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[ News ]June 3, 2019 11:24 am ET
First Quarter Results Show Positive Demand Recovery for Brazil’s Major Carriers
The commercial aviation market in Brazil has had an intense first quarter this year. As the new government takes office, the markets are waiting anxiously for the promised economic reforms, reflecting in more investments and thus, accelerating demand.
Most important, though, is the collapse of Avianca Brasil, which was the fourth biggest domestic carrier until its downfall. The airline mostly served markets which already had competition, positively affecting the demand for the competitors, which can now raise ticket prices as options for passengers are reduced.
Though the overall market outlook may seem good, international demand has suffered slightly and the Brazilian real has strongly depreciated. According to Gol, the Brazilian real suffered a 16.2 percent depreciation in the first quarter which, allied to overcapacity on international routes, has made the airlines worry. Such effects can be perceived in the results presentations that Brazil’s largest airlines – Gol, LATAM Brasil and Azul – have released this month.
Gol, the biggest domestic carrier, has not yet recovered from the losses it has been registering since the financial crisis hit Brazil in 2014. The airline registered a BRL32.3 million (USD $8,281,235) loss in the first quarter compared to the BRL142.3 million (USD $36,483,585) profits it registered in the same period last year. Nevertheless, the overall numbers can be seen as positive as the Revenue Passengers per Kilometer (RPK) has risen 6.4 perfect, as well as a 1.9 percent increase in yields.
Considering their exposure to the international markets and thus dollar costs/sales have risen significantly with the new flights to the United States, costs have also grown – more than the revenues. The Cost per Available Seat per Kilometer (CASK) has grown 4.7 percent, while the Revenue per Available Seat per Kilometer (RASK) grew only 3.2 percent in relation to the first quarter of 2018.
One major concern of Gol over the first quarter was the suspension of Boeing 737 MAX flights. The airline’s seven MAX aircraft could operate efficiently from their hubs in Brasília and Fortaleza to Miami and Orlando. Since the grounding of this model, however, they now have to operate with the less efficient Boeing 737 NG, often leading to fuel stops in a third country.
In the investors conference Gol’s CEO, Paulo Kakinoff, said that he believes the MAX should be flying again by June. The airline CFO, Richard Lark, said this unforeseen event made the airline postpone the devolution of four 737NGs, as well as postpone the planned maintenance of four others. If the grounding takes longer, he said, “we would have to take other steps as short-term NGs bookings [leasings] to comply to our fleet plan,” since in June the airline expects demand to start increasing more.
The second largest Brazilian domestic and largest international carrier, LATAM has suffered a little bit more with the depreciation of the Brazilian real, as a major part of its network is composed of international operations. The domestic ASK in Brazil has grown 1.5 percent from the first quarter 2018 to first quarter 2019, while the RPK has grown 1.3 percent.
Though LATAM doesn’t report country-by-country financial results, we can infer that the domestic results have been good with the bankruptcy of Avianca Brasil. LATAM has revised the expected domestic ASKs growth in 2019 from 2-4 percent to 5-7 percent. Meanwhile, international results have been poor as the airline canceled operations from São Paulo to Rome, as well as the planned São Paulo-Munich route, citing “overcapacity” in the international market.
Finally, Azul, the third major carrier in Brazil, is experiencing good financial results, though not as strong as in the first quarter of last year. They are constantly receiving new Airbus A320neos, which strongly boost the ASK while having lower costs than first-generation Embraer 190/195s. This, allied to the exclusive regional markets in which the airline operates feeding its major routes, gives Azul the ability to have higher yields than its competitors.
From the first quarter of 2018 to the first quarter of 2019, Azul’s ASK has grown 16.0 percent, while the RPK has grown 15.6 percent. The Brazilian real depreciation also played a role in the results as the yield has fallen 0.3 percent, while the RASK didn’t change from one year to the other. The airline’s profits fell 20.1 percent, from BRL172.3 millions in the first quarter of 2018 to BRL137.7 millions in the first quarter of 2019.
The expectations for Azul is to keep benefiting from the arrival of more A320neos, as well as the arrival of its first Embraer 195 E2 which are set to come from September.
“We should have 6 of them by the end of the year,” told David Neeleman, Azul’s founder and chairman.
Even though international demand may seem to struggle, the overall aviation market in Brazil is showing some recovery signals and the financial results and forecasts of the airlines in the mid-term clearly show that. It will all depend on the current government macroeconomic reforms for the Brazilian real to appreciate and for this positive trend to keep going.
João Machado
João has loved aviation since he was six-years-old when he started visiting his home airport in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. As he always loved writing, in 2011, at age 10 he started his very own aviation blog. Many things have happened since then, and now he is putting all his efforts into being an airline director in the future. João now studies Business Administration at UFRGS and is trying to get into an American college soon.
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[ Aircraft Orders and Deliveries ]September 2, 2019 12:00 am ET
By Jose Antonio Payet
Chinese State-Owned Carriers Place Major Order for Comac ARJ21 Jets
The three largest state-owned Chinese carriers have placed an orders for a total of 105 Chinese manufactured Comac ARJ21-700 jets, in a move that represents a milestone for the Chinese aircraft industry and a pivotal point that will help prove the reliability of the program.
The aircraft, seating 90 passengers in a single class configuration, will be used by three state-owned Chinese carriers, including Air China, China Southern, and China Eastern. Each will receive 35 aircraft used primarily for capacity expansion in regional markets and feeder flights to larger airports. Deliveries will take place between 2020 and 2024
The deal represents a major order for the Chinese manufactured Comac ARJ21 project and will be pivotal in building its long term reliability.
As FlightGlobal reports, the transaction was valued at $1.33 billion for the aircraft and engines and received heavy discounts from the manufacturer. The timing of the orders, placed separately by each carrier is likely no coincidence either, as China might be looking to increase the sales and visibility of their local produced jet in the ever-growing domestic aviation sector, after a series of complications that delayed its launch.
Although the first frame took its first flight a decade ago, only 10 aircraft were delivered by 2018, after problems with cracks in the wings, wiring and avionics delayed the CAA’s regulatory approval until 2014.
Additionally, with Airbus and Embraer-Boeing conquering the market for regional jets with the A220 and E2 projects, while Mitsubishi is producing a tentative alternative with the SpaceJet, it is unlikely the ARJ21 will grow in much popularity outside China with its current structure.
Designed in 2002, the aircraft’s fuselage structure, avionics and cabin are way past outdated over the lighter composite structures and more technologically amd advanced alternatives used by the aircraft the Chinese project is trying to compete with. Without such things, the aircraft does not seem as tempting for carriers where politics do not interfere in the purchasing deals.
Jose Antonio Payet
As a geography nerd, Jose has always been fascinated by the complexities of the airline industry and its ability to bring the world closer together. Born and raised in Peru, now studying in the UK. he has travelled around America, Europe and South East Asia. His favorite aircraft is the Boeing 767-300, which he has flown many times during his childhood; although now the A350 is slowly growing up on him.
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How 'Star Wars' Tried To Fix Its Most Awkward Moments
6 Grand Mastermind Coups (That Fell Apart Immediately)
JM McNab ·
For as much as people love them, the Star Wars movies have gotten rather awkward from time to time. There's stuff like Luke and Leia's near twincest, or everything George Lucas has said out loud since 1994. This universe isn't just made up of movies, though. It's also comprised of books, comics, video games, and even soul-destroying dance parties. Sometimes the Star Wars empire has circled back to try to make sense of the more unwieldy aspects of the franchise, to mixed results. Look at how ...
A Comic Revealed How Anakin Was Conceived
The Awkward Scene:
In The Phantom Menace, young Anakin Skywalker brings a bunch of randos he's just met home for dinner. Surprisingly, his impoverished mom is up for feeding these mysterious strangers, and even confiding oddly personal information. When Qui-Gon gets all Maury Povich and asks who Anakin's father is, she replies that he ... doesn't have one?
20th Century FoxWhich is clearly the more likely scenario than "Poorly-cared-for slave is experiencing delusions."
Instead of chalking this up as a one-night stand, as most of us would, the Jedi master takes her at her word and guesses she was secretly impregnated by midi-chlorians -- the microscopic (and apparently horny) organisms that allow humans to use the Force. No one ever mentions this again, for some reason.
In a scene that was thankfully deleted from Revenge Of The Sith, Senator Palpatine reveals to Anakin that he "used the power of the Force to will the midi-chlorians to start the cell divisions that created [Anakin]." In other words, he used magic sperm to knock up Ani's mom. But that backstory was recently made official by the comic series Darth Vader: Dark Lord Of The Sith. In the big finale, Vader goes on a psychedelic Force trip and witnesses Palpatine's creepy psychic insemination. The dude shows up like the Ghost of Christmas Future and puts a Force bun in Shmi's oven.
Marvel ComicsThankfully, this was added late enough that we were spared a "Luke, I am your GRANDfather!" line in Jedi.
It's hard to say whether or not the Star Wars canon (or really, the world in general) is better with this image in it.
Related: This Is Probably The Dumbest 'Star Wars' Deleted Scene
Lucas Created Those Bug Aliens In Attack Of The Clones Because Of A Scene From Clerks
Luke Skywalker seemed more distressed that he couldn't pick up some goddamn power converters than he did after taking hundreds of thousands of lives by destroying the Death Star. But those were all evil Imperial types, right? But the second Death Star was still under construction when it got blown up by the Rebels. Surely a lot of the people killed were merely civilian contractors who probably didn't even have sinister British accents. This point was famously debated by Dante and Randal in Kevin Smith's Clerks.
George Lucas actually addressed this problem. In Attack Of The Clones, we learn that the disgusting bug aliens the Geonosians were the ones who designed the Death Star. In the DVD commentary, Lucas suggests that this resolves the complaint from Clerks, since they were "probably contracted to build the Death Star." Of course, this directly contradicts the previously established backstory that the Death Star was built by enslaved Wookiees. (Some with diarrhea.)
Anyway, Lucas' solution was to make it so that the only contractors killed in Return Of The Jedi would have looked like cartoons from an insecticide commercial -- or as he puts it, "just a bunch of large termites." They sure seem sentient, and probably have families at home, but you're right, George, fuck those bugs!
Related: 12 Bizarre Inspirations Behind Star Wars Movie Characters
The Last Jedi Novelization Tries To Explain A Controversial Scene From The Force Awakens
A lot of people took issue with Rey's quick mastery of the Force in The Force Awakens, either out of toxic bro misogyny or more general confusion. Without getting into the Endorian space weeds about how powerful Rey is, in one perplexing moment, she mind-tricks a stormtrooper into freeing her from captivity. In retrospect, it makes you wonder why the Empire never hired Jabba the Hutt and Watto the Flying Stereotype for all their security needs.
Walt Disney Pictures"Also, raise the thermostat a little, and bring me some chips."
How did Rey even know the Jedi mind trick was a thing? She lived in isolation, was raised by a bulbous garbage-monger, and thought Luke Skywalker was as real as Santa Claus until like a day before this scene.
Because only literature can fully poeticize Kylo Ren's glistening abdomen and Luke Skywalker's taste for lactating sea monsters, Lucasfilm released a novelization of The Last Jedi. The book takes time to explain just how Rey knew how to pull off this trick. In an earlier scene, Kylo tries to read her mind, but she turns the tables and starts reading his mind. The book reveals that in that moment, she had "seen more -- far more," and "even accessed some of the powers at his command." Kind of like "if his training had become hers." Great. Now no one ever needs to argue about Star Wars again.
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There's A Whole Short Story About Why That One Stormtrooper Hit His Head
Those of us who have watched the original Star Wars over and over again are intimately familiar with even the smallest background details, like how IG-88 is apparently made out of beverage equipment. Even the Special Edition crammed full of CGI upgrades forgot to make Vader's lightsaber not look like an old broom handle in one shot.
20th Century FoxOf course, fixing the CGI would've contradicted the half-dozen novels we're sure had tried to explain it by that point.
Similarly, there's an infamous moment in Star Wars in which a stormtrooper smacks his head on a door like a common Tim Allen character.
20th Century FoxLucas added a CG droid in practically every shot of the Special Editions, but couldn't spare a single Homer Simpson "D'oh" for this. We aren't mad, George, just disappointed.
It's obviously a blooper, but come to think of it, concussions might be the best explanation for why all these guys are such lousy shots.
In real life, the reason this dude carelessly banged his helmet was that he had an "upset stomach," but a recent short story collection decided this needed an in-universe justification. From A Certain Point Of View retells the events of Star Wars from the POVs of a host of supporting characters. Most famously, one tale reveals that Greedo and Han Solo were secretly part of a gross love triangle. Then there's the story "Bump" -- which isn't about Sy Snootles' coke problem, but rather TD-110, the trooper who hurt his noggin.
The story reveals that TD-110 had just returned from a mission to Tatooine, and he was in fact the same stormtrooper we'd earlier seen get mind-tricked by Obi-Wan. He walked straight into the door because that's the moment the "fog cleared" and the poor sap realized he'd been brainwashed by a geriatric in a bathrobe. So there you go! With the power of expanded universe retconning, no movie need ever have even the smallest flaw to bother you.
Related: 6 Star Wars Characters Whose Backstories Are Total Madness
A Comic Added A Scene In Which Leia Finally Hugs Chewbacca
At the end of The Force Awakens, Han Solo tragically dies, fulfilling both the evil plans of the First Order and the terms of Harrison Ford's contract. When the Millennium Falcon returns to the Resistance base, Leia already knows this, and she embraces a despondent Rey. Which would be fine if, to do so, she didn't walk right past Chewbacca without so much as friendly nod.
Walt Disney PicturesBetween this and the missing medal, we're getting the impression that Alderaan royalty are anti-Wookiee racists.
Why would Leia ignore Han's best friend, whom she's known for three decades, to comfort some random girl she's known for like an afternoon? Director J.J. Abrams admitted that they made a mistake in blocking the scene, and didn't mean to give the impression that Leia was ghosting Chewie.
The comic Age Of Resistance: Rey flashes back to this moment, but adds a scene wherein Leia and Chewie move indoors and immediately start hugging the shit out of each other.
Marvel ComicsHe knows all the comforting words we needed to hear, like "RRRRAAAAAARRRrrr."
The reason they had to relocate instead of embracing near the Falcon is simply that Wookiee hugs apparently last longer than human hugs. Now maybe they can write a comic that explains why Leia consoled Luke after some old dude he just met died while she was mourning the loss of every goddamn person on her home planet.
Related: 5 Ways Disney Can't Stop Screwing Up Star Wars
A Novel Resolved Jar-Jar Binks' Depressing Fate
Pretty much the apotheosis of Star Wars awkwardness is the character of Jar-Jar Binks. Not just the veiled, seemingly minstrel-inspired humor, but also his abrupt disappearance from the prequel trilogy. The backlash was so strong that, despite clearly being set up to be a main character in the prequels, he only appeared fleetingly in Episode II -- which was, unfortunately, still enough time to inadvertently usher in three decades of space-fascism.
Last we see of the Gungan, he's at a funeral. Though several of his close friends have tried to murder each other by the end of the prequels, we never actually find out what happens to poor old Jar-Jar.
The novel Star Wars Aftermath: Empire's End finally revealed Jar-Jar's fate. While he wasn't gunned down in a back alley on Coruscant or ground into a Gungan Burger for the patrons of Dex's Diner, it's still kind of a bummer. The book pauses for an interlude on Naboo, where a ten-year-old boy chats with "the clown," a street performer despised by adults but beloved by local children for the way he "falls on his butt."
Penguin Random HouseDang. Rough retirement plan for senators.
Yes, the clown turns out to be a haggard old Jar-Jar, who has been shunned by society for helping "the uh oh Empire." But for some reason, kids find him side-splittingly hilarious. Further proof that Star Wars doesn't take place in our galaxy.
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Process: Inside The Studio
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January 10, 2017 by Andrea Donnelly
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The Awareness, Holding In, and Quietly, Quietly are part of an ongoing series of works that feature my painted figure merging with woven atmosphere. These large-scale weavings begin with altered photographic images of my body, which are painted onto the threads of my warp. The cloth is then woven, embedding the figure within the structure. I magnify form and gesture in my figures by stripping color and detail from the original images. This, along with the exaggerated scale of the works, reflects an internal reality and the depth of emotional states made visible and physical. The familiar, yet strange and seductive surface of this cloth environment draws the viewer close. Through this surface I entice them to enter, and perhaps recognize, the vastness or vulnerability of the mental space I project.
The works in the woven ink blot series are intended to step back from personal narrative and consider not the subjects of my perception, but the nature of perception itself. Inspired by the history and form of the inkblot, I am making a series of cloth-embedded monoprints that explore the subtleties of symmetry, the binary, and the breakdown and reformation of information within the brain. In my process of creating a mirror image, I apply a monoprint onto woven fabric. I then unweave my cloth, separating the image into its vertical and horizontal elements, before reweaving the image alongside itself. I am interested in the resulting form as an imaginative trigger, as well as the shifts and subtle irregularities that occur during the physical process of weaving as a tool for deconstruction and reconstruction.
n addition to examining the narrative that plays in my own mind, I have begun a body of work that steps back from the personal to consider not the subjects of my perception, but the nature of perception itself. Inspired by the history and form of the inkblot, I am making a series of cloth-embedded monoprints that explore the subtleties of symmetry, the binary, and the breakdown and reformation of information within the brain. In my process of creating a mirror image, I apply a monoprint onto woven fabric. I then unweave my cloth, separating the image into its vertical and horizontal elements, before reweaving the image alongside itself. I am interested in the resulting form as an imaginative trigger, as well as the shifts and subtle irregularities that occur during the physical process of weaving as a tool for deconstruction and reconstruction.
The Butterfly Cage was built over a two-month concentrated session at Penland School of Crafts in the North Carolina Mountains. There I took an iron sculpture studio in order to learn how to work with metal, as I am interested in incorporating it with fiber.
In the seventh grade, I learned about Gregor Mendel and his pea plants. The lesson was meant to introduce us to the science of genetics and inheritance, but I took away something much more romantic, and this particular notion has remained with me my entire life. It was a vision of Mendel, surrounded by dirt-smudged notebooks, scattered seeds and delicate seedlings performing his intricate and mysterious work on his plants, asking himself over and over: “What if?” Then would come the waiting, waiting for the living plant to reveal its answer, slowly with the first peek of green above the surface, then more and more, so very slowly.
I thought of Mendel quite a lot as I worked on this collection of weavings. It is an exploratory series, visible evidence of the labors of a weaver examining the mechanics of her craft in minute detail. These works are called Cross Pollinations because they each contain warp and weft threads from two separate painted weavings, which have been taken apart and crossed with each other to create something entirely new. I watched these pieces come to life as I wove them, bent close over the loom and full of curiosity and wonder, as though they were my own seedlings emerging slowly from the ground. Welcome to my garden.
These pieces are from of a larger body of work called The Garden, the Library, and the Labyrinth. I imagine them as specimens, collected flora and fauna from an ethereal place. Each work in this series was created by handweaving cloth, painting the cloth, unweaving and then reweaving it to create two mirrored images from one. By altering words and images through this extensive process of making/unmaking/mirroring, where tools, skill, and chance must collaborate, I literally open them up and pick them apart, to return them less defined. There, where the edges blur and centers shift, our imaginations will meet at the open-ended story, in a space that is at once a meandering garden, a twisting labyrinth, and an endless library.
All works exhibited in The Garden, the Library, and the Labyrinth (Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA)
I am deeply enchanted by words and stories, both in content and as visual pattern. I see a direct connection between language and weaving, between a woven work and a text. This has led me to incorporate important pieces from some of my favorite texts into my own works: as these words are transcribed, pulled apart, then laid down again they become like subliminal enchantments, holding the beauty of the original message like a whisper within the woven cloth. My text-based works are created by handweaving cloth, painting the cloth, unweaving, then reweaving it to create two mirrored images from one. By altering words through this extensive process of making/unmaking/mirroring, where tools, skill, and chance must collaborate, I literally open them up and pick them apart, to return them less defined. There, where the edges blur and centers shift, our imaginations will meet at the stories they create.
Text from The Garden of Forking Paths, by Jorge Luis Borges
Landscape with Water #3 exhibited in Small Expressions (The Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN)
All works exhibited in The Garden, the Library, and the Labyrinth (Quirk Gallery, Richmond VA)
Text from Earth, by Federico Garcia Lorca
Text from Moby Dick, by Herman Melville
All work exhibited in The Garden, the Library, and the Labyrinth (Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA)
Text from The Magic Mountain, by Thomas Mann
Again We Ask…and Again Echo Answers exhibited in Art Olympia (Tokyo, Japan, awarded honorable mention)
Changes (What is Time?) exhibited in Velocity of Textiles (Georgia State Ernest G Welch Gallery, Atlanta, GA)
Cloth, in its seemingly infinite varieties of texture, weight, appearance, and significance, is deeply linked to our histories and emotions through the corporeal body. A simple touch can trigger vivid memories and powerful associations; some unique to a single life, some shared across an entire culture. I make cloth that pulls at these connections, investigating relationships between our physical bodies and mental spaces through the act of weaving cloth by hand. By imbedding handwoven cloth with the language of the body, I bring tangibility and tactility to psychological landscapes and emotional states. Here, the monumental quality of scale suggests a mental rather than physical space. Alone or in reflective pairs, all my figures are stains within cloth, like faint remainders of a life. They are my connecting threads, binding personal experience with the shared experience of being human.
All works exhibited in The Garden, the Library, and the Labyrinth (Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA) and Out of Tradition (Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC)
Touch Memory #2 exhibited in Building Upon the Past (Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA)
Cloth, in its seemingly infinite varieties of texture, weight, appearance, and significance, is deeply linked to our histories and emotions through the corporeal body. A simple touch can trigger vivid memories and powerful associations; some unique to a single life, some shared across an entire culture. I make cloth that pulls at these connections, investigating relationships between our physical bodies and mental spaces through the act of weaving cloth by hand. By imbedding handwoven cloth with the language of the body, I bring tangibility and tactility to psychological landscapes and emotional states. Here, the monumental quality of scale suggests a mental rather than physical space. In many of my works the body is painted onto woven cloth, the cloth is unwoven, then new cloths are woven from the original warp and weft, extracting two distinct and subtly different images from one. This process evolved from my fascination with the inkblot, which, like cloth itself, simultaneously embodies the unique individual experience and our collective understanding. Alone or in reflective pairs, all my figures are stains within cloth, like faint remainders of a life. They are my connecting threads, binding personal experience with the shared experience of being human.
Body Blot #1 is part of the permanent collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art
Body Blot #1 exhibited in Lasting Impressions (Lorie Saunders Gallery, Norfolk, VA), Where We Meet (True Luck Gallery at the Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA) Binary (Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA), Mindbody (Artspace Gallery, Raleigh, NC) and Rijswijk Textile Biennial (Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, The Netherlands)
Body Blot #2 exhibited in Two Artist One Space (Green Hill Center, Greensboro, NC), Interwoven (Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, FL), Tacit (True Luck Gallery at the Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA) and Binary
Body Blot #3 exhibited in ArtFields (Lake City, SC), Ambiguity and Interface (Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA), Where We Meet, and Lasting Impressions
The Veiling #2 is part of the permanent collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art
All works exhibited in Two Artist One Space (Green Hill Center, Greensboro, NC), Out of Tradition (Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC), and Where We Meet, True Luck Gallery at the Visual Arts Center, Richmond VA
Exhibited in Ambiguity and Interface (Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA) and Where We Meet (True Luck Gallery at the Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA)
The works in my on-going woven inkblot series are intended to step back from personal narrative to consider the nature of perception itself. Inspired by the history and form of the inkblot, I use a unique process of weaving, unweaving, and reweaving cloth to explore the subtleties of symmetry, the binary, and the breakdown and reformation of information. To create an inkblot through weaving, I begin by staining or painting handwoven cloth. Next the cloth is unwoven to separate the stain into its vertical and horizontal elements, and then rewoven to create two separate but mirrored versions of the original cloth. These inkblot works are literal records of their making, from the spontaneous application of dye and pigment onto the original cloth to the carefully controlled weaving process that creates the final bilateral image. I am interested in the physical process of weaving as a tool for deconstruction and reconstruction, using the visible shifts and subtle irregularities of the resulting form as an imaginative trigger.
All works exhibited in Binary (Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA)
Blot #1 exhibited in Where We Meet (True Luck Gallery at the Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA) and Mindbody (Artspace Gallery, Raleigh, NC)
Blot #2 exhibited in Lasting Impressions (Lorie Saunders Gallery, Norfolk, VA), Mindbody, and Interwoven (Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, FL)
Blot #3 exhibited in Taking Shape (Benchspace Gallery, Asheville, NC and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX), and Mindbody
Blot #4 exhibited in Interwoven, Where We Meet
In seventh grade, I learned about Gregor Mendel and his pea plants. The lesson introduced us to the science of genetics, but I took away a more romantic vision of Mendel. Surrounded by dirt-smudged notebooks and delicate seedlings, he performed his intricate and mysterious work, asking: “What if?” Then waiting… Waiting for the living plant to reveal its answer, slowly with the first peek of green above the surface, then more. I thought of Mendel as I worked on this exploratory series of weavings, my evidence of the labors of a weaver examining the mechanics of her craft in minute detail. These works are called Cross Pollinations because they each contain warp and weft threads from two separate painted weavings, which have been taken apart and crossed with each other to create something entirely new. I watched these pieces come to life as I wove them, bent close over the loom and full of curiosity and wonder, as though they were my own seedlings emerging slowly from the ground.
All works exhibited in Cross Pollinations (Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA)
Purple Trio 2 and Narrow Lines 3 exhibited in Extreme Textiles (Muskegon Museum, Muskegon, MI)
In seventh grade, I learned about Gregor Mendel and his pea plants. The lesson introduced us to the science of genetics, but I took away a more romantic vision of Mendel. Surrounded by dirt-smudged notebooks and delicate seedlings, he performed his intricate and mysterious work, asking: “What if?”… Then waiting. Waiting for the living plant to reveal its answer, slowly with the first peek of green above the surface, then more. I thought of Mendel as I worked on this exploratory series of weavings, my evidence of the labors of a weaver examining the mechanics of her craft in minute detail. These works are called Cross Pollinations because they each contain warp and weft threads from two separate painted weavings, which have been taken apart and crossed with each other to create something entirely new. I watched these pieces come to life as I wove them, bent close over the loom and full of curiosity and wonder, as though they were my own seedlings emerging slowly from the ground.
All works exhibited for Thesis Exhibition (Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA)
The Weaver’s Bench exhibited in Materiality (Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY), Two Artist One Space (Green Hill Center, Greensboro, NC), Cutting Edge (Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY) and Mindbody (Artspace Gallery, Raleigh, NC)
Shift exhibited in Out of Tradition (Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC) Binary (Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA) and Interwoven (Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, FL)
Comfort exhibited in Ambiguity and Interface (Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA), Lasting Impressions (Lorie Saunders Gallery, Norfolk, VA), Where We Meet (True Luck Gallery at the Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA), Rijswijk Textile Biennial (Museum Rijswijk, Rijswijk, The Netherlands) and Multiple Personalities (Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO)
From Here exhibited in Forecast (Penland Gallery, Penland, NC), Rijswijk Textile Biennial, Multiple Personalities, and Two Artists One Space (Green Hill Center, Greensboro, NC)
Holding In exhibited in Two Artists One Space, Interwoven (Ruth Funk Center for Textile Arts, Melbourne, FL), Mindbody (Artspace Gallery, Raleigh, NC) and Almost Famous (Bev Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA)
Quietly, Quietly exhibited in Interwoven, Lasting Impressions, Kinsey Institute Juried Show (Grunwald Gallery, Bloomington, IN) and the traveling exhibition Fiberart International 2011
The Awareness exhibited in the 5th International Student Triennial (Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey). Collected by Marmara University.
This series explores the elements I engage in my textile work, specifically layering, line, and positive/negative space, on a different scale and through a different interface. It is an intimate study of the intersections of natural and man-made pattern and disruption of pattern. The things that catch my attention: bricks and roots, library shelves, skin cells…these systems are reorganized, distilled into careful and curious white-on-black line drawings.
All works exhibited at Capital One (Richmond, VA) and The Winter Show (Green Hill Center, Greensboro, NC)
Like the deep connection to weaving that inspires my technical investigations, my need to explore my own experience as a way to connect with a collective human experience is a theme that continues to shape my work. A passionate reader, I am drawn to text as pattern, symbol, and vessel. I am fascinated by our ability to share a mental space through written language: text becomes the meeting place of writer with reader. Like the inkblot, I use text as a symbol of our intertwined subjective and collective experience. I use words that are rich in content: poetry, and metaphors of time or weaving. Through the process of weaving, writing, unweaving, and reweaving these words I create a new subliminal text; one that asks the viewer to place their own subjective meaning into the ghosts of words imbedded in cloth.
Texts from Gacela X, by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All works exhibited in The Island Entropic (Capital One, Richmond, VA)
These works are an early exploration of the qualities and properties of handwoven cloth and thread in space, utilizing transparency, shadow and layering.
Density exhibited in the traveling exhibition Fiberart International 2007.
The Butterfly Cage was created over a two-month studio concentration at Penland School of Crafts in the North Carolina Mountains, courtesy of the Windgate Fellowship and the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design. Techniques include iron casting, forging, welding, and etching.
These works are an early exploration of the qualities and properties of handwoven and commercial cloth and thread in space, utilizing transparency, shadow and layering. Using the metaphor of cloth as skin and shell, they examine the protective yet vulnerable membrane between internal and external space. This series marks the first use of my own body in my work, a theme that continues today.
The Lady Series was responsible for my receiving a 2007 Windgate Fellowship.
Cloth is a language, complex and multi-faceted, which I use as a critical lens to understand and interpret the world around me. I work specifically with cloth I weave by hand. Having chosen to work in this craft-based and still marginalized medium, the decision I made five years ago to expand my studio practice beyond conceptual artwork and into functional textiles was not taken lightly, and the experience has been rich, complex, and enlightening. My skills as a weaver and my critical perspective as an institutionally trained fine artist have together given me a unique position to create textiles that inspire comfort, connection, and a deeper sense of the importance of the choices we make regarding the objects we bring into our lives and spaces. From this position, making and consuming becomes a moral and political act, a statement of values. The artworks in the Crown Jewel Series are a reflection of my experience, from within the privacy of my studio and out into the public domain, of opening up my artistic practice and creative energy to functional work. Through the form of the humble scarf I examine the larger questions at work in the tensions of my practice: the potential and handicap of craft, the value of labor, the arbitrary values of objects based on classification of art or not art, the commodity of time. In blurring and confusing those sliding-scale distinctions that work to assign value and position to people and objects, I hope to create space for reconsideration of these systems. The Crown Jewel Series is generously supported by a Windgate Fellowship Project Grant from the Center for Craft, Creativity, and Design.
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ALFRED EAKER
The Official Site Of Author and Artist
Brother Cobweb Novel
TERENCE FISHER’S THE GORGON (1964)
Posted on July 24, 2015 by Alfred Eaker
The Gorgon (1964) has a hopelessly silly synopsis: it’s basically a werewolf story transplanted onto a minor Greek myth with an even more ridiculously executed monster (complete with rubber snakes in her hair). Yet, with a stylish script from John Gilling, sublime characterization, and poetic beauty, Terence Fisher enthusiastically managed to transform this irredeemable trash into an artistically rewarding experience. Impossible, but true.
The Gorgon is an oddity in the Hammer cannon. Its pacing is deliberate and forlorn. The “monster” is the mythological Gorgon Megaera, inhabiting amnesiac victim Barbara Shelley, who again gives a performance well above that of the standard Hammer glamour girl. Unfortunately, Shelley does not play Megaera herself, a poor decision which blunts the tragic impact of the production.
For several years a number of unexplained deaths have occurred, during the full moon, in a small German village. The most recent victims are a model and her artist boyfriend. The father of the late artist, professor Jules Heitz (Michael Goddliffe) inquires into his son’s death but is met with resistance from the entire town, including old Dr. Namaroff (Peter Cushing). Namaroff has a motive for evading the truth, since he is not-so-secretly in love with Carla Hoffman (Shelley), whom he knows to be the Gorgon.
Although the human identity of the Gorgon is blatantly obvious from the start, it is the pathos projected by Cushing’s Phantom of the Opera-like hero (scarred by unrequited love) and Shelley’s genteel torment (inspired by the doctor’s jealousy and evasiveness) that creates the striking emotional milieu throughout the film.
Professor Heitz soon falls prey to the Gorgon. The scene plays out first in the beautifully atmospheric castles ruins, during the autumn moon, where Heitz spies the shadowy figure of the Gorgon. Running from the horrible visage of Megara, Heitz makes it to his office and lives long enough to write his second son, Paul, a letter as he slowly and memorably turns to stone.
Paul (Richard Prasco) is a student of Professor Karl Meister (Christopher Lee), in a rare, and quite good, turn as a sympathetic character). Paul is given leave from school upon the news of his father’s death. Like his father, Paul meets the same resistance from Namaroff and the townspeople. Carla is sympathetic to Paul’s frustrations and a love triangle develops, which enhances the inevitable tragedy of all three characters. One scene in particular conveys the expressionistic iciness of the film. Carla, in hopes of escaping the town and the shadowy spirit of Megaera, meets Paul in the same ruins in which his father met his fate. Carla sits regally in a throne-like chair and descends, fur coat draped around her shoulders, shuddering from the coldness of the season and the dread spirit lurking. The scattered, elegiac autumn leaves with their somber hues weave a spell akin to a doomed medieval fairy tale; Carla, inexplicably, cannot resist, much like the Gorgon’s victims cannot resist the act of looking at her deadly face.
Professor Meister, who has arrived to assist Paul, knows that it is Carla who is possessed by Megaera, but Paul passionately rejects his professor’s conclusion and is even more intensely driven to get Carla away from the town and Namaroff. Namaroff, channeling Lon Chaney tragic magic, sacrifices himself for his unrequited love, but he is not the only victim. Indeed, the film ends quite pessimistically.
Fortunately, the title character is, for the bulk of the film, only briefly seen, half emerging from the shadows of the columned ruins, or in one evocative scene, in the reflection of a dark pool. In the climax, when Megaera is finally seen full on, the letdown is severe enough to nearly wreck the film. Still, The Gorgon is a refreshingly unique oddity in the Hammer canon, thanks, in no small part, to a director who took the most unlikely material and crafted it into something poetic.
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About Alfred Eaker
Alfred Eaker is a fine arts painter, an award-winning independent filmmaker, and has a masters of theological studies in the arts. His Masters thesis was: "Justification By Imagination.The Marian Art Of Thomas Merton." For nine years, he has been a film critic (for 366 Weird Movies). His essays for that site have been published in the yearbooks and quoted in various film biographies. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, "Brother Cobweb." He currently lives in Gresham, Oregon where he performs his character, Brother Cobweb at The House Of Shadows.
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Mike Jozewicz
Mike Jozewicz is a multifaceted design professional passionately investigating the intersection of place, objects and manufacturing. Throughout his career, he has searched for opportunities that allow him to implement his knowledge of making to craft exceptional places. He has eleven years of professional experience, including five plus years in architectural practice and five plus years in manufacturing and fabrication. Additionally, he has three years of experience in multiple roles in design academia.
Mike's professional experience, which has been intentionally divided between the studio, construction site and fabrication shop, includes residential design, institutional architecture, custom metal fabrication, as well as cabinetry and furniture manufacturing. Through his experience, he has had the opportunity to work with many companies of national and international stature, including the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Olson Kundig Architects, Will Bruder Architects, EHDD Architecture, Simon Pearce, Deborah Burke Partners, Henrybuilt, Steelcase, and Gensler.
Mike was born in Poland, and grew up in the Piedmont of North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and a Master of Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, NY, where his focus was furniture and fabrication. As a proponent of urban life, his life, work and education have taken him to New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Also an avid traveler, he has collaborated on design work internationally in Guyana, Costa Rica and Colombia through a project called FAR FOUND.
Mash Studios, Los Angeles, CA, US, Production Design Manager
Production Design Manager at manufacturer of custom commercial furniture and residential furniture. Responsible for developing schematic visualizations into manufacturable product, securing approvals from client group, managing
component fabrication and product installation. Projects fabricated using engineered woods, solid wood, metal, glass and upholstered components.
Oct 2016 - current
Michael Ross Kersting Architecture, Wilmington, NC, US, Architectural Designer
Designed and managed a 2400 sq ft home and a 5000 sq ft home renovation. Created CDs and assisted in detailing of exterior and interior elements for complex contemporary and legacy homes.
Henrybuilt, New York, NY, US, Designer
Created designs for residential and commercial kitchens, and storage and millwork solutions for whole house projects. Collaborated with the design director, interior designers, and notable companies, such as Gensler, Gould Evans, Will
Bruder Architects, Deborah Burke and Steelcase. Led high-end clientele through the design process. Worked closely with other departments including sales, engineering, production and field operations.
Oct 2013 - Feb 2015
Ferra Designs Inc, New York, Design Developer
Design development and project management responsibilities at a leading architectural metal fabrication shop in New York City. Created computer models, and shop and fabrication drawings. Produced part files for waterjet cutting, laser cutting, break press forming and rolling. Coordinated with architects, engineers, contractors and clients. Completed site surveys and installations of completed pieces. Currently finishing the production and installation phase of an Olson Kundig-designed penthouse and an elliptical staircase in Southampton.
Deborah Nevins & Associates, Inc., Los Angeles, Draftsperson
Created landscape CDs for the 42 acre Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center in Athens designed by Renzo Piano.
Jun 2011 - Jul 2011
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, US, Assistant Furniture Shop Technician
Critiqued student work, assisted students in the fabrication of studio projects and maintained shop equipment.
EHDD, San Francisco, CA, US, Architectural Designer
Completed work at many scales and design phases at the firm founded by AIA Gold Medalist Joseph Esherick. Completed schematic design work for a new wing at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a feasibility study for a 30,000 sq ft medical research building and campus master plan, a marine biology research center, and an interactive marine biology museum. Created CDs for the renovation of a 25 building residential campus and Student Union building at UC Berkeley, a 25-story condominium in San Francisco, and a LEED certified school library and multimedia lab. Assisted in CA for a new 90,000 sq ft university library.
Oct 2006 - Jun 2008
Designed and managed a 3000 sq ft beach house, a 1000 sq ft detached pool house, and a carriage house renovation. Created CDs for a 32,000 sq ft steel urban condominium. Developed schematic sketches into CDs for a five-phase artist’s compound. Assisted the principal in the design of a 2400 sq ft residence from programming to permitting. Developed the firm's computing standards. Interacted with clients to produce six program books for custom homes and an urban condominium project.
