freedom will be connected to the Old Gods and tree-talker, as Meera says her father is. The greendream, Ned’s death, the bonds of friendship forged at the Harrenhal tourney, and the failure to save Lyanna in time at the Tower of Joy are more than enough reason for Howland Reed to head to King’s Landing.
Shadrich and Howland’s Timeline of Events
While using the ASOIAF timeline, we should keep in mind this is a fairly accurate but still an approximation as to the order of events in the series. There is a margin of time that cannot be exactly accounted for. Certainly GRRM never intended to follow timeframes rigidly for a story with this many moving parts. This is only to illustrate how in general the timeline would allow for Howland Reed and / or Ser Shadrich to find Sansa Stark. There is nothing that grossly falls outside of possible time and distance limits that we would have to disqualify the theory. Real world names of months are used simply to help conceptualized the passage of time.
Ned Stark is executed around early January of 299 and Winterfell learns of his death about two weeks later. Approximately two months after that, Jojen and Meera arrive in Winterfell during the harvest feast in Bran III, ACOK to re-pledge themselves to House Stark. Note that the Reeds knew to come to Winterfell without use of ravens as none can find Greywater Watch. There’s no exact distance from Greywater Watch to Winterfell; however, using Moat Cailin as a rough half-way point (about 590 miles to Winterfell) it would take about two months on horseback. This is using the distance and travel time calculators on said timeline. So Meera and Jojen (after the greendream) must have left home about the time Winterfell receives word of Ned’s death.
The battle of the Blackwater was between late August and early September in 299. As a single rider travelling from Greywater Watch to King’s Landing, there’s still approximately six months of leeway for Howland Reed to arrive in King’s Landing in time for the battle even if he left much later than Jojen and Meera.
New Year’s Day of the year 300 is the Purple Wedding. Ten days later Sansa arrives at the Baelish holdings on the Fingers. Eight days after that Lysa will arrive and marry Petyr that night. Around that same time, Jaime sends Brienne to find Sansa Stark. About early February, we find Brienne’s first chapter in AFFC opens in Rosby (to the southwest of Duskendale). That day she meets Creighton and Illifer. The next day they catch up to Ser Shadrich and the merchant Hibald’s party farther up the the road near the old stone bridge inn, also heading to Duskendale. By their conversation, it is now widely public knowledge at this point that Sansa Stark is a wanted fugitive for regicide and there is a bounty on her. Brienne will leave the old stone bridge inn in the late hours of the night, abandoning Creighton and Illifer. One of Hibald’s serving men in the stables sees Brienne leaving.
I propose that Ser Shadrich may have been curious of Brienne leaving so abruptly in the middle of the night considering their conversation over Sansa Stark and may have decided to track her. He reasonably may have thought she had found a lead that caused her to suddenly abandon her companions and go it alone. If we are being honest, Brienne would not be that difficult to track. Podrick did it pretty easily. She’s as big as the Hound and a lady knight. Up until she has her shield repainted in Duskendale like Ser Duncan the Tall’s sigil, she’s obliviously carrying the reviled Lothston device on her shield. She’s extremely memorable everywhere she goes.
At this point, events take place in closer succession and the following will show when relevant information from the Vale reaches the Riverlands.
In Sansa VII, ASOS, Lysa will be murdered by Littlefinger around 2/9/300.
In Brienne II, AFFC at around 2/11/300, Brienne will get the lead from the pious dwarf at the Seven Swords in Duskendale to find Nimble Dick Crabb at the Stinking Goose in Maidenpool.
At around 2/17 and in Brienne III, she will learn of Lysa Arryn’s death from Randall Tarly at Maidenpool.
Although Brienne had considered going to Sansa’s aunt, it’s precisely the news of Lysa’s death that makes her reject the idea of going to the Vale. This is probably true of other bounty hunters as well except for Ser Shadrich, since his team is the only one that actually arrives in the Vale.
Brienne goes on her wild goose chase tour of Crackclaw Point with Nimble Dick in Brienne IV, returning to Maidenpool around 4/9 in Brienne V.
Brienne will mistakenly believe from Timeon that the Hound has Sansa (actually Arya) and from reports of the massacre they will find the Hound near the Saltpans.
The group seeks to travel with Septon Meribald to the Saltpans as he has detailed knowledge of the region and lesser-known locales where they may find the Hound hiding. They will take a very slow, meandering path off the main roads along the Bay of Crabs seeking out smallfolk for Meribald to serve.
Sometime after 3/23 and after the failed Lords Declarant meeting to oust the Lord Protector of Alayne I, AFFC, Littlefinger will leave the Eyrie for Gulltown for the wedding of Lyonel Corbray.
As an ancient, noble house of the Vale and with many other prestigious Vale lords as guests, the Corbray wedding would be a widely-known impending event around the region.
The marriage to a Gulltown merchant’s daughter was brokered by Littlefinger likely sometime well before Alayne I in anticipation of the Vale lords opposition to him. By land (~450 miles), that would be approximately a 18 – 21 day journey.
This means the wedding probably takes place somewhere in a window between 4/10 and the party leaving Gulltown around 4/26.
Brienne will reach the Quiet Isle in Brienne VI, AFFC around 4/20/300 then leave the next morning. Ser Shadrich could find the isle as early as that day or the next following Brienne without being seen. We’ll see the clues he did indeed follow her in Part VI.
The very next time we see Ser Shadrich will be in Alayne II, when Sansa descends from the Eyrie to the Gates of the Moon. This will be around 5/14/300.
So, even if Shadrich follows Brienne to the Quiet Isle to meet Elder Brother and Sandor Clegane as early as the next day (4/21/300), they can still board a ship (which I will describe in greater detail in Part IV) and arrive in Gulltown in couple of days. Brienne confirms the voyage to Gulltown from Maidenpool is very short. It took Sansa only 10 days to reach the Fingers from King’s Landing by ship and that is a much, much greater distance. That’s still a safe window of a few days to enter Littlefinger’s service and follow his party back to the Gates of the Moon. In Part IV, the importance of meeting Littlefinger in Gulltown rather than going directly to the Vale will be discussed in more detail. Again, the timeframes are approximations. This is only to show that there’s nothing that is so outside the limits of time and distance that it couldn’t work, disproving any part of this theory on that basis.
Keep in mind, GRRM always intended for Brienne to sync up with people from Arya’s arc: Gendry, the Brotherhood Without Banners, and unCat. Her skillset, vow to Catelyn, knowledge of Gendry’s parentage, and her reunion with Jaime are far more valuable and relevant there. It makes sense then that when Arya eventually returns to Westeros, her path will also intersect with Brienne’s. So the Quiet Isle visit, meeting Elder Brother and seeing the gravedigger is not truly intended for Brienne’s purpose in the story. Aside from limited word of Arya’s last known sighting months prior and the Hound being “dead,” she doesn’t come away from the isle with anything truly useful to her. So none of this extensive set up is meant for Brienne to act upon. It has to be meant for someone else entirely…
The Elder Brother was not what Brienne had expected. He could hardly be called elder, for a start; whereas the brothers weeding in the garden had had the stooped shoulders and bent backs of old men, he stood straight and tall, and moved with the vigor of a man in the prime of his years. Nor did he have the gentle, kindly face she expected of a healer. His head was large and square, his eyes shrewd, his nose veined and red. Though he wore a tonsure, his scalp was as stubbly as his heavy jaw. He looks more like a man made to break bones than to heal one, thought the Maid of Tarth. […]
[..]He leaned forward, his big hands on his knees. (Brienne VI, AFFC)
“Aye,” said [Ser Morgarth], a burly fellow with a thick salt-and-pepper beard, a red nose bulbous with broken veins, and gnarled hands as large as hams.” (Alayne II, AFFC.)
As far as physical description similarities, both Elder Brother and Ser Morgarth are heavily built. Both have noticeably large, strong hands. They both have a highly distinguishing noses that are veined and red. Elder Brother says he is forty-four years old, which would be consistent with the salt-and-pepper hair in Ser Morgarth’s beard. With a few minor changes of shaving his head to hide the tonsure and letting the stubble on his face grow in thicker, the Elder Brother could easily become Ser Morgarth. Notice, the beard mentioned is thick, not long, so not much time is required for the growth. Of course, we won’t be relying on the physical descriptions to rest our case on, but the features mentioned are quite distinguishing and GRRM makes sure we are supposed to notice them.
If there’s one thing Brienne is detailed about, it’s the markings of a fellow warrior. She notes almost immediately that Elder Brother looks like “a man made to break bones” rather than a “gentle,” “kindly” faced healer. Like the Mad Mouse, he is a contradiction. Indeed, he was formerly a knight, a third son from a knightly house. We will also see from his backstory that GRRM tailor-made the Elder Brother to rehabilitate Sandor Clegane physically and psychologically. He had a girl he would have liked to marry, but as a third son he had nothing to offer her. He describes himself as a “sad man” and self-medicated with alcohol abuse (hence the veiny red nose). He also admits he had raped women to his shame. His entire sense of self was defined by being a warrior. He’s a veteran of Robert’s Rebellion and fought on the Targaryen side at the Trident where he was “killed,” stripped of his armor and washed up on the Quiet Isle. He was healed by the Elder Brother before him, spent the next ten years in silence, before he took up the role of the current Elder Brother.
“Instead I woke here, upon the Quiet Isle. The Elder Brother told me I had washed up on the tide, naked as my name day… We are all born naked, so I suppose it was only fitting that I come into my second life the same way. I spent the next ten years in silence.” (Brienne VI, AFFC)
This passage describes a very important concept about the Elder Brother, making the name “Morgarth” very significant, and connecting him to the biblical Shadrach’s “godly men.” Elder Brother is surrounded by real world pagan greenman symbolism which GRRM translated into his in-book mythology of Garth Greenhand *. This is only one of many Garth-type names and greenman themes that appear repeatedly in the series. This is all about the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, sacrifice to ensure life continues, and the god acting as the gatekeeper between the living and the Underworld. GRRM hammers this association home between literal in-book greenmen on the otherworldly Isle of Faces.
* Garth Greenhand is the legendary High King of the First Men. Some legends say he didn’t just lead the original First Men from Essos into Westeros, but he actually predated this and was the first and only human in Westeros and that he interacted with the Children of the Forest and the giants. Other legends make him a green god of fertility and harvest who demanded blood sacrifice or sometimes the green god himself is the sacrifice in autumn needed to ensure the renewal of life in the spring. He not only brings about fertility in the land, but also increases fertility in women leading to maids flowering, crones regaining their moonblood, and mothers giving birth to twins and triplets.
The Quiet Isle is a perfect metaphor for the Underworld or afterlife. It’s a place of life, death, and rebirth. The isle is an idyllic self-sustaining place of food and drink. They have abundant varieties of fruits and vegetables grown there. They have sheep, ponds of fish, and shellfish from the bay. They make their own butter and have a windmill to grind their own grain to make bread. They even brew quite a few alcoholic beverages: ale, mead, cider, and wine. Brewing alcohol is an important theme of green gods like Dionysus making Elder Brother’s red nose from alcohol abuse symbolic of this concept. The honey bees and beehive shapes of the women’s cottages have mythological associations with goddesses and the underworld. It is noted women come there too to be healed and to give birth.
The role of a symbolic Garth fits Elder Brother like a glove. His hands are described as “healing hands” and he is credited with being able to heal people that maesters cannot. His (green) hands restore life. He resides in the Hermit’s Hole, a cave over two-thousand years old next to a chestnut tree where the first holy man to live there “worked wonders” and established the monastic order. It’s also very possible the cave is pre-Andal invasion and was a place of mystical power for the First Men (again, look at the parallels to the Isle of Faces) before it was Andal-ized and adopted by the Faith of the Seven. So the Elder Brothers of the isle inherit their healing abilities, which are widely regarded as being somewhat miraculous.
The Quiet Isle is also a place to cross over into the afterlife in more than one way. Sometimes the dead and dying wash up on the shores, as did the Elder Brother. Sometimes they are brought there like the Hound or the people of the Saltpans after the massacre to die or be healed. The metaphoric and most common way is for penitents to abandon their old lives to be reborn in a new monastic life. In a sense, the brothers on the isle are dead to the outside world. They don’t speak with few exceptions. Many cover their faces as well, obscuring their past identity. Their brown robes and cowls are like the dead driftwood that washes up there, but even driftwood gets reborn as beautiful polished furniture and cups. If you want to come on the Quiet Isle, you need Elder Brother’s or one of his proctor’s permission. There’s a ferry to the isle which is evocative of Charon. So that makes Elder Brother, like Garth Greenhand, a psychopomp. He’s a gatekeeper between life and death, literal and metaphoric, and can also return people to the world of the living. The imagery is evocative of the Elysian Fields and especially Avalon, where King Arthur was taken to recover from wounds sustained against Mordred at the Battle of Camlann and is destined to return from. By that alone we should expect to see Sandor restored and renewed to something closer to a “true knight.” It’s also important to know that Elder Brother also has ravens and is a gatekeeper of news of the outside world, but he largely withholds that information from the other brothers.
If the Elder Brother has abandoned his old life as a knight and has such a clearly defined purpose on the Quiet Isle, why would he then join Shadrich’s hedge knight team to rescue Sansa? There are actually three major reasons for this that he speaks extensively about: a debt he owes to Sandor Clegane, the inaction of Ser Quincy Cox during the Saltpans massacre, and the effect that Brienne has upon him.
“I buried him myself. I can tell you where his grave lies, if you wish. I covered him with stones to keep the carrion eaters from digging up his flesh, and set his helm atop the cairn to mark his final resting place. That was a grievous error. Some other wayfarer found my marker and claimed it for himself. The man who raped and killed at Saltpans was not Sandor Clegane” (Brienne VI, AFFC)
Before the massacre, Sandor Clegane only stood accused of turning craven and deserting. With some time passing and a regime change in King’s Landing, this might have been forgiven and he could have possibly moved forward with his life. Because of Elder Brother’s mistake with the helm, the Hound is wanted for horrific mass murder, burning and pillaging, and the mutilation and rape of children. Both Frey and Tarly men are hunting him and well as Brienne and her party. At this point Sandor cannot show his face outside the isle without risking being killed on the spot. He is then a novice not by choice and indefinitely trapped. This is something Elder Brother did attempt to correct by sending a raven out to try to explain the mistaken identity, but that has proven weak and ineffective. Writing well-meaning letters has done nothing to rectify the injustice of Sandor being falsely accused of heinous crimes and being condemned for it.
It was Elder Brother that directly dealt with the aftermath of the massacre. He personally witnessed the horrors Rorge and Biter inflicted on the people. He talks in explicit detail of the burning and screaming, the graphic violence done to women and children, and the last words of the dying. There is no doubt Elder Brother was deeply affected by this event (as he still feels guilt over raping women). The last building standing in the Saltpans is the castle of Ser Quincy Cox, who barred his doors while his people sought his protection.
The smile vanished. “They burned everything at Saltpans, save the castle… It fell to me to treat some of the survivors. The fisherfolk brought them across the bay to me after the flames had gone out and they deemed it safe to land. One poor woman had been raped a dozen times, and her breasts… her breasts had been torn and chewed and eaten, as if by some . . . cruel beast… As she lay dying, her worst curses were not for the men who had raped her, nor the monster who devoured her living flesh, but for Ser Quincy Cox, who barred his gates when the outlaws entered the town and sat safe behind stone walls as his people screamed and died.”
“Ser Quincy is an old man,” said Septon Meribald gently. “His sons and good-sons are far away or dead, his grandsons are still boys, and he has two daughters. What could he have done, one man against so many?”
He could have tried, Brienne thought. He could have died. Old or young, a true knight is sworn to protect those who are weaker than himself, or die in the attempt.
“True words, and wise,” the Elder Brother said to Septon Meribald. “When you cross to Saltpans, no doubt Ser Quincy will ask you for forgiveness. I am glad that you are here to give it. I could not.” (Brienne VI, AFFC)
This is a story about someone who had the power to do something and did nothing. GRRM didn’t write this story to motivate Brienne to action, because she already knows what a true knight should do. It’s what she will do when she defends the orphans from Rorge and Biter, preventing another Saltpans. Elder Brother knows this too, yet he has his own moment of denial and self-comforting lies to avoid action, that someone else will deal with the ills of the world and all will be well.
“If so, give up this quest of yours. The Hound is dead, and in any case he never had your Sansa Stark. As for this beast who wears his helm, he will be found and hanged. The wars are ending, and these outlaws cannot survive the peace. Randyll Tarly is hunting them from Maidenpool and Walder Frey from the Twins, and there is a new young lord in Darry, a pious man who will surely set his lands to rights. Go home, child.”
This is all utter nonsense. The wars are not even close to ending. The murderers are still out there murdering people and have yet to be caught. It’s Brienne taking action herself who will kill them. The “new young lord” is Lancel Lannister, who even his father says is not the one to deal with these problems in his physical and psychological condition after the Blackwater. Brienne responds to his urging for her to give up and go home to her father by tearfully telling him the story of her journey and ending with:
“I have to find her,” she finished. “There are others looking, all wanting to capture her and sell her to the queen. I have to find her first. I promised Jaime. Oathkeeper, he named the sword. I have to try to save her . . . or die in the attempt.“
So, in a short period of time two people have come to the Quiet Isle who are emotionally connected to Sansa Stark, who have tried or are trying to save her. He’s also been a warrior himself who fell very short of knightly virtues and was himself a “broken man.” The terrible things he did still haunt him. By healing and mentoring Sandor he is healing himself; however, by being unable to forgive Quincy Cox indicates he has also been unable to fully forgive himself even years later. As a person of faith and a believer in what knights should do, he is at a tipping point between action and inaction. He’s primed for a little nudge in the form of a third person coming to the isle with the same purpose. Might he then take this as some sort of sign from his gods and that saving Sansa is also part of his own redemption?
What he contributes as Ser Morgarth is very important. His skillset is not only martial experience, but as gatekeeper of information he can help connect some important dots. Getting these three men together to compare notes, they could very quickly deduce they should start looking in the Vale. They don’t have to know Sansa is there for a fact to be suspicious enough to go there first. First they have the news of Lysa’s marriage to Littlefinger, her death about a month later, and him becoming the new Lord Protector. This all happening very shortly after the Purple Wedding when Sansa disappeared. Recall that news of Lysa’s death is what made Brienne decide against the Vale and everyone else too apparently. Sandor, being so close to the royal family, would have known Littlefinger and Lysa Arryn for many years at court and would have probably thought the exact opposite. Littlefinger bragging that he deflowered Sansa’s mother (openly disparaging of her honor) was also well-known court gossip. Then later he is directly involved in the downfall and death of her father, which Sandor witnessed. They don’t have to know anything for certain, but these dubious and unsavory connections to Tully women should be enough to make anyone suspicious.
The Elder Brother would then also know about the upcoming marriage of Lyonel Corbray to the Gulltown merchant’s daughter. Sandor would also know that Littlefinger was in charge of customs in Gulltown and his success there was the reason he was brought to court and eventually made master of coin. It is then likely he will be in attendance at the wedding with ties to both parties and as Lord Protector. The importance of the hedge knights meeting Littlefinger in Gulltown (rather than travelling directly to the Gates of the Moon) cannot be stressed enough. Unlike anyone else who made connections between Sansa and Lysa, this team of men made a connection between Littlefinger and Sansa. You wouldn’t be able to do that if you didn’t have relevant information on Littlefinger’s history at court. Remember it’s widely accepted Lysa was murdered by Marillion and without Lysa no one else sees a reason to search in the Vale. Shadrich, Morgarth, and Byron clearly didn’t buy that.
The most important thing that Elder Brother could contribute is access to a ship. Travelling by ship to is the only way to make it in time to Gulltown while Littlefinger is there. There would appear to be a problem with this as the nearest port at the Saltpans is completely destroyed and abandoned. The Elder Brother says it himself:
“Only the castle remains. Even the fisherfolk are gone, the fortunate few who were out on the water when the raiders came. They watched their houses burn and listened to screams and cries float across the harbor, too fearful to land their boats. When at last they came ashore, it was to bury friends and kin. What is there for them at Saltpans now but bones and bitter memories? They have moved to Maidenpool or other towns.”
But the fishermen’s boats are still out there on the Bay of Crabs and Elder Brother has built relationships with the people of the Saltpans for many years. They’ve traded goods from the island in town. He’s tended to their sick and pregnant women. He cared for their wounded and dying after the massacre. The brothers helped bury their kin. At least one of those survivors would take them to Gulltown if he asked for their help. This would be even faster than going to a port and trying to find a ship headed there. No port is even necessary as they can easily be ferried out to a ship from the island as Sansa was taken by a small boat out to the Merling King during her escape. Such a ship may even be used later for their own escape. Most importantly, the captain and crew of that ship would be highly unlikely to betray them.
In fact, this calls back to what Ned did to return home from the Vale to call his banners during Robert’s Rebellion. Just like her father, Sansa is wanted by crown to be brought to King’s Landing to be beheaded. Gulltown seemed to remain loyal to the Targaryens, so Ned crossed the Vale from the Eyrie to the Fingers to hire a fishing boat to take him across the Bite. The reverse happens during Sansa’s escape of King’s Landing: Sansa thought she would be taken home, but instead the Merling King took her to the Fingers, and then they travelled by land to the Eyrie. It makes perfect literary sense for a fishing boat to be involved in Sansa’s escape from the Vale, just like her father.
Off to Gulltown to see the fair maid, heigh-ho, heigh-ho. I’ll steal a sweet kiss with the point of my blade, heigh-ho, heigh-ho. (“Off to Gulltown”)
The most glaring issue readers may have with this idea is the gravedigger having such a pronounced limp when Brienne sees him. She notes he “walked with the awkward lurching gait of one half-crippled.” When we see Byron in Sansa’s POV, there’s no such limp. It would then seem doubtful that Sandor is even physically up to the task of a rescue mission and would disqualify him as Ser Byron. Arya abandoned Sandor by the Trident at around 1/31/300 in Arya XIII, ASOS. Brienne sees him as the gravedigger at around 4/20/300. So roughly three months later after being near dead from blood loss and infected wounds, Sandor has a noticeable limp, but he’s also digging graves all day long. That’s very hard, physically taxing labor. So this shows a very rapid rate of healing and is testimony to Elder Brother’s exceptional healing hands *. When Byron is introduced three weeks later, it is plausible that Sandor has recovered even further in that time to make the limp unnoticeable or non-existent.
* Just to drive home the point as to how seriously ill Sandor was, he most likely would be diagnosed in the real world with having sepsis with the symptoms Arya describes. He would have been at higher risk of developing sepsis due to a depressed immune system from alcohol abuse, lack of sleep and proper nutrition. Every patient is different, but some people even take a year to fully recover from sepsis with the advantage of modern medicine. Still, 50% of survivors may have continued health issues post-sepsis like severe fatigue, disabling pain, and decreased mental functioning. Of course, we’re talking about GRRM’s fantasy world medical care, but it’s interesting that he leaves Elder Brother’s the treatment methods somewhat vague adding to the mystery of it. It’s the results that are clear from what we can glean from the details. It is an extraordinary rate of recovery.
Before we explore glamoring, we should look at why the idea of Sandor as Ser Byron actually makes quite a bit of sense in context. His motivation for jumping at a second chance to save Sansa considering his “dying” regrets should need no further explanation. Since I’ve shown that the names our other hedge knights have significant meaning to their real identities, Byron is no different. In character analyses of Sandor Clegane, he often regarded as quite Byronesque with his brooding, arrogant, passionate and self-destructive traits. The term coming from the dark romantic themes and antiheroes in the works of English poet, Lord George Gordon Byron. A passage from Byron’s The Corsair (1814) could easily be describing Sandor Clegane and compare that to his own defiant speech to the Brotherhood Without Banners:
He knew himself a villain—but he deem’d
The rest no better than the thing he seem’d;
And scorn’d the best as hypocrites who hid
Those deeds the bolder spirit plainly did.
He knew himself detested, but he knew
The hearts that loath’d him, crouch’d and dreaded too.
Lone, wild, and strange, he stood alike exempt
From all affection and from all contempt. (The Corsair, Lord Byron)
“A knight’s a sword with a horse. The rest, the vows and the sacred oils and the lady’s favors, they’re silk ribbons tied round the sword. Maybe the sword’s prettier with ribbons hanging off it, but it will kill you just as dead. Well, bugger your ribbons, and shove your swords up your arses. I’m the same as you. The only difference is, I don’t lie about what I am. So kill me, but don’t call me a murderer while you stand there telling each other that your shit don’t stink. You hear me?” (aSoS, Arya VI)
As if that weren’t enough of a perfect connection to the name, sweetsunray found another little gem. “The poet Byron had a favourite dog who died of rabies. He treated him personally without any fear of being bitten or attacked, and afterwards wrote a poem for his dog, Boatswain (a Newfoundland dog), called Epitaph to a Dog. The poem is engraved on the dog’s grave and the grave is larger than Byron’s. The first two introductory paragraphs were written by his friend.” Original post here.
Near this Spot are deposited the Remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the virtues of Man without his Vices.
This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human Ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog who was born in Newfoundland May 1803 and died at Newstead Nov. 18th, 1808
When some proud Son of Man returns to Earth,
Unknown to Glory, but upheld by Birth,
The sculptor’s art exhausts the pomp of woe,
And storied urns record who rests below.
When all is done, upon the Tomb is seen,
Not what he was, but what he should have been.
But the poor Dog, in life the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend,
Whose honest heart is still his Master’s own,
Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,
Unhonoured falls, unnoticed all his worth,
Denied in heaven the Soul he held on earth –
While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven,
And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.
Oh man! thou feeble tenant of an hour,
Debased by slavery, or corrupt by power –
Who knows thee well, must quit thee with disgust,
Degraded mass of animated dust!
Thy love is lust, thy friendship all a cheat,
Thy tongue hypocrisy, thy heart deceit!
By nature vile, ennobled but by name,
Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame.
Ye, who behold perchance this simple urn,
Pass on – it honours none you wish to mourn.
To mark a friend’s remains these stones arise;
I never knew but one — and here he lies.
“It puts the idea of the Hound declared dead and buried, becoming a gravedigger in quite another light all by itself. And he “died” a mad dog, with biting words wanting to be killed in mercy. But then a Byron appears near Sansa’s side.” (sweetsunray). It also fits well with the better nature of Sandor Clegane: the protector, his loyalty to his master, the honest one in a court of liars, and the one whose worth also goes unnoticed and unappreciated. So as we can see “Byron” could not be a more fitting alias for Sandor.
How does Sandor fit into Shadrich’s “godly” men? There are greenman associations with Sandor just as much as with Howland Reed and Elder Brother. A variant on greenman depictions is that he has the head of a beast, much like the Hound’s helm. Despite being a Westerman, Sandor in appearance and values seem much more aligned with being of First Men stock so much that he is mistaken for Arya’s father. He’s also one of many Odin-archetypal characters by “dying” against a tree (like Odin hanging himself on Yggdrasil to gain wisdom and knowledge). He’s crossed over to the Underworld (the Quiet Isle) and has been reborn symbolically (the Hound persona having “died”). His steed is named after the Seven’s god of death. He is also of the “wickerman” variety of greenman being literally a burned man. It should be no coincidence either that one of the most mentioned First Men clans of in the Vale are called the Burned Men, led by Timett son of Timett (who also sacrificed an eye like Odin). The Burned Men prove their worth in a trial of self-mutilation by fire. Similarly, Sandor faced a trial by combat against Beric Dondarrion (another Odin and greenman figure), burning his arm and “proving” his worth, or at least that he didn’t deserve execution.
There are other Norse mythology parallels * to the Vale arc, but there are a few themes that GRRM seems to be cherry-picking into an amalgamation. Sansa is very much like Idunn, the Norse goddess who possesses apples that grant immortality and youth (she is Catelyn reborn to Petyr). She is kidnapped by the giant, Thjazi (disguised as an eagle, mirroring the original titan sigil of House Baelish to the new unassuming mockingbird sigil but also his commandeering of House Arryn, the falcons), with the help of Loki (in this case, the trickster is Dontos). When the gods begin to grow old, Loki (the trickster now as a hero) is tasked with retrieving Idunn by using Freya’s falcon-feather cloak that turns him into a falcon (shape-shifting for the rescue of Idunn). Loki (in falcon form) turns Idunn into a nut (the chestnut-haired Alayne) and carries her off in a daring escape from the giant. Loki playing both roles of the kidnapper’s agent and the rescuer of Idunn is not unlike the two versions of “Florian the Fool” in Sansa’s arc: Dontos and Sandor.
* There’s another interesting story of Thor’s prized possession, the hammer Mjollnir being stolen by giants which would only be returned if Freya married the giant, Thrym. Thor using Freya’s falcon-feather cloak disguised himself as the bride Freya and with Loki’s help infiltrated the giant’s home of Jotunheim to retrieve his hammer. There are themes of a false bride, a thieving giant, a trickster, and using shape-shifting Full story here.
Just as there are many Odin figures, there are many Loki-trickster figures, especially in the wildling concept of wife-stealing such as Bael the Bard. As Ygritte explains to Jon, in wife-stealing it’s the quick, cunning, and brave that earn the favor of the prospective wife. Sandor had once attempted symbolic wife-stealing with Sansa “at the point of his blade” the night of the Blackwater, but he was in no state to win her consent and she refused him. This brings us back to the aforementioned song of “Off to Gulltown,” from where the bastard Alayne hails and where the hedge knights meet Littlefinger.
The description of Ser Byron would appear to be at odds with Sandor’s values, however. On the surface, he seems like a “puffed up” noble that Sandor would disdain.
“Dutiful and beautiful,” said an elegant young knight whose thick blond mane cascaded down well past his shoulders.” […] the tall one with the blond hair kissed her hand before taking his leave.” (Alayne II, AFFC)
There are no physical similarities (aside from being tall) between Ser Byron and Sandor Clegane obviously. The two could not seem more different in every possible way. Sansa calls Byron “elegant.” How does Sansa define “elegant” when she sees it? She only uses the word two other times in AFFC to describe Marillion and Symond Templeton. She uses it to describe mostly clothing that is refined and fashionable with some luxurious embellishments and when someone’s appearance is sleek and sharply styled. We can then deduce that Ser Byron stands out from the other two (a sign we should pay attention to him) because he is likely more refined and stylishly dressed rather than just being merely handsome. Add to that his mannerism of kissing her hand like a courtier.
Assuming this is a glamor, why would Sandor choose to look like Ser Byron? The last time Sandor saw Sansa was the night of the Blackwater in Sansa VII, ACOK. He left her ashamed of his actions, but also believing she wouldn’t leave with him because she was still afraid of his appearance. Choosing an identity that is more aligned with the gallantry and physical ideal of Loras Tyrell would seem to be a way to gain her trust, especially if they want her to leave with them willingly. Now is a good time to remind ourselves that no matter who the hedge knights are, friends or villains, there still needs to be one person on the team that can positively ID Sansa Stark. Gaining her trust and identifying Sansa through a disguise would be Sandor’s contribution to the team. The kiss on the hand then may not be mere gallantry, but a signal to the other two men confirming her real identity.
Sandor as Ser Byron is also quite in line with GRRM’s worst kept secret of being a dark fairytale fan, particularly Beauty and the Beast. Even more specifically his favorite film version is La Belle et la Bête (1946) written and directed by Jean Cocteau. Actor Jean Marais portrays the Beast and another of Beauty’s suitors, the handsome and blonde Avenant (meaning “pleasant”). At the end of this version and as the Beast is transformed back into a Prince Ardent (meaning “passionate”), Avenant is transformed into a Beast. It then may be that GRRM is playing with the idea of Sandor as Jean Marais in three roles: the tormented Byronic Hound, Ser Byron, and the reclaimed identity of Sandor Clegane divorced from the overly negative aspects of the Hound. It’s a very George-like twist to rebuild the fairytale better with the handsome prince as the enchantment and the Beast as the true form. We will be examining other evidence in favor of a beast disguised as a beauty later in Part VI when we look at the symbols and signposts along the way in Brienne’s arc and in Alayne II leading right up to meeting the hedge knights.
I would also think it’s fair to say there would be a touch of wish-fulfillment * here on Sandor’s part of becoming more ideal in her eyes. He would not know since then how her opinions have evolved. She’s more wary that a pretty face can conceal a bad character and is gravitating more towards the good qualities of honest and plain people, like Ser Lothor. The irony in their introduction is that Sansa is only brusquely acknowledging Ser Byron’s presence. She isn’t swooning or flattered at all as she might have been in AGOT. Because of Joffrey and Marillion, she may have internalized the association of superficial charms with abuse and sexual threat. She pays more attention to details about Shadrich and Morgarth if we look at the full exchange:
“You are never an intrusion, sweetling. I was just now telling these good knights what a dutiful daughter I had.”
“Dutiful and beautiful,” said an elegant young knight whose thick blond mane cascaded down well past his shoulders.
“Aye,” said the second knight, a burly fellow with a thick salt-and-pepper beard, a red nose bulbous with broken veins, and gnarled hands as large as hams. “You left out that part, m’lord.”
“I would do the same if she were my daughter,” said the last knight, a short, wiry man with a wry smile, pointed nose, and bristly orange hair. “Particularly around louts like us.”
“Knights they are,” said Petyr. “Their gallantry has yet to be demonstrated, but we may hope. Allow me to present Ser Byron, Ser Morgarth, and Ser Shadrich. Sers, the Lady Alayne, my natural and very clever daughter . . . with whom I must needs confer, if you will be so good as to excuse us.”
The three knights bowed and withdrew, though the tall one with the blond hair kissed her hand before taking his leave.
“Hedge knights?” said Alayne, when the door had closed.
* Sandor romanticizes what he probably regards as his finest hour of saving Sansa from the mob in the bread riots. He misrepresents the story to Arya and tells her she sang a song for him after this event, which is completely re-writing history to reflect a more idealistic fantasy.
From the above scene, the hedge knights have been in Littlefinger’s solar for hours, drinking and talking into the predawn since they arrived at “evenfall.” Littlefinger is clearly at ease around them and apparently has been doing a little bragging about his “daughter.” They were able to lower his inhibitions with alcohol, broach the subject without suspicion and get him to summon Alayne to the solar (very late at night and immediately following the long ride down) so that her father could do a bit of showing off, exploiting a weakness in his character that would be familiar to Sandor. It took several re-reads before I caught this due to the POV trap. Sansa doesn’t necessarily regard certain details as important, so the reader doesn’t either. The hedge knights need to meet Alayne ASAP to confirm her identity. If she isn’t Sansa, they need to leave and keep looking elsewhere. But is Sandor capable of this level of deception around Littlefinger who is also familiar with him especially over a long period of time?
We actually do have quite a bit of evidence for Sandor being a highly effective actor when necessary, being able to exploit other’s expectations, and even do things that seem to be out of character. Even to the Lannisters who he has served closely for many years, they consider him little more than a loyal dog and a weapon with personal aspirations no greater than wine or killing his brother. Being seen as such has granted him privileges denied to others and a wide berth of trust from his masters, such as the kingsguard position that is normally only reserved for anointed knights and without requiring him to swear vows. Unlike Brienne, he’s shown he can lie believably and “sniff out” falsehoods. He is often described as almost appearing out of nowhere, so even for such a large and easily noticeable person, he’s quite capable of making himself unassuming, almost invisible, in public.
In Arya X, ASOS, we see Sandor’s abilities on full display when they successfully infiltrate the Twins just before the Red Wedding. With only a hood over his scars, he adjusts his manner of speaking and acting, gives plausible explanations, and effectively fools a knight that is well-acquainted with him because he understands how others think.
“Salt pork for the wedding feast, if it please you, ser.” The Hound mumbled his reply, his eyes down, his face hidden.
“Salt pork never pleases me.” The pitchfork knight gave Clegane only the most cursory glance, and paid no attention at all to Arya, but he looked long and hard at Stranger. The stallion was no plow horse, that was plain at a glance… “How did you come by this beast?” the pitchfork knight demanded.
“M’lady told me to bring him, ser,” Clegane said humbly. “He’s a wedding gift for young Lord Tully.”
“What lady? Who is it you serve?”
“Old Lady Whent, ser.“
“Does she think she can buy Harrenhal back with a horse?” the knight asked. “Gods, is there any fool like an old fool?” Yet he waved them down the road. “Go on with you, then.”
“Aye, m’lord.” The Hound snapped his whip again, and the old drays resumed their weary trek… Clegane gave them one last look and snorted. “Ser Donnel Haigh,” he said. “I’ve taken more horses off him than I can count. Armor as well. Once I near killed him in a mêlée.”
“How come he didn’t know you, then?” Arya asked.
“Because knights are fools, and it would have been beneath him to look twice at some poxy peasant.” He gave the horses a lick with the whip. “Keep your eyes down and your tone respectful and say ser a lot, and most knights will never see you. They pay more mind to horses than to smallfolk. He might have known Stranger if he’d ever seen me ride him.”
Even though he despises knights and normally lashes out when someone calls him “ser,” he doesn’t mind being misidentified as a knight when the need arises. In Arya IX, ASOS, when Sandor needs a ferry to cross a flooded river with Arya, he becomes a knight to the ferryman and uses “knight’s honor” as credit. He’s capable of suppressing his usual reactions, seeming to behave out of character, to accomplish a goal. As Sandor is well aware of how to adjust his speech and behavior to convincingly become a peasant and has allowed himself to be thought of as a knight, becoming Ser Byron is not such a stretch.
As a Lannister man and “sworn” shield, Sandor has been exposed to proper courtly conduct his entire life. He may not choose to behave with flowery courtesy, but he does not act or speak crudely when he is in his professional role. He can be courteous to a lady as when he dabbed Sansa’s lip with a handkerchief, the difference being it’s sincere act and not for show. As his position is close to the royal family, he needs to be trusted to act properly. He is not Gregor. Unlike the tv adaptation, Sandor is depicted as having a care with his appearance, usually neat and plain or lightly adorned.
In TWOW sample chapter, the next time we see all three hedge knights again, they will also be dancing with Sansa. Again, this isn’t that strange a thing for Sandor to do even if we haven’t seen him do that on page. Like all courtly protocols, dancing was a required part of real medieval knightly training (even done in full armor), Andal chivalric culture, not to mention being a primary form of entertainment found everywhere. Courtesy is not just a part of a medieval girl’s education. It was expected of all nobility to know the rules of etiquette and chivalry to advance family interests. Sandor is not so anti-knight or lives so outside Andal culture that it ever made him refuse to learn how to compete in a tourney joust, which was normally reserved only for anointed knights. It’s the title and vows he takes issue with, not the skillset. Sandor is from an Andal knightly house with some formal education from a maester, served in an Andal highlord’s house and then at the royal court. It would be more shocking if he didn’t know at least one dance.
If the hedge knights are following a pattern of being contradictions, I would expect Ser Byron not to conform to expectations, but to turn out to defy them. On one final note, it shouldn’t be mere coincidence that GRRM has already placed a Sandor in the Vale in the form of Sandor Frey, squire to Donnel Waynwood, Knight of the Gate after Brynden Tully. Sandor Frey is not seen on page, only mentioned in the ACOK appendix as existing. The name Sandor is only used twice in the entire series. His mention then is likely a hint by the author of what is to come. Now we will look at glamoring and the plausibility of a glamor being used in this context.
Glamoring and the Precedents Set For It In ASOIAF
Melisandre I, ADWD, tells us quite a bit of good information on glamoring:
“The bones help,” said Melisandre. “The bones remember. The strongest glamors are built of such things. A dead man’s boots, a hank of hair, a bag of fingerbones. With whispered words and prayer, a man’s shadow can be drawn forth from such and draped about another like a cloak. The wearer’s essence does not change, only his seeming.”
“The glamor, aye.” In the black iron fetter about his wrist, the ruby seemed to pulse. He tapped it with the edge of his blade. The steel made a faint click against the stone.
“The spell is made of shadow and suggestion. Men see what they expect to see. The bones are part of that.”
Glamoring magic is not something restricted to R’hllor and can be something any magician can do of any discipline or religion. The Faceless Men also teach glamoring, but take it to the final level of donning a dead person’s face.
Mummers change their faces with artifice,” the kindly man was saying, “and sorcerers use glamors, weaving light and shadow and desire to make illusions that trick the eye. These arts you shall learn, but what we do here goes deeper. Wise men can see through artifice, and glamors dissolve before sharp eyes, but the face you are about to don will be as true and solid as that face you were born with.(The Ugly Little Girl, ADWD)
Howland Reed can “change earth to water and water to earth with no more than a whispered word. He [can] talk to trees and weave words and make castles appear and disappear.” His words can create magic the same as Melisandre. There is no reason that glamoring would be beyond him, especially when it seems to be a very basic form of illusion. The raw materials for a good glamor are readily available on the Quiet Isle. They have countless bones of long dead, anonymous people that have washed up on their shores and GRRM really emphasizes that the Quiet Isle has rubies and Meribald couples them with bones:
“…many strange and wondrous things are pushed toward us, to wash up on our shores. Driftwood is the least of it. We have found silver cups and iron pots, sacks of wool and bolts of silk, rusted helms and shining swords . . . aye, and rubies.”
“Better rubies than bones.” Septon Meribald was rubbing his foot, the mud flaking off beneath his finger. “Not all the river’s gifts are pleasant. The good brothers collect the dead as well<. Drowned cows, drowned deer, dead pigs swollen up to half the size of horses. Aye, and corpses.”
Note how the items listed appear to a dichotomy between the beautiful and elegant and the rough and practical with the wording pairing them together. Each item in the pairing has similar or related functions, but it’s their appearances that are different. It would not be such a stretch then if there is at least one ruby somewhere on Ser Byron’s “elegant” person even if Sansa hasn’t seen it as she barely pays any note to him.
There are two major precedents for glamoring being used in the series that are highly significant this theory. In ADWD, glamoring is being used by Melisandre and Mance Rayder as a plot device in a situation that has many parallels and inverses to the Vale. Mance Rayder is glamored by Mel to look like Rattleshirt, while the real Rattleshirt is glamored to look like Mance. It is the latter that will face execution freeing the other for his mission. The glamor is to allow Mance to leave Castle Black while I propose a glamor is used to infiltrate the Gates of the Moon. Mance takes on the alias of Abel (not insignificantly an anagram of Bael the Bard, wife stealer) to go to Winterfell and rescue a “Stark” girl, Jeyne Poole as (f)Arya. In the Vale, a Stark girl needs to be rescued from Petyr Bael-ish, the false Bael.
Both arcs in Winterfell and the Vale involve usurpers using scheming, murder, and a puppet to give themselves an air of legitimacy. For the Boltons, it’s using the marriage of (f)Arya to Ramsay Bolton. For Littlefinger, it’s using his marriage to Lysa to become Lord Protector over Robert, murdering her, then marrying his “daughter” to the next heir, Harrold Hardyng. In both situations there is something false about the bride’s identity. There’s an inversion in that an imposter, Jeyne Poole is playing a legitimate Stark and a real Stark, Sansa, is a fake bastard daughter. Petyr hovers over both Winterfell and Vale arcs, responsible for the false brides’ respective situations and for at least some involvement in the deaths of the heads of those houses: Ned, Catelyn, Jon Arryn, and Lysa. There’s another layer of inversion in the brides and grooms. The legitimate offspring Sansa Stark has become a bastard and the groom, Ramsay Bolton, born the bastard Ramsey Snow, was legitimized. Harrold Hardyng, the potential groom, is Sweetrobin’s unlikely heir through an accident of fate. Arya, being the youngest female Stark, would be the least likely to inherit Winterfell, yet here “Arya” is the heir and solidifying the Bolton’s hold on Winterfell. With so many twists on the same themes in both regions, it is safe then to seriously consider a glamor being used in both.
The other major precedent that parallels with the upcoming tourney in TWOW is from the tournament at Whitewalls in The Mystery Knight which was pointed out by Ashes of Westeros. Ser Duncan the Tall attends a tourney at Whitewalls, which was built from stone quarried in the Vale. The host is Lord Ambrose Butterwell, a former master of coin (as was Littlefinger) in celebration of his second marriage, not so unlike the Vale tourney to secure Harry and Alayne’s betrothal, which would be Sansa’s second marriage. Butterwell has other motives as the event is also a ruse for others who support the Second Blackfyre Rebellion to gather. The tourney is rigged so Daemon II Blackfyre (under the alias “Ser John the Fiddler”) will win a red dragon egg (as Sansa is associated with a bag of dragons) as a prize. Dunk meets and befriends three hedge knights, one of whom was Maynard Plumm (possibly a play on the name Reynard), who is Bloodraven under a glamor there to squash the Blackfyre plot. In this case a moonstone is used instead of a ruby, but it’s also further proof that glamors can be done by a greenseer magician too:
Dunk whirled. Through the rain, all he could make out was a hooded shape and a single pale white eye. It was only when the man came forward that the shadowed face beneath the cowl took on the familiar features of Ser Maynard Plumm, the pale eye no more than the moonstone brooch that pinned his cloak at the shoulder.
It’s an agent of Bloodraven that actually stole the red dragon egg by the privy shaft in Lord Butterwell’s chamber. The only one small enough (specifically child-sized) to fit is a dwarf. Ser Shadrich is not a dwarf, but Sansa says he is “wiry” and could be mistaken for a squire. After the plot is dismantled, Butterwell is attained and Whitewalls is torn down to the ground and the earth salted. The destruction of Whitewalls speaks to a probable and massive upheaval in the Vale in TWOW (again, see the avalanche theory).
There’s also a strong possibility that the tourney of the Winged Knights will also be rigged by Littlefinger. By comments made here and here, no one seems to have a high opinion of Harrold Hardyng’s jousting skills and he’s up against far more experienced tourney knights. He was only just knighted by Yohn Royce in a tourney for squires and according to Myranda Royce it was set up so Harry would win. With Sweetrobin’s health uncertain, both men are jockeying for influence over the heir. Littlefinger arranging for Harry to do well in the tourney is another way to woo him away from Bronze Yohn, further isolating and diminishing the Lord of Runestone’s power to oppose him. It also encourages him to view the betrothal to Alayne more favorably. At Whitewalls, the master of games was being bribed to fix the listings of matches between competitors for a favorable outcome. In the TWOW sample, Alayne visits Petyr’s solar and finds a window open and a stack of papers on the floor, one of which was the list of competitors. We shouldn’t fall into the POV trap again and think these details are unimportant as her attention is drawn elsewhere. Someone child-sized and good at climbing could have easily been in that room to get a look at the list of competitors in advance.
As we can see there are numerous parallels in the Northern arc and in precedents for glamors being used in the series with the current Vale arc. So many that we can safely say that the theory can work with the established canon. Now we need to look for other clues that this is what GRRM actually intends to do.
Part VI: Brienne’s Symbolic Journey Down the Acorn and Ivy Paths
By acorn and ivy paths, I’m referring to the two parallel dresses both Sansa and Arya have worn. Sansa’s is embroidered with ivy and Arya’s is embroidered with acorns, both on the bodices and over their hearts. This is about their true identities inside despite their outward appearances. Arya who has struggled with issues of acceptance and seeing herself as beautiful is admired by Gendry and called pretty by Lady Smallwood while wearing her acorn dress. By her likeness to Lyanna and her association with swans, she will grow into a beauty all her own. Sansa is dressing modestly for her bastard status, but the vines and leaves are embroidered in gold (again, Sansa equated with gold) thread. She also chooses to wear as her only adornment an “autumn gold” ribbon with her practical wool dress when she cannot wear Stark or Tully colors. So she chooses her own colors and styling that are reminiscent of Sandor telling her the story of his house sigil, the only other time “autumn” is used as a descriptive of gold or yellow in the series. Ivy and acorn symbolism will repeatedly show up in Brienne’s path and it will be important to examine the context we find them in.
Brienne will start her AFFC arc believing herself on Sansa’s trail as Arya is presumed dead, but actually finds herself in the end meeting significant people from Arya’s arc. GRRM then has always intended the acorn path for Brienne, so the ivy path is meant for another to follow. Though Brienne’s AFFC arc has been panned by many readers as mostly a long, meaningless road trip, I would say the colorful people she meets and sights she sees are a symbolic journey pointing us to what the author actually intends for the real ivy path to Sansa. The signposts were never for Brienne to read, they were for the reader.
Food symbolism and animal descriptives will be particularly important. It starts right from the jump and tells us exactly where Brienne will end. In Brienne I, when she chances upon the con men, Ser Creighton and Ser Illifer, they offer her to share their meal of grilled trout. As if grilling trout weren’t enough of a bad sign in the Tully Riverlands, it’s a reference to the “dead trout” Lady Stoneheart that Brienne will meet. The next morning, Brienne sees Illifer skinning a squirrel and Creighton pissing on a tree. They break their fast on squirrel, acorn paste, and pickles. With the tree, those are clearly symbols related to Arya and the pickles likely being a euphemism for her very difficult position with Lady Stoneheart. The next meal she shares is the “goat on the spit” at the inn at the old stone bridge after she crosses paths with Ser Shadrich and he warns her of the company she is keeping. Brienne will later be encountering the slobbering Goat’s, aka Vargo Hoat’s men, Shagwell, Timeon and Pyg, but we’ll go into more detail with that later. It’s leaving the inn and going to Duskendale alone where Brienne will find the first major clue (for the reader) of the ivy and acorn path.
In Brienne II, when she is seeking to have her Lothston shield repainted by the captain’s sister, she has a good look at the mural upon the doors of the Seven Swords inn which has very interesting features:
They showed a castle in an autumn wood, the trees done up in shades of gold and russet.Ivy crawled up the trunks of ancient oaks, and even the acorns had been done with loving care. When Brienne peered more closely, she saw creatures in the foliage: a sly red fox, two sparrows on a branch, and behind those leaves the shadow of a boar.
At the time of TWOW chapter, it is autumn and winter wheat is ripening. The timing is ripe for harvesting the seeds of winter sown at the Gates of the Moon. Gold is paired with reddish-brown (as in Sansa’s red hair covered by brown). We have the ivy and the acorns featured. By looking closely, Brienne sees the hidden animal figures in a particularly significant order. The crossing of paths between Team Brienne and Team Shadrich is for mutual benefit, serving to spur each party toward their respective paths. The “sly red fox” is “fox-faced” Ser Shadrich, who Brienne meets first. We will see another fox again later. The two sparrows being a euphemism for the sparrows, the humblest members of the Faith of the Seven. She meets Septon Meribald and then is led to the Elder Brother, who redirects her from her pursuit of the Hound and reveals she’s actually been chasing Arya, not Sansa. The boar is not actually seen, only its shadow (as glamors are made of “shadow and suggestion”) and it hidden behind the leaves. A face covered in leaves is a classic green god depiction (also as hunters in the wood like Herne the Hunter and Cernunnos). The most significant appearance of a boar in the series is the mortal wounding of Robert Baratheon, the instrument for upheaval and sudden regime change *. Recall that while Robert was plied with strong wine while hunting, it was Cersei exploiting his natural tendencies to ensure his death — the very same tactics we saw in Petyr’s solar at the first meeting of the hedge knights. Regime change is hidden and it’s coming for the Lord Protector.
* Another significance of the boar is Norse mythology is the Hildisvíni or “battle swine” that belongs to Freya, whose name means “Lady.” The boar is actually her devotee, Óttar. His name is believed to be a version of Freya’s husband, Óðr, which is also a version of Odin.
It should also be no coincidence that right after leaving her shield to be painted, Brienne hears the story of Barristan Selmy’s one-man daring rescue of King Aerys at Duskendale, but more important than that is her next meal and meeting with the pious dwarf at the Seven Swords inn. A meal of hot crab stew is shared between them and Brienne gets her next lead to the Stinking Goose to find the man that “fooled a fool.” Pay attention to the dwarfs features and his story.
Not until he hopped off the bench did Brienne realize that the speaker was a dwarf. The little man was not quite five feet tall. His nose was veined and bulbous, his teeth red from sourleaf, and he was dressed in the brown roughspun robes of a holy brother, with the iron hammer of the Smith dangling down about his thick neck.
“Do you serve some holy house in Duskendale, brother?”
“‘Twas nearer Maidenpool, m’lady, but the wolves burned us out,” the man replied, gnawing on a heel of bread. “We rebuilt as best we could, until some sellswords come. I could not say whose men they were, but they took our pigs and killed the brothers. I squeezed inside a hollow log and hid, but t’others were too big. It took me a long time to bury them all, but the Smith, he gave me strength. When that was done I dug up a few coins the elder brother had hid by and set off by myself.”
His detailed features are a perfect amalgamation of Shadrich, Elder Brother, Septon Meribald, and the gravedigger. He’s about Shadrich’s height, he has Elder Brother’s veiny, bulbous nose, he wears the roughspun of a holy brother, he favors the smith like Septon Meribald, he hid in a tree like a crannogman, he dug graves like the gravedigger and has a burly, thick neck. The outlaws that attacked his septry were looking for coins (like gold dragons) that their elder brother had hidden before he was killed. With the feature of sourleaf and the “red smile” this does not bode well for particularly our Elder Brother as Morgarth — a dead Garth. This particular dwarf is also beheaded and taken to KL to claim the reward for Tyrion, Sansa’s supposed accomplice in regicide. The most important thing here is that Elder Brother, Septon Meribald, and Sandor are helpers and are twice symbolically grouped together with Ser Shadrich / Howland Reed in the mural and in this dwarf.
The hot crab stew obviously points to her next significant part of the journey with Nimble Dick Crabb from the lead she received from the pious dwarf. (Note also he doesn’t want any monetary reward for his help, only the bowl of crab stew). Following Nimble Dick Crabb, she will hear the tale of Ser Clarence Crabb as they travel up Crackclaw Point. We are supposed to draw parallels between Brienne and the legendary knight in her battle with the Bloody Mummers. Clarence Crabb is extremely tall, wields a “magic sword”, takes the heads of his foes back to his woodswitch wife to bring them back to life and elicit their “good counsel.” At the ruins of Crabb’s ancestral castle called the Whispers which is covered in ivy, they will finally meet Shagwell, Timeon, and Pyg. Nimble Dick will be killed after comparing himself to Clarence Crabb, and Brienne will slay the outlaws with her “magic sword” Oathkeeper. Before that they will give her “good counsel” of reporting that the Hound has the Stark girl she is seeking at the Saltpans. Hyle Hunt takes the heads of the outlaws back to Maidenpool to “speak” to Brienne’s bravery and skill. So Nimble Dick was not the real crab here, it was the maiden Brienne. And with Nimble Dick’s death at the Whispers the ivy path has literally reached a dead end for Brienne. She’s now unknowingly on the acorn path to Arya when they meet Septon Meribald back at Maidenpool.
The association of crabs with maidens makes even more sense when we consider they are tidal creatures, which are related to the Moon and goddess symbolism. Think of the crab as the astrological sign Cancer which is associated with the Moon. “Moon is god, woman wife of sun. It is known.” Other tidal shellfish that have feminine associations are clams for their comparison to female genitalia. Arya also has her associations with shellfish as Cat of the Canals in her arc, but Sansa is the only maiden at the Gates of the Moon (also a female genitalia metaphor). As Ygritte explained to Jon, the ideal time for stealing a wife is when the Thief is in the Moonmaiden. The astrological mythology is important. The Stallion (like Stranger) is called the Horned Lord by the Freefolk, connecting more greenman symbolism to Sandor. “The red wanderer” (as an analog to Mars the planet and god of war) is sacred to the Smith (the laborer, such as the gravedigger) and is also called the Thief. Sansa is the Moonmaiden (as she is also associated with moonstone jewelry) and the crab. We will soon see who really finds the crab on Brienne’s path.
