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The gigantic, terrifying Yule Cat feeds at Christmastime.
24 December 2019 adverbly
The Yule Cat is a huge and vicious cat who lurks about the snowy countryside during Christmastime and eats people who have not received any new clothes.
While Santa Claus is the central and typically solitary supernatural figure associated with Christmas for many Americans, European folklore is rife with other characters. A whole cast of such figures make their own annual Christmastime visits to evaluate children’s behavior and dole out corresponding rewards or punishments. Some of them supplement St. Nicholas, while others supplant him (consider Krampus and Belsnickel); some come from entirely separate traditions altogether. One such is the Yule Cat of Icelandic folklore.
The Jólakötturinn, or Yule Cat, is a monstrous feline taller than the tallest houses. At the end of the year, the creature lurks in the snow waiting to devour anyone who has not received new clothes for Christmas. Why new clothes? According to the National Museum of Iceland,
it was customary in the old rural [Icelandic] society that employers gave the employees in their home a new garment and sheepskin shoes for Christmas. This was done to reward the people for good work as the tasks that had to be accomplished before Christmas were numerous and therefore the weeks leading up to Christmas were characterized by a rigorous workload.
In this way, then, the Yule Cat rewards good behavior (hard work) and punishes slackers — perhaps a sensible ethic to promote given the harsh Icelandic climate.
Tonight is Krampus Night
5 December 2019 adverbly
In Central European folklore, Krampus is a horned figure described as “half-goat, half-demon,” who during the Christmas season punishes children who have misbehaved.
Fewer Christmas traditions are stranger than that of Krampus. Krampus, you may be aware, is St. Nicholas’s sinister (and lesser-known) demonic sidekick. If old St. Nick is the good cop who rewards well-behaved children with gifts of toys, Krampus is his bad cop counterpart: he punishes naughty children by beating them with birch switches (and by terrifying them with his demonic visage). Truly unlucky troublemakers might be kidnapped away in the basket he carries strapped to his back. The tradition recalls the old trope of saints vanquishing demons through the power of God and forcing them into their thrall, but likely has deeper roots in pre-Christian Alpine customs.
Many Americans remain unfamiliar with Krampus, although his profile has grown in recent years (owing in part, no doubt, to the 2015 holiday horror film of the same name). But he is widely celebrated across several parts of Europe, including Austria, Bavaria, Hungary, and surrounding regions. Young men in these parts will traditionally dress up as Krampus in the first two weeks of December, particularly on the evening of 5 December, and roam the streets frightening children with rusty chains and bells. So grab your mask, hit the streets, and get in the Krampusnacht spirit — just be prepared for some weird looks if you’re not in Europe.
Belsnickel, the crotchety fur-clad Christmas gift-bringer of German folklore
Belsnickel might wear a long black or brown coat or robe, held together at the waist with a rope, and a fur cap or bear skin hat, decorated with bells.
Old St. Nick’s not the only traditional Christmas character who comes round every December to evaluate children’s behavior and dole out corresponding rewards or punishments. In fact, there’s a whole cast of such figures across European folklore. Some of them serve to supplement Santa Claus, while others supplant him; Belsnickel is somewhere in the middle of this spectrum.
Originating in southwestern Germany along the Rhine (and preserved, among other places, in Pennsylvania Dutch communities in the United States), Belsnickel
is related to other companions of Saint Nicholas in the folklore of German-speaking Europe. He may have been based on another older German myth, Knecht Ruprecht, a servant of Saint Nicholas, and a character from northern Germany.Unlike those figures, Belsnickel does not accompany Saint Nicholas but instead visits alone and combines both the threatening and the benign aspects which in other traditions are divided between the Saint Nicholas and the companion figure.
Belsnickel is a man wearing furs and sometimes a mask with a long tongue. He is typically very ragged and disheveled. He wears torn, tattered, and dirty clothes, and he carries a switch in his hand with which to beat naughty children, but also pocketsful of cakes, candies, and nuts for good children.
With Christmas nearly upon us, there’s still time to get out there and do some ‘Belsnickling’!
Happy Krampus Day
Fewer Christmas traditions are stranger than that of Krampus. Krampus, as you may or may not be aware, is St. Nicholas’s sinister (and lesser-known) demonic sidekick. If old St. Nick is the good cop who rewards well-behaved children with gifts of toys, then Krampus is his bad cop counterpart: he punishes naughty children by beating them with birch switches (and by terrifying them with his demonic visage). Truly unlucky troublemakers might be kidnapped away in the basket he carries strapped to his back! The tradition recalls the old trope of saints vanquishing demons through the power of God and forcing them into their thrall, but likely has deeper roots in pre-Christian Alpine customs.
Many Americans remain unfamiliar with Krampus, although his profile has grown in recent years (owing in part, no doubt, to the 2015 holiday horror film of the same name). But he is widely celebrated across several parts of Europe, including Austria, Bavaria, Hungary, and surrounding regions. According to Wikipedia, young men in these parts will traditionally “dress up as the Krampus in the first two weeks of December, particularly on the evening of 5 December, and roam the streets frightening children with rusty chains and bells.” So grab your mask, hit the streets, and get in the Krampus spirit! Just be prepared for some weird looks, if you’re not in Europe.
The strange Christmas custom of Tió de Nadal
There are many holiday traditions that might seem a bit unusual upon closer inspection, and Christmas has more than its fair share (see Krampus, for example). One of the most unique and bizarre Christmas customs comes from Catalonia, Spain: Tió de Nadal (the “Christmas log”), also known as the “Caga tió,” literally meaning “the pooping log.”
The Tió de Nadal, according to Wikipedia, is a popular character in Catalan mythology. Basically, it’s a small, hollow log, typically adorned with legs, a face, and a festive hat. Sounds cute!–but there’s more. Wikipedia goes on:
Beginning with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8), one gives the tió a little bit to “eat” every night and usually covers him with a little blanket so that he will not be cold at night.
On Christmas day or, depending on the particular household, on Christmas Eve, one puts the tió
partly into the fireplace and orders it to “poop” (the fire part of
this tradition is no longer as widespread as it once was, since many
modern homes do not have a fireplace). To make him “poop”, one beats him
with sticks, while singing various songs of Tió de Nadal.
The tió does not drop larger objects, as those are brought by the Three Wise Men. It does leave candies, nuts and torrons.
Depending on the part of Catalonia, it may also give out dried figs.
When nothing is left to “poop”, it drops a salt herring, a head of
garlic, an onion or “urinates”. What comes out of the tió is a communal rather than individual gift, shared by everyone present.
Catalans even sing carols to the Tió de Nadal. Here’s one such song (translation included):
caga tió,
caga torró,
avellanes i mató,
si no cagues bé
et daré un cop de bastó.
caga tió!” poop log,
poop turrón,
hazelnuts and cottage cheese,
if you don’t poop well,
I’ll hit you with a stick,
poop log! giving log,
give us treats,
give us sweets!
if you don’t want to give,
Austria reassures refugees that there’s no need to fear Krampus
1 December 2015 5 December 2015 adverbly
Moving to a foreign land and experiencing a new culture can be trying under the best of circumstances, let alone following harried passage from war-torn regions. The new sights, sounds, and tastes can be overwhelming, the unfamiliar customs can be baffling, the different climate can be uncomfortable. I’m certain the Syrian refugees have confronted all of these things in Austria and elsewhere throughout Europe. But while each element of culture shock can (by definition) be cause for distress, one aspect of life in Austria that is likely to be particularly disturbing for uninitiated newcomers is… Krampus. For those unfamiliar, Krampus is “a horned, anthropomorphic figure who punishes children during the Christmas season who have misbehaved, in contrast with Saint Nicholas, who rewards well-behaved ones with gifts.” In Austria and other Alpine regions of Europe, early December often features “traditional parades in which young men dress as Krampus.”
Mindful of these festivities, “Officials in the village of Virgen worried about how new arrivals from the Middle East would react to the local tradition of meeting so-called ‘Christmas Devils’ who pretend to abduct kids.”
Fearing the spectacle would be misunderstood, community representatives last week visited the 22 migrants — including 12 children — who have been housed in the Alpine village since the end of October.
They were shown the frightening masks and given insight into the event’s history with the help of an Arabic translator. The verdict? The newcomers had “lots of fun,” according to social worker Nicole Kranebitter.
The migrants “will now know what to expect when St. Nicholas and the Krampus creatures knock on their door,” Kranebitter added.
She said the next event planned for the families who fled war-torn homelands will be traditional cookie baking.
What a great and thoughtful approach, and in such marked contrast to the xenophobia that has greeted migrants in so many other parts of the world.
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May 2011 News Headlines
Xabia on the Telly
Xàbia will feature in a TV programme going out on La Sexta2 tonight (at 6.15 pm) in the series "Carreteras Secundarias " (Secondary roads). The documentary, recorded in Xàbia, covers the Port and its fish auction, the Old Town and its covered market, and the bay from the sea. Sergio of La Perla Restaurant also explains how to make a paella. Our own Guiomar acts as guide for the two TV journalists. For those who miss the programme, it will be available on the web via the La Sexta web site from the following day. From XAD (Ed's note: the programme turned out like a promotion to attract the "A list" to Jávea. Not a single foreign tourist in sight ! I found the Castellano subtitles were very useful, unfortunately there are no subtitles on the on-line version) Here's a link to the on-line video: La Sexta programme on Jávea
Xàbia champions
Last week, Xàbia athelete Ignacio Cardona was proclaimed Valencian champion in vertical running He completed a 4.5km, 800m ascent in 34mins 50 seconds - way ahead of the second placed (1 hour six mins) Ignacio (known as Nasio) is already a top class international vertical runner. Meanwhile the girls basketball team won the provincial championships. From XAD La sexta 2...
Indonesia joins International Festival
The Xàbia International Festival is in its 16th year, and continues to grow. This year it will be joined by a group from Indonesia. The festival will be held over the weekend of 16th to 18th June. The organisers have asked the incoming administration to discuss with them the provision of more logistical support to enhance the festival . e.g. setting the dates earlier, and organising portable toilets and security to cater for the 25,000 visitors who come to the festival daily. From Las Provincias: Indonesia se suma.....
Road renewal works up for tender
The regional Department of Infrastructure has tendered the Xàbia road renovation plan. This is budgeted at 2.36 million euros and is to repair roads which have been damaged. Works will be carried out in the areas of Balcon al Mar, Montgó, Portitxol, main highway, Old Town, Puerto I, Puerto II and the Arenal. From Las Provincias: El Consell...
Xàbia awarded three blue flags
The Comunidad Valenciana has been awarded 116 blue flags this year - 104 for its beaches and 12 for its ports. This is 8 more than last year. In Xàbia the Blue Flag beaches are La Grava (in the Port), the Arenal and Granadella. The Blue Flag is an international award given annually by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) to beaches and marinas as an identifying symbol of high environmental quality, good services and security for users. For more about the FEE criteria see: FEE - About the Blue Flag From XAD: Xàbia obtiene...
Summaland music festival to hit Jávea
The Summaland festival of music and dance, which attracted some 50,000 people during its two seasons in in Barcelona - is being hosted by Jávea on July 29th and 30th. The music features Asere and the "Ministry of Sound" from UK. The festival will be located on the car park area next to Avenida Tamarits (opposite the Chinese Bazar and Hong Fu Wok restaurant. Tickets are on sale from June 6th: See Summaland website (Ed's note: How are they going to fit so many people in that small space ? I have a feeling there may be quite a few denuncias about the decibels. The site chosen is a built up area. Chiringuitos have to operate a minimum of 50m from dwellings and keep their noise level down to 45 decibels at night 55 deb during the day..See: http://agenda21-xabia.wikidot.com/news-beach-bars...is there special dispensation for this type of event ? )
Additional info is that there will be a macro site of 6,000 square metres with seating for 15,000 people, the music starts at 20.30 and goes on until 4.00am. There will, apparently, be no cost to the Town except the provision of local police and Red Cross. From Las Provincias: Xàbia entra en la ruta...
Diving Fiesta in Moraira
Ampolla Beach and Yacht Club are hosting a "Diving Fiesta" on 28th and 29th May. The planned activities will start on Saturday from 10am at L'Ampolla beach and include: sea baptisms (30 €) and snorkeling excursions (15 €). Meanwhile, the Yacht Club is organising dives to the "Cova de les Rates", Punta de Moraira and "Pessebret" at 9:30 h, 12h and 16h, for 20 € including all equipment. Also, after 19h there will be a night dive for 30 €. On Saturday, from 2.00pm there will be a beach barbecue. In addition, over the two days there will be audiovisual presentations, an exhibition and sale of items related to diving, marine biology information a point of sale for dive tickets.
From XAD: Fiesta de buceo...
60% turnout gives PSOE a majority for the first time in over 20 years
Xàbia is different. Bucking the national trend, where the socialist PSOE lost around 10 points to the centre right PP, the socialists in Xàbia actually gained seats. This is largely ascribed to the high regard people have of their leader, José Chulvi. Negotiations with other parties to form a governing coalition are still on-going. Chulví has stated publicly that he will sit down, listen and talk with all the parties who are committeed to change, (E-government, economic management and auditing, citizen participation, etc.), and that the allocation of council seats will be made depending on how the personal skills of each can be useful for the work to be performed. From XAD: Chulvi se plantea...
The Javeaamigos site gives more detailed information about the election results:http://www.javeamigos.com/news/Elections2011220511.htm
…Election Results - PSOE by a very short head (nose)…..PP stables not far behind….NJ fades….
Councillors: PSOE 6, PP 5, XD 3, Bloc-C 3, NJ 2, CPJ 2
Now … for the horse-trading……
Details on:
http://elecciones.lainformacion.com/municipales/2011/comunitat-valenciana/alicante/javea.html
Do-It-Yourself Election results
Here's a link to an Election simulation based on a modified d'Hont system - Go there and play with the number of votes!
The D'Hont Law favours the most popular parties (the more council members they have, the fewer the votes needed for the next) with the idea of strong government,
Thus a few votes mean a lot to the leading parties.
http://icon.cat/util/elections/mBshXWNeWA
Xábia al Día has estimated the number of spoilt votes.
Each party must (by law) get 5% of the votes to enter into the reckoning.
Last time 9,785 people voted (From 15.301 registered voters), which represented a 63.95% turnout
The simulation starts off with 1000 votes for each party
You adjust the turnout …and the result… by allocating votes to each party
Grassroots protests call for participatory democracy
Protests in major cities throughout Spain, organised via Internet social media, brought huge numbers of protesters out into the streets last Sunday; some 20,000 people came out in Madrid alone. The movement, called Democracia Real Ya, or Real Democracy Now is calling for participatory democracy: ""We're talking about participatory democracy at the local level, about participatory budgets and referendums," says Gándara. "We want politicians to be managers of citizen demands," adds Aguirre. "We don't want to remove the politicians - we want them to come down to street level." For full story in English see: El Pais - We don't want to remove
Eight whales sighted off Cabo de San Antonio
The Cabo de San Antonio is once again a great place for spotting whales. At 9 am on Tuesday, several boats observed three fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) swimming southward. The whales passed close to the markers that indicate the borders of the Marine Reserve. Only half an hour later, the crew of the Montgo Natural Park survellance boat, observed another group of five whales between 16 and 20 metres long. From Las Provincias: Avistan ocho ballenas.....
Photography group launches with an exhibition
A new group of photography enthusiasts called "Agrupació Fotogràfica Xàbia" launched itself with an exhibition in the Casa del Cable entitled "Impressions". The group which is open to amateur and professional photo enthusiasts alike, meets on Mondays in the Social Centre between 8.00pm and 10.00pm. The exhibition will be open until June 12th. It comprises 50 photos taken by group members. For more see their website:http://www.afxabia.com
Contrasting Urban Development models submitted to Agenda21 by the various political parties
The urban models proposed by Xàbia political parties in response to the Agenda 21 questionnaire have notable differences and in some cases contradictory land use patterns. A summary of the planning models presented by the five political groups which responded to the questionnaire is given in Urban development - contrasting policies. Readers might like to compare the proposed policies with generally accepted characteristics of a sustainable community. See: Sustainable Urban development
Row over police productivity bonuses
Members of the local police force are annoyed at the arbitrary distribution of productivity bonuses. Previously these were based on the vague criteria of "congratulations, complaints and objectives". There are 93 police officers and €164,000 available for bonuses. However the money was divvied up among only a few, with some officers receiving €800 per month, while others only €3. Needless to say there was much bad feeling in the ranks. New criteria for allocating bonuses was finally recently passed by the Town Council, but not without controversy, since the Bloc reversed its position and voted against the changes. However the measures were passed when the PP voted with the opposition. The new criteria are: work attendance (35%), personal performance (15%), the degree of resolution of services and tasks (15%), the degree of citizen satisfaction with an agent's work (10%), improvement in training (15%), propriety in relations with colleagues (5%), interest in the personal image and neatness of dress (5%). From XAD: El sindicato...
Politicians answer Agenda21 questionnaire but don't know the meaning of basic concepts
Answers to the questionnaire put together by members of the local Agenda 21 forum have finally been received from some of the political groups. The aim of the questions was to clarify policies on a number of aspects related to social, economic and environmental sustainability. The responses reveal a lot about the perception which each party has on citizen participation. They also reveal that some parties do not understand some of the basic concepts such as "Interpersonal Networks", "Strategic Plan" "ventanilla única" (One Stop Window). In total, five parties answered the questionnaire: Bloc-Centristas, Nueva Jávea, PSPV-PSOE, Xàbia Democrática and PP. For a full analysis of the parties approaches to Citizen Participation in English see: Politicians answer....
Fedexma questionnaire reveals different visions of a future Jávea
Answers to the questionnaire prepared by Fedexma for completion by the political parties revealed that all are unanimous in supporting the development of a Strategic Plan for the development of Javea. However they differ in the their vision of the town model which should be pursued. The CPJ and Xàbia Democrática, say the priority should be dispersed, extended development. Both XD and PSOE think that the Strategic Plan should determine the model. Nueva Javea is committed to a sea-side residential model, enhancing the attractiveness of a coastal town. While Bloc wants the model to be based on natural resources, landscape and energy efficiency. Finally, the PP proposes a Local Action Plan to develop a Strategic Plan to boost employment and prosperity. For a summary of the answers see: FEDEXMA questionnaire
Getting fishermen hooked on plastic
A European Commission initiative offers financial incentives to shipping fleets to go in search of the millions of containers littering the continent's seas.
The world's oceans and seas provide fewer and fewer fish each year, which in turn reduces the employment capacity of the fishing sector. At the same time, the inexorable growth in human population has deposited a vast swathe of plastic waste on the surface of the seas, causing innumerable environmental concerns. It is a double conundrum for which the European Union fisheries commissioner, Maria Damanaki, believes a solution is evident: fishing for plastic. "It has many benefits," she says. "There will be results in terms of decontamination and fishermen will be able to work during periods when they are unable to fish." For full article See El Pais in English: Getting fishermen...
Agenda21 Questionnaires received from five political parties
Five questionnaires quizzing the political parties about their plans for the future development of Jávea were returned. One of them (from the PP) arrived after the deadline, but it was agreed to accept and publish the fifth questionnaire with the others with the proviso that it would be headed with a note stating that the document had been received late, but the Agenda21 foro had agreed to publish it with the others so that the widest range of political opinions was made known. Agenda21 consultants will be writing some short press releases objectively highlighting issues where the parties differed in their approaches, and hint at policies which were unsustainable without naming names. The releases will be sufficiently mysterious to encourage readers to find out more. Readers will be asked to take such policies into consideration when deciding who to vote for. The Only English version of the Answers was received from Xàbia Democrática. For more see: http://agenda21-xabia.wikidot.com/questionnaire-for-political-parties-2011
Montgó Natural Park presents its plan for Public use.
Eco-reefs to help fish reproduction in Xàbia
Run down and abandoned - the Central Ciné and the Port
The pain in Spain stays mainly with the jobless
Election 2011 - Runners, Riders and racing tips
Runners and Riders
Who's who in the party lists
Autistic Administration
Xabia Democrática commits to Internet Management
Second debate for Would be Mayors - 11th May
Breakfast talk about Web 3.0
Bloc Centristas present their Candidates - May 5th
Rodat Chef selected for culinary competition
Agriculture in the Marina Alta falls by a half over the past two years
Nueva Jávea Questionnaire reveals Public concerns
A PP survey reckons they will win the elections
Thje Montgó Natural park is one of the most popular natural parks in Alicante province, with 400,000 visits per year. The governing body has just drawn up a plan for its future public use which has just been adopted by the Ministry of the Environment. The measures to be undertaken include
hiking and environmental education workshops with organized groups, improving the signage of roads and public facilities (playgrounds, shelters, etc.), explaining geological features, improving safety along the path to the Cova Tallada and dissemination of instructions and safety practices about the paths of the park. From . XAD: El parque Natural.....
The Pedreguer-based NGO, "4peace" has made some ceramic-based blocks designed to act as artificial reefs to encourage fish-breeding. The blocks, made from old porcelain, bricks, glass, stone and concrete have been used in Moraira, but in Xàbia, they have waited on the dockside for months pending the completion of paperwork. From Las Provincias: Una ONG.... (Eds note: It might be an idea to use the rusting, abandoned wreck which is currently sitting on the Port slipway (see below) as an artificial reef, to promote fish reproduction, for research and as a dive site for scuba divers. This was an idea which came up at Agenda21 in 2006….)
Over the past few days, Las Provincias has carried two articles about run-down public facilities in Jávea. The first concerned the Central Cinema building - near the Museum in the Old Town. This 350 seater has been abandoned since it was bought for 55 million pesetas in 2000 and it is now run down, with a roof which has fallen in. It is used as a municipal warehouse. Every electoral campaign, parties have pledged to do something with the Ciné, and this year is no exception, with proposals from the PP, Xàbia Democrática and Nueva Jávea. El Central.... The second article concerned the sorry state of the Port, especially the public areas which are managed by the Ports division of the regional Ministry of Infrastructure. The Levante breakwater is full of dirt and graffiti, the slipway blocked with concrete blocks, driftwood and a rusting wreck, there are no longer any nightwatchmen and fishermen have reported several thefts. In addition the Port has no rubbish bins and poor lighting. It also lacks a crane for lifting small boats for repairs. Denuncian..
Unemployment hit a new record high of 4,910,200 last week. A round 1 million unemployed receive no state benefits and in 1.38 million Spanish families, no one has paid work. In the first quarter of 2011, 256,500 people joined the dole queues – 5,000 more than in the same period last year. There is no sign of a quick end to the recession. For more see The Independent: The pain in Spain....
Do you need some help deciding who to vote for at the municipal elections? The on-line magazine, Xàbia al Día has prepared an Election Special in Castellano. English versions of some of the articles have been prepared for this Wiki - and will also appear in "The Grapevine" next week. Click on the links below to get a sneak preview of the articles. Note: A free, printed edition of the XAD Election Special will be available around town as of Monday
The next Jávea municipal election is a nine-horse race. There are the major parties, PP to the right and PSOE to the left; the nationalist Bloc-Centristas, the independents: Xàbia Democrática, Nueva Jávea and Ciudadanos por Jávea, as well as fringe Esquerra Republicana, Junts per Xàbia and the newly formed Unión Ciudadana por la Democracia. Through the analysis presented, Editor and psychologist, Guiomar Ramirez Montesinos tries to give a comprehensive but accessible view of the political reality of Jávea. She has tried to be as objective as possible, but the reader must create his own informed opinion, reading the manifestos of each candidate and trying to get up close to the would be mayors at the various rallies.
A list of the top candidates on each party list, the names they are commonly known by (nick-name, abbreviation, etc..) and their profession or most prominent social position. Only those who are likely to be elected are shown.
An analysis of what went wrong with the Monfort administration.
Xàbia Democrática proposes an "Open Town Hall", a new management model that gives the public access to the Town Hall via the internet. This is part of an ambitious plan to modernize and reorganize the administration. It includes free software that allows an administration to manage peoples' complaints and suggestions and keep track of them using a tracking code. This system could be used, especially for everyday problems, maintenance, cleanliness and safety. The consultations would be private and confidential, and the process would finalise with an email sent to the user, informing him that his problem had been solved. Xàbia Democrática has launched a simulation version of this service. People can make complaints or suggestions via email ue.acitarcomedaibax|sajeuq#ue.acitarcomedaibax|sajeuq or ue.acitarcomedaibax|saicneregus#ue.acitarcomedaibax|saicneregus, Or http://www.facebook.com/XD.XabiaDemocratica. From XAD: Xàbia Democrática....
The entrepreneurs association, XàbiaIdea has organised a debate between the mayoral candidates for Wednesday, 11th May at 8.00pm in the Parador. The theme will be the local economy, and will involve dialogue between candidates. There will also be questions from the floor. Everyone is invited to attend, and there will be a dinner at the Parador after the event, open to everyone. For more info and reservations contact moc.liamg|aediaibax#moc.liamg|aediaibax. From XAD: XàbiaIdea....
One of the biggest problems we face today is information overload, a problem that is heightened by the enormous size of the Web which provides access to millions of resources, regardless of their physical location and language. According to some Internet experts, Web 3.0 will allow the user to sit back and let the Internet do all of the work for them. Rather than having search engines gear towards your keywords, the search engines will gear towards the user. Date: May 12, 2011 from 10 to 12 hours Venue: Hotel El Rodat (Javea) Registration: Free, seating limited to 45 people. Speaker: Dolors Reig, social psychologist and senior editor of the blog THE SHELL http://www.dreig.eu/ From Xàbia Idea Website: http://xabiaidea.es/
The Bloc Centristas will be presenting their candidates tomorrow (Thursday) at 8.00pm , at the electoral haedquarters by the Plaza Marina Alta (Next to the Post Office) . Afterwards everyone will have some "coques". All welcome (From Press Release)
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The electoral committee of the Xàbia PP has released a press statement reporting that a telephone survey of 200 randomly chosen over 18 year-olds, covering all the urban centres of Xàbia will give the PP 8 to 9 councillors at the next election ..and hence victory. The actual questions have not been published, but the majority of the respondents are reported to have indicated that "the PP is the political alternative which generates the highest preference among the citizens of Xàbia to win the post of mayor" Six out of ten of the people surveyed said they would go to vote, and that among them, the PP is the preferred choice to win the post of mayor. The survey was done by a professional company, and reports 95.5% confidence level plus or minus 7% From Press release . (Eds note: you could drive a bus through the holes in this survey !)
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Clive Leyman: Clive was Chief Aerodynamicist on the Concorde programme.
"If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants" – Isaac Newton
Most people who worked on the design of Concorde would agree that the success of the aircraft depended on two men who stood head and shoulders above the rest of us – Bill Strang and Mick Wilde.
When I first came to Bristol in 1957 I had thought I was going to work for the Bristol Aeroplane Company, but before I got there it had become Bristol Aircraft Limited. Bill was already a god-like being, the Chief Designer of the Britannia, who lived in a windowless office in No. 1 DO. Mick was at that time the Chief Aerodynamicist. Both became heavily involved in the early Supersonic Transport Aircraft Committee discussions that led to Filton winning the Concorde development contract. In 1960, following the government enforced merger of aircraft companies Bill became a director and Chief Engineer of the Filton Division of the new British Aircraft Corporation (but to most people at Filton BAC still meant Bristol Aeroplane Company!) In those days Filton still functioned almost as a family concern, and it was certainly a pleasant place to work. The Design Organisation was a happy unit, and a great deal of credit for this must go to Bill's leadership. A quietly spoken but forceful personality, Bill preferred to lead rather than drive.
Someone, I can't remember who, once remarked "My father was very even tempered – he was always angry". That could certainly not be said of Bill. Only twice in our long relationship did I see him lose his cool, once when some supplier's representative had done something to upset him and once when the DO decided to 'work without enthusiasm' at a critical point in the programme.
Working for him was nevertheless a challenge, for Bill possessed an extraordinary ability to pick up the essential features of whatever problem you had encountered and well before you had finished explaining it to him he had seen a solution and was asking you questions that you were certainly not ready to answer.
Mick, who by this time was Assistant Chief Engineer, was an entirely different character – more of an extrovert, with an incredible capacity for hard work, he also led by example, but in his case one felt one had to match his efforts.
These characteristics matched their contributions to the project. Concorde's politics were incredibly complicated – two lots of civil servants, two scientific civil service organisations, each subdivided into airframe and engine branches, four manufacturing companies each with their own subdivisions, and multiple airlines. Bill's interest lay in the structures and systems side of the design and he also looked after the 'civil service' side of the politics. Personal relationships can become very important even in formal contract situations and Bill established an excellent rapport with Jim (now Sir James) Hamilton who was Concorde Director-General from 1966 onwards. Mick's personality led him more towards sales activities and liaison with the airlines, especially with their Performance, Economics and Noise committee - subjects for which BAC had responsibility. This division of responsibilities worked very well.
In private life also their characters and hobbies matched. Bill was never happier than when sailing his beloved Olivia Ann along the coast of his native Devon, whereas Mick was an avid golfer who played off a handicap of six. One might almost say that Bill captained the ship and Mick did the driving!
An article such as this inevitably depends on personal reminiscences, so ...
Coming in on a conversation where Bill and Mick were bemoaning the fact that "they" would not agree to a particular course of action. Now we lesser mortals were quite accustomed to complaining that "they" would not allow us to do what we thought obviously correct, but it was a surprise to learn just how far up the tree "they" lived.
Bill would delegate – entering a room where he and Doug Thorne were poring over a graph of Concorde's empty weight against time, he flung it at me with the words "You aerodynamicists extrapolate everything – where is that going to finish up?"
On that famous afternoon of 2nd December 1962, a group of us sat in Mick's office on the upper floor of No. 4 DO looking out over the runway We heard the unmistakeable sound of an Olympus surge, saw white clad figures running like hell away from the Vulcan, saw the arrival of the fire engines and the two streams of blazing fuel run down the hill like the horns of a Zulu Impi to surround and engulf the brand new fire engine and watched in awe as the magnesium castings in the aircraft burned. A magnificent, if expensive, fireworks display, but one we could only watch surreptitiously, because throughout the whole process Mick did not once pause the meeting or even turn his head to see what was going on!
Two remarkable men with whom it was a privilege to work.
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Parades & processions (2)
This footage shows Dall sheep in the hills (focus is soft) and a bear near a river.
This film is labeled "San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Alaska Hiway [Highway] to Fairbanks” and notes with the film say “Might be Arne Larsen film, Hiway driving Chevy, 1950s Chevy, Fairbanks, Dave Larsen?, Birch Hill, Dragline, Jergen mining, Gold Dredge Ester or Fox, Circle Hot Springs, Jergen and Guri Lealand, San Diego shipyard, zoo, SFO, LAX.” The film contains footage of Alaska Highway travel, the Riverboat Nenana in a dry dock, Aurora Lodge, a panoramic overview of Fairbanks, mining activities, a gold dredge at work, a dragline in operation, a power plant building, a gold dredge in a float pond, a dragline, hydraulic giants, a conveyor belt, a Circle Hot Springs lodge, the Circle Trading Company building, and scenes outside Alaska.
[Family activities]
This film contains images of a family gathering at Christmastime, a boy and dog playing, a dead wolf, a mining operation, an airport, children dressed as cowboys, travel scenes outside Alaska, a parade outside Alaska, and the Hoover Dam.
[Family scenes, Alaska Highway travel]
Film contains footage of a little girl (aproximately 1 year old) at a birthday party with a cake and presents, a little girl playing with toys, a little boy's 3rd birthday party with children, cake, the child opening presents, a truck on a snowy road, scenic views of mountains and winter snowscape, a little girl about 2 years old, a man, woman, and child standing outside on the side of a road in winter, snowscapes viewed from a moving vehicle, snowy roadway viewed from a moving vehicle, winter landscapes, tall cabin at Whitehorse in Canada, sternwheeler riverboats on a shore at Whitehorse, cars racing around a snow track in the winter on the Chena River in Fairbanks, ice skaters performing for a crowd outside in winter on the Chena River in Fairbanks, views of Fairbanks businesses along river, views of the outside of a building, a man standing with a dog, scenic views of the landscape, ships on the water, a church with a Nativity scene in front, a bridge (not in Alaska), a woman and man standing outside of a brick home (not in Alaska), Pan American airplane at an airport, the mountains filmed from an airplane in flight, a man and a boy standing in snow in front of a truck, military vehicles along a snowy road, views from a truck driving down the Alaska Highway, and a truck at Whitehorse in Canada with sternwheeler riverboats on the shore in the background.
[Fur Rendezvous, polar bear, Kotzebue, Nome, Unalakleet, kayak races]
Footage features an Alaska Native dance demonstration in front of a crowd on an Anchorage baseball field, a blanket toss, and dog mushers racing across a flat area; polar bears on ice in Northern Alaska; the Kotzebue waterfront, fish drying on racks, children, the post office, the trading post, the Wien Arctic Hotel, a whalebone, and Alaska Native women and a man with closeup views of their faces; Native dancing in Nome with King Island Chief Aulaġana (John Olarana or Olaranna) and others, a blanket toss, and fish drying on racks; the Unalakleet waterfront with kayaks and an airplane on floats, kayak races, and a demonstration of a kayak roll by a man wearing a gutskin parka. The film is made from three shorter reels of film spliced together. The original boxes are labeled as follows: 1) Fur Rendezvous – 100’ $30.00 - #60013. 2) #54 Polar Bear - $15.00. 3) #28 Kotzebue, Unalakleet, Nome, Kayak Races.
[Mining operations]
This film contains images of a mining operation, a bulldozer pushing muck, sluice box cleanup, a snowy landscape, children playing, a truck loaded with logs, a man operating a hydraulic giant, Wien aircraft, a parade and other travel scenes outside Alaska, a Boeing VC-137B Air Force One aircraft painted in white-and-red color scheme at an airport outside Alaska.
[Scenes from around Alaska]
This film contains images of a dead wolf, bulldozers, a man and woman and two boys, people sledding on a hillside, blowing snow along Steese Highway, Circle Hot Springs in winter, a mining operation, men working in sluice box as children play, fall landscape, caribou, winter landscape, summer landscape, Cat train moving over snowy ground, Ocean Van Line trailer, tractor trailers hauling supplies, a bulldozer plowing a path through trees, scenes in northern Alaska, a dog team, a dead seal, an Alaska Native family posing for the camera outside of a wall tent, a Cat train, an airport, tractor trailers, a bulldozer plowing snow, a Cat train, and men working to free a vehicle that has fallen though ice.
[Walrus hunt, Kotzebue, Nome, Unalakleet, kayak races, wildlife]
This film contains footage of a waterfront in a northern Alaska coastal village, many people in a motor-powered umiak, a camp on a rocky beach, Alaska Native children playing in a tent, men throwing a rope into the water to retrieve a log, men on the edge of sea ice getting into an umiak, open water and sea ice, homes at the edge of the steep rocky island of Little Diomede, people unloading supplies from an umiak onto the shore on Little Diomede, and then some footage is repeated. The footage also features foxes playing in brush; the Kotzebue waterfront, fish drying on racks, children, the post office, the trading post, the Wien Arctic Hotel, a whalebone, and Alaska Native women and a man with closeup views of their faces; a Native dancing in Nome with King Island Chief Aulaġana (John Olarana or Olaranna) and others, a blanket toss, and fish drying on racks; the Unalakleet waterfront with kayaks and an airplane on floats, kayak races, and a demonstration of a kayak roll by a man wearing a gutskin parka; arctic ground squirrels or parka squirrels, a man feeding squirrels, a pika, a marmot, and seals on a beach and in water. Persons and locations identified in 2015 by a person who once lived in the Nome area include: Belmont Point, Snake River, Bering Sea Hotel, Sam Mogg, Charlie Dickson (?), Olaf Piscoya and persons from the Ozenna family, Big and Little Diomede Islands, and Aloysius Pikonganna. This film is made from five shorter reels of film spliced together. The original boxes and cans are labeled as follows: 1) Walrus Hunt - $131.25 [on leader = Color Reproduction Company – Hollywood, California]. 2) Walrus Hunt Reel 1 - $73.00. 3) Reel #19 Foxes – 220’ @ .29 $63.80. 4) XXVIII – 400’ – Kotzebue: tents, homes, post office, trading post, Wien Arctic Hotel, old Eskimo woman in sun on beach, older Eskimo woman and son – Nome: informal Eskimo dance with King Alarna, blanket toss – Unalakleet : 4th of July kayak races, rolling kayak over to upside down then to right side up. 5) #67 Parka Squirrels – Alaskan Parka – 100’ $30.00.
[Whittier earthquake cleanup, Lake George glacier breakup, wildlife]
Footage includes foxes playing in brush; men working to repair railroad tracks, damaged buildings and burned out fuel storage tanks in Whittier following the Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964, rubble along the shoreline, Lake George glacier breaking up, bears fishing in a river and playing onshore, aerial views of a volcanic crater, seals on a beach, closeups of young seals, and bears and cubs eating and fishing. The film is made from six shorter reels of film spliced together. The original boxes and can are labeled as follows: 1) Foxes - #60013 – 100’ $30.00. 2) R-58 Whittier Earthquake - $15.00. 3) #41 Lake George Glacier Breakup - $15.00. 4) #49 Close-up Brown Bears - $15.00. 5) #39 Fur Seals - $15.00. 6) #44 Bear and cubs - $15.00.
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<h3>Availability of molecular biological techniques</h3>
<h2>Broad avilibility of material</h2>
The knowledge required for the creation of a genetically engineered virus can easily be accessed from all over the world in online gene banks and publication databases and could be potentially be used for a destructive purpose <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16819443"><sup>20</sup></a>. In 2007, Scott C. Mohr published the first part of his manuscript <a href="http://openwetware.org/images/3/3d/SB_Primer_100707.pdf">Primer for Synthetic Biology<sup>14</sup></a></li>. This open accessible document explaining the basics of molecular engineering addresses people interested in genetics but coming from a non-academic background. This development called "garage biology" or "biohacking" is a clear indication for the tendency to have knowledge about molecular biology available in society, as it was seen with programming and computer hacking from ~1980 on.
<h2>Szenarios of attack</h2>
<h3>Availability of synthesized DNA</h3>
One of the reactions to the publication of the genome sequence of the Spanish flu strain from 1918 was <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7065/pdf/438134a.pdf"> v. Bubnoff, 2005<sup>25</sup></a></li> who pointed out the lax handling of the reconstituted virus sequence, the ease of availability and the low effort that has to be invested to recreate a virus:
<blockquote>''"Scientists in Canada are planning to work with the virus, although they will not request it from the CDC. [...] Reconstructing the live virus from its DNA would then take just a few days, he says.''</blockquote>
Technical advances and dropping prices in the field of gene synthesis brings several deadly germs into the range of small research projects or even private persons as for example Spanish Flu (Influenza H<sub>1</sub>N<sub>1</sub>) with a 13.5 kbp <a href=http://expasy.org/viralzone/all_by_species/131.html><sup>*</sup></a> or even the Ebola virus with a 19 kbp genome <a href=http://expasy.org/viralzone/all_by_species/207.html><sup>*</sup></a>.
In 2006, the “Guardian” journalist James Randson ordered a 78 bp DNA oligonucleotide coding for the capsid of the smallpox <i>Orthopoxvirus variola</i> with the intention to alert the public.
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jun/14/terrorism.topstories3"><sup>10</sup></a> <br>
In the United States, smallpox are listed as schedule 5 pathogens in the <i>Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act of 2001</i> and are illegal to keep or use without first notifying the civil authorities.<br>
On the other hand, it is questionable if these prohibitions or perhaps the size of the smallpox genome of ~200 kb <a href=http://expasy.org/viralzone/all_by_species/149.html><sup>*</sup></a> are sufficient to prevent de novo synthesis in the future efficiently. His intention was to focus the public's attention to the possibility that one of the most severe plagues in the history of mankind could be synthesized and released to the environment, either intentionally or by mistake. This would be a tragic setback since the smallpox's eradication was celebrated in 1979 by the World Health Organization as one of the greatest victories in the history of medicine <a href=http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/smallpox/en><sup>33</sup></a>.<br>
In order to prevent the unauthorized synthesis of gene sequences encoding hazardous biological agents, efforts to implement sequence analysis algorithms into the operating procedure of all organizations and companies capable of synthesizing gene sequences are being undertaken.<br> <br>
This barrier should be implemented not on a voluntary basis but as a legally binding regulation. It should be enforced by the government on a national level, but effort should also be made to find solutions for an international progress on this issue.<br>
As a first step, the development of search algorithms as Craic's BlackWatch<a
href="https://biotech.craic.com/blackwatch/introduction.html><sup>34</sup></a> should be promoted and refined.<br><br>
Additional to this sequence base search for possible misuse of gene sequences, each order of already existing or synthesized genes could first be aligned with a list of countries, and in a second search with the so called Hadex exclusion list that names people and organizations excluded from obtaining dual-use gene material<a href=http://www.idialog.eu/uploads/file/Synbiosafe-Biosecurity_awareness_in_Europe_Kelle.pdf><sup>1</sup></a>.
<h2>The nature of biological weapons - Who is willing to accept their drawbacks</h2>
When considering the use of biological means for warfare, a potential aggressor has to accept several serious drawbacks. Biological weapons are not fully controllable, harmful effects to the civilian population cannot be foreseen. If replication-potent germs were used for such a purpose, they could possibly mutate and seriously harm mankind or other animal populations.<br>
This makes biological warfare unattractive for most nations, especially because more predictable weapons exist that can easily be directed against military targets with limited collateral damage.
Unfortunately, national warfare programs are not the only source of danger when considering biological warfare.
<blockquote>"An increasing number of countries believe that their political and security interests could be protected or achieved only through the possession of such weapons, especially in view of the overwhelming superiority of the US armed forces in terms of conventional weapons."<a href=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12789408><sup>22</sup></a></blockquote>
Several countries around the globe are technically capable to develop biological weapons or to support terroristic groups in doing so. When this physical capability meets an ideological attitude that is based on contempt for other concepts of society, it cannot be ruled out that biological warfare is taken into consideration.
<h2>Synthetic Biology vs. Nuclear Research - Consideration in terms of security policy<h3>
When considering the history of research, the dual-use character of technical innovations has always been present, only the reaction of society to it differs from case to case. As an example, scientific discoveries in the field of nuclear physics where treated as classified information having a high relevance for the national security as shown in the case of the Manhattan project<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19784453"><sup>17</sup></a>. A comparable censorship is not established in life sciences research apart of some cases when national security was endangered.<br><br>
Another point concerning the threat arising from biological weapons is the absence of methods that can be used to monitor such weapons of mass destruction as pointed out by M.R. Dando. This fact and the increasing world-wide mobility would make it impossible to prevent the spreading of such weapons when once accessible to potential assassins.
<h3>Is a revision of basic research necessary in sensitive research fields? </h3>
The publication of research papers containing dual-use knowledge caused several people to call for regulation. In the United States, the so called Fink Committee evaluated the possibility that research in life sciences could be used for biological warfare purposes and how this could be avoided.<a
href="http://www.idialog.eu/uploads/file/Synbiosafe-Biosecurity_awareness_in_Europe_Kelle.pdf"><sup>1</sup></a><br><br>
This committee had two recommendations:
<li>To familiarize the scientific community with the dual-use problem in the life sciences.</li>
<li>To review experiments of concern. Experiments are of concern if they:
<li>render a vaccine ineffective</li>
<li>confer resistance to therapeutically useful antibiotics or
antiviral agents</li>
<li>enhance the virulence of a pathogen or render a nonpathogen
virulent</li>
<li>increase transmissibility of a pathogen</li>
<li>alter the host range of a pathogen</li>
<li>enable the evasion of diagnostic/detection tools</li>
<li>enable the weaponization of a biological agent or toxin</li></ul>
<li>To review publications with a strong dual-use factor</li>
<li>To create a National Science Advisory Board</li>
<li>To improve the oversight and reduce unauthorized accessibility of hazardous gene material</li>
<li>To include the life sciences into the efforts for national security</li>
<li>To harmonize the international oversight over dual-use research</li>
The implementation of these recommendations would be desirable, even though they might cause inconveniences for scientists working in the affected fields.
<h2>Conclusion</h2>
Concluding all factors mentioned above, we need to consider the possibility that a person, organization or state could misuse the fast-advancing life sciences for biological warfare. The possibilities and the simplicity of dual-use research misuse will become more and easier the faster the scientific progress advances.<br>
Therefore it is important to minimize these potential risks before they become reality. This is not only the task of a designated group but a moral obligation for scientists, politicians and everybody related to dual-use research. Especially scientists have to contribute to and lead the continuing discussion on this topic because they are able to estimate how aspects of their research fields might be misused.
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Definition: "biosafety measures aim to prevent the unintentional exposure to pathogens and toxins, or their accidental release" 1
Risk assessment for our Adeno-associated virus based system
In Germany the "Central Commission for Biological Security" (ZKBS) released three legally binding Risk Assessment satements for the Adeno-associated Virus 26, 27, 28. Risk assessment in other countries may deviate from these decisions, so please inform yourself about the legal regulations on AAV in your country before using the Virus Construction Kit.
In Germany the Biological Safety Level(BSL) classifications for AAVs are:
Adeno-associated Virus 2, 3 and 5 have to be handled under BSL 1.
Adeno-associated Viurs 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 have to be handled under BSL 2.
This classification was developed based on the fact that only serotypes 2, 3 and 5 are isolated from humans and that their harmlessness has been confirmed in clinical studies. This general classification has to be rechecked when the virus contains gene sequences with a transforming protential.
Viral vectors systems packaging a vector plasmid that only contains the viral Inverted Terminal Repeats (ITRs) and providing the genes for Rep and Cap in trans (as it is the case for our system) are classified as BSL 1 if the following conditions are fullfilled:
The viral particles do not contain AAV derived sequences other than the ITRs
The viral particles do not contain Nucleotidesequences with a risk potential
We also investigated the legal regulations for AAV-2 Viral Vector systems in the United States. The guidelines of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) classify in the Appendix B32 AAV-2 Vector Systems as Risk Group 1 (RG1) agents that can be treated under BSL 1. In detail the appendix states "... adeno- associated virus (AAV) types 1 through 4; and recombinant AAV constructs, in which the transgene does not encode either a potentially tumorigenic gene product or a toxin molecule and are produced in the absence of a helper virus."
Other general observations with the Adeno-associated Virus 2 AAV-2)are:
In clinical studies the viral vectors were not dilivered to the gonades.
Vector sequences were not detectable in the patients blood or urine at an examination 48 h after an infection with AAV-2 29.
In absence of Rep proteins, the vector DNA stays extrachromosomal and is not frequently integrated.
Concluding all these informations and regulations, the project that we have designed in this year is clearly classified as BLS 1.
General biosafety regulation in Germany
Which specific biosafety rules or guidelines do you have to consider in your country?
In Germany all work that includes recombinant DNA technologies is regulated by the Gesetz zur Regelung der Gentechnik. This law regulates general aspects in the life sciences and refers for more precise interpretations in §4 to the Zentrale Kommission für die Biologische Sicherheit. The ZKBS is a commission composed of 20 technical experts that releases yearly statements to actual issues of biosafety. So far the ZKBS released three stratements affecting the work with Adeno-associated viral systems 26, 27, 28. These documents were used to assess the dangers that could arise from our project to team members and the enviroment.
Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? If yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project?
At the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg for all concerns of security the Stabsstelle Sicherheit is responsible and to contact if questions arise. Especially for questions of biological security Dr. Petra Markmeyer-Pieles is cognizant. We contacted her a first time befor the begin of our project in March when it was clear that the Adeno-associated Virus (AAV-2) was chosen as the topic of our project. At that time she proposed to do the cloning in the AAV-2 that is for sure to handle under biological security level 1 and to prepare everything for work under biological security level 2 to satisfy the precaution principle. The precaution principle was realized and all viral vectors that contained a modified capsid were handled under SII conditions until proven harmless. In August the planing of the project was completed, summarized in an Biosafety application30 and handed to the department for biological security who approve the application in an official BSL1 confirmation31official BSL1 confirmation for our project.
Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of: researcher safety, public safety, or environmental safety?
Our project was designed in a way that it avoids any serious safety issues as far as possible. When working with infectious particles a minimal risk for the researcher is allways present. This risk was minimized by restricting the transduced genes to fluorescent proteins and prodrug convertases that are already proven not to harm human cells in the absece of the corresponding prodrug. A potential danger for the public or the environment was minimized as much as possible by following strictly the rules of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and the abdication of using randomized insertions in the capsid and of replication potent viruses. Minimizing the risk for team members and the society was was allways one of the major concerns, especially because worries about undergraduate students manipulating a virus could arise. The security concept will be explained by quoting and explaining the six guiding principles for safe manipulation of Gene Manipulated Organisms (GMOs) as summarized in Kimman et al. ; 200818.
1) Hazard recognition and identification Risk assessment has been done and all legal regulations were considered as described in the last paragraph.
2) Biological containment Biological containment means the usage of organisms with "reduced replicative capacity, inefectivity , transmissibility, and virulence"18. For our project only replicative deficient viruses were used, additional all modifications aimed to have a specific targeting of the resulting viral vectors for a specific cell type. This gain in specificity requires it to cut off the braod natural tropism resulting is an less infective virus copared to the wild type virus.
3) Concentration and enclosure All working steps for the preparation of viral vectors were carried out in a BSL II laboratory and within this laboratory work with the AAV was restricted to a separate Laminar flow cabinet type II. Cell culture and storage of the virus was also done in separate Freezers and incubators. All laboratories and epipment that contained viral vectors were specially marked, for example with a Biohazard warning signs.
4) Exposure minimization This aspect of the guiding principles can be sumarized under "operator protection"18. The Exposure minimization was achieved in our laboratory by wearing special labcoats for the SII laboratory and gloves that were desinfected and changed regualrely. During manipulation of viral vectors attention was payed to avoid droplets and especially aerosoles. A possible diversion of the viral vectors was avoided by cleaning all equipment when inserted or removed from the Laminar flow cabinet and after completion of the work task.
5) Physical containment The requirements for the physical containment were fullfilled by performing all manipulation on the AAV in an BSL II laboratory that guaranted a restriction of persons that entered the laboratory.
6) Hazard minimization For the AAV-2 there are no sugestive activitis because the possible danger that runs out of the AAV is comparably low, vaccination is not avilible and biomonitoring is not necessary.
Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise any safety issues? If yes, did you document these issues in the Registry? How did you manage to handle the safety issue? How could other teams learn from your experience?
Several composite parts that were assembled by our Team this year are alone capable of producing infectious viral particles when transduced together with a vector plasmid and a helper plasmid into AAV-293 cells. These special cells provide the adenoviral gene E1 stabily integrated in trans. These cells are not provided in the Virus Construction Kit nor availible in the Parts Registry and have to purchased from other laboratories or a commercial supplyer. For this reason we estimate the risk of a accidental transformation of AAV-293 cells with all three plasmids for negligible. Nevertheless we considered it useful to mark every BioBrick or Composite Part in the Registry that contributes to the production or is capable of producing viral vectors when transformed under the previously mentioned conditions.
Contribute to community discussions on what needs to go into a code against the use of our science for hostile purposes (see A Community Response)
Public Perception
importance of maintaining public legitimacy and support
apllications should demonstrate clear social benefits
not overhyped - anxiety and unrealistic hopes
psychological research into the concept of "identity-driven decision-making" (Torpman,2004) 19
Every grout has a set of norms: a code of conduct about what is acceptable beahviour (Jaques, 2004] 19
Trade-off between potential misuse and promising medical progress
Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?
In principle each research-project that bears any risks for engaged researchers, mankind or the environment should be treated under the precautionary principle as proposed 11: "treat synthetic microorganisms as dangerous until proven harmless".
This would mean to work on such synthetic DNA containing Bio Bricks at least under Biological security levels two.
Additional to this secure working environment the system itself can be optimized according to biosafety aspects, means to reduce it's viability outside the laboratory. This aim can be approached by reducing the systems ability to evolve, proliferate and interact with it's environment. A common method to achieve this goal is to engineer microorganisms in a way that they depend on nutrients that can't be found in the environment in sufficient amount.
Def: "measures focus on the prevention of theft, misuse , or intentional relese of pathogens and toxins" 1
The malignant use of biological agents in history
The misuse of biological agent as weapons in warfare is a fear spreading companion in the history of mankind, ranging from the well-poisoners in prehistoric times to bio-terrorists present days. The following brakt intends to give a short outline of the major events22:
First systhematic use of chemical weapons during the first world war
The 1918 flu pandemic lasted from March 1918 to June 1920 and killed approximately 50 Million people around the world. Rumors circulated that this pandemic is caused by the other combatant nation.
"Prohibion of the Use of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare" was signed on 19 June 192522
Several combatant nations of the second world war established biological warfare programs.
The range of the Japanese biological warfare program lead several nations to expand their own biological warfare program.
Limited military use22 and the advances in molecular biology (e.g. the first isolatin of a gene and the discovery of the restriction enzymes in 1969) lead to the "Convention on the Prohibion of the Development, Production and Stockpilling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction " (BTWC) on 10 April 1972.
''"develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain: ... Microbial or other biological agents, or toxins whatever their origin or method of production, of types and in wantities that have no justification for prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purpose..." ''3
Breach of the BTWC by the Soviet Union which continued their offensive biologicla warfare programm
Stop of the biological warfare Program "Biopreparat" accompanies the Dissolution of the Svoviet Union in 1991
Antrax attacks in the USA in 2001
After this short description of misused biological components there is still the question what impact biological warfare will have in the future of mankind.
Broad avilibility of knowledge
n the life sciences information has allways been freely acessible for everybody who is interested in the results of a particular research project. The combination of this global availibility with the new possibilities of the internet broad for literature search and availibility of gene sequences made it easiere to collect informations for a possible misuse.
For the overwhelming majority this open availibility is absolutely desirely but on the other hand there are also examples of research results that bear a very high risk to be misused.
Following we present the three most controversial discussed publications that could also be read as a "How to create your own bioweapon".
Mousepox Virus in Australien
The Australian research group around Jackson et al. ; 2001 16inserted the coding region of the IL-4 gne into the genome of mousepox. They hoped to create a virus that sterilizes mice and thus provides a means for pest control. Contrarely to their expectations they had created a superstrain that killed even naturally resistent mice and mice that had been vaccinated against normal mousepox. This discovery could potentially be used to make smallpox resistant to potential vaccines.
Synthesis of a Polio Virus
At the State University of New York Cello et al. ; 2002 05 synthesized a "living" polio virus from scratch. Especially the Supporting Online Material caused worried remarks because it precisely describes how to assemble a virus from small oligo nucleotides. The authors jusifyed their project by declaring that they:
"made the virus to send a warning that terrorists might be able to make biological weapons without obtaining a natrual virus"17
Reconstitution of the Spanish Flu
At the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the group around Tumpey et al. ; 200524 published that they had sequenced and recreated the pandemic Spanish Flu Virus of 1918 which killed 20-50 million people. The publication of the sequence provoked several very different responses that can only be partially be quoted here. The controversial noticed outrider of the Synthetic Biology Craig Venter seen in the new virus
"the first true Juressic Parc scenario" 2
The Institute Professor at the MIT Philip A. Sharp supported the publication because he:
"belive[s] that allowing the publication of this information was the correct decision in terms of both national security and public health" 12
Wheras v. Bubnoff; 200525 critisizes the CDS for it's careless regulations for the shipment of viruses and the willingness to propagate highly virulent viruses. This causes in his opinion the risk of possible accidents resulting in the release of the virus to the environment.
Availability of molecular biological techniques
The knowledge required for the creation of a genetically engineered virus can easily be accessed from all over the world in online gene banks and publication databases and could be potentially be used for a destructive purpose 20. In 2007, Scott C. Mohr published the first part of his manuscript Primer for Synthetic Biology14
. This open accessible document explaining the basics of molecular engineering addresses people interested in genetics but coming from a non-academic background. This development called "garage biology" or "biohacking" is a clear indication for the tendency to have knowledge about molecular biology available in society, as it was seen with programming and computer hacking from ~1980 on.
Availability of synthesized DNA
One of the reactions to the publication of the genome sequence of the Spanish flu strain from 1918 was v. Bubnoff, 200525
who pointed out the lax handling of the reconstituted virus sequence, the ease of availability and the low effort that has to be invested to recreate a virus:
''"Scientists in Canada are planning to work with the virus, although they will not request it from the CDC. [...] Reconstructing the live virus from its DNA would then take just a few days, he says.''
Technical advances and dropping prices in the field of gene synthesis brings several deadly germs into the range of small research projects or even private persons as for example Spanish Flu (Influenza H1N1) with a 13.5 kbp * or even the Ebola virus with a 19 kbp genome *. In 2006, the “Guardian” journalist James Randson ordered a 78 bp DNA oligonucleotide coding for the capsid of the smallpox Orthopoxvirus variola with the intention to alert the public. 10
In the United States, smallpox are listed as schedule 5 pathogens in the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act of 2001 and are illegal to keep or use without first notifying the civil authorities.
On the other hand, it is questionable if these prohibitions or perhaps the size of the smallpox genome of ~200 kb * are sufficient to prevent de novo synthesis in the future efficiently. His intention was to focus the public's attention to the possibility that one of the most severe plagues in the history of mankind could be synthesized and released to the environment, either intentionally or by mistake. This would be a tragic setback since the smallpox's eradication was celebrated in 1979 by the World Health Organization as one of the greatest victories in the history of medicine 33.
In order to prevent the unauthorized synthesis of gene sequences encoding hazardous biological agents, efforts to implement sequence analysis algorithms into the operating procedure of all organizations and companies capable of synthesizing gene sequences are being undertaken.
This barrier should be implemented not on a voluntary basis but as a legally binding regulation. It should be enforced by the government on a national level, but effort should also be made to find solutions for an international progress on this issue.
As a first step, the development of search algorithms as Craic's BlackWatch22
Synthetic Biology vs. Nuclear Research - Consideration in terms of security policy
When considering the history of research, the dual-use character of technical innovations has always been present, only the reaction of society to it differs from case to case. As an example, scientific discoveries in the field of nuclear physics where treated as classified information having a high relevance for the national security as shown in the case of the Manhattan project17. A comparable censorship is not established in life sciences research apart of some cases when national security was endangered.
Is a revision of basic research necessary in sensitive research fields?
The publication of research papers containing dual-use knowledge caused several people to call for regulation. In the United States, the so called Fink Committee evaluated the possibility that research in life sciences could be used for biological warfare purposes and how this could be avoided.1
To familiarize the scientific community with the dual-use problem in the life sciences.
To review experiments of concern. Experiments are of concern if they:
render a vaccine ineffective
confer resistance to therapeutically useful antibiotics or antiviral agents
enhance the virulence of a pathogen or render a nonpathogen virulent
increase transmissibility of a pathogen
alter the host range of a pathogen
enable the evasion of diagnostic/detection tools
enable the weaponization of a biological agent or toxin
To review publications with a strong dual-use factor
To create a National Science Advisory Board
To improve the oversight and reduce unauthorized accessibility of hazardous gene material
To include the life sciences into the efforts for national security
To harmonize the international oversight over dual-use research
Concluding all factors mentioned above, we need to consider the possibility that a person, organization or state could misuse the fast-advancing life sciences for biological warfare. The possibilities and the simplicity of dual-use research misuse will become more and easier the faster the scientific progress advances.
Include something in your project description and presentations that demonstrates that you have thought about how others could misuse your work.
For sure there is allway the possibility that knowledge to produce transgene viral vectors could be used to produce bioweapons. Therefor it was important for us to use a system that does not bear the risk that someone could use it for evil purpose. In the case of the Adeno-associated virus the very limited packaging capacity is the major reason that excludes it from the list of agents that could realistically be used for the pruduction of bioweapons. Even a fully replication potent AAV will depend on the coninfection of a helpervirus and is therefore not suitable for a fast propagation in an population. Additional to this point we concentrated our project on the retargeting of the virus - means to make the broad tropismn more narrow and to decrease the transduction efficiency in the most cases. This modification is usually mainly required for medical purposes. Also we did neither investigate possibilities to shield the vector from the immune system of potential host nor ways to bypass an existing immunity.