Feb 2005 - Jun 2006
Pratt Institute, Masters, Industrial Design
Completed the Master of Industrial Design program at Pratt Institute with a focus on furniture and manufacturing.
Washington University in St. Louis, Bachelors, Architecture
Graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, Summa Cum Laude.
Architecture, Construction, Furniture Design
Residential Design, Institutional Architecture, Furniture Design, Lighting design, Metal Fabrication, Woodworking, AutoCAD, Solidworks, Adobe Creative Suite, & SketchUp
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2011 Music Lists Five EDM Tours that Paved the Way for Identity Festival
Posted By Justin Hampton on Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 11:36 AM
Colin Young-Wolff
We've seen this before...
The good folks of Identity Festival, which comes to Shoreline this Saturday, don't want to lie to you. Yet despite what they've claimed, they're not the first-ever electronic touring festival ever seen in America. It's merely the first electronic-only touring festival that has visited major outdoor amphitheatres in North America. That's a big difference.
These fine distinctions have somehow eluded other reporters both local and national. And of course, when people like headliner Steve Aoki repeat it in interviews, it starts to take hold that EDM maybe didn't exist until major players like William Morris Agency and Live Nation took notice. Granted, due to all sorts of, um, mitigating factors, it can be hard for some hardcore EDM punters to recall the exact details concerning their culture's gradual ascent to mainstream acceptance in the States. But without the often thankless efforts of countless promoters, DJs, and scenesters throughout the country over two decades, you'd probably still be screaming "disco sucks" at every act taking the stage this weekend at Shoreline. Here's a sampling of the EDM tours that came before IDentity.
1. Rave New World/ 2. See The Light: Back before Odd Future was baiting the public, Larry Clark's film Kids spread the moral panic regarding skatekids, ravers, and their wanton ways to the art-house crowds. It also launched the careers of Harmony Korine and Chloe Sevigny and paid a visit to Korine and Sevigny's old hangout, NASA -- the club night which, alongside the infamous Storm Raves, served as Ground Zero for the NYC Rave scene in the early '90s and was co-promoted by Scotto and DJ db. While we can blame these guys for baggy oversized jeans and Dr. Seuss hats, we also can thank them for the first two national EDM tours. The first one, Rave New World, stretched from January to February of 1993 and hit 26 cities, featuring Scotto's old raver pal Moby alongside John Acquaviva, The Prodigy in their first US tour, and Richie Hawtin, who pulled double-duty solo and as part of the duo Cybersonic with Detroit techno pioneer Dan "DBX" Bell. According to Scotto, who now lives in Southern Pennsylvania, the botched L.A. date got shut down by the fire marshal and precipitated a skirmish amongst pissed-off ravers, one of the first in a proud tradition of L.A. rave riots. Still, all went well enough to launch off a sequel, "See The Light," which brought Moby out for another tour alongside Vaporspace, Orbital, Aphex Twin (who performed with a male dancer), and DJ Tim from Utah Saints, that October and November.
Not everybody on the tour got the idea of performing to a fraction of the crowds they enjoyed in Europe. "[The Prodigy] were typical whiny crew, complaining constantly on the tour bus. I told them 'Look, you have to brand yourself here. Eventually they came around by the end of the tour," Scotto recalls. But the scene would never again be more DIY or possess more anarchic and idealistic energy -- and Moby would never again have more hair -- as he and it did during those early days. Scotto's own footage (above) bears witness.
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Competitors 2020
Israeli Compositions
AFARIMS
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PETER GAD NASCHITZ
Adv. Gad Naschitz, Chairman of the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society and founder of the Competition’s body of Patrons, has passed away.
Peter Gad Naschitz was a well-known jurist in the legal community in Israel and around the world. He held many distinguished positions, including Dean of the Israel Consular Corps and he was former World President of the International Federation of Consular Corps and Associations.
Naschitz accompanied the Rubinstein Association for many years, as Chairman of the Society and as a board member. He did a tremendous amount to promote and develop the Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. He will be greatly missed.
The Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society, founded by J.J. Bistritzky, N.R.O.
Address: 9 Bilu St., Tel Aviv
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GE and Apple partner to change the industrial world with apps
iOS SDK,Industrial IoT,IoT SDK
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Richard Harris in SDK Monday, October 23, 2017
Apple and GE team up to create an industrial Internet of Things SDK for iOS to help move industries forward with Predix.
Apple and GE has announced a partnership to deliver powerful industrial apps designed to bring predictive data and analytics from Predix, GE’s industrial Internet of Things (IoT) platform, to iPhone and iPad. The two companies unveiled a new Predix software development kit (SDK) for iOS, which gives developers the tools to make their own powerful industrial IoT apps.
“GE is an ideal partner with a rich history of innovation across the industrial world in areas like aviation, manufacturing, healthcare and energy,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “Together, Apple and GE are fundamentally changing how the industrial world works by combining GE’s Predix platform with the power and simplicity of iPhone and iPad.”
“The partnership between Apple and GE is providing developers with the tools to make their own powerful industrial IoT apps,” said John Flannery, Chairman and CEO, GE. “Our customers increasingly need to arm their workforces through mobility. Working together, GE and Apple are giving industrial companies access to powerful apps that help them tap into the predictive data and analytics of Predix right on their iPhone or iPad.”
The SDK gives developers the ability to make powerful, native apps that take full advantage of the industrial analytics from Predix and tap into the power of iOS.
These apps will give industrial operators more insight and visibility into the performance of their equipment and operations right from their iPhone or iPad. For example, a Predix app can notify a worker on their iPhone of a potential issue with equipment such as a wind turbine and allow them to collaborate with remote teams when performing inspections and repairs, collecting relevant data instantly. These industrial apps will close the information loop faster, ultimately increasing cost savings and minimizing unplanned downtime.
In collaboration with Apple, GE is also developing apps for both internal use and its customers, giving workers powerful tools to enhance their jobs and help operations run more efficiently. GE’s Asset Performance Management (APM) Cases app, which is available in the App Store, helps industrial businesses increase machine reliability and availability while reducing maintenance costs and managing operations risks. Customers including Exelon Corp. are already putting APM to work and seeing improved equipment uptime and overall productivity.
Read more: http://www.ge.com/
iOS SDK, Industrial IoT, IoT SDK
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This content is current only at the time of printing. This document was printed on 23 January 2020. A current copy is located at https://apvma.gov.au/node/434
Veterinary - Chemistry and manufacture of products (Part 2)
2. Formulation type/pharmaceutical dosage form
3. Formulation composition
5. Product specifications
6. Batch analysis
7. Stability data
8. Analytical method and validation data
9. Packaging
This is a guideline about the types of information you can submit to address the safety criteria for veterinary chemical products. It also provides guidance on how the information might be presented and analysed, and should be considered in conjunction with any guidelines the APVMA has made or adopted that are specific to the type of product for which you intend to demonstrate safety.
This guideline applies to non-immunobiological veterinary chemical products only. The chemistry and manufacturing data that should be provided for immunobiological products can be found in the APVMA’s specific guidelines section.
The information submitted with an application for a veterinary chemical product must satisfy us that the use of the product in accordance with the APVMA-approved instructions is not, or would not be:
an undue hazard to the safety of people exposed to it during its handling or to people using anything containing its residues
likely to have an effect that is harmful to human beings
likely to have an unintended effect that is harmful to animals, plants, things or the environment.
For further information on the safety criteria, see Satisfying the statutory criteria.
This section sets out the chemistry and manufacturing data that should be provided to the APVMA in support of an application for the registration of a veterinary chemical product.
Different chemistry and manufacturing data, as included in separate guidelines, may be provided for certain product types.
The APVMA has adopted the quality guidelines of the International Cooperation on Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Registration of Veterinary Products (VICH), subject to certain changes to reflect particular Australian conditions.
Where the VICH guideline specifies that it is for new veterinary drugs substances (active constituents) and new medicinal products (for example, VICH GL11(R) and GL39), we consider that it should be applicable to all veterinary product applications (such as generic veterinary chemical products). You should justify any deviation from the VICH guidelines, including those that are indicated to apply only to new active constituents and veterinary products.
For further guidance on submitting chemistry and manufacture data in support of veterinary chemical product registration you may also wish to view the ‘guidance for industry documents for veterinary chemical product (drug product) submissions’ available from the websites of:
the US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine
the veterinary medicines area of the European Medicines Agency
the Veterinary Drugs Directorate of Health Canada.
The formulation type/pharmaceutical dosage form is the form in which the product is presented for veterinary use. You should indicate the type of formulation to be registered.
If the product formulation is to be reconstituted before use, the formulation type or pharmaceutical dosage form of the end-use formulation should be indicated.
A nanomaterial is any substance intentionally produced, manufactured or engineered to have unique properties or specific composition at the nanoscale—that is, a size range typically between 1 nm (nanometre) and 100 nm. It is either a nano-object (that is, confined in one, two or three dimensions at the nanoscale) or has a nanostructure (having an internal or surface structure at the nanoscale). Aggregates and agglomerates are considered to be nanostructured substances. Where size distribution shows that, by number of particles, 10 per cent or more of a substance is at the nanoscale, the substance will be considered a nanomaterial for risk assessment purposes.
If the product has nanoscale properties, they should be indicated.
The formulation composition describes the qualitative and quantitative formulation of the product. You should provide:
the constituent name, which is the common name, the complete chemical name (IUPAC, CA name) if a common name does not exist, or the proprietary name for components that are complex mixtures
the CAS registry number, if available
the constituent standard, which allows us to assess the purity, quality and risk associated with each constituent present in the product
the concentration (including stability overages), which is the amount of each constituent in the formulation
the purpose in the formulation, which is the function of each constituent.
Batch analyses or certificates of analysis from the manufacturer or supplier of each constituent should be included to allow us to assess compliance with the nominated standard.
If a pharmacopoeial standard exists, the constituent should comply with the recent monograph. The pharmacopoeial standard should be European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.), British Pharmacopoeia (BP or BP (Vet)), United States Pharmacopeia (USP), or any other pharmacopoeia recognised by the APVMA. Where a pharmacopoeial standard does not exist, you should provide details of the manufacturer’s specifications.
VICH GL39 and GL40 provide test procedures and acceptance criteria for active constituents, raw materials and excipients. The tests and limits in the manufacturer’s specification for an active constituent should include the universal and specific tests described in VICH GL39 (as appropriate). You should consider impurities according to GL10(R) and residual solvents according to VICH GL18(R) .
If any constituent used in the product has nanoscale properties, they should be indicated.
Where an active constituent is formed in situ (for example, by chemical reaction), both the starting material(s) and the active constituent should be described.
If materials (active and non-active constituents) of animal origin are used, you should provide evidence that they are free of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). You should provide the biological source, country of origin, manufacturer details and Department of Agriculture and Water Resources import permit. Refer to the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources guidelines for managing the risk of transmitting BSE and TSEs for more information.
The formulation composition should not include raw materials used in the manufacture that are not present in the final product formulation. For example, if a solvent is used as an aid in the process and removed in the final stages, that solvent should not be included in the formulation composition details.
Desiccants and inert gases should not be included in the formulation composition details.
Overages of constituents should only be included in the formulation composition details if they are included for storage stability purposes. Manufacturing loss overages should be noted in the manufacturing process details only.
You should provide a detailed description of the production-scale manufacturing process to allow us to establish that the process is capable of consistently delivering high-quality product, that each step of the manufacturing process is appropriately controlled and that the finished product meets all quality attributes including specifications.
The production scale batch size (for example, in litres or kilograms) should be stated. For sterile products, you should describe the sterilisation process in detail. If applicable, you should describe nanoscale processes in the product manufacturing process.
You should provide details of the quality control procedures that ensure the batch-to-batch consistency and reproducibility of the product. This includes the in-process quality control checks performed at various stages of the manufacture, processing and packaging of the product. Testing should include the specifications and tests for pivotal and key/critical intermediates.
A specification is a list of tests, references to analytical procedures and appropriate acceptance criteria, which are numerical limits, ranges or other criteria for the tests described. It establishes the set of criteria to which a product should conform. You should provide product specifications to allow us to assess whether the product is of an acceptable quality for its intended use.
The tests (parameters) for product specifications should cover those features susceptible to change during storage and likely to influence quality, safety and/or efficacy. The tests and limits generally applicable to all products and for particular formulation type/dosage forms are given in VICH GL11(R),GL39 and GL40.
Limits of acceptance should relate to the release limits, and shelf-life specifications should allow acceptable and justifiable deviations from the release specification based on the stability evaluation and the changes observed in storage. The acceptance criteria should include suitable upper and lower limits for the active constituent content (assay), and descriptive, lower–upper or maximum limits of other test parameters as appropriate. The specification limits should take into account the use of any overages in the formulation. A clear distinction should be made between the release specification (the limits for each batch at the time of manufacture) and the expiry specification (the limits with which any sample should comply during its shelf life).
You should include the nanoscale properties of the product, if applicable, in the specification.
You may also wish to view the guidance for industry documents for veterinary chemical products (drug) available from the websites of the US Food and Drug Administration, Centre for Veterinary Medicine and the Veterinary Drugs Directorate of Health Canada for further information on specifications for veterinary chemical product registration.
You should provide batch analysis data to allow us to validate the manufacturing and quality control processes and determine whether the product is manufactured consistently to meet the product release specifications at each of the proposed sites of manufacture. Results for a minimum of three pilot or production scale batches of the product should be provided. The data should include test results for all parameters listed in the product specifications.
If applicable, the nanoscale properties of the product should be demonstrated.
You should provide stability data to allow us to assess how the product varies over time under a variety of conditions, such as temperature, humidity, light and heat. VICH GL3(R), GL4, GL5, GL8, GL17, GL45 and EMEA/CVMP/424/01 provide information on stability design and testing protocols. Because veterinary chemical products are date controlled, a suitable shelf life should be proposed based on the stability of the product in an Australian climate. Australia has climatic conditions encompassing VICH zones I to IV.
Data from stability studies should be provided on a minimum of three pilot or production scale batches of the product. The batches should be manufactured at the nominated site of manufacture. The product should be tested in the same containers (packaging material) and with the same closure system as proposed for registration.
The product label storage instructions relevant to an Australian climate and the recommended temperature and relative humidity design for stability tests are as shown in Table 1.
Table 1: Product label storage instructions and temperature and humidity design for stability tests
Storage instruction on the product label
Real-time stability test protocol
Accelerated stability test protocol
Store below –18 ºC (Deep freeze) –20 °C ± 5 °C Not appropriate
Store below –5 ºC (Freeze) –20 °C to –5 °C ± 5 °C Not appropriate
Store between 2 ºC and 8 ºC (Refrigerate. Do not freeze) 5 °C ± 3 °C 25 °C ± 2°C/60% RH ± 5% RH
Store below 8 ºC (Refrigerate) 5 °C ± 3 °C 25 °C ± 2 °C/60% RH ± 5% RH
Store below 25 ºC (Air conditioning) 25 °C ± 2 °C/60% RH ± 5% RH 40 °C ± 2 °C/75% RH ± 5% RH
Store below 30 ºC (Room temperature) 30 °C ± 2 °C/65% RH ± 5% RH 40 °C ± 2 °C/75% RH ± 5% RH
You should provide a statistical analysis of the stability data in accordance with VICH GL51. The guideline provides recommendations on establishing the shelf life for products intended for storage in climate zones I and II only. You should ensure that the stability data provided are appropriate to support the shelf life of the product under Australian climate conditions (I–IV).
The need for stability overages of constituents in the product should be supported by the statistical analysis of the storage stability data.
You should provide cold temperature stability data for liquid formulations to allow us to assess any adverse impact. You may, as an alternative, consider a label statement warning against exposure to storage at low temperature (for example, freezing).
You should provide stability data after the first opening of the container for parenteral and other sterile products in multi-dose containers to allow us to assess the in-use stability of the product/packaging. You may, as an alternative, consider a label statement that instructs the user to discard any unused product within 24 hours of first broaching the container or in the case of eye and ear preparations four weeks after first opening the container.
You should provide stability data for products that are reconstituted or diluted before use and are claimed or implied to be stable when stored for a certain period.
A shelf life can be approved for certain product types under certain circumstances without stability data being provided. The situations in Table 2 may be applicable.
Table 2: Shelf life and storage conditions for product types and formulations
Formulation type
Storage condition
Shelf life (months)
Minerals (excluding parenteral products)
Below 30 °C (Room temperature)
Vitamins (excluding parenteral products)
Below 25 °C (Air conditioning) and protected from light
Vitamins and minerals (excluding parenteral products)
Existing active constituent already used in a registered product of non-food producing species—ornamental fish, aviary birds and rodents
Therapeutic pet food
Herbal and marine-derived complementary animal health product
Equine oral electrolyte
You should demonstrate the nanoscale stability of the product, if applicable.
You should note that the approved shelf life for the product will only be based on the stability data provided at the time of the application. A commitment to continue the stability studies is not sufficient to support a longer shelf life
You should provide analytical method and validation data to allow us to assess the quality and adequacy of the control processes. Harmonised methods, such as those found in the European, United States and Japanese pharmacopoeia, should be used where applicable. A full description of the analytical procedures used for testing of the product should be provided, including:
full details of the analytical methods (including method numbers)
the purity of the reference standards
where chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques are used, representative chromatograms and spectra of the reference standard, veterinary chemical product and placebo, labelled with batch number, peak identity and peak integration data (if appropriate)
worked examples of the calculations.
Method validation data should be provided to allow us to assess the suitability of the method for its intended use. Details of the validation of analytical procedures are provided in VICH GL1 and GL2. Typical validation characteristics that should be considered for validation are in VICH GL1.
If we have assessed the analytical methods in a previous application, you may reference the data provided in that application. However, if the formulations are not identical, you should provide specificity and recovery (accuracy) data to demonstrate that the analytical method is appropriate for use on the new formulation.
You should provide the nanoscale aspects of the product analytical methods if they are relevant.
You should provide a description of the primary container and closure system, including the composition of the construction materials of each primary packaging component and its specification. The pack size(s) should be provided. Any desiccant or inert gas added to the container for stability purposes should be identified. You should discuss the integrity of the container in terms of its compatibility with the product (including sorption to container and leaching) and its performance in protecting the product physically and in protecting it from moisture and light.
The integrity of the container should not be impaired by the product it contains, nor should the product be adversely affected by the packaging material.
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Master's degree, Elementary Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Early Childhood and Family Studies, Psychology
Wing Luke Elementary School August 2015 - Present
Whittier Elementary August 2013 - June 2015
Elementary Education, Teaching, Tutoring, Classroom, Literacy, Lesson Planning, Early Childhood..., Classroom Management, Community Outreach
Jamie Stanislaus
Human Resources Coordinator at Young & Rubicam Brands
Jana Jack
Multimedia Sales Coordinator at Sinclair Broadcast Group
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Communication, Journalism, and Related Programs
Sinclair Broadcast Group January 2014 - Present
Seattle Tennis Club June 2013 - January 2014
Shooby Doo Catering June 2012 - January 2014
Piatti Restaurant & Bar June 2008 - June 2013
4th Avenue Media June 2010 - September 2010
ROOT SPORTS June 2008 - June 2008
Microsoft Excel, Photoshop, Public Speaking, Blogging, Social Media Marketing, Customer Service, Journalism, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Research, Teaching, Windows, Strategic Planning, Real Estate, Administrative..., Video Capt, Audio Typing, Visual Storytelling, Team Leadership, TV Sales, Promotions, interpersonal...
Jane Napier Neely
La Canada Flintridge, California
Journalist and photographer
English Literature and Art History
Freelance 1983 - Present
Books, Newspapers, Journalism, Publishing, Blogging, Photography, Art, Online Journalism, Music, News Writing, Magazines, Editing, Storytelling
Jane Pimentel
Associate Professor and Chair at Dept. of Communication Disorders
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Speech and Hearing Sciences
Jane Roe
Stanwood, Washington
Independent Distributor with Young Living Essential Oils
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology
Marysville Pilchuck High School 1977 — 1980
Young Living Essential Oils January 2011 - Present
Competitive Swimming April 1982 - May 2013
Jane Roe, Certified Health Coach April 2010 - August 2012
Wellness, Wellness Coaching, Weight, Nutritional Counseling, Holistic Health, Therapists, Wellbeing, Life Coaching, Meditation, Bodywork, Fitness Training, Health Education, Nutrition Education, Sports Nutrition, Supplements, Lifestyle, Aromatherapy, Weight Loss Coaching, Lifestyle Coaching, Healing, Relaxation, Stress Management
Janet Sears
Public Info at NOAA
Jared Brockway
User Experience Specialist
Carnegie Mellon University 1998 — 1999
MSE, Software Engineering
MHCI, Human-Computer Interaction
BS, Human-Centered Design & Engineering
Coverity June 2010 - August 2013
Loyalty Lab October 2009 - June 2010
Fillmore Technology Group May 2004 - October 2008
Carnegie Mellon University September 2004 - April 2005
MobileAria March 2003 - March 2004
Codefab February 2000 - June 2001
Software Engineering Institute January 1998 - August 1999
Envision February 1995 - September 1995
IBM 1994 - 1995
Interaction Design, Software Engineering, User Experience Design
Jared Lucas
Staff Scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
PhD, Biology
BS, Zoology
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center May 2002 - Present
UCSB 1998 - 2001
Biochemistry, qPCR, Flow Cytometry, Cell Biology, Molecular Cloning, Molecular Biology
Jason Aarstad
Klamath Falls, Oregon
Mechanical Engineering Intern at World CNG
Oregon Institute of Technology 2014 — 2016
Mechanical Engineering Technology, MET
Everett Community College 2014 — 2014
Associate of Science (A.S.), Mechanical Engineering
St. Cloud State University 2010 — 2012
World CNG March 2014 - Present
Kvichak Marine Industries, Inc. September 2012 - September 2013
Scheels October 2011 - April 2012
Carbon Design Group 2012 - 2012
Kvichak Marine Industries, Inc. May 2011 - September 2011
Pentair Technical Products May 2010 - January 2011
Mechanical Engineering, Solidworks, Engineering, Design for Manufacturing, Solid Modeling, Process Improvement, CAD, Microsoft Office, Standards Compliance, Standards Development, Standardized Work, Lean Manufacturing, Product Design, Microsoft Excel, Engineering Drawings, Hospitality, Customer Service, Matlab, C++, Python
Jason Hebner
Business Management Student at Universtiy of Washington
BA, Business Administration
Universtiy of Washington October 2006 - Present
Javin Elliff
iOS Developer at Velosys
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Velosys June 2011 - Present
Technology Associates July 2010 - April 2011
Haselwood Auto Group November 2004 - July 2010
The Peninsula Gateway June 2000 - November 2004
CSS, HTML, iOS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Agile Methodologies, C#, User Interface Design, HTML 5, XHTML, Graphics
Jayshika Ramrakha
Environmental Scientist
Bachelors, Environmental Science and Resource Management
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency June 2009 - Present
Environmental Awareness, Environmental Policy
Jay Timpani
Investment Sales at CBRE
CBRE April 2014 - Present
Investment Properties, Leases, Commercial Real Estate, Brokerage, Real Estate, Investors, Real Estate Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate Economics, Due Diligence
Jayvee Olinares
Network Engineer at PRO Sports Club
Bachelors, Psychology
PRO Sports Club January 2009 - Present
Insightful Corporation April 2001 - October 2008
AskMe Corporation 1999 - 2001
Bank of America 1998 - 1999
Jay Wildin - MLO-115752
Senior Mortgage Advisor at Caliber Home Loans
Caliber Home Loans November 2014 - Present
Cobalt Mortgage November 2013 - November 2014
AXIA Home Loans March 2006 - December 2013
RBC Mortgage April 2004 - April 2006
Finance, Investments, Loans, Mortgage Lending, Mortgage Banking, USDA, VA loans, FHA, Refinance, First Time Home Buyers, Short Sales, Loan Origination, Residential Mortgages, Certified Mortgage..., Construction Loans, Reverse Mortgages, Government Loans, Mortgage Underwriting, FHA financing, Mortgage Marketing, Real Estate Financing, Commercial Mortgages, Debt Consolidation, Home Equity Loans, HomePath, VA Loans, FHA Financing
J.B. Hall
Project Executive at Fortis Construction, Inc.
B.S. Builiding Construction
Hixson High School
Fortis Construction, Inc. January 2011 - Present
Skanska USA Building Inc. November 2002 - January 2011
McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. December 1994 - October 2002
W. G. Clark September 1988 - December 1994
US Army November 1981 - November 1985
Pre-construction, Construction Management, Value Engineering, Construction, Contractors, Design-Build, Subcontracting, LEED, Project Estimation, CPM Scheduling, Suretrack, Project Management, Construction Safety, Project Bidding, Constructability, Green Building, Change Orders, Renovation, BIM, Contract Management, Cost Management, RFI, Concrete, Process Scheduler, Submittals, Primavera P6, MEP, Lean Construction, Tenant Improvement, Project Coordination, Design Management, Integrated Project..., High Rise, On-Screen Takeoff, Estimates, Feasibility Studies, Construction Drawings, Cost Control, Project Control
J. David Griswold
Financial Services Professional, Lawyer, Compliance Expert and Change Agent
JD, Law
Russell Investments October 1989 - December 2008
Russell Investment Group 1989 - 2008
Foster Pepper PLLC 1983 - 1989
Alternative Investments, Mutual Funds
Jean Jean Lester
Jeannine Lavande
Owner at Plantasia Plant Design & Maintenance
Bachelor's Degree, Biology, General
Bachelor's Degree, Technical and Scientific Communication
Plantasia Plant Design & Maintenance January 2000 - Present
US Forest Service June 1989 - November 1995
Retail, Customer Service
Jed Bryce
Forest Analyst at Timberland Appraisal / Resource Programming Inc.
M.S. Biometrics
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Forest Management, Quantitative Science
Timberland Appraisal / Resource Programming Inc. July 2013 - Present
Statistics, Data Analysis, Research, Analysis, R, Teamwork, Valuation, Microsoft Office, Appraisals, Forecasting, Microsoft Excel, Project Management, Technical Writing, SPSS, Science, Matlab, Programming, LaTeX
Jeff Dee
Process Engineer at DuPont Innovalight
MS, Mechanical Engineering
BS, Chemical Engineering
DuPont Innovalight August 2010 - Present
Genentech June 2009 - August 2009
Mattson Technology May 2008 - December 2008
NEC Electronics America July 2006 - April 2008
Washington Technology Center May 2004 - January 2006
Intel June 2005 - September 2005
Intel January 2003 - September 2003
Design of Experiments, Semiconductors, SPC, Thin Films, Process Engineering, Materials Science, R&D, Chemical Engineering, Characterization, Nanotechnology
Jeff Deinhard
Certificate, Perl Programing
ATA, CIS, Cisco CCNA, Microcomputer Support Specialist
TEKsystems September 2008 - Present
IrisInk - Seattle December 2009 - February 2010
Who's Calling February 2006 - September 2008
NWFSC January 2002 - February 2006
Edmonds Community College January 2002 - December 2003
Cisco Technologies, Servers, Juniper, Networking, VMware, System Deployment, TCP/IP, CCNA, ITIL, Data Center, Troubleshooting, Network Engineering, Perl, VPN, Firewalls, Apache, WAN, MPLS, Software Documentation, Microsoft SQL Server, Cisco IOS, Object Oriented Perl, CGI/Perl, Perl Automation, Python, Juniper JNCIA, Change Management, F5 BigIP, Netscaler, Arista, JUNOS, Juniper Technologies
Jeff Harwood
Canton, Ohio Area
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Accounting and Business/Management, 3.65
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Russian
Fannie May Confections Brands Inc. September 2010 - Present
Fannie May Confections Brands Inc. January 2007 - 2010
North Pacific Corporation 1999 - 2006
Inventory Management, Forecasting, Manufacturing, P&L Management, Inventory Control, Cross-functional Team..., Retail, Sales Management, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Supply Chain, P&L, Food, Process Improvement, Purchasing, Business Strategy, Pricing, Budgets, Management
Jeff Ibuki
Procurement Specialist at Port of Seattle
Jeffrey Hon
Jeffrey Pyle
Contract Photographer
Bellevue College 2012 — 2014
Lake Washington Technical College 2009 — 2010
Philosophy, Aviation
BYU-Idaho 1997 — 2000
Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Recreation Management
Jeff Pyle Photography May 2014 - Present
Pinktree Distribution October 2010 - June 2012
Aaron Packaging 2009 - 2010
Summit Property Group June 2006 - June 2008
The Home Depot September 2005 - June 2006
Digital Photography, Photography, Portrait Photography, Photoshop, Account Management, New Business Development, Trade Shows, Microsoft Office, Product Management, Forecasting, Negotiation, Photojournalism, Project Management, Project Planning, Outdoor Recreation, Outdoor Education, Cooking, Boy Scouts, Sales, Customer Service, Recruiting, Event Planning, Team Building, Training, Team Leadership, Construction, Budgets, Sales Management, Contract Negotiation, Research, Public Speaking, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Management, Start-ups, Leadership
Jeff Schuh, CPA
Senior Accountant at Helac Corporation
Bachelor of Arts, Sports Management, 3.5
Certificate of Accounting, Accounting, 3.7
Lake City High School 1995 — 1999
Helac Corporation January 2013 - Present
Druids Glen Golf Course April 2004 - October 2012
Spokane Indians Baseball Club May 2003 - October 2003
Coeur d’Alene Golf Course June 1999 - August 2002
Customer Service, Budget, Retail, Management, New Hire Training, New Hires, Communication, Inventory Control, Budgets, Training, Analysis, Internal Audit, Account Reconciliation, Bank Reconciliation, Professional Experience, Fixed Asset Management, Cost Accounting
Jeff Stallman
Patient Care Coordinator at Minor and James
B.A, Majors in Danish, Comparative Religion
Jeff Sturman
Partner at Kolodny Law Group
Georgetown University Law Center 1990 — 1991
LLM, Taxation
University of Oregon School of Law 1987 — 1990
BA, Business/Accounting
Kolodny Law Group June 1999 - Present
Legal Research, Appeals, Civil Litigation, Litigation, Arbitration, Prenuptial Agreements, Trade Secrets, Paternity, Family Law, Trial Practice, Trials, Commercial Litigation, Legal Assistance, Mediation, Courts, Legal Writing
Jeff Tracy
Lexington, Kentucky Area
Senior Developer, Open Portal Solutions, Inc. and Owner of Kentucky Computer Service
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics
OPS, Inc. January 2007 - Present
Tempur-Pedic, Inc. March 1999 - February 2006
TempurPedic, Inc. 1999 - 2006
Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, Visio, E-commerce, Access, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, ETL, Data Modeling, .NET, XML, Business Analysis, Oracle, Database Design, Testing
Jenessa Wight
Teacher at Seattle Public Schools
Master of Teaching- Teacher's Certification, Elementary Education and Teaching
Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Comparative U.S. Studies
The Moonpaper Tent December 1996 - Present
YES, AND---School for the three R's:Resourcefulness, Respect, Responsibility September 1990 - Present
University of Washington October 2012 - May 2013
Seattle Public Schools September 2007 - October 2010
Curriculum Design, Social Media, Community Outreach, Editing, Teaching, Microsoft Office, Public Speaking, Tutoring, Nonprofits, Leadership Development, Curriculum Development, Grant Writing, Coaching, Program Development, Event Management, Event Planning, Volunteer Management, Social Networking, Fundraising, Psychology, Staff Development, Creative Direction, Interactive Storytelling
Jen Haller
Axon / TASER International May 2014 - Present
Urbanspoon May 2011 - May 2014
Urbanspoon October 2010 - May 2011
The Maytag Stores January 2006 - February 2009
The Mosaic Company December 2005 - February 2009
King County Long Term Care Ombudsman Program September 2004 - December 2005
The Maytag Store January 2004 - September 2004
The Mosaic Company May 2002 - September 2004
Office Management, Event Planning, Facilities Management, Customer Service, Facilities Operations, Event Management, Office Administration, Accounts Payable, Customer Support, Customer Experience, Corporate Events, Human Resources, Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Advertising, Social Networking, Salesforce.com, Leadership, Online Advertising, Strategy, Project Management, Public Speaking, Management
Jenna Williamson, LMSW
MSTCAN Therapist at New York Foundling
Columbia University - Columbia School of Social Work 2013 — 2015
Masters of Science in Social Work (MSSW), Advanced Clinical Practice
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Psychology and Communication
New York Foundling June 2015 - Present
NYU Child Study Center at NYU Langone Medical Center September 2014 - May 2015
William W. Niles School (MS 118) September 2013 - May 2014
Columbia School of Social Work August 2013 - May 2014
Behavioral Tech, LLC August 2013 - May 2014
Behavioral Tech, LLC October 2012 - August 2013
Behavioral Tech, LLC January 2012 - October 2012
Sue Romanick MD PLLC June 2011 - January 2012
Sue Romanick MD PLLC July 2010 - June 2011
Adolescents, Nonprofits, Customer Service, Microsoft Office, Mental Health, Social Services, Editing, Event Management, Training, Community Outreach, Volunteer Management, Motivational..., Public Speaking, Crisis Intervention, DBT, Therapists, Program Development, Behavioral Health, Interventions
Jennifer Engstrom
Masters of Education, Curriculum and Instruction: Science Education
California State University, Monterey Bay 2006 — 2007
Teaching Credential, Multiple Subjects and Science Authorization
Bachelor of Science (BS), Earth Systems Science and Policy: Marine and Coastal Ecology
Lemon Grove Academy December 2014 - Present
Los Angeles County Office of Education January 2012 - Present
IslandWood August 2009 - December 2012
North Monterey County Unified School District August 2007 - August 2009
Science, Curriculum Development, Teaching, Educational Technology, Curriculum Design, K-12 Education, Experiential Education, Inquiry-based Learning, Marine Biology, Science Education, Classroom, Special Education, Lesson Planning
Jennifer Kammerzell
Engineer Associate at City of Tacoma
City of Tacoma June 1999 - Present
Jennifer Lin-Jones
Senior Scientist at DiscoveRx
Ph.D., Zoology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1980 — 1984
B.S., Biology
DiscoveRx September 2010 - Present
UC Berkeley December 1996 - August 2009
Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Laboratory, Cell, Protein Chemistry, Cell Biology, Assay Development, Research, Cell Culture, PCR, Tissue Culture, Western Blotting, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Drug Discovery, Genomics, DNA, ELISA, Protein Expression, Protein Purification, Immunology, Flow Cytometry, High Throughput..., Biology
Jennifer Murai
Bachelor's degree, Speech Communication
Another Source June 2011 - June 2013
Accra Manufacturing Inc October 2001 - February 2003
ZAAZ September 2000 - October 2001
BK Entertainment May 1997 - September 2000
Employee Relations, Sales, Customer Service
Jennifer Vickers Freeman
Attorney at Pierce County Department of Assigned Counsel
The George Washington University Law School 2001 — 2004
B.A., Political Science & Sociology
Pierce County Department of Assigned Counsel July 2014 - Present
Freeman Law October 2010 - July 2014
Pierce County Department of Assigned Counsel November 2004 - October 2010
Legal Research, Legal Writing, Appeals, Criminal Law, Trial Practice, Litigation, Motions, DUI Defense, Criminal Defense, Trials, Juvenile Law, Drug Cases, Torts
Jennifer Winkler
Mel & Enid College of Public Health, University of Arizona
Master of Public Health (MPH)
PATH June 1998 - December 2012
Capacity Building, Program Evaluation, NGOs, International..., Nonprofits, Program Development, Grants, Grant Writing, Community Development, Policy Analysis, Community Outreach, Workshop Facilitation, Fundraising, Proposal Writing, Volunteer Management, Global Health, Program Management, Qualitative Research, Public Policy, Conflict Resolution, Reproductive Health, Teaching, Data Analysis, Public Health, Organizational..., Policy, HIV prevention, Healthcare, Report Writing
Jenni Gregg, P.E.
Project Manager at Hermanson Company
BS, Mechanical Engineering
Hermanson Company April 2013 - Present
University Mechanical Contractors, Inc. March 2009 - March 2013
University Mechanical Contractors, Inc. February 2009 - January 2011
Skanska 2007 - 2009
HVAC, LEED, Construction Management, Project Estimation, LEED AP, Construction, MEP, Building Automation, Mechanical Engineering, Energy Management, Piping, MS Project, Energy Conservation
Jenn Malstrom-Sicard
Financial Controller Willamette HVAC, LLC
Bachelor’s Degree, Sociology; English/Writing
Master’s Degree, Composition/English
Sicard Investments, LLC 2010 - Present
MS Holdings, LLC 2008 - Present
Willamette HVAC 2005 - Present
Marylhurst University 2004 - 2007
Stoner Electric Company 2003 - 2005
Northwest Youth Services 2002 - 2003
Kids on 45th 2000 - 2003
Nanny 1997 - 2003
Aki Kurose Middle School 2001 - 2002
YMCA of Greater Seattle 2000 - 2001
Jenny Acevedo-Barga
Jenny Cain
Software Developer at Tableau Software
University of Washington/Bothell 2012 — 2014
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Software Engineering, 3.58
BA, International Studies
Tableau Software March 2015 - Present
Performance Software Corporation May 2014 - February 2015
Performance Software Corporation December 2013 - May 2014
Marriott International November 2012 - September 2013
Coldwell Banker November 2008 - December 2011
Coldwell Banker Real Estate 2008 - 2009
C++, Java, Visual Basic, Networking, Analysis, SAS programming, SQL, Embedded Systems, Data Management, R, Embedded Software
Jenny Lueck
Supplier Management Payloads and Systems Finance Staff Analyst
Certificate, Project Management Certification
BA, Speech Communications
Boeing September 2014 - Present
Boeing May 2012 - Present
Lueck Studios LLC 2006 - May 2012
eCompany Store September 2007 - March 2009
NEPCO August 1999 - April 2002
Boeing October 1996 - 1999
Procurement, Project Coordination, Account Management, Inventory Management, Supply Chain, Analysis, supplier management, Sales, Management, Process Improvement, Program Management, Project Management, Purchasing, Supply Chain Management, Cross-functional Team..., Marketing Strategy, Strategic Planning, Budgets, Software Documentation
Jenny Makinde
Associate General Manager at McMurry
McMurry July 2010 - Present
McMurry May 2009 - July 2010
Dillards February 2009 - May 2009
Dillards September 2008 - May 2009
Dillards June 2008 - August 2008
Target 2007 - 2007
Pogo Linux 2005 - 2006
Jen Schindler
Shingle Springs, California
Attended University of Washington
Jeremy Pfarr
M.Arch Candidate at the University of Washington
Masters, Architecture
University of Nevada, Las Vegas 2009 — 2010
Gonzaga University 2005 — 2009
Bachelors, Business Administration
Allied Trade Group, Inc. February 2011 - July 2011
Architecture, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Ecotect, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Architectural Design, Photography, OS X, Architectures, Adobe Acrobat
Jerry Morrissey
Owner, Morrissey Enterprises
University of Cincinnati College of Engineering 1957 — 1961
Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering
Morrissey Enterprises November 1996 - Present
General Electric February 1986 - February 1996
Customer Service, Sales, Marketing, Negotiation, Management, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Office, Real Estate, Marketing Strategy, New Business Development
Jessica Gray
Danville, California
Intern at Columbia Pacific Advisors
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.)