In Brienne V, Brienne, Podrick, and Hyle Hunt join with Septon Meribald and Dog (who has not revealed his true name, is a huge beast, and like Sandor he is his own dog) to use his knowledge of the region to find the Hound that supposedly has Sansa. Podrick also tells of his own dog named Hero, who wasn’t actually a hero, but he died a “good dog.” The terrain they are travelling has descriptive features that we should take note of:
The lands they traveled through were low and wet, a wilderness of sandy dunes and salt marshes beneath a vast blue-grey vault of sky. The road was prone to vanishing amongst the reeds and tidal pools, only to appear again a mile farther on; without Meribald, Brienne knew, they surely would have lost their way. The ground was often soft, so in places the septon would walk ahead, tapping with his quarterstaff to make certain of the footing. There were no trees for leagues around, just sea and sky and sand.
No land could have been more different from Tarth, with its mountains and waterfalls, its high meadows and shadowed vales, yet this place had its own beauty, Brienne thought. They crossed a dozen slow-flowing streams alive with frogs and crickets, watched terns floating high above the bay, heard the sandpipers calling from amongst the dunes. Once a fox crossed their path, and set Meribald’s dog to barking wildly.
They are navigating through the wetlands where they must check their footing, a slightly less dangerous version of the Neck. They would be lost without an experienced guide. They are amongst the reeds and the land is “alive with frogs” pointing to Howland Reed and the derogatory association with crannogmen as “frog-eaters” and “mud-men.” Most telling of all, it is a fox that crosses their path and sets Dog to barking. In Part III, I mentioned the fox association to the kitsune who can create elaborate illusions. It’s dogs that are able to see through a kitsune’s illusions and unmask them, because “a dog can smell a lie.” What’s important here is that we have the fox crossing paths with a dog and holy man. Yes, Ser Shadrich has definitely followed Brienne to the Quiet Isle. Now look at the very next passage:
And there were people too. Some lived amongst the reeds in houses built of mud and straw, whilst others fished the bay in leather coracles and built their homes on rickety wooden stilts above the dunes. Most seemed to live alone, out of sight of any human habitation but their own. They seemed a shy folk for the most part, but near midday the dog began to bark again, and three women emerged from the reeds to give Meribald a woven basket full of clams. He gave each of them an orange in return, though clams were as common as mud in this world, and oranges were rare and costly. One of the women was very old, one was heavy with child, and one was a girl as fresh and pretty as a flower in spring. When Meribald took them off to hear their sins, Ser Hyle chuckled, and said, “It would seem the gods walk with us . . . at least the Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone.” Podrick looked so astonished that Brienne had to tell him no, they were only three marsh women.
We have the repetition of being among the reeds two more times and now we have even more allusions to crannogmen with their (according to Meera) “little skin boats,” being a “shy folk” living closely among themselves. They were yet untouched by the war here like in the Neck. What Dog barks at should be taken as something we need to pay attention to. Dog’s barking alerts them to the presence of the women. GRRM is very bluntly making sure the reader sees the three women as three incarnations of the goddess, but he doesn’t want you to read it that way literally by Brienne’s response. So who are our symbolic goddesses relevant to the people in this story arc? The Crone is Lady Stoneheart. The Mother is Lyanna Stark. The girl is the Maiden, Sansa *. All of these women in the past needed help and the helper fell short to some degree. Brienne swore to Catelyn to find her daughters and she will find herself held accountable for her failure by Lady Stoneheart. Howland Reed was there with Ned when they failed to reach Lyanna in time to save her. He sent his children to help Bran and Ned’s only other known living child is in danger. Sandor promised he would help take Sansa home and keep her safe, but his mental state was too volatile to even protect himself. It’s too late to save Catelyn and Lyanna, but it isn’t too late for Sansa. This is about renewing old vows and making good on past failures. We’ve already seen the way oranges are used to express help freely given as a loving act. They are exchanged for “common as mud” clams pointing to the bastard-born Alayne with her rare copper hair blotted out by common brown dye.
* As an alternate interpretation that works equally well, The Crone is Lady Stoneheart, The Mother is Sansa (in her surrogate mother role to Sweetrobin), and the Maiden is Arya). At this time, Arya is in her Cat of the Canals persona and she is heavily connected to clams and mussels. Brienne, with Septon Meribald’s guidance, is inadvertently sending help in three directions associated with each goddess aspect. As she is on her way to the Quiet Isle, this represents an intersection of the acorn and ivy path which we will see again on the isle. She leads Shadrich to his special ops team and motivates the Elder Brother to action. Brienne is heading toward Lady Stoneheart, the Brotherhood Without Banners, and Gendry — a convergence of people from Arya’s arc. She still needs to fulfill her oath to Catelyn and she has relevant information on Gendry’s parentage. When Arya returns to Westeros, we should expect to see her reconnect here. The mayhem in the Riverlands still needs to be set right and Brienne is gaining a reputation for putting down outlaws.
Along their path to the Quiet Isle, “Dog [leads] the way, sniffing at every clump of reeds and stopping every now and then to piss on one.” This doesn’t speak well of a liking between Howland and Sandor, more of a strange bedfellow relationship in their common cause. (Can’t you just hear Sandor saying “Piss on that, Reed!”?) From these passages it’s Dog’s job to sniff things out along the path, because “a dog can smell a lie” just as it’s Sandor’s task to see through Littlefinger’s lies and the disguise that is Alayne Stone. Now see what happens when they are navigating the dangerous muddy ground around the isle at low tide.
The soft brown mud squished up between his toes. As he walked he paused from time to time, to probe ahead with his quarterstaff. Dog stayed near his heels, sniffing at every rock, shell, and clump of seaweed. For once he did not bound ahead or stray. Brienne followed, taking care to keep close to the line of prints left by the dog, the donkey, and the holy man. Then came Podrick, and last of all Ser Hyle. A hundred yards out, Meribald turned abruptly toward the south, so his back was almost to the septry. He proceeded in that direction for another hundred yards, leading them between two shallow tidal pools. Dog stuck his nose in one and yelped when a crab pinched it with his claw. A brief but furious struggle ensued before the dog came trotting back, wet and mud-spattered, with the crab between his jaws. (Brienne VI, AFFC)
Dog is forced to trust in the guidance of the holy man while he’s sniffing around. He does not “bound ahead and or stray” in the fervor of the search. The plan in the Vale requires months of patience and avoiding detection. It’s Dog that finds the crab hidden in the low tidal pool (the Gates of the Moon). The pinched nose and the brief struggle before successfully carrying off the crab is highly evocative of wife-stealing. If there was still any uncertainty left about Dog’s association with Sandor, the author drives the point home “when Dog went to sniff [the gravedigger] he dropped his spade and scratched his ear.” Sandor is of course missing an ear and this will come up again when we look at Stranger in the stables.
Ser Hyle gave the big horse an admiring look as he was handing his reins to Brother Gillam. “A handsome beast.”
Brother Narbert sighed. “The Seven send us blessings, and the Seven send us trials. Handsome he may be, but Driftwood was surely whelped in hell. When we sought to harness him to a plow he kicked Brother Rawney and broke his shinbone in two places. We had hoped gelding might improve the beast’s ill temper, but . . . Brother Gillam, will you show them?”
Brother Gillam lowered his cowl. Underneath he had a mop of blond hair, a tonsured scalp, and a bloodstained bandage where he should have had an ear. (Brienne VI, AFFC)
Under the cowl of the holy brother is blonde hair. Under the blonde hair is a missing ear. This is a perfect description of the masks Sandor hides true identity behind. Remember Ysengrim who I mentioned in Part III as a character in Reynard the Fox stories? Here we have the wolf (or beast) in monk’s robes who is not as godly as they would like him to be. Handsome is repeated twice but he is a beast, refusing to be gelded and tamed into a plow horse. They tried to rename him Driftwood and insist that he is a plow horse, turning him into something he is not. What happens to driftwood when it washes up on the Quiet Isle? It gets transformed into something new and is “polished till [it shines] a deep gold.” Or, in other words, it is made blonde and elegant.
The meal they share with the Elder Brother and in the presence of the gravedigger marks the last meeting between the acorn and ivy path travellers. The next day, Brienne will finally head towards her final two chapters, meeting Gendry, Lady Stoneheart and the Brotherhood Without Banners. It will be left to the characters on the isle to resume the ivy path.
Their supper in the septry was as strange a meal as Brienne had ever eaten, though not at all unpleasant. The food was plain, but very good; there were loaves of crusty bread still warm from the ovens, crocks of fresh-churned butter, honey from the septry’s hives, and a thick stew of crabs, mussels, and at least three different kinds of fish. (Brienne VI, AFFC)
Just what exactly are we supposed to find “strange “about this meal? That is a curious word to use and doesn’t appear to make sense at all in context. There’s nothing particularly strange about bread, butter, honey, and locally-fished seafood stew if we take it literally. The stew is the last juncture of the acorn and ivy paths before paths diverge again. We have the crabs and mussels, with mussels featured heavily in Arya’s ADWD arc. Bread and honey have associations with Catelyn. “Strange” can also hint to the presence of the Stranger (the god aspect that Sandor most identifies with, more so than Warrior). The gravedigger is one of those novices tasked with serving and clearing the food. The Stranger has no single depiction of his face: it can be a shadow, an animal, shrouded completely as is the gravedigger’s, or as I am proposing the face of a blonde gallant knight. We’ve already seen how Sandor will play a pivotal role on the hedge knight team as the only one that can ID Sansa. In a stew, the ingredients all retain their own flavors but are together in a common broth. There are also three different kinds of fish, like our three very different hedge knights. I would also expect to see on the acorn team, Arya’s own “different kinds of fish” coming together. It’s not the literal meal that we are supposed to see as strange, but the people the ingredients represent. Our hedge knights might be “strange” but in the end the maiden finds them “very good.”
Logically if Brienne’s chapters were full of signs of the author’s intent, we should be able to find those seeds also planted in Alayne II AFFC, the chapter leading up to meeting the hedge knights. While there’s much that could be unpacked from this chapter, we’ll be staying focused on things pertaining to our hedge knight team.
Just a brief aside first before I wrap up my final points. Most readers should already be aware of the romantic and sexual subtext the author has included in the dynamic between Sansa and Sandor, whether they approve of it or not; however, casual readers may have missed many of those themes on their first reading. Delving into that analysis here isn’t necessary for proving the original theory, nor does disagreeing with a romantic interpretation disprove the theory in the least. If you aren’t familiar with this idea already, you may find these links to essays and resources helpful. It paints a clearer picture of why Sandor re-entering Sansa’s arc as presented in this theory is thematically satisfying and consistent with what GRRM has already established.
Westeros.org contributor Le Cygne’s breakdown of GRRM’s Beauty and the Beast references regarding Sandor and Sansa.
From Pawn to Player Project: Male Influences: Sandor Clegane
From Pawn to Player Project: on non-verbal expressions of interest and intimacy
Sweetsunray’s The Beast’s Kiss — Sansa’s Sexual Maturation
My tumblr blog where my ask box is always open and I will be posting companion essays related to this one.
More Repetition of Themes and Motifs
As mentioned in Part V, the Norse goddess Idunn is transformed into a nut by Loki as the rescuer to escape the giant’s home. To get a little more specific into this myth, the story actually starts with three Aesir gods Odin, Loki, and Hoenir on a journey far from Asgard in a desolate land where food is scarce. They come upon a herd of oxen and slaughter one, but they find sorcery has made the meat unable to be cooked by fire. The culprit is the giant Thjazi, in disguise as an eagle. He promises to remove the spell in exchange for letting him have his fill of the meat. The eagle flies down and eats the choicest portions of the meat. Loki, finding this unacceptable, challenges the eagle with a tree branch but is snatched up by the eagle and carried high into the air. The eagle coerces Loki to give him Idunn and her fruits that grant everlasting youth. There’s no myth that GRRM utilizes that is an exact one-to-one, but look at this scene of Sansa leaving the Eyrie with Sweetrobin in the bucket attached to a winch chain:
Mord took up his whip and cracked it, and the first pair of oxen began to lumber in a circle, turning the winch. The chain uncoiled, rattling as it scraped across the stone, the oaken bucket swaying as it began its long descent to Sky. Poor oxen, thought Alayne. Mord would cut their throats and butcher them before he left, and leave them for the falcons.
The difference is the order of events and the eagle is switched out for falcons.
Consistent with Norse mythology, Loki is often the cause of problems in the story as well as the one who is tasked with setting things right again. We’ve already shown that this Loki-trickster figure is Dontos, who helps the giant Littlefinger abduct Sansa. Idunn is tricked by Loki into being led away from Asgard and is snatched up by Thjazi in eagle form. She is taken to his home called Thrymheim (“Thunder Home”) which has “icy towers” in the high mountain peaks overlooking a green valley below, as is the Eyrie and the Vale of Arryn. When the gods start to rapidly age, Loki was found out to be the last one seen with Idunn as Dontos disappeared at the same time as Sansa. Loki (this time as rescuer) is shape-shifted into a falcon using Freya’s feather cloak and turns Idunn into the nut to carry her off. Lothor Brune, who has acted as a stand-in for Sandor, is in the winch room to see Sansa and Robert into the bucket that will lower them down to Sky. See how the oaken bucket is like the nut, enclosing them on all sides except the top:
Some of the winch chains were fixed to wicker baskets, others to stout oaken buckets. The largest of those was taller than Alayne, with iron bands girding its dark brown staves. Even so, her heart was in her throat as she took Robert’s hand and helped him in. Once the hatch was closed behind them, the wood surrounded them on all sides. Only the top was open. It is best that way, she told herself, we can’t look down. Below them was only Sky and sky. Six hundred feet of sky…”
“AWAY!” came Ser Lothor’s shout.
The next part of the “escape” from the Giant’s Lance is trusting the mules to carry them safely down. While I plan on a companion piece covering this area in more detail, we again have animals representing our rescue team. Mules are hybrids of horses and donkeys signifying the dual identities of our hedge knights and that they are well suited for their task at hand. One mule in particular is of interest.
She turned to Robert Arryn, her black hair blowing. “Which mule will you ride today, my lord?”
“They’re all stinky. I’ll have the grey one, with the ear chewed off. I want Alayne to ride with me. And Myranda too.”
Yet another repetition of the missing ear we saw in Part VI with Sandor and Brother Gillam. As if that weren’t enough, two repeated statements Robert makes about mules calls us back to an earlier quote from Sansa:
“I hate those smelly mules. One tried to bite me once! You tell that Mya that I’m staying here.”
“I hate mules,” he insisted. “Mules are nasty. I told you, one tried to bite me when I was little.”
He is a dog, just as he says. A half-wild, mean-tempered dog that bites any hand that tries to pet him, and yet will savage any man who tries to hurt his masters. (Sansa IV, ACOK)
Like Brienne’s arc, Alayne II is not without its food symbolism. When the party arrives at the waycastle Snow, they share a meal of “stewed goat and onions.” While Brienne had the “goat on the spit” representing Vargo Hoat (or his men rather), the goat here seems to refer to Littlefinger whose often-mentioned feature is his goatee. Goats also are symbolic of male lust as in the god Pan, who was known for chasing nymphs. Depictions of the Devil began to be infused with goat imagery during the medieval period. “Stewed” is also a slang term for being drunk, which is also how we find Petyr in his solar with the hedge knights. As for the onions, the most notable onions in the series are Davos Seaworth’s onions. During Robert’s Rebellion, Davos slips past enemy lines and smuggles onions into Storm’s End to save Stannis from starvation during a siege, an act that earned him a knighthood. Onions are a fairly common enough ingredient mentioned in the series. They are pretty unassuming and what you expect to see in a stew, but peel back the layers…
In relation to earning a knighthood through heroism, we have the conversation between Sansa and Myranda about a squire:
“Saving yourself for Lord Robert?” Lady Myranda teased. “Or is there some ardent squire dreaming of your favors?”
“No,” said Alayne, even as Robert said, “She’s my friend. Terrance and Gyles can’t have her.”
The mystery “squire” in question is as much a tease by the author as it is by Myranda. “Ardent” is a rarely used word in the entire series — only three times to be exact. As discussed in Part V, “Prince Ardent” is the true identity under the Beast in GRRM’s favorite film version of Beauty and the Beast. I would also argue that “squire” is actually a fitting metaphor for Sandor at this point. As the gravedigger and a novice on the Quiet Isle, one of his jobs is serving food. If we compare this to traditional knightly training, food service would be on the page level below squire. The next level of squire means he must stick close to the knight (as Elder Brother was) training him and do as he is told. As we’ve seen in Part VI, Dog sticks close to Meribald’s side, not “bounding ahead,” especially when they are moments away from finding the crab. By using the word “squire” the author implies that Sandor has not yet earned his knighthood. We should expect to see if everything proves correct, some metaphoric dubbing of Sandor by the Elder Brother as a knight in the near future. Plus there is the early hint of her favor that will later prove important in the outcome of the tourney in TWOW as it is the last line of the sample chapter.
[Harrold Hardyng] grinned. “I will hold you to that promise, my lady. Until that day, may I wear your favor in the tourney?”
“You may not. It is promised to…another.” She was not sure who as yet, but she knew she would find someone.
A mystery knight to carry her favor, which calls us back to parallels with the tourney of Harrenhal and the tourney of Whitewalls in The Mystery Knight novella.
Plot, Characterization, and Alternate Theories
Before we conclude with Sansa meeting the hedge knights, we should take a step back to examine how this theory is serving the plot and characterization as well as glance over a few alternate ideas for comparison.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate where Sansa is in all this. She’s at a point in her arc where she’s resigned to the fact that she is indefinitely trapped in the Alayne Stone persona. The rescuer she prayed for (or rather the one she got) in the godswood has turned out to be unwholesome and false to say the least. She’s tormented by being implicated in his unsavory schemes on one hand, but cannot reveal her true identity out of fear of being beheaded on the other. The only option she sees is to bravely move forward and try to make the best out of being Alayne Stone in a day to day existence. As a result, the reader is lulled into anticipating only more of the same: Sansa spending another book treading water in her imprisonment or yet another arranged marriage as a plot point. That would be exceedingly dull writing if it were true and thankfully GRRM is better than that.
Looking through the lens of the original theory, there’s several ironies going on here that solve the above predicament. Sansa spends a great deal of time reminding herself to be vigilant in maintaining her Alayne Stone character as being unmasked means her certain death. Being unmasked in the solar by the hedge knights is precisely what happens despite her efforts, but it means her rescue instead. It means her godswood prayers have actually been answered. The key to her freedom was already in the works, but readers have been looking in all the wrong places. She’s completely unwitting that one of the men she is bantering with is a staunch Stark loyalist and the other is the man she’s been literally dreaming of. Not only are their respective appearances different, but there’s a stunning display of character growth held up side by side between Alayne and Ser Byron. Sansa has become more self-assured, warm, and outspoken. Sandor has learned to be more self-controlled, patient, and respectful. This isn’t entirely a performance, it’s applying what they’ve learned in their parallel humbling stints as a bastard and the gravedigger.
This is not to say that Sansa is a damsel who will be passively rescued. Many readers expect she will play a pivotal role in the downfall of Petyr Baelish, as do I. On the contrary, the hedge knights can give her a place of power to act from. For the first time, she has allies loyal to her and who will fight for her best interests alone.
Finally, the wool is being pulled over the eyes great con artist himself, who at the same time thinks he’s fooling everyone with his “daughter.” It’s a completely appropriate comeuppance. Most of all there’s a way out that doesn’t involve yet another marriage proposal, which has never meant anything good in her story before. The possible betrothal to Harry the Heir makes for great slight-of-hand, because it’s what we’re trained to expect in her arc. While the reader and Sansa are looking toward the young falcon, our attention is drawn away from the hedge knights. Too many Vale arc speculations play up the importance of Harry the Heir (only just mentioned in Alayne II) and completely ignore or downplay the role of Ser Shadrich, who has been lurking around since Brienne I. Not that Harry won’t serve a purpose, but Shadrich is the obvious Chekhov’s gun here.
The original theory solves some very key questions that readers have had. It addresses:
How Sandor will re-enter Sansa’s arc in a logical, canon-supported, and thematically satisfying way that serves both characters.
How Howland Reed will help an actual Stark on page in a way that utilizes his established backstory and talents (which is all we are given by the author).
How to effectively use a character like the Elder Brother that we only meet briefly, but we’re given a wealth of detail concerning his backstory, talents, and capacity to be of service. To leave him just treating the gravedigger off page is a waste.
How to solve the current Vale arc predicament with plenty of surprise for a majority of readers, that streamlines the good use of existing and important characters, and serves to further the overall plot of the series. It also thwarts one of the biggest villains in the books in a manner that is fitting for his hubris and deceit.
How to make sense of the frustration with the author for seeming to place Sansa on an endless treadmill of imprisonment and marriage proposals when other POV characters seem to have more to do. For the reader, it ushers us into the third act of the series without having to spend more time watching and waiting for the the conflict to somehow resolve. The process was already happening over the course of months. It was cleverly hinted at all along, but we fell for the author’s use of misdirection and unreliable POV narrators hook, line, and sinker.
It also assimilates well with other well-laid out theories and gives them a new twist. In sweetsunray’s Sansa and the Giants (aka the avalanche theory of the Vale), the presence of Howland Reed and his knowledge of the “hammer of the waters,” provides a magical cause to the cataclysmic avalanche. The hedge knight team can also protect Sansa from that danger and get her to safety. In The Beast’s Kiss, it’s theorized that Harry combines aspects of Loras Tyrell and the blunt, offensive honesty of Sandor Clegane. An older and more experienced Sansa knows how to go toe to toe with him. She’s clever, confident, and flirtatious and may be open to a kiss from Harry. Point taken; however, Ser Byron can be read as the physical ideal of Loras and his gallantry, but with the better part of Sandor’s nature: the loyal protector who is now saving his bite for those who truly deserve it. Plus, I have presented my own interpretation on the use of the Beast, Avenant, and Prince Ardent as Sandor playing all three like the actor, Jean Marais. It’s a great twist on the fairytale for GRRM to make the handsome prince the enchantment and the Beast the true form to be revealed.
The problem with alternative theories and speculations on secret identities is that they often fail to address important issues to plot and characterization.
That Sandor is still the gravedigger and Sansa will find him?
For Sansa to somehow find her way to the Quiet Isle with no way of knowing Sandor is there or not having any other cause to go there makes no sense. While most expect them to re-unite, this version doesn’t advance the overall plot or address how Sansa will be freed in the first place.
Howland Reed as the High Sparrow?
That makes no use of his magical talents, his backstory, his affiliation to the Old Gods, and helps no Starks at this point. The idea rests on Howland Reed being solely motivated by revenge and pits him against Cersei. That’s not narratively satisfying as she didn’t order either the Red Wedding (Tywin did and he’s dead) or Ned’s beheading (Joffrey did and he’s dead). Besides the High Sparrow’s punishment of Cersei has nothing to do with the injustice toward the Starks.
Howland Reed as the Hooded Man?
Most of the same problems as the above, helps no actual Starks, and rests solely on revenge. With the loss of a POV inside Winterfell until Stannis retakes the castle means anything he does will be off page, which would be a very weak use of a pivotal character. There are much stronger candidates for the Hooded Man, such as Harwin sent by the BwB and LS and who can positively ID Arya.
Ser Shadrich working for Varys?
Fails to address the weirwood, Old Gods, Harrenhal, and KotLT connections. A supposed agent of Varys just inexplicably asks a stranger (Brienne) if she’d like to hunt Sansa Stark for the Spider’s reward when everyone at Duskendale is doing the same thing and she’s clearly a terrible detective, let alone spy. That makes no sense.
Ser Byron as Tyrek Lannister or Harry Rivers?
Tyrek Lannister is proposed on account of the blonde hair and that he could ID Sansa. This can be ruled out immediately by the fact that both Littlefinger and Sansa know exactly who Tyrek is. There’s no way Littlefinger would let a Lannister know he has Sansa or that Sansa would trust a Lannister. I’ve also heard Harry Rivers, the Bastard of Bracken, by the blonde hair but he’s pretty much confirmed dead. Both have zero connection to Sansa’s story.
So we can see, it’s quite easy to not see the forest for the trees when proposing theories. That’s why it’s so important to thoroughly outline how a theory works on the individual level, the affected POV character’s level, and in the big narrative picture.
Meeting the Hedge Knights
The very last passage before they arrive at the Gates and Sansa is summoned to the solar is loaded with important references and foreshadowing.
By the time they finally reached her father’s castle, Lady Myranda was drowsing too, and Alayne was dreaming of her bed. It will be a featherbed, she told herself, soft and warm and deep, piled high with furs. I will dream a sweet dream, and when I wake there will be dogs barking, women gossiping beside the well, swords ringing in the yard. And later there will be a feast, with music and dancing. After the deathly silence of the Eyrie, she yearned for shouts and laughter.
The sweet dream is a veil over her eyes much like the glamor and the false identities that hide her saviors. It’s also the role she must play to create a feeling of safety. Then the author reveals what she will find when her eyes finally open. This part is reality, not the dream.What she imagines are references related to Sandor: dogs, swords, and a reference to a past incident where Sansa hears the Hound mentioned by gossiping washerwomen. There’s also foreshadowing of the tourney feast where our hedge knight team is spotted dancing with her. Waking in the morning to these references is fitting since they arrive in the predawn hours and she is summoned to Petyr’s solar. There the hedge knights, her gallant knights, are revealed to her.
The author isn’t done yet and this ties the beginning and ending of the chapter together: Byron’s kiss. In the opening scene of Alayne II, Sansa recalls her final version of the unkiss, the kiss she misremembers Sandor giving her the last time she saw him. There will be a companion essay that will go into more detail, but essentially she muses on the kiss then she puts the “memory” aside. From her point of view, “that day is done” and she must get on with the business of being Alayne Stone. What’s really important here is what she tells Robert Arryn, who sparked the final version with his own “clumsy” kiss.
Alayne pushed her little lord away. “That’s enough. You can kiss me again when we reach the Gates, if you keep your word.”
Another kiss for a promise kept. Who is it she thinks she has already kissed? Who was it she was just thinking of? Who also made a promise that he initially failed to deliver on? Sandor.
“I could keep you safe,” he rasped. “They’re all afraid of me. No one would hurt you again, or I’d kill them.” (Sansa VII, ACOK)
The one who actually kisses Sansa first at the Gates of the Moon is not Robert Arryn. It’s Ser Bryon and it’s a chaste and respectful kiss on the hand. As I have said before, the kiss on the hand is likely the signal to the other two he’s positively ID’d Sansa, but it’s definitely more than that. It’s chivalrous and indicates the character growth of Sandor Clegane toward true knighthood and being of service to another more worthy than his previous masters. It points to this rescue succeeding where he failed the first time. It’s the irony of Sansa believing the man she wants to kiss her again is gone forever then receives a kiss from that man without realizing it. The chaste kiss is stark contrast to any other kiss she’s received, real or not. It marks a restoration of faith in the existence of true knights for the reader if not Sansa herself (yet). Time and time again she’s been told how naive and foolish the songs are (and many readers have bought into this cynicism as well), but the author is saying on a few rare occasions they are true. Deconstruction and reconstruction complete. Byron’s kiss brings us full circle on themes of knighthood, idealism, and second chances for each of our hedge knights. It combines chivalry and Arthurian romances with the toppling of corrupt power by the trickster underdog themes of Reynard the Fox and Loki. Most of all, it is a ravens versus doves story that GRRM so loves.
The twist on the word “lout” is that when used in the verb form, it means to bow respectfully, exactly what the hedge knights do when they take their leave of Sansa. They are a motley crew of tricksters that slipped in under Littlefinger’s nose, effectively fooling the fooler. One of whom is Sansa’s much prayed for Florian the Fool, the knight in motley armor — or rather the most unexpected and seemingly contradictory disguise for the man beneath it.
GRRM has been quoted that Sansa’s pattern of misremembering things has been purposely built up over time and will eventually “mean something.” One of those instances I believe is specifically relevant to this theory and shows where the author’s intentions have been since AGOT:
“Sweet one,” her father said gently, “listen to me. When you’re old enough, I will make you a match with a high lord who’s worthy of you, someone brave and gentle and strong.” (Sansa III, AGOT, What her father actually said)
“He was going to take me back to Winterfell and marry me to some hedge knight…”(Sansa IV, AGOT, What she misremembers her father saying)
In Part I, we saw the importance of the name Shadrich and it’s biblical relation to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, the three “godly” men who will defy a king while under assumed identities. No matter friends or foes, there must be at least one person on the hedge knight team that can positively ID Sansa for any plan to work.
In Part II, Brienne’s limitations on judging Ser Shadrich fairly and accurately were laid out. No matter who Shadrich is or isn’t, there is a substantial amount of evidence that he is a helper if we look past Brienne’s limitations. He has parallels to Sandor Clegane as well as other known helpers and he is surrounded by weirwood, Old Gods, KotLT, and Harrenhal references.
In Part III, I made the case for Howland Reed based on what we know from Jojen and Meera about their father. Not resting on physical descriptions alone, Ser Shadrich’s claims and skillset are consistent with details we know of Howland Reed. Most importantly Howland Reed has thus far only been featured in the story of the Harrenhal tourney with ties to the KotLT (aside from a brief mention of being at the ToJ). When he re-enters the story it makes sense that he will have those references surrounding him as does Ser Shadrich. We’ve also looked at the importance of the fox representing Ser Shadrich as medieval folk hero, Reynard the Fox, and his parallels to Howland Reed. The timeline of events shows that Howland Reed as Ser Shadrich has likely been searching for a way to get to Sansa since word of Ned’s death reached the North. There’s also plenty of plausible time and the means to find Elder Brother and Sandor Clegane on the Quiet Isle, devise their plan, and meet Littlefinger in Gulltown. Howland’s role is to provide the glamor to disguise Sandor.
In Part IV, we established that Elder Brother and Ser Morgarth share distinctive physical features. The Quiet Isle represents a metaphoric afterlife or an Avalon where King Arthur (Sandor) will be healed and restored. The Elder Brother’s role is a green god type linked to Garth Greenhand (hence his alias) and he serves as a psychopomp, ushering people between the worlds. He’s also a gatekeeper of information from the outside world and has access to a ship that can take them to Gulltown. He also has a debt to pay to Sandor Clegane for his mistake with the Hound’s helm that led to Sandor’s death warrant. We also looked at how Elder Brother is still searching for his own redemption and the effect that Brienne and the Saltpans massacre has on him. No other bounty hunters make a connection between Sansa and Littlefinger, something that can only be done if you know Littlefinger’s history.
In Part V, I showed that Sandor could be plausibly healed enough for a rescue mission. Sandor’s character shares a remarkable amount of parallels to the poet Lord Byron and his works, making the name “Byron” extremely appropriate as an alias. Sandor fits the “godly men” motif as a literal burned man or wicker man variety of green god. I made comparisons to Odin as well as Loki in the rescue of Idunn myth. The choice of Sandor become a blonde, handsome knight makes sense in the context of the author’s favorite film adaptation of La Belle et la Bête and with his knowledge of Sansa. We looked at the textual evidence for Sandor being able to pull off the role of Ser Byron as well as the precedents for glamors used in the series and their parallels to the Vale arc. The raw materials for a glamor, bones and rubies, are heavily emphasized as being present on the Quiet Isle. Most importantly, Sandor’s role on the team is to positively ID Sansa through a disguise, which the others cannot do.
In Part VI, we looked at the symbolic journey of Brienne through the Riverlands and Crackclaw point. The signposts along the way were never meant for Brienne to act upon, because she winds up with people from Arya’s arc (the acorn path). Through animal and food symbolism and colorful side characters, we see who is actually on the ivy path to Sansa. The mural at Duskendale and the pious dwarf link Shadrich as Howland Reed to two holy men, Septon Meribald and Elder Brother, as well as Sandor as the gravedigger. Along the way the fox crosses paths with Dog and we have repeated mention of being “among the reeds.” Sansa is symbolically linked to the Moon Maiden through crabs and clams and it is Dog that finds the crab and steals it from it’s hiding place. The Quiet Isle gives us Stranger (renamed Driftwood), who bit the ear off a brother, hidden under his blonde hair and cowl. Missing ears become an important motif pointing to Sandor. Then we have the symbolism of the “strange” but “very good” stew representing our hedge knight team.
In Part VII, from Sansa’s POV chapter we see a repetition of previous themes and symbols: the rescue of Idunn, the stewed goat and onions representing the hedge knights with a drunken Petyr, the missing ear of the mule, and the significance of the “ardant squire” and Sansa’s favor that will play a role in the tourney. The theory presented serves all characters involved as well as the Vale arc and the overall plot of the series. It also compliments other well-supported theories and shows were alternate theories fall short. Sansa’s POV ends on references directly related to Sandor and the tourney feast where our hedge knights will most likely make their move if the author is parallelling Whitewalls and Harrenhal. She then meets her saviors and the scene culminates with Byron’s highly significant, chaste kiss that ties major themes together.
Posted on 13 July 2017 13 July 2017 Author blueeyedwolfblogCategories Ragtag Bands of MisfitsTags A Song of Ice and Fire, Elder Brother, glamor, Howland Reed, Sandor Clegane, Sansa Stark, Ser Byron, Ser Morgarth, Ser Shadrich
15 thoughts on “Shadrich, Morgarth and Byron”
lordbluetiger says:
Great essay!
I’d just like to mention that garth has several meanings, and one of them is ‘cloister garden of medieval monastery’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrangle_%28architecture%29?wprov=sfla1
Amd since Quiet Isle is a monastery, this might be where the Elder Brother got the idea for his new name, Ser Morgarth.
blueeyedwolfblog says:
Oh that’s so cool! Thank you for sharing that. It’s one of many Garth / Greenhand names floating around the books. With “Mor” paired with it (connected to death) and considering what happened to the pious dwarf’s elder brother, this really doesn’t bode well for him.
M. Tootles says:
It’s because he’s Lewyn, who is “dead”. Morgarth = (among other things) “Dead Monk”.
judibatt2013 says:
Beautifully done! This really has me rearing for the Winds of Winter. I appreciate the book text to support your theory.
I especially like this find. I never picked up on this before:
Thank you! Yes, I love that quote too. 🙂
I haven’t quite finished yet. I just got to Sandor’s parallel to Timmet son of Timmet. It is interesting also that the Burned Men are an offshoot of the Painted Dogs which is also the name for the African wild dog/wolf, Lycaon pictus.
That’s a great find! The Painted Dogs are also connected to the reverence of a “fire-witch,” so there’s another kissed by theme popping up as well as the dog/wolf juxtaposition. There’s the Black Ears (missing ear theme) who are also close to the Moon Brothers (goddess association). All the names of the Mountain Clans are probably going to be fairly significant representations in the plot.
I agree. The mountain men are extremely interesting. I often interpret them to be similar to the CotF (with the knowledge we know about them) and the Others (such as them coming out of the mists, etc. etc.).
Just finished, fantastic work! There is a trio that escapes some that may be related to these three and that is the trio of Maester Cressen, the stone hellhound, and the stone wyvern on Dragonstone. They are guardians and the living one viewed himself as a rescuer but was a failure more than likely because he did not have allies. And there is the parallel of Maester Cressen and Elder Brother both are healers.
I like it! Cressen felt especially driven to protect his favorite Baratheon child, Stannis, from Melisandre. But he failed. A parallel with HR and Lyanna / Rhaegar perhaps. Melisandre has definitely seduced Stannis. The hellhound and the wyvern are the two big ones out of the three. The hellhound is obvious, but also remember with the wyvern (a dragon) EB fought on the Targaryen side of Robert’s Rebellion. Now that you got me thinking about it, EB could have been from House Vyrwel of Dark Dell, sworn to the Tyrells who were Targaryen loyalists. Vyrwel’s sigil is a silver wyvern (healing dragon). Being from the Reach also makes sense with the Garth association. Hey and “Dark Dell” = “Shady Glen” = “Duskendale.” All mean basically the same thing. =D
That seems very plausible. I like the name Vyrwel because in my head it sounds like virile aka fertile so another green man/Garth association.
Measter Cressen and the two gargoyles bug me so much. All three have the connotation of slavery and are protectors. And then Maester Cressen lumps himself in with the ugly little girl (Shireen) who can be considered a stone girl and the sad fool (which I happen to think is a greyscale carrier). So that particular trio so relate to the first trio due to the appearance of Maester Cressen and both.
I found the original thread on which this was based on Westeros.org in March 2017 and realized your Byron = Sandor glamored idea was the key to Byron, who I hadn’t been able to crack, despite cracking Howland/Shadrich and Elder Brother/Morgarth (but also Lewyn Martell) well before that thread got started.
January 2016 for Howland https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/419j2y/spoilers_all_who_is_howland_reed_a_thorough/
March 2016 for EB/Morgarth/Lewyn https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/498phx/spoilers_everything_who_is_the_elder_brother_of/ on reddit.)
I have recently posted massively updated versions:
Shadrich: https://asongoficeandtootles.wordpress.com/2018/11/28/my-definitive-howland-reed-is-post/
Elder Brother: https://asongoficeandtootles.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/the-secret-history-of-house-martell-chapter-1-the-merry-elder-brothers-brother-marwyn-his-sand-snake-daughter-and-tyene-the-stalking-stork/
I was talking to someone about bear figures last night and referred them to SweetSunRay’s site, which I then clicked on myself, and was surprised to see that even as I was finally preparing to post my own riff on your idea you’d blown it out into this more fleshed out form here.
It’s my belief that despite your acknowledgment that ASOIAF is steeped in Arthurian traditions (and presuming you’re aware of the heavy Shakespeare influence), you’re missing the fact that recognition in ASOIAF is really, really complicated, and rarely happens like modern readers assume. It works (or rather doesn’t work) more like it does in Shakespeare and Arthurian legends.
I’ve written about this here: https://asongoficeandtootles.wordpress.com/2017/03/23/recognition-and-the-seeming-difficulty-thereof-in-asoiaf-deluxe-expanded-edition/
People just don’t recognize people in ASOIAF the way they “should”.
And that means that NO, Littlefinger and Sansa would NOT recognize Tyrek Lannister after he’s gone through 2 years of aggressive Lannister puberty, especially given that his specific genetics are unbelievably precocious (his father killed multiple men in war at age 10) and tall-tending (Marbrand). Tyrek was barely on anyone’s radars before, and wasn’t on Sansa’s at all.
And YES, Byron does look EXACTLY like Tyrek “should” look, and YES there are some wonderful thematic reasons related to Miniver Cheevy and Lord Bryon to believe Tyrek is Ser Byron. I talk about all this stuff in a post arguing that Byron really, really seems to be Tyrek (but isn’t) here:
https://asongoficeandtootles.wordpress.com/2018/12/15/littlefingers-third-knight-ser-byron-is-tyrek-lannister-a-k-a-where-is-tyrek-part-2/
Or read on reddit from early 2017 here (note the ending that acknowledges Byron isn’t Tyrek, after all): https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/63masy/spoilers_extended_littlefingers_third_knight_ser/
Anyway, Byron isn’t Tyrek because he is, as you propose, the glamored Sandor. But he’s not just glamored as any random dead knight. He’s glamored to look like Tyrek, because Tyrek’s “look” is (now that he’s all growed-up) pitch-perfect to lure in Sansa (as discussed in the last linked post). The thing is: Tyrek and Byron have glamor-swapped, a la Mance and Rattleshirt. Tyrek is the gravedigger, but he currently looks like Sandor. Sandor is Byron, who looks like Tyrek (who LF and Sansa absolutely don’t recognize, for the same reasons LF is confident Sansa won’t be recognized, which as I say relate to Arthurian/Shakespearean norms of disguise-recognition). This fits the evidence (including the boar’s shadow and a bunch of other stuff) better than sandor/random glamor.
Anyway, my theory is HERE on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/a7yt9m/spoilers_extended_littlefingers_third_knight_ser/ and part 2 https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/a7yuf9/spoilers_extended_littlefingers_third_knight_ser/
Or HERE on my blogspot, asongoficeandtootles: https://asongoficeandtootles.wordpress.com/2018/12/20/ser-byron-the-beauty-and-the-beast-sandor-clegane/
Check it out and share your thoughts.
FWIW, as noted at the end, I was completely unaware that there was a polished version of the theory sketched in the westeros forum posts until early this morning. The bulk of my post was written back in April 2017, before said polished version was even posted, so if my theory seems to be misrepresenting anything that was slightly changed in the polished version here, I apologize: I was simply looking at the forum stuff and writing before the full version existed.
Having just read it, great shit, obviously, even though we obviously differ on lots of details. And I’m pretty sure I didn’t misrepresent where you landed (although there’s definitely some stuff in this version that I picked up on that wasn’t in the original forum post!).
whoops, forgot to click the “notify me” box, so i’m leaving this comment to do that.
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Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss have busied themselves since their Harvard days — they are 37 now, while Zuckerberg is 35 — investing heavily in Bitcoin, currently the best-known cryptocurrency.
With Libra, though, Facebook is hoping to change that, and so once again Zuckerberg seems to be one-upping the “Winklevii” in their own backyard.
Perfect for a dramatic retelling, right? But how about a rom-com, or at least a bromance? The Winklevoss twins, it turns out, have also founded Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange based in New York City.
Camera IconTyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss. Credit: AP
The idea behind the exchange, started in 2014, was to create a secure ecosystem that is “free of hacking, fraud and security breaches,” to move cryptocurrency out of Wild West days and into something that’s regulated, secure and used by regular people.
Facebook’s Libra, meanwhile, hopes to be the first Bitcoin-like currency with mass appeal, thanks to its backing by familiar corporations like Uber, Visa and Mastercard.
Is there room for some co-operation? Or will the twins get burned again?
In an interview with CBS News on Sunday, Cameron Winklevoss said he was not worried about Libra’s launch.
“There’s so much pie to grow, I mean, at this point, we need to be frenemies,” he said.
Representatives for Facebook and Gemini did not immediately return messages for comment on Tuesday.
LIBRA FACES FINANCIAL, PRIVACY PUSHBACK
Facebook is getting a taste of the regulatory pushback it will face as it creates a new digital currency with corporate partners.
Just hours after the social media giant unveiled early plans for the Libra cryptocurrency, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire insisted that only governments can issue sovereign currencies. He said Facebook must ensure that Libra won’t hurt consumers or be used for illegal activities.
“We will demand guarantees that such transactions cannot be diverted, for example for financing terrorism,” he said on Europe-1 radio.
Facebook unveiled its much-rumoured currency Tuesday and said it will launch publicly early next year with such partners as Uber, Visa, Mastercard and PayPal.
Facebook unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday to create a new digital currency. One technology expert believes they must first 'convince people to trust' them with their personal information in order for it to succeed.
VideoFacebook unveiled an ambitious plan Tuesday to create a new digital currency. One technology expert believes they must first 'convince people to trust' them with their personal information in order for it to succeed.
Libra could open online purchasing to millions of people who do not have access to bank accounts and could reduce the cost of sending money across borders. It’s easy to see how attractive an alternative like Libra could be to people in countries beset with hyperinflation such as Venezuela.
But Facebook already faces scrutiny over its poor record on privacy and its dominance in social media, messaging and related businesses.
Libra poses new questions for the social network: Given that cryptocurrency is lightly regulated now, if at all, how will financial regulators oversee Facebook’s plan? And just how much more personal data will this give the social media giant, anyway?
A ’RUDE AWAKENING’ OVER REGULATION?
The financial industry is more heavily regulated than internet companies — especially in the US, where tech companies have often been given free rein.
Companies creating Libra are in for a “rude awakening” if they expect the same model of light regulation, said Karen Shaw Petrou, managing partner of Federal Financial Analytics in Washington.
She expects Libra will fall under US regulations adopted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Which agency will oversee the venture will depend on what the currency system does, she said.
France’s Le Maire said he asked central bank chiefs from the G-7 countries to produce a report by mid-July laying out “guarantees that we must set ... to assure us that there are no risks of illicit financing or for the consumer”.
In the US, the head of the House Financial Services Committee wants Facebook to suspend plans for a new currency until Congress and regulators are able to study it more closely.
In a statement, Facebook said: “We look forward to responding to lawmakers’ questions as this process moves forward.”
One hurdle Facebook and its partners will face is the potential for criminals to use it for money-laundering and fraud, given the pseudo-anonymous nature of Libra and other digital currencies.
Facebook said it will comply with all existing financial regulations, though it has not offered many details. The company said its wallet app for using Libra will walk people through a verification process to ensure they are who they say they are.
Still, Facebook is sure to face an onslaught of liability concerns when it comes to anti-money laundering and identity verification, said Nicholas Weaver, a senior researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.
“I am shocked they have decided to go ahead,” he said.
PRIVACY PUSHBACK?
Facebook has been dogged with questions about users’ personal data, especially since the Cambridge Analytica scandal hit last year.
That appears to be part of the reason Facebook created a non-profit oversight association to govern Libra. It also created a subsidiary, Calibra, to work on the technology, separately from its main social media business.
“We’ve heard loud and clear that you don’t want social and financial data commingled,” Calibra head David Marcus wrote on Twitter, addressing Facebook users. “We understand we will have to earn your trust.”
In some ways, privacy is the enemy in the battle against money laundering and other crimes, Weaver said. You want to know who is making transactions to keep them secure and legal, he said.
Facebook is “going to get access to a lot of financial data,” Forrester analyst Aurelie L’Hostis said. “What are they going to do with that information and what are they going to put in place to safeguard that information?“
Cryptocurrencies such as Libra store all transactions on a widely distributed, encrypted ledger known as the blockchain. Libra is designed so transaction amounts are visible, but transaction participants can be anonymous - at least until they move money into real-world accounts.
Facebook said people can keep their individual transactions from appearing on the blockchain by using Calibra’s wallet app, though in that case, Calibra itself would have people’s data.
Calibra said it won’t use financial data to target ads on Facebook. It also said it won’t share financial data with Facebook, though there are exceptions that haven’t been fully spelled out, including situations where data sharing would “keep people safe”.
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In summer 2015, the Wittliff Collections acquired the major literary archive of author, Sandra Cisneros. As one of America’s leading writers, Cisneros helped launch the Latino literary boom and is the author of poetry, a memoir, essays, children’s books, and fiction – including the internationally acclaimed The House on Mango Street.
In October – just months after the arrival of her archive on campus, Sandra Cisneros stepped through the front doors of the Albert B. Alkek Library, looked around, and said, “So, this is my new home?” It was the first of
Sandra with lead archivist, Katie Salzmann and Wittliff Director, David Coleman.
several trips over the next eighteen months to visit her papers. Upon acquisition of the archive, she stated, “It’s important to me that my archives have found a home where I’ve felt at home and respected in my lifetime… I think it imperative scholars studying my work travel to the world I knew and called home to better understand my work.”
Scholars who travel to San Marcos will also benefit from pouring through over 300 boxes of archival material documenting every aspect of Cisneros’ literary career and personal life.
In August 2015, the archive arrived on campus in boxes, storage tubs, baskets, and bags packed up from Sandra Cisneros’ home in San Antonio. Wittliff Collections Lead Archivist, Katie Salzmann, spent the next eighteen months organizing the papers – arranging them so that scholars and students can easily identify material relevant to their research. With assistance from Texas State graduate student Elizabeth Moeller, and student workers, Carol Alvarez and Audrey Johnston, Salzmann worked through boxes of writings, photographs, diaries, correspondence, publicity material, business records, and other records from Cisneros’ distinguished career.
The Wittliff Collections has a long tradition of providing hands-on archival experience for students. In addition to regular student workers, the archive staff frequently takes on interns and volunteers who are interested in exploring careers in the field. Audrey Johnston, a photography major from the Houston area, reflects on the impact that working with the Sandra Cisneros archive had on her: “She has been my favorite author since I first read The House On Mango Street in high school. Her writing has always been so vivid, so to be able to go through thousands of photos and see where she wrote her stories and poems, who she spent time with, and what she found important to keep was like peeling back a whole new layer of her work. It was a gift to be able to work on her collection and I’ll always treasure the time I spent there.”
Student researchers using the Cisneros papers.
The archive officially opened for research in April 2017, and the very first group to conduct research using the papers was Texas State professor Geneva Gano’s English 3343 students. Over several weeks, the twenty-five students in her “The Work and Career of Sandra Cisneros” course spent time in the Wittliff Collections reading room looking through boxes from the Cisneros archive. Their topics were varied, and ranged from Cisneros’ early years in Chicago, to her time in San Antonio, and from Cisneros as feminist icon to her role in social justice and activism. Several students from the class presented their research at a symposium in April 2017 that Gano organized, and that Sandra Cisneros herself attended.
The Sandra Cisneros archive is clearly an important acquisition for the Wittliff Collections, and it is one that helps raise the profile of the University Libraries and continues to support scholarship and research at Texas State. The work that the archives staff did to preserve, organize, and promote Cisneros’ archive is also done for every incoming collection at the Wittliff, and represents a core part of our mission.
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Annapolis, Maryland, pictured here in 2012, saw the greatest increase in nuisance flooding in a recent NOAA study. © Amy McGovern / NOAA
Eight of the top 10 U.S. cities that have seen an increase in so-called “nuisance flooding” – which causes such public inconveniences as frequent road closures, overwhelmed storm drains and compromised infrastructure – are on the East Coast, according to a new NOAA technical report.
This nuisance flooding, caused by rising sea levels, has increased on all three U.S. coasts, between 300 and 925 percent since the 1960s.
The report, “Sea Level Rise and Nuisance Flood Frequency Changes around the United States”, also finds Annapolis and Baltimore, Maryland, lead the list with an increase in number of flood days of more than 920 percent since 1960. Port Isabel, Texas, along the Gulf coast, showed an increase of 547 percent, and nuisance flood days in San Francisco, California increased 364 percent.
“Achieving resilience requires understanding environmental threats and vulnerabilities to combat issues like sea level rise,” says Holly Bamford, Ph.D., NOAA Assistant Administrator of the National Ocean Service. “The nuisance flood study provides the kind of actionable environmental intelligence that can guide coastal resilience efforts.”
“As relative sea level increases, it no longer takes a strong storm or a hurricane to cause flooding,” said William Sweet, Ph.D., Oceanographer at NOAA’s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and the report’s lead author. “Flooding now occurs with high tides in many locations due to climate-related sea level rise, land subsidence and the loss of natural barriers. The effects of rising sea levels along most of the continental U.S. coastline are only going to become more noticeable and much more severe in the coming decades, probably more so than any other climate change related factor.”
The study was conducted by scientists at CO-OPS, who looked at data from 45 NOAA water level gauges with long data records around the country and compared that to reports of number of days of nuisance floods.
The extent of nuisance flooding depends on multiple factors, including topography and land cover. The study defines nuisance flooding as a daily rise in water level above the minor flooding threshold set locally by NOAA’s National Weather Service, and focused on coastal areas at or below these levels that are especially susceptible to flooding.
The report concludes that any acceleration in sea level rise that is predicted to occur this century will further intensify nuisance flooding impacts over time, and will further reduce the time between flood events.
The report provides critical NOAA environmental data that can help coastal communities assess flooding risk, develop ways to mitigate and adapt to the effects of sea level rise, and improve coastal resiliency in the face of climate- and weather-induced changes.
Top Ten U.S. Areas with Increased Nuisance Flooding*
* More than one flood on average between 1957-1963, and for nuisance levels above 0.25 meters. © NOAA
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Ed Firmage lets the good old boys have it.
Welfare Rancher?
In response to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune announcing that Utah State Engineer Kent Jones OK’d the use of Green River water to cool a proposed nuclear reactor, Ed Firmage Jr. posted a polished reply. Click title to see more.
High Country News has an excellent weekly news wrap-up. It's part of The Goat Blog and they call it "The Friday News Wrap Roundup." I was trying to create a western/environmental roundup in broadsheet form, but theirs is better. I will still post when I have something original, when I see something I particularly like, maybe make some commentary now and then and continue to record some comments on related books I read. You can see The Goat Blog here.
Failure of Land Use Socialism
There is nothing more harmful to the arid lands of the American West today than public land grazing. It is ironic that the Cato Institute, the leading libertarian, conservative think tank calls the results of over a century of grazing on public lands, " . . . a testimony to the failure of land-use socialism." Ouch. 70% of the over 300 million acres of public land in the West is grazed, producing less than 3% of the nation's beef. Agriculture is less than 1% of the western economies but uses nearly 80% of the water, much of that used to grow hay for to feed livestock. Ranching is a tiny little special interest. A rancher pays $1.35 per month to graze a cow and its calf. How much do you suppose it costs to feed a gerbil for a month? Yet the BLM, with $40 million of taxpayer stimulus money, wants to ignore the impact of grazing in their Rapid Ecoregional Assessments project to map ecological trends throughout the West. See more here . . . >>
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NYU English Department Research Group on Transnational Everyday Life
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transnationaleverydaylife / November 6, 2013
For paper submission guidelines, look up ACLA website. Last date for paper submission: 15 November, 2013. The conference will be held from March 20-23, 2014.
1. Little Data and the Big Picture: What Everyday Literature can do for Comparison
Seminar Organizer(s): Scott Kushner (McGill University)
The broad claims of Big Data hide the continued importance of the specific, individual, and random. This seminar examines the contributions that Comparative Literature has made and can make for understanding the stories that are written and read against the background of “digital humanities,” “new media,” and the “information society.” Prospective participants are invited to problematize these key terms and explore how textual cultures have evolved alongside, been shaped by, and resisted successive fantasies of a data-driven society. There has always been an everyday literature of letters, memos, telegrams, and notes.
How are the forms of today’s everyday literature analogous repetitions of past forms and how do they represent something qualitatively different? How do we judge? In some fashion, the papers in this seminar will explore ways that the specific, the particular, the analog, and the banal persist in the face of the general, the aggregate, the digital, and the grand arc. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): Histories and counter-histories of the information society; everyday digital textuality; computer and human languages; networked social media; Tweet poetics; posting addiction; life writing; comparative media and textual cultures; reception; censorship; quantitative historiography; textual geographies; platforms (computer and otherwise); analog/digital tensions; political action; lacunae; interface; objects (virtual and/or tangible); participation and/or non-participation; material and immaterial conditions of reading and writing.
SEMINAR KEYWORDS: new media, digital, analog, information society, narrative, everyday, culture, reading, writing, data, digital humanities, methodology
2. ALONE-TOGETHER: THE TIMING OF CAPITAL AND APPROXIMATE COMMUNITIES
Seminar Organizer(s): Ramsey McGlazer (University of California, Berkeley), Suzanne Li Puma (University of California, Berkeley)
“Before anything else, the first thing that power imposes is a rhythm (to everything: a rhythm of life, of time, of thought, of speech).” – Roland Barthes,How to Live Together
Given neoliberal capital’s encroachments into the realms of the affective and relational, and the increasing regimentation of the rhythm of everyday life, the questions posed in Barthes’s seminar on How to Live Together have become newly relevant. Here Barthes defends “idiorrhythmy,” the singular, subjective “rhythm that allows for approximation, for imperfection, for a supplement, a lack, an idios: what doesn’t fit the structure, or would have to be made to fit.” If the post-Fordist subject syncs up with capital’s rhythms, Barthes’s monks and misfits wait, and cultivate the lacks and lags that render them approximate. In doing so, they fit together without fitting at all; they seek to be, in Barthes’s phrase, alone together.