01 Synthetic Biology & Biosecurity - Awareness in Europe | Kelle ; 20071
02 Synthetic Biology - Social and Ethical Challenges | Balmer et Martin ; 20082
03 Synthetic Biology - Applying Engineering to Biology
04 The Impact of the Development of Modern Biology and Medicine on the Evolution of Offensive Biological Warfare Programs in the Twentieth Century | Dando ; 1999 04
05 Chemical Synthesis of Poliovirus cDNA: Generation of Infectious Virus in the Absence of Natural Template | Cello et al. ; 2002 05
06 Dangerous research : When science breeds nightmares | Steinbruner et Harris ; 2003 06
07 Synthetic Genomics - Options for governance | Garfinkel et al. ; 2007 07
08 Synthetic biology | Benner et Sismour , 2005 08
09 Synthetic biology—putting engineering into biology | Heinemann et Panke ; 2006 09
10 Revealed: the lax laws that could allow assembly of deadly virus DNA | Randerson ; 2006 10
11 The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology | Tucker & Zilinskas ; 2006 11
12 1918 Flu and Responsible Science | Sharp ; 2005 12
13 The Darker Bioweapons Future | CIA ; 2003 13
14 Primer for Synthetic Biology | Mohr ; 2007 14
15 [[Media:Freiburg10_The bugs of war.pdf]]
16 Expression of mouse interleukin-4 by a recombinant ectromelia virus suppresses cytolytic lymphocyte responses and overcomes genetic resistance to mousepox. | Jackson et al. ; 2001 16
17 Governance of dual-use research: an ethical dilemma. | Selgelid ; 2009 17
18 Evidence-based biosafety: a review of the principles and effectiveness of microbiological containment measures. | Kimman et al. 2008 18
19 A Hippocratic Oath for life scientists | Revill et Dando ; 2006 19
20 Empowerment and restraint in scientific communication. New developments make it easier to share information, but more difficult to deal with dual-use biology. | Campbell ; 200620
21 When risk outweighs benefit | Aken ; 2006 21
22 Advances in life sciences and bioterrorism. Risks, perspectives and responsibilities.| Beck ; 2003 22
23 PNAS policy on publication of sensitive material in the life sciences | Cozzarelli ; 2003 23
24 Characterization of the Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic Virus | Tumpey et al. ; 200524
25 Deadly flu virus can be sent through the mail| v. Bubnoff; 200525
26 Risk assessment of human Adeno-associated viruses| ZKBS; 200126
27 Advises for AAV carrying cell cycle regulating genes| ZKBS; 2004 27
28 Risk assessment of human Adeno-associated viruses and AAV derived vectors| ZKBS; 2005 28
29 Evidence for gene transfer and expression of factor IX in haemophilia B patients treated with an AAV vector.| Kai et al. ; 2000 29 Bioverteilung in Klinischer Studie
30 Biosafety application of the iGEM team Freiburg_Bioware 201030 (in German)
31 Official classification as Biological Safety Level 1 by the local biosafety office31
32 Appendix B | National Institute of Health 32
33 Media centre - Smallpox | World Health Organisation 33
34 BlackWatch Homepage | Craic computing34
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Must-see Masters with Tiger Woods back among the best
Recto seeks to establish Taal rehab body to aid community, eruption victims That prompted Jason Day to say, “For him to come back and win … I don’t think it’s going to be a huge surprise now.”As much as golf has missed the energy he brings to a tournament, Woods has missed golf, especially that first full week in April.He has been to Augusta National each of the last two years for the Champions Dinners. Just like always, Woods walked up the stairs to the locker room reserved for Masters champions. But there were no clubs. No boxes of golf balls. No need to register. No tee time.“Very frustrating,” Woods said. “Because I love playing Augusta National. I love it. And I know how to play it. Sometimes I don’t play it well, but I know how to play it. Me being out there on those greens and hitting putts and being creative, there’s no other golf course like it in the world and there’s no other golf tournament like it.“It is literally … it’s a players’ heaven.”ADVERTISEMENT Jiro Manio arrested for stabbing man in Marikina Scarlett Johansson, Sterling K. Brown among SAG Awards presenters Woods, Thomas, Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy are the betting favorites for this Masters.Johnson won at Kapalua by eight shots to start the year. Thomas won in a playoff at the Honda Classic with two bold shots, and he holed a wedge from the fairway that got him into the playoff with Mickelson in Mexico. McIlroy birdied five of his last six holes to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Then two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson ended two years without a victory by winning at Riviera and the Match Play.For McIlroy and Johnson, there is a mixture of pressure and redemption. Three players have a shot at the career Grand Slam this year and it starts with McIlroy at the Masters, who for the fourth year goes to Augusta National needing only a green jacket to compete the greatest collection in golf. Mickelson at the U.S. Open and Jordan Spieth at the PGA Championship will get their opportunities later.Johnson will make progress simply by teeing off. He was denied that last year after he slipped down the wooden staircase of his rental home in Augusta on the eve of the Masters and had to withdraw with a back injury. He was the clear favorite a year ago, the winner of three straight tournaments.A man of few thoughts except for the shot ahead of him, Johnson prefers not to dwell on the memories of last year.“Why? There’s nothing you can do about it,” he said. “That has nothing to do with anything that is happening now.”Woods, too, is all about moving forward.Gone, at least for now, are the back problems that kept the starter on the first tee at Augusta National from uttering four words that golf fans long to hear: “Fore, please. Tiger Woods.”For those who felt as though the Masters could not get here soon enough, Woods was right there with them.“Very eager,” he said with a smile. “I feel like I’m physically able to do it again. And it’s going to be a lot of fun.” Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. This March 18, 2018 photo shows Tiger Woods lining up a putt on the second green during the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament in Orlando, Fla. This Masters is as much about a red shirt as a green jacket. Woods is back at Augusta National for the first time since 2015, and he even looks so much like the Tiger Woods of old that he has been installed as a co-favorite (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)This Masters is as much about a red shirt as a green jacket.Tiger Woods is back for only the second time in the last five years, and what makes the sight of him at Augusta National even more tantalizing is that Woods is starting to look like the player who dominated golf for nearly 15 years.ADVERTISEMENT Sports Related Videospowered by AdSparcRead Next ‘It’s on:’ Pacquiao, Matthysse set for July 15 clash in Malaysia Conor McGregor seeks to emerge from controversy in UFC comeback He has power. His short game is sharp. He makes putts.Never mind that Woods is not ranked among the top 100 players. Or that it has been 13 years since he last won the Masters in that Sunday red shirt, and four years and eight months since he last won any tournament.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSGinebra beats Meralco again to capture PBA Governors’ Cup titleSPORTSAfter winning title, time for LA Tenorio to give back to Batangas folkSPORTSTim Cone, Ginebra set their sights on elusive All-Filipino crownThe buzz following Woods since his return from a fourth back surgery has been bigger and louder than when he was No. 1 in the world, piling up 79 victories on the PGA Tour and 14 majors. The longer he was away from the game, the more his feats looked even more legendary. And the longer he was gone, the more plausible it was that Woods might never return, at least not at a competitive level.In his last three starts leading to the Masters, Woods was within one shot of the lead at some point in the final round. 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It seems like such an absurd thought considering where Woods was even a year ago.He told Jack Nicklaus at the Champions Dinner last year how much he was hurting, and Nick Faldo was struck by the negative tone. Woods had fusion surgery on his lower back two weeks later. Then, in another low moment, he was arrested in the early hours of Memorial Day on a DUI charge when Florida police found him asleep behind the wheel of his car.The image of Woods pumping his fist in that red shirt was replaced by the sunken eyes of his mug shot. Woods attributed it to a bad combination of prescription drugs and sought treatment.He sure didn’t look like a Masters favorite then. He didn’t look like one just over six months ago at the Presidents Cup, where as an assistant captain he said he could picture a scenario where he didn’t return to competition at all.Now he has one thing in mind: another green jacket.“I’m just building toward April,” he said.The biggest obstacle for Woods? So is everyone else.Adding to the anticipation of the Masters, which starts April 5, that all the best players are hitting their stride going into the first major of the year. In the first 12 weeks, 11 players who won on the PGA Tour already were eligible for the Masters.That list even includes Phil Mickelson, still going strong, as capable as ever to win a fourth Masters and become the oldest champion at age 47. The playoff victory over Justin Thomas in the Mexico Championship was the validation that Lefty needed.“I needed to get a win before Augusta so I wasn’t trying to win for the first time in four-and-a-half years at that event,” Mickelson said. “This certainly boosts my confidence and gives me a lot of encouragement.” Judy Ann’s 1st project for 2020 is giving her a ‘stomachache’ View comments read more
Over-analysis ‘killing’ football says Pochettino
Tottenham were awarded two penalties which have been the source of fierce debate in the past two days, while Spurs midfielder Dele Alli was also booked for diving.Pochettino felt all three calls were correct, but Liverpool counterpart Jurgen Klopp was left fuming as his side were pegged back in stoppage time when Harry Kane converted the second controversially awarded penalty.Tottenham’s impressive performance has subsequently been overlooked as the decisions of the officials are analysed with a fine-tooth comb, and Pochettino believes paying so much attention to such issues takes away from the essence of the game.“Football is a creative sport, in which you need the talent, that grows in a very intelligent person, a very smart brain,” he said.“And now we are so focused on minimal details. I don’t know. I am worried that in a few years, if the sport that we love now (will still be) a passionate sport that the people love to watch around the world.“If we are not pushing that sport into a very rigid structured (one) – with the VAR, with being focused too much on the small actions like this.”In what will be seen as supporting Alli’s constant issue with diving, Pochettino also claimed the England star’s problem isn’t worth worrying about.“To stop the game, to punish people that … 20 years ago, 30 years ago, it was like all congratulate the player when he tricks the referee or like this. If you remember the football 30 years ago,” he said.“That is the football that I was in love with when I was a child. Football is about trying to trick your opponent. You know? Yes or no? Tactic – what does tactic mean?“When you do some tactics it is to try to trick the opponent. You say, ‘Oh I play on the right but I’m going to finish on the left’.“It’s a mix that I am worried that maybe we are going to kill the game. We love this game.”0Shares0000(Visited 1 times, 1 visits today) 0Shares0000Mauricio Pochettino believes the constant analysis of refereeing decisions is bad for the game © IKIMAGES/AFP/File / Ian KINGTONLONDON, United Kingdom, Feb 7 – Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino fears English football’s obsession with over-analysis of decisions and a fixation with diving could kill the sport.Pochettino’s side drew 2-2 at Liverpool on Sunday in a match marred by contentious penalty decisions by referee Jon Moss. read more
Hosts All Saints dominate Cathedral Primary Nairobi Inter Schools football
The under 13 boys finals between Jonathan Gloag and Peace junior was a mouthwatering clash, ending in a goalless stalemate to force the match head into post-match penalties that saw Peace Junior emerge victorious.The under 11’s boys was the most competitive in the tournament with All Saints Cathederal winning 1-0 against St Veronica.All Saints was crowned Best performers winning all but 1 of the 5 categories.The guest of honour former Harambee Stars player Simon Mulama while presenting medals to the best players said he was pleased to see young talent being showcased and tapped.0Shares0000(Visited 5 times, 1 visits today) 0Shares0000All Saints was crowned Best performers winning all but 1 of the 5 categories.NAIROBI, Kenya, March 11 – Hosts All Saints dominated the 5th edition of the All Saints Cathedral Primary School Nairobi Inter football tournament that went down over the weekend at All Saints Primary in Madaraka.The hotly contested 7 aside matches saw five schools compete; Riara, Jonathan Gloag, All Saints Cathederal, Peace Junior and St Veronica battling it out in the under 7,9,11 and 13 categories. read more
SUV a bit sluggish but easy on ozone
AD Quality Auto 360p 720p 1080p Top articles1/5READ MOREWhicker: Clemson demonstrates that it’s tough to knock out the champHowever, the Mariner’s powertrain can get it doing 25mph on just the electric motor. When the engine isn’t needed – such as at slow speeds, when coasting or idling in traffic – it shuts down, and electric power kicks in. There is little sensation that a power shift is under way, but the engine rpm needle drops below zero into the green zone, a clever eco symbol. All this is possible because the company revised the control system’s software to improve how the two power systems work together. The company also promises better fuel efficiency of 34miles per gallon while motoring around town, about 14percent better than the 2007 model. And the hybrid components come with an eight-year, 100,000-mile warranty. The test model came equipped with the hybrid premium package that can display the hybrid system in operation on the video screen. Mercury went big with the redesign, too. The Mariner got a new hood outfitted with a “waterfall grille” that is larger than on previous models. The grille’s opening is bigger and so is the Mercury badge. A new roof panel helps reduce noise, vibration and harshness, and recessed channels improve airflow over the vehicle.160Want local news?Sign up for the Localist and stay informed Something went wrong. Please try again.subscribeCongratulations! You’re all set! Like its corporate cousin the Ford Escape, the Mercury Mariner received a remake for 2008, including the option of a full hybrid power plant. “Full” means the hybrid system can run on its gasoline engine, electric battery power or both. And Mercury says the acceleration is similar to a V-6, but with a smaller gasoline engine. During trips around the San Fernando Valley, the 133horsepower engine seemed a tad underpowered at times, and it was sluggish climbing the steep grade at the south end of Winnetka Avenue. The test model also emitted a strange creaking noise when accelerating and stopping. But this ride is about eco-friendliness and not horsepower. read more
Huge turn out for Service of Thanksgiving and Re-dedication – Pic Special
A huge crowd turned out for the Service of Thanksgiving and Re-dedication in Donegal Parish Church took place on Friday night.There’s a stirring going on here,” the Bishop of Derry and Raphoe, Rt Rev Ken Good, told worshippers in Donegal Town, on Friday evening, “and practical steps are being taken to respond to spiritual things.”He was speaking at the Service of Thanksgiving and Re-dedication which followed the restoration of Donegal Parish Church, which was built in 1828 and which had sustained significant damage in a Christmas Day lightning strike just over two years ago. The Republic’s Minister for Education, Fine Gael Deputy Joe McHugh, and Sinn Féin TD, Pearse Doherty, were in the congregation to hear the bishop compare the Jerusalem of the 6th century B.C. to modern day Ireland.Also present were the Mayor of Donegal Town and Surrounding Areas, Pauric Kennedy, county councillors, clergy from other churches and the bishop’s wife, Mrs Mary Good.The Rector of Donegal Group of Parishes and Archdeacon of Raphoe, Ven. David Huss, began the service with an update on the fundraising effort to pay for the restoration work – mostly to the spire and tower of the building.He said: “We’re delighted that over the past 12 months, thanks to the generosity of so many people, over €128,000 has been raised – which takes us within striking distance of our over-all target of €186,000 to complete the payment of the work.” The Rector said Donegal Parish Church was a much-loved landmark in the town and they were delighted to see it restored to its original glory.“I would venture to say it’s looking as good as it has since 1828,” he added. “A church spire is a pointer to heaven, an arrow looking upwards and encouraging us in the midst of our busy lives to turn our thoughts towards the Lord, and that is what we’ll be doing tonight.”In his sermon, Bishop Good said it was a big night for the community, as well as for the parish, the town, the county and for the Church of Ireland.“So, to all those who’ve worked hard – and much hard work has been done – I want to say my own personal thanks and congratulations. To the architects, builders, craftspeople, generous donors, people involved in any way, I say to you all well done.”Bishop Good paid tribute to Archdeacon Huss for his leadership in the Donegal Group of Parishes and for the manner in which he was helping his congregations to grow in discipleship. He also commended parishioners for “seizing the moment” and allowing the Lord to stir them into action. Following the Service, the congregation were invited to the nearby Abbey Hotel for refreshments and fellowship.Huge turn out for Service of Thanksgiving and Re-dedication – Pic Special was last modified: March 2nd, 2019 by Shaun KeenanShare this:Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Tags:Donegal ParishService of Thanksgiving and Re-dedication read more
Kaepernick throws passes for 40 minutes at odd NFL workout
By PAUL NEWBERRY AP Sports WriterRIVERDALE, Ga. — Colin Kaepernick threw passes for about 40 minutes on a high school field, then signed autographs for hundreds of fans who gathered in an end zone to watch his NFL workout that was suddenly moved Saturday, the latest strange twist in the saga of the exiled quarterback.Eight team representatives made it to the new location, including Philadelphia Eagles vice president of football operations Andrew Berry. It appeared the Jets, Redskins and … read more
Kirstenbosch wins again at Chelsea
19 May 2015Kirstenbosch has yet more silverware to add to its trophy cabinet – the South African National Biodiversity Institute (Sanbi-Kirstenbosch) received Silver Gilt for its 40th exhibit at the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show, to the delight of designers David Davidson and Ray Hudson and the team of Sanbi staff and volunteers who worked tirelessly to achieve the result.The annual Chelsea Flower Show takes place in London between 19 and 23 May. Sanbi-Kirstenbosch is participating for the 40th time.There were some tense moments when it looked as if the stand might not be completed in the allotted time, said Sanbi-Kirstenbosch. On Sunday morning, 18 May, with hours to go before the cut off time, only part of the consignment had been released from customs, and then not the feature plants.But it was a story of camaraderie once it became clear that the whole consignment was not going to get there. Volunteer Jenny Badenhorst, a landscaper from Johannesburg, and Jo Lankester walked the show to see who had the appropriate plants and with warmth and generosity other exhibitors rallied around offering whatever was required to fill the gaps.A celebration of 40 yearsWhile still calling the exhibit “a celebration of 40 years” and despite not being able to showcase the feature plants, the generosity of the other exhibitors made up for some of the disappointment.Among others, plants were donated by Kientzler in Germany, as well as Prince Harry’s Lesotho garden, which donated kniphofias and aloes; Australia donated proteas, aloes, polygala and the use of its forklift to assist; and France donated juncea and grasses.“It was a race against time,” said Davidson. “We advised the judges of our predicament and these factors were taken into account when judging.”When Monday morning dawned, the judges made their way around the more than 550 stands that made up the show. It was an onerous task selecting and debating the awards and there was no hint as to what the various exhibitors had achieved. Then it was celebrity time as London’s rich and famous wandered the show, stopping here and there for a word and a photograph. Finally, it was time for Queen Elizabeth and her entourage to tour the show before the preview day ended.It was not until Tuesday morning (May 19) – opening day – that the awards were revealed. This is the scene every year for the team that puts together the Sanbi- Kirstenbosch exhibit at this “Olympics” of flower shows. And, in a year in which Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden has won several major awards, it was with great joy and jubilation that the garden’s 40th Chelsea entry notched up a Silver Gilt – the same as it achieved in 2014.Plants South Africa gave the worldThis year’s display includes a retrospective tableau of memorable exhibits, as well as a display of “Plants South Africa Gave the World” and a named flower specimen display. A special tribute to the work of British floral designer Pam Simcock, who was responsible for the design and creation of the Kirstenbosch-South Africa exhibits staged at Chelsea on behalf of the South African government for the first 18 years of its participation in the show, was included.It was a treasure trove of information and colour and a trip down memory lane for those who are regular visitors and contributors to the show.Sanbi chief executive officer Tanya Abrahamse had high praise for the team. “Hearty congratulations!” she said. “A Silver Gilt is a fitting tribute to the design skill and the dedicated work of the team that put this exhibit together. The opportunity to showcase different aspects of our rich and unique biodiversity on this international platform is one that we value highly.“Winning this Silver Gilt is success not only for Kirstenbosch and Sanbi but for the country as a whole. Many visitors to South Africa travel as a result of seeing our exhibit at Chelsea and we welcome the opportunity of showing off our beautiful country through its 10 botanical gardens.”Popular with visitorsA popular destination, the Sanbi-Kirstenbosch stand attracts many of the more than 150 000 visitors to the Chelsea Flower Show and provides a showcase for the country.Once again, the important role that botanical gardens play in contributing to the country’s tourism statistics is underscored. As a snapshot to the country’s botanical heritage, it is these gardens coupled with the wide variety of unusual attractions that bring many visitors to the country.The Kirstenbosch Centenary Tree Canopy Walkway, which was declared the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa at Design Indaba Expo 2015, is one such attraction that has increased the numbers of visitors to the gardens.“This year’s exhibit showed themes and iconic elements from seven earlier gold award exhibits, recreated to commemorate this special anniversary. We are showing the botanical and cultural diversity of a range of geographic locations, botanical gardens and biomes of South Africa as well as the section on Plants South Africa Gave the World,” explained Davidson.“We are delighted that this show of diversity has achieved a Silver Gilt and that the team has been reward for all their hard work.”Source: South African National Biodiversity Institute read more
What Does That Much-Hyped, Over-Used, Muddled Word “Cloud” Really Mean?
I’ve been involved with computers my whole life, but over the years, I’ve taken multiple sabbaticals from the devices. Upon my return about a year and a half ago, there was a new term being thrown around – “cloud”.I wasn’t sure what was going on, but everyone was very excited about this “cloud” business. The only thing was, I kept trying to define it by contextual clues and two months later, I had determined that “cloud” was synonymous with “Internet” and “Web.” As time has gone on, however, the term has become more and more muddled, so I’ve decided again to delve into the exact definition of our favorite word – “cloud”.It wasn’t until I had a long chat at last year’s SXSW with then-Rackspace senior manager of corporate communications Michelle Greer that I understood that “cloud” isn’t simply a replacement for “Internet” or “Web”. It has to do with immediate scalability, virtualization and distributed computing, among other things. Nonetheless, the term seems as muddled as ever.As Redmond Magazine’s Don Jones pleads argues in an article (wonderfully titled “Please Stop Saying ‘Cloud’”) this morning, the term has long ago lost its way.I blame the IT marketing sub-industry for this. Let’s start by agreeing to never use the term “cloud” again. They co-opted that term from the telecommunications industry anyway […] What folks routinely refer to as the “cloud” in the IT industry is actually something very different. It’s a huge variety of services and approaches, all of which offer to let you outsource some portion of your IT capabilities – things you might normally handle yourself, in your own datacenter. This is hardly a new concept: I’ve had a “cloud e-mail” address (it ends in yahoo.com) for close to a decade, now. I’ve been using “cloud computing” (a Web hosting service) for just as long.We took a moment to ask around on Twitter for folks to define “cloud” in 140 characters or less and this is what we got. Some, of course, are tongue in cheek, but that still reflect the state of “cloud” in the public mind. Related Posts Then again, this is nothing new, right? Take a look at this wondrous graphic from way back in 2009, as pointed out by @the_spinmd: Tags:#Analysis#cloud Top Reasons to Go With Managed WordPress Hosting So, we have a handful here – what about you? What does “cloud” mean to you? We only have a couple million to go. mike melanson Why Tech Companies Need Simpler Terms of Servic… A Web Developer’s New Best Friend is the AI Wai… 8 Best WordPress Hosting Solutions on the Market read more
Don’t Get Cute
Today I received a little box from a company who wants my attention. Inside the box was a small toy, and a link to a website, and nothing else. The sender wants my attention, and the offer is a serious offer, even though I didn’t watch more than a few seconds of the personal video on the site. I am the wrong audience, but the sender didn’t know that.He could have called me and I would have told him who to contact.Minutes later I received a LinkedIn InMail. The person sending that email was also trying to get my attention. She offered me a chance to play Truth or Dare, the dare being me giving her two times to speak with her about her services.I appreciate the creativity, and I like the playfulness, but not enough to talk to her about her service, especially since I don’t need it.Last week, a salesperson sent me a list of reasons that I might have not responded to their email. On choice suggested that I did not reply back because I had been eaten by alligators.The idea is that by being cute, the salesperson will get attention. They hope by being clever, they can gain an appointment. Different is good, and it can work, but different in a way that makes a difference is better. What is missing is the insight that would make a business person sit up and take notice. What the approach lacks is some compelling reason for me to take a meeting, and busy people don’t like to give up their time without getting something in return. This pitch is for receptive people, who are easier targets for this kind of messaging.The problem with being cute is that the attention you get may not be the impression you are trying to make. If you are trying to be consultative, and if you are aiming to be a person with deep insight, then starting by being cute may not serve those ends. That said, if your real personality is engaging and entertaining, then go with that (but I have seen the alligator thing 11 times, which means it isn’t even your material).A couple of the people who have sent me emails like this work in lead generation and appointment setting. They mean well, and their intentions are good, and I am certain that there are some markets where this approach yields results, but for many companies who call on people with the charge of making change, this approach feels too clever by half. Essential Reading! Get my 2nd book: The Lost Art of Closing “In The Lost Art of Closing, Anthony proves that the final commitment can actually be one of the easiest parts of the sales process—if you’ve set it up properly with other commitments that have to happen long before the close. The key is to lead customers through a series of necessary steps designed to prevent a purchase stall.” Buy Now read more
Why You Are Overconfident in Your Forecast and What To Do About It
It is easy to believe that you are going to win the big deal you are pursuing. There is evidence available to you that supports this belief. For example, the contacts with whom you have met all agree that your solution is very good and that it is what they need. They’ve also been complementary, telling you that they’re impressed with what they’ve seen and heard so far. More still, they continue to ask you for more information.You know they have seen other potential partners, your competitors, but you are doubtful any of your competitors propose a threat when things are going so well. This deal looks like opportunities you’ve won in the past, and things are lining up nicely. You have no cause for concern, and your confidence is exceedingly high.Then, without warning, you discover you lost to a competitor.Evidence of the Non-ExistentThe lack of evidence of a competitive threat does not prove that there isn’t one. We tend to mistake something unknown for evidence of it not existing.It is important to know which contacts support change and who opposes any change. The fact that you don’t know who opposes the change you are recommending doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Nor does it mean they aren’t working to slow things down or stop them altogether.Equally important, you need to know who prefers you and who might support your competitor. The fact that you’ve built a coalition of stakeholders that believe that you and your solution are exactly right is not evidence that there is not another faction supporting your competitor. For every action, there tends to be an equal and opposite reaction, and this rule seems to be true inside groups.Support from someone with a title that suggests they are “the decision-maker” is helpful—and necessary—to winning a deal. It’s something you should seek if you want to win big deals. But the support of a key stakeholder is not evidence that the key “influencers” are going to get what they want and need, regardless of whether the “decision-maker” likes you the most. Influence is invisible, even though it often provides clues of its existence for those brave enough to look for them.A Hedge Against OverconfidenceThe reason we tend towards overconfidence in deals is because we see positive evidence without seeing evidence to the contrary. Because something is opaque doesn’t mean it is nonexistent, nor does it indicate that is a non-factor.Overconfidence, in many cases, is inversely proportional to win rates. As a hedge against your overconfidence, spend as much time looking for the ways you will lose a deal as you do talking about why you are going to win. Essential Reading! Get my first book: The Only Sale Guide You’ll Ever Need “The USA Today bestseller by the star sales speaker and author of The Sales Blog that reveals how all salespeople can attain huge sales success through strategies backed by extensive research and experience.” Buy Now read more
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At the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, Razer released the Nabu Watch, a dual-screen smartwatch: integrates an always-on illuminated backlit display, that takes care of some pretty standard features as date and time, and a second OLED screen, which is activated by raising your wrist, allows access to extra smart features.[80] Luxury watchmaker TAG Heuer released TAG Heuer Connected, a smartwatch powered by Android Wear.[81]
The SmartWatch 2 is a streamlined version of Sony's first smartwatch (which went on sale in 2013) with a number of new features. The SmartWatch 2 has a thin bezel; it's almost all screen, which gives it a modern, sleek look. You choose from one of two strap designs, black plastic or black stainless steel, or you can swap those out for a leather strap in one of seven colors ($20 each). We tested the model with the plastic strap, which is light and flexible and can fit close to your wrist.
To charge the watch, you have to clip on the charger and align it with contacts that you can't see when you're clipping. Why make it so complicated? There's no NFC for easy pairing, and you have to find the smartwatch app in the app market, download it, and install it on your mobile device. The Frame's display readability in bright sunlight was judged to be only good. It's relatively heavy, at 2.7 ounces (only the Toq is heavier).
Get connected and stay up-to-speed with Misfit smartwatches, a family of complex timepieces that have been designed to help you live, work and play a little smarter. If you're looking for a smartwatch that can do far more than just tell you the time, consider a timepiece crafted from premium materials that showcase both its strength and its style. With a variety of customization options, you can personalize any Misfit smart watch to suit your unique personality, and then configure it to stay in-sync with your day-to-day activities.
1.2" (30.4mm) Diameter Display Size/ 15 Preloaded GPS And Indoor Sports Apps/ VO2 Max And Fitness Age Estimates/ Smart Notifications, Automatic Uploads To Garmin Connect, LiveTrack And More/ Up To 7 Days In SmartWatch Mode; 13 Hours In GPS Mode Battery Life/ Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Lens Material/ Stainless Steel Bezel Material/ Fiber-Reinforced Polymer And Stainless Steel Case Material/ Silicone Strap/ Touchscreen/ Swim/5 ATM/ Black with Slate Hardware Finish
It doesn't get better than the Apple Watch Series 4. The new slimmer body and bigger screen make it sleeker and more stylish than ever before. The unique modern design works for both men and women. The smartwatch comes in 40mm and 44mm styles to fit wrists big and small. You can buy it in several finishes to match your style and there are dozens of Apple-made and third-party watch bands to make the Watch your own.
When it comes to smartwatches, one size most definitely does not fit all. The best option for you depends on a number of factors, including the smartphone you use; whether you want strong activity-tracking features; your budget; and your aesthetic tastes. For example, many people prefer a smartwatch with a round display because it looks more like a standard wristwatch than a piece of tech. You'll want to take all these factors into consideration when you begin the search for the best smartwatch for you. So whether you’re looking for something appropriate for dinner parties or back-country trails, high-end, budget or something in between, we’ve tracked down the best smartwatches on the market this year.
Michael Kors Access Runway Smartwatch Fossil Q Explorist HR Fossil Q Venture HR Ticwatch Pro Emporio Armani Connected Touchscreen Smartwatch Marc Jacobs Riley Touchscreen Smartwatch Skagen Falster TAG Heuer Connected Modular 41 Kate Spade New York Scallop Touchscreen Smartwatch Fossil Q Control Tommy Hilfiger TH24/7YOU Hugo BOSS Touch Guess Connect Gc Connect Misfit Vapor Movado Connect Michael Kors Access Sofie Michael Kors Access Grayson Fossil Q Explorist Fossil Q Venture Emporio Armani Connected Diesel On Ticwatch S & E Louis Vuitton Tambour Horizon Montblanc Summit Huawei Watch 2 Huawei Watch 2 Classic TAG Heuer Connected Modular 45 Casio PRO TREK Smart WSD-F20 LG Watch Sport LG Watch Style Polar M600 The Mission, Nixon
In 2013, the claim to first ever smartwatch to capture the full capability of a smartphone was laid by startup Omate with the TrueSmart. The TrueSmart originated from a Kickstarter campaign which raised over 1 million dollars, making it the 5th most successful Kickstarter to date. The TrueSmart made its public debut in early 2014.[57] Consumer device analyst Avi Greengart, from research firm Current Analysis, suggested that 2013 may be the "year of the smartwatch", as "the components have gotten small enough and cheap enough" and many consumers own smartphones that are compatible with a wearable device. Wearable technology, such as Google Glass, may evolve into a business worth US$6 billion annually and a July 2013 media report, revealed that the majority of major consumer electronics manufacturers were undertaking work on a smartwatch device at the time of publication. The retail price of a smartwatch could be over US$300, plus data charges, while the minimum cost of smartphone-linked devices may be US$100.[58][59]
The LG G Watch, Samsung Gear Live, and Motorola Moto 360—the Android Wear models—have intuitive color touchscreen interfaces and were judged easiest to interact with. The Martian Notifier, Cookoo 2, and MetaWatch M1, which have push-button navigation, were determined to be the most difficult to use. In particular, the Cookoo 2's buttons were very hard to press.
That’s the big downside of relying on your phone as a tracker, unless it is somewhere on your body, whenever you are moving about or exercising, all that effort won’t be counted. For some people - say joggers who wear their smartphone on an arm band, that’s not a big issue, but you really aren’t getting the full picture of your activity, including the things you do in your sleep, without having a gadget mounted on your wrist.
Out of a vast field of similar watches, we picked the Q Explorist and Q Venture because of their middle-of-the-road prices, wide availability, and variety of styles. These two models are flagships for the Fossil Group’s collection of 14 style brands producing more than 300 planned smartwatches. This means that if you find a smartwatch from Diesel, Skagen, Tag Heuer, Kate Spade, Movado, or another Fossil-connected brand that fits your style better, you should feel free to buy it, because it will have roughly the same internal hardware as our picks.
The Sport’s built-in fitness features do a decent job of motivating you to move more, tracking a Fitbit-like set of metrics: Stairs climbed, steps taken, and minutes active. It reminds you to get up every hour or so and suggests stretches and movements you can do at your desk if you’re stuck there. While the Sport can track your movement and exercise, and start doing so automatically, it is not accurate enough for dedicated runners or cyclists (who should get a GPS running watch instead): Influential fitness gear tester Ray Maker (aka DC Rainmaker) clocked “the worst GPS track accuracy I’ve ever seen on a run” wearing the Gear Sport. We didn’t see quite the same entirely-different-street discrepancies in biking tests, but the Sport is nevertheless not a competitive training tool, providing only a rough guide to distance and speed.
The hardware is now “swimproof” with improved water resistance and there’s also now a heart rate sensor. Those work with the new Google Fit app to improve the fitness experience from your watch. Further, the Falster 2 has built-in GPS and NFC as well. This opens up Google Pay functionality for the watch for mobile payments in-store. Of course, Wear OS is still at the center of the experience, and the whole thing runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100.
Dealing with notifications on a Wear OS watch has gotten better as the phone version of Android has improved its already impressive notification system and as phone app developers have taken advantage of new interactions. Many apps now send notifications with action options: For example, you can check a to-do as done, approve a payment, respond to a message, or, most often, just acknowledge something. The Q Explorist and Venture are no different than most Wear OS watches in relaying notifications, but in our testing they rarely showed lag in processing them, nor was either watch’s screen unresponsive to swiping or tapping options. Each watch’s vibration motor provides just enough buzz and movement to avoid missing things while not feeling like electric collar training for humans.
On-Screen Workouts/ Connected GPS/ Bluetooth/ Smartphone Notifications/ 4 Day Battery Life/ Heart Rate Tracking/ 15 Exercise Modes/ SmartTrack/ All-Day Activity/ Female Health/ Sleep Tracking And Stages/ Cardio Fitness Level/ 3-Axis Accelerometer And Gyroscope/ Optical Heart Rate Monitor/ Color LCD Touchscreen Display/ Water Resistant To 50 Meters/ Peach And Rose Gold Aluminum Finish
In June 2000, IBM displayed a prototype for a wristwatch that ran Linux. The original version had only 6 hours of battery life, which was later extended to 12.[20] It featured 8 MB of memory and ran Linux 2.2.[21] The device was later upgraded with an accelerometer, vibrating mechanism, and fingerprint sensor. IBM began to collaborate with Citizen Watch Co. to create the "WatchPad". The WatchPad 1.5 features a 320 × 240 QVGA monochrome touch sensitive display and runs Linux 2.4.[22][23] It also features calendar software, Bluetooth, 8 MB of RAM and 16 MB of flash memory.[24][25] Citizen was hoping to market the watch to students and businessmen, with a retail price of around $399.[25] Epson Seiko introduced their Chrono-bit wristwatch in September 2000. The Chrono-bit watches feature a rotating bezel for data input, synchronize PIM data via a serial cable, and can load custom watch faces.[26]
The original android smartwatch models were bulky and uncomfortable, but technological advances have led to stunning designs including the Samsung smart watch and apple smart watch. Our incredible selection of android smart watch devices is packed with the latest smartwatch android OS systems for maximum performance. Together with clear displays (with customization options), they also deliver maximum comfort with premium quality straps (including leather) for all-day use, Bluetooth functionality to connect to your smartphone for notifications, and dedicated apps for precise control. Enjoy a smart watch android experience with the freedom to do more and achieve so much more with your time.
They include a heart rate monitor, pedometer and altimeter to track steps taken and stairs climbed and often a GPS chip to record your distance covered. They will sync with your smartphone to give you a suite of tools to monitor your exercise progress. Many of them will offer notifications of incoming phone calls, text and email alerts as well. But they are designed with fitness tracking in mind. If you are happy using your smartphone for your day to day messaging, calendar, apps and music, a fitness tracker will suffice.
But your phone will play an important part if you do get a Fitbit or Garmin device with the aim of tracking your activity. It will be the place where your health data is synced to, you can tinker with your tracking settings and review your progress. There’s also a whole ecosystem of health apps that plug into tracking devices, combining them with exercise and diet advice - MyFitnessPal, Runtastic and Strava are three of the most popular ones worth checking out.
The RC-1000 Wrist Terminal was the first Seiko model to interface with a computer, and was released in 1984.[10] It was developed by Seiko Epson and was powered by a computer on a chip.[12] It was compatible with most of the popular PCs of that time, including Apple II, II+ and IIe, the Commodore 64, IBM PC, NEC 8201, Tandy Color Computer, Model 1000, 1200, 2000 and TRS-80 Model I, III, 4 and 4p. The RC-20 Wrist Computer was released in 1985, under the joint brand name "Seiko Epson".[13][14] It had a SMC84C00 8-bit Z-80 microprocessor; 8 KB of ROM and 2 KB of RAM. It had applications for scheduling, memos, and world time and a four-function calculator app. The dot-matrix LCD displayed 42×32 pixels, and more importantly, was touch-sensitive. Like the RC-1000, it could be connected to a personal computer, in this case through a proprietary cable. It was also notable in that it could be programmed, although its small display and limited storage severely limited application development.[10] The RC-4000 PC Data graph also released in 1985, was dubbed the "world's smallest computer terminal".[10] It had 2 KB of storage. The RC-4500 (1985), also known as the Wrist Mac, had the same features as the RC-4000, but came in a variety of bright, flashy colors.
Software may include digital maps, schedulers and personal organizers, calculators, and various kinds of watch faces. The watch may communicate with external devices such as sensors, wireless headsets, or a heads-up display. Like other computers, a smartwatch may collect information from internal or external sensors and it may control, or retrieve data from, other instruments or computers. It may support wireless technologies like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS. For many purposes, a "watch computer" serves as a front end for a remote system such as a smartphone, communicating with the smartphone using various wireless technologies. Smartwatches are advancing, especially their design, battery capacity, and health-related applications.[5]
The MetaWatch M1, like the Cookoo 2 and Martian Notifier, is a basic smartwatch. It shows alerts for texts, e-mails, social media updates, calendar appointments, weather, and Caller ID, and can control your phone's music app. The notifications are configurable in terms of what you are alerted to and how: whether via a vibration or on the watch’s display. Also built in are a timer, a stopwatch, and an alarm
We test every new smartwatch to gauge its design and comfort. If it’s not stylish and comfortable enough to get you from an early morning workout to the office to a night out, you probably won’t wear it every day. Most smartwatches are also fitness trackers, so we put all of its sensors to the test, from step counts to heart rate to GPS (when applicable).
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Fixing the food chain
Act 4 CAP
#GoodFoodGoodFarming: thousands mobilise for a better food system
The second edition of the #GoodFoodGoodFarming days of action took place in October with around 100 actions in 23 countries across Europe.
Denmark, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic
MEPs vote to limit biofuels but fall short of ending food for fuel
The European Parliament's environment committee voted today on legislation to limit the quantities of 'food based' biofuels in renewable energy transport targets for Europe.
MEPs voted with a 60% majority to:
Biofuels force reduced food production – new analysis
Growing crops for biofuels would lead to less food being produced, forcing more people into hunger, finds a new analysis commissioned by Friends of the Earth Europe and released today. [1] The revelation comes as the environment committee of the European Parliament faces a crucial vote on biofuels on Thursday (July 11).
CAP reform: failure for environment and small farmers
The EU's new agriculture policy is a disaster for the environment, small farmers and developing countries, according to Friends of the Earth Europe. The criticism comes at the end of lengthy negotiations over the rules and support for European farmers until 2020.
European investments assist land-grabs in Liberia
European banks, pension funds and private equity funds have given financial assistance worth more than €450 million to Malaysian palm oil giant Sime Darby, responsible for environmental degradation and violations of national regulations in Liberia, according to new research from Friends of the Earth Europe [1].
Europe must fix failed biofuel policy demand 100 organisations
As European parliamentarians vote in committees this week on the future of biofuels in Europe, 113 civil society organisations and coalitions, together representing millions of people, expressed their concerns about the environmental, economic and social impacts of European biofuel policy.
Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
'Jungle-free' cheese anyone?
Friends of the Earth Netherlands took over 11,000 orders from across the Netherlands for the first production run of their new ‘Kleine Hoefprint’ (Small hoof-print) cheese – demonstrating a real demand for high quality cheese with low environmental impact.
French banks financing land grabs
Between 2009 and 2012, French banks granted more than 4 billion euro in loans to European producers of agrofuels, and have issued these companies stocks and bonds for a total amount of more than 3 billion euro according to new research from Friends of the Earth France and Oxfam France. The groups called on French banks to stop financing agrofuel producers – who threaten global food security and are fuelling land grabs, especially in Liberia.
MEPs keep alive greener farming
Members of the European Parliament today voted to continue the process of ‘greening’ European agriculture.
However the changes don’t go far enough, says Friends of the Earth Europe which is calling for much stronger measures to protect the environment and the majority of small farmers.
The vote on the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) comes on a wave of growing public opposition to industrial farming and its increasingly harmful impacts on the countryside and consumers.
Tell MEPs you want people and planet-friendly farming
Nex week (March 13) the European Parliament will vote on reforms to the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and there's still time for you to take action and ask for greener farming.
Inaction as biofuels continue to grab land and pollute
Reforms to Europe's rules on biofuels were top of the agenda at a meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels today.
It was the first time ministers commented on proposals to limit the quantities of crop-based biofuels that can count towards EU renewable energy targets. [1] The policy was proposed by the European Commission last year as a means to address so-called 'indirect land use change' (ILUC) where agriculture has to expand to accommodate biofuels demand. [2]
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Denzel kills it in ‘The Equalizer 2’
Mark Kennedy| Associated Press
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on August 21, 2018, on page 16.
Robert McCall
Edward Woodward
Richard Wenk
You won't usually find Denzel Washington in a movie sequel.
Fans of the first film will know why Washington is drawn to the character of Robert McCall – a quiet, middle-aged former special-ops agent who fiercely believes in justice, likes to help others and dispenses the occasional lethal killing for those deserving.
"The Equalizer 2" reconnects many of the people behind the 2014 debut alongside the always-vital Washington – Antoine Fuqua returns to direct, as does writer Richard Wenk, and actors Bill Pullman and Melissa Leo.
In the films, Washington plays McCall as a tad obsessive-compulsive, but not consistently.
The second film takes place sometime later, with McCall now a Lyft driver, selectively helping people he encounters.
Few people could pull off this cheesy sainthood like Washington, oozing charisma and self-assured masculinity.
The film thus strays far from its roots as a vehicle for McCall to be the avenging angel for a needy stranger.
Wenk also has written some juicy dialogue for Washington, including a monologue about individual responsibility he delivers to the young artist in a project stairwell that the actor bites into with obvious relish.
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Help Yemen avoid a sea of chaos, disorder
Barak Barfi| The Daily Star
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on February 25, 2015, on page 7.
Shiism
Ruhollah Khomeini
Exposed to a regional proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia, plagued by an entrenched Al-Qaeda affiliate, and divided by tribal disputes and a secession movement, the country has become a poster child for everything that can go wrong in the Arab world.
To ensure that the recent overthrow of its government by the Shiite Houthi rebel movement does not deal Yemen the lethal blow that it has avoided so far, the international community must not abandon the country in what may be its hour of greatest need.
From 2004 to 2010, the group fought six wars against the Yemeni government and even skirmished with Saudi Arabia.
The region was once a stronghold of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, an affiliate of the global terrorist organization.
Unless its international allies throw it a lifeline, it risks being swallowed by a sea of disorder that could imperil the entire region.
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November 29, 2011 by support
Practitioners 43: Dan Abnett
Born in England (12th October 1965), Dan Abnett is a comic book writer, novelist and full time fantasist absorbed in the world of fantasy, space and superheroes. He has directed enormous future armies into cataclysmic battles, led mighty metal robots to clang together to save the universe, assassinated space empresses and sent heroes into space in wheelchairs. He is a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel Uk, since the 1990s, including 2000AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Game Workshop’s Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over 1,150,000 copies as of May 2008. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books.
While Abnett cannot claim to have kick started a character on the same scale as Judge Dredd, the ABC Warriors or Slaine in his tenure at 2000AD, he did create one of the book’s better known and longest running strips of the last decade, Sinister Dexter, following the exploits of gun sharks (hitmen) Finnigan ‘Finny’ Sinister and Ramone ‘Ray’ Dexter in the state city of Downlode, sprawled across central Europe ‘ like a hit and run victim’. Sinister Dexter is a universe apart from that of Strontium Dog and Dredd, and style supplants horror, with neat and precise detailing throughout to give it an alternative edge that readers found addictive. With more than 135 stories alone to his name, most stretching to more than one issue, Abnett is one of the most prolific of all 2000AD writers, making his lack of success at generating a genuine globe trotting legend like Slaine or Dredd more down to bad luck than anything else.
Most likely in fact it’s lack of intent intent. Abnett’s style is pretty light, humorous and wry. His stories bound along and drag you with them. First and foremost is character, planted firmly at the heart of whatever dying star/ hive of alien warriors / dangerous street he can find. In Abnett’s universe character is secondary to event at times but only momentarily. Then, the characters bounce resolutely back into the frey and mash it up (for want of a better word). Abnett is addicted to failures. The almost-guy. Slaine and Dredd, much like Superman, Batman et al are a stall of successes. You put a criminal in his way, Dredd crushes dissent and puts them away. Slaine warp spasms, charms, wangles or shags his way out of every scenario. One of Abnett’s character steps into the frey he might as well be ready to lose an arm. Abnett’s characters are desperately, hilariously and touchingly out of their depth. This makes readers even more attached to the characters as they survive all that Abnett (and Lanning – to be featured in the following article) throw at them. Major characters are put to the sword, or in the case of perrenial space empress and Mutant headteacher beau du jour circa 1995, Empress Nerimani of the Shi’ar, who has wandered in and out of Marvel’s most prominent titles for decades, unceremoniously blown away by a sniper as part of a Darkhawk conspiracy. This, to anyone unfamiliar with the situation – is lunacy. Brilliant lunacy. You can almost see the grins on their faces as they decided it.
This was to move a nobody character, effectively unheard of since the ’90s into the foreground of an empire churning, galaxy battering epic in the guise of Marvel’s War of King’s series two years ago, in which stable, mainstay characters were supplanted, abused, annihalated, twisted and entire empires changed status. The scale of the effect on accepted rules of the wider Marvel Universe was mad, but Abnett and Lanning play with the planets and principle characters involved like so many ping pong balls. This, you suspect, was learned in the furnaces of the creative pool of 2000AD and the more blood thirsty Marvel UK. But more likely, they are just crazy bastards.
As well as a neat absurdist streak and a whithering habit of throwing humour at serious plot points (hard not to when your head tactician is a talking Raccoon but more on that later). He didn’t stop there. As well as generating Black Light, Badlands, Atavar (with Richard Elson, about the last Human alive trapped between warring alien races), Downlode Tales (an extension of the Sinister Dexter universe), Sancho Panzer (with Henry Flint, featuring the eponymous character piloting a giant tank, excellently monickered Mojo, with his brilliantly named technician, Tool), Roadkill and Wardog, Abnett scribed Judge Dredd, Durham Red and Rogue Trooper.
With Marvel UK, Abnett had runs on Death’s Head 2, The crossover Battletide, Knight’s of Pendragon (all of which he co-created) as well as The Punisher, War Machine, Nova and various X-Men titles. Over at DC he reinvented Legion of Superheroes as the Mini-series Legion Lost which was later launched as the ongoing series The Legion. As was typical of his most recent work, most of Abnett’s work was written with Andy Lanning. From this they derived their moniker DnA. For Dark Horse comic Abnett was responsible for Planet of the Apes: Blood Lines as well as knocking out Lords of Misrule and Hypersonic. Many UK readers will know his work however primarily on the 40,000 Warhammer series, including the Gaunt’s Ghost, Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and more recently as part of the Horus Heresy, the SF best-selling Horus Rising, Legion and Prospero Burns. Frankly, these titles are unfamiliar to us here at the Bunker however clearly Abnett has brought his strong character and situation writing to bear on the battlefields of 40K, no doubt, injecting personalities that prove engaging in ferocious battle. He’s dabbled in comic books for 4ok’s black library imprint; producing Damnation Crusade, Lone Wolf, Inquisitor Ascendent and Titan. Again no doubt with the same results, given the number of titles.
Put this together with writing two Doctor Who audio dramas – the Harvest and Nocturne – as well as Torchwood: Everyone says hello for BBC Audio as well as two novels based on the respective series: The Story of Martha and Torchwood: Border Princes, and it’s clear that Abnett is a significant bedrock in British Science Fiction. With this grounding in space and time hopping adventurers it’s perhaps unsurprising that Abnett (and Lanning) have found such a secure home in Marvel’s cosmic titles.
But prior to that they developed the sharp edge of DC’s Wildstorm Imprint, The Authority, spawning storylines in which Earth is attacked by God himself back to feed on what was a primordial soup and understandably narked at discovering a Human populated, verdant planet where he left his pantry. It’s not til you see an interdimensional, sentient supership entering God’s pores and detonating its brain with the power of the previous century that you understand the lunacy of Abnett and Lanning. Magnificent space operas be damned, God assassinations by chain smoking blondes is the remit here. In many ways that is Abnett and Lanning’s genius. Lighter than Millar’s follow up too as perhaps would be expected.
At the heart of incredibly massive events, the collapse of star spanning empires or the decimation of a city block there is the average, the easily recognisable. The character’s written by them carry the easily recognisable traits of normal people. No matter what you throw at these characters, they remain people first and superheroes second. After joining Guardians of the Galaxy, as part of Marvel’s Cosmic Imprint Jack Flag can’t stand ‘space stuff’ even as he fights tentacled beasts from the far side of an interdimensional fracture or trying to survive a Negative Zone prison breakout in a wheelchair. Jack Flag is another fringe character unrecognisable outside of Captain America comics until he was crippled by the Thunderbolts under Osborne. He came out of nowhere, went downhill and sent to a prison in a backlot of the Marvel Universe and instantly became irresistable to Abnett and Lanning (I’m not calling them DnA – I’m just not).
It’s Guardians that represents the hybrid brain of Abnett and Lanning. Led by the permanently down trodden Star-lord and a Raccoon, Guardians of the Galaxy represents exceptional gung-ho space adventure and dead pan tongue in cheek humour at it’s own expense. Most of the characters are as unhappy to be there as you’d expect to be if you were faced by an interstellar absolutist faith that feeds on the beliefs of others and kills anyone who steps in their way. The members of the team are an eclectic batch (when alive); including a psychic titan lesbian, a master assassin, a talking tree king and a man from 1000 years in the future witha Captain America shield. These characters should struggle to blend but at the hands of Abnett and Lanning the many parts become a much more satisfying hole. Not a mispelling.
Abnett is a veteran chef of plot line and character, always incorporating the right blend to create satisfying and engaging storylines. A man of specific interests, he is most at home (with Andy Lanning) dealing with situations of bewildering scale and yet manages to draw you in to the minutae of characters caught in these events. A master of scale and plotting, Abnett can handle a charge on an alien world or two characters grabbing a drink (provided it descends into a bar room brawl inspired by an quadreped alien with telescopic glasses on. As 9 Billion lives are threatened and an imprisoned Moondragon (character), pregnant with a spore from a cancerous universe where life won allowing disease to thrive is about to give birth amongst a militant fundamentalist cosmic church, Star Lord jumps out and shouts ‘ Hi, I’m Starlord! I’d wave but my hands are full of guns.’ Don’t know if that was Lanning, don’t know if that was Abnett but Abnett was in the room and that is good enough for me.
Regarding the talking Raccoon – you’ll have to wait ’til we do Lanning. I got worried I wasn’t going to leave anything for his article next week….
August 4, 2011 by support
Practitioners 37: Peter David (Part 2)
Peter David is an American writer of comic books, novels, TV, Movies and Video Games. In part One we looked at how Peter David came to arrive in comic books, in Part Two we arrive at how he changed the fcae of comic histories most prominent characters.
Peter David made his name on - and a legend of The Incredible Hulk with 12 Years as writer
Having been given an unpopular and derided title like the Hulk David discovered that he had greater creative control so far away from the central, more popular titles. This enabled him to investigate and test out his storytelling with impressive results. Within his first 12 month run on Hulk, David had reintroduced his estranged wife, destroyed the Hulkbuster base, sending several characters turn-coat and on the road with Bruce Banner (trying to contain his other persona), introduced X-Men – for a rematch with Wolverine, and X-Factor (who he would write for in the mid-nineties), effectively kill Hulk and have him return as the more cerebral Joe-Fixit, a figure in contention with the less intelligent Green persona. David concentrated on the recurring theme of the Hulk/ Bruce Banner’s multiple personality disorder, his periodic changes between the more rageful and less intelligent Green Hulk and the more streetwise, cereral Grey Hulk, and of being a journeyman hero, whicxh were inspired by Incredible Hulk 312 (October 1985) in which writer Bill Mantlo (and according to David himself Barry Windsor-Smith)had first established that Bruce Banner had suffered childhood abuse at the hands of his father. These aspects of the character would later be used in the slightly misaligned but well-intentioned 2003 film adaptation written by Michael France and directed by Ang Lee. In his 12-year run as writer of Incredible Hulk, in which he worked with luminaries and upcoming talents as Todd McFarlane (there when he got there) Gary Frank, Liam Sharp and Adam Kubert he developed the character further, revealing a third, and potentially less engaging Hulk. Banner and the Hulk merge in a more balanced character, retaining the intelligent characteristics of Bruce Banner and the strength and power of the Hulk. The effect was impressive. The now intelligent Hulk found a new relationship with his former wife Betty Ross and along with friends Rick and Margot found himself in control of a secret cabal of immortal heroes known as the Pantheon. David gave Hulk everything he wanted, access to his intelligent mind, strength and access to a private jet and technology bordering on magic. This is where David excels. He puts no limitations on the potential for change in his characters in order to explore possibilities in the story and is fearless in progressing the story at a break neck pace. He also listens to his artists, asking the newly signed Liam Sharp, fresh from success in the UK and US with Marvel Uk’s Death’s Head 2, what character he would like to draw. Gary Frank’s first comic book project with Marvel Uk was drawn upon as well, as the Marvel UK characters Motormouth and Killpower arrived in the pages of Hulk. Using the newly empowered Hulk as a platform to deal with difficult issues such as AIDs, false political imprisonment and homophobia. Not forgetting who was reading the book however, he soon brought the furious, sub-intelligent Hulk back to the pages of Hulk, leaving him lost and alone in the Everglades, effectively restarting the story of the only journeyman struggling with his own demons. Not to say he didn’t throw in Swamp-Thing and Speedfreak for good measure.
And was after he had been freelancing for a year, and into his run on Hulk, that David felt his career as a writer had been cemented and he began to make approaches to DC, being offered a four issue mini-series of The Phantom by Mike Gold. Finally – and astonishingly given that he had been employed on a Marvel title for a year, David only then left his sales position to become a full time writer.
Dreadstar (DC Comics)
David took on Dreadstar during its First Comics run, with issue 41 after Jim Starlin left the title, and remained on it until issue 64 (March 1991), the final issue. David’s other Marvel Comics work in the late 1980s and early 1990s includes runs on Wolverine, the New Universe series Merc and Justice, an excellent run on the original X-Factor, including issue 92 (with Joe Quesada), as part of the Fathers and Sons crossover which incorporated X-Men 25.
Peter David launched the future universe of Marvel with Spider-man 2099, a beautifully realised, dystopian tale of Miguel O’Hara, a futurist scientist who develops powers comparable to a spider in the corporate-run streets of a monolithic New York. Intelligent, witty and deliberately referential of the original without touching directly on its predecessor thematically or literally, Spider-man 2099 helped launch the entire 2099 Universe which lasted for the better part of a decade and took in almost every character in the Marvel Universe and redeveloped them. David set the tone for it all.
At DC Comics in 1990, David wrote an Aquaman miniseries, The Atlantis Chronicles, detailing the history of Aquaman’s home city Atlantis. This has since been cited by David as one of the works he is most proud. His following Aquaman mini-series Aquaman: Time and Tide and the subsequent run of 46 issues on the ongoing series gained notoriety as Aquaman lost a hand early in the series, which was later replaced with a harpoon, a feature of the character that lasted David’s full tenure on the book. He also wrote DC’s Star Trek comic books (though openly opined that Star Trek is better served in novel form as they’re not particularly visual), as well as Supergirl and Young Justice, the latter cancelld in order to transfer the assembled characters to the newly reformed Teen Titans monthly.
David’s work for Dark Horse comics has included the Spy Teen Adventure, SpyBoy, which appeared between 1999 and 2004 and a 2007 mini-series. Other independent work includes Soulsearchers and Company, which is published by Claypool Comics and the Epic Comic’s Sachs and Violens, which he produced personally with co-creator George Perez.
David returned to Marvel with Heroes Reborn: The Return for Marvel, in which the Marvel Universe’s lost characters that had disappeared in an event a year before returned to the Marvel Universe as well as a run on a new series of Captain Marvel, which was critically acclaimed.
David and his Second wife, Kathleen. wrote the final English-language text for the first four volumes of the manga series Negima for Del Ray Manga. In 2003, David began writing a new creator owned title , Fallen Angels, for DC Comics, using material left from development of the now-defunct Supergirl title as well as writinga Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles Mini-series for Dreamwave that tied into the animated television series broadcast that year. After Dc cancelled Fallen Angels, David relaunched at IDW the same year. He went on to produce Spike: Old Times one-shot and Spike Vs Dracula mini-series, based on the character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel Tv series.
X-Factor 92 (Peter David, Joe Quesada, Marvel Comics)
In 2005, David briefly returned to the Incredible Hulk but only lasted for 11 Issues due to work pressures. He also developed a new title Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-man, beginning witha 12-part ‘The Other’ storyline in which Spider-man discovers he is dying, lost a fight during a traumatic fight with Morlun, underwent a metamorphosis and developed new powers and greater understanding of his abilities. Yet again whenever experimental alterations are made to popular characters, this proved controversial with readers, who were bemused perhaps by the extended stingers coming out of Spider-man’s arms and the association of a Spider totem from which his powers were derived. David’s run ended with issue 23.
Following on from David’s original and successful run on X-factor in the early 90s, he wrote a successful MadroX (Multiple Man) title for Marvel the same year which led to the reintroduction of the X-Factor title, using characters from David’s original tenure Multiple Man, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane) working as private investigators in a detective agency of the titular name. David’s work on the title proved popular with Ain’t It Cool News and David found that the new Opt in/ opt out policy on Crossovers and greater forward planning on titles made his second tenure much easier. However, his decision to create a homosexual storyline between established characters, Shatterstar and Rictor (a confirmation of clues that had been established in X-Force years earlier) drew criticism from Shatterstar’s Co-creator Rob Liefield, though Editor-in-Chief and former creative partner on David’s original run on X-Factor supported the story. The title eventually won a 2011 GLAAD Media Award for outstanding comic book for his work on the title.
Peter David announced in 2005 that he had signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, his independent works Spike, Fallen Angel and Soulsearchers and Company ‘grandfathered’ into the agreement. David wrote the dialogue for The Dark Tower: A Gunslinger Born, a comic book spin-off from Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels, bringing his career full circle. He then wrote Marvel’s Dark Tower comic book adaptations as well.
David took over She-Hulk after Dan Slott left, from Issue 22 to 38, a run which won praise. He also wrote Halo: Helljumper, 2009 Ben 10: Alien Force Manga book published by Del Rey, Ben Fold’s Four, a ‘Little Mermaid’ story in Jim Valentino’s Fractured Fables anthology that won more praise from Ain’t it Cool News, an adaptation of the 1982 film Tron to tie in with the 2010 sequel of the same name and a John Carter from Mars prequel to the film due out next year.
Peter David is a genius. His methodology is to block out different days for different projects, allowing him to be prolific in his work. Assured, well liked and professional, Peter David is a quiet voice in a creative industry but one with an enormous fan base exclusively based on the enjoyment of his work. His writing conveys his enthusiasm, wit and humour as well as never losing grip on issues close to him. Unafraid of controversy and generous in his plotting and pacing, David is a joy to read. A clear reason as to why his works are reprinted through Marvel, available as Masterworks collections and including full runs of his writing.
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The End of Sitting 1:1
short film, 16'
The End of Sitting is an installation at the crossroads of visual art, architecture, philosophy and empirical science. In our society almost the entirety of our surroundings have been designed for sitting, while evidence from medical research suggests that too much sitting has adverse health effects. RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art Affordances] and visual artist Barbara Visser have developed a concept wherein the chair and desk are no longer unquestionable starting points. Instead, the installation’s various affordances solicit visitors to explore different standing positions in an experimental work landscape. The End of Sitting marks the beginning of an experimental trial phase, exploring the possibilities of radical change for the working environment. This project is a spatial follow-up of the recently released mute animation 'Sitting Kills' by RAAAF | Barbara Visser, developed for the Chief Government Architect of the Netherlands.
The End of Sitting is a collaboration with Looiersgracht 60
— Starting with a short animation film, a rendering of how ia landscape of affordances could look, RAAAF moved on to creating a 1:1 model, to start testing different standing positions.
With a group of performers, the film was shot, whereas the audio is taken from the recordings of two expert meetings, that serves as the voiceover for the film. https://vimeo.com/123212930
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Pharmacy at Brighton
Lunchtime learning
Posted on November 16, 2016 by Stephanie Thomson
Our school are hosting a series of seminars on Fridays from 1-2pm in H400. Everyone is welcome so put the dates in your diaries.
Here’s what is coming up over in the next few weeks:
Friday 18 November
“e-learning apps: could they have an impact on student engagement and retention?”
presented by Dr George Olivier
“What we do not know about our hearing”
presented by Andrei Lukashkin
Friday 9 December
“Yeast: a versatile living test tube to screen drug targets and inhibitors”
presented by Dr Cathy Moore, Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Studying and socialising in our nationally recognised building
The recent, multi-million pound project transforming the Cockcroft building into a state-of-the-art research, teaching and information building has been recognised in the prestigious Green Gown Awards for 2016.
Our university and the architects we worked with Fraser Brown MacKenna were named Finalist in the Built Environment category for what was one of the largest retrofits of an occupied academic building in the UK.
The transformation was described by judges as “an innovative approach integrating architectural, building services and structure design” which unlocked the environmental potential of the 10,500m2 building using the latest technology.
Innovations include an aquifer thermal energy store, potentially reducing energy demand, CO2 emissions and fuel savings. The system stores and recovers thermal energy beneath the ground and provides heating and cooling.
A spokesperson for the awards told the university: “On behalf of the Green Gown Awards Team we wanted to congratulate you on your achievement. Being a Green Gown Awards Finalist is something to be extremely proud of.”
Earlier this year the Cockcroft project won in the Higher Education category of the Architects’ Journal Retrofit Awards 2016. Judges called it a bold project and a model for future similar projects. Read More →
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PABS joins in BAFTA success
Posted on November 5, 2016 by Stephanie Thomson
A children’s medical programme, supported by the University of Brighton, has been nominated for a 2016 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award.
Professor Hal Sosabowski, Professor of Public Understanding who is based in our school, acts as science consultant for the CBBC children’s series Operation Ouch!, which aims to make medicine and science fun and accessible for children.
Professor Sosabowski, who advises on how to conduct safe experiments, said: “The programme has already won two BAFTAs and is now one of CBBC’s crown jewels. It focuses on the more macabre and disgusting but at the same time, strangely compulsive elements of the human body.”
Our school, the School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, has been contributing to the programme since it was launched in 2012 and filming has been conducted at labs at the Huxley Building here in Moulsecoomb and at a lab at the Hastings campus. The programme is hosted by Christoffer and Alexander van Tulleken.
Professor Sosabowski said: “The programme is now syndicated worldwide and our involvement can only happen due to the goodwill of School colleagues to whom I extend my heartiest thanks. Season Six has been commissioned and the University and the School receive credits at the programme’s end which will reach literally millions of young scientists.”
The BAFTA awards ceremony is on 20 November. Watch this space!
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Support for first year students
Posted on November 4, 2016 by Laura Ruby
To all first year PABS students,
We realise this can be a really challenging time of year for you – students often struggle with homesickness, feel stressed about academic work, there may may money or housing challenges, stuff going on in your personal life, you may be struggling to settle into university life or not sure if the course is right for you. The first thing to remember is this is COMPLETELY NORMAL! The second is that there is plenty of support available for you at the university.
If you would like to have a friendly chat about how you’re getting on and / or find out what services are available please drop in to see Charlotte your SSGT Huxley reception 10 – 12 next week or make an appointment for a private meeting by email ssgtpabs@brighton.ac.uk / 01273 641413
Also, please be aware of the wellbeing Wednesday workshops running this semester: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/studentnewsandevents/2016/10/07/wellbeing-workshops/
Like my facebook page PABS Student Support for information about upcoming events, university and local services, wellbeing and study tips!
Charlotte Morris
PABS Student Support and Guidance Tutor
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A Glorious Gloria Revisited
Fifteen years ago I took my daughters Ale and Hilary and my wife Rosemary to a concert in the nearby Ryerson United Church. I had always been fascinated by Vivaldi’s Gloria. Vivaldi wrote three, RV 588, RV589 and RV590 but the latter has been lost. The famous one, played on that occasion, was RV589. I believe it is most famous because of its brilliant beginning with what I thought until that first concert, were two trumpets playing in tandem. I was wrong as the other “trumpet” was an oboe played by Sand Dalton.
Marc Destrubé chanelling Vivaldi, Illustration Graham Walker & Alex W-H
Unique to that first live (for me) concert featuring the new (to me) Pacific Baroque Orchestra was that it was in association with the Elektra Women’s Choir. This meant that all the voices were women. I do believe that in most versions of that Gloria the choirs are always mixed. The Gloria was directed by the then musical director and virtuoso violinist Marc Destrubé.
What was particularly pleasant and exciting is that the Elektra Women’s Choir of the time had two red-haired sisters, Caitlin (an alto) and Phoebe (soprano) MacRae. They sang like goddess/muses. I have seen a few more live Glorias but that first one has always been dear to my heart.
Imagine then, that today I went to Ryerson’s to a performance of that very Gloria with the Pacific Baroque Orchestra and (yes!) the Elektra Women’s Choir (alas no MacRae sisters!).
This time I took Rosemary, Hilary and her two daughters, Rebecca and Lauren. We sat up front and we were but a few feet from the harpsichordist/musical director Alex Weimann. But Marc Destrubé was up there, a mere 6ft away with his violin. Sand Dalton was not, but on oboe we had the usually most serious (my Rebecca whispered in my ear, “He smiled!”) Washington McClain. Rebecca then whispered, “That cannot be a trumpet (deftly played by Gerald Webster) it has to be a bugle.” I explained to her that it was indeed a baroque trumpet and that such instruments did not have normal valves.
The concert featured composers, certainly not what you might ever listen to on the CBC as they are hung up on Beethoven and the others of the 19th century, as Giovanni Legranzi, Jean Baptiste Lully, Johann Rosenmüller, Sigismondo d’India and another work by Antonio Vivaldi, il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, op.8/2 ("La Primavera') from the Four Seasons.
Destrubé played that (particularly the ultra fast Allegro) with expertise and what seemed like effortless ease. The other best part of Primavera is the second movement Largo that features two barking dogs (Glennys Webster and Stephen Creswell, aka The Happy Bear), on violas. The sound, so directional when the group is small and one is near, was mesmerizing.
While I missed the MacRaes, soprano Margarét Ásgeirsdóttir amply made up for that loss.
I wonder where I will be in 15 years and if going to another Gloria with my granddaughters as grown girls is in my cards?
Link to: A Glorious Gloria Revisited
The Salt Spring Island Salon
From left to right, your friendly blogger, Rosemary Allenbach, Rebecca Stewart (holding Black), Les Stegenga, Celia Duthie, Rosemary Waterhouse-Hayward and sitting, Nick Hunt (looking very much like English archeological artist Frederick Catherwood) and Lauren Stewart
On Thursday I stayed but a stone’s throw from the very famous (and very expensive) Hastings House Hotel on Salt Spring Island. The restaurant at Hastings House is supposed to be one of the best in BC.
But if you add good conversation, the friendly demeanor of the owners, and throw in three lovely black cats called Black, And, Decker, it all trumps Hasting House by more than a stone’s throw and perhaps by at least a mile.
I stayed, by invitation, at the new guest house attached to Celia Duthie and her husband Nick Hunt (many say he is Duthie’s most valuable asset) sprawling property which includes an art gallery, a separate cabin that is home to Salt Spring Woodworks, purveyors of fine handmade furniture and their home.
Where else, but at a Duthie home would you find art on the wall, books (and good books) in all shelves and the latest New Yorker on a footstool not far from a sleeping Decker?
And I have yet to mention the food. The cook happens to be Nick Hunt, who drives a tractor, climbs ladders, does windows and is a marvelous carpenter and handyman. His cooking is divine. For the first time in years I had the pleasure of eating large steamed artichokes (the dipping sauce was a mixture of mayonnaise and mustard concoted by Duthie). The main course (there was a good Pinot noir, Tio Pepe and ginger beer served) consisted of potatoes and yams baked in the oven with duck grease (sprinkled with Hunt’s favourite spice of the day, parsley), fresh steamed asparagus and a red snapper (caught that morning) smoked with oak and smothered with a parsley/béchamel sauce. Dessert, after the salad was served, consisted of bitter chocolate, Stilton and I turned down (it would have been wasted on me) a vintage port.