Monte Vista High School 2008 — 2012
Columbia Pacific Advisors, LLC February 2015 - Present
Kaiser Permanente June 2014 - August 2014
Varlamos Pizzeria September 2013 - June 2014
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Spanish, Teamwork, Telephone Skills, Public Speaking, Leadership, Time Management
Jessica Hamill, MAIEP, CFM
Floodplain Restoration Grants/Project Manager, SEA Program, Wasington State Department of Ecology
Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey 2010 — 2011
Master of Arts, International Environmental Policy
Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literature
Washington State Department of Ecology January 2014 - Present
Rincon Consultants,Inc June 2011 - August 2013
Junta de Andaluc October 2007 - May 2009
Yangzhou University February 2006 - February 2007
RadioShack September 2004 - January 2006
Environmental Policy, Environmental Compliance, Environmental Awareness, Sustainability, Environmental Impact..., Climate Change, Technical Writing, Land Use Planning, Research, Editing, Land Use, GIS, Environmental Planning, NEPA, CEQA, ArcGIS, Environmental Consulting, Mitigation, Natural Resource..., Water Quality, Report Writing, Air Quality, Water Resources, Water, Policy Analysis, ArcMap, Environmental Impact..., Data Collection
Jessica Parsons
Teacher Candidate at UW
BA, Advertising/PR, Psychology
Nordstrom Direct February 2013 - June 2014
POSSIBLE December 2010 - February 2013
Zaaz December 2010 - November 2012
Conover Tuttle Pace 2010 - 2010
PSU College of Education 2010 - 2010
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage 2006 - 2009
Google Analytics, Web Analytics, Omniture, Digital Marketing, Digital Strategy
Jessie J. Bryan
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Realtor and Professional Real Estate Services at Keller Williams Realty Integrity Lakes MC #537
B.A, Linguistics; Anthropology; German, Italian, Japanese, Tongan
Internationales Kulturinstitute (IKI) Program, Vienna, Austria 1997 — 1997
Germanic studies: Language, History, Culture, Music
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), language, history, culture, music
Gustavus Adolphus College 1994 — 1995
Linguistics, Vocal Music Performance Studies
Edina High School 1990 — 1994
Keller Williams Realty Integrity Lakes MC #537 June 2015 - Present
Bryan Advertising Company January 2009 - Present
Jessie Bryan Music June 2006 - Present
Coldwell Banker Burnet March 2011 - June 2015
Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant June 2003 - April 2009
Edina Realty June 2003 - January 2009
Best Buy January 1999 - January 2001
Real Estate, First Time Home Buyers, Selling, Marketing, Negotiation, Sales, Leadership..., Organizational..., Customer Service, Event Planning, Strategic Planning, Social Media, Team Building, Event Management, Coaching, Management, Advertising, Sellers, Fundraising, Leadership, Social Networking, Social Media Marketing, Online Marketing, Small Business, Marketing Strategy, Contract Negotiation, Public Speaking, Time Management, Marketing Communications, Email Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Singing
Ji Hoon Park
DS Research — Samsung Electronics
University of Washington DS ResearchSamsung ElectronicsAugust 2014 - Present
ESTsoft Corp. August 2013 - September 2013
Java, c, Linux, Circuit analysis, Verilog, MPLAB
Jill Patnode
Director at Puget Sound ESD
Masters, Social Work
Puget Sound Educational Service District 2013 - Present
Puget Sound ESD January 2001 - Present
State of Washington July 1991 - December 2001
Case Managment, Program Evaluation, Program Development, Classroom, Crisis Intervention, Interventions, Prevention, Case Management, Curriculum Development, Leadership Development, Staff Development, Fundraising, Grants, Group Therapy, Teaching, Youth Engagement, Social Services, Community Outreach
Jim Brooks, R.N.
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
R.N. Review Analyst at KEPRO
Ongoing, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance
Cuyahoga Community College 2011 — 2011
Certificate, Health Information Technology (H.I.T.)
Lorain County Community College 1981 — 1983
Associates, Nursing
KEPRO January 2015 - Present
Summit Health, Inc. July 2013 - February 2015
Kelly Services 2014 - October 2014
Brooks Photography & Design December 2005 - January 2014
Mercy Health (formerly Catholic Health Partners) June 2011 - January 2012
Profero Solutions March 2009 - July 2011
Private Duty July 2005 - May 2009
Mercy Allen Hospital July 2000 - December 2004
The MetroHealth System (Cleveland, OH) 1996 - 2000
EHR, Supervisory Skills, EMR, Nursing, Healthcare Information..., Healthcare, Hospitals, Critical Care, Pediatrics, Cardiac, Healthcare IT, Informatics, Clinical Documentation, Ambulatory, Clinical, Nurses, ICU, Acute Care, Clinical Information..., Documentation, Word, Problem Solving, Clinical Informatics, Clinics, Teaching, Health, Home Care, Cardiology, ACLS, Healthcare Consulting, Medical Terminology, BLS, Med/Surg, HIT, Orthopedics, Medical Informatics, Emergency Medicine, Emergency Room, Emergency Nursing, Epic Systems, Supervision, Inpatient, Ambulatory Care, HIPAA, Go Live Support, Cpr Certified, GoLive, Telemetry, Patient Education, Training
Jim Kristof
Owner, Law Offices of James M. Kristof
B.A., Accounting
Law Offices of James M. Kristof
Real Estate, Litigation, Business Formation, Estate Planning, Mergers, Contract Negotiation, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, LLC, Personal Injury, Business Litigation, Alternative Dispute..., Product Liability, Arbitration, Real Estate Transactions, Insurance, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Legal Writing, Automobile Accidents, Construction Law, Mediation, Commercial Real Estate, Legal Research, CPA, Personal Injury..., Trial Practice, Wrongful Death, Torts, Trials, Courts, Medical Malpractice, Appeals, Litigation Support, Licensing, Dispute Resolution, Criminal Defense, Legal Assistance, Criminal Law, Class Actions, Due Diligence, Joint Ventures
Jim Lis
Houston, Texas Area
Supply Chain Director at ITW Global Brands
University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management 2010 — 2012
MBA, Global Leadership
CPM, Project Management
Business Management, Business
ITW Global Brands July 2013 - Present
UNICOM Engineering (formerly NEI) May 2011 - July 2013
Intuit January 2008 - May 2010
Intuit November 2004 - January 2008
Microsoft June 2000 - November 2004
Ingram Micro 1997 - 2000
Cross-functional Team..., Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain, Process Improvement, Vendor Management, Program Management, Logistics, Six Sigma, Strategic Sourcing, Change Management, Forecasting, ERP, Supply Chain..., Strategic Partnerships, Strategic Planning, International Trade, Warehousing, Logistics Management, Inventory Management, Continuous Improvement, Materials Management, Transportation, Leadership, Business Development, Outsourcing, Supply Management, Strategy, International Business, Procurement, Contract Negotiation, Business Process..., Global Sourcing, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Warehouse Management, Demand Planning, P&L Management, Lean Manufacturing, Pricing, Management, International Logistics, SAP, 3PL, Sales Operations, Operational Excellence, Reverse Logistics
Joanna Bailet
Intern at Mack 9 Music Group, LLC
Human Centered Design Engineering (HCDE)
Mack 9 Music Group, LLC June 2015 - Present
University of Washington Office of Annual Giving April 2014 - Present
Sigma Kappa Sorority January 2014 - January 2015
Public Speaking, Event Planning, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Social Media, Fundraising, Teamwork, Customer Service, Leadership
JoAnn Beck Cabacungan
SpeechLanguage Pathologist at Therapy in Motion
M.S., Speech-Language Pathology
B.S., Human Communication Sciences
Therapy in Motion April 2011 - Present
Wurzburg MEDDAC May 1999 - December 1999
Department of Defense Dependent Schools 1998 - 1999
Hosptials 1997 - 1998
Joey Ashenbrenner
Experienced Nonprofit Professional
Hope International University 2009 — 2011
Masters of Business Administration, International Development
FamilyWorks January 2013 - Present
The Power of Hope 2010 - June 2012
Washington Courage & Renewal 2009 - 2010
America SCORES Seattle 2007 - 2009
Program Management, Volunteer Management, Program Development, Fundraising, Donor Engagement, Staff Development, Grant Writing, Salesforce.com, Constant Contact, Vertical Response, Grants, Organizational..., Nonprofits, MS Office Suite, Mac OS X, Donor Perfect, Donor Recognition, Major Donor Cultivation, Volunteer Training, Moves Management, Staff Management, Project Management, Little Green Light, Strategic Planning, Board Development, Event Management
John Acheson
Senior Technical Sales Engineer at Glass Box Technology
Northwest University 1993 — 1996
BA, Business Management / Systems Engineering, 3.69/4.0
Business Administration, Management and Operations
Bellevue High School 1986 — 1990
Glass Box Technology February 2015 - Present
Jeda Networks August 2013 - February 2015
Independent Contractor. June 2012 - August 2013
City of Anaheim 2005 - June 2012
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services January 2003 - June 2012
The Boeing Company March 2001 - June 2002
Microsoft September 2000 - March 2001
Data Center, IT Operations, Disaster Recovery, Security, Virtualization, VMware, Active Directory, SAN, Project Management, Servers, IT Service Management, Storage, Storage Area Networks, System Administration, IT Management, Windows Server, Cisco Technologies, VPN, Cloud Computing, OnSSI, WebEOC, Firewalls, VMware Infrastructure, Network Security, Integration, VMware ESX, Microsoft Certified..., TCP/IP, Business Continuity, Incident Management, Microsoft Exchange, Troubleshooting, Network Architecture, High Availability, Network Administration, Information Technology, Network Design, Information Security, Hardware, ITIL v3 Foundations..., Network + Certified, IBM Tivoli, VoIP, IT Strategy, Technical Support, Linux Server, MCSE, Ubuntu, FCoE, pfSense
John Eric Kramak
IMPACT Evaluation Manager at IMPACT Initiatives
University of Colorado at Denver 2012 — 2015
MURP, Urban and Regional Planning, 3.96
BA, Geography: Housing, Transportation, Urban and Cultural; Geographical Information Systems (GIS), 3.95
Associate of Arts (AA), pre-Architecture
IMPACT Initiatives August 2015 - Present
IMPACT Initiatives November 2014 - Present
REACH August 2014 - October 2014
Spatial Development International March 2012 - July 2014
Self-Employed May 2011 - July 2011
Dabane Trust October 2010 - July 2011
ArcGIS, Geography, GIS, Analysis, Data Collection, Spatial Analysis, Data Management, Research, GPS, Data Mapping, Spatial Databases, Urban Planning, Remote Sensing, Leadership, Project Planning, ESRI, Orthopedic..., ArcMap, ArcGIS Server, ENVI, ERDAS Imagine
John F Thompson
Managing Broker at Keller Williams Realty Seattle Metro West
MBA, International Business
Keller Williams Realty December 2003 - Present
Keller Williams Seattle Metro West 2003 - 2013
Keller Williams Realty Seattle Metro West 2006 - 2011
Keller Williams 2000 - 2011
Real Estate Broker, Real Estate Investor, Mergers, Real Estate, Real Estate Transactions, Short Sales, REO, Sellers, First Time Home Buyers, Commercial Real Estate, Foreclosures, Investors, Investment Properties, Single Family Homes, Buyer Representation, Relocation, Real Estate Development, Listings, Condos, Luxury, New Home Sales, Referrals, Residential Homes, Real Property, Marketing, Seniors, Mergers & Acquisitions, Buyers, Selling, HUD, Rentals, Home Staging
John Rodie
Information Systems Manager at IDD Aerospace
St. Martin's university 1989 — 1993
B.A. Degree, Finance
B.S. Degree, Computer Software Systems
IDD Aerospace March 2001 - Present
Agile Methodologies, ERP, Leadership, Management, Networking, Process Improvement, Oracle, Program Management, Strategy, System Administration, Visio, Unix, Windows, Integration, Lean Manufacturing, Systems Engineering, Technical Support, Aerospace, Project Management
John Rogacki
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CAST MICHAEL WEATHERLY, FREDDY RODRIGUEZ, GENEVA CARR, JAMIE LEE KIRCHNER, CHRIS JACKSON, ANNABELLE ATTANASIO
CREATORS PAUL ATTANSIO, PHIL MCGRAW
CAST MICHAEL WEATHERLY, FREDDY RODRIGUEZ, GENEVA CARR, JAMIE LEE KIRCHNER, CHRIS JACKSON
Bull stars Michael Weatherly as Dr. Jason Bull in a TV drama inspired by the early career of Dr. Phil McGraw, founder of one of the most prolific trial consulting firms of all time. Brilliant, brash, and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition, and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses and the accused tick.
Bull employs an expert team at Trial Analysis Corporation including his quick-witted former brother-in-law, lawyer Benny Colón (Freddy Rodriguez), Marissa Morgan (Geneva Carr), a cutting-edge neurolinguistics expert; former NYPD detective Danny James (Jaime Lee Kirchner); haughty millennial hacker Cable McCrory (Annabelle Attanasio), who is responsible for gathering cyber intelligence; and Chunk Palmer (Christopher Jackson), a fashion-conscious stylist and former All-American lineman who fine tunes clients' appearances for trial. In high-stakes legal proceedings, Bull's combination of remarkable insight into human nature, three PhDs, and a top-notch staff create winning strategies in hopes of tipping the scales of justice in his clients' favor.
Amblin Television was producer on Bull for the show's first three seasons.
Season 1 Extended Trailer
Multiple Emmy Award winner Edie Falco stars in "Tommy" as a former high-ranking NYPD officer who becomes the first female Chief of Police for Los Angeles.
The head of the surveillance team for the Montecito Resort & Casino and his protégé deal with card-counting cheaters, costly streaks of random luck and rival casinos stealing their big-money players.
1960's vice cop Terry Muldoon keeps the lid on NYC crime and manages it for the city. The vice cops are the landlords and if you want to be in business, you have to pay your rent.
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Help Me Interview Mark Pincus, CEO/Founder, Zynga
Today kicks off my annual postings on folks I'll be in interviewing for the Web 2 Summit. Every year I seek your input, every year you help me get smarter, and I thank you for that. The Web 2 Summit (to which all readers of this site are invited) kicks…
oday kicks off my annual postings on folks I’ll be in interviewing for the Web 2 Summit. Every year I seek your input, every year you help me get smarter, and I thank you for that.
The Web 2 Summit (to which all readers of this site are invited) kicks off Oct. 17th with Mark Pincus, a fellow I’ve known for over a decade, since his days at Freeloader, Support.com, and Tribe. But Zynga has become his signature success, becoming one of the fastest growing companies of the past decade, and shorthand for “games” across the social web. Zynga filed for a much-anticipated IPO earlier this year, though as with nearly every company in the space, the market seems to have cooled since then. In late August, reports circulated that Zynga was delaying its IPO, but those were never confirmed.
I doubt Mark will answer any questions related to the IPO, given he is still in a quiet period, but there’s plenty more to talk about. Pincus got the Vanity Fair treatment in June, and he’s certainly a classic Valley character.
But I’m more interested in Pincus’ take on the Internet’s strategic landscape – he’s been through bruising negotiations with Facebook over credits, he’s recently taken his games to Google+ and other platforms, and he has his finger on the pulse of some sixty or so million daily game players. If anyone can grok Web 2’s theme of “The Data Frame,” it’s Pincus.
I can and will ask Mark about scaling a startup, managing growth, his personal story, etc. But Searchblog readers certainly know Zynga, and you have questions for Mark and for his company. What might they be?
As an extra incentive, I’ll be picking the best three questions from these series of posts (they will include Pincus, Marc Benioff, Paul Otellini, Dick Costolo, Michael Dell, Dennis Crowley, Mary Meeker, Michael Roth, Steve Ballmer, James Gleick, Vic Gundotra, and Reid Hoffman, among others. The authors of those questions will get complimentary passes to Web 2 – a more than $4000 value. So get to commenting, and thank you!
Author John BattellePosted on September 30, 2011 Categories Site Related, The Conversation Economy, Uncategorized
9 thoughts on “Help Me Interview Mark Pincus, CEO/Founder, Zynga”
Soren Gordhamer says:
1) You have said: “I want us all to work on products that matter in people’s lives.” And you have argued that your games actually help people be more present for one another. How do you see games like Farmville and Mafia Wars mattering to the world and helping people be more present in their lives?
Source: http://www.fastcompany.com/1698265/mark-pincus-zynga-farmville-mafia-wars
2) You once said, “I did every horrible thing in the book to, just to get revenues right away. I mean we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this zwinky toolbar which was like, I don’t know, I downloaded it once and couldn’t get rid of it.” Do you think you can make up for this and how do you convince people this is no longer the primary motivation of your company?
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus-faceboo/
3) Kiva President Premal Shah has said that their greatest competitor is Zynga. They are fighting for people’s attention, which is now so much on virtual games. They want to know how they can get people to care as much about building actual farms that help “real people’ than users currently care about spending time and money building “imaginary” farms and worlds on games that Zynga makes. Do you sometimes wonder whether the hundreds of millions of dollars people spend building imaginary worlds online might be put to better use in the world?
Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/13/kiva-ceo-on-the-next-5-years-and-why-zynga-is-their-biggest-rival-tctv/
My question goes something like this (by that, I mean exactly like this):
Why doesn’t Zynga team up with Linkedin? This would build professional relationships in a fun way (completely understated – Linkedin is dry, but it’s “the one, the only” business network).
Play random people from within your network. This “playground” can be used as a meeting ground for new business contacts. How do select who you play? You don’t. An algorithm does, based on all kinds of stuff; what’s in your Linkedin profile, your recent Tweets, etc.
I guess that’s more than what a question to ask though. But, if they made that business deal, they could do A LOT more from there. In my humble opinion.
Do you believe less burdensome online transaction systems (especially for the micro-transaction) for virtual and other goods are needed?
(Considering their recent results this is a somewhat rhetorical question.)
Would he like to do something both profitable and beneficial for Zynga’s image?
If the answers are “Yes” to both questions give him my email address.
While its development arose with a realization of the necessity and potentials for such a neutral utility in networked political lobbying; enabling a viable, secure and simple one-click micro-transaction has additional potentials… game ‘goodies’ and news/journalism monetization being amongst them.
Chris McCoy (@chrisamccoy) says:
How would an EA social gaming network affect Zynga’s strategy?
Context: EA has the big data under the hood to create its own social gaming platform like Facebook. They just a) need to think this way and b) build it.
Aneil says:
Facebook allowed Zynga to scale. But mobile is fragmented – what is the strategy to dominate mobile games?
Does Zynga plan to expand through organic growth or through acquisitions? If the latter, has Zynga considered buying Minecraft to capture a younger virtual world gaming audience?
Cathryn Posey says:
My three questions for Mark Pincus:
1. Given the rise of gamification and the “social enterprise,” does Zynga have a strategy to pursue these sectors with new products or offerings?
2. Would Zynga ever consider white labeling their services?
3. In your opinion, what are some of the best uses of game mechanics by brands right now?
Antonios "Ton-e" Manessis says:
In his book, The Facebook Effect, David Kirkpatrick described how Party Poker paid a flat fee of $300 for each new subscriber and put at least $50 into gambling. Facebook gained $60,000 each month for just 200 new members. (p. 140)Thus being the biggest advertiser in 2005.
QUESTION: So was it just LUCK that the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) passed in October 2006 and the “opportunity was created” for Zynga Poker ? or did you lobby to include the act within the Safe Port Act ?
We know virtual goods have been successful for you. What have you learned about users over the years in terms of their engagement with virtual goods? What % pay $ for goods?
What other revenue models are you exploring?
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ALMA Imaging of the CO(6-5) Line Emission in NGC 7130
Zhao, Yinghe and Lu, Nanyao and Xu, C. Kevin and Gao, Yu and Barcos-Muñoz, Loreto and Díaz-Santos, Tanio and Appleton, Philip and Charmandaris, Vassilis and Armus, Lee and van der Werf, Paul and Evans, Aaron and Cao, Chen and Inami, Hanae and Murphy, Eric (2016) ALMA Imaging of the CO(6-5) Line Emission in NGC 7130. Astrophysical Journal, 820 (2). Art. No. 118. ISSN 0004-637X. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160510-100231576
In this paper, we report our high-resolution (0".20 × 0".14 or ~70 × 49 pc) observations of the CO(6-5) line emission, which probes warm and dense molecular gas, and the 434 μm dust continuum in the nuclear region of NGC 7130, obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). The CO line and dust continuum fluxes detected in our ALMA observations are 1230 ± 74 Jy km s^(−1) and 814 ± 52 mJy, respectively, which account for 100% and 51% of their total fluxes. We find that the CO(6-5) and dust emissions are generally spatially correlated, but their brightest peaks show an offset of ~70 pc, suggesting that the gas and dust emissions may start decoupling at this physical scale. The brightest peak of the CO(6-5) emission does not spatially correspond to the radio continuum peak, which is likely dominated by an active galactic nucleus (AGN). This, together with our additional quantitative analysis, suggests that the heating contribution of the AGN to the CO(6-5) emission in NGC 7130 is negligible. The CO(6-5) and the extinction-corrected Pa-α maps display striking differences, suggestive of either a breakdown of the correlation between warm dense gas and star formation at linear scales of <100 pc or a large uncertainty in our extinction correction to the observed Pa-α image. Over a larger scale of ~2.1 kpc, the double-lobed structure found in the CO(6-5) emission agrees well with the dust lanes in the optical/near-infrared images.
http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/820/2/118 DOI Article
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/820/2/118 Publisher Article
http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07070v2 arXiv Discussion Paper
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© 2016 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2015 December 6; accepted 2016 February 22; published 2016 March 29. We thank the anonymous referee for useful comments. Y.Z. and Y.G. acknowledge support by NSFC grants No. 11173059, 11390373 and 11420101002, and CAS pilot-b program #XDB09000000. This paper makes use of the following ALMA data: ADS/JAO.ALMA#2013.1.00524.S. ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA), and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada) and NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO, and NAOJ. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
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Why aren't bird radars placed on the front of commercial aircraft?
Unfortunately, my skills and understanding of radar and the like are very limited, but if somebody could enlighten me why there is no such thing as a dual bird/weather radar to switch to?
I've understood there there have been some (successful) attempts with ground station. It would add weight, but i'd guess that perhaps would be offset for some time by a single ruined engine.
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$\begingroup$ As an aside, putting the radar on would be easy. Actually avoiding the birds once you know where they are would still be really hard $\endgroup$ – egid Feb 14 '14 at 17:51
$\begingroup$ Most big planes spend most of their time flying far above altitudes where birds are found. So you're talking about hauling around this radar on every flight, but only using it for a few minutes on takeoff and landing. Thats a very bad weight/utility tradeoff. $\endgroup$ – abelenky Feb 14 '14 at 18:32
$\begingroup$ @abelenky Birds can be found pretty high. :-) But I do agree that a radar would be impractical beyond takeoff or landing. And those operations are better suited to airport systems. $\endgroup$ – Shawn Feb 14 '14 at 19:04
$\begingroup$ I have "heard" that turning the weather radar on can cause birds to get out of your way, but I haven't seen any actual evidence to back it up. I turn it on just in case it helps though since there is very little downside. :) $\endgroup$ – Lnafziger Feb 14 '14 at 19:42
$\begingroup$ @abelenky, as Shawn said some birds are indeed capable of flying very high however the largest risk of a bird strike is during takeoff and landing where birds are firstly more likely to be but also there is little to no chance of maneuvering -especially in an emergency situation. (and Lnafziger, dont let certain groups catch you saying/doing that) $\endgroup$ – Matthew Peters Feb 6 '15 at 18:30
There really is no such thing as "bird radar". Radar comes in a few frequency bands that have certain advantages depending on the distance, resolution and attenuation you need out of it. The band isn't the only factor here as the band will dictate what size dish you need and your aircraft nosecone will but a distinct upper limit on that. Weather radar is geared toward detecting rain drops and anything bigger than rain (hail, bugs, birds, etc) with reasonable distance and attenuation features (you want to penetrate into a storm). Birds will show up on this radar, though depending on smoothing and processing algorithms you may need a flock of them before they get drawn on the radar, at which point they'll look like some rain. A radar optimized to detect bird sized objects would probably use a wavelength that did not let you see things as small as rain drops and small hail.
Some other things to keep in mind are that the radar is not always on, and it should be off on the ground except during takeoff when needed. The reason for this is that you do not want to be putting radar energy into people, and they tend to be in the way on the ground. We only turned the radar on for takeoff when there was significant weather around the field and wanted to be prepared for requesting diversions. Aircraft radar tilt can also be adjusted, so we wouldn't be looking at birds in front of us, but clouds above and in front of us.
Wit that said, our SOP on fields with known heavy bird activity was to takeoff with the radar on and pointed forward because someone had the idea that the birds didn't like being in the radar beam. I have no sources to back that idea up, but it was written into our FOM.
Now assume you can takeoff and see a flock of birds on the radar. Do you have enough time to do anything about it? If so, what do you do, some maneuver away from them or do you turn into them in hops they take the evasive action?
Now back to the title question: Why aren't bird radars in the nose cone?
The weather radar can see birds, it would be redundant.
A bird radar (optimized for birds) would not be good at seeing weather, so where would the weather radar be placed?
In a real situation, what would a bird radar enable you to do with a positive detection with the time you have to react to it? Probably not much.
Weather is a much more common threat than flocks of birds, so if you can only have 1 radar system, you want the weather radar.
caseycasey
$\begingroup$ The fact about attenuation makes sense. It would be very difficult to single out the birds from other stuff, and benefit in general would be marginal. the birds getting scared by weather radar sounds like something for mythbusters :) thanks for the answer $\endgroup$ – Thunderstrike Feb 15 '14 at 18:23
$\begingroup$ Supposedly the MiG-25 had the ultimate solution. Its radar was so powerful it'd kill any bird in its path, clearing itself a way through the flock :) But it also killed people, so it was decided to limit its use to above a certain altitude to prevent accidents. $\endgroup$ – jwenting Feb 19 '14 at 12:52
$\begingroup$ Wow, that's quite the radar. Did it operate on 2.4 GHz and boil the bird or something? It seems like you'd have to be really close (or have a very, very focused beam) to concentrate that much power onto something the size of a bird, since received power is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the transmitter. Unless, of course, you're using a laser. I'm guessing that the YAL-1 could take out birds pretty easily, though. :) That would be fun to watch, as long as you didn't accidentally hit the ground. $\endgroup$ – reirab Aug 28 '14 at 19:23
$\begingroup$ In a real situation, what would a bird radar enable you to do with a positive detection with the time you have to react to it? Maybe throttle down the engines for a few seconds to avoid sucking in the birds. $\endgroup$ – DrZ214 Aug 13 '15 at 0:12
I don't know that a radar would provide enough of a warning anyway, if it could even see a single bird. And all it takes is one. The majority of birdstrikes happen near the ground, and the things I've seen have tended to be more to keep birds away from airplanes rather than trying to dodge them. They use cannons/noise-makers at many airfields and other means to keep birds away from low aircraft. And I've heard that the spiral painting on the compressor cones of many big jet engines, in addition to giving a visual indication that the engine is running, has a side benefit that, to a bird, it looks like the eyes of a predator and tends to scare the birds away from the engines. There have been mixed studies on the efficacy of that claim, but I don't know that any scientific research has been done to give a real yes or no. Boeing will claim that it doesn't matter. JAL claims that they had fewer birdstrikes on aircraft with painted spinners. I don't really know if it works or not.
In my experience, you aren't going to see-and-avoid most birds. You're simply moving too fast for either of you to get out of the way. I quit flying with only a few thousand hours, and I've hit several birds. And I don't know very many pilots who haven't either hit one or had a near miss. I've even been hit by a goose in my door when I while I was teaching in a 152, one of the few times that I can actually say the bird hit me and not the other way around.
The best way to keep from hitting birds is to try to avoid areas where birds are known to be flying, especially during migratory seasons. If you hear reports of a flock of birds at your airport, use a lot of caution. And report them if you see them. Try to minimize low flying. In most small craft, it's unavoidable. Your normal operating altitude is fairly low and right within the area that birds tend to fly. In bigger aircraft, try not to dally at lower altitudes, if you can help it. Climb to your altitude And if you're low to the ground (landing or taking off) don't put the aircraft in danger by trying to dodge birds. And every takeoff should include an idea of what you're going to do if you do hit birds.
From http://www.birdstrike.org/
"About 41% of reported strikes with civil aircraft in USA occur while the aircraft is on the ground during take-off or landing and about 75% of strikes occur at less than 500 feet above ground level (AGL). However, over 4,200 strikes involving civil aircraft at heights above 4,500 feet AGL were reported from 1990-2013 in the USA and over 430 of these were at more than 10,500 feet. The world height record for a bird strike is 37,000 feet (Griffon vulture off the coast of Africa)."
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$\begingroup$ This first paragraph has some good points, but cites no references and, overall, the answer digresses from the point of the question which was specifically: why aren't there bird radars? Other methods of keeping birds away, while interesting, isn't really what was being asked. $\endgroup$ – Bret Copeland Feb 14 '14 at 19:37
$\begingroup$ Wow, 37000 ft bird strike. That is awesome. I mean, not the bird strike, but the fact that there are birds flying at 37000 ft. $\endgroup$ – falstro Feb 15 '14 at 10:19
$\begingroup$ @Bret Copeland I'm not sure what references you were looking for me to cite or how my answer digressed from the question. My answer was primarily based on my own experience, but I did provide a citation to birdstrike.org to back up my statement that most bird strikes happen near the ground. My answer demonstrated why a bird radar was impractical on an airplane and how there are much better resources that require little more than looking out the window and using the radio. The justification for a bird radar just isn't there. It wouldn't do you much good. $\endgroup$ – Shawn Feb 17 '14 at 21:25
The weight of the bird radar would be trivial and it could easily fit in the nose cone; they aren't that big. They don't have to look nearly as far out as weather radar, All they have to do is indicate altitude and direction. Aircraft can easily avoid collision by changing altitude. They only have to miss the bird by being a few feet higher or lower, and birds oftentimes fly level at the same altitude, especially when migrating. The computer could be programmed to avoid collision by adjusting the angle of ascent or descent.
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$\begingroup$ Hi Andrew, welcome to Aviation.SE. Your post here does not really answer the question, it rather says it could be done, but doesn't answer the OP's question on why it is not done. Check out the Help Center on proper answers. $\endgroup$ – SentryRaven Jun 26 '15 at 13:08
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US winter wheat plantings lowest in more than 100 years
Vince Bamford · 16 January, 2017
Winter wheat plantings for the coming year are the second-lowest ever recorded by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The total planted area for harvest in 2017 is estimated at 32.4m acres, according to latest USDA figures. The lowest on record were in 1909, when it was reported that 29m acres were planted.
The US hard red winter wheat seeded area is expected to total 23.3m acres, down 12% from 2016, with the soft red winter wheat seeded area at 5.7m acres, down 6% from last year.
The total estimated 2017 plantings are 10% lower than last year and 18% down on 2015.
News of the drop in plantings followed reports of global wheat stocks reaching a record high.
Last month, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said global cereal stocks were up 1.4% from the previous season to hit a new record. Global wheat inventories in 2016/17 are estimated at a new record of 238.5 million tonnes.
Large global supplies are putting downward pressure on the European wheat market, according to commodities analyst Mintec.
Although EU milling wheat prices rose in October and November last year, due to poor weather conditions for winter crops, they eased in December and were down 1% month on month at €166/metric tonne (mt).
Meanwhile, UK milling wheat prices have risen 1% as a result of lower availability and the high quality of crop this season, bringing strong demand from the UK milling industry.
The price per tonne of Canadian milling wheat also rose 1% month on month in December following delays in seeding due to wet conditions in Saskatchewan.
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fast track to the carpool lane —
Google to undercut Uber in San Francisco with new ride-sharing service
According to The Wall Street Journal, Google has been testing the feature since May.
Megan Geuss - Aug 30, 2016 8:28 pm UTC
On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal said a “person familiar with the matter” confirmed that Google would be moving into the ride-sharing market currently dominated by Uber and, to a lesser extent, Lyft. The source said that since May, Google has been testing a feature that lets Google employees and employees of other nearby firms in the Bay Area organize carpools through Waze, a mapping and traffic app purchased by Google in 2013.
The report noted that this new service would be different from Uber and Lyft in that it would only try to connect people who are already going in the same direction, offering rates low enough to discourage drivers from operating like taxis. The service will only be available in San Francisco at the beginning.
According to the WSJ, Waze’s drivers in the closed pilot test only make 54 cents a mile, although Google doesn’t take a cut as Uber and Lyft do.
Waze and Google introduced a similar carpooling service in Israel last year, which proved popular, the WSJ wrote.
Earlier this week, David Drummond, Google’s senior vice president for corporate development, resigned from Uber’s board of directors, due to increasing conflicts of interest between the two companies. Google was an early investor in Uber, but those early ties have come loose, with Uber recently dropping Google Maps in favor of a home-brewed map system. (Uber bid on mapping system HERE last year but lost out to BMW, Daimler, and Audi.)
Uber and Google have also been working on driverless cars in tandem. While Google has been doing autonomous vehicle research for years, Uber partnered with Carnegie Mellon and recently announced that it will be introducing fully autonomous taxis in Pittsburgh this year. The autonomous taxis will have human operators in case of error, however.
The WSJ’s source said that Google is considering introducing self-driving cars into the Waze ride-sharing feature as well.
The source also said that Google would not employ the drivers of the carpooling service, nor would it vet its drivers, “instead relying on user reviews to weed out problem drivers.” Those two issues—employment status and vetting of the drivers—have proved problematic for Uber and will likely cause legal and regulatory problems for Waze and Google as well.
Correction: The mapping system Uber unsuccessfully bid for was called HERE not NEXT.
MrWalrus Ars Scholae Palatinae
The Real Blastdoor wrote:
So... Uber's business model is "sleazy taxi service dressed up as ride sharing" and Google's model is "actual ride sharing."
Will there be a non-sleazy app-based taxi service that costs more than Uber, less than traditional taxi services, while offering a better user experience than all of the above?
I wonder if that's where Apple is looking to fit into this market...
That would actually be a pretty good fit for them - "Like that other thing, except more expensive and actually pleasant to use" is kind of their thing.
Aelinsaar wrote:
Rindan wrote:
Allow complete fucking unvetted strangers into your car for even less money, this is going to be huge I'm sure. Great for serial killers who steal their victims phones and leave themselves a good review.
Wow. Good point. Serial killers are a real problem these days. They kill... tens of Americans each year. You are literally more likely to die from being struck by lightning. The world isn't scary. You live in the most peaceful times in human history in one of the safest places in human history. Unless you happen to be a drug dealer, you are probably going to die to something mundanely terrifying, like cancer.
While true, the, "These are the safest times" spiel is based a bit less on the glory of our times, and more on the abject horror of previous human history.
Not so much, no. It's more of a commentary on how humans assess and compensate for risk (hint: not well).
We are scared of flying, but not of driving (even though, by any metric, car crashes kill far more people than plane crashes). We're scared of serial killers (maybe a few dozen victims in a year) but not cigarettes (150,000 deaths per year from lung cancer alone). As a society, we spend a lot of time worrying about rapist taxi drivers, but very little worrying about rapist boyfriends (go on, guess which is more common).
MrTom Ars Praetorian
"The autonomous taxis will have human operators in case of error, however."
Why not just put their ass in the driver seat?
TomXP411 Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor
MrTom wrote:
It's not a 1:1 relationship. There might be 1 remote operator for 10 auto-drive vehicles, and the person will only get involved if there's an issue. It's kind of like how one person watches over the 4 self-checkout registers at the grocery store.
Edit: that's how it's supposed to work with actual driverless cars, and that's how Google's cute little robot cars work right now. The experiment in Pittsburgh currently has a Human in the driver's seat, presumably because Uber doesn't actually trust robots yet.
Last edited by TomXP411 on Wed Aug 31, 2016 7:40 pm
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NullTroll Smack-Fu Master, in training
TomXP411 wrote:
Nope. For now at least it's a driver in every car.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/ ... h-is06r7on
Rrr7 Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor
S_T_R wrote:
So it turns out being "Uber for X" didn't make anyone any money.
If last quarter is to be believed, Uber itself doesn't make any money. Even that 9 figure crater depends solely on the ability to keep drivers classified as contractors instead of employees.
Now Google is rushing into an business model where there is both evidence of unprofitability and overcrowding.
This appears to be one of those times where a lot of smart people burn a large pile of money all at the same time.
Google makes no money on this, there is no 'business model', it's just an aid to people who wanna carpool to work
RTFA lol
1624 posts | registered Apr 14, 2016
NullTroll wrote:
Okay, so it's just experimental/a gimmick right now. Got it.
Aelinsaar Ars Scholae Palatinae
MrWalrus wrote:
None of this applies to what you replied to. Start talking about the risk of dying from a scrape or cut, or in childbirth, or as a child across all wealth and class barriers, then you'd be closer.
Previous history is a litany of what any modern human would consider a nightmare, devoid of hope. That's not to say we've entered the golden land, we've just stopped literally living in our own filth.
truthyboy15 Ars Tribunus Militum
Hate on uber as you wish but they are cheaper than a standard taxi service where i live. I spent 34 on two uber rides the other day when i needed to go to and from the hospital where it would have costed me 100 otherwise for those two trips.
ElectricBlue Ars Tribunus Militum
truthyboy15 wrote:
Congrats, you're in the 'disruption' step where the gig economy attempts to put all local moms & pops out of business so they are the only game in town. Guessed what step 2 is? You paying more for that trip and most of the profit going out of town. Destroy your local economy, one app at a time.