This seminar will ask what possibilities are left for “idiorrhythmic constellations” of thought and speech, and more broadly for alternative social arrangements that take the idios as their point of departure. What space can be claimed for offbeat or otherwise idiorrhythmic subjectivity today? How, when capital requires constant self-appreciation, are alternative forms of self-cultivation and self-relation sustained? How do idiorrhythmic forms open onto other beings, so that living with oneself becomes living together in Barthes’s or another sense? Might our work as readers and critics—-necessarily out of synch with the texts and objects we consider—-already imply receptivity to other forms and tempos of life?
SEMINAR KEYWORDS: Affect, Animals, Commodity, Community, Domesticity, Ideology, Idiorhythmy, Monasticism, Neoliberalism, Power, Rhythm, Barthes, Subjectivity, Temporality, Utopia
3. IMAGINARIES OF REVOLUTION AND CAPITALS OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Seminar Organizer(s): Ana Dopico (New York University)
This seminar gathers papers that reflect on the imaginaries of revolution in cities and capitals in the Global South. Papers will think about the process, the everyday life, the popular memory of revolution in cities and capitals. We will reflect on the experience, the production, and the reification of revolution in a national cultural and public sphere, and think how revolutions and their legacies shape capitoline productions, national ideologies, and metropolitan structures of feeling. We will think historiographically, and reflectiong on contingent and international formations, movements and events that shape revolution in the city. We will reflect on rebellion, space, and everyday life, about time and temporality, about insurgency and occupation, about the revolutionary capital’s relation to the state, its domination or its frailty.
We will think through other political, sociological and aesthetic categories, including revolution, populism, hegemony, spontaneity, and violence; and also aesthetics, resistance, the intellectual class, civil society and political community. By invoking the global South, we seek a heuristic that that exceeds conventional periodizations or mappings of historiography or area studies. We will think about revolution as address, challenge, structure, event, as threshold, affect, and sensibility –all elements that shape human lives in global metropoles. We reflect on revolution as a constitutive process of the capital city in the global South: a process that depends on or reacts to metropolitan culture. We examine these claims to politics not merely as idiosyncratic indexes of European political philosophy, but through their own cultural contingencies and political coordinates.
SEMINAR KEYWORDS: south by south, revolution, insurgency, imaginaries, cities, everyday life, cosmopolitanism, populism, violence, institutions, civil society
4. HISTORIES OF CAPITAL
Seminar Organizer(s): Erag Ramizi (New York University), Suzana Vuljevic (Columbia University)
Capital’s unyielding domination over social reality has occasioned the production and recording of a particular kind of transnational history. Such a history is premised on categories (the market, everyday life, modernity, progress, the nation, cosmopolitanism) that have gained widespread currency as organizing principles of human existence, affecting spatio-temporal perceptions, shaping historical consciousness and subjectivity, and fueling or frustrating collective projects. Historical narratives themselves, insofar as they are produced, circulated and consumed, operate as capital, as commodities on the global marketplace that mold ideological perspectives, indulge cultural appetites or adhere to diverse political agendas. Subject to various perusals and interpretations, elisions and fabrications, tendentious historiography can aggravate the uneven development, both geopolitical and cultural, that is emblematic of capital’s rule. Metropolitan histories, with their overbearing authority and widespread recognizability, frequently partake in capital’s self-reinforcing project, while peripheral histories, in a struggle against oblivion and dismissal, attempt to subvert capital’s grand narratives and seek alternative articulations of established concepts or altogether new forms of political practices and cultural expressions.
How do these heterogeneous histories intersect, either in a mutually negating or, perhaps, in a mutually reinforcing way? Is the multiplicity of local histories constitutive of a “world history”? How are the itineraries of financial, human and cultural capital mapped, represented, historicized, institutionalized, accessed and remembered? How is history itself experienced, documented and theorized? How is it generated, archived and transmitted? This panel invites its participants to ponder the transversals of capital, history and literature by taking into consideration some of these questions.
SEMINAR KEYWORDS: historiography, historical consciousness, uneven development, world history, temporality, archives, historical agency, historical change, historical literature
5. POETRY AND PRECARITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Seminar Organizer(s): Charles Legere (University of Pittsburgh), Walt Hunter (Clemson University)
Our seminar stakes out a set of texts, terms, and questions for engaging how poems materialize experiences of precarity within the shifting, ubiquitous demands of capital. Given the rapid expansion of critical discourse around the concept of precarity, and the potential fetishism of the concept itself, we also aim situate the discourse of biopolitics, social death, normativity, and grievability in relation to Marxist, feminist, and anarchist approaches to questions of labor, accumulation, reproducibility, possession, autonomy, debt, and risk. By placing these critical discourses in relation to the formal experiments of 21st-century poetries, we hope to generate a more definite language for how experiences of precarity are particularized, and perhaps remain unassimilable, within the global systems of capital value and valuation. The core interest is how these tensions of precarity are lived out, or through, on the scale of everyday experience, and how poetry gives form to these uneven histories of living.
We invite papers addressing a wide range of global poetries of the 21st century, particularly papers which take up, problematize, or expand on questions of:
Post-Fordist and Keynesian Economics
Cognitive versus Contingent Work
History of the Lyric
World Literatures
Textuality and Embodiment
Debt Culture
Experiences, Calculations, and Managements of Risk
Slow Death or Life-in-Death
Cultures of Surveillance or Coercion
Constant vs. Variable Capital
SEMINAR KEYWORDS: contemporary poetry, poetry and poetics, global capital, post-Fordism, forms of life, debt, risk, precarity, vulnerability
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Out of Control By Eleanor Clift
The impact of the Foley scandal on the congressional races is less about values than it is a general sense that Congress has gone astray.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Eleanor Clift
Oct. 6, 2006 - Republicans booed their likely next House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, when she rose to speak Wednesday evening “not only as Democratic leader but as a mother and grandmother.” Some shouted “Jefferson,” a lame attempt to find equivalency between a disgraced Democrat, Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson, currently under investigation for allegedly taking kickbacks, and Florida Republican Mark Foley, whose sexually predatory e-mails to teenage House pages has set off a round of recriminations among Republicans.
With the midterm election just five weeks away and GOP House leaders forming a circular firing squad, Pelosi is close to the point where she can start measuring the drapes in the speaker’s office. Even before Foley surfaced as an embarrassment for the Republicans, they were on track to lose their majority. The fact that the leaders of a political party known for stoking homophobia to win votes stood aside and did nothing for years to rein in Foley is further evidence the party has lost its way.
Everybody in Washington knew Foley was gay, but he never acknowledged it publicly until his lawyer announced it this week. Sneaking around is one of the problems of life in the closet, and when an elected official in the public eye, or anyone for that matter, lives this secret life, it’s a warping existence. Gay politicians need to get out there and live an adult life. And if the consequences are that they lose their jobs, that’s not the worst thing in the world. What Foley did was not about being gay but about abusing his power over young students—and it was compounded by the actions of his colleagues whose silence made them complicit.
The impact of the scandal on the congressional races is less about Foley and values than it is a general sense that Congress has spun out of control. “Foley is a symbol comparable to Terri Schiavo,” says Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg. Just as Congress’s ill-advised intervention into whether the brain-damaged Schiavo should be taken off life support reinforced a sense that the Republican-controlled Congress had been taken over by the Christian right, the Foley scandal feeds the perception that Congress is consumed with partisan infighting and unable to do the people’s business, that they care more about protecting their power than blowing the whistle on immoral behavior. “The Republican Congress is crashing in image,” says Greenberg. The Democrats don’t fare much better in Greenberg’s polling. “Democrats are just flat-lined through this period,” he says, an apt phrase suggesting a brain-dead party devoid of ideas and unwilling to take bold stands.
The public is right to be disgusted with Foley’s actions and angry at the way the Republicans covered up. But there’s no need for Democrats to get in the middle of what is a Republican free for all. When the opposition is self-destructing, get out of the way. Democrats who fuel the fire risk getting singed. Gay issues too easily turn into witch hunts. So far, only one Democratic candidate—Patty Wetterling, running for Congress in Minnesota—is directly playing off the Foley scandal by running an ad saying that congressional leaders had admitted covering up the congressman’s predatory behavior. Wetterling has more latitude than other candidates. She’s been a full-time child advocate since her 11-year-old son Jacob was abducted 17 years ago with no trace of him ever found.
Greenberg was in the field through Tuesday of this week polling 1,000 likely voters, tracking the reaction to Foley along with the fallout from Bob Woodward’s new book, “State of Denial.” Much of the elite media said the book revealed nothing new, that everyone knew Iraq was a mess. What Greenberg found is that having a journalist of Woodward’s standing say Bush hasn’t been telling the American people the truth allowed people to see facts in a new light and had a significant impact on attitudes about Bush and the war. Asked if the president has been mostly dishonest or mostly honest about Iraq, 56 percent said dishonest with 41 percent rating him mostly honest and 48 percent of those polled felt strongly that Bush had misled them about how bad things are in Iraq. “That’s a breathtaking number about a president in a war,” says James Carville, Greenberg’s sidekick and a colorful kibitzer on behalf of Democrats. Worsening news from Iraq reinforced the negative feelings with 21 U.S. servicemen killed in Iraq in the first four days of October.
The country is in turmoil over what’s happening in Washington, giving the Democrats a big lead going into the elections. A reporter asked Carville if the Foley scandal had never happened, did he think this poll would be a lot different? Carville insisted that despite Republican crowing about modest gains in recent weeks the race for Congress has stayed essentially the same since Hurricane Katrina 14 months ago. If the Republicans lose, he suspects they’ll blame it on Foley, but Foley is a symptom of a larger problem, a Congress that has gone astray. “I don’t think it would make two [percentage] points difference in anything if Foley were to rescue a drowning kid,” Carville said. “Right now this thing would be a rout.”
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The Most Elaborate Final Meals In Death Row History
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List Rules: Vote up the fanciest final meals.
The most bizarre last meal requests in the history of the penal system reveal that if you're crazy enough to get yourself landed on death row, you're crazy enough to order a litany of fried and otherwise crazy foods when facing the death penalty.
Texas recently got rid of the "last meal" for any people getting executed due to Lawrence Russel Brewer's choice of "meal" (see the first item below), it's a better time than any to look back at some of the most absurdly elaborate meals that dead men walking have ever requested.
What are the best last meal requests of inmates on death row? From tubs of ice cream to slabs of ribs, here they are.
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1 Steven Woods
Photo: via Reddit
Executed: 2011 for the murder of a young couple, even after many appeals and being backed by some popular non-profits/media organizations.
Last Meal:
Two pounds of bacon, a large four-meat pizza, four fried chicken breasts, two drinks each of Mountain Dew, Pepsi, root beer, and sweet tea, two pints of ice cream, five chicken fried steaks, two hamburgers with bacon, fries, and a dozen garlic bread sticks with marinara on the side.
Age: Died at 31 (1980-2011) Birthplace: Michigan, United States of America
Is this elaborate?
2 Robert Dale Conklin
Executed: 2005. While on parole for armed robbery, he killed a man by sticking a screwdriver in his ear and twisting it around. He then dissected the body and put select parts of it down the garbage disposal.
Filet mignon wrapped in bacon, de-veined shrimp sauteed in garlic butter with lemon, a baked potato with butter, sour cream, chives, and real bacon bits, corn on the cob, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, French bread with butter, goat cheese, cantaloupe, apple pie with vanilla bean ice cream, and an iced tea.
Age: Died at 44 (1961-2005)
3 Ted Bundy's Last Meal
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4 Ronnie Lee Gardner
Photo: Freebase/Fair use
Executed: 2010. He killed a man during a robbery, then when being transported to a hearing for his crimes, he killed an attorney. He got life in prison for the first, then the death penalty for the second.
Lobster tail, steak, apple pie, vanilla ice cream, 7-Up while watching Lord of the Rings. Huh.
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Eli Lilly to Abandon Cardiovascular Disease Drug in Phase 3 Trials
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By John Kell / Fortune
Drug maker Eli Lilly on Monday said it would abandon a Phase 3 trial of the company’s treatment for cardiovascular disease, a decision that sent its share price down sharply.
The treatment, known as evacetrapib, had been in Phase 3 trials in the U.S., Europe and Japan and was the company’s only cardiovascular-focused drug in Eli Lilly’s late-stage pipeline as of the company’s latest annual report. Eli Lilly LLY said it was pulling development of the treatment after it accepted the recommendation of an independent data monitoring committee to terminate the trial due to the low probability that the study would find the treatment was effective.
“We’re obviously disappointed in this outcome, as we hoped that evacetrapib would offer an advance in treatment for people with high-risk cardiovascular disease,” said David Ricks, Lilly senior vice president and president of Lilly Bio-Medicines, in a statement.
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As a result of the setback, Lilly said it would book a fourth-quarter charge of up to $90 million pre-tax, tied to research and development expenses. Those charges will be reflected in an updated guidance for 2015 when Lilly reports third-quarter results on Oct. 22.
This article originally appeared on Fortune.com
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Cheapest Way to Transfer Your Money Out of Japan
by Greg Lane
If you’ve been working in Japan for a while and following all the money-saving advice on this site, by now you’ve probably built up a pile of cash. While you could spend your stash on a gold-laced cocktail at the Mandarin Oriental, you might want to consider sending it home, or to a country that doesn’t have negative interest rates. So what are your options to transfer money out of Japan?
tl;dr: Likely the cheapest and easiest method for transferring your yen out of Japan is TransferWise.
Photo by Greg Lane
N.B. If you want to transfer money to Japan, see our article on transferring money to Japan.
Regular bank transfers
TransferWise: Top contender?
GoRemit: Often the default
Seven Bank: Convenience at a cost
Western Union in Japan
PayPal & other alternatives to transfer money from Japan
Regular bank transfers from Japan: Costly and complicated
Japan is renowned for its stable banking system, but that’s because the banks haven’t changed the way they do business in 20 years. A simple international transfer at legacy banks like SMBC, MUFG or Mizuho will typically involve you filling out an overly detailed form at the branch, getting charged up to 4,000 yen just for the transfer, and then getting shafted with horrible exchange rates. Unless you’re set on being a martyr to the Japanese banking system, our advice is to avoid this option.
TransferWise: Economical and easy
TransferWise have been around globally since 2011. They allow you to transfer your funds to a local bank account before they get whisked overseas. The main benefit of TransferWise is they don’t make money on the exchange rate, and they try to make the whole procedure as fast, smooth and painless as possible.
The cost structure is this: You pay a fixed fee, plus a percentage of the total amount. What you pay depends on which currencies you’re using, but it’s very reasonable for most of the major ones. The exchange rates (when we checked) were almost identical to those on exchange rate reference site xe.com, which lists mid-market rates.
How to use TransferWise
To transfer, you go to their site and put in the amount that you want to send (in either the source or target currency), then you enter your details. You’ll be asked to upload photos of either your “My Number” notification (that’s the plain piece of paper) or your My Number photo ID. If you have the photo ID, that’s all you need to upload; if not, you’ll need to upload a scan or pic of some other photo ID, such as a Japanese driver’s license or a foreign resident’s card.
Once you’ve uploaded your docs, you’ll get a confirmation screen with the details of your transaction. After you agree to this, you’ll get information of a local account at Mitsubishi Tokyo UFJ to transfer the total amount to. You can go ahead and make the transfer. (Note that if you’ve signed up for a new account, the transaction won’t go through until your documents have been checked off.) You can download the app for easy transactions going forward.
Note: Following the above steps should allow you to make a transfer of up to 100,000 JPY. However, in line with revised Japanese banking regulations, you will need to sign for the delivery of a letter with a special code, before you can send higher amounts, or make a second transfer.
How long does TransferWise take?
TransferWise gives you an estimate of when the money will arrive in the destination bank account—approximately 2-4 days, usually. But with our test transfers, the funds have arrived in just 1-2 days, sometimes even on the same day.
How much does TransferWise cost?
The following was calculated using the transfer calculator on the site on January 22, 2020. For the sake of comparison, we chose a transfer to USD.
*We deducted the fee from the starting amount for this and all calculations below.
JPY Amount
Fee (JPY)
Rate (JPY->USD)
USD Amount
Rates on January 22, 2020
Nice extra: TransferWise recently added a borderless account to their services. It’s basically an international bank account, minus the fees. You can read more about the borderless account here. Note, however, that if you’re resident in Japan, you may not be able to set one up.
Not usually the place to go for the best exchange rates. | Photo by Greg Lane
GoRemit: Often the default option for expats
GoRemit is the crusty incumbent to TransferWise’s feisty challenger (GoRemit has been at this for more than 15 years—they were formerly GoLloyds). The process is basically the same, but the fee structure is slightly different. While the exchange rates are more or less the same, the handling fee is a flat 2,000 yen, and there is an additional charge of at least 1,500 yen for any remittances done in Japanese yen. We haven’t deducted the extra 1,500 yen below—but keep it in mind.
GoRemit sign-up is a bit of a process—you can use the app to do it, but need to sign for key documents in the mail afterwards. Registering a beneficiary can take several weeks, and your transfer limit is pre-determined by GoRemit—it seems to be a case-by-case decision for each user. You might need to use a combination of the app and online banking to complete a remittance.
How much does GoRemit cost?
Rate (USD->JPY)
Seven Bank: Easy but expensive
Seven Bank offers a service in conjunction with Western Union. While you could just use Western Union without using Seven Bank, the integration with the bank account makes things a bit smoother. The fee you pay increases with the amount you send.
Yep, they sell rice balls and offer banking services. | Photo by Greg Lane
How much does Seven Bank cost?
The go-to for many people, Western Union is a reliable—if sometimes cumbersome—way of sending money from Japan. You can set up the transfer online or via their app, or do it in person at one of their branches—there are almost 90 listed for Tokyo. Western Union supports transfers to over 200 countries.
How much does Western Union in Japan cost?
There is a base fee of 490 yen, which increases with the amount you send. Note: Each transfer is capped at 100,000 JPY.
Alternative ways to transfer money from Japan
The options we’ve included here are not the only ways of sending money from Japan to another country—there are a number of alternatives. For transfers to certain countries, such as Bangladesh, Malaysia, Vietnam, Nepal or the Philippines, Japan Remit Finance (JRF) or Japan Money Express might be more familiar names. It’s worth investigating a range of cash transfer services to determine which will give you the most competitive rates.
Photo by Chris Kirkland
PayPal in Japan
Due to difficulties confirming transfer rates and fees, we have excluded PayPal from the ranking above. PayPal is by far the most opaque of the money-sending services; depending on the currency pair, there may be a conversion charge of between 0.5% and 4%. However, it’s not terrible for sending money from Japan to an account overseas.
A couple of points to consider are that while easy to use once it’s set up, getting money into your PayPal account from your bank can take a little while. Also, there may be restrictions on the receiving end. Depending on the country, the recipient may not be able to receive the cash you are sending. Apparently, measures like these are to stop money laundering and terrorism. As you may have noticed, both of these activities are flourishing, so I guess they got that one wrong.
Our recommendations to transfer money out of Japan
Small to medium amounts
For small amounts and even amounts into the hundreds of thousands of yen, TransferWise generally appears to be the best-value option (you can transfer up to 1 million yen in a single transaction, once your paperwork has been approved).
Western Union is also worth checking, despite the limitation on transfer amounts. For amounts over 200,000 yen, GoRemit might start to make more sense than TransferWise. PayPal is also relatively good for small amounts of money, even though the exchange rate is often fairly poor.
Larger amounts
For large transfers of yen outside Japan, GoRemit or, provided you are not a long-term resident of Japan, possibly OFX are generally the best options, as their usage charges do not vary.
Choice of currencies
TransferWise, Western Union and Seven Bank win out in terms of the number of currencies available. GoRemit is limited to 11 foreign currencies: USD, CAD, GBP, EUR, AUD, NZD, CHF, HKD, SGD, SEK and INR. Last we checked, PayPal could handle up to 23 currencies (with some conditions attached).
TransferWise is probably the best when it comes to ease of set-up and use. Once set up, they are all relatively easy to use, though.
Reference: Mid-market rate from xe.com at 18:18 JST on January 22, 2020: 1 JPY -> USD 0.00909
All the figures and information in this article are indicative and we do not endorse any of them. Use all financial services at your own risk. Additionally, this article contains affiliate links. These in no way affect our findings and should not be considered an endorsement.
This article was last updated in January, 2020.
Written by: Greg Lane
Greg's Tokyo favorites are: Shinshu Osake Mura, Kiyosumi Teien Garden, The American Craft Beer Experience 2020
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O you, who more than any other human being have been consecrated to the Holy Spirit, help your Son's Church to persevere in the same consecration, so that she may pour out upon all people the ineffable benefits of redemption and of sanctification for the liberation of the whole of creation (cf. Rom 8:21). You, who were with the Church in the beginning of her mission, intercede for her in order that, going all over the world, she may continually teach all the nations and proclaim the Gospel to every creature. May the word of Divine Truth and the Spirit of Love find an opening in the hearts of people, who, without this truth and without this love really cannot live the fullness of life.
You, who have known in the fullest way the power of the Holy Spirit, when it was granted to you to conceive in your virginal womb and to give birth to the Eternal Word, obtain for the Church that she may continue to give new birth through water and the Holy Spirit to the sons and daughters of the whole human family, without any distinction of language, race, or culture, giving them in this way the "power to become children of God" (Jn 1:12).
You, who are so deeply and maternally bound to the Church, preceding the whole people of God along the way of faith, hope and charity, embrace all who are on the way, pilgrims through temporal life towards eternal destinies, with that love which the Divine Redeemer himself, your Son, poured into your heart from the Cross. Be the Mother of all our earthly lives, even when they become tortuous, in order that we may all find ourselves, in the end, in that large community which your Son called the fold, offering his life for it as the Good Shepherd.
You, who are the first handmaid of the unity of the body of Christ, help us, help all the faithful, who feel so painfully the drama of the divisions of Christianity, to seek with constancy the way to the perfect unity of the Body of Christ by means of unconditional faithfulness to the Spirit of Truth and Love, which was given to them by your Son at the cost of the cross and of death.
You, who have always wished to serve! You who serve as mother of the whole family of the children of God, obtain for the Church that, enriched by the Holy Spirit with the fullness of hierarchical and charismatic gifts, she may continue with constancy towards the future along the way of that renewal which comes from what the Holy Spirit says and which found expression in the teaching of Vatican II, assuming in this work of renewal everything that is true and good, without letting herself be deceived either in one direction or in the other, but discerning assiduously among the signs of the times what is useful for the coming of the Kingdom of God.
Mother of all peoples, you know all their sufferings and their hopes. You feel in a motherly way all the struggles between good and evil, between the light and the darkness which shakes the world, accept our cry addresses to the Holy Spirit directly to your heart and embrace with the love of the Mother and the Handmaid of the Lord the peoples who await this embrace the most and likewise the peoples whose consecration you, too, are particularly awaiting. Take under your motherly protection the whole human family which we consecrate to you, O Mother, with affectionate rapture. May the time of peace and freedom, the time of truth, justice and hope, approach for everyone.
O you, who through the mystery of your particular holiness, free of all stain from the moment of your conception feel in a particular deep way that "the whole creation has been groaning in travail." (Rom 8:22), while, "subjected to futility," it hopes that it will be "set free from its bondage to decay" (Rom 8:20-21), You contribute unceasingly to the "revealing of the sons of God," for whom "the creation waits with eager longing." (Rom 8:19), to enter the freedom of their joy (cf. Rom 8:21).
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Holy Spirit of God, who are worshipped and glorified with the Father and the Son! Accept these words of humble consecration addressed to you in the heart of Mary of Nazareth, your bride and mother of the Redeemer, who the Church too calls her mother, because right from the Upper Room at Pentecost she has learned from her own motherly vocation! Accept these words of the pilgrim Church, uttered amid toils and joys, fears and hopes, words which are the expression of humble and confident trust, words with the Church, forever consecrated to you, Spirit of the Father and of the Son, in the Upper Room at Pentecost, does not cease to repeat together with you to her divine Bridegroom. Come!
"The Spirit and the Bride say to the Lord Jesus 'Come..." (cf. Rev. 22:17). "Thus the Church is seen to be a people brought into unity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit" (Lumen Gentium, 4).
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How not to launch a website
The American people can enroll for health insurance through a brand new website! But the website and launch was an epic failure.
On October 1, 2013 the United States launched its healthcare exchange website which coincides with the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – which really created some buzz.
The buzz I’m referring to is not the ability for Americans to compare prices on health insurance plans, to begin enrollment in a chosen plan, and to simultaneously find out if they qualify for government healthcare subsidies – but as a new online product launched by the U.S. government.
Those of us who have launched many websites – or even one online product or service via a website – know that there is a lot that goes into the launch plan.
Like any great launch I’m sure the government and it’s developers wanted to achieve several goals:
Drive massive traffic to the healthcare exchange website and to allow users to easily compare prices on health insurance plans
Get a load of PR across digital and non-digital media to promote the site
Entice people to enroll through ad campaigns – especially during launch week
Enroll millions of people within the first week
Provide a simple User Experience
It seemed that the site was up and running but it didn’t take long for users to quickly experience hurdles and be stopped by numerous types of technical problems.
More than 8.1 million people visited the site from October 1-4, 2013 [USA Today (1)]
Glitches (simply logging on doesn’t work, broken calculators, and incorrect information)
By some estimates only 1% of interested people were able to enroll to the site in the first week of its operation. [Wikipedia (2)]
Jon Stewart Delivers Blistering Takedown of Obamacare website Rollout
*Glitches and crashes mentioned in video have little to do with amount of traffic and points to faulty system throughout.
*Probably most negative burst of PR a website has received. It’s up there with Wiki-leaks and Pirate Bay.
Despite the fact that this was an immense launch and development failure there is much to be learned from this blunder.
The basic formula for any launch strategy is to:
– Build a solid foundation
– Leverage many experienced UX designers and developers
– Understand your target audience
– Eliminate the risk of technical issues with an insane amount of testing
– Connect with your new visitors and form a strong bond so they’ll come back
– Conversion is top priority, traffic second
Websites are not something to be undertaken lightly. Yes this was epic in every single way and made even more so by the fact that it’s a nationwide government initiative.
Be inspired to never launch a product, service or website – like Healthcare.gov – without first testing and ensuring a positive user experience.
So what are your thoughts on Healthcare.org from a product launch perspective?
Let me know if you have questions, whether it’s about launching a website or a product in the comments below. Good luck in your future launchs!
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PCMag UK | Reviews | Networking | Firewalls | Review
Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall
byMore » Nov 08, 2012
Editor Rating: Excellent (4.5)
Excellent throughput. Flawless setup. Good management interface. Nice performance as a light NAS.
Some drop in throughput with distance. Router bottom gets hot to touch after some uptime.
Cisco has achieved an impressive feat: creating a powerful router with excellent throughput and delivering a setup process that is flawless.
The Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall offers security-conscious small businesses an easy-to-set-up box that functions as a router, firewall, VPN server, and a wireless access point all in one. The well-organized Web interface is chock-full of management options, including port forwarding, firewall access rules and creating VPN user accounts. As a router, however, the RV110W is fairly basic as it doesn't support Gigabit Ethernet or offer dual-band wireless. While those two things would have been nice to have, their omission is not surprising, considering the RV110W's sub-$100 price tag.
The key selling point for the RV110W is its built-in support for a VPN server. Remote workers can use the RV110W's VPN to connect and access office printers, databases, and applications as if they were physically in the office. Deploying VPN usually means investing in a more expensive router or other specialized hardware, so getting a VPN router for $99 or less is quite a bargain.
As a VPN server, RV110W supports both PPTP and QuickVPN. PPTP is the easier connection protocol as it is supported by Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and even iOS devices. The App Store has PPTP clients for Apple's iPads and iPhones.
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Another impressive feature in the RV110W: it supports IPv6 out of the box. Businesses thinking about updating their networks to use the newer Internet address standard want IPv6-certified products. Considering that most modern operating systems have IPv6 support built-in, a router that supports the standard makes the transition much smoother.
For wireless connectivity, RV110W broadcasts on 2.4 GHz-band. Looking for the higher 5 GHz-band? Look elsewhere. Being single-band is not a huge drawback for the RV110W, since many business routers still don't offer dual-band wireless, but it would have been nice to have.
The Hardware
The Cisco RV110W has one WAN port for Internet connectivity and four LAN ports in the back. There are two external antennas on the back for wireless networking. Square and compact, it has four rubber feet on the bottom to stand-alone or can be wall-mounted. There's even a lock on the side to physically secure the router in place.
The square and compact box measures 1.18" x 5.91" x 5.91" (HWD) and weighs a mere 0.61 lbs. The black box is pretty nondescript, except for the glossy front panel with indicator lights for power, wireless activity, Internet connectivity, and for each of the four LAN ports. The front panel also has a button for Wi-Fi Protected Setup that makes it adding Wi-Fi clients to the network a snap.
The router offers at most 100Mbps over its wired network as none of the four ports support Gigabit Ethernet. While Gigabit Ethernet is not yet a must-have on most business routers, the increasing number of applications, file-sharing, and video streaming within the office makes it a should-have.
Unlike other similarly priced Cisco routers, the RV110W does not come with the Cisco Connect software for setup. Instead, I followed the printed Quick Start Guide to connect the firewall and configure the wireless network. When I logged into the Device Manager to finish the process, the Web interface automatically launched a Setup Wizard to collect configuration information. The entire process took less than 10 minutes.
I was impressed that Cisco put in some effort in the wizard to make the router secure. In one of the tests, I tried to quit the setup wizard since the router is configured as a basic gateway by default. The Device Manager forced me to change the admin account's default password before quitting.
Cisco also requires the password to be strong. When I tried to disable the "strong password strength" rule in order to set up a weak password, Device Manager displayed messages warning me about the risks. Many routers are vulnerable because the user forgot to change the default password or had set weak ones.
When configuring the wireless network, the wizard prompted me to turn on wireless encryption on the network, such as WPA Personal with TKIP/AES or the stronger WPA2 Personal with AES. Considering that open wireless networks expose users to man-in-the-middle attacks and packet sniffing, I appreciated the wizard selected encryption by default. In fact, when I tried to set up an open wireless network, the wizard displayed warning messages.
The wizard takes care of assigning IP addresses, setting the time, configuring the gateway, and turning on the wireless network. All the other configuration tasks are available in a menu on the Device Manager's left pane. Clicking on the menu name, such as Firewall, VPN, Wireless, Networking, and Status displayed all the tasks available. After I turned on VPN, I could see when a user was connected to the network. I found it effortless to navigate and understand.
Cisco released the latest firmware update in the middle of testing. After copying the downloaded file to a USB key, it was a snap to upload the firmware to the router using the Web interface.
Cisco stuffed the Device Manager with options, including guest networking. Non-employees, such as customers, can get on the network and access the Internet via a guest network without stumbling on to business servers and resources. I was also able to restrict who can connect to the network by defining authorized computers' MAC addresses.
I did more work setting up the VPN client than I did for the VPN server on the router. I simply clicked on the button in the Web interface to turn on VPN, and then created my users. When setting up the PPTP connection on a Windows 7 laptop, I navigated through several screens and typed several options.
Once VPN is enabled, it actually resets all the local IP addresses on the network. The router originally assigned IP addresses using 192.168.X.X, but after I turned on the VPN server, the router assigned 10.x.x.x addresses to minimize any conflicts. While it was a minor change, I found it disconcerting when I was kicked out of Device Manager. Once I knew the router's new IP address, I could get back in to the interface again.
PPTP is easier than QuickVPN to use in a VPN setup because many platforms support it. RV110W's PPTP implementation also supports NetBIOS traffic and will assign connected clients a "local" IP whose range you can set. However, QuickVPN is better if the business has Microsoft IPSec Policy Manager to manage security policies such as triple-DES encryption. QuickVPN is available only for Windows clients, though.
I noticed one drawback to the VPN, as it is actually limited to only allow five concurrent remote users. For a small business with only a handful of users working outside the office, this may be sufficient. Any more than five and the RV110W can't scale.
However, the VPN gateway-to-gateway feature in Cisco's latest firmware update gets around the five-person limit. Businesses can open a VPN tunnel between two locations and allow users to access resources without having to set up a separate VPN connection.
By default, the RV110W blocks all WAN to LAN traffic, but port forwarding rules make it easier to allow certain types of traffic to come into the firewall. The firewall supports single port forwarding with separate Internal and External port setting, port-range forwarding, and triggered port range forwarding. The interface has a whole sub-section devoted to VLANs.
I found the process to define access rules to control outbound traffic to be painless. I set up rules to block or allow protocols such as HTTP, FTP, and POP3. I also created other types that weren't already pre-defined (ping) and blocked traffic on specific ports.I was impressed with the flexibility and depth of options available.
The RV110W also supports Quality of Service to prioritize the Internet connection for different types of traffic. There's no way to set bandwidth limits as all metering is based on priority.
The VPN firewall router supports dual-stack IPv6, with four modes for mixes of WAN and LAN traffic, IPv6 WAN support with auto and static configuration, a built-in IPv6 DHCP LAN server, static and RIPng routes, 6to4 automatic tunneling/static DNS entry. When I plugged the router onto an IPv6 network, it grabbed the appropriate 128-bit address automatically.
I measured the throughput speed for a default setup of RV110W with no additional firewall or access rules using Ixia's IxChariot. As expected, average throughput dropped when measuring VPN traffic. Over a PPTP connection, the average throughput was 56.6 Mbps with a max of 61.5 Mbps. The encryption and the way the packets are wrapped in a VPN tunnel adds a little bit more latency and overhead. For a sub-router, getting even this much speed over a VPN connection is pretty good.
Last Word on the Matter
The Cisco RV110W Wireless-N VPN Firewall router does not claim to meet all needs, but it offers just enough extras to be a very good deal if your needs are basic. The simple VPN server is easy to use and does exactly what a small business needs from a router. While performance drops over a VPN connection, that's the price you pay for security. If you are looking for a router that you can just plug in and not have to worry about ever again, the RV110W is for you. If you want to muck around and customize your settings a little bit, the RV110W is good for that, too.
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Battle for the Saturday Morning Cartoon Supreme Leader Channel
Saturday morning cartoons had been a staple for many people’s childhood. Their prominence from the 60s up until last year is something that many people growing up in America remember. And it’s easy to see why! It’s Saturday morning, you are one of the few people up in your household, there’s no school going on and your favorite cartoons are on. Just sit in front of the boob tube and boom, watch some awesome cartoons.
While doing research for this article (i.e., looking through Wikipedia), I read that Saturday morning cartoons began to decline in the 1990s and 2000s and finally ended in 2014. Could have fooled me! The cartoons I watched in the late 90s and early 2000s were great. True, this wasn’t the era of the late 80s and early 90s where you had classics like He-Man, Tiny Toons, Transformers, and so forth, but we had our fair share of cartoons that we can be proud to say we watched.
Yep, proud to have watched. From http://legionariolusitano.tumblr.com/post/77142487671/dont-forget-to-brush-your-teeth
And these great Saturday morning cartoons were not limited to just one channel. They were spread out through the local channels and reaching those who did not have cable. Now, cable channels are credited for the disappearance of Saturday morning cartoons but the ironic part is that I never really watched cartoons on either Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network. Nickelodeon had cartoons on weekday nights while Cartoon Network went all in on Friday nights. They were relatively tame on Saturday mornings.
As such, I turned to channels that I would otherwise not visit. ABC, The WB, and Fox. These three channels battled to be the Saturday Morning Cartoon Supreme Leader Channel. They had a unique line up of cartoons that were enjoyable to watch. Whether it be old reruns or new cartoons, they had the ammo to satisfy your cartoony desires.
But who was the best one?? Who was the Saturday Morning Cartoon Supreme Leader Channel???? Let’s take a look!
Now before I go on, I have to say that I’m only looking at cartoons that I watched during that period. As such, this list is going to be very subjective. You have been warned…
First up, let’s go ABC with their One Saturday Morning Block! Ah yes, this block had the best opening (see below video). That intro just made you get SO PUMPED UP. I’M SUPER EXCITED. I loved the hell out of that song and its animation. One day, I got the bright idea to record the Saturday morning block and save it for a day when my parents wouldn’t intervene. Sure enough, they invited some friends over one night for bridge and that’s when I whipped it out and played it. Anyway, I would crank up the volume and listen to that song again and again and again (which probably irked my parents but whatever). Hell, you still can’t help but jam to the music. Even the snapshot above brings back nostalgia for me with its colorfully bouncy imagery.
So what do we have for our line up? Well, the cartoons that I watched were Pepper Ann, Recess, and Disney’s Doug. Other cartoons on the same channel that I watch if nothing else was on were Teacher’s Pet, Buzz Lightyear, and the Weekenders. Okay, so want to hear something ironic? I believe I read this on the Wikipedia page but many of the cartoons I just listed mainly take place in a school environment. This is funny because the intro song (the one I just talked about) boasted how One Saturday Morning was “five hours of summer” and this is pretty funny considering we’re watching cartoons that take place in school…
Image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recess_(TV_series)
Irony beside the point, Pepper Ann, Recess, and Disney’s Doug were considered pretty good in my book. Even though these cartoons took place at school, the characters, humor, and animation made them unique enough that you didn’t really notice it. Plus, they still had fun adventures (especially, ESPECIALLY Recess) even if they were at school. They also kind of took on heavy issues, especially for Disney programs, ever noticed that?? Disney’s Doug had an episode of anorexia once and Pepper Ann had one on training bras. I don’t recall Recess having a heavy episode though it did have those typical children moral tropes that you see. Anyway, if you didn’t notice by now, Recess was my favorite so I’m calling that one as the best cartoon on ABC.
Image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Kids
Next we have Fox which had Fox Kids. Okay, so truth be told, Fox Kids was kind of weak in cartoons early on and didn’t really have anything good until we got to the tail end of the 90s. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was the only major thing it had going for a while…
…then came Fall 1999.
With it came two cartoons that I watched which were Monster Rancher but more importantly Digimon. Digimon was what roped me into Fox Kids. I didn’t discover Digimon, and by proxy Fox Kids, until Christmas 1999 when I was waiting for my family to unwrap presents. As I waited patiently in the basement, I turned on the TV and discovered Digimon. The episode that was on was the one where the kids were fighting Andromon. That episode had me hooked and I watched every episode I could find from there on.
Power Rangers: Time Force later joined Fox Kids and it remains one of the few Power Rangers (much less live action) shows I watched. I don’t know why I watched that one but I guess this show evolved from a “I guess I’ll watch it” to a “hey this isn’t too bad.” Monster Rancher was nice but God help me if you ask me what it was about cause I don’t remember a damn thing (something with a boy and a wolf, a stone golem, and Mike from Monsters Inc??). Rusty and Big Guy was also an interesting cartoon if I remember correctly, I should check it out again to see if it still holds up. Beast Wars was also good but, surprisingly, I didn’t watch much of that show. A lot of shows, in general, didn’t last very long, sometimes just a season, if that, mainly because they were just not that good or interesting. Remember Angela Anaconda? That was a weird show…
Fox Kids was pretty nice and you have to love those promo commercials. Those commercials were so cheesily edited that you just have to adore it. You also have to give a nod to those commercial break jokes/facts. One fact started with “what food would never spoil?” after a few commercials the break would end and it answered “sugar never spoils unless you have water on it.” And of course after I heard that I put water in my family’s sugar container to see what would happen…my parents weren’t probably thrilled with that…
Image from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZpboko7tTE
Ending this trio channel battle we have The WB via Kids WB. When you think of your typical Saturday morning cartoon lineup, Kids WB probably matches it the best. You have superhero cartoons, Looney Toons-esque cartoons, celebrity cartoons, and anime. These programs were also not subpar and had a nice level of quality to them (well…at least most of them did…).
Okay, so you have Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain going off of the Looney Toons-styled cartoons. You also have the New Adventures of Batman and Superman which was later followed by X-Men: Evolution, Static Shock, Batman Beyond, and the Xeta Project. Of course, you also had Pokemon and Yugioh (which the latter came on as my interest in Saturday morning cartoons began to wane). Perhaps the oddball of the bunch was Jackie Chan Adventures whose basis sounds so…weird…that you would think it was destined to fail but it defied our expectations and was actually good!
The Batman and Superman cartoons were so awesome. I was actually more of a Superman fan when I was a kid so I liked watching his show more than Batman’s. I remember Kids WB had a contest where you had to write in a letter saying which superhero “kicked more booty” and I recalled that my brother and I said Superman while my sister said Batman (fyi, I now think it’s Batman). The string of superhero cartoons that followed were good but I liked the Batman and Superman cartoons better.
Pokemon was a definite show to watch but since Pokemon was shown on morning and afternoon weekdays, the pull for it wasn’t as strong as it could have been. However, they would premiere special episodes (e.g., Indigo League Championship) only on Saturdays and that was a very good reason to watch them. Yugioh’s more mature (I guess that’s the right word for it) anime appealed to my preteen persona so I would stick around to watch that show before I finally stopped watching cartoons.
I already wrote an article on Jackie Chan Adventures but I should at least give it a mention. This show should have, by all rights, failed and I’m glad it didn’t. The premise of the show sounds almost like a direct parody of other celebrity cartoons similar to Mike Tyson Mysteries. But the show was great as it established a mystical world setting, humorous characters, and Jackie Chan-styled fights. After the Batman and Superman show ended, I would go to Kids WB mainly for this show. That’s how appealing it was.
Alright, so, in the end, which channel can claim to be the Saturday Morning Cartoon Supreme Leader Channel??? After carefully reviewing the three channels I’m giving it to Kids WB! Unlike FoxKids, which mainly had Digimon, and One Saturday Morning, which had a rather narrow focus of show settings, Kids WB had a diverse selection of shows that appealed to a wide range of audiences. These shows were great and the channel offered a variety of characters, settings, and animation styles that really made it hard to best. And, let’s be honest here, Kids WB arsenal was Batman, Superman, Animaniacs, and Pokémon. That’s entertainment gold.
So, what do you guys think? I know I didn’t hit all of the cartoons for each block but there’s just way too many to list! Which channel did you watch the most of while growing up and what were your favorite Saturday Morning cartoons? I would love to hear your opinions!
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Doctor Who giveaway!
To celebrate the airing of the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special (just MINUTES away!), I’m giving away this very excellent “Conventional fan wisdom can bite me” mug. Inspired by something David wrote in one of our conversational reviews, I couldn’t resist turning it into mugs and t-shirts, and now you* can have one** too! All you have to do is leave a comment here, summing up “The Day of the Doctor” in a NON-SPOILERY way! Why non-spoilery? Because David hasn’t caught up yet and he won’t be able to watch it until he has! So let us know your thoughts on the anniversary special in a way that David could read, and one lucky commentator will win the gorgeous (and very practical) mug. CLOSES Saturday 30 November, 2013.
*Sorry, open to Australian commenters only (unless you’re happy to pay postage internationally!).
**Giveaway mug is not this one, because this one is mine… You (if you win) will get one the same, but in a box, brand new! 🙂
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Visual catch up, in lieu of actual content…
We’ve had a fairly busy few weeks round these parts. Two kids’ birthdays, school performance, fishing, parties with friends, job applications, lots of work stuff. But here are some photos from the goings on, in lieu of an actual decent catch up post!
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New Who in Conversation: Vincent and the Doctor / The Lodger S05E10/11
David is coming to New Who for the first time, having loved Classic Who as a kid. Tehani is a recent convert, and ploughed through Seasons 1 to 7 (so far) in just a few weeks after becoming addicted thanks to Matt Smith – she’s rewatching to keep up with David! Tansy is the expert in the team, with a history in Doctor Who fandom that goes WAY back, and a passion for Doctor Who that inspires us all.
We are working our way through New Who, using season openers and closers, and Hugo shortlisted episodes, and sometimes a couple of extra episodes we love as our blogging points. Just for fun! Tansy and Tehani love this season so much we’re making David do more work – we’re changing up our usual plan and reviewing each episode, in sets of two.
Season five, episode ten
The Doctor – Matt Smith
Amy Pond – Karen Gillan
TEHANI:
This is one of my very favourite stories so far. It always ALWAYS makes me cry (sometimes in different places), and I adore it for so many reasons, the guest actors Tony Curran and Bill Nighy being two of them.
TANSY:
I have an innate fondness for this story because of what it did for my daughter. Raeli must have been six or so when she watched it. I hesitated over showing it to her at first because of the darker themes of suicide and depression, but she took to it beautifully, allowing us to have a conversation about mental illness that was very important.
She also fell in love with Vincent’s artwork through this story. I sent her outside at a party once to play with chalks on the concrete and she recreated about four different Van Gogh paintings. With the Doctor Who twist on each, of course. It was a beautiful realisation, and her interest in art progressed from there – I later found her a gorgeous picture book called Vincent’s Colours which pairs lines from his letters to his brother with images of the paintings he is discussing. Continue reading →
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New Who in Conversation: The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood S05E08/09
We are working our way through New Who, using season openers and closers, and Hugo shortlisted episodes, and sometimes a couple of extra episodes we love as our blogging points. Just for fun!
“The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood”
Season five, episodes eight and nine
Rory Williams – Arthur Darvill
Well, I’d completely forgotten what this one was about until Tansy nudged me violently. And so I dove into rewatching with quiet joy, which I can’t talk at all about because of David (hurry up and CATCH UP!) 🙂
Looking back, I can’t quite tell why I would have forgotten it, because there’s some great stuff here. I have a feeling I confused it in my head with “The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People” from season six, which is silly because I like this loads better…
This two parter, and “Cold Blood” in particular, is my least favourite part of the season. There’s a lot to like here – and I do like many aspects, particularly the return and redesign of the Silurians, a lot of the dialogue, and the chilling bookend of Amy and Rory waving to themselves, and then Amy alone after Rory has disappeared. Acting highlights include Meera Syal as Nasreen Chaudry (blatantly auditioning for a run in the TARDIS) and the lovely Stephen Moore as the Silurian leader. Not to mention Neve McIntosh playing two distinct characters excellently beneath what could be quite unforgiving prosthetics.
The character of Ambrose is a big problem for me, largely because she is written and played so harshly that she is a) deeply unlikeable and b) consistently stupid. In fact, there is a term for her role in this story – the stupid ball – which means she is forced by the script to act in a stupid way, in order to make the plot work.
This might be less grating to me if it wasn’t for the fact that the other glaring problem of the story to me is also gendered. I quite like the idea of the military caste of the Silurians being represented by the women and the science/thinky caste being men, BUT what we get in the script is the female Silurians being violent and irrational and the male Silurians being calm, sensible and charming.
Darn it Tansy, I was so busy being impressed by the way the Silurian society worked I didn’t consider all that…
This combined with the violent and irrational Ambrose representing humans is … a bit icky to me. Even worse, the Doctor notes and condemns the irrational violence of Ambrose and the female Silurians, but embraces Dr Malokeh as a brother in science and generally finds him adorable despite the fact that Dr Malokeh has basically been quietly and gently torturing humans in the name of science.
But not the children! 🙂
The whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I’m not sure the men looked completely rosy though. Tony does suggest he’d betray humanity if Alaya cures him, and he also suggests dissecting her for defence purposes…
When I was making notes about this story, I wrote:
“Don’t forget Malokeh was dissecting humans!”
Admittedly I spelt his name wrong, but the point remains. He had been dissecting prisoners and, as Tansy points out, he basically gets a free pass from the Doctor.
I agree that the Doctor gives him a free pass, but he also gives Ambrose a free pass, despite the fact her actions led to such a terrible outcome (for Rory at least, if not necessarily the Silurians, because I kind of think there was no way almost-present-day society would have accepted them – we can’t even accept each other 😦 ). He wasn’t nearly so angry at her as I expected, given what happened.
He’s pretty scathing, I thought, and the scene at the end he appears quite contemptuous towards her, making it clear that her job is to make up for what she did by helping her son on his quest to “get humans ready” for the Silurians. So she doesn’t even get to redeem herself directly, either, only through her child!
Something I found interesting about this episode, though, was the many parallels between this story and the first appearance of the Silurians. You have the more moderate leader trying to rein in the younger hot head, the blinkered viewpoints of some of the key humans, the Doctor desperately trying to keep the peace, an accidental death derailing the best efforts of those trying to find common ground between the two species – and, of course, the Doctor enraged by humanity giving into its worst instincts and making his displeasure very clear. Obviously they invert some of the situations, but there are a lot of similarities.
Yes, I quite like that part. The actual shape of the story I don’t mind at all – even the mining set has a bit of the Pertwee vibe about it. And I haven’t forgotten that the Doctor being patronising about humans and violence and exhibiting double standards depending on how much he likes you is also a carry over from the Classic series.
Likewise, the Silurians here are given a much more complex and inclusive society than the rather dull men in rubber suits from the old days.
See, I have no idea what you’re talking about! I figured Silurians had appeared in the classic series, because it’s specifically discussed, but I’ve been tricked like that before!
I didn’t really understand the complete redesign of the Silurians, though I do think they looked good, I would have preferred to see an update of the classic design. I did like the subtle dig at the dodgy dating of the species, though!
I loved the prosthetics! Fantastic makeup and design, that’s for sure.
And a brilliant portrayal by Neve McIntosh as the female Silurians which, cough, will have far greater and more awesome ramifications.
Indeed… 🙂 I thought Amy and Rory were both excellent in this too – Amy once more charging into danger and poking her fingers in where she probably shouldn’t, and Rory being completely the “best of humanity” the Doctor is aiming for.
Yep, shame they killed Rory off at this point, he had real potential as a great companion. The scene in the TARDIS with Amy trying and failing to save his memory is one of the most genuinely emotionally excellent moments of Doctor Who. Chilling stuff.
Yes, a shame Rory is completely dead and gone now. Very sad. But it is absolutely a great scene, agreed.
I thought the scenes where you can see the couple in the distance, and then the changes, particularly effective.
But completely sad, right? Cos Rory’s dead, don’t you know? I just watched a bunch of Classic Who and it’s quite amazing how quickly they get over the loss of a companion – wonder how quickly Amy and the Doctor will move on…
We’ve already reviewed:
“Rose”, S01E01
“Dalek”, S01E06
“Father’s Day”, S01E08
“The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances”, S01E09/10
“Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways”, S01E12/13
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“The Christmas Invasion”, 2005 Christmas Special
“New Earth”, S02E01
“School Reunion”, S02E03
“The Girl in the Fireplace”, S02E04
“Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel”, S02E05/06
“Army of Ghosts/Doomsday”, S02E12/13
Season Two Report Card – David, Tansy, Tehani
“The Runaway Bride”, 2006 Christmas Special
“Smith and Jones”, S03E01
“The Shakespeare Code/Gridlock”, S03E02/E03
“Human Nature/The Family of Blood”, S03E08/E09
“Blink”, SO3E10 (with special guest reviewer Joanne Anderton)
“Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Timelords” S03E12/13/14
Classic Who Conversation podcast – Spearhead from Space (1970)
Season Three Report Card – David, Tansy, Tehani
Classic Who Conversation podcast – Genesis of the Daleks (1975)
“Partners in Crime”, S04E01 (with special guest reviewer Lynne M Thomas)
“The Sontaran Strategem/The Poison Sky”, S04E05/06
“Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead”, S04E09/10
“Turn Left”, S04E12
“The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End”, S04E13/14
Season Four Report Card – David, Tansy, Tehani
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“The Beast Below / Victory of the Daleks”, S05E02/03
“The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone”, S05E04/05
“The Vampires of Venice/Amy’s Choice”, S05E06/07
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Balanced Health Botanicals receives self-affirmed GRAS status
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Balanced Health Botanicals (BHB), the parent company of the fast-growing brand CBDistillery recently announced that the company’s hemp-derived full-spectrum CBD extract and isolate has got self-affirmed Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status. It is in accordance with the stringent safety guidelines by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The GRAS process entails an exhaustive review of food ingredients by independent toxicological experts in the industry to ensure that the food additives are safe to consume.
BHB follows various protocols and procedures to garner the trust of their customers and ensure their products are of premium quality and safe to use. Over the course of one year, they have collaborated with academic experts to create GRAS dossiers that were submitted then to a third-party panel of toxicologists to examine and determine the safety of their full-spectrum CBD extract and CBD isolate, and thus attaining the status of self-affirmed GRAS.
Chase Terwilliger, CEO of Balanced Health Botanicals said that as the leaders of the #CBDMOVEMENT, their first and foremost priority is consumer safety and the self-affirmed GRAS certification is a pivotal move for both BHB and the rapidly growing CBD industry.
Terwilliger further added that they are committed to providing safe and high-quality products, and they believe their customers deserve nothing less. The self-affirmed GRAS status is added to their list of industry-leading safety protocols.
All CBD companies should take the right steps to ensure consumer safety and should go through the GRAS process for their extracts.
As for Balanced Health Botanicals, it owns and operates some of the biggest brands in the hemp-derived CBD industry. It entails the widely popular CBDistillery, the flagship brand of BHB, and BOTA, luxurious plant-powered, hemp-derived CBD supplements and skincare products. Additionally, it also owns CBDistilleryRx, an exclusive line of broad-spectrum hemp-derived CBD products to help improve overall health and wellness.
FDA’s Stance on CBD Products
According to the Farm Bill in December 2018, hemp was legalized for recreational purposes with a maximum threshold of 0.3% THC per unit. THC or tetrahydro cannabidiol is a psychoactive substance found in marijuana plants, which produces a euphoria-like feeling and hallucinations that can affect your mental health.
Contrarily, CBD is an anti-inflammatory and non-psychoactive substance which is used in alleviating the symptoms of many diseases such as cancer, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s, Tourettes, and mental health disorders.
CBD is also popular in treating acute pain, aches, inflammation, stress, insomnia, depression, anxiety, muscle injury, rupture, fractures, joint pains, ligament pain, etc. While there is research that supports the medicinal claims of CBD and its effectiveness, the FDA is yet to permit it for regular use.
The only CBD based medicine approved by the FDA so far is Epidiolex, an oral solution, which is used for treating two rare and severe forms of epilepsy- Dravet syndrome and Lennox Gastaut syndrome. Despite the lack of clarity on the legality of CBD products for medicinal benefits, companies continue to hop on the CBD bandwagon offering a line of CBD products.
The FDA has started issuing warning letters to CBD brands that promote their products as an alternative to licensed medication or with medicinal claims. Curaleaf and Rooted Apothecary are some of the leading CBD brands that were warned by the FDA about their array of CBD products.
The agency had organized a public meeting back in May this year, however, there hasn’t been any concrete decision regarding CBD products. The FDA is yet to create a regulatory framework that could be looked up to while promoting, selling or consuming CBD based products.
About Balanced Health Botanicals
Balanced Health Botanicals (BHB) is one of the largest companies present in the hemp-derived CBD industry with a vertically integrated family of CBD brands including BOTA, CBDistillery, and CBDistilleryRx.
Flagship brand CBDistillerywas founded in 2016 in Denver to enter into an untapped market with high potential growth. It has, since then, evolved to become one of the largest and most affordable brands in the CBD market, and is sold in retailers nationwide.
CBDistilleryRx is a retail-exclusive line entailing broad-spectrum hemp-derived CBD products that combine the power of CBD with effective, and proven ingredients to help improve the overall health and wellness.
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Read an Exclusive Extract from The Black Archive: The Eleventh Hour
Not sure what to read next? Obverse Books has the answer, and has given the DWC an exclusive extract from The Black Archive #19: The Eleventh Hour!
It’s Eleventh Doctor Week at the Doctor Who Companion, so this sample takes us right back to the beginning of that era – Matt Smith’s debut episode, which also introduced Karen Gillan’s Amy Pond and Arthur Darvill’s Rory Williams. Here’s the synopsis for The Black Archive #19:
‘Oh, you sexy thing!’