If all that weren't enough the other guest was the new relocated to Salt Spring, author C.C. (Chris) Humphreys who entertained us with the story of her Norwegian mother who was a spy in WWII.
Duthie always presses and pushes me to do things I really do not want to do or feel I know how to do. Last year she persuaded me to pho (ever so gently with that smile of hers) to photograph(the photo here I took during that visit)some large wooden lanterns. I was nervous about it but in the end I discovered I was good at it (a quick amateur I was!). This time around she wanted pictures of the interior of her new guest suite. I am not into architectural interiors. But I think I managed and I will know quite soon to what extent. At this present rate, with Duthie’s gentle push I will soon become the renaissance person (at least in photography) that she and Hunt both are!
My experience in Salt Spring, thanks to Duthie and Hunt Nick was a most pleasant one. Paradoxically some might say that Salt Spring is far from culture since it is certainly not as active as Vancouver in theatre, concerts, dance, etc. But staying with Duthie and Hunt was like attending a good Parisian salon, where the food, the drink, the conversation, the scenery and the company could not have been any better.
Link to: The Salt Spring Island Salon
And Zero At The Bone - With Dirks Of Melody
Jerome Charyn by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward
One of my treasured delights of this week has been my reading of Jerome Charyn’s The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson.
After reading this novel that reads somewhat like an autobiography written by Dickinson in a parallel universe I wanted to do one thing (something I will do this coming Monday when I have time to visit the Vancouver Public Library). Charyn in his novel places words and expressions from Dickinson’s poems into her conversations. But the novel does not have one single example of a Dickinson poem. This intelligent technique by Charyn has thrust the imperative that I must take out a tome of Dickinson’s output.
If this was Charyn’s intention he has in the very least succeeded with me. I have never been much of reader of poetry. And there is a reason for this that is based on my poor memory. I have in later years found tools to help me remember things and I have developed a sort of photographic memory for passages in books that I may have read many years ago. This was not always the case.
I remember in Brother Edwin’s religion class at St. Ed’s in Austin that he would tell us we could have extra points if we would memorize a longish passage from the bible. He would give us a day and on the next we would stand up and recite the passage. I could never do this as memorizing anything past a few lines was an impossible chore. I recall that the absolute worst was the homework from Brother Francis (he taught American History) instructing us to memorize President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. I suffered and managed to pass it. But it was sheer terror for me.
Poetry has thus never been my forte but in the last 20 years I have warmed up to William Carlos Williams via (!) Ogden Nash. Reading the stories by Borges, and then running out of them, led me to read his poems which I do appreciate. And I happen to love the poetry of Mexican novelist, poet, diplomat and environmentalist Homero Aridjis. His novels (with their poetic writing) helped me understand the power of using the right words and putting them in a particular order.
As far as I know Jerome Charyn, one of my favourite American novelists, does not write poetry. But in his introduction to The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson he writes:
She was the first poet I had ever read, and I was hooked and hypnotized from the start, because in her writing she broke every rule. Words had their own chain reaction, their own fire. She could stun, delight, and kill “with Dirks of Melody.” I never quite recovered from reading her. I, too, wanted to create “ [a} perfect – paralyzing Bliss,” to have my sentences explode “ like a Maelstrom, with a notch.”
It was the old maid from Amherst who lent me a little of her own courage to risk becoming a writer. “A Wounded Deer – leaps highest,” she wrote, and I wanted to leap with Emily.
From Charyn’s book I found out that Dickinson was not in the habit of titling her poems. One that is mentioned is The Snake and Dickinson objected to the publishing of this poem (one of the very few that was published while she was alive) and the fact that the publisher called it The Snake. Dickinson in Charyn's novel says, " I is not about a snake." Here it is:
A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him, -did you not?
His notice sudden is.
The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.
He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn.
Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,
Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun, -
When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.
Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality;
But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.
And from Charyn’s comment of “with Dirks of Melody”
One Joy of so much anguish
Sweet nature has for me
I shun it as I do Despair
Or dear iniquity --
Why Birds, a Summer morning
Before the Quick of Day
Should stab my ravished spirit
With Dirks of Melody
Is part of an inquiry
That will receive reply
When Flesh and Spirit sunder
In Death's Immediately –
Link to: And Zero At The Bone - With Dirks Of Melody
Speeding Across Bridges With Bach's St. John Passion
Mathew White
Watching violinist Yehudi Menuhin attempt to explain the role of punk music (I believe the Dead Kennedys were playing behind) was for me an indelible moment in Menuhin’s mini series (1987) The Music of Man. The urbane man was visibly in discomfort,
To this day there is a big divide between popular music and the “serious” classical genre. If anything this blog repeats the theme of yesterday’s on the role of culture and how we perceive social classes.
I have been on the floor (low frequency vibration!) up front at the Commodore in Vancouver listening to (with lots of ear protection) the Dead Kennedys or my local favourites, DOA, The Subhumans and Art Bergmann. Somehow this loud music and the sound of the electric (metal) guitars transport me to an era embossed in my genes, of caves, fires, wild animals and my early ancestors in animal skins. The music is primal. It is close to the same feeling I had, as an adult, when I first stood in front of an ocean. Was that walking fish also embossed in my DNA?
I no longer need to search my early history or the participation of my ancestors and how it all led me to be here now writing this. The thrill of punk is gone. None of the contemporary punk bands seem to touch the authenticity of those first ones. I am more touched by the music of the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment. While I enjoy the often played music of the 19th century (it seems so familiar, so comforting, sort of like the 60s jazz of Gerry Mulligan ) it is the music that preceded it (and followed it as is the music of the 20th). Baroque and in particular the early Baroque music of the 17th is what excites me now. Every time I attend a concert in Vancouver I am thrilled as more often than not, these days, the composers are unknown to me and I have never heard the music before. I feel like I am a part of the audience at a premiere. This also applies to works that are not often performed.
Many might have heard at least one live version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion, but what of his St. John Passion?
It was last Monday that my friend Graham Walker and I sat on the fourth row at the Chan Centre to watch an electrifying performance of this work (Bach was younger and far more adventurous than when he composed his St. Matthew Passion). José Verstappen and his Early Music Vancouver had assembled a smallish orchestra (the Portland Baroque) and two choirs (adding up to 12 singers) Capella Romana and Les Voix Baroques. The ensemble was directed by the legendary violinist (in our Baroque lover’s circle) Monica Huggett (whose strong forearms do not belie her power of performance) and included the tenor from Salisbury, Charles Daniels who sang (very well indeed) the lines of the evangelist John. The choir included the Vancouver baritone Tyler Duncan (he played Pontius Pilate) and the Canadian countertenor Matthew White.
White stood surrounded by five singing women, but his clear voice always seemed to penetrate from the group and stand out.
The performance was magic and Charles Daniels was what I would call a dramatic tenor. His acting and voice were superb. But it was Matthew White who had the best line where he describes the last moments of Christ on the cross with the words, “it is finished”. He looked at us all with his glasses, and the expression on his face carried such pathos and turmoil that I was almost overcome with tears.
But there was something else that I noticed. I have often written here of my love of driving (as fast as the law permits) on freeways at night (and in particular in the covered freeway thoroughfare in Seattle) while listening to (very loud) what I call bridge-driving music like the Clash’s London Calling or the Oscar Peterson Trio with Milt Jackson version of Nat Adderley’s Work Song.
I must add here that Bach’s Coros from his St. John Passion, as directed by Monica Huggett (loud and fast) also qualify and this has given me a further insight into why I like that wonderful music of the 17th and 18th century. I am sure that in spite of the pain behind his eyes, Menuhin must have known this, too.
Link to: Speeding Across Bridges With Bach's St. John Passion
La Educación De Mis Nietas
Audrey Hepburn plays the shy awkward chaffeur’s daughter in Sabrina and after a stint in Paris not only learns to deftly crack eggs with one hand but becomes lovely, sophisticated and educated. The other Hepburn, Katherine always seemed to play an equally sophisticated and educated young woman. It doesn’t take too much insight into my preference for women of that ilk, like Grace Kelly and Eva Marie Saint. I like class and sophistication.
When I was around 21 I had an educated and sophisticated girlfriend in Buenos Aires. Her name was Susy. She took me to the opera at the Teatro Colón and expected me to go in a suit. It was in the middle of a Buenos Aires summer and the only suit I owned was a Botany Bay suit I had purchased in a Hart Schaffner & Marx store in Austin, Texas some years before. It was 100% wool and I sweltered at Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel. Some months later we were both riding a suburban train and I was on the window seat on the right hand side of the train. We were both reading a book. Someone showed up who knew Susy and she introduced me to the person. Without putting down the book that I was holding in my left had I crossed under it with my right hand to shake hands. Within a week I had not only been accused of having no manners but I was summarily dumped for a much older violinist of the Teatro Colón orchestra.
In spite of my Argentine Navy short hair cut I did have manners of sorts. My mother had trained me into the art and often would tell me, “Hay tan poca gente fina como nosotros.” This translates to something like, “There is a dearth of sophisticated/well-mannered people like us.”
In fact in Spanish “ser educado” to be educated emphasizes not the level of learning of a person as much as that person’s manners. An ill mannered person would be “mal educado” and a person lacking those niceties would be “le falta educación” or is lacking in manners.
Where possible I learned at home to act like a gentleman and I remember sometime in my teens reading, “A lady is a woman that makes a man feel [and act?] like a gentleman.”
What would my mother’s opinion have been to read as I have about a Washington State girl of 13 (precisely my granddaughter Rebecca’s age) sent a nude self-portrait (taken with a camera phone,or is that a phone camera?) to her new would-be boyfriend? What would she have said when the boy forwarded the picture to a female friend who then “viraled” it with some short but choice texting involving the word slut?
As a little boy if I ever had the audacity to touch any of my food with my hands (and in particular chicken) my father would, with the flick of his wrist, hit me on the top of my head with the flat of his knife. To this day when I eat chicken with my hands I get a terrible itching in my nose!
When I had arrived to Buenos Aires in my most early 20s, I was invited to dine at the house of my godmother and first cousin, Inecita O’Reilly Kuker. She was a widow who had recently married a wealthy widower. She had four children, and he had four. Since most of them were either teenagers or older they had all invited their friends. They all sat at a table as long as some of that regal Masterpiece Theatre kind. We all had finger bowls at our place settings and when I sat down there was absolute silence. Everybody was staring at me. When I picked up my soup spoon (and apparently I did this quite well) the silence was replaced by sighs of relief. It seemed I was “educado”. I had passed muster. By dessert time I was shocked to see how the widower’s (Mr. Kuker) daughters ate their oranges and bananas. They used a fork and knife to peel both fruits and never ever touched either of them.
Of late I have been observing both my granddaughters and in particular when they have soup in our home. Rosemary has purchased these extremely fresh saltines from the Canadian Super Store that are individually wrapped in cellophane. I have watched in horror as both smash the unopened packages with their fists and then empty the contents into the soup. I try to explain that this is rude. I try to explain that the back and forth tasting of soup and crackers is far more interesting and inviting than eating the "menjunje" “or sloppy mixture of their soup bowl. But they don’t listen to me and I suspect that Rebecca does this just to rile me. She even has told me that everybody does this at the White Spot (neither my first cousin Inecita nor this blogger would ever go to such a place!) even their father. Their mother, Hilary (my daughter) has added that a stress in the importance of manners is in decline.
I hope it is all a phase and that my mother will, from wherever she is now, utter, “Hay tan poca gente fina como nosotros,” including both my granddaughters in her rarified list.
Link to: La Educación De Mis Nietas
Why Do I Blog? A Sobering Recapitulation
Alex in much simpler times in his youth
I have been blogging since January 2006 and I have written (by my internal search engine count) four “Why do I blog?” blogs. I have chosen not to reprise (although I probably will without actively knowing so) those previous four blogs today Monday. Today Monday (but in actuality today Friday, March 26) I knew that I would be going to Saltspring Island on Wednesday March 24 to give a slide lecture to the island’s garden club. I was much too busy (or should I write and fake it?), preparing for Wednesday to write a blog for today. By Tuesday I knew that I would not be writing any until Friday when I would (and I did) come back. Which accounts for this one, at least.
There is one big change from my approach to blogging since I first started. In that year first year (2006) I fully equated a blog to an actual written diary in which I would write about what I wanted to write on that day’s events, that day and before midnight. I failed a few times when I had server problems or computer down times. By the time Rosemary, Rebecca (my now much older granddaughter of my two, the other one is called Lauren) and I went of vacations to Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico or I traveled, on my own to Texas I relied on the technique of either writing blogs that I thought I would write and storing them online as drafts or I stored possible photographs to illustrate them on line pictures sites like Photobucket. I would then rely on internet cafes for computer access. In some of the hotels we stayed in Mexico they had computer rooms for guests. I always seemed to manage.
Of late (perhaps the last two years) when I have had computer problems (mostly issues with Blogger) or differences of opinion (on how to pay) with my Net Nation domain hosting (where they would pull the plug on my web page and ancillary blog) I would post blogs for the days missed. As far as I can tell I am not missing one day.
I could lazily say that this blog will take the place not only for today Monday but for the rest of the week. But I still have my standards. That would simply not do. I will try to be up to date by this Sunday.
In the last couple of years I have been trying to be more careful about what pictures I post of my daughters and I check and make sure I do not disclose where they go to school, etc. Rebecca, who is now 13, objected in the past when I would reveal such secrets that she might have a boyfriend or mention her performance in school. I see now that she was right so I make sure before I post something that it would pass muster with her. In short I am a bit more secretive of family goings on.
Perhaps the one issue that haunts me a couple of times per year is when I get an email from some person mentioned or (most often) featured in a blog who tells me, ”Alex, I really love those pictures you took of me back then and even though you have cropped them to reveal a lot less that I showed I would like you to remove that day’s post. I am now in a serious job as a dental assistant (or similar job) and I would not want anybody to know about my past life.”
I have two solutions to the above quandary. The first one is to remove the person’s surname or perhaps remove one (and only one if there are more) of the pictures. The second solution is to inform the person that my blog is like my personal written diary and I should not be expected to cross out passages or tear out pages from it. If this second solution does not work I tell the person to hire a lawyer. Touch wood, I have been free of litigation problems until now. There have been a few blogs that before I have posted them I have consulted with my friend, a prominent Vancouver lawyer. Up until now his advice has been, “Don’t worry about this one.” Here and here are two blogs I passed by my lawyer friend before I posted.
As I read the terrible comment letters (the on line ones) to local (Vancouver) dailies or even to the more national Globe & Mail I feel no regret in never having been tempted to allow comments to my blogs.
One person was able to find my email address through other means and sent me an extensive complaint on how bullfights were not fights at all, when I praised a couple of classical and superb Spanish bullfighters I had seen in my youth. The purpose of my original blog was to compare Canadian ballerina Evelyn Hart to Manolete and how both would have been labeled fenómenos by the Spanish press.
About half a year ago Blogger inserted in my blog program something called Stats. I have never been interested in finding out how many hits I had per day. But I made the mistake of looking into these stats one day and I was overwhelmed by the level of information. I knew what percentage of those who read or say my blog used this or that operating computer system or from what country they were based. The stats gave me hits for the now, the day, the week and the month. The stats also revealed what search engines where used, And worst of all I found out that many of the hits came from image searches which even when random (such as women over 50) would hit on a semi nude portrait I had posted in the past and it appeared right next to images of Helen Mirren!
A few years ago I persuaded the then Vancouver weather gal, Tamara Taggart to pose (clothed) with her new husband in their bed. I had been assigned by Vancouver Magazine to take her portrait. My blog is called Tamara Taggart In Bed. This blog is found (hit on) every day as I see it in my personal stats. I also see pictures of my granddaughters when there are image searches for Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carol and (scary) Sally Mann. It tells me that sex really rules the world and that I do well to not accept comments. There are many nuts out there with lots of time in their hands.
But all in all I don’t think I have changed the look or the feel of my blog. One possible change might be that my blogs are longer. This is because like those nuts who write nasty comments to newspaper on line sites I have lots of time in my hands. And this blog, of this I am absolutely sure, helps to keep me from becoming one of them..
Why do I Blog ?
Why Do I Blog? II
Why Do I Blog? III
Why Do I Blog? IV
Link to: Why Do I Blog? A Sobering Recapitulation
Currer Bell, Emily Dickinson, Jane Eyrë & Jerome Charyn
Until but a few days ago the name Emily Dickinson would have lead to little synapse activity in my brain. I might have retrieved that fact that Dickinson was an American poet from the 19th century who was some sort of proto- feminist. I also knew that she was from a New England state. Another synapse would have led to the botanical information section of my brain to the following:
H. ‘Emily Dickinson’ Lachman IRA/1987
AHS-III/16A
Plant 32 in. (81.5c,) dia., 20 in. (51cm) high. Leaf 7 by 4 in. (18 by 10cm), veins 6, medium green, light yellowish white margin, ovate, flat. Scape 28 in.(71cm), foliated, straight. Flower medium, funnel-shaped, lavender, fragrant flowers during average period. Fertile.
[H. ‘Neat Splash’ hybrid x H. plantaginea]
The Genus Hosta- Giboshi Zoku, W. George Schmid, Timber Press, 1991
Among the thousands of species and cultivar hostas there are only two “literary” ones. One is Emily Dickinson and the other Hosta ‘Robert Frost’ which I happen to have and it is a very beautiful. Except for the name H. ‘Emily Dickinson’ is not a standout. Now I realize that not only should I have known better but that H. ‘Emily Dickinson’ is just about perfect.
Currer Bell circa 2010
My adventure into the life and poems of Emily Dickinson began a few months ago when I found out that one of my favourite American novelists, Jerome Charyn had written a novel (which reads like an autobiography) called The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, W.W. Norton & Company, 2010. In many of the reviews Charyn was lambasted for daring to write in the “voice” of a woman, and famous American woman at that. There was a vigorous defense of the novel in the April 2010 New York Review of Books by no less a reviewer than Joyce Carol Oates (on a momentary sabbatical from her novel writing).
I was finally able to find the book at the Vancouver Public Library and I brought it home to my nightly delight. From the first pages Charyn nailed down the New England state to Massachusetts and Dickinson’s town to Amherst.
A couple of days later when I went to the main branch of the Vancouver Public Library with my wife and granddaughter Lauren I spotted Turning Point Co-Artistic Director and trombonist Jeremy Berkman sitting outside the Blenz coffee shop with a homespun-looking elderly couple and a young boy. The young boy was Berkman’s son and the couple was Berkman’s parents. They asked me what I was reading. I told them I was returning a wonderful thriller called The Vaults by Toby Ball and that I had begun to read Jerome Charyn’s novel a famous American female poet. Berkman’s mother asked me,” Would that be Emily Dickinson? We are from Amherst, Mass and we know Dickinson’s house well.” She then began to give me the details of the house and the name of the street. I then told them of the controversy behind the novel and that that American woman who writes novels all of the time had written a spirited review. Mrs. Berkman enquired, “Would that be Joyce Carol Oates?” I answered yes and pointed out that Oates is supposed to give a lecture at the library in the next few months.
Roy the intrepid reader (he is to reading books what Joyce Carol Oates is to writing them) who haunts the atrium of the Vancouver Public Library was sitting nearby. After I introduced him to the Berkman’s he said, “I am reading Russian magic realism but that book you have there (The Vaults) sounds interesting. Let me see it.” He read the first page and was as hooked to The Vaults as I had been. In the end I gave the book to him with the promise that he would return it the next day. Roy would never disappoint.
Saturday morning Rosemary told me we were going to a special advance screening of the new Jane Eyre at the Park on Sunday morning. That struck a bell.In Charyn’s novel I had already read this:
“I felt it a misfortune that I was so little, so pale pale and had features so irregular and so marked.” So said Jane Eyre, who was as plain and little as a certain Emily Dickinson. I wondered if she had a scalp as red as mine. No matter. There was a controversy that raged around the book. Was its author, Currer Bell, a woman or a man? Not a soul could say.
Currer Bell? Who would that be?
On this day, August 24, 1847 Charlotte Brontë sent her manuscript of Jane Eyre to her eventual publisher, Smith, Elder and Co., in London. Her accompanying note shows her maintaining her pseudonym, though perhaps just barely:
I now send you per rail a MS entitled Jane Eyre, a novel in three volumes, by Currer Bell. I find I cannot prepay the carriage of the parcel, as money for that purpose is not received at the small station-house where it is left. If, when you acknowledge the receipt of the MS, you would have the goodness to mention the amount charged on delivery, I will immediately transmit it in postage stamps. It is better in future to address Mr Currer Bell, under cover to Miss Bronté, Haworth, Bradford, Yorkshire, as there is a risk of letters otherwise directed not reaching me at present.... Today In Literature
In Charyn's novel Emily Dickinson befriends a visiting scholar from Princeton, Brainard Rowe:
He [Brainard Rowe] discovers my Newfoundland sitting with that ferocious loyalty of his near the door of Johnson Chapel.
“Who’s that?”
“Carlo, my dog.”
Brainard laughs as I knew he would. Rochester had a Newfoundland like mine, a huge blur of black and white hair, but his name was Pilot. Carlo was a pointer in Jayne Eyre; he belonged to that monkish minister, St. John Rivers, who rescued Jayne from starvation and wanted her to accompany him to India as his missionary wife in a loveless marriage.
And Brainard addresses me in a language that went way beyond Brother [Austin Dickinson] and Gould [a scholar friend of Austin’s and would-be suitor of Emily’s who wanted to make her his missionary wife].
“Miss Emily Eyre,” says he. “Why didn’t you name your dog Pilot, after Rochester’s faithful Newfoundland?”
“Because, Rivers is much closer to my own temperament, Sir, willing to sacrifice himself to some abstract religion that could be about God or the Devil disguised as art.”
“Are you a sacrificer, too?’
“Much more so, than St. John Rivers.”
By the time I saw Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska is superb as Jane as is Michael Fassbender as Rochester) I was seeing Eyre as not only Jane, but as a feisty Currer Bell and equally feisty Emily Dickinson.
Then my daughter Ale called from Lillooet to tell Rosemary that she had spotted at least 30 robins on her property. We used to have robins in our garden but every time they would establish a nest in our Hawthorn, crows would destroy it and eat the eggs. Rosemary was sad to admit that we no longer have robins. And there is this:
Part II: Nature
The robin is the one
That interrupts the morn
With hurried, few, express reports
When March is scarcely on.
That overflows the noon
With her cherubic quantity,
An April but begun.
That speechless from her nest
Submits that home and certainty
And sanctity are best.
And further there is this:
Charlotte Bronte's Grave
All overgrown by cunning moss,
All interspersed with weed,
The little cage of 'Currer Bell,'
In quiet Haworth laid.
This bird, observing others,
When frosts too sharp became,
Retire to other latitudes,
Quietly did the same,
But differed in returning;
Since Yorkshire hills are green,
Yet not in all the nests I meet
Can nightingale be seen.
Gathered from many wanderings,
Gethsemane can tell
Through what transporting anguish
She reached the asphodel!
Soft fall the sounds of Eden
Upon her puzzled ear;
Oh, what an afternoon for heaven,
When 'Bronte' entered there.
Link to: Currer Bell, Emily Dickinson, Jane Eyrë & Jerome Charyn
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Raging Vortex of Weirdness
The raging vortex of weirdness descended today upon the place I work part-time for a little extra cash. First, a truck went through our carwash. Apparently the goof driving didn't expect the storm windows lying in the bed to fall out onto the carwash tracks and cause it to be out-of-order for two hours.
Then, the ATM went off-line.
Then, three gas pumps rejected credit cards simultaneously ... and refused to take them even though later inside they were found to be good.
Later, after the car wash had been fixed, a bolt snapped on a counter-weight bar and 400 pounds of weights landed on the car wash floor, leaving an indentation that my co-worker described thusly, "Like the depression in the ground where Superman lands after being pummeled by some huge space creature."
Then I actually won $15 in scratch-offs.
I'm home now. Fortunately for me and my wife, she's already seven months pregnant ... no longer any chance for twins.
It is Bullshit!
Tom Tomorrow is spot on.
The depravity of conservatives, and the willingness of the media to indulge it, never ceases to amaze me. In a rational society, when a drug-addled gasbag radio host mocks an actor with a debilitating disease, the ensuing discussion would revolve around said drug-addled gasbag’s many, many faults as a human being, not least of which being his ready willingness to mock the handicapped. Rather than treating his uninformed speculation as beneath contempt, however, people are actually discussing whether Michael J. Fox’s symptoms are as bad as they look in these campaign commercials. I know that the media are amoral predators, constantly alert for any hint of blood in the water, but I guess I’m still naive enough to wish that occasionally Keith Olbermann wouldn’t be the only person in the entire industry willing to call bullshit when the odor is rank enough to make you gag.
But I’m also naive enough to imagine that this will backfire as spectacularly as the Terry Schiavo circus did. Seriously, Republicans — you want to rally around the drug-addled gasbag hatemonger in his war against the beloved actor with the debilitating disease — please, by all means, go for it.
Dueling Sad Songs
Having just finished listening to The Dears at Pundit Nation, I offer this sad song for my listener. This YouTube effort includes some sappy pictures, but the music is pure Prine.
Conservatism: A Definition
“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Al-Republican
This is powerful ... by Keith Olberman. Any Republican or conservative who still supports this administration is just as culpable in the Bush administration's continuing effort to frighten and terrorize its fellow citizens.
It's Our Home
Listen to the wombat.
h/t Bob Harris
The Republican National Committee today announced a new series of ads with Rush Limbaugh as the centerpiece. The ads will feature Limbaugh speaking about the need to increase funding for rehab centers for wealthy Republican donors and politicians.
A pre-screening of one of the ads was shown to media representatives on the east and west coasts. Most shocking about the ads was the vision of Limbaugh drooling puddles on his lap. He also fell off his chair twice. The second time he fell while apparently trying to push away from, what was later determined to be, killer butterflys wearing Cubs hats. He also mumbled something about the where-a-bouts of his personal physician or physicians. It was hard to discern.
There was also a question whether the audio was a voice over, and not truly Limbaugh’s voice … considering his mouth was full of saliva and tiny round and white objects, there is some credence to that.
Republicans immediately attacked the media for distorting the ad and ignoring the important message that Limbaugh had to convey. When confronted with the fact the only possible message that could be garnered from the ad was “Don’t take drugs,” and “Rush Limbaugh is a drug-addled sot,” Republican objections soon faded away. However, Democratic candidates across the nation asked for permission to air the ads. As one high-profile candidate said, "We're all for exposing the need for rehab centers."
With Friends Like These ....
Want to know who Big Oil likes the most. Ask Jim Jubak.
Think it's a matter of chance that we don't have a meaningful national energy policy? Wondering why oil and gas companies don't pay higher royalties to the Treasury now that oil is over $55 a barrel? Amazed that Washington loves to talk about energy research with promise 15 years down the road, but won't put significant money into alternative technologies that could reduce energy consumption now?
For answers to all those questions and more, just follow the money. Nothing about U.S. energy policy should be a surprise if you know where the money's been going and which legislators have taken the biggest payouts from the energy industry. So don't miss your only chance in the next two years -- the Nov. 7 election -- to tell Congress what you think of its sellout to the energy companies.
And here's the list of Big Oil's 10 favorite Congress members:
1 - Hutchison, Kay Bailey, R-Texas - Senate - $258,361
2 - Burns, Conrad, R-Mont. - Senate - $188,775
3 - Santorum, Rick, R-Pa. - Senate - $188,120
4 - Bode, Denise, R-Okla. - House $153,650
5 - Allen, George, R-Va. - Senate - $148,600
6 - Talent, James M., R-Mo. - Senate - $147,470
7 - Cornyn, John, R-Texas - Senate - $142,750
8 - Barton, Joe, R-Texas - House - $138,450
9 - Hastert, Dennis, R-Ill. - House - $122,200
10 - Pombo, Richard, R-Calif. - House - $121,340
Data from the FEC as of Sept. 11, 2006. Compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
As Gomer Pyle was often heard to say: “Surprise, surprise, surprise.”
This about Jim Jubak:
Jim Jubak is senior markets editor for MSN Money. Previously, he served as senior financial editor at Worth magazine and as editor of Venture magazine. Jubak was a Bagehot Business Journalism Fellow at Columbia University and has written two books: "The Worth Guide to Electronic Investing" and "In the Image of the Brain: Breaking the Barrier Between the Human Mind and Intelligent Machines." As an investor, he says he believes the conventional wisdom is always wrong -- but that he will nonetheless go with the herd if he believes there's a profit to be made. His column Jubak's Journal appears on MSN Money every Tuesday and Friday. He lives in New York.
Gomer Pyle Does the White Album
A friend e-mailed this to me. I managed to make it half way through before the urge to chew off my arms began to overwhelm me. I offer this Jim Nabors and Leslie Uggams duet from her early 1970s replacement show, for those who are stronger.
No Friend of the Death Penalty
I have been contemplating a post regarding the referendum vote this Novemeber 7 on the death penalty and whether it should be reinstated in Wisconsin. My argument has always been twofold: We should not place ourselves in the role of god (or God, for those annoyed by the small "g") and what if an innocent is executed? There is no going back.
I asked a person I know (staunchly conservative) the question about innocence some time ago and his response was a cold-hearted, "So What. Accidents happen." The answer and its callousness astounded me. I guess I should not have been surprised. Like chickenhawk conservatives who support the fiasco in Iraq from afar, though they could serve, too many conservatives are ready to throw the switch ... damn the consequences.
James Wigderson, author of Wigderson Library & Pub, is different. He has written an excellent piece in the Waukesha Freeman on the demerits of reinstating the death penalty. I initially thought it odd that James would be on the con side of this debate, considering he is a staunch conservative. But thinking it over, his being against the death penalty is consistent with his views, and if there is one thing I know about James it's he is consistent.
How is James consistent? James is consistent in his views on abortion and the death penalty ... in both cases, his belief is to stand with life. Without getting into an abortion debate (we disagree about abortion, though I suspect we have more in common that we think) his consistency is admirable ... an area, in my opinion, in which far too many conservative fall short.
And, to be fair, some liberals.
Who Does He Think He Is? Gandalf?
This is weird. From Jonathan Schwarz at This Modern World.
A short letter to Pennsylvania
Dear Pennsylvania,
Please do not reelect this man to the Senate:
Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the “Eye of Mordor” has been drawn to Iraq instead.
Santorum used the analogy from one of his favorite books, J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1950s fantasy classic “Lord of the Rings,” to put an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq into terms any school kid could easily understand.
“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.
“It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S.,” Santorum continued. “You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”
your friend,Jon
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Ordinary Signalman WILLIAM FOX J/39564, HMS Vanguard, Royal Navy who died age 18 on 9 July 1917. Son of James and Julia Fox, of Recton Rd., Little Dunham. Native of Sporle, Swaffham. CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Private WILLIAM CHARLES GAGE 10250, 6th Dragoons (Inniskilling) who died age 33 on 8 August 1918. Son of William and Susan Gage, of Little Dunham. VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Private HERBERT HORNEY 15407, 2nd Bn., Royal Scots Fusiliers who died age 33 on 23 October 1915. Son of E. and J. Horney, of Little Dunham; husband of Edith Cartwright (formerly Horney), of 4, Eveline View, Whitehall Rd., Leeds. KENSAL GREEN (ALL SOULS') CEMETERY London
Private GEORGE HOWELL 19588, 7th Bn., Norfolk Regiment who died age 29 on 21 September 1917. Son of George John Howell, of Palgrave, Sporle. MONCHY BRITISH CEMETERY, MONCHY-LE-PREUX
Private WILLIAM PEARCE 202969, 1st Bn., Norfolk Regiment who died on 30 October 1917. Born Swaffham. HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
Private ERNEST THOMAS PEARSON 8515, 2nd Bn., Norfolk Regiment who died on 26 July 1915. Born Little Dunham. BASRA MEMORIAL
Private ALFRED CHARLES STEGGLES 240748, 1st/5th Bn., Norfolk Regiment who died age 22 on 19 April 1917. Son of Alfred and Kezia Steggles, of Little Dunham. JERUSALEM MEMORIAL
Private ERNEST STEGGLES 5568, 1st/6th Bn., Durham Light Infantry who died age 19 on 5 November 1916. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Steggles, of Little Dunham. THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
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Able Seaman CHARLES MICHAEL CARTER C/JX172351 HMS Cleopatra who died age 24 on 11 February 1942. Son of Alfred and Ethel Maud Carter; husband of E. M. Carter, of Gaywood, Norfolk. MALTA (CAPUCCINI) NAVAL CEMETERY
Sergeant (Air Bomber) FREDERICK FRANCIS CLARKE 1334192 166 Squadron RAFVR who died on 16 December 1943. HANOVER WAR CEMETERY
International Bomber Command Centre - Losses Database
Pilot Officer EDWARD GEORGE POOLE 105197 RAFVR who died age 29 on 15 November 1941. Son of George Blisset Poole and Edith Annie Poole; husband of Kathleen Marie Bertine Poole, of Upper Norwood, Surrey. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Aircraftman 2nd Class THOMAS WILLIAM WALKER 1237130 RAFVR who died on 5 July 1941. RUNNYMEDE MEMORIAL
Private ALFRED ERNEST WRIGHT 5773834 2nd Bn Royal Norfolk Regiment who died age 24 on 18 May 1944. Son of Frederick William and Rosa Wright, of Little Dunham, Norfolk. KOHIMA WAR CEMETERY
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How Music can Affect our Mood
James Feudo March 27, 2008 October 6, 2008 Inspiration, Motivation 7 Comments
Have you ever paid close attention to the music you listen to? Music is all around us: on the radio, in movies, in our CD/Tape/MP3 player and at events. Music has a powerful way of triggering emotions in us. Sometimes a song will remind us of people, places or events. Other times, the music itself (the key, tempo, style or lyrics) can make us feel a certain way. Some even say that listening to certain types of music (mainly classical) will make you smarter or more productive (the Baby Einstein Company made a fortune out of this concept).
Once you recognize that certain songs or types of music make you feel a certain way, you can use that music to instantly change your emotional state. So if you’re feeling blue, the right music can often cheer you up (or make you feel worse if that’s what you desire).
When I was growing up, I used to see a commercial for a compilation of songs that were a decade or so old frequently advertised on TV. One of the people endorsing it said “listening to those songs is like being with my old friends” and that particular quote stuck in my head – I thought the person in the commercial was just saying it, and I’d often mock him. But when I became a young adult, I actually found that quote to be quite true. Songs started reminding me of certain friends from high school, hanging out in the dorms as college freshman, summers, trips and even parties.
What’s interesting was that many of these songs were songs that I didn’t like at the time, but they eventually grew on me because of the memories attached to them. In many cases, the memories were from a time in my life where I had so many positive feelings. It was a simpler time, less stressful time (before the pressures of career and family set in) and a time of reflection and growth.
Our memories contain so much more than just pictures: sounds, smells, tastes and even feelings can trigger a memory or emotional response. Songs that remind us of happy times can often cheer us up when we’re feeling a bit down. Songs that we used in high school to pump us up for a big sporting event can help us get in the right emotional state prior to an important meeting or event. In fact, 2000 World Champion of Speaking, Darren Lacroix, mentions in his programs that he listened to the “Rocky” soundtrack while waiting to go on stage prior to giving his winning speech. So why can’t we do the same thing?
Something that’s helped me a lot in recent years has been to create various play lists of songs for a particular purpose. I have a list of songs called “motivational” with songs that have lyrics that inspire me. I have another list of songs for working: it includes instrumental music including Pachelbel’s Cannon in D. It not only provides background noise, but an Australian study claims that this song in particular reduces stress.
Other play lists that I use include songs for exercising, songs that cheer me up, songs to remind me of the special people in my life (past & present) and songs that help change my focus when I feel overwhelmed. These play lists sit on my computer and I can easily transfer them to my MP3 player or use them to create CDs. With download services charging as little at 99 cents per song, it’s relatively easy and inexpensive to put together your own play lists (or you can use music that you already own).
So if you ever find yourself in a non-resourceful state, remember that changing your mood can sometimes be as simple as changing the music.
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Tony Papajohn January 14, 2010 at 1:20 am
For a dark comedic treatment of how music connects with the mind, rent “Unfaithfully Yours” (1948) starring Rex Harrison and Linda Darnell. It’s dated, yet is a fascinating treatment of the same principle that Darren Lacroix used with such success.
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CSMM - Lesson 1.4: Advanced Logic and Arithmetic in the Lambda Calculus
tags: csmm, lambda calculus, boolean logic, predicates, logic, arithmetic
Where we were
Last time, we went over the basics of boolean logic and it's manifestation in the \(\lambda\)-calculus. This time, we'll move those basics into the realm of numbers and start testing for things such as equality and difference. We'll also see the first hint of a data structure: the pair. And we'll provide the missing subtraction function, along the way (division is still too difficult, but we'll get there in time).
A bit of review
Before we start this lesson, it's probably a good idea to collect the various named functions we've encountered up until this point.
First, some basic ones:
$$I := \lambda x.x$$ $$\omega := \lambda x.xx$$ $$\Omega := \omega \omega$$
Next up, the Church numerals:
$$0 := \lambda sz.z$$ $$1 := \lambda sz.sz$$ $$2 := \lambda sz.s(sz)$$ $$3 := \lambda sz.s(s(sz))$$ $$...$$
And some arithmetic functions for working with Church numerals:
$$S := \lambda wyx.y(wyx)$$ $$+ := \lambda ab.aSb$$ $$\times := \lambda ab.a(+b)0$$ $$E := \lambda ab.ba$$
And finally, some boolean logic:
$$T := \lambda xy.x$$ $$F := \lambda xy.y$$ $$\neg := \lambda x.xFT$$ $$\land := \lambda xy.xyF$$ $$\lor := \lambda xy.xTy$$
Keep these handy, we'll be using most of them for the rest of the \(\lambda\)-calculus lessons.
They come in twos
Alright, moving on to pairs. Pairs are useful for many things, and are fairly simple to use in the \(\lambda\)-calculus.
As with everything else in the \(\lambda\)-calculus, a pair is just a function. Say you wanted to make a pair containing \(3\) and \(1\). The function representing this pair would be as follows:
$$\lambda f.f31$$
There is a helper function to create such pairs, called \(\Phi\). It is defined like this:
$$\Phi := \lambda abf.fab$$
Such that creating the pair above would be as simple as:
$$\Phi 31$$ $$(\lambda abf.fab)31$$ $$(\lambda bf.f3b)1$$ $$\lambda f.f31$$
So we can see that we can write a pair of elements \(x\) and \(y\) as \((\Phi xy)\), with the parentheses serving to ensure the correct associativity.
So, we know how to create pairs now. How do we get their parts? Turns out, we already have the tools for this in the form of \(T\) and \(F\). For example, to get the first part of \((\Phi 31)\), we do the following:
$$(\Phi 31)T$$ $$((\lambda abf.fab)31)T$$ $$((\lambda bf.f3b)1)T$$ $$(\lambda f.f31)T$$ $$T31$$ $$(\lambda xy.x)31$$ $$(\lambda y.3)1$$ $$3$$
And to get the second, we do this:
$$(\Phi 31)F$$ $$((\lambda abf.fab)31)F$$ $$((\lambda bf.f3b)1)F$$ $$(\lambda f.f31)F$$ $$F31$$ $$(\lambda xy.y)31$$ $$(\lambda y.y)1$$ $$1$$
So, \(T\) extracts the first element of a pair, and \(F\) can pull out the second. Neat.
So, why the seemingly random diversion? Well... we're about to create a few functions that use pairs to perform some tricky work.
What comes before...
This section will actually step through two functions, one which takes in a pair \((m, n)\) and returns \((n, n+1)\), and one which finds the predecessor of a given Church numeral.
The first function, \(\oplus\), operates on pairs, providing a sort of climbing upwards.
$$\oplus := \lambda x.\Phi(xF)(S(xF))$$
Let's test this out. We're going to provide it the pair \((\Phi 11)\) and it should return the pair \((\Phi 12)\). As we've already seen how \(F\) works on pairs and how \(S\) works on Church numerals, I will not be writing the complete long-form of this \(\beta\)-reduction, rather I will be substituting results in where they belong.
$$\oplus (\Phi 11)$$ $$(\lambda x.\Phi(xF)(S(xF)))(\Phi 11)$$ $$\Phi((\Phi 11)F)(S((\Phi 11)F))$$ $$\Phi(1)(S((\Phi 11)F))$$ $$\Phi(1)(S(1))$$ $$\Phi 12$$
And we see it works! For good measure, let's plug that result in, hoping for \((\Phi 23)\).
So, now we can increment a pair of numbers. How does this help us? Well, now we have an easy way to find the predecessor of a Church numeral! There are other formulations for the predecessor function, but this one is in my opinion the easiest to understand once you have the fundamentals down. It's defined like this:
$$P := \lambda x.(x \oplus(\Phi 00))T$$
So... what does this function mean? How does it work?
It takes in a single Church numeral, \(x\), and applies the \(\oplus\) function \(x\) times to the pair \((\Phi 00)\), and then takes the resulting function and returns the first element. Applying the \(\oplus\) function to \((\Phi 00)\) one time gives us \((\Phi 01)\), applying it another time (for a total of two applications) to that result gives us \((\Phi 12)\), and applying it \(x\) times will give us a result of \((\Phi yx)\), where \(y\) is the Church numeral immediately preceeding \(x\). Taking the first element of this pair will give us \(y\), the predecessor of \(x\)!
Here it is in action, finding the predecessor of \(3\). Again, I've omitted certain details, including the applications of \(\oplus\).
$$P3$$ $$(\lambda x.(x \oplus(\Phi 00))T)3$$ $$(3 \oplus(\Phi 00))T$$ $$(\oplus (\oplus (\oplus (\Phi 00))))T$$ $$(\oplus (\oplus (\Phi 01)))T$$ $$(\oplus (\Phi 12))T$$ $$(\Phi 23)T$$ $$2$$
One thing to note is that Church encoding has no concept of negative numbers. Our \(P\) function handles this in the following way:
$$P0$$ $$(\lambda x.(x \oplus(\Phi 00))T)0$$ $$(0 \oplus(\Phi 00))T$$ $$(\Phi 00)T$$ $$0$$
That is, the predecessor of \(0\) is \(0\). This will come in handy later.
Subtraction, at last
With \(P\) under our belt at last, subtraction is pretty easy to define now.
$$- := \lambda ab.bPa$$
This works much like \(+\) does, in that to perform \(3-2\), you're actually trying to find the second predecessor of three.
$$-32$$ $$(\lambda ab.bPa)32$$ $$(\lambda b.bP3)2$$ $$2P3$$ $$P(P3)$$ $$P2$$ $$1$$
And it's done. Simple as cake.
A foundational predicate
Alright, we're going to define our first predicate, which is a function which performs some sort of test on its inputs, and returns either a \(T\) or a \(F\). The predicate we are going to define will test whether or not a given Church numeral is equal to \(0\). It's defined like so:
$$Z := \lambda a.aF\neg F$$
Let's test it out:
$$Z0$$ $$(\lambda a.aF\neg F)0$$ $$0F\neg F$$ $$(\lambda sz.z)F\neg F$$ $$(\lambda z.z)\neg F$$ $$\neg F$$ $$T$$
So, it returns \(T\) if you provide it \(0\), as it should. How about other cases?
$$Z2$$ $$(\lambda a.aF\neg F)2$$ $$2F\neg F$$ $$(\lambda sz.s(sz))F\neg F$$ $$(\lambda z.F(Fz))\neg F$$ $$(F(F\neg))F$$ $$(F((\lambda xy.y)\neg))F$$ $$(F(\lambda y.y))F$$ $$(FI)F$$ $$((\lambda xy.y)I)F$$ $$(\lambda y.y)F$$ $$IF$$ $$F$$
So, testing on \(2\), it returns \(F\), as it should. But why?
This again relies upon the inherent properties of the Church numerals. If you provide \(Z\) a Church numeral \(N\), then it applies \(F\) a total of \(N\) times to \(\neg\). But \(F\) applied to anything provides you \(I\), the identity function. For any number \(N\) which is not \(0\), \(ZN\) will simplify to \(IF\), which simplifies to \(F\). When \(N\) equals \(0\), on the other hand, \(F\) is never applied, allowing \(Z0\) to simplify to \(\neg F\), which by definition simplifies to \(T\). Pretty beautiful, huh?
Why did we define this predicate? We'll see soon. It is vital in defining subtraction and many other useful predicates we'll need later.
More predicates, in rapid succession!
Alright, with \(Z\) defined, we're ready to make some more predicates. These will all build off of one another in a natural progression, so they shouldn't be too hard to absorb.
Let's start with something that utilizes \(P\)'s property that \(P0 = 0\).
How about \(\leq\)?
$$\leq := \lambda ab.Z(-ab)$$
This tests whether \(a\) is less than or equal to \(b\), by subtracting \(b\) from \(a\). If \(-ab\) is \(0\), then we know that \(b\) must be equal to or greater than \(a\). Pretty simple.
Here it is showing that \(3\) is greater than \(1\) $$\leq 31$$ $$(\lambda ab.Z(-ab))31$$ $$(\lambda b.Z(-3b))1$$ $$Z(-31)$$ $$Z2$$ $$F$$
And here it is showing that \(1\) is less than or equal to \(1\).
$$\leq 11$$ $$(\lambda ab.Z(-ab))11$$ $$(\lambda b.Z(-1b))1$$ $$Z(-11)$$ $$Z0$$ $$T$$
As you might imagine, \(\geq\) is pretty similar:
$$\geq := \lambda ab.Z(-ba)$$
I'm not going to show \(\geq\) in action, as it's extremely similar to \(\leq\).
With both \(\leq\) and \(\geq\), we can now test for equality! Since \(m = n\) if and only if \(m \leq n\) and \(m \geq n\), we have what we need to define \(=\).
$$= := \lambda ab.\land(\leq ab)(\geq ab)$$
Let's test it:
$$=12$$ $$(\lambda ab.\land(\leq ab)(\geq ab))12$$ $$(\lambda b.\land(\leq 1b)(\geq 1b))2$$ $$\land(\leq 12)(\geq 12)$$ $$\land T(\geq 12)$$ $$\land TF$$ $$F$$
And on one that should pass:
$$=44$$ $$(\lambda ab.\land(\leq ab)(\geq ab))44$$ $$(\lambda b.\land(\leq 4b)(\geq 4b))4$$ $$\land(\leq 44)(\geq 44)$$ $$\land T(\geq 44)$$ $$\land TT$$ $$T$$
Cool. So, now with \(\leq\), \(\geq\) and \(=\), we can define the last two predicates: \(<\) and \(>\). They're no surprise, if you realize that a \(m < n\) if and only if \(m \leq m\) and \(\neg(m = n)\). \(<\) reflects this:
$$< := \lambda ab.\land(\neg(=ab))(\leq ab)$$
Let's give it a shot:
$$<23$$ $$(\lambda ab.\land(\neg(=ab))(\leq ab))23$$ $$(\lambda b.\land(\neg(=2b))(\leq 2b))3$$ $$\land(\neg(=23))(\leq 23)$$ $$\land(\neg F)(\leq 23)$$ $$\land T(\leq 23)$$ $$\land TT$$ $$T$$
How about equality?
$$<33$$ $$(\lambda ab.\land(\neg(=ab))(\leq ab))33$$ $$(\lambda b.\land(\neg(=3b))(\leq 3b))3$$ $$\land(\neg(=33))(\leq 33)$$ $$\land(\neg T)(\leq 33)$$ $$\land F(\leq33)$$ $$\land FT$$ $$F$$
Again, as you probably have guessed, \(>\) is much the same:
$$> := \lambda ab.\land(\neg(=ab))(\geq ab)$$
And with that, we have everything we need to keep moving closer to an actual program in the \(\lambda\)-calculus!
We sure blew through a lot of material with this lesson, and I hope it wasn't too much. But if you've been following along with the previous lessons, nothing here should be too tricky to figure out with a bit of study.
I've posted your homework here.
See you soon for lesson 1.5!
Next lesson: here
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(May 2011, Jenniffier SHIELDS HAWES)
Original Wood from Atoka School House
(Shirley Oligney Baker)
History of Atoka Cemetery
Welcome Cemetery Genealogy Homecomings Photos Management Support Contact Politeness Location History Local History Tour Guide
On this page: Local History; Cemetery History, including Texas Historical Marker
Latest update: Monday, June 13, 2011
• "It is not known just when the Atoka school started, but some of the early settlers thought it started in the mid 1870's. Rev.
R.F. Mitchell who arrived in Atoka community in 1882 said there was a building at the Atoka Cemetery in the 70's. Most of
his children went to school there..." "Atoka... Early Settlement: Atoka Schools" article by Jack Shield
• "As the land was sold and people started to come there was a store, school, church and Masonic Lodge Hall built at Atoka. A
cemetery had been started." "Atoka... Early Settlement: Charlie PARKER" article by Jack Shields
• "In the early 1870’s, a large building was built and a cemetery was started at Atoka. It is probable that the land was donated
by the early Parker settlers." Atoka School by Violet G. Tyson from A History of Coleman County and Its People, 1985
• "The Atoka Cemetery was probably the first community type service or place to come about in Atoka Country. Possibly, the
first person buried there was a Mexican child (only blank stones mark the early graves). There are about 50 unmarked graves
total. Another story says the first grave was a cowboy who worked for Rev. Childress or a man who was buried just west of
the present cemetery area. This was around 1870 (?)" History of Atoka presented by Bill SHIELDS at the Annual
Homecoming, May 2010.
"When the building [Atoka School]
became unfit for use, it was torn
down and some of the lumber was
used to build a structure with just a
roof covering a table and benches.
It is in one corner of the cemetery
lot." Atoka School from A History of
Coleman County and Its People,
• Texas Historical Commission: Historical Marker #232, 1996
The Texas Historical Marker for Atoka Cemetery was dedicated to Jack SHIELDS during the 1996 Annual Homecoming.
• Marker Title: Atoka Cemetery
• City: Novice
• Year Marker Erected: 1996
• Marker Location: From Novice take FM 1770 3 miles west.
Turn north onto county road and continue about 1 mile
to cemetery on the left fork of the road.
• Marker Text: "Settlement of this area began in the 1850s with the establishment of
Camp Colorado, a United States cavalry outpost. At the outbreak of the Civil War the
camp was occupied by Texas State Troops and Texas Ranger units. The existence
of the camp spurred permanent settlement in the area, and many families moved
here from the southern United States after the Civil War. The settlers established
farms and ranches, and the Atoka community included a general store operated by
D.A. Parker and S.N. Edenborough, a combination church/school building, and a
cotton gin built by D.A. Parker. This cemetery was established in 1880 on land
deeded by C.E. Bush. Among the early pioneers buried here are the Rev. Hugh
Martin Childress, Sr., a former Texas Ranger and Republic of Texas soldier; his son,
Elisha Childress, who served as the first Coleman County sheriff; veterans of the Civil
War; and several workers killed in an explosion that occurred during the construction
of a Santa Fe Railroad bridge across Jim Ned Creek in 1910. The cemetery, which is
maintained by an association of descendants of those buried here, is one of the few
physical reminders of the Atoka community and its pioneer settlers. (1996)"
Internet References to Historical Marker
Texas Historic Sites Atlas
Fort Tours
Cemeteries of Texas
9Key Geocashing
Atoka Cemetery Association, 1850 FM 1770, Novice, Texas 79538, Email
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Welcome to Collide
Food and art collide at this new East Austin space opening soon
Burger News
Favorite Austin restaurant team rolls out juicy burger outpost
Delicious new restaurant opens soon at top Austin museum
By Nicole Raney
The team behind Delicious will helm the Bullock's new cafe. Photo by Ashlyn Allison
Last year the Bullock Texas State History Museum announced a search for a new operator of its in-house restaurant and cafe — and the choice has been made. Raj Singh, the owner of Delicious on South Lamar Boulevard, will be at the helm when the eatery opens in February.
Expect Texas favorites and twists on comfort food. Like its sister restaurant, the Bullock cafe will focus on locally sourced ingredients and healthy, but tasty, food.
"We're very pleased to have the amazing team from Delicious craft a new, 21st century museum cafe experience," interim museum director Margaret Koch says in a release. "They've made a commitment to provide the best service and affordable sustenance for visitors of all ages. It's a perfect fit for the Bullock Museum, one we hope will also make the cafe a destination in itself."
The museum's central location — next to the University of Texas at Austin campus and near the Texas State Capitol — combined with 450,000 annual visitors means a built-in audience for the restaurant.
The 6,800-square-foot space was redesigned by Verokolt, the firm responsible for the signature look of Elm Restaurant Group's Easy Tiger, 24 Diner, and Irene's. The cafe comes with enough seating for 150-plus diners, indoors and out.
Bullock's new restaurant will be open during museum hours (typically 9 am-5 pm Monday through Saturday, noon-5 pm Sunday).
East Austin scoops anticipated second location of popular gelato shop
Bullock Texas State History Museum presents "This Light of Ours: Activist Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement" opening day
Bullock Texas State History Museum presents "Fashion Forward" closing day
Bullock Texas State History Museum presents "Mystery and Benevolence" opening day
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ABI/INFORM Collection (access via LU Library)
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A comprehensive database of more than 150,000 e-books and other authoritative materials.
MS Project (LU Computer Lab)
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This web site has job listings, a place to post a resume, and other resources.
Search a database of jobs by job type, industry, company, keyword, geographic region, and more.
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She (1984) Blu-ray Review: Post Apocalyptic Nonsense
A low budget, low frills, completely ridiculous, and totally awesome early '80s masterpiece.
By Mat Brewster on December 22, 2019 2:35 PM |
I wonder if you could draw a line from the sword and sandal epics from the early 1960s to the post-apocalyptic movies of the 1980s. In other words, did movies like Spartacus and Hercules in the Haunted World influence films like Mad Max, The Beastmaster, and the movie I’m currently reviewing, She. All of these films feature both men and women in revealing costumes, whether it be form-fitting togas, short skirts with those feather-looking pterugas (and who says you don’t learn new words when writing movie reviews?), or general leg- and navel-bearing clothing. They do battle against hordes of evil with swords and axes no matter the actual time setting. While the sword and sandal pictures were set in the past, the post-apacalyptic movies are naturally set in the future amongst radiation, mutants, and lots more violence and nudity. But there definitely seems to be a connection between the two. Seriously, if you are a freelance writer, I think I just came up with a pitch for you.
She falls directly into the so-bad-it’s-good category. The script is incoherent, the acting a mess, and the directing sloppy, but it is so goofy, so ridiculously bad that I had a great time watching it. This is a film that features mummy-wrapped mutants, toga-wearing vampires, laser-eyed gods, and a gaggle of Nazis and commies, and yet not one lick of sense. It is a film which names three of its characters Tom, Dick, and Hari, and another one simply She, the latter of which is a goddess though the only superpower she seems to possess is an ability to reveal her belly button in every shot.
Ahem. Opening titles inform us the story takes place 23 years after something called The Cancellation, which presumably was a nuclear war. It definitely created a near world-ending apocalyptic event and since we run into some radiated mutants presumably that event involved a nuclear disaster of some sort, but the ins and outs of The Cancellation are pretty vague. We find Tom (David Gross), Dick (Harrison Muller) and Hari (Elena Wiedermann) wandering the countryside when they are attacked by a group of Swastika-wearing bad guys. I presume they are Nazis because of the Swastikas but they spout no ideology and the rest of their costumes look like something the production team picked up at a rummage sale - there are football helmets with spikes glued onto them, Roman centurion headgear, magician’s caps, and an assortment of whips and swords. They kidnap the girl and flee into the vast wastelands.
Dick and Tom, sans Hari, spend the rest of the film’s run time on a quest to rescue the girl, running into an assortment of oddballs, screwballs, and general nasties out to kill them. First up is She (Sandahl Bergman), goddess to a beautiful tribe of women. Initially, they try to capture our heroes but after consulting with the local oracle She decides to give the boys some help.
To give an example of the sheer perfection of lunacy this film brings, to consult with the oracle She enters into a roomful of boxes of which various bad guys burst out of to attack her. One has to wonder how long they were in those boxes, and who put them in there in the first place? Did they have snacks? She disposes of them fairly easily, then consults with the seer while taking a bath in a cave. The bath acts as some kind of recharging power, but since She never presents any mystical powers one quickly realizes the bath's true purpose - getting Sandahl Bergman to take her top off.
She (I capitalize the “S” in that word both because it begins this sentence but also it is her proper name, all of which makes me wonder what pronouns she uses) follows the boys and brings along her own bodyguard Shanda (Quintillion’s Kessler) and the four finally begin the episodic quest to save Hari. They run into the aforementioned vampires who live in an idyllic community of pleasure which seems like paradise until the sun goes down and the blood-sucking begins. Later, they find another town filled with Stalin-esque posters and guards wearing hammer and sickle insignias all in praise of Gordan (Gregory Snegoff), the god who can throw people with his mind when his eyes glow. One presumes his powers are from the radiation and not some unknown spiritual power pack, but who knows with this film?
There’s a group of Nukes who are all wrapped in bandages and might be radioactive but they are disposed of so quickly it is hard to care. They do carry chainsaws which makes one wonder about guns in this world. I mean if they have the technology and fuel for chainsaws why don’t they have guns? Then there is a mad scientist who puts our heroes inside these plastic bags that hang from the ceiling. He and his giant, tutu-wearing partner are up to no good but they are taken care of at nap time with a little house fire.
It all wraps up with an epic battle against the Nazis. And when I say "epic," I mean the most horribly staged fight I’ve ever seen put on film. It is the ridiculously bad conclusion to a movie I cannot believe actually got made. How anyone read this nonsense script and gave it a green light is beyond me. How they then saw the final film and gave it more money to distribute the film must have been an act of one of the film's many gods. However, it came to be one has to rejoice for it is rare to find such glorious garbage to watch these days, and in high definition no less.
Kino Lorber presents She with a 1080 p transfer and a 1.85:1 aspect ratio. Extras include an interview with writer director Avi Nesher and several trailers.
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sandahl bergman,
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The 7 Things Gay Travelers Shouldn't Miss on a Trip to NYC
On 25 August 2017 by Chelsey Grasso
New York City has long been a supporter of the LGBTQ community, and if you’re gay and planning a visit to the city, then you’re in for a treat. Rounded up below are 7 “must-dos” if you’re in Manhattan and looking for a memorable time. From visiting the famed Stonewall Inn to catching a local drag show, check out our top 7 picks for gay travelers coming to New York.
Best of NYC Gay Visits: The Stonewall Inn (West Village)
Image: NCPA Photos/Flickr
Make a visit to the place “where pride began.” The Stonewall Inn is an important part of gay pride history, and it’s still a popular destination for modern New Yorkers today. Get your photo in front of the famed brick exterior before heading in to grab a drink and take in the game-changing establishment that surrounds you. 53 Christopher St., 212-488-2705, thestonewallinnnyc.com
Best of NYC Gay Visits: Temerario (Chelsea)
Probably the most famous gay neighborhood in NYC is Chelsea, with Eighth Avenue serving as an LGBTQ "main street." Local residents and visitors alike can enjoy a full range of food and drink here. Temerario brings a bold interpretation of Mexican food to Chelsea. The focus here is applying creative takes on foods that are a part of daily life in Mexico. Inventive speciality cocktails and a vast selection of tequilas and mezcals complete the beverage program. Street-side graffiti and striking interior murals of luchadores symbolize pride in the strength of Mexican culture. Open seven days for lunch and dinner, on top of weekend brunch and happy hour. 198 Eighth Ave. (20th St.), 212-645-2100, temerarionyc.com
Best of NYC Gay Visits: Don't Tell Mama (Theatre District)
New York is famous for its Broadway talent and for its cabaret scene. You'll find both at Midtown legend Don’t Tell Mama, which boasts a piano bar, restaurant, and two separate cabaret shows, making for a fun-filled night that you’ll never forget. You also never know who you might run into once you’ve walked through their doors, with icons such as Liza Minnelli, Paul Newman, Bette Midler, and Kristin Chenoweth all having stopped by in the past. From comedy to spoken word, the shows you’ll catch on stage at Don’t Tell Mama cover every genre one could possibly imagine. Talk about variety! 343 W. 46th St., 212-757-0788, donttellmamanyc.com
Best of NYC Gay Visits: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (SoHo)
There’s plenty of investigating, exploring, and enjoyment to be had at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. 26 Wooster St., 212-431-2609, leslielohman.org
Best of NYC Gay Visits: Lamano (Hell's Kitchen)
In addition to the West Village and Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen is also a great neighborhood for visitors to find superior food and drink. One place to check out is the intimate Spanish tapas and wine bar concept Lamano. With stellar menus from consulting chef Jose Fuentes, of Madrid’s renowned Kulto restaurant, Lamano offers classics from all regions of Spain alongside tempting modern dishes. Spanish and Latino wines, many of them organic and biodynamic, along with an array of artisanal cocktails and craft beers, complement the food in an alluring ambience. 688 10th Ave. (48 St.), 646-559-0989; Chelsea: 265 W. 20th St. (Eighth Ave.), 212-741-2398; West Village: 39 Christopher St. (Waverly Pl.), 212-243-3200, lamanonyc.com
Best of NYC Gay Visits: Lips (Midtown East)
If you want to see some of New York City’s best drag, then there really is no place that compares with Lips NYC. The number one drag show for over 20 years, this establishment offers nightly drag queen shows for its wining and dining guests. Along with a spectacular performance, Lips NYC also has an exquisite menu, including items such as lobster ravioli and filet mignon. 227 E. 56th St., 212-675-7710, lipsnyc.com
Best of NYC Gay Visits: Elmo (Chelsea)
With a fashionable interior, American comfort food, a bustling bar, and a large clientele of LGBT patrons, Elmo is so much more than just a restaurant. Of course, the amazing food menu and drink list aren’t to be glazed over either. Entrees include the likes of Prince Edward Island mussel frites, slow-braised chicken tacos, and miso-glazed salmon. Also be sure to try out their signature cocktails, including the watermelon martini and blood orange cosmo. 156 Seventh Ave., 212-337-8000, elmorestaurant.com
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New York City doesn’t get much better than a sunny day in Central Park. Here are several options for your picnic, whether you’re looking for a DIY feel, a grill-out day with restaurant steaks, or a concierge picnic service.
A natural when it’s hot out—but even before the summer starts, dessert fans flock to these way-outside-the-cone iced treat venues in NYC. Far from ordinary, these sweets are artisanal and highly Instagrammable, which helps explain their popularity.
It’s all the coffee you can handle, and then some. The new Starbucks Reserve Roastery in the Meatpacking District is much more than a typical Starbucks cafe. Opened in December 2018, this three-level coffee emporium is outfitted with two coffee bars, a cocktail bar, a bakery, and a retail shop.
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Memorial: The late life-member Kojiro Nishikawa (1896-1990);Late life-member Kojiro Nishikawa (1896-1990)
THE LATE LIFE-MEMBER
KOJIRO NISHIKAWA (1896-1990)
And one man in his time plays many parts
(Shakespeare)
Kojiro Nishikawa, former Professor of
the College of Commerce, Nihon University,
passed away on August 28, 1990, as
he neared the age of 94. Nishikawa was
graduated from Kobe Commercial College
(present Kobe University) in 1920
and began his career as an employee of
Mitsubishi Corporation, one of the largest
trading companies in Japan. In 1931, Professor
Nishikawa became the head of the
accounting section of Mitsubishi Oil Company,
Ltd. As a young merchant,
Nishikawa worked at the Seattle and New
York branches of Mitsubishi Corporation.
In 1943 at 47 years of age, Paymaster Second
Lieutenant Nishikawa was called into
the army. Excluding the 2 years and 8
months in Java during the War, he was
a businessman until 1964. Mitsubishi Oil
had promoted him to the positions of
treasurer and director.
There is no accounting for tastes. As a
person, Nishikawa was born with a collection
mania. From his youth, he gathered
Japanese books of double-entry bookkeeping
which were first issued in 1873. He
burned the midnight oil to research them.
His hobby entranced him and provided
the entry for him into academic circles. He
was called "the well of the study in the
Japanese accounting history from the introduction
of Western bookkeeping
method into Japan." Yet most accountants
neglected the significance of this
theme. His ceaseless efforts and strict attitude
towards this study made him an
authority on accounting history. The College
of Commerce, Keio Gijuku University,
invited him to be a part-time lecturer
from 1952 to 1968. Nihon University appointed
him as a professor of the College
of Commerce in 1964, where he taught
until 1980.