2234 posts | registered Jul 6, 2003
Kind of like how WalMart was cheaper than everyone else when there was competition... and now that KMart, Sears, and JC Penny are all dead, WalMart's prices have gone up.
And Best Buy with electronics: same deal. They put Circuit City, DOW, Comp USA, and the rest all out of business. And now their prices are no better than MSRP most of the time, and they don't even bother carrying inexpensive products, such as sub-$10 HDMI cables.
And I don't hate Uber because of their price model. I hate Uber because they entered areas, knowing they were operating in defiance of local laws. What's sad is that their approach worked - rather than simply shutting Uber down, cities negotiated and generally gave Uber what they wanted.
andolini Ars Centurion
GEEZ yes they are cheaper so cheap they don't even pass on enough to drivers to cover costs on most rides. Can't compete with free they LOSE 6.5 million dollars a day subsidizing rides. Exploiting slave labor and using humans as loss leaders is fun huh? Least walmart just used TVs and charged a few bucks less and pays minimum wage.
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arXiv.org > astro-ph > arXiv:1709.09666
Astrophysics > Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Title:On the Statistical Properties of Cospectra
Authors:D. Huppenkothen, M. Bachetti
(Submitted on 27 Sep 2017 (v1), last revised 20 Dec 2017 (this version, v2))
Abstract: In recent years, the cross spectrum has received considerable attention as a means of characterising the variability of astronomical sources as a function of wavelength. While much has been written about the statistics of time and phase lags, the cospectrum has only recently been understood as means of mitigating instrumental effects dependent on temporal frequency in astronomical detectors, as well as a method of characterizing the coherent variability in two wavelength ranges on different time scales. In this paper, we lay out the statistical foundations of the cospectrum, starting with the simplest case of detecting a periodic signal in the presence of white noise. This case is especially relevant for detecting faint X-ray pulsars in detectors heavily affected by instrumental effects, including NuSTAR, Astrosat and IXPE. We show that the statistical distributions of both single and averaged cospectra differ considerably from those for standard periodograms. While a single cospectrum follows a Laplace distribution exactly, averaged cospectra are approximated by a Gaussian distribution only for more than ~30 averaged segments, dependent on the number of trials. We provide an instructive example of a quasi-periodic oscillation in NuSTAR and show that applying standard periodogram statistics leads to underestimated tail probabilities for period detection. We also demonstrate the application of these distributions to a NuSTAR observation of the X-ray pulsar Hercules X-1.
Comments: 12 pages, 8 figures, submitted to ApJ; reproducible code available at this https URL ; Comments welcome
Subjects: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM); High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aabe38
Cite as: arXiv:1709.09666 [astro-ph.IM]
(or arXiv:1709.09666v2 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)
From: Daniela Huppenkothen [view email]
[v1] Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:00:00 UTC (249 KB)
[v2] Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:52:38 UTC (464 KB)
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Introduction Cotton is a most important source of natural fiber for textile
Cotton is a most important source of natural fiber for textile, hosiery, paper industries and, vegetable oil worldwide. India is the first largest cotton producer (5.75 million tonnes of lint) and second largest exporter of cotton (1.17 million tonnes) according to International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) report for the month of March 2017. Most commercially cultivated cotton (~90%) in India belongs to different cultivars of Gossypium hirsutum species, whereas other species like G. arboreum, G. Barbedense and G. harbaceum collectively contributed about 10% of total cultivation. Cotton is mostly grown in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka states in India. The cotton fields of north western states like Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan are highly cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) prone because of cross- border movement of viruliferous whiteflies carrying recombinant begomoviruses. The most popular varieties of Gossypium hirsutum is HS6 in Haryana, F-846 in Punjab and RST-9 in Rajasthan which is highly susceptible to Cotton leaf curl virus (CLCuV). All the varieties of Gossypium hirsutum cultivated in Indian subcontinent are susceptibility to CLCuD causing distinct monopartite cotton leaf curl begomovirus species complex and its associated alpha and beta satellite molecules.
Presently, there are five CLCuV species belonging to closed circular single-stranded (ss) DNA viruses of genus Begomovirus, family Geminiviridae, transmitted exclusively by whitefly (Bemisia tabaci) in a circulative persistent manner. The closed circular ssDNA begomovirus may be either monopartite in nature or bipartite in nature. The monopartite begomovirus associated with CLCuD is a complex of DNA A and DNA satellite molecules, viz. DNA 1 and DNA ? (Briddon et al., 2003; Mansoor 2003b).
The CLCuD inflicts enormous losses to the cotton crops by reducing yield and compromising quality. The symptoms of CLCuD are initially characterized by swelling and darkening of the veins, downward curling of the leaf margins, enations on the underside of a leaf which develop into cup-shaped, leaf-like structures. Since last three decades, CLCuD is a major disaster to the cotton production in the Indian subcontinent. Apart from Cotton, crops such as tomato, tobacco, chillies, okra, papaya, vegetables and ornamental plants grown in these areas are affected by whitefly transmitted begomoviruses (Khan et al., 2009).
The small genome (~2751 nts) of CLCuV has six overlapping genes which utilize the bidirectional mode of transcription for effective processing of genes (Rojas et al., 2005). The two genes in virion-sense strand are V1 encoding coat protein (CP) and V2 encoding pre-coat/movement protein (MP). The four genes in complementary-sense strand are C1 encoding replication-associated protein (Rep), C2 encoding transcriptional activator protein (TrAP), C3 encoding replication enhancer protein (REn) and the C4 encoding a multifunctional protein. The C4 gene of monopartite geminiviruses encodes multifunctional protein which manifests several functions. It is involved in symptom determination, virus movement and suppressing RNA silencing synergistically with transcriptional activator protein (C2 transcript). The AC4 gene of bipartite geminivirus was first studied in Tomato golden mosaic virus (TGMV) which was later found to be a suppressor of gene silencing (Elmer et al., 1988). This gene is least conserve among geminiviruses, showing clear-cut functional divergence in bipartite and monopartite viruses but converge in functioning as a silencing suppressor (Krake et al., 1998). The intergenic region (IR) contains an origin of replication (Ori), bidirectional promoters and repeated upstream motifs (iterons) required for the control of gene expression and replication (Mullineaux et al., 1993; Hanley-Bowdoin et al., 1999 and Dry et al., 2000).
The betasatellite encodes a single protein (?C1) which is a pathogenicity determinant and suppressor of host defence (Saunders et al., 2004; Cui et al., 2005). The C4 and ?C1 proteins may affect the activity of the DICER-like proteins (DCL1/DCL2/DCL3/DCL4) in host plants that function in silencing suppression. These proteins could either downregulate transcription of a host protein that acts in the PTGS pathway in the cytoplasm or could activate transcription of a host PTGS inhibitor.
The conventional strategies to control CLCuD is time consuming, hazardous and environmentally unsafe due to excessive use of chemicals. Simultaneously, they completely fail due to emergence of recombinant viruses and satellite molecules. Different non-conventional strategies have been developed and applied to control CLCuD with various degree of success. Among them, RNA interference (RNAi) based technology has shown remarkable performance against begomovirus infection (Akmal et al., 2017, Wamiq and Khan 2018, Mansoor et a., 2006 and Hashmi et al., 2011). The small RNA (sRNA) molecules like, microRNAs (miRNAs) and small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) mediated gene silencing with sequences complementary to virus sequences have been successfully used to generate virus resistance in host plants. The siRNA-based resistance makes use of the plant post-transcriptional gene silencing (PTGS) mechanism to degrade viral RNAs.
In this study Gossypium hirsutum cv. HS6 was transformed with hairpin forming (hp) RNAi construct to scrutinize the function role of silencing suppressor gene (C4) in the process of gene silencing, level of transgene expression, level of gene specific anti-viral siRNA in transformed plants, assessment of resistance against CLCuV and finally transgene stability in the second generation transformed cotton plants were performed. The transformed cotton showing resistance against CLCuV were significantly kept under strong virus inoculation pressure in greenhouse conditions. Here we found that the transgenic cotton plants having high expression of pathogen-derived silencing suppressor gene or their counter anti-viral siRNA showed no symptoms of CLCuD with significantly low virus DNA titre in comparison to the nontransformed control plants as revealed by the RCA studies after 15, 30, 45 and 60 days post inoculation (DPI). This RNAi strategy is very effective and has the advantage of reducing possible bio-safety risks associated with other strategies. The PTGS based technique is environmental friendly for developing virus resistance in transformed crops.
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EPK – EXPAIN – Just The Tip (2014)
by Asher
· EXPAIN
EXPAIN – Just The Tip (2014)
Label: Self Release
Distribution: Bandcamp, iTunes, CD Baby
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R.I.Y.L. – Thrash/Death/Punk, Black Dahlia Murder, Revocation, Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, Municipal Waste,
Contacts: PR Rep – Jon Asher – ashermedia[@]gmail.com
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“Hold on to your balls, for Expain could be positioned as Canada’s next great metal export. Evidently going by their ferociously captivating debut album ‘Just The Tip’, the quintet slap together a masochistic mixture of blazing riffs, supersonic drumming, sexy solo’s and vocals so brutal it would make your last hangover as weak as Justin Bieber banging one out. Come on they mix jazz elements, that surely has to receive numerous acknowledgements, but also through the various sounds and lyric topics employed, this album is a party on it’s own” – Global Metal Apocalypse
” they are a superb and well balanced blend of progressive and technical with a strong leaning towards thrash/death with some jazzy elements in the mix for good measure, a potent combination that sets them aside from pretty much everyone else…it’s a great debut release.” – Metal Talk
“…the material on the album is certainly some of the most unique and entertaining music that I have encountered in a while…every single element, and every single moment on Just the Tip contains something unique for the listener to discover, and like the name of the album suggests, every subsequent listen to the album makes one realise that one has merely discovered just the tip of the iceberg with the whole host of things going on.” – Heavy Metal Tribune
“Hailing from Canada, EXPAIN is not your run-of-the-mill thrash metal band. No, no, they’ve definitely got something different to bring to the party. Sure, all the requirements are there: ferocious drumming, slicing riffs, and ripping vocals, but it’s the structures of these songs that definitely stand out on this self-released debut album Just the Tip, which is out now. You’ve got thrash, prog, jazz, and more all being thrown at you in one hell of a sonic whirlwind; it’s crazy!! My first listen I was like, “What the fuck is going on here?!?” and I’ve been back a dozen times or so since.” – Amps and Green Screens
“…this group takes various elements of their influences – which includes punk, jazz, classical, world, pop, and even country – and melds them into some serious stunning thrash metal.” – Pure Grain Audio“For some parts it reminds me of the instrumental genius of latter Annihilator/Jeff Waters’ material…” – Brutalism
“Expain are a young band with a lot of potential, playing their own stamp of technically and well-versed music, which makes for great recognition value. “Just The Tip” is an album full of energy and offers tech savvy crossover thrash metal with lots of speed and is played with much precise.” Metal Glory
“Expain is a solid five-piece that conjures the best of metal. Not exactly thrash, nor progressive or even metalcore, but certainly a lot of the above, it swims in raging waters where technique, grooves, speed and melody meet. Beautified with an artwork from no other than artist Tony Koehl (Deamon, Gorgasm, Malignancy, Heavy Lord, and many, many more), this first album has many attributes to attract both eyes and ears. – Metal Made In Canada
“a band built on displaying technical skills behind the instruments. A heavy and potent mixture of thrash and jazz metal, Vancouver, Canada’s Expain is hoping to become a staple in a genre built on technical skill and speed” – Under The Gun Review
“…blasting Progressive Thrash Metal for over 40 min. This is a very interesting album…The vocals of Daniel Brand are impressive as he brings in low tempo screaming vocals, not so commonly heard these days in Metal. The bass of Nikko Whitworth adds a whole new dimension to the music created by the axe-men Pat Peeve and Eric Morrison. The drums of Ryan Idris are fast paced, but sometimes sound as if they are made by some drum machine software. If it’s really him on the drums, then boy he is very talented, hahaha.” – Metal Temple
“The guitar, bass, and drums on this release keep things moving quite effectively. This band will stand out for a lot of people because they regularly take musical breaks that have the quality of jazz. This isn’t a jazz album, but it does flirt with a slightly more free-floating musical style.” – Sea of Tranquility
“a perfect blend of the technical and melodic, combining together to create a sound that is incredibly unique and forthright. I have listened to the album several times now, and each time I find myself enjoying some new dimension to the sound, or some new aspect of the music. It just keeps getting better.” – Vancouver Metal
“In my metal induced coma, I am inclined to say this band should not be sniffed at or trifled with, they are some serious thrash metal impresarios… For Fans Of: Uber thrash with a touch of jazz.” – All About The Rock
“Expain wastes no time in letting their aggressive sound progress and blare out as loud as possible ” – Kingston Music Reviews
“the music is contagious like a multilateral infection. I just use thrash metal as a standard hear, but in fact all fans of any bit of musical violence can find something to his likings back in this.” – Lords of Metal
“Wildly diverse band that combines elements of thrash, punk, tech metal and even some jazz with an off-the-wall comedic streak.” Prog NW Metal Zone
“a powerful album that plays host to melodic riffs, vengeful beats and impressive vocal. All in all the time chugged by with just over half an hour (36 minutes and 14 seconds to be precise) and is certainly an album that doesn’t out stay its welcome.” – Demented Magazine
“It’s one of the finest independently released albums I’ve ever heard in my life. From the short intro track ‘Bacchus’ all the way to the perfect closer in ‘Eating A Beating Heart,’ there’s so many quality thrashers on the disc. ‘The King’ is a personal favorite of mine as the musicianship is ridiculously tight. ‘Aggressions Progressions’ has an absolutely beautiful dueling solo section and ‘Manatee’ has a sick bass solo. Overall it’s 11 tracks of pure thrash mayhem” – Broken Neck Radio
“very well written, catchy songs of melodic Thrash Metal. It’s not bad, and certainly has some good Death metal parts as well, brutal riffs, insane blasting and raw vocals, so i’ll have to wait and hear what they do next. Their progressive influences is something cool and accurate as they could be, the playing is impressive, sometimes very much so. The super thick production is great too and a good idea. Somebody tell me why these guys aren’t signed?” – Soul Grinder Zine
“The band comes racing out of the gate with three dementedly heavy fist-pumpers….a promising metal act that is well worth a listen.” – Discorder (E.P.E.P Review)
“a strong mixture of early Thrash and Crossover Thrash concepts, blending them with a Melodic Death Metal sound, and plenty of energetic aggression.” – Apochs Metal Review (E.P.E.P Review)
“Don’t leave your children alone with The Almighty Excruciating Pain” – Metal Sucks (E.P.E.P Review)
[Download Album Lyrics]
[Download Album Cover]
1. Bacchus (1:05)
2. Aggressions Progression (3:40)
3. Phoenix Writhing (3:19)
4. The King (5:04)
5. Don’t Worry The Worst Is Yet To Come (3:33)
6. Idol Worship (5:23)
7. Allegiance To Pain (2:18)
8. Manatee (4:58)
9. Headbang Your Head Off (2:31)
10. A.T.M. (3:44)
11. Eating A Beating Heart (4:57)
Album Credits:
All Songs performed by – Expain
All songs written by – Expain
Produced by – Matthew Roach
Mixed by – Matthew Roach
Available on – CD+Digital
Album + Live lineup:
Daniel Brand – Vocals
Pat Peeve – Guitar
Eric Morrison – Guitar
Nikko Whitworth – Bass
Ryan Idris – Drums
L-R – Daniel Brand – Vocals | Nikko Whitworth – Bass | Ryan Idris – Drums | (laying across couch) Pat Peeve – Guitar | Eric Morrison – Guitar – Photo Credit: Samantha Mayne
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There’s something to be said about technology and its ability to bring musicians together and Vancouver’s Expain has Craigslist to thanks for its birth.
Mixing thrash with jazzier elements and everything in between, the band delivers music that’s energetic, diverse and thoughtful in every sense of the word. “Our music tends to be very melodic and we put a big emphasis on the songwriting, as well as the individual riffs,” says guitarist Eric Morrison.
The band’s debut album, ‘Just the Tip’, plays to its sense of humour, but also represents the beginning of a musical journey that’s not bound to stop or slow down any time soon. Writing about everything from overcoming adversity to partying hard, living in an ever-changing city and the state of today’s society as a whole, Expain has captured its true identity on record.
As Morrison explains, “We go through many different concepts on this album but I think throughout all of it there is an attempt to stay hopeful and make something positive out of difficult or unpleasant situations.”
Shared stage with:
Suffocation, Archspire, Powerman 5000, Nylithia, West Of Hell, Unleash The Archers, Mortillery, Into Eternity, Thor
Tours & Festivals:
2014 – Western Canadian Tour (BC/AB)
2013/ 2014 – Armstrong Metal Fest
2013 – Medicine Hat Metal Fest
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Ashleigh in Australian women writers, Books, challenges, Publishers, Reading, Reviews October 31, 2017 654 Words
Five Go Down Under (Enid Blyton’s Famous Five for Grown-Ups with text by Sophie Hamley
Title: Five Go Down Under (Enid Blyton’s Famous Five for Grown-Ups)
Author: Sophie Hamley
Genre: Humour, Parody
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Published: 31st October 2017
Synopsis: The Famous Five have gone on their greatest adventure yet – a trip Down Under to Oz for some gap year fun.
Enid Blyton’s books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have been the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new Enid Blyton for Grown-Ups, Julian, George, Dick, Anne and Timmy head Down Under for some relaxing holiday fun. But will it be the adventure they had hoped for?
Setting up camp in Bondi they soon meet the Sydney Six, a couple of guitar-strumming Kiwis and a rogue South African and find themselves in the thick of Sydney’s real estate perils and the attempts of their omnipresent cousin Rupert Kirrin to buy up the local media.
But when the sun, surf and bluebottles have their revenge and things don’t quite go to plan, it’s time to head for the country for a spot of sheep-shearing and quad-bike riding. Will the country be kinder to them or will their close calls with the Australian wildlife have them heading back to the city before you can say decaff soy latte?
In Five Go Down Under, Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy decide to take a year off of work and the cold of England, and travel to warmer climates. They choose Australia, warm enough year around and far enough away to warrant a long trip, rather than heading to the usual destinations in Spain they’re used to. Of course, nothing will prepare them for the heat, the killer wildlife and the strange linguistic differences and slang that will greet them upon their arrival in Australia. And what will they make of their neighbours in Bondi, the trendy beach suburb of Sydney famous with tourists from all over the world?
In Australia, the Famous Five will encounter ferries, and climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge, sheep shearing and the harsh sun that burns without prejudice. They encounter things they never thought they would, and find that all their dreams of life in Sydney might not be quite what they thought it would be, as they try to navigate the culture that in some ways is similar yet so different from what they are used to. In a madcap series of events, they will come to find that the Australia that the Sydney Six are determined to show them is not quite the Australia they imagined, and that no country is immune to the evils of the world. As laid-back as the Australians they meet might be, the Five soon come to realise this only the surface – and their journey in Australia has just begun as they seek work during their gap year.
Using Enid Blyton’s popular characters, Australian author Sophie Hamley has written a text that beautifully reproduces the original style and characters, whilst balancing this with new characteristics they displays as adults, and contrasts this with the current generation and the Australian way of speaking. She seamlessly weaves in references to current diet trends and the stereotypical Australians, as well as references to politics and popular culture – in true Australian satirical style, poking fun at the things about our country that need to be laughed about. Sophie Hamley’s text is accompanied by illustrations originals by Eileen Soper, who illustrated other editions of the original Famous Five stories, which gives a sense of character and nostalgia to the texts.
Using tongue-in-cheek humour, Sophie Hamley’s text is uniquely Australian whilst keeping the tone of the original stories intact, if not somewhat exaggerated for comedic impact. The Famous Five For Grown-Ups Series brings the beloved childhood characters back to life for adults, and into an unknown world, where poking fun at current trends and cultural phenomena all play a part in creating a fun read.
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Art of the Song
Location: Saratoga Springs, New York
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Art of the Song is a weekly syndicated radio program exploring creativity through the lens of songwriting and music performance. The music and interview show is heard on over 100 public and community stations across North America. We interview legendary as well as up-and-coming artists. Past interviews have included Smokey Robinson, Glenn Frey, Gretchen Peters, Leon Russell, Judy Collins, Jorma Kaukonen and Joan Osborne. Art of the Song is in its 16th year of production.
A one-hour weekly program (1/2 talk, 1/2 music) exploring the universal truths common in all creativity through conversations and music with songwriters and other artists.
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Adler & Hearne on Art of the Song
Texas award winning songwriters, Lynn Adler and Lindy Hearne stopped by our studio to discuss creativity and sing a few tunes.
Janet Devlin on Art of the Song
Northern Irish Singer/Songwriter and X Factor participant Janet Devlin joined us to talk about her skyrocketing music career.
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The State Of The Music Business In 2015 by Art of the Song
This week we talk with music industry individuals to discuss new streaming platforms and the future of the music business.
Adam Duritz on Art of the Song
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Pine Hill Project on Art of the Song
Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell have combined to form The Pine Hill Project. They sat down with us for their first interview as an official band.
David Broza on Art of the Song
Israeli singer/songwriter David Broza sat down with us to discuss his newest projects focused on bringing together Israeli and Palestinian artists.
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Janita on Art of the Song
Finnish Singer/Songwriter Janita sat down to talk with us about her new CD as well as the challenges and differences in making a living as a musici...
Blake Morgan on Art of the Song
Songwriter, record label owner and musician rights activist Blake Morgan joined us in studio to talk about his music and his fight on Capitol Hill ...
Natasha Borzilova on Art of the Song
Ex-Bering Strait member, Natasha Borzilova talks with us about life after the bluegrass super group as a songwriter, wife and mother.
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Most Reverend George V. Murry, S.J., Bishop of Youngstown, ordained to the priesthood Father Zachary J. Coulter and Father Scott M. Kopp on June 17 at the Cathedral of St. Columba in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Atlas Win Deloitte for a 3rd Time.
Atlas Travel are delighted to announce they have been awarded a Deloitte Best Managed award for the 3rd time, following a lengthy re-qualification and judging process in which the complete performance of a business is assessed, moving beyond finances to such areas as operational excellence, strategy, and human resource processes.
The Gala Awards took place at Dublin’s Convention Center on Friday 1st March and were attended by 940 individuals including management teams from across the Best Managed Companies network. The Master of Ceremonies on the night was well-known broadcaster, Miriam O’Callaghan.
Stephen Mc Kenna CEO of the Atlas Travel Group noted that “We are thrilled to have won this accolade for the 3rd year in a row, an award which recognizes strategy, capability, financial performance and which clearly shows the commitment of the whole team their strength, determination and resilience in navigating a path through digital disruption and coming up with innovative travel solutions and servicing concepts to resolve clients problems in terms of travel procurement and servicing. This award is also testament to the Irish companies who have expanded their operations oversees and who have carefully navigated a path through the challenges that Brexit has presented to expand their business into markets across the four corners of the globe. My congratulations goes out to all other winners who have led by example in driving their businesses to the next level.
The Deloitte Best Managed Companies programme, in association with the Bank of Ireland and the Irish Management Institute, promotes and recognises excellence in Irish owned and managed companies. It is the only awards scheme on the island of Ireland that considers a business’ performance from every perspective.
Anya Cummins, Partner, Deloitte said: “Well done to all of the winning companies on their achievement. The Best Managed Companies process is a rigorous one, examining every facet of an organisation, and the bar is set high by our judging panel. As ever, the spread of companies, right around the country and across a number of industries, underlines the importance of Irish and Northern Irish companies to the economy and in the midst of economic uncertainty, technology disruption, an open competitive market and full employment, the continued strong performance of these businesses is admirable. In the current environment, it is important for this contribution to be recognised, supported and showcased.”
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PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION
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Caia Koopman: The Umijoo Project
Caia Koopman is well known by Beautiful Bizarre’s followers. In her TAKE OVER of the Beautiful Bizarre social media last October she gave us an insight into her influences and her considered approach to nature and our environment. She is a respected, and highly collected pop surrealist painter. She grew up in California, and looking at her work, it is easy to see the influence of surf, skate and tattoo culture in her imagery. Caia combines this urban street style with her love of nature, incorporating animals and exotic plant life into many of her paintings. This stems from her acute environmental awareness and burning interest in keeping our biodiversity safe.
“My environmental concerns have almost always appeared in my artwork. Right from the beginning I have incorporated my feelings of everything being connected… that pollution is toxic, deforestation is evil, bees are in need of help, and that we need to take better care of each other, into my art. I hope that my art speaks to people about the respect for nature and our fellow critters that I feel.”
This is not surprising seeing as Caia was raised by two nature loving, scientist parents. She grew up experiencing nature, and was taught the importance of wilderness and wildlife first hand. The result of being raised hiking, biking, backpacking, camping, and being taught about all the wildlife around her instilled within Caia a strong bond with, and love for, nature.
Growing more aware of the ways of the world especially in college and in her 20’s, Caia really started to “wake up” to what was going on in the world. She began to care deeply about environmental issues. “In my 20’s I was educated enough to have more of the bigger picture in my mind and aware enough see all the damage being done by humans.” Caia acknowledges that her sister was also instrumental getting me more involved, she was getting her degree in environmental science at the time and was enraged by what she was learning about in college. “She helped me learn more than what you hear on the news. The more I paid attention to environmental issues the more I cared, the more passionate I became. The more you learn, the more you know, the more you care; repeat. It’s a bit of a wormhole actually.”
Currently creating an illustrated tale about love, food, and the ocean, Caia has teamed up with Casson Trenor, a career marine conservation activist. He grew up on the beach in Washington State, and at some point, the ocean managed to infiltrate his soul. Casson has defended whales in Antarctica with Sea Shepherd, run campaigns to reform major seafood corporations with Greenpeace, and established a number of sustainable sushi restaurants designed around the principles of ocean awareness and mindful dining. His work has been featured in books, documentaries, and periodicals around the world. He strongly believes that art is one of the most important vehicles we have when it comes to teaching people to care for our Earth.
Caia and Casson are concerned that the world’s oceans are under threat. Overfishing, habitat destruction, and dumping at sea continue largely unchecked. The more pressure put on the oceans the harder it is for them to provide the ecosystem needed for all our survival on this planet. They would like us to care for our oceans and the creatures that live inside them. The book is for children of all ages… including the big ones and Caia hopes that people will love this book for the art and for the story, and that parents can use it as a tool to teach love and respect for the ocean.
“Our aim is that our book inspires people and makes them care more deeply for our big blues.”
“Umijoo is our main character in the book, and she is having a bit of a “wake up” moment of her own. Her father is a fantastic cook, they live by the coast and she enjoys eating fish, but her father realizes she does not appreciate the animals she is eating and decides to send her on an adventure. Umijoo is naive at the beginning but eager to learn, she is curious, compassionate and brave. She is excited to meet a giant octopus named Okatako, a school of salmon, and a monstrous yet wise old Anglerfish, and many many more!”
The original illustrations in the book are individual paintings. They are intensely detailed and coloured and executed in Caia’s fluid and whimsical signature style. She is hoping to exhibit the art at some point before the paintings all go to their new homes. “We expect that much of the art will have found homes during the Kickstarter campaign, which we will do next year, but there should be a nice window for a show with all the pieces together for their final hurrah! If anyone is interested in an original from the book they will be available when we start our Kickstarter, stay tuned for that.”
While this project is rewarding and a true labour of love for Caia, it has had many of its own challenges. “I am not practiced at painting underwater scenes or marine animals, it’s tricky and a skill to be learned. Luckily every time I need to learn how to paint something new, I grow as an artist, and there has been a lot of new subject matter here for sure!”
She admits maintaining a successful and professional art practice while undertaking a project that is time consuming and labor intensive, is also tricky.
“I’m trying to do as much multitasking as possible. For example, I’m doing a reef scene for the book that will also work as a print for PangeaSeed’s Sea Of Change, The Year Of Living Dangerously, print suit 3, we will highlighting the plight of the orange clown fish, who are becoming endangered due to their popularity in the aquarium industry, and accelerated by the popularity of the movie Nemo (which is sadly ironic). I am also showing one of the paintings early, during the month of May, at Spoke Gallery. This is a unique opportunity for someone to grab an Umijoo piece before the Kickstarter next year.”
Caia’s work has just begun on the book and she will complete 30 paintings for the project. This process will take another year. She and Casson are using a Patreon fund to assist with living expenses. “I need help to live while I paint this labor intensive thing.”
You can support Caia and Casson at Patreon or stay tuned for the next step which will be the Kickstarter with original art available next year!
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Sept 7th, 2018
Edgeless Monthly Update #2
For those who haven’t followed the Edgeless platform in the last month, a lot of stuff has happened! It's about time to connect all the dots and get you up to date!
Tomas’ Speech Video
CGS was a large Gambling conference that happened in Cyprus and Tomas had an honour to be a speaker in it, covering the topic of “Virtual economy merging with a ‘real’ economy” and highlighting how blockchain technology could undertake the ‘real’ economy industries.
The full video is in the previous blog post.
Tomas also had a lovely interview with CNBC corespondent. Wait for new blockchain episodes on CNBC this autumn season.
One of the biggest events that happened last month was the opening of CRASH! Before the public release, the game was tested within the group of VIP testers and it appeared to be a real star since Edgeless received a bunch of e-mails and messages asking to be a part of the VIP testing.
Therefore, after the very successful pre-launch, the game went public on the 29th of August! It became one of the most played games on Edgeless platform with over 250K bets done in the first 10 days and with 1.5 M EDG wagered only in this game.
Crash is not a simple game on Edgeless platform, it is the first multiplayer game that was offered for public and seeing this positive reaction of the current and new users, shows the unrevealed gem of the casino games that needs to be taken into account.
Being such a simple game, that is easy to understand and start playing, Crash is very likeable among new users. And that’s the reveal of the secret - the maximum win is X500, so if you bet the maximum bet of 100, you have the chance to win 50 000 EDG, what is the highest possible win on the platform at the moment.
Withdraw and Deposit
Due to high number of requests and the growing bankroll and interest in the Edgeless project, the team have decided to increase the deposit 10 times with a new limit of 10 000 EDG and increase the withdrawal to 1000 EDG giving more freedom for high betting gamblers.
If you are a new player, it is time to deposit here.
The best player of the week
Just a quick reminder from the Edgeless side, that every week we announce the best player of the platform based on the profit they won in the last week and reward them with 400 EDG to their Edgeless account. Do not miss the opportunity to get this prize, bearing in mind that the number of players is constantly increasing.
Edgeless is a fastly growing project, with new games coming one after another, there was a necessity to increase the speed and to improve the final product of the platform, therefore in the previous month the team of platform developers doubled. Now we have twice as many developers as we had one month ago, so be prepared, Edgeless will present some surprises for you!
Edgeless wants to share some of the statistics that the platform has. The team is very happy to announce that there has been more than 70 M EDG already wagered on the Edgeless platform, which makes this a huge deal for all token holders.
70+ M EDG already wagered
One more exciting fact is that after the release of Crash, Edgeless overcame 400K EDG token balances on the smart contract, so the project is continuously growing day after day.
There was also a huge request from the community to share the total of registered users on the Edgeless platform, so the number has already overcame 7K users registered to Edgeless games.
More numbers will be revealed with the update of staking!
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Shulamit S. Magnus
Jewish historian
A plea against ‘anti-Semitism’
The pseudo-scientific term, coined by a German racist, obscures the rising tide of hatred. We need to use the J word
Dec 25, 2019, 8:04 PM
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With the disturbing increase of attacks on Jewish sites and on Jews in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, the term “anti-Semitism” is much in use. What to call the phenomenon that causes Jews to fear appearing in public in identifying garb, or sending their children out in such? Fifteen years ago, I told my then-young son, whom I normally encouraged to wear a kippa, not to think of doing so while he was in France to visit relatives, and things have worsened considerably since.
Jewish speech now also endangers, as we learned from a recent assault on Hebrew speakers in Berlin, not long after a shooting attack on a synagogue in Halle on Yom Kippur. Previously unimaginable acts of shootings and murder at synagogues in several US states and now, at a kosher deli in yet another state, have ripped away a basic sense of security that US Jews have enjoyed, at least in the post-World War II era.
What to term these incidents, and the people and forces behind them? In discussion of all this, the term “anti-Semitism” is ubiquitous but the term is terribly problematic; indeed, part of the problem, and should be dropped from use.
“Anti-Semitism” posits the falsehood that Jews are “Semites.” Jews are – Jews. The term “Semites” implies race. Jews are not a race. In fact, no one is. “Race” is a notion invented by racists who wished (and wish) to distinguish and above all, to establish hierarchies among groups, with themselves invariably in the uppermost one. While the term “race” was used, historically, for what the Greeks termed an “ethnos” and what we now call a “people” – that is, a group identifiable by such characteristics as common history, language, culture, and religion – since the invention of modern racism, the term has an entirely different meaning. It has no scientific validity. No group on earth is entirely inbred; humans are not a species like certain plants or bred animals. Jews include people from every ethnic and religious origin on the planet. What makes us a group in common, whether we are born or become Jews, is adoption of the Jewish narrative of self, and living and transmitting it in some meaningful way.
The word “Jew” took on severely negative connotations in various historical settings for reasons beyond the scope of this essay. As Jews in modern European states that were debating or offering Jews whole or partial civic equality struggled to attain those rights, many eschewed the word and adopted religiously-infused euphemisms like “Israelites,” used in France; or, in German states, “Germans of the Mosaic persuasion” (meaning, people who worship tile?). Giving “Jews” citizenship might be problematic, but the sanitized kind, called something else, were worthy at least of consideration.
It was a sorry and, as it turns out, useless evasion. Jew-hatred did not subside in modern Europe, including and even especially in rapidly modernizing, industrializing, liberal states. On the contrary, it morphed into new forms and took on new, vigorous life, something that perplexed many, Jews and non-Jews alike, who assumed that Jew-hatred derived from something Jews were doing or not doing – that is, that it was rational; and that if Jews changed their behavior, they could control and end the phenomenon. Such belief embodied an optimistic determinism that typified modernity: as people, Jews and non-Jews alike, became more enlightened, more rational, things would inevitably improve.
Theodor Herzl gave the lie to all that with his deliberately titled essay, Der Judenstaat, the translation of which is not, as is commonly conveyed, “the Jewish state,” but the in-your-face, “the Jew-State.” Herzl was saying, “We are Jews. We know it; they know it. Let’s cut the crap.”
The term “anti-Semitism” was introduced into the lexicon by a Jew-hater, Wilhelm Marr, when he founded the “League of Anti-Semites” in Germany, in 1879. Marr was a racialist. He divided groups into racial entities and, in particular, posited a deathly struggle between “Judentum” and “Deutschtum;” between an essential “Jewishness,” which posed a lethal threat to an essential “Germanness,” to Germany, and indeed, to the entire western world, and all that world represented. “Jewishness” inhered in Jews – Semites; “Germanness” in Germans.
What, Marr asked, explained not just the otherwise inexplicable survival of the Jews in their millennial exile, but their alleged triumph in modernity? The answer: semitism, a biological, inherited characteristic that no economic, linguistic, cultural, or even religious change – conversion – could erase.
Marr’s paranoid vision, with the core common to all Jew-hatred – that Jews are not weak, disadvantaged, or victimized but on the contrary, demonically strong and threatening – continues to this day, expressed in a baffling range of positions, including contradictory ones on the right and left. That individuals and groups that otherwise share nothing, indeed, are even anathema to one another, can share Jew-hatred, is nothing new, as historians of this phenomenon know, to our distress.
Marr and others across the map of Europe and Great Britain who shared his racialist, Jew-hating vision – Karl Eugen Duering, Ernest Renan, Alphonse Toussenel, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Eduard Drumont, Karl Lueger (elected mayor of Vienna in 1897), Adolf Stoecker (Court chaplain to Kaiser Wilhelm I), Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and a long list of others – including, in the US, Henry Ford, Father Charles Coughlin, and Cordell Hull, President Roosevelt’s Secretary of State – elaborated theories of nefarious characteristics that “Semites” were alleged to bear and argued that opposing this was entirely reasonable, indeed, imperative, in self-defense. Hence, “anti-Semitism.” Unlike pre-modern, irrational, religiously based Jew-hatred, “anti-Semitism” was scientific. Hence, the “ism.”
Should we perpetuate this profoundly prejudiced – racist – term in discussions of, and approaches to address, contemporary Jew-hatred?
Jew-haters hate Jews. They propagate ancient stereotypes and allegations that all, one way or the other, left or right, attribute the most malicious, malevolent, demonic evil to Jews.
“Anti-Semitism” is a euphemism, at best. A dressed-up term to avoid saying “Jews,” when this is about hatred of Jews. It is as if, back to that, there is something embarrassing or uncouth about the word, “Jew,” and this term makes the phenomenon – and Jews – fit for polite discussion. The people assailed and beaten on the streets and subways, whether in London, Paris, or Brooklyn; murdered in Toulouse and Montauban and Paris; in Buenos Aires, Pittsburgh, Poway, or Jersey City, were Jews, attacked for being Jews.
The term “anti-Semitism” has become ubiquitous, unfortunately, with people having no notion of its origins or meaning repeating it, giving it respectability and, however unwittingly for some, propagating its racist underpinnings. Ceasing to hyphenate it and capitalize the “s” is some improvement but the term should be removed from use.
Wilhelm Marr and his kind, then or now, do not deserve perpetuation and respectability. The victims deserve honesty, at least.
People who hate Jews are Jew-haters. Speech or other acts that target Jews are anti-Jewish. The phenomenon is Jew-hatred.
Shulamit S. Magnus is a professor of Jewish history and an award-winning author of books on Jewish modernity and on Jewish women's history.
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BLUE NOTES #117: A Beautiful Beach and More
A Beautiful Beach
A Horrible Disaster
A Tough Anniversary
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Another Attack on Ocean Policy
Seaweed Spotlight: Arctic 30
On a Tuesday in late October I wander alone along the grassy tree-lined bluff, long abandoned railroad track and quarter mile of bay facing crescent strand that make up the Point Molate Beach Park in my hometown of Richmond, California. Offshore pelicans, buzzards and a couple oystercatchers work the shifting tide line. Earlier a few harbor seals were checking out the scene. On Saturday I find a young couple and their baby making use of one of the new picnic tables while an older couple walks the beach and a landscape photographer stakes out the far end of the bluff, the beginnings of popular rediscovery of our city’s finest waterfront. Monday October 14 marked the first time in nine years the beach, with its spectacular views of the Richmond Bridge, Mount Tamalpais and the Marin side of the bay had been open to the public.