With its fantastical imagery and its child’s eye view of the Doctor, The Eleventh Hour (2010) is a bold reinvention of a series that was radically reimagined only five years previously.
Drawing on elements of farce, fandom and fairytale, The Eleventh Hour’s games with the audience’s perceptions and expectations lay the groundwork for ideas that would play out during the whole of new showrunner Steven Moffat’s time with Doctor Who.
Jon Arnold has written two previous Black Archives, on Rose and Scream of the Shalka. He is fast becoming the go to guy for analyses of Doctor Who relaunches.
Indeed, Arnold wrote for the DWC about what makes his Black Archive #10: Scream of the Shalka unique – the discovery of Blood of the Robots:
“I contacted James Goss via Twitter, and again he was incredibly helpful with the details of what had happened after the production of Shalka. I knew there had been four pitches for the second story, Blood of the Robots and by Paul Cornell, but that left two submissions which we knew nothing of. James happily filled in those gaps, giving me further avenues to research. I could fill in the details of Cornell’s submission and one of the others but attempts to contact the author of the fourth proposal proved fruitless and I was only left with a tantalising outline of what might have been…”
In this exclusive extract from The Black Archive #19: The Eleventh Hour, Jon recalls then-new showrunner, Steven Moffat’s decision to cast Matt Smith, and briefly the theme of fairytales in this era of Doctor Who.
Download the sample by clicking here!
If you want further sneak peeks inside all the Black Archive titles – Rose, The Massacre, The Ambassadors of Death, Dark Water/ Death in Heaven, Image of the Fendahl, Ghost Light, The Mind Robber, The God Complex, Scream of the Shalka, The Evil of the Daleks, Pyramids of Mars, Human Nature/ The Family of Blood, The Ultimate Foe, Full Circle, Carnival of Monsters, The Impossible Planet/ The Satan Pit, Marco Polo, The Eleventh Hour, Face the Raven, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent, and The Curse of Fenric – visit the official Obverse website, and click on the respective books.
The Black Archive #19: The Eleventh Hour is out now, priced between £3.99 and £7.99. A physical copy costs just £4.99!
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Merchandise Monday – Downton Abbey Gets Stamp Deal
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First there was tea, then lotions and potions, and jewelry, and paint, and fabrics, and heaven only knows what else, except for stamps. But don’t fret my fellow Downtonians because now we will have stamps in the near future.
Knockout Licensing has granted the U.S.-based Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation the rights to create Downton Abbey Postage Stamps as well as Protective Stamp Albums, Presentation Art Frames, and other philatelic items.
“We are delighted to put our stamp of approval on this deal with IGPC,” says Carole Postal, co-president, Knockout. “IGPC impressed us not only with the quality of their postage stamp designs, but also their knowledge of the international stamp industry, close relationships with official government postal authorities and large distribution network of international stamp dealers.”
(Did the Knockout co-president intend to make a pun? Or was “putting our stamp of approval” on a stamp design unintentional? Either way, it made me chuckle.)
IGPC is looking forward to working with the team at Knockout Licensing and NBCUniversal, as well as Postmasters General at our government postal authority clients, to create beautiful Downton Abbey postage stamps, which will be not only great items for fans and collectors, but also a wonderful testament to the worldwide popularity of this captivating television program,” says Yossi Malamud, executive vice president, IGPC
“Whether it is used for postage fees on envelopes mailed internationally or as a unique collectible treasured by international stamp collectors and enthusiasts, an official government issued postage stamp serves as a travelling ambassador of the nation for which it was created,” says IGPC Executive Vice President Yossi Malamud. “IGPC is looking forward to working with the team at Knockout Licensing and NBCUniversal as well as Postmasters General at our government postal authority clients to create beautiful Downton Abbey postage stamps which will be not only great items for fans and collectors but also a wonderful testament to the worldwide popularity of this captivating television program.”
I can’t wait to see what countries will have Downton Abbey stamps. It doesn’t really matter what countries though, because I plan on collecting all of them!
~~~ Happy Shopping ~~~
Will Farrell “figure skates” to Downton Theme
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On the Tonight Show, Will Farrell combined his love for ice skating and Downton Abbey (which he has never seen) in to a routine as Carson, the Butler.
Check it out and see if he would have won a medal in Sochi:
Wonder what Carson would like in a skin tight tuxedo??? May we NEVER find out!!!
The New Men of Downton Abbey Pose for Vogue
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Downton Abbey has old and new characters this season. Among those new characters are three handsome men who happen to be inside the February issue of Vogue. Julian Overden (aka Charles Blake), Tom Cullen (aka Anthony Foyle, Lord Gillingham), and Gary Carr (aka Jack Ross) are seen looking dapper and picture perfect.
They even dished about their time filming Downton.
Cullen, on refining his natural Wales accent to that of a British aristocrat: “I pretend to be my English grandmother. She’s so posh her jaw doesn’t move when she speaks.”
Ovenden, on the contentious relationship between Charles Blake and Lady Mary: “He stays in the house, which is awkward, but they discover things about each other that are perhaps less different.”
Carr, on his character possibly encountering racism: “As a black man in the twenties, he’s already a celebrity. He doesn’t have such a chip on his shoulder. He’s wearing tails and sharp suits. It’s really great.”
Looking good, gentlemen.
Merchandise Monday – Pride and Prejudice: Keepsake Edition
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Okay, I know you shouldn’t start an article with “woohoo” but I am so excited I just had to “woohoo”.
There is a new version of Pride and Prejudice out on Blu-ray!!! It is the Pride And Prejudice: Keepsake Edition Blu-ray and includes new featurettes.
The mini-series is the granddame of period costume dramas. In my opinion, if this version of Pride and Prejudice hadn’t been made then Downton Abbey and other period costume dramas would never been made. This film has inspired countless other period costume dramas and for good reason.
In 1995, the BBC and A&E collaborated in to bring Jane Austen’s clasic 1813 Regency romance Pride and Prejudice to television. It stars Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy (((swoon))) and American Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth “Lizzy” Bennet.
I remember watching it on PBS and being mesmerized. The costumes and the music were wonderful. It was charming and captivated and you could lose yourself in Regency romance for a few hours. The story was told almost just like the book which is always admirable. And who can forget the Pemberly pond scene!!! Okay. So, that wasn’t in the book but in my mind, Jane Austen would have approved of that little bit of delicious artist licesne. I just had to buy the VCR version of the series. It was 5 tapes long and was $89!! That was a lot of money for 1995 but so worth it. Shoot, that is a lot of money for 2014! And then it came out in DVD and I bought that and that was worth the money. The Blu-ray came out but I never got around to getting that version but it was always on my Christmas list. But I will certainly be getting this version.
The Blu-ray extras include ” ’Pride and Prejudice:’ A Turning Point for Period Drama,” “The Definitive ’Pride and Prejudice,’” “Love or Money? Courtship and Marriage in ’Pride and Prejudice,’ ” “The Music of ’Pride and Prejudice,” “Lifestyles of the Wealth in Early 19th Century England,” “Technical Restoration,” and “Lasting Impressions.”
“Pride And Prejudice: Keepsake Edition” Blu-ray Set is $29.99 and available at Shop PBS. And if you act quickly, you can get 20% off until 11:59pm PT on 2/10/14.
Porn Parady of Downton Abbey! Oh My!!
It was just a matter of time, I suppose. But Downton Abbey now has the distinction of being an adult (a.k.a. porn) parody.
Down on Abby has been produced by Harmony Films. It is an adult parody of our favorite show set at Bottomley Manor, with characters including Lord and Lady Grabhem, and their stepdaughters Abby and Fanny. The servant’s name is, of course, Master Bates.
“As Down on Abby is our first foray into the world of adult parody and with Harmony being a British studio, it was a no brainer that our first offering would be with something that is quintessentially British,” James Wright, Harmony’s VP of sales and marketing, explained.
Filming has already been completed on the steamy film – with a release date set for April 1st.
Just a guess, but I am thinking that the costuming budget on this film was fairly low.
And I’m pretty sure if you ask yourself “What would the Dowager Countess do?”, the answer would be to not watch this. Considering that Ethel got the sack for “getting it on” in a closet with the Major that porn would be considered déclassé. But who am I to judge???
Downton Abbey goes to the Cats
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Ever wondered what would happen if cats ruled the world? The Pets Alive animal rescue in Middletown, New York remade the opening of Downton Abbey to show us exactly what it would look like.
Sort of scary, if you ask me. Cat domination might be right around the corner. EGADS!!!
And don’t worry, no animals were hurt in the making of this film and all cats are available for adoption. (Just click the Pets Alive logo below to get to their site.)
Merchandise Monday – Downton Abbey: The Board Game
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Are you bored during the week waiting for Sunday night so you can watch Downton Abbey again? Don’t fret. There is a new board game to keep you entertained until the next installment of our favorite family and staff is available.
The $64.99 game (£21.99 in the UK) is being sold on Amazon and is based on our beloved Downton Abbey characters.
“The fast moving game that transports you into the world of Downton Abbey. As maid or footman, you have to complete the tasks you are given as quickly and efficiently as possible. Starting in the Servants’ Hall, each player is dealt Destination cards which have varying values indicated by the number of bells on the card. This relates to how important or difficult the task is. The player must then navigate their way around the corridors and stairs of the Abbey, throwing the dice to determine how many moves they can make. Once they reach the destination of a task, they collect their bell tokens, and the next player throws the dice to set off for the next job. But nothing is that simple! Along the way, a player can land on a ‘Carson Card’ space and have to take a card, which could either help or hinder them. On other spaces, the players may have to collect a ‘Letter’ which could call them away from the Abbey, slowing them down, or costing them bells! And which route will they take? A short easy looking one to get a job done earning only one bell, or a longer route with the possibility of collecting a higher reward? The winner is the player who has completed all their jobs and collected the most bells. Good luck and enjoy the game!”
It sounds a lot like cross between Monopoly and Clue but without Park Place and Colonel Mustard in the drawing room. Since I have always loved Clue and Monopoly and I definitely love Downton Abbey, this is going on my wish list. (But I won’t be playing with my sister – she cheats when we play board games, just like I imagine Thomas would do if he played board games.)
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Chat live with Downton Abbey’s Gary Carr Monday at 12n ET with Masterpiece on PBS.org
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We met the American jazz singer Jack Ross on Downton Abbey a few weeks ago. Did you know Gary Carr’s character is based on a real-life cabaret star Leslie Hutchinson, who had scandalous affairs with white British socialites?
Best known for his role in Death in Paradise along with roles in Bluestone 42 and Foyle’s War, Carr will participate in a live chat with Masterpiece on Monday, February 3 at 12n ET on PBS.org.
Get your questions ready and find out what it has been like for Carr to join the cast of Downton Abbey.
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Akindiji Olateru married late. His first child Omoyeni was about the age of the last children of his contemporaries
that is if they had many children. Well, age is one thing, maturity is another. That boy had proven to be a man. Shortly after Omoyeni finished his secondary school education, he, Akindiji fell ill. For three and a half years Omoyeni took care of him as they moved from hospital to hospital in search of a cure. It was also a financially rough time yet the boy was a pillar managing everything and everyone. He was so efficient that his mother could stay back and take care of his
two younger sisters.
Akindiji remembered the day he apologized to his son for disrupting his education. He lay on the sickbed weak and in pains. Omoyeni held his hands and smiled. “Daddy don’t worry” he said. “I can always get a degree anytime. Let me take care of you. Of what use will it be flaunting a certificate and living with a guilty conscience as to whether or not I did my best for you. I can always get a degree but no one can replace my father.”
Whenever Akindiji remembered those words just like the first time, he became teary-eyed. But from that moment, his health improved drastically. What a son! he vowed to reward him. The boy will get half of all his properties as a sign of his gratitude. His sisters will share the other half between them. It was a large estate anyway, so everyone will be happy.
Omoyeni was 21. The storm was finally over. Thankfully no one had drowned. He gained admission to study Agriculture and Economics. Leaving home was not easy. He had to put the house in order, make adequate arrangements for his father’s check-ups and take care of everyone. By the time he arrived at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta all the hostels had been fully occupied so he had to stay off campus. That was how Omoyeni landed at No. 12 Olukale Street, Isolu, Abeokuta.
Chief Odenigbo owned Ibuzo Lodge. It was the house he lived in in Orlu before moving to Owerri. When he left, he turned it into a lodge-Ibuzo Lodge. It became the unofficial State house in Orlu, accommodating top government officials, expatriates and very important personalities. Everyone loved Ibuzo. It had the luxury of a five star hotel yet it felt like a home.
Something else made Ibuzo special. Because it isn’t always occupied, there were no permanent stewards. The status of the guests determined the type of steward engaged. Even locals were often drafted. There’s a popular tale of a sitting governor who went there in disguise. He was so impressed by the community member who waited on him that he offered him a job. This made everyone in Orlu look forward to being at Ibuzo Lodge. It might just be your good day. Hoteliers in Orlu despised Chief Odenigbo on account of Ibuzo Lodge but he couldn’t be bothered. It was one of the ways he remained relevant to the government and kept his hold on the people.
Lolo Odenigbo figured that Secondary school students would suffice to wait on the present occupants. The girls could assist the man’s wife if need be after school or on Saturdays. The woman seemed capable and Lolo liked her.
The students were having the time their lives. Working at Ibuzo turned out to be some sort of finishing school for them. The lady taught them A lot of things. Etiquette, Food recipes, Academics. She even listened to them and guided them on their adolescent issues. Ibuzo couldn’t be any better!
Segun was never a problem for Omoyeni. The latter treated the former like a television- to be switched on for only important things else it becomes an unnecessary distraction. He paid his rent on time and other levies. Even when Segun chose to be unnecessarily difficult and highhanded, Omoyeni ignored him.
The other students in the house often argued over what Segun’s real age was but Omoyeni never bothered. If there was one thing his father’s illness taught him, it was that life is too short to be spent on frivolities, quarrelling and rancour shouldn’t spoil the joys of everyday living. This made Omoyeni greet Segun, call him Mr and addressed him as Sir.
Omoyeni was the one who stayed the longest. Others couldn’t stay beyond a year. Omoyeni was in his final year. He had only six months to go…
Njideka’s version of what happened at Ibuzo Lodge was the most colorful and comprehensive.
“Mama, we will no longer break spaghetti. We will cook it like that. If you want to eat it you will use your fork to pick two or three strands turn it around until everything us around your fork. It is called twirling”
She narrated everything that happened there. They learnt how to make
Bolognese sauce, Spanish omelette, Irish Shortbread, American burger.
‘Chei, Auntie is very nice.’ She beamed. ‘If you want mama, I can take you there. She is very humble. She will welcome you well.”
It took a few minutes for the meaning of those words to sink in but when they did, things started to happen. She, Mrs. Agwu, on her daughter’s instance, could go to Ibuzo lodge. She had never been there, there had been no cause to go there. But this opportunity will not slip away. She must go there!
When her husband came in, she ran the plan by him. He did not buy the idea at all.
“You are a retired headmaster, I am a serving headmistress. We are important people in this community. Let us mingle with important people too.” She said.
Her husband turned down the plan. She insisted saying the same thing in different ways. He was resilient.
Then she started panting and fuming, sitting and standing, picking things and dropping them. Her voice was getting louder with each new set of banter.
Linus Agwu knew his wife was desperate and in that state, she could do anything like go to Ibuzo lodge without him. To do what? To say what?
He loved his wife Christiana Agwu. A woman who managed a household of four children with their meager salary was a strong woman. Her type were the real ministers of finance. However, he had realized early in life that he would need to use his good sense of humour to cover for her indiscretions.
” Ngwa, let’s go” he said, resigned.
Mrs Agwu sprang to her feet. She had the evening all planned out. She would wear the red gown she got from Nwunye Otiti(Otiti’s wife). She was yet to balance her 2500 but it didn’t matter.
As she rubbed and combed and patted, a thought flashed. She had to spread this good news in school tomorrow. She would call a meeting. An emergency. No. That will be just one opportunity. Then she smiled. Every teacher deserved another set of pens for this good news. No. That’s too much. One each will do. Some black, some blue, some red.
Instead of taking it to them, Stella will go and call them one by one to sign for it in her office. She rehearsed how to tell them. To one, she will say “how do you spend your evenings. I spend mine discussing with very important personalities. Last night I was at ibuzo lodge…”.
To another it will be “it is good to train children well, because my daughter Njideka is a good example, we were invited to Ibuzo lodge….”
Sylvia’s turn will be most direct. She will say “because we are respected members of this community, we often meet with other important personalities. Last night we were with Mr and Mrs ….. at Ibuzo lodge..”
She was happy. Very happy.
“I’m ready.” She said. Bursting into the living room.
Mr Agwu went out of the house. He was soon on the road.
“Where are you going to?” She screamed from the yard.
He walked back into the compound towards her reducing the need for a raised voice.
” Ibuzo is walking distance, isn’t it? ” he asked.
“I cannot go there like a commoner” she retorted.
“Take” she handed him the car keys.
They all sat in the car. Even red tiger wasn’t in the mood for Ibuzo. It refused to start.
” Try, biko try” mrs Agwu kept urging her husband. “This car can be stubborn at times”.
At the 15th attempt, red tiger woke up. The engine started bleating like a goat, then it roared like a hungry tiger. Of course it was hungry. Hungry for oil, hungry for fuel, hungry for care.
Off they went.
The final part of Little Power People will be posted next week.
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The ESPN Football Power Index (FPI), which projects the 1-32 first-round order by simulating the remainder of the season 10,000 times, has the Cincinnati Bengals as the overwhelming favorites to pick No. 1 overall, followed by the New York Giants, Miami Dolphins and Washington Redskins.
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Buffalo's top three priorities for the offseason, in order: playmakers, playmakers and playmakers. Receiver John Brown infused life into the Bills' passing game, but there remains a lack of dynamic playmakers at the skill positions. Luckily, this year's receiver class is expected to be among the best ever, and there should be plenty of opportunities for Buffalo to add a difference-maker. Edge rusher and outside linebacker should also be addressed, though the Bills might have an easier time doing so via free agency. -- Marcel Louis-Jacques
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The Steelers traded away their first-round pick for the first time since 1967, but given how quickly and how significantly safety Minkah Fitzpatrick has contributed this season, Pittsburgh is plenty fine with sitting out the first night. When their first pick of the draft comes up in the second round -- projected to be in the 50s -- the Steelers will need to target offensive skill players. The team has cobbled together skill players around Devlin Hodges and Mason Rudolph this season, but the Steelers need an NFL-ready receiver (or running back) who can make an impact immediately in what could be one of Ben Roethlisberger's final seasons. -- Brooke Pryor
For the second time in three years, the Texans won't have a first-round pick, having used draft capital to instead make gains through trades. Nor will they have a third-round draft pick -- unless they receive a compensatory pick for safety Tyrann Mathieu -- after trading for LT Laremy Tunsil, WR Kenny Stills, RB Duke Johnson Jr. and CB Gareon Conley since cutdown day. -- Sarah Barshop
The Colts used seven of 10 draft picks on defensive players in the 2019 draft, and now they need to shift to the offensive side of the ball. They are set at running back with Marlon Mack, who is on pace to rush for 1,000 yards for the first time in his three-year career, but the absence of T.Y. Hilton has shown the need for an upgrade at receiver to help Hilton and to step into the No. 1 role if Hilton is unavailable. The Colts have struggled to find a go-to player in the six games Hilton has missed this season. -- Mike Wells
Projected first-round picks: Nos. 8, 19
Thanks to the Jalen Ramsey trade, the Jaguars have two first-round picks. That's good because there are needs at nearly every position. Offensive line should be the top priority, followed closely by the interior defensive line and linebacker. The biggest unknown, however, is who will be in charge of making the picks. Owner Shad Khan might clean house after another disappointing season, potentially dumping executive VP Tom Coughlin, GM Dave Caldwell and coach Doug Marrone. -- Mike DiRocco
Tom Coughlin and the Jaguars have two first-round picks to try to get back to the playoffs. Logan Bowles/Getty Images
The Titans might not find themselves in need of spending an early pick on a quarterback this season thanks to the rebirth of Ryan Tannehill. Given where they will likely be selecting, they probably wouldn't be in position to take one of the top prospects anyway. Now they can turn their focus to the best player available, which should fit a variety of needs, considering that they have 23 pending free agents. Cornerback, outside linebacker, running back, tight end and offensive tackle all figure to be areas the team will need to address. -- Turron Davenport
The Broncos project to have 12 picks in April's draft, and it is one of the most important drafts of John Elway's tenure as chief decision-maker. After stumbles in the 2016 and 2017 drafts, the Broncos have righted themselves in the previous two. One more quality run through April and an already young team could be poised to compete for a playoff spot. There were 12 players from the 2018 and 2019 drafts combined in uniform for Sunday's win in Houston. The Broncos need to stick to the formula that has been best for them and lean toward multiyear starters in college, team captains and established résumés. -- Jeff Legwold
Cornerback is a position to watch for the Chiefs in the draft. Three of their five -- Bashaud Breeland, Kendall Fuller and Mo Claiborne -- are in the final seasons of their contracts. The Chiefs could be looking for a starter and perhaps a nickelback. -- Adam Teicher
With quarterback Philip Rivers turning 38 last week and in the final year of his contract, the Chargers should be looking to select his eventual replacement early in the draft. The Bolts also have to replenish an aging offensive line that has been banged up this season, so QB and offensive tackle should be high on the list for L.A. in 2020. -- Eric D. Williams
Projected first-round picks: Nos. 11, 16
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The Raiders have two first-round picks next spring -- their own and the Bears' from the Khalil Mack trade -- and have two glaring and specific needs: a true No. 1 receiver and a middle linebacker. Oakland thought it had a WR1 in Antonio Brown until his histrionics prompted his being cut, and Vontaze Burfict was the defense's quarterback at middle linebacker until the league slapped him with a season-long suspension. Nailing those two positions in the draft would accelerate this rebuilding project in the franchise's first year in Las Vegas. -- Paul Gutierrez
At least the Cowboys will have a first-round pick in 2020. They were more than willing to sit out Day 1 in 2019 after giving up their top pick to Oakland for receiver Amari Cooper. But they have received little production from their 2019 rookie class for a variety of reasons and need to make sure they hit on their first-rounder in April. The Cowboys contemplated giving up a first-round pick to the Jets for Jamal Adams but did not give in to the Jets' wishes. Now the Cowboys' pick could be a lot higher than many imagined at the start of the season -- perhaps high enough for them to consider a top defensive tackle, safety or cornerback to help a defense that could see change through free agency. -- Todd Archer
It's likely that the Giants are going to pick in the top six for the third straight year. The previous two drafts landed them running back Saquon Barkley and quarterback Daniel Jones. This year, they need a defensive player, preferably a pass-rusher (maybe Ohio State defensive end Chase Young). The Giants are desperate for defensive playmakers, even if the need for offensive line help holds true for the eighth straight year. -- Jordan Raanan
Ohio State pass-rusher Chase Young, seen as the top edge rusher in the Class of 2020, has 16.5 sacks this season. Adam Lacy/Icon Sportswire
The Eagles will be on the hunt for a difference-making wide receiver. That has been a blind spot in recent seasons: Of the six receivers drafted since 2014 -- Jordan Matthews, Josh Huff, Nelson Agholor, Shelton Gibson, Mack Hollins and rookie J.J. Arcega-Whiteside -- only Agholor and Arcega-Whiteside remain, and they have a combined 464 receiving yards this season. With DeSean Jackson and Alshon Jeffery in the twilight of their careers, Philadelphia needs to find some legit WR weapons to pair with Carson Wentz long term. -- Tim McManus
The Redskins need help at multiple premium positions, including left tackle, with the likelihood of Trent Williams being dealt in the offseason, and cornerback, where Josh Norman probably will be cut. They also need help at skill spots on offense, from another pass-catching tight end to another top receiver talent. Washington probably will have eight draft picks, thanks to compensatory selections, but it doesn't have a second-rounder. Trading Williams would bring back a good pick or two, but with so many needs, it'll be tough for Washington to fill them all in one draft. -- John Keim
The Bears have to find a reliable pass-catching tight end to replace veteran Trey Burton, who is guaranteed $4 million of his 2020 base salary if he's still on the roster by the third day of the upcoming league year. The odds of Burton and former second-round pick Adam Shaheen being on the roster next season are not promising. Both struggled to stay healthy or offer much production at important positions -- the "U" and "Y" tight end spots -- in Matt Nagy's offense. The Bears are finally getting some decent play from tight ends J.P. Holtz and Jesper Horsted, but investing at least one draft pick on a higher-profile prospect at the position makes a lot of sense. -- Jeff Dickerson
Somehow, despite having a need the past three seasons and giving Trey Flowers monster offseason money, the Lions still need a pass-rusher. Detroit is trending toward a top-five pick, which is good news in the chase for Chase Young. The Lions continue to have other holes to fill (cornerback and linebacker), but finding an edge rusher who can become a star needs to be priority No. 1. -- Michael Rothstein
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The Packers haven't drafted a receiver in the first round since Javon Walker in 2002. It might be time to break that trend, given the dearth of playmakers at Aaron Rodgers' disposal. It is Davante Adams and a bunch of former undrafted free agents atop the depth chart. Former fifth-round pick Marquez Valdes-Scantling has disappeared late in the season. GM Brian Gutekunst went all-in on defense last offseason. He'll have to address the other side of the ball this time around. It's time to get Rodgers some top-notch help. -- Rob Demovsky
Remember Mike Zimmer's "just one more" stance on cornerbacks? Given the uncertainty beyond this season for Xavier Rhodes, Trae Waynes and Mackensie Alexander in Minnesota, the Vikings might opt to use a high draft pick on a cornerback to retool their secondary should any of the aforementioned names not be part of the team next season. Minnesota has drafted four cornerbacks in the first or second round since 2013, choosing to develop that position with homegrown talent over signing pricey defensive backs in free agency. -- Courtney Cronin
The Falcons need to find pass-rush help immediately. Their ugly cap situation for 2020 means they probably won't be able to lure a top-flight edge rusher in free agency. Although this draft class might lack dominant pass-rushers, the Falcons -- and whoever is calling the shots next season -- need to find a gem among the draftees. Vic Beasley Jr., the league leader in sacks in 2016, leads the team with six sacks, but he's unlikely to be back next season, given his inconsistency. Former first-round pick Takk McKinley still needs some work. -- Vaughn McClure
Much depends on what the Panthers decide to do with quarterback Cam Newton and how he recovers from foot surgery. If the Panthers release him, quarterback moves to the top of their board, despite their having used a third-round pick on Will Grier in 2019. Even if they keep Newton, they might want to use a first- or second-round pick on a signal-caller with Newton, 30, entering the last year of his deal. Carolina needs long-term insurance, and the new coach will want to build around his guy just as Ron Rivera did when he took Newton with the top pick in 2011. After that, the Panthers will look to rebuild the interior lines on both sides of the ball. The defensive front especially needs an overhaul, with several players at the end of deals and getting up there in age. -- David Newton
Ron Rivera has already been fired, and the Panthers could part ways with Cam Newton, too. Grant Halverson/Getty Images
The Saints will have only one pick in the top 90 or so because they traded away their second-rounder to move up for center Erik McCoy this year and should be picking late in every round. But they can always move up again, and you'd have to imagine that wide receiver will be a top target in a draft class that is supposed to be loaded with good ones. Michael Thomas has nearly 100 more receptions than any other receiver on the team. -- Mike Triplett
Coach Bruce Arians said he's more concerned about winning than draft position. But the Bucs' wins will cost them valuable draft real estate. If they were 3-10 and hadn't won their past three games, they'd hold a top-five pick. But because they've been eliminated from playoff contention, they can't pick lower than 20th. -- Jenna Laine
The Cardinals have their quarterback, so now it's time to get Kyler Murray some help. Arizona's approach to its first-round pick this year should focus on wide receiver, offensive line or defensive line. The Cardinals need a true No. 1 receiver who can take Larry Fitzgerald's place whenever he retires. They also need to add more athleticism on the offensive line to help execute Kliff Kingsbury's up-tempo offense, and they need a high-impact defensive lineman who can take some pressure off Chandler Jones. -- Josh Weinfuss
The Rams traded their 2020 first-round pick, along with a 2021 first-round and 2021 fourth-round pick, to the Jaguars in October in exchange for cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who now awaits what is expected to be an NFL-record payday. Unless the Rams trade into the first round, they will go five years without making a first-round selection. Look for them to try to find value in the middle rounds, especially on the offensive line, where depth is a concern. -- Lindsey Thiry
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After trading premium picks for defensive end Dee Ford and receiver Emmanuel Sanders, the Niners are slated to pick in the first round and not again until Round 5. That's a long wait for a team that has used the middle rounds to find starters such as Fred Warner, Deebo Samuel and Ahkello Witherspoon in recent years. As it stands, San Francisco has six picks in the 2020 draft, with only one of those in the first two days. It wouldn't be surprising if the Niners move down or out of the first round to add more capital for Rounds 2-4. -- Nick Wagoner
Eight of the 16 Seahawks who are scheduled to become unrestricted free agents are either starters or regular contributors along the offensive and defensive lines. The team agreed to not use the franchise tag on perhaps the most important of those players, Jadeveon Clowney, which will complicate efforts to re-sign him. Assuming some of those eight will be lost to free agency, it could be a lineman-heavy draft for the Seahawks. It's a good thing they won't be strapped for picks like they were last year, when they had a league-low four of them before trading Frank Clark the week of the draft. -- Brady Henderson
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Machine Learning – CS50 Podcast, Ep. 6
SPEAKER: This is CS50. [MUSIC PLAYING] DAVID MALAN: Hello world. This is the CS50 podcast. My name is David Malan. And I’m here with CS50’s
own Colton, no Brian Yu. BRIAN YU: Hi everyone. DAVID MALAN: So Colton could
no longer be here today. He’s headed out west. But I’m so thrilled that
CS50’s own Brian Yu’s, indeed, now with us for our discussion
today of machine learning. This was the most asked about
topic in a recent Facebook poll that CS50 conducted. So let’s dive right in. Machine learning is certainly all
over the place these days in terms of the media and so forth. But I’m not sure I’ve really
wrapped my own mind around what machine learning is and what its
relationship to artificial intelligence is. Brian, our resident expert, would you
mind bring me and everyone up to speed? BRIAN YU: Yeah, of course. Machine learning is
sometimes a difficult topic to really wrap your
head around, because it comes in so many different
forms and different shapes. But, in general, when I think
about machine learning, the way I think about it is how a
computer is performing a task. And usually when we’re programming
a computer to be able to do a task, we’re giving it very explicit
instructions– do this. And if this is true, then do
that or do this some number of times using a for loop, for example. But in machine learning, what we do
is, instead of giving the computer explicit instructions
for how to do something, we, instead, give the
computer instructions for how to learn to do something on its own. So instead of giving it instructions
for how to perform a task, we’re teaching computer
how to learn for itself and how to figure out how to
perform some kind of task on it. DAVID MALAN: And I do feel like
I hear about machine learning and AI, artificial intelligence,
almost always in the same breath. But is there a distinction
between the two? BRIAN YU: Yeah, there is. So artificial intelligence or AI
is usually a little bit broader. It used to describe any situation
where a computer is acting rationally or intelligently. Machine learning is a
way of getting computers to act rationally or intelligently
by learning from patterns and learning from data and being
able to learn from experiences. But there are certainly forms of AI
of being able to act intelligently that don’t require the computer to
actually be able to learn, for example. DAVID MALAN: OK. And I feel like I’ve certainly heard
about artificial intelligence, AI, especially for at least 20 years, if
not 30 or 40, especially in the movies or anytime there’s some
sort of robotic device. Like, artificial intelligence has
certainly been with us for some time. But I feel like there’s
quite the buzz around machine learning, specifically these days. So what is it that has changed in
recent months, recent years that put this at the top of this poll,
even among CS50’s own students? BRIAN YU: Yeah, so a couple of
things have changed, certainly. One has definitely been just an
increase in the amount of data that we have access to– the big
companies that have a lot of data from people on the internet that are
using devices and going on websites, for instance. There’s a lot of data that
companies have access to. And as we talk about
machine learning, you’ll soon see that a lot of the way that
these machine learning algorithms work is that they depend upon
having a lot of data from which to draw understanding
from and to try and analyze in order to make predictions or
draw conclusions, for example. DAVID MALAN: So, then,
is it fair to say, because I have more familiarity
myself with networking and hardware and so forth that because we just have
so much more disk space available to us now and such higher CPU rates at which
machines can operate that that’s partly what’s driven this that we now
have the computational abilities to answer these questions? BRIAN YU: Yeah, absolutely. I would say that’s a
big contributing factor. DAVID MALAN: So if we
go down that road, like, at what point are the algorithms
really getting fundamentally smarter or better, as opposed to
the computers just getting so darn fast that they can just
think so many steps ahead and just come up with a compelling
answer to some current problem quicker than, say, a human? BRIAN YU: Yeah, it’s a good question. And the algorithms that we have
right now tend to be pretty good. But there’s a lot of
research that’s happening in machine learning
right now about like, trying to make these algorithms better. Right now, they’re pretty accurate. Can we make them even more accurate,
given the same amount of data? Or even given less data–
can we make our algorithms able to be able to perform tasks
effectively just as effectively? DAVID MALAN: OK, all right. Well, so I feel like the
type of AI or machine learning that I grew up with
or knew about or heard about was always related to, like, games. Like, chess was a big one. I knew Google made a big splash
with Go some years ago– the game, not the language– and then
video games more generally. Like, if you ever wanted to play
back in the ’80s against the “CPU,” quote, unquote, I’m pretty sure it
was mostly just random at the time. But there’s certainly
been some games that are ever more sophisticated
where it’s actually really hard to beat the computer or
really easy to beat the computer, depending on the settings you choose. So how are those kinds
of games implemented when there’s a computer playing the human? BRIAN YU: Yeah, so this an
area, a very development in the last couple of decades that 30
years ago was unimaginable probably that a computer could beat a
human at chess, for example. But now, the best computers can
easily beat the best humans. No question about it. And one of the ways that you do this
is via form of machine learning known as reinforcement learning. And the idea of this is just letting
a computer learn from experience. So if you want to train a
computer to be good at chess, you could try and give
it instructions about you thinking of strategies yourself as
the human and telling the computer. But then the computer can only
ever be as good as you are. But in reinforcement
learning, what we do is, you let the computer play
a bunch of chess games. And when the computer loses, it’s
able to learn from that experience, figure out what to do and then in
the future, know to do less of that. And if the computer wins, then whatever
it did to get to that position, it can do more of that. And so you imagine just having
a computer play millions and millions and millions of games. And eventually, it starts to build
up this intelligence, so to speak, of knowing what worked
and what didn’t work. And so in the future of being
able to get better and a better at playing this game. DAVID MALAN: So is this all that
different from even the human and the animal world
where, like, if humans have tried to domesticate animals
or pets where you sort of reinforce good behavior positively and negatively
reinforce, like, bad behavior? I mean, is that essentially what
we’re doing with our computers? BRIAN YU: Yeah, it’s
inspired by the same idea. And when a computer does something
right or does something in the works, you give the computer a reward, so to
speak, is what people actually call it. And then there’s the penalty if the
computer isn’t able to perform as well. And so you just train the computer
algorithm to maximize that reward, whether that reward is the result of
like winning a game of chess or a robot being able to move a
certain number of paces. And the result is that
with enough training, you end up with a computer that
can actually perform the task. DAVID MALAN: Fascinating. So I feel like another
buzzword these days is, like, smart city where somehow, cities
are using computer science and using software more sophisticatedly. And I gather that you can even
use this kind of reinforcement learning for, like, traffic
lights, even in our human world? BRIAN YU: Yeah. So traffic lights traditionally
are just controlled by a timer that after a certain number of
seconds, the traffic light switches. But recently, there’s been growth in,
like, AI-controlled traffic lights where you have traffic lights that
are connected to radar and cameras. And that can actually
see, like, when the cars are approaching in different places– what times of day they tend to approach. And so you can begin to,
like, train an AI traffic light to be able to predict,
all right, when should I be switching lights and maybe even
having traffic lights coordinated across multiple intersections
across the city to try and figure out what’s the best
way to flip the lights in order to make sure that people are able to
get through those intersections quickly. DAVID MALAN: So that’s
pretty compelling, because I’m definitely in
Cambridge, been, like, in a car and stopped at a traffic light. And there’s, like, no one around. And you wish it would just
notice either via sensor or timer or whatever that, like, this is
clearly not the most efficient use of, like, anyone’s time. So that’s pretty amazing that it could
adapt sort of seamlessly like that. Though, what is the
relationship between AI and the buttons that the
humans pushed across the street that according to
various things I’ve read are actually placebos and don’t
actually do anything and in some cases, aren’t even connected to wires. BRIAN YU: I’m not actually sure. I’ve also heard that
they may be placebos. I’ve also heard that, like, the
elevator close button is also a placebo that you press that. And it sometimes doesn’t actually work. DAVID MALAN: Yes, I’ve read
it even, which not necessarily authoritative source. There is, like, a photo
where someone showed a door close button had fallen off. But there was nothing behind it. Now, could have been photoshop. But I think there’s evidence
of this, nonetheless. BRIAN YU: It might be the case. I don’t think there’s
any AI happening there. But I think it’s more just psychology
of the people and trying to make people feel better by giving
them a button to press. DAVID MALAN: Do you push the button
when you run across the street? BRIAN YU: I do usually push the button
when I want to cross the street. DAVID MALAN: This is such a big scam,
though, on all of us it would seem. BRIAN YU: Do not push the button? DAVID MALAN: No, I do,
because just, what if? And actually it’s so
gratifying, because there’s a couple places in
Cambridge, Massachusetts where the button legitimately works. When you want to cross the
street, you hit the button. Within half a second, it
has changed the light. It’s the most, like,
empowering feeling in the world because that never happens. Even in an elevator, half the time
you push it, like, nothing happens, or eventually it does and is
very good positive reinforcement to see the traffic lights changing. I’m very well behaved– the
traffic lights as a result. OK, so more recently,
I feel like, computers have gotten way better at some
technologies that kind of sort of existed when I was a kid,
like, handwriting recognition. There was the palm
pilot early on, which is like a popular PDA or personal digital
assistant, which has now been replaced with Androids and iPhones and so forth. But handwriting recognition is a
biggie for machine learning, right? BRIAN YU: Yeah, definitely. And this is an area that’s
gotten very, very good. I mean, I recently have
just started using an iPad. And it’s amazing that I can
be taking handwritten notes. But then my app will let me,
like, search for them by text that it will look at my
handwriting, convert it to text so that I can search through it all. It’s very, very powerful. And the way that this
is often working now is just by having
access to a lot of data. So, for example, if you
wanted to train a computer to be able to recognize handwritten
digits, like, digits on a check that you could deposit
virtually now, like, my banking app can
deposit checks digitally. What you can do is give the
machine learning algorithm a whole bunch of data, basically
a whole bunch of pictures of handwritten numbers
that people have drawn and labels for them associated
with what number it actually is. And so the computer can learn from
a whole bunch of examples of here are some handwritten ones, and
here are some handwritten twos, and here’s some handwritten threes. And so when a new handwritten
digit comes along, the computer just learns from
that previous data and says, does this look kind of like the ones,
or does it look more like the twos? And it can make an assessment
as a result of that. DAVID MALAN: So how can
we humans are sometimes filling out those little captchas– the little challenges on websites
where they’re asking us, the humans, to tell them what something says? BRIAN YU: Yeah. Part of the ideas that the captchas
are trying to prove to the computer that you are, in fact, human. They’re asking you to
prove that you’re a human. And so they’re trying to give you a
task that a computer might struggle to do, for instance, like, identify
which of these images happened to have, like, traffic lights
in them, for example. Although nowadays, computers
are getting pretty good at that that they using machine
learning techniques they can tell which of
them are traffic lights. DAVID MALAN: Yeah, exactly. I would think so. BRIAN YU: And I’ve also
heard people talk about it. I don’t don’t, action,
if this is true that you can use the results of these captchas
to actually train machine learning algorithms that when you are
choosing which of the images have traffic lights in them,
you’re training the algorithms that are powering, like,
self-driving cars, for instance, to be able to better assess whether
there are traffic lights in an image, because you’re giving
more and more of this data that computers are able to draw from. So we’ve heard that too. DAVID MALAN: It’s interesting
how these algorithms are so similar to presumably
how humans work, because, like, when you and I learned how to
write text, whether it was in print or cursive, like, the teacher just shows
us, like, one canonical letter A or B or C. And yet, obviously,
like, every kid in the room is probably drawing that A or B
or C a little bit differently. And yet, somehow, we humans just kind
of know that that’s close enough. So is it fair to say, like, computers
really are just kind of doing that? They are just being
taught what something is and then tolerating variations, thereof? BRIAN YU: Yeah, that’s
probably about it. One of the inspirations
for machine learning really is that the types of
things that computers are good at and the types of things
that people are good at tend to be very, very different. But, like, computers can very easily
do complex calculations, no problem, when we might struggle with it. But a problem, like,
identifying that in a picture, is there a bird in the
sky or not, for example? That’s something that for a long time,
computers really struggled to do, whereas, it’s easy for a child to be
able to look in the sky and tell you if there’s a bird there. DAVID MALAN: Oh, I was just going
to say, I could do that probably. OK. So if this is supervised learning,
and handwriting recognition’s one, like, what other types of
applications fall under this umbrella? BRIAN YU: Yeah, so
handwriting recognition counts as supervised learning,
because it’s supervised in the sense that when we’re providing
data to the algorithm, like the handwritten numbers, we’re also
providing labels for that data, like, saying, this is the number
one– this is the number two. That way, the computer is
able to learn from that. But this shows up all over the place. So, for instance, like,
your email spam filter that detects automatically
which emails are spam and puts them in the spam mailbox,
it’s trained the same way. You basically give the computer a
whole bunch of emails– some of which you tell the computer these are
real emails that are good emails. And here, these are some other
emails that are spam emails. And the computer tries to learn the
characteristics and the traits of spam email so that when a
new email comes about, the computer is able to
make a judgment call about, do I think this is a nonspam,
or do I think it’s a spam email? And so you could get it to
classify it in that way. So this kind of classification
problem is a big area and supervised. DAVID MALAN: And is that what
is happening if you use gmail, and you click on an email
and report it as spam, like, you’re training gmail to
get better at distinguishing? BRIAN YU: Yes. You can think of that as a form of
reinforcement learning of the computer learning from experience. DAVID MALAN: Good boy. BRIAN YU: You tell the
computer that it got it wrong. And it’s now going to try and
learn to be better in the future to be able to more accurately
predict which emails are spam or not spam based on what you tell it. And gmail has so many
users and so many emails that are coming to the inbox every
day that you do this enough times. And the algorithm gets pretty good at
figuring out whether an email’s spam or not. DAVID MALAN: It’s a little creepy that
my inbox is becoming sentient somehow. OK, so if there’s supervised
learning, I presume there’s also unsupervised learning. Is there? BRIAN YU: Yeah, there absolutely is. So supervised learning
requires labels on the data. But sometimes, their data
doesn’t always have labels. But you still want to be able to take
a data set, give it to a computer and get the computer to tell you
something interesting about it. And so one common example of this is
for when you’re doing consumer analysis, like, when Amazon is trying to
understand its customers, for instance, Amazon might not know all the
different categories of customers that there might be. So it might not be able to
give them labels already. But you could feed a whole bunch
of customer data to an algorithm. And the algorithm could group customers
into similar groups, potentially, based on the types of products
they’re likely to buy, for example. And you might not know in
advance how many groups there are or even what the groups are. But the algorithm can get
pretty good at clustering people into different groups. So clustering is a big example
of unsupervised learning. That’s pretty common. DAVID MALAN: So how different is that
from just, like, exhaustive search if you sort of label every customer
with certain attributes– what they’ve bought, what time they’ve bought
it, how frequently they’ve bought it and so forth? Like, isn’t this really just
some kind of quadratic problem where you compare every customer’s
habits against every other customers habits, and you can,
therefore, exhaustively figure out what the commonalities are? Like, why is this so intelligent? BRIAN YU: So you could
come up with an algorithm to say, like, OK, how close together are
two particular customers, for instance, in terms of how many things that
they’ve bought in common, for instance, or when they’re buying
particular products? But if you’ve got a
lot of different users that all have slightly different habits,
and maybe some groups of people share things in common with other groups but
then don’t share other characteristics in common, it can be tricky to be
able to group an entire user base into a whole bunch of different
clusters that are meaningful. And so the unsupervised
learning algorithms are pretty good at trying to
figure out how you would actually cluster those people. DAVID MALAN: Interesting. OK. And so this is true for things I know in
radiology, especially these days, like, computers can actually not only
read film, so x-rays and other types of images of human bodies. They can actually identify
things, like, tumors now, without necessarily knowing what
kind of tumor they’re looking for. BRIAN YU: Yeah. So one application of unsupervised
learning is, like a anomaly detection, given a set of data, which
things stand out as anomalous. And so that has a lot
of medical applications where if you’ve got a whole bunch of
medical scans or images, for instance, you could have a computer
just look at all that data and try and figure out which are the
ones that don’t quite look right. And that might be worth
doctors taking another look, because potentially, there
might be a health concern there. You see the exact same type of
technology and finance a lot when you’re trying to detect,
like, which transactions might be fraudulent transactions, for instance. Out of tons of transactions,
can you find the anomalies? The things that sort of stand
out is not quite like the others. And these unsupervised
learning algorithms can be pretty good at picking out
those anomalies out of a data set. DAVID MALAN: So what kind of
algorithm triggers a fraud alert? Almost every time, I tried to
use my credit cards for work. BRIAN YU: That one is, I don’t really
know what’s going on with that. I know the credit card will often
trigger an alert if you’re outside of an area where you normally are. But the details of how those
algorithms are working– I couldn’t really tell you. DAVID MALAN: Interesting. Common frustration when we
do travel here for work. OK, so it’s funny, as you
described unsupervised learning, it occurs to me that,
like, 10, 15 years ago when I was actually doing my
dissertation work for my PhD, which was, long story short, about
security and specifically, how you could with software detect
sudden outbreaks of internet worms, so malicious software that can
spread from one computer to another. The approach we took at the
time was to actually look at the system calls–
the low-level functions that software was
executing on Windows PCs and look for common patterns of
those system calls across systems. And it only occurs to me, like, all
these years later that arguably, what we were doing in
our team to do this was really a form of machine learning. I just think it wasn’t very
buzz worthy at the time to say what we were doing
was machine learning. But I kind of think I know
machine learning in retrospect. BRIAN YU: Yeah, maybe. I mean, it’s become so common nowadays
just to take anything and just tack on machine learning to it to
make it sound fancier or sound cooler than it actually is. DAVID MALAN: Yes. That, and I gather statistics is now
called data science, essentially, perhaps, overstating though. So certainly all the rage,
though, speaking of trends is, like, self-driving cars. In fact, if I can cite another
authoritative Reddit photo– and this one I think actually
made the national news. What is it about AI that’s suddenly
enabling people to literally sleep behind the wheel of a car? BRIAN YU: Well, I don’t think people
should be doing that quite yet but– DAVID MALAN: But you do eventually. BRIAN YU: Well. So self-driving technology is
hopefully going to get better. But right now, we’re in sort
of a dangerous middle ground that cars are able to do more
and more things autonomously. They can change lanes on their own. They can maintain their
lane on their own. They can parallel park by
themselves, for example. The consumer ones, at least,
are certainly not at the place where you could just ignore
the wheel entirely and just let them go on their own. But a lot of people are almost
treating cars as if they can do that. And so it’s a dangerous time, certainly,
for these semi-autonomous vehicles. DAVID MALAN: And it’s funny
you mentioned parallel parking. In a contest between you and a computer,
who could parallel park better, do you think? BRIAN YU: The computer would
definitely beat me at parallel parking. So I got my driver’s
license in California. And learning to parallel park is
not on the California driving test. So I was not tested on it. I’ve done it maybe a couple times
with the assistance of my parents but definitely not something
I feel very comfortable doing. DAVID MALAN: But I feel like when I
go to California and San Francisco in very hilly cities, it’s
certainly common to park diagonally against the curb so not parallel, per
se, partly just for the physics of it so that there’s less risk of cars
presumably rolling down the hill. But I feel like in other
flatter areas of California, I have absolutely when
traveling, parallel park. So, like, how is this not a thing? [LAUGHS] I mean, it’s definitely common. People do parallel park. It’s just not required on the test. And so people invariably
learn when they need to. But pretty soon after I
got my driver’s license, I ended up moving across the country
to Massachusetts for college. And so once I got to
college, I never really had occasion to drive a whole lot. So I just never really
did a lot of driving. DAVID MALAN: I will say,
I’ve gotten very comfortable certainly over the
years, parallel parking, when I’m parking on the
right-hand side of the road, because, of course, in the
US, we drive on the left. But it does throw me if
it’s like a one-way street, and I need to park on the left-hand
side, because all of my optics are a little off. So I can appreciate that. So a self-driving car, like a Tesla, is
like the off cited example these days. Like, what are the inputs to that
problem and like, the outputs, the decisions that are being made by
the car just to make this more concrete? BRIAN YU: Yeah. So I guess the inputs are probably
at least two broad categories– one input being all of the
sensory information around the car that these cars have so many
sensors and cameras that are trying to detect what
items and objects are around it and trying to figure all of that out. And the second input being presumably
a human-entered destination where the user probably is typing into
some device on the computer in the car where it is that they
actually want to go. And the output, hopefully is
that the computers or the car is able to make all of the decisions
about when to step on the gas, when to turn the wheel,
and all of those actions that it needs to take to get you
from point A to point B. I mean, that’s the goal of these technologies. DAVID MALAN: Fascinating. It would just really frighten
me to see someone on the road not holding the wheel of the car. This is maybe a little
more of a California thing. Though, other states are
certainly experimenting with this. Or companies in various states are. So my car is old enough that I don’t
so much have a screen in the car. It’s really just me and
a bunch of glass mirrors. And it still blows my
mind in 2019 when I get into a rental car or friend’s
car that even just has the LCD screen with a camera in the back that
shows you, like, the green, yellow, and red markings. And it beeps when you’re
getting too close to the car. So is that machine learning when it’s
detecting something and beeping at you when you’re trying to
park, for instance? Well, I guess you wouldn’t know. BRIAN YU: [LAUGHS] My guess is
that’s probably not machine learning. It’s probably just a
pretty simple logic of, like, try and detect what the
distance is via some sensor. And if the distance is
less than a certain amount, then, beep or something like that. You could try and do it
using machine learning. But probably, simple heuristics are
good enough for that type of thing– would be my guess. DAVID MALAN: So how should people
think about the line between software just being ifs and
else ifs and conditions and loops, versus,
like, machine learning, which kind of takes things up a notch? BRIAN YU: Yeah. So I guess the line comes when it would
be difficult to formally articulate exactly what the steps should be. And driving is a complicated enough
task that trying to formally describe exactly what the steps should be
for every particular circumstance is going to be extraordinarily
difficult, if not impossible. And so then you really
need to start to rely on machine learning to be able
to answer questions, like, is there a traffic light ahead of me? And is the traffic light green or red? And how many cars are ahead
of me, and where are they? Because those are questions
that it’s harder to just program a definitive answer to
just given, like, all the pixels of what the sensor of
the front of the car is seeing. DAVID MALAN: So is that also true
with this other technology that’s in vogue these days of these
always listening devices, so like Siri and hey, Google and Alexa? Like, I presume it’s
relatively easy for companies to support well-defined commands, so
a finite set of words or sentences that the tools just to understand. But does AI come into play or
machine learning coming into play when you want to support
an infinite language, like English or any
other spoken language? BRIAN YU: Yes. So certainly when it comes to
natural language processing, given the words that I have spoken, can
you figure out what it is that I mean? And that’s a problem
that you’ll often use machine learning to be able to try and
get at some sense of the meaning for. But even with those
predefined commands, if you imagine a computer that only supported
a very limited number of fixed commands, we’re still giving those
commands via voice. And so the computer still needs to
be able to translate the sounds that are just being produced in the air
that the microphone is picking up on into the actual words that they are. And there’s usually machine
learning involved there too, because it’s not simple to be
able to just take the sounds and convert them to words,
because different people speak at different paces or have
slightly different accents or will speak in
slightly different ways. They might mispronounce something. And so being able to train
a computer to listen to that and figure out what the words
are, that can be tricky too. DAVID MALAN: So that’s pretty similar,
though, to handwriting recognition? Is that fair to say? BRIAN YU: Probably. You could do it a similar way where
you train a computer by giving it a whole bunch of sounds and what they
correspond to in getting the computer to learn from all of that data. DAVID MALAN: And so why is it
that every time I talk to Google, it doesn’t know what
song I wanted to play. BRIAN YU: [LAUGHS] Well, this technology
is definitely still in progress. There is definitely a lot of room
for these technologies to get better. DAVID MALAN: Those are diplomatic. BRIAN YU: [LAUGHS] I mean,
Siri on my phone half the time. It doesn’t pick up on exactly
what I’m trying to ask it. DAVID MALAN: Oh, for me, it
feels even worse than that. Like, I can confidently set timers,
like set timer for three minutes if I’m boiling some water or something. But I pretty much don’t use it
for anything else besides that. BRIAN YU: Yeah, I think timers I can do. I used to try to, like, if I
needed to send, like, a quick text message to someone, I
used to try and say, like, text my mom that I’ll be at
the airport in 10 minutes. But even then, it’s very hit or miss. DAVID MALAN: Well, even
with you the other day, I sent you a text message verbally. But I just let the audio
go out, because I just have too little confidence in
the transcription capabilities of these devices these days. BRIAN YU: Yeah. Like, the iPhone, now, we’ll try to,
like, transcribe voicemails for you. Or, at least, it’ll make an
attempt to so that you can just tap on the voicemail and see
a transcription of what’s contained in the voicemail. And I really haven’t
found it very helpful. But it can get like a couple of words. And maybe I’ll get a general sense. But it’s not good enough for me to
really get any meaning out of it. That’s tough to listen to voicemail. DAVID MALAN: See, I don’t know. I think that’s actually use case where
it’s useful enough usually for me if I can glean who it’s from,
or what the gist of the messages so then I don’t have to actually
listen to it in real time. But the problem for me when
sending outbound messages is, I want to look like an idiot. They were completely incoherent,
because Siri or whatever technology is not transcribing me correctly. OK. But the dream I have, at
least– one of my favorite books ever was Douglas Adams’
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, where the most amazing
technology in that book is called The Babel fish, where it’s a
little fish that you put in your ear. And it somehow translates
all spoken words that you’re hearing into your
own native language, essentially. So how close are we to being able
to talk to another human being who does not speak the same language but
seamlessly chat with that person? BRIAN YU: I think we’re
pretty far away from it. I think Skype, I think, has
this feature or, at least, it’s a feature that they’ve been
developing where they can try to approximate a real-time translation. And I think I saw a video– DAVID MALAN: I can’t even talk
successfully to someone in English on Skype. BRIAN YU: Yeah. So I think the demo is pretty good. But I don’t think it’s, like,
commercially available yet. But translation technology
has gotten better. But it’s certainly still not good. One of my favorite types of YouTube
videos that I watch sometimes are people that will, like, take a
song and their lyrics of the song and translate it into another language
and translate back into English. And the lyrics just
get totally messed up, because this translation technology
is, it can approximate meaning. But it’s certainly far from perfect. DAVID MALAN: That’s kind of like
playing operator in English where you tell someone something, and
they tell someone something, and they tell someone– someone. And by the time you
go around the circle, it is not at all what
you originally said. BRIAN YU: Yeah, I think I played
that game when I was younger. I think we called it telephone. We call it operator? DAVID MALAN: Yeah. No, actually we probably
called it telephone too. Was there an operator involved? Maybe you call operator
if you need a hint. Or maybe– BRIAN YU: I don’t think you
got hints when I was playing. DAVID MALAN: No, I think we had a
hint feature where you say, operator. And maybe the person next to you
has to tell you again or something. Maybe it’s been a long time
since I played this too. Fascinating. Well, thank you so much
for explaining to me and everyone out there a little
bit more about machine learning. If folks want to learn more about ML,
what would you suggest they google? BRIAN YU: Yeah. So you can look up basically any of the
keywords that we talked about today. You could just look up machine learning. But if you wanted to
be more specific, you could look up reinforcement learning
or supervised learning or unsupervised learning. If there’s any of the
particular technologies, you could look those up specifically,
like handwriting recognition or self-driving cars. There are a lot of resources
available of people that are talking about
these technologies and how they work for sure. DAVID MALAN: Awesome. Well, thanks so much. This was Machine Learning
on the CS50 podcast. If you have other ideas for topics that
you’d love for Brian and I and the team to discuss and explore, do just drop us
an email at [email protected] My name is David Malan. BRIAN YU: I’m Brian Yu. DAVID MALAN: And this
was the CS50 Podcast.