Dr. Nishikawa before his speech "On the Data
of Study In Japanese History" at the JAA Annual
Nishikawa unveiled hidden records and
wrote many books and papers in accounting
history. The Story of Japanese Bookkeeping
History, published in 1971, was
his masterpiece. In the same year, Nihon
Shinbun-sha, noted publisher of business
newspapers, bestowed a reward upon him
for his distinguished services to the
"Publication Culture." The Japan Accounting
Association prize was awarded
him for his study of William C. Whitney,
which he wrote in 1959 when he was still
an auditor. William C. Whitney
18 The Accounting Historians Notebook, Spring, 1991
Title Memorial: The late life-member Kojiro Nishikawa (1896-1990)
Late life-member Kojiro Nishikawa (1896-1990)
Author Kimizuka, Yoshiro
Subject Nishikawa, Kojiro
Nishikawa, Kojiro -- Portraits
Portraits -- Nishikawa, Kojiro
Portrait Nishikawa, Kojiro
Geographic Location Japan
Abstract Kojiro Nishikawa, former Professor of the College of Commerce, Nihon University, passed away on August 28, 1990, as he neared the age of 94. Nishikawa was graduated from Kobe Commercial College (present Kobe University) in 1920 and began his career as an employee of Mitsubishi Corporation, one of the largest trading companies in Japan. In 1931, Professor Nishikawa became the head of the accounting section of Mitsubishi Oil Company, Ltd. As a young merchant, Nishikawa worked at the Seattle and New York branches of Mitsubishi Corporation. In 1943 at 47 years of age, Paymaster Second Lieutenant Nishikawa was called into the army. Excluding the 2 years and 8 months in Java during the War, he was a businessman until 1964. Mitsubishi Oil had promoted him to the positions of treasurer and director.
Citation Accounting Historians Notebook, 1991, Vol. 14, no. 1 (spring), pp. 18-19
Format PDF page image with corrected OCR scanned at 400 dpi (302 KB)
Collection University of Mississippi Library. Accounting Collection
Identifier notebook spring 1991-p.18
Description-Abstract MEMORIAL THE LATE LIFE-MEMBER KOJIRO NISHIKAWA (1896-1990) And one man in his time plays many parts (Shakespeare) Kojiro Nishikawa, former Professor of the College of Commerce, Nihon University, passed away on August 28, 1990, as he neared the age of 94. Nishikawa was graduated from Kobe Commercial College (present Kobe University) in 1920 and began his career as an employee of Mitsubishi Corporation, one of the largest trading companies in Japan. In 1931, Professor Nishikawa became the head of the accounting section of Mitsubishi Oil Company, Ltd. As a young merchant, Nishikawa worked at the Seattle and New York branches of Mitsubishi Corporation. In 1943 at 47 years of age, Paymaster Second Lieutenant Nishikawa was called into the army. Excluding the 2 years and 8 months in Java during the War, he was a businessman until 1964. Mitsubishi Oil had promoted him to the positions of treasurer and director. There is no accounting for tastes. As a person, Nishikawa was born with a collection mania. From his youth, he gathered Japanese books of double-entry bookkeeping which were first issued in 1873. He burned the midnight oil to research them. His hobby entranced him and provided the entry for him into academic circles. He was called "the well of the study in the Japanese accounting history from the introduction of Western bookkeeping method into Japan." Yet most accountants neglected the significance of this theme. His ceaseless efforts and strict attitude towards this study made him an authority on accounting history. The College of Commerce, Keio Gijuku University, invited him to be a part-time lecturer from 1952 to 1968. Nihon University appointed him as a professor of the College of Commerce in 1964, where he taught until 1980. Dr. Nishikawa before his speech "On the Data of Study In Japanese History" at the JAA Annual Meeting. Nishikawa unveiled hidden records and wrote many books and papers in accounting history. The Story of Japanese Bookkeeping History, published in 1971, was his masterpiece. In the same year, Nihon Shinbun-sha, noted publisher of business newspapers, bestowed a reward upon him for his distinguished services to the "Publication Culture." The Japan Accounting Association prize was awarded him for his study of William C. Whitney, which he wrote in 1959 when he was still an auditor. William C. Whitney 18 The Accounting Historians Notebook, Spring, 1991
Memorial: The late life-member Kojiro Nishikawa...
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Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
Thread: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
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Prodded by adverse comments from friends, I have tried to explain my reasoning for why i referred to this "bounty" as a farce (not because the US is non-serious but because the messaging is so bad): http://www.brownpundits.com/the-hafiz-saeed-farce/
LeT Recruits From Pakistan’s ‘Best and Brightest’
An in depth CTC research paper 'The Fighters of Lashkar‐e‐Taiba: Recruitment,
Training, Deployment and Death', published yesterday; hat tip to Circling the Lion for a reminder.
The Executive Summary opens with:
This paper is a study of over 900 biographies of the deceased militants of Lashkar‐e‐Taiba (LeT), a Pakistani militant group that has waged a campaign of asymmetric warfare against Indian security forces and civilians in the contested region of Kashmir for over two decades, as well as other parts of India more recently. (Later it explains)Specific emphasis is placed on providing insights into the following four research questions:
1) What is the general background of LeT’s localfighters?
2) How and from where are these fighters recruited?
3) What level of training do these fighters have and where were they trained?
4) Where exactly do LeT’s fighters die?
There is a lot of data to absorb in the sixty pages.
From the conclusion:
This research contributes to the evolving body of literature that suggests that poverty, limited education and time spent at a madrassa are poor predictors for determining either support for terrorism or participation in terrorism in Pakistan.
Which appeared on this SWC thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=16304
Link:http://www.ctc.usma.edu/wp-content/u...-LeT_Final.pdf
For other comments on the research see: and http://www.propublica.org/article/te...-and-brightest
What strikes me is that based on 917 LeT combatants killed between 1989-2008, based on their published biographies, and the speculation that LeT has trained far more, from the low tens of thousands to two hundred thousand, that is a remarkably low loss rate. Which once again, IIRC as Stephen Tankel concluded in his book, LeT is not about fighting, but the political struggle within Pakistan - leaving aside its long suspected role as a resource for Pakistan's not so covert conflict with India and maybe others.
See a parallel thread on militants giving up:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=15691
A reminder of LeT's role in Afghanistan from 'The Long War Journal':
The "senior Lashkar-e-Taiba leader" and "a number of other insurgents" were captured in the district of Andar in Ghazni, the International Security Assistance Force stated in a press release. ISAF did not identify the nationality of the leader or the "other insurgents" captured during the raid.
The Lashkar-e-Taiba leader "planned and participated in multiple attacks against Afghan and Coalition forces throughout Kunar, Kandahar and Ghazni provinces" and "was actively planning a high-profile attack at the time of his arrest."
Link:http://www.longwarjournal.org/archiv...res_lashka.php
It must be a LeT day, as there is another new thread on them.
The 'Rambo factor' in recruiting terrorists
For Ajmal Amir Kasab, the LeT recruit who killed - with another - fifty-eight commuters @ Mumbai train station, his actions were:
It [jihad] is about killing and getting killed and becoming famous.
I recommend you read this superb long article, using Kasab's own testimony, as the only gunman captured alive after the Mumbai massacre in 2008:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...a-monster.html
Dr Christine Fair, a terrorism expert from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, who has studied the recruitment of young men into terrorist organisations, describes the appeal of LeT to young Pakistani potential recruits as its having the 'Rambo factor – even more of the “wow” factor than al-Qaeda’.
Personally I think CT professionals, let alone the public and others undervalue the non-Jihad aspects of the recruiting process. I recall Germans were recruited for an IMU camp in the FATA for "a summer vacation with guns".
There are threads on the 'Mumbai Attacks and their impact' at:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ead.php?t=6345
Last edited by davidbfpo; 05-01-2018 at 12:09 PM. Reason: This post with 800 views was in a stand-alone thread till today
An update by Christine Fair on the LeT's non-lethal "social work":
,,offers a different take on LeT, describing how the organization has embraced social welfare activities since 9/11 and, with the cooperation of the Pakistani state, has successfully rebranded itself as a more benign entity, even as it maintains its violent role.
Link:http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/12/t.../#.UsHCTvsXluj
The Lashkar's Empire of Jihad
An article on SWJ Blog by Christine Fair, who writes regularly on LeT and two passages cited:
The Pakistan army and the intelligence agency it runs, the Interservices Intelligence Directorate or ISI, did not create the LeT; but they did believe that LeT, with its demonstrable superior capabilities, would intensify the conflict in Kashmir and expand the geographical expanse of the insurgency. From the early 1990s, the ISI and the Pakistan army invested heavily in LeT. The army helped to build LeT's military apparatus specifically for use against India and it designed LeT' military training regime. It co-located army and ISI personnel at LeT training bases to help execute the regime and to train the organization's trainers and this remains true to date. All senior leadership have ISI handlers, even Saeed himself. Pakistan's investments paid off: within a few years LeT became the biggest challenge to the Indian security forces in Kashmir prior to the introduction of the Jaish-e-Mohammad many years later. In 1999 LeT introduced a new kind of attack in Indian-administered Kashmir: the fidayeen attack (also spelled fedayeen). By introducing the fidayeen attack, the LeT and its Pakistani handlers aimed to reverse a three-year decline in militant activity in Indian-administered Kashmir. LeT's fidayeen missions are not "suicide attacks;" rather, high-risk missions in which well-trained commandos engage in fierce combat during which dying is preferable to being captured…
Last edited by davidbfpo; 09-12-2015 at 08:25 AM. Reason: Copied from SWJ Blog
Pakistan and militants: collaboration, benign neglect, belligerence plus
Hat tip to WoTR for the superb SME Stephen Tankel's article 'Pakistani Militants and the State: friends, foes and frenemies'. A topic that is in several threads.
The donor journal's Abstract:
States commonly take one of three approaches to militant groups on their soil: collaboration; benign neglect; or belligerence. All three approaches are present in Pakistan, where some groups also move back and forth among these categories. I employ the term “coopetition” to capture this fluidity. The dynamic nature of militancy in Pakistan makes the country an excellent laboratory for exploring a state’s assessment of the utility an Islamist militant group offers, and the threat it poses relative to other threats informs the state’s treatment of that group. In this article, I put forward a typology that situates Islamist militants in Pakistan in one of the above four categories. I also illustrate how a group’s identity, objectives, and alliances inform assessments of its utility and threat relative to other threats. In addition to enhancing our understanding of militant–state dynamics, this taxonomy builds on and helps to unify earlier typologies of Pakistani militancy.
Link:http://warontherocks.com/2016/07/pak...and-frenemies/
Given his work on LeT I'd missed this in his book, but it sums up the relationship complex well:
In terms of collaboration, LeT remains Pakistan’s most reliable state-allied organization. The group is not only the military’s most useful proxy against India, but has also has carried out a propaganda campaign against al-Qaeda and the TTP, demonizing them for attacks in Pakistan. The Pakistani security services used LeT to gather intelligence on anti-state militants and, at times, to neutralize them. LeT has provided similar services against separatists in Balochistan.
There is a thread on LeT:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=13337
Last edited by davidbfpo; 04-17-2017 at 05:05 PM. Reason: 6,931v as a stand alone thread till merging
Saudi DNA tests confirm 2016 Jeddah bomber was Indian
An Indian newspaper reports:
Saudi Arabia has confirmed on the basis of DNA tests that the (suicide) bomber who blew himself up outside the US Consulate in the western Saudi coastal city of Jeddah two years (July 2016) ago in a foiled suicide attack was Fayaz Kagzi, an Indian national and alleged operative of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, a senior security official told The Indian Express.
Link:http://indianexpress.com/article/ind...toiba-5157858/
Note the bomber was aligned to LET and then ISIS; where was he most of the time? Saudi Arabia. With bombings in India linked to him in 2010 and 2012, plus a suspect for training the Mumbai attackers in 2008.
A new book 'In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba' by Christine Fair and the publisher's summary starts with:
This path-breaking volume reveals a little-known aspect of how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a jihadist terrorist group, functions in Pakistan and beyond by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of LeT. Only a fraction of LeT’s cadres ever see battle: most of them are despatched on nation-wide ‘proselytising’ (dawa) missions to convert Pakistanis to their particular interpretation of Islam, in support of which LeT has developed a sophisticated propagandist literature.
Link:https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book...eid=80d42c7c0a
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Moderator adds
There are several updates on LeT on the tenth anniversary of the Mumbai attacks on that thread:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...-impact/page10
Last edited by davidbfpo; 11-27-2018 at 11:06 AM. Reason: 58,669v today
The Evolution of Pakistan’s Lashkar-e-Tayyiba Terrorist Group
This FPRI paper was published in Orbis, in November 2018, by Tricia Bacon is an assistant professor at American University's School of Public Affairs, Washington, D.C,, but was only spotted today.
Ten years ago, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba launched an attack that paralyzed the Indian megacityof Mumbai for days. The operation, occurring in the midst of major instability and violence in Pakistan, raised concerns that Lashkar—the Pakistani military’s most powerful proxy—had gone rogue and would now operate as an unrestrained global jihadist organization. However, it subsequently became clear that the operation in Mumbai was actually a product of Lashkar’s long-standing ties with the Pakistani military. The past ten years have further solidified their close relationship. Far from going rogue, the group has remained responsive to the Pakistani security establishment’s agenda in India, Afghanistan, and at home. The past decade has only reduced the policy options available to counter the group, while the constant danger looms that it will conduct an attack that precipitates a war between India and Pakistan—two nuclear powers.
Link:https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...98X?via%3Dihub and also available as a PDF:https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/s...62711792A1E73A
afghanistan, counter terrorism, counterterrorism, india, insurgency, internal security, isi, kashmir, mumbai, pakistan, pakistan army, radicalisation, recruitment, terrorism
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Speaker by Various Artists
11:26AM Mar 9, 2016 • Read Post
Speaker: Data Love or: How I learnt to stop worrying and love Donald Trump
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Alastair Thompson, 11:26 Mar 9, 2016
Well I will stop worrying about that then.
Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 220 posts Report Reply
Russell Brown, in reply to Alastair Thompson, 11:28 Mar 9, 2016
Dr Kirk is here to make you feel better.
bob daktari, in reply to Russell Brown, 11:40 Mar 9, 2016
Dr Kirk
is that what the kids are calling it these days?
Political predictions always seem to make sense until proved wrong by the actual voters
Nik Dirga, 11:51 Mar 9, 2016
Excellent post mate. It's so difficult to explain the niggly differences between parliamentary and US politics that it's hard to get the message across that Trump has a lot less chance than the constant barrage of coverage tells us. And while I like a lot of Bernie Sanders' ideas, I have yet to see a single sentence from him that acknowledges how he's going to make them happen against a congressional firewall that would be even stronger than the one Obama's faced.
Auckland • Since Jan 2009 • 24 posts Report Reply
Bart Janssen, 11:56 Mar 9, 2016
I thought this analysis complete with all its caveats was interesting.
TLDR Trumps loses to any candidate Sanders beats any candidate.
David Hood, in reply to Nik Dirga, 12:03 Mar 9, 2016
And while I like a lot of Bernie Sanders’ ideas, I have yet to see a single sentence from him that acknowledges how he’s going to make them happen against a congressional firewall that would be even stronger than the one Obama’s faced.
As far as I can see from this distance, Hillary Clinton would face just as much resistance for her approach, and has explained how she would make it happen either.
In both cases, against a Republican congress, it would boil down to veto + appointments + willingness to engage in military action + directives to federal agencies.
Dunedin • Since May 2007 • 1445 posts Report Reply
Fen Tex, 12:13 Mar 9, 2016
I absolutely agree with you on every point. Trump cannot win the Presidency, Clinton is a more robust politician who will advance the Democratic party and policies more than Sanders could.
I expect Sanders would be a perfectly fine executive and there are plenty of positives in his having the role, but he couldn't deliver much more beyond performing the executives duties.
This by the way is why the Republicans are going to confirm Obama's Supreme Court nominee - he'll pick someone who isn't on an extreme and they'll have to confirm them because Hillary isn't going to be doing them the favour of picking non-partisans for any of her nominees.
Christchurch • Since Oct 2014 • 18 posts Report Reply
Rob Stowell, 12:55 Mar 9, 2016
The energy that’s behind Sanders right now needs to be channelled into more regional and local battles.
Sanders is unlikely to win the nomination (it's a long-shot, but watch Michigan today, and on the 15th, Ohio - if he does well in both, and wins one - he's back in the game.)
But I think you're dead wrong in saying he's failed to address the current road-block from the GOP controlled house and senate.
He says it all the time: electing him is not going to change anything. It takes a massive and long-term movement of people getting behind progressive ideas at every level.
He's also been far more upfront condemning GOP efforts to halt the demographic tide: the gerrymandering of congressional districts, and the many fraudulent attempts to 'reduce voter fraud' (there is no significant voter fraud) by requiring voters to carry specific ID.
(I also think you're optimistic about Trump having no chance at all. Hilary could hit hurdles - she's not immediately 'likeable'. Trump has a certain (horrible) charisma. While he's throwing his own obnoxious ideas around, he's relatively unburdened by the standard GOP obnoxious ideas.
So far he's advocated very little policy - making it fairly easy for him to 'pivot the centre' on a lot of issues in a general election. He's likely to push major infrastructure work in the US (like Sanders); an aversion to foreign wars (like Sanders) and a strong push for tariffs and against free trade - all potentially popular. He would probably perform disastrously - and win or lose, it's unlikely the GOP will ever be quite the same again, post Trump - but sadly, it does seem possible he might beat Hilary.)
Whakaraupo • Since Nov 2006 • 2093 posts Report Reply
Rob Stowell, in reply to Fen Tex, 12:59 Mar 9, 2016
the Republicans are going to confirm Obama’s Supreme Court nominee
That's a bold prediction! You should put a bet on it :) https://www.predictit.org/Contract/2091/Will-the-Senate-confirm-any-SCOTUS-nominee-before-Obama-leaves-office#data
There is another factor in this. There is the possibility that Trump does so badly in the presidential race that he drags the republican party down with him. That could have serious impacts on republican senates races occurring at the same time. There also could be serious issues with internal fractures in the republican party.
In short, Trump could do so much damage to the republican party that they could lose both houses.
While from the distance of left wing socialist NZ that might seem like a good thing, the fact is the US system works only because of balance. A democrat party dominated congress senate president and supreme court is possible if still unlikely. I don't think anyone knows where that might lead.
David Hood, in reply to Bart Janssen, 14:05 Mar 9, 2016
They used to say that about California State- That the gridlock between republicans and democrats and binding referendum kept things in balance. Then the democrats got a supermajority so could actually sort out stupidities in the tax system brought on by the binding referenda, and the state has done much better since.
David Hood, 14:15 Mar 9, 2016
I do not think Sanders can win against the Democratic Party establishment.
But on the getting things done, I would note that when he headed the Senate's Veteran Affairs committee, he got a lot more bipartisan legislation passed (including new spending) than was typical for veteran affairs committees in other sessions, in a congress that got much less legislation overall successfully passed than other congresses.
John Farrell, 17:09 Mar 9, 2016
President Trump's first 100 days:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/298482/donald-trump-is-in-the-house
Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 490 posts Report Reply
Kirk Serpes, in reply to bob daktari, 18:41 Mar 9, 2016
Yeah that def true. It's a LONG time to November and a lot can happen to upset everyone's predictions. Another terrorist attack would change things dramatically, as would significant economic troubles... or the usual political scandals. This is less a prediction and more a tactical response from a left wing perspective based on current information and trends.
Auckland • Since May 2015 • 20 posts Report Reply
Sanders won the Michigan primary this afternoon. Which was remarkable for two reasons : he had been 20% behind in the polls a few days ago, and (equally unheard of) apparently more 18-25 year olds voted than 65+ year olds..
John Palethorpe, in reply to David Hood, 21:01 Mar 9, 2016
There's been some absolute shockers from the pollsters in the last 12 months. They completely failed to see the Conservative majority in the UK coming and they'd marked Hillary so far up it seemed like victory was inevitable.
There's not enough data to draw a grand conclusion, but there's some interesting hiccups in politics at the minute.
mccx, 16:15 Mar 10, 2016
I dunno, this argument puts a lot of faith in the ability of progressive movements to make long-term electoral and structural changes might eventually get to a progressive (or at least Democratic) Congress and President.
The Executive branch is incredibly powerful even by itself and I think there would be a substantial difference in how Sanders and Clinton would use the executive and its powers (including the Environmental Protection Agency, Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Customs and Immigration, National Labor Relations Board, not to mention the military and foreign policy, appointing federal judges, etc.)
Wellington • Since Jan 2012 • 36 posts Report Reply
Grant McDougall, 11:18 Mar 11, 2016
Fascinating read, cheers. However, does Hillary have an Achille's heel ?
I was talking about her chances the other day with a friend and he pointed out that she may still be arrested over the Libyan embassy fiasco. Therefore, this would prevent her from running.
My friend may be wrong and have the wrong of the stick, but it'd be horrible if that was to happen, or even the threat of it.
As for Trump, I would so love to be a fly on the wall when he either loses the nomination or the election just to watch the humungous tanty he'd throw.
Dunedin • Since Dec 2006 • 759 posts Report Reply
Rob Stowell, in reply to Grant McDougall, 12:02 Mar 11, 2016
she may still be arrested over the Libyan embassy fiasco
On some other planet.
In the end, leading (since dumped!) GOP congressional republicans described the committee they set up to ‘investigate’ the State Depts role in ‘Benghazi’ as just a smear campaign.
The ‘email scandal’ is just as trumped up. Republicans have been smearing Hilary since forever, in anticipation of running against her one day (and in a continuation of their relentless attacks on Bill.)
(Edited: McCarthy was running for the speaker's job - the top job in congress- when he made the comments - just checked and he was not on the committee)
Ok, cheers, good to have that clarified. Whew !
tony j ricketts, 15:50 Mar 11, 2016
Actually there is a very important implied message for us here this year: in our quasi-presidential local elections the most attention by far is paid to the mayoral contest, yet the make-up of the council is really important. Don't know what to do about this, local news is owned by the realityTV businesses and nationwide media have neither resources nor space to much more than glance at Auckland most of the time.
wellington • Since Aug 2012 • 41 posts Report Reply
James Littlewood*, 16:39 Mar 11, 2016
Hang on a sec. Are you saying that progressive Americans should vote Clinton because she's the least progressive option available to them, for the reason that - being hostile to their views - she will ipso facto increase their engagement and therefore allow them to sway her policy agenda?
Long bow. Because it's Friday, I'm just gonna say it: never in a million years.
Although if you were to say that Clinton's the one because she's the more electable candidate, I'd say yeah.
I've got some sympathy for the idea that progressive Americans promote Trump's Republican nomination, on the basis that he's got no chance of taking the Whitehouse.
But I gather that this same tactic was attempted during Reagan's nomination race against Bush Sr. Own goal. Epic own goal.
Auckland • Since Mar 2008 • 410 posts Report Reply
Graham Dunster, 17:02 Mar 11, 2016
I found this article illuminating in (partially) explaining Trump's appeal to his electorate - http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/07/donald-trump-why-americans-support
Auckland • Since Nov 2009 • 184 posts Report Reply
Graham Dunster, in reply to tony j ricketts, 17:03 Mar 11, 2016
So true. At least the right wing right is being nicely split with all the wingnuts.
Winifred Kiddle, 06:36 Mar 12, 2016
What a load of bollocks and why I NEVER READ MAINSTREAM MEDIA. Here's something about Hilary you appear to have missed and how easily you use the word fascist without fully explaining what it means. Who's a fascist?
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-the-queen-of-chaos-and-the-threat-of-world-war-iii/. I could find some more less than flattering articles. Oh wait a minute;https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgcd1ghag5Y
Havelock North • Since Mar 2016 • 1 posts Report Reply
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Tio, despite his hot shooting, said he still needs to adjust to playing in the UAAP and it just so happened he had the stroke against the Fighting Maroons.“I won’t say I already grasp the UAAP but at that moment I was feeling good so I had the confidence to shoot,” said Tio. Frontrow holds fun run to raise funds for young cancer patients LOOK: Loisa Andalio, Ronnie Alonte unwind in Amanpulo for 3rd anniversary LATEST STORIES Read Next E.T. returns to earth, reunites with grown-up Elliott in new ad View comments BSP sees higher prices in November, but expects stronger peso, low rice costs to put up fight Nonong Araneta re-elected as PFF president Tio was perfect from the field going 6-for-6 en route to 14 points in just 11 minutes as he helped Ateneo flatten University of the Philippines, 92-71, at Smart Araneta Coliseum.“I was excited to play but I wasn’t thinking that I had to score this amount of points, I just wanted to make sure that I played correctly,” said Tio, who had 10 points in the fourth quarter alone.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSWATCH: Drones light up sky in final leg of SEA Games torch runSPORTSSEA Games: Philippines picks up 1st win in men’s water poloSPORTSMalditas save PH from shutoutThe 5-foot-11 guard wasn’t able to play in Season 79 as he couldn’t secure a Philippine passport in time and was considered as a foreigner.Ateneo had Nigerian Chibueze Ikeh in the roster and the UAAP allows just one foreigner per roster. SEA Games medal-winning PH sepak takraw team treated to hearty lunch Fire hits houses in Mandaluyong City Brace for potentially devastating typhoon approaching PH – NDRRMC Trending Articles PLAY LIST 00:50Trending Articles00:59Sports venues to be ready in time for SEA Games00:50Trending Articles01:37Protesters burn down Iran consulate in Najaf01:47Panelo casts doubts on Robredo’s drug war ‘discoveries’01:29Police teams find crossbows, bows in HK university01:35Panelo suggests discounted SEA Games tickets for students02:49Robredo: True leaders perform well despite having ‘uninspiring’ boss02:42PH underwater hockey team aims to make waves in SEA Games WATCH: Streetboys show off slick dance moves in Vhong Navarro’s wedding Photo by Tristan Tamayo/INQUIRER.netAteneo guard Tyler Tio had to sit out Season 79 due to his citizenship, and when Season 80 started he had to wait once again as his bum ankle wouldn’t allow him to play.So when he finally got the chance to hit the floor on Wednesday, the Canadian-born guard released his pent-up frustrations.ADVERTISEMENT MOST READ Don’t miss out on the latest news and information. read more
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A century stand from Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja propelled Australia to a nine-wicket victory over Ireland in their one-off One-Day International played at Willowmoore Park on Tuesday.Ireland won the toss and elected to bat but were bowled out for 198, a target that never looked enough against the Australians, who posted 199 for one for the loss of opener David Warner (48), with almost 20 overs to spare.Smith (59) and Khawaja (82) were unbeaten in a second-wicket stand worth 126 from 129 balls. (Also read: Injured South Africa captain AB de Villiers to give Australia series a miss)Australia handed a debut to seamer Daniel Worrall, 25, and he posted figures of 1-43 in his 10 overs. Leg-break bowler Adam Zampa was the pick of the Australian attack with figures of 3-37.Australia begin a five-match ODI series against hosts South Africa on Friday in Centurion. read more
‘He ran into my arm’ – Walker not happy with penalty call
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England ‘He ran into my arm’ – Walker disappointed with penalty decision after England win Goal 04:56 6/19/18 FacebookTwitterRedditcopy Comments(1) Getty England World Cup Tunisia v England Tunisia The Man City star found himself on the wrong side of Wilmar Rondon in conceding a dubious first-half spot kick England defender Kyle Walker was bemused by the decision to give a penalty against him in the first half of the Three Lions’ World Cup triumph over Tunisia. Gareth Southgate’s men were pegged back after Harry Kane turned home for an early lead when referee Wilmar Rondon punished Walker’s challenge on Fakhreddine Ben Youssef. Ferjani Sassi made no mistake from the spot, and England were left to struggle against a resolute backline until Kane finally ensured three points with a last-minute header to make it 2-1. Article continues below Editors’ Picks Out of his depth! Emery on borrowed time after another abysmal Arsenal display Diving, tactical fouls & the emerging war of words between Guardiola & Klopp Sorry, Cristiano! Pjanic is Juventus’ most important player right now Arsenal would be selling their soul with Mourinho move And after the final whistle the Manchester City man admitted he did not believe he deserved to be punished. “In the Premier League it probably wasn’t a foul, but in the World Cup it was,” he said to the BBC. “I got a call from Kieran (Trippier) to leave it so I tried to make myself as big as possible, and he ran into my arm.”We have worked hard and all of us deserve those three points.”We played some good stuff and created a lot in the first half. We are not the finished article. I’m not a big talker, I don’t like to voice my opinions but I said I will run and give everything for this team.”It’s good to win. A pat on the back for us.”There were ups and downs for me personally, but I think it (the result) just shows the work we have done for the last three weeks prior to the game. The important thing is we got the three points and it’s always nice to win it at the end.”Fellow defender Harry Maguire agreed that the penalty was “soft”, but praised his side’s resolve in bouncing back to take all three points. “The first half we should have been clear. We conceded a soft penalty – we knew we didn’t want to concede the next goal. We kept our shape and ‘H’ has done it again,” he said, referring to Kane’s double strike. “It was really warm, we wanted to start really well and we did. We missed clear-cut chances that you don’t get much at this level.”We knew we’d get more chances and it’s come right at the death.”On Harry Kane not winning a penalty after he appeared to be wrestled to the ground in both the first and second half, Maguire said: “It was as much a penalty as they got. You know ‘H’ is always in the right place at the right time and when he gets that chance he’ll take it.”I had a couple of nervy passes in the first half – it’s a big occasion and your first game at this high pressure. You have to focus and concentrate and I feel I grew into the game.”It’s a massive three points and we can now build some momentum.”England will be back in action on Sunday, when they face Panama in the second round of Group G fixtures. read more
10 months agoArsenal boss Emery expects emotion, passion for Spurs Cup clash
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About the authorPaul VegasShare the loveHave your say Arsenal boss Emery expects emotion, passion for Spurs Cup clashby Paul Vegas10 months agoSend to a friendShare the loveArsenal boss Unai Emery expects more emotion tonight for their Carabao Cup quarterfinal clash with Tottenham.Emery saw plenty of passion in his first encounter with Tottenham on December 2, a game that swung this way and that before it was settled by Arsenal’s stirring second-half performance.“I think showing emotion is very important,” said Unai. “I think football is emotion. And in a derby, maybe this emotion is greater.“When you win it’s amazing, when you lose it’s horrible. But respect is very important. We can show this emotion with respect when we are playing, but also when they scored against us, they can show their emotion with their supporters. But with respect. “We need to show this emotion when we are playing, when we are winning, because I think football needs this passion.“I say to [the players] that, in every match, we need to respect the opposition. Against Southampton, against Tottenham, against Manchester United, against Huddersfield, it’s the same. This respect is by playing with a big motivation and a lot of excitement to win against them. “We must respect this emotion in every moment. But the emotion is not bad. I think showing our emotion, the players, the fans and me, is good. But every time we must respect them.” read more
a month agoAlisson credits Liverpool teammates for FIFA Best award
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About the authorFreddie TaylorShare the loveHave your say Alisson credits Liverpool teammates for FIFA Best awardby Freddie Taylora month agoSend to a friendShare the loveLiverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker believes that his FIFA award is partially due to his excellent teammates.Alisson won the FIFA Best Goalkeeper award in midweek, capping off a tremendous first year with the club.But he believes that despite his excellent personal performances, the team’s displays and results helped him win.”Well, like I always said, for me the most important thing is to achieve my goals that are the same of the team: winning something for the club, winning something together. And then if you win some awards individually then it’s OK if you win always together,” Alisson told Liverpoolfc.com.”I’m really happy because I worked a lot to arrive here, to win the Champions League, to become a great player, to have a great season as I had in the last one with Liverpool and with the national team also. “So yeah, I’m very happy because always I just feel grateful for my family – they help me a lot in all the moments, good moments, bad moments. They are together with me so I’m really happy for that.” read more
Video: J.J. Redick Is Working Out At Duke Today, Shooting Lights Out
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DURHAM, NC – FEBRUARY 7: A general view of the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Duke University Blue Devils tip off at center court to begin their game on February 7, 2007 at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. North Carolina won 79-73.(Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images)Former Duke star J.J. Redick is back in Durham this week, and worked out at the team’s facility yesterday. He’s back out there today, and shooting like he used to do for the Blue Devils, according to the Duke basketball Twitter account. All-time Duke scoring leader @JJRedick shooting 92% unofficially in this workout. The guy can’t miss. #DukeFam pic.twitter.com/qH5Bg6imDZ— Duke Basketball (@dukeblueplanet) September 15, 2015Crazy to think that Redick is entering his 10th NBA season. Time flies. read more
Maersk MSC Bolster Ties with ZIM
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zoomIllustration. Image Courtesy: PxHere under CC0 Creative Commons license The 2M Alliance partners Maersk and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) are boosting their strategic cooperation with Israeli liner counterpart ZIM.The expanded cooperation will see the trio share slots on select 2M services also on the Asia – US West Coast and Asia – Mediterranean trade lanes.As disclosed, the TP9 service between Asia and the US West Coast, will be operated as a Vessel Sharing Agreement string where ZIM will operate four vessels and 2M will operate three vessels. A part of the ZIM slots on the TP9 will be swapped for access to slots on the fully 2M operated TP8 service.2M partners said that there would be no schedule changes to the TP8 and TP9 services.Between Asia and the Mediterranean, ZIM will get access to 2M slots on the AE12 and AE15 services, however, there would be no changes to the schedules of the said services.“Having successfully implemented our strategic cooperation, we are very pleased to expand the partnership with ZIM into additional geographies. This agreement delivers mutual benefits to both parties, for Maersk it provides operational efficiencies that will enable our continued drive to deliver competitive and reliable products for our customers in the world’s most comprehensive East-West network,” says Søren Toft, Chief Operating Officer, A.P. Moller – Maersk.The service changes are expected to begin in March 2019, subject to regulatory approval.The deal builds upon the strategic cooperation agreed by the trio in July 2018, when the liner companies decided to swap slots on five loops on the Asia – US East Coast trade. As disclosed at the time, the arrangement is aimed at achieving economies of scale and efficiencies, helping the carriers to overcome tough business conditions. read more
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Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Feb. 14———TRUDEAU TO LAY OUT VISION FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his Liberal government plans to overhaul the way Ottawa relates to Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Trudeau tells the House of Commons the Liberals will devise a new legislative framework to help pave the way toward stronger Indigenous rights and greater control over their own destiny for First Nations, Inuit and Metis people. Trudeau says it’s important to get the framework right to ensure Indigenous Peoples can enjoy lasting success in Canada at last. He says the new approach, to be developed in partnership with Indigenous Peoples, is necessary to tackle challenges like overcrowded housing, unsafe drinking water and high suicide rates. The new framework will be unveiled later this year following consultations led by Carolyn Bennett, the minister for Crown-Indigenous relations, and Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould.———PATRICK BROWN CHALLENGES ACCUSERS TO PRESS CHARGES: The former leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party is accusing CTV News of defaming him. Patrick Brown stepped down from the role last month amid allegations of sexual misconduct made by two women in a CTV report. In late January, CTV reported that one woman, who is now 29, claimed she was still in high school and under the legal drinking age when Brown allegedly asked her to perform oral sex on him. Another woman said she was a university student working in Brown’s constituency office when he sexually assaulted her at his home, CTV reported. Late Tuesday, CTV reported that the first accuser now said she had not been in high school or under the legal drinking age during the alleged incident. The woman said the altered timeline did not change the core of her allegations and noted she had been subject to demeaning and misogynistic comments online since the story broke. In a statement on Facebook on Wednesday, Brown urged the two unnamed women to contact police so the accusations can be dealt with through the legal system. CTV says it stands by its reporting, which has not been independently verified by The Canadian Press.———NO PAROLE FOR 25 YEARS IN ALBERTA TRIPLE MURDER: An Alberta judge has ruled that two men found guilty of murdering three family members will not have to spend additional time in prison before they can apply for parole. Jason Klaus, who is 42, and 32-year-old Joshua Frank have instead been sentenced to life with no chance of parole for 25 years — which is automatic under the Criminal Code for first-degree murder. Justice Eric Macklin told court in Red Deer, Alta., that the factors in the case were not particularly uncommon compared with other murder cases and did not warrant consecutive sentences. The bodies of Klaus’s father and sister were found in their burned-out farmhouse near Castor, Alta., in December 2013. His mother’s body was never found but police believe she also died in the house. The Crown had argued that the two men deserved the maximum of 75 years without hope of parole for what the prosecution called a “contract killing of sorts.” The defence said the murders weren’t as gruesome as other cases that resulted in consecutive parole ineligibilities. There are provisions in the Criminal Code to have sentences served one after the other for multiple murders, but Macklin said delaying parole for Klaus and Frank would be “a decision out of the ordinary.”———TORY SENATORS BALK AT SPEEDING UP POT BILL: Conservative senators are balking at an attempt to speed up consideration of a bill to legalize recreational marijuana, which the Trudeau government hopes to have in place this July. Sen. Larry Smith, who leads the Conservative caucus in the Senate, insists his senators aren’t being obstructionist but they are determined to do their duty, which is to provide “constructive evaluation” of legislation. The government’s representative in the Senate, Sen. Peter Harder, says he wants second reading debate on C-45 wrapped up by March 1, after which it would go to committee before returning to the Senate for a final debate and vote. If the various Senate factions don’t agree to that timetable, Harder says he’ll move a motion to impose time allocation to cut off debate — a tactic he’s avoided using before now. Smith says he’s got 17 senators who want to speak during second reading on the complicated bill. He says he hopes Harder will agree to be “flexible” about the March 1 deadline.———MISSING FIREFIGHTER FOUND IN CALIFORNIA HAS MEMORY LOSS, COPS SAY: A Toronto fire captain who was found at a California airport six days after vanishing from a New York state ski slope likely sustained some sort of head trauma along his puzzling journey across the country, American authorities said Wednesday. Constantinos (Danny) Filippidis was unable to provide officers with many details about his route from Lake Placid, N.Y., to the Sacramento, Calif., airport other than that he believed he travelled most of the way in a transport truck and was not the victim of any crime, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department said a day after the firefighter was found. Filippidis, a 49-year-old captain with Toronto Fire Services, was on an annual ski trip with friends and colleagues when he disappeared from Whiteface Mountain.———HEDLEY SAYS SEXUAL MISCONDUCT CLAIMS ‘UNSUBSTANTIATED’: The Junos have dropped Hedley from the televised awards bash as the rockers face allegations of sexual misconduct that they call “unsubstantiated.” Organizers of the annual music show say it was a joint decision with Hedley “after careful consideration of the situation.” The move by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences came as band members issued a statement addressing claims of impropriety involving young fans. “We realize the life of a touring band is an unconventional one,” reads the statement, which was issued mid-afternoon Wednesday, minutes before the Junos announcement. “While we are all now either married or have entered into committed, long-term relationships, there was a time, in the past, when we engaged in a lifestyle that incorporated certain rock ‘n’ roll cliches. However, there was always a line that we would never cross.” The statement followed a flurry of claims on Twitter from anonymous users who alleged inappropriate encounters with the band. Some social media users called on the Juno Awards to drop Hedley as a performer at the upcoming show.———UNDERCOVER TAPES PART OF TINA FONTAINE MURDER CASE: The man accused of killing Tina Fontaine told an undercover officer there are three rules in crime: deny, deny, deny. Raymond Cormier, who is 55, is on trial for second-degree murder in the death of the 15-year-old Indigenous girl whose body was found wrapped in a duvet filled with rocks in the Red River in August 2014. Court heard that Cormier was given a free apartment in Winnipeg and it had been bugged by police. The undercover officer moved into a suite on the same floor and became friends with Cormier over about six months. In recorded audio played in court, Cormier told the undercover officer he wanted to have sex with Tina the first time he met her. Cormier also said he regretted telling Tina to jump off a bridge when they got in a fight over her bike.———DEAL WITH RACISM IN PRISONS, SENATORS URGED: The chairwoman of the Senate’s human rights committee says Canada needs to deal with systemic, anti-black racism in its prisons and help inmates better integrate with society after they’re released. Nova Scotia Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard says the committee’s hearings have shown a need for systemic and structural changes to prevent former prisoners from getting back into trouble with the law. As part of a special meeting to look at the experiences of black female inmates, the committee heard that pardons for past crimes would help some inmates find work. Black Canadians make up 8.6 per cent of the population of federal prisons, even though they account for just three per cent of the overall Canadian population. And while their numbers have declined, the corrections watchdog’s most recent annual report found that black inmates were more likely to be in maximum security, placed in segregation and disproportionately involved in violent incidents.———FEDS TO STUDY POT HABITS BY TESTING SEWAGE: The federal government is taking a somewhat noxious approach to studying just how much pot Canadians are consuming: researching our sewage. Statistics Canada will spend up to $600,000 a year for a contractor to regularly test waste water from 15 to 20 municipalities across the country for traces of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, and other drugs. The survey could be the best way to collect precise data on the amount of pot Canadians consume, according to Anthony Peluso, an assistant director at Statistics Canada. Peluso said that by using the same methodology from sewage analysis surveys in Europe that have proven accurate in the past, Statistics Canada believes it will be able to fill some of its information gap that way. After cannabis is metabolized by the body, traces of THC are left behind in human waste. Samples of waste water from sewage treatment plants can then be collected and tested for the substance. read more
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Mandela Day now a global event
Nelson Mandela waving at the crowd at a 46664 concert, held every year to raise awareness about HIV/Aids. (Image: 46664 Arctic) The UN has declared 18 July Nelson Mandela International Day in recognition of the former South African president’s commitment to human rights, conflict resolution and reconciliation.Starting in 2010, the day will be observed each year on 18 July – Mandela’s birthday – and people across the world will be urged to dedicate 67 minutes of their time to uplift society in some way.UN General Assembly paid tribute to Mandela in its 64th session in New York on 10 November, adopting a draft resolution put forward by South African ambassador to the UN, Baso Sangqu. The resolution seeks to make the international community aware of Mandela’s humanitarian work.It also recognises Mandela’s “leading role in and support for Africa’s struggle for liberation and unity, and his outstanding contribution to the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist democratic South Africa”.The UN invited all member states, its organisations and other international organisations, as well as civil society, including non-governmental organisations and individuals, “to observe Nelson Mandela International Day in an appropriate manner”.Mandela Day in SAThe idea of Mandela Day was first introduced by South African president Jacob Zuma in 2009. It became a nationwide campaign to get the public involved in charitable activities, also for 67 minutes on 18 July – the day Mandela turned 91.The number of minutes was significant because it represented the 67 years since the former president first started fighting for human rights and the abolition of apartheid.Although Mandela Day began as a South African initiative, the international community was involved with a launch at a glittering music concert in New York, where musicians such as Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Wycleaf Jean and French first lady Carla Bruni Sarkozy performed.At this launch, via video streaming, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and US president Barack Obama endorsed the idea to make it a worldwide event.“Mandela is a living embodiment of the highest values of the United Nations,” Ban said. “His commitment to a democratic, multi-racial South Africa; his steadfast pursuit of justice; his willingness to reconcile with those who persecuted him most – these are just some of the hallmarks of a remarkable man.”Back home, South Africans came out in numbers to support Mandela Day. Some started street clean-up campaigns, while others helped out at orphanages and old-age homes.Jeffsville – an informal settlement outside one of the country’s capital cities, Pretoria – marked the day by hosting a reconciliation event. Both South Africans and foreigners living there committed to forgive the xenophobic attacks of 2008 waged against foreign residents, which left scores dead and thousands homeless.“On 18 July 2009 millions of people across the globe came together to give 67 minutes or more of their time in community service, their actions inspired by the life’s work of Nelson Mandela,” said Sangqu in a statement.“In turn, the actions of these millions of people – men, women and youth across the globe and from all sectors of society, including heads of state, governments, NGOs and civil society – have inspired us to introduce this draft resolution to the General Assembly,” he added.The Non-Aligned Movement, an international body of states not formally aligned with any major power bloc, has been one of the strongest supporters of the campaign. During its summit in Egypt in July, the organisation passed a special declaration to lobby the UN to give Mandela Day international status.Support for resolutionCanada commended the adoption of the resolution. The country’s Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said the day would help disseminate ideals that Mandela stands for. “This day will remind us of the importance of fighting injustice, upholding freedom and democracy and promoting a culture of peace throughout the world.“Nelson Mandela truly exemplifies commitment to a people, moral fortitude and service to humanity. He has also shown us how it is possible to be both a leading statesman and an exceptional human being. His work on conflict resolution and the protection of children’s rights only adds to his legacy,” Cannon added.Madiba, as Mandela is affectionately known, is also the recipient of a Companion of the Order of Canada and is an honorary Canadian citizen. “[He] is an inspiration to us all,” Cannon said.The Nelson Mandela Foundation has also welcomed the resolution. “The Nelson Mandela Foundation and its sister charities are pleased with the declaration of July 18, Nelson Mandela’s birthday, as ‘Nelson Mandela International Day’ – an international day of activism,” it said in a statement.The foundation was set up after Mandela’s retirement in 1999 and works to create a legacy of his life and work.More about MadibaMandela became South Africa’s first democratically elected president in 1994 after working tirelessly to unite black and white South Africans when the country was living through violent and troubled times.He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993, with then South African president FW de Klerk, for his efforts in finding a peaceful resolution to the country’s deep-rooted conflicts.Before his presidency Mandela was heavily involved in anti-apartheid activities led by the then-banned African National Congress and was convicted on charges of sabotage. He served 27 years in prison, many of which were spent with other sentenced freedom fighters on the desolate Robben Island, 12km off the coast of Cape Town.As a champion of reconciliation, Mandela was also instrumental in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was set up by South Africa’s Government of National Unity to help deal with the atrocities of apartheid.Although he has officially retired, he continues to voice his opinion on topical humanitarian issues and campaigns globally for peace, children and the fight against HIV/Aids. read more
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Over 15 Maoists killed in Bastar
The Chhattisgarh police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Wednesday claimed that they had gunned down more than 15 Maoists in the insurgency-hit Bastar region of the State.However, the security forces could not recover the bodies.According to the Inspector General of Police of Bastar (range), Vivekanand Sinha, the CRPF along with the Special Task Forces and the District Reserve Guard of the Chhattisgarh police had launched a massive three-day-long anti-Maoist operation on the border of Sukma and Bijapur district of Bastar on May 13.“There was heavy firing on the evening of May 14 and at 11 pm. The input we are getting from our own and independent sources is that more than 15 Maoists may have been killed. But no body has been recovered. The operation is over now and the forces have returned to their base camps,” Mr. Sinha told The Hindu.Two injuredThe IG said one jawan died during the operation. Two others suffered injuries and were undergoing treatment at a hospital. The three-day long operation is being seen as a retaliation by the security forces after the Maoists killed 25 CRPF men in Sukma district on April 24. read more
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Cricketer Anjum Chopra debuts in TV reality show
Cricketer Anjum ChopraCricketer Anjum Chopra, 33, goes from one sport to another.From playing and then analysing cricket, she is now one of the 13 female participants on Khatron ke Khiladi 4, and will be paired opposite celebrity trainer Sandeep Sachdeva. But after having played for the Indian Women’s Cricket Team,Cricketer Anjum ChopraCricketer Anjum Chopra, 33, goes from one sport to another.From playing and then analysing cricket, she is now one of the 13 female participants on Khatron ke Khiladi 4, and will be paired opposite celebrity trainer Sandeep Sachdeva. But after having played for the Indian Women’s Cricket Team in six World Cups, however, the ultimate goal remains to win the women’s World Cup for her country, “I know the joy of winning a semi-final and the pain of losing a final.”The show is just a platform to raise awareness about the game. read more
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India wins third ODI against Sri Lanka
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Stars Attend British Heart Foundation Tunnel Of Love Fundraiser
Some of the greatest names from the worlds of fashion, art and music attended the British Heart Foundation’s Tunnel of Love fundraiser at the Victoria and Albert Museum earlier this month to raise money for their fight against heart failure.Video: Tunnel of Love 2015The event was fronted by British model Amber Le Bon and Youtube sensation Jim Chapman, with other guests including fashion vlogger Tanya Burr, model Millie Mackintosh, blogger Niomi Smart, TV presenter Angela Scanlon and Ladies of London star Marissa Hermer.High-profile artists in attendance included Gavin Turk and novelist Anthony Horowitz OBE.Pixie Lott took to the stage during the evening, with Lilah Parsons hitting the decks to get the party started followed by Billy Clark taking the later DJ slot.Hugh Edmeades, Christie’s International Director of Auctioneering, conducted the live auction which raised almost £70,000 for life saving research. The star prize of the evening was the chance to feature in Anthony Horowitz’s new Sherlock book – and two parts were auctioned for an incredible £23,000.The chance to have a portrait painted by Humphrey Ocean RA went for an incredible £11,000 and a week in a private house in Barbados raised £10,000.Guests also had the chance to bid on unique lots, including Kylie Minogue’s couture dress; a sought-after photograph of the Rolling Stones from 1968; a mentoring day to see inside workings of a top London fashion magazine and flowers for a year from Absolute Flowers and Home.Guests enjoyed Boujis cocktails during the canapé reception and a sumptuous three course meal by Zafferano accompanied by William Hardy Chardonnay and Shiraz.After dinner, guests played games including The Shoopla by Rayne Shoes, the Designer Bag Raffle and Perfume Roulette and Boujis hosted an after party.All proceeds from the event will help raise funds for the Mending Broken Hearts Appeal.Simon Gillespie, BHF Chief Executive, said: “It was such an incredible evening and we’re so grateful to everyone who came for making it such an unforgettable night.“The money raised will help our Mending Broken Hearts Appeal and specifically a new ground-breaking Institute to drive forwards our mission to find a cure for heart failure.” read more
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29 Year Old dies at sea father in The Bahamas awaits details
Magnetic Media spoke to AJs father who is simply confused about what happened to his 29 year old son, who six months ago became a first time father. Police have not yet officially ruled the death; it is unclear at this point what happened to cause the boat to capsize, it was said that AJ could not swim. Arthur Senior, who was in Pinedale (The Bahamas) with family when we spoke to him via phone said it was the worst night of his life, waiting for word, hoping that his boy would be found alive. There had been a search launched for young Morris since Saturday when the speed boat he was in was reported submerged in the Leeward Cut to the Police Marine Branch; AJ was found Sunday morning and the scene at the Provo Morgue was heart wrenching. AJ is described as a fun loving young man, the life of the party and had been resident in Provo for about ten years now. He was working with family in construction and comes from the Morris, Missick and Walkin families and hails from both Pinedale and Holmes Rock, Grand Bahama. Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsApp Facebook Twitter Google+LinkedInPinterestWhatsAppWhile Pinedale, Eight Mile Rock in Grand Bahama is still basking in the NBA success of its homeboy, Buddy Heild securing a spot on the New Orleans Pelicans team it now suffers a blow with the loss of a son of the soil, Arthur Morris Jr whose body was on Sunday morning found floating in waters about a mile off Heaving Down Rock in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos. Relatives were overwhelmed with grief, crying out loud, falling to the ground and his maternal grandfather had to be held up as he was allowed by Police, behind the morgue gates to see his grandson in the worst possible way. Related Items: read more
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Past Present Patriots Celtics Red Sox Coming To Wilmington For Sports Memorabilia Show
WILMINGTON, MA – Meet sports celebrities at Rich Altman’s Sports Card & Memorabilia Boston Show, held on Friday, April 27 (noon to 7pm), Saturday, April 28 (9am to 5pm), and Sunday, April 29 (10am-4pm) at the Shriners Auditorium (99 Fordham Road) in Wilmington.Highlights include:Bill Russell will be signing Friday 4/27 from 5:30-6:30 PM, Saturday 4/28 from 12:00-1:00 PM and Sunday 4/29 from 12:00-1:00 PM.Oscar Robertson will be signing Friday 4/27 from 5:30-6:30 PM and Saturday 4/28 from 12:00-1:00 PM.Charlie Scott will be signing Friday 4/27 from 5:30-6:30 PM and Saturday 4/28 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PM.Bobby Poyner will be signing Saturday 4/28 from 9:45 AM-10:30 AMEduardo Rodriguez will be signing Saturday 4/28 from 9:45 AM-10:30 AMChristian Vazquez will be signing Saturday 4/28 from 9:45 AM-10:30 AMMike Lowell will be signing Saturday 4/28 from 11:00 AM-12:30 PMScott Norwood will be signing Saturday 4/28 from 1:00 PM-2:00 PMBobby Kielty will be signing Saturday 4/28 from 11:30 AM-12:30 PMMatthew Slater will be signing Saturday 4/28 from 12:30 PM-1:30 PMBill Rodgers will be signing Saturday 4/28 from 12:30 PM-2:30 PMOrlando Cabrera will be signing Saturday 4/28 from 1:45 PM-2:30 PMJohnny Bucyk will be signing Sunday 4/29 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PMJames White will be signing Sunday 4/29 from 11:00 AM-12:30 PMTy Law will be signing Sunday 4/29 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PMTroy Brown will be signing Sunday 4/29 from 11:00 AM-12:00 PMStephon Gilmore will be signing Sunday 4/29 from 12:00 PM-1:00 PMAndrew Raycroft will be signing Sunday 4/29 from 1:00 PM-2:00 PMThe event’s website touts that, in addition to autograph signings, the 3-day show will feature “200 of the top cards and sports memorabilia dealers in the country,” along with “the industry’s most respected and most recognized card graders and autograph & memorabilia authenticators.”General admission tickets cost $10. Children under 8 are FREE. Tickets must be purchased at the door.Tickets to autograph lines, however, can be purchased in advance on the event’s website HERE. Please carefully read the varying appearance times, pricing and restrictions for each sports celebrity. Appearances are subject to change.Like Wilmington Apple on Facebook. Follow Wilmington Apple on Twitter. Follow Wilmington Apple on Instagram. Subscribe to Wilmington Apple’s daily email newsletter HERE. Got a comment, question, photo, press release, or news tip? Email wilmingtonapple@gmail.com.Share this:TwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading… RelatedBoston Sports Stars Coming To Wilmington For Sports Card & Memorabilia ShowIn “Business”10 Things You Need To Know In Wilmington Today (April 29, 2017)In “5 Things To Do Today”FUN ON THE FOURTH: What To Expect On Thursday, July 4In “Community” read more
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Afghanistan flays Pakistan says linking Kashmir issue with peace talk is reckless
Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan ambassador to the USAfghanistan raised strong objections on Sunday against Pakistan for linking the current situation in Kashmir with the ongoing Afghan peace talks and said it is “reckless, unwarranted and irresponsible”.Afghanistan’s ambassador to the US Roya Rahmani said in a statement: “Any such statements that link the evolving situation in Kashmir to the Afghan peace efforts are reckless, unwarranted and irresponsible.” Rahmani responded to the recent remark made by Pakistan’s ambassador to the US, Asad Majeed Khan, who said the Kashmir tensions “could potentially affect the Afghanistan peace process”.The Afghan diplomat said that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan and slammed Khan’s remark as Pakistan’s “deliberate attempt to prolong the violence happening in Afghan soil.” She called Pakistan’s claim a “poor excuse” to justify its inaction against the Taliban to “avoid taking a decisive stance against the militant group”.The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan strongly questions the assertion made by Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Asad Majeed Khan, that the ongoing tensions in Kashmir could potentially affect Afghanistan’s peace process. pic.twitter.com/OASLSsZQ0x— Afghan Embassy DC (@Embassy_of_AFG) August 18, 2019Rahmani further detailed the cross border conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan and condemned Pakistan-based, sanctioned and supported militant and terrorist groups that undermine Afghan security.She said Khan’s remarks were contrary to the “positive and constructive engagement Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had with Prime Minister Imran Khan and Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on his recent visit to the country”.Washington is negotiating a deal with the Taliban regarding the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and a political agreement between the two sides to end the war in Afghanistan spanning 19-years.The talks are interweaved with several political tensions between the Taliban, Washington and Kabul government. The former US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, is seeking a tri-state agreement with representative delegations from opposition leaders and civil society members.Tensions between the terror organisation and the Afghan government has made negotiations between them difficult as the Taliban condemns Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s government and calls them a US puppet. read more
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Twin Taliban blasts near Afghan parliament kill 21
Twin Taliban blasts struck near the Afghan parliament in Kabul Tuesday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 45 others in the rush-hour attack that shattered a relative lull in violence in the capital.Taliban insurgents immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings, which struck as employees were exiting the parliament complex.”The first explosion happened outside the parliament… a number of innocent workers were killed and wounded. It was caused by a suicide bomber on foot,” Zabi, an injured parliament security guard, told AFP.”The second one was a car bomb. It was parked on the other side of the road and flung me back when it detonated,” he said.The blasts left 21 people dead and 45 others wounded, most of them civilians including parliament employees, a security official told AFP, requesting anonymity.Another security official said the explosions had left “dozens of people dead”.Around 70 wounded people had been rushed to hospitals, a health ministry spokesman told AFP.The blasts went off near a parliament annexe, which houses offices of some lawmakers.But Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the explosions targeted a vehicle belonging to Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency.The Taliban are pressing ahead with nationwide attacks despite the onset of winter, when fighting usually ebbs, as international efforts to jumpstart peace talks falter.Repeated bids to launch peace negotiations with the Taliban have failed, with a fierce new fighting season expected to kick off in the spring.Earlier on Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in Lashkar Gah, the capital of the volatile southern province of Helmand, killing seven people, the local police chief said.The attacks underline concerns over growing insecurity in Afghanistan, where around 10,000 US troops are assisting struggling Afghan forces to combat a resilient Taliban insurgency along with Al-Qaeda and Islamic State militants.Afghanistan last week welcomed the Pentagon’s decision to deploy some 300 US Marines to Helmand, where American forces engaged in heated combat until their mission ended in 2014.The Marines will head to the poppy-growing province this spring to assist a NATO-led mission to train Afghan forces, in the latest sign that foreign forces are increasingly being drawn back into the worsening conflict.Afghanistan got scarcely a passing mention in the bitterly contested US presidential election — even though the situation in the conflict-torn country will be an urgent matter for the new president.President-elect Donald Trump has given few details on his expected foreign policy, with even fewer specifics on how he will tackle the war in Afghanistan. read more
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Police harass students of safe road movement
Safe road movement. Prothom Alo file photoPolice have yet to specify any charges against persons arrested during the students’ movement for safe roads. They say that no one has been accused of being guilty or innocent at this stage and they also do not know when investigations will be completed.As the investigations are still underway, those arrested during the movement, including 22 students of private universities, are having to appear in court every month. With cases filed against them, their studies and jobs are being hampered. A student, on condition of anonymity, told Prothom Alo, the university administraton has shown some sympathy towards them in the beginning, but not anymore. The exams are often held on the date they have to appear in court. They either have to take their exam and rush to court, or rush to the exams from court. They are also ridiculed and mocked.The safe road movement burst out when students took to the streets in protest, following two college students being killed by a bus in the capital city on 29 September last year. When the demonstrating students were attacked on 4 August, students of Dhaka University took to the streets the next day. Then on 6 August, students of North South University and other universities also took to the streets. And before they could take to the streets, the students of East West University were confined in their own campus. Reportedly, police as well as helmet and lungi clad persons assaulted them.Sixty cases were filed in connection to the safe road movement which continued for around a week in Dhaka City. Police in Badda and Bhatara filed cases against over a hundred persons, naming 32 specifically. And 22 students of private universities were arrested in those cases.Serious chargesThe charges brought against the students were serious. The charges filed by the Badda police station against the students include creating violence with dangerous weapons, obstructing government work, attacking the police, damaging police vehicles and setting fire to the Badda police station. A total of 19 per sons were accused in that case. Some former students were charged with instigation. The Bhatara police station brought charges against 13 students of North South University, Independent University of Bangladesh and Asian University, as well as against numerous unidentified persons. They were accused to obstructing government duties, attacking government personnel and injuring them, as well as halting and damaging vehicles. Six policemen were hurt in those incidents. Three arrested students – Fayez Ahmed, Masad Murtaza bin Asad and Azizul Karim were also injured.Those arrested for creating violence in Badda were accused of wielding eight three-foot long sticks, broken glass and broken bricks. No specific description was given of how they reportedly attacked the police station.Kakon Biswas, the main accused in case filed by the Badda police station, was said to have instigated violence. Kakon said he had passed out of university quite some time ago. On the day of the incident, he entered office at nine in the morning and left at six in the evening. He feels he has been included in this case because of his role in the 2015 movement against VAT for post-grad studies.Bhatara police station brought charges against students of North South University, Asian University and of quite a few other universities. Saber Ahmed of Asian University was arrested in this case. He told Prothom Alo, he had been in front of a bank on the day of the incident when a policeman summoned him. The policeman then handcuffed him and placed him in a prison van. He often contacts the investigating officer but has not been told when the charge sheet or the final report will be prepared. He has been aspiring to go abroad for higher studies but that has now become uncertain.Five others arrested in this case say they had been attacked by police and the helmet-lungi clad hoodlums without any provocation. At least 40 of those injured in this attack had to be admitted to Apollo Hospital. One of them, Ashraful Islam, had been grievously injured and was kept under intensive care for long at the hospital. These students are asking why cases have been filed against them instead of the helmeted attackers.The students, however, say the investigating officers have shown sympathy towards them. But no one can say when they will be released from these cases. Several police officers involved in the investigations told Prothom Alo unofficially that they are unable to do anything as they simply have to wait for orders from above.Drivers accuse, students accusedDuring the safe road movement, hundreds of the students were charged with damaging buses and a few were arrested. Bus drivers filed cases with the Motijheel, Paltan, Khilkhet, Cantonment and Kotwali police stations against the demonstrating students.22 case under section 57Last August 22 cases were filed regarding the safe road movement. Investigations have not been completed in any of the cases. The accused are having to appear in court every month.One of the students, on condition of anonymity, has said that the universities are not giving them any sort of concessions. Eden College student Lutfun Nahar Luma says she appeared in court on 16 April. A girl in a pink outfit had appeared in a video taken of the movement and she was arrested because she had been wearing a pink outfit too. Another 16 were arrested in that case and the 17 of them have to turn up in court every month.Officials of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s cyber crime division say the safe road movement had been hijacked. A rumour had been spread that students were killed and raped in the Awami League office. But no one knows who spread these rumours. It is speculated that the rumours were sparked off from outside the country.Chairman of the national human rights commission, Kazi Reazul Huq, says the safe road movement was a justified one, but it failed as other elements had entered the scene. It had been a movement of the general students, but they were arrested and harassed. He said the government should look into these cases and resolve them as soon as possible. *The report, originally appeared in the print edition of Prothom Alo, has been rewritten in English by Ayesha Kabir read more
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Defence of allies key US condition for Syria exit
Syrian Democratic Forces and U.S. troops are seen during a patrol near Turkish border in Hasakah, Syria on 4 November, 2018. Photo: ReutersUS president Donald Trump’s national security adviser on Sunday set out conditions for the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, saying the defence of allies must first be assured.The comments by John Bolton during a visit to Israel signalled a far more gradual US withdrawal than initially set out by Trump, whose 19 December announcement concerned allies and led to the resignation of defence secretary Jim Mattis.Trump himself has more recently spoken of “slowly” sending troops home “over a period of time”, and Bolton laid out some of the conditions required before it takes place.”We’re going to be discussing the president’s decision to withdraw, but to do so from northeast Syria in a way that makes sure that ISIS is defeated and is not able to revive itself and become a threat again,” Bolton said when meeting Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.”And to make sure that the defence of Israel and our other friends in the region is absolutely assured, and to take care of those who have fought with us against ISIS and other terrorist groups.”Israel is especially worried over whether the withdrawal will allow its main enemy Iran to expand its presence in the neighbouring country.Netanyahu has pledged to continue to act against Iran in Syria.Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes in Syria against what it says are Iranian military targets and deliveries of advanced weapons to Hezbollah, a Shiite Lebanese militia backed by Tehran.Earlier in the day, Bolton told journalists travelling with him that conditions such as guarantees on the safety of Kurdish allies must be met before American troops are withdrawn, NBC News reported.Bolton also said all 2,000 US forces may not be pulled out, according to the report.He said the withdrawal would take place in northeastern Syria, while some forces could remain to the south at the al-Tanf garrison as part of efforts to counter Iran’s presence.Condition the withdrawal”There are objectives that we want to accomplish that condition the withdrawal,” said Bolton, according to NBC.”Timetables or the timing of the withdrawal occurs as a result of the fulfilment of the conditions and the establishment of the circumstances that we want to see. And once that’s done, then you talk about a timetable.”Kurdish-led forces control a large swathe of Syria’s north and northeast, some of it seized from the Islamic State group.Despite backing from the US-led coalition and success in pushing back IS, Kurdish-led forces have at times incurred heavy losses.A US withdrawal could leave them exposed to an attack by neighbouring Turkey — where Bolton travels on Monday — and its Syrian proxies.The Kurds have invited Damascus to send troops into some of the territory it controls, to act as a bulwark against pro-Turkish forces.Bolton’s visit was part of a US effort to reassure allies after Trump’s announcement.US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, who also met Netanyahu last week, leaves on Tuesday for an eight-day trip to Amman, Cairo, Manama, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Riyadh, Muscat, and Kuwait City.Netanyahu used Sunday’s meeting to again push for the United States and other countries to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the strategic plateau it seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed.He said he planned to take Bolton to visit the Golan before he leaves for Turkey on Monday if weather permits.”The Golan Heights is tremendously important for our security and I think that when you’re there you’ll be able to understand perfectly why we’ll never leave the Golan Heights,” Netanyahu said alongside Bolton.”And why it’s important that all countries recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. I’ve discussed this with the president.” read more
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Clos Ste Magdeleine Cassis
Magdeleine
Cassis’ Secret
By Chantal Sarrazin
A drop of white in an ocean of rosé: the image of Cassis is deeply entrenched. Influenced by the Mediterranean climate, these white wines are infused with minerality drawn from the clay and limestone soil. At Clos Sainte-Magdeleine, this feature is amplified by the élevage.