For years the local seaweed group Citizens for a Sustainable Point Molate, a project of Blue Frontier, led the fight and successful battle to stop plans for a mega-casino development on this 422-acre site, the last undeveloped coastal headland and offshore eel grass beds on San Francisco Bay. With allies like Green Party Mayor Gail McLaughlin, the Richmond Progressive Alliance and 20 Bay Area blue groups we were able to stop the multi-million dollar plan with a 58-42 percent vote in a 2010 election that both rejected the “destination resort” with its 4,000 slot machines and elected a progressive city council slate that has since helped in the clean-up and restoration of the beach park (See Blue Notes #81). This is the first step in turning Point Molate into a world-class natural destination like San Francisco’s Presidio and Marin’s Fort Baker bayfront parks. Of course the casino developer is now suing the city for millions of dollars not seeming to understand the logic of his own business plan: when you gamble you usually lose. Only this time the seaweed activists of CFSPM and people of Richmond won big by betting on bottom-up citizen action. For a more detailed telling of this coastal tale of restoration and faith read the final chapter of my latest book, ‘The Golden Shore – California’s Love Affair with the Sea.’
The massive devastation of Typhoon Haiyan is just the latest predictable extreme weather disaster linked to warmer rising seas and other aspects of climate change. I witnessed the failure of the Red Cross while covering Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and while I believe they’ve improved their operations since then another sensible option is that donations for Philippine relief be made to the always reliable British relief agency Oxfam.
On the anniversary of another epic disaster, Super-Storm Sandy, Climate Central reports that U.S. public opinion polling on climate change has been little impacted by the devastation wrought domestically last fall. While New York has done some serious work on preparing for sea-level rise and intensified storms linked to warming seas, towns and cities along the exposed New Jersey Shore have been rushing to rebuild in harm’s way. The human desire to restart one’s life after tragedy is natural as is our attraction to the sea, but changing conditions also require new, commonsense approaches. As Thad Allen, the former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and 2011 Peter Benchley Ocean Award winner noted at an anniversary conference held at Monmouth University in New Jersey:
“We need to understand that barrier islands were always made to migrate. In fact, in the early days, people were made to migrate. When we started staying in one place, things started changing. We invented these things called “property rights.” Mother nature doesn’t understand property rights. Mother nature doesn’t understand the political boundaries between states. And you can’t take Mother Nature to court and hold her accountable either. But what does that mean? It means we have to think and act smarter. We need to act strategically. We have to think about the long-range.”
To think strategically about the ocean also requires the best available science. Another 2011 Benchley Award winner, Dr. Greg Stone of Conservation International has helped assemble a global team of researchers to do an annual assessment of Ocean Health using ten key science-based criteria. The frustrating thing is that we know what the solutions are to industrial overfishing, pollution, loss of habitat and climate change impacts. What’s lacking is the political will to implement them. That’s why the ocean health index also breaks down the behaviors of the world’s coastal nations so that they can be held individually accountable. The 2013 global Ocean Health Index rates the state of the ocean at a 65 out of 100, less than half a percent improvement from last year when the index was rolled out. If your little sea brought home grades like that you’d ground it.
Thad Allen and Greg Stone are two of 40 solution-oriented ocean leaders from heads of state to a pre-teen anti-oil protest singer who have won Peter Benchley Ocean Awards over the years. In the short time between now and Dec. 31, 2013 you have a chance to nominate your blue hero in one of eight categories for the 7th annual Peter Benchley Ocean Awards that will take place May 30, 2014 at the Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Make your blue hero a world hero.
During the Government shutdown (see blue notes #116) the right-wing blogosphere lit up with reports that President Obama had shut down the ocean. This was based on the micro-kernel of truth that the Everglades National Park was closed and so restrictions on fishing were placed in the Florida Bay section of the Park where furloughed park rangers where unable to patrol. Now Representative Bill Flores of Waco, Texas, back at work in the government he shut down to oppose the President’s health care law, has placed a rider on the Water Resources Reform and Development Act that funds the Army Corps’ harbor and river dredging, beach sand replenishment and other activities. The rider would ban any of these funds from being used to support the president’s National Ocean Policy designed to coordinate just those kinds of actions with other ocean uses to achieve a coordinated approach to managing our public seas in an ecological and economically sustainable manner.
But according to Flores under National Ocean Policy every drop of water landing on his drought-ridden inland constituents homes would empower the EPA to control their property. We’re not saying Rep. Flores is prone to fantastical embellishments, all we’re saying is every one of his utterances could irreparably poison the minds of America’s schoolchildren, or then again, maybe we’re embellishing.
The real problem is a rider like his attached to a much larger funding measure could sneak through a House/Senate committee conference unless the negotiators from the House and Senate hear from a lot of concerned ocean folk. To learn how you can have your voice heard contact the Healthy Ocean Coalition.
Seaweed Spotlight
A regular feature of Blue Notes where we shine the light on a group from the Blue Movement Directory in order to create a more self-aware and collaborative movement. This month we feature the Arctic 30.
Along with being an internationally respected advocacy organization involved in global negotiations and treaties, Greenpeace also has a well-earned reputation for taking non-violent but dramatic actions on behalf of the environment. Historically this includes using Zodiac inflatables to block Russian harpoon boats from killing whales, showing up at government events dressed as endangered critters (is that salmon shaped like Phil Kline?) and hanging banners from buildings, smokestacks and oil drilling platforms.
On a related note, today there’s a global “Cold Rush” to claim sovereignty over Arctic waters that are becoming ice-free as a result of fossil fuel fired climate change and to exploit these emerging waters for oil, minerals and as trade routes.
In September Russia charged 28 Greenpeace activists, a freelance photographer and cameraperson with piracy for staging and recording a protest at the Russian state oil company Gazprom’s first offshore Arctic drilling platform. They then downgraded the charges to hooliganism (so they’re facing 7 instead of 30 years in jail), and then on November 7 charged several of the detainees from the ship Arctic Sunrise with ramming a Coast Guard vessel (another 5 years) during a confrontation that included Russia’s Federal Security Services firing warning shots and staging a vertical helicopter assault to seize the Greenpeace ship and crew. Interestingly the Arctic Sunrise’s Captain, the U.S. citizen Peter Willcox, was also the master of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior when French commandos blew it up in Auckland harbor, New Zealand in 1985, killing a photographer onboard (Greenpeace was protesting French Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific at the time).
A year before the latest incident Greenpeace staged a similar banner hanging protest on the same Russian oilrig without any arrests. But this year’s protests had the bad timing to take place while Russia was deploying nuclear warships as a show of force in the north and a warning to the other Arctic powers including the United States, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Canada. “This is our territory and we shall defend it,” proclaimed the bellicose Admiral Vladimir Korolyov, commander of the Northern Fleet. President Vladimir Putin, who can see Russia’s national security threatened by girl bands like Pussy Riot, has said that while the Greenpeace activists were not pirates they were clearly trying to “seize the platform.”
At the request of the Netherlands, where the Greenpeace ship is registered, a UN Law of the Seas Tribunal is reviewing the conflict and may soon rule against Russia and order it to release the ship and its crew. Even though it’s a signatory to the Law of the Seas Treaty (the U.S. is not) Russia is refusing to participate in the tribunal.
“Our colleagues who have stood up for protecting the Arctic and the planet have been in prison for over 6 weeks now and they need our support,” says John Hocevar, Greenpeace USA’s Oceans Campaign Director. “There are no signs yet that they’re about to be released or that charges will be reduced. We have no indications that things are going well. We do have a list of 30 things people can do for the Arctic 30.” For information on how you can help visit GreenPeace.
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IMMIGRATION BILL ALERT
Senate revives bad legislation. Act now to protect your wages!
ALL BOILERMAKER MEMBERS are urged to take immediate action to help defeat the comprehensive immigration reform bill which is expected to come back to the floor of the U.S. Senate around June 20.
The Boilermakers and other unions of the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD), AFL-CIO, helped defeat this bill June 7 when it first came to the Senate floor for a test vote on cloture (cloture ends debate and moves the bill to a final vote). Now Senate leaders of both parties have made a few changes to the bill to appease its opponents — and President Bush is rallying his business allies to help push it through.
These changes do not remove the bill’s basic flaws. Construction trade unionists were not included during the bill’s creation, which was done behind closed doors. Yet estimates are that construction work is the third largest employment sector for illegal workers, with roughly 14 percent of all construction workers in the United States being undocumented.
The bill’s large guest worker program, which does not include proper protections for American workers, could drive down wages and benefits in the construction industry ― and in fact throughout our economy. Act now! The next floor vote to end debate and move the bill to a final vote is expected in a matter of days. Here’s what you can do:
EMAIL A LETTER TO YOUR SENATOR. Go to the LEAP section of the website for a full legislative alert and a sample letter you can email to your senator. The LEAP section includes a feature that will guide you to the senator’s contact information.
EMAIL A LETTER TO THE EDITOR. Email a letter to the editor of your local newspaper stating why you oppose the bill. The LEAP section provides talking points and background information. To find contact information for news media in your area, click the Media Guide tab and enter your zip code. Select a newspaper and contact information for the opinion/editorial (op/ed) section. Use E-mail only; do not send a letter by regular mail.
CALL YOUR SENATOR directly to voice your opposition.
We helped defeat this bill once because of a tremendous grassroots effort by the entire BCTD. Let’s make sure this bill stays dead. Please take action now to prevent a bad bill from becoming law.
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שַׂמֵּחַ תְּשַׂמַּח רֵעִים הָאֲהוּבִים, כְּשַׂמֵּחֲךָ יְצִירְךָ בְּגַן עֵדֶן מִקֶּדֶם. בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה', מְשַׂמֵּחַ חָתָן וְכַלָּה.
Sameiach tesamach reiim ha-ahuvim k’sameichacha y’tzircha b’gan eden mikedem. Baruch ata Adonai, m’sameiach chatan v’chalah.
Loving companions will surely gladden, as you gladdened your creations in the Garden of Eden in the east. Blessed are You, LORD, Gladdener of groom and bride.
Emotions cannot be felt by the physical senses, but certainly have an impact on, and express themselves in, people's physical behavior. They determine whether people walk with a bounce in their step or slouch along miserably. Joyful emotions are expressed through dancing; a person who is happy naturally "dances for joy."
There are two general sorts of dances, each one expressing a different level of joy. There is the choreographed dance which is composed of different steps and movements. All participants follow a rhythm; their steps determined by the rules of the particular dance.
Then there is a dance which is not choreographed at all. When King David first brought the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, he is described as "hopping and dancing" with joy.3 The unbridled joy which consumed him at the moment didn't allow him to restrict his movements to the orchestrated steps of a given dance. His whole being danced and jumped.
While choreographed dances are tasteful and beautiful, and are a staple of all weddings, the intense joy experienced at a wedding is expressed in the circles of "free dancing" which characterize traditional Jewish weddings.
Every Jewish person is a part of the larger Jewish body — a body which includes every Jewish soul throughout the generations. A Jewish marriage creates a link between all the past generations and all the future generations. Thus, every Jewish marriage is a historic and momentous event, not only for the couple and their families, but also for the community at large. This is evidenced by the participation of all the invited guests in the dancing and singing — every individual rightfully feeling him or herself to be very much a part of this momentous occasion.
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As from the seed the flower must fall away
Ere it can ripen into fruit or grain,
So must these outward walls of flesh decay,
Ere the pent soul its fulness can attain.
The tender plants that here refused to grow,
Shall be perfected in a heavenly state,
In the celestial gardens thou shalt know
1 claim thy expanded flower—be still and wait.
New Tori, 2d mo. 1857. M.
FLORKNCE NIGHTINGALE.
We give the following extracts from an interesting biographical sketch in the Dover (Eng.) Chronicle, written, it is understood, by an intimate friend of F. Nightingale :—
"At the time when reports of the disastrous state of affairs in our hospitals at the seat of war, the year before last, reached this country, filling every heart with the deepest commisseration and dismay, there were thousands of women who would gladly have undertaken to do what in them lay, to mitigate the awful amount of suffering which the daily papers laid bare to their readers; but there was, perhaps, but in one woman the sense of due preparation and practical experience to qualify her for taking the lead in such an undertaking. It was Florence Nightingale alone, who not only possessed the high natural requirements to fit her for the task, whose whole previous life had been in some respects a preparation for it—but, above all, who had especially trained herself for nursing the sick and wounded, and for understanding the systematic organization of a hospital, and the government of a staff of assistant nurses. It was, perhaps, the first in the chain of secondary causes which prepared Florence Nightingale for such a devotion of her life to her fellow-creatures, the fact that her ancestors on both sides were remarkable for benevolence and philanthropy—her maternal grandfather, the late Mr. W. Smith, of Norwich, having been the coadjutor of Clarkson and Wilberforce, in their long-continued efforts in tho cause of slave emancipation in our Colonies. In furthering many other schemes of benevolence and moral reform, Mr. Smith was equally remarkable for intelligence and practical sagacity, while the excellence of his private character, his superior understanding, cultivated taste, and strong religious feelings, could not but leave a deep impression upon his own and his children's children. The memory and example of a life devoted to high and noble aims, is, of itself, a precious bequest for the head of a family to leave to his descendants, and such an inheritance cannot but have its influence in the formation of character and habits; and thus it came naturally to be the habit of the family to which Florence Nightingale belonged, to employ themselves in works of benevolence, and to earnestly concern themselves in the welfare of their fellow-creatures. From her earliest childhood, when surrounded
in her home with all that wealth and cultivated taste could bring together of refined luxury, it was still to the poor around her that she saw the thoughts of her parents ever directed as a prominent duty. At her father's dinner-table, and in her mother's drawing-room, she was early accustomed to listen to some of the philanthropists of the day discussing various schemes and theories which had for their object the relief and education of the poor.
"She had been born at Florence during a temporary residence in Italy; and on their return to England, the inheritance of a large fortune and estates led to the formation of two family homes in the counties of Hampshire and Derbyshire, where the early lives of herself and her sister were passed in more than usually close contact with the surrounding peasantry. To their benevolent father and mother these poor neighbors were held of even more importance than their wealthy acquaintances; and it was a part of every day's duty of the little girls to visit the cottages of the poor who dwelt on or near their father's estates. In sallying forth on the morning walk, a basket, packed with some little comfort or delicacy for an invalid, or a book from which to read to some old, infirm neighbor, was a never-failing accompaniment. In the adjoining village, schools were established by their father and mother, for the education of the children of the poor—not as a mere relief to their consciences, that in the spending of a large fortune so much should be given towards a generally acknowledged good purpose, but with a deep and earnest desire that through those schools a number of their fellow-creatures should be raised in the scale of being, and trained to usefulness and happiness both here and hereafter. These schools, built and founded by their father, became, as his daughters grew up, their especial object of care. It was their task to organize them on good principles; to find efficient teachers for them; to give instruction in them, and to make personal acquaintance with eaoh and every child, and through that acquaintanceship, and by kind words, looks, and acts, to influence them to good. To realize to herself more completely the life and duties of a teacher of the poor, Florence at once took up her abode with a village school-mistress, living with her in her little cottage, and teaching with her in her little school, so as to observe at the closest point of view, the relations of teacher and pupil, and thus
'gain knowledge and experience available for the better organization of the schools in which she was personally interested.
"Then came the time when yet larger schemes of benevolence began to occupy her mind. The
! condition of the poor in the hour of sickness, at all times a matter of interest to her when visiting their cottages, led naturally to a consideration of their fate, when consigned to hospitals.
Some casual exposure of neglect and inattention on the part of hospital nurses, led her to consider the advantage of a better training of women for such employments; and the chance perusal of an article in a review on the subject, and with reference especially to an institution in Germany, for the express purpose of training nurses, first led her thoughts and sympathies into the channel where they were henceforth to exercise themselves for life. She felt at once how well such a vocation could employ her own energies and satisfy her yearnings for a wider sphere of usefulness, and saw how the more skilful nursing of the sick might employ many independent and educated women; while at the same time, by qualifying themselves to become nurses, hundreds of poor women might find a remunerative occupation.
"In that year especially, when it may be said that the minds of the whole English people were more than usually bent on excitement and pleasure—in 1851, when the prevalent idea with us all was, bow best to exhibit the material advantages of England, and feast our eyes on the productions of our own and foreign countries—when for a season we were to give ourselves up to sightseeing and social pleasures—in this year Florence Nightingale left her country and pleasant home, to place herself at the institution of Kaiserwerth, in Prussia, in order to train herself for nursing the sick. Here, under the guidance of the Protestant Sisters of Charity, engaged in the superintendence of a large model hospital, she performed her novitiate, employing herself practically in tending the sick, in witnessing and assisting at operations, and in going through a course of study to enable her to pass an examination of no ordinary strictness.
"On her return to England, and on looking round for the most useful sphere in which to exercise her now matured experience, Florence Nightingale found that the establishment called the Ladies' Hospital in Harley street, which had been founded especially for the reception of invalid ladies of small fortune, was in a lingering state for the want of assistance and good management. She at once undertook in it the office of matron, and in a very short time raised it to a condition of efficiency and great usefulness. To attain this, her exertions were unwearied; and she not only applied to it the whole of her time and energies, but forsook every claim which her fortune and position in society might have other
wise made on her. Fashionable society, the pleasures of literature, art, music—all were resigned in the furtherance of her purpose; and this by one whose highly cultivated mind and faculties quickened to an intense appreciation of all that is beautiful and perfect, rendered the sacrifice only the greater. In a plain, yet unpre
couch of some'suffering invalid, administering the prescribed medicine, smoothing the pillow, supplying little expedients for comfort, or tenderly soothing the irritable mourner; by day, occupied with all the domestic details of a large establishment, enquiring into the symptoms of patients, consulting with medical men on each particular case, and attending to instructions from them, with table covered with prescriptions, letters of application, &c.
"This was her life when the breaking ont of the war with Russia opened to her a yet wider sphere of usefulness. When the need was deeply felt of sending out an efficient staff of nurses to assist in the care of the sick and the wounded, it fortunately happened that the capabilities and acquirements, the fitness, in fact, of Florence Nightingale for taking the lead in the enterprise, was known to some members of the Government, who had the power of appointment in their handa. She was asked to undertake the office of superintendent of the nursing department in the Eastern hospitals, and with little hesitation consented. Accompanied by a large party of paid nurses and lady volunteers selected by her, she proceeded to Scutari, and arrived there at the moment when the disorder and mismanagement in the large hospital there had reached its height, while the sick and wounded were constantly pouring in from the Crimea. Our papers at that time were filled with heart-rending accounts of the horrors which resulted not merely from the inevitable consequences of the war, but also from the inadequate means at band in the hospitals for the relief of the sufferers who came down in shiploads after each bloody engagement. We read of the filth and want of every comfort in the transports which conveyed them from Balaklava to Scutari; of the difficulty in landing the diseased and maimed; of the want of beds, linen, medical stores; of the incapacity of officers; of their absurd adherence to routine and military formalities in the presence of urgent and pressing necessities; and into this chaos of mismanagement and disaster Florence Nightingale and her band of nurses, with a fresh staff of medical officers, had to restore order, decency and comfort. They succeeded in doing this, and, as the result showed, even more than this; for, at the close of the war it was seen that not merely the bodily wants of thousands of our fellow-countrymen were attended to by these good women, but that a high moral influence resulted from their labors. An Irish soldier, in giving his rough testimony to what had been done by Florence Nightingale in the hospital of Scutari, said—' Before she came there was nothing but cussing and swearing, bat afterwards the place was as holy as a church.' In addition to the surgical and medical care which the sick and wounded soldier now received, came a thousand comforts and alleviations around his
tending, costume, she might be seen in that old a thousand comforts and alleviations around his house in Harley-street, bending at night over the bed from the hands of tender and sympathising
women. Refreshing drinks and nourishing delicacies administered at all hours of the day and night when needed by the patient; care for his bodily ailments and sympathy with his thoughts and feelings as they wandered to home and wife and children or aged parents; all this helped to check the roughness and soften the manners of the soldier, and make his best feelings prevail over his worst habits. He was full of grateful reverence for her who was doing so much for him. As she went her rounds, through the miles of hospital wards filled with the sick and dying, 'she had a word and a smile, now for this one and now for that; and, as she could not speak to us all, wo would kiss her shadow as it fell upon our beds,' said one of her grateful patients with the true poetry of nature in his untaught heart. Over refractory and unaccommodating and jealous officials, Florence Nightingale won like victories by her gentleness and firmness. She refused to be restricted by rules and routine when suffering was to be alleviated and pressing wants supplied. When the sick and wounded just landed from the Crimea were lying on the bare ground for want of beds, she would take no refusal from the store-keeper who had them in reserve, but who hesitated to give them out without an official order presented in some particular form. While he stood by, keys in hand, not venturing to open his storehouse, she summoned attendants and bade them break open the doors and take out the required bed and bedding! And the Government and people of England applauded her judicious daring. When, too, the stores of the hospital, as supplied by Government, were insufficient for the wants of the overwhelming numbers which came down to be tended, it was with wise confidence in the justifiability of the step that Miss Nightingale had recourse to the gentleman who was entrusted by the Times newspaper to expend a large sum of money raised by the public in behalf of the sick and wounded soldiers. From him, at a time of great need, and before the Government at home was aware of the wants of the hospital, she obtained all that was required for the sufferers and for the cleansing and purifying and better organization of the hospital.
"After bringing the hospital at Scutari to a high state of efficiency and good management, Miss Nightingale passed over into the Crimea, and, on the heights above Balaklava, supplied a sort of camp hospital there with a staff of nurses and all the materials that she had now at her disposal for comfort and order. She also took an active and influential part in many schemes which were set on foot for the improvement of the habits and morals of the soldier. She induced him to save; to refrain from spirit drinking; and encouraged him to read. Through her hands passed large sums of money sent by the soldiers to their wives and families at home, and
through her hands also passed the numerous books, tracts and means of innocent amusement, supplied by the benevolent in England to those who were fighting their country's battles. We have numerous testimonies from the lips of soldiers, on their return, to the moral good effected by Florence Nightingale and her female companions; but we know not, we cannot measure, nor picture in thought, the good that may result from such influence to this and future generations. The war is over, and our army returned; and in reviewing the past we were never, perhaps, better able to perceive the evils and horrors of war, but at the same time we recognize that even war is not unaccompanied by those manifestations of a merciful and superintending Providence who allows of passing evil for the furtherance of lasting and progressive good. Florence Nightingale has now returned to England, rich in the avowal of all that human praise can bestow, and which must yet fall below, in her estimation, the mere sense of having performed well a high duty. She has been personally honored by her Sovereign, and the people of England, anxious to show their sense of her services, have entrusted to her disposal a large sum of money, which was raised as a testimonial to her, but which she prefers to employ in founding and supporting an institution for the better training of nurses in connection with one of our hospitals. On all sides she has been greeted with honor, love and respect; but returning to her own home in strict privacy she shrinks from all kinds of public homage or distinction, and, in answering an address from the working-men of our large northern towns, modestly passes sentence on herself in the simple words which she inscribed over the grave of one of her assistant nurses in the East, who fell a victim to her exertions, and says of herself 'She hath done what she could.' What might not the world become if all could say this of themselves J"
HOT WATER FOR HOUSE PLANTS.
A correspondent of the Boston Cultivator writing of the management of house-plants, says :—" The way to have healthy plants is to shorten in all struggling growth, and remove every leaf and flower as soon as the least symptom of decay is perceivable, washing them occasionally with warm water from the fine nose of a watering-pot held high above them—thus giving them the benefit of a warm shower at any time or place. But the thing of all others most important is, to water them with hot water at all times; yes, hot to the touch, even beyond what is supposed to be prudent until after experiment —and it is only necessary to watch the result on the health and vigor of the plants, especially when in bloom, to be convinced of the virtue of this ' grand specific'" The writer says be has fuschias now in bloom, mere cuttings about six inches in height, not one failing out of seven, or even more cuttings, planted in a single pot and watered with hot water.—Boston Traiu.
THE SNOW TRADE OF SICILY.
The principal export from Cantania is snow, in which a very lucrative trade is carried on with Malta, and some parts of the south of Italy. It is collected during the winter in pits and hollows on the mountain, and covered with the scoriae and ashes, to prevent its thawing. It is brought down on mules to the coast at night, in panniers oovered with leaves. The revenue derived from this source is immense, and renders the Prince of Paterno one of the richest men in Sicily. Snow is the universal luxury, from the highest to the lowest ranks. It is sold at about the rate of twopence a rotolo, or thirty ounces; and the poorest cobbler would sooner deprive himself of his dinner than of his glass of "acqua gelata." It is also extensively used in the hospitals; and scarcity of it would be considered as great a misfortune as a famine, or any other national visitation, and would more infallibly occasion popular tumults. To guard against any such accidents, the government at Naples have made the providing of it a monopoly, the contractor being required to give security to the amount of 90,000 ducats, which sum is forfeited if it can be proved that for one hour the supply was not equal to the demand.
IMMIGRATION WEST.
The Buffalo Immigration Commissioners report that 1400 persons have been relieved during the year with an expense of §3,383 70. All these 1400 persons were foreigners. Most of the number (600) were Germans; next English, 139; then Swiss, 135; and Belgians, 133. Of Irish there were but 100. These facts demonstrate at once the difference between the Irish and all other class of immigrants. Thus, while the Irish immigration is the largest, it remain* with us, here, principally, and exerts its influence on one point, while the Germans, in greater part, it is easily perceived, move westward, and give their exertions to opening up the wilds there. And so also with all other nativities but Irish. Of the 1400 assisted at Buffalo, 200 were assisted to reach places to which they designed emigrating: to Canada West principally (87,") and to the more western cities.
The Select Council of Philadelphia have pasted an ordinance prohibiting the sale of game when out of season. This is a most humane measure, and we trust it will have the effect of restraining those who shoot and market the birds at all seasons of the year.
PHILADELPHIA MARKETS.
Flodb Awd Mkal.—The market lor Flour is stiii dull. Good is offered at $6 37. Sales of better brands for home consumption at $6 37 a 6 44, and extra and fancy brands at $7 50 a 8 25. There is very Jiitie export demand. Rye Flour is woith $3 62 per barrel. Corn Meal dull, at $3 00 per bbl., and old stock at 337.
Grain.—Wheat is dull, but prices are steadySales of prime new Pennsylvania red are making at $1 49 a 1 50 and $1 62 a 1 63 for white. Rye is very scarce; sales of Penna. at 82c. Corn is more in demand; sales of old yellow at 68c and new yellow tt 65c. Oats are steady; sales of Pennsylvania Oats at 46c per bushel.
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Teems.—$42 per term for tuition, board and washing, fuel, pens and inks, for particulars address the Principal for a circular.
STEPHEN COX, Principal.
Scottsville P. O., Monroe Co., N. Y.
BOARDING SCHOOL.—A Friend desirous of opening a Boarding School convenient to FriendsMeeting, Fallsington, may hear of a desirable situation by applying previous to the 15th of next month. For further particulars address either W». SattiiThwatts, Jr., or Mark Palmes, Fallsington P.O., Bucks Co., Pa. 1st mo. 10, 1857.
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EXTRACT FROM MEMOIR OF PRISCILLA GURNEY. [Continued from page 787.]
Some important family claims required Priscilla Gurney's attention during the time of the Yearly Meeting of 1816. She felt the privation consequent on being necessarily absent from it, to be no small trial; but, with the spirit of cheerful asquicseence with every circumstance permitted or dispensed by the providence of her heavenly Fathe^ which so uniformly prevailed in her heart, she was perfectly willing to forego the enjoyment of a privilege which she greatly valued. She says:—
".It has been quite a sacrifice to me to give up the Yearly Meeting. I hud longed for such a refreshment, and to be a little more amongst Friends, as we have not much of this kind of help in our situation here: but I do not doubt it is for our benefit to be, for a time, deprived of much outward help and consolation. This has been remarkably my case for many months past. My dear uncle and aunt's long absence from homo has ben oue thing that h:is given this feeling: but I am sure that these things are ordered in wisdom and mercy, and ought to lead us, with more faith, trust and dependence, to the Source of all good."
As the autumn approached, it brought with it, to some of her near connexions, accumulated solicitudes and sorrows. Her uncle Joseph's family had, as we have seen in the record of the previous year, been suddenly bereft of a young and interesting member: this heavy affliction was quickly followed by another, not less deeply felt, and attended by circumstances of peculiar trial. Their daughter Rachel was seriously affected by symptoms of pulmonary disorder; and, by the urgent advice of some attendant physicians, it was concluded that she should pass the ensuing winter in the milder climate of Savoy. Some painful anxieties respecting others of their
beloved circle prevented Joseph i' le Gurney from accompanying their dea1 - , a foreign land; and they confided 'iiportant charge to their affectionate niece, ot whose skilful and assiduous attentions to such as were sinking under disease they bad repeatedly had ample proof. Priscilla Gurncy felt weightily the responsible undertaking; but rncckly surrendered herself to perform the arduous duties which it involved. Her tenderly sympathizing, yet lively spirit, her deep and solid piety, her constant faith and trust, rendered her a most valuable companion to the sick and to the mourner, particularly to those in early life, whose future appeared to be no longer irradiated by the sunshine of youthful anticipations. Rarely could one be found whose experience could better qualify to administer to the failing tabernacle; or, in seasons of extreme weakness and discouragement, when the spirit might sink at the prospect of the awful gloom that enveloped the dark "valley of the shadow of death," few could be more prepared to point the sufferer to those rays of " the Sun of Righteousness" which illumine the Christian's pathway to the tomb. The invalid was also accompanied by her sister Jane. This little, but very interesting party, commenced their journey on the 27th of Ninth Month, at which date Priscilla writes :—
"Our parting at Earlham was under a most sweet and comforting impression of gospel love. We had a solemn reading. 1 felt engaged in prayer that we might be established, strengthened, and settled in the Truth as it is in Jesus; and I was enabled to commend myself, and tho^e most dear to me, as well absent as present, to the Lord, and to his grace under every dispensation. The warm expression of Christian love, unity, and sympathy, from so many of my near and dear friends, was consolatory on leaving my most beloved home. Our departure from the Grove, was very affecting; but quietness and even peace prevailed. A low ride to Harleston. The feeling of most tender love and union of spirit with those I had left (united, I humbly trust, in Him who is the Light of the World,) was powerful through this day and night."
At Witham, one of their resting-places, she addressed the following to her beloved cousin, Anna Buxton, then about to be united in marriage to William Forster :—
"Ninth Month 30th.—I believe I shall be
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Crossfire EPUB
by Malorie Blackman
Part of the Noughts and Crosses series
Nominated for the Costa Children's Book Award
'The Noughts & Crosses series are still my favourite books of all time and showed me just how amazing story-telling could be' STORMZY
'Malorie's Noughts & Crosses series is the first time I saw myself in a book . . . they were pacey, exciting, rich. What Malorie Blackman has always done so brilliantly is put the minority front and centre, both in society and politics.' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS
'The most original book I've ever read' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH
'Malorie Blackman is absolutely amazing ... [Noughts & Crosses] really spoke to me, especially as a woman of dual heritage.' ZAWE ASHTON
'Crossfire is searing, political and furious. Malorie's world building is sublime and the way the Noughts & Crosses series holds a mirror up to society is unrivalled' JUNO DAWSON
Years have passed since the love between Sephy - a Cross - and Callum - a Nought - destroyed their world and changed their families and society forever.
Society appears to be very different now. For the first time ever, a Nought Prime Minister - Tobey Durbridge - is in power. Race and class don't divide people anymore. But things are never really that easy.
Because Tobey's just been framed for murder, and the only way to free himself is to turn to his oldest friend - Callie-Rose.
Their families divisions run deep, and when two young people are kidnapped, their lives and everything they've fought for are put in the firing line.
And when you're playing a game as dangerous as this one, it won't be long before someone gets caught in the crossfire...
Crossfire is the long-awaited new novel in legendary author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses series.
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Release Day Review: The Hero (Thunder Point #3), by Robyn Carr
August 27, 2013 Lark_Bookwyrm Book Reviews 2 ★★★★
The Hero by Robyn Carr
Series: Thunder Point #3
Published by Harlequin MIRA on August 27, 2013
Also in this series: The Wanderer, The Newcomer, The Chance, The Promise, The Homecoming, One Wish, A New Hope, Wildest Dreams
Also by this author: My Kind of Christmas, The Wanderer, The Newcomer, The Chance, The Promise, The Homecoming, 'Tis the Season, One Wish, Never Too Late, A New Hope, Wildest Dreams, What We Find, The Life She Wants, Any Day Now
In a moment of desperation, Devon McAllister takes her daughter and flees a place where they should have been safe and secure. She has no idea what is around the next bend, but she is pretty certain it can't be worse than what they've left behind. Her plan is to escape to somewhere she can be invisible. Instead, an unexpected offer of assistance leads her to Thunder Point, a tiny Oregon town with a willingness to help someone in need.
As the widowed father of a vulnerable young boy, Spencer Lawson knows something about needing friendship. But he's not looking for anything else. Instead, he's thrown his energy into his new role as Thunder Point's high school football coach. Tough and demanding to his team, off the field he's gentle and kind...just the kind of man who could heal Devon's wounded heart.
Devon thought she wanted to hide from the world. But in Thunder Point, you find bravery where you least expect it...and sometimes, you find a hero.
The Hero is probably the best book in the Thunder Point series so far. Devon is a wonderful character, courageous and fierce in the way only a mother can be, but at the same time vulnerable and understandably cautious, even fearful. Her flight from a bad situation lends the novel more urgency and suspense than either of the previous books. As for Spencer, we met him in The Newcomer: he is the father who raised Cooper’s biological son, believing for many years for many years that the boy was his own. Now Spencer has moved to Thunder Point to coach the high school football team, and Spence and Cooper are sharing fathering duties.
Spencer doesn’t think he’s ready for another relationship so soon after his wife’s death, particularly with a young woman with as many secrets as Devon is hiding. But he can’t deny his attraction to Devon. It’s a familiar theme in romance, but Carr makes it fresh simply by making the characters and their feelings so real. For her part, Devon is reluctant to trust her heart to any man, since her last choice was so disastrous. Spencer’s obvious attraction, care, and respect gradually win her over — until he abruptly gets cold feet.
The blurb is a bit misleading. Spencer isn’t the titular hero; that title belongs to Rawley, Cooper’s Vietnam-veteran friend and employee. There have been hints in the previous books that there is more to Rawley than meets the eye, and in this book, he finally comes into his own, playing the role of hero in both the beginning and end of the book. I was a little disappointed that he figures so little in the middle of the book, but the ending more than made up for that. Rawley proves himself an truly admirable man: honorable, caring, and more than capable of heroics when the need arises — and boy, does it arise!
As the Thunder Point series progresses, it becomes more and more “fiction with romance” as opposed to strictly romance. Devon and Spencer’s relationship is important, particularly to the two of them, but the central focus of the book is really Devon’s story. I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s obvious fairly early on that she is escaping from some sort of cult. That there is more to it than that also becomes evident, and provides much of the tension in the novel.
All in all, I really enjoyed The Hero, and I’m looking forward to the sequel. The Chance will be released Feb. 25, 2014, and features a former convict and an FBI agent. Knowing Carr, she can make even that unlikely pairing both compelling and believable. I can hardly wait!
The Thunder Point series in order:
The Wanderer (review)
The Newcomer (review)
The Hero (review)
The Chance (review)
The Promise (review)
The Homecoming (review)
One Wish (review)
A New Hope (forthcoming)
Wildest Dreams (forthcoming)
About Robyn Carr
Robyn Carr is the RITA award-winning author of over 40 books. Set in small towns, her Virgin River, Grace Valley and Thunder Point series blend romance and women’s fiction, and often deal sensitively with issues including war-related injuries, PTSD, alcoholism, bullying, rape, and single parenthood. In 2010, she won RT’s Career Achievement Best Author Award for Contemporary Romance.
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2 Responses to “Release Day Review: The Hero (Thunder Point #3), by Robyn Carr”
I’ve only read the first book in this series so far, but I know I’ll love this one, too. Robyn Carr is the only romance writer I read — maybe it’s because, like you said, her books are more “fiction with romance” not just “romance with more romance.” Glad you’re enjoying the series!
There are only a few contemporary romance authors I read, and fewer of those who are on my auto-buy list; Robyn Carr was the first and is still my favorite of those.
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Sometimes it takes a tragedy to force change. Such was case on December 14, 2012. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was an unfathomable event that left the country in a state of shock. For Taylor and Steve Smith, it was a time to turn grief into action.
Taylor explains, “With an infant and almost 2-year-old sleeping soundly in their beds, my husband Steve (a law enforcement officer and SWAT team member) turned to me and said, ‘Teachers are not trained on what to do if a threat enters a school … I have to create a program to help empower the TRUE first responders in these types of incidents: the teachers and staff.’”
With his wife’s full support, Steve Smith made good on his word.
Within a few months after the shooting at Sandy Hook, Steve had implemented a training course for teachers at two private schools. Seeing the empowerment resulting from this training, the Smiths knew they needed to reach more communities. In November 2013, Steve and Taylor officially formed Guardian Defense.
It didn’t take long for the Smiths to expand their services to civilians in the workplace by offering programs on how to plan for and respond to a threat on-site as well as implement preventative measures. Guardian Defense even added a course specifically for law enforcement officers. “Our course helps save time and prepares the first responding officer to approach the threat immediately, without waiting for backup,” explains Taylor.
By serving a broader audience and hiring instructors who share their passion and expertise, Guardian Defense continues to expand its outreach through South Florida and across the United States.
According to the Smiths, their first objective with SCORE centered on marketing and sales planning, which initially led them to mentors Michael Lupo and Owen Koff. Explains Taylor, “Michael and Owen provided us with a list of objectives to get started on our marketing plan during our first meeting in 2016.” Since then, along with attending SCORE’s annual 1-day workshop, the women’s entrepreneurship session with Susy Macario, and a recent virtual training on filing taxes, Taylor says they’ve taken full advantage of SCORE’s mentoring services.
“Without prior experience operating a business, we have consulted greatly with our mentors on topics such as accounting, legal concerns, affiliations, partnerships, sales, grant writing, insurance, public speaking, employment and business management. Essentially, we show up with a list of questions seeking their guidance, and they are ready to answer!” Taylor says. “We appreciate every moment of their time; and we recognize we are getting top-notch consultation free of charge.”