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11 thoughts on “Machine Learning – CS50 Podcast, Ep. 6”
Joseph Phillips says:
Awesomes
Is this like Conway's Game of Life?
RSky Car says:
Hi, guys! Are you gonna stream new lecture about ML (TensorFlowJS or Python) in the nearest future? Best regards!
Arun Venkatesh says:
I feel your confidence level with machince learning seems little less than what it is. Definitely would say to give latest innovation a change.
anonymous00 says:
I didn't see this on Spotify. Do you know when will it be on Spotify?
Retronaut 88 says:
Loving this podcast and excited to see Brian join in! Out of curiosity, does this mean Colton is no longer on staff? Will we see him continue with the Twitch streams or another semester of GD50? I wasn't quite sure what was meant by "headed out West". Thanks!
Abj S says:
The gentleman on the right looks as if he has just been mortally insulted.
Ian Sullivan says:
So when are we going to see y'all on The Joe Rogan Podcast?
Bhavik says:
Hey guys, appreciate this one very much! can you please talk about FaceApp in next podcast, they must be using some kind of ML in the app & privacy concern of such app.
wot says:
You guys are rockstars, your information is so wise and valuable to me! Thank you!!
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A statement from Scott Stapp was brimming with joy, faith, and gratitude last Thursday evening, when he announced the birth of his third child, and second son, with wife, Jaclyn. The Creed and Art of Anarchy frontman gushed with delight in his words to People magazine, declaring that “We are so overwhelmed with gratitude and happiness,” and calling the experience “a divine moment for our entire family.” “We feel so blessed,” he closed with sincerity. Anthony Issa Stapp greeted the world at a very healthy 8 pounds, 8 ounces, and certainly already senses the love and protection surrounding him.
The blessing of surprise and a sacred name
Jaclyn and Scott were taken by surprise with the pregnancy, but mom and dad were nonetheless delighted with the “surprise news.” After making certain of the pregnancy herself, Jaclyn divulged the news to Scott during a very special dinner, and a gift-wrapped blueberry to top off dessert.
Through most of 2017, Scott Stapp was a top contender for the “hardest working man in show business,” to borrow James Brown’s undisputed title. The Creed and Art of Anarchy singer and lyricist collaborated on the highly-praised sophomore album, “The Madness” from AOA, and followed up with east coast tour dates.
A solo tour came next in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Creed’s benchmark, “My Own Prison” album. The tour bus rolled on as Scott Stapp headlined the “Make America Rock Again Tour. It’s no wonder that it was a challenge for Jaclyn Stapp to capture the moment of private alone time to break the news of the precious arrival.
When it came to revealing the baby’s gender, the Stapp family was thrilled to share the news in August, with exuberant fans in Austin, TX .
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The blue colors spewing from the smoke jets on stage also brought delight to the couple’s older children, Milan Hayat, 10, and Daniel Issam, 7. Both were rooting for another boy. Scott’s oldest son, Jagger, is now 19.
Names are not a light matter for Scott and Jaclyn Stapp, either. The newest son takes his father’s birth name, and Issa is an Arabic translation of “Jesus” and also can mean “salvation and protection.” Milan’s name embodies meanings of "kind, loving, and gracious." Her middle name is in honor of her grandmother.
Daniel’s name derives from the courageous faith and strength of the man in biblical Scripture and also honors family. Jagger is not a name taken from any rocker or song, but rather denotes “one who carries a message from God.”
Dad Scott’s lyrics have inspired millions to embrace hope and faith through the struggles of life, and the names of his children evoke the same theme. That legacy, for Scott Stapp, is more precious than his catalog of anthemic hit songs.
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Jaclyn Stapp has been chronicling the journey of her pregnancy with Anthony in her blog for "People". She has honestly and playfully covered topics from prenatal yoga to baby-safe nutrition.
This time around with the news of a new pregnancy also came another first for the experienced mom—a first baby shower. The royal blue event last month had a regal theme for the little prince, rich in hues of the color, and many crown images.
Jaclyn is a pro at balancing family, philanthropy and finding time for everyone while she supports Scott’s career, but baby and mom were ready for the new nursery to be occupied. Just days ago, her latest installment described being in “the home stretch” and “hopefully” heading for the hospital soon. Baby Anthony really showed he already has great ears, because it wasn’t any time before mom and dad were zipping to Williamson Medical Center near their new home in Franklin, TN, for his welcome to the world “With Arms Wide Open” from this loving, growing, and musical family.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said President Trump is “obstructing Congress from getting the facts” it needs in the impeachment inquiry after his administration blocked a US diplomat from testifying before three committees.
She added that Trump’s behavior is “an abuse of power” — and “that is one of the reasons that we have an impeachment inquiry” related to the president’s dealings with Ukraine.
Her comments came hours after Team Trump barred US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland from appearing before the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight committees.
“There will be a subpoena issued for him to come testify,” Pelosi said.
“Our Constitution, the genius of it, is a system of checks and balances that we would have three separate co-equal branches of the government that would have checks and balances on the other,” she told reporters in Seattle.
“The president said Article 2 says, ‘I can do whatever I want.’ No, it doesn’t, Mr. President. So he’s snubbing his nose at the vision of our founders, his disloyalty to the Constitution is something we have to study.”
The speaker also stressed the importance of protecting whistleblowers.
“The intelligence community respects the role of whistleblowers,” she said. “We all do, but in intelligence, protecting the whistleblower is absolutely essential so that there’s no retribution or anything for speaking truth.”
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The impeachment inquiry is focused on a whistleblower’s allegations that Trump used nearly $400 million in US military aid to secure a promise from Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, who leads the field of Trump’s potential challengers, and his son Hunter.
Sondland — a Trump donor who started his diplomatic role in July — said he hoped “the issues raised by the State Department that preclude [my] testimony will be resolved promptly.”
“He stands ready to testify on short notice, whenever he is permitted to appear,” Sondland’s lawyer, Robert Luskin, said in a statement.
Trump has denied he did anything wrong in a July 25 phone call with Zelensky in which Trump pushed for an investigation of the Bidens.
“I would love to send Ambassador Sondland, a really good man and great American, to testify, but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republicans’ rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public. … to see,” Trump wrote on Twitter.
Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry last month following the allegations that Trump pressured Zelensky to investigate the Bidens while withholding the military aid.
Sondland’s appearance would have followed officials, including the former US special envoy for Ukraine, Kurt Volker, and Michael Atkinson, the inspector general of the US intelligence community.
Former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch — whom Trump recalled in May before her term was up after his supporters questioned her loyalty — is scheduled to meet with the committees behind closed doors Friday.
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Making life pleasant for pheasants
Thanks to increasing oversight and clearly codified regulations, pheasant welfare has improved significantly in the UK in recent years.
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But compared to other pheasant-rearing countries such as Australia, are British pheasant farms ahead of the game?
Pheasant farms attracted a bad reputation around ten years ago when poor welfare practices were exposed, but gallant efforts since then to improve the sector seem to be working.
Back then, reports emerged of pheasants being kept in overcrowded conditions before they were being released for shoots across the UK. In 2013, the UK government drew up a set of regulations for managing the habitats in which pheasants reared for sporting purposes were kept.
The regulations followed research by the Farm Animal Welfare Committee and were drawn up as the official Code of Practice for the Welfare of Gamebirds Reared for Sporting Purposes. Failure to follow these welfare codes was deemed an offence.
The code states that gamebirds reared for shoots must:
have an environment appropriate to their species, age and the purpose for which they are being kept, including adequate heating, lighting, shelter, ventilation and resting areas;
have ready access to fresh water and an appropriate diet to maintain growth, health and vigour;
be provided with appropriate space and facilities to ensure the avoidance of stress and to allow the exhibition of normal behaviour patterns;
be provided with company of their own kind as appropriate for the species concerned; and
be adequately protected from pain, suffering, injury or disease. Should any of these occur a rapid response is required, including diagnosis, remedial action and, where applicable, the correct use of medication.
Routine inspections are carried out by the Animal and Plant Health Agency who enforce the rules. The agency also investigates complaints and can bring prosecutions where necessary.
Since the Code of Practice was drawn up there has been a reduction in the number of welfare issues among pheasant farms, which is good news according to the Game Farmers’ Association (GFA). The association represents game farmers throughout the UK and has around 250 members. Its political adviser, Charles Nodder, says that standards are continually improving.
“Pheasants and partridges reared in captivity are safeguarded by general animal welfare laws but in addition, each of the UK home nations now has its own government Code of Practice for the Welfare of Gamebirds Reared for Sporting Purposes,” says Nodder.
He continues: “These codes specifically cover all the main processes in game bird rearing, setting standards that must be adhered to and providing appropriate guidance.
“They were written by government vets and are advocated throughout the sector. For example, in order to join the GFA, members are required to rear their game birds in accordance with the government code applicable where they operate.
“Although game rearing is often picked on by animal rights campaigners because of its association with shooting, which they do not like, incidents of poor welfare in game birds are actually few and far between.
“Over a typical period a few years ago, of all complaints made by the public to the RSPCA only one in 2,000 concerned game birds,” he adds.
With the threat of avian influenza ever-present, game farms must be on their guard to protect pheasants from contact with wild birds.
Guidelines stress that breeders keeping 50 birds or more must provide details on the species of bird, the husbandry system in which they are kept, the number of species usually kept and the number of birds that have access to open air, as well as details on seasonal stocking variations and nearby open water.
Breeders must adhere to all the usual biosecurity rules to avoid contact between their flocks and wild birds. They must also notify the authorities if there are any changes in stocking rates by an increase or decrease of 20 percent.
The pheasant-hunting season in the UK runs from 1 October to 1 February, with the exception of Northern Ireland where the season ends on 31 January.
There is no doubt rearing and shooting game birds for sporting purposes is big business in the UK, contributing over £1.6 billion to the economy each year. Figures state there are around 40 million game birds, between 30 million and 35 million pheasants, reared and released for shooting in the UK annually.
Although there are around 400 game farms in the UK, around 40 percent of the pheasants reared are imported, mostly as hatching eggs, with a smaller number of day-old chicks from France.
Game bird farming is also becoming quite a boom industry in Australia, and even though quail is the number one bird in terms of demand, pheasants are also popular there with consumers, restaurants and shoots.
With Australia’s range of habitats and climatic conditions, the guidelines for rearing game birds differ somewhat to those in the UK. In Australia, for example, it is typical to house pheasant breeding stock in individual mating groups and, though to a much lesser extent, to allow them to range in larger populations in outside runs. Pheasants are provided with areas for flight in either large aviaries or netted pens. Alternatively, they may be grown in open pens if one of their wings has been clipped to prevent them from flying away.
The way in which breeding stock is housed will be governed by the size and structure of the enterprise, the land available, the purpose of breeding (colony breeding or selective breeding) and the type of market for which the pheasants are being reared. For example, regulations for selective breeding require that single males are housed with up to six females, or that paired birds are housed individually.
Australian pheasant producers use turkey crumb to feed their birds if they cannot source specifically formulated pheasant feed, due to both bird types having similar nutritional requirements.
Authorities in Australia offer guidelines to producers to help them react if and when diseases such as coccidiosis and blackhead occur. If outbreaks of these diseases are widespread, preventive drugs can be added to the ration. Alternatively, outbreaks can be treated with drugs in the drinking water.
A good on-farm hygiene programme is encouraged by the authorities to help keep disease outbreaks to a minimum. These include cleaning pens out often, avoiding dampness in the pens, distributing fresh litter or sand around the floor of the sheds and isolating diseased birds from the rest of the flock.
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Professor’s Bio
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DAVID BOX The David Box Story — Vol. 2 Rollercoaster Records RCCD 3071 CD 1: She Does The Best She Can / Selfish / Lucky Penny / That’s Too Bad (Take 1) / That’s Too Bad (Take 2) / Getting’ In Good / Raining in My Heart / Peggy Sue
Elvis: My Best Man
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Elvis: My Best Man George Klein with Chuck Crisafulli (Crown Publishers) In conjunction with the National Portrait Gallery’s Echoes of Elvis exhibition in Washington, D.C., the gallery organised an Elvis Day on January 22, 2010, which — among other things — featured a talk and a book-signing by George Klein. At his talk, George
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The Latest: Colombia president opens ‘national conversation’
Published Sat Nov 23 2019 00:08:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The Latest on protests in Colombia (all times local):
Colombian President Iván Duque says his government will open a “national conversation” aimed at reaching an agreement on reforms following massive demonstrations that have paralyzed much of the capital city.
In a televised address Friday, Duque said the dialogue will include all social sectors and take place in cities around the country starting next week.
The president also announced that he is boosting police and military patrols in focal points where there is continuing unrest.
Protesters clashed with police in several parts of Bogota on Friday, a day after tens of thousands of frustrated citizens took to the streets.
Colombian President Iván Duque has ordered a curfew in the nation’s capital amid continuing unrest following a massive march.
The president announced on Twitter that he has requested that Bogota’s mayor enforce a curfew beginning at 9 p.m. in all of the city.
The curfew comes one day after an estimated 250,000 people took to the streets in one of the nation’s biggest marches in recent history.
There have been scattered clashes between protesters and police on Friday.
Volunteers wiped graffiti off historic buildings and swept up shattered glass at looted businesses in Colombia Friday amid sporadic unrest following massive national protests a day before.
Labor unions and student leaders called on Colombians to bang pots and pans Friday evening in another act of protest while authorities announced three people had died in overnight clashes with police.
Protest organizers urged President Iván Duque to establish a dialogue with indigenous, student and labor groups to discuss potential reforms and criticized him for not directly addressing demonstrator complaints in a late-night address.
“If they don’t decide to govern in favor of the majority, the discontent will continue accumulating,” student leader José Cárdenas said.
Officials estimated 250,000 protesters marched in protests around Colombia, largely peaceful demonstrations that ended with scattered confrontations between police and protesters who vandalized bus stations and looted businesses.
The upheaval comes as Latin America is experiencing a tide of discontent, with massive demonstrations in countries including Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador where citizens frustrated with their political leaders are taking to the streets.
Police carry an anti-government protesters affected by tear gas after clashes at the Bolivar square in downtown Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Labor unions and student leaders called on Colombians to bang pots and pans Friday evening in another act of protest while authorities announced three people had died in overnight clashes with police after demonstrations during a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
A boy walks past a bus station damaged by anti-government demonstrators, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Protesters attacked the station Thursday during a nationwide strike called by labor unions, students and teachers to protest everything from economic inequality to violence against social leaders. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Workers clear broken glass from a bus station damaged by anti-government demonstrators, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Protesters attacked the station Thursday during a nationwide strike called by labor unions, students and teachers to protest everything from economic inequality to violence against social leaders. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A security guard walks at a bus station damaged by anti-government demonstrators, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Protesters attacked the station Thursday during a nationwide strike called by labor unions, students and teachers to protest everything from economic inequality to violence against social leaders. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Anti-government protesters rally at the Bolivar square in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Colombian President Iván Duque ordered a curfew in the nation's capital amid continuing unrest one day after tens of thousands of people took to the streets in demonstrations during a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
A worker clears broken glass from a bus station damaged by anti-government demonstrators, in Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Protesters attacked the station Thursday during a nationwide strike called by labor unions, students and teachers to protest everything from economic inequality to violence against social leaders. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
Police attend an anti-government protester affected by tear gas during clashes in downtown Bogota, Colombia, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Labor unions and student leaders called on Colombians to bang pots and pans Friday evening in another act of protest while authorities announced three people had died in overnight clashes with police after demonstrations during a nationwide strike. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)
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INTERVIEW: Clark On 'Bach Evolution'
Patrick Clarke , April 29th, 2019 13:00
Warp Records mainstay Clark on his new composition inspired by Bach, to be debuted this week at the Royal Albert Hall
On May 1, alongside performances by classical heavyweights Peter Gregson and Vikingur Ólafsson, Warp Records mainstay Clark will be unveiling a brand new piece, a specially-arranged composition inspired by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, performed with London-based cellist, composer and producer Olly Coates.
The show, titled Bach Evolution, marks the finale of classical label Deutsche Grammophon’s 120th birthday celebrations, as well as a part of the Royal Albert Hall’s ongoing ‘Love Classical’ season, which aims to celebrate new and distinctive voices in classical music.
Clark may be the most distinctive of them all. For his piece he drew on early loves of Bach’s music, and the ‘proto-happy hardcore’ of his French Suites. Speaking to tQ, Clark says that although he feels ‘out of his depth’ when it comes to musicianship when compared to the likes of Gregson and Ólafsson, the ‘sprawling’ world of classical music has long been an inspiration when it comes to his work in electronic music.
For tickets and more info about Bach Evolution click here. For tQ’s interview with Clark, read on.
tQ: Tell us about your relationship with Bach's music. Has classical music long been an inspiration?
I’ve been into his Bach since around the age of five, so I was really excited when I was approached to play this show at the Royal Albert Hall. I’m not the most knowledgeable, but remember hearing ‘Air On The G String’ from a cassette dictaphone we had, and that piece is so entrenched in culture. But when you’re five you don’t really have cynicism, I was spellbound. It felt like a description of both an inner emotional world and an outer world of mathematically perfect architecture.
Classical music is such a massive sprawling entity it feels a bit wrong to refer to it as a monolithic genre. I think for a lot of people it’s ‘the strings and trumpets stuff’, which is fine, obviously. I don’t really understand horn sections, although I love the way Jóhann Jóhannsson used them. And Mogwai. I like the texture but just wouldn’t know what to do with it. I go all “Sorry, it’s not you, it’s me…”
But I’ve always written music with strings in mind. I play the piano a lot, and the cello and violin a bit, enough to get the odd phrase I like, but having Olly Coates onboard for Bach Evolution is going to be ace cause he’s bloody amazing at it and more importantly unusually open to trying new things. It’s a certain outlook that I’m after, a certain take on things. The technical aspect can come after…
How did you come to get involved with the Bach Evolution show?
I was approached by the Royal Albert Hall programming team, who asked me to make a piece as part of the Hall’s ‘Love Classical’ season, which explores the past, present and future of classical music. I had been brushing up a bit on my piano so it instinctively felt like a no brainer to agree to it.
At first it felt a bit out of the blue that I would get involved in a classical show, There’s obviously an aspect of this that is slightly comedy, as I’m out of my depth in terms of musicianship compared to Peter Gregson and Víkingur Ólafsson, both incredible players. I’m very aware of how it looks, it could go wrong, it feels like a risk, it could be like watching a vase fall on the floor in slow motion, but these kind of gigs excite me. I’m slightly bored by how a lot of artists never risk ‘brand contamination’. Even people who are quite over-praised for being rebellious and subversive quite often just insist on being seen in the same old shoes and hat. I guess I’m more of an admirer of Picasso than Rothko.
I’ve always made mischief at the boundaries of genre, so I see nothing weird with checking out, say, Meshuggah’s time patterns and seeing some correlation with Bach’s use of polyrhythms, or hearing how most vocal melodies in modern music borrow in some way from Bach’s incredible ear for a good hook. Bach is just so uncannily good at harmony and you can learn a lot from looking into his music even if you end up rejecting it or doing something totally different. I have a bit of a deviant attitude towards genre, poking fun at its surface affectations. If you chip away at music for long enough you begin to hear a massive web of interconnected foundations ripe for turning your way. It seems that genre is something marketing people do, it’s easier to make money if you can silo things off into different genres. Money is interesting but what is exponentially more interesting to me and less expedient is customising all sound into an artefact that represents my specific unrepeatable experience of the world. And Bach features heavily in that.
What was your approach to your new composition? Were there any Bach pieces in particular that you went to first?
I went for French suites, It’s the one that makes me most angry at how good it is. There’s even some proto-happy hardcore in that one. I reckon Hudson Mohawke would like it, I’m going to have to send him some.
Are you approaching the live performance any differently than you would normally?
Yeah, totally differently. It’s all midi’d up pianos and one hardware synth that I can’t be bothered to sync. It’s way more fun having to dial the sequences in in real time, much like how Jeff Mills uses a 909 when he DJs. I’m using it against the piano rather than with it. They will meet in the middle I’m sure. Should be a right laugh!
Beyond the Bach evolution show, what's next for you musically?
I can’t really see beyond this show at the moment, but I’ve just finished an album and a score for a film and have another two albums to finish. They usually go from being an alright album of 50 tracks to a quite good album of 25 to an album of 10-15 tracks that I want to release so much I get fears at night of kicking the bucket before it’s completed. So I’m quite excited about all of it :D
Clark performs at the Royal Albert Hall on May 1 alongside Peter Gregson and Vikingur Ólafsson. For tickets and more information click here.
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French i-banker ditches $165K Hamptons rental after one night
The European owners of a five-bedroom beachfront home in Southampton are going after investment banking honcho Matthieu Pigasse for $165,000 after he allegedly backed out of a month-long rental commitment two days into his stay and left without paying up, the Post reported. Pigasse, the co-CEO of Lazard in France, “didn’t like the house because it didn’t look like the pictures,” said broker Jack Prizzi of Prudential Douglas Elliman, who rented it to him. “It looks exactly like the pictures,” he added. The Frenchman, who recently acquired newspaper Le Monde, contacted Altour International president Alexandre Chemla upon arrival at the $30 million home at 2170 Meadow Lane to help him find another rental. Chemla said his client only stayed at the home for one night before moving to a different one down the block. Sources said the owners of the first house are now demanding that Pigasse pay rent for the month anyway. “It was my mistake letting them in with no deposit or signed contract, but they flew in at night,” Prizzi said. “I trusted him.” [Post]
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10 things we learned from the 2015 MLS Cup final
Abe Asher December 7, 2015 Columbus Crew, Leagues: Major League Soccer, Portland Timbers 5 Comments
Most fans, of course, were perfectly amicable – and there’s a ton of mutual respect from these club’s coaches and owners. Columbus is the spiritual the home of American soccer, and it’s clearly going through something of a rebirth. But Portland, Soccer City, USA, is on a different level. They outclassed Columbus on Sunday.
5. Diego Chara is inhuman
Caleb Porter praised Chara after the game, calling him a “machine” and saying he never gets the credit he deserves.
Chara was fantastic in this game, covering oodles of ground and breaking up countless Columbus opportunities. The Timbers’ much-ballyhooed inverted 4-3-3 doesn’t work without the Columbian, who, unlike Dax McCarty in the East Final, was able to make life difficult for Higuain.
Chara, along with Jack Jewsbury, Rodney Wallace, Nagbe, and Jake Gleeson, is an original MLS Timber. In the five years I’ve watched him play, it seems he hasn’t aged a minute – and my guess is that five years from now, he’ll still be smiling, still be running, and still be on of Portland’s most best players.
6. Heartbreak for Parkhurst & Kamara
These two did all they could. Despite the goal, it was a tough afternoon for Kamara – who was starved of service and ended up flaring wide and deep to get the ball. He never got a second chance.
When these teams played in September, Parkhurst was abused by Fanendo Adi. This time, however, the Crew captain held his own against Adi and was instrumental in calming his team down after their nightmare start.
Parkhurst is now an agonizing 0 for 4 in MLS Cups, having lost in 2005, 2006, and 2007 with New England, while Kamara misses out this time after leaving Columbus in their Cup-winning season of 2008 and Sporting Kansas City in their Cup-winning season of 2013.
Both players are 31, with a lot of miles on their legs. Kamara and Parkhurst are fine men, and assets to MLS, but they might have seen MLS Cup slip through their grasp for the final time.
7. Ready from the whistle
Steve Clark sure wasn’t, but Columbus’ problems early in the game went beyond him. The Crew crumbled in the first ten minutes.
Portland, meanwhile, came out ready to fire. It was the difference in the game.
The trend continued to the substitutes. Jack McInerney looked nowhere near the pace when he was introduced in the second half. In contrast, Dairon Asprilla was immediately effective for the Timbers down the left-hand side.
Abe Asher
Abe Asher lives in beautiful Portland, Oregon. He fell in love with the intensity, stakes, and unrivaled spirit of football during the 2006 World Cup. Abe supports and covers the Portland Timbers locally, the USMNT nationally, and the American game and national team football at large for World Soccer Talk. Abe is on Twitter @abe_asher.
Javier December 7, 2015
This was a season to remember for MLS fans. Can’t wait to see what next season has in store.
RJ December 7, 2015
Taylor Twellman is awful. I had to mute the TV at one point. Why is he so mad? And why is he yelling at us? He doesn’t add anything to the broadcast. Seriously, listen to what he says and ask yourself, “did I learn anything there? Wasn’t that just a cliche that doesn’t really mean anything?”
Blue Lou December 7, 2015
Totally agree…the guy never stops talking. I am not at all a Portland fan, but was hoping Columbus didn’t get an equalizer so I could stop listening to this nitwit for a few months.
Eugene December 7, 2015
Unfortunately the time of the game was awful. Overnights were only a .43 TV rating. They didn’t learn from 2013 not to put the final in the middle of the afternoon against football. Such a great game, but the viewership numbers will be low
David December 10, 2015
I really don’t care for Twellman’s commentary either. It is fine that he has strong opinions about players, but he obsessively hammers on them over and over again and it detracts you from enjoying the actual game. He often seems to go WAY out of his way to criticize “bigger name” players as if they have to personally prove themselves to HIM in every game until they are “good enough”.
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World’s first underwater hotel residence opens in Maldives
Posted 11:33 am, November 5, 2018, by CNN Wire
For once, it’s an opportunity to sleep with the fishes that doesn’t mean you end up like a character in a mob movie.
The Conrad Maldives Rangali Island has opened the world’s first-ever underwater hotel residence.
Connected to the upper level by a spiral staircase, the undersea section is to be made up of a king-size bedroom, living area and bathroom.
More than just a room or a suite (this is the Maldives, after all, so luxury is the name of the game), the two-story villa is set more than 16 feet below the Indian Ocean. Its name is “Muraka,” which means “coral” in the Maldives’ local language Dhivehi.
In addition to a bed, shower and the other typical components of a hotel room, the Muraka takes luxury travel to another level with a private gym, a bar, an infinity pool, butler’s quarters, an ocean-facing bathtub and most importantly an underwater bedroom with unparalleled views of the ocean.
The top floor, which is above the water, has a “relaxation deck” where you can sun yourself.
The price tag? A cool $50,000 per night, although you can’t actually book the Muraka for single night stays — it’s only accessible via a four-night, $200,000 package that includes a personal chef for all meals and the use of a private boat.
Bonus: Those who book this insane package get automatic Hilton Diamond status.
The Muraka isn’t the first underwater venture at the hotel. The property is home to Ithaa, an underwater five-star restaurant.
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The Muraka is connected to the rest of the resort — including the Ithaa — by jetty, in case you want to leave your blissful seclusion to mingle with other non-aquatic life forms.
The process of building the Muraka was carefully considered to be respectful to the environment. Everything was built in Singapore — on land — and then brought to the Maldives on a special ship.
Once the residence was lowered into the water, it was nailed into place with concrete pylons that will keep it from shifting during rough waves or at high tide.
Not quite ready to eat and sleep below the sea? The Conrad is also home to several floating villas, should you want to just get your feet wet.
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Woman died after being hit by truck, dragged for miles by another vehicle, police say
Posted 6:35 pm, November 8, 2019, by CNN Wire
A pedestrian was struck by a truck in Wheeling, West Virginia, on Thursday morning and then dragged by another vehicle for several miles, police said.
(CNN)
Wheeling police were dispatched at 6:36 a.m. for a report of a pickup truck hitting a pedestrian in the Warwood neighborhood, according to a news release from the department. But when they arrived, they did not find a victim.
A second 911 call reported that miles away, a second vehicle was seen dragging a body, the release said.
“Further investigation led police investigators to believe a woman was hit by a pickup truck in Warwood and then dragged by a second vehicle to the Washington Avenue area,” the release said.
The woman, identified as 54-year-old Michelle Lynn Czoka from Ohio, did not survive, police reported. A cause of death will be determined by the West Virginia Medical Examiner’s Office.
The department is still investigating the incident, but both drivers have been located, the release said.
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MISSING-IN-GEORGIA
Authorities say Wilbur Lancaster has been found
UPDATE: Authorities have found him. Original story appears below.
Author: Michael King (WTSP)
Published: 12:30 PM EST November 8, 2019
HARALSON COUNTY, Ga. — Deputies in Haralson County have issued a Mattie's Call for 66-year-old Wilbur Lancaster Jr.
The lung cancer patient was last seen when he left home Wednesday afternoon, heading to Walmart.
Deputies said he hasn't returned home and his parents have reported him missing.
Authorities describe Lancaster as a 66-year-old white male, 5-feet-8-inches tall, weighing about 125 pounds. He has blue eyes and white hair that's balding on top. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a flannel shirt, and a black hat.
He was driving a 2002 Ford Ranger.
Anyone who has seen him or has any information about his whereabouts is asked to call the Haralson County Sheriff's Office at 770-646-2011.
Deputies in Haralson County said Wilbur Lancaster Jr. has been reported missing by relatives.
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By David Yang. Nov 8th, 2024.
The Art of the Interview
The stories you tell, whether in text form, by way of video or through audio, are only as good as the information you gather.
Interviewing is the cornerstone of journalism. Interviews usually take place face to face and in person, although modern communications technologies such as the Internet have enabled conversations to happen in which parties are separated geographically, such as with videoconferencing software, and of course telephone interviews can happen without visual contact.
Hi, this is a WebSlides Demo, where we interview the people who make us happy. I’m your host, David Yang. This week I interviewed lawyer Sheryl Hadid. Hi Sheryl!
Sheryl:
Are interviews copyrighted? When does an interview become copyrightable?
The answer is it depends. Copyright of speech given during an interview relies heavily on the "fixation" element of copyright law. When a work is fixed in a copy or recording, the work is created. This gives the work its copyright. Therefore, when an interview is physically recorded it becomes copyrighted.
How could the person being interviewed own the copyright to an interview?
This may be a surprise but there are moments when the person being interviewed could in fact have copyright ownership in their words. For example, if the person being interviewed receives a list of questions from the interviewer and records their calculated responses, they could have copyright ownership in their answers because they not the interviewer actually wrote down or otherwise recorded their response.
People want to be smart. So, if you ask smart questions and show an interest in a particular subject they love sharing their insight..text-quote.
However, courts are hesitant to apply this concept broadly to spoken interviews because of the impact it could have on the First Amendment and the heavy caseload it would bring to an already overloaded court system. See Falwell v. Penthouse Intern., Ltd. This also opens the door for other legal arguments such as fair use. Furthermore, there are times when contractual releases could affect the copyright and alter default copyright rules.
What are some methods to record an interview and what should the person being interviewed do?
Most often when problems with interview ownership arise it’s because persons being interviewed are unhappy with the way an interviewer uses their responses during interviews to mislead readers or viewers of a broadcast. This causes interviewees to claim their copyright was infringed because they claim to own the copyright to their speech during the interview.
When do problems with interview ownership arise, and who usually owns the copyright?
The most successful way to fix an interview is for interviewers to audio record or hand write the responses of the person being interviewed. If the interview is recorded by hand, it is helpful if the writing is legible and clearly communicates the conversation because it may help solve questions about fixation. Short hand that only describes excerpts from the interview typically are not enough to constitute fixation and copyright ownership. So please remember, if there is no fixation of the interview then no copyright exists in that interview.
Further, if you are being interviewed please be aware that you do not possess ownership over your responses in most situations. It is always best to briefly think about your answer before you respond to avoid the misuse of your words by others. And if you truly don’t feel comfortable being interviewed by a particular media source, remember you always have the power to say no to doing the interview.
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WMM’s Playlist from Nov. 27, 2019
Posted on November 28, 2019 by Mark Manning
Michelle Bacon’s Favorite Albums of 2019 +
Wednesday MidDay Medley’s Favorite Singles of 2019
1. “Main Title Instrumental – It’s Showtime Folks”
from: Motion Picture Soundtrack to All That Jazz / Universal / Dec. 20, 1979
10:00 – 13 of WMM’s 39 Favorite Singles of 2019.
2.(13.) Kat King – “Song From Spain”
from: Song From Spain – Single / Kat King / February 9, 2019
[Lawrence Kansas based singer songwriter Kat King released her last single “2017” October 18, 2018. She released her 5-song EP “Falling Up” on December 1, 2017. Kat King has been creating music since the 2nd grade. She’s produced one 13-song album and three EP’s, the first one released at the age of 14. ]
3.(12.) No Such Beast – “Drifter”
from: Drifter – Single / No Such Beast / June 17, 2019
[Debut single from KC based Indie Folk 5-piece with strings of bass, violin, banjo, guitar, & cello from: Abby Atwood, Adriana Williamson, Colton Pittman, & Olivia Atwood, and lead vocals from Issac Walker.]
Special Note: Every year we carry over a single that was released so late in the previous year that we may have missed it in our playlists. This year we carried over a song from last year’s “Best Singles List.” We did this as a tribute to one of our favorite area groups, Lovergurl, that disbanded in September 2019 after the trio announced that their guitarist and vocalist, Heather Andrews was moving out of Kansas City to pursue her career in animation. We love this band, and their music, and the spirit of protest that is righteously infused into all of their songs. We want more bands like this band, especially during these absolutely crazy times we a living through. Look for Lovergurl’s last recording, their EP “Buzzkill” in WMM’s 119 Best Recordings of 2019 during our 4-week series in December.
4. (11.) Lovergurl – “Rebel”
from: “Rebel” – Single / Lovergurl / September 14, 2018
[Recorded and mastered with RLT at Audibly Recording. KC based 4-piece band, Lovergurl caught our ear with their synth pop sound and lyrics reflecting social and political messages with hip hop and punk elements. The trio released their EP, The President is a Sex Offender on May 19, 2017. Keyboardist and vocalist, Stephanie Bankston was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a graduate of The University of Missouri. She moved abroad in her 20s, and lived in Seoul, Korea, where she played in a mostly female band called BaekMa (“White Horse”). Stephanie returned to Kansas City in the Fall 2015. Brook Worlledge, is a Kansas City native. She is the band’s drummer and she sings and writes songs for the band. Brook is a defender of the proletariat. Brook’s influences range from The B-52s, The Velvet Underground, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Lovergurl guitarist and vocalist, Heather Andrews was born and raised in Rhode Island.]
5.(10.) Serene Fiend – “Unto Myself”
[Industrial pop-rock project from Lawrence, Kansas based Joel Bonner. All instruments programmed and performed by Joel Bonner. Synth solo programmed and performed by Daniel Glascock. Written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joel Bonner.]
[Serene Fiend plays Fiendstivus, Friday, December 20, at 7:00 PM at Cider Gallery Fine Art, 810 Pennsylvania St, Lawrence, KS]
6.(9.) Black Stacey – “Lose The Peace”
from: Lose The Peace – Single / Sharaden Staten / May 16, 2019
[This song will be included in Black Stacey’s upcoming EP, “Lose the Peace.” Co-produced/mixed/mastered by Joel Nanos at Element Studios. The track features Julia Hail of Hi-Lux; Christine Grossman, principal violist of the Kansas City Symphony; and Michael Raehpour and Grant Morgan on horns. “The record tells the story of a relationship between father and daughter, and with this track giving the back story and possible end of said relationship, it only makes sense that it’s Black Stacey’s most involved song to date.” We first played an unmastered version of this song on March 13, 2019. Black Stacey is Sharaden Staten, a Missouri native, who release his album “Electric Church” in 2017. Part of WMM’s The 117 Best Recordings of 2017. Sharaden, a 25-year-old, having grown up in the back woods of central Missouri, and couch surfed his way into the KC metro, pairs subtle notes of R&B, funk, soul, and rock; dramatically blending it into a raw eclectic mix. In 2015 Sharaden began writing, recording and producing Black Stacey’s debut, “Electric Chariot”. A project that has given him a solid foundation in the KC music scene, gaining him spots on local radio and the opportunity to work with producer Joel Nanos. More info at: http://www.blackstacey.com.]
7. (8.) Claire Adams – “Better Luck”
from: Better Luck – Single / Claire Adams / September 20, 2019
[Musically curious and multifaceted, Claire Adams has spent more than a decade touring, recording and songwriting to hone her melodic instincts and vision. A bassist, guitarist, singer and songwriter, Adams has lent a discerning ear and versatility to a number of projects. 2019 finds Adams collaborating with the KC based string quartet Rewound, jazz pianist Alyssa Murray & drummer Fritz Hutchinson. Recorded at The Blue House in Kansas City, MO. Additional tracking at MARZ Studios in Nederland, TX. Mixed & mastered at Weights + Measures Soundlab in KCMO. Written by Claire Adams, with Claire Adams on guitars, bass, and vocals; Alyssa Murray on keyboards & vocals; and Fritz Hutchison on drums & vocals.]
[Claire Adams Trio plays Corvino Supper Club & Tasting Room, 1830 Walnut, KCMO, Friday, December 6, at 9:30 PM.]
8. (7.) The Moose – “Through The Rainbow”
from: Through the Rainbow/Bell-Bottom Trees – Single /The Moose/ Nov. 10, 2019
The Moose is an alternative band from Lee’s Summit, formed in 2016 by Jake Hilger, Alex Huffman, and Tyler Frey with Emma Klein and Parker Tozier joining in 2016. The Moose released their debut full length album, The First Real Encounter, on Dec. 21, 2018. The Moose joined us LIVE on WMM on July 10, 2019.]
[The Moose play The Rino 314 Armour Rd, NKC, Monday, December 16, at 7:00 PM when The Rino presents Heyrocco with Reality Something, WSG, and Party Fridge.]
9. (6.) Brandon Phillips & The Condition – “Angel Say No”[Vinyl]
from: “Angel Say No” B-Side of “People Talk” / Too Much Rock / April 13, 2019
[The group which is inspired by Elvis Costello and Motown Records “Girl Groups.” This is a project of Brandon Phillips (The Architects, The Gadjits, Other Americans) and features an ensemble cast that includes: Adam Phillips, Zachary Phillips, Brent Kastler, Julie Berndsen along with other musicians fromother bands. The B-side of this vinyl-only, limited-run record is a hand selected cover of Tommy Tutone’s “Angel Say No”– as near a perfect power-pop deep-cut as one is likely to find in even the dustiest record bin in it’s original version, here re-amplified by a crack rhythm section and wedded to the Ronettes-worshiping vocal style for which BP+C are known. Too Much Rock, is a music site created by Sid Sowder in 1997, to share his original photographs, video, and commentary, of the live music shows he attends. Too Much Rock also hosts a musical podcast. Several years ago Sid Sowder created the Too Much Rock – Singles Series, a collection of 45 rpm 7″ singles, featuring an original song from a band, with a cover song, chosen by Too Much Rock. 500 limited edition copies are pressed by Too Much Rock and given to the band. Kansas City based bands, Schwervon!, Rev Gusto, Josh Berwanger Band, The Uncouth, Hipshot Killer, Witch Jail, Red Kate, and Heidi Lynn Gluck have all recorded for the Too Much Rock Single Series. http://www.TooMuchRock.com ]
[Other Americans plays recordBar, 1510 Grand Blvd, KCMO, Saturday, December 21, at 7:00 PM for 3 DEEP Presents Other Americans, Monta At Odds, Emmaline Twist, and Pageant Boys with visuals by XO Blackwater presented by The Record Machine, Kosmic City and Midwest Music Foundation.]
10. (5.) Broken Heart Syndrome – “Dolly (and other unfinished business)”
from: Dolly (and other unfinished business) – Single / B.H.S. / Sept, 13, 2019
[Kansas City based supergroup Broken Heart Syndrome, is Matthew Roth (of Schwervon!, Major Matt Mason USA) on songwriting, vocals & guitar, Pat Tomek (of The Rainmakers) on drums & percussion, Dave Tanner (of The Depth and The Whisper) on bass and backing vocals, Todd Granthem (of The Quivers) on keyboards. This recording was engineered and co-produced by Pat Tomek at Level Stage in KC, MO. Dolly (and other unfinished business) is the second official Broken Heart Syndrome release. Matthew Roth writes, “This track was inspired by the autobiography of Dolly Parton. Many years ago, while I was still living in New York, I took part in a very ambitious singer-songwriter night that is put on by my friend Susan Hwang, called the Bushwick Book Club. It’s still going on, as far as I know. Basically, you read a book and then you write a song about it. The book was Dolly Parton’s: My Life and Other Unfinished Business. I was having a hard time tracking down a copy of the book and luckily my friend Diane Cluck just so happened to have it on tape. It was an actual cassette tape. So, yeah turns out Dolly Parton had a pretty amazing life. It was great to hear her voice telling her own story. There were several points where I felt very moved and even connected to her story. I tried to take some of those parts and channel them as inspiration for the lyrics. It’s like a little secret message from me to her. I don’t think most people would be able to tell what the song is about if I didn’t tell them. I’m pretty positive that she’ll probably never hear it but it’s a really fun way to write a song.”]
[Schwervon! plays The Brick, 1727 McGee St, KCMO, Saturday, December 28, at 9:00 PM, with The Black Creatures, and Casey Guest.]
11. (4.) The Philistines – “Further”
from: Further – Single / The Philistines / March 15, 2019
[New music from The Philistines, that will be part of the upcoming album Dysnomia. Produced and engineered by Paul Malinowski at Massive Sound Studios. The Philistines are a Kansas City based rock band with a psychedelic bent, made up of: Kimmie Queen on lead vocals; Cody Wyoming on lead guitar & vocals; Rod Peal on guitar; Josh Mobley on keyboard, Steve Gardels on drums, and Barry Kidd on bass.]
12. (3.) Shy Boys – “Dim The Light”
from: Dim The Light / Brick By Brick – Single / Polyvinyl / February 15, 2019
[Single release follow up to band’s 2nd album and Polyvinyl debut, Bell House. Shy Boys line-up consists of brothers Collin Rausch and Kyle Rausch, Konnor Ervin, Kyle Little and Ross Brown. Kyle Rausch and Konnor Ervin were already band mates in the indie-pop band The ACBs and Collin had been playing for years in the Kansas City area in various bands. The three shared a love for 1960s era pop rock and soon started writing their own music. In 2014 they released the self-titled Shy Boys on High Dive Records. The album received generally positive reviews and the single “Bully Fight” was featured on Spin.com. In June 2014 the band recorded and released two more singles and one of them, “Life Is Peachy,” was featured on Stereogum. On April 4th, 2018, it was announced that the band had signed to Polyvinyl Record Co.]
13. (2.) The Freedom Affair – “Rise Up”
from: “Rise Up” – Single / Colemine Records / June 21, 2019 [7″ Vinyl Release]
[The Freedom Affair is a project of Chris Hazelton of Sunflower Soul Records and Chris Hazelton’s Boogaloo 7. The band includes members of the Boogaloo 7 with members of Instant Karma and three of the KC area’s leading vocalists. The Freedom Affair is: Misha Roberts on vocals, Seyko Groves on vocals, Paula Saunders on vocals, Cole Bales on guitar, Branden Moser on guitar, Chris Hazelton on bass, Dave Brick on drums, Pete Carroll on trumpet, and Brett Jackson on saxophone. The Freedom Affair and their track “Rise Up” were selected to be part of Colemine Records 3xLP box set, “Soul Slabs Vol. 2” a Record Store Day Exclusive, released April 13, 2019. Colemine Records writes: “The Freedom Affair is a freight train of Kansas City soul! Dirty, funky drums, gritty horns, and the combined vocals of Misha Roberts, Seyko Groves, and Paula Saunders to put this band over the top. Politically charged soul music for the dancefloor!”]
[The Freedom Affair + The Grisly Hand play recordBar, 1520 Grand Blvd, KCMO, on Saturday, December 28, at 8:00 PM.]
14. (1.) NuBlvckCity – “All Night”
from: All Night / Alive – Single / NuBlvckCity / July 12, 2019
[NuBlvckCity is a KC-based music collective with Kartez Marcel (Addison), a native of Kansas City, Missouri, a Hip-Hop artist, and community program developer, sound engineer, entrepreneur, recording artist, musician, and songwriter. He provides resources to artists and assists with bringing their artistic visions to life, he also serves as the Director of A/V at a large faith-based organization. With Royce “Sauce” Handy he founded We Are Rap a hip hop program for youth. VP3 (Vernon Percy Howard III) is a Music Producer, Songwriter, Singer, Pianist, & Saxophonist. He recently graduated from the University of Central Missouri where he studied digital media production. Mae C is a singer/songwriter who’s one of KC’s go-to voices and performer’s. Mae C is a KC based singer songwriter who we’ve played several times on the show. Her single “Anxious,” was preceded by her EP, Warning Sign of True Love. Influenced by Hip Hop, Rock, Jazz, Soul & R&B, Mae C is making her mark as an artist in the KC music scene. Royce “Sauce” Handy is a rapper, a songwriter, a beat maker, a designer, a teacher, an MC, a business owner, a social media manager, a husband, a father., a community organizer. He has worked with the AdHoc Group Against Crime, Teens in Transition, Storytellers Inc., Arts Tech, Mid-America Regional Council, UMKC, Rep. Brandon Ellington, Mayor Sly James. He is co-owner of The Rap Asylum, We are RAP, and owner of Melanin Connoisseur.]
[NuBlvckCity play recordBar, 1510 Grand Blvd, KCMO, Saturday, December 14, at 8:00 PM. opening for Blackalicious, with Nia]
[NuBlvckCity play Westin Crown Center Hotel, 1 E Pershing Rd, KCMO, Tuesday, December 31, at 8:00 PM, for REVEL II – The NYE Spectacular.]
[NuBlvckCity play The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, KCMO, Thursday, January 2, at 10:00 PM with Lincoln Marshall, Domineko, and Black Radio.]
Note: Check our WMM Facebook Page and http://www.WednesdayMidDayMedley.org for the complete list of WMM’s 39 Favorite Singles of 2019.
11:00 – Michelle Bacon’s Favorite Albums of 2019
Michelle Bacon is the Content and Database Manager at 90.9 The Bridge, where she helps to shine a light on area musicians and events. Michelle has written for The Kansas City Star, The Deli Magazine KC, and Folk Alliance International. Michelle plays bass with Other Americans, Nathan Corsi Band, and Katy Guillen & The Drive.
Michelle’s band Other Americans plays recordBar, 1510 Grand Blvd, KCMO, Saturday, December 21, at 7:00 PM for 3 DEEP with Monta At Odds, Emmaline Twist, and Pageant Boys with visuals by XO Blackwater.
Michelle Bacon is organizer of The Band That Fell To Earth: A Tribute to David Bowie, Friday & Saturday, January 24 & 25, 2020, at 8:00 PM, at recordBar.
Michelle joined us to share presentative tracks from her Favorite Albums of 2019
15. Mess – “Cave”
from: Learning How To Talk / Mess / March 29, 2019
[Debut full length album from Kansas City based band formed by: Allison Gliesman, Kevin Briody, Tanner Pinkerton & Evan Velasquez. This track was produced by Patrick Robinson, mixed by Braxton Matlock,and mastered by Troy Glessner (spectre). The band has previously releases several singes and the EP heartswithholes in 2017.]
[Mess plays The Night The Buzz Stole Xmas, Night 1, at The Midland, 1228 Main St. KCMO, Sunday, December 1, at 6:30 with K. Flay, Meg Myers, and Hembree]
[Mess plays The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St, Lawrence KS.,Tuesday, December 31, at 7:00 PM with Hembree.]
16. Violet and The Undercurrents – “Alone Together”
from: The Captain / Violet Vonder Haar Music / March 1, 2019
[Columbia, Missouri based 4-piece band made up of Violet Vonder Haar on lead vocals & guitar; Linda Bott on bass guitar; Phylshawn Johnson on drums, and Lizzy Weiland on lead guitar. The quartet is anchored by the intrepid songwriting of Violet Vonder Haar and enriched by the creative energy of her musical counterparts. Raised in a small town at the edge of the Missouri River and nurtured by a thriving folk music-centered community, Vonder Haar started honing her craft as a songwriter, performer and vocalist at an early age. She was inspired by her father, a riverboat captain who introduced her to the music of folk legends and encouraged her journey as an artist. More information at: http://www.violetandtheundercurrents.com]
[Violet and the Undercurrents play the Byron Amps Holiday Party: A Benefit for True North at Rose Music Hall 1013 Park Ave, Columbia, MO., Thursday, December 19, at 7:00 PM – 11 PM with Jessy Johnsen Band, Rae Fitzgerald, and Ruth Acuff.]
17. Yes You Are – “Comet Bicycle”
from: Here’s To The Great Unknowns / Yes You Are / November 15, 2019
[Kianna Alarid on vocals, Jared White on rhythm guitar, Jacob Temeyer on guitars & keyboards, and Willie Jordan on bass. “We play black pop.” says Kianna Alarid, Yes You Are’s intense front woman, “It implies that there might be shadows lurking, even in the shiny places.” Listening to their upcoming album, it IS essentially pop, but they redefine the genre with each and every song. From gospel choirs to guitar-heavy rock to synth-covered dance rhythms, the mainstay (and mainstream friendly) sing-along hooks are what binds all of their work together. Alarid cut her teeth in the critically-acclaimed indie band Tilly and the Wall, touring through the mid to late aughts with bands such as She and Him, Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, Of Montreal and CSS, playing venues around the world and hitting major festivals like Coachella, Japan’s Summersonic, Iceland Airwaves, Reading, Leeds, Scotland’s T In The Park and Australia’s Splendor In The Grass as well as performing on Late Night with David Letterman and Sesame Street. You’ve probably already heard Yes You Are, as their first single debuted on Pepsi’s Superbowl 51 commercial, as has played over 15,000 times since, all over the world. The song was also featured in the hit movie Bad Moms, as well as FX’s Tyrant and MTV’s Scream. Yes You Are has shared the stage with the likes of K. Flay, Moon Taxi, Marion Hill, Lucius and Neon Trees.]
18. Kemet the Phantom – “Electric (feat. Kadesh Flow)”
from: Electric Park / Kemet Creative / August 16, 2019
[Through the lens of the 32-year-old rap artists’ upbringing from birth to present day in Kansas City, each song represents eight topics: SEDUCTION, POWER, VICE, DEATH, EUPHORIA, LUST, PRIDE, CHANGE. With songs like “Rollin’ Down Paseo”, Kemet explores the nostalgia and confusion of emotions that fester as the future of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, formally known as The Paseo, is determined by a vote. Electric Park was co-produced by Kemet and the legendary producer and sound designer, Leonard Dstroy.
Executive Produced by Kyle Dykes. Written by Kemet Coleman. Artwork by Kemet Coleman, Michael Picman and Jon Conway. Kemet Coleman is Kemet the Phantom, a Kansas City based musicians who calls himself a rap Artist, actor, and Urbanist. Kemet is a member of the Hip-Hop duo COA (Center of Attention) and is the lead singer of the 8-member Funk/Rap/Soul band The Phantastics. Kemet, shines as a complete showman embracing a James Brown-esque persona via syncopated vocals, rhythmic dance moves and dapper costume style. Kemet the Phantom is a two time Pitch Music Award nominee for “Best Hip-Hop Act.” Kemet created the first ever Kansas City mayoral candidate rap song for the Sly James for Mayor campaign in 2010. A University of Missouri – Kansas City alumnus, Kemet, created “Gold and Blue” for UMKC’s sports teams, which has garnered thousands of plays on YouTube and has been featured on prime-time television commercials for the university. More information at: http://www.kemetthephantom.com.] [Kemet The Phantom plays with Brass & Boujee, with Marcus Lewis Big Band presenting, big band arrangements of Kemet and Kadesh’s original material for his 18-piece jazz ensemble.]
19. Making Movies – “Rebelión (ft. Flor De Toloache)”
from: ameri’kana / 3/2 Recordings / May 24, 2019
[Produced by Steve Berlin and Ben Yonas. 3rd full length release from KC based 4-piece band and made up of two sets of brothers: Enrique Chi on guitar and lead vocals; Diego Chi on bass & vocals; Juan-Carlos Chaurand on percussion & keyboards; and Andres Chaurand on drums. The band draws their influences from the origins of their families: Santiago, Panama, and Kansas City, Missouri, and Guadalajara, Mexico. The notes for this album read: “ameri’kana is a canary in a coal mine, the watchman at the tower. It is a desire to remember where we come from and assure that we better ourselves in every step along our journey. Every chapter is an example, a reason to not be silent and not accept corrupt leaders as something inevitable. ameri’kana is based on faith, faith that every person on this continent carries within themselves the ability to grow, to awaken their consciousness and merits the the same rights. We were accomplices to get ourselves to this point so we will have to be accomplices in the solutions.” This was their follow up released to their critically acclaimed I Am Another You, released May 26, 2017. The quartet has toured with Arcade Fire, Thievery Corporation, Cold War Kids, Los Lobos, Ozomatli, Tennis, Sergio Mendoza of Calexico, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Hurray for the Riff Raff.]
[Making Movies are currently on an extensive US Tour with shows all through October and November bringing the band back home to KC for another special New Year’s Eve show at The Truman 601 E. Truman Road, KCMO, Tuesday, December 31, 2019 at 9:00 PM. More info at: http://www.mkngmvs.com]
15. Hembree – “Continents”
from: House on Fire / OREAD Records / April 26, 2019
[This Kansas City based band was formed in November of 2015. Hembree is an indie rock band from Kansas City, Missouri.[Hembree consists of Isaac Flynn on guitar, & lead vocals, Garrett Childers on bass & vocals, Eric Davis on keys & synth, Alex Ward on guitar, and Austin Ward on drums. Hembree is signed to Thirty Tigers of Nashville, TN. The band was founded by original members Isaac Flynn, Garrett Childers, and Eric Davis. Brothers Alex and Austin Ward later joined in 2018. Hembree quickly garnered national attention after their single “Holy Water” was placed in an Apple commercial that aired during Super Bowl LII. The band’s music has been featured in a variety of other national placements, including Monday Night Football (NFL) and Bose. Hembree has notably supported Elvis Costello, Phoenix, Cold War Kids, Vance Joy, JR JR, and Joywave, among others. The band first toured Europe in Fall 2018. In 2018, Hembree signed with Thirty Tigers (The Avett Brothers, Lupe Fiasco) to release their first full-length album House on Fire, released 4/26/2019. In 2019, Hembree performed at Hangout Music Festival. They will also appear on the soundtrack of 13 Reasons Why: Season 3 with the song “Culture”. Hembree was named one of NPR’s Slingshot 2018 Artists to Watch. Rolling Stone named Hembree as one of the thirty best artists at SXSW 2018. “Had It All” debuted on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 on January 19, 2017. Lowe described the song as “absolutely fantastic.” “Holy Water” was featured in Apple’s HomePod “Distortion” TV spot, which ran during Super Bowl LII, the 60th Annual Grammy Awards, and the 2018 Winter Olympics.]