Seen from above, Clos Sainte-Magdeleine in Cassis looks like an emerald-green towel spread on a white beach. All around the vines is the intense blue of the Mediterranean. Here and there the silvery leaves of olive trees provide a contrast to the azure landscape. This is not a mere vacation spot—it is heaven on earth! “The sea enfolds our vineyards on every side,” smiles Jonathan Sack-Zafiropulo, whose eyes are as blue as the water. He is one of just eleven producers in Cassis, a Lilliputian appellation of 210 hectares with its toes in the water that is flanked by the Cap Canaille to the east and the Massif des Calanques to the west. Our host, the fourth generation to run the extraordinary Clos Sainte-Magdeleine, shares his family’s story. “My great-grandfather bought it in 1920 from a négociant in Marseille. He was from a Greek family of shipowners.” This little story ties into the big one. At the same time they were founding Marseille, the Greeks were also planting the first vines in thebay ofCassis, over 2000 years ago. “This is one of the earliest confirmed vineyards inProvence,” Jonathan proudly notes. What were the wines like at that time? No one knows…. But Cassis has since found its voice, or rather its color: white. Three of every four bottles here are a lemony color, while all their Provençal neighbors are blushing.
The change came after Phylloxera wiped out the vineyards in the mid-19th century, when vignerons replanted to white grapes. This choice helped them to obtain AOC status on May 15th, 1936, along with the pioneering Sauternes and Châteauneuf-du-Pape. It also placed Marsanne in the spotlight: this variety now constitutes 30-60% of all white Cassis. “They chose it because they wanted a white grape that wasn’t grown anywhere else in the region,” Jonathan says. “It comes from the north and adapted very well to the seaside. It gives round, fleshy wines that develop honeyed notes on the finish as they age.” At Clos Sainte-Magdeleine this grape shares the clayey seaside with Ugni Blanc. Jonathan’s grandfather and father also planted Marsanne on the terraced vineyards on the side of the Cap Canaille,France’s highest maritime cliff. At400 meters altitude these parcels are colder and rockier. With more limestone here and less clay, the vines are forced to send their roots deep into the earth.
These vines are less generous than on the flat land, yielding barely 30 hectoliters per hectare. At these heights we also find more Ugni Blanc, a little Bourboulenc, and some Clairette, which prefers the cooler temperatures here. Sainte-Magdeleine’s whites are a blend of the two terroirs, with the Marsanne providing structure and the Clairette contributing acidity. Though the vigneron wishes Rolle and Grenache Blanc were permitted in this appellation, he has learned to expand his palate. In two years he will plant Sauvignon, whose fruit aromas will hone the wine’s profile. “We had some in the past, but it ripened before the other varieties so we ripped it out. Now that our cellar equipment has evolved we can handle that challenge.” While waiting for that aromatic boost, the best of the region is already concentrated in the estate’s white wine: a floral bouquet with a mineral touch, a rich, fleshy mouthfeel, and fresh undertones of citrus, spices, and a hint of iodine. “The iodine flavor is the marker of the wines from this appellation,” Jonathan Sack-Zafiropulo explains. “It comes from the ocean spray that leaves its salt on the grapes.”
There are other advantages to having the sea so close by: the breezes that waft through the vineyards restrict the spread of mildew and oidium. Sainte-Magdeleine therefore converted to organic agriculture easily. The estate was officially certified on January 1st, 2012. And other producers have made the same choice—almost half of the appellation’s vineyards are now worked organically. Jonathan dreams that one day the appellation will be 100% organic. After all, the vineyards are within the newly established Calanques National Park…
In order to bring out the Cassis character, the white wines are matured in neutral vats. Two vintages, the 2010 and 2009 (14€), are currently available. Over time, the precious minerality will become more prominent, along with notes of iodine, honey, and citrus. The freshness will last, bringing elegance and taking on a spicy character. Right now, the 2009 is more ethereal than its successor. “Our white wines go perfectly with fish and shellfish from the Mediterranean,” notes the vigneron. “With age, they marry well with delicately spicy dishes and Japanese cuisine.” These unusual nectars make Cassis a unique spot that is not to be missed when visiting Provence!
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ConsenSys Backs Icelandic Startup Co-Founded by Ex-Chair of Country’s Central Bank
Ethereum (ETH) blockchain startup and incubator ConsenSys has participated in a $2 million seed funding round for Iceland-based blockchain startup Monerium, according to a press release from the firm, published Jan. 11. The startup counts the former chairman of Iceland’s central bank among its four founders.
The funding round was reportedly led by Icelandic venture capital fund Crowberry Capital, and has also seen the participation of Icelandic private investment firm Hof Holdings.
Founded in 2016, Monerium is reportedly developing a solution for “bridging fiat money and blockchains,” issuing what it refers to as e-money.
Former central bank chairman Jon Helgi Egilsson, alongside co-founders Gísli Kristjánsson, Hjörtur Hjartarson, and Sveinn Valfells, are spearheading a workforce of 14 people across Iceland, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Monerium is reportedly currently awaiting review of its application to become a licensed financial services company in the European Economic Area (EEA). If secured, the license will help facilitate the various functions associated with its planned blockchain-powered e-money issuance — notably asset management, compliance and risk management.
ConsenSys co-founder Andrew Keys has stated in the press release that support for Monerium aligns with the incubator’s aim to help build “the infrastructure needed for a more decentralized and self-sovereign future.”
Earlier this month, ConsenSys partnered with semiconductor producer AMD and investment management firm Halo Holdings on a project to develop a blockchain-based cloud computing infrastructure. In December, Consensys signed a Memorandum of Understanding with South Korean technological holding SK Group for an initiative to create an enterprise blockchain business model using smart contracts.
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The Doctor of Common Sense
08/23/2016 by The Doctor Of Common Sense
Clinton Foundation Executive Left 148 Phone Messages To Clinton Chief Of Staff Cheryl Mills
Find Your Damn Brain Please
In yet another indication there may have been a “pay-to-play” relationship between the Clinton Foundation and the Department of State, a senior foundation executive left 148 phone messages for a top aide to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton top aide over two years.
A review of State Department phone logs show Clinton Foundation Chief Operating Officer Laura Graham left the messages for Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s State Department chief of staff and confidante, according to Fox News.
One of those messages referred to “our boss” without any further identification. A second, from January 2012, presumably referred to former President Bill Clinton by his initials. It read, “Please call. WJC is looking for her [Graham] and she wants to talk to you before she talks to him.”
No other messages from nonprofit organizations appear so frequently in Mills’ call logs, which brings to mind two questions:
If Graham was unable to connect with Mills nearly 150 times during that time, how many times were they able to immediately connect?
What business could the foundation possibly have with the State Department?
The call logs were obtained by the conservative advocacy group Citizens United as part of its Freedom of Information Act request.
This Is True And Sad
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said he couldn’t gauge how many of those messages were returned, nor provide “a read-out of every one of those messages or every one of those calls.” But he did admit that Mills and Graham never shared the same boss.
“Secretary Clinton’s ethics agreement at the time [she assumed office] did not preclude other State Department officials from engaging with, or having contact with, the Clinton Foundation,” Toner said.
Absent additional detail, there is no evidence of any misconduct in the calls or contacts between Graham and Mills. But the records surfaced amid mounting questions about the relationship between the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Foundation, and particularly about the role played by Mills.
Please let her melt away.
Last week, the State Department acknowledged that in June 2012, Mills spent two days traveling to New York to interview job applicants at the foundation. The State Department said Mills “volunteered” to do so, but neither the department nor a spokesman for the Clinton presidential campaign, nor Mills’s attorney, would say whether Mills used annual leave or unpaid days to perform that work – or whether it was done on the taxpayers’ time.
“It’s an amazing thing that the State Department spokesperson would actually make an argument that Hillary Clinton would be obligated under an ethics agreement that the White House made her sign with the foundation but her top employees would not be under that same agreement,” said Citizens United President David Bossie, “I find it’s just very Clintonesque.”
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This illustrates that the clinton foundation and clinton’s sec. of state office was just one big criminal caliphate; whoring for the john corporations, banksters, and other new world order criminals.
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Masked gunman killed by police in wild Brooklyn shootout
By Joe Marino and Yaron Steinbuch
September 2, 2019 | 4:54am | Updated
James Keivom
A masked gunman was killed early Monday in a fierce firefight involving seven police officers after he shot at a patrol car in Brooklyn, cops said.
None of the officers were hurt in the gun battle, police said.
Uniformed officers were patrolling near Howard and Dumont avenues in Brownsville about 2:30 a.m. when they saw a suspicious person wearing a mask, NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said.
“When the officers who were inside their patrol car attempted to speak to the man, he immediately fled toward 788 Howard Ave.,” Monahan said at an early morning press conference.
“One officer exited the vehicle and the other two drove onto Howard Avenue,” he said. “The perpetrator fired numerous rounds at their vehicle, striking it. The officer who exited the car then exchanged gunfire with the male. However, the perpetrator fled from the officers.”
About 30 minutes later, a local resident alerted other officers that a man was trying to break into a back yard on Howard Avenue, the chief said.As responding officers entered the back yard, they came under a hail of gunfire and were pinned down by the gunman, he said.
Additional officers, including the Emergency Service Unit, also made entry into the backyard area, where the man continued shooting.
“Our officers returned fire and the man was then taken into custody,” Monahan said.
The gunman, whose name has not yet been released, was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was declared dead.
NYPD Chief of Department Terence MonahanWilliam Farrington
A semi-automatic handgun was recovered at the scene.
A total of seven cops fired their guns — one on Howard Avenue and six others in the back yard, the chief said.
“There were a lot of rounds fired. Approximately nine rounds were fired by our officers on Howard Avenue. It’s still an approximation, but in the back yard it looks like we fired 55 rounds,” Monahan said.
“We’re still counting his shell casings to see how many he fired but he fired both on Howard Avenue and in the back yard,” he added about the shooter.
“The great work by our cops today demonstrates, once again, how they never hesitate to go into harm’s way to keep our city safe,” the chief added.
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Howard Ave.,” Monahan said at an early morning press conference.
“One officer exited the vehicle and the other two drove onto Howard Avenue,” he said. “The perpetrator fired numerous rounds at their vehicle, striking it. The officer who exited the car then exchanged gunfire with the male. However, the perp
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Doctor or Doctress?
Explore American history through the eyes of women physicians
Drexel Legacy Center
Why I Want to Go to Arabia
Date created: September 16, 1934
Format: speeches
A speech given by Mary Bruins Allison to her church in September of 1934 about her desire to go to Arabia as a medical missionary and the reasons she feels Arabia needs missionaries to help its people.
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“Why I Want to Go to Arabia”: Early Medical Missionaries in the Middle East
+ Background
Mary Bruins Allison graduated in 1932 from Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Mary had dreamed of becoming a missionary, but because she was a woman, could not become a minister. Instead, she chose to become a doctor, inspired by stories she heard at church and from her family. She studied Arabic from 1933-34 at Hartford Theological School in preparation of her missionary life. In 1934, she did her second internship at the University of Illinois at Chicago because her first internship had not included obstetrics, which she need in her career as a medical missionary in the Middle East. In 1934, Allison traveled to Kuwait to work as a doctor. She made house calls to women who were ill and eventually ran a women’s clinic. She treated women of all social classes. Allison wrote letters home, and in her later years composed a memoir about the time she spent as a medical missionary in Kuwait.
+ Why it Matters
Allison knew she wanted to be a medical missionary and was inspired by others like Dr. Ida Scudder, who went to India as a medical missionary in 1900. In her speech, Allison lists the reasons she feels doctors – especially women doctors – are needed abroad. She needed to persuade her congregation to support her mission.
+ Basic Information
Creator: Allison, Mary Bruins, 1903-
Item Number: a215_175
Size: 21.5 x 27.5cm
Physical Collection: Papers of Mary Bruins Allison, M.D., 1934-1985, ACC-215
Finding Aid: http://archives.drexelmed.edu/collect/inventories/a215_inventory.pdf
Link to OPAC Record: http://records.library.drexel.edu/record=b1430128~S9
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Cite this source: Title of document, date. Early Medical Missionaries in the Middle East: Why I Want to Go to Arabia. Doctor or Doctress?: Explore American history through the eyes of women physicians. The Legacy Center, Drexel University College of Medicine Archives & Special Collections. Philadelphia, PA. Date of access. http://lcdc.library.drexel.edu/islandora/object/islandora:1862
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Underworld, Glasgow Barrowlands, 26th November 210
So it is Sunday afternoon, two days after a blinding gig by Underworld at the world famous Glasgow Barrowlands. As I was a little delicate yesterday, my memory of the actual setlist or order of songs is a little hazy, but here goes.
I met one of my very best mates, Reddy, in McChuills in High Street, a real music pub and the bar staff were playing Bowie and Motown to kick start the weekend. We’ve had many a good night in McChuills pre/post Barrowlands or a night out. As it was we only stayed for a couple of pints so we could head round to the Barrowlands to see the support act Silver Columns.
It was pretty quiet when we got in just after 8pm and Silver Columns had just started. They were stuck behind a decorated table/desk so I’m not sure if they were actually playing any instruments, but they were singing and camping it up big style.
‘Cavalier’ burst into life, all twitchy and glitch synths with a call and response vocal. Unfortunately Silver Columns didn’t seem to have access to the full Barrowlands sound system, a real shame for them and for the crowd which was filling up fast.
‘Columns’ was beautiful, gentle vocals, all melodic and wistful. People were starting to dance, particularly the two skinheads in front of me who were far from discreet when licking their wraps of speed!
‘Brow Beaten’ brought things to a close, Donna Summer-esque disco via Fife, with echoes of the Beta Band. It was a short and sweet set; one that I am sure generated some new fans that will be checking out their album.
I’d made the mistake of keeping my parka on for Silver Columns and headed down to the cloakroom to stick it in ahead of Underworld. I should have stuck it in at the start of the night. The queue was massive and it took me a full 25-minutes to get it in.
I got back up the stairs just in time for the start of Underworld. The Barras was far from sold out, a far cry from the last time I saw Underworld in the same venue in 2002 when they took the roof off the place with Born Slippy getting a rapturous reception. At least there was space to dance, and dance we did!
Underworld’s latest album has been getting fantastic reviews and it was clear from the start that they would be mixing plenty of new songs with some of their classics. Karl Hyde was a lithe livewire from the offset with the euphoric ‘Heaven, heaven, can you feel it, can you feel it?’ hook from ‘Always Loved A Film’ generating a surge down to the front.
The duo of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith have now been recording music together for 30-years, although it was only (arguably) after the addition of Darren Emerson to the band and the release of dubnobasswithmyheadman in 1994 that they began to get success. An outstanding album, it was included in many end of year polls, despite the onset of Britpop.
Darren Emerson has now left the band, however their creativity shows no signs of diminishing and with trance guru Paul Van Dyke helping with the production on the latest album, they appear to be gathering new fans rather than losing them. It was certainly a mixed crowd, teens to people in their forties and probably even their fifties.
‘Scribble’ is another new track and the melodic synths caused many down the front to sing along with the riff.
Older fans needn’t worry, Underworld were determined to take the crowd on a trip through their back catalogue. If Brian Wilson and Phil Spector are masters of taking someone on a trip with a 3-minute pop song, then Underworld are masters at the 9-minute epic, with many songs segueing from one to the other.
‘Two Months Off’ brought a harder edge as the and delved back in time, Hyde was bounding about the stage, dancing behind a screen, generally vibing off the crowd and getting them up for it in return. Synths came bursting into life alongside the squelchy beats and kept pushing on as the dancing down the front got fiercer.
The lights works incredibly well with the music throughout the show, there was some old skool acid house smoke machines going on, at times the lights went off completely so all you could see was the lights of Underworlds bank of equipment and the silhouette of Hyde moving in time to the beats. His stream of consciousness lyrics making him dance musics version of Bob Dylan – or maybe not!
Time seemed to fly by and before I knew it, it was the moment that I was waiting for as the beautiful bubbles of synths came through the speakers signalling the start of one of electronic musics all-time classic; ‘Rez’.
The crowd knew it, the band knew it, it was party time and time to dance. The speed of the synths built up, the high-hats were kicking in, the beats came out of nowhere and we were off on a musical journey. Hands were in the air, people were jumping, everyone was dancing and grinning like loonies, drug induced or natural.
Just when you thought it was coming to an end, Underworld pulled their old trick of segueing into another one of their classics; ‘Cowgirl’. The crowd were singing along with the refrains ‘an eraser of love’ and ‘I’m invisible’ before the synths took over, lifting the song and the crowd even higher.
The reception afterwards was rapturous. As if to highlight how much they believe in their new material, Hyde strapped on a guitar and they launched into the New Order-esque ‘Diamond Jigsaw’.
‘Moaner’ saw things go really old skool with masses of dry smoke punped into the crowd and lights flashing on and off all over the place. The crowd were going mad for it.
With mass dancing going on to one of the heavier songs in the Underworld cannon, we were suddenly brought to a standstill with our arms in the air and more smiles as wide as the Clyde on our faces with the opening synths of ‘Born Slippy (Nuxx)’. Hyde’s lyrics kicked in ‘...she smiled at you boy’, the synths kept coming, Hyde started again, things were about to kick off big style.
The big beats came in and hands were down and everyone was dancing like their lives depended on it. ‘Lager, lager, lager, lager, shouing, mega mega white thing, mega mega white thing.’
There can’t be many ways to top that and Underworld didn’t try!
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About Himself.
the dolphin-striker, where he was dipped some
fifteen feet under water until rescued by the
French sailors, who lowered lanterns, to ascertain
if their ship had sustained damage. He and
his comrades were set to work pumping almost
immediately, and on arriving at a Mexican
port at once incarcerated in prison, Santa
Anna s star being under a cloud. While thus
a Mexican of position and wealth, took a fancy
to the boy Ledger, got him bailed out and recei-
ved him into his family, where he was made
so much of that on Santa Anna s fortunes ef-
fecting the release of his uncle and comrades, he
didn t want to return to England. I had long
curly hair he says, was a devilish deal better
looking than I ve ever been since and the girls
were precious fond of me. Too much so in
fact, for his Mexican benefactor caught him
in flagrante delicto with one of his daughters,
hence he had to fly. After other adventures,
rambling hither and thither, enlistment and
desertion in and from the Mexican army, an
English consul sent him home, per force to his
relatives. From thence he accompanied his
uncle in a voyage up the Mediteranean.
Here, for the present, I must end his perso-
nal reminiscences, expecting to extract more anon.
Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twelve: page forty-three
Description: Describes Ledger's tales about himself.
Subject: Gunn, Thomas Butler; Ledger, Arthur; Mexican War
Coverage (City/State): Mexico
Scan Date: 2011-01-29
Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twelve
Description: Includes descriptions of boarding house living, his freelance writing and drawing work, antics of the New York literary Bohemians, visits to the Edwards family, the activities of London detective Arthur Ledger who is staying in his boarding house, Thomas Nast's courtship of Sally Edwards, two masked balls at his boarding house, a visit to Lotty Granville at Fordham, the state of Charles Damoreau's marriage, and a visit to the ''Phalanx'' in New Jersey with George Boweryem.
Subject: Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Detectives; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Marriage; Publishers and publishing; Travel; Women
Coverage (City/State): New York, New York; Fordham, New York; New Jersey
Note: Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent.
Publisher: Missouri History Museum
Rights: Copyright 2011 Missouri History Museum.
Source: Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum.
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Tiger Global and Ant Financial lead $500M investment in China’s shared housing startup Danke
A Chinese startup that’s taking a dorm-like approach to urban housing just raised $500 million as its valuation jumped over $2 billion. Danke Apartment, whose name means “eggshell” in Chinese, closed the Series C round led by returning investor Tiger Global Management and newcomer Ant Financial, Alibaba’s e-payment and financial affiliate controlled by Jack Ma.
Four years ago, Beijing-based Danke set out with a mission to provide more affordable housing for young Chinese working in large urban centers. It applies the coworking concept to housing by renting apartments that come renovated and fully furnished, a model not unlike that of WeWork’s WeLive. The idea is by slicing up a flat designed for a family of three to four — the more common type of urban housing in China — into smaller units, young professionals can afford to live in nicer neighborhoods as Danke takes care of hassles like housekeeping and maintenance. To date, the startup has set foot in ten major Chinese cities.
With the new funds, Danke plans to upgrade its data processing system that deals with rental transactions. Housing prices are set by AI-driven algorithms that take into account market forces such as locations rather than rely on the hunches of a real estate agent. The more data it gleans, the smarter the system becomes. That layout is the engine of the startup, which believes an internet platform play is a win-win for both homeowners and tenants because it provides greater transparency and efficiency while allowing the company to scale faster.
“We are focused on business intelligence from day one,” Danke’s angel investor and chairman Derek Shen told TechCrunch in an interview. Shen was the former president of LinkedIn China and was instrumental in helping the professional networking site enter the country. “By doing so we are eliminating the need to set up offline retail outlets and are able to speed up the decision-making process. What landlords normally care is who will be the first to rent out their property. The model is also copiable because it requires less manpower.”
“We’ve proven that the rental housing business can be decentralized and done online,” added Shen.
Photo: Danke Apartment via Weibo
Danke doesn’t just want to digitize the market it’s after. Half of the company’s core members have hailed from Nuomi, the local services startup that Shen founded and was sold to Baidu for $3.2 billion back in 2015. Having worked for a business of which mission was to let users explore and hire offline services from their connected devices, these executives developed a propensity to digitize all business aspects including Danke’s day-to-day operations, a scheme that will also take up some of the new funds. This will allow Danke to “boost operational efficiency and cut costs” as it “actively works with the government to stabilize rental prices in the housing market,” the company says.
The rest of the proceeds will go towards improving the quality of Danke’s apartment amenities and tenant experiences, a segment that Shen believes will see great revenue potential down the road, akin to how WeWork touts software services to enterprises. The money will also enable Danke, which currently zeroes in on office workers and recent college graduates, to explore the emerging housing market for blue-collar workers.
Other investors from the round include new backer Primavera Capital and existing investors CMC Capital, Gaorong Capital and Joy Capital.
China’s rental housing market has boomed in recent years as Beijing pledges to promote affordable apartments in a country where few have the money to buy property. As President Xi Jinping often stresses, “houses are for living in, not for speculation.” As such, investors and entrepreneurs have been piling into the rental flat market, but that fervor has also created unexpected risks.
One much-criticized byproduct is the development of so-called “rental loans.” It goes like this: Housing operators would obtain loans in tenants’ names from banks or other lending institutions allegedly by obscuring relevant details from contracts. So when a tenant signs an agreement that they think binds them to rents, they have in fact agreed to take on loans and their “rent” payments become monthly loan repayments.
Housing operators are keen to embrace such practices for the loans provide working capital for renovation and their pipeline of properties. On the other hand, the capital allows companies like Danke to lower deposits for cash-strapped young tenants. “There’s nothing wrong with the financial instrument itself,” suggested Shen. “The real issue is when the housing operator struggles to repay, so the key is to make sure the business is well-functioning.”
Danke alongside competitors Ziroom and 5I5J has drawn fire for not fully informing tenants when signing contracts. Shen said his company is actively working to increase transparency. “We will make it clear to customers that what they are signing are loans. As long as we give them enough notice, there should be little risk involved.”
This post was originally posted at http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/rNa3GsSgt74/.
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Andersson, Tobias
Swedish National Defence College.
Elhybridteknik i bandvagnssystemet: Den militära nyttan i logistikfunktionen2014Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Fossil fuels are finite resources and in a report from 2013, the Swedish Defence Material Administration encourages the Swedish Armed Forces to start planning for the transition to alternative propulsion systems to reduce its dependency of fossil fuels. The most promising technology to bridge the gap between pure electric propulsion and today’s internal combustion engine is hybrid electric technology. This essay examines the implications a series hybrid solution would have on military logistics. The method used includes analysis of both scientific reports and of survey answers from personnel in the SAF with several years of experience working with the tracked vehicle Bandvagn 309. The analysis of the survey answers is completed with interviews with these people and others working at BAE Systems who contributes with technical expertise. The essay will conclude that a series hybrid solution would have a positive impact on military logistics even though it is hard to specify how great the effect would be due to technical uncertainties and the fact that the technology is yet to be tested in combat.
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Bruzelius, Nils
Swedish Defence University, Department of Military Studies, Military-Technology Division.
Bull, Peter
Bäck, Lars
Eklund, Jonas
Heilert, Kenny
Liwång, Hans
Stensson, Patrik
Svantesson, Carl-Gustaf
Lärobok i Militärteknik, vol. 5: Farkostteknik2010Book (Other academic)
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Ögren, Petter
Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, FOI.
Grahn, P.
Hillerström, G.
Johansson, P.
Jändel, M.
Karlholm, J.
Karlsson, R.
Lundgren, L.
Löfgren, Lars
Mårtensson, T.
Nilsson, P.
Näsström, F.
Rensfelt, A.
Robinson, J.
Schubert, J.
Sparf, M.
Svenmarck, P.
Thoren, P.
Ulvklo, M.
Förstudie obemannade farkoster2012Report (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
Unmanned vehicles are being used in many conflicts around the world today. This report gives a broad overview of the field of unmanned vehicles, and includes suggestions of how a future research activity within the field might look like.
The overview is focussed on both systems and capabilities, as well as activities that are relevant for the Swedish Armed forces. By applying the capability areas defined in the armed forced development plan (FMUP) to both commercial systems and possible scenarios, we strive to limit the scope of the report to the most relevant topics.
The recommendations are based upon a review of the development documents of the Swedish Armed Forces, as well as visits to units operating unmanned systems today, and the overview described above. The suggestions are as fol- lows. Broad, cross-disciplinary projects focussing on system types, e.g. UAV, UGV etc, should be formed. These should be interacting with the procure- ment process, and different level of planning activities. They should also bring together competencies across FHS and FOI, survey current research state-of- the-art, through competitions, conferences and collaborations, and transfer the results to the armed forces through demonstrations and simulations of sys- tems and subsystems. Simulations in particular are well suited to illustrate the benefits and drawbacks of a particular unmanned systems, as the interaction with such systems is mostly carried out through the computers of the control stations, even for the real systems. In this way, participants from the armed forces can get a feeling for both threats and possibilities associated with the different future and contemporary systems, which will be of use to both tactic development and procurement activities.
KTH, Farkostteknik, Skeppsteknik.
Evaluating SHIPFLOW as a tool for calculating transverse dynamic stability and maneuvering drift forces on two semi-planning hulls1999Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis
Swedish Defence University, Department of Military Studies, Science of Command and Control and Military Technology Division, Military Technology Applications Section.
Exposure, vulnerability and recoverability in relation to a ship's intact stability2019In: Ocean Engineering, ISSN 0029-8018, E-ISSN 1873-5258, Vol. 187, article id 106218Article in journal (Refereed)
Intact stability describes a ship's stability in waves to avoid incidents. Operational safety measures are an important aspect of a holistic safety approach for intact stability. The aim of this study is to provide a structure of the relationship between key elements of the intact stability risk concept. Such a structure has implications for risk assessment and risk management. The developed structure is discussed in relation to the proposed second generation intact stability criteria, which highlights how the measures relate to safety. The definitions are also analyzed in relation to seven incidents. Operational decisions and the human element are shown to have strong ties to exposure, vulnerability and recoverability. However, the results herein show that the interdependency between risk and operational decisions differ between the three areas; the effective measures are thus different. The actual exposure, vulnerability and recoverability for a ship is not known nor can it be fully assessed. However, all three aspects of intact stability safety must be considered in a structured manner to reach a cost effective intact stability.
Risk-based ship security analysis – an approach based on civilian and military methods2012Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
The demands on maritime operations today are increasingly higher in terms of control, efficiency and cost. The margins for accidents and security incidents are therefore decreasing. In the area of ship safety the regulations, guidelines and methods have a history and culture of systematic research, development and implementation. In contrast, international security is highly politicized and therefore not as transparent. The result is that a tradition of ship security is not as well established.
The overall aim of this thesis is to propose a method for ship security analysis that increases the overall safety of the crew and the ship. The objective is to develop a method that is systematic in order to ensure that assessment and response are complete and effective, and that the process is documented to provide evidence of decision-making.
The method used is probabilistic risk assessment where quantitative analysis is central. The proposed approach is consistent with the requirements of maritime safety work. However, in the work here, the proposed methods are specifically tested for security cases. This is because hazards (without intent) and threats (with intent) evolve in different ways into risk. Therefore, they must be analysed differently in order to capture the causal relationship.
The proposed approach consists of three steps: the first step consists of a threat description that documents qualitative and quantitative aspects that together describe how the threat most likely will act in relation to the ship’s vulnerability; the second step uses the threat description to define the system studied as well as the scenarios that collectively describe the harmful consequences; the third step evaluates the risk with tools from probabilistic risk assessment.
The overall conclusion is that the proposed method brings the procedure and results of ship security analysis into the open and therefore allows for criticism, improvements and shared risk knowledge, not possible with less structured methods. The results also show that the calculated probabilities agree with available statistics, which indicates that the analysis succeeds in describing the central causal relationships of the scenarios modelled.
Risk-based ship security analysis: a decision-support approach2015Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
The protection of shipping does not come without hazards and threats for military forces, individual civilian ship operators and crews. With particular focus on security threats, this thesis is about how to prepare for such operations without introducing unnecessary risks, i.e., supporting conscious risk-taking related to ship security. It examines both civilian and military aspects of maritime security and therefore draws from the experience of both fields.
Maritime safety regulations, guidelines and methods have a history and culture of systematic research, development and implementation. In contrast, international security is highly politicised and therefore less transparent. Unfortunately, comprehensive studies of ship security risk are rare. Moreover, applying risk-based approaches to security areas requires special considerations, and the limited research in this field has led to a knowledge gap.
To reduce the identified challenges with respect to security risk analysis, the goal of this thesis is to improve security decision support by defining an approach to ship security analysis. To increase overall safety, this approach must facilitate compromises between traditional maritime safety and maritime security. Accordingly, the objective is to develop an approach that is both systematic and gives the decision maker an appropriate picture of the security risks. To examine the requirements for a security decision-support approach, the work in the appended papers studies both threats to naval vessels and the security threat posed to commercial vessels by pirates. The results of the studies can be used to further develop military doctrines and civilian guidelines.
This study shows that the description and quantification of the (concept of) operation in the risk analysis is central for implementing both security and naval ship survivability. In addition, the crew’s risk perception, procedural safeguards and how the implemented risk controls are perceived have an important role not only in risk analysis but also in deciding the effectiveness of implemented controls. It is also concluded that only using expected values—not collecting and using uncertainties—in the analysis can lead to misleading results. Therefore, the uncertainty treatment offered by a quantitative approach is crucial for risk understanding, especially if the aim is to find robust control options or to support the development of a resilient culture.
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Gustavsson, Jan-Erik
Management of High Speed Machinery Signatures to Meet Stealth Requirement in the Royal Swedish Navy Visby Class Corvette (YS2000)2001In: IGTI 2001, 2001, p. 2001-GT-0214-Conference paper (Other academic)
Over the years, the word stealth has been used more and more when discussing design and operational characteristics in military applications. New and more challenging techniques are constantly being applied to minimize signatures and thus hinder or delay detection and identification.The Visby Class Corvette is a multipurpose combat ship with 600 tons displacement. The hull is a sandwich construction of a PVC core with carbon fiber/vinyl laminate. The propulsion system consists of two identical CODOG machinery systems, each driving a KaMeWa 125 size Water Jet Unit.The Ship has special requirements for all signatures, i.e. Radar-, Hydro acoustics-, IR- and Magnetic Signature.The High Speed Machinery is twin Honeywell TF50A Gas Turbines, cantilever mounted side by side on the Main Reduction Gearbox housing. The Main Reduction Gearbox is a dual input high performance marine Gearbox designated MA -107 SBS, designed and manufactured by Cincinnati Gear Co.The Low Speed Machinery is a MTU 16 V 2000 TE90 Diesel Engine connected to the MRG by a power take in shaft.Combustion Air for the Gas Turbines is ducted from the shipside Air Inlet Screen (radar screen) via 3-stage separating filters. The Exhausts from the twin Gas Turbines are combined into one Exhaust Pipe and ducted to the ship transom above the Water Jet stream.Very little can be changed in the Gas Turbine, but high quality such as well balanced rotating part contributes to reduce the signatures. However, the main work has to be accomplished by the building shipyard in cooperation with the Gas Turbine manufacturer. The Main Reduction Gearbox is more available for changes to reduce signatures, but even for the Gearbox the building shipyard has to take design and installation measures.The HSM installation consist mainly of the Gas Turbine Engine, the Main Reduction Gear, Water Jets Unit and surrounding equipment such as main shaft, bearings and so on. The emphasis in this paper is on the GT, MRG and their effect on some of the more well known signatures i.e. RCS, IR, Hydro acoustics and Magnetic. Also some design measures are discussed.
Ringsberg, Jonas W.
Chalmers Univeristy of Technology.
Ship security analysis: the effect of ship speed and effective lookout2013In: Proceedings of the ASME 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2013), ASME Press, 2013Conference paper (Refereed)
The threat of piracy to commercial shipping is a concern for the protection and safeguarding of human lives, property and environment. Therefore, ships under piracy threat should follow security measures suggested by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somali. It is, therefore, important to choose the proper security measures for the right situation.
This study presents a simulation model that can be used for probabilistic risk assessments regarding the operation of commercial ships. This investigation specifically studies the pirate approach phase and quantifies the effect of ship speed and effective lookout. The purpose of introducing probabilistic risk assessment into the analysis of pirate attacks is to meet safety goals more effectively through a well-balanced combination of proactive and reactive measures whilst keeping focus on the intended over all purpose of the particular ship.
The study presents collected and documented knowledge regarding pirate capability, intention and likelihood to perform attacks. The knowledge is collected from experts with experience from the situation off the Horn of Africa. The collected information is input to an influence analysis that identifies the network of influences that govern the skiff approach. The simulation model describes piracy characteristics and decision making on the threatened ship, the characteristics and countermeasures of the ship under attack, as well as weather.
Based on a comparison with available statistics the overall conclusion of the work is that the threat analysis and the simulation model can quantify and explain how the studied risk control options affect the probability of a successful approach. The result therefore exemplifies how a quantified ship security analysis can support the recommendations in industry guidelines and also enable recommendations that to a greater extent can facilitate an educated decision by the ship operators.
Chalmers University of Technology.
Norsell, Martin
Quantitative risk analysis: Ship security analysis for effective risk control options2013In: Safety Science, ISSN 0925-7535, E-ISSN 1879-1042, Vol. 58, p. 98-112Article in journal (Refereed)
This study reviews ship security assessment. The objectives are to explore the possibilities for quantifying and performing a more thorough ship security risk analysis than that described in the International Ship and Port Facility Security code and to evaluate to what extent this more detailed analysis increases ship security and facilitate the effective selection of risk control options.
The study focuses on Somali-based maritime piracy, using piracy on the Indian Ocean as a case study. Data are collected using questionnaires and interviews with civilian and military security experts who possess firsthand experience of piracy off the coast of Somalia. The data are collected specifically for this study and describe and quantify the threat’s capability, intent and likelihood of exploiting a ship’s vulnerability. Based on the collected description of the threat, the study analyzes and describes: probability of detection by pirates, probability of successful approach, and probability of successful boarding.
The performed work shows good agreement between calculated probabilities and frequencies in the cited incident reports. Also, the developed scenarios describe the most important influences on the analyzed areas. The research therefore shows that the proposed risk-based approach, which uses structurally collected and documented information on the threat, can increase ship security by assisting in selecting risk control options. The approach also allows for a better understanding of the causal relationship between threat and risk than that provided in today’s security analysis by ship owners, for example. This understanding is crucial to choosing effective and robust risk control options.
Rosén, Anders
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.
A framework for investigating the potential for operational measures in relation to intact stability2018In: Proceedings of the 13th International conference on stability of ships and ocean vehicles / [ed] Naoya Umeda, Toru Katayama, Atsuo Maki, Kobe, 2018, p. 488-499Conference paper (Refereed)
Operational safety measures are an important aspect of a holistic safety approach for intact stability. With the aim to facilitate and further investigate potential operational measures this researchaims to describe a framework for prioritizing intact stability issues suitable for being addressed withoperational safety measures. The proposed framework identifies that there are different potentialsand uncertainties in relation to operational safety measures dependent on the operation type understudy. It is demonstrated that there is not one solution that facilitates operational measures and thereliability of potential measures varies.
Westin, Jonas
Swedish Defence University.
Wikingsson, Jon
Minimising Risk from Armed Attacks: The new naval ship code's effects2010Conference paper (Other academic)
Nilsson, Göran
Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles: Teknik och etik: Ett självständigt arbete om obemannade flygande farkoster och deras militära nytta och moraliska dilemman2014Independent thesis Basic level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Unmanned aerial vehicles, popularly known as drones, have been up to debate since the start of the war on terror, 11th September 2001, and there are still a lot of questions about their use and moral legitimacy. There are a lot of useful applications for this kind of vehicle for example, situational awareness, searching for lost people and attack missions. This study is going to investigate how these vehicles are being used within attack missions and and what their military utility are. Since there are a lot of different opinions on the system in war and conflict, the aim for this study is to make the ethics more concrete and evaluate what military utility this system gives.
The moral aspects of UCAV, Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle, in conflict and war differ a lot from person to person. Those who are against this kind of system mean that the UCAV, in itself, is a threat and not as much to how it is used. Supporters of the system, on the other hand, argue that similar tactics have been used in war since the 1960s hence the system does not need any change in ethics and morals. However the system has got a negative reputation because of they way it is being used.
This study shows that it is morally right to use UCAVs when the conflict or war meets a majority of the seven criteria of Just War Theory. However it is not as simple as that, there are a lot more factors that come in play. The population of the nation and its interests in the conflict or war, the threat level and what kind of profit the nation will acquire through it are important factors. If all of these criteria are met then the use of UCAVs for attack missions can be seen as morally just.
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Sticky Subjects - Who says chewed-up bubble gum is a nuisance?
by Elizabeth Cogar
Walking into Jamie Marraccini's tiny apartment, one is struck by a very distinct scent. Is it wild cherry, goofy grape or wintergreen?
Whatever it is, it's gum. No doubt about it. And hanging on his wall is the proof: an impromptu gallery of Marraccini's chewing-gum art, the surprisingly pleasing result of thousands of hours of chewing.
Gum has strange and mysterious properties perhaps known only to Marraccini. "I am a student of gum," he says. "I have loved gum all my life, but now it's kind of a job for me."
This week, Marraccini's art goes on display at MCV's "arts in the Hospitals" gallery space in the Main Hospital.
"I've being doing it for eight or nine years," says second-year medical student Marraccini, 27, of his already-been-chewed aesthetics. "It started in high school. I'd stick my chewed gum in my locker and at the end of the year I'd have a locker full of gum. In my freshman year at college, at VPI, I spread it on the wall. The next year I put my first board up on a wall. I'd chew one piece at a time and put it up there and it would form these designs. Soon I was spending hundreds of dollars on gum."
This semester he figures he's spent $300 on gum. "I buy it wholsale - eight or nine boxes at a time - through the Ukrop's guys. They all think it's very funny. I take some of the gum to the study area at school and friends chew it and leave it behind."
In a previous incarnation, as an electrical engineer for General Electric, Marraccini distributed free gum and laminated sheets of paper for co-workers to use as a repository for gum they chewed. "They'd keep it in their top desk drawers and I'd just go around and collect it every now and then."
By now, you're probably thinking, "Gross!" if you have a thing about chewed up gum, especially someone else's.
"It's true," he conceded of the disgust factor, "but by the time I collect it it's been sitting for two or three days. I warm it up under hot water, and my hands don't go near my mouth."
After years of jaw aerobics, he now outsources most of the chewing and chews only a piece or two a day himself. But has to be careful that the gum is chewed properly.
"A lot of people just chew gum for 10 minutes and then the sugar will ooze," he says. "I have to throw out a lot. I get about an 80-percent return rate [from freelance chewers] and then I throw out about 5 to 10 percent of that.
"Unlike most artists, Marraccini's palette is limited to the colors of bubble gum. His brand of choice? Bubblicious," he answers without a moment's hesitation, citing the brightness of its colors.
"Now if I need pastels, I go with Fruit Stripe. For really nice ocean blue, there's Wrigley's Winterfresh. For a true, true white, I like Carefree Peppermint." One color he hoards shamelessly is a dark green available only from Snappin' Apple, a flavor Bubblicious quit making four years ago. And he's gaining proficiency in mixing colors together. A checkerboard linoleum floor in a piece called "The Operating Room" has a marblized effect created by swirling three colors of gum together.
Though his production rate is slow - two or three pieces (of artwork, not gum) in the past nine months, Marraccini's mind is always chewing away at ideas. A three-dimensional project features eyeballs, hands, feet and mouths all made of gum, wire and pingpong balls with a Dr Pepper bottle as a hidden interior base. Every component has significance. He loves table tennis and Dr Pepper, and the art work's six feet, four hands, seven mouths and seven eyes are a tribute to his native Roanoke street address: 6477.
So far, Marraccini has been unwilling to part with any works for money, though he has handed out a few for love. Family members are the only recipients. Putting a price on something that cost him hundreds of dollars in gum and hundreds of hours in chewing is difficult.
Plus, some chewing was done in the dark of night. "When I was traveling in Singapore, I had to chew under duress because [there] gum is illegal."
For now, the public will have to settle for a monthlong glimpse at MCV of what may be the only bubble-gum art in the world.
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No matter whatever I mash any button, it just dives into the ocean without any response. Before you can steal a jet, you first have to find one. Flight crews ask you to keep your luggage clear of the aisles for a reason; in the event of an evacuation, you don't want it blocking an escape route. As you leave the area two more boats of gunmen will attack, but you can simply fly away and leave them behind. GTA 5 PC Online 1. Outro music: https://www. By Giuseppe Nelva October 30, 2019. Witaj na GTA5-Mods. Hidden packages have returned in the PS4 / Xbox One editions of GTA 5, though they do not immediately appear in their specified locations. GTA 5 Crack Features. Xbox one Can somebody please tell me how to fly that thing in ps3. I downloaded it and it does like it says. Planes take you wherever you need to go, and they do it fast. Between the campaign and online play, the game is a ton. Nice functions too, with the hatch and the landing gear. 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It can be accessed in Francis Airport. So now that GTA Online is working for the most part, Xbox Live and PSN players are out and about in Los Santos taking jobs, earning cash, and just causing havok in the streets. Despite the developer, Rockstar Games, considers GTA Online "a different entity and a separate thing" to GTA 5, both games share similar content. Best Answer: VQIMAHA IIRC, you don't get a pilots license until you complete the Verdant Meadows abandoned airfield challenges. The Cargo Plane is a large military 8-engine cargo aircraft. Select one of the following categories to start browsing the latest GTA 5 PC mods: Tools; warp into the plane, and then fly to. In this video i show you how to fly planes and Helicopters in the new pc version of Grand Theft Auto Five. 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The best place to get cheats, codes, cheat codes, walkthrough, guide, FAQ, unlockables, tricks, and secrets for Grand Theft Auto 5, GTA V, GTA 5 for PC. GTA 5 players will soon be able to fly to Vice City with new mod. Description: The crop duster is very decent plane to fly. Select one of the following categories to start browsing the latest GTA 5 PC mods: Tools; warp into the plane, and then fly to. Report Abuse. Fly through the. Grand Theft Auto Vice City PC Cheats You would better know that Gta Vice City is the oldest and most played game and you are here because you are looking for Gta Vice City Passwords/Cheats. Being a stunt plane, it's not the fastest thing in the skies of Los Santos, but it obviously one of the easiest to manoeuvre. Have a play around with the stunt plane and maybe try fly it through/under a few bridges, in-between building, etc. So are you trying to do some specific Missions in Grand Theft Auto Vice City and fail beacause of difficulty or something else?. Rockstar Scouting Trip May Reveal Grand Theft Auto 6 Location. How to Get the Flying Car in GTA V. - Doozer Blake Oct 14 '13 at 12:57 all new cars bought go to the garage, in the same sense i expect all flights bought should go to Hangar. In this video i show you how to fly planes and Helicopters in the new pc version of Grand Theft Auto Five. Have fun with GTA 5 Cheats Codes. Fly through the second corona, and again, slowly adjust the left analog stick to point the nose upwards. To view this page, please enter your birthday. 5 Best GTA V Mods of July 2019. Where to find a military base in GTA 5 (With Picture) Hello guy, Today we will present where is the military base in GTA 5 to you. - Nolonar Oct 10 '13 at 5:56 I haven't gotten into a jet deathmatch yet, but if it's similar to other games you could also try turning on your side, pulling back on the stick, cutting the thrust and then thrusting hard to do a sharp turn. Dialing 1-999-367-3767 creates an unknown blast on the screen and changes your character's cell phone interface to change color, how cool is that!. Description: The crop duster is very decent plane to fly. The best PC games ever Best PC games of 2018 Best graphics card 2019 Best free games Dota Underlords builds Teamfight Tactics guide [9. - star wars the last jedi netflix release date. For those of you who often do import export activities in GTA San Andreas definitely know how to buy a car. Table Of Content1 GTA 5 Cheats PC Along With Guide2 All Cheats Of GTA 5 For PC2. ; Point of Interest - Use the "point of interest" feature on your map to mark places like liquor stores and other useful locations. Выберите одну из следующих категорий, чтобы начать просматривать последние моды для GTA 5 на ПК:. The Duster, as its name suggests, is an open cockpit tandem biplane intended to spray pesticides over a large area in a. 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Выберите одну из следующих категорий, чтобы начать просматривать последние моды для GTA 5 на ПК:. This will spawn a Buzzard Helicopter near your position. New cell phones cheat of GTA 5 uncovered recently. Welcome to the Grand Theft Auto 5 Fighter Jet location guide that helps you find the location of the P-996 Lazer Fighter Jet plane in Grand Theft Auto 5, early on in the Xbox 360 & PS3 open world action-adventure game. Well in GTA SA you cannot skip a mission but you can skip a path travelled in a mission by trip skip. Set in fictional Liberty City from the Grand Theft Auto series, the PC version of GTA III has cheat codes that unlock all weapons, change the weather, and more. Witaj na GTA5-Mods. And, being a stunt plane, it is indeed not the fastest escape vehicle in the skies of Los Santos. You can delete all patches for GTA 5 by using the "Clear hard drive cache" code for the Xbox 360. IWantCheats now has one of the best GTA 5 Cheats in the world with god mode, unlimited run, ESP and so much more. GTA V Guide : How to Land an Airplane Safely XBOX 360 PS3 PC Posted on September 19, 2013 by auluftwaffles To land a plane safely make sure you approach the runway straight on. For Grand Theft Auto V on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "how to the hell do you fly the jet with the keyboard?". Check out our YouTube video for full details on how to unlock the new "ride". In fact, we recommend that you try to steal this plane with Trevor, since his flying skill is the highest of the three main "GTA 5" characters to start out with, due to his service as a pilot with. I can actually now use my joystick for GTA V. GTAinside is the ultimate Mod Database for GTA 5, GTA 4, San Andreas, Vice City & GTA 3. We're currently providing more than 45,000 modifications for the Grand Theft Auto series. Here are a bunch of useful GTA 5 hints, tips and tricks. 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I have already tried to refresh my PC but the problem still remains and this ain't a driver issue as my. To fly most planes on Roblox, first sit in the driver's seat and select the fly tool. fuck that shit. So, a forth plane has been added, with a new route. Go through it, and slowly adjust the analog stick to point the nose downwards. GTA Games List Download all latest and old version of PC games full version, list of pc games gta! All Rockstar Gta Games Most games in the series enable you to assume the criminal role, an individual who wants to rise through the organized crime; each game is loaded with multiple missions in the city,….
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Manticore's new citizens
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Re: Manticore's new citizens
by TFLYTSNBN » Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:39 pm
NortonIDaughter wrote: So Manticore needs a new constitution, or at least a heck of a set of amendments. Forget the Talbott cluster; the newest citizens to need some new rights expressly codified are the treecats and their people. (And one other group I'll get to.)
Right now the 'cats have one extra-MBS colony, on Grayson. It's likely they'll want to establish others, and it's certain that the higher ups on Haven, Beowulf, etc will want to extend that invitation-- the 'cats are too great an advantage to the humans they choose to partner with. But as we've seen in Treecat Wars, even 'cats have conflicts between them. How does Manticore deal with the fact that there will eventually come a time, if only in the distant future, when war will cut some 'cat clans off from the homeworld-- or worse, pit treecats against Manticore itself? They need a "right of return" for treecats and their adoptees. Automatic dual citizenship or only just the offer, permanently extended.
So far, treecats have been lucky in their allies, and cunning in their successful takeover of the monarchy. But now that they're out of the closet, they need the right to an education, and to send representatives to Parliament if they so choose. Most 'cats may always want to live as they have, but now that they're starting to integrate more closely into human society, they need to be able to access the information they need, and to argue their case as necessary. (How would treecats vote on going to war, for example? Not to mention, what one constitutional amendment can do, another can undo...)
And while the SEM's in the process of adjusting to the fact that they have a whole sentient species demanding a new role in their society, perhaps they ought to extend the same opportunities to the OTHER sentient species they've colonized.
Medusans. All we really see of them is in OBS, where they're described as having all the hallmarks of any civilization, including governments, laws, and trade. Where Manticore could have argued that, without a common language, the "perpetual child" thing was the best they could do for treecats, Medusans *have* language and have had the ability to communicate with humans for decades.
Where is their representation in Parliament? How do they contest Manticore's decisions about their planet, which has already been involved in Manticore's wars at least twice? We know Manticore limits their access to technology regardless of their wishes (using the rather spurious argument that they don't want to contaminate the culture-- if all you wanted was the wormhole, why did you land at all? Just build the forts, call the planet a preserve and don't let anyone land!).
Do they have the right to go off-world? Do they have the right to books, histories, galactic news? I would assume not, if Manticore is trying to keep them from acquiring tech (and educational materials would lead to exactly that). Which is ridiculous. At this point, Medusans know the galaxy is out there. It's time to give it to them.
Treecats have legal right s because they are cute and cuddly.
Medusans have no rights because not only are they shit ugly, they eat their own shit. No one wants to associate with them. Hell, just nuke em from orbit.
by Fox2! » Mon Dec 03, 2018 9:49 pm
Fox2!
saber964 wrote:
Based on the treecat stated population, treecats would have 3 or 4 members of parliament and probably the same number in the house of lords. Based on the exploits of several treecats and assumed positions.
Lady Samantha Countess of Sun Leaf
Lord Nimitz Duke of Bright Water
Lady Sorrow Singer Grand Duchess of Black Rock, Singer of the Clans.
Wouldn't they take their seats under their tree cat names, rather than their two-leg one?
by NortonIDaughter » Tue Dec 04, 2018 2:06 am
NortonIDaughter
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Well, regarding the code duello, no truly egalitarian society has one at all, since it's essentially "might makes right" on a personal scale. Denver Summervale may have been paid for most of his kills, but any a**hole with good aim could wreck as much devastation as he did with no legal repercussions.
But I definitely see where, say, having Medusans ask to join the RMN would cause all sorts of headaches. Do you really want to have to redesign all your ships to accommodate their physique when only a handful are joining up at first? (Picture them as Marines or in the Army though. Now *that's* something the rest of the galaxy should fear.) On the flip side, RFC has made a point of mentioning how beneficial alternative viewpoints can be over and over in the series-- Hemphill & White Haven, Grayson & Manticore-- and he's especially played it up with the treecats. I see no reason why Medusans wouldn't be just as valuable in broadening the SEM's horizons.
While the treecats' status as sentients can't be argued, the amount of land on Sphinx they hold could well be, especially in the farther future when they're more firmly integrated into human society-- after all, part of the reason they hold so much of it is that they *weren't* integrating, and needed at least that much land to maintain their population and way of life. Especially if, say, young scouts and other select treecats began to claim the right to an education as citizens (to better understand human society and tech, etc), I can see some greedy people arguing that they are being treated with excessive favor by being able to claim both human and treecat benefits.
by cthia » Tue Dec 04, 2018 7:02 am
cthia
NortonIDaughter wrote: Well, regarding the code duello, no truly egalitarian society has one at all, since it's essentially "might makes right" on a personal scale. Denver Summervale may have been paid for most of his kills, but any a**hole with good aim could wreck as much devastation as he did with no legal repercussions.
Medusans simply won't be suited for naval service. Lots of people aren't suited for naval service now. They call them Marines. LOL
Good point. But then it could be defended in favor of progress. Instead of dual citizenship, a sort of dual species-ship. The problems of dual citizenship still aren't completely ironed out. Certainly for Americans who eventually end up forgoing dual citizenship in some cases because it is less legally constraining - hence more profitable. Oh the IRS horror stories of owning businesses in two countries where you are a legal citizen. Will the Cats be up against the same rollercoaster ride?
In a sense, legal precedence has already been established.
Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense
by TFLYTSNBN » Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:22 pm
I am not inviting the Medusans to dinner.
Medusans produced a strong 'stomach acid' which they expelled over their food, then massaged it with their hands before squatting over it to eat it. This made cooking their food mostly unneccessary. They can go for longer periods without feeding than a human can, though they grow gradually more torpid as time passes.
In Medusan culture, the touching and handing of partially digested food to other members of the social circle was a gesture of goodwill. (Companion)
Medusans easily became addicted to Mekoha, a drug extracted from local vegatation. (HH1)
by cthia » Tue Dec 04, 2018 3:19 pm
TFLYTSNBN wrote: I am not inviting the Medusans to dinner.
Their nutrition and habits seem a plus for the military. They'll eat anything, as the military are trained to do? They're more survivable in the elements. Besides, if they are sentient enough, nutrition cannot be used as a filter. Or the rock eating Hortas on StarTrek wouldn't have stood a chance.
I bet they think we smell.
by NortonIDaughter » Wed Dec 12, 2018 4:25 am
Dame Estelle mentions that they're pretty much invisible in the bush, and even high, untrained, and way under-armed, they did a lot of damage in OBS. With training and modern tech they'd be absolutely terrifying.
(As for drug addiction, I really don't feel our species has a leg to stand on there!)
And like treecats, I suspect they have a lot to offer culturally to Manticore.
Speaking of treecats, their spectacular telempathic and telepathic abilities tend to overshadow another ability that could be just as useful in different ways-- their incredible recall! The way their memories and memory songs are described, it's clear that they remember in far more comprehensive detail than humans do. If I try to picture the car that I saw in Car and Driver with my daughter today, I get a vague green sports car shape with the Aston Martin symbol on the back. It's shown that 'cats can basically pull up the whole scene as if they were still there to give to another 'cat if necessary. That's AMAZING.
Not to mention how capacious their brains' storage must be, to be able to hold all their own memories as well as all the transferred songs they've received.
by kzt » Wed Dec 12, 2018 11:26 am
Against any modern force that “invisibility” is about as effective as painting your star ships black.
by Jonathan_S » Wed Dec 12, 2018 2:43 pm
Jonathan_S
kzt wrote: Against any modern force that “invisibility” is about as effective as painting your star ships black.
Especially once you start loading them up with modern weapons, armor, and equipment, which modern sensors are designed to seek out. A Stilty in power armor isn't going to be any more stealthy that a human Marine in power armor would be. (And likely less so due to their larger size).
by Erls » Thu Dec 20, 2018 11:01 pm
Erls
In regards to the Treecat land ownership and issues: I don't think that would be much of an issue. If the 'Cats were given full citizenship, the most expedient outcome would be for each clan to be granted legal title to their range. Unclaimed territories could be either be held in trust for a future clan or divided among the surrounding clans via their agreement. Then, the clan could decide whether it wanted to grant individual ownership or particular locations (e.g., trees) to individual families or if it wanted the newly formed clan government (e.g., county board) to own the entirety of the range.
I would guess most clans would stay with communal ownership of the range due to history and custom. Thus, each clan would as a unique government entity (basically, a township or county) to sell mineral, water, or other rights to third parties with the income going to the clan. Who knows what some clans would think of as ways to earn income (and pay for advanced education for some of their members). Perhaps some clans would build "hotels" that would allow humans to spend a few nights living with the clan and experiencing a 'traditional' 'Cat lifestyle. Some may allow for limited mineral extraction or other such uses if done following specific guidelines.
Basically, there are legal ways we know of today that could be applied to 'Cats as they transition to full citizens.
The more interesting question, to me, is how 'Cats who choose to live among humans would get along. The 'Cats of course would know sign language, thanks to the memory singers, but how would they interact in daily life? Would cities have to build 'Cat specific housing (perhaps greenhouses with trees in them and kept stocked with prey)? How would the legal system ensure that 'Cats are not illegally messing with the minds, memories, or emotions of the humans around them without permission? How would the education system adapt to teaching a species without a written language but near perfect memories?
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Telemetry confirmed good news.
15 February, 2016 /0 Comments/in Advice, Conversion to electric, Tools to convert to electric /by A.D.
We went to the speed track, in Cartagena, where we could use the track for some time. We thank you very much for their help.
We decided to drive a non-stopping run at a constant current, to see how other aspects of the prototype (our electric Twingo), as range, temperatures, rpms..etc. . were affected.
Due to the amount of corners the track had, we couldn’t get a stable current consumption, but at least we could monitor it, and that was the result for 20 min drive.
We can see an average of 120 Amp out of the battery pack most of the time. And also, around 210 Amp out of the controller.
All this time we have consume around 3,3 Kw, which is a stoning 46% of the total capacity.
But, ¿how this test affected to the rest of the components?. Well, we could see the controller a bit too hot, so that led us to think about an additional cool system for the controller. We saw a peak of 72ºC, which is the limit of a healthy temperature, so we are working in some system to dissipate faster the temperature of the heat sink controller.
The motor also was a bit warm, but we could see a very healthy average between 40ºC and 50ºC, so no drama about it, for now.
We can also see that we tried to get the motor at the stable revolution rate of 2500 rpm, which is the manufacturer recommended rpm rate to get the maximum torque. Seeing that we did drive a maximum rpm efficiency it is also good news. So, Telemetry came ok at Cartagena´s speed track.
So, a little video with a summary of the whole test can be enjoyed here. If you need a professional video recording work for your project, please contact: Tecnoforma, victor.aldaya@tecforma.com
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Batteries, The big deal.
25 June, 2015 /0 Comments/in Advice, Conversion to electric /by A.D.
The batteries world is in constant change nowadays with the electric vehicles take off , the new and improved power storage, super capacitors, and the new kid on the block, graphene.
Lead batteries and AGM or gel are a thing of the past. We are now having the Li-ion present going to the new Li-air future.
The necessity of longer trips, fast charging times a better performance are a must in electric vehicles, and more and more, those demands are the big deal in EV.
Fresh air, still to come.
Till now, the obvious technology in the batteries department has been lithium-ion. But since some time ago, a new technology based in air is the real interest for manufacturers and EV developers. The new Li-air promises up to 10 times the energy density of their cousins li-ion. IBM´s project 500 has the aim of driving 500 miles in one single charge in a family car using those new batteries. Although this has been achieved already by the Metron Institute (Slovenia) with LiFePo4 technology.
The way it works is, a Li-air cell uses cheap carbon as a cathode (instead of cobalt), a molecule of a oxygen pivots through the cathode and gives the battery its name. But it has remained theoretical because of its big challenges. Among them: the other electrode in such batteries—the anode—is pure lithium metal, which provides a lot of energy but also ignites when exposed to water, carbon dioxide, or other contaminants.
Such is the challenge, that IBM and JCESR (Joint Center for Energy Storage Research) have decided to step back from the LI-air project, and IBM has turned his favour to a Lithium Sodium technology.
But with all these changes, a new development continues, and metal chemistries are also under development, in particular Aluminium-Air. An Israeli company (Phinergy), has claimed to solved corrosion, and recharging issues with a silver based catalyst. A prototype EV claimed to have 1600km range with Al-air batteries. However those cells cannot be electrically re-charged having to re-load them mechanically and topped up with water.
It smells sulphur.
Lithium Sulphur cells are another energy dense technology that could solve the needs for the EV in a near future. This new chemistry tends to solve issues like life cycle and stability. Based around a carbon based electrode, those cells are said they could go ahead Li-air technology.
Many studies and research from Imperial College (London) to German company BASF are putting their efforts into Li-S. They said this could be the 4th generation of batteries, expecting ranges of 400Kms in the next decade. Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley Labs (California) have introduced graphene oxide into Li-S cells that are said to deliver 1,500 charge cycles without deterioration.
Other researchers from ETH Zurich are working with Sodium-ion cells, stating that are much cheaper than Li-ion. But they have two major problems; they are three times heavier than lithium and tend to lose capacity when not in use.
Lithium Ion are here to stay.
Despite all the development in the power storage field, one thing is clear, most of EV at the moment go for Li-ion, and the fact that manufacturer are offering cheaper prices and even Tesla is building a new Lithium batteries plant, makes you think that in the long term this technology is here to stay.
Li-Ion developers, Bosch, GS Yuasa and Mitsubishi, claim that the could reduce the prices to half in the Li-ion filed, and double the capacity, that would make EV much more approachable to normal consumers.
There are also many new promising developments with carbon, but the gap between the lab and the factories is too big to stop producing Li-ion for EVs.
The magazine “Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology International” writes in their July 2014 issue about the carbon:
“The real deal?. A new type of dual-carbon battery technology that could potentially be a game changer for EVs has been launched by a Japanese R&D company. Called Ryden, the new battery is said to offer energy density that’s comparable to Li-ion products, but over a much longer functional lifetime with far improved safety and cradle-tocradle sustainability, says Power Japan Plus, which will begin production of the cells later this year at its manufacturing facility in Okinawa, Japan. The Ryden battery makes use of a completely unique chemistry, with both the anode and the cathode made of carbon. “Power Japan Plus is a materials engineer for a new class of carbon material that balances economics, performance and sustainability in a world of constrained resources,” says CEO Dou Kani. “The Ryden dual-carbon battery is the energy storage breakthrough needed to bring green technology such as electric vehicles to mass market.” Kani says that the Ryden battery balances a breadth of consumer demands previously unattainable by a single battery chemistry. In terms of performance, the new battery is not only energy dense and operates at above four volts, but also offers a charge time that’s 20 times faster than that of current Li-ion designs.
The Ryden technology has been created so that it can slot directly into existing manufacturing processes, requiring no change to existing manufacturing lines. Furthermore, the battery enables consolidation of the supply chain, with carbon being the only active material used. As a result, manufacture of the Ryden battery is under no threat of supply disruption or price spikes from rare earth materials, rare metals or heavy metals. According to Power Japan Plus, its technology is the first high-performance battery that meets consumer cycle-life demands, being rated for more than 3,000 charge/discharge cycles. The breakthrough also eliminates the unstable active material used in other high-performance batteries, thus greatly reducing fire and explosion hazard. Furthermore, the new battery experiences minimal thermal change during operation, eliminating the threat of a thermal runaway. Finally, it can be 100% charged and discharged with no damage. Adding to the sense that the Ryden battery could be a key moment for EVs is that it is 100% recyclable, vastly improving the cradle-to-cradle sustainability of battery technology. As an add-on to this, Power Japan Plus is testing the battery with its organic carbon complex material, working toward the goal of producing the battery with all-organic carbon in the future. Made of naturally grown organic cotton, the carbon complex exhibits properties not seen in other carbon materials. By controlling the size of the carbon crystals during production, Power Japan Plus can engineer the carbon complex for a variety of applications.”
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2Aug/110
A Moment for the HTC EVO 3D
I've been a Sprint user for over 10 years, at least according to Amanda, who cheerfully explained to me why my cell phone bill never makes sense but that they appreciate my loyalty anyway as she sold me my new phone a couple of weeks ago.
My new phone is the HTC EVO 3D, but enough about that for now. First, it's important to talk about my PREVIOUS phone, which was the very underrated Samsung Moment.
The Moment was a very early generation Android phone which managed to hit just about all the design elements I wanted. Despite being a bit too slow (Angry Birds never played quite right) and missing out on simple things like multi-touch which Samsung apparently left out to get it to market quickly and inexpensively, it was one of my favorite phones. My Moment was a replacement for a Palm Treo which dutifully kept by my side for several years (forever in smartphone land).