What’s more, she shares, “We feel a sense of empowerment from our mentors and that has truly helped us to continue to work hard each day.”
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Not alot. (But avoid using “a lot” in anything but the most informal of writings.)
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a, an
Use “a” before words that begin with consonants or before words beginning with vowels that sound like consonants: a union; a once-in-a-lifetime event. Use “an” before words that begin with vowels or vowel sounds. When a word begins with “h,” use “a” if the “h” is pronounced: a historic event. Use “an” if the “h” is not pronounced: an hour; an honor.
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a.m., p.m.
Lowercase with periods. Avoid the redundant 9 p.m. tonight or 10 a.m. in the morning. Refer to the "times" entry.
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The accreditation organization of the McCoy College of Business. AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business is the name of the organization. On first reference, correct usage is the full name of the organization, AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business; on second and continuing references, it is acceptable to use AACSB International or AACSB.
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Do not use both Dr. and Ph.D. with a name. NOT Dr. Jane Williams, Ph.D. Use either Dr. Jane Williams or Jane Williams, Ph.D. Refer to the "academic degrees" and "titles" entries.
Abbreviate junior or senior after a person’s name, and do not set it off with a comma unless the person has indicated their preference is to include a comma: Martin Luther King Jr.
Omit periods in abbreviations or acronyms unless the result would spell an unrelated word. But use periods in two-letter abbreviations: U.S., U.N. (but not GI). Use all caps, but no periods, in longer abbreviations and acronyms when the individual letters are pronounced: ABC, FBI. Use only an initial cap and then lowercase letters for acronyms of more than six letters, unless otherwise listed in the AP Stylebook or Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition.
Do not abbreviate company or corporation when used after the business name. (This is a deviation from most style guides.) Do abbreviate incorporated (Inc.) or limited (Ltd.) when used following a business name.
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Lowercase names of degrees, fellowships and the like: a master’s degree; a doctorate; a fellowship; a master of business administration. Please note the capitalization and punctuation used in the following examples:
associate degree (not associate’s)
Refer to the Texas State University Catalog for a full list of undergraduate degrees and graduate degrees, as well as their abbreviations.
Abbreviations: Use an abbreviation such as B.A., B.F.A., B.M., B.S., M.A., M.B.A., M.F.A., M.S., M.S.W., Ph.D. or Ed.D. only if writing out the full name of the degree is too cumbersome for the context (such as in an advertisement), on second reference after you have written out the full name of the degree, and after a full name, set off by a comma: Jane Doe, M.A. ’97, won the award.
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The university’s style for academic titles follows that of the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition.
In general, capitalize a formal title used directly before a name. Lowercase and use commas to set off a title following a name. Lowercase and spell out titles when not used with names.
Exception: In formal contexts, such as a displayed list of names and titles in an annual report, titles are usually capitalized even when following a name. Exceptions may also be called for in promotional or other contexts for reasons of courtesy or politics, as long as capitalization is handled consistently within a document or suite of documents.
Capitalize and spell out formal titles such as chancellor, dean, president, chair, professor, associate professor, assistant professor, etc., only when they directly precede names. Lowercase elsewhere.
Note the capitalization and format of these examples:
the professor; John Smith, professor of literature; Professor Smith; professors Smith and Jones
the chair; Ann Jones, chair of the Department of Finance and Economics; Professor Jones
the provost; Bob Williams, provost and vice president for Academic Affairs; Dr. Williams
the president; Jane Smith, president of Texas State University; Dr. Smith or President Smith
the dean; John Jones, dean of the College of Education; Dean Jones
named professorships: Joe Williams, Texas State’s Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Chair in Creative Writing; James Jones, McCoy Endowed Chair in Business
Chair is the name for the heads of Texas State departments. Use chair rather than chairman, chairwoman or chairperson.
Dr. may be used on first reference before the name of a person who holds a doctorate. Unless the context makes it clear that the person is not a medical doctor, the person’s specialty should be stated in the first or second reference.
Avoid using Dr. before the last name in subsequent references; last name only is preferred.
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Accept means to receive; except means to exclude: Everyone accepted the invitation except for Mary.
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Use the abbreviations Ave., Blvd. and St. only with numbered addresses: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Spell them out and capitalize when part of a formal street name without a number or with just a block number: Pennsylvania Avenue, the 1200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. Lowercase and spell out when used alone or with more than one street name: Massachusetts and Pennsylvania avenues. Exception: Abbreviations are acceptable on maps if space is limited.
All shorter words (road, alley, lane, drive, etc.) are always spelled out in running text or address listings: 601 University Drive. It’s acceptable to abbreviate these words on a map if space is limited.
Always use figures for an address number: 7 Green St.
Spell out and capitalize first through ninth when used as street names; use figures with two letters for 10th and above: 1202 Sixth St.; 100 12th St.
Abbreviate compass points used to indicate directional ends of a street or quadrants of a city in a numbered address: 222 E. 42nd St.; 600 K St. N.W. Do not abbreviate if the number is omitted: East 42nd Street; K Street Northwest.
Refer to the "streets" entry for the proper spelling of the names of streets on the Texas State campus.
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Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center (ALERRT)
A center at Texas State that trains first-responding law enforcement officers. Write out the full name on first reference, and use ALERRT on subsequent references.
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Not adviser. Used when referring to a person who offers advice in an academic setting on degree programs, course work, etc. (This is a deviation from AP style.)
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affect/effect
Affect is always a verb: Your vote will affect the outcome. Effect is used most often as a noun but is sometimes a verb: We aren’t sure what that effect will be, but we hope it will effect positive change.
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afterward, backward, forward, toward
No final “s” is needed.
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Always use figures for ages of people, animals and inanimate objects. When the context does not require years or years old, the figure is presumed to be years.
Ages expressed as adjectives before a noun or as substitutes for a noun use hyphens: 5-year-old girl, but the girl is 5 years old. The boy, 6, has a sister, 10. The woman, 29, has a daughter who is 2 months old. The race is for 60-year-olds. The 18- to 34-year-old demographic is elusive to advertisers. The man is in his 40s.
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Alkek Library
The formal name is the Albert B. Alkek Library. Alkek Library is also acceptable on first reference. The building was opened in 1990 and named in 1991 in honor of Alkek, a Houston oilman and philanthropist.
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Never allright or alright.
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To be selected as the best (as at a sport) within an area or organization. Capitalize when part of a formal name: All-Sun Belt Conference, All-American, but lowercase when used generally: all-conference.
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The name of the university’s song. Capitalize the first letters of each word and enclose this song title in quotation marks. If not referring to the name of the Texas State school song, lowercase the term alma mater, which refers to a school or university one has attended and is also the general term for a school or university’s song.
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The formal name and preferred usage is the Texas State Alumni Association. Use the full name on first reference. When referring specifically to Texas State's alumni association, Alumni Association (capped) is acceptable on subsequent references. When referring generally to an alumni association, always lowercase.
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alumni, alumna, alumnus
alumni – a group of graduates
alumna – a female graduate
alumnus – a male graduate
Do not use the term alumnae.
Someone who attended the university but did not graduate is a former student.
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among, between
Use between when referring to two items; use among when referring to more than two items.
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ampersand (&)
Use only if it is part of an official title; otherwise, spell out the word “and.”
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and, but
And or but may begin a sentence. This approach can be useful in providing a transition, but it shouldn’t be overdone.
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Do not use the term “first annual.” Instead mention that plans are to hold the event annually. Do not use annual as a synonym for yearbook.
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anxious/eager
Anxious has a more negative meaning than eager. Someone is anxious if they are extremely uneasy or worrying about some contingency. Someone is eager if they are enthusiastic or have an impatient desire or interest.
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Avoid this word. Use about.
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Preferred spelling (rather than archeology).
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Avoid overusing “as well as” in place of “and”; the phrase “as well as” has the sense of “too” or “also,” rather than simply “and.”
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athletic/athletics
Athletic is an adjective; athletics is a noun: He attended an athletic event. Athletics are exercises, sports or games engaged in by athletes.
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Austin Metropolitan Area
Capitalize all three words. San Marcos is part of the Austin Metropolitan Area.
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Capitalize the word “award” only when it is part of the official name of an award.
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Not barbeque, BBQ or Bar-B-Q, unless it is in the formal name of a business.
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because, since
Use “because” to note a cause-effect relationship. Avoid using “as” in place of because: He went because he was told; not as he was told. Use “since” to note a time element: He has been sick since Tuesday.
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better, more
“Better” refers to quality. “More” refers to quantity. This book is a better book than the last one I read. I need to buy more books.
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Bill Miller Room
A room located on the west concourse of Bobcat Stadium. The room is a hospitality area for former Texas State letterwinners and is open during halftime of all home football games.
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Acceptable as an adjective. African American is acceptable for an American black person of African descent. Follow the person’s preference.
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Texas State University is governed by The (capitalize “The”) Texas State University System Board of Regents; the Board of Regents is acceptable on second reference.
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Capitalize when referring to the Texas State mascot or a Texas State student. Lowercase when referring to the animal in general. When referring to a Texas State athletic team, use "the Texas State Bobcats." Never refer to a women's team as "the Lady Bobcats." All Texas State student-athletes are Bobcats.
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Bobcat Baseball Ballpark
Capitalize all three words in this official name of the location where the Bobcat baseball team plays.
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Bobcat Buck$
Bobcat Buck$ is a convenient, secure purchasing feature for students' BobcatCard (student ID). It is a prepaid, university-managed flexible spending account for purchases both on and off campus.
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Bobcat Build
The Texas State community’s largest annual student-run public service event in which students participate in neighborhood cleanups, nursing home cleaning, school playground work, green space and river cleanups.
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Bobcat Pause
A memorial service that honors students, staff, faculty and alumni who died during the year.
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Bobcat Preview
A program that all incoming freshmen are required to attend prior to the start of the fall semester to help ease their transition into college life.
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Bobcat Soccer Complex
(Frequently referred to as the West Campus Athletic Complex) Texas State's women's soccer team uses this facility as do several club sports, including lacrosse.
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Bobcat Softball Stadium
Capitalize all three words in this official name of the location where the Bobcat softball team plays.
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Bobcat Stadium
Texas State’s 30,000-seat football stadium. In November 2003, the field was renamed Jim Wacker Field in honor of the former football coach who died that year.
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BobcatCard
A Texas State student ID card
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Boko
Capitalize the name of Texas State’s Bobcat mascot.
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Capitalize only proper nouns: spring break, winter break, Thanksgiving break.
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Capitalize the word “building” as part of the name: the J.C. Kellam Administration Building, the Supple Science Building. When referring to a room in a building, give the building’s name and the room number and capitalize “Room”: Flowers Hall, Room 234; Old Main, Room 102.
Academic Services Building (North or South), ASB
Alkek Library, Alkek
Alkek Teaching Theater, Alkek Theater
Angelina Hall
Aqua Sports Center, ASC
Arnold Hall, Arnold
Avery Building (never Avery Hall)
Beretta Hall, Beretta
Bexar Hall, Bexar
Blanco Hall, Blanco
Bobcat Stadium, the stadium
Bobcat Village
Boko’s Living Room
Brazos Hall, Brazos
Brogdon Hall, Brogdon
Bruce and Gloria Ingram Hall, Ingram Hall
Burleson Hall, Burleson
Butler Hall
Centennial Hall, Centennial
Central Receiving
Chautauqua Hall, Chautauqua
Chautauqua and Gaillardia Complex
Child Development Center, the center
College Inn
College of Education Building, Education Building
Colorado Building
Comal Building
Commons Dining Hall, Commons
Derrick Hall, Derrick
Elliott Hall, Elliott
End Zone Complex, EZC
Evans Auditorium
Evans Liberal Arts Building, Evans
Falls Hall, Falls
Falls and Sayers Complex
Family & Consumer Sciences Building, FCS Building
Fire Station Studio
Flowers Hall, Flowers
Harold M. Freeman Aquatic Biology Building, Freeman Building
Freeman Center
Gaillardia Hall, Gaillardia
Glade Theatre
Harris Dining Hall, Harris
Health Professions Building, Health Professions
Hines Academic Center, Hines
Hornsby Hall, Hornsby
Ivey-Moore House, Ivey-Moore
Jackson Hall, Jackson
J.C. Kellam Administration Building, JCK
Jim Wacker Field at Bobcat Stadium, Wacker Field
Joann Cole Mitte Art Building, JCM
Jones Dining Center, Jones
Jowers Center, Jowers
Lampasas Building, Lampasas
Lantana Hall, Lantana
Laurel Hall, Laurel
LBJ Amphitheater, amphitheater
LBJ Student Center Ballroom
LBJ Parking Garage
LBJ Student Center, LBJSC
LBJ Teaching Theater
Math/Computer Science Building, MCS
Emmett and Miriam McCoy Hall, McCoy Hall
The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment
Medina Building, Medina
Minifie Academic Atrium (in McCoy Hall)
Roy F. & Joann Cole Mitte Complex, Mitte Complex
Music Building
Music Building recital hall, recital hall
Nueces Hall, Nueces
Old Main
Outdoor Center
Paws-n-Go
Pecos Building
Pedernales Building, Pedernales
Retama Hall, Retama
Richard A. Castro Undergraduate Admissions Center
Roy F. Mitte Technology and Physics Building, RFM
Sabinal Building, Sabinal
San Gabriel Hall
San Jacinto Hall, San Jacinto
San Marcos Hall
Sayers Hall
Science Greenhouse
Sewell Park, Sewell
Smith Hall, Smith
Smith House
Sterry Hall, Sterry
Strahan Arena at the University Events Center, Strahan
Student Recreation Center, SRC
Student Health Center, Health Center
Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Science Building, Supple Science Building
Swinney House
Taylor-Murphy History Building, Taylor-Murphy
Texas State Tennis Center, Tennis Center
Theatre Center
Thornton International House
Tower Hall, Tower
Trinity Building, Trinity
Undergraduate Academic Center, UAC
University Camp
University Events Center
University Press/West Warehouse
West Campus Practice Field
West Campus Competition Field
William W. and Elizabeth Adamson ROTC Building, Adamson Building
Willow Hall
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The bullet takes the place of punctuation, such as commas or semicolons, between items. Don’t use punctuation at the ends of bulleted items that are not sentences. There is also no need for a concluding period at the end of a bulleted list, even when that list continues a sentence.
When your bulleted items are sentences, capitalize the first letter of each and use appropriate end punctuation. When they consist of single words or phrases, lowercased without punctuation is best.
Keep your bulleted lists consistent. If some of the items in a list are sentences, make all of them sentences. If some items begin with verbs, begin all items with verbs. Use the same verb tense within each sentence. In short publications, such as brochures, try to structure all your lists the same way, either sentences or not. In longer works, some variance is acceptable.
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Use dining hall or name the hall specifically: Commons Dining Hall, Harris Dining Hall, Jones Dining Center, the Lair or the Den.
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cancel, canceled, canceling, cancellation
Note the preferred spellings.
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In general, avoid unnecessary capitals. Capitalization does not confer prestige or importance; it’s what you say about a discipline or program that conveys quality or prestige to the reader.
Academic disciplines: Do not capitalize the names of disciplines except for those that are derived from proper nouns: American history, English composition; criminal justice, engineering technology.
Compositions: For books, journals, newspapers and other freestanding publications as well as stories, poems, articles, etc., follow Chicago style:
Always capitalize the first and last words both in titles and in subtitles and all other major words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and some conjunctions).
Lowercase the articles the, a and an.
Lowercase prepositions, regardless of length, except when they are used adverbially or adjectivally (up in Look Up, down in Turn Down, on in The On Button, etc.) or are part of a Latin expression used adjectivally or adverbially (De Facto, In Vitro, etc.).
Lowercase the conjunctions and, but, for, or, nor.
Lowercase the words to and as in any grammatical function, for simplicity’s sake.
Lowercase the second part of a species name, such as lucius in Esox lucius, or the part of a proper name that would be lowercased in text, such as de or von.
For words that can be used as prepositions, as adverbs, or as adjectives, consult the dictionary.
Refer to the "titles" entry.
Derivatives: Capitalize words that are derived from a proper noun and still depend on it for their meaning: American, Christian, Christianity, English, French, Marxism, Shakespearean. Lowercase words that are derived from a proper noun but no longer depend on it for their meaning: french fries, herculean, manhattan cocktail, malapropism, pasteurize, quixotic, venetian blind.
Informal documents and forms: Do not capitalize the titles of forms or informal documents: exemption request form, housing contract, leave request, etc.
Popular names: Some places and events lack officially designated proper names but have popular names that are the equivalent: the Combat Zone (a section of downtown Boston), the South Side (of Chicago), the Badlands (of North Dakota). For Texas State, this includes the Quad, the Square, etc. This practice should not, however, be interpreted as a license to ignore the general practice of lowercasing the common noun elements of a name when they stand alone.
Birds, animals and plants: Capitalize only the part of the name that is a proper noun; do not capitalize any words that are not proper nouns: American alligator, Guadalupe bass, Mississippi kite, great blue heron, largemouth bass. When using scientific names, capitalize the genus and lowercase the species: little blue heron, Egretta caerulea.
Titles: Refer to the "academic titles" and "titles" entries.
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All one word. All lowercase unless used at the beginning of a sentence.
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centers, Texas State
Capitalize names of centers at Texas State when using the formal name (Center for International Studies). Lowercase “center” when not using the full formal name: The center opened in 2005.
Formal names of centers at Texas State University include:
Center for Archaeological Studies
The Clinic for Autism Research, Evaluation and Support
Center for Children and Families
Center for Communication, Collaboration and Creativity
Center for Diversity and Gender Studies
Center for Entrepreneurial Action
Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation
Center for Middle American Research
Center for P-16 Initiatives
Center for Professional Sales
Center for Texas Music History
Center for Texas Public History
Center for the Arts and Symbolism in Ancient America
Center for the Study of the Southwest
Central Texas Writing Project
Education Policy Implementation Center (EPIC)
Edwards Aquifer Research & Data Center
Forensic Anthropology Center
Gilbert M. Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education
Government Partnerships Program
James and Marilyn Lovell Center for Environmental Geography and Hazards Research
Personalized Academic and Career Exploration Center (PACE)
Testing, Evaluation, and Measurement Center (TEMC)
Texas Center for Geographic Information Science
Texas Justice Court Training Center
Texas School Safety Center
Texas State Sleep Center
Texas State Small Business Development Center
Texas Statewide Tobacco Education and Prevention
William P. Hobby Center for Public Service
Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center
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Capitalize both words when referring to this region.
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Lowercase and spell out numbers less than 10: the first century; the 19th century. For proper names, capitalize and/or follow the organization’s practice: Century 21 Realty; Twentieth Century Fund. Hyphenate only when the century forms a compound modifier: 18th-century architecture.
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Use this term to describe the head of an academic department at Texas State. This is a deviation from AP style, which prefers chairman or chairwoman. Do not use those terms unless they are part of an official title.
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chair, endowed
A professor who holds the chair in a discipline should be referred to as the professor of the discipline, keeping the name of the chair capitalized, even in shortened, casual references: Ann Wiliams, McCoy Endowed Chair in Accounting, led the discussion, or Ann Williams holds the McCoy Endowed Chair in Accounting.
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Chautauqua Hill
The hill that Old Main and Hill House sit on.
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check in, check-in/checkout, check out
Use check in as a verb: Check in the equipment after using it.
Hyphenate check-in as a noun or an adjective: The check-in is at the conference. The check-in materials are at the front desk.
Use checkout as one word when used as a noun or attributive noun: Please pay at the checkout. She works at the checkout counter.
Use check out as two words when used as a verb: Please check out by noon.
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A day care center and teacher training facility located near San Marcos Hall on West Campus. Avoid using CDC on second reference when the communication will be received outside the university community, because CDC is a well-known abbreviation for Centers for Disease Control. Use “the center” on second reference instead.
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In prose, do not capitalize, even when referring to specific classes: the class of 1989, class of ’89; 50th reunion class.
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classification, student
Don’t capitalize freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, graduate, postgraduate, postdoctoral, nondegree, or any similar designation, unless it is part of a title, a headline or the official name of an organization.
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Don’t use this term as a noun to refer to a female student. It can be used as an adjective to indicate both sexes, however, such as a coed residence hall; no hyphen.
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Capitalize the formal names of Texas State’s colleges. Lowercase when referring to the colleges generally or when not using the formal name: the business college. When referring to more than one college, do not capitalize “colleges”: the colleges of Applied Arts and Health Professions. The formal names of Texas State University colleges are:
College of Applied Arts
McCoy College of Business
College of Fine Arts and Communication
The Graduate College (Always use "The" with the name of the college and always capitalize, even in the middle of a sentence.)
University College (If “the” is used before the name in the middle of a sentence, it should not be capitalized.)
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Capitalize the first letter after a colon if the clause that follows forms a complete sentence. Exceptions: titles of papers, articles, chapters and books, where the first word after colons will always be capitalized. Colons will usually go outside of quotation marks, but it depends on their use.
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Simple series: In marketing materials, omit the comma before the conjunction in a simple series: red, white and blue. There are some exceptions to this rule:
Put a comma before the concluding conjunction in a series if an integral element of the series requires a conjunction: In our increasingly complex and interconnected world, it’s vital to understand people, how they communicate, what makes us unique, and what traits and influences we share.
Use a comma before the concluding conjunction in a complex series of phrases: We’re finding ways that science and technology can address big issues in medicine and business, improve the ways we make and build things, and give us a better understanding of our natural world.
Clarity is key. If omitting a comma could lead to confusion or misinterpretation, then use the comma.
Adjectives: Use commas to separate a series of adjectives of equal rank: Enjoy this warm, sunny day.
Compound predicate: Don’t use a comma when there is a compound predicate, e.g., when the subject of the joined sentences is the same but it is not repeated in the second clause: The university offers many degree programs and is the site of various centers.
Conjunctions: Use a comma when a conjunction (and, but, or, yet, for, while or nor) joins two clauses that could stand alone as sentences. Don’t include a comma if the two sentences are very short.
Dates and places: Use commas to set off dates and places, after both the year (January 1, 1980, is his date of birth) and the state (Dallas, Texas, is where he was born).
Introductory clauses: Use a comma to set off long introductory phrases and clauses but not short ones.
Nonessential clauses: Use a comma before a clause starting with “which” but not before a clause starting with “that.” (“Which” usually introduces a nonessential clause, which is a bit of extra information like this that is not essential to the sentence’s meaning. “That” usually introduces an essential clause that includes information necessary to the sentence.)
Quotation marks: Always place commas (and periods) inside quotation marks.
Titles: Use commas to set off an identification or title following a name: Sue Smith, director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, called the meeting.
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Do not abbreviate. Capitalize when part of a formal name: the House Appropriations Committee.
Do not capitalize committee in shortened versions of long committee names: the Special Senate Select Committee to Investigate Improper Labor-Management Practices, for example, became the rackets committee.
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Common Experience
An annual, Texas State-wide program of themed speeches, films, exhibits, debates and other events designed to cultivate a common intellectual conversation, get students involved and foster a sense of community. Always capitalize the year's theme.
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Commons Dining Hall
An all-you-care-to-eat dining facility located in Commons Hall.
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comprise, compose
Comprise means to contain or to include all. The whole comprises the parts: The College of Liberal Arts comprises nine departments. Compose means to create or put together: The College of Liberal Arts is composed of nine departments.
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Contractions listed in the dictionary are acceptable. Use them as appropriate for your audience, avoiding them in more formal communications.
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couple of
Always use the “of.” Never use “a couple people” or something similar. Also, a phrase such as this takes a plural verb: A couple of people were at the table.
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course names
Avoid including course numbers. Capitalize the important words when using the formal name of a course: Introduction to Creative Writing, Editing for Clear Communication. Do not capitalize if using the course’s informal name: a biology class.
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Two words. Not coursework.
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credit-by-examination
Hyphenate this term.
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No hyphen. (This is a deviation from AP style.)
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Darren B. Casey Athletic Administration Complex
Named in 2008 for Texas State alumnus and benefactor Darren Casey, this facility is located on the corner of Charles Austin and Aquarena Springs drives. It is the base office for Texas State Athletics. The facility houses the internal and external operations of the department, including facilities, athletic marketing, media relations, compliance, the Bobcat Club and the business office.
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Hyphen (-):
Use a hyphen to join compound nouns: mother-in-law.
Compound modifiers (two or more words that modify a noun):
Use a hyphen if it's necessary to make the meaning clear: small-business owner, well-known actor, full-time job, state-of-the-art facility
Do not use a hyphen when the modifiers are commonly recognized as one phrase and the meaning is clear: third grade teacher, public land management
Do not use a hyphen when the compound modifier includes the word “very” or ends in “-ly”: a very big university, a highly qualified professor.
Many combinations that are hyphenated before a noun are not hyphenated when they appear after a noun: he works full time, the schedule is up to date.
Clarity is key. If you think confusion could result from leaving the hyphen out, use it.
Hyphen (-) or en dash (–):
Use either a hyphen or an en dash (one or the other within a document or suite of documents) to separate ranges of items, such as times, dates or quantities.
To make an en dash: In Microsoft Word, select Insert and then Symbol. Then choose Special Characters. Select en dash and Insert. On Mac keyboards, type option+dash to create an en dash.
Examples: There will be 30-50 people there. The event runs October 10–15. 6 a.m. – 9 a.m. (include a space before and after the hyphen or en dash in ranges of times). If you use “from” in a range of time, follow it with “to” rather than a dash: Check-in is from 9 a.m. to noon.
em dash (—):
Use in place of commas to set off a section of the sentence that requires special emphasis.
Place one space before and after the em dash.
In Microsoft Word, select Insert and then Symbol. Then choose Special Characters. Select em dash and Insert. On Mac keyboards, type option+shift+dash to create an em dash.
Example: The em-dash — a very important typographical element — should not be overused.
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Year alone: Years are expressed in numerals unless they begin the sentence: The year is 2013. Two thousand and eight was an important year. While the latter option is acceptable, it is preferable to rewrite the sentence so the year can be expressed in numerals.
Year abbreviated: In informal contexts, the first two digits of a year can be replaced by an apostrophe (not an opening single quotation mark): the class of ’58 (not ‘58).
Academic year or ranges of years: Use 2007-08 or 2007-2008, but be consistent with the style you choose within your document or suite of documents.
Centuries: Lowercase and spell out numbers less than 10: the first century; the 19th century. For proper names, capitalize and/or follow the organization’s practice: Century 21 Realty; Twentieth Century Fund. Hyphenate only when the century forms a compound modifier: 18th-century architecture.
Decades: Use numerals to indicate decades of history. Use an apostrophe to indicate numerals that are left out; show plural by adding the letter s: the 1990s (not 1990’s); the Roaring ’20s.
Month and day: In most university communications, spell out the names of all months. Periodicals that follow AP style may choose to abbreviate the names of months when used with dates. Whether you abbreviate the names of months or not, be consistent throughout your document or suite of documents. Never add “nd,” “rd,” “st” or “th” to a date: Classes start August 20.
Month, day and year: Separate the date and year with a comma: September 1, 2008, or Sept. 1, 2008. Do not add “nd,” “rd,” “st” or “th” to the date. When a date appears in the middle of a sentence, follow the year with a comma: July 4, 1776, is Independence Day.
Month and year: Spell out the name of the month and do not include commas. Example: October 2008.
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Not daylight savings time. No “s” at the end of “saving” and no caps.
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Capitalize them and do not abbreviate, except when needed in tabular material. Tabular format is the first three letters: Mon, Tue, Wed; no periods.
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Capitalize when used as a formal title before a name: Dean Jane Smith. Lowercase otherwise: Jane Smith, dean of the McCoy College of Business.
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dean’s list
Should always be lowercased when used in a sentence.
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Use numerals to indicate decades of history. Use an apostrophe to indicate numerals that are left out; show plural by adding the letter s: the 1950s, the ’70s, the Roaring ’20s.
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Den, the
Located on the first floor of the Academic Services Building South, the Den is a food-court-style dining hall.
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departments, academic
Capitalize names of academic departments when using the formal name (Department of Biology). Usage of the formal name is preferred, but if the order of the words in the formal name must be reversed, drop the “of” and retain the capitalization (the Biology Department). Lowercase, except for words that are proper nouns or adjectives, when referring to departments in a general way: one of the best biology departments; the English department. Formal names of Texas State University departments:
Department of Aerospace Studies
Department of Agricultural Sciences
Department of Anthropology
School of Art and Design
Department of Communication Disorders
Department of Communication Studies
Department of Computer Information Systems and Quantitative Methods
Department of Counseling, Leadership, Adult Education and School Psychology
School of Criminal Justice
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Department of Engineering Technology
Ingram School of Engineering (NEVER the Bruce and Gloria Ingram School of Engineering)
School of Family and Consumer Sciences
Department of Finance and Economics
School of Health Administration
Department of Health and Human Performance
Department of Health Information Management
Department of Military Science
St. David's School of Nursing
Department of Organization, Workforce, and Leadership Studies
Department of Respiratory Care
Department of Theatre and Dance (note the -re spelling)
Department of World Languages and Literatures
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departments, nonacademic
Capitalize names of administrative and other departmental offices at Texas State when using the formal name (Office of Disability Services). Lowercase “office” when not using the formal name: The marketing office publishes these guidelines. Formal names of offices at Texas State University include:
Office of Audits and Analysis
Center for Professional Excellence
Department of Housing and Residential Life (DHRL on second reference)
Education Abroad Office
Environmental Health, Safety and Risk Management
Instructional Technologies Support
LBJ Student Center
Materials Management Department
Office of Athletic Academic Services
Office of Continuing Education
Office of Distance and Extended Learning
Office of Facilities Planning, Design and Construction
Office of Media Relations
Office of the University Registrar
Office of Professional Development
Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Office of University Marketing
Payroll Office
Student Business Services
Texas State Alumni Association
Texas State Athletics
Travel Office
University Planning and Assessment
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different from
Not different than.
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Use numerals and spell out inches, feet, yards, etc. Hyphenate adjectival forms before nouns: the 17-foot-long trailer. The trailer was 17 feet long. The suspect was about 5 feet 6 inches tall. The 5-foot-6-inch man.
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Avoid “cafeteria.” Use “dining hall” (lowercased) or name the hall specifically: Commons Dining Hall, Harris Dining Hall, Jones Dining Center, the Lair Food Court and the Den.
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When writing directions to campus, abbreviate Interstate 35 as IH-35. Capitalize Exit and do not use # or number. Example: From IH-35 take Exit 206.
Lowercase east, west, north or south when used as a directional reference: Go south for the winter. Capitalize for a region: Central Texas, the West Coast.
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In general, use people-first language when writing about people with disabilities: A person who uses a wheelchair, a person who is blind.
Be aware that some individuals prefer identity-first language; if you're writing about a specific person or group, make sure to ask them for their preferred terminology.
Make your writing as inclusive as possible by avoiding ableist language. For example, instead of Come see our beautiful campus write Come visit our beautiful campus.
Refer to the National Center on Disability and Journalism's Disability Language Style Guide for in-depth recommendations on a number of disability-related terms.
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disciplines, academic
Do not capitalize the names of academic disciplines or major or minor areas of study, except those derived from proper nouns. When the name of the discipline is used as part of a title, such as that of a department, capitalization is necessary, but don’t use it when speaking of the discipline in general terms: I studied American history and English at Yale; Graduate students in biology must complete six hours of thesis or nonthesis research. Following are instructions for applying to the doctoral program in physical therapy.
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dissociate
not disassociate
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The administration of Texas State University is divided into several divisions. Capitalize the names of these divisions, which include:
Finance and Support Services
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dual heritage
No hyphen in terms such as African American, Asian American, Mexican American and other terms used to describe a person's heritage.
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e.g., i.e.
The abbreviation e.g. stands for exempli gratia, which means for example. The abbreviation i.e. stands for id est, which means that is or in other words. So e.g. is used to cite an example from a longer series, while i.e. clarifies exactly what is included in the series.
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Eat ’em up, Cats
A sign made by holding up the right hand in the shape of a Bobcat paw that is usually made while saying, “Eat ’em up, Cats!”; use quotation marks around this term when referring to the hand signal and use an apostrophe, not an opening single quotation mark, before ’em.
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Edwards Aquifer
There is no apostrophe in Edwards, and “Aquifer” should be capitalized.
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Edwards Aquifer Research & Data Center (EARDC)
Located in the Freeman Aquatic Biology Building, this center provides a public service in the study, understanding and use of the Edwards Aquifer. EARDC is acceptable on second and subsequent references within a document.
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ellipsis (...)
Use three periods (no spaces between them, but a space on each side) to signify that something has been left out of a direct quote or that the writer is leaping from one topic to another. A complete sentence will have its own period, followed by a space, then the ellipsis, a space and then the next sentence.
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No hyphen. Lowercase unless it is at the beginning of a sentence or to be consistent with a capped headline style.
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Emerging Research University
This classification is awarded by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Texas State was classified as an Emerging Research University in 2012. Capitalize each word.
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One retired from professional life but permitted to retain as an honorary title the rank of the last office held. Emeritus status is not automatic; it is an honor conferred, usually upon retirement. Use the descriptor after the title. Examples: One person, by gender and placement: Professor Emeritus John Doe; Professor Emerita Mary Smith; Jane Doe, professor emerita. Multiples by gender: professors emeriti (for all men or mixed group); professors emeritae (for all women). Reference to all the faculty and staff who hold emeritus status is, simply, “the emeriti.”
Note: At Texas State, a person may choose either professor emerita or professor emeritus as a title; follow the person's preference.
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End Zone Complex
Located in the south end zone of Bobcat Stadium. It is home to Bobcat football. Capitalize each word of this formal name.
Show more about English as a second language
Capitalize only “English.” ESL is acceptable on second and subsequent references within a document.
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ensure, insure
“Ensure” means to assure or guarantee. “Insure” means to protect against risk or loss with insurance.
Show more about entitled
Use it to mean a right to do or have something. Do not use it to mean titled.
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every day, everyday
Every day is an adverb: I study every day. Everyday is an adjective: I wore my everyday shoes.
Show more about exit
Capitalize Exit when using with directions: From IH-35 take Exit 206.
Show more about faculty
Faculty can be singular or plural. If you are uncomfortable using faculty as a plural noun, you can use faculty members.
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farther, further
“Farther” refers to physical distance: We walked farther today than we did yesterday.
“Further” refers to an extension of time or degree: We need to look into this further.
Show more about fax
Fax is short for facsimile and is not an acronym. It should not be in all caps. But use fax, not facsimile.
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Capitalized only when used with the complete name of a government agency or a business: Federal Trade Commission, Federal Express. Otherwise use lowercase: federal government.
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fewer, less
Use “fewer” for individual items: Fewer than 100 people attended. Use “less” for bulk or quantity: My new car uses less gas.
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Fighting Stallions
The Fighting Stallions is the formal name (note the italics) of the statue that presides over the western end of the Quad and has been a landmark on campus since 1952. The statue was donated to the university by well-known American sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876–1973) and her husband. In the early 1970s, the 17-foot-tall statue was the focal point of the campus free speech zone, and it remains a student gathering spot today.
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This is the official name of the university’s financial aid office. Note that office is not part of the official name, so when used with this phrase, “office” should not be capitalized.
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Fire Station Studios
This former city hall/fire station, built in 1915, was purchased and restored by attorney Anthony “Lucky” Tomblin in 1984. Texas State purchased the recording studio from Tomblin in 1993 and established the first sound recording technology program in higher education in the Southwest.
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first-come, first-served; first come, first served
The term gets hyphens when used as a modifier before a noun but no hyphens when used after a noun: There will be food served on a first-come, first-served basis. It is first come, first served.
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A 12-month period used for bookkeeping. The fiscal year for the state of Texas and Texas State begins September 1 and ends August 31.
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flier, flyer
Flyer is the preferred term for a person flying in an aircraft, and for handbills: He used his frequent flyer miles; they put up flyers announcing the show. Use flier in the phrase "take a flier," meaning to take a big risk.
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forego, forgo
Forego means to go before. Forgo means to abstain from.
Show more about forms
Do not capitalize the titles of forms or informal documents: exemption request form, housing contract, leave request, etc.
Show more about fractions
Spell out amounts less than one in stories, using hyphens between the words: two-thirds, four-fifths, etc. Use figures for precise amounts larger than one, converting to decimals whenever practical. But use a forward slash in the fraction: 1 2/3, 3 4/7, etc.
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Acceptable on all references. Do not refer to them as frats or their members as boys.
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free-speech zone
The area on the Quad between Evans and Derrick halls by the Fighting Stallions statue. In this area, students may play music, set up booths and tables, and protest.
Show more about Freeman Center
Harold M. Freeman donated this ranch, located north of San Marcos on Ranch Road 12, to the university in 1981. The Freeman Center serves as an educational laboratory where classes are taught and faculty and students conduct research.
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Terms denoting student classification are lowercased and never abbreviated. Use freshman when referring to one first-year student, freshmen when writing about more than one. Use freshman (singular) as a modifier: That is generally considered a freshman course. She lives in the freshman dorm with 400 other freshmen.
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full time, full-time
Hyphenate only when used as a compound modifier: He works full time. She has a full-time job.
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fundraiser, fundraising
Both are always one word.
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The name of the official school flower, also known as Indian blanket. This wildflower grows in most parts of Texas and is sometimes known as the Mexican blanket. Its color is maroon and gold, which are also Texas State’s school colors. The names of plants and flowers should be lowercased, except for words that are proper nouns.
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Gaillardian Award
Established in 1925 by the editors of The Pedagog to honor outstanding and accomplished students. At halftime of the homecoming football game each year, the award is given to 12 students. The name of the award was derived from the gaillardia, the official school flower.
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Gallery of the Common Experience
A rotating art exhibit housed in the Honors Coffee Forum in the Lampasas Building that is part of Texas State's annual Common Experience program.
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gender-neutral language
Make your writing as inclusive and gender-neutral as possible when representing Texas State or its programs or services. To make your language inclusive:
Ask for and use a person’s pronouns. The use of gender-neutral pronouns such as they, ze or xe should be respected. Note: When they is used in the singular, it takes a plural verb: Taylor said they need a new car.
Use the second person (you and your): You have many options when choosing your major.
Use plural nouns and pronouns: Students have many options when choosing their majors.
Use they/them/their as a singular gender-neutral pronoun with indefinite antecedents (e.g., anyone, everyone, someone) or when the subject’s gender is unknown (e.g., a person, the student, the winner).
Everyone returned to their seats.
The winner must bring their ID to claim the prize.