[Hembree plays The Night The Buzz Stole Xmas, Night 1, at The Midland, 1228 Main St. KCMO, Sunday, December 1, at 6:30 with K. Flay, Meg Myers, and Mess.]
[Hembree plays The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St, Lawrence KS.,Tues, Dec 31, at 7:PM w/ Mess.]
11:34 – Michelle Bacon’s Favorite Albums of 2019.
We’re are talking with Michelle Bacon, of 90.9 The Bridge who is joining us on Wednesday MidDay Medley to play representative tracks from her Favorite Albums of 2019.
Michelle Bacon is organizer of The Band That Fell To Earth: A Tribute to David Bowie, Friday & Saturday, January 24 & 25, 2020, at 8:00 PM, at recordBar. This is the 5th year of this annual concert performed by KC musicians: Michelle Bacon on bass, Alex Alexander on guitar, Nathan Corsi on vocals & guitar, Kyle Dahlquist on keyboards, Katy Guillen on guitar, Steve Tulipana on vocals, Stephanie Williams on drums, Havilah Bruders and Camry Ivory on backing vocals, Matt Ronan on percussion, Christine Broxterman on cello, Betse Ellis on violin, Rich Wheeler on saxophone, and special guests.
21. Nan Turner – “Strong”
[All songs by Nan Turner. Recorded, Mixed, and Co-Produced at Winky World in Kansas City, by Chase Horseman. Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, New Windsor, NY. Ian Dobyns plays drums and Chase Horseman plays bass. Nan Turner is one half of the critically acclaimed band Schwervon! Nan has been called the “Lucy Ricardo of Indie Rock.” She also performs as Nan & The One Night Stands. Nan wrote on Facebook about her new EP: “This whole thing started out as an experiment, but I have to say I’m proud as hell with how it turned out. I was just going to record one or maybe two songs. HA HA Welcome to my FIVE SONGER!!! Some songs were written out of heartbreak and some just made me laugh. Just doing this was transformative…stuff was moving around, it was cathartic. I allowed myself to “write bad songs”. I highly recommend doing that because there’s bound to be a gold nugget somewhere in the bunch if you give yourself permission. Me and my guitar got reacquainted. We were “dancing in the dark.” I’ve never quoted Bruce Springsteen before,. but also I didn’t know I was going to record this EP, so you know. I’m rolling with shit. I had the luxury of working with Chase Horseman every week or two…giving myself ample time to add/rework stuff. I took the slow road and enjoyed the process. Chase has great ears and is uber talented in his own right. He & Ian Dobyns (Dreamgirl, Chase The Horseman) were my rhythm section on a few of these tracks.” More Info at: http://www.nanturner.bandcamp.com]
22. Wonderfuzz – “Get There”
from: Get There / MASKT / April 19, 2019
[Wonderfuzz is a Kansas City based band formed on May 11, 2012 with Natalie Norman on vocals, Jordan Smith on bass & vocals, Sam Hoskins on drums & vocals, Josh Johnson on guitar & vocals, and EvanJohn McIntosh on guitar. The 5-piece band started out working for several years as a cover band, studying multiple styles of rock & roll and rhythm & blues. In 2018 Wonderfuzz began to write and record original material releasing a few singles in 2018. In April of 2019 the band released their debut full length album “Get There” and their first music video, for the title track. On November 7, 2019, Wonderfuzz releases their second full length album this year.][Wonderfuzz played a #2 Album Release Show, Nov. 7, at The Riot Room]
23. Emily King – “Look At Me Now”
from: Scenery / ATO Records / February 1, 2019
[We fIrst played Emily King on June 29, 2016 when our friend Krystle Warren was Guest Producer and played the song “Georgia” from King’s 2011 EP Seven. She is an American singer and songwriter. She started her career in 2004 and her debut album East Side Story was released three years later in August 2007. In December 2007, King was listed as a Grammy nominee for Best Contemporary R&B Album. Born July 10, 1985, in NYC in 1985, King grew up in a small apartment on the Lower East Side. Her parents, Marion Cowings and Kim Kalesti, were a singing duo who performed and traveled regularly bringing her and her older brother along with them. At age 16, King left high school after earning her GED to pursue her music career. She began playing shows in restaurants and venues around New York City including CBGB and The Bitter End. King signed her first record deal with J Records in 2004 and was featured on Nas’ 2004 album Street’s Disciple credited as simply “Emily”. Her debut album East Side Story was released 3 years later in August 2007. It went on to earn a Grammy nomination for “Best Contemporary R&B Album of the Year.” During that time King toured with John Legend & Floetry. She opened for various artists such as Nas, Alicia Keys, Chaka Khan & Erykah Badu. After parting ways with her label in 2008, King continued independently. She self-recorded her follow-up EP Seven in her home, released July 2011. In October 2011, she accepted an invite from Maroon 5 to open on their European / Scandinavian tour. In 2012, King was awarded the Holly Prize (a tribute to the legacy of Buddy Holly) from The Songwriters Hall of Fame for recognition of the “all-in songwriter” whose work exhibits the qualities of Holly’s music: true, great and original. King was invited by Emeli Sande to open for her UK tour playing sold out shows in 5 cities including The Royal Albert Hall in London. King collaborated with José James on his album No Beginning No End in 2013 and can be heard on tracks Heaven on the Ground and the acoustic version of Come to My Door. In 2014, King was performing as an opening act for Sara Bareilles’ Little Black Dress tour. The year 2015 marked the release of King’s 2nd studio album, The Switch, Emily self-released on her label Making Music Records on June 26. The Wall Street Journal remarked that the album is “a tasteful collection of 11 songs that showcase King’s distinctive voice.” After signing with the ATO Records in 2017, King became label mates with Brittany Howard, Benjamin Booker & Brandi Carlile. More info at: http://www.emilykingmusic.com]
24. Band of Skulls – “Cool Your Battles”
from: Love Is All You Love / SO Recordings – Silva Screen / April 12, 2019
[5th album from Southhampton, UK band formed in 2008 with Russell Marsden on guitar & vocals, and Emma Richardson on bass guitar & vocals. ‘Love Is All You Love’ is the follow-up to 2016’s ‘By Default’, the new album was produced by Richard X, who also co-wrote four of the tracks. More info at: http://www.bandofskulls.com
from: Noel Coward in New York / drg / 2003
[orig. 1957]
Michelle Bacon joined us to play representative tracks from her Favorite Albums of 2019. Michelle Bacon thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley
Next week, Wednesday MidDay Medley begins our 4-week series: The 119 Best Recordings of 2019, on December 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th. This is our celebration of the year in music based on the playlists of this little ole radio show. In 2019 we’ve played from over 400 New & MidCoastal Releases. 145 were National Releases, 255 were MidCoastal Releases, 183 were from MidCoastal full-length or EP Releases, and over 70 were MidCoastal Single Releases. We conducted over 127 interviews with 209 special guests in 2019.
On your local radio dial 90.1 FM or
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Michelle Bacon photo by Todd Zimmerman
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WMM Playlist from July 17, 2019
Posted on July 22, 2019 by Mark Manning
Enrique Chi + Short Round String Band + LA Jones
+ Fally Afani & Music from Lawrence Field Day Fest
2. L A Jones – “Addicted”
from: Bring Me Back Down EP / L A Jones / April 12, 2019
[LA Jones is a soul-pop band from Kansas City, Missouri. Formed in 2016 by partners Danielle Jones and Tim O’Connor, the band has now grown to feature a wide variety of instruments and members including a three piece horn section, keys, bass, and drums. They blend a style of funk and soul with contemporary pop/rock music drawing comparisons to Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder, and The Revivalists. Band Members include: Danielle Jones on lead vocals, Tim O’Connor on guitar & vocals, Marcus Grimes on keyboards, Jeramy Johnston on bass, Daniel Dissmore on trumpet, Trevor Turla on trombone, Matt Cook on saxophone, and Cade Pool on drums.]
[L A Jones plays recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO on Thursday, July 25, at 7:00 PM with Sulu Moon, and Belle & the Vertigo Waves.]
Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor of L A Jones on the July 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
10:05 – Interview with Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor
Danielle Jones and Tim O’Connor formed the KC based soul-pop band LA Jones in 2016. after a string of singles they released their debut EP Bring Me Back Down this past Spring, and played an EP Release Show, at The Rino.
LA Jones play recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO on Thursday, July 25, at 7:00 PM with Sulu Moon, and Belle & the Vertigo Waves. More information at http://www.officiallajones.com
Danielle Jones & Tim O’Connor thanks for being with us on WMM.
Congratulations on the new EP, Bring Me Back Down.
L A Jones includes:
Danielle Jones on vocals
Tim O’Connor on guitar & vocals
Marcus Grimes on keyboards
Jeramy Johnston on bass
Daniel Dissmore on trumpet,
Trevor Turla on trombone
Matt Cook on sax
Cade Pool on drums
L A Jones, the name is obviously named after lead singer Danielle Jones.
Danielle Jones has worked as a Substitute teacher at Blue Springs School District she has also worked in the Independence School District and Liberty Public Schools.
Danielle Jones Studied Music theatre at Kansas State University from 2011 to 2015
She is originally from Dodge City, Kansas and currently lives in Independence, Missouri
Danielle Jones is engaged to Tim O’Connor
Danielle Jones has a birthday on Friday, July 19
Tim O’Connor ha worked as a Percussion Instructor at Liberty North High School, Percussion Instructor at Blue Springs High School and Percussion Instructor at William Chrisman High School
Tim O’Connor studied at Kansas State University from 2011 to 2016
Tim is originally from from Louisburg, KS and currently lives in Independence, Missouri.
Bring Me Back Down was engineered at Soundworks Recording Studio.
LA Jones play recordBar, 1520 Grand Boulevard, KCMO on Thursday, July 25, at 7:00 PM with Sulu Moon, and Belle & the Vertigo Waves.
L A Jones plays Outreach International’s Summer Party, Friday, August 2, at 5:30 PM at 112 W 18th Street, KCMO with Back Alley Brass Band. 100% of proceeds directly support Outreach’s work alongside communities worldwide.
More information at http://www.officiallajones.com
Tim O’Connor & Danielle Jones of L A Jones
LA Jones is a soul-pop band from Kansas City, Missouri. Formed in 2016 by partners Danielle Jones and Tim O’Connor, the band has now grown to feature a wide variety of instruments and members including a three-piece horn section, keys, bass, and drums. They blend a style of funk and soul with contemporary pop/rock music drawing comparisons to Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder, and The Revivalists.
3. Making Movies – “No Te Calles (ft. Rubén Blades)”
[Enrique Chi plays an intimate solo show, tomorrow night, Thursday, July 18, at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave, KCMO, in Carl Butler’s Gospel Lounge.]
Clarke Wyatt and Betse Ellis on the July 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
10:20 – Interview with Betse Ellis & Clarke Wyatt
Betse Ellis is originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas. She received her Bachelors of Arts in Music and a Bachelors of Arts in English, from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. She has been playing the Violin for over 40 years, with over 20 years playing fiddle and also working as a teacher of music. Betse was one of the founding members of the critically acclaimed and internationally known band, The Wilders. Betse has released two solo records, and for the last several years is recording and performing with her partner, multi-instrumentalist Clarke Wyatt, as Betse & Clarke.
Clarke Wyatt is a finger-style banjo player, drawing inspiration from great traditional and inventive banjoists of earlier decades such as Mike Seeger & John Hartford. His melodies match the fiddle, and also build rhythmic interest to embrace the music’s character. He also plays finger-style guitar, when it suits the musical style & texture.
Betse Ellis and Clarke Wyatt are also part of the Short Round Stringband! a 5-piece band that also includes: Kelly Wells & Ryan Spearman of The Aching Hearts from St. Louis, and with bassist Chris DeVictor of the Lawrence band Konza Swamp, The group is releasing their debut album, Ain’t No Part of Nuthin’ with an Album Release Concert, Saturday, July 20, 7:00 PM at Stockyards Brewing Co., 1600 Genessee, KCMO. More info at: http://www.shortroundstringband.com
Betse Ellis & Clarke Wyatt thanks for being with us on Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Ain’t No Part of Nuthin’ is a new 14-track Tribute To Bill Monroe record.
Short Round Stringband is a pan-Missouri band with a refreshing approach to old time music and is the coming together of two musical couples and a bassist with Kansas roots.
Short Round Stringband
The band members are:
Kelly Wells & Ryan Spearman (The Aching Hearts, St. Louis)
Betse Ellis & Clarke Wyatt (Betse & Clarke, Kansas City)
and Chris DeVictor (Konza Swamp and more)
With deep connections to old-time, country and Ozark tunes and songs, Short Round Stringband takes you on a moving journey through the sounds and stories of the American experience. Their hard driving fiddle tunes will get you out of your seat. Their vocal duets will bring a tear to your eye, and their original songs and inventive new compositions showcase a passion for the depth of tradition and a look to new creative paths. And in
I’ve known Betse since the late 1980s when she was going to school at UMKC and we did performance art at Cafe Lulu and Whistler’s Mother.
For more than five years now Betse has been volunteering for KKFI during our On-Air Fund Drive Shows to help raise money to keep community radio alive.
Betse Ellis & Clarke Wyatt thanks for being with us on WMM.
Short Round Stringband! are releasing their debut album, Ain’t No Part of Nuthin’ with an Album Release Concert, Saturday, July 20, 7:00 PM at Stockyards Brewing Co., 1600 Genessee, KCMO. More info at: http://www.shortroundstringband.com
Clarke Wyatt, Betse Ellis, and Enrique Chi on the July 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
4. Short Round Stringband – “Rabbit in a Log”
from: Ain’t No Part of Nuthin’ / Short Round Stringband / to be released July 19, 2019
[From the debut album from the pan-Missouri band with a refreshing approach to old time music: Short Round Stringband is the coming together of two musical couples and a bassist with Kansas roots. The band members are Kelly Wells and Ryan Spearman (The Aching Hearts, St. Louis), Betse Ellis and Clarke Wyatt (Betse & Clarke, Kansas City), and Chris DeVictor (Konza Swamp and more). With deep connections to old-time, country and Ozark tunes and songs, Short Round Stringband takes you on a moving journey through the sounds and stories of the American experience. Their hard driving fiddle tunes will get you out of your seat. Their vocal duets will bring a tear to your eye, and their original songs and inventive new compositions showcase a passion for the depth of tradition and a look to new creative paths. And in between all of that, you’ll laugh at their madcap humor.]
[Short Round Stringband play an Album Release Concert, Saturday, July 20, 7:00 PM at Stockyards Brewing Co., 1600 Genessee , KCMO]
Enrique Chi
10:45 – Interview with Enrique Chi
Enrique Chi is lead singer & co-founder of the KC based and internationally known band Making Movies. Enrique will share details about an intimate show he is doing, tomorrow night, Thurs, July 18, at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave, KCMO, in Carl Butler’s Gospel Lounge. The show is called, “From the River to the Delta.” Enrique will be exploring the connection between Afro-Latino music in the Caribbean and KC Jazz. Enrique’s band, Making Movies plays District Rhythms at the Live! Block, in the Power & Light District, Sunday, July 21, 6:00 PM with The Parranderos Latin Combo. And, the 2019 Making Movies Carnaval, is Saturday, Sept. 7, at 8:00 PM at Knucklehead’s Saloon.
Enrique Chi, thanks for being with us again on WMM.
Enrique Chi’s intimate solo show is tomorrow night, Thursday, July 18, at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave, KCMO, in Carl Butler’s Gospel Lounge. The show is called “From the River to the Delta.” Enrique will be exploring the connection between Afro-Latino music in the Caribbean and Kansas City Jazz. Tickets at: http://www.knuckleheadskc.com.
Accompanied by special guests the Altoro Sisters, and John Kizlarmut. Malek Looney, Rebel Song Academy Alumni will open the show with a mini set.
Mireya Ramos of Flor De Toloache is in Kansas City to join Los Texmaniacs as part of Ensemble Iberica’s concert series. Both artists are GRAMMY winners and Los Texmaniacs are a Smithsonian Folkways artist. Juan-Carlos and Enrique Chi will be sitting in on a few songs. La Frontera – Mireya Ramos and Los Texmaniacs, July 16 and 17, MTH Theater (Crown Center) 2450 Grand Blvd #301, Kansas City, MO 64108.
Making Movies plays District Rhythms at the Live! Block in the Power and Light District on Sunday, July 21, at 6:00 PM with The Parranderos Latin Combo.
Making Movies Carnaval, will be Saturday, Sept 7, at 8:00 PM at Knucklehead’s Saloon.
From: http://www.mkngmvs.com
ameri’kana, the highly anticipated album from Making Movies and Rubén Blades, is out today. It’s an album that is as striking musically as it is narratively. It’s the power of collaboration across generations/languages/borders- it’s a call to action.
The album is a collaboration with none other than Rubén Blades. The collaboration began at the 2017 Latin Grammys, when Blades said he wanted to work with Making Movies, setting into motion their first collaboration, No Te Calles, a calling to all artists and the general public to speak out against corruption. Inspired by the poetry of Blades on “No Te Calles” Making Movies entered the studio and dreamed up ameri’kana, an “oldies” station from the future, where the injustices sung about are long gone. The album features artists that align with speaking out against divisions, corruption, and injustices, with the hope that in the future those ills will be a memory. Steve Berlin of Los Lobos signed on to produce the album, his third time working with the group, along with co-producer Ben Yonas and together helmed the sessions that brought the featured cast of ameri’kana: Flor De Toloache, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, Asdru Sierrra of Ozomatli, Frankie Negrón, and Las Cafeteras. Blades offered himself as a guide and resource to the band during the process, and appears on three tracks of the record, including one co-penned by Lou Reed.
“For the first time in our journey we have aimed at a focused message to stand up against the political corruption and injustices that are plaguing our beautiful continent, Abya Yala.” said Enrique Chi, guitarist & frontman of Making Movies. “We are all accomplices in it and we must be accomplices in the solution which begins with raising our voices.”
The album’s genre-breaking sound pulls from Latin music as well as rock’n’roll, which Making Movies attests are one and the same: without the influence of Latin music in North America, jazz and blues would have never been born, nor would its successor rock’n’roll. ameri’kana marks the band’s sound and mantra: “ROCK’N’ROLL IS LATIN MUSIC,” they are as inseparable as the continent itself.
Making Movies is currently celebrating the release on a tour across the U.S. and Panama. Rubén Blades and Making Movies will share the stage for the first time at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City on November 20th.
Upon the release of this album I Am Another You, (May 26, 2017). Making Movies kicked off a 22-date Immigrants Are Beautiful Tour, a celebration of solidarity in the face of fear-mongering and hate. Frontman Enrique Chi shared, “It’s time to realize we are all part of this continuum, this beautifully flawed human race that has migrated from every continent to bring us all the beauty we enjoy today.” The band’s social statement is straightforward enough that they can express it in four words: “We Are All Immigrants.” In supporting that cause, a portion of all proceeds from the album and tour go to the National Immigration Law Center. Enrique Chi, describes, “since making the album, the tides have shifted and the underbelly of systematic racism has reared its ugly head. It is no longer time to be silent is time for us to raise our voices.”
Enrique Chi’s intimate solo show is tomorrow night, Thursday, July 18, at 7:00 pm at Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester Ave, KCMO, in Carl Butler’s Gospel Lounge.
Enrique Chi and Fally Afani on the July 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
11:00 – Fally Afani Guest Producer
Fally Afani is an award-winning journalist with a career spanning more than 18 years in media. She has worked extensively in radio, television, newspapers, and magazines. She has received several Kansas Association of Broadcasters awards as well as an Edward R. Murrow award for her online work in journalism. Fally lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where she reports on local & touring musicians and is the editor & founder of, I Heart Local Music a comprehensive website providing info and place for music lovers in Lawrence to gather. It was started out of a deep love & appreciation for the local music scene.
Fally Afani joins us for our entire second hour to share music and information about Lawrence Field Day Fest, hosted by I Heart Local Music, Thursday, July 18 through Saturday, July 20, at The Granada Theater, Lucia Beer Garden + Grill, The Bottleneck, and White Schoolhouse with free and “all ages” shows for the entire festival. Info at http://www.lfkfielddayfest.com
Fally Afani, thank you for being with us in Wednesday MidDay Medley.
Organizers worked to make lineup more manageable, accessible, and easier to see shows.
LFDF
Lawrence Field Day Fest 2019 Line up:
Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds
The Midnight Devils
The Sluts
Young Mvchetes
The Band That Saved The World
Stiff Middle Fingers
Pale Tongue
Vibralux
Nublvckcity
JC & the Nuns
Oxford Remedy
The Sophomores
MILKWAVE
Collidescope
Iris Elke
Final Girl and the Monsters
Sutphin
FACEFACE
DJ Joey Chingasos
This year’s festival will be held at:
THE GRANADA – 1020 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, KS 66044, (785) 842-1390
LUCIA BEER GARDEN + GRILL – 1016 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS 66044
THE BOTTLENECK – 737 New Hampshire Street, Lawrence, KS 66044, (785) 841-5483
WHITE SCHOOLHOUSE – 1510 N 3rd St., Lawrence, KS, (785) 550-5365
5. Vedettes – “Sick Of”
from: EPHEMERAL / Vedettes / March 1, 2019
[Five studio-recorded and mastered tunes, recorded and mixed by Paul Malinowski from May to December 2018 at Massive Sound in Shawnee, Kansas.This Lawrence, Kansas based 4-piece band was formed in 2015 with Heather Lofflin on lead vocals & guitar; Lizz Weiler on bass, & backup vocals; Ben White on lead guitar & backup vocals. More information at: http://www.vedettes.com]
[Vedettes play plays Lawrence Field Day Fest, sponsored by I Heart Local Music, Saturday, July 20, at 7:30 at The Granada Theatre, Lawrence, Kansas.]
We are talking with our special Guest Producer – Fally Afani, Editor and Founder of I Heart Local Music, about the 8th Annual Lawrence Field Day Fest, July 18, 19 and 20, in Downtown Lawrence, Kansas. More information at: http://www.iheartlocalmusic.com
Vedettes played A Tribute to Queen presented by I Heart Local Music at The Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts St. in Lawrence, KS on Friday, February 22 at 7:00 PM, with PartyParty, Katlyn Conroy, Nick Carswell, Wick & The Tricks, Vibralux, Dick Von Dyke, Mean Melin and CindAIRella.
Oxford Remedy is a new band.
6. Oxford Remedy – “Vending Machine”
from: “Vending Machine – Single / Oxford Remedy / January 12, 2019
[Lawrence/KC 3-piece band formed in June 2016. Members include: Sydney Aldridge, Kate McKown, and Grace McKown. More indo at http://www.oxfordremedy.com]
[Oxford Remedy play Lawrence Field Day Fest, sponsored by I Heart Local Music, Friday, July 19, at 8:45 at The Bottleneck, Lawrence, Kansas.]
We are talking with our special Guest Producer – Fally Afani, Editor and Founder of I Heart Local Music, about the 8th Annual Lawrence Field Day Fest, July 18, 19 and 20, in Downtown Lawrence, Kansas.
NuBlvckCity is a KC-based music collective with Mae C; They Call Me Sauce; Kartez Marcel and VP3.
Kartez Marcel (Addison), is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, he is a Hip-Hop artist, community program developer, sound engineer, entrepreneur, recording artist, musician, and songwriter. He provides resources to artists and assists with bringing their artistic visions to life, he also serves as the Director of A/V at a large faith-based organization. With Royce “Sauce” Handy he founded We Are Rap a hip hop program for youth.
VP3 (Vernon Percy Howard III) is a Music Producer, Songwriter, Singer, Pianist, & Saxophonist. He recently gradualted from the University of Central Missouri where he studied digital media production.
Mae C is a singer/songwriter who’s one of KC’s go-to voices and performer’s. Mae C is a KC based singer songwriter who we’ve played several times on the show. Her single “Anxious” was preceeded by her EP, Warning Sign of True Love. Influenced by Hip Hop, Rock, Jazz, Soul & R&B, Mae C is making her mark as an artist in the KC music scene.
Royce “Sauce” Handy is a rapper, a songwriter, a beat maker, a designer, a teacher, an MC, a business owner, a social media manager, a husband, a father., a community organizer. He has worked with the AdHoc Group Against Crime, Teens in Transition, Storytellers Inc., Arts Tech, Mid-America Regional Council, UMKC, Representative Brandon Ellington, Mayor Sly James. He is co-owner of The Rap Asylum, We are RAP, and owner of Melanin Connoisseur. Sauce has collaborated with visual artists, and the hip hop community. In 2017 Sauce released his EP, Summer Sauce which was part of WMM’s 117 Best Recordings of 2017. In 2018 Sauce released his newest album Soul Food 4.
7. NuBlvckCity – “Alive”
[NuBlvckCity is a KC-based music collective, members include (but not limited to) Mae C; They Call Me Sauce; Kartez Marcel. The collective represents positive vibes, creativity, showmanship, and community.]
[NuBlvckCity play Lawrence Field Day Fest, sponsored by I Heart Local Music, Saturday July 20, at Lucia Beer Garden + Grill – 1016 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS.]
Fally Afani
11:30 – Interview with Fally Afani
I Heart Local Music is a place for music lovers in Lawrence to gather. It was started out of a deep love and appreciation for the local music scene. I Heart Local Music now publishes a quarterly print magazine edition. Our special Guest Producer – Fally Afani, Editor and Founder of I Heart Local Music, is here to sharemusic and information about the 8th Annual Lawrence Field Day Fest, July 18, 19 and 20, in Downtown Lawrence, Kansas. More information at: http://www.iheartlocalmusic.com
JC & The Nuns have a new EP out called, God Did Weed
8. JC & The Nuns – “Blaze The Lord”
from: God Did Weed/ Independent / June 1, 2019
[Lawrence based 4-piece band with JC on lead vocals, Sister Spirit on bass, Sister Hazel on guitar, Sister Sister on percussion. Recorded and mixed at Lawrence Public Library.]
[JC & the Nuns play Lawrence Field Day Fest, sponsored by I Heart Local Music, Friday, July 19, at The Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas.]
Clarke Wyatt, Betse Ellis, Enrique Chi, and Fally Afani on the July 17, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI.
Joel Bonner and his Serene Fiend live bandmate Daniel Glascock joined us last week to debut of Serene Fiend’s flagship single, “Unto Myself” from the upcoming Serene Fiend album “Elegies and Effigies.” Serene Fiend is an industrial rock artist from Lawrence, KS that blends pop and glam sensibility with nuances of the various movements within the industrial subgenre. All of Serene Fiend’s music is composed, produced, and recorded by Joel Bonner. When Serene Fiend plays live Sam Piper & Daniel Glascock are part of the band. Sam Piper & Daniel Glascock play in the band Hyper Mortal.
[Industrial pop-rock project from Lawrence, Kansas based Joel Bonner. All instruments programmed and performed by Joel Bonner. Synth solo programmed and performed by Daniel Glascock. Written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joel Bonner. I Heart Local Music calls Sowing Discord “warm and beautiful, wrapping you up its lush sound.”]
Industrial pop-rock project from Lawrence, Kansas based Joel Bonner. All instruments programmed and performed by Joel Bonner. Synth solo programmed and performed by Daniel Glascock. Written, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joel Bonner. I Heart Local Music calls Sowing Discord “warm and beautiful, wrapping you up its lush sound.”
Fally Afani, thanks for being on WMM.
For Wednesday MidDay Medley, I’m Mark Manning. Thanks for listening!
10. The Sluts – “Only One”
from: Only One / The Sluts / May 25, 2017
[5 song EP from the Lawrence based band The Sluts formed by Ryan Wise & Kristoffer Dover in 2011. This year The Sluts released a new 6 song EP called Break Their Heart on February 12, 2019 that was Produced recorded, mixed, and mastered by Joel Nanos at Element Recording and Mastering Studios.]
[The Sluts play Lawrence Field Day Fest, for the I Heart Local Music Showcase, Friday, July 18, 19, and 2t, Lawrence, Kansas.]
Next week on Wednesday, July 24, for the first time in 795 weeks we wont be here. We are being pre-empted by the Homelessness Marathon that will air from 9:00 AM after Democracy Now until 9:00 PM.
We’ll be back in two weeks on July 31 with Shaun Crowley who will share music from Manor Fest. We will also talk with William & Doris Martin and Dr. Carmaletta Williams, Director of the Black Archives of Mid America about a new exhibit opening at the Archives on August 1, detailing the life of George Washington Carver.
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WMM Playlist from July 3, 2019
Posted on July 7, 2019 by Mark Manning
Heavy Grams + Radial Red + Jaclyn Bell
+ NuBlvckCity & Nathan Reusch
2. Calvin Arsenia – “Psycho Killer”
from: Honeydew / Center Cut Records / June 28, 2019
[On September 15, 2018 Calvin released Cantaloupe on Center Cut Records. This new EP is a remix of three of the songs from Cantaloupe, plus a Talking Heads cover that was performed live in this style at a New Year’s Eve show at The Truman opening for Making Movies who performed the entire Talking Heads album, Remain in Light. The last three songs on Honeydew were from performed in this style at The Nelson Atkins 2019 event “Party Arty.” Honeydew was produced by Jametatone, Simon Huntley, and Calvin Arsenia. Calvin Arsenia who came home to KC in 2014 after living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has released the EPs, Moments, Prose, Caviar, and the full length debut, Catastrophe. Standing at 6 foot 6 inches, Arsenia’s powerful vocals span a 3.5 octave range, playing piano, banjo, guitar & harp. Calvin has played Folk Alliance Int., KC Fringe Fest, Apocalypse Meow, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts, Middle of the Map Fest., The Folly Theatre. Last year he undertook a three month US/European Outlyre Tour playing San Francisco,Vancouver, NYC, Boston, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland and Paris.]
[Calvin Arsenia plays The Elephant Room, 314 Congress Ave, Austin Texas on Thursday, July 4, with VEERS, The Den Brothers, and Keith Sanchez]
[Calvin Arsenia plays the Oregon Country Fair (with Quixotic) July 12 – July in Veneta, Oregon]
[Calvin Arsenia plays Collide (w/ Quixotic), July 19 – 20, 8:00 PM at Quixotic, 1616 Broadway KCMO.]
[Calvin Arsenia plays Bad in Bed LIVE Aug 22 – Aug 24, 8:00 PM at recordBar 1520 Grand, KCMO]
[Calvin Arsenia plays The Sextet Album Release for Among Friends, Sun, Sept 15, 7:00 PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand, KCMO]
[Calvin Arsenia plays The LA Sessions EP Release, Sept 19, 8:PM at recordBar, 1520 Grand, KCMO]
3. Bill Callahan – “747”
from: Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest / Drag City Records / June 14, 2019
[21st release as Bill Callahan or Smog. Bill Callahan (born June 3, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist who has also recorded and performed under the band name Smog. Callahan began working in the lo-fi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, to which he remains signed today. Callahan started out as a highly experimental artist, using substandard instruments and recording equipment. His early songs often nearly lacked melodic structure and were clumsily played on poorly tuned guitars, resulting in the dissonant sounds on his self-released cassettes and debut album Sewn to the Sky. Much of his early output was instrumental, a stark contrast to the lyrical focus of his later work. Apparently, he used lo-fi techniques not primarily because of an aesthetic preference but because he didn’t have any other possibility to make music. Once he signed a contract with Drag City, he started to use recording studios and a greater variety of instruments for his records. From 1993 to 2000, Callahan’s recordings grew more and more “professional” sounding, with more instruments, and a higher sound quality. In this period he recorded two albums with the influential producer Jim O’Rourke and Tortoise’s John McEntire, and collaborated with Neil Hagerty. Callahan also worked closely with his then-girlfriend Cynthia Dall in his early career, and they contributed vocals to each other’s albums. After 2000’s Dongs of Sevotion, Callahan began moving back to a slightly simpler instrumentation and recording style, while retaining the more consistent songwriting style he had developed over the years. This shift is apparent in albums such as Rain on Lens, Supper, and A River Ain’t Too Much to Love. Smog’s songs are often based on simple, repetitive structures, consisting of a simple chord progression repeated for the duration of the entire song. His singing is characterized by his baritone voice. Melodically and lyrically he tends to eschew the verse-chorus approach favoured by many contemporary songwriters, preferring instead a more free-form approach relying less on melodic and lyrical repetition. Themes in Callahan’s lyrics include relationships, animals, relocation, nature, and more recently, politics. On the subject of voice in his albums, Callahan has said, “It’s usually one character per record. So, the character appears in all or most of the songs on one record and then is gone. Though it makes me feel weird to talk about. Because I don’t really think in clear terms of characters. My albums as a whole could be seen as one character with many voices.”[4] His generally dispassionate delivery of lyrics and dark irony often obfuscate complex emotional and lyrical twists and turns. Critics have generally characterized his music as depressing and intensely introverted, with one critic describing it as “a peep-show view into an insular world of alienation.” Cat Power (Chan Marshall) recorded Callahan’s song “Bathysphere” on her 1996 album What Would the Community Think and also covered another Callahan song, “Red Apples”, on her Covers Record, released in 2000. In 2007, Callahan released Woke on a Whaleheart, his first solo album released under his own name, Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle followed in April, 2009. Both recordings were released through Drag City, worldwide. In 2009, Callahan contributed cover songs on four separate tribute albums to Judee Sill, Kath Bloom, Chris Knox, and Merge Records. In 2010, he released his first live album Rough Travel for a Rare Thing, which was recorded in 2007 at The Toff in Melbourne, Australia. Apocalypse, was released in April 2011 to favorable reviews. Critic Sasha Frere-Jones called it “my favorite of Callahan’s albums, not because it has better songs—those are scattered among at least five others — but because it does exactly what he wants it to do: it conveys an album’s coherence.” A tour film chronicling Callahan’s 2011 Apocalypse tour was released in 2012.]
[Bill Callahan plays the Lawrence Public Library Lawn, Friday, July 5, at 7:00 PM at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St, Lawrence, KS with special guest Heidi Lynne Gluck.]
4. Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear – “Mother Mary”
from: Radio Winners – EP / Glassnote Records / July 27. 2018
[Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear have garnered international acclaim,. They signed with Glassnote Records and recorded their debut full length album in Nashville with acclaimed producer Jim Abiss. They performed their debut single “Silent Movies” on The Late Show with David Letterman, they’ve toured across the United States, and Europe, more than once. They were featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NBC’s The Today Show, and “Later With Jools Holland and played Bonnaroo, Pilgramage, the Newport Folk Festival, and the Ryman Theatre, in Nashville. Ruth Ward has continually performed throughout her life, mostly in coffee shops and open mics, for over 30 years, even recording a solo record. In the midst of this she got married and became a mom, and was busy raising a family. Madisen Ward was born in Oklahoma, and grew up in the outskirts of KCMO. He graduated from William Chrisman High School in 2007. Madisen’s journey to become a musician, was “melodically passed down” through the songs of his mother, where Madisen grew up watching his mom perform at local coffee shops. Eventually he began to learn to play the guitar, and poured his talent for writing into the music to create original songs. They began playing Madisen’s original songs along with the occassional cover of a classic track, reinterpreted in their own incredibly beautiful performace of two voices and two guitars in harmony and orchestration. Their debut album, The Skeleton Crew, was released May 9, 2015 and was our most played record that year and was #1 on WMM’s The 115 Best Recordings of 2015.]
[LiveOnMass Presents: Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, Saturday, July 6 at 6:00 PM at The Granada Theater, 1020 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS with Pony Bradshaw and Sky Smeed.]
Jaclyn Bell
5. Jaclyn Bell – “Wanna Be Mine”
from: Wanna Be Mine / Jaclyn Bell / March 28, 2019
[Kansas City based singer songwriter Jaclyn Bell. Jaclyn released her first full-length album, “Wanna Be Mine” recorded here in Kansas City, Missouri at Dwelling Place Music with John Hendrickson. Jaclyn Bell released her EP “Memories” in 2018, that featured her songwriting capabilities combined with the Nashville talent where it was recorded. http://www.jaclynbellmusic.com]
[Jaclyn Bell and her band play, Made in KC for First Fridays on Friday, July 5th]
[Jaclyn Bell & band play, Bull Creek Distillery, 20559 S Lone Elm Rd. Spring Hill, KS, Sat, July 6.]
[Jaclyn Bell Duo play Sunset Grill, 14577 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS, Sat., August 3, at 8:00 pm.]
10:19 – Interview with Jaclyn Bell & Josh Bell
Josh Bell & Jaclyn Bell on the July 3, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.
Singer, songwriter, producer, Jaclyn Bell released her first full-length album, “Wanna Be Mine” recorded here in Kansas City. Jaclyn Bell released her EP “Memories” in 2018, that featured her songwriting capabilities combined with the Nashville talent where it was recorded.
Jaclyn Bell thanks for being with us on WMM.
Also joining us is Jaclyn’s husband Josh Bell, thanks for being with us on WMM.
Josh plays saxophone and plays live with Jaclyn and on Wanna Be Mine.
Jaclyn Bell studied at Berklee College of Music
Jaclyn Bell studied Audio Engineering/Music Production at Recording Radio Film Connection
Josh Bell is a NOC-Technician at Sprint
Josh Bell Studied Audio Engineering/Music Production at Recording Radio Film Connection
Jaclyn & Josh Bell live in Overland Park, Kansas. Jaclyn grew up in the Kansas City area. Josh is originally from Highlands, Texas.
Jaclyn Bell married Josh Bell on February 15, 2013
Jaclyn released her first full-length album, “Wanna Be Mine” recorded here in Kansas City, Missouri at Dwelling Place Music with John Hendrickson.
Jaclyn started singing as a child in church and at 4-H competitions.
Jaclyn Bell played The Rino, 314 Armour Rd, North Kansas City, MO, last week on Friday, June 28 with The Dear Misses, Radiant Bones [NE], Thames [STL].
In an interview with Johnson County Library Jaclyn explained the she has “been working on (her new album, Wanna Be Mine) for about three years and I recorded here in Kansas City with some great local musicians and producers. The songs I would say I’m most proud of on the album are “Wanna Be Mine”, “Killing All of You”, and “Young and Free”. “Wanna Be Mine” because it’s one of my most melodic songs. It’s really raw honesty when you put yourself out there in front of someone and tell them what you want.”
She also talked about how she has “been a songwriter since I was about 17. But the past five years I’ve been really writing loads of songs and making it a career, [studying how] Taylor Swift [and] Ed Sheeran write and compose [their] music. Some of her earliest musical influences were Taylor Swift, Colbie Caillat, and Paramore.”
“For my songwriting process it’s a bit different. It’s like I catch a writing bug I could go months without writing songs and then once I feel inspired, I could write seven songs in three days. With editing, each song is different. Some songs I write once and don’t change anything about it. Others […] take four or five different editing sessions to get it perfect. Each song is a different art piece so doing it all the same doesn’t really make sense to me. I think that each one deserves its own unique attention and style.”
“2019 is the year that I put out my first album Wanna Be Mine and is officially the kickoff of my music journey and my career in making this what I do. I have a really good team and we have a bunch of stuff planned this year with a few media releases, a few singles that are already in the works, and obviously I’m still writing for my next album because the goal is to keep this going. We have some plans for getting my music out there for people to hear so I’m really excited!”
Jaclyn Bell and her band play, Made in KC for First Fridays on Friday, July 5th
Jaclyn Bell & band play, Bull Creek Distillery, 20559 S Lone Elm Rd. Spring Hill, KS, Sat, July 6.
Jaclyn Bell Duo play Sunset Grill, 14577 Metcalf Ave, Overland Park, KS, Sat., August 3, at 8:00 pm.
Jaclyn Bell and Josh Bell, thanks for being with us again on WMM.
Wanna Be Mine was released March 28 and is available at iTunes and where music is available.
6. Jaclyn Bell – “Am I The One”
[Kansas City based singer songwriter Jaclyn Bell. Jaclyn released her first full-length album, “Wanna Be Mine” recorded here in Kansas City. Jaclyn Bell released her EP “Memories” in 2018, that featured her songwriting capabilities combined with the Nashville talent where it was recorded. http://www.jaclynbellmusic.com]
Dustin Mott, Calandra Ysquierdo Wall, Jaclyn Bell, and Josh Bell on the July 3, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.
7. Heavy Grams – “A Little Luck”
from: Heavy Grams EP / Heavy Grams /May 25, 2019
[Heavy Grams were formed in 2018. Members include: Jeff Wall on guitar & vocals, Calandra Ysquierdo on bass & vocals, and Dustin Mott on drums. Heavy Grams just recently released their self titled, debut EP, that was recorded at Weights and Measures Sound Lab with Duane Trower, with Damon Parker on piano, Jen Lawless on backing vocals, Trey DeBose on saxophone.]
10:40 – Interview with Calandra Ysquierdo Wall, and Dustin Mott of Heavy Grams
Dustin Mott and Calandra Ysquierdo Wall o the July 3, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.
Heavy Grams were formed in 2018. Members include: Jeff Wall on guitar & vocals, Calandra Ysquierdo on bass & vocals, and Dustin Mott on drums. Heavy Grams just recently released their self titled, debut EP, that was recorded at Weights and Measures Sound Lab with Duane Trower.
Calandra Ysquierdo, and Dustin Mott thanks for being with us on WMM.
Heavy Grams were formed in 2018.
Members include: Jeff Wall on guitar & vocals, Calandra Ysquierdo on bass & vocals, and
Dustin Mott on drums.
Calandra Ysquierdo and Dustin Mott played together in the band The Lucky
Jeff Wall also plays in the band 3 Hour Drive
Calandra Ysquierdo and Jeff Wall were married on July 7, 2018
Jeff Wall Studied Sociology, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Benedictine College
Jeff wall is from Oak Grove, Missouri. June 29 is his birthday.
Dustin Mott is a Music teacher, drummer, who serves as Band Director at Northgate Middle School
Dustin Mott lives in Kansas City, Missouri
Dustin Mott studied Music Education at UMKC Conservatory and graduated in 2018.
Dustin Mott studied Music Performance – Percussion · Music education at Missouri Western State University, where he graduated in 2011 · Kansas City, Missouri
Dustin Mott graduated from Independence Senior High, in Independence, Kansas
Heavy Grams just recently released their self titled, debut EP, that was recorded at Weights and Measures Sound Lab with Duane Trower, with Damon Parker on piano, Jen Lawless on backing vocals, Trey DeBose on saxophone.
Calandra Rene Ysquierdo Wall, and Dustin Mott thanks for being with us on WMM.
8. Heavy Grams – “Pavement”
[Heavy Grams were formed in 2018. Members include: Jeff Wall on guitar & vocals, Calandra Ysquierdo on bass & vocals, and Dustin Mott on drums. Heavy Grams just recently released their self titled, debut EP, that was recorded at Weights and Measures Sound Lab with Duane Trower, with Damon Parker on piano, Jen Lawless on backing vocals, Trey DeBose on saxophone. ]
9. Hipshot Killer – “Places We Want To Be”
from: All This Time is Ours / Hipshot Killer / March 20, 2019
[KC based 3-piece power punk band formed in the fall of 2008. The current line up consists of: Mike Alexander (Revolvers, Architects, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons, The Starhaven Rounders), on guitar & vocals, Chris Wagner (100 Years War, Jackie Carrol, John Velge and The Prodigal Sons) on bass & vocals, legendary drummer Jon “Buddy” Paul, who plays in (The Big Iron, The Revolvers.) The band released their debut record Hipshot Killer, April 29, 2011. The band released their second album They Will Try To Kill Us All on January 16, 2016. It was number 7 in Wednesday MidDay Medley’s 116 Best Recordings of 2016.]
[Hipshot Killer play Davey’s, 3402 Main, KCMO, Sat, July 6, 9:PM w/ The Right Here, Chad Rex, and The Rackatee’s.]
10. Radkey – “Rock & Roll Homeschool”
from: No Strange Cats…P.A.W. / The Century Family / February 22, 2019
[This new 7 song EP is sessetially a collection of the band’s most recent singles. It comes after the January 11, 2019 release of No Strange cats…Spiders – EP a 6 song EP of several new songs mixed with several singles from late 2018. Isaiah, Dee, and Solomon Radke of the critically acclaimed rock trio Radkey joined us live in our 90.1 FM studios on September 5, 2018 to talk about their performance at recordBar with Quixotic Performers, as headliners for the 14th Annual Crossroads Music Fest. Radkey was formed in 2010 in St. Joseph, where the brothers were raised. The family moved to Kansas City several years ago. The band has released two full-length recordings — “Dark Black Makeup” in 2015 and “Delicious Rock Noise” in 2016 — plus multiple EPs and singles, and recently were part of a MasterCard advertising campaign on digital billboards in NYC along with a national televison commercial that aired during the Grammy Awards that brought the band to the attention of Jack White who asked the band to tour with him. After Crossroads Music Fest the band went back on the road playing shows with The Damned throughout the United States. In December they went back into the studio to record songs for this release with producer Bill Stevenson of the California punk rock group Descendents. In early 2019 they played shows in Amsterdam and Stockholm. Last year the nad released “Basement” , “St. Elwood” “Rock & Roll Homeschool” as well as several other singles.]
[Radkey plays recordBar 1520 Grand. KCMO, TONIGHT! July 3, 7:00 PM w/ Salty, and Deco Auto]
11. NuBlvckCity – “Alive”
from: All Night / Alive – Single / The Record Machine / July 12, 2019
[NuBlvckCity play What’s Next KC, Saturday, July 13, at 6:00 PM at Legacy Park Amphitheater, 901 NE Bluestem Dr, Lees Summit, MO., with The Moose, and Blue False Indigo. sponsored by Mid-Continent Public Library and The Record Machine.]
11:06 – Interview w/ VP3, and Kartez Marcel (NuBlvckCity) and Nathan Reusch of TRM
VP3 and Kartez Marcel of NuBlvckCity on the July 3, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.
Kartez Marcel (Addison) is a native of Kansas City, Missouri, he is a Hip-Hop artist, community program developer, sound engineer, entrepreneur, recording artist, musician, and songwriter. He provides resources to artists and assists with bringing their artistic visions to life, he also serves as the Director of A/V at a large faith-based organization. With Royce “Sauce” Handy he founded We Are Rap a hip hop program for youth.
VP3, and Kartez Marcell (half of the collective NuBlvckCity) and Nathan Reusch (of The Record Machine) join us to share details about What’s Next KC, on Saturday, July 13, at 6:00 PM at Legacy Park Amphitheater, 901 NE Bluestem Dr, Lees Summit, MO. sponsored by Mid-Continent Public Library and The Record Machine.
Nathan Reusch, VP3, Kartez Marcell thanks for being with us on WMM.
NuBlvckCity went on a Winter Tour last year and a Spring 2019 Tour in March. The collective represents positive vibes, creativity, showmanship, and community. NuBlvckCity is a Kansas City-based music collective, members include Mae C; They Call Me Sauce; Kartez Marcel and VP3.
Mae C is a singer/songwriter who’s one of Kansas City’s go-to voices and performer’s. Mae C is a Kansas City based singer songwriter who we’ve played several times on the show. Her single “Anxious” was preceeded by her EP, Warning Sign of True Love. Influenced by Hip Hop, Rock, Jazz, Soul & R&B, Mae C is making her mark as an independent artist in the Kansas City music scene. A self-acclaimed black girl nerd, she originally planned on becoming an engineer and studied computer design at Lincoln University of Missouri. After leaving Lincoln to pursue her true passion of singing and songwriting, she finds that her techy side impacts how she writes music. “As a kid, I was always picking things apart and figuring out how to put them back together,” she said. “As an artist, I do the same thing – I pick apart my favorite singers to discover what made them great so I can walk in their footsteps.” With Kansas City becoming a place of movement for arts and entertainment, Mae C says now is the time to reinvent the wheel, break barriers, build bridges, but most of all support each other. “Supporting each other is the secret to rising to the top and putting the town on the map”, says Mae C. She aspires to inspire other artists to capitalize in their craft by not putting themselves in a box. “I’m an African American woman, but I refuse to allow anyone to use that against me. I’m an artist & proud black girl and I deserve a chance at every opportunity just as anyone else,” she said..] [Mae C. played The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, KCMO, Saturday, February 23, at 8:00 PM. with Trxz Jones, They Call Me Sauce, JaySol Music, Guest DJ: DJ G3wizz, and Special Guest: Jo Blaq.
What’s Next KC, is on Saturday, July 13, at 6:00 PM at Legacy Park Amphitheater, 901 NE Bluestem Dr, Lees Summit, MO. This is an all ages, family friendly, community event featuring live performances by: NublvckCity, The Moose, and Blue False Indigo. There will be concessions available and a BBQ Food Truck. What’s Next KC is sponsored by Mid-Continent Public Library and The Record Machine.
Kartez Marcel’s passion for artistic expression and vision not only led him to establish the League of Lifestyles, but also guides him in working to ensure generations that follow have access to unique and relevant mediums of expression. As such Kartez has partnered in the delivery of M.E.D.I.A over the past few years, which is an after/in-school program designed to expose local students to various facets of the music industry while providing practical experience they can apply both in and out of creative spaces. Kartez was educated in the KC and Hickman Mills School Districts, and later attended college at Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida where he studied music production and sound engineering.
VP3, Kartez Marcell of NuBlvckCity & Nathan Reusch of TRM thanks for being on WMM.
What’s Next KC, is on Sat, July 13, at 6:00 PM at Legacy Park Amphitheater, 901 NE Bluestem Dr, Lees Summit, MO. This is an all ages, family friendly event featuring: NublvckCity, The Moose, and Blue False Indigo. There will be concessions available and a BBQ Food Truck. Sponsored by Mid-Continent Public Library and The Record Machine.
12. NuBlvckCity – “All Night”
[NuBlvckCity is a KC-based music collective, members include Mae C; They Call Me Sauce; Kartez Marcel. The collective represents positive vibes, creativity, showmanship, and community. This track was produced by VP3 who also sings on the song.]
[NuBlvckCity play What’s Next KC, Sat, July 13, 6:00 PM at Legacy Park Amphitheater, 901 NE Bluestem Dr, Lees Summit, MO., w/ The Moose, and Blue False Indigo. Sponsored by Mid-Continent Public Library and The Record Machine.]
13. The Creepy Jingles – “Signs Of The Times New Roman”
from: The Creepy Jingles EP / High Dive Records / May 3, 2019
[Debut EP Release from The Creepy Jingles: Jocelyn Olivia Nixon on lead vocals, Rhythm Guitar, & Keyboards; Travis McKenzie on lead guitars, Nick Robertson on drums; and Adam York on bass. From His Dive Records website: “The brainchild of singer/ songwriter, Jocelyn Olivia Nixon acts to guide the listener thru a self-actualized Mono-myth of forging identity thru Bizarre arcane cosmic poetry coupled with the wordplay of a wry smile and eccentric wit. Drummer Nick Robertson charges the group forward with a fiery fueled obsidian backbeat. Adam York delivers pulsing Bass lines that the compliment the songs and his partner in the rhythm section. Rounding out the band is Guitarist Travis McKenzie who generously spins a holographic spectrum of color that lift the catchy Brit pop melodies that effortlessly dance about the rapidly changing landscapes of New York Garage Rock and 60s/70s folk music. Beware The Creepy Jingles, their siren call is coming from inside the house.”]
[The Creepy Jingles play Summer Benefit Series: July First Friday for Bandwaggn, Friday, July 5, at 8:00 PM at Revolution Records 1830 Locust St, KCMO with Hadiza, & True Lions.]
[Jocelyn Olivia Nixin of The Creepy Jingles, plays Saturday Storytellers with Radial Red on Sat, July 6, at 5:00 PM at Ollie’s Local, at 3044 Gillham Rd, KCMO.]
Radial Red
14. Radial Red – “As It Should Be”
from: 3-Songs for Radio (Unreleased) / Radial Red / July 3, 2019
[Radial Red is an all original Kansas City based female fronted rock trio that was formed in 2015 with Alisa Jefferson on vocals and bass, Barb Wilmoth on drums, Scott Mitchell on guitar. They released their debut 7-song EP “Radiate” on June 1, 2015..]
[Radial Red plays Saturday Storytellers with Jocelyn Olivia Nixin of The Creepy Jingles, Saturday, July 6, at 5:00 PM at Ollie’s Local, at 3044 Gillham Rd, Kansas City, MO.]
11:34 – Interview with Alisa Jefferson, Barb Wilmoth, Scott Mitchell
Scott Mitchell, Alisa Jefferson, and Barb Wilmoth of Radial Red on the July 3, 2019 edition of Wednesday MidDay Medley on KKFI 90.1 FM.
Radial Red is an all original Kansas City based female fronted rock trio that was formed in 2015 with Alisa Jefferson on bass & vocals, Barb Wilmoth on drums & vocals, and Scott Mitchell on guitar & vocals. They released their debut 7-song EP “Radiate” on June 1, 2015. The band has been busy working in the studio and making new recordings of prvious songs and also recording new material. Radial Red plays Saturday Storytellers with Jocelyn Olivia Nixin of The Creepy Jingles, Saturday, July 6, at 5:00 PM at Ollie’s Local, at 3044 Gillham Rd, Kansas City, MO.
Alisa Jefferson, Barb Wilmoth, and Scott Mitchell thanks for being on WMM.
The band started when Barb Wilmoth found Alisa Jefferson through the Kansas City Women’s Music Network. Barb has been playing drums for seven years, before that she played bass. Alisa met Scott through the insurance industry and knew he played guitar.
The band’s debut 7-song EP “Radiate” was released on June 1, 2015.
Radial Red has played for the last four years at KC Pride Fest at Berkeley Riverfront Park.
Radial Red is currently writing original songs and working on influential covers sprinkled around their set. The members of Radial Red describe their musical and personal friendship with one another as a common core with mutual respect, love of similar music and commitment to band together to see their drive and passion through. They each feel genuinely excited and proud of this collaboration.
15. Radial Red – “Infinity”
We are talking with members of Radial Red is an all original Kansas City based female fronted rock trio that was formed in 2015 with Alisa Jefferson on vocals and bass, Barb Wilmoth on drums, Scott Mitchell on guitar.
Radial Red also has an upcoming show at Davey’s Uptown.
Alisa Jefferson has also played with the band RetroTherapy
16. Radial Red – “Karma”
from: 3-Song EP / Radial Red / July 3, 2019
Next week on Wednesday, July 10, Nan Turner and Chase Horseman share songs from their new EP’s that they are releasing in a Double EP Release Party at miniBar, Friday, July 12, at 9:00 PM. release. Jade Osborne shares details about her KC Fringe production “The Shift Show” running July 19 through July 27 at Union Station City Stage Theatre. Chris Hudson and Chad Brothers play live in our 90.1 FM Studios. Nathan Reusch returns to talk more about What’s Next KC with The Moose. And, Joel Bonner brings members of his band Serene Fiend to share new music in anticipation of their new release and their appearance at Lawrence Field Day Fest.