The Moment was a wide slide-out keyboard styled phone. If anyone is reading this that designs phone keyboards, go pick this up and play with it -- it's the best. The keys are clearly separated and slightly raised so that touch-typing, such that is is on a teensy-weensy keyboard is actually possible. I wasn't quite able to bang out entire novellas without looking, but I could get pretty far into a decent text message with minimal mistakes while watching Netflix. The keyboard rocked.
Moreover, the Moment set aside the typical 4-button Android interface (Home, Menu, Back, Search) that seems prolific, instead opting for the three required buttons (Home, Menu, Back), and two buttons dedicated to phone operation (Pickup and Hangup, where the Hangup button also acted as a power button for the overall phone). Most importantly, though, the phone had a tiny touchpad that depressed as a select button. I haven't seen better cursor control on any smart phone, although the Palm and the Blackberry dedicated rollerballs and rockers are fairly close.
The HTC EVO 3D with which I now entertain myself boasts none of this coolness. The more-than-4-inch screen is gorgeous, responsive (the phone is wicked fast), and I've whittled down the on-screen keyboard options to a few that I like (I'm currently using SwiftKey X which has a curious habit of predicting words when nothing has been typed -- it currently assumes that I want to say "I am a beautiful person." if I don't give it any other starting letters). But it's not as cute or cuddly as the Samsung Moment.
But, and this is very important:
IT TAKES 3D PHOTOS!
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Marbled Rye and Evolutionary Algorithms
Since no one has yet taken it upon themselves to write my unauthorized biography, it falls to me to make the following piece of information available to the public: I like to bake.
Breads and pies mostly -- I've got a couple of recipes posted here, including a pie crust that I'm pretty happy about, and a few things I've borrowed from other people. I've made a few rhubarbs lately that really turned out quite well.
One thing I recently attempted, was a Marbled Rye. This isn't a terribly difficult bread to make -- there are recipes everywhere. I was mostly pleased with it, though -- I didn't have any Caraway seeds, which add a lot of flavor, but the bread looked nice and better than a lot that I've made lately.
One thing I experimented with, though, was yeast.
Yeast is one of those things I don't really understand. This is because the most I remember about the biological classification taxonomy was that everything was an "Animal", "Vegetable", or "Mineral" -- I have no idea which one a yeast would be. This was a problem for biologists as well, so in 1990 they changed the top three domains to be "Archaea," "Bacteria," and "Eukaryota," which has helped me in no way whatsoever because not only do I still not know which one yeast would be, but I no longer know which one I'm supposed to be, and I much preferred back when I was an Animal and the world made sense.
Anyway, yeast are largely responsible for the existence of Bourbon, which automatically qualifies them as A Good Thing™ no matter what biologists call them. Baker's yeast, which makes us happy, is "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" (note the interesting comment in Wikipedia about Crohn's and Colitis on that page -- I never knew that), and lives everywhere, so it's pretty easy to get hold of. You can leave potato-starch filled water out for a while and yeast will just show up. All it does, really, is convert sugar into bubbles and alcohol. In breads, the bubbles (Carbon Dioxide) make the breads rise... in alcohols, the alcohol well, makes the alcohol alcoholic. Yeast is glorious.
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Computing on the cheap with Amazon EC2
We here at the happy technologist tend to host our own servers, because we like it, and because we can. (We also speak in the third person when there's just one of us, but there's no accounting for some people). Nothing fancy, mind you... for now, a handful of websites are running on an Ubuntu virtual machine through VirtualBox on a Windows 7 (or maybe Vista, I forget) box that otherwise serves as a Media Center. It's actually simpler than it sounds.
Lately, though, what with the Heritage Health Prize and a lot of hours spent learning and playing with data mining techniques, the poor little server has been called upon to do much more intensive work. It's routinely running simulations and calculations all night long and it's really not built for that. The fan has started humming heroically (i.e. loudly), which isn't always best for a media center.
Noone wants their media center to hate them, or to catch fire.
Enter Amazon EC2. That stands for Elastic Compute Cloud. See how clever that is -- what they did with that 2 there? Rather than go "ECC", they just counted the C twice and made it like a math or a chemistry equation. These Amazon guys are some serious funny. I'm actually very impressed with the setup they have. There's a wealth of options for configuring the virtual servers -- public AMIs (preconfigured images) are available for most major software vendor platforms, from the expected Oracle, Microsoft, and Linux offerings to MicroStrategy, R, Elastic Bamboo, Citrix, and even BitCoin configured software. Public data sets are available should you need them, advanced storage, database, failover, clustering, networking, identity management, queuing, notification, and probably a million other things at pennies-per-hour prices.
At the moment, I'm running a simulation on a 20-CPU 1.6 Terabyte beast of a machine for $0.228 per hour. This is the sort of thing that infuses me with glee. It's easily outperforming my media center by 30:1.
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14Jun/110
Unhappy Bits about Bitcoins
I wandered across bitcoin not too long ago, during some random web crawling, and downloaded it in May. I installed it, ran it, realized I was behind a firewall, killed it, uninstalled it and forgot about it for a couple of weeks until this Wired article came out and sent the whole world a'twitter about bitcoin again.
The Wired article, in short, talks about an underground website that sells illicit drugs and whose sole allowable currency is the Bitcoin. The website itself is shrouded in anonymity in the TOR network which itself is an excellent little piece of technology which I'm planning on running out of space to describe here just now, but you should look into it.
The Bitcoin spiked in popularity. You can buy and sell Bitcoins in open marketplaces such as Mt Gox (whatever that means) or Lillion Transfer if you're using some more international currencies, or you can use them directly on sites that take them, such as this Alpaca sock store. Prices quickly went from a few dollars to around $30, although they've now backed off a bit to around $20/BTC (Bitcoin).
Ok, so where are we? We can buy cocaine and alpaca socks with Bitcoins. Great. But what ARE they, again? How can you get some, and should you care?
Mosaics and More Algorithm Love
My mom (whose website I should update) recently celebrated her birthday. My mom is an avid shutterbug, and abuses the digital camera we got for her a handful of Christmases ago to the tune of 10,000 photos a year, give or take. Our basement is piled with boxes of images just begging to be scanned, cataloged, sorted, and all that from back when mom was a film user (you all remember film, right?). I daydream of software that will actually be useful to that endeavor -- to say nothing of how fun it would be to digitize the piles of super-8mm movie film that goes along with it -- but so far we haven't made much of a dent.
In the mean time, though, I have a hard drive which contains about 150,000 photos from my mom's library... basically a full off-site backup in case horror happens to her computer. (ObNote: This is good practice, boys-and-girls, you should all go about giving hard drives away, with complete backups of your stuff in case of a disaster... you'll thank me when the revolution comes). Anyway, I was looking around for a way to leverage this wealth of digital media for a birthday present and decided to go with a photomosaic.
6Jun/110
Hey, Happy Technologist got Published!
I'm rather excited about the fact that, after only six actual posts on the new blog, one got picked up for publication. The slightly altered version is available at Technology First, and you can get the full newspaper in .pdf too.
Let's hope this will be motivation to write more!
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28May/110
Musings from a few weeks of data mining
Ok, I'm still no expert data miner by a large margin, but I've learned a LOT in just a few weeks of playing with the Heritage Health Prize data. The folks on the Kaggle/HHP Chat Board are pretty helpful, and the internet is full of useful information. I've taken to using Excel and MYSQL far more than any mining-specific tools. I have been interested in R and RapidMiner, and I've been able to set up a few basic models with those tools. One thing I've been very happy with is the wealth of online tutorials available for just about everything. My resident 16 year old has been using them for a while to pick up piano and guitar songs, but I haven't had much use until now; I'm pleased to report that the quality of these online free video or web tutorials is pretty high. I have a list started as a del.icio.us tag set if you want to see what I've been watching.
I've made 9 submissions (the first two or three of which I don't count -- let's call those 'test' submissions). The 9th actually had a worse score than the 8th. Now that interests me. On my tests, which include several different sampling and "cross validation" methods on the two years of available data, my score on each submission improved from the last... not much in this last case, but enough for me to feel reasonable in submitting the algorithm. Why, then, did my result against the real data using the same algorithm go backwards? One possibility is that I've been overfitting the data. Basically, my algorithm makes assumptions that are either unnecessary or are only applicable to the sample data, and don't hold true for the final data. At the tolerances we're dealing with, it's still possible that this is just a random selection bias issue, but it's still interesting, and a common and very important problem in statistical data mining: how can you know when you've overfit? When do you know that you're "trying too hard" as it is. 🙂
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Dayton Technology Landscape Conference
Technology First is a local IT Trade Group, and their second annual "Technology Landscape Conference" was yesterday, so I dutifully (duty = I'm dating their intern) attended.
Ok, so there was some more duty... one of the companies presenting was ExpeData, a Dayton, Ohio (which is "local" for us folk) company who has a digital writing capture technology. We've been working with them for a few months to find some suitable applications and to discuss some security issues and requirements. It's a fairly interesting technology, although I have some trouble finding its killer-app.
Another interesting company whose presentation I attended was Persistent Surveillance Systems -- these guys have a 190+ MegaPixel camera array that they fly over the Cincinnati area (among others), taking pictures about once per second. When they hear about a crime, typically a murder, after the fact, they can go back and assign analysts to review the captured images to track people in the vicinity. Their software allows analysts to assign colored tracks and markers to people, vehicles, and anything else of interest -- they initially track suspects, then go back and track anyone they interacted with, anyone nearby (possible witnesses/accomplices), and whatnot. The large pixel view of the city and long video times allow them to watch people drive all the way to their destination -- a home, hideout, friends' house, or whatever -- where they can then work with police to get a warrant and follow up as appropriate. Their metadata is even good enough that they can apparently cross reference locations to find that, for example, the getaway driver from murder A may have lived next door to the suspect from murder B, which may help detectives tie together previously unrelated crimes.
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9May/110
Heritage Health Prize: On Algorithms, Rights, Patents and Patients
So my goal for the weekend was to submit an entry to the Heritage Health Prize. It took me until Monday night (have to work off-hours, this isn't a work-sponsored event), but our team (the Data Monkeys) (with Jeremi and Chris at this point) are now entered and somewhat amazingly NOT in last place! Yay!
But I'm ahead of myself... the Heritage Health Prize is a data competition run through Kaggle, who runs these sorts of things. It's a $3-Million prize competition for a method of predicting what hospital patients will spend time in a hospital given their prior years' medical history.
I've been wanting to enter something like this for a while. I don't house any real hopes of winning (I have some fake hopes, of course); this sort of money attracts teams with far more depth of experience in data mining algorithms than I have -- our team leans more towards data management, but not analytics. Still, this is an opportunity to head in that direction, so I'm going to take it.
25Apr/110
Data Ethics, Privacy, and Responsibility
We've seen a lot of high profile data privacy and data leak issues in the news lately.
Facebook is constantly under fire, for apparent lapses in securing private data.
Just today, classified documents from Guantanamo Bay were leaked to the public. In fact, these were leaked by WikiLeakes, who was in the news frequently in the last few years for similar leaks.
Millions of passwords were stolen from gawker media
News that credit card data is targeted and stolen appears almost routinely these days.
Dropbox's privacy policy has been under attack due to apparently misleading comments about data encryption and security
Some smartphones are keeping track of where you've been either by design or by error, but raising privacy concerns either way
And I'm sure the list could go on and on and on...
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Elizabeth Teisberg, PhD, Meng, MS is the author of Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. Co-written with Harvard’s Professor Michael E. Porter, this book has generated strong international interest in innovation that restructures health care delivery to improve results for patients, increase professional satisfaction for clinicians and reduce costs. Professor Teisberg joined TDC after serving as a professor of business at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business for 15 years and a strategy professor at the Harvard Business school for 8 years. Her expertise is in Strategy and Innovation, particularly in health care delivery. Since publication of Redefining Health Care, Professor Teisberg has worked with numerous organizations on implementation of the principles of value-based health care delivery in practice. Professor Teisberg speaks, works, and teaches internationally on innovation for dramatic improvement in health care value. She has developed frameworks, cases, and articles to enable the teaching and implementation of health care delivery transformation. Her current work is addressing redefinition of care for people with chronic health conditions.
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Nigel Farage Appears on BBC News Today
Posted on August 31, 2007 by News Editor
Nigel Farage, Leader, UK Independence Party
Nigel Farage will be appearing on
BBC News 24 (freeview channel 80) today,31st August, at 3.45pm.
He will also be appearing this evening on BBC1 News at 6pm.
This is in response to Mr. Keith Vaz the Labour MP and former Europe Minister.
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said: “I am very glad that he [Mr Vaz] has seen sense and realised that there is no way the government can avoid letting the people have their say on such an important issue, especially since the European Parliament have admitted that this is the Constitutional Treaty.
“If his suggestions of a vote on the same day as a general election are taken up, we could also be faced with the unusual situation of our three main parties having to talk about Europe on the campaign trail, instead of pushing it under the carpet.”
The above has been taken from the BBC News website.
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Happy Weblog Birthday Louise
In all the excitement of reading weather and ice maps we nearly missed an important birthday. The AGX weblog has been running for one year. It has allowed Louise to post news of Adrian’s progress quickly and easily and we even got Adrian to send photographs via his satphone. It has expanded the readership with many readers setting up their own RSS feeds. So its Happy Birthday wishes to the AGX readers, Louise, Alpha Global Expedition, the FIRE Project team and all those who have contributed to the project during the last twelve months. It is almost two years since Adrian sailed out of the Solent and into history, but this weblog anniversary comes at the most critical stage of the voyage, after a chain of sailing achievements.
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Show Me The Way To Go Home
The ice map as at 22:00 hrs Zulu Aug 30 shows Adrian’s challenge. The Ice Queen’s cold finger is still touching the North Russian coast at one point and that point lies between Adrian and home. It is almost exactly half way along the Russian Northern Sea Route and Barrabas is now at anchor close to the choke point, ready to sail the moment the wind changes and the ice starts to break up. This is the critical point in the voyage. To the South and East of Adrian’s current position lies the port of Tiksi. Tied up in the port are three vessels that hope to pass through the choke point. One is a fully crewed larger yacht that has been imprisoned by conditions for two winters.
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On the Move to Ostrov Preobrazheniya
Barrabas at anchor in front of the research station – Ostrov Preobrazheniya. On the deck is the survival dinghy that can be sailed, rowed, or used as a sledge if Barrabas becomes trapped in the ice.
Adrian reports: I spent the whole of Wednesday on the west side of Ostrov Peschanyy. The wind was blowing from the east setting up a northerly current on the western side. Drift ice was moving. From 7.00am until 11.00pm I was on constant watch dodging the drift. One of the last pieces of ice to float by was carrying a small colony of Walrus, grunting and snorting in the diminishing light.
Sailors pass in the morning – family of walrus head on South
Boeing, Xiamen Airlines Identify 25-Airplane Next-Generation 737 Order
SEATTLE, Aug. 30, 2007 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Xiamen Airlines today identified the Xiamen, China-based carrier as the customer for 25 Next-Generation 737-800s listed as unidentified on Boeing’s Orders & Deliveries Web site in early August. The order is worth $1.9 billion at 2007 average list prices.
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Boeing, Norwegian Air Shuttle Sign Order for 42 Next-Generation 737s
SEATTLE, Aug. 30, 2007 — The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and low-fare carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA today announced an order for 42 Boeing Next-Generation 737-800s. The order is valued at $3.1 billion at list prices. The airline has secured purchase rights for an additional 42 737-800s.
Today’s order is the largest ever from any Scandinavian carrier and is the largest European order this year for the 737. This direct purchase comes on top of Norwegian’s recent decision to add 11 Boeing 737-800s to its fleet through lease agreements. All of the 737-800s, including those on lease, will be fitted with advanced-technology Blended Winglets, which reduce aerodynamic drag and therefore reduce fuel consumption and related carbon emissions by 3 to 5 percent.
Boeing and Honeywell Sign Contract for Innovative Supply-Chain Solution
SEATTLE, Aug. 30, 2007 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] has signed an agreement with Honeywell Aerospace that will allow them to significantly reduce an airline’s maintenance costs by providing expendable parts.
The companies teamed as part of Boeing’s Integrated Materials Management (IMM) initiative. Through this program, Boeing and suppliers like Honeywell maintain an airline’s inventory of spare parts – providing items as needed. By reducing the airline’s own inventory, IMM reduces the airline’s cost of doing business.
Boeing Airplane-Monitoring System Adds Six Airlines in First-Half 2007
SEATTLE, Aug. 30, 2007 — Six airlines adopted Boeing’s [NYSE:BA] in-flight airplane-monitoring system in the first half of the year, bringing to 15 the number of airlines and freight carriers to sign for the program. Airplane Health Management (AHM) now provides real-time monitoring and decision support for 42 percent of the world’s 777s and 28 percent of its 747-400s.
Japan Airlines and Singapore Airlines were the first to adopt the innovative condition-monitoring package when it was introduced in late 2005. This year, Air Austral, Austrian Airlines, Emirates, TNT Airways and Virgin Atlantic have signed for AHM. One of the six new customers is unidentified. In addition to the program’s first two customers, carriers who signed to use Airplane Health Management prior to 2007 include: Air France, Air New Zealand, Cathay Pacific Airways, Egyptair and Thai Airways.
Dr. Paul MacCready, Founder and Former Chairman of AeroVironment, Dies at 81
MONROVIA, Calif., August 29, 2007 –[ASDWire]– Dr. Paul MacCready, internationally renowned innovator and entrepreneur, founder and former chairman of the board of directors of AeroVironment, Inc., passed away in his sleep on Tuesday, August 28. Dr. MacCready had recently been diagnosed with a serious ailment. His passing occurred less than one week after the 30th anniversary of one of his most notable accomplishments, the record-setting flight of his human powered airplane, the Gossamer Condor.
“The world has lost a man of unique vision, and the people of AV have lost a mentor and friend,” said Tim Conver, AeroVironment’s chairman, chief executive officer and president. “Paul was an inspiration to so many people around the globe who were touched by his accomplishments and his innovative approach of “doing more with much less”.
Conver continued, “The people of AV are diminished today as a result of his passing. At the same time, we are better for having known and worked with him, and we re-dedicate our efforts to the important work that carries on his legacy. Of all his accomplishments, Paul’s greatest contribution may have been his remarkable ability to demonstrate that ‘impossible’ is no match for human imagination and perseverance. On behalf of everyone at AeroVironment, I express my sincere condolences to Paul’s wife Judy, his three sons and his two grandchildren.”
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Finding the Needle in the Haystack! Photographed from USS Momsen a few days ago
Roz Savage has found her boat and work begins armed with tools and spares to repair the damage done to Brocade during the stormy weather she experienced last week. The weather is calm at present and hopes are high that they can begin work on it.
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Bucharest travel guide
PGL Bucharest Tavern Tales 2016 Ruleset
Players will have to attend the event at Sala Polivalenta in Bucharest, Romania, during September 16 – 18 in order to participate in the tournament.
Players need to be in the tournament area at least 60 minutes prior to the designated match start time (e.g: for matches starting at 10:00, players have to be in the tournament area at 09:00). All match times are EEST.
Tournament structure:
Group stage: 4 GSL Groups with 4 players each – top 2 players from each group advance to the playoff
Playoff: Double-elimination bracket with 8 players and full reset Grand Final (the player coming from the lower bracket will have to win 2 Bo5 series against his opponent).
Seeding in the playoff will be based on the player performance during group stage.
Playoff initial matches:
M1: 1st place Group A vs 2nd place Group B
M2: 1st place Group C vs 2nd place Group D
M3: 1st place Group B vs 2nd place Group A
M4: 1st place Group D vs 2nd place Group C
The tournament format is Last Hero Standing with a custom ban system.
The ban system for the decks will proceed as follows (each phase will be simultaneous – e.g both players ban or pick at the same time):
1st phase: ban 1 deck
2nd phase: pick 1 deck
3rd phase: ban 2 decks
4th phase: pick 1 deck
5th phase: ban 2 decks
6th phase: pick the last deck out of the remaining 2
Total bans: 5
Total picks: 3
Inactive decks: 1
All matches will be Best-of-5. The first player to win 3 games within the match is considered the winner of the series.
In the Last Hero Standing format, after game #1, the winning deck must be used in games #2 (and potentially #3), while the defeated deck will be eliminated permanently for the remainder of the match.
If a player chooses a wrong deck during a match:
for the 1st offense, the game will be remade using the proper decks and the player in question will receive a warning
from the 2nd offense onward, the player in question will lose the game through forfeit (his opponent will choose what class will be eliminated)
Once active, players are forbidden to exit the Challenge screen and thus interrupt the match.
If a player exits the Challenge screen without a proper reason (game bug, PC malfunction, Internet outage, etc.):
for the 1st offense, the player in question will receive a warning.
from the 2nd offense onward, the player in question will lose one game of the series through forfeit (his opponent will choose what class will be eliminated)
Each player must submit their 9 decks to the admin team by September 14 (end of day)
Players will not be allowed to make adjustments to their decks during the tournament
At the conclusion of the Group Stage, the decklists will be released to the RO8 players
TOURNAMENT AND MATCH INFORMATION
All matches will be played on the European servers. Players must use their own accounts during the tournament.
Players are strongly encouraged to have the Blizzard Authenticator App installed on their phones in order to avoid any account lockout situations.
Players must set their chat status to Busy. If a player receives any type of in-game messages during a game, he will receive a sanction that can range from losing a game via forfeit to being disqualified from the competition, at the admin’s sole discretion.
Players are allowed to take notes using pen and paper during their matches, but are not allowed to install any kind of decktracking or similar software on their laptop / tournament PCs.
Unless specifically instructed otherwise by an admin (for streaming purposes), all players must deactivate the spectator mode from the game’s settings while they are playing in the tournament.
If a player is found being spectated by someone other than an official observer during a game, he will lose a game and risks being disqualified from the competition, at the admin’s sole discretion.
If a game ends in a draw, it will be replayed using the same decks.
If a game is interrupted due to factors outside of the player’s control (e.g: technical or Internet connection issues), the game will be replayed using the same decks.
If a game cannot proceed due to player intervention (refusing to accept the match challenge, forcibly closing the Hearthstone client, etc.), the player in question will lose a game in the series. If the player in question still refuses for start the match, he can be disqualified from the tournament, at the admin’s sole discretion.
PGL reserves the right to modify the rules at any time. This includes, but is not limited to, changes due to software updates / releases or any other change deemed necessary by the PGL Admin team to maintain the integrity and fair play of the competition.
Any last-minute changes to the rules presented above will be explained to the players by the Admin staff.
In a situation where an Admin has to make a judgment call, the only interpretation that matters is that of the Admin.
The prizes of this tournament will be claimed according to the prize policy listed on the PGL Bucharest Tavern Tales 2016 website.
Copyright © 2016 PGL. All rights reserved | Prize Policy
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American Cyclists Among 4 Killed in Hit-and-Run in Tajikistan
July 30, 2018 13:23·
AFP, quoting an unnamed source at the ministry, had earlier reported that two Dutch nationals were in the group. Three others were hurt.
Two Americans were among four tourists killed and another three were injured during a bike tour in southern Tajikistan on Sunday when a auto hit them before fleeing the scene, authorities said. Three others were injured. Three others suffered non-life threatening injuries, the report reads.
In a statement posted on its verified Facebook page, the US Embassy in the Central Asian nation said, "In working closely with Tajik authorities, we can confirm that two American cyclists were killed in the Danghara district on July 29". It's unclear if the incident was intentional or an accident, the Tajikistan Interior Ministry said on its website.
A 21-year-old man was detained in connection with the alleged hit-and-run, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.
Valtteri Bottas: Toto Wolff's 'wingman' comment hurts
Talking about the first (1), Bottas claimed that Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel turned in "very early" (2), leaving him... The punishment does not change Bottas's fifth-place result as he had a 23s cushion back to Pierre Gasly in sixth.
"Due to privacy concerns, we are unable to share further details".
Two American cyclists were among four killed and three injured in the Danghara district of the Central Asian nation of Tajikistan on Sunday, when a auto hit them before fleeing the scene, US authorities said.
The incident happened at about 3:30 p.m. local time on Sunday when a vehicle slammed into a group of seven cyclists on a road in Danghara, a district in Khatlon province, about 71 kilometers (44 miles) southeast of the capital Dushanbe.
Zlatan scores first MLS hat-trick for LA Galaxy
In Sunday's other fixture, in-form Seattle Sounders accounted for New York City 3-1 to snap the visitors' four-match winning run. However, Orlando reasserted their lead seven minutes later when Dom Dwyer headed in Mohamed El-Munir's left-wing cross.
No new findings in investigation report, say MH370 families
But that search was called off after failing to find anything. It is one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries. The plane wreckage has not been found".
Mars makes closest approach in 15 years
Pascal Descamps, an Astronomer with the Paris Observatory, said: "We have a rare and interesting conjunction of phenomena". Some oppositions brings us closer to Mars than others. "There's a big storm going on in Mars at the moment", said Mackay.
Jose Mourinho frustrated by Manchester United injuries lack of signings
They were called by the baseball federation and thought it was baseball but found out it was soccer. They didn't go to the game, the stadium was empty.
US not pursuing regime change, collapse in Iran: Mattis
That provoked an all-caps tweet from Mr Trump that if Iran threatened the U.S. again, it would suffer severe consequences.
Fake news is a 'crisis in our democracy', report by MPs warns
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Russia: People across many cities decry pension age hike plan
On Saturday, that measure was approved by the upper house of parliament, the last step before being signed into law. In #Moscow , #Russia , thousands joined another #protest rally today against the government-pushed pension reform.
Names of around 40 lakh people not in final draft, says official
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Hundreds of Salmonella cases linked to backyard chickens — CDC
A 44-state salmonella outbreak has been linked to backyard poultry , according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The symptoms can last up to 4 to 7 days and in most of the cases, infected people recover from it without any treatment.
United States stocks close higher amid earnings
He said bright spots on the market were few but included transport firm TFI International, up on strong quarterly results. Merck shed 0.9 per cent after saying it was unlikely to follow rival Eli Lilly in separating its animal health unit.
Digimon Survive for PS4 and Nintendo Switch Unveiled with First Trailer
In the battle parts of the game, players will participate in strategy game-style Digimon battles on grid-based fields. In the game's story, Takuma Momotsuka is suddenly transported to a unsafe other world where brutal creatures lurk.
IBM wins $83M from Groupon in internet patent fight
IBM, he continued, leverages the fear that "a jury like you will be confused" and return a "big verdict that gets it wrong". The jury found that Groupon had used IBM's patented e-commerce systems without authorisation following a two-week trial.
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Love Island's Dani's mum Jo Mas doesn't approve of Jack Fincham
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New Orleans Shooting Leaves Three Dead, Seven Injured, Killers on the Loose
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Castlevania Animated Show's 2nd Season Trailer Streamed
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Rumor: 2018 iPad Pros will have smaller footprint and no headphone jack
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‘Ozark’ Season 2 Trailer and Images Reveal the Next Chapter
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The Epitaph
This web blog is where I will drop news about my career, personal musings, and reviews of various topics within the mediums of books, games, movies, and websites.
'R' You Good Enough For The Goonies II?
If you were growing up in the 1980's, then you probably hold the Spielberg/Columbus/Donner movie The Goonies somewhere on your list of favorite films. Like every other youngin' from that era, you've probably been excited about news of a potential sequel that's been making the rounds on and off again in recent years. Usually accompanying that news is a followup story about how cast members or staff involved with the original saying that, although they'd be willing to participate, other matters would prevent such an occurrence from happening. It's mostly a matter of concerns about whether or not they could do the franchise justice with another iteration. The prevailing premise for the sequel, if it ever does come to fruition, is that it stars the kids of the original cast members, who would also make appearances in the movie, and their own adventures in the vein of their parents' famous trek for One-Eyed Willie's "rich stuff".
Anyway, back to the "being a child of the 80's" thing. You probably owned a Nintendo Entertainment System as well, didn't you? Then you most likely forgot that you had access to, or maybe even witnessed yourself, a title called The Goonies II. Let me remind you of what you had, or what you may have missed, whatever your case may be. The video game known as The Goonies II was not made to be a sequel to the 1985 film, but as a follow-up to a game titled simply The Goonies. Not too many Nintendo playing Americans realized there was a predecessor to the second game and thought The Goonies II was meant to take place after the movie it was based around. The first game was only released on Famicom (the NES's name in Japan) consoles, although it did make an appearance in American arcades. Both of these games were made by Konami, who you may also know as the company that houses both the Contra and Metal Gear franchises.
At the end of the first game, or movie if you prefer, The Goonies helped put the crooked Fratelli family behind bars. But as everyone knows, it's impossible to keep a Fratelli behind bars for long, and they have escaped with payback on their minds, as opposed to turning over new leaves as contributors to civilized society. Mama Fratelli, with her sons Jake and Francis in the background, appear on TV, either commandeering the airwaves or via video tape, and tell The Goonies that they have kidnapped a mermaid named Annie. This new character is apparently acquainted with them and is never seen in either the previous game or the movie. As The Goonies attempt to rescue their aquatic friend, most of them are also captured by their adversaries and locked up in various points of One-Eyed Willie's catacombs, which were taken over and renovated by the mob family. The player begins the game as Mikey Walsh, the sole Goonie who evaded capture, and sets out on his biggest adventure yet to save his friends and stop the Fratellis once and for all!
You'll traverse very different level types as you progress, meeting the increasingly tougher enemies that populate them. You'll meet spiders and snakes in every one except the last two listed, with the latter baddie increasing in speed the further you go. A constant nuisance are the members of the Fratelli clan. The men are all decked out in blue mobster suits with fedoras and shades, and can jump about three times their own height. That's higher than Mario can. Something most of them have in common is that they can't be killed, only temporarily stunned. You'll run into Jake the most, firing a bullet from his gun about every five seconds. Then there's Francis, who resembles his brother except for being a bit thicker, and he'll shoot arrows that split into three as they fly towards you. Can't forget about Mama Fratelli, who will only show up in one of the later restaurant sections, but she certainly makes an impact with her appearance. That's because she'll toss an endless supply of bombs and takes quite a few hits to upend her. New to this adventure is the pint-sized cousin Pip-Squeak Fratelli, who doesn't do much except zip around and make quick hops. Unlike the main members of the family, he can be killed.
The Lighthouse Lounge- This is where you start your mission, among the tables and dusty crates of the Fratellis' restaurant hideout that serves as the secret entrance to the underground maze. You'll pop up to other parts of the diner during your mission, and you'll almost always run into a member of their family every time. Even more dangerous are the ghost knights and skeletal warriors!
Cellar- Directly beneath the diner is a dusty stone cellar with numerous ladders and elevators to navigate the multitude of platforms. Watch overhead for Hitchcockian crows! As you go deeper in the basement, you'll run into a quartet of ghosts that merge into one specter and lumbering gray beasts who take more hits than any other creature in the game.
Caverns- These dark and spooky rock-scaped caves are home to H20 hazards such as waterfalls and geysers. Beware of the mutated scorpions as they fire poisonous projectiles at you and the leaping winged skeletons! Bats, the absolute most annoying enemy in the game, will also be a common sight. As you delve deeper into the earth, you'll have to leap across rocky columns jutting out of lava beds while you avoid being sauteed by miniature fire-breathing dragons!
Bridge- This crumbling wooden bridge, held in suspension by ancient ropes, links both halves of the "front" of the maze together. The challenge isn't the numerous jumps you'll have to make in order to cross this dilapidated structure, it's avoiding the floating fanged skulls that swoop down and steal your awesome boomerang weapon from you! Other than noshing on your favorite toy, they are harmless to you.
Ice Cave- A new set of enemies harass you in this slippery ice hole. Pissed off penguins, vicious walruses, dancing polar bears, and even a hatchet chucking Eskimo will make you feel as unwelcome as possible. You'll also meet a harmless Eskimo inside a passageway, but unlike his brothers, he serves no purpose and will even admit to that fact.
Underwater- Strap on your diving suit, float around, and skewer the tropical sea life with harpoons. Piranhas, crabs, octopus, jellyfish, and sharks will try to hinder your efforts down here, and the only secondary weapon you'll have access to is your bombs.
Yo-Yo- Your default weapon, it'll extend a couple of feet in front of you to strike your enemies. Pretty puny, but if you're a quick button tapper, you'll be able to stun your target with successive blows until he expires.
Boomerang- The yo-yo was fine for taking out pesky spiders and snakes, but you'll want this long range weapon in order to protect your health bar for as long as possible. You'll never want to use the 'yo again with this in your pocket. Losing this item to the floating skulls of the suspension bridge is disheartening, but fortunately you can obtain the boomerang again by returning to the same place you found it.
Slingshot- A useful weapon that is hard to come by. It has limited shots, but unlike the boomerang you won't have to wait for your bullet to return (obviously) before firing another. Ammo is so incredibly rare that you'll probably manage to find only five refills throughout the duration of your game. You'll probably hardly ever use it in an effort to conserve ammunition for a tough encounter you'll worry about facing, but never happens.
Moltov Cocktail- If you're facing a strong baddie who is getting way too close for comfort, lob one of these explosive bottles of fire and kerosene at them.
Bomb- A dual purpose weapon, you'll probably be better off using it as a tool as opposed to offense. You drop it at your feet and it detonates about a second and a half afterward, and you'll take damage if you're near it when that happens. It's more useful for dropping in random places and hoping you'll reveal a hidden doorway. However, it does deal out more damage than the Molotov cocktail, so if you can time it right, you'll send your target of choice to kingdom come.
Key- The staple of every adventure game, this item allows you to open up safes and set your Goonie pals free from the cells the Fratellis have imprisoned them in. Used only in passageways.
Hammer- Your fist is fine for knocking items out of their hiding places, but you won't be able to punch portals through walls, ceilings, or floors without this heavy duty tool. Used only in passageways.
Ladder- There are a lot of holes in the ceilings and floors that you can't access without this handy ladder. Used only in passageways.
Glasses- A pair of spectacles that will cure Mikey's apparent far-sightedness by allowing him to see doors and wall safes he couldn't before. Used only in passageways.
Candle- Several of the rooms you enter will be pitch black, so using this will illuminate your surroundings. You can still navigate doors, hit walls, climb portals, and pick up items without it, but this makes it less of a hassle. Worth getting, but you won't need it to beat the game. Used only in passageways.
Transceiver- Admittedly, I never discovered this item during my numerous playthroughs, at least, not that I can remember. So that means, yes, you can beat the game without it. Apparently it can be used to communicate with the trapped Goonies and Konami itself. Talk about breaking the fourth wall!
Waterproof Coat- Slip this on to guard you from the damaging effects of the waterfall and geysers. While you can beat the game without it, it's still worth having for protection, plus you'll be able to find a hidden door to Konami Man behind one of the falls easier with it on.
Bulletproof Vest- Having this on your person will lessen damage taken from the bullets fired by Jake Fratelli and the mutant scorpions. Each shot normally reduces half a life bar, but this will cause it to take only a quarter. Not needed to finish the game.
Helmet- Cover your dome with this yellow piece of plastic to deflect the icicles that occasionally rain down in the ice cave. Wholly unneeded to complete the game, as its only purpose is to protect you from a hazard in the smallest level type in the game that are easy enough to dodge on your own.
Diving Suit- Lets you dive underwater and skewer the edible denizens of the deep with harpoons. There are a couple of Goonies to be found in the underwater caves as well as Annie the mermaid, so I'll leave it up to you to figure out whether or not you need it to complete the game.
Jumping Shoes- Lacing up these blue shoes will propel you heights that even pro basketball players wouldn't be able to reach. That's because each has a pair of springs embedded in the soles. Not only will you be able to reach high locations you could only stare longingly at before, they're quite ideal for saving you trips up ladders and evading enemies.
Hyper Shoes- If you put on these red winged shoes, which bear a striking resemblance to the company logo of The Athlete's Foot, you'll leave even those lightning fast serpents and speeding bullets in your wake! Great for covering more ground a lot faster than before and jumping across wide gaps.
Key Holders, Bomb Boxes, and Fire Boxes- Increases the carrying capacity of your keys, bombs, and Moltov cocktails respectively. Several of each can be found.
Magic Locator Device- Finding one of these will highlight the location of a Goonie on the map screen. I guess the Fratellis had them tagged.
Your playable character Mikey begins his grand adventure armed only with a yo-yo for making short range strikes at the weak foes you'll encounter early on in his mission. Your starting health consists of two bars, which is fine when you face the easy "one hit to kill" enemies at the start, but quickly becomes a headache when you go against the faster and stronger enemies that you meet pretty early on.
The hideout is made up of two sides of platforming style "action scenes", a front and a back, that are connected via "adventure scene" passageways you navigate in first person. It is inside these passages where you discover a majority of the items, and where you mostly use them as well. You'll find wall safes, which have to be opened with a key, that contain either an item or a clue. Just be sure you remember which ones you've already exhumed, because they will be closed again the next time you see them and you'll waste another key to discover a whole lot of nothing. You will also meet up with several bizarre, Engrish-speaking characters who will either offer you hints, equipment, or an energy refill. These include ancient monks, blind elderly women, the colorful Konami Man, and a Gill-man apparently on vacation from his black lagoon. It is inside these adventure scenes that you will rescue your Goonie comrades, and doing so adds an extra bar to your health meter.
The gameplay is solid and controls very well, but what else would you expect from Konami? Seeing as how this game wasn't rushed out to be released alongside a movie hitting the theater, a problem that today's licensed games suffer from, they were allowed to take time with this one. The play style is similar to the Metroid series in that it's non-linear, and you'll have to backtrack in order to access areas you were unable to reach before you grabbed a significant inventory item. You'll see holes in ceilings that were unreachable before finding the ladder, and when you nab the glasses you'll most likely want to revisit old passageways to see if you missed any invisible goodies the first time you passed through them. It's rewarding to finally be able to cross a long gap that you passed and cursed at so many times before when you finally strap on the hyper shoes late in the game. The game music is awesome and truly establishes the mood of your location, including an 8-bit instrumental of Cyndi Lauper's "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" playing through the restaurant sections. When you get a game over, you end up at a screen where Mama Fratelli, with an excessively animated face, asks whether or not you wish to continue. If you choose not to, she helpfully provides with you with the kind of scrambled password that every NES player is most likely familiar with in order for you to continue thwarting her scheme in the future. If you do want to continue... she wishes you luck. I even think she is genuine about it.
In game, Mikey is sporting quite a punky style with his blazing hot pink hair and matching sweat pants with a navy blue muscle shirt. Cyndi Lauper has not been a good influence on him. The other Goonies all look identical, except for slight differences in hair and clothing style between genders. This means that Brand and Chunk share the same sprite. They all look like chubby midget clowns in blue overalls/dresses, with red hair, shirt, and shoes. Yes, even Data. One of the most lovable characters from the movie, Sloth, makes absolutely no appearance at all. How could you not figure out a role for this strong and loyal defector from the Fratelli clan, even if just as a cameo in one of the passageways to hand you off an item? Speaking of notable omissions from the film, none of Data's inventions make it in. You'd think things like belts equipped with spring loaded boxing gloves, suction cupped darts that reel in those out of reach items, and novelty teeth grappling hooks would be no-brainer and useful additions to your inventory. You'll also acquire two kinds of shoe upgrades, but absolutely no slick shoes.
-A map is imperative for this journey. While there is an in-game one, it is made up of featureless white squares that is of little help. I highly recommend making your own so you can scrawl notes on it. Then again, now that I think about it, I never used a map when I played in my youth. I actually completed the game multiple times, sometimes in one sitting, with my own memory guiding me on where to go. Let me rephrase: older folks like myself with decaying brain matter will need to make a map.
-Most enemies spawn via a morphing cloud and take a couple of seconds to emerge. Use this as an opportunity to strike them the second they finish forming.
-You'll receive a message inside a safe about how you'll only find some doors by dropping bombs in appropriate places. It's not worth the effort of placing explosives after every few paces you take, as the only things these doors will contain are 1-ups or Konami Man. Useful sure, but not worth the effort of spending hours finding bombs and wasting them minutes later.
-Several times throughout your adventure, you will come upon several women sitting in rooms and wailing about how they can't see anything without their glasses. You'll probably take this as a cue that you'll need to find a pair and give them to her in return for a valuable item or clue. Don't waste your time, as their only purpose is to hint that, when you find the glasses, you'll be able to use them to see things you couldn't without them.
-Do not punch Konami Man. Not because he might kick your ass, which he could, but because he will return the favor in a much worse manner: He'll refuse to refill your life bar whenever you find him for the rest of the game. Everyone else in the game can safely have their jaws jacked. There is even one person in particular where this is actually a necessity in finding an item. You'll know who it is because they'll pretty much make you want to pound them.
-Don't sweat game overs. You'll restart in the same region you died in, with the only penalty being that your bombs, Molotov cocktails, keys, and slingshot ammo will be gone. These things can easily be recovered by spending a few minutes attacking the endlessly respawning spiders and snakes.
-If you make it to Annie the Mermaid's holding tank before rescuing all The Goonies and/or without having a key on hand, you might think you're stuck there with no visible exit. Even pressing down on the control pad won't let you escape. What you have to do is put the diving suit back on in order to do so, but you may not realize this since, unlike other times you enter the underwater worlds, there is no visible water hole in the floor.
This is one of my favorite games from my childhood, and the odds of it ever seeing an official re-release as a downloadable title on modern consoles are slim to nil. In order to do so, Konami would need to obtain the rights to The Goonies license and most likely permission from Lauper's record label for the main theme. There was no other Goonies game after this one, although Mikey did make an appearance as a playable character in another Famicom game released exclusively in Japan called Wai Wai World, where he teamed up with Konami Man, Simon Belmont, a ship from Gradius, King Kong, and a few others to take on the aliens from Contra. If the fabled sequel to the movie ever does see the light of day, how great would it be if they referenced the events of this game as having really happened? Also, just to mess with our heads, call the movie The Goonies III! Include a flashback sequence to show how they met Annie.
"Thank you to Konami and The Goonies!"
As a reward for making it through the entire review of this 20-year-old game, lay your eyes on the custom map I created to complete the game recently. Please do not attempt to utilize it yourselves or you will become even more lost than you would be without it. However, use it as a general rule of game map-making. Create it in a way that's most convenient for you to understand, not anyone else. Let them make their own damn map.
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Amira Haas writes in Haaretz, 10 December 2019, “If, seven years from now, settlers declare that the Palestinian village of Atara, north of Ramallah, endangers them because of its high location and proximity to the road, and demand that its homes be emptied, what will the army’s district brigade commander and Central Command chief do? What will they do if the declaration is accompanied by violence and vandalism targeting the villagers, and later mass prayers at the entrance to the village? Judging by previous experience, it’s likely that the senior officers will send soldiers to protect the Israeli citizens during their assaults and their prayers, and might even shoot at Palestinians who dare to protest.
But we cannot rule out the possibility that the commanders will also find or invent an appropriate order allowing them to permanently expel the villagers from their homes, because that’s what the settlers demand. Go to Ramallah, there are lots of vacant apartments there, the Civil Administration officers will say as they come to deliver the expulsion orders.
We hope the residents of Atara will forgive us for using them as an example in such a horrifying script. On the one hand, its feasibility should not be ruled out, while on the other hand, telling this tale is yet another attempt, perhaps desperate, to prevent it or similar horror scenarios from happening.
Every settlement and settlement outpost in the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem and in Hebron, constantly expands its boundaries at the expense of the Palestinian space, forcing the Palestinians into territorial pockets that are increasingly shrinking. This is done through institutional violence (cabinet resolutions and their implementation by the Civil Administration, municipalities, settler councils and military jurists) or the supposedly “private” violence of settler thugs.
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The expansion isn’t solely geographic. It involves the constant crossing of new red lines of what is permitted and what is forbidden, in terms of political, ethical, legal and humanitarian considerations. Every settlement expansion is the result of acclimation to the gradual violation of laws and norms. Every expansion increases the ability of the settlers and the planners to imagine the erasure of the next red line and the addition of another ring of control.
The concept underlying this constant physical and behavioral expansion is that Jews are a superior race, particularly those who have settled in the West Bank. The number of those consenting or collaborating with the concept and the associated violence (either actively or by ignoring and getting used to it) is also growing.
Since the middle of June, settlers in the Shiloh bloc (which is built on and is expanding into the lands of the villages of Qaryut, Jalud, Turmus Ayya and Mughayer) have aimed their violence and media spearheads at a small Palestinian real estate project in Turmus Ayya. At the end of October, Binyamin Regional Brigade Commander Colonel Yonatan Steinberg and Central Command chief Major General Nadav Padan capitulated to settler aggression and ordered developer Khaled Al Sabawi, a Palestinian who is a Canadian citizen, to freeze construction work on land that his company, UCI, purchased there at the beginning of the year.
Since the late 1990s, the violence of the Shiloh bloc settlers has been aimed at Area C — constituting 62 percent of the West Bank, it is under Israeli administrative and military control and Palestinian construction is prohibited — leading to their seizing control of thousands of dunams from the above-named villages. Now they have gone a few steps further, and their aggression is targeting Area B (some 18 percent of the West Bank, where Palestinians have planning authority but the security is in Israel’s hands). These artificial A, B and C divisions, originating with the Oslo Accords, were meant to be temporary but have become permanent, and the settlers and Israeli authorities use them as they please.
Now the security pretext is being used to stop Sabawi’s project of readying lots for construction and selling them to Palestinians with roads, sidewalks and electricity infrastructure already in place. Rewarding settlers for violence is disturbing in and of itself, but even more so because of the behavior patterns the settlers have developed, either as emissaries of the authorities or with their assistance. Their message is clear; Area B is also in our sights. Today we will ban Palestinian construction there, tomorrow we will open the land for our Jewish construction and agriculture, and the day after that we will expel the Palestinians who live there.” This article is printed in its entirety
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For as long as I’ve known him, H has loved the parish of Portland in Jamaica. My dad too… as a young army officer back in the 60’s when he first came to Jamaica from Grenada, he said he used to go to Portland at any chance he got. Portland reminded him of Grenada, he said. Having lived in Grenada for a bit during my childhood, I understand where he is coming from. Portland is green, rain-foresty, hilly, humid and has beautiful beaches. My attitude towards Portland though has always been “I can take it or leave it.” Meh. And I had a particularly bad experience when we were just married and had spent a weekend at Goblin Hill. I got the worst ever case of gastroenteritis that put me out of commission, and painfully so for a whole week! I suspect there was an unconscious coupling of Portland with gastro in my mind that didn’t create any yearning within for that parish.
Ambassabeth, Winnifred and Me
So when H announced that he wants to retire there, I pushed back with: “Enjoy! Yuh nah carry me out deh fi drop dead!”. He knew better than to push back. Think Eminem’s line: “…when a tornado meets a volcano…” But he’s also very smart. I have to believe that he hatched a plan to make me fall in love with Portland. It started with him organising a weekend at Ambasabeth cabins in the John Crow Mountains. He KNOWS that I live for drive outs…anywhere…and that it was somewhere new, in the hills, he had to know that I’d jump at the chance to go. What I didn’t bargain for was a weekend that did more than provide an opportunity to live like a pioneer (sort of) and walk some historic trails.
A cabin at Ambassabeth
In retrospect I can see him smiling smugly and pumping his internal fist when I waxed warm for MONTHS after that weekend about how struck I was by the community that we became part of for those few days. Part Next of his plan included repeat visits to Frenchman’s Cove beach. I am an unrepentant beach baby. My soul re-centers and I feel all the cares of the world slip away, like a shirt slipping off my shoulders with each lap of the waves, each gentle gust of sea breeze… or is that the rum? Whatever! I live for the beach. And Frenchman’s Cove, with its beautiful garden setting, its pristine, blue river with white sandy bottom (not dark and pebbly like other rivers) undulating lazily into the small bay that is Frenchman’s Cove is how I imagine the Garden of Eden.
The river at Frenchman’s Cove
The last visit there was with family and friends and we reluctantly dragged ourselves back to Kingston after a perfect day,but not before I snapped this sunset.
Portand Sunset
I think this marked my turning point. He didn’t have to do much convincing to get me back there a mere 3 days later. “Just a drive out, me and you alone…” was all he had to say. Hook. Line. Sinker.
I don’t think even he could have planned what happened next. We ended up, not part of the script at all, at Winifred Beach…. the last piece of beach out of the control of the UDC. I was in for yet another encounter with the people of Portland that would impact me in a very powerful way. Both the Ambassabeth and Winnifred experiences inspired this article.
Paradise aka Winnifred Beach
So now I no longer scoff when he reverently and lovingly speaks of Portland. I’m falling in love with her too. There’s something about Portlanders, be they Maroons or regular folk. They are open, pleasant, independent and friendly. They don’t hustle you, they certainly don’t beg, they don’t wait on government and they have an easy vibe and an apparent ability to self-manage. They are possessed of the traits needed in communities around this island if we are ever to make this rotten, corrupt leadership that we have at the national level redundant and truly answerable to us. I’m serious.
At his (brilliant!) suggestion, we left the kids at home and just headed east, to Portland. We trampoosed in the hills above St. Margaret’s Bay and enjoyed the magnificent views of the Rio Grande emptying itself into the Caribbean Sea below. We descended and continued to drive east…past San San, past Boston and into Long Bay. The rough emerald sea there always calms me down. We climbed the highlands looking down into that area. How amazingly beautiful! Reluctantly we eventually headed back the way we came, but there was a not-so-short detour up into Nonsuch. How did we end up there…hmmm…
How we ended up in Nonsuch that #SundayinPortland
H had come across this bass guitar tutorial video by Devon Bradshaw on YouTube. He actually persuaded me to watch it with him, so taken was he with the magic that is the bass guitar in reggae music. He went on to explain to me that this video was one of about 15 short vignettes on YouTube on the Reggae in The Ruff channel. He was utterly taken by what he saw there and tried to tell me about it. What I heard was that H was impressed with a group of Rasta men up in hills and bush of Portland, in a district called Nonsuch (I had at one time heard of Nonsuch Caves…never been though) that lived off the land and created reggae music. I asked him if they were like the Jolly Boys. I had seen the Jolly Boys live before and I enjoyed them. He was at pains to describe his impression of the music coming from these men at Nonsuch:
“It’s like mento, but with more soul.”
In trying to drum up some interest within I said:
“Rasta men, in the bush must mean ital food. Find out where they are and let’s go eat up some good ital food.” Me: forever keeping it 100. Yup. Mi nuh buisness wid no box bass strumming and roots and culture chanting. Me want food.
So on this excursion sans children, H decided to find these men… Johnnie Walker and the Disappointers was what he told me their name was. I was skeptical. I had never heard of them. Did ER even feature them? Not that I know of. But hey…I wasn’t driving, I had nothing to do but to be present on the drive and it was all good with me! So he located the turn-off to Nonsuch and proceeded up into the hills. He stopped to confirm that we were on the right track with a man working on his car on the side of the road.
“Yean Man. Dis a di way. Just gwaan drive straight up. Yeah man, mi know Johnnie Walker dem. But it far enuh!!”
HUH? When country people tell you that somewhere is far, BELIEVE THEM! Their standard response is “Naw man…just roun’ di corner!”
I saw H hesitate, but before he could chicken out, the same man said “See da cyar deh ? Follow it. Dem a go straight a Nonsuch. Dem know where fi find Johnnie” Too. Damned. late. In for a penny, in for a pound. So we drove. We drove some more. And still we drove some more. The silence in the vehicle was punctuated only two times with H declaring: “Mi ah go turn back now”. I must confess that I found his discomfort amusing, and so I did what any supportive wife would do: I egged him on! H is a very self-contained, self-sufficient, in-control man, that hates uncertainty. So seeing him out of his comfort zone by not knowing where he was going or when he would get there was not something I was ready to see come to an end.
“But you’ve come so far already. We can’t turn back now. Plus look how beautiful this country is. Drive on! You have gas? Good. Mek wi drive!”
Finally, the car in front stopped and a Rasta man alighted. A wah dis fadda, I asked myself. He came up to the car with a broad smile and said: “Dis ah where I turn off. But go straight up. You wi find Johnnie.” This is where it gets good. I saw H’s face transform into a smile:
“You ah Far I?”
The man replied smiling: “Yes I. A mi dem call Far I.”
Well H tun Rasta pon me same time. He did that salutation where you make a fist and thump your chest, bowed his head, and with a look of pure reverence on his face said: “Is an honour, My Lord.”
Mi Mumma! Mi nearly faint. But I held it together and looked on as if this was a side of my husband that I saw every day. I shook Far I’s hand and went along with what was unfolding before me. It wasn’t hard to feign amazement. You see, I was indeed amazed. Not with Far I… I didn’t know him from Adam, but who was this man driving me and where was H? He told us where to find Johnnie and we set off up the road again. H explained to me that he was the Disappointer that did the ital cooking according to the videos that he had seen. Shucks. There went my dreams of sharing in a communal ital pot with the Rastas. There was no way he could cook in time for us to eat and return to Kingston at a reasonable hour. Cho.
We stopped every time we saw a human to confirm that we were en route to see Johnnie Walker and the other Disappointers. They all smiled. They all knew him. They all reassured us to keep going. “Johnie up deh, Man.” By this time, H is leaning forward with a look of expectancy on his face. Then it happened again.
We stopped to ask yet another person if we were on the right track. Yes, yes, yes. In fact, you just passed Johnnie down ah di shop. Just down deh so. There was that smile appearing on H’s face again:
“A you dem call Cultural, don’t”
And so began again, the whole greeting, chest thumping, steepling of the fingers, head bowing and respect being given and received. Seriously. It was a genuine gesture of joy and respect coming from H and it was returned by Mr. Cultural. Even I joined in. I sure did. I had to. It was the only natural thing to do in response to the respect being given and received.
We turned the vehicle around and came face to face with Johnnie himself.
“Rahtid! Johnnie lose a leg?” This was H’s exclamation as he saw an old, thin Rasta man making his way up the road on crutches, concern mixed with excitement on H’s face. In replaying in my mind what happened in Nonsuch, the only analogy that I can come up with to try to explain and describe H’s reaction to seeing Johnnie and the Disappointers in the flesh is this: He was reacting how I would react were I to come face to face with Michael Jackson. I sat up and started paying attention. H is not by nature a hero worshipper. He doesn’t gush or fawn. Ever.
He got out of the vehicle and warmly shook Johnnie’s hand. He explained to Johnnie (and by default to me too!… ’cause up until then I didn’t realise just how taken with and impressed by Johnnie and his group he really was) how he had really connected with his music: the soul of it, his lyrics, what he stood for and represented. He went on to state how his wife wanted ital food (mi shame bad when he outed me and my wanga gut ways) and how he really wanted to meet him.
Johnnie laughed and said: “You come in like you is one of mi fans!”
But this was not said with a hint of arrogance. It was more a grateful acknowledgement, a happiness that his message had been heard and had connected with another soul. H wanted to buy his music and Johnnie found a copy of a CD and the transaction was done.
“You have supn you can play it on now?”
“Yeah man!” H answered quickly.
“Put it on…track 1 is my message. Dat a my favourite song and it explain who mi be.”
I leaned forward expectantly now. The sweetest, hard core, mixed down in a studio, authentic reggae music hit me in my chest.
By now, I was beginning to understand H’s interest in the first place. His enthusiasm was infectious. Without knowing the entire back story, I was certain that I was in the middle of an encounter that counted. The authenticity of these men and the people of Nonsuch sucked me in. You see, it is impossible to remain neutral and to maintain mere observer status in the face of such honest human interaction. Specific words came to my mind as we listened to this recording of Johnnie Walker and the Disappointers, while standing there with them, and seeing H reveling in sheer joy and admiration: “organic…soul…honest…talent…culture…the land…men…LIVITY.”
I prodded H to ask if we could take pictures. I am always so conscious of not ruining a moment, interrupting a flow by picture taking. I want to record the moment, but I never want people to feel as if they are being reduced to specimens under observation. They happily consented and we took pictures in front of the car they had just purchased. As H indicated that he was going to snap the pic, they shouted “Selassie I, JAH RASTAFARI!” and punched the air laughing!
From L-R: Cultural, Me and Johnnie Walker
Johnnie wanted to arrange a jam session right there and then. But we had to get going. We parted as friends, planning the next time we’d see each other. We drove off in silence, each of us locked in our own thoughts I suppose. I was trying to work out in my own mind why I was impacted the way I was by this encounter. Afterall, Johnnie and his group aren’t internet sensations nor are they known locally. The most watched vignette in the series has at best a few thousand hits. A large part of my own experience that #SundayinPortland had to do with H’s own experience as I observed it. For my part, I was impacted by the authenticity of the interactions and the genuineness of every memeberof the group that we met.
H eventually explained to me the meaning behind the name. Johnnie insists that what we term as disappointments in life really are not. Once you have life, Johnnie opines, you have everything. This is his and his group’s underlying philosophy: eternal optimism and gratitude for each new day. They live off the land, and live at one with the land. They love music and they choose to spread their message through music. The song that had touched H, and I when I heard the recording, I remembered H singing constantly over the past week was this:
“Climbing from the bottom, straight to the top, we ah go reach top spot.” A simple song with a very strong, clear, positive message about life and living.
USA based saxophonist Henry Douglas Jr., was also deeply impacted by their music and ended up playing on some of their recordings. He too speaks about their soul, and the organic feel to their music. They live off and with the land taking only what is needed at the particular point in time. Start here in the Reggae in the Ruff videos for the Johnnie Walker and the Disappointers back story and for more on what they do and why they do it. Visit their Facebook page. This is Jamaica at its best: unspoilt, uninfluenced and authentic. Portland continues to remind me of every single thing that is great about Jamaica, Land we Love.
Posted on November 24, 2014 September 5, 2018 Categories My Beautiful JamaicaTags Ambassabeth, authenticity, Jamaica, Johnnie Walker and the Disappointers, music, Portland, reggae, talent., Winnifred beach9 Comments on Johnnie Walker and The Disappointers
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Lord Foul's Bane Chapters 11 & 12
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Lord Mhoram
Boston Brahmin
Way back in the day, when I was searching Google for TC stuff (on that same search I found the Watch!) I found this image. Its actually where I got the name for my homepage.
http://www.stic.net/users/mrd/
caamora
Great pics, everyone!
Danlo, was that you on your homepage?
Have you ever been going somewhere with a crowd and you're certain it's the wrong road and you tell them, but they won't listen, so you just have to plod along in what you know is the wrong direction till somebody more important gets the same idea?
danlo
Lord of Neverness
Location: Albuquerque NM
Surely Landsdrop would be inspired by the Mogollon Rim in Arizona?? This huge cliff that goes across a big chunk of the state like a wall, tall enough that there's a different life zone on the top from that at the bottom? And the Stonedowns sound like some fo the Hopi villages? Isn't one of them made of hollowed out boulders and the like?
hijhinx@aol.com
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2003 3:36 am Post subject: giving of names..help?
Mhoram and Covenant are both ineffectual at this point. Mhoram because of his parents at the head of the council, Covenant, because he hasn't a clue where he is! Atiaran and Foamfollower are meant to offset each other, for now...they both come to strength later(I am sad that Atiaran's strength was cut from the next book)...at this point Lena only serves to make Covenant a criminal and/or crazy in his own mind.
What I need from you all, is the quote about "giving of names".
help, please? best, Dawn
Fist and Faith
Magister Vitae
"There is power in names. I do not wish to be invoked by any but friends."
SRD doesn't go nearly as far with this idea as Le Guin, but it's a fun quote.
We are not required to save the world. We are required to stand up as truly as we can for what we love. -SRD
All lies and jest
Still a man hears what he wants to hear
And disregards the rest -Paul Simon
[Syl]
Embattred
I think this is what you're looking for.
Still hesitating, Atiaran asked, "What is your name?"
"That is another long story," the Giant returned, and repeated, "What is your need?"
But Atiaran insisted dully, "Your name."
Again a gleam sprang from under the Giant's massive brows. "There is power in names. I do not wish to be invoked by any but friends."
"Your name!" Atiaran groaned.
For an instant, the Giant paused, indecisive.. Then he said, "Very well. Though my embassy is not a light one, I will answer for the sake of the loyalty between my people and yours. To speak shortly, I am called Saltheart Foamfollower."
Abruptly, some resistance, some hatred of her decision, crumbled in Atiaran as if it had been defeated at last by the Giant's trust. She raised her head, showing Covenant and Foamfollower the crushed landscape behind her eyes. With grave deliberation, she gave the salute of welcome. "Let it be so. Saltheart Foamfollower, Rockbrother and Giants' legate, I charge you by the power of your name, and by the great Keep of faith which was made between Damelon Giantfriend and your people, to take this man, Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever and stranger to the Land, in safety to the Council of Lords. He bears messages to the Council from Kevin's Watch. Ward him well, Rockbrother. I can go no farther."
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
Thanked by: Cord Hurn
Dang it, Fist. You beat me. I didn't bother checking the last page first.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 12:49 am Post subject:
Ya gotta get up pretty early in the morning...
But nothing wrong with giving her the surrounding material!
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 4:12 am Post subject:
Chapter 12 of Lord Foul's Bane contains one of my favorite passages in the first half of the book: the description of Revelstone as Covenant, Foamfollower, and Quaan and his Eoman are approaching it a short hike away from the river.
...The steepness of the climb made Foamfollower stumble several times, and he was barely strong enough to catch himself on the horses. But when he had labored up the ridge, he stopped, lifted up his head, spread his arms wide, and began to laugh. "There, my friend. Does that not answer you?" His voice was weak, but gay with refreshed joy.
Ahead over a few lower hills was Lord's Keep.
The sight caught Covenant by surprise, almost took his breath away. Revelstone was a masterwork. It stood in granite permanence like an enactment of eternity, a timeless achievement formed of mere lasting rock by some pure, supreme Giantish participation in skill.
Covenant agreed that Revelstone was too short a name for it.
The eastern edge of the plateau was finished by a broad shaft of rock, half as high as the plateau and separate from it except at the base, the first several hundred feet. This shaft had been hollowed into a tower which guarded the sole entrance to the Keep, and circles of windows rose up past the abutments to the fortified crown. But most of Lord's Keep was carved into the mountain gut-rock under the plateau.
For half a mile west from the tower, the entire cliff-face had been worked by the old Giants--sheered and crafted into a vertical outer wall for the city, which, Covenant later learned, filled the whole, wedge-shaped promontory of the plateau. The wall was intricately labored--lined and coigned and serried with regular and irregular groups of windows, balconies, buttresses--orieled and parapeted--wrought in a prolific and seemingly spontaneous multitude of details which appeared to be on the verge of crystallizing into a pattern. But light flashed and danced on the polished cliff-face, and the wealth of variation in the work overwhelmed Covenant's senses, so that he could not grasp whatever pattern might be there.
But with his new eyes he could see the thick, bustling, communal life of the city. It shone from behind the all as if the rock were almost translucent, almost lit from within like a chiaroscuro by the life-force of its thousands of inhabitants. The sight made the whole Keep swirl before him. Though he looked at it from a distance, and could encompass it all--Furl Falls roaring on one side and the expanse of the plains reclining on the other--he felt that the old Giants had outdone him. Here was a work worthy of pilgrimages, ordeals. He was not surprised to hear Foamfollower whisper like a vestal, "Ah, Revelstone! Lord's Keep! Here the Unhomed surpass their loss."
The Eoman responded in litany:
"Giant-troth Revelstone, ancient ward--
Heart and door of Earthfriend's main:
Preserve the true with Power's sword,
Thou ages-Keeper, Mountain-reign!"
It's all about the feeling of humbling bedazzlement when we read this description of Revelstone!!! I don't think any movie or painting can live up to such an image as presented here, of supreme sculpture that's--what was all that again?-- Revelstone is all lined and coigned and serried and orieled and parapeted?!?--wow, that's a LOT for an actual physical image to try to live up to, you know?
This is an incredible weaving of impressions, that catch the reader's breath in a momentary pause of awe. I think it's a great moment!
This is a fun section of the book to re-read, always!!
Jehannum
The Celebration of Spring
I'm struck by both the justness and the unjustness of the way Atiaran treats Covenant. She is fully justified to loathe Covenant for what he did to her daughter, and shows amazing forbearance toward him because he is a prophesied figure of hope. Yet, she believes he already has the knowledge to save the Land and that he is willfully refusing to employ that knowledge, which we know is untrue. This is one of the complications that kept me reading LFB, to see how it would turn out for Covenant and the Land.
In Chapter 11 of Lord Foul's Bane was wrote:
After a time, he said without meaning to speak aloud, "I would have saved them if I could."
"You have the power." Atiaran's voice was dull, inert, as if she were no longer capable of grief or anger.
"What power?" he asked painfully.
"Do you wear the white gold for nothing?"
"It's just a ring. I wear it--I wear it because I'm a leper. I don't know anything about power."