Note: If you are writing in very formal contexts in which the singular they may not be accepted, rewrite sentences to avoid the use of pronouns. Avoid using he or she; these constructions are awkward to read and exclude people who are gender-nonconforming. The Chicago Manual of Style has additional tips for achieving gender-neutral writing.
Show more about Glade Theatre
An outdoor theatre located on West Campus next to Blanco Hall.
Show more about glass-bottom boats
glass-bottom boats
Operated by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment to allow visitors to tour Spring Lake.
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Go Bobcats
The name of the Texas State fight song; use quotation marks around the names of songs.
Show more about GPA, grade point average
GPA, grade point average
Either is acceptable, just be consistent within your document or suite of documents.
Show more about grades
Use the capital letters A, B, C, WP, etc., with no quotation marks. No apostrophe is required in the plural: He made two As and two WPs.
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A graduate is an alumnus or alumna. A graduate student is working toward an advanced degree beyond the bachelor’s. Someone who attended the university but did not graduate is a former student.
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Graduate College, The
Always use "The" capitalized when writing about The Graduate College at Texas State.
Show more about graduate from
Always use the “from”: He graduated from Texas State in 2012. Wrong: “He graduated Texas State in 2012.” Also avoid the passive “He was graduated from Texas State in 2012.”
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Graduate House
The formal name of the body within Student Government made up of representatives of all graduate students at Texas State University, as selected by each college dean.
Show more about GRE
Don’t spell out the full name of this entrance examination, even on first reference. It is widely known. (This also applies to ACT, SAT, GMAT, etc.) Use Arabic numerals in constructions such as SAT-1. Use figures for ACT, SAT and similar test scores. Do not add commas to SAT or other scores that reach into the thousands: His SAT score was 1200. Her GRE composite score was 2070.
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Guardian Club
This club’s members are individuals who have included Texas State in their estate plans. Deferred or planned gifts are arranged during people’s lifetimes and are given to the university usually after the donors’ deaths or the deaths of their beneficiaries.
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Harris Dining Hall
An all-you-care-to-eat dining facility located in West Campus. It was named to honor Thomas Green Harris, the first president of Southwest Texas Normal School (1903 – 1911).
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head up
People do not “head up” committees; they head them.
Show more about healthcare
Use healthcare as a noun or adjective. The university's style differs from Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary on this entry.
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Heart of Texas State
A sign made by holding up the left hand in the shape of the state of Texas with the two outside fingers pointing down toward the palm to indicate the location of the university; use quotation marks around this term when using it to describe the hand signal.
Show more about height
Use figures: The man was 5 feet 5 inches tall; the 6-feet-5-inch man.
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Hillviews
The university magazine; italicize the name.
Show more about hip-hop
Hyphenate as a noun or adjective.
Show more about Hispanic
This is a broad term for people from Spanish-speaking countries. Be specific when possible: Spanish, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Peruvian, etc. Latino, Latina or Latinx are sometimes preferred. Follow the person’s preference.
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Hispanic-Serving Institution
Use HSI on second reference. Texas State received recognition as a Hispanic-Serving Institution in 2011. To receive the HSI designation, an institution must have an enrollment of undergraduate full-time equivalent students that is at least 25 percent Hispanic. The designation makes Texas State eligible to apply for grants that expand opportunities and academic offerings for all students.
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historic/historical
“Historic” means important, momentous or history-making. A historic meeting will take place on Tuesday. “Historical” refers to any event in the past.
Show more about Homecoming
Capitalize when referring to Texas State Homecoming. Lowercase otherwise.
Show more about homepage
One word, lowercased.
Show more about Honors Coffee Forum
Honors Coffee Forum
A study lounge, coffeehouse and art gallery located in the Lampasas Building on the Texas State campus.
Show more about Honors College
If Honors College is preceded by "the" in a sentence, lowercase "the": the Honors College
Show more about http://
Don’t include http:// in a URL when it is clear that it’s a web address. Browsers don’t require that it be entered; it’s easier for the reader to remember a URL without it; and eliminating it can make it easier to fit the URL on a single line.
Show more about ID
No periods: Texas State ID card.
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important/importantly
Use “important” with “more” or “most” rather than “importantly”: Most important, we have a plan for the future.
Show more about in regard to
in regard to
Not “in regards to.” Better yet, just use “regarding.”
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in-state, out-of-state
Hyphenate when used as a modifier before a noun. However, use “Texas resident” or “nonresident” to describe these types of tuition rates at Texas State.
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Inc. or Ltd.
Abbreviate incorporated or limited when used following a business name.
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Ingram School of Engineering
Part of the College of Science and Engineering; NEVER the Bruce and Gloria Ingram School of Engineering.
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Institutes, Texas State
Capitalize names of institutes at Texas State when using the formal name. Lowercase “institute” when not using the formal name: The institute is the best on campus.
Formal names of institutes at Texas State University include:
Institute for Global Business
Institute for Government Innovation
Institute for the Study of Invasive Species
LBJ Institute for STEM Education and Research
Richter Research Institute
Technology Institute for Developmental Educators
The Education Institute
Show more about international students
Not foreign students.
Show more about internet
Lowercase unless used at the beginning of a sentence.
Show more about IQ
Acceptable on all references for “intelligence quotient.”
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it’s, its
“It’s” is the contraction of it is: It’s time to go. “Its” is the possessive form of it: The university is proud of its history.
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Jim Wacker Field at Bobcat Stadium
The official name of the field inside Texas State’s 30,000-seat football stadium. In November 2003, the field was renamed Jim Wacker Field in honor of the former football coach who died that year. Capitalize as shown.
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Titles of persons holding offices such as those listed below are rarely used before names as part of the names, often because of their length. Preferred usage is to lowercase occupational titles and use commas to set them off following names. Note the capitalization and format of the following examples:
the vice president; Sue Jones, vice president for Finance and Support Services
the associate vice president; John Williams, associate vice president for Enrollment Management and Marketing
the director; Jane Smith, director of University Marketing
the registrar; Jim Williams, registrar
the chief executive officer; John Doe, the chief operating officer of XYZ Corporation
Show more about Jones Dining Center
Jones Dining Center
A dining facility on the Texas State campus named to honor Billy Mac Jones, the fifth university president (1969 – 1973).
Show more about Jowers Center
Jowers Center
An athletic complex named to honor Milton Jowers, the school’s basketball coach from 1946 to 1961.
Show more about judgment
Not judgement.
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Terms denoting student classification are lowercased and never abbreviated.
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kick off, kickoff
Use kick off as a verb; use kickoff as a noun or adjective.
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KTSW
Texas State’s student radio station (89.9 FM). Capitalize as shown and identify as a radio station.
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Lair, the
A food-court-style dining facility located in the LBJ Student Center.
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lay, lie
“Lay” is an action word. It takes a direct object: Please lay the book on the table. “Laid” is the form for its past tense and its past participle: She laid/had laid the book on the table. Its present participle is “laying”: She is laying the book on the table.
“Lie” indicates a state of reclining along a horizontal plane. It does not take a direct object: Please lie down on the floor. Its past tense is “lay”: He lay down on the floor. Its past participle is “lain”: He had lain on the floor. Its present participle is ‘lying’: He is lying on the floor.
When “lie” means to make an untrue statement, the verb forms are lie, lied, lying.
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LBJ Student Center is the full name of this building, named to honor Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president of the United States who graduated from the university in 1930. LBJSC or “the student center” is acceptable on second and subsequent references. The university’s Welcome Center is located within the student center.
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Capitalize when preceded by the name of a state. Retain capitalization when the state name is dropped but the reference is specifically to that state’s legislature.
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lend, loan
“Lend” is a verb: Please lend me your book. “Loan” is a noun: I got a loan from the bank.
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less than, fewer than
Use “less” for bulk or quantity: My car uses less gas than yours does. Use “fewer” for individual items or people: There are fewer people here today.
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Living-Learning Communities
A living-learning community is a group of students living together based on a common interest, while taking one or more classes together.
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log in, log on, login, logon
“Log in” and “log on” are verbs; login, logon and logoff are nouns: You must log in using your login. Log on to the website. People log in to, but they don’t log onto or log into.
Show more about long-term
Always hyphenate this adjective.
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loose, lose
“Loose” is an adjective: My tooth is loose. “Lose” is a verb: Don’t lose your lunch money.
Show more about manikin
Preferred spelling; used when writing about the St. David's School of Nursing.
Show more about mariachi
Lowercase when writing in general about the music, a band or a musician. Capitalize when used with a specific band or event: Feria del Mariachi, Mariachi Vargas.
Show more about Maroon & Gold Room
Maroon & Gold Room
A hospitality room in Strahan Arena at the University Events Center where pre-game events, halftime receptions and other special events are held.
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Mathworks, Texas
A program that develops model programs, including summer math camps, to engage K-12 students in high-level mathematics.
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Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, The
Known for decades as Aquarena Springs Resort, this property came under the stewardship of Texas State University in the mid-1990s. Now known as The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, the focus is on developing and promoting programs and techniques for ensuring sustainable water resources for human needs, ecosystem health and economic development.
Show more about memento
Not momento
Show more about midterm
No hyphen is needed when used as a noun or an adjective.
Show more about military units
These are capitalized when referring to the forces of the United States, such as U.S. Army or Air Force.
Don’t capitalize informal references such as military science. ROTC stands for Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, but the abbreviation ROTC is acceptable in all references to this program.
Use Air Force ROTC (AFROTC on esecond reference) when referring to Texas State’s aerospace studies program and Army ROTC (AROTC on second reference) when referring to the university’s military science program.
Show more about minuscule
Not miniscule
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Use $ and figures for all amounts in excess of 99 cents. Do not use a decimal and zeroes for whole-dollar amounts. Example: The book costs $14.
Spell out cents in amounts less than $1. Example: The hamburger costs 99 cents.
For amounts of more than $1 million, use the $ and numerals up to two decimal places: Example: a $4.2 million budget, a $1 million donation
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Always capitalize the names of months.
When a month is used with a specific date, abbreviate Jan., Feb. Aug., Sept. Oct., Nov. and Dec.: She was born on Jan. 5, 1980.
Spell out all names of months when using alone or when using with a year but not a date: I'm going on vacation in September. President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963.
When a sentence uses a month and a year, do not separate them with a comma
Show more about names
Use last name only on second and subsequent references. As a general rule, spell and punctuate people’s names the way they prefer them to appear. Don’t use spaces between initials. Terms such as Jr., Sr., II, III are not set off by commas when used in a name unless the person prefers that the comma be included.
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nationalities and races
Capitalize the proper names of nationalities, peoples, race, tribes, etc.: Arab, American, Japanese, Jewish, Nordic, Sioux, etc. Lowercase black, white, etc. Do not use “colored.”
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NCAA (The National Collegiate Athletic Association)
NCAA is acceptable on first reference. Texas State is in Division I in all sports. The Bobcats play football in the NCAA's Football Bowl Subdivision.
Show more about New Student Orientation
The preferred term, rather than freshman orientation or transfer orientation, for these Texas State programs: New Student Orientation for freshmen or New Student Orientation for transfer students. Capitalize first letters of each word when referring to the specific Texas State event. Do not capitalize when talking about such events in a general sense: Many universities hold new student orientations.
Show more about No.
Use as the abbreviation for “number” in conjunction with a figure to indicate position or rank: No. 1 choice.
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nonemergency
No hyphen.
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nontraditional students
No hyphen. The term applies to anyone who did not go directly from high school to Texas State. Nontraditional can apply to anyone who transferred from another school, went to a community college first or took time off, for example. Avoid use of this label unless it is essential to the clarity of the communication.
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Generally, spell out numbers less than 10. Use the Arabic numeral for 10 and larger numbers, except at the beginning of a sentence. For 999 and larger, include commas where appropriate: 1,000 or 100,000.
Use “No.” as the abbreviation for “number” in conjunction with a figure to indicate position or rank: No. 1 choice.
Ordinals: Spell out first through ninth when they indicate sequence in time or location: first base, second in line, third floor. Use numerals for 10th and above: 11th grade. Use 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. when the sequence has been assigned in forming names. The principal examples are geographic, military and political designations such as 1st Ward, 7th Fleet and 1st Sgt.
Large numbers: For millions, billions, etc., use figures and the word: 1 million, 2.5 billion. When large numbers must be spelled out, use a hyphen to connect a word ending in y to another word; do not use commas between other separate words that are part of one number: twenty-one; one hundred forty-three; one thousand one hundred fifty-five.
Casual uses: Spell out casual expressions such as a thousand times no, thanks a million, he walked a quarter of a mile.
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off campus, on campus
Hyphenate when using as an adjective, but not as an adverb. Examples: I want to live off campus. The club will have an on-campus meeting.
Show more about OK, OK’d, OK’ing, OKs
OK, OK’d, OK’ing, OKs
Do not use “okay.”
Show more about Old Main
This building was the first classroom building at Southwest Texas State Normal College.
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Do not use “on” before a date or day of the week when its absence would not lead to confusion: New Student Orientation is July 16.
Show more about online
Not on-line.
Show more about Outdoor Center
The headquarters for the Outdoor Recreation Program at Texas State. This center houses equipment rentals and reservations for University Camp and the Adventure Trip Program.
Show more about paintings
Names of paintings should be italicized: The Monarch of the Hill Country by Clemente Guzman; Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
Show more about Panhellenic Council, Pan-hellenic Council
Panhellenic Council, Pan-hellenic Council
These are two different groups at Texas State. Double-check which one is correct when you encounter it in text.
Show more about Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre
Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre
Note spelling and capitalization. Located in the Performing Arts Center, which opened in February 2014.
Show more about Paws-n-Go
A small, on-campus convenience store located near the Evans Liberal Arts building.
Show more about Pedagog
The Pedagog was the official yearbook of the university. It was the oldest tradition, and it recorded the first year of the school’s existence. In 1975, when most colleges and universities were phasing out their yearbooks, the university administration dropped the Pedagog. It was reinstated in 1984 then discontinued in 1999.
Show more about Pell Grant
Capitalize in all references.
Show more about percentages
You may spell out the word "percent" or use the symbol "%" in text. Be consistent in your document or suite of documents.
Use numerals for percentages, except at the beginning of a sentence: 1 percent, 2.5 percent (use decimals, not fractions), 10 percent.
For amounts less than 1 percent, precede the decimal with a zero: The cost of living rose 0.6 percent.
Repeat the word “percent” with each individual figure: He said 10 percent to 30 percent of the electorate may not vote.
Percentages take singular verbs when standing alone or when a singular word follows an “of” construction: The teacher said 60 percent was a failing grade. He said 50 percent of the membership was there.
Percentages take plural verbs when a plural word follows an “of” construction: He said 50 percent of the members were there.
Show more about Performing Arts Center
Opened in February 2014. Capitalize all three words. Contains the Patti Strickel Harrison Theatre and the Recital Hall.
Show more about Ph.D.
The preferred form is to say a person holds a doctorate or doctoral degree and name the individual’s area of specialty. Refer to the "academic degrees" entry.
Show more about poetry
Names of poems are placed in quotation marks.
Show more about Porter House Review
Porter House Review
Porter House Review is an online literary journal produced in conjunction with Texas State University’s MFA program in creative writing.
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possessive
To form the possessive of singular nouns, add ’s. To form the possessive of plural or proper nouns that end in "s," add only the apostrophe:
Bob’s bicycle is green. (singular possessive)
The girls’ haircuts were alike. (plural possessive)
Mark Jones’ minivan broke down, so Mike Hunter's truck saved the day. (proper nouns, singular possessive)
The Joneses’ garage door wouldn’t open. (plural possessive)
A few irregular plural nouns take ’s to form the possessive:
We cleaned the children’s rooms.
The media’s coverage of the event was sensational.
Never put an apostrophe in these pronouns that are already possessive: its, hers, yours, ours, whose.
The genitive case (indicating a possessor or source) also requires the ’s or s’ construction:
You need 36 hours’ credit to graduate.
For the independent study, he earned one hour’s credit.
Dr. Roberts has 20 years’ experience in the field of robotics.
The company gave her three weeks’ pay in advance.
An attributive noun (a noun acting as an adjective modifying another noun) doesn’t require the ’s or s’:
Parents Weekend
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post-
Hyphenate when used with a word to mean after: post-game, post-graduate, post-election. Do not hyphenate with other uses: post office.
Show more about presently/currently
presently/currently
“Presently" means in a little while or soon. "Currently" means now. In most cases you don’t need to use currently. “We are revising the plan” is better than “We are currently revising the plan.”
Show more about president
Capitalize before a name: President Jane Smith. But lowercase elsewhere: Dr. Jane Smith, president of Texas State University; the president of the university.
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President’s House
The name of the official residence of the president of Texas State University. Capitalize both words.
Show more about problem solving/problem-solving
problem solving/problem-solving
Two words as a noun; hyphenated as a compound adjective: problem-solving skills.
Show more about program, event
program, event
For names of speakers or presenters listed on an event program, use the full name and title on first reference and the full name only in subsequent references.
Show more about programs, academic
programs, academic
Try not to use program in place of major or department. Program often implies a separate administration or faculty. When describing a student’s activities, it may be best to use department, major or degree program rather than simply program.
Capitalize the word “program” only when part of a formal name.
Show more about Quad
The tree-lined mall near the center of the Texas State campus: Students often pass through the Quad on their way to class.
Show more about quotation marks
Periods and commas always go within the quotation marks; dashes, colons, semicolons and question marks go within the quotes when they apply to the quoted matter and outside when they apply to the whole sentence.
Show more about ratios
Use figures and hyphens: A 2-to-1 majority.
Show more about renowned
Not reknowned. “Renown” means well-known: He is a renowned expert in physics. There is no such word as reknowned.
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Residence Hall Association
The supervising body of Texas State residence halls. RHA is acceptable on second and subsequent references.
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The preferred term for on-campus university housing; avoid using dormitory or dorm.
Show more about resident assistant
Not residence assistant. RA is acceptable on second and subsequent references.
Show more about room numbers
room numbers
Use the following form when referring to rooms in buildings: Building, Room Number.
Example: Old Main, Room 102; Evans Liberal Arts building, Room 102.
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Round Rock Campus
Formerly the Round Rock Higher Education Center. Capitalize all words of the formal name: Texas State Round Rock Campus. Use Round Rock Campus on second reference. Students at the Round Rock Campus can earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees and certificates in many subject areas. Located north of Austin in Round Rock, the campus opened in 2005.
Show more about résumé
Note the accent marks over the e’s.
Show more about Sac-N-Pac Room
Sac-N-Pac Room
A room in the End Zone Complex where meetings and special events are held.
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Sallie Beretta Outstanding Senior Woman Award
Since 1963, the university has given the award to an outstanding senior woman based on leadership, scholarship, character, potential and loyalty. It is named for Sallie Beretta, who served on the university’s board of regents from 1933 to 1951.
Show more about San Marcos Campus
San Marcos Campus
Show more about San Marcos Springs
San Marcos Springs
The springs are the headwaters of the San Marcos River. Texas State is the only campus in Texas on which a river begins and flows. The small dam below Saltgrass Steak House was built in 1849 by General Edward Burleson, one of the founders of San Marcos and a hero of the Texas Revolution, to power a gristmill. The springs are on the Balcones Fault Zone.
Show more about SAT
Don’t spell out the full name of this entrance examination, even on first reference. It is widely known. (This also applies to ACT, GMAT, GRE, etc.) Use Arabic numerals in constructions such as SAT-1. Use figures for ACT, SAT and similar test scores. Do not add commas to SAT or other scores that reach into the thousands: His SAT score was 1200. Her GRE composite score was 2070.
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scholarships, fellowships
Capitalize only those words that are part of the full official name of a scholarship or fellowship. The word “scholarship” or “fellowship” may or may not be included in the name. Following are some examples of well-known scholarships and fellowships:
Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Scholar
Fulbright Scholarship, Fulbright Scholar
Graduate Council Fellowship, Graduate Council Fellow
Truman Scholarship, Truman Scholar
Names of Texas State scholarships include:
McCoy Scholarship of Distinction
McCoy Scholarship of Excellence
Lone Star Scholarship
National Distinction Scholarship
National Hispanic Scholarship
President’s Honor Scholarship
Terry Foundation Scholarship
Texas State Achievement Scholarship
Texas State Distinguished Scholarship
University Scholars (Refer to it as the University Scholars award.)
The official names of other university scholarships should be double-checked with the Financial Aid and Scholarships office or with the department, college or other entity that handles the scholarship program.
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Several academic departments at Texas State carry the designation of “school.” Their names should be written as follows:
Lowercase “school” in other uses, such as graduate school.
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Science, Technology, and Advanced Research (STAR) Park
Spell out on first reference and in headlines. Use STAR Park on second reference.
Show more about seasons/semester
seasons/semester
Lowercase fall, spring, summer and winter in all uses. For a semester, do not add “of”: fall 2006 semester, not fall of 2006 semester.
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Show more about Sessom Drive
Sessom Drive
Not Sessoms (no “s” at the end) Drive or Street.
Show more about Sewell Park
Sewell Park
Originally Riverside Park, this park was renamed in 1946 to honor mathematics professor S.M. Sewell. In 1916, Sewell led the campaign to clean the river and create the park.
Show more about sign-up, sign up
sign-up, sign up
Hyphenate when used as a noun or an adjective: sign-up sheet. Do not hyphenate when used as a verb: I’ll sign up tomorrow.
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since, because
Use “since” to note a time element: He has been sick since Tuesday. Use “because” to note a cause-effect relationship: He went because he was told he would get extra credit for the class.
Show more about smartphone
All one word. All lowercase unless used at the beginning of a sentence: Smartphones are becoming more and more common. Just about everyone has a smartphone.
Show more about song titles
Place in quotation marks.
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Do not refer to sorority members as girls. Use "women" or "sorority members."
Show more about spring break
Do not capitalize.
Show more about Spring Lake
In 1849 General Edward Burleson built a dam to power a gristmill, thus forming Spring Lake. Spring Lake is home to The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment.
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Square, the
San Marcos’ courthouse square. Students and San Marcos residents commonly refer to this area as “the Square,” so it is acceptable to capitalize it with a lowercase “the” preceding it.
Show more about St. David's School of Nursing
Always use the full name. Part of the College of Health Professions.
Show more about startup
One word when used as a noun or an adjective to describe a new business venture.
Show more about state names
state names
Spell out state names when standing alone or used in conjunction with a city, town, village or military base.
If abbreviations are required for lists or tabular material, use the following AP Style abbreviations: Ala., Alaska, Ariz., Ark., Calif., Colo., Conn., Del., Fla., Ga., Hawaii, Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kan., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Miss., Mo., Mont. Neb., Nev., N.H., N.J., N.M., N.Y., N.C., N.D., Ohio, Okla., Ore., Pa., R.I., S.C., S.D., Tenn., Texas, Utah, Vt., Va., Wash., W. Va., Wis., Wyo.
Use the two-letter postal abbreviations only with full addresses, including ZIP code.
Place one comma between the city and the state name, and another comma after the state name, unless ending the sentence.
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Show more about Strahan Arena at the University Events Center
Strahan Arena at the University Events Center
Formerly Strahan Coliseum. Strahan Arena or Strahan is acceptable on second reference.
The name is pronounced "Stran" (rhymes with "bran"). The arena is named to honor Oscar W. Strahan, who was instrumental in the building of the university's first gym. He served as athletic director at Texas State for 42 years, from 1919 to 1961. He coached football, basketball, and track and field.
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The proper spellings for names of streets adjacent to the Texas State University campus are provided below for your reference.
Academy Street
Aquarena Springs Drive/Loop 82
C.M. Allen Parkway
North Comanche Street
Concho Street
County Road 173 (to University Camp)
Edward G. Gary Street — Edward Gary Street is also an acceptable reference.
Edward J.L. Green Drive — Edward Green Drive is also an acceptable reference.
Elm Street
North Fredericksburg Street
South Fredericksburg Street
North Guadalupe Street
South Guadalupe Street
Hill House Circle
West Holland Street
Lindsey Street
Liveoak Street
Llano Circle
Lueders Court
North LBJ Drive
South LBJ Drive
Matthews Street
Moon Street
Moore Street (Ranch Road 12)
Old Main Drive
Pecan Street
Peques Street
Pickard Street
Pleasant Street
Ranch Road 12
Russell Circle
Sessom Drive (not Sessoms)
Smith Drive
Student Center Drive
Texas Highway 21 (Horticulture Center/Traffic and Safety Center)
Tomás Rivera
Vista Street
West Woods Street
Woods Street
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Strutters
The name of the Texas State dance team.
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Student Association for Campus Activities
SACA is acceptable on second and subsequent references.
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student body president
Always spelled out, never an acronym or abbreviated. Capitalized before name: President John Smith. Otherwise in all lowercase. The student body president is the elected representative of all students and chief executive officer of the Student Government.
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student body vice president
Always spelled out, never an acronym or abbreviated. Capitalized before name: Vice President Jane Smith. Otherwise in all lowercase. The student body vice president is an elected representative of all students and chair of the Student Senate and Graduate House.
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Always spelled out, never an acronym or abbreviated. Student Government is the body comprised of Senators and Graduate Representatives elected or selected to represent the student body of Texas State University and provide the programs and services it finds important to students.
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On second or subsequent reference, “health center” or “the center” is acceptable.
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Student Learning Assistance Center
On second or subsequent reference, SLAC is acceptable.
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“SRC” is acceptable on second reference and subsequent references. In informal communications, “the rec center” is also acceptable on second reference.
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The formal name of the body within Student Government made up of the elected representatives of all students at Texas State University.
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student-athlete
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Always two words.
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Texas State Athletics is in NCAA Division I and a member of the Sun Belt Conference.
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The name of the university's athletic logo featuring the Bobcat head.
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A trademarked, copyrighted name for a tutoring program offered by the Student Learning Assistance Center. Both words must be capitalized.
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T. Paul Bulmahn Research and Trading Lab
The computer lab in McCoy Hall used by business students to experience real trading and investing. It was funded by a $1.5 million donation by alumnus T. Paul Bulmahn, chairman and president of ATP Oil & Gas Corp.
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No apostrophe is needed in "teachers" in this usage because there is no possessive meaning.
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Separate each series of numbers with a period: 555.555.5555. (This is a deviation from AP style.) Do not use “1” before long-distance or toll-free numbers: 800.555.5555.
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This facility is home to Texas State's varsity women's tennis team and is located on Sessom Drive across from the J.C. Kellam Administration building.
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TOEFL is acceptable on second reference.
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Texas Mathworks
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Texas State University, TXST
Use Texas State University on first reference. Texas State or TXST may be used on second reference or in headlines for variety or when space does not permit the use of the full name. Only use TXST when your audience is already familiar with its meaning. Always uppercase all letters of TXST.
Never use TSU.
For guidance on how to use TXST on social media, Refer to our Social Media Style Guide.
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Capitalize only Thanksgiving.
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that, which
“That” is used to introduce an essential clause (one that cannot be eliminated without changing the meaning): This is the restaurant that I told you about. Use “which” to introduce a nonessential clause: We ate at the new restaurant, which had received a good review in the newspaper. An essential clause must not be set off from the rest of the sentence by commas; a nonessential clause must.
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that, who
Use “that” when referring to inanimate objects or animals. Use “who” when referring to people.
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the rising star of Texas
In running text, capitalize only Texas and do not enclose in quotation marks.
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This building, easily recognized for its drum shape, is located on Moon Street. It houses several classrooms, lecture/recital teaching theatres, a studio theatre, a full costume and scene shop, and a main theatre.
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theatre/theater
Either spelling is acceptable, but use of one or the other should be consistent throughout your document or suite of documents. In formal names, take care to use the spelling used by the entity: Texas State’s Department of Theatre and Dance; the Glade Theatre; Theatre Center; but LBJ Student Center Teaching Theater and Alkek Teaching Theater.
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a.m. and p.m. are used lowercase with periods in both lists and sentences.
Do not use :00 for times on the hour. Examples: 5 p.m. or 5:30 a.m.
To avoid confusion, use noon and midnight instead of 12 p.m. and 12 a.m. Do not use 12 noon or 12 midnight.
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The university’s style for titles follows AP style. Capitalize a formal title used directly before a name. Lowercase and use commas to set off a title following a name. Lowercase and spell out titles when not used with names. Do not capitalize job titles such as officer, assistant or accountant when used before a name.
In formal contexts as opposed to running text, such as a displayed list of names and titles in an annual report, titles are usually capitalized even when following a name. Exceptions may also be called for in promotional or other contexts for reasons of courtesy or politics, as long as capitalization is handled consistently within a document or suite of documents. A title used alone, in place of a personal name, is capitalized only in such contexts as a toast or a formal introduction, or when used in direct address.
Academic: Refer to the "academic titles" entry.
Compositions: Titles of books, journals, magazines, newspapers, brochures, movies, paintings, sculptures, plays, record albums, operas and other freestanding or long musical works are italicized. Titles of short stories, articles, chapters, poems, songs and other shorter works as well as radio and television shows are enclosed in quotation marks, not italicized.
Legislative: Capitalize and spell out governor, senator and representative when used before a name (Governor Joe Smith) for most purposes, including letters and advertisements; abbreviating to Gov., Sen. and Rep. according to AP style is acceptable in a news article. Just be consistent throughout your document or publication. Do not use legislative titles before a name on second reference unless part of a direct quotation.
Occupational: Titles of persons holding offices such as those listed below are rarely used before names, often because of their length. Preferred usage is to lowercase occupational titles and use commas to set them off following names. Note the capitalization and format of the following examples:
Social: Social titles such as Mr., Mrs., Ms. and Dr. may be omitted in most contexts with no loss of respect. When an academic degree or professional designation follows a name, social titles are always omitted. When used, social titles are always abbreviated, whether preceding a full name or surname only.
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Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
Texas State University’s College of Education developed the Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children’s Book Award to honor authors and illustrators who create literature that depicts the Mexican American experience. The award was established in 1995 and was named in honor of Dr. Tomás Rivera, a distinguished alumnus of Texas State University.
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TSIE
Texas State Intensive English language program. Spell out on first reference and use TSIE on second and subsequent references.
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Use “Texas resident” or “nonresident” to describe these types of tuition rates at Texas State.
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This is not a synonym for unusual. It means one of a kind. Something cannot be “more unique” or “most unique.”
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United States, U.S.
The abbreviation U.S. is acceptable as a noun or adjective for United States.
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The preferred guideline for Texas State marketing materials is to lowercase “university” when used alone and capitalize it only when used as part of a proper name: Texas State University, Harvard University; Texas State is a great university. However, in some more formal contexts, capitalizing the word “University” when it stands alone but refers specifically to Texas State University is acceptable.
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A 126-acre recreation area on the Blanco River near Wimberley. It was a gift from Sallie Beretta, who was once a regent for the university.
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UPD is acceptable on second reference.
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University Star, The
The official student newspaper of Texas State.
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If you bold or italicize the URLs in your document, be consistent.
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Vaquero statue
Unveiled in 2013 outside Old Main. Bill and Sally Wittliff donated the 18-foot statue to celebrate Texas and Mexico's shared cowboy heritage. Capitalize Vaquero when used as the name of the statue. Lowercase vaquero when referring to a Mexican cowboy.
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No apostrophe.
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Do not hyphenate. Capitalize before a name: Vice President Ann Johnson. Lowercase after a name: Bill Smith, vice president for Student Affairs.
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Lowercase web. The web is a subset, not a synonym for, the internet.
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Don't use "http://" or "www" with web addresses unless it is required for the URL to work.
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Lowercase and one word. Also, webcam, webcast, webmaster, webpage are lowercased and one word.
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Use figures and spell out the unit of measurement: The baby weighed 6 pounds, 13 ounces. She had a 6-pound, 13-ounce baby.
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Wells Fargo Terrace
The balcony on the second floor of the End Zone Complex at Bobcat Stadium.
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Capitalize. This part of the Texas State campus was the San Marcos Baptist Academy until 1979 when the university purchased the land and buildings.
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West Side Complex
Formal name is Jerry D. and Linda Gregg Fields Bobcat Stadium West Side Complex. Use West Side Complex on second reference.
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who’s, whose
“Who’s” is the contraction for “who is”: Who’s there? “Whose” is possessive: Whose book is that?
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Wittliff Collections, The
The Southwestern Writers Collection, the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection, the Lonesome Dove Collection and the Texas Music Collection are known collectively as The Wittliff Collections. Whenever possible, refer to The Wittliff Collections as a whole. Use a plural verb with "The Wittliff Collections" and a singular verb when referring to the institution as "The Wittliff." Always use "The Wittliff Collections" as the first reference in text.
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Hyphenate.
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Don’t include "www" in a Web address unless it is required for the URL to work.
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Not ya’ll; it’s abbreviating you all, not ya all. Use only in a direct quote.
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DOL Defends Persuader Rule Claiming There Is No Threat to the Attorney-Client Privilege
May 11, 2016 | Federal Laws and Legislation, Labor Relations
Keith J. Brodie
On May 6, the Department of Labor (DOL) vigorously defended its revised and narrower interpretation of the “advice exception” in the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA). In the final rule, the DOL announced on March 24 that it was changing its interpretation of the LMRDA’s “advice exception” and a number of law firms filed suit in the District Court of Minnesota ( Labnet Inc. v. Perez, D. Minn. , No. 16-cv-844) seeking injunctive relief to stop the rule from going into effect. The plaintiffs argued the law is unconstitutional and unlawful and is an impermissible intrusion on the attorney-client relationship and state law and state bar ethical requirements. Similar legal challenges to the revised rule have been filed in other courts around the country. The revision to the so-called “Persuader Rule” more narrowly interprets the statutes exemption for “giving or agreeing to give advice,” thereby expanding the number and type of relationships that will be subject to the LMRDA’s reporting requirements. As the proposed rule was pending, even the American Bar Association (ABA) took the position that proposed revisions would be harmful to the attorney-client relationship and may violate state law and state bar ethical rules. To be sure, no matter the outcome of these arguments, if the new rule remains as is there will most certainly be a lot of “line drawing” around where legal advice begins and ends (especially given the factual minutia that surrounds the National Labor Relations Board’s rules on legal vs. illegal union campaign literature/rhetoric and speeches). This will most certainly lead to the threat of increased litigation, and therefore the distinct possibility of a chilling effect for companies seeking such advice when facing down a union campaign. On May 6, the DOL filed its response to the pending motion for injunction in the Labnet Inc. case giving considerable focus to the argument that the DOL’s interpretation of the advice exception will interfere with the attorney-client relationship. The DOL’s essential position is that nothing in the rule requires a violation of the attorney-client relationship, pointing out that Section 434 of the LMRDA provides that information “which was lawfully communicated to [an] attorney” does not have to be disclosed even under the revised interpretation of the rule. Additionally, the DOL argued that a state law or state bar ethic rules that might conflict with its interpretation of the “advice exception” and the disclosure requirements flowing from it would be preempted by federal law. There is obviously a lot of disagreement between the competing sides, and these issues will continue to play out as the challenges to the rule make their way through various courts around the country.
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Persuader Rule
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Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye: DOL Persuader Rule Nixed
July 17, 2018 | Department of Labor, Labor Relations
UPDATE: Does Misclassifying Employees As Independent Contractors Violate Labor Law?
April 13, 2018 | Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board, Labor Relations
Union Organizing Threat: Are Worker Centers Labor Organizations?
March 20, 2018 | Union Organizing, Labor Relations
Department of Labor Aims to Rescind ‘Persuader Rule’; Comments Due Aug. 11
Whose Law is it Anyway? NLRB Region’s Complaint Seeking to Have Contractors Converted to Employees Throws Agency into the Misclassification Fray with the IRS and DOL
June 7, 2017 | Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board, Labor Relations
It Could Be. It Might Be. IT IS! DOL’s Persuader Rule To Be GONE!
May 24, 2017 | Department of Labor, Labor Relations
Persuader Rule Still in Limbo
May 3, 2017 | Federal Laws and Legislation, Labor Relations
Second Persuader Rule Case Halted; Court to Wait for New Administration
December 9, 2016 | Federal Laws and Legislation, Labor Relations
DOL’s Persuader Rule Unlawful; Permanently Enjoined
November 16, 2016 | Labor Relations
Down to the Wire: DOL’s “Blacklisting Rule” Enjoined
October 27, 2016 | Federal Laws and Legislation, Labor Relations
Ties Go to the Runner and the NLRB
April 21, 2016 | National Labor Relations Board, Labor Relations
GOP Moves to Block New Persuader Rule
April 18, 2016 | Union Organizing, Labor Relations
DOL Publishes Final Persuader Rule
DOL’s Proposed Rule Concerning Reporting Use of Labor Consultants Slated to Become Final in December
May 30, 2014 | Labor Agreements, Labor Relations
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India - Health And Child Care Facilities
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In 2001 Gujarat India suffered a devastating earthquake that levelled many existing health clinics and childcare facilities primarily in the Kutch District. Tens of thousands of children and adults were left without proper medical and child care. Following the earthquake, Save the Children Canada and Save the Children UK elected to rebuild 155 destroyed ‘Anganwaddies’, or Child Development Centres (CDCs) in 80 villages across rural Kutch District. Each centre consisted of a 450 ft2 public building where mothers could take their children for nutritional and health education, a daily meal, and food supplies. Beyond CDCs, construction included an additional 16 health centers made up of dispensaries and medical clinics for children and families.
BWB Involvement
BWB partnered with Save the Children over a period of 18 months and provided three engineers (Pictured: Bob Fiddes) to prepare a redevelopment strategy for 145 CDCs (top) and the 16 primary and secondary health centers (below.) BWB worked with each village, assessing the damaged CDCs and health centers and proposed new and more appropriate sites, respecting the local cultural, cast, and engineering conditions. The BWB team recruited local architects to prepare designs, as well as local contractors, and supervised the tendering, design, and construction of the buildings.
As a result of BWB’s involvement, the CDCs and health centers now meet international health standards and are better able to withstand future seismic and cataclysmic events. The local government heralds the buildings as models for others to follow. Today the CDCs and health centers are serving two hundred thousand families while improving the health and nutrition of children and families (Pictured: Left and below.)
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Australian Weekly Markets – an offshore outlook
In this Weekly we have included trip notes and reflections from Ivan Colhoun, Chief Economist, Markets, who has been visiting clients in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
By Ivan Colhoun
In this Weekly we have included trip notes and reflections from Ivan Colhoun, Chief Economist, Markets, who has been visiting clients in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. It’s quite enlightening, offshore investors now holding a uniformly negative view on Australia’s prospects.