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Wednesday MidDay Medley presents Heavy Grams + Radial Red + Jaclyn Bell + NuBlvckCity & Nathan Reusch
Mark spins New & MidCoastal Releases from: Calvin Arsenia, The Creepy Jingles, Radkey, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, Jaclyn Bell, Heavy Grams, NuBlvckCity, Hipshot Killer, Radial Red, and Bill Callahan!
At 10:15 we talk with Kansas City based singer songwriter Jaclyn Bell. In March of 2019, Jaclyn released her first full-length album, “Wanna Be Mine” recorded here in Kansas City. Jaclyn Bell released her EP “Memories” in 2018, that featured her songwriting capabilities combined with the Nashville talent where it was recorded. In March of 2019, Jaclyn Bell and her band are playing Made in KC for First Fridays on Friday, July 5th; the Bull Creek Distillery on Saturday, July 6,; and Sunset Grill on August 3.
At 10:35 members of the Kansas City based Rock & Roll trio Heavy Grams join us in our 90.1 FM Studios. Heavy Grams were formed in 2018. Members include: Jeff Wall on guitar & vocals, Calandra Ysquierdo on bass & vocals, and Dustin Mott on drums. Heavy Grams just recently released their self titled, debut EP, that was recorded at Weights and Measures Sound Lab with Duane Trower.
At 11:00 Mark talks with VP3, Kartez & Mae C of NuBlvckCity and Nathan Reusch of The Record Machine about What’s Next KC, on Saturday, July 13, at 6:00 PM at Legacy Park Amphitheater, 901 NE Bluestem Dr, Lees Summit, MO. This is a free, all ages, family friendly event featuring live performances by: NublvckCity, The Moose, and Blue False Indigo. There will be concessions available and a BBQ Food Truck. What’s Next KC is sponsored by Mid-Continent Public Library and The Record Machine.
At 11:30 Alisa Jefferson, Barb Wilmoth, Scott Mitchell of the Kansas City based band Radial Red join us to share new music. Radial Red plays Saturday Storytellers with Jocelyn Olivia Nixin of The Creepy Jingles, Saturday, July 6, at 5:00 PM at Ollie’s Local, at 3044 Gillham Rd, Kansas City, MO.
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Hanson Quarry Products Opts For Pannal Business Park
Hanson's Quarry Products joins Pannal Business Park building a concrete production plant of the industrial site.
(1888PressRelease) July 22, 2010 - One of the UK's biggest names in the construction industry has chosen Harrogate's Pannal Business Park for its newest operation.
Hanson Quarry Products has submitted plans to build a modern, small-scale concrete batching plant at the former Dunlopillo site, together with a new access road leading to it from the A61 beyond Spaceyhouses.
And, if sanctioned by planners in August, it will also take the number of businesses who have re-located there to nearly 30 in just under two years.
Nick Prescott for the site's agents, Gent Visick, said: "This is a massive vote of confidence in Pannal Business Park. The site is home to a diverse number of local companies, employing in excess of 100 people between them.
"Hanson is having to move from its present site in Killinghall. They have chosen Pannal for its location and the fact it is a B2-classed industrial site, the very category this business falls under."
He added: "What Hanson is proposing is for a very modern, small-scale operation. Because it is 'wet mix', there is a significant reduction in the amount of noise and dust associated with the older 'dry mix' plants.
"To avoid wagons and HGVs driving into Pannal village, Hanson has also applied to construct a new access road from the A61 at Princess Royal Way. They, and we, are keen to keep any inconvenience to a minimum."
Mr Prescott said, should Harrogate Borough Council planners be mindful to approve the plans, the plant would be operational between 7.30am and 5.30pm Monday to Friday, and from 7.30am to 1pm on Saturdays. It would also preserve up to six jobs.
"Pannal Business Park is fast becoming the first choice for businesses looking to either relocate or start up. This is down to its location, transport links, extremely competitive rents and the array of different units available," he added.
For further information, or to arrange a tour of the site, please contact Rupert Visick or Nick Prescott, on 0113 200 3982.
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Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide on 1 Hare Court
"No one needs reminding that 1 Hare Court has many of the leading matrimonial finance barristers in its ranks." A predominantly matrimonial finance set, it is extremely highly regarded and undertakes high-profile, high net worth and complex money work of the best quality. Its members are also experienced in dealing with associated private law children matters. Its roster of recent reported cases includes Cooper v Hohn and the recent Supreme Court case of Vince v Wyatt. The set also hosts a yearly seminar which is described as "really informative and really quite fun."
Client service: One solicitor said: "The clerking is really responsive. They know I use them all the time but even so if I need something they move heaven and earth to make sure I get it. And they’re really entertaining." Steve McCrone is the senior clerk and is "outstanding and very helpful in every way you could think." (Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide, 2016)
Members at 1 Hare Court are "specialists in their field, who give great quality advice, produce sterling written work and are excellent in court." "Prompt and efficient in all their dealings," they tackle the most high-value and complex matrimonial finance cases, such as Prest v Prest, but also cater to a client base that ranges across all classes and income brackets. The set is active across the country and is noted not just for the top-quality work it undertakes but also for its provision of an annual seminar. Commentators also praise its specialist private dispute resolution practice – it has 18 mediators, eight arbitrators, two collaborative lawyers and ten senior barristers and previous members of the judiciary, all of whom are available for private FDRs.
Client service: "The clerks, headed by Steve McCrone, really do bend over backwards to help us, and they always turn up with something. They are always lovely to deal with." (Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide, 2015) 1 Hare Court is without doubt in the very top rank of matrimonial finance sets in the country. Its superb complement of leading silks, backed up by a tremendous stable of juniors, comes in for consistently high praise from solicitors, clients and competitors. Specific praise is reserved for its clerking team, headed by Steve McCrone: "The set has a very well-run clerks’ room; the clerks are extremely businesslike." Referring to the set as a whole, one commentator stated:"1 Hare Court is the best. There is a consistency there that you don’t get at other chambers; you will always get talent there whomever you instruct." Also worthy of praise is the fact that the set has expanded its private dispute resolution practice. It now offers 12 mediators, two arbitrators, two collaborative lawyers and five senior barristers, who are available for private financial dispute resolutions."
1 Hare Court is without doubt in the very top rank of matrimonial finance sets in the country. Its superb complement of leading silks, backed up by a tremendous stable of juniors, comes in for consistently high praise from solicitors, clients and competitors. Specific praise is reserved for its clerking team, headed by Steve McCrone: "The set has a very well-run clerks' room; the clerks are extremely businesslike." Referring to the set as a whole, one commentator stated: "1 Hare Court is the best. There is a consistency there that you don’t get at other chambers; you will always get talent there whomever you instruct. Also worthy of praise is the fact that the set has expanded its private dispute resolution practice. It now offers 12 mediators, two arbitrators, two collaborative lawyers and five senior barristers, who are available for private financial dispute resolutions."
Client service: "Steve McCrone is a very fine senior clerk who runs a very impressive ship. You always feel you can rely on the words of the clerks there." (Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide, 2014)
In the eyes of many observers, 1 Hare Court is the leading set for matrimonial finance. The chambers has a troupe of heavyweight silks at the peak of their profession and an equally impressive array of leading juniors, prompting one source to comment that "they really are the best and biggest players." The clerking team, headed by Steve McCrone, also receives strong plaudits from instructing solicitors, with one interviewee commenting that "the clerks ring you back promptly and look for solutions – if the right barrister isn’t available they will even look at other sets for someone to assist. There is nothing they could improve upon." (Chambers & Partners UK Bar Guide 2013)
This pre-eminent family set continues to be at the forefront of high-end ancillary relief work, and is increasingly involved in cases with international dimensions. Many of its members are also specialists when it comes to drafting pre- and postnuptial agreements. With three of its juniors taking silk this past year, it now houses more silks than any other set exclusively dedicated to family law. Because of the "strength in depth of the barristers," it remains the set of choice for many of London’s top solicitors, who are attracted to it not just because of the consistently high quality of its members but also because it is "totally in tune with developments in the law and keeps everyone up to speed." (Chambers UK Guide 2012)
1 Hare Court is known nationally for its depth of expertise in matrimonial finance. It has a glut of leading silks and extensive junior talent, as well as a clerking team that has been together for nigh on a decade now. Solicitors from London and further afield treat it as a first port of call because "whoever you instruct they will be experienced and well thought of." (Chambers UK Guide, 2011)
Always at the forefront of the major cases, they constitute "the crème de la crème of the Family Bar" (Chambers UK Guide, 2010)
1 Hare Court’s "clerking squad has no equal" and "its family team is one of the best there is." It houses experienced silks and juniors in abundance, who handle some children work but are at their busiest tackling matrimonial finance matters. The set is home to some of the foremost names at the Family Bar … (Chambers UK Guide, 2009)
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HER LIFELINE L.A. CASEY
Erin has had a crush on her brother’s best friend Ward for as long as she can remember. But eleven years ago he disappeared from their lives – breaking Erin’s trust, and her heart.
When the person they both love most – Erin’s brother Tommy – is nearly killed in a terrible crash, she and Ward are thrown back together for the first time. Their lives couldn’t be further apart. Erin still lives at home, working two jobs and dealing with a series of family disasters. Ward, now a multimillionaire entrepreneur and a household name, seems determined to make amends – but it may be just too little too late. And while Erin can’t deny feeling a spark at the sight of Ward, is it a spark of love or burning resentment?
At odds with one another but forced to share their heartache, have Erin and Ward really drifted apart forever, or have they finally found the anchor they both so desperately need?
What an amazing jigsaw puzzle of twist and turns that just blows you out of the water toward the end and all I can say is “TISSUES!”
This author has a way of weaving a story so that you are so engulfed in a happy moment and then out of nowhere you’re a sucker puncher from nowhere and it’s a Wow! Did not see that coming.
You will see the great highs of friends and family. But most of all the love and the commitment to one another. Not to use love or money against one another. For it to care and give or to use find your true happiness.
Erin tends to be an enabler to her mother as does Tommy by not allowing her to wake up in her own vomit as long as she is not face down in it. Allow him to clean, up her own mess. Anyway, but when Wade comes back home things slowly change.
Wasn’t sure when she ended up at the cemetery how things would work out was glad for the outcome. The second chance for Erin was to finally have a life first a foremost but to have it with her secret crush.
As for Ward, it was his first time to find love ever and that it could be with a person he could trust and who loved him for himself means the world to him. I give this: 4 stars. Provided by netgalley.com.
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Ireland without abortion is safer for pregnant women, says Galway for Life
BY MARY BYRNE GALWAY FOR LIFE Galway Advertiser, Thu, May 17, 2018
On May 25 we will be asked to completely remove the right to life of babies in the womb from the Irish Constitution. Why? To allow the Government to introduce abortion on demand into Irish hospitals and GP clinics. The Government want to legalise unrestricted abortion in the first three months of pregnancy and abortion up to six months on grounds including “mental health”, which in Britain means abortion on demand. Abortion will be allowed up to birth if the baby has a life limiting condition.
Abortion is not a caring or compassionate response to crisis pregnancies; it is the deliberate targeting and taking of an innocent human life. It is the cheap and easy solution for a Government unwilling to provide real supports for mothers and their babies in crisis pregnancies. It has nothing to do with genuine healthcare.
Abortion campaigners often give the impression and this referendum is only about dealing with those rare and tragic hard cases. This is a smokescreen for what is actually being proposed. Minister Simon Harris’ proposals will make abortion very widely available. It will be completely unrestricted for the first three months of pregnancy and with only nominal restrictions up to six months of pregnancy. A group of over 200 Lawyers, including two retired judges and a former chair of the referendum commission, have studied the draft legislation and have confirmed that it will lead to abortion on request up to six months. They state that the legislation will provide for abortion up until viability “for reasons so similar to legislation in Great Britain that there is no rational basis for thinking that they would operate differently”. In Great Britain, for every four babies born, one is aborted. This referendum is not about hard cases. That would have been a different referendum proposal. It’s about whether we are for or against widespread abortion on demand in Ireland. Voting No will unquestionably save thousands of lives.
Ireland without abortion is safer for pregnant women than countries such as England and the U.S. where abortion is widely available. In 2017 the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists welcomed figures that showed Ireland is one of the safest places in the world to have a baby. At the time, Dr. Peter Boylan, current Chair of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: “These figures should offer reassurance about the high level of maternal care and the safety of the Irish maternity services for women and babies.”
Unquestionably, individual doctors sometimes make mistakes. This happens in every country and sometimes these mistakes can cost lives. However, doctors who make mistakes in maternal healthcare cannot blame our law for their mistakes. Four former chairpersons of the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists along with Doctor Michael O’Hare, the chair of the IOG/HSE Working Group on Maternal Mortality, have jointly stated: “Recent ‘Maternal Death Enquiry reports confirm that Ireland is one of the safest places in the world to be pregnant. Not one of our colleagues should ever be permitted to use the Eighth Amendment as an excuse for not treating a woman. … Four of us who practised in this jurisdiction have carried out necessary surgery which resulted in termination of pregnancy in order to save and protect Irish women.”
Dr Mary Holohan, a leading consultant obstetrician at the Rotunda Hospital, has condemned scaremongering about Ireland’s maternal healthcare saying that Ireland’s law fully allows doctors to care for pregnant women. The duty to intervene to save the woman’s life is clear in Irish law, even if it means the baby dies in the process. If we vote No, Irish women will continue to receive all the care and protection they need in pregnancy. Ireland will remain one of the safest places in the world for women to be pregnant in. Doctors will be able to care properly for both patients – mother and baby.
If we repeal the 8th amendment and abortion on demand becomes a reality, our culture will change and abortion will quickly become normalised. This is clear from looking at the experience of other countries. The risk to children with “disabilities” will increase massively. For example in England and Wales, 9 out of 10 babies diagnosed in the womb with Down syndrome are aborted. That is a frightening statistic. What does it say to disabled people?
If we vote to remove the life-saving Eighth Amendment, we will completely remove right to life from children in the womb. They will have no right to life at all, not even a limited right to life. We will support the abortion of disabled children and wide-ranging abortion on demand. We will repeal thousands of unborn, innocent human lives each year. Our abortion rate will triple at the very least, and likely quadruple. Our hospitals and GP clinics will routinely carry out abortions. We will give a blank cheque to politicians, present and future, to legislate for even more unrestricted abortion.
Future generations have a right to grow up in a country that cherishes and respects human life in all its diversity. We can only do this by rejecting the Government’s proposals and voting No.
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Area Agency on Aging Welcomes Cathy Knight
On May 31, 2017, Cathy Knight joined the Human Services Department as director of Aging and Disability Services (ADS), the Area Agency on Aging for Seattle-King County. Cathy had been the state director for the Washington Association of Area Agencies on Aging (W4A). For the past 11 years, she has coordinated policy and legislative advocacy on behalf of Washington’s 13 Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs). Prior to W4A, Cathy served as a community consultant for DSHS Aging & Long-Term Support Administration and the Bainbridge Island School District, working on capacity building, fund-raising, and partnership development. She first transitioned to the aging network in Washington state in 1990 as a planner for the Olympic Area Agency on Aging.
Cathy Knight
Before moving to Washington, Cathy directed advocacy initiatives at the state and local levels in Wisconsin, first as staff to the Wisconsin Council for Developmental Disabilities and later as executive director for The Arc of Dane County. Cathy’s strong sense of social justice was solidified early in her career as she participated in the deinstitutionalization and mainstreaming of young people with intellectual disabilities. She worked with individuals who exceeded all expectations when given the opportunity to return to their families and their communities. That experience shaped her philosophy about human services—respect for personal choice, maximizing independence, and building upon natural supports.
Cathy’s advocacy experience will serve ADS well, as all human services face uncertain times with proposed cuts to our federal safety net services and a potential state government shutdown looming over lack of agreement on a budget. “Federal and state funding, already diminishing as the Age Wave is hitting the entire country, is threatened because of serious political divides,” Cathy said. “As good stewards of the limited funds we will receive, the aging network will need to be even more creative, efficient, and data-driven to maximize our impact with whatever dollars we receive.”
Stewardship is another core value for Cathy, something she understands well from her childhood on her grandparents’ farm in southern Ohio. As tenant farmers, they owned nothing but their self-respect—and a few cows and chickens. Cathy and her siblings worked hard and were responsible for everything under their charge, whether it belonged to them or not. She learned respect for her elders and compassion for all who are struggling, regardless of the reason. Cathy applied those beliefs and a strong work ethic to earning an education, culminating in a Ph.D. in Studies in Behavioral Disabilities from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Cathy has lived on Bainbridge Island with her husband, Pogo, since 1989. They raised two boys who “flew the coop” in recent years and are making their own way in the world. Cathy says she is super excited to now be part of the Human Services Department Aging and Disability Services team!
Contributor Catherine Lester directs the Seattle Human Services Department.
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The Aigas season begins in April and will finish in October. We are running more programmes than ever to cater for a wide variety of interests. If you are interested in a specific theme, please scroll through the themes below to find your preferred area of interest and the courses we do that relate to it.
Click on the programme name below to see full details and book.
By popular request we now offer more walking programmes than ever before, allowing guests the opportunity to explore the Highlands on foot. Led by an Aigas ranger, our low level walks will take you to some of the most beautiful spots in the Scottish Highlands. All programmes will also offer an optional hill walk.
Walking and Wildlife
1 place available - contact the office to book
High Level Walking and Wildlife
30 May - 06 Jun 2020
Contact the office to enquire
Wildflowers and Walking
Places available - contact the office to book
27 Jun - 04 Jul 2020
Scottish Wildlife
Aigas Field Centre is ideally located for exploring the Highlands of Scotland and the plethora of wildlife that lives here, both on the Aigas estate and in the surrounding landscape. Accompanied by an Aigas ranger, guests will spend their days in search of dolphins, eagles (both golden and white tailed), red and black throated divers, a plethora of waders and seabirds, red and roe deer and many more coveted native and migratory species. The Aigas hides are frequently visited by pine martens and badgers and the loch is home to a family of beavers with visiting otters and ospreys. Guests will also have to opportunity to see one of Aigas’ Scottish wildcats.
Aigas Wildlife Discovery
28 Mar - 04 Apr 2020
The Famous Aigas Wildlife Week
Raptor Week – Eagles, Hawks and Harriers
Incredible Invertebrates with Ben Jones
12 Sep - 19 Sep 2020
Monarchs of the Glen
26 Sep - 03 Oct 2020
03 Oct - 10 Oct 2020
The Scottish Highlands has so much to offer by way of history, culture, wildlife and spectacular landscapes. Aigas is the perfect base from which to explore and learn about our ancient Pictish and Celtic roots, unique clan history, the Jacobite Revolution, sporting and crofting traditions, whilst staying in the grounds of the House of Aigas.
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Highland Landscapes
Often our guests have said that we ought to do more “chilled out weeks”, so if you would rather enjoy a bit of R&R and spend a gentle week exploring the 600 acre Aigas estate on foot, using the wildlife hides, wandering through the gardens and taking it easy, then we have some great relaxation programmes for you.
Aigas Retreat
Laurie Campbell is widely recognised as Scotland’s foremost nature photographer. In 2015 he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the RSPB. He has been running wildlife photography courses at Aigas for many years and they have gained a superb reputation. Laurie’s courses are always the first to fill, so book early to avoid disappointment.
Courses will also include a one-to-one review and photo editing session with Laurie, during which he will provide constructive feedback on guests’ images.
Nature Photography Workshop with Laurie Campbell
18 Apr - 25 Apr 2020
Nature Photography Masterclass with Laurie Campbell
1 place available
Gardens and Wildflowers
By the middle of June the Highlands of Scotland have come alive with vibrantly coloured wildflowers and local gardens such as Inverewe and Attadale are in full bloom. Aigas has a selection of specially designed programmes, created for garden and wildflower lovers.
Wildflowers and Gardens
Led by renowned mycologist, Liz Holden, this programme explores in-depth the extraordinary diversity of fungi found in the Highlands. Forays into the woods and tutorial identification sessions make this autumn programme a much sought after speciality in our calendar. Limited to 11 places, book early to ensure a place.
Fascinating Fungi with Liz Holden
External Group Leaders
Each year Aigas invites a selection of special group leaders – experts in their field – to lead programmes specialising in a range of subjects, including birds, wildflowers, fungi, art, wildlife, geology, whisky and more.
Autumn Birds with Mark Cocker
Join us in spring, summer or autumn for a finely tuned feathery feast, perfect for the expert and beginner alike. Aigas bird watching programmes are for all levels of bird watchers. Our knowledgeable and enthusiastic Aigas rangers will take you off the beaten track in search of up to 120 species of birds, including golden and white tailed eagles, peregrine falcons, black and red throated diver, crossbills, crested tits and ospreys among many other specialised species.
Spring Birds with Mark Cocker
There is no better location to sketch and study wildlife subjects than Aigas. Led by celebrated artist Jackie Garner, our art programmes combine wonderful landscapes, amazing wildlife and an airy art studio with the tranquil peace and quiet.
Highland Wildlife Art Course with Jackie Garner
Intergenerational holidays at Aigas are the perfect opportunity for families to learn and connect with the natural environment, whilst having a lot of fun along the way. Highlights of our children’s holidays include a boat trip to spot dolphins and whales, bush craft session in the Aigas woodland and a ceilidh party with music from a local band. Suitable for children aged between 5 – 14 years of age with their parents or grandparents.
25 Jul - 01 Aug 2020
£1,395 for adults (£545 for children)
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For firefighter Mark Stephenson, shown in this handout image, the Alberta oilsands capital is his home and he plans to rebuild on the same spot where his house went up in flames. Stephenson says he can’t drive through Fort McMurray without being brought back to May 2016. That’s when, in the thick of battling a ferocious wildfire that destroyed 10 per cent of the northern Alberta city, he paused from his work to film his family’s home engulfed in flames.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO
Mental effects of wildfire still linger in Fort McMurray
‘Resilient, but tired:’ Mental effects of wildfire lingering in Fort McMurray
Dec. 18, 2017 8:30 a.m.
Firefighter Mark Stephenson says he can’t drive through Fort McMurray without being brought back to May 2016.
That’s when, in the thick of battling a ferocious wildfire that destroyed 10 per cent of the northern Alberta city, he paused from his work to film his family’s home engulfed in flames.
“Every turn of a corner on the street here is a memory back to that day,” he says more than 1 1/2 years later.
Stephenson had hoped that by this Christmas, he, his wife and their two young children would be settled into the house they’re rebuilding. But a recent cold snap slowed construction and it’s going to be another two or three months.
He sometimes finds himself reaching for a memento — a teddy bear from childhood, a body-building trophy — that no longer exists. He says he’s generally OK, but there are some tough days on the job. He says he has benefited from counselling the fire department has arranged for its staff.
“A lot of people are over it and past it and that’s great. But it’s not the same for everyone. There are some people out here who are still hurting.”
The debris has been cleared and vacant lots are gradually being filled with new homes in Fort McMurray. But as time erases the physical scars of the fire called The Beast, mental and emotional ones remain for many who experienced the costliest disaster in Canadian history.
Care providers with the addiction and mental-health branch of Alberta Health Services had 38,777 client contacts in the region between May 10, 2016, and this past Oct. 31 — about one-third higher than the tally the agency reported in March of this year. There is no comparable data for before the disaster.
Vincent Agyapong, with the University of Alberta’s psychiatry department, has been studying the mental-health impact of the fire.
Of 486 adults surveyed in November 2016, the rate of probable post-traumatic stress disorder was 12.8 per cent. It would have been less than one per cent under normal circumstances, Agyapong said. Rates of probable depression and anxiety were also high.
Agyapong says city residents suffering from PTSD may have nightmares or become anxious at the sound of sirens.
“Some deliberately avoid going to places that remind them of the devastating impact,” he says. ”I’ve seen quite a number of patients who have left Fort McMurray because … the city as a whole reminds them of the trauma that they went through during the wildfire.”
Agyapong says he gets more referrals now, when he spends one week a month in Fort McMurray, than he did when he was working in the city full time before the fire.
Calls to the Some Other Solutions 24-hour crisis line have gone up drastically, says health and wellness manager Linda Sovdi.
Increased need is likely to be one reason, but people may also be more aware of the resources available and more comfortable asking for help than they were pre-fire, she says.
They’re also more likely to open up to someone who went through what they did, she suggests.
“When I’m talking to somebody about the first firepit that I smelled after the fire, it’s like there’s a heightened awareness. People know you get it.”
The infusion of nervous excitement in the fire’s immediate aftermath has worn off.
“Fort McMurray is resilient, but tired.”
The regional municipality, which includes the city of Fort McMurray and surrounding communities, estimates its permanent population at 75,000 to 77,600. Its 2015 municipal census stood at almost 82,000.
At the beginning of this month, new foundations were in for just over half of the 2,579 dwellings that were destroyed. About 10 per cent have made it to final inspection.
“I’m never going to be fully satisfied with what I’m seeing until everybody has moved significantly forward,” says Mayor Don Scott, who won the race to replace longtime mayor Melissa Blake in October.
Scott says while there is clearly a lot of work to do, the general mood in the region is one of optimism.
“I think we’re sensing that the best days are ahead of us, and I believe that to my core.”
— By Lauren Krugel in Calgary
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While others served—Jensen wouldn’t wear our country’s uniform
Posted on May 24, 2016 by Stan Adelstein
In South Dakota have great pride in those who served their country—volunteering to serve or stepping up when called—and we have a great appreciation of what this nation stands for. We welcome soldiers home. We take aging soldiers on honor flights. We gather to celebrate those who live and to mourn those who have passed. So it catches my attention when someone wants to make the laws of our state, but they refused to wear our country’s uniform when called. Someone like Phil Jensen.
Uncle Jack who died during WWII.
My family’s story is like many in South Dakota: an immigrant family, a fierce sense of patriotic duty, and a strong history of military service. My immigrant grandmother homesteaded in Kadoka and her son, my father, enlisted in the Army during WWI. All of her grandsons old enough to serve during WWII did so, including my cousin Edmund Mizel who delayed his wedding until after the war out concern of leaving behind a widow. On my mother’s side, Uncle Jack, my mother’s only brother gave the ultimate sacrifice during WWII. It was my great honor to serve in the military and the tradition has continued. Our family’s military service it is more than a tradition, it is part of us—it is woven through our very being.
So I was staggered when I learned that Phil Jensen replied, “no,” when called upon by his country. During the Vietnam War, while his peers stepped up when drafted doing their duty in combat and non-combat roles, Phil Jensen objected to serving in the military. But Phil didn’t just object to combat—he wouldn’t wear the uniform at all, not even in a non-combat role (that was an option, there was a classification for that). He answered no and was assigned community service in a parking garage safe at home.
Well, it’s time we said no to Phil Jensen. It is time that we told him no, we won’t give him our vote. No, he can’t put up a sign. He chose a legal avenue to avoid the draft, and that was his option. It is our option to tell him we don’t want him representing us in Pierre. Let’s tell him no.
3 thoughts on “While others served—Jensen wouldn’t wear our country’s uniform”
stanford adelstein
If you, friends, or family members have served, and you are as angry as I am – but may have his sign if his yard — call him and ask that he remove it.
Please let me know how he reacted.
Michael M. Melius
Please don’t use the Vietnam War as a divisive political or social issue today, unless you’re willing to write chapters’ worth of explanation for why the war was wrong and why so many draft-age men sought legitimate means to avoid the draft, means that were sanctioned by the government. You want to re-fight the issues involved in that controversial war, and now use veterans as soldiers in this political war? Shame on you. If Phil Jensen was a sincere C-O, I say good for him.
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Libra Applies for License from Swiss Financial Regulator
The Libra Association is apparently looking to get licensing for its payment service from the top financial regulator of Switzerland.
According to reports made on Wednesday that the Association which comprises of leading companies such as Facebook, Booking Holdings, Visa, PayPal, Xapo, Coinbase, has applied for a Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) license.
“We are engaging in constructive dialogue with FINMA and are encouraged to see a feasible pathway for an open-source blockchain network to become a regulated, low-friction, high-security payment system,” said the head of policy and communications at Libra, Dante Disparte.
“This is an important step in Libra’s evolution, and we look forward to continuing our engagement with all stakeholders over the coming months,” Disparte added.
Libra explained in a document on its website that Switzerland as a nation “offers a pathway for responsible” innovation for financial services, and it is trying to discuss with local regulators to “see a feasible pathway for an open-source blockchain network to become a regulated, low-friction, high-security payment system.”
It should be noted that Facebook already has a blockchain division opened in Switzerland.
The document also states that the license is important as it has the ability to empower billions of individuals, by giving them access to a legitimate cryptocurrency project that has real-world applications.
It was also reported earlier this week that Libra was being closely monitored by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a multinational entity that works to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.
“We want to make sure that if there are significant risks, they need to be addressed,” said Xiangmin Liu, the president of FATF.
In a discussion with Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner, Libra revealed that it will include the U.S. dollar, euro, yen, British pound and Singapore dollar, but not the Chinese yuan.
This is due to the current restrictions China has on crypto and U.S. technology companies, and the U.S. discouraging American businesses from having collaborations with China.
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ARC Marine named as a finalist in Maritime UK Awards
ARC Marine has been named as one of the best in the UK’s £40bn maritime sector after being shortlisted in the first ever Maritime UK Awards.
ARC Marine has been shortlisted in the Start-Up of The Year Category after impressing industry judges.
ARC Marine is an eco-engineering company whose main purpose is to accelerate reef creation using their patented Innovation Reef Cubes.
Currently operating out of Devon & Cornwall, ARC Marine have a manufacturing plant in Truro where Reef Cubes are produced and also have staff at the Brixham Environmental Laboratory located in Torbay. World class facilities provided by the University of Plymouth allow them to conduct biological and behavioural experiments on the effectiveness of their reef structures in a wide range of conditions.
ARC Marine have projects in the pipeline at the European offshore deployment centre (EOWDC) transforming offshore windfarms into thriving reef habitats as well as the Oil and Gas industry. Reef Cubes protect subsea foundations and pipelines whilst repairing rocky reef areas in an industry which has damaged the marine ecosystem over the years.
Tom Birbeck, Managing Director said: “We are thrilled to be named one of the 3 finalists for the first ever Maritime UK awards. It’s been a crazy journey for ARC Marine the past few years and to be recognised by the industry after all our hard work is great for the team and marine conservation as a whole”
Ben Murray, Director of Maritime UK said: “Our judges have been blown away by the quality of entries in these inaugural awards. The bar really has been set high and the panel have had a difficult task whittling it down to the final shortlist. Those who have been named as finalists should be very proud.”
Stuart Baker, Head of Local Growth at the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) and Chair of the Maritime UK Regional Council, added: “We’ve always known the maritime industries are innovative, but these award submissions have really affirmed that. We’ve seen some really interesting work that’s taking place and we can’t wait to unveil the winners in September.”
Tom Birbeck went on to say: “This is ARC Marine’s 2nd award nomination in the past 12 months. Our first award was from the European Union project Marine i for our invention, Reef Cubes. What makes this nomination so great is it recognises our business model and the ethos ARC Marine represents in turning marine conservation issues into problems that can be solved by eco minded business’s and therefore creating a new market for the maritime sector worldwide.”
The Maritime UK Awards are being hosted by the Solent LEP and will take place at the Leonardo Royal Hotel Southampton Grand Harbour on 19 September, as thousands of people flock to the city for the Southampton International Boat Show.
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Home Netherlands De Bult (Overijssel) Climate in October
Average Weather October in De Bult (Overijssel), Netherlands
The average minimum temperature (usually the minimum temperature is noted during the night) in De Bult in October is 5.0°C (41°F). The amount of rain in October is normal with an average of 68mm (2.7in). The average maximum temperature lies around 13.0°C (55.4°F). In this month you will hardly see any sunshine with 94 hours of sun the whole period.
So what to wear in October? Visitors traveling to De Bult should plan on bringing a totally waterproof rain jacket since it will be raining some days.
Do these climate conditions match with when you want to go to De Bult? Find out where to stay here.
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Min Temperature 41 °F
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New Books and ARCs, 10/22/15
October 22, 2015 John Scalzi30 Comments
I’m traveling tomorrow, so I’m getting this week’s new books and ARCs up a day early — lots of novellas in here! See something that looks interesting to you? Tell me about it in the comments.
Reminder: Writing Workshop and Reading this Saturday, October 24, at the Tacoma Public Library
October 22, 2015 John Scalzi7 Comments
The headline pretty much says it: I’m coming to the main branch of the Tacoma Public Library this Saturday for a whole day to do a writing workshop in the morning, and a reading/Q&A/signing in the afternoon. The workshop will cover some of the practical and creative aspects of being a writer in today’s world, and will include Q&A on those topics; it will be more informal than not. In the afternoon, I’ll do some reading, including new(ish) stuff, have a Q&A on my work and personal thoughts on things, and will sign books.
It’s all free and open to the public, so come on down. Here are the details. See you there!
The Big Idea: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
In their novel Illuminae, authors Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff decided to break stuff. What stuff? And why? They’re here to explain.
AMIE KAUFMAN and JAY KRISTOFF:
The Big Idea behind Illuminae?
Break the idea of what a book could be.
Epistolary novels aren’t a new concept. The conceit of telling a story through documents—be they journals or letters or diary entries—has been around since pistols at dawn and pantaloons were all the rage. But there hadn’t been much science fiction that played with the epistolary structure, or expanded it beyond the traditional journal/diary/email format.
And that’s where we started with Illuminae, too: A science fiction mystery, set in a refugee fleet fleeing a collapsed world, in which two unlikely heroes stranded on two different ships would communicate via text and email. Even though we were told “editors don’t buy SciFi”, we thought it was a cool enough idea to tinker with, and our Hacker Grrl and Pilot Boy were enormous fun to write. But around 30 pages and quite a few drinks into our first draft, we came up with the thought that’d break Illuminae out of the mold, and maybe break the idea of what a book could be.
What if one of the narrators was a damaged artificial intelligence, whose worsening madness would alter the documents in the novel? What if the way this AI perceived events would change the visual nature of the files, and the fundamental design of the entire book? Imagine a dogfight in space, where the chaos of battle was communicated visually as well as verbally. The effects of a computer virus unfolding typographically in front of your eyes. A book which ceased to be a simple medium for the story, where the object in the reader’s hands became part of unravelling the mystery of what went on aboard this fleet?
“That’s so pants-on-head crazy it might work,” we said. So we pulled together a 130pg sample, with Jay utilizing the design skillz he’d learned during a misspent youth in advertising agencies, selling petrol guzzling monstrosities to undersexed men and toilet paper to anyone with a bottom. And fortunately we found an editor crazy enough to not only buy our pants-on-head crazy idea, but help us push the boundaries even further.
It was vital to us that the story came first—that any design elements would be used to augment to novel, rather than be used as a crutch for shoddy storytelling. So the creation of Illuminae really came in two phases.
The first, the actual, you know writing part. Co-authoring is a strange and awesome experience—two styles and two mindsets colliding on the page. But two heads always seems to trump one, at least in terms of devising fiendish ways in which to torture protagonists. And so we put our two heroes and their AI nemesis/saviour through every kind of disaster, turn and twist we could devise. Pursuing enemy ships. Virulent plagues. Command conspiracies. Murder and mayhem and mutagens, oh my. But in between all this chaos, we also found the chance to ask a few of the Big Questions. What is it to be human? What would you sacrifice to save the ones you love? What is the meaning of life, the nature of mortality, the reason for all this? Our little SciFi mystery/romance/thriller took us places we never expected, and in the end, stopped being all that little (the final copy clocks in at 600 pages).
The second phase was design, in which no idea was considered too left field or too crazy. We were writing an insane artificial intelligence, after all. Gravity goes out aboard the fleet? We’ll just have the typography float. Want to visually explore the nature of a nuclear explosion on an atomic level? 5 hours in photoshop and half a bottle of Jack Daniels and watch the magic happen. And again, this wasn’t a new idea; Alfred J Bester’s classic The Stars My Destination incorporated experimental typography alllll the way back in 1956. But no one had done it to the scale we were pushing. Nobody had pushed it this far. We’re not kidding around when we tell you Illuminae is like no book you’ve ever read before in your life.
And in the end, did we break the idea of what a book could be?
You can always click on the links below and see. Either way, it was a lot of fun to try.
Illuminae: Amazon|Barnes & Noble|Indiebound|Powell’s
Visit the book site. Visit the sites of Kaufman and Kristoff. Follow Kaufman on Twitter. Follow Kristoff on Twitter.
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Let's think about "callspaces"
This is a thought experiment about a refinement for Tcl... -jcw
Unix has pipes, and named pipes. The first represents the concept of pushing data in sequence into one end, and getting it out again at the other end. I.o.w. a FIFO, very useful for inter-process communication, particularly due to its convenient syntax in command shells (interactive and in scripts). The second item - named pipes - is a method that Unix supports that provides a file system name interface to a particular pipe data structure. Applications can open it, add or read data, and then close it. It provides a path-like interface to pipes, rather than the generic unnamed pipe.
Tcl, like many other languages, has namespaces - a way to keep state in variables/arrays under a path-like prefix.
What if we had an unnamed equivalent of namespaces?
The idea is that such a mechanism would represent the call stack. There are a number of OO extensions which already map namespaces to objects. This makes it easy to access all object-state as namespace variables. Let's just for the sake of brevity call the unnamed equivalent of a namespace a "callspace".
A callspace is like a stack frame. When a proc is called, a new callspace is created, all arguments are imported and given appropriate names, and the body of the proc is executed in the context of that callspace. On return, the callspace is discarded again. Local variables in a proc are simply the variables in the corresponding callspace. And upvar is a way to access the caller's callspace, no more no less. The "info level" command could be re-written.
In fact, a callspace is a namespace. It just isn't created in the usual way, it comes and goes with each proc call. A deeply nested proc call corresponds to a deeply nested series of callspace, I mean namespace, children.
What if callspaces did have some generated name?
Callspaces could be children of say the namespace "::proc". Larry Smith(Please, PLEASE, PLEASE stop using :: in Tcl!!! It's an ugly hack taken from a language that is itself an ugly hack. Proper Tcl syntax is to use a list. { proc name1 } should be the callspace for proc name1.) If we invent names for these callspaces, all sorts of things could be simplified. For example, uplevel would be quite similar to "namespace eval <the-unique-name-of-the-callspace> <cmd>".
If callspaces existed, Tcl would have access to its call stack. It might one day become possible to persist a call stack, and continue it later, or elsewhere, or even replay it like a repeatable snapshot. Generators and continuations could be implemented by playing tricks with the Tcl call stack. There are probably some deep issues with the fact that currently the Tcl and C call stack are deeply intertwined. But if this can be resolved, there is no reason why a proc could not "rename its callspace" (i.e. playing very strange tricks with call sites and callers), which is the sort of voodoo one needs to implement full continuations.
Another analogy, similar to this callspace proposal for Tcl, is the Linux "/proc" filesystem, which adds a lot of introspection and control to Linux. File descriptor 1 can be reached via "/proc/[pid]/fd/1", for example. Lots of kernel details are available and can even be adjusted via a plain text interface. It's hard to overstate the impact the /proc pseudo filesystem has had on system development and tools, IMO.
Speaking of pseudo filesystems: the whole concept of namespaces (and callspaces) and that of Tcl's VFS could be revisited. There is a considerable overlap conceptually between the two. Or to put it differently: there is a lot of simplification still waiting to happen, again IMO. But that's a different story...
It is not clear whether exposing callspaces to Tcl in some form would necessarily be incompatible with Tcl as it is today. Nor is it a given that such a change would impact performance badly.
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Karen and Markus explore the culture, wildlife, and weather of Isla Navarino
Two Adventurers Recording Data as they Backpack Through Argentina and Chile
Karen and Markus are recording observations for the the Wildlands Biodiversity project while travelling through Argentina and Chile.
Karen and Markus are world travellers and avid adventurers. They are backpacking through Argentina and Chile for the next few months and recording observations for the Wildlands South America Biodiversity Inventory. They recently hiked through Isla Navarino and recorded observations there. For more on their trip, visit their website
http://2enroute.blogspot.com/.
After 10 great days on Isla Navarino in southernmost Chile, I feel like I could write a book. However, because we head out into the mountains of Torres del Paine in 2 short hours, I will do my best to condense some of the most poignant thoughts and stories quickly (though perhaps not so concisely :).
Arriving by ferry and bumpy van ride in the small town (pop. 2000) of Puerto Williams on Jan. 17th, it felt like a world away from touristy Ushuaia just 50 km to the west. Kit-style houses and the buildings of a naval base are lined out along gravel streets where you are equally as likely to meet a grazing horse or a dog trotting down the street as you are to meet a person (and much more likely to see any of these than a vehicle driving by). Businesses are non-descript with small signs and shop-keepers who remembered us and greeted us with "Hola, Alaska!" when they saw us again. Walking around Puerto Williams our first day we were struck by its numerous similarities to a rural Alaskan village. Backyards were stacked with crab pots, equipment, and staked out dogs. Primary industries include tourism, fishing, shipping, the military, a scientific research station, and (historically) mining. The town is now the center of the indigenous Yaghan culture, where gatherings of Yaghan craftspeople and an excellent museum and cultural center seek to keep Yaghan language and cultural practices a part of the local landscape and community. But even more than these similarities, it was just the vibe of the village that really reminded Markus and I of parts of rural Alaska we have spent time in. People are personable, doors are open, and you easily find yourself in conversation or, as at our hostal Lajuwa, a part of family life. It is a place that seems arranged much more about living in place and in community than in manicured outward appearances of shiny storefronts and sharp work clothes. I loved being there and would love to return.
17.2 K on Denali
Dupre climbs the West Buttress of Denali and readies for the summit
West Buttress Ridge Denali Climb 2010 Photo Credit: Thomas Suprenant, Buck Benson and Lonnie Dupre. www.oneworldendeavors.com
Lonnie Dupre is an experienced mountaineer and founder of One World Endeavors, a project that creates and leads expeditions to the coldest places on the planet with the goal of bringing awareness to these fragile environments. This is Dupre's 3rd attempt to summit Denali in January and he is collecting microbe samples for ASC along the way. Read on for the latest update from www.oneworldendeavors.com.
Beautiful, long and hard day on the mountain. Having left 14.2K camp shortly after 8:30am, Lonnie didn’t reach his goal and destination for today until 12 hours later at approximately 8:30pm.
Upon reaching Headwall, Lonnie spent numerous hours breaking the frozen fixed lines out of the ice putting him at the top of the headwall/West Buttress Ridge at 4pm. He traveled the entire West Buttress in the dark, all while reporting -35F temperature with 40mph wind. The support team did not hear from Lonnie until almost 11pm, after the construction of his snow cave had been finished. Lonnie called while beginning to warm the snow cave for a well-deserved good nights rest.
Needless to say a very difficult day, but a very successful one. Tomorrow is a mandatory rest and acclimation day, after that, next stop is the elusive summit. We are carefully monitoring weather for Sunday, but it is too early to tell.
Raven Inspiration
Photo Credit Photo: Dmitri von Klein/MONOVITA www.oneworldendeavors.com
Lonnie made it to 9,700ft today.
Eight feet of new snow on Denali had fallen in the last couple days and was burring Lonnie’s snow cave. He had to break down and build a new one about ten feet away at about 10pm last night.
Tired and spent from the night before, he awoke to a clear day on the mountain. Rejuvenated by the sight of the sun he made his way through the deep snow ending at 9,700ft where he ended the evening with lasagna and some much deserved rest.
Yesterday during the storm, a raven flew right by Lonnie. This raven he believes to be the same one he saw during last year’s climb at 12,000ft, on his solo climb in 2011 at 16,000ft on Denali and during his 3,200 mile navigation of Greenland. The raven made it’s way to Lonnie once again, renewing his strength and reminding him of his purpose. Once again Lonnie is ready to take on his challenge and not give up hope. Read below about the raven and its significance to Lonnie from his book Life on Ice: 25 Years of Arctic Exploration
“As often happens, my inspiration came in the form of nature. John and I were making camp one day when I heard a squawk from a nearby hill. I was scheduled for a radio call to Kelly, so I tramped up the hill to get better reception. The squawking grew louder. As I came over the crest, I saw a raven perched on a large rock. Ravens are revered and thought to possess mystical powers in many native cultures. In some, a raven is considered a sacred reincarnation of a great hunter or shaman. The raven appeared to be carrying something in its right claw as it made repeated short flights from one rock to another. As I approached, the raven made no effort to escape. Instead it flew closer, finally landing on the large rock I was leaning against. Now I could see that the bird’s right leg was bound to a thin, foot-long piece of driftwood by a wooly ball of musk-ox fur. It was obviously in pain. I approached slowly and spoke in low, soothing tones. Its neck feathers were all puffed out, black and shiny, as it stood awkwardly on its constricted leg and cawed at me. I kept talking, asking the raven’s permission to remove the musk ox wool and driftwood. I asked if, in return, the raven would give me the strength to find safe passage and complete my journey. The raven’s dark beady eyes met mine. It dipped its broad, wedged beak and picked up a pea-sized stone. I took it as an offering, a trade.
I picked up the raven and set it in my lap. With the scissors in my Swiss Army knife, I cut the wool and stick from its leg. The bird pecked at me as I worked. It took 20 minutes of careful effort to free the leg without injuring the bird. Then, with an upswing of my arms, I set the raven free. It made a tight circle and settled on a rock a few yards away. It stared at me, squawked again, took flight and disappeared over the hill. A feeling of renewal washed over me. Gone were my doubts and negative thoughts. My interaction with the raven linked me even more intimately to Greenland, to nature and to our purpose. I was ready to take up our challenge once again.”
Lonnie Dupre – Life on Ice: 25 Years of Arctic Exploration
Frozen Places
Dupre's expedition finds warmer temperatures than expected on Denali
Photos from Denali in January. Photo Credit www.oneworldendeavors.com
On Sunday Lonnie spent the day at his current camp around 8800ft due to poor visibility and snow conditions. Filled mostly with anticipation to move onward, Lonnie passed the time with documenting via video, journal and listening to radio.
The current low pressure is causing heavy snowfall on Denali while leaving us, at a much lower elevation, with rain. An areal flood watch has been in effect from yesterday through Monday morning in Matanuska Valley, Susitna Valley, Prince William Sound and the Kenai Peninsula here in Alaska.
Lonnie’s been reporting temperatures on Denali at around zero degrees Fahrenheit, a 50-60 degree difference during his climb last year. He’s sleeping in one layer and conserving more energy usually used to keep warm. As comforting as this sounds, it is the very thing Dupre is hoping to bring to attention through this expedition and documentary. The earth’s frozen places are its thermostat, regulating the planet’s temperature and providing a stable environment for every other part of our world.
“For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most of my life exploring the Arctic region. These journeys have brought such joy and beauty to my life that I have dedicated myself to helping preserve these wonderful frozen places. More than ever before, I a driven to share my passion for the Arctic, a region whose health and stability have far-reaching consequences for us all.” -Lonnie Dupre
Patagonia Dreams and Wildlands Biodiversity
ASC Adventurer Steve Behaeghel Returns to Patagonia to Pack Raft and Record Data
This summer Steve and his partner travelled the Great Himalaya Trail and found rare lichen for an ASC project. They recently travelled to Patagonia to travel, pack raft, and collect data for the Pacific Biodiversity project for researcher Peter Morrison. On this chilly January day we thought these images of Patagonia were just the thing to warm you up and start you dreaming. For more inspiration visit their blog www.patagoniandreams.com
The Patagonian steppe landscape at the bus window finally gives way to undulating hills and snowcapped peaks at the horizon. X-Mass parties back home followed by a 14 hour flight and 24 hour busride south has left us weary and lazy. But now my heart accelateres and a big smile appears. My face sticks against the bus window with all the colours and shapes around us. A deepblue river snakes its way through a golden, arid landscape while huge lenticulars clad the sky. For the next 4 months we’ll continue our exploration of Patagonia where we left our dreams 3 years ago.
Bahia Lopez beach – Lago Nahuel Huapi – Patagonia, Argentina. Photo Credit: www.patagoniandreams.com
Lonnie Has Landed and is Headed for Denali
The weather cleared enough for Dupre to fly to his starting point on Denali.
Lonnie ready to head out on the mountain. Photo Credit www.oneworldendeavors.com
We got the go ahead from our pilot, Paul Roderick, this morning to be at the airport by noon. By 1:30pm we had landed on Kahiltna Glacier where Lonnie buried a cache of supplies at basecamp (7200ft).
About half an hour later Lonnie finished getting ready and began making his way towards the mountain. We said our goodbyes and wishes him a safe journey!
Meanwhile, we have two weeks left on our kickstart campaign, we would love to have your support in this endeavor!
Lonnie Dupre is a world renown mountaineer who is attempting to complete the first solo summit of Denali in Winter. Along the way he is collecting important microbe samples for ASC. Visit his website at www.oneworldendeavors.com
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Saving The Pollinators
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Alexander Black Photography and its affiliated companies and subsidiaries (collectively referred to as “our Company,” "our" “we,” or “us”) respect your privacy. This Policy describes the ways we collect information from and about you, and what we do with the information, so that you may decide whether to provide information to us. By accessing our website or purchasing our products or services you agree to this Privacy Statement in addition to any other agreements we might have with you. The Alexander Black Photography Privacy Statement does not govern the practices of entities that Alexander Black Photography does not own or control, or entities that do not own or control our company or people that our Company does not employ or manage. This Privacy Policy Statement incorporates the Privacy Shield Statement, as is listed below.
The information we collect may include your personal information, such as your name, contact information, IP addresses, product and service selections and other things that identify you. We collect personal information from you at the certain points, including but not limited to the following:
when we correspond with you as a customer or prospective customer;
when you visit our website;
when you register as an end-user of our products and an account is created for you;
when you contact us for help;
when the site sends us error reports or application analytics data.
Our Use of your Personal Information
Alexander Black Photography may use information that we collect about you to:
provide you with customer support;
perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, or content, or products, services or content offered by others;
communicate with you by e-mail, postal mail, telephone and/or mobile devices about products or services that may be of interest to you either from us, or other third parties;
develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our site and other websites;
verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with promotions, contests and sweepstakes;
manage our business;
transfer personal information to third parties for any legally permissible purpose in our sole discretion.
Disclosure of your Personal Information to Third Parties
We may share your personal information with third parties in the following ways:
we may provide your information to our agents, vendors or service providers who perform functions on our behalf or who help us provide and support our Products. For example, if it is necessary to provide you something you have requested. Examples of our Vendors and Service Providers include payment processors, hosting services and content delivery services, such as Printing vendors, Shipping companies, Stripe, Google, and Mailchimp;
third party contractors may have access to our databases. Usually these contractors sign a standard confidentiality agreement;
as required by law enforcement, government officials, or other third parties pursuant to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process or requirement applicable to our Company; or when we believe, in our sole discretion, that the disclosure of personal information is necessary to prevent physical harm or financial loss, to report suspected illegal activity or to investigate violations of our agreements or Company policies; and
we may, from time to time, offer surveys or promotions on our Websites or through social media (collectively “Our Promotions”). Participation in our Promotions is completely voluntary. Information requested for entry may include personal contact information such as your name, address, date of birth, phone number, email address, username, and similar details. We use the information you provide to administer Our Promotions. We may also, unless prohibited by the Promotion’s rules or law, use the information provided to communicate with you, or other people you select, about our Services. We may share this information with our affiliates and other organizations or Service Providers in line with this policy and the rules posted for the Promotion.
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Please note that these third parties may be in other countries where the laws on processing personal information may be less stringent than in your country.
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Our Security Measures to Protect your Personal Information
Our Company uses industry-standard technologies when transferring and receiving data exchanged between our Company and other companies to help ensure its security. This site has security measures in place to help protect information under our control from the risk of accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration or unauthorized disclosure or access. However, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet. Also, if this website contains links to other sites, our Company is not responsible for the security practices or the content of such sites.
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We may create links to other websites. We will make a reasonable effort to link only to sites that meet similar standards for maintaining everyone’s right to privacy. However, many other sites that are not associated with or authorized by our Company may have links leading to our site. Our Company cannot control these links and we are not responsible for any content appearing on these sites. Since this website does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy practices of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose any personal information to others.
Our Company websites may use third parties to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at its web pages and to conduct research about the advertisements and web usage. This Privacy Statement does not cover any use of information that such third parties may have collected from you or the methods used by the third parties to collect that information.
Our Retention of your Personal Information
We will retain any personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the business purpose it was collected. We will also retain and use your personal information for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Your Right to Opt-Out or Unsubscribe from Communication
If you do not want to receive communication from us in the future, please let us know by sending us e-mail at info@alexanderblackphotography.com. If you supply us with your postal address online, you will only receive the information for which you provided us your address.
Information collected from you may be stored and processed in The United State or any other country in which our Company or agents or contractors maintain facilities, and by accessing our sites and using our services, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. European Union or Swiss individuals may refer to the Privacy Shield statement with regard to the transfer of their personal data. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you at our site.
Merchants and Partners
The GDPR also applies to the merchants and partners of Wayne Stadler Photography who operate in the EU/EEA (European Union/European Economic Area) or Switzerland and offer goods or services to residents of the EU/EEA or Switzerland. While Wayne Stadler Photography is performing action to be compliant with GDPR, each merchant is ultimately responsible for ensuring that their business complies with the laws of the jurisdictions in which they operate or have buyers. Using Alexander Black Photography does not guarantee that a merchant or partner complies with GDPR.
Merchants and Partners Access to and Updating or Deletion of your Personal Information
The GDPR also gives certain rights to identified or identifiable persons (referred to as data subjects), including Alexander Black Photography merchants. These include the right to request at no cost;
Deletion of personal data
Correction of their data
Access to their data
An export of their data in a portable format
The GDPR also gives certain rights to identified or identifiable persons (referred to as data subjects), including buyers visiting stores belonging to Alexander Black Photography. These include the right to request;
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States' consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online. We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
Our Company may amend this Privacy Statement at any time by posting a new version. It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Statement periodically as your continued use of this website represents your agreement with the then-current Privacy Statement.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, the practices or concerns of this site, or feel that the site is not following its said policy, please contact: info@alexanderblackphotography.com.
Privacy Shield Statement
Alexander Black Photography complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. If there is any conflict between the policies in this privacy policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, and to view our certification page, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/. This Privacy Statement outlines our general policy and practices for implementing the Principles, including the types of information we gather, how we use it and the notice and choice affected individuals have regarding our use of and their ability to correct that information.
A) Definitions
“Personal Data” means information that (1) is transferred from the EU/EEA or Switzerland to the United States; (2) is recorded in any form; (3) is about or pertains to a specific individual; and (4) can be linked to that individual. “Sensitive Personal Information” means personal information that reveals race, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership or that concerns an individual’s health.
B) Principles
Alexander Black Photography may receive Personal Data from its own personnel as well as from its affiliates and other parties located in the EU/EEA. Such information may contain names, addresses, email addresses and payment information and may be about customers, clients of customers, business partners, consultants, employees, and candidates for employment and includes information recorded on various media as well as electronic data. Alexander Black Photography generally does not collect Personal Data directly from individuals. Alexander Black Photography, however, may receive Personal Data via its customers.