She did not look at him. "I cannot see. You are closed to me."
Atiaran threw her arms into the air again, gave one more call, then dropped to the ground. When Covenant reached her, she was sitting with her knees clasped to her chest, and her lips trembled as if her face were about to break. She stared feverishly at the approaching boat.
As it drew nearer, Covenant began to see with growing surprise just how tall the steering figure was. Before the boat was within a hundred feet of them, he was sure that the steersman was twice his own height. And he could see no means of propulsion. The craft appeared to be nothing more than an enormous rowboat, but there were no oarlocks, no oars, no poles. He gaped widely at the boat as it glided closer.
When it was within thirty feet of them, Atiaran thrust herself to her feet and called out, "Hail, Rockbrother! The Giants of Seareach are another name for friendship! Help us!" The boat kept gliding toward the bank, but its steersman did not speak; and shortly Atiaran added in a whisper that only Covenant could hear, "I beg you."
The Giant kept his silence as he approached. For the last distance, he swung the tiller over so that the boat's prow aimed squarely at the riverbank. Then, just before the craft struck, he drove his weight down in the stern. The prow lifted out of the water and grounded itself securely a few yards from Atiaran and Covenant. In a moment, the Giant stood before them on the grass, offering them the salute of welcome.
Covenant shook his head in wonder. He felt that it was impossible for anyone to be so big; the Giant was at least twelve feet tall. But the rocky concreteness of the Giant's presence contradicted him. The Giant struck his perceptions as tangibly as stumbling on rough stone.
Even for a being twelve feet tall, he appeared gnarled with muscles, like an oak come to life. He was dressed in a heavy leather jerkin and leggings, and carried no weapons. A short beard, as stiff as iron, jutted from his face. And his eyes were small, deep set and enthusiastic. From under his brows, massed over his sockets like the wall of a fortress, his glances flashed piercingly, like gleams from his cavernous thoughts. Yet, in spite of his imposing appearance, he gave an impression of incongruous geniality, of immense good humor.
"Hail, Rocksister," he said in a soft bubbling tenor voice which sounded too light and gentle to come from his bemuscled throat. "What is your need? My help is willing, but I am a legate, and my embassy brooks no delay."
Covenant expected Atiaran to blurt out her plea; the hesitation with which she met the Giant's offer disturbed him. For a long moment, she gnawed her lips as if she were chewing over her rebellious flesh, searching for an utterance which would give direction, one way or another, to a choice she hated. Then, with her eyes downcast as if in shame, she murmured uncertainly, "Where do you go?"
While I was intrigued by the appearance of the Giant, I was struck more by how much more tormented Atiaran appears here than we have ever seen her before. She doesn't lightly change her mind, and I can easily see the way she is being strained by the powerful pulling of two opposing desires: to accompany Covenant to Revelstone to accuse him before the Lords, or to be rid of the responsibility of Covenant altogether. She seems prepared to loathe either decision.
At her question, the Giant's eyes flashed, and his voice bubbled like a spring of water from a rock as he said, "My destination? Who is wise enough to know his own goal? But I am bound for--No, that name is too long a story for such a time as this. I go to Lord's Keep, as you humans call it."
For an instant, the Giant paused, indecisive. Then he said, "Very well. Though my embassy is not a light one, I will answer for the sake of the loyalty between my people and yours. To speak shortly, I am called Saltheart Foamfollower."
Abruptly, some resistance, some hatred of her decision, crumbled in Atiaran as if it had been defeated at last by the Giant's trust. She raised her head, showing Covenant and Foamfollower the crushed landscape behind her eyes. With grave deliberation, she gave the salute of welcome. "Let it be so. Saltheart Foamfollower, Rockbrother and Giant's legate, I charge you by the power of your name, and by the great Keep of faith which was made between Damelon Giantfriend and your people, to take this man, Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever and stranger to the Land, in safety to the Council of Lords. He bears messages to the Council of Lords. He bears messages to the Council from Kevin's Watch. Ward him well, Rockbrother. I can go no farther."
This totally stunned me, as it does Covenant. I was sure she was going to formally expose Covenant's crime to the Lords. This passage shows just how severe Atiaran's self-doubt and self-judgment has become.
What? Covenant gaped. In his surprise, he almost protested aloud, And give up your revenge? But he held himself still with his thoughts reeling, and waited for her to take a stance he could comprehend.
"Ah, you are too quick to call on such bold names," the Giant said softly. "I would have accepted your charge without them. But I urge you to join us. There are rare healings at Lord's Keep. Will you not come? Those who await you would not begrudge such a sojourn--not if they could see you as I do now."
Bitterness twisted Atiaran's lips. "Have you seen the new moon? That comes of the last healing I looked for." As she went on, her voice grew grey with self-despite. "It is a futile charge I give you. I have already caused it to fail. There has been murder in all my choices since I became this man's guide, such murder--" She choked on the bile of what she had seen, and had to swallow violently before she could continue. "Because my path took us too close to Mount Thunder. You passed around that place. You must have seen the evil working there."
Distantly, the Giant said, "I saw."
"We went into the knowledge of that wrong, rather than make our way across the Center Plains. and now it is too late for anyone. He--the Grey Slayer has returned. I chose that path because I desired healing for myself. What will happen to the Lords if I ask them to help me now?"
Though I had just barely known this Giant when I read this for the first time, I already knew that I liked him, as he comes across as compassionate and gentle.
As for Atiaran, I get the feeling that she feels unworthy of the Lord's healing, and she fears her desire to have Covenant punished will interfere with the defense of the Land and give Lord Foul a decisive victory. I think these are the real reasons she doesn't want to go any further, not because of the moon turning red or because she fears her presence in Revelstone will harm the Lords.
And give up your revenge? Covenant wondered. He could not comprehend. He turned completely toward her and studied her face, trying to see her health, her spirit.
She looked as if she were in the grip of a ravaging illness. Her mien had thinned and sharpened; her spacious eyes were shadowed, veiled in darkness; her lips were drained of blood. And vertically down the center of her forehead lay a deep line like a rift in her skull--the tool work of unblinkable despair. Etched there was the vastness of the personal hurt which she contained by sheer force of will, and the damage she did herself by containing it.
Even if one does not really like Atiaran's character, it is difficult not to sympathize with her here.
This passage is what makes Atiaran absolutely unforgettable for me, and makes the consequences of what Covenant does in the Land feel real to me, though we do not know if the Land is real or if Covenant is dreaming it at this point.
At last Covenant saw clearly the moral struggle that wasted her, the triple conflict between her abhorrence of him, her fear for the Land, and her dismay at her own weakness--a struggle whose expense exhausted her resources, reduced her to penury. The sight shamed his heart, make him drop his gaze. Without thinking, he reached toward her and said in a voice full of self-contradicting pleas, "Don't give up."
"Give up?" she gasped in virulence, backing away from him. "If I gave up, I would stab you where you stand!" Suddenly, she thrust a hand into her robe, and snatched out a stone knife like the one Covenant had lost. Brandishing it, she spat, "Since the Celebration--since you permitted Wraiths to die--this blade has cried out for your blood. Other crimes I could set aside. I speak for my own. But that--! To countenance such desecration--!"
She hurled the knife savagely to the ground, so that it stuck hilt-deep in the turf by Covenant's feet. "Behold!" she cried, and in that instant her voice became abruptly gelid, calm. "I wound the Earth instead of you. It is fitting. I have done little else since you entered the Land.
"Now hear my last word, Unbeliever. I let you go because these decisions surpass me. Delivering children in the Stonedown does not fit me for such choices. But I will not intrude my desires on the one hope of the Land--barren as that hope is. Remember that I have withheld my hand--I have kept my Oath."
"Have you?" he asked, moved by a complex impulse of sympathy and nameless ire.
She pointed a trembling finger at her knife. "I have not harmed you. I have brought you here."
"You've hurt yourself."
"That is my Oath," she breathed stiffly. "Now, farewell. When you have returned in safety to your own world, remember what evil is."
I have to say that I felt relief that Atiaran was leaving the story, here--once I got over the initial shock that she wasn't planning to continue to Revelstone and accuse TC in front of the Lords. The story was getting a bit too intense for me, with the continuing conflict within Atiaran and the abrasive relationship between her and TC.
He wanted to protest, argue, but her emotion mastered him, and he held himself silent before the force of her resolve. Under the duress of her eyes, he bent, and drew her knife out of the grass. It came up easily. He half expected to see blood ooze from the slash it had made in the turf, but the thick grass closed over the cut, hiding it as completely as an absolution. Unconsciously, he tested the blade with his thumb, felt its acuteness.
When he looked up again, he saw that Atiaran was climbing up the hill and away, moving with the unequal stride of a cripple.
This isn't right! he shouted at her back. Have mercy!--pity! But his tongue felt too thick with the pain of her renunciation; he could not speak. At least forgive yourself. The tightness of his face gave him a nasty impression that he was grinning. Atiaran! he groaned. Why are we so unable?
Into his aching, the Giant's voice came gently. "Shall we go?"
Dumbly, Covenant nodded. He tore his eyes from Atiaran's toiling back, and shoved her knife under his belt.
Oddly, here Atiaran both shows Covenant mercy and withholds it as well.
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February 2015 Exemplars: Poetry Reviews by Grace Cavalieri
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A monthly feature that looks at books of and about poetry.
Really Happy by Jim Reese. NYQ Books. 76 pages.
Reese is a Professor of English, and Director of the Great Plains Writers Tour at Mount Marty College in Yankton South Dakota. He’s also a teacher/ NEA artist-in-residence in the Yankton Federal Prison Camp.
Whether writing about the classroom or listing bumper stickers in South Dakota, Reese changes this artificial world to a reality you wish would last after his last poem. Poetic sustenance comes from his kitchen, his drugstore; or on a local baseball diamond; and, somehow in these mundane spaces, he widens the opportunity for what a reader can feel. Reese proves that words have charisma, especially when physically preserved into story. This is because our author is a dreamer and tactician designing a rational universe for us so we’ll love his world as much as he does. There are hardships, of course, mysteries, disappointments, object lessons — but the poetry impacts because it comes from a passion for life. Reese refines the muddy daily process and creates a trail for us to follow, exploring the limits of human behavior along the way. He’s not interested in the existential so much — it’s the actual that he wants to puzzle into poetry. These pieces find him dancing with his daughter, finding a needle in the crotch of his jeans, or more profoundly overhearing prisoners talk of sunlight; yet, it is never retail poetry. The work is observational, soulful, sweet, sometimes searing. He’s written for you what you could not write for yourself.
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From "Letters on Yoga"
The Riddle of This World (June 1933)
A letter in answer to a question of Maurice Magre
Translation into French by the Mother: click here
It is not to be denied, no spiritual experience will deny that this is an unideal and unsatisfactory world, strongly marked with the stamp of inadequacy, suffering, evil. Indeed this perception is in a way the starting-point of the spiritual urge - except for the few to whom the greater experience comes spontaneously without being forced to it by the strong or overwhelming, the afflicting and detaching sense of the Shadow overhanging the whole range of this manifested existence. But still the question remains whether this is indeed, as is contended, the essential character of all manifestation or so long at least as there is a physical world it must be of this nature, so that the desire of birth, the will to manifest or create has to be regarded as the original sin and withdrawal from birth or manifestation as the sole possible way of salvation. For those who perceive it so or with some kindred look - and these have been the majority - there are well-known ways of issue, a straight-cut to spiritual deliverance. But equally it may not be so but only seem so to our ignorance or to a partial knowledge - the imperfection, the evil, the suffering may be a besetting circumstance or a dolorous passage, but not the very condition of manifestation, not the very essence of birth in Nature. And if so, the highest wisdom will lie not in escape, but in the urge towards a victory here, in a consenting association with the Will behind the world, in a discovery of the spiritual gate to perfection which will be at the same time an opening for the entire descent of the Divine Light, Knowledge, Power, Beatitude.
All spiritual experience affirms that there is a Permanent above the transience of this manifested world we live in and this limited consciousness in whose narrow borders we grope and struggle and that its characters are infinity, self-existence, freedom, absolute Light, absolute Beatitude. Is there then an unbridgeable gulf between that which is beyond and that which is here or are they two perpetual opposites and only by leaving this adventure in Time behind, by overleaping the gulf can men reach the Eternal? That is what seems to be at the end of one line of experience which has been followed to its rigorous conclusion by Buddhism and a little less rigorously by a certain type of Monistic spirituality which admits some connection of the world with the Divine, but still opposes them in the last resort to each other as truth and illusion. But there is also this other and indubitable experience that the Divine is here in everything as well as above and behind everything, that all is in That and is That when we go back from its appearance to its Reality. It is a significant and illumining fact that the Knower of Brahman even moving and acting in this world, even bearing all its shocks, can live in some absolute peace, light and beatitude of the Divine. There is then here something other than that mere trenchant opposition - there is a mystery, a problem which one would think must admit of some less desperate solution. This spiritual possibility points beyond itself and brings a ray of hope into the darkness of our fallen existence.
And at once a first question arises - is this world an unchanging succession of the same phenomena always or is there in it an evolutionary urge, an evolutionary fact, a ladder of ascension somewhere from an original apparent Inconscience to a more and more developed consciousness, from each development still ascending, emerging on highest heights not yet within our normal reach. If so, what is the sense, the fundamental principle, the logical issue of that progression? Everything seems to point to such a progression as a fact - to a spiritual and not merely a physical evolution. Here, too, there is a justifying line of spiritual experience in which we discover that the Inconscient from which all starts is apparent only, for in it there is an involved Consciousness with endless possibilities, a consciousness not limited but cosmic and infinite, a concealed and self-imprisoned Divine, imprisoned in Matter but with every potentiality held in its secret depths. Out of this apparent Inconscience each potentiality is revealed in its turn, first organised Matter concealing the indwelling Spirit, then Life emerging in the plant and associated in the animal with a growing Mind, then Mind itself evolved and organised in Man. This evolution, this spiritual progression - does it stop short here in the imperfect mental being called Man? Or is the secret of it simply a succession of rebirths whose only purpose or issue is to labour towards the point at which it can learn its own futility, renounce itself and take its leap into some original unborn Existence or Non-Existence? There is at least the possibility, there comes at a certain point the certitude that there is a far greater consciousness than what we call Mind, and that by ascending the ladder still farther we can find a point at which the hold of the material Inconscience, the vital and mental Ignorance ceases; a principle of consciousness becomes capable of manifestation which liberates not partially, not imperfectly but radically and wholly this imprisoned Divine. In this vision each stage of evolution appears as due to the descent of a higher and higher Power of consciousness, raising the terrestrial level, creating a new stratum, but the highest yet remain to descend and it is by their descent that the riddle of terrestrial existence will receive its solution and not only the soul but Nature herself find her deliverance. This is the Truth which has been seen in flashes, in more and more entirety of its terms by the line of seers whom the Tantra would call the heroseekers and the divine-seekers and which may now be nearing the point of readiness for its full revelation and experience. Then whatever be the heavy weight of strife and suffering and darkness in the world yet if there is this as its high result awaiting us, all that has gone before may not be counted too great a price by the strong and adventurous for the glory that is to come. At any rate the shadow lifts; there is a Divine Light that leans over the world and is not only a far-off incommunicable Lustre.
It is true that the problem still remains why all this that yet is should have been necessary - these crude beginnings, this long and stormy passage - why should the heavy and tedious price be demanded, why should evil and suffering ever have been there. For to the how of the fall into the Ignorance as opposed to the why, the effective cause, there is a substantial agreement in all spiritual experience. It is the division, the separation, the principle of isolation from the Permanent and One that brought it about; it is because the ego set up for itself in the world emphasising its own desire and self-affirmation in preference to its unity with the Divine and its oneness with all; it is because instead of the one supreme Force, Wisdom, Light determining the harmony of all forces each Idea, Force, Form of things was allowed to work itself out as far as it could in the mass of infinite possibilities by its separate will and inevitably in the end by conflict with others. Division, ego, the imperfect consciousness and groping and struggle of a separate self-affirmation are the efficient cause of the suffering and ignorance of this world. Once consciousnesses separated from the one consciousness, they fell inevitably into Ignorance and the last result of Ignorance was Inconscience; from a dark immense Inconscient this material world arises and out of it a soul that by evolution is struggling into consciousness, attracted towards the hidden Light, ascending but still blindly towards the lost Divinity from which it came.
But why should this have happened at all? One common way of putting the question and answering it ought to be eliminated from the first, - the human way and its ethical revolt and reprobation, its emotional outcry. For it is not, as some religions suppose, a supracosmic, arbitrary, personal Deity himself altogether uninvolved in the fall who has imposed evil and suffering on creatures made capriciously by his fiat. The Divine we know is an Infinite Being in whose infinite manifestation these things have come it is the Divine itself that is here, behind us, pervading the manifestation, supporting the world with its oneness; it is the Divine that is in us upholding itself the burden of the fall and its dark consequence. If above It stands for ever in its perfect Light, Bliss and Peace, it is also here; its Light, Bliss and Peace are secretly here supporting all; in ourselves there is a spirit, a central presence greater than the series of surface personalities which, like the supreme Divine itself, is not overborne by the fate they endure. If we find out this Divine within us, if we know ourselves as this spirit which is of one essence and being with the Divine, that is our gate of deliverance and in it we can remain ourselves even in the midst of this world's disharmonies, luminous, blissful and free. That much is the age-old testimony of spiritual experience.
But still what is the purpose and origin of the disharmony - why came this division and ego, this world of a painful evolution? Why must evil and sorrow enter into the divine Good, Bliss and Peace? It is hard to answer to the human intelligence on its own level, for the consciousness to which the origin of this phenomenon belongs and to which it stands as it were automatically justified in a supra-intellectual knowledge, is a cosmic and not an individualised human intelligence; it sees in larger spaces, it has another vision and-cognition, other terms of consciousness than human reason and feeling. To the human mind one might answer that while in itself the Infinite might be free from those perturbations, yet once manifestation began infinite possibility also began and among the infinite possibilities which it is the function of the universal manifestation to work out, the negation, the apparent effective negation - with all its consequences - of the Power, Light, Peace, Bliss was very evidently one. If it is asked why even if possible it should have been accepted, the answer nearest to the Cosmic Truth which the human intelligence can make is that in the relations or in the transition of the Divine in the Oneness to the Divine in the Many, this ominous possible became at a certain point an inevitable. For once it appears it acquires for the Soul descending into evolutionary manifestation an irresistible attraction which creates the inevitability an attraction which in human terms on the terrestrial level might be interpreted as the call of the unknown, the joy of danger and difficulty and adventure, the will to attempt the impossible, to work out the incalculable, the will to create the new and the uncreated with one's own self and life as the material, the fascination of contradictories and their difficult harmonisation - these things translated into another supraphysical, superhuman consciousness, higher and wider than the mental, were the temptation that led to the fall. For to the original being of light on the verge of the descent the one thing unknown was the depths of the abyss, the possibilities of the Divine in the Ignorance and Inconscience. On the other side from the Divine Oneness a vast acquiescence, compassionate, consenting, helpful, a supreme knowledge that this thing must be, that having appeared it must be worked out, that its appearance is in a certain sense part of an incalculable infinite wisdom, that if the plunge into Night was inevitable the emergence into a new unprecedented Day was also a certitude, and that only so could a certain manifestation of the Supreme Truth be effected - by a working out with its phenomenal opposites as the starting-point of the evolution, as the condition laid down for a transforming emergence. In this acquiescence was embraced too the will of the great Sacrifice, the descent of the Divine itself into the Inconscience to take up the burden of the Ignorance and its consequences, to intervene as the Avatar and the Vibhuti walking between the double sign of the Cross and the Victory towards the fulfilment and deliverance. A too imaged rendering of the inexpressible Truth? But without images how to present to the intellect a mystery far beyond it? It is only when one has crossed the barrier of the limited intelligence shared in the cosmic experience and the knowledge which sees things from identity that the supreme realities which lie behind these images - images corresponding to the terrestrial fact - assume their divine forms and are felt as simple, natural, implied in the essence of things. It is by entering into that greater consciousness alone that one can grasp the inevitability of its self-creation and its purpose.
This is indeed only the Truth of the manifestation as it presents itself to the consciousness when it stands on the border line between Eternity and the descent into Time where the relation between the One and the Many in the evolution is selfdetermined, a zone where all that is to be is implied but not yet in action. But the liberated consciousness can rise higher where the problem exists no longer and from there see it in the light of a supreme identity where all is predetermined in the automatic self-existent truth of things and self-justified to an absolute consciousness and wisdom and absolute Delight which is behind all creation and non-creation and the affirmation and negation are both seen with the eyes of the ineffable Reality that delivers and reconciles them. But that knowledge is not expressible to the human mind; its language of light is too undecipherable, the light itself too bright for a consciousness accustomed to the stress and obscurity of the cosmic riddle and entangled in it to follow the clue or to grasp its secret. In any case, it is only when we rise in the spirit beyond the zone of the darkness and the struggle that we enter into the full significance of it and there is a deliverance of the soul from its enigma. To rise to that height of liberation is the true way out and the only means of the indubitable knowledge.
But that liberation and transcendence need not necessarily impose a disappearance, a sheer dissolving cut from the manifestation; it can prepare a liberation into action of the highest Knowledge and an intensity of Power that can transform the world and fulfil the evolutionary urge. It is an ascent from which there is no longer a fall but a winged or self-sustained descent of light, force and Ananda.
It is what is inherent in force of being that manifests as becoming, but what the manifestation shall be, its terms, its balance of energies, its arrangement of principles depends on the consciousness which acts in the creative force, on the power of consciousness which Being delivers from itself for manifestation. It is in the nature of Being to be able to grade and vary its powers of consciousness and determine according to the grade and variation its world or its degree and scope of selfrevelation. The manifested creation is limited by the power to which it belongs and sees and lives according to it and can only see more, live more powerfully, change its world by opening or moving towards or making descend a greater power of consciousness that was above it. This is what is happening in the evolution of consciousness in our world, a world of inanimate matter producing under the stress of this necessity a power of life, a power of mind which bring into it new forms of creation and still labouring to produce, to make descend into it some supramental power. It is further an operation of creative force which moves between two poles of consciousness. On one side there is a secret consciousness within and above which contains in it all potentialities - there eternally manifest, here awaiting delivery - of light, peace, power and bliss. On the other side there is another, outward on the surface and below, that starts from the apparent opposite of unconsciousness, inertia, blind stress, possibility of suffering and grows by receiving into itself higher and higher powers which make it always recreate its manifestation in larger terms, each new creation of this kind bringing out something of the inner potentiality, making it more and more possible to bring down the Perfection that waits above. As long as the outward personality we call ourselves is centred in the lower powers of consciousness, the riddle of its own existence, its purpose, its necessity is to it an insoluble enigma; if something of the truth is at all conveyed to this outward mental man, he but imperfectly grasps it and perhaps misinterprets and misuses and mislives it. His true staff of walking is made more of a fire of faith than any ascertained and indubitable light of knowledge. It is only by rising toward a higher consciousness beyond the mental line and therefore superconscient now to him that he can emerge from his inability and his ignorance. His full liberation and enlightenment will come when he crosses the line into the light of a new superconscient existence. That is the transcendence which was the object of aspiration of the mystics and the spiritual seekers.
But in itself this would change nothing in the creation here, the evasion of a liberated soul from the world makes to that world no difference. But this crossing of the line, if turned not only to an ascending but to a descending purpose, would mean the transformation of the line from what it now is, a lid, a barrier, into a passage for the higher powers of consciousness of the Being now above it. It would mean a new creation on earth, a bringing in of the ultimate powers which would reverse the conditions here, in as much as that would produce a creation raised into the full flood of spiritual and supramental light in place of one emerging into a half-light of mind out of a darkness of material inconscience. It is only in such a full flood of the realised spirit that the embodied being could know, in the sense of all that was involved in it, the meaning and temporary necessity of his descent into the darkness and its conditions and at the same time dissolve them by a luminous transmutation into a manifestation here of the revealed and no longer of the veiled and disguised or apparently deformed Divine.
Also in: SABCL, volume 22, "Letters on Yoga" - Part One - Section 1 "The Supramental Evolution" (pps 24-32)
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Légion Britannique 2nd Bn
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Private of the 2nd battalion of the Légion Britannique in 1760 as per the Gmundener Prachtwerk - Copyright: Franco Saudelli
In December 1759, 5 free battalions were formed in Paderborn by General Spörcken.
By an order given on February 13 1760, the Hanoverian brigades of Count Kielmansegg, von Post and von Scheiter as well as regiments stationed in Westphalia and the garrisons of Münster had to contribute a total of 5 captains, 25 officers and 60 NCOs for the foot. Similarly, Hanoverian cavalry regiments (Leib-Regiment Reuter, Grothaus, Hodenberg, Heise and Walthausen and 3 Hanoverian dragoons regiments had to contribute 10 officers and 20 NCOs for the horse squadrons. These commandeered officers and NCOs were later returned to their original unit. Furthermore, 10 NCOs and 100 men originating from Busche Dragoons, Reden Dragoons, Breitenbach Dragoons, Leib-Regiment Reuter, Grothaus, Hodenberg, Heise, Walthausen, Freytag Jager Corps, Luckner's Hussars and Scheither's Corps were permanently transferred to these new battalions. By April 1, each battalion consisted of 1 cavalry squadron and 4 foot companies. Battalions were not designated by a number but rather by the name of its commander. By this date, the present battalion was under the command of Major von Udam and was based in Soest. On April 9, Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick named the new unit Légion Britannique. On May 5 1760, the chancery of the British King George II issued letters patent to all officers of the Légion Britannique. Indeed, although it served with the Hanoverian Army, the entire unit was under British pay. On May 20, George II appointed Major von Bülow commander of the Légion Britannique. Initially, all battalion remained in their garrison place, filling their ranks. By August 14, the unit counted only 2,039 men, still missing 1,093 men to reach its full establishment of 3,132 men.
Throughout the war, it consisted mainly of deserters, foreigners and sometimes prisoners of war. As with all other battalions of the Legion, desertion was endemic in the unit.
Each Legion battalion consisted of four companies of about 125 men for a total of 500 men in each battalion. Until 1762, before the amalgamation of all dragoon squadrons into a distinct Legion unit, the battalion also counted a dragoon squadron of 101 men.
During the Seven Years' War, the 2nd Battalion was under the command of:
since 1760: Major von Udam
Towards the end of the Seven Years' War, in December 1762, the British transferred the unit to the Prussian service. On March 27 1763, the Légion marched to Magdeburg where it was disbanded. Foreigners were incorporated into Westphalian regiments of the Prussian Army.
The unit was intended for the Kleinkrieg and fought many skirmish actions.
In July 1760, the five battalions of the Legion were detached along with Hessian Hussars and a battalion of Hanoverian Jägers to capture the bridges over the Diemel at Liebnau and Trendelburg. Later during the same month, at Warburg, they were deployed on the right flank along with battalions from Scheither (No. 1A), Estorff (No. 12B), Block (No. 8B), Monroy (No. 10B), and the 87th Foot (Keith's Highlanders). The right flank was under the command of Lieutenant-General Hardenberg. During the battle, the Legion had to make demonstrations against the French front to cover the outflanking march of the main army. The Legion also took part in the pursuit of the defeated French, it seized the opportunity to loot the town of Warburg. On August 15, the 5 battalions were sent to the rear to complete their recruitment: 2 battalions were sent to Münster, 2 to Osnabrück and 1 to Paderborn. They remained in these locations, still undermanned and poorly equipped, till they took their winter-quarters.
Later at Vellinghausen, July 1761, the five battalions were part of the reserve. Two of the battalions had to be deployed in Haus Antepoth on the extreme left of the Allied line where they successfully contained a French attack.
The 2nd battalion lost the combat of Meppen.
On December 9 1762, the battalions of the unit received orders to march to their winter-quarters in Horstmar and Ahaus between the Ems River and the border with the Netherlands. The British Colonel Beckwith received overall command of the Légion Britannique. The unit was then transferred into the Prussian service.
Uniform in 1760 - Source: Hannoverdidi
Musketeer black tricorne not laced, two small white pom poms and a
green cockade
Grenadier n/a
Coat middle blue with 13 pewter buttons down the coat front
Shoulder Straps middle blue (left shoulder)
Pockets horizontal pockets, each with 3 pewter buttons
Cuffs poppy red, straight cuff with 3 pewter buttons
Turnbacks poppy red fastened with a pewter button
Waistcoat white
Breeches dark straw
Crossbelt natural leather
Waistbelt natural leather
Bayonet Scabbard black
Scabbard black
Footgear black
Troopers were armed with a musket and carried a dark brown haversack with a metal canteen on the left hip.
Housings and saddlecloth - Source: Hannoverdidi
Dragoons wore the same uniform as the infantry. However, they were distinguished by a silver aiguillette on the right shoulder and they wore black boots instead of gaiters.
The saddlecloth and housings were red laced white and carried king George's cipher.
Officers had silver lace lining the cuffs and vest, a green cockaded hat, and carried a red sash slung over the right shoulder.
The colours were of the British pattern but the details are not known.
Grosser Generalstab Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II, Die Kriege Friedrichs des Grossen, Part 3 Der siebenjährige Krieg 1756-1763, Vol. 1 Pirna und LobositzBerlin, 1901, App. 1
Mulder, Luke: Growth of the Hanoverian Light Troop Establishment During the Seven Years War, Seven Years War Association Journal Vol. XI No. 4
Pengel, R., and G. R. Hurt: German States in the Seven Years War 1740 to 1762, Imperial Press
Schlichtegroll, C. U.: Pentz von: Die “légion britannique”, Leipzig, 1931
Vae Victis: Les troupes légères du Roi Georges (article no more available online)
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Whelan has not been the only “bad” IP hack in the past two decades. Another one was MAI v. Peak, which opined that temporary copies made in RAM when a computer is booted are reproductions of copyrighted software that can give rise to infringement claims if the machine was turned on by an unlicensed person.
But good hacks have been more common. Religious Technology Center v. Netcom, for instance, rejected an MAI v. Peak-like theory of liability against an Internet access provider. The judge decided that an Internet access provider should not be held liable for infringing copies of user postings on Usenet because copyright liability should be imposed only for volitional acts, not for automatic copies made by servers.
Another good hack was the Supreme Court’s decision in MGM v. Grokster, which retained the Sony safe harbor for technologies having substantial non-infringing uses and held that peer-to-peer file-sharing firms should only be liable for infringement if they have induced users to infringe.
There is no way to foretell hacking of intellectual property law will be necessary to further adapt it in response to advances in computing technologies. More innovation is surely on the way—along with more lawsuits. Thus, a third decade of “Legally Speaking” columns may still be needed to translate what these lawsuits will mean for CACM readers. c
PAMELA SAMUELSON ( pam@ischool.berkeley.edu) is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley.
ODE TO CODE
Much have I travell’d in the realms of code, And many goodly programs have I seen. I’ve voyaged far to conferences umpteen, Attending to the wisdom there bestowed.
Yet as I’ve moved along the winding road
Of my career (a journey not serene),
Only one source of knowledge has there been
Of worth enough to prompt of me an ode.
Communications has for 50 years,
Been there to help each of us on our way,
By giving us the writings of our peers,
And telling us the things they had to say.
So as the start of its sixth decade nears
Please join me wishing it “Happy Birthday.”
STEPHEN B. JENKINS ( Stephen.Jenkins@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca) is the senior programmer/analyst at the Aerodynamics Laboratory of the Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council Canada.
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Sugar cookies can vary in size & design, so a firm price isn’t sensible. Still, there is a basic guideline I adhere to when negotiating a price on a certain cookie. The following should help to give you an estimate to consider before placing an order:
Bite-Size/1″ = $1.25/each* (no more than 2-3 colors on each tiny cookie)
Small/2″ = $2.25/each* (up to 3 colors on each cookie)
Medium/3″ = $3.50/each* (up to 4-5 colors on each cookie)
Large/4″+ = $4.25/each* (no limit on colors)
Specialty designs are hand-cut (without using an actual cookie cutter), and there is an additional charge for these cookies. Licensed images & logos require more time to perfect as well, so these also have an additional charge. Also, I can make larger cookies (5″ or more), but these are priced on an individual basis. Please contact me with any questions you may have before officially budgeting your cookie costs!
I do have a minimum order requirement of one dozen decorated cookies, but beyond that, you can order just as many as you may need for your event or occasion (19 cookies, for example).
All sugar cookies come individually wrapped in clear cellophane bags & are heat-sealed for freshness. I can add ribbon, curling ribbon, paper tags or toppers if you wish, for an added fee. However, if you are local and would prefer an open platter of cookies, I can accommodate your wish as well.
* (minimum order of 24 cookies/2 dozen)
Though my specialty is decorated sugar cookies, I’m available to make “drop” cookies as well. These can be shipped all over, too!
Chocolate Chip Cookies – $16/dozen
(A classic cookie, I make mine with three kinds of chocolate. These cookies have perfectly chewy centers and will stay soft for days. These are destined to be your favorite!)
Snickerdoodles – $15/dozen
(A holiday craving available any time of year! Sweet, butter cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar and baked until perfectly chewy.)
White Chocolate Turtle Cookies – $22/dozen
(An award-winning cookie, these tender chocolate cookies have two surprises: a nutty pecan crumble topping, and a soft caramel center. Drizzled with white chocolate, these are sinful but worth it!)
Peanut Butter Cookies – $14/dozen
(A traditional cookie with just a bit of crunch on the outside and a tender center. Heavy on the great peanut butter flavor!)
Peanut Butter ‘Kiss’ Cookies – $15/dozen
(Another holiday favorite, the peanut butter cookie lends a crisp crunch to the smooth, creaminess of a Hershey’s chocolate ‘kiss’ candy.)
Shortbread Meltaways – $8/dozen
(These tiny cookies are magical. Place one on your tongue, and the slightly sweet, light-as-air, butter cookie will just disappear! These small treats are easy to pop into your mouth, so be sure to order enough!)
Oatmeal Monster Cookies – $18/dozen
(Chock full of yummy things: chocolate, M&Ms, raisins, and coconut, all held together by a soft oatmeal cookie. I sub these for breakfast sometimes and pretend they’re healthy!)
Apple Spice Drops – $16/dozen
(Tender bits of apple tucked into a light, airy cookie, then iced with a sweet apple buttercream frosting. These are so light and yummy, it’s impossible to stop eating until you’ve had at least three!)
54 comments on “Pricing”
Fikrte on October 13, 2011 at 4:29 pm said:
Hi…..I am having a b-day party for my daughter who is turning one on the 22nd of October. I have been looking for favors for 30 kids and the lady bug cookie you made for Oliva are perfect. The pink and white pokdotes are the theme for her party so it would work perfect. I would like a quote for the 30 cookies in individual bags. I don’t know what size cookies the pictures were but I like the size. I was thinking of adding the Thankyou cookies in a small size depending on the price so please send me a quote for both.
Fikrte
Nicole on October 25, 2011 at 12:45 am said:
Angela on May 17, 2012 at 3:18 pm said:
I love your Hunger Games cookies. Are you able to ship to Canada?
Nicole on May 27, 2012 at 3:26 am said:
I sent you an email, Angela.
Sherri on July 6, 2012 at 9:31 pm said:
Any ideas on what kind f cookies you could do on the twilight theme? Do you ship to Virginia?
Nicole on July 6, 2012 at 11:06 pm said:
Hi Sherri! You can find a bunch of Twilight-themed cookies starting at this picture link: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=234357953297000&set=a.197991033600359.50309.117083948357735&type=3&theater (Once you’re on that first photo, keep clicking “next” to see more & more Twilight cookies.)
Grace on August 8, 2012 at 11:05 pm said:
How much would almost all the hunger games cookies cost or is that to many…. I luv the hunger games! I commented on flickr as entertaniment nails! Thank you so much!
Nicole on August 12, 2012 at 5:34 am said:
I sent you a message, Grace.
Ana on August 15, 2012 at 12:14 am said:
Hi I’m going to be attending a concert in September and was wondering if you could design personalized ones for the band.
Nicole on August 24, 2012 at 7:24 pm said:
Hi Ana! I wish I could help, but I’m moving across country in just 12 days (from ND to TX – eeek!), and I’ve already stopped “cookie”-ing in preparation for the move. I won’t be able to make cookies again until about November, once we’re settled and have our household goods again. Thank you for thinking of me, though!
Grace on January 7, 2013 at 11:13 pm said:
Hi I was wondering how much a dozen Hunger Games cookies would be for a birthday party! Thank for all you do, I really appreciate what you do! Tell me as soon as posibble and I cant wait for Catching Fire!
Nicole on January 30, 2013 at 1:55 am said:
Hi Grace! I sent you an email, so please check for that.
Hello! My mother is turning 60 and it is a 60s-70s theme. Your groovy cookies would be a perfect party favor! The party is February 9th and I am in California. Is it possible to get them in time?
Hi Mary! I am sending you an email, so please keep an eye out, okay?
I just adore all of your designs and look forward to your FaceBook postings. I have a daughter who is a TREMENDOUS fan of Justin Bieber. Wondering if there’s anything you can think up for this theme? Also, what is your typical turnaround? I’ll be looking for March, then something in May (communion theme), June and also August. Thank you so much for sharing your talents. :0)
Nicole on January 29, 2013 at 10:18 pm said:
Dawn, I’ll send you an email. Keep an eye out, okay?
Carol Sherman on December 23, 2013 at 10:41 am said:
I look forward to my Auburn Tiger War Eagle cookies for my bro and sis. Let’s get it taken care of:) I love your work! The taste and designs rock!
Nicole on January 7, 2014 at 5:17 am said:
Thanks so much, Carol! I only wish they had won the game last night – whew, that was a close one!
Jenna on January 16, 2014 at 12:59 pm said:
Hi! I’m interested in the HUNGRY CATERPILLAR cookies. Can you please email me to discuss prices for a bulk order for my son’s birthday party?
Jenna, I sent you an email.
sheryl on June 26, 2015 at 4:09 pm said:
How much would you charge for a dozen of the Marine type of cookies? And would it be possible to ship them to the Ohio area by July 5th?
Nicole on June 28, 2015 at 2:10 am said:
I sent you an email, Sheryl!
megin on August 2, 2015 at 9:46 pm said:
i m interested in the hunger games cookie. The
“Hunger Games is gold on black”, “Catching Fire is bronze on red”, and “Mockingjay is dusted blue-white on blue.” All 12 districts, and one “Let the Games Begin” . Can I order them for October 2015?
Kendra on August 21, 2015 at 8:03 pm said:
Hello, I am interested in a dozen of Navy cookiez for a homecoming. What are your prices and turn around time.? Thank you
I sent you an email, Kendra.
Kelly on February 26, 2016 at 2:05 pm said:
Hi, I am interested in the 2-3 dozen Marine cookies. What would you charge and
do you ship to California? Thank you
Hi Kelly! I’ve sent you an email.
Erin Kelly on August 26, 2016 at 11:11 am said:
Hi !!
I seen your cookies on Sam and Nia! I absolutely love them, I am planning a surprise party for my boyfriends 30th, it’s not until February, but I was wondering how far in advance I would need to plan and order your beautiful cookie?!
I am doing a WWE wrestling theme!
Erin, I’m so sorry for the delay! I so very rarely have time to update my blog/website anymore, and I do not see comments until I go to make a change over here. Please always be sure to send an email for any order requests – nicole@lifesabatch.com
Shelby Philbrook on August 27, 2016 at 11:46 am said:
Love your cookies! I’m interested in what you charge for a dozen of the back to school cookies? Thanks!
Shelby, I’m so sorry for the delay! I so very rarely have time to update my blog/website anymore, and I do not see comments until I go to make a change over here. Please always be sure to send an email for any order requests – nicole@lifesabatch.com – Thanks!
Elizabeth on August 27, 2016 at 12:24 pm said:
Hello looking for some cookies for a birthday?
How much time in advance do you need?
Elizabeth, I’m so sorry for the delay! I so very rarely have time to update my blog/website anymore, and I do not see comments until I go to make a change over here. Please always be sure to send an email for any order requests – nicole@lifesabatch.com
Edith Norris on September 2, 2016 at 10:42 pm said:
Hello my daughter is having a bday party and I’m needing Paris themed cookies made for October 16th heard you was the best around the area I’m in lacey Washington.
Nicole on September 10, 2016 at 10:02 pm said:
Karla on October 18, 2016 at 4:17 pm said:
I was interested in ordering some cookies for my sisters baby shower about 30 -60 can you send me a quote ? Please
Karla, I’m so sorry for the delay! I so very rarely have time to update my blog/website anymore, and I do not see comments until I go to make a change over here. Please always be sure to send an email for any order requests – nicole@lifesabatch.com
Lynette Christenson on November 13, 2016 at 7:10 pm said:
Nicole I am interested in an assortment of Thanksgiving and Fall cookies, from bite sized through about 2″. Don’t want to ruin anyone’s appetite, but know how full and yet how many desserts there are to sample at our gatherings. Can you give me a price on about 3 dozen. I love your little acorns and your scarecrows and really all of them! You are a very talented lady.
Y. White on December 13, 2016 at 7:58 am said:
I would like to know if you make cookie bouquets or baskets?
Nicole on April 9, 2017 at 5:55 pm said:
I’m afraid baskets/bouquets are not something I can ship.
Kaylalynn monges on February 17, 2017 at 2:01 am said:
My daughter is turning 1 in june on the first same as juliet sam and nias daughter but anyways i was wanting to do little elephant cookies about 30 for paarty favors. The colors are going to be pink and gray. I was wondering shipping costs and pricing for cookies i live in baker city oregon
Nicole on March 17, 2017 at 1:27 am said:
I emailed you, Kaylalynn!
Rika McGovern on March 25, 2017 at 8:31 pm said:
Hi! I’m interest in pricing for the undersea cookies I need about 50 for my baby shower at the end of April (zip 33578)
Sue Bachmann on April 11, 2017 at 11:44 am said:
I am interested in the Marine Officer sugar cookie themed cookies. Approximately a variety totalling 24.
Marianne Ferguson on April 24, 2017 at 9:25 pm said:
Hi, I’m interested in the pricing for your Under the Sea cookies for my daughter’s baby shower on June 4th. I would need approximately 50. My zip to ship is 19073.
Nicole on April 26, 2017 at 3:14 am said:
Mari Ceballos on May 13, 2017 at 7:10 pm said:
I am looking to purchase about 5-6 dozen cookies for a mermaid themed baby shower – the colors are similar to the Under the Sea themed cookies you have pictured, but with mermaids, shells, seahorses, etc… the shower is June 17th and my ship-to zip code is 78404.
Christina iadevaia on February 9, 2018 at 3:02 pm said:
How do I order the set of golf cookies for Valentine’s Day?
Christina, I emailed you.
Jewels on July 20, 2018 at 3:48 pm said:
Hello, I am looking to get 1 dozen of the Marine Assortment. I wanted to know how much it would be including shipping/handling. I live in Arlington, VA. Also, I would need them by August 13, 2018. I look forward to your response!
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Home Nicky Shaw
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Nicky works in the UK and internationally primarily in opera, but also in theatre, musical theatre and short film.
Recent opera credits include: Jenufa, Royal Swedish Opera, Danish National Opera & Scottish Opera and Madama Butterfly, Glyndebourne on Tour, both directed by Annilese Miskimmon; Dead Man Walking, Royal Danish Opera, directed by Orpha Phelan and Peter Pan (costumes), Komische Oper & Welsh National Opera and Rossi’s Orpheo, Royal Opera House at Sam Wanamaker Theatre, both directed by Keith Warner.
Opera credits include; La Traviata (joint winner The Renee Stepham Award), Scottish Opera; Don Quichotte and Katya Kabanova, Danish National Opera; Mignon (nominated Best Opera, South Bank Sky Awards), Buxton Opera Festival; The Magic Flute, The Diary of Anne Frank and The Coronation of Poppea (all nominated Best Opera, Irish Times) and Alcina all Opera Theatre Company, Dublin; Norma, Teatro Lirico, Sardinia: and as costume designer; Gunot’s Faust, Mariinsky Theatre; Marriage of Figaro, Polish National Opera; La Cenerentola, Volo di Notte, Prigionero, Il Viaggio a Reims and The Rape of Lucrectia all Frankfurt Oper; Medea, National Reisopera and Verdi’s Macbeth, La Monnaie
Theatre credits include; Dancing Shadows (winner of 5 Korean Musical Awards), Opera Theatre, Seoul; Picasso’s Women, Towel Theatre, Seoul; Perhaps Here, Teatergarasjen, Norway, La Nuit de Valognes and Wozzek, Other Place, RSC; also co-produced and designed 4 plays; 3 by Glynn Maxwell Anyroad, The Bridewell; The Lifeblood and Broken Journey, Hen and Chickens and Take the Fire, Lyric Studio.
As production & costume designer on short film Assessment (winner – Jury Award, Film London’s Best of Borough), designed the studio set for The Score, BBC2 and was associate set designer to artist Bruce McLean on The Empress (by Orlando Gough), Channel 4.
Future opera projects include designing for Garsington Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
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In the last three years things have changed dramatically in Myanmar. The former military regime has given way to a civilian government which is slowly leading the country towards democracy.
The big cities are losing the dust of centuries. New buildings are going up, the dilapidated old taxis have been replaced with air-conditioned cars, shopping malls are springing up and there is a real estate boom that equals that of cities like New York or London.
In the rural areas little has changed as regards well-being, and even in the cities many find it difficult to keep pace with the rapidly rising prices.
Myanmar shares borders with Bangladesh, India, China, Thailand and Laos. It is 678.500 km² (twice the size of Italy), is the largest of the South-east Asian countries and is crossed by the Tropic of Cancer.
The population of some 60 million people consists of many ethnic groups including the Bamars, Shan, Karen, Kachin, Mon e Rakhaing. The predominant religion is Buddhism.
The life expectancy for men is 58,4 years and for women 64,2 years. The infantile mortality rate is 69 per thousand, putting Myanmar in the category of the countries with the lowest human development rate.
Almost 79% of the population lives in rural areas and one third lives under the poverty line. (US$1 a day according to the World Bank).
The country has abundant natural resources and exports precious woods like teak, natural gas, jade and rubies.
Yangon, the commercial, diplomatic and financial heart of the country has 4 million inhabitants. In 2006 the government moved the capital from Yangon to Naypyidaw.
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Carmarthen Town (@9.0) vs The New Saints (@1.25)
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Carmarthen Town vs The New Saints
Carmarthen Town – The New Saints Match Prediction | 22-09-2019 09:30
The number of matches with a total of three goals or more is 5 games in these last ten outings. Their recent performance, both home and away, shows that they have scored a total of 18 goals in their last ten matches; they have won 4 of these matches. The total number of times that Carmarthen Town and whoever they've played have also scored is 6 matches in those ten.
1 matches between them have ended in a draw.Carmarthen Town is in poor home form while The New Saints are performing good at away.Previous matches between Carmarthen Town and The New Saints have averaged 3.69 goals while BTTS has happened 31% of the time. So far this season in the Welsh Premier League, Carmarthen Town have averaged 0.33 Points Per Game at home matches and The New Saints 1.33 Points Per Game at away matches. These 2 teams have met 16 times in the last several seasons based on the data that we have of them.Out of 16 previous meetings, Carmarthen Town have won 2 matches while The New Saints won 13. The last meeting ended with the following result : Carmarthen Town 0 - 5 The New Saints. On 21st September 2019, Carmarthen Town and The New Saints go head to head in the Welsh Premier League.
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The first Emmy Award for Outstanding Reality Program was given in 2001. Despite this recognition, popular discourse about quality programming rarely includes reality television. Here is a clip I shot in 2011 of Reality Rocks, a reality TV awards show and conference that was canceled after its first year. The ceremony included sixteen awards decided by over 100,000 fan votes. Later, the host acknowledges that "reality TV sometimes shows people at their worst and sometimes they show them at their best." Given the highly derogatory terms in which reality television is discussed, it may be hard to imagine the genre as capable of showing people at their very best. What does the one and only first annual reality TV awards show tell us about popular tastes for television?
Reality TV has some of the most diverse casts on television and yet it is often described as trash TV. Although multicultural representation does not equal liberation, I suggest that reality TV’s ill reputation is, in part, about who takes on these roles. The casts and producers are accused of “faking” interactions, while scripted television is complimented on its quality and the “realness” the actors portray. Thus, the produced performances in reality shows are valued less than in scripted television. While reality TV is indeed cheaper to produce, I argue that its lack of prestige also constructs the fans and stars as unworthy. Therefore, both the enjoyment and talent for reality TV are devalued as artificial and disposable. Race and class differences get parsed through the language of taste.
The distaste for reality marks the people and lifestyles represented as cast off entertainment for inferior publics. Arguing that reality has more stereotypical representations than “critically acclaimed” shows underscores how taste is used to manage both class and racial boundaries in the production and consumption of popular culture. Discounting reality television as simply distasteful never sees the fans or actors at their very best, but only and always at their very worst. I would say more but I think Lena Dunham’s about to win Best Director for Bad Girls Club!
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race and class
As a fan of reality TV I
Friday, March 1, 2013 — 4:26 am
As a fan of reality TV I found this post incredibly refreshing! I think the programming of these shows emphasizes your points about race and class. Thinking about VH1's line up of reality TV-- Mob Wives, Basketball Wives, Love and Hip Hop-- it seems these shows are not only for inferior publics, they are being segregated into very specific spaces. You mention that we do not see the actors who are part of these shows at their best, but it is hard to see the kinds of industrial and cultural changes required. But, as Ryan suggested earlier in the week, we can see tastes shift as the highbrow takes cues from the "other guys." Perhaps shows that adopt the docudrama aesthetic could be the beginning??
As a lover/hater of reality - Great post!
Lauren must on her A-Game with scheduling this week's because this post provides the perfect contrast to mine yesterday; or what/who determines what constitutes "high-versus-low" brow art. I wonder what Warhol would think about Reality Television? I would to hear you speak more to your "distaste for reality" and simultaneous attraction to it (this is an generalized observation) because I often find myself loathing myself while watching my weekly "guilty pleasures"--from Ru Paul's Drag Race to Duck Dynasty. It is interesting and contradictory how we go about watching "reality" a "class above" as a way for both participating in these characters' worlds and also making ourselves feel better about ourselves. I also think you would LOVE a good friend of mine's article recently published on his inside autoethnographic work on/off the set of Big Brother. I will link you to his work and try to bring him into this conversation! Great stuff!
Thanks, Taylor & Francis!
Well, turns out, you have to pay for the article but here is podcast detailing his work: http://thecriticallede.com/.
Thanks for the great feedback
Saturday, March 2, 2013 — 12:24 am
Thanks for the great feedback Lauren and Ryan! I agree that Lauren did a fantastic job curating this week! I think what I am trying to emphasize is what it might mean to take reality television seriously as a type of constructed performance. The way in which reality TV is set up against scripted drama is a sticking point for me. It seems that the only reason one might judge reality stars as "fake" is because of an assumption that they are not performances. But I think most people understand that reality tv is not "real" in that sense, and yet they still watch. For me, the assumption of "realness" slips into a classic construction of the fans and viewers as somehow duped by the production process. People's reading/viewing processes are much more complicated than that. I guess what I am saying is that have a deep love for reality television even if I am often critically engaged with it. I think taking these shows seriously as entertainment allows a deeper analysis into the connections between structures of race, class and everyday life. Thanks for the article Ryan! I am especially interested in his auto ethnographic piece. The video clip is a part of a documentary short I made on reality TV casting. While I was shooting I acquired a lot of information from stars and hopefuls and casting people on how to get cast in a reality show that mostly focused on "playing up your strengths." I thought about auditioning for a show, but then I am a terrible actor.
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The diversity of Australian Mesozoic bennettitopsid reproductive organs
McLoughlin, Stephen
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6723-239X
Pott, Christian
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology. Museum für Naturkunde Paläontologische Bodendenkmalpflege Sentruper Straße 285 48161 Münster.
Sobbe, Ian H.
Ancient Environments, Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, 4101 Qld, Australia, and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia 4072, Australia.
2018 (English)In: Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, ISSN 1867-1594, E-ISSN 1867-1608, Vol. 98, p. 71-95Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Several dispersed reproductive organs of bennettitopsid gymnosperms are described and illustrated from Triassic to Cretaceous strata of Australia: Williamsonia eskensis sp. nov. (Middle Triassic), Williamsonia ipsvicensis sp. nov. (Upper Triassic), Williamsonia durikaiensis sp. nov. (Lower Jurassic), Williamsonia sp. (Lower Jurassic), Williamsonia rugosa sp. nov. (Middle Jurassic), Williamsonia gracilis sp. nov. (Lower Cretaceous), Cycadolepis ferrugineus sp. nov. (Lower Jurassic), Cycadolepis sp. (Lower Cretaceous), and Fredlindia moretonensis Shirley 1898 comb. nov. (Upper Triassic). Among these, W. eskensis appears to represent the oldest bennettitalean reproductive structure yet identified. Although global floras expressed less provincialism during the Mesozoic and many genera are cosmopolitan, Australian bennettopsid species appear to have been endemic based on the morphological characters of the reproductive structures. Bennettopsids have a stratigraphic range of around 210 million years in Australia and are widely and abundantly represented by leaf fossils, but only around 20 specimens of reproductive structures, of which half are attributed to Fredlindia, have been recovered from that continent’s geological archive. The extremely low representation of reproductive organs vis-à-vis foliage is interpreted to reflect a combination of physical disintegration of the seed-bearing units while attached to the host axis and, potentially, extensive vegetative reproduction in bennettopsids growing at high southern latitudes during the Mesozoic.
Berlin, 2018. Vol. 98, p. 71-95
Bennettitales, Fredlindiales, Reproductive biology, Floral diversity, New species, Williamsonia
URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-2900DOI: 10.1007/s12549-017-0286-zOAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-2900DiVA, id: diva2:1257817
Swedish Research Council, 2014-5234Swedish Research Council, 2012-4375
Other funding from:
National Science Foundation (project #1636625)
German Research Council (DFG KR2125/3)
Friends of the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Riksmusei Vänner, Stockholm)
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Don Jr. Helped Pick the Interior Secretary Because He Likes Hunting
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Donald Trump Jr., who will likely be charged with running the Trump Organization during his father’s presidency, reportedly helped the elder Trump choose Montana congressman Ryan Zinke as secretary of Interior, the latest reason to doubt Trump’s sincerity about fully separating his business from his incoming administration.
Politico reports that Trump Jr. “sat in on interviews, and made calls to candidates,” as the transition team sought to fill a position that he once joked he’d be interested in.
Last Friday, CNN reported that Trump Jr. was pushing for someone from a Western state. His “hunting passion and conservationist ways” reportedly pushed him West in an effort to find a like-minded outdoorsman. As of last week, CNN said that had him looking to Washington representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, but then Trump Jr. met with Zinke. The Washington Post says they “hit it off,” and the rest is history.
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No Pity City
Timbers hire Savarese, schedule opener
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By Cliff Pfenning, Oregonsports.com
PORTLAND – The Portland Timbers needed only a short time to fill it’s coaching vacancy, tapping Giovanni Savarese as the club’s head coach Monday.
Savarese becomes the team’s third head coach, replacing Caleb Porter who resigned in November following a disappointing playoff exit.
Savarese brings over 25 years of professional experience as a player and coach, most recently serving as the head coach and sporting director of the New York Cosmos of the North American Soccer League, where he led the club to three Soccer Bowl championships in five seasons.
Savarese, 46, will be formally introduced as the Timbers new head coach during a press conference in early January.
“After an intense coach search, I am very pleased to introduce Gio Savarese as the head coach of the Portland Timbers,” said Merritt Paulson, owner of the Timbers. “Gio is an intelligent, attack-minded coach and is a driven individual who is both a great fit with us on and off the field. We are extremely pleased to welcome Gio and his family to Portland.”
“We are excited to bring Gio on board as the club’s head coach. Gio brings a wealth of experience across all levels of the game, and his playing philosophy aligns with the expectations of the club and suits the playing personnel,” said Gavin Wilkinson, general manager and president of soccer for the Timbers. “His leadership and man-management, coupled with his core values and previous accomplishments, made him the right fit for this club, and we are delighted to welcome him to the Timbers.”
The Timbers announced they will play the LA Galaxay at the StubHub Center in their 2018 season opener, March 4, and their home opener, April 14, against Minnesota United FC, at 7:30p.m.
A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Savarese developed the Cosmos into one of the most successful clubs in the NASL, compiling a 65-26-44 record in 135 regular-season games, including a career-best 20-7-5 record in 2016.
Additionally, the Cosmos scored 223 goals during Savarese’s five seasons at the helm, which rank as the most in the NASL during that stretch. Savarese led the Cosmos to four Soccer Bowl appearances, claiming the 2013, 2015 and 2016 championships.
Savarese guided the Cosmos to a 10-7-15 record in 2017 and their third straight appearance in the NASL championship match. They fell 2-0 to the San Francisco Deltas in the final.
“I am both excited and proud to become the head coach of the Portland Timbers, and this is an ideal fit and outstanding opportunity for me as I take the next step in my coaching career,” Savarese said. “The passion, ambition and support surrounding this club is truly inspiring, and I am sincerely honored and grateful for this opportunity to lead it on the pitch and to build on the club’s history of success for the community and the incredible supporters of the Portland Timbers.”
Savarese enjoyed an 18-year professional playing career, including five seasons in MLS. He scored 159 goals in 322 games played in various leagues in the United States, Venezuela, Italy and England. At the international level, Savarese earned 30 caps for the Venezuela National Team from 1989-2001, scoring 10 goals, including a notable finish against South American rival Argentina in 1996.
Porter, who led the Timbers to the 2015 MLS Cup title, stepped down after guiding the Timbers to the top record in the Western Conference this season, but lost to Houston in their first playoff round.
Brunner's lighter sparks Timbers fire
NPC: We'll be talking Eric Brunner and Cascadia Cup Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.
May 20, 2012 / By Mike Donovan, oregonsports.com
Sometimes it takes a unlikely spark to start a fire, and Sunday it was Eric Brunner during the Portland Timbers' 2-1 win at home over Chicago at Jeld-Wen Field.
Sunday was the 80th time Brunner had stepped on the field for a MLS match and for the first time in his 80 matches he was able to score a goal with his foot. But his right footed poach into the inside netting ended a 448-minute scoreless streak by a Timber and eased the nerves of both the Timbers players and their Army.
Brunner had missed the last two Timbers games with a hip flexor and seemed ready to cause damage from the get go. Moments before the starting whistle, Brunner was joking with coach John Spencer on the sideline before running to his fellow defenders for some pregame chatter.
But it wasn’t just his intensity or even his goal that made Brunner so valuable for Portland Sunday afternoon. Brunner had one of the statistically best passing games ever for a Timbers defender, successfully completing 17 of his 22 passes. And of those five, three were on clearing headers.
Brunner’s goal in the 20th minute ended a goal-scoring drought that spanned 36 days for Timber players. However, goalkeeper Troy Perkins shutout streak ended at 377 minutes after Jalil Anibaba beat the defensiveless goalkeeper after a poor clear from Steven Smith.
A Logan Pause own goal turned out to be the winner for Portland. Pause’s deflection came after a Kris Boyd header was turned towards the goal off a Sal Zizzo corner kick. While Boyd won’t get the credit, he easily beat Fire rookie Austin Berry to the Zizzo’s kick. The own goal was the fifth the Timbers
Zizzo’s corner was just seven minutes after he came onto the pitch as a halftime sub for Franck Songo’o. Zizzo seemed to provide a spark off the bench.
“When Sal comes on, the crowd appreciate him. It gives you a lift, especially in front of the Timbers Army,” Spencer said following the game. “You can just tell the Army are back in the game, he certainly gives us that jolt.”
Despite the goal from Anibaba, Perkins had a nice match that included a diving save on a blast from an unmarked Pavel Pardo. After the half, Perkins was mostly a spectator and saw zero shots on target in the final 45.
The own goal was the fifth the Timbers have received as a MLS club. All five have been at the North End of Jeld-Wen Field.
Portland returns to the field Saturday against Cascadia Cup rivals, the Vancouver Whitecaps.
Check out No Pity City live on oregonsports.com, Tuesday at 8:30, and twitter.com/theMikeDonovan all week for Timbers coverage.
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Timbers have plenty to focus on during rest
Portland has another week off before playing at Houston
There's some relaxation afoot for the Portland Timbers this week as they have an extra three days off before playing at Houston, May 15, but that's an extra three days to delve into the importance of their next game.
Portland needs a gool old fashioned win however it happens and a win at Houston would be something close to monumetal, a topic that will be key to Tuesday night's webcast of No Pity City on oregonsports.com.
The show begins at 8:30 p.m. and can be viewed on this page.
Portland's season is awash in drama after only nine games. Not only are the Timbers at the bottom of the Western Conference at 2-5-2, 8 points, but they haven't scored a goal in three games, 3.5 halves to be exact.
The team has scored twice in a game only twice and has yet to score in both halves of a game.
And, the Timbers are winless on the road, earning only a 1-all tie at Dallas in their first road game.
The biggest reason for drama at Houston, is the home club playing its first MLS night game in its new stadium after starting the season with seven straight road games.
Portland's continually changing line-up is likely to see another change, although one that's likely to be determined shortly before game time.
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Will Timbers ever score again?
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Portland's offense has been shut out for five straight halves
April 30, 2012 / By Cliff Pfenning, oregonsports.com
It's been a long time since the Portland Timbers lit up a crowd with a goal of their own.
They've still managed to win a game, but only with the help of an opponent scoring on itself.
It's been an even longer time since the Timbers scored at home, all of which will be in the air Tuesday as No Pity City begins its eighth episode live at 8:30 p.m. from the Bulldog Tavern in Southwest Portland.
The Timbers play host to as Columbus Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
Portland, which lost 2-0 at Montreal Saturday, enters at 2-5-1, 7 points, while Columbus, which lost 1-0 at home to Vancouver Saturday, enters at 2-4-1, 7 points.
FIVE REASONS FOR TIMBERS STRUGGLES
Both Columbus and Portland have a goal differential of -4, although in Portland the Timbers are +1 in four games. In their last outing, though, their score came off an own goal from Sporting Kansas City in a 1-0 win. The Timbers scored just once in their previous home game - in the first half of a 2-1 loss to Chivas USA. So, Portland hasn't scored at home in five three halves and hasn't scored overall in five halves since a first-half tally at Los Angeles, April 14.
Portland has scored just eight goals this season, which, interestingly, puts it at or ahead of eight other teams in MLS.
Kris Boyd and Darlington Nagbe lead the team in scoring with three goals each.
Tune into this page for the live webcast, and sign on to the chat room to converse with co-hosts Cliff Pfenning and Mike Donovan. Or show up at the Bulldog Tavern to be a guest on the show.
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What's the Army got to do with it?
NO PITY CITY: Tonight the cast talks about Portland's scoring drama
Maybe it is the players on the field, but the Timbers Army seems to be having quite an affect on games this season at Jeld-Wen Field.
In three games, the Portland Timbers have scored six goals, with all of them into the North goal - the net directy in front of the Timbers Army.
It's not a situation for coach John Spencer or other older players such as team captain Jack Jewsbury, who view it as a coincidence, but younger players such as Darlington Nagbe, who's scored twice in that direction, and Jean Andrew-Baptiste, who's scored once, have noticed it.
"Yes, some of us have noticed it," Nagbe said after the Timbers lost 2-1 to Chivas USA Saturday. "It seems like there's more energy going that way and that plays a role in the game."
The Army seems to have had an affect on opposing teams, too, as both goals Chivas USA scored were into the North net.
Of the 12 goals scored this season in three games at Jeld-Wen, nine have been to the North.
Portland's role on the field got an answer Monday as the Timbers brought in defender Brett Evans for a trial after back Lovel Palmer got outpaced for a pair of crosses that turned into assists Saturday.
The Army and Palmer will be key points of discussion tonight during the weekly episode of No Pity City, which begins live on oregonsports.com at 8:30 p.m. from the Bulldog Tavern in Southwest Portland. The episode can be viewed on this page with viewers able to chat live with hosts Cliff Pfenning and Mike Donovan.
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Timbers fans have questions aplenty after RSL loss
COLUMN: Portland fans have to deal with a gut punch after Saturday's loss
March 31, 2012 / By Mike Donovan, oregonsports.com
What just happened?
That was the question on the minds of the Timbers players, fans, and anyone else who watched the Timbers give up two goals in the final five minutes in a 3-2 loss to Real Salt Lake on Saturday night. What just happened?
After the final whistle, almost everyone associated with Timbers had the same glazed over, look of shock on their face. Whether it was Merritt Paulson with head-in-hand in front of his office computer or Kris Boyd slumped over with both hands on his chin in the locker room, no member of the Timbers organization could seem to make sense of what had just happened.
Just 30 minutes before the final whistle, the only question running through the minds of the Timbers Army was, “did that just happen?” As Darlington Nagbe blasted a volley over Nick Rimando giving his 2011 MLS Goal of the Year a fitting sequel and the Timbers a 2-1 lead 65 minutes into the match.