Personal Data Collection Principles:
1. We shall inform an individual of the purpose for which we collect and use their Personal Data and the types of third parties to which our Company discloses or may disclose that Personal Data. Our Company shall provide the individual with the choice and means for limiting the use and disclosure of their Personal Data. Notice will be provided in clear and conspicuous language when individuals are first asked to provide Personal Data to our Company, or as soon as practicable thereafter, and in any event before our Company uses or discloses the Personal Data for a purpose other than for which it was originally collected. Alexander Black Photography may be required to disclose Personal Data in response to lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
2. Individuals have the opportunity to choose (opt out) whether their Personal Data is (1) to be disclosed to a non-Agent third party or (2) to be used for a purpose other than the purpose for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by the individual by contacting info@alexanderblackphotography.com. Agents, technology vendors and/or contractors of Alexander Black Photography or its affiliates may have access to an individual’s Personal Data on a need to know basis for the purpose of performing services on behalf of Alexander Black Photography or providing or enabling elements of the services. All such agents, technology vendors and contractors who have access to such information are contractually required to keep the information confidential and not use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing or as otherwise required by law.
3. Accountability for Onward Transfer. Prior to disclosing Personal Data to a third party, we shall notify the individual of such disclosure and allow the individual the choice (opt out) of such disclosure. We will:
Limit the data you share with your partners and vendors to only that data you have permission to share.
Proactively confirm that your partners and vendors understand purpose limitations.
Ensure partners and vendors will make reasonable efforts to comply with the purpose limitation and appropriate protection of that data.
Transfer such data only for limited and specified purposes as detailed in the privacy policy.
Ascertain that the agent is obligated to provide at least the same level of privacy protection as is required by the Principles.
Take reasonable and appropriate steps to ensure that the agent effectively processes the personal information transferred in a manner consistent with the organization’s obligations under the Principles.
Upon notice, take reasonable and appropriate steps to stop and remediate unauthorized processing.
4. Data Security. We shall take reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Our Company has put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the Personal Data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction. However, our Company cannot guarantee the security of Personal Data on or transmitted via the Internet.
5. Data Integrity and Purpose Limitation. We shall only process Personal Data in a way that is compatible with and relevant for the purpose for which it was collected or authorized by the individual. To the extent necessary for those purposes, our Company shall take reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Data is accurate, complete, current and reliable for its intended use.
6. Access and Recourse. We acknowledge the individual’s right to access their Personal Data. We shall allow an individual access to their Personal Data and allow the individual the opportunity to correct, amend or delete inaccurate information, except where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to the privacy of the individual in the case in question or where the rights of persons other than the individual would be violated. Individuals may contact our Privacy Officer via email to request access.
7. Enforcement and Liability. The Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over Alexander Black Photography compliance with the Privacy Shield. In compliance with the EU-US Privacy Shield Principles, Alexander Black Photography commits to resolve complaints about privacy and our collection or use of Personal Data. European Union or Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should first contact us at:
Alexander Black Photography
3940 Laurel Canyon Blvd #472
E-mail: info@alexanderblackphotography.com
a. Human Resources Data.
Alexander Black Photography would generally not collect human resources data. If there was reason to collect such information and there was a complaint it would be addressed within a timely period. If your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed by Alexander Black Photography, and your inquiry or complaint involves human resource data, you may have your complaint considered by an independent recourse mechanism: for EU/EEA Data Subjects, a panel established by the EU data protection authorities (“DPA Panel”), and for Swiss Data Subjects, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (“FDPIC”). To do so, you should contact the state or national data protection or labor authority in the jurisdiction where you work. Photography agrees to cooperate with the relevant national DPAs and to comply with the decisions of the DPA Panel and the FDPIC. The services of EU DPAs are provided at no cost to you.
b. Independent Recourse - Non-Human Resources Data.
Alexander Black Photography has further committed to refer unresolved Privacy Shield complaints to EU data protection authorities (“DPA Panel”) and The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (“FDPIC”), an alternative dispute resolution provider located in the (the EU, or Switzerland, as applicable). If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not resolved your complaint, please contact or visit:
EU DPA
Contact: https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/justice-and-consumers_en#contact
Phone number+32 2 299 11 11 (Commission switchboard)
Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers European Commission
1049 Bruxelles/Brussel Belgium
FDPIC
Contact: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/links/data-protection---swi tzerland.html
Data Protection and Information Commissioner of Switzerland
Tell. +41 58 462 43 95
Please note that if your complaint is not resolved through any of the above channels, under limited circumstances, a binding arbitration option may be available before a Privacy Shield Panel.
C) Amendments
This Privacy Statement may be amended from time to time consistent with the requirements of the Shield Frameworks. We will post any revised policy on this website.
D) Information Subject to Other Policies
We are committed to following the Principles for all Personal Data within the scope of the Privacy Shield Frameworks. We are committed to following the Principles for all Personal Data within the scope of the Privacy Shield Frameworks. However, certain information is subject to policies of Alexander Black Photography that may differ in some respects from the general policies set forth in this Privacy Statement.
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen
A wonderfully eccentric comedy about a well-bred young woman who goes to live with her grim, rustic relatives. She then implacably sets about recordin... Read more
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Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Michael Williams
Together, they're 342 years old. They're in their seventh decade of cutting-edge, epoch-defining performances on stage and on screen. Funny, smart, sh... Read more
The Monster (1975)
Director: Peter Sasdy
Starring: Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Donald Pleasence, Ralph Bates, Caroline Munro
Joan Collins stars in this outrageous horror, as a stripper who spurns the advances of a lecherous dwarf and is subsequently cursed by a monstrous bab... Read more
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Starring: Diane Cilento, Eileen Atkins, Christopher Cazenove, Jeremy Clyde, Daniel Massey
Another beautiful collection of six classic tales of love and loss from the fiction of Henry James. This is drawing room drama at it's very best from... Read more
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Director: Giles Foster
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James Wilby and Juliet Aubrey star in the intimate portrayal of the endearing love affair between the young Queen Mother Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Albe... Read more
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Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Eileen Atkins, Mark Addy, Mark Strong, Max von Sydow
The early exploits of Robin Hood are chronicled in this adventure starring Russell Crowe as the famed outlaw hero. After fighting in the Third Crusade... Read more
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Director: Simon Langton
Starring: Alec Guinness, Alan Rickman, Patrick Stewart, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Eile...
John Le Carre's government operative George Smiley comes out of retirement again when a former colleague is murdered. Using his keen intuition and esp... Read more
Wit (2001)
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald, Jonathan M Wood...
Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson) is an English professor with a biting wit that educates but also alienates her students. With her teaching and life bot... Read more
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Colin Firth, Eileen Atkins, Marcia Gay Harden, Hamish Linklater, Simon McBurney,...
Chinese conjuror Wei Ling Soo is the most celebrated magician of his age, but few know that he is the stage persona of Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth),... Read more
Ask the Dust (2006)
Director: Robert Towne
Starring: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Idina Menzel, Just...
Adapted from John Fante's Depression-era novel by director Robert Towne, this labour of love began in the 1970s when Towne met the author, during rese... Read more
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Home » Articles » Live Reviews
Moon Hooch at Shakespeare's Pub
By JOHN EPHLAND
It was an interesting combination. Two saxophones and a drummer, along with a sound system that kept everyone on their feet, if not dancing. The up-and-coming New York aspirants Moon Hooch (previously touring with They Might Be Giants, Lotus and Galactic), on a nationwide tour, made a stop at Kalamazoo's Shakespeare's Pub on Friday, May 29. And, in the wake of their 2014 release This Is Cave Music (Hornblow Recordings/Palmetto Records), what a stop it was, the band playing as if they were doing a retirement party, for themselves. "Themselves" being horn players Mike Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen and drummer James Muschler.
That combination also included a jam-band vibe, a kind of primitive house music that seemed to build on the previous group's more traditional approach to jamming, long stretches of improvising between the horns and a relentless, frayed disco beat animating this downstairs crowd of mainly 20-and 30-something partygoers. The overall impression, and the initial impression to boot, was the creation of a pseudo big- band mashup with that predominantly disco beat, creating worlds bigger than the sound of three people playing music. Yes, lots of booty- shaking, but not necessarily of the dancing variety.
With unannounced tunes (the band provided no real spokesman) flowing into each other, for anyone who wanted to stray in a musical way, Moon Hooch may have been the band to follow. The setting was as much a part of the show as the music itself, with hippie-styled long dresses, tank tops and lots of long, long hair (and a reminder that the '60s look, if not sound, will always be with us). A regular feature of this downtown Kalamazoo venue, people could be seen off to the side painting on canvases placed on easels, while others made more adventurous moves on the dance floor and, in at least one instance, a young lady seemed to be straight from a Barnum & Bailey Circus gig with hula hoops that didn't just visit her hips but somehow became a part of her body, all four limbs not to mention head and neck in on the act. Her moves—seemingly in synch with a music that was insistent, propulsive—were like those of an acrobat without the rings and aerial pursuit. The crowd persistently let out explosive hoots and hollers as the unusual combination of saxophones (as opposed to the usual guitar- centric approach) merged with the disco beats and occasional vocals.
You had to be standing in this room of about 200 to be able to see the band, since the only seats available were toward to back, where people routinely placed their beers on tables with folks more inclined to view and sip from chairs. The band itself, performing on a platform, would create pregnant pauses only to resume in a timely fashion, creating a hypnotic, frenzied effect on the audience in what seemed like a programmed rave, a non-stop musical extravaganza. It was a sound system with the emphasis on the bottom end with a constant sonic buzz. This was dance music, the artistry no doubt the result of many days and nights jamming on New York City streets and subways en route to playing the headliner (thanks to their fortuitous discovery by the former frontman of the band Soul Coughing). The music may have been simple and direct, the arrangements consistently reliant on that ever-present beat, but the band's at times jazzy delivery was assured, professional, accomplished. It may have been a tape loop, but it was that medium-tempo disco vibe that lingered as the night wore on and eventually ended: a 21st century dustup of something that presaged punk music, creating yet another combination all its own.
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<metadesc>Islamic fasting has significant harmful effects on health, national economy and productivity, crime rate, public safety and social behavior.</metadesc> This article discusses the numerous adverse effects of [[Islam|Islamic]] [[fasting]] (''[[Sawm]]'') that have been observed using [[Islam and Science|scientific]] studies and [[news]] sources. ==Introduction== Medical fasting can have [[health]] benefits. However, Medical fasting differs from Islamic fasting, and contrary to popular Muslim beliefs, Islamic fasting, unlike Medical fasting, has numerous adverse effects. As we will explain here, Islamic fasting has significant harmful effects on health, national economy and productivity, crime rate, public safety and social behavior. Health effects include heat stress, dehydration, migraines and, for lactating women, the nutritional make-up of their milk, amongst others. ===What is Islamic Fasting?=== The salient features of Islamic fasting are: * For 30 days every [[Islamic Lunar Calendar|lunar year]] (during the month of Ramadan), waking up before dawn and eating and [[Drinks|drinking]] to prepare for the fast (binge eating is a common habit).<ref name="Anjali Dange"></ref><ref>Abdel-Moneim Said - [{{Reference archive|1=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/963/op11.htm|2=2011-08-28}} Wasting Ramadan] - Al-Ahram Weekly, September 3, 2009</ref> * Refraining from consuming any food or water from dawn to sunset * Breaking the fast at sunset and again eating and drinking to prepare for the day ahead. Some Muslims claim eating a small amount of [[food]] is the correct Islamic way however we cannot function for the whole day by eating only a small amount of food at the time of dawn. This would affect our performance even more during the day. ==Effects on Health== In a recent study done on the Arab world, diseases linked to cholesterol and diabetes increased by 27.65% because of overeating.<ref name="ANSA"/> Non-compliance with prescribed treatment regimens is common during Ramadan. <ref>Aslam M, Healey MA. Drug regimens and fasting Moslem patients [Letter]. Lancet 1985;290:1746</ref> Other health effects include: ===Dehydration=== One study finds that incidences of dehydration increase during the month of Ramadan: {{Quote|| '''PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS''' Evidence of hemoconcentration and dehydration has been found during Ramadan (El-Hazmi, Al-Faleh, & Al-Mofleh, 1987; Kayikcioglu et al., 1999; Ramadan et al., 1999; Schmahl & Metzler, 1991; Sweileh et al., 1992). Restricted fluid intake, leading to disturbance in the fluid balance, is likely to cause these conditions. In the initial stages of dehydration, the clinical signs are tachycardia, tiredness and malaise, headaches and nausea. Middle-aged or more elderly persons are usually more prone to the effects of dehydration (Schmahl & Metzler). Dehydration is indicated by the increase of several serum biochemical parameters (El-Hazmi et al., 1987; Ramadan et al., 1999; Schmahl & Metzler, 1991; Sweileh et al., 1992). The increase in uric acid, however, should especially be noted (El-Ati et al, 1995; El-Hazmi et al., 1987; Fedail et al., 1982; Schmahl & Metzler, 1991), because hyperuricemia is one of the known sequelae of prolonged fasting (Murphy & Shipman, 1963). Hyperuricemia is associated with reduction in glomerular filtration rate, decrease in uric acid clearance and alterations in the renal transport of uric acid (Murphy & Shipman). During Ramadan, however, reports show that the increase in uric acid does not excessively deviate from the normal range and studies have not reported clinical gout (El-Hazmi et al., 1987; Fedail et al., 1982). Increased uric acid is, therefore, unlikely to affect healthy individuals.<ref name="Morimoto">Toda, Masahiro, Morimoto, Kanehisa, "[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3852/is_200401/ai_n9352292/ Ramadan Fasting - Effect on Healthy Muslims]", Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal, 2004</ref>}} ===Migraines=== Migraines are three times more common during Ramadan, affecting an estimated 90 million Muslims: {{Quote||An estimated 90 million of the world’s 1.57 billion Muslims are likely to suffer from migraine headaches during the dawn-to-dusk fasts during the month of Ramadan – which begins on Wednesday, at the height of summer heat. But Jewish researchers in the US and Israel have suggested how to help prevent the problem. Dr. Ibrahim Abu-Salameh, Israel’s only Beduin neurologist – who works at Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba – headed a team that found migraine attacks are three times more common during the Muslim fast than in the rest of the year. Working with colleagues Dr. Igal Plecht and Dr. Gal Ifergan of the Beersheba hospital, Abu-Salameh studied 32 Beduin who suffered from migraine attacks during the Ramadan fast last year and compared the statistics to an ordinary month without the fast as a control. Migraines were much more common in women than men; three-quarters of the women complained of migraine while fasting, compared to a much lower figure among the men. The Soroka study was published recently in the Journal of Headache and Pain.<BR>. . .<BR> Abu-Salameh said that he has gotten migraine headaches during Ramadan, and has treated Beduin who came to his clinic complaining about severe headaches. He noted that the medical literature has almost ignored the phenomenon until now. Meanwhile, Dr. Michael J. Drescher of Hartford Hospital in Connecticut and colleagues at Sheba and Shaare Zedek Medical Centers in Israel recently suggested that otherwise-healthy Muslims suffering from migraine attacks during the Ramadan fast ask their doctors for a prescription for etoricoxib (commercial name Arcoxia) to prevent the headaches that come with fasting.<ref>Judy Siegel-Itzkovich - [{{Reference archive|1=http://www.jpost.com/HealthAndSci-Tech/Health/Article.aspx?id=184112|2=2011-04-04}} Beduin doctor: Migraines common during Ramadan fast] - The Jerusalem Post, August 9, 2010</ref>}} ===Tachycardia, Severe Headaches, Dizziness, Nausea, Vomiting and Circulatory Collapse=== The following study was carried out on [[Turkey|Turkish]] Muslims in [[Germany]] who were involved in heavy and manual work. 'Moderate to severe health disturbances' including severe dehydration were found in such laborers during Ramadan: {{Quote|| '''Abstract''' During Ramadan, Moslems are required strictly to avoid fluids and nourishment from dawn to sunset. Heat stress during such abstinence represents a substantial health hazard. In the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) where numerous Moslems, particularly of Turkish origin, perform heat work and other heavy labour, we observed moderate to severe health disturbances in such labourers during Ramadan, e.g.: '''tachycardia, severe headaches, dizziness, nausea, vomiting and circulatory collapse'''. The '''severe dehydration''' of these workers was demonstrated by substantial increases in their hematocrit, serum protein, urea, creatinine, uric acid and electrolyte imbalance. Because of the evidence of the substantial health hazard to Islamic workers in such situations, we have strongly urged employers to refrain from assigning Islamic workers to heat work or heavy daytime work during Ramadan; we have therefore limited systematic studies of health problems during Ramadan to persons performing only moderate work. Even under these conditions signs of dehydration were found in the 32 labourers monitored. Some of these labourers also had to interrupt their observance of Ramadan due to health problems, e.g.: acute gout due to serum uric acid increase, or circulatory insufficiency. In light of the observed potentially harmful pathophysiological effects, the danger of dehydration of Islamic workers due to heat work during Ramadan should be taken very seriously.<ref>Schmahl FW, Metzler B, "The health risks of occupational stress in Islamic industrial workers during the Ramadan fasting period", Polish Journal of Occupational Medicine 1991 4:3 219-28</ref>}} Naturally we would expect that this would affect productivity, as is evidenced in a later section on Economical effects. ===Weight Fluctuation=== The following study takes a look at the significant fluctuations in the weight of individuals that occurs during the month of Ramadan, primarily as a result of the metabolic changes that occur in the body. {{Quote||Numerous studies have reported significant weight loss during Ramadan (Adlouni, Ghalim, Benslimane, Lecerf, & Saile, 1997; Adlouni et al., 1998; Fedail, Murphy, Salih, Bolton, & Harvey, 1982; Kayikcioglu, Erkin, & Erakgun, 1999; Ramadan, Telahoun, Al-Zaid, & Barac-Nieto, 1999; Schmahl & Metzler, 1991; Sweileh, Schnitzler, Hunter, & Davis, 1992). The declines may result from water loss early in Ramadan and loss of body fat during the later period (Sweileh et al., 1992). In fact, we did find evidence of dehydration. Loss of body fat would indicate the use of fat for energy production during Ramadan (Husain, Duncan, Cheah, & Ch'ng, 1987; Ramadan et al., 1999; Sweileh et al., 1992). In addition, researchers have found decreased heart rate and oxygen consumption during Ramadan (Husain et al., 1987; Ramadan et al., 1999; Sweileh et al., 1992). These findings suggest a metabolic adaptation to fasting. It seems that during the Ramadan daylight hours - when no food or water is taken in - to conserve stored energy, the metabolism slows down (Sweileh et al., 1992). Other studies, however, have reported no change in body weight during Ramadan (El-Ati, Beji, & Danguir, 1995; Finch, Day, Razak, Welch, & Rogers 1998; Maislos et al., 1993; Maislos, Abou-Rabiah, Zuili, Iordash, & Shany, 1998). In fact, one study carried out in Saudi Arabia reported a significant increase in body weight during Ramadan (Frost & Pirani, 1987). Such variations may be attributable to local custom and food quality. In short, in Islamic communities - as elsewhere - food habits vary according to geography, culture, and socioeconomic factors (Musaiger, 1993; Rashed, 1992). Ramadan is a special month and the variety of foods generally increases (Karaagaoglu & Yucecan, 2000) so, during this period, richer meals and special treats are not uncommon in households that can afford them.<ref name="Morimoto"></ref>}} ===Affect on Circadian Patterns and Sleep Disorders=== The results of the following study can lead us to conclude that fasting negatively effects an individual's circadian rhythm. As a result, unfavorable side-effects such as lethargy and a lack of motivation, may contribute to a society's lack of productivity: {{Quote||This change of meal schedule is accompanied with changes in sleep habits, such as delayed and shortened sleep periods, which may affect endocrine and neuroendocrine circadian patterns. Several cardiovascular parameters (i.e., heart rate, blood pressure, vascular tone, and coagulation-fibrinolysis) show circadian pattern. Several studies reported that autonomic activity and melatonin rhtyhmicity may be responsible for circadian patterns of cardiovascular parameters. '''Changes of sleep habit in Ramadan affects autonomic activity and melatonin rhtyhmicity'''. The other negative effects may be that, during fasting patients with cardiovascular disease cannot consume medications, such as anti-ischemic, anti-platelet, anti-hypertensive drugs, and drugs of heart failure on time. Some patients may get admitted to the hospital with cardiovascular symptoms owing to failure of therapy.<ref>"Does Ramadan modify the Circadian Patterns?", Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, March 2006, Vol. 52 Issue 1 [https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/6924/1/jp06011.pdf pdf]</ref>}} The following study was done in Saudi Arabia and it was observed that melatonin levels and REM sleep decreased during Ramadan: {{Quote||'''Abstract:''' Fasting during Ramadan is distinct from regular voluntary or experimental fasting. This project was conducted to objectively assess the effect of Ramadan fasting on sleep architecture, daytime sleepiness and the circadian cycle of melatonin level. Eight healthy volunteers reported to the Sleep Disorders Center on four occasions for polysomnography and multiple sleep latency tests: 1) an initial visit for adaptation; 2) 2 weeks before Ramadan (BL); and 3,4) during the first and third weeks of Ramadan (R1, R3). Salivary melatonin level was measured using radioimmunoassay. Sleep latency at night was significantly shorter and the amount of rapid eye movement sleep was significantly less, at R3 compared to BL. There was no difference in multiple sleep latency test data between BL and Ramadan. Although melatonin level kept the same circadian pattern at BL, R1 and R3, '''it had a flatter slope and a significantly lower peak at midnight (00:00) at R1 and R3.''' '''This study showed a significant reduction in sleep latency and rapid eye movement sleep during the third week of Ramadan fasting.''' Otherwise, there was no significant effect of Ramadan on sleep architecture and assessment revealed no increase in daytime sleepiness. Although melatonin level had the same circadian pattern during Ramadan, the '''level of the hormone dropped significantly from baseline.'''<ref>Ahmed S. BaHammam, "[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1479-8425.2004.00135.x/abstract Effect of fasting during Ramadan on sleep architecture, daytime sleepiness and sleep pattern]", Sleep and Biological Rhythms, Volume 2, Issue 2, pages 135–143, June 2004</ref>}} ===Daytime Drowsiness, Alertness and Cognition=== Naturally, a fast would indicate that individuals are ingesting less food. But the following two studies reveal that the decrease in the number of meals that are eaten directly disturbs normal sleep habits and thereby increases daytime drowsiness. {{Quote|| '''Abstract''' Few epidemiological data have been reported on the relation between Ramadan fasting, life habits (meal frequency, sleep habits) and daytime sleepiness during Ramadan. This paper presents the results of a detailed study of the chronotype and daytime sleepiness before and during Ramadan. It was conducted on a sample of 264 subjects aged between 20 and 30 years. Results have revealed a significant decrease in the meal frequency during Ramadan compared with the control period. Before Ramadan, the majority of subjects woke up between 6 and 7 a.m. and went to sleep between 10 and 11 p.m. however, during Ramadan fasting, they woke up after 8 a.m. and preferred to go to sleep later (after midnight). Chronotype as evaluated by the Horne and Ostberg scale was changed significantly during Ramadan: an increase of the evening type and a decrease in the morning type of subjects was observed. Daytime sleepiness as evaluated by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale was significantly increased.<ref>Taoudi Benchekroun M, Roky R, Toufiq J, Benaji B, Hakkou F, "Epidemiological study: chronotype and daytime sleepiness before and during Ramadan.", Therapie 54:567-72</ref>}} The following study studies the effect that fasting has on the alertness of an individual. Evidently, the change in sleep patterns causes a decrease in oral temperature and alertness: {{Quote|| '''Abstract''' During the month of Ramadan, Moslems abstain from drinking and eating daily between sunrise and sunset. This change of meals schedule is accompanied with changes in sleep habit, which may affect diurnal alertness. This study examined the effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on the diurnal alertness and oral temperature in 10 healthy young subjects. The cognitive task battery including movement reaction time (MRT), critical flicker fusion (CFF) and visual analogue scale, was administered at 6 different times of the day: 09.00, 11.00, 13.00, 16.00, 20.00 and 23.00 h on the 6th, 15th, and 28th days of Ramadan. The baseline day was scheduled one week before Ramadan, and the recovery day 18 days after this month. Oral temperature was measured prior to each test session and at 00.00 h. During Ramadan oral temperature decreased at 09.00, 11.00, 13.00, 16.00 and 20.00 h and increased at 23.00 and 00.00 h. Subjective alertness decreased at 09.00 and 16.00 h and increased at 23.00 h. Mood decreased at 16.00 h. MRT was increased at the beginning of Ramadan (R6) and CFF was not changed. These results showed that daytime oral temperature, subjective alertness and mood were decreased during Ramadan intermittent fasting.<ref>Roky R, Iraki L, HajKhlifa R, Lakhdar Ghazal N, Hakkou F, "Daytime alertness, mood, psychomotor performances, and oral temperature during Ramadan intermittent fasting.", Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism 2000 44:101-7</ref>}} ===Cognition=== The physical fatigue associated with fasting results in impairment of cognitive function, as shown by performance in flicker fusion tests. <ref>Ali MR, Amir T. Effects of fasting on visual flicker fusion. Percept Mot Skills 1989;69:627-31</ref> ===Lactating women=== In a certain study, the nutritional status of lactating women was affected by Ramadan fasting. All of the nutrient intakes (except vitamins A, E and C) decreased during Ramadan. The study said that it would seem prudent to excuse lactating women from fasting during Ramadan.<ref>"The effect of Ramadan on maternal nutrition and composition of breast milk." Pg. 278-283, vol. 48 - Nutrition and Dietetics; Food Engineering, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey</ref> ===Pregnancies=== {{Quote||A new study by scientists in the United States has revealed that pregnant Muslim women who fast during Ramadan are likely to have smaller babies who will be more prone to learning disabilities in adulthood. The researchers also found that the women were 10 per cent less likely to give birth to a boy if they had fasted during Ramadan. The trend was clearest if the fasting was done early in the women’s pregnancy, and during the summer months, when long hours of daylight called for them to go longer without food.<BR>. . .<BR> The study, which used census data from the US, Iraq and Uganda, also discovered long-term effects on the adult’s health and his or her future economic success. "We generally find the largest effects on adults when Ramadan falls early in pregnancy," the Independent quoted Douglas Almond, of Columbia University, and Bhashkar Mazumder, of the Federal Research Bank of Chicago, the authors of the research, as saying. "Rates of adult disability are roughly 20 per cent higher, with specific mental disabilities showing substantially larger effects. Importantly, we detect no corresponding outcome differences when the same design is applied to non-Muslims," they added.<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life/health-fitness/health/Ramadan-fast-not-recommended-during-pregnancy/articleshow/6090400.cms Ramadan fast not recommended during pregnancy] - The Times of India, Jun 25, 2010</ref>}} ===Binge eating, headaches and increase in gastric acidity=== {{Quote||'Binge eating is a ''fairly common habit'' during the Ramadan period, especially as the day is spent without eating or drinking,' says Anjali Dange, Dietitian at Welcare Hospital. "During the initial days of fasting, you may encounter slight dizziness as well as frequent headaches." Dr Phadke says that fasting can also increase levels of gastric acidity in the stomach which can cause burning and heaviness, and sometimes a sour taste in the mouth.<ref name="Anjali Dange">[http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.khaleejtimes.com%2FDisplayArticleNew.asp%3Fcol%3D%26section%3Dtheuae%26xfile%3Ddata%2Ftheuae%2F2008%2FSeptember%2Ftheuae_September167.xml&date=2011-07-12 <!-- http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?col=§ion=theuae&xfile=data/theuae/2008/September/theuae_September167.xml -->Dietitian Advises Selective Eating Habits During Ramadan] - Khaleej Times Online, September 7, 2008</ref>}} {{Quote||During Ramadan most of the population sleep during the day, with the iftar beginning at sundown: large feasts at which many end up eating so much they need to be taken to hospital casualty wards, with a record high almost 8,000 cases of indigestion recorded at the Hamad Medical Hospital emergency room solely in the first week of Ramadan 2011.<ref name="ANSMarch132012Ram">[{{Reference archive|1=http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2012/03/13/visualizza_new.html_131156617.html|2=2012-03-15}} Qatar: surge in diabetes/obesity, unhealthy Arab habits] - ANSAmed, March 13, 2012</ref>}} Dr. Muhammad Alabdooni, a Muslim and the chairman of the Dutch Moroccan Physicians Association, also maintains there is no scientific proof that Islamic fasting is physiologically beneficial.<ref>[http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/fasting-during-ramadan-good-your-health Is fasting during Ramadan good for your health?] - Radio Netherlands Worldwide</ref> ===Increases the toxicity of commonly used medication=== Fasting has been found to significantly change drug metabolism and deplete crucial chemicals in the liver needed to detoxify medication. Paracetemol (also called acetaminophen) is one of the most commonly used drugs to treat day to day pain such as headaches or gastrointestinal pain, this is the very same pain that is likely to be encountered by a fasting individual. Therefore, a significant risk arises when someone who has been fasting takes this common medication (among many others). As the Journal of Internal Medicine Reports: {{Quote||Paracetamol-related hepatotoxicity is now the most common cause of the potentially devastating clinical syndrome of acute liver failure in many western countries. In patients who develop liver damage following moderate paracetamol overdose in the order of 5–10 g daily, recent fasting and nutritional impairment have been identified as key precipitants. In keeping with experience in the modest paracetamol overdose setting [6], it is likely that fasting occurring on a background of longstanding diminished caloric intake and severe malnutrition played an important role in the development of paracetamol-induced liver damage at recommended dosage of 4 g daily in this patient. Fasting and malnutrition result in reduction of hepatic levels of glutathione, required for inactivation of N-acetyl-p-benzoquinonimine, the toxic metabolite of paracetamol [6]. A 16-h period of fasting is sufficient to substantially deplete hepatic glutathione stores in mice [11]. <ref name=ParaODFast">[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1365-2796.2003.01097.x/full Paracetamol-induced hepatotoxicity at recommended dosage] - The Journal of Internal Medicine, Janurary 24, 2003</ref>}} ==Social Effects== ===Irritability=== The following study in [[Morocco]] found that irritability increased during Ramadan: {{Quote|| '''Abstract''' OBJECTIVES: We hypothesized that people in Morocco are more irritable during the month of Ramadan than during the rest of the year. Our objectives were to measure irritability in fasting Muslims during the month of Ramadan, to describe its various modes of expression, and to examine risk factors for this irritability. METHODS AND SUBJECTS: We studied 100 healthy volunteers during the month of Ramadan for two successive years (1994 and 1995). All subjects were male (mean age, 32+/-5.8 years), and 51% of them were smokers. Irritability was assessed over a 6-week period (before, four times during, and after the end of Ramadan). We assessed both subjective (visual analog scale) and objective irritability. We also recorded the consumption of psychostimulants, duration of sleep, and anxiety level as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Scale. RESULTS: Irritability was significantly higher in smokers than in nonsmokers before the beginning of Ramadan. It was higher in both groups during the Ramadan month. '''Irritability increased continuously during Ramadan and reached its peak at the end of the month.''' Consumption of psychostimulants (coffee and tea) and anxiety level followed the same pattern. Smokers and nonsmokers had a similar pattern of irritability over time, but irritability increased more in smokers than in nonsmokers.<ref>Kadri N, Tilane A, El Batal M, Taltit Y, Tahiri SM, Moussaoui D, "[{{Reference archive|1=http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/cgi/reprint/62/2/280.pdf|2=2011-04-04}} Irritability During the Month of Ramadan]", Psychosomatic Medicine 2000 Mar-Apr 62:2 280-5</ref>}} {{Quote||Wael Bakor, 29, marketing manager at a major company in Jeddah, expressed regret at the attitude of employees. “Unfortunately, people become more tense and irritated during Ramadan. One can easily notice the bad moods, the tension and the inability to put up with anyone or anything,” he said.<ref name="arabnews">Hassna’a Mokhtar - [http://www.webcitation.org/61GqHsLOo <!-- Original URL http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=101889&d=30&m=9&y=2007 -->Productivity and Self-Discipline in Ramadan] - ArabNews, September 30, 2007</ref>}} ===Crime Rate=== In a study done on the Arab world,<ref name="ANSA"/> experts claimed that increases in blood crimes (+1.5%) and theft (+3.5%) were observed during Ramadan. {{Quote||[Egypt] In the past few years, Ramadan — a month usually reserved for pious contemplation and reverence — has been marred by an alarming rise in violent crime, experts have said.<ref>Yasmine Saleh - [{{Reference archive|1=http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3746|2=2011-07-12}} Ramadan saw rise in violent domestic crimes] - Daily News Egypt, November 2, 2006</ref>}} {{Quote||Director of Jakarta Police’s General Crime Unit, Sr. Comr. Muhammad Iriawan called on Jakarta residents to be alert as crimes tended to increase during the fasting month of Ramadan. ... Iriawan said crimes such as house break-ins and robberies tend to increase during Ramadan, when the need for extra money was high because of the festivities.<ref>Bati Kartini & Samuel L - [{{Reference archive|1=http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/4-gold-shop-robbers-killed-2-caught-during-police-raids-across-the-city/326794|2=2011-07-12}} 4 Gold Shop Robbers Killed, 2 Caught During Police Raids Across the City] - The Jakarta Globe, August 28, 2009</ref>}} {{Quote||official of the Jakarta city administration, A Sjarief Mustafa, says that the number of prostitutes caught by his office had increased from 94, before Ramadan, to 264 during it. He also said that the numbers of beggars had increased. He claimed that the incidence of social ills such as begging and prostitution always increased during the "holy month", and said that people from the provinces often used the "momentum" of Ramadan to come to Jakarta and seek money from the Jakarta's residents.<ref>David - [{{Reference archive|1=http://www.indonesiamatters.com/762/ramadan-crime/|2=2011-07-12}} Ramadan Crime] - Indonesia Matters, October 20, 2006</ref>}} {{Quote||The Passports Department in Makkah arrested over 1,800 persons suspected of pickpocketing and stealing from pilgrims and visitors during the [2011] Umrah and Ramadan seasons ... Hussein stated that the advancement in technology, particularly facial recognition, reduced crimes tremendously in previous years.<ref>[http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article499367.ece 1,800 nabbed for thefts in Ramadan] - Arab News, September 9, 2011</ref>}} ====Child Trafficking==== {{Quote||With the advent of Ramadan in just a few days, child trafficking, a trade that sometimes goes unpunished in Yemen, is expected to increase as food prices rise and parents struggle to provide for their children. "I think during Ramadan prices rise and there is a lapse of security along the borders," Coordinator of Child Parliament Om Khalthoum said. Almost 1,500 Yemeni children were saved by child protection centers from exploitation, abuse and deprivation that come at the hands of their traffickers or smugglers, according to Naseem Ur-Rahman of UNICEF. Yemeni children, primarily boys, are trafficked into Saudi Arabia for exploitation as beggars, street vendors and unskilled laborers. While there are no statistics that determine how many children are trafficked on an annual basis, authorities do know that during the month of Ramadan the numbers rise. "One of the main problems is that there is a lack of reliable data," Ur-Rahman said.<ref>Salma Ismail - [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yementimes.com%2FDefaultDET.aspx%3Fi%3D1287%26p%3Dlocal%26a%3D1&date=2011-04-04 <!-- http://www.yementimes.com/DefaultDET.aspx?i=1287&p=local&a=1 -->Yemen child trafficking to increase in Ramadan] - Yemen Times, August 20, 2009</ref>}} ===Emergency Services=== ====Increase in Accidents==== In 1994, the Accident and Emergency Department of St Mary's Hospital in London conducted a study to examine if accident and emergency attendances increased during Ramadan for Muslim patients. At the time, the department was treating 55,000 new patients every year: {{Quote||2=The results are shown in Table 1. This demonstrates a '''significant rise in the number of Muslims attending during Ramadan''' compared to non-Muslims, with the proportion of Muslims rising from 3.63% of total attendances in the periods before and after Ramadan to 5.11% during Ramadan (P=0.0024). '''The rise in non accident-related attendances among Muslims was also significant''' when compared to non-Muslims (P=0.027) [...]<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1294766/ The effect of the fast of Ramadan on accident and emergency attendances] (J R Soc Med. 1994 September; 87(9): 517–518.)</ref>}} An increase in road traffic accidents in the [[United Arab Emirates]] during Ramadan was reported.<ref>Bener, A., Absood, G. H., Achan, N. V., & Sankaran-Kutty, M. (1992). Road traffic injuries in Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates. The Journal of the Royal Society of Health, 112, 273-276.</ref> Taking this into consideration, you would expect Emergency Services in Muslim majority nations to work twice as hard during this period. Unfortunately, this is not the case. ====Disruption of Services==== In August, 2010, Mustafa Mor, who was involved in a road accident in Turkey, was left waiting on a stretcher due to the X-ray service being closed for fast-breaking. {{Quote||investigation after a patient waited at the door of an X-ray service in a hospital, which was closed for half an hour at the time for fast-breaking. Mustafa Mor’s car went off the road and crashed into a tree in the Nizip district of the southern province of Gaziantep. Bekir Karabacak, a passerby, took him and his cousin, who has the same name and was a passenger in the vehicle, to the Nizip Public Hospital. The doctors thought that the passenger Mor might have had a broken leg and sent him to the X-ray service. The health care personnel took Mor on a stretcher to the X-ray service, where they found a note that said, “I am having dinner, I am about to return,” hanging on the door. Karabacak, who had taken him to the hospital, said: “We are also fasting. Should this place be closed? There is an injured man here, and this is a hospital.” After Mor waited half an hour, the staff returned from dinner. Cengiz Öztop, the chief physician of Nizip Public Hospital, claimed that there was no neglect in the situation.<ref name="Hurriyet Daily">[http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=man-gets-delayed-healthcare-service-due-to-ramadan-2010-08-15 Man gets delayed health care due to Ramadan in Turkey] - Hurriyet Daily News, August 15, 2010</ref>}} Search and rescue teams in Kocaeli, Turkey, had also stopped working due to Ramadan. {{Quote||Search and rescue teams including 200 people who were working on the beaches of the western province of Kocaeli have stopped working due to Ramadan. Vacationers have criticized the decision and said that people swam in the area unperturbedly thanks to the rescue teams. According to the vacationers, the shores will be full of people until the schools start. Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality officers said that they would review the decision once again.<ref name="Hurriyet Daily"></ref>}} ===Reduced Blood Donation=== {{Quote||Blood Transfusion Organization announced that blood donations have dropped by 35 percent since the beginning of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan (Sept. 25).<ref name="iran">[http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2674/pdf/i5.pdf Iran-Daily.com (pdf)] - October 1, 2006</ref>}} The same news source said that "each blood unit can save three lives". This implies that Ramadan also results in loss of life since life-saving blood donations drop by one-third. ===Physical Exhaustion and Incapacitation=== Another study takes a look at fasting Muslims who were stricken with lethargy and fatigue due to the behavioral changes that accompany the month long celebration. {{Quote|| '''Abstract''' This study was conducted in five provinces and food consumption, physical activity types and duration for 3 consecutive days were recorded in the questionnaire together with some general characteristics of 750 (320 males, 430 females) adults who were on fast during Ramadan at time of interview. One hundred and eighty-seven subjects had some type of health problems, among whom 60.4% were using drugs, and 31.6% were on diets; however, during Ramadan 9.7 and 18.8% of the subjects dropped taking drugs and did not regularly keep on diets, respectively. During the fasting time, from dawn to sunset, 34.3% of the subjects developed some behavioural disturbances, such as feeling tired and being unwilling to work. Although the meal consumed at dawn consisted of foods that were usually eaten at breakfast, the meal consumed at sunset consisted of a great variety of foods. Calcium intake was the most insufficiently consumed nutrient. It was observed that the daily energy intakes were less than the expenditures both in males and females. Further research should be done on the effects of fasting in health and disease.<ref>Karaaðaoðlu N, Yücecan S, "Some behavioural Changes observed among fasting subjects, their nutritional habits and energy expenditure in Ramadan", International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition 2000 Mar 51:125-34</ref>}} In September 2009, Stephen Constantine, Head coach of Sudan partly blamed his side’s loss to the Black Stars to the fasting of most of his players. <ref>[http://sports.peacefmonline.com/soccer/200909/26144.php "Fasting affected my players" – Sudan coach] - Peace FM, September 6, 2009</ref> In Italy, both a prominent coach and a team owner in the top Serie A league linked the rigors of Ramadan's sunrise-to-sunset fasting to Muslim players' poor performance on the pitch. <ref>Jeff Israely - [http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1919106,00.html Soccer Star Benched for Fasting During Ramadan] - TIME, August 27, 2009</ref> ===Violence and Anti-Social Behavior Towards Non-Muslims=== The month of Ramadan often sees an increase in violence and anti-social behavior towards religious minorities living among a large Muslim population.<ref name="MNN"></ref> In some Muslim majority countries like [[Algeria]],<ref name="Algeria">[http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/22/3018315.htm?section=justin Christians tried for breaking Ramadan fast] - ABC News, September 22, 2010</ref> Morocco,<ref>Doug Bandow - [http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11966 Morocco: The Limits of Islamic Religious Tolerance] - KATO Insitute, July 8, 2010</ref> [[Pakistan]],<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/181534/25-jailed-pak-eating-public.html|2=2011-08-06}} 25 jailed in Pak for eating in public during Ramadan] - PTI, August 5, 2011</ref> [[Saudi Arabia]],<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://www.bikyamasr.com/73404/saudi-warns-non-muslims-with-expulsion-if-eating-drinking-in-public-during-ramadan/|2=2012-07-22}} Saudi warns non-Muslims with expulsion if eating, drinking in public during Ramadan] - Bikya Masr, July 21, 2012</ref> and in parts of the United Arab Emirates,<ref>Anissa Haddadi - [{{Reference archive|1=http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/190323/20110801/non-muslim-holidaying-in-dubai-warned-to-respect-ramadan-rules.htm|2=2011-08-02}} Non-Muslim Holidaying in Dubai Warned to Respect 'Ramadan Rules'] - International Business Times, August 1, 2011</ref> it is against the law to eat or drink in public during fasting hours, and violating these laws can involve jail-time or expulsion. {{Quote||Last year [2009] during Ramadan, there was an upsurge against Christians in the Muslim world," says Jerry Dykstra of Open Doors, USA. Dykstra says that although persecution did not increase in every Muslim nation, it did increase significantly in many of them, Egypt being one of the worst. During Ramadan last year in Egypt, a church was burned to the ground. At least 155 Egyptian Christians were arrested for not participating in Ramadan. Last September, Rody Rodeheaver with I.N. Network explained that Ramadan "is a time when Muslims who are moderate often become much more aggressive about their faith, and they [see it] as a time to be aggressive as they deal with Christians." Rodeheaver also noted that many people are somewhat psychologically distraught by a lack of food since Muslims are required to fast during Ramadan. This year, with tension rising after Muslim attacks on Christians in Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan and other nations just before Ramadan, prospects don't look much better. The potential for a swell in persecution in the next 28 days is high. Ramadan--August 11 to September--is especially daunting for Muslim converts to Christianity.<ref name="MNN">[http://www.mnnonline.org/article/14591 Ramadan a time of fasting and...persecution?] - Mission Network News, August 13, 2010</ref>}} {{Quote||Hocine Hocini, 44, and Salem Fellak, 34, were arrested on August 13 [2010] on the building site where they worked in the northern region of Kabylie [Algeria] after they were spotted eating lunch. The pair admit to eating but insist it happened in a discreet place. Muslims are not allowed to eat during daylight hours during the Ramadan holy month. In Algeria breaking the fast can be punished with three months in jail. "I am optimistic," Hocini, a Protestant with a one-month-old daughter, said as he left the courtroom in Ain el Hammam after the hearing. "I have no regrets, I'm Christian and assume my responsibilities. We are innocent, and we haven't done any harm to anyone...We are Christians and we have not eaten in a public place." The verdict is due on October 5. The prosecutor called for the full three months in prison for both men.<ref name="Algeria"></ref>}} {{Quote||Police in Pakistan arrested two Christians for eating during the Islamic fasting season of Ramadan in the city of Silanwali on Aug. 25 [2009], reports Michael Ireland, chief correspondent, ASSIST News Service.<BR>. . .<BR> In a media release, ICC says that after the waiter served them tea and a snack, several policemen started to question them as to why they were desecrating Ramadan by eating during the Islamic fasting season. The two Christians told the police that since they are Christians, they are not supposed to fast during Ramadan.<BR>. . .<BR> Azzaq Bhatti, the father of Gull Masih and paternal uncle of Ashir Sohail, in an interview with ICC said that, "during Lent, all Muslims eat, drink and smoke publicly and neither police nor government authorities take notice of it. And none of the Muslims are arrested for desecrating Christians' Lent season." ICC's Jonathan Racho said: "Forcing Christians to fast during the Islamic fasting month is both outrageous and a clear violation of freedom of religion. We call upon Pakistani officials to immediately release Gull and Ashir and take appropriate legal measures against police officers who detained them."<ref>[http://www.christiantelegraph.com/issue6747.html Christians arrested in Pakistan for eating during Ramadan] - The Christian Telegraph, September 2, 2009</ref>}} Ramadan-inspired violence against non-Muslims and non-observant Muslims is on the increase in secular societies. Notable incidents include; a Jewish women in Toulouse, [[France]], being called a "dirty Jew" and struck on the head by two Muslim teenagers for buying food during fasting hours; a Muslim man in a central Lyon Restaurant struck in the head with a glass bottle and hit with a chair by three youths for not respecting Ramadan;<ref>[http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=25211 Two people assaulted in France for eating during Ramadam. One was not even Muslim] - Vlad Tepes, August 24, 2010</ref> an 11-year-old in Sydney, [[Australia]], chased and later beaten by Muslim students because he ate a salami sandwich during Ramadan;<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/national/parents-say-son-was-tormented-for-eating-salami-sandwich-during-ramadan/story-e6frfkvr-1225797140592 Parents say son was tormented for eating salami sandwich during Ramadan] - The Daily Telegraph, November 13, 2009</ref> a Turkish MP in Berlin, [[Germany]], beaten by restaurant staff for ordering pork sausages;<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://news.am/eng/news/70698.html|2=2011-08-12}} Turkish MP was beaten for ordering pork sausage in Germany] - NEWS.am, August 11, 2011</ref> and the following report is of an atheist living in the [[United Kingdom]]: {{Quote||Monzur Rahman was left with a broken arm, damaged eye and lying unconscious in the street after the violent attack earlier this month. The 39-year-old atheist claims he was brutally set upon by a pack of youths for failing to observe Ramadan. Arif Raham, a friend of Monzur (who speaks little English), relayed to the Advertiser his terrifying story. He said Monzur had been chatting with a friend who was drinking during Ramadan. He claims he was then approached by a group of around ten young men who asked him why he wasn’t observing Ramadan. When he replied that he was an atheist they are believed to have chased him to nearby Walburgh Street, attacking him outside his home. Monzur was reportedly battered until unconscious and later taken to the Royal London Hospital. His left arm was broken and metal bolts later put in. Tower Hamlets police have made no arrests and enquiries are ongoing.<ref>Sheena McKenzie - [http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/news/battered_stepney_man_in_recovery_1_655839?action=login Battered Stepney man in recovery] - East London Advertiser, September 23, 2010</ref>}} ==Economical Effects== As some of the above studies established, fasting can cause dehydration, sleep disorders and other harmful affects. Naturally all of this would affect productivity and the national economy. Those living in Muslim majority nations can readily feel the effects of stagnation that accompanies the month of Ramadan. In such places, it is a month that is marked by very low productivity. When the entire population of a country observes fasting during the time they are at work, it is inevitable that they will suffer a significant loss in general productivity. In a survey carried out by Cairo’s Institute of Social Sciences of the Arab World it is found that the productivity of Arab businesses during the month of Ramadan dropped by a staggering 78%: {{Quote||During Ramadan, the productivity of Arab businesses drops by 78%. The essential factors? Fewer work hours, absenteeism, and sick leave. (...) The figures are included in a survey carried out by Cairòs Institute of Social Sciences of the Arab World which was printed today by 'Leaders', a Tunisian website. (ANSAmed)<ref name="ANSA">[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGIH_enUS280US281&q=%28ANSAmed%29+-+Tunis%2C+September%2C3+++During+Ramadan%2C+the+productivity+of+Arab+businesses+drops+by+78%25.+The+essential+factors%3F+Fewer+work+hours%2C+absenteeism%2C+and+sick+leave.&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= Ramadan: Productivity of Arab Businesses Drops by 78%] - ANSAmed, September 3, 2009 (''[http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME02.@AM60065.html original URL]'')</ref>}} Production in almost all businesses in Morocco drops during the month of Ramadan, analysts say, although consumption increases significantly: {{Quote||Work hours are shorter during Ramadan, with employees working seven-hour days compared to the regular 8.5-hour days. Some businesses don't open until 10 am, and school timetables change to accommodate the Ramadan calendar. "The drop in productivity could be due to the disruption of the body clock," said A. Hamdi, who works in an industrial unit. "It is difficult to get used to the work day. In addition to the women who race home to make iftar, others are sneaking out earlier to avoid traffic jams, which usually start at 4 pm with the end of the normal working day."<ref>Hassan Benmehdi - [http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2008/09/19/feature-03 Productivity drops during Ramadan in Morocco] - Magharebia (Casablanca), September 19, 2008</ref>}} {{Quote||'''Low productivity during Ramadan affects Dubai employees'''<BR><BR>Performance in most companies, institutions and government departments around the Arab world is usually at a low during the month of Ramadan, with poor productivity and constant reported absences.<ref>[http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NjkyOTQ3NTM0 Low productivity during Ramadan affects Dubai employees] - Kuwait Times, September 24, 2007</ref>}} In [[Bahrain]], the work day is reduced to six-hours instead of the normal eight hours:<ref name="arabnews"/> {{Quote||Alaa Al-Mohammadi, 27, works as a teaching assistant at King Abdul Aziz University, which, during Ramadan, opens between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Al-Mohammadi noticed the low level of productivity during the month of Ramadan, especially among students. “On account of the nature of the month when people stay up all night, absenteeism increases among students,” she said.<ref name="arabnews"/>}} {{Quote||"Jordanian workers in general are not hard working and in Ramadan, employees frequently are absent or ask for leave, a notable phenomenon that negatively affects the overall economic performance," economist Salameh Darawi told The Jordan Times over the phone Wednesday. Economic analyst Hussam Ayesh said productivity drops by about 50 per cent in the public and private sectors during Ramadan.<ref name="jordan">Mohammad Ghazal - [{{Reference archive|1=http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=19888|2=2011-04-04}} Productivity suffers during holy month] - The Jordan Times, September 10, 2009</ref>}} ===Comments from Muslims and former Muslims=== {{Quote||An employee at a construction material company, who preferred anonymity, said: "Everything is slow in Ramadan and I myself tend to delay work. The only fast thing I see in Ramadan is lunatic drivers speeding to get home for iftar."<ref name="jordan"/>}} {{Quote||In Ramzan the working hours are nine to one. That’s it. And in these four hours work is the last thing on the workers’ mind. Go to any government office during these four hours and you will encounter a grouchy, lazy and sick-of-life person with bad breath (apparently even brushing your teeth in the morning is not kosher if you are fasting). No matter how urgent your work, leave the place and come back after two and a half months in the third week of Muharram. This man is in no mood to do anything. He’d rather go home and watch an Indian movie till he breaks fast.<ref>Nasir Abbas Mirza - [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\08\23\story_23-8-2009_pg3_6 OPINION: Rejoice! The season to shun work is here] - Daily Times, August 23, 2009</ref>}} {{Quote||I couldn't concentrate in school. I had nasty heart burn all morning, because we'd wake up at an ungodly hour to gorge! [...] There are many women in my life and some of them are extremely old with various medical conditions. They all feel compelled to fast. It drives me insane!<ref>[http://nimbu.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/its-a-strange-ramadan/ It’s a strange Ramadan] - Blog from Nimbu, a former Muslim, September 14, 2007</ref>}} ==Conclusion== Intermittent and prolonged fasting is generally not conducive to a healthy lifestyle. Depriving the body of water and essential nutrients by dividing and postponing meals to irregular intervals does nothing to limit consumption. In-fact it causes a host of health, performance and mood disorders. Fasting is not normally prescribed for the well being of human beings. Instead, it is commonly understood that eating healthy, smaller-portioned meals, interspersed throughout the day is far better in maintaining a well-balanced diet and far more forgiving on a person's metabolism. Any claims that prolonged and intermittent fasting contributes to the well-being of an individual's health are misleading, based on the scientific studies that prove otherwise. If the Islamic argument in favor of fasting is that “we fast because Allah commanded us to do so," then it is obvious that [[Allah]] is not a nutritionist or a dietitian because the negatives definitely outweigh the positives. So the question to the Muslim world is: keeping in mind the above adverse affects of fasting observed in studies, what benefit does the Muslim world get for 1 billion people staying hungry throughout the day for one full month every year? Did Allah actually want Muslims to suffer physically, socially and economically for one month every year? Also, if fasting is beneficial as Muslims claim, why do Muslims not fast the entire year instead of just one month? ==Responses to Apologetics== #'''''"Most of the evidence provided is from newspaper articles. Not very scientific is it?"'''''<br>The claim that "most of the evidence provided is from news paper articles" is false. The majority of this page references and quotes directly from the conclusions of scientific studies. It also quotes medical experts and statistics provided by Medical facilities. As for the news articles quoted here, they are reliable sources that reference and describe the conclusions of scientific studies. For an indepth section by section response, see the '[[Talk:Adverse Effects of Islamic Fasting|talk]]' page, or simply view the references provided below. #'''''"Muslims do not fast in Ramadan so they can be healthy. They fast because Allah commanded them to."'''''<br>This is true. But many Muslims attempt to justify this unhealthy practice by claiming it is healthy. Besides, if Allah is all-knowing and merciful, he would not endanger his followers' health by making a hazardous activity become compulsory. However, it would make complete sense if we were to accept he is ignorant of [[Islam and Science|science]] or a [[Jahannam#Why_It_Makes_Allah_a_Sadist|sadist]]. But then why would anyone want to worship such a deity? #'''''"Islam is just one of numerous religions (Hinduism, Christianity, Catholicism etc.) that prescribe fasting for its people."'''''<br>This claim is true, but also very disingenuous. Rules vary but fasting in Christianity is not compulsory, nor is it expected to be a complete fast. Meaning Christians generally reduce (not stop) their intake of food, and also drink freely during fasts. This is perfectly healthy and not comparable to the Islamic sawm. Similarly in Hinduism, fasting is a part of the religion, but individuals observe different kinds of fasts based on their personal beliefs and local customs.<ref>[{{Reference archive|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting|2=2013-03-14}} Fasting] - Wikipedia, accessed March 14, 2013</ref> This argument is also a logical fallacy known as [[Tu Quoque|ad hominem tu quoque]]. Meaning it is not a valid defense of Islam, but a diversion that some may construe as an indirect admission of Islam's flaws. {{Core Science}} ==See Also== {{Hub4|Fasting|Fasting}} ==External Links== * [http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080914093305299C824902 Ramadan diet poses health risk - experts] ===Scientific Studies=== * [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9100605 Ramadan diet restrictions modify the circadian time structure in humans. A study on plasma gastrin, insulin, glucose, and calcium and on gastric pH] ''(extract)'' * [http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm/related/9198696/%5BRamadan__A_month_of_fasting_with_risk_for_both_nocturnal_overeating_dehydration_and_starving%5D Medical Search Engine Result]'' - more studies on fasting'' ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} [[Category:Islam and Science]]
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