But, Nagbe’s golazzo was not the question on everyone’s mind after the match. John Spencer faced the media with the same look of confusion that was being worn by most at Jeld-Wen. What just happened?
“I don’t think at any one time Real Salt Lake stopped fighting,” Spencer said. “We knew we had to match them for 90 minutes, and we matched them for 84 minutes.”
As to what actually happened on the two goals that were scored late by RSL, the replays tell some of the story. On the tying goal by Jonny Steele, the usually reliable James Marcelin gave the ball away softly to Javier Morales. Then Steele easily sidestepped Eric Brunner, who looked to be running on fumes.
The game winner by Kyle Beckerman is even easier to diagnose after multiple viewings. At least seven Timbers defenders were ball-watching and none of the players on the pitch saw Beckerman waving both his arms in the air to notify Fabian Espindola that no one was marking him.
And if Beckerman’s face looked familiar during his post-goal celebration, it was because it was the same one that Troy Perkins had as he sat down on the field staring at his defense. What just happened?
The Timbers aren’t the first MLS team to lose a game they were winning after 85 minutes. And they won’t be the last. It is how they come back this April Fool’s Day-like stomach punch that will define the early part of their 2012 season.
Will the memories of Saturday lead to sluggish performances in upcoming games vs Chivas USA, LA Galaxy and Sporting Kansas City? Or will the disappointment provide motivation going forward?
While those questions will be answered in the coming weeks, one direct question remains as Jeld-Wen Field employees cleaned up a deserted, dimly-lit stadium.
No Pity for Revolution, RSL and Aston Villa
Stumptown Footy's Ryan Gates joins the cast of No Pity City tonight at 8:30
The exciting start to the 2012 Major League Soccer season took a big header into reality Saturday with a loss at New England, but there's always a plan for the faithful and the cast of "No Pity City" will delve into that tonight at 8:30 from the Bulldog Tavern in Southwest Portland.
Stumptown Footy columnist Ryan Gates will join hosts Cliff Pfenning and Mike Donovan to talk over what happened outside Boston on Saturday as well as what's upcoming Saturday at Jeld-Wen as the Portland Timbers prep for Real Salt Lake, widely viewed as one of the contenders for the Western Conference title - except for its loss to conference doormat Chivas USA Saturday.
The news that can't be debated is today's announcement the Timbers, on July 24, will play host to Aston Villa of the English Premier League, a club nearly 140 years old with a roster of international stars.
Portland, of course, is also developing a roster of international stars. Who's got the edge? Tonight's show will debate how much of an edge Villa has.
It's all live from the Bulldog Tavern, located at 1650 W. Burnside St. in Portland. View the show on this page, and join the chat room to talk with the cast or Gates, who's work can be viewed at stumptownfooty.com.
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You've got to love a team that attacks and celebrates
Kris Boyd
Mon, 03/12/2012 - 10:43pm
Cliff Pfenning
Wow, did the Portland Timbers completely dominate the Philadelphia Union in their season opener Monday at Jeld-Wen Field.
After conceding an early second-half goal, they sent ball after ball up the left and right flanks and created scoring opportunity after opportunity, which turned into a goal midway through the half. And, then another goal. And then another, each of the three being sent home by a different player. With all the chances the team was creating, you could sense the urgency of other team members to get in on the feeding frenzy.
"I want mine, too, dammit!"
Especially as the goals were all scored in front of the rabid Timbers Army.
What might make the goals fabulous for the non-rabid fans is how they were scored - through those constant attacks, something Philadelphia just couldn't counter. The Union had a steady ball-control mentality, which regularly directed the ball backward, away from where it needed to go to score. This regularly happens with matches televised by ESPN or another sports channel.
Ball control might be sound soccer, but it's not so enjoyable to watch. The Timbers just shellacked the steady ball-control offense with its lightning quick outside midfielders, and, of course, Scottish newbie Kris Boyd.
What a game to be at, even in the constant rain. The people with the best seats all got absolutely soaked.
Boyd, in just two games - one a preseason affair, has put an offensive jolt into the Timbers, one that has to have the rest of the league taking notice. He scored tons of goals in Scotland, but Scotland isn't a truly memorable country on the European club stage. Every goal he scores is going to lift the prestige of Scottish soccer.
And, he's great at celebrating. All the Timbers are. Monday's game was a fabulous event for photographers, myself included, as the goals were celebrated wildly in front of the Timbers Army. "Wildly" means emotion, which is great for photos.
The team seems ready to provide plenty of good emotion shots this season.
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There's no pity if you're not creative
Oregonsports.com begins its foray into soccer coverage with "No Pity City"
As the media world continues to move forward technologically pretty much every day, it's bringing the wide world of television continually closer to the average person.
In the past, one needed a bundle of cameras, operators, video editing bays and people to produce all the material in front of and behind those cameras.
It's a helluva task to produce a television show, especially a live show.
And, that's what we're delving into at oregonsports.com, live television. It's not television, because there's no station call letters or the FCC involved, but it's the worldwide web version of TV, we're using Ustream.
Thursday, the staff oregonsports.com will produce its pilot episode of "No Pity City," which will focus on soccer in Portland, especially the Timbers, their players, coaches, games and fans.
The premiere episode is set for live viewing at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, with filming taking place at the Bulldog Tavern in Southwest Portland.
Viewers can follow the show and contribute through the chat room that will be active during the show. Publisher Cliff Pfenning and Timbers beat writer Mike Donovan will serve as co-hosts of the show, which is being presented by the Bulldog Tavern and the Vanport Batting Cages.
Viewers can watch the live show from this page.
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We are a group of concerned Member-Volunteers: Girl Scouts, leaders, staff, and trainers, plus their friends, who are advocating for change from within the GSUSA system to help Girl Scouting across the country and internationally.
One day, after thinking a lot about Journeys, I thought perhaps that a NEW Journey would be a good idea, because I saw a lack of both outdoor badges and also of a disconnect between the official Journey program and traditional camping and outdoor education, as endorsed by our Founder, Juliette Low.
This bothered me. I could see that in the future, we might lose our great Girl Scout traditions, due to new leaders not being educated in Outdoor Program and not knowing much about it at all. Also, there were news stories about camps closing, and membership decreasing. I was worried about this too. Why was this focus going away from the outdoors in Girl Scouting? Part of the problem seemed to be a focus away from the outdoors in the official Journey program. I wondered how could I make a difference in this situation, working within the current Journey framework. Of course! GSUSA could ADD another Journey, this time an Outdoor Journey.
I posted my idea on the popular Greenblood Gab Yahoo Group. I also talked about it on the Girl Scout Gab Facebook page too.
It became a very popular topic, and many people started to like the idea. Since then, I've had LOTS of help from many Volunteers, Staff, and Councils, plus from GSUSA!
The Facebook Page is now very popular. Come join us there!
Members of the Outdoor Journey Project Group have come up with <unofficial> Journey examples. They can be found in the Files section at the Facebook page. We also have links and Outdoor Program ideas there from all over.
Check out the Multi-age <unofficial> Journey Example in the Files Section too. Jennifer J. is the author of that one. The <unofficial> Junior Journey Example also has Core Content Standards with it. See the Make a Journey page for more information.
FYI: GSUSA asked for and received copies of all our Journey Examples.
Councils across the country sent in Official Requests to GSUSA in the Fall of 2013 to have a Conversation about Outdoor Program at the 2014 National Council Session being held October 16-19 in Salt Lake City Utah. These are the Proposals they sent: #1: Discussion Proposal Outdoor Journey Discussion, #2: Linking Girls to the Land (latest version) and #3. Pacesetters (latest version) (click to download these to read them.)
Because of all this, and the BIG interest Then GSUSA had a BIG Outdoor Discussion at the 2014 National Council Session. The Girl Scout girls let GSUSA know that they wanted a LOT more outdoor program back in Girl Scouting.
In related news, Sarah Y., an Ambassador Scout, has come up with an Outdoor STEM Journey for Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors that her Council, Girl Scouts of Central Texas, piloted for their girls. Then they made it this Journey an OFFICIAL Pin Program. They are sharing it right now with other councils. You can find out more about this at her Facebook page for older girls, CSA Girl Scouts REALLY in the Outdoors.
Good job, Sarah! This Journey is still available.
Look for more ideas, discussions, and program ideas here and on the Facebook page for troops and volunteers.
May 2015: We changed our name and our header to the Outdoor Girl Scout Project.
Now we are getting ready to Take Action at the 2017 National Council Session too. It will be in Columbus, Ohio.
Fall of 2017: GSUSA has made more Journeys and Badges for the girls, including an Outdoor Journey. Yay!
We want our Facebook page and this website to be a handy place for leaders and volunteers (plus girls!) to find links to resources and help in order to incorporate outdoor education and FUN into their Girl Scout program.
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by RC Dale, Film Reviews
[Originally published in Movietone News 27, November 1973]
American Graffiti begins with a shot of Curt, a recent high school graduate, driving up to Mel’s Drive-in, and it ends with Curt watching a white Thunderbird from his airplane seat as he goes off to college. Structurally speaking, therefore, the film revolves around him and his problems as he tries to decide whether or not he’s really going to get on that morning plane and leave behind him his familiar southern California hometown and its ways of life. But in between these two structural goalposts, it’s very hard at any given moment to assign Curt or anyone else the role of principal protagonist, since Lucas deliberately and very effectively plunges us into the seethingly mobile and unstable world of smalltown late adolescence à la 1962, whose coalescence and flux he creates through dispersion of characters and intrigues, crosscut to join them back together. The method is both daring and difficult since so many sets of characters pursuing their various goals could very easily get out of hand, resulting in real narrative chaos. But Lucas and his editors triumph handily over the perils and end up creating an admirably controlled narrative that describes a chaotic evening without ever descending into chaos itself.
The Realist Renaissance
by James Monaco, Film Reviews
[Originally published in Movietone News 36, October 1974]
Ever since the Lumière brothers first fascinated audiences with cinematic recreations of trains entering stations, waves breaking on shores, and street traffic in Paris, theories of Realism have been the aesthetic engines of the film medium. A language with an almost mystical capacity to replicate reality, film has for three-quarters of a century created and recreated its own aesthetics and, although the spectrum of approaches to film art is vast and various, nearly all of the critical theories that have been functionally important have been in some intimate way connected to that primal mimetic power of the medium. Even Expressionist theories, for 75 years opposed in dialectical tension to the Realist theories, have substance simply because the language of film is so highly replicative: if film did not have the innate power to capture reality, it certainly would not hold much interest for those whose desire is to distort it. Forty years ago Rudolf Arnheim warned against the rapid technological development of the medium which would of course only increase the power of replication and therefore limit the freedom of the artist to create “art” and relegate the camera “to the position of a mere mechanical recording machine.”
The history of film is marked by Realist mileposts: French poetic realism in the 1930s; Italian neorealism in the late Forties; the British documentary tradition; the Eastern European humanist heritage; and finally the New Wave of the last 15 years, so thoroughly rooted in the thought of André Bazin, whose influence is still central even now almost 20 years after his death. In our own country theories of realism have had a much more muted effect, especially if we judge our own film traditions against those of France or Italy or England. Yet, within its limited context, much of the best of American film shows the force of realism, from King Vidor and Raoul Walsh to John Cassavetes, from Scarface to On the Waterfront, the styles and subjects of Realism have provided American films with vitality and relevance. During the brightest period of American film—the Thirties and Forties—Warner Brothers, the studio most closely associated with the Realist tradition, is now increasingly seen to have been the major force in the studio system. The gritty and direct Warner Brothers style marked a body of films which surpass in many ways the slicker output of MGM and Paramount and give us a much more exciting and intriguing image of that past America. If the witch-hunts and Blacklists of the late Forties and early Fifties purged the studios of much of the talent that had created that emerging realist tradition, nevertheless we still had the films of Nicholas Ray and Elia Kazan during the period that followed. The American film tradition, moribund in the Fifties, was near death in the Sixties and the focus of attention turned, even for most American cinephiles, to European cinema.
Review: Jaws
by Rick Hermann, Film Reviews
[Originally published in Movietone News 42, July 1975]
Jaws begins with a chillingly realistic sequence of shots that are at the same time metaphysically portentous and eerily beautiful. The camera pans slowly across a group of college people singing and drinking around a beach campfire, cuts a fluid swath along a bluish twilight New England sand dune, eases into a placid sea behind a pretty girl, and follows her as she swims fatefully out over those murky depths where we all know what is waiting. As the girl splashes innocently against a postcard sunset, we cut to a couple of quick shots whose point of view is somewhere below the water, evilly hovering, gazing up at the girl’s form and the dusk sky which swims and shimmers above her like an out-of-focus image of another world. The underwater camera and the presence it represents move progressively closer, intercut with shots of the girl from the surface, until finally she gets this funny look on her face, bobs once or twice like a cork floater on a fishing line, and goes shooting through the water at shark speed. And then she’s gone. There’s this silence, this beautiful fading sunset, a few harmless waves lapping the beach….
The Great American Eating Machine
by Robert C. Cumbow, Essays
The recurrence of certain thematic ideas clues us to a consistency of vision at work in Steven Spielberg’s last three films. For one thing, all are “disaster films” in the sense that they deal with the revelation of character in time of stress. Each of the three films, in one way or another, treats of a battle to the death between a pursuer and a pursued, each respecting and fearing the other’s power. Most fascinating, though, is the fact that all three films deal in some significant way with people’s relationship to machines. (It comes as no surprise that Spielberg’s current work-in-progress, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, is about human encounters with UFOs.) Even his earliest television work is marked by an interest in the struggle of the human against the Object. The second section of the Rod Serling trilogy Night Gallery (1969) starred Joan Crawford as an art collector who arranges for an eye transplant, and awakes from the operation just in time for a New York power blackout, with frantic results. A more mature made-for-TV feature, Something Evil (1970), pitted Sandy Dennis against a houseful of poltergeists. But it was with Duel (1972) that Spielberg first dealt specifically with that curiously American simultaneous dependence upon and fear of machines.
"Duel" - The tank truck metamorphosed into a contemporary dragon
Richard Matheson’s script for Duel is a vertiginous plunge into the American collective unconscious, with an enormous, wheezing tank truck metamorphosed into a contemporary dragon that irrationally menaces the allegorically surnamed hero, David Mann. His first name is as apt as his surname: the fact that the driver of the truck remains unseen turns the truck itself into a giant Philistine enemy opposing this modern David. Spielberg presents the truck to us not from the point-of-view of Mann’s eyes, but from a fragile point deep inside the mind of the threatened salesman. In closeup, the truck is always overpoweringly huge; in middle- and longshot its size is emphasized by comparison with Mann’s car, making the truck more than ever an insatiable monster bent on gobbling up helpless prey.
The metaphoric impact of all this is heightened by the fact that Mann has chosen to drive this winding, hilly country road to avoid freeway traffic. In his life’s journey he has strayed—but willingly—from the Dantean true path, and found himself confronted by a ravening beast. The snake, too, that most allegorical of creatures, makes its appearance in one of the film’s most interesting scenes, Mann’s stop at a garage that, in the tradition of Cable Hogue’s “Cable Springs” stagecoach stop, offers an exhibit of snakes as a roadside attraction. Interestingly, the snake sequence comes just after an incident in which the truck has nearly forced Mann into the path of a train at a crossing, and precedes the climactic sequence in which a radiator hose gives out and spews steam about as Mann’s car grinds to a halt on a steep grade. Whether this is an intentional proliferation of phallic symbolism or merely a sequence of variations on shape, Spielberg’s emphatic treatment of the images demonstrates his awareness of the coincidence.
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Band: CIRCLE STORY
Title: Uncovered Fears
Label: Another Side Records
Style: Modern Rock Metal
This is not something we usually cover here, a modern type of Melodic Rock / Metal with Progressive touches, quite accessible to the large audience and quite commercial too, but not in a good way, of course. Russian trio Circle Story debuts with 11 tracks into 50 minutes of playing time, 11 tracks with unique identity and sound yet creating a quite curdled whole. The band mixes everything they find suitable and the end result is both accessible, powerful, melodic, progressive and groovy, there's a bit from everything here, and although the vocals are absolutely great (the guy has a fantastic tone that could easily lead the band being played on any mainstream TV in prime-time), I wouldn't say they are the highlight here as that would do no justice to the clever guitar sturctures on both riffs and leads, heavy bass lines, catchy drumming and subtle but expressive keyboard parts, so each could be a highlight. Although I'm not that much into this "soft" style, I'd say we have a damn good band here, one that should push for the mainstream at all costs, this debut is a proof of the band's tremendous potential.
Rating: -/10
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Ghetto Upper Class Blendo!
Written by Peter Sprague on November 6, 2012
Friends! Coming to your eyes today powered by the Brazilian magic of vocalist Simone. Her recording Café Com Leite is playing on the box and it’s inspiring me to keep these words spilling forth. The music is a blend of traditional samba with some of the coolest orchestration and production you’ll ever here—fantastic in every which way. So my words are aiming in your direction and hopefully that’s a welcome thing from your angle. Here we go!
Leonard going sideways! Jazz in Julian with (left to right) Tripp, Bob, Leonard and Peter.
We rallied the troupes up to Julian over the weekend for a great concert at the Julian Library. The band was kicking and we even got young Kate Sprague into the sonic loop. Afterwards we stayed overnight in a classic old school hotel and then had a charming breakfast the next morning. Picture Victorian setup with Leonard breaking into an R&B flavored improvisation thanking the waitresses for the fine fare—ghetto upper class blendo!
Breakfast in Julian with Stef and Peter.
Onwards to the winding drive home, I landed back at SpragueLand for a day recording with Lisa Hightower and her gifted vocal students. She pulls this together once a year and it’s a chance for the kids to sing in a studio and come out with a nice recording. They sounded fantastic and all of the parents were there too. So, I’m in the control room playing the guitar and engineering and with me are the parents, listening with headphones on. After one exceptional take by one of the vocalists, the grandmother, at the end when it’s supposed to be silent, says “ooohhh I love it.” That made it to the tape and we had a laugh.
Coming up, we’re Blurring the Edges this week at the Cuyamaca College Theatre. It’ll be maestro Fred Benedetti, brother Tripp and me doing what we love to do—blurring the edges between jazz, samba, folk, Beatles, blues, and flamenco. Hope to see you there and especially to those that live out east. We don’t get that way that often.
Oh, and here’s a nice little blip in the UT online today.
On Thursday night I’m playing a show with bassist Ben Wanicur and his group at 3rd Space in San Diego. We’re recording a record next week and Ben had the foresight to drum up a live gig to give us another chance to immerse ourselves in the challenging music that he’s written. He digs odd meters and he’s morphed a version of Caravan in 13 that’s been a challenge. Counting as we speak!
I’m hooking up with Leonard, the band, and the revolving luggage on Friday night at the SD Airport and their ongoing Terminal Jazz music series. I know it sounds weird but it actually works. They set up a stage and it’s for sure a happy moment for those travellers and loved ones that are reuniting for the weekend. Good for us too to play music.
Looking off into early next week, we’re playing a show next Tuesday at the UCSD Loft. The vibe is The Beatles and opening for us is an a cappella group from UCSD called the Tritones singing their way into the Fab Four. The evening then shifts to us alchemizing jazz into “Got to Get You Into My Life”, “Come Together”, “I’ve Just Seen a Face” and other gems. The band is kicking and we have special guest Anthony Smith on keyboards for this hit. Can’t wait and maybe mark it down if it sounds interesting.
Recently a few new projects launched into the real world and I wanted to let you know about them.
Pianist Danny Green just released his new CD called A Thousand Ways Home. It’s a collection of his own compositions and the style is jazz and samba. He’s a wonderful pianist and his band is top notch. I guested on one tune and my brother Tripp mixed the whole recording. It sounds really nice. Go here for more info.
I mentioned earlier that Anthony Smith is playing with us on the upcoming Beatles gig. In addition to being a fantastic pianist and composer, Anthony is also a writer and has recently released his first book called The Lizard Stays in the Cage. I’m currently reading it and loving it and laughing all the way to the gig. It’s a collection of his vivid life stories swirling around the humorous situations that us musos often find ourselves in. Picture Hunter Thompson meets Kerouac meets jazz piano player. Check it out!
That’s it for now and many thanks for reading….adios, Peter
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Saquon Barkley has emerged quickly, and the Penn State running back has gotten even better each week
The Skinny: Per Penn State athletic department rules, true freshman like Saquon Barkley aren’t allowed to speak to the media.
That’s okay. The running back lets his legs do the talking for him and Barkley’s made a pretty vocal entrance into the world of college football with his quick feet, turbocharged burst and ability to make tacklers miss.
More than two months into the season, he’s considered among the top true freshmen in the country. Pro Football Focus ranks him second and he’s sixth in yards after contact despite missing two and a half games. He’s also in PFF’s Top 3 “most elusive” players, too.
“I’ve been saying it for quite a while, that kid’s special,” quarterback Christian Hackenberg said.
As if you needed any more evidence after Barkley hurdled a Buffalo safety in Week 2.
Well, Barkley’s provided it.
Take his strong game against Ohio State when a holding call negated a long touchdown that looked like it might swing the momentum or his Hurdle 2 run. Barkley turned an Illinois into a piece of track and field equipment and jumped through two others into the end zone against Illinois.
If there was one big reason to watch Penn State’s last two games — you’re going to anyway, no matter what — it’s to see what big plays Barkley has in store.
For now, Penn State may have found another way to deploy the shifty running back as he was a terror from the wildcat against the Wildcats, Mark Wogenrich of the Allentown Morning Call writes.
Not only was Barkley dangerous with the direct snap, he posted his best receiving game of the season against the Wildcats, PennLive writes.
Where has most of Barkley’s production come from — early or late? A full statistical breakdown of the true freshman.
THE BARKLEY FILE
Class: Freshman
Position: Running Back
Hometown: Coplay, Pa.
High School: Whitehall
2015 STATS:
Rushing: 133 carries, 836 yards, 7 TDs
Receiving: 10 catches, 130 yards, 1 TD
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The Criminal Justice Insider Podcast with Babz Rawls Ivy & Jeff Grant: Guest Reginald Dwayne Betts, Lawyer, Poet, Lecturer on Criminal Justice, Fri., Jan. 3, 2020
On Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, 9 am ET, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Poet, Essayist, Lecturer on Mass Incarceration, was our guest on Criminal Justice Insider with Babz Rawls Ivy & Jeff Grant – The Voice of CT Criminal Justice. Live on WNHH 103.5 FM New Haven, rebroadcast at 5 pm. Live-streamed and podcast everywhere, see below. Sponsored by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven – Now More Than Ever.
A poet, essayist and national spokesperson for the Campaign for Youth Justice, Reginald Dwayne Betts writes and lectures about the impact of mass incarceration on American society. He is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Bastards of the Reagan Era and Shahid Reads His Own Palm, as well as a memoir, A Question of Freedom. A graduate of Yale Law School, he lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his wife and their two sons.
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With the groundbreaking FELON [W. W. Norton & Company; October 15, 2019; $26.95 hardcover], celebrated poet Reginald Dwayne Betts tells the story of a man confronting post-incarceration life, struggling to reenter a society that doesn’t offer open arms. The reader follows Betts’s speaker through the pains of reentry, homelessness, underemployment, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and finally redemptive love. As Betts makes clear, the trappings of life on the outside don’t make prison simply go away: “You come home & become a parade / of confessions that leave you drowning, / lost recounting the disappeared years” (49).
These stories are extraordinarily personal to Betts. As he wrote about last fall in a National Magazine Award–winning New York Times Magazine essay, “Could an Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended to Find Out,” Betts himself served nine years in adult prison, and came out the other end; he went back to school, started a family, and ultimately was accepted to and graduated from Yale Law School.
In this powerful collection, Betts swings between traditional and newfound forms, from the crown of sonnets that serves as the volume’s conclusion to revolutionary erasure poems. Redacting legal documents that challenged the continued incarceration of individuals simply because they did not have the money to make bail, Betts illustrates the injustice of a legal system that exploits and erases the poor and imprisoned from public consciousness. Traditionally, redaction expunges what is top secret; in FELON, Betts redacts what is superfluous, bringing into focus the profound failures of the criminal justice system and the inadequacy of the labels it generates. From “In Alabama” (20):
With astonishing skill, formal inventiveness, and rare insight, Betts brings us a book that is not only a must-read for poetry lovers but a necessary contribution to the effort to understand what it means to be a “felon.”
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Season Three Guests:
Fri., Sept. 6, 2019: Khalil Cumberbatch, Chief Strategist at New Yorkers United for Justice
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Fri., Oct. 4, 2019: Charlie Grady, Outreach Specialist for the FBI CT Community Outreach Program
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Fri., Nov. 1, 2019: Corey Brinson, Former Attorney Convicted for a White Collar Crime who is running for Hartford City Council
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Fri. Dec. 20, 2019: John Hamilton, CEO, Liberation Programs
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Fri., Feb. 7, 2020: David Garlock, Program Director, New Person Ministries, Lancaster, PA
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White Collar Wonder: All Charges Dropped Against Our Ministee Richard Lee November 9, 2019
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Movement of Youth participant and Durham Tech Middle College High School senior Inestin Petit-Homme was presented the Hard Corps Service Award and the Mayor Service Award on Tuesday, September 30. The Hard Corps Service award is given to students who complete at least 50 volunteer hours during the school year, while the Mayor Service Award…Read More
NCCU Mentor Dominique Littles accepted into study abroad internship program in Peru
Movement of Youth mentor and NCCU Site Director Dominique Littles was recently accepted into the Introduction to Clinical Pathology and Basic Science of Infectious Tropical Disease Medical Internship. She will be leaving for Peru on Dec. 12 to work in the medical field in the city of Cusco. During her ten days there, Dominique will…Read More
New Student Executive Members Chosen for 2014-2015 School Year
This school year’s student executive members were chosen at the Aug. 23 Movement of Youth board of directors meeting. As part of Atrayus Goode’s “20 by 2020” expansion plan, the organization has moved forward with choosing separate executive members for each university site. By the Spring 2015 semester, each site will be operating independently. In…Read More
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Prosecutors demand 4 years in jail for banker Gitelson
Turncoat banker Gitelson’s fraud case referred to court
Investigation into banker Gitelson’s fraud case finished
Austria turns over Russian banker sought for $60 mln embezzlement
Russian banker suspected of embezzling $95 mln detained in Austria
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Tags: Embezzlement, Alexander Gitelson, St. Petersburg, Russia
MOSCOW, March 12 (RAPSI, Kirill Chulkov) - Russian prosecutors called on Thursday for banker Alexander Gitelson charged with embezzling public funds be jailed for 4 years and slapped with 1 million rubles (about $16,500) fine, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.
Gitelson and former CEO of Inkasbank Tatyana Lebedeva are accused of embezzling almost 2 billion rubles ($33 million) that authorities of St. Petersburg deposited with the bank between May 2006 and May 2007.
Gitelson was arrested in Austria in April 2013 and extradited to Russia in December.
The case against him is pending in a court in St. Petersburg.
At Thursday's hearing, prosecutor Olga Borisova said that a civil action had been brought against Gitelson seeking 1.4 billion rubles ($23 million) in damages.
The next hearing in the case is set for March 16.
13:42 12/03/2015 Russian prosecutors called on Thursday for banker Alexander Gitelson charged with embezzling public funds be jailed for 4 years and slapped with 1 million rubles (about $16,500) fine.
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Breaking: Donald Trump becomes 45th US president
on November 9, 2016 | 11:42:19
Donald Trump has been elected the 45th president of the United States, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Projections early on Wednesday showed that Trump clinched victory over Hillary Clinton to become the 45th US president-elect after securing the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
Billionaire Trump had 276 electoral votes compared to 218 electoral votes for Clinton.
Trump, who entered election night as an underdog, gained an advantage over Clinton after winning the swing states of Ohio, Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Both candidates scored victories in states where they were expected to win. Trump captured conservative states in the South and Midwest, while Clinton swept several states on the East Coast and Illinois in the Midwest.
Trump was seen as the least likely candidate to win in what was an extremely a tight race.
He, a former reality TV star, announced his candidacy in June 2015.
Since then, the billionaire businessman from New York has consistently alienated minority groups, refused to release his tax returns, and remained seemingly unapologetic for leaked tapes in which he brags about sexually assaulting women, al Jazeera reported.
Clinton had a slim lead in the polls but no one was ruling out a Trump victory. A polling average by tracker site RealClearPolitics gave Clinton a 3.3-percentage point national lead.
The 69-year-old former first lady, senator, and secretary of state – who was backed by incumbent President Barack Obama – on Monday urged the country to unite and vote for “a hopeful, inclusive, big-hearted America” in her last effort to woo voters.
rump, meanwhile, pressed his message with voters who feel left behind by globalisation and social change, wrapping up with a flourish on his protectionist slogan of “America first”.
Promising to end “years of betrayal,” tear up free trade deals, seal the border, halt the drug trade and subject Syrian refugees to “extreme vetting”, Trump told his supporters in New Hampshire: “I am with you and I will fight for you and we will win.”
Clinton has pushed a more optimistic vision, despite a wobble in the final weeks of her campaign when the FBI re-opened an investigation into whether she had put US secrets at risk by using a private email server – only to close the probe again on Sunday. The email investigation allowed Trump to recover ground lost in a series of recent scandals.
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Items where SHU Author is "Cere, Rinella"
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CERE, Rinella (2006). ‘Exhibiting cinema’: the cultural activities of the ‘Museo Nazionale del Cinema’, 1958-1971. Film history : an international journal, 18 (3), 295-305.
CERE, Rinella (2002). ‘Witches of our age’: women ultras, football and the media. Culture, sport, society journal, 5 (3), 166-188.
CERE, Rinella (2018). ‘Little England Beats Great Britain’: Italian Media Coverage of the EU Referendum 2016. In: LEON-SOLIS, Fernando, O'DONNELL, Hugh and RIDGE-NEWMAN, Anthony, (eds.) Reporting the road to Brexit: international media and the EU referendum 2016. Palgrave Macmillan, 239-256.
CERE, Rinella (2018). ‘Little England beats Great Britain’: Italian media coverage of the EU referendum 2016. In: RIDGE-NEWMAN, Anthony, LEON-SOLIS, Fernando and O'DONNELL, Hugh, (eds.) Reporting the road to brexit. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 239-256.
CERE, Rinella (2017). Constructing community: Notes on a slippery concept. In: SABIDO, Ruth Sanz, (ed.) Representing communities: Discourse and contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, 19-34.
CERE, Rinella (2016). Hegemony and counter-hegemony in postcolonial media theory and culture. In: KRÄMER, Lucia and MERTEN, Kai, (eds.) Postcolonial studies meets media studies : a critical encounter. transcript Verlag, 125-142.
CERE, Rinella, JEWKES, Yvonne and UGELVIK, Thomas (2013). 'Media and crime: a comparative analysis of crime news in the UK, Norway and Italy'. In: BODY-GENDROT, Sophie, HOUGH, Mike, KEREZSI, Klara, LÉVY, René and SNACKEN, Sonja, (eds.) The Routledge handbook of European criminology. Routledge International Handbooks . London, Routledge, 266-279.
CERE, Rinella (2012). ‘Forever Ultras’: female football support in Italy. In: TOFFOLETTI, Kim and MEWETT, Peter, (eds.) Sport and its female fans. Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Series (17). Taylor and Francis, 46-60.
CERE, Rinella (2011). Postcolonial and media studies: a cognitive map. In: CERE, Rinella and ROSALIND, Brunt, (eds.) Postcolonial media culture in Britain. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1-13.
SHIN, Chi Yun (2010). Engaging theory and making films: radical black cinema in Britain. In: BRUNT, R. and CERE, R., (eds.) Postcolonial Media Culture in Britain. Basingstoke, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 99-114.
CERE, Rinella (2009). Globalization vs. localization : anti-immigrant and hate discourses in Italy. In: ARDIZZONI, Michela and FERRARI, Michela, (eds.) Beyond monopoly : globalization and contemporary Italian media. Critical media studies . Lanham, Lexington Books, 225-244.
CERE, Rinella (2008). The body of the woman hostage: spectacular bodies and Berlusconi’s media. In: RANDELL, Karen and REDMOND, Sean, (eds.) The war body on screen. London, Continuum, 239-250.
CERE, Rinella (2007). Digital undergrounds: alternative politics and civil society. In: JEWKES, Yvonne, (ed.) Crime online : committing, policing and regulating cybercrime. Cullompton, Willan, 144-159.
CERE, Rinella (2006). The Poor’s Banker: real or ‘virtual’ help? The internet, NGOs and gendered poverty. In: SARIKAKIS, Katharine and THUSSU, Daya K., (eds.) Ideologies of the Internet. Cresskill, N.J., Hampton Press, 283-298.
CERE, Rinella (2003). Digital counter-cultures and the nature of electronic social and political movements. In: JEWKES, Yvonne, (ed.) Dot.cons: criminal and deviant identities on the internet. Cullompton, Willan, 147-163.
CERE, Rinella (2003). ‘Witches of our age’: women ultras, football and the media. In: BERNSTEIN, A and BLAIN, N, (eds.) Sport, media, culture: global and local dimensions. London, Frank Cass, 166-188.
CERE, Rinella (2014). Latent and manifest anti-fascism in Italian cinema. In: Anti-Fascism on Film, De Montfort University, 20 February 2014. (Unpublished)
CERE, Rinella (2011). ‘Roshonara Chowdry: Misrepresentations of “Homegrown Terrorists” in the British Press’. In: Race and the Cultural Industries Conference, University of Leeds, September 2011. (Unpublished)
CERE, Rinella (2011). The media representation of Muslim women radicalised by a post 9/11 society. In: Race and the Cultural Industries Conference, University of Leeds, 14 September 2011. (Unpublished)
CERE, Rinella (2011). Musealizing cinema: a troubled history? In: Moving Image and Institution: Cinema and the Museum in the 21st Century, University of Cambridge, 6-8 July, 2011. (Submitted)
CERE, Rinella (2009). Cinematic re-writes in film in museums. In: Rewrites: studying literary, screen and music cultures, Leeds, 28 November 2009. (Unpublished)
CERE, Rinella (2008). Anti-immigrant and hate discourses in Italian news media. In: The media in Italy: historical perspectives and future challenges, Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, 21-22 Nov 2008. (Unpublished)
CERE, Rinella (2008). The body of the woman hostage. In: MECCSA conference, Cardiff, 9-11 January 2008. (Unpublished)
CERE, Rinella and BRUNT, Rosalind, eds. (2011). Postcolonial media culture in Britain. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
GHARIB, Ahmed Hama (2016). Political Communication and the Media in Kurdistan. Doctoral, Sheffield Hallam University.
BAILEY, Michael George William. (2004). Cultural governance and the formation of public service broadcasting: The early years. Doctoral, Sheffield Hallam University (United Kingdom)..
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Dead Man’s Burden | Review
LA Film Fest 2012
By Don Simpson | June 23, 2012
Director: Jared Moshé
Writer: Jared Moshé
Starring: Clare Bowen, Barlow Jacobs, David Call, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Richard Riehle, Jerry Clarke, Adam O’Byrne, Travis Hammer, Luce Rains, William Sterchi
Dead Man’s Burden is clearly made by someone who unabashedly loves the western genre, though writer-director Jared Moshé does make some notable updates to the genre. Most importantly, Moshé places a strong female character in the lead role, a character — Martha McCurry (Clare Bowen) — whose closest cinematic kin would be Michelle Williams’ Emily in Meek’s Cutoff.
Despite being married to Heck (David Call), a man with a violent criminal past, Martha maintains full control over her household. After murdering her father (Luce Rains) in the film’s striking opening scene, Martha becomes a full-fledged landowner. The problem is, she does not want the land; Martha wants to sell her family’s New Mexico homestead to a mining corporation for enough cash to open a hotel in the burgeoning town of San Francisco. With her father dead, it seems as though Martha’s dream will certainly come true; but then a long presumed dead brother reappears. Wade (Barlow Jacobs) has lofty aspirations of turning his family homestead into a full-fledged farm; thus, a family feud begins. (As if land rights are not enough of a conflict, skeletons of questionable allegiances and personal histories are unearthed.) Survey says that the last man — ahem, or woman — standing will get their way.
Shot on lush 35mm film (by Robert Hauer) with impeccable production design (Ruth De Jong), costume design (Courtney Hoffman) and art direction (Jason Byers), Dead Man’s Burden is a visual masterpiece. Clare Bowen’s unsettlingly conflicted performance as Martha is nothing short of amazing; Barlow Jacobs and David Call’s performances are also spot on. Occasionally, a few performances do veer a bit too far into the realm of the melodramatic for my tastes; however, I will chalk that up to the periodically stilted dialogue and the film’s studious allegiance to a machismo-yet-melodramatic genre.
Check out our interview with Jared Moshe from the 2012 LA Film Fest.
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UK - Richard Branson makes high-profile plea for tobacco control measures to protect children..
September 17, 2009 - Sir Richard Branson has waded into the debate on plain cigarette packaging and urged Members of Parliament (MPs) to back a bill on new tobacco control measures.
Branson wants more to be done to stop children being sucked into a "lethal addiction", according to a story in today's Daily Mirror, and is backing a campaign to protect children from tobacco marketing.
"Getting rid of cigarette vending machines will help save lives. And plain packaging will help take the glitz and glamour out of tobacco," the founder of the Virgin group of companies is quoted as writing in a letter to newspaper editors.
Branson is supporting a campaign by Cancer Research UK to help protect children from tobacco marketing.
Last week, tobacco manufacturers hit back at research that said bright packaging was misleading some smokers. "Plain packaging would prevent tobacco manufacturers from providing consumers with information about products that are legally available in retail outlets," said Christopher Ogden, chief executive of the Tobacco Manufacturers Association.
Amanda Sandford, research manager at charity Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) said packaging was now the main form of tobacco promotion and said plain packaging would be a first step to stop misleading information.
Analysis: Stark images reignite cigarette pack debate..
We must not forget that Andre Calantzopoulos, CEO, Philip Morris International (PMI), tells us PMI strongly opposes generic packaging. (PMI presentation at JP Morgan Global Tobacco Conference, London, 6/27/2008)
Reference: Richard Branson makes high-profile plea on cigarette packs, Simeon Goldstein, PackagingNews.co.UK, 9/14/2009.
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Macedonia - ban on smoking in public places takes effect on January 1, 2010..
December 25, 2009 - A ban on smoking in public places takes effect in Macedonia at the stroke of New Year, but some members of parliament (MPs) and the hospitality industry are fighting a last-ditch battle.
Like most European Union and candidate EU states, Macedonia has announced restrictions on smoking, but those who oppose the ban are citing precedents in other countries that have eased such bans.
In September 2009, Croatia eased restrictions, while subsequently Greece and Serbia reportedly were considering doing the same. In some countries, notably Bulgaria, the existing restrictions on smoking in public places are widely ignored – though, ironically, the Government in Sofia has announced that the ban will be widened in 2010.
Previous news brief: (November 11, 2009 - Macedonia has become the latest country in South Eastern Europe to announce a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars, and the latest to hear vociferous complaints from restaurant owners that their businesses will be ruined.>
Macedonia Radio and Television said on December 25 2009 that state inspectors had been dispatched to tell the owners of cafés and eateries that the smoking ban must be complied with in the first minutes of 2010, shortly after people finish wishing each other a happy new year. "State Inspectorate crews will be working overtime during the New Year's holidays, including the New Year's Night, Saso Jakimovski, the head of the state market inspectorate, was quoted as saying. The fine for places found in breach of the smoking ban is set at 2500 euro (3,595.25 USD) to 4000 euro (5,752.40 USD), while individuals will be fined 150 euro (215.72 USD) to 300 euro (431.43 USD).
However, Macedonia’s Dnevnik newspaper said that a group of MPs, led by Georgi Oroshavets and former prime minister Vlado Bucovski, was preparing an attempt to trim back the anti-smoking regulations before the end of January. According to a report by Bulgarian news agency Focus, quoting Dnevnik, Bucovski said that Macedonians could not become "bigger Catholics that the Pope" and there was no need for Macedonia to have such a restrictive law, when – he said – there was a trend throughout Europe towards "loosening" the ban.
Retreats from smoking bans were being ordered because of the bans’ impacts on hotels and the restaurants, Buckovski said. Media in Skopje reported Donco Tanevski, the Chairman of Hotel Association of Macedonia, as saying that the smoking ban will additionally hit tourism workers.
From Belgrade, Danas reported on December 24 2009 that the Serbian government had "abandoned" plans for a blanket ban on smoking indoors. The daily said that this had followed a meeting between government officials and cigarette manufacturers in Serbia.
The government has agreed to the "protection instead of ban" principle, promoted by cigarette makers and restaurants, Danas quoted a source close to the Cevtković cabinet as saying.
In Greece in November, health minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou said that there were "great gaps in the application of the smoking ban" because many establishments were simply not complying. Athens-based daily Kathimerini reported that at the time that Greek officials said that they would launch a review of the law, which was approved earlier in 2009 following complaints from non-smokers at home and pressure from the European Union.
References: Smoking controversies in Macedonia, Serbiaby Clive Leviev-Sawyer, the Sofia Echo, 12/25/2009; Smoking ban effective on New Year's Eve, Macedonian Radio and Televsion, 12/25/2009.
Posted by tobaccowatch.org Friday, December 25, 2009 at 9:37 AM
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Charlotte, CAS
The successful theft of nine anti-bug multi-stage warheads
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Firewatch Helicopter Pilots (2)
The team was called out to a Vory bar in Pullayup, where they were contracted by the Ex-Firewatch Team to acquire a number of anti-bug warheads from Ares before the new, infested Ares destroys them.
The Ex-Firewatch team who is trying to declare war on the bug infestation in Ares came across some information concerning a number of Ares prototype missiles being decommissioned and destroyed in a facility in Charlotte, CAS. These missiles were designed to destroy Bug Spirits, large ones in particular. They determined that this was a move by the infested form of Ares, and hired shadowrunners to acquire these warheads before their scheduled destruction, so that the warheads can be retained for the upcoming war.
The team of Tanuki, Deimos, Dokkaebi and Cyber Knight traveled to Pullayup for the meet in a Vory bar. After being served a variety of drinks, with certified no corpses in the vodka... probably; they head up to meet the Ex-Firewatch team. The Ex Firewatch Johnsons outlined their problem. There is a number of Ares prototype anti-bug warheads that have been scheduled for destruction in a Firewatch facility in Charlotte, CAS. They wanted these missiles for their upcoming war, since the fact that the bugs were destroying them suggested that they worked. They offered 6k per runner, which the team relatively quickly accepted, piling into a VTOL with Tanuki's (Tanuki-themed) SUV, and flew across the continent.
When the team had arrived in Charlotte, they ran a quick driveby of the facility to judge the threat level, Deimos quickly discovering the Bug Spirits in human form guarding the gate. This prompted a quick retreat, while Dokkaebi went exploring in the facility's host. The technomancer made short work of getting inside the host, gathering the data the team needed on the warheads, their storage and their destruction schedule. He repeatedly fooled the patrol IC, and made it out of the host safely with this information.
The team rested for a couple days to the night before the scheduled demolition, so that Dokkaebi could recover the energy he spent on the first host dive.
Dokkaebi would dive into the host from an external location, faking credentials, disarming biomonitors and looping cameras at the loading bay.
Tanuki would drive Cyber Knight and Deimos into the facility with the faked credentials, taking them up to the loading bay. Incapacitate the security guard and head to Sublevel 5
Cyber Knight and Deimos would delve into the facility, grab the trolley of rockets, and load them into Tanuki's SUV
Cyber Knight, Deimos and Tanuki would get the hell out of dodge and escape the facility, hopefully before any alarms are raised. The team will then board the VTOL at a nearby carpark and return to Seattle.
Dokkaebi began his host dive, quickly fooling the scanners to allow the team entry, but he was detected as he attempted to access the camera systems, causing ICE and a spider to be vomited forth by the host. The technomancer held his own, however, avoiding the ICE, and redirecting the spider's attacks back on himself. However, the file stumped Dokkaebi long enough for a minor ARES DemiGOD and eventually a greater ARES DemiGOD to converge on him, eventually managing to link-lock the poor matrix wizard and attempt a trace. Before his time ran out, Dokkaebi managed to shut down a significant number of the cameras for the area we were in, and escape the host. He wasn't traced, but he still ran for the hills the moment he was back in the meet. Once aboard our escape plane, he might have allowed himself a breath or two.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team was having a leisurely cruise up the road towards their target, none the wiser. Shortly before they arrived at the building they were flicked a quick warning of the state of affairs, so they knew the guard's biomonitor would still be active. So Deimos leaned out the window and handed their paperwork to the guard, having a friendly chat to the bay workers about the benefits of unionized delivery work.
Deimos and Cyber Knight calmly took the elevator to sublevel 5, walking down to the labs. Cyber Knight had a bit of a crisis as he passed the door to the firewatch barracks, but he managed to stay on point, adding a mental note to come back for bug murder later. The duo continued down the hallway, to the lab door, which Cyber Knight... disagreed with. After a quick debate of wills, the door lost, and was left in a smouldering ruin, causing every alarm in the building to go off.
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Tanuki's Guardian Angel
Deimos grabbed the trolley of missiles, checked they were all present and assembled, before heading back down to the elevator. The security guard from earlier tried to stop them, but with a quick assensing and a curt "He's a bug" from Deimos, Cyber Knight spread his ichor all over the walls. Neither runner stopped walking.
Upstairs, a pair of guards greeted Tanuki, and due to his valid SIN and paperwork, requisitioned his vehicle for use as a bunker. The rigger wasn't exactly fond of the idea of maybe-bugs crammed in the escape vehicle, so with a warning to the underground team, he backed up and tried to run them over. One guard went over the roof, but the flesh-form bug didn't care much for physics, tanking the car head-on with style. Seeing this unfold on his feed, Cyber Knight accelerated to ~1% the speed of light, ran up five floors of stairs and tore the bug in half. As an afterthought, he dissected the other guard, too.
Shortly afterwards, Deimos arrived in the elevator, identified one of the surrendering loading workers as a bug and shot a bolt of lightning at them, with the casual declaration "He's a bug." Cyber Knight disassembled this flesh-form too. While the team was intimidating the workers into not causing more of a fuss, Deimos carefully loaded the nine missiles into the back of the SUV, strapping them in, before climbing in herself. Cyber Knight climbed onto the roof, and this obvious as all hell escape vehicle cruised out down the street, covered in runners and bug ichor.
Unfortunately, there was a roadblock at the exit, so Tanuki pulled a u-turn to throw their KE pursuers off the road into a tree, then looped around again, jumping the bollards after using a convenient sportscar as a ramp. A quick fireball to hopefully stop the roadblock from opening later, and the team is gunning it down the road. There's a heated debate about how they could possibly hide the blatantly obvious SUV from the bugs, which a pair of chase choppers used to catch up. However, give Cyber Knight a ballista of a bow and a rocket launcher, and he'll make short work of mere helicopters.
Shortly after the helicopters went down, a VTOL caught up with the speeding SUV, and Lone Star HTR pulled them over. However, the local high-ups wanted to talk to the team, so rather than being gunned down, they were arrested and taken to the headquarters. Lone Star had a short talk with the runners, and it boiled down to the fact that they wanted confirmation on what bug-related information that had been gathered. Deimos happily shared about the number of bugs she'd seen, and the team shared some information concerning their understanding of the degree of infestation of Ares. The Lone Star officer seemed quite happy with this, and, after giving Tanuki's SUV a quick paintjob, let the runners get the hell out of Charlotte, while faking the team's death to cover their own asses.
Nine multi-stage anti-bug missiles changed ownership from bug-firewatch to ex-firewatch. Lone Star learned a bit about the state of the bugs in Ares. Tanuki's car got a paintjob.
6000 Nuyen
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Airbus says new airliner's 'unprecedented' range could 'open new world-wide routes'
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Boeing didn't fare so well, however - the United States planemaker didn't announce a single new order.
Boeing has received a boost for its grounded 737 Max jet after British Airways-owner IAG signed a letter of intent to order 200 of the planes.
US President Donald Trump urged Boeing on April 15 to "Rebrand" its 737 MAX jetliner following two fatal crashes.
Another 737 Max crashed in Indonesia a year ago.
The model has been grounded worldwide for three months, and regulators need to approve Boeing's long-awaited fix to the software before it can return to the skies.
The combination of 737-Max 8 and 737-Max 10 planes would cost US$24 billion at list prices, though companies usually strike deals for discounts.
The Belfast plant was given a similar boost in 2018 when U.S. airline JetBlue ordered up to 120 Airbus A220 planes for delivery in early 2020.
Yet it remains unclear when the 737 MAX will fly again, with Alexandre de Juniac, director general of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), warning that certification might not come before August. Still while flyers remain skittish - many say they'll avoid the airplane, at least short-term, after regulators clear it - most industry insiders say the airplane will be fine long-term.
A total of 346 people died when the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines planes went down shortly after take off.
Boeing has said it is open to renaming the 737 Max, its bestselling but also the most notorious aircraft.
At the air show in Paris, Boeing gained a much needed lift after a slow start to the show as Korean Air committed to buying 20 of the USA planemaker's 787 Dreamliners, worth $6.3 billion at list prices.
However, the cabin of an A320-series jet is typically pressurised to the equivalent of 7,000-8,000 feet above sea level, compared to an equivalent 6,000 feet for modern jets such as the Airbus A350 and Boeing 787.
"The A321XLR is the next evolutionary step from the A321LR, which responds to market needs for even more range and payload, creating more value for the airlines", the company said in a media release.
IAG also on Tuesday ordered 14 Airbus A321XLRs for Aer Lingus.
Boeing is trying to win back trust from airlines, pilots, regulators and the travelling public.
"We are very sorry for the loss of lives as a result of the tragic accidents. our thoughts and our prayers are with their families", Boeing's head of commercial aircraft Kevin McAllister told journalists at the air show.
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The paper in detail examines three different cases of the foam drainage problem in one dimension:
# free drainage: an initially uniform foam that evolves towards a steady-state profile under the influence of gravity
# wetting of a foam: a very dry foam comes in contact with a liquid bath after which a spreading
# wetting of a foam: a very dry foam comes in contact with a liquid bath after which a spreading front forms in the foam and again evolves toward a steady-state profile
front forms in the foam and again evolves toward a steady-state profile
# pulsed drainage: an initially nearly homogeneous dry foam is disturbed by the addition of a finite amount of liquid, which is redistributed through a combination of gravitational and surface tension-driven flows. This can to a certain level be regarded as a combination of the two earlier effects.
Original entry by Joerg Fritz, AP225 Fall 2009
2 Keywords
4 Foam Drainage Equation
5 One Dimensional Drainage
6 Drainage in Higher Dimensions
"Dynamics of foam drainage"
S. A. Koehler, H. A. Stone, M. P. Brenner, and J. Eggers: Physical Review E, 1998, 58, pp 2097 to 2106
Liquid foam, Surface tension, Viscosity, Drainage, Wetting, Plateau Borders, Plateau's laws
Fig.1 Image of an aluminum foam, where dark regions indicate aluminum and light regions air. Note the increased aluminum concentration at the bottom due to drainage of air.
Fig.2 An aluminum foam exhibiting the typical structure of Plateau borders.
Fig.3 Simulation results showing the average area of the plateau regions over the height of the foam for different times.
In a large class of applications, from the reduction of explosion impact to dish-washing by hand, uniformity of a foam is highly desirable. One pathway that can lead to non-uniformity (and that is important in both examples stated above) is the drainage of the fluid component due to gravity. This process is governed by the interplay of three forces: surface tension, viscosity and gravity. The authors develop a PDE that describes this phenomenon and apply it to several experimentally accessible geometries.
Foam Drainage Equation
Foams usually exhibit a very particular geometry, where the spaces between three adjacent bubbles are filled and connected by thin liquid-filled channels, which are termed Plateau borders (see figure 2). The primary dependent variable for the model will be the average cross-sectional area A of these Plateau borders, which will in general vary with position z and time t. The foam drainage equation simply results from a combination of mass conservation and the dynamic equation for Stokes flow, keeping in mind that capillary effects also produce a pressure gradient
<math>\frac{\partial A}{\partial t} + \frac{\rho g}{\eta} \ \frac{\partial A^2}{\partial z} - \frac{\gamma \delta^{1/2}}{2 \eta} \nabla \cdot ( A^{1/2} \nabla A)</math>
here <math>\rho</math> is the density of the fluid, <math>g</math> is gravitational acceleration, <math>\eta</math> is an effective visosity which to a certain extent masks the lack of understanding of viscosity for this problem and <math>\gamma</math> is the surface tension.
A very interesting feature of this equation is that the bubble radius, does not appear explicitly, in contrast to what might have been expected on dimensional grounds.
One Dimensional Drainage
free drainage: an initially uniform foam that evolves towards a steady-state profile under the influence of gravity
wetting of a foam: a very dry foam comes in contact with a liquid bath after which a spreading front forms in the foam and again evolves toward a steady-state profile
pulsed drainage: an initially nearly homogeneous dry foam is disturbed by the addition of a finite amount of liquid, which is redistributed through a combination of gravitational and surface tension-driven flows. This can to a certain level be regarded as a combination of the two earlier effects.
As intuition tells us examples one and two both evolve towards a steady state. The first step is thus to determine the steady-state profile of A for a given concentration <math>A_0</math> at one of the boundaries. If we pick the lower boundary and denote the height of the foam as L we can solve for the distribution
<math>A(z) = A_0 \left ( 1 + \frac{\rho g A_0^{1/2}}{\gamma \delta^{1/2}} (L-z) \right)^{-2}</math>
In all three of the cases our strategy will be to non-dimensionalize the evolution equation for the average Plateau area and then look for similarity solutions. The main results for the three cases considered are
In the free drainage problem there are asymptotically two regimes. The border between these two regimes is when the transient distribution of Plateau-area first shows a non-zero gradient at the top boundary (<math>\tau \approx 2</math> in figure 3). In the first regime the drainage profile <math>\partial A / \partial z</math> varies as <math>t^{-1}</math>. In the second regime the solution starts to forget about the initial conditions and a generic similarity solution shows very good agreement with the results from a numerical simulation
For the wetting of a dry foam the profile <math>\partial A / \partial z</math> simply spreads as <math>t^{1/3}</math>
For pulsed drainage the profile itself exhibits three distinct regions. An advancing nose which shows similar behavior as forced wetting (describe din earlier papers) that spreads as <math>t^{1/4}</math>, a middle region with maximum that spreads as <math>t^{1/2}</math> and decreases as <math>t^{-1/2}</math> and an advancing rear that shows similarities to the dry wetting case and thus scales with time as <math>t^{1/3}</math>
The results, especially of the numerical simulations solving exactly for the general foam drainage equation, agree very well with the few experimental results available.
Drainage in Higher Dimensions
In higher dimensions the problem only remains tractable only if we ignore the influence of gravity. This is reasonable in many microscale problems. We can then look at the equivalent of the pulsed drainage problem described earlier. To visualize this we can imagine a dry foam with a localized spherical wet domain. In this case it makes sense to work not in terms of an area of the Plateau borders but in terms of the local volume fraction <math>\epsilon</math> of liquid in the foam. The two can be related to each other by an effective bubble radius R. Note that by doing this we have now the bubble size as an additional parameter, just as one would expect from a casual observation of the problem. The evolution equation in terms of volume fraction of liquid in radial coordinates then becomes
<math>\frac{\partial \epsilon}{\partial t} = \frac{(c_n \rho)^{1/2} R \gamma}{2 \eta r^{2}} \frac{\partial}{\partial r} \left( \epsilon^{1/2} r^2 \frac{\partial \epsilon}{\partial t} \right )</math>
where <math>c_n</math> and <math>\delta</math> are constants describing the geometry.
This is essentially a non-linear diffusion equation with the diffusivity
<math>D = \frac{(c_n \rho)^{1/2} R \gamma}{2 \eta}</math>
We can thus see that our solution is not only valid for an initial spherical wet domain but for larger times asymptotically for any initial domain form.
Guided by this observation we can again find a (very complicated) similarity solution. Its main features are that the pulse spreads over time with <math>t^{2/7}</math> and its amplitude is reduced with time like <math>t^{-6/7}</math>.
Given that no experimental results in this parameter regime exist the authors state that they plan to perform experiments to test these predictions themselves.
The drainage in foams is in certain ways a typical problem for the area of soft matter. On the one hand we have a very interesting phenomenon with applications in many fields. But on the other we lack both a detailed physical understanding of what is going on (in this case mostly related to the effects of viscosity) and also detailed experiments investigating specifically this particular phenomenon. The paper discussed above shows that we can get remarkably far reaching results, that can explain most features that have been experimentally observed, by determining simple similarity solutions to a simplified governing equation.
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Human insulin gene insertion in mice. Effects on the sleep-wake cycle?
JEAN-LOUIS VALATX (1), PHILIPPE DOUHET (2) and DANIELLE BUCCHINI (3) J.
Sleep Res. (1999) 8, Suppl. 1, 65-68
In a first series of experiments, nine adult male transgenic mice expressing HIg in the median habenular nucleus (DELTA- 168 mice) and six age-and sex-matched control C57BL/6 J (B6) mice were used. In a second set of experiments, two groups of transgenic mice were used, containing the HIg with altered 5'-flanking sequences resulting in either expression of the transgene only in pancreatic P-islets (DELTA-258) (n = 4) or in its nonexpression (A58) (n = 5) (Itier et al. 1996).
Surgery and recordings
Under pentobarbital anaesthesia (80 mg/kg, i.p.), mice were implanted with five cortical and three muscular electrodes, then caged singly in a Plexiglas jar and housed in a light-and temperature-controlled room (light on, 07.00 h; light off, 19.00 h; 23 + PC) with free access to water and food. All animals were treated according to guidelines approved by the European Communities Council Directive of 24 November 1986 (86/609/EEC). After 10 days of habituation to experimental conditions, continuous recordings were performed for at least 5 days, then the mice were subjected to a 10-h sleep deprivation period (09:00-19:00), using the water tank technique (Kitahama and Valatx 1980), and their recovery monitored over a further 2 days.
All recordings were scored visually, in 30-s epochs, for wakefulness (W), SWS, and paradoxical sleep (PS) using standard criteria (Valatx 1971). The data were then stored in a computer for further analysis using software designed in our own laboratory. The results are expressed as the mean + SD. Statistical analyses for the day, night, or full 24-h periods were performed by multiple factor analysis of variance, followed by multiple range test analysis. For sleep rebound analysis (first 24 h), Student's t-test was used, the significance level being set at P < 0.05.
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BORDER, directed by Ali Abbasi, is a peculiar watch which mixes genres and subverts audience expectations. Going on title alone, you would be forgiven if you expected this film to be about the borders between nations. While Tina does work at border patrol, the concept of border explored in the film is the space inhabited by outsiders, the space between what is human and that which is not.
Early on the film establishes that Tina has a unique sense of smell which allows her to detect contraband and also the feelings of those passing through border patrol, such as guilt and shame. She identifies a seemingly innocuous looking man who is carrying a memory card with child pornography on it. Her sharp animal-like senses make her excellent at her job, but also mark her as an “outsider”.
Her appearance also signals that Tina is “other”: she has a protruding chin, small eyes and waxy skin. The make-up used on actress Eva Melander is expertly fashioned and despite the arduous application process, Melander’s emotive subtleties give warmth to a film that otherwise might feel cold.
One day at work, Tina’s heightened senses pull her towards an individual who looks very similar to herself (and also wears a similar mask of prosthetic make-up). We are introduced to Vore (Eero Milonoff), a puzzling character who Tina and the audience are equally intrigued by. Although an audience may feel uncomfortable with Vore and question his intentions, Tina begins a romantic relationship with him after inviting him to stay at her cabin in the woods.
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Obits: Dorothy Malone & Bradford Dillman
This New Year the celebrity graveyard has commenced, taking away two classic movie/TV stars, Dorothy Malone, 92 and Bradford Dillman, 87. Although neither one has become an immortal screen icon, both had long and varied careers.
When Dorothy Malone changed her hair color, her screen roles transformed considerably. As a brunette in Warner Brothers and Universal pictures, Malone played the good girl. In those roles Malone always underplayed to good effect with a sensible, empathetic warmth. In her early career she’s probably best remembered for her brief, but excellent scene in The Big Sleep where she brought sauciness and smarts as a keen book store salesclerk who helped Bogie’s Marlowe uncover a major clue.
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Perhaps her best role in this era was in Raoul Walsh’s stellar Western remake of High Sierra, Colorado Territory, about two sympathetic antiheroes against a bunch of fickle “respectable” people. Malone is well cast as the seemingly nice girl who callously betrays outlaw Joel McCrea in a swift second at the first whiff of adversity.
Regarding Malone’s screen roles, blondes didn’t have more fun. But blonde Malone found more acclaim with meatier roles as crazy, mixed-up, slightly mysterious women. Her most famous role is her Oscar-winning turn as an out-of-control alcoholic nymphomaniac socialite who wreaks havoc on Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall in Douglas Sirk’s opulent melodrama Written on the Wind. The most memorable sequence is when Malone’s character dances maniacally as her father dies of a heart attack.
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Her film career was somewhat derailed by her first and only starring vehicle, Too Much, Too Soon, a melodrama based off of troubled actress Diana Barrymore, which was savaged by critics and box office returns, and featured a way past his prime Errol Flynn as her leading man.
In the early 60s she delivered poignant performances as enigmatic women whose pasts with dangerous men caught up with her in well-written bittersweet episodes of Route 66 and Checkmate. In 1964, she scored a major coup when she starred in the revolutionary and super popular soap opera Peyton Place. Initially it was an ideal setup as she was the Grande Dame and had clout to set normal working hours to spend time with her children. By the second year, younger actors Mia Farrow, Ryan O’Neal, and Barbara Parkins got more fanfare.
After the show ended in 1968, Malone acted here and there until 1992. Her final role in Basic instinct as a woman who got away with murdering her family was exciting on paper but translated as a random and skimpy cameo on screen.
Like so many of the male and female starlets groomed by the major studios in the late 50s, Bradford Dillman didn’t achieve major movie stardom like the actors under contract during the Hollywood Golden Era of 1930 to 1950 or the Hollywood New Wave of 1967 to 1975. Other than Compulsion, where he received good notices for playing a rich sociopathic murderer, Dillman’s early filmography at 20th Century Fox was forgettable.
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Starting in the early 60s, Dillman maintained a prolific career guest starring on TV shows. His first set of guest appearances are his best because the 1960s was a prime time for well-written character-driven TV. He excelled at playing deviants and neurotics. He was uncompromisingly raw as a psycho in an uncharacteristically dark episode of Dr. Kildare who rapes Kildare’s (played by youth idol Richard Chamberlain) girlfriend in front of him and continues to taunt both of them before he is apprehended. He is equally unsettling in a shocking episode of Ben Casey where he is an intelligent, but devious patient who gaslights his dumb, but sweet roommate and tries to steal his sexy fiancée (MASH’s Sally Kellerman).
He also did his share of schlock because they helped put his five daughters through school. By this time his wife Suzy Parker had put her iconic modelling and brief critically panned acting career behind her. In between, he also did character work in movies he was proud of such as The Way We Were and The Iceman Cometh.
Regarding his career Dillman remarked “I’ve had a wonderful life. I married the most beautiful woman in the world. Together we raised six children, each remarkable in his or her own way and every one a responsible citizen. I was fortunate to work in a profession where I looked forward to going to work every day. I was rewarded with modest success. The work sent me to places all over the world I’d never been able to afford visiting otherwise.”
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2018 Youth Olympics 100m champion, Rosemary Chukwuma has left the shores of Nigeria to begin her four-year collegiate career in US.
The scintillating sprinter has joined Onaara Obamuwagun, reigning African u20 Triple Jump champion at South Plains College, Texas.
Rosemary dominated the Youth and Junior sprints since 2017 within Nigeria and Africa as a whole. Last season, the Abuja-based jovial athlete made her debut at the IAAF World Championships where she competed in the 4x100m. She was part of the team that clinched the sprint relay Gold at the 2019 All African Games in Morocoo.
At the 2019 African U20 Championships in Abidjan, she brezzed to victory in the 100m and 200m as well as 4x100m. In 2018, she won the sprint double at the African Youth Games held in Algiers and she alongside Blessing Okagbare, Joy Udo and Tobi Amusan won the 4x100m Bronze at the Commonwealth Games.
Interestingly out of 10 races over the 100m and 200m last season, Rosemary won 7 except the National U20 100m where she finished 2nd, All Nigeria Championships in Kaduna where she placed 3rd and at the African Games where she bowed out of the 200m in the semis.
She holds a Personal Best of 11.44s and 23.45s in the 100m and 200m respectively. Rosemary is set to make her debut for South Plains on Saturday at Texas Tech Corky Classic.
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