For the economy and markets for the week ahead, it’s not a big data week but an opportunity for the markets to absorb “what next” for central banks with the Fed putting off lift-off and key ECB speakers over the weekend threatening to ramp up QE further should there see downside risks on inflation. And there is more central bank speak ahead this week with ECB President Draghi speaks on Wednesday, while in the US, there are several speakers, culminating in Friday’s morning’s speech from Fed Chair Yellen.
Three speeches on Friday reflected again the still wide polarity of views from within the Fed. Two were from well-known monetary hawks, James Bullard who said he would have been a dissenter this month (he isn’t a voter this year, but is next year) and Jeffrey Lacker, who did dissent from last week’s decision. Even John Williams, a centrist and voter this year, and aligned more with Fed Chair Yellen’s views, did acknowledge the uncertainties but worries the Fed might be getting behind the curve. The one thing he did note that was a little different was the Fed was not out of “ammunition” (i.e. more easing) but didn’t feel they would need it. NAB’s forecast calls for the Fed to commence lift-off at its 17 December FOMC, passing the 29 October meeting.
One of the few central bank heads apparently content with the current stance of monetary policy is RBA Governor Stevens. He said Friday in testimony to the House Economics Committee on the RBA’s Annual Report that the question for the RBA is the balance between whether the cash rate is low enough to promote private sector growth without promoting risks in the financial space (read house prices). In his view, he thinks they “have the balance about right”.
Locally, we also start the week with a refashioned Federal Ministry and a new Treasurer Scott Morrison. It’s a light week for local data (see The Week Ahead below for more detail) with interest in China’s Caixin Manufacturing PMI for September out Wednesday. Friday’s China major cities property price data for August revealed 35 cities where prices are rising again, up from 31 in July, prices overall up 1.7% after -0.4% in July.
For a full synopsis of the markets this week download:
Australian Weekly Markets: September 21, 2015 (PDF, 459KB)
Ivan Colhoun is Chief Economist, Markets for National Australia Bank. He joined NAB in November 2014 and is responsible for the Australian Economics function within the Global Markets Research team.
Ivan has had a long and varied career in Economics. He received a Bachelor of Economics with Honours from the University of Tasmania and commenced his career at the Reserve Bank of Australia.
He spent 15 years at Deutsche Bank finishing as Chief Economist for Australia and Head of Global Markets Research for Australia/NZ, before following his passion for aviation by joining Qantas as Chief Economist.
Most recently, Ivan was Chief Economist for Australia for ANZ Bank. He has also consulted to SEEK, Virgin Australia and IATA.
Read Ivan Colhoun's Profile
Australian Markets Weekly: RBA - Inflation-targeting with low unemployment
Markets Today: All Quiet until Trump Talks
by Tapas Strickland
The US was on holiday Monday so it’s been a quiet session all round.
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India Monetary Policy Outlook – April 2016
The April 5th Monetary policy meeting was a landmark in terms of the policy measures announced. The 25bp cut in the policy rate was accompanied by a raft of measures to boost liquidity and ensure more effective monetary transmission by banks.
By John Sharma
Summary & Overview
The RBI cut the policy Repo rate by 25bps at its April meeting. It also tightened the policy corridor to better align policy rates with the call rate (interbank overnight borrowing rate).
Subdued inflation outcomes (due to lower food prices), the Government’s commitment to fiscal consolidation and weak capital spending led to the rate cut.
The most significant changes, however, were the additional liquidity measures announced to facilitate more effective monetary transmission.
Foreign portfolio investors have turned to net purchasers of Indian equity markets since March,following 3 months of outflows.
Volatility in the foreign exchange market remains muted, assisted by record high FX reserves.
NAB Economics is forecasting another rate cut in the September quarter to 6.5%.
Uncertainties regarding the Seventh Pay Commission’s recommendations, the upcoming monsoon season and a possible re-emergence of commodity price pressures could limit the scope for further cuts.
For further analysis download the full report.
India Monetary Policy – April 2016 ( PDF 2MB)
John Sharma is the Sovereign Risk Economist for the National Australia Bank, and is also entrusted with the coverage of India. John has been in the NAB Economics team since August 1999, and in the Sovereign Risk role since March 2013.
Prior to joining the Sovereign Risk area, John was in the Industry Economics team (with responsibilities for Property, Construction, Hospitality and Transport), followed by a role as the domestic Macro Economist, with responsibility for macroeconomic analysis and forecasting of the Australian Economy as well as in preparing the NAB Monthly, Quarterly and SME Business Surveys.
John has a first class Honours in Economics from Melbourne University and is a CFA Charterholder.
Read John Sharma's Profile
India Monetary Policy: February 2018
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Oh Dan Forest, You're So Predictable
A week ago yesterday, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, who wants Roy Cooper's job, preached a sermon in Salisbury that's been the talk of the town. The gist: A Christian nation can't be multi-cultural, and diversity is the enemy of the people.
The man is as up-tight as the clasp on Miss Murdstone's coin purse. To listen to him preach -- and when is he not preaching? -- you can't help recalling H.L. Mencken's definition of puritanism: “The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
Forest spouts absolutist, theocratic fantasies all the time. In January of this year, he was telling students at Wilson Christian Academy:
“America was founded on basic founding principles that all focus back to God and the foundation of our country is established on God’s truths and absolute truths being what it is about,” Forest said. “So we live in a culture today that is about relative truth. People say ‘Well, that ain’t true for you, but it’s not true for me.’ Or ‘That absolutely can’t be true for everybody all the time, so it must not be true at all.’ Reality is that there is such a thing as absolute truth and it is important to know.”
Tell that to Donald Trump, will you? and report back.
Forest was behind the formation of a non-profit, which registered as "The Faith-Driver Consumer" with the state's Secretary of State in 2011, that rated the apparent "Christianity" of many public businesses, especially for Christmas shoppers. Sear's got downgraded because it features women wearing lingerie. No, really.
This theocrat wants to be the next governor of North Carolina. We should be so unlucky!
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What does an electronic railway ticket look like?
The main features of the railway ticket are its unique number and code. You should either write out the ticket code and then contact a railway station ticket office, in order a cashier prints out the ticket, or print the ticket yourself.
These E-tickets are available for most Ukraine trains. You are able to go boarding as with a printed out ticket by yourself, as well as with a printed out ticket by a railway station ticket office.
You are able to go boarding having a printed out E-ticket (earlier on, this was available only for the “Intercity” and “Intercity+” trains). If you are not able to print the electronic train ticket out by yourself, or you need a regular ticket, please contact in advance a railway station ticket office in order a cashier prints out the ticket (you should bring with you a ticket code).
Reliable online train ticket booking system
If you plan to travel and buy a ticket on Ukrainian Railways — it could appear not so easy. Timetables of trains are constantly changing, Ukrzaliznytsia tickets are sold faster than people manage to get to the ticket office. There may also be other unforeseen circumstances.
On this page, anyone can find train tickets without worrying about their availability or the quality of the service. All you need is to specify the program where you plan to get on the train and on which station you are going to leave the train. In addition, you should specify the exact date on which the trip is planned, along with personal details of all passengers. After that, click the "Find" button.
Our express-search form works within the latest databases, which contain actual information about existing routes, traffic of trains, availability of convenient compartments, travel costs, tickets, etc. This allows you to cope with this task in the shortest time, with little effort and minimal time.
If to take into account a psychological comfort, searching for railway tickets, as well as booking and purchasing, is indeed more pleasant when performed online. The positive side of the self-service terminal on the Internet is the exceptional speed of the automatic service.
Using the online search, you can always be informed about available tickets for any route, as for one direction, as well as in both travel directions.
An electronic train ticket can always be exchanged at Ukrzaliznytsia ticket offices according to the rules.
After completing railway ticket booking online or purchasing a ticket, our agency will send a unique code to the email specified by the customer.
You will need to download this code to your smartphone or tablet. When boarding the train, please allow the special mobile terminal to read the code — this system already operates on the new “Intercity” and “Intercity +” trains for all permanent trains in Ukraine.
It is possible to board on the most trains, having a printed out E-ticket, for example, Zaporizhia— Kyiv, Odessa — Kyiv, Simferopol — Kyiv, Donetsk — Kyiv, etc.
As you can see, this way is much easier, than using the standard method of a train ticket reservation, as well as ticket purchasing at the railway station ticket office.
Buy train tickets online, following these steps:
You can buy or find out the cost of railway tickets online, search for cheap train tickets without leaving home or office, following this procedure:
What do the electronic railway ticket and other documents look like?
E-tickets are available for most Ukraine trains. It is enough to print out train tickets to be able to go onboarding.
There are rare directions for which you will need to print a ticket out in the railway station ticket office (don’t forget to provide a receipt).
You are able to see whether the train ticket enquiry is available in the booking system.
Please see how looks the receipt for those directions where it is required to print the ticket out at the checkout below:
When you’ve ordered tickets online on our website, you are able to get rid of many problems and to concentrate on other important things to do: determine the plan of work, arrange documents, calculate the budget, etc.
We are ready to provide you with a complex assistance in preparing your trip. Our lawyers will work with your visas and passport preparation and solve all issues in the consulate of the country of destination.
We will simplify the process of a trip organization so that you can get the most out of leisure and pleasure during your business or personal journey.
Buy train tickets for Intercity: the earlier, the cheaper!
The following fact is of a great importance — electronic railway tickets are bought mostly in Kyiv, many passengers prefer trips in modern, comfortable, high-speed Intercity and Intercity + trains.
These trains have already been launched on the routes from Kyiv to Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Odessa, Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Lviv. There is a line that connects Donetsk — Dnipro — Kharkiv.
The price in the new Intercity train set depends on the time of departure, the time of purchase and the date of travel. You can also find out the cost of a ticket to Intercity at the time of the request through the online order form.
Try it once and you will definitely like it. Online train ticket booking is easy, fast and reliable.
Video review. Intercity Kyiv — Zaporizhia train, December 2013
Look at how the trip looks from the inside.
Those passengers, who have already used high-speed railway services on Intercity trains, know that such a trip is convenient and comfortable. According to our frequent tourists’ feedback, — sometimes it makes sense to buy railway tickets to the lounge car, as the lounge car is not crowded and you will feel free-and-easy.
TV in the train car
You are able to watch TV in the Intercity and Intercity+ trains, but actually, they usually disturb tourists more, than entertain. Do not hesitate to ask the train guide to make a sound quieter, if it disturbs you.
Convenient places in the train car
Please note that the seats in the train cars are located in different ways. If you like to travel face-up on the move, please choose such a place.
One more thing to point on. For those who travel with family, friends or company, it will be convenient to choose places facing each other with a table in the middle. The price of the Intercity train tickets is slightly higher than for common trains, but it’s worth it. If you’ve decided to go by train — choose comfort!
Technology of modern Intercity trains
When you travel by the Intercity train for the first time, you can be really surprised by the buttons on the doors to the train car and between the train cars — when you press them, the door opens automatically.
This feature is already not new in Europe and such buttons are successfully used in trains.
Wi-Fi in the modern Ukrainian trains is still an exception, unfortunately. Your computer can even catch a Wi-Fi signal, but it will not always be possible to access the network. On the other hand, there are sockets near each seat, so you can work all the way at the computer or watch your favorite movie.
Railway transport is one of the most comfortable ways to get to the right place, especially when it comes to the local trains. In Ukraine, traveling by train takes the leading position in the transport sector and provides 50% of the transportation compared to other means of transport. Nowadays, when the transport sphere is extremely modernized, and the ticket booking system is simplified to the online mode, the use of railways has become even more convenient. The most popular destinations in Ukraine are the routes to the following cities: Kharkiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhia, Odessa, Kyiv, and Lviv.
Ukrainian Railways
Ukrainian Railways have 6 routes: the Southern Railway (Kharkiv), the Donetsk Railway (Donetsk), the Odessa Railway (Odessa), the Lviv Railway (Lviv), the Dnipro Railway (Dnipro) and the South-Western Railway (Kyiv). The railway sector is almost monopolized by the state administration of Ukrzaliznytsia.
Near 385 000 employees serve 1614 stations, the highest passability of passengers is noted in Kharkiv, Dnipro, Lviv, Odessa, Zaporizhia and Kyiv directions.
Ukraine train tickets purchasing in different cities
Train tickets Kyiv Train tickets Odessa Train tickets Zaporizhia
You can buy a railway ticket in several ways:
with the help of the railway ticket booking system;
in the railway station ticket office;
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using online train ticket booking system.
Nowadays, electronic train tickets are used for all popular railway lines of Ukraine, covering in total 91 directions.
Services for passengers
Passengers can take advantage of a wide range of services, in particular, you can make a choice to travel in a women’s or men’s compartment, however, you are able to buy these tickets exclusively through the railway station ticket office. It is also possible to pay there for a tea at once. For a particular fee, paid directly in the train, you can count on a bed sheet, drinks, reading material and use of a microwave and a fridge. You can also arrange a video and audio broadcast service with a help of the train host.
Ukrainian Railways carry passengers providing different levels of comfort, a ticket price varies depending on a train car class or a train class. Railway junctions nowadays are the sweet spot of passenger transportation in the ratio of price-quality and safety.
Review text: The second-class train car of the “Intercity” surprised us by the climate control system. Outside – sun heat, and in the train car comfortable temperature, fresh air, but doesn’t blow. Armchairs are comfortable, there are stable pull-out tables, withstand both a laptop, and an ultrabook, a spacious passage and a vestibule, 2 clean toilets. Constantly deliver tea and coffee, in train always clean. The only one minus is that WiFi doesn’t work. If you need internet – take a 3G modem (the mobile Internet working on the most of the way). The train is on the way for 7 hours, arrives in Zaporozhye at a convenient time.
Author: Elena, Zaporozhye.
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Five Star Billionaire is an ambitious, but not wholly successful attempt to evoke the overwhelming scale and pace of modern day life in Shanghai, told through the loosely connected lives of five Malaysian Chinese immigrants. In different chapters, all titled with the recognisable cliché of self-help speak, each character struggles through Shanghai trying to make a success of the opportunities they find in this overwhelming city, but finding their lives in freefall against the backdrop of this unforgiving city.
Phoebe, is an ambitious young Malaysian village girl, who reinvents herself in person and online when the job she was promised in this shiny new city turns out to be less than she expected. Gary is a pop star at the top of his game, whose life is thrown into a tailspin when the pressure gets too much and he is filmed losing his temper in a Shanghai bar. Yinghui seems to have conquered the city as a successful business owner with several lingerie stores, but her friends see only a woman who is yet to find a man. Justin also seems to have it all as the head of his family business, but he suffers a breakdown when the family fortune is lost.
Yinghui and Justin knew each other in the past. Phoebe ends up working for Yinghui and talking to Gary in an online forum and Justin befriends Phoebe’s roommate. These are tenuous threads and all seem to be held together by Walter Chao, a mysterious businessman and author of self-help books who seems to have an interest in all the characters.
It is an interesting set up and the early chapters work well, as the reader is introduced to each character and their increasingly desperate attempts to make their mark in a city that is moving too fast for them to keep up.
You must appreciate that time is always against you. It is never kind or encouraging. It gnaws away invisibly at all good things. Therefore, if you have any desire to accomplish anything, even the simplest task, do it swiftly and with great purpose, or time will drag it away from you.
Shanghai itself is another character in the book, a cold fast-moving city where connections are hard to make and harder to maintain and where no one seems to know who anyone really is. Walter Chao is presented as the puppet master here, using these characters for an unknown reason, but it is the city itself that comes across as the true villain of the piece.
Shanghai, image from Shutterstock
Five Star Billionaire is a novel about the inability to connect, because characters feel that they can’t show their true selves. Phoebe changes her name and pretends to be from China. Gary chats to Phoebe online but can’t tell her who he really is. Yinghui and Justin are trying to escape from their pasts and their family history but find that, in a city that is all about the new, the past is what will eventually catch up with you.
And herein lies the main issue with Five Star Billionaire. It becomes tangled up in the past and loses the urgency and pacing that characterised the opening chapters. The backstory between Yinghui and Justin is so drawn out that it could be a novel in its own right and – despite being an integral part of the denouement – lacks sufficient interest to justify its inclusion.
The story of Gary, the pop star, never feels sufficiently integrated into the novel as a whole and some of the coincidences lack coherence, particularly in a city the size of Shanghai. Why would Justin, a wealthy executive, live in the same apartment block as the struggling Phoebe? Why would Yinghui, an experienced business owner, invest in a business deal without doing basic background checks on her colleagues?
The novel feels like it is building towards a real cliffhanger, and as the information is drip-fed into the narrative, a tale of revenge emerges, and that does not have the anticipated drama. Which is a shame, because there is a lot to like in this novel. Tash Aw seems to want to write two books, one exploring the loneliness of life in a big city, where people hide behind the transience of material possessions due to an inability to make sincere connections, and another about a mysterious figure who is determined to revenge the wrongs done to his family.
The two strands don’t quite gel and consequently, Five Star Billionaire does not quite succeed in what it sets out to do.
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January 9, 2020 at 14:33 Reply
I read this novel a long time ago but, judging by my review of it, I felt similarly to you – that four of the threads were ultimately very similar and Walter’s stood out. I quite liked the different note introduced by his machinations, but I found the novel as a whole forgettable. I’m currently reading Aw’s We, The Survivors and suspect that will stick with me for longer.
Cathy746books
All the press about We, The Survivors led me to pick up Five Star Billionaire. It certainly won’t put me off reading more of his work but I do think it could have been leaner and more focused.
Interestingly, I remember the hype surounding this novel when it was published much more than the book itself! It certainly made me wary of We, The Surviors which turned out to be a much better piece of fiction.
I’ve heard great things about We, The Survivors so I’ll give it a go. There was a lot to like here, it just didn’t come together in the end for me.
I’ve only read Tash Aw’s newest release and I liked it well enough, but not enough to want to rush out and read his backlist. This one sounds a bit frustrating. Though I do love when writers frame cities as characters!
Me too, which is why I wanted to like it more than I did.
RoseReadsNovels
I should use the extract you used as a mantra at work…
Think I’ll start with We, The Survivors.
Good plan, on both counts!
FictionFan
Oh dear, looking at the comments makes me feel a bit guilty, but I thought We, The Survivors was so dull and tedious that I abandoned it at 25%. So I fear this one doesn’t tempt me at all… 😉
Oh I like to hear a dissenting voice! I don’t think this would be for you either FF!
Well, this is helpful because I’ve had We, The Survivors on the TBR for a while and it’s just been promoted to the bedside table, so I’m encouraged to see that Laura is enjoying it.
I quite liked, but wasn’t bowled over by The Harmony Silk Factory, but having said that, I think we haven’t had enough fiction in English coming out of Asia and SE Asia, so even if there are flaws in the books, they’re still a very welcome addition to what’s available.
I agree Lisa, I haven’t read much from this part of the world, so it was a really interesting perspective.
I read this a few years back but had to rely on my review to remind myself what I thought of it – clearly the book hadn’t made much of a lasting impression. It seems I had a very similar reaction to you. The set up was interesting but it just fizzled out in implausible coincidences. The best part was the depiction of Shanghai.
My thoughts exactly! I think it could have been tighter and would then have been more successful.
Great review, Cathy. I read this a few years ago and had much the same take on it. But it stuck with me and now I have his earlier books in the TBR.
Thanks Sunita – I liked a lot of it but overall it just didn’t come together for me.
This sounds like such a potentially great book. Too bad it fizzled. Shanghai is a fascinating city so a novel about what it’s like to live there from multiple perspectives could be so good.
It does have some great moments and starts very well, but it’s just a bit too long and loses its way a bit.
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Ooh, you’re almost in the 400’s! Exciting!
I know! Still a long way to go but we need to celebrate these minor successes!!
This sounds a frustrating read but still worth going for! I’ve only read The Harmony Silk Factory by Aw, I liked it but didn’t love it. I’d like to try him again one day though, from the comments We, The Survivors sounds a good place to start.
Yes, We The Survivors sounds good.
louloureads
This sounds like a great premise – a real shame that it didn’t end up delivering on its initial promise.
cocolilyreads
Your blog is one of the most original blogs I have seen in a while. A nice twist on doing reviews and on books that aren’t recent publications. Look forward to following your countdown journey!
Thank you so much! It’s going to take a while though 🙂
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Tue Jun 2nd 2015 by abagond
Amy Chua (1962- ), better known as Tiger Mom (born in the Year of the Tiger, no less), is an American law professor at Yale and a Chinese mother at home. She has written four books so far:
2002: World On Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability. Free-market capitalism allows ethnic minorities, like Jews or Chinese, to gather huge fortunes, controlling much of a country’s wealth. Democracy, meanwhile, rewards leaders, like Hitler or Mugabe, who appeal to the hatred of the ethnic majority.
2009: Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance – and Why They Fall. How the Persians, Romans, Chinese (Tang Dynasty), Mongols, Dutch, British and Americans became hugely powerful, in part by being open to ethnic out-groups. This lack of openness doomed Nazi Germany. The US’s willingness to take in the world’s best and brightest, particularly Jews and Asians, has made it a huge military power.
2011: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. When worlds collide: Chinese parenting meets Western children. Her children seemed to have turned out well, but she nearly lost the love of her youngest daughter.
2014: The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America. The Bootstrap Myth repackaged. She looks at why Mormon, Jewish, Chinese, Iranian, Lebanese, Cuban, Nigerian, West Indian and Cuban Americans do so well in the US. The three traits are:
superiority complex – thinking your group is better, special or exceptional compared to others. It provides “ethnic armour” against racism, fighting fire with fire.
insecurity – feeling like you do not measure up.
impulse control – being disciplined enough to put in tons of hard work.
The measure of success: She does not measure “success” in a consistent way. Generally, she looks for median household income, educational achievement and high position in big companies. Had she measured it by wealth, political power, drop in poverty rates or relative to parents’s education, she would have wound up with different groups. As it was, she left out British Americans and added Nigerian, West Indian and Cuban Americans – but not Cubans who came after 1979.
She credits her own success – being a professor at a top university – to her Triple Package Chinese upbringing. Yet her father was also a professor at a top university (Berkeley). She said he came to the US “with nothing” – yet he had a scholarship to MIT. He came from an upper-class family in the Philippines.
Many of her “successful” “cultural groups” are just middle and upper class people who moved to the US. They did not pull themselves up by their bootstraps: they bought a plane ticket.
Blacks: Racism, though real, is not the main thing holding back native-born Black Americans. Nigerians, after all, come to the US and do much better. She says it is mainly because Nigerians are a Triple Package culture while Black Americans are not. But she is comparing Nigerian immigrants, who were nearly all middle and upper class in Nigeria, with native Black Americans,who are upper, middle and lower class.
Welcome to Asian American History Month 2015
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on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 06:25:07 jefe
Does anyone have any good sources which review her works, both positive and negative?
Also, she alludes in a few of her books about the unique characteristics of both Chinese and Jewish ethnic groups that cause them to succeed in market driven economies and in the US in particular. Does she have a prognosis then, for Chinese Jews, or some amalgamation of these alleged unique groups? A master elite group for the US?
Eddie Huang and his brothers openly criticize the Tiger Mom in their Manhattan restaurant Baohaus:
(http://www.baohausnyc.com/about-us/)
They didn’t do it just to sell baos, but instead create a mouth piece for the social, cultural, and political issues they cared about.
Won the Chow 13 for groundbreaking use of social media, stuck up for Danny Chen, opposed the Tiger Mom, and accidentally hot boxed a restaurant in plain view.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 06:47:48 King
“Amy Chua is known for saying that “Chinese mothers are superior”. Notice that she does not say “Chinese parents are superior”. Her statement is worded carefully so that no one can point out the fact that she is a hypocrite for marrying a white man instead of a Chinese man.”
Actually that is an interesting inconsistency.
There is nothing wrong with a Chinese woman marrying a White man, per se. But it is odd that while extolling the virtues of Chinese culture, you choose to dilute it’s effect by mixing with White-American culture. Logically, if you thought Chinese culture was such an advantage, why not have it on both sides if at all possible?
The US’s willingness to take in the world’s best and brightest, particularly Jews and Asians, has made it a huge military power. It is why it got the atom bomb first.
This makes no sense to me.
When the US made the atom bomb, Asians, particularly Chinese had been barred from entering the USA for over 60 years. Japanese Americans were locked in internment camps. Where did she get her amnesia about US history in saying “willingness to take in the world’s best and brightest”?
The Asian brain drain is mainly a post 70s thing.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 07:27:35 Blackstudent
She married a jew, who is basically white. She also loves how the jews are getting so far in live, points out how they are, in difference to all the other immigrants pretty successful in culuture and art, also known as entertainment, not only math and science, like everybody else. Hollywood, books, artists many good ones by jews. I don’t agree with her on many things, but some I find are really helpful and true.
I like what she says to a certain point, since its true that how you work and how your parents raise you, makes a difference, she likes to blend racism out which is wrong though.
Black people could take her book as help though, I like what she says, we should try to raise our children proud and hard working instead of the opposite.
If there are two black people both affected by racism, but one family really wants to move up, really wants to achieve something and puts work into it, see school as really important, I think the children will go further in life, than some other families which I personally know of, this could be in anything.
I never thought like her about nigerians, but since reading her book and looking at my nigirian family roots, I do see what she means to a certain perspective, nigerians are all about making money, everybody wants education and many are doctors, dentist or have other such professions in my family, even though I don’t have much contact with them, also nobody lives in nigeria anymore lol. Still, after getting the degree and a job, they still don’t make so much in many cases.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 07:51:20 V-4
They may have been middle class in Nigeria but is that really the same as middle class in the US?
A lot of places have a middle class that in the US we would probably consider poor here.
I wouldn’t say “hardwork can cure anything” but it can help.
But even as hard as asians work and study they still have the bamboo ceiling to deal with.
Also wouldn’t truly feeling superior go against an inferiority complex? But it’s usually the less impressive specimens of society that have any dog in the racism/cultural superiority game anyways.
Also aren’t Mormons and Jews pretty big on helping their own “kind” so to speak and maintaining a strong communal kind of vibe?
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 09:38:11 abagond
@ Jefe @ V-4
I left out the bit about the atom bomb and rewrote the last paragraph to make the post a bit clearer.
The Germans, because of their anti-Semitism, drove out some of their best scientists. Some of them came to the US and helped to make the first atom bomb. Since the 1960s, the Asian brain drain has helped the US to maintain its military edge.
The bit about “Chinese Mothers are Superior” comes from the Wall Street Journal, not her. They basically took the first chapter of her Tiger Mom book and made it into an “essay” and gave it that title without her knowledge. It gives a misleading picture of the book. She says the book was SUPPOSED to be about how Chinese parents are better at bringing up children than Western parents (she uses the word parents, not mother), but it turned out to be about a cultural clash where her younger daughter rebelled.
@ V-4
Maybe at the foreign exchange rate the Nigerian middle-class would count as poor by US standards, but that would be because the cost of living in Nigeria is lower.
She compares Nigerians living in the US to ALL Black Americans. US Nigerians on average have a higher median household income and are more likely to get into an Ivy League university and therefore are “more successful”. But it is an apples to oranges comparison: I am pretty sure if you compared Black Americans living in Nigeria to ALL Nigerians, you would find that their incomes and educations would be well above the Nigerian average too.
Now that you changed the sentence, it makes a bit more sense. I didn’t see how America’s willingness to take in Asians gave it the atom bomb. If anything, as shown in your post on Tsien Hsue-shen, America’s willingness to expel its Asian citizens and residents has helped make other countries strengthen their military might and their infrastructure, e.g., building railroads at the turn of the 20th century or space satellites in the latter half of the 20th century. Why didn’t America’s lack of openness before and during WWII doom it also as was Hitler’s Germany?
If Amy Chua discusses the value of America’s openness, then she should also mention how the USA has suffered under its close-mindedness.
This idea made think of Chin Gee Hee, came to the USA as a railroad and mine labourer, later became a railroad entrepreneur and merchant from Seattle,Washington, who built China’s 2nd railway and the first one in the south China in 1906, with funds raised by Chinese-Americans. His son was the first person of Chinese descent to be born in the State of Washington and Chin Gee Hee played a major role in the Seattle Riots of 1886.
Unfortunately, his railroad was bombed and destroyed in the Sino-Japanese war in 1938, after his death.
There is a memorial and statue in his hometown in Guangdong Province. I have been there. If you do something in the future on the Seattle Riots of 1886 (as previously promised), maybe I can do one on Chin Gee Hee.
(http://www.cinarc.org/Chin_Gee_Hee_ad_1901_Directory_web.jpg)
The US did not become a hyperpower till AFTER 1940, after its racial nadir ended. If it was not a country built on immigration, or if it just remained as racist as it was in 1930, then it would not be a hyperpower today. It would still be powerful because of its size, like it was in its war against Japan, but it would not be heads and heels above everyone else militarily. Chua says that China, for example, is not currently on the road to becoming a hyperpower because it is not drawing in the world’s best and brightest.
Your examples only prove her point by showing how important a brain drain is. Deporting Tsien helped to reduce the military edge the US had over China.
Also, keep in mind, that racial and religious tolerance is relative. The US was and is anti-Semitic, for example, but compared to Nazi Germany it was heaven on earth.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 12:16:04 sharinalr
I have to admit. Her triple package rings some truth to Mormons. While there has been a great shift away from the “we are better theme” (mainly to achieve higher conversion rates) secretly many still believe it.
@V-4
“Also aren’t Mormons and Jews pretty big on helping their own “kind” so to speak and maintaining a strong communal kind of vibe?”—-In the case of Mormons yes.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 12:23:48 leigh204
Ugh, my dislike for Amy Chua is high up there with Michelle Malkin.
@ Lord of Mirkwood:
Her parenting style can be best summed up as child abuse. She used to make her daughter practice the violin for 6 hours or else she’d throw away their stuffed animals. When one of her kids made a card for her on her birthday, she gave it back saying “This wasn’t good enough.” She devalued her kids and made them feel worthless. She is seriously sick in the head.
Here’s a list that she drew up for her daughters.
*Sorry, I mean partial list. Wow, she sounds like a peach, doesn’t she?
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 12:40:53 Bobby M
@Lord of Mirkwood and @leigh204 – she does indeed seem like an incredibly abusive parent. She essentially treated her children like slaves. If I worked for Child Protection, she would definitely be getting a call and probably be getting arrested.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 13:11:04 Anonymous
Is this a Black blog, or an Asian blog?
Anonymous, It’s a Ant-racism blog that is celebrating Asian History month.
Chua says that China, for example, is not currently on the road to becoming a hyperpower because it is not drawing in the world’s best and brightest.
Does Abagond agree with that?
That is only partially correct. With 1.4 billion, one could argue that a large percentage of the world’s best and brightest are there within the country already. Movement within the country (say from the west to east) or from the country to city would already be larger than any international migration, even larger than what the USA attracts. You only have to see the world’s largest human migration every year around Chinese New Year.
The USA is the one of the few places that can easily receive new foreigners.
On the other hand, the best and brightest in China, particularly the wealthier ones, are keen to leave — to destinations such as the USA. Comparatively fewer people like Tsien Hsue-shen actually leave the USA.
On some forum I frequent, a commenter said she actually read Amy Chua’s books. She recalled that she found it ironic Ms. Chua heavily pushed her daughters to be top students yet she mentioned she wasn’t a good enough student to be a doctor or an engineer. How weird is that she received her law degree and couldn’t make it as a lawyer? And she eventually ended up teaching law.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 14:14:59 The Pragmatist
Is being middle to upper class in a lower or middle income country the same as being MC or UC in the United States?
That maybe part of the reason she pushed her daughters so hard. She could not achieve, so she pushed them to achieve her dreams.
I’m going to get blasted for saying this, but..
I believe racism in the US has marginalized *many* African Americans into poor environments. However, the worse part about these poor environments are the anti-social values that run rampant within the culture, and not the lack of resources. Anti-social values are not limited to race and can be found in white trailer parks and ghettos all across the world.
My theory is that the middle and upper classes rely more on appearances in order to get ahead. Social conformity and appropriate public behavior are essential for building social contacts and gaining access to resources (networking). The richer you get the more important this becomes. Poor people on the other hand, tend to care less…
Btw I believe this only holds true in areas with high income inequality where the poor feel relatively deprived (ie the wealth and opulence in close proximity to poverty in urban areas).
@ The Pragmatist
“I believe racism in the US has marginalized *many* African Americans into poor environments. However, the worse part about these poor environments are the anti-social values that run rampant within the culture, and not the lack of resources.”
I don’t think that this is something to deny or get “blasted” for saying. It is a natural result of long-term oppression and denial. People lose hope and once you have lost hope there is almost nothing that can be done to stop anti-social values from creeping in.
– If you don’t believe that the educational system will work for you
– If you don’t believe that the corporations will hire you
– If you don’t believe that people will accept you
Those beliefs leave you with few options other than to remove yourself from the primary culture and it’s benefits and pursue instead an alternate oppositional culture. I’m not saying that the beliefs are valid or that the solution is effective, I’m just saying that you can see how it happens.
Anti = Against
Social = Society
Adopting an identity that is against the established society.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 16:52:05 Kartoffel
The priority for lower class people is survival, so that’s what their culture is aimed at. That’s the case everywhere and has to do with Black Americans only in the regard that past racism has placed a disproportionate number of them in the lower class. And perhaps because poor Blacks are more visible because they have been concentrated in narrow spaces.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 17:09:14 Glenn (freedom of movement) Robinson @getgln
She is an interesting person who has lived a privileged life and tries to explain away those living in poverty without acknowledging the reality of oppression.
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 17:24:19 biggiefriez
@Glenn Robinson
Yes, and her warped and incredibly disturbing and subjective views on parenting and race erode my trust in her geo-political analysis. If a person is so misguided about race and abusing their children how can I trust their judgment on anything? It’s as if you discovered your car mechanic was a child molester.
Maybe should add this link to the “See Also” list
(https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/model-minority-bootstrap-myth/)
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 19:04:33 Jacque
This lady is a bit of a trip and a “tired ” stereotype. She takes passed down advantages and turns them into cultural truisms..hardly a sociologist or anthropologist.
Being a first generation African American female with a medical degree and two graduate degrees who hails from disadvantaged background I can say this: in academia, African Americans, do in fact (from my observations) suffer from a needless inferiority complex and the educational system encourages it.
And Ms Chua? … She’s got some ‘splainin to do.
We are just as smart and brilliant in all disciplines….stop drinking the the white supremacist kool aid..too toxic ..too costly
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 19:22:46 Zena
The Black American population is higher than the Nigerian population in America. Let’s say there is 1 million Nigerians in the United States and 450,000 have degrees, that’s good and the percentage would come out higher than the Black American degree percentage simply because of the population of people. Even though millions of more Black Americans hold degrees. Let’s say 17 million Black Americans hold a degree. That’s higher than 450,000 but is low for a 40 million+ population.
These numbers are just guesses though.
Also, getting into an Ivy League is not the ultimate sign of success but is seen as such because of class bias.
Two black men get interviewed for a job. Both have degrees but one went to Howard and the other went to Yale. Even if both men are qualified for the job, who do you think they’ll hire?
@Lord of Mirkwood
Blast 1
I’m not disagreeing with any of that. In my opinion there are three things holding many (not all) African Americans back: institutionalized racism, internalized racism, and an anti-social culture that has developed from marginalization.
This is on topic because Amy Chua is discussing the impact of culture on economic success of different ethnic groups.
@Zena,
I believe that in rating your children’s or your own success there is only one ‘sign of success’ that matters, are you happy? And a parent that really cares about their children wishes and wants only one thing for them, to be happy.
The first mistake most of us make is to equate success with achievement and accumulation. Happiness has nothing to do with those things.
A recent study discussed in the Huffington Post here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/17/map-happiness-benchmark_n_5592194.html, found that on average money ceases to bring happiness after the first $75,000 per year in earnings. Apparently, after you obtain enough to live on and meet your basic needs money is irrelevant.
I read a story once about a profoundly unhappy millionaire. He had everything he ever wanted accept someone to share it with.
@kartoffel & king
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 22:04:04 Mary Burrell
@Zena: The one from Yale gets hired.
I remember reading about her in a People magazine story and i thought she was horrible especially when she talked about not letting the children have stuffed animals and throwing away a homemade card the children made for her. In my opinion she is a witch.
@Lord of Mirkwood: HA!HA!
on Wed Jun 3rd 2015 at 22:48:00 ks
Ugh. Amy Chua is a great example of somebody who is educated beyond their abilities.
The first two books abagond mentioned were emabrassing attempts to shoehorn a poorly thought aout and weakly reasoned “ideologies” onto historical events to suit her narrative and were signal boosted by the usual suspects (e.g. The Economist, The Guardian, etc.).
The last two, including the one she became famous for are just intellectual clickbait. When you step back and look at it, her parenting techniques had little to do with her daughter(s) getting into Harvard.
Um, she got her BA and JD from Harvard and now teaches at Yale. Their father got his BA from Princeton and JD from Harvard and also now teaches at Yale.
What!? Both of the kids parents have Ivy league undergrad and grad degrees and are current Ivy League professors! The kids are triple legacies and would’ve had to be drooling morons not to get into their mothers alma mater!
Yeah, that “tiger mom” stuff is a lot easier to sell to other people when you know your kids have the hookup.
on Thu Jun 4th 2015 at 03:09:23 Mz.Nikita
..Kiwi your points about the hypocrisy of this confused Chua woman have been on point, and very insightful!
@ Kiwi, my pleasure and yes!
on Thu Jun 4th 2015 at 03:47:44 Mbeti
guess we are going to get a lot of comments on subjects and topics of sociological interest ,btw what credentials allow for ms.chua to comment and make conclusions on a wide range of sociological issues?
What current sociological findings support her assertions?
on Thu Jun 4th 2015 at 05:27:27 V-4
Thinking about it; her philosophy is pretty much par for the course with Republicans.
The bit about her kid and the card makes me think of some other asian thing; that’s kind of a stereo-type.
Like some guy talking about how his father told him that “I love you” was basically white people stuff and that if he wanted to really prove he loved him to get straight A’s.
Don’t know if it was on this board, or a comedian or what but…..that is the stereotype that asians are harsh parents that way.
on Thu Jun 4th 2015 at 11:51:31 Mack Lyons (@DDSSBlog)
@ The Pragmatist (really? lol)
However, the worse part about these poor environments are the anti-social values that run rampant within the culture, and not the lack of resources.
Note how lower-class white communities are rarely, if ever, berated for having “anti-social values.” The whole idea that the value system of the black community is somehow defective is a feint and a ruse.
The real issue is how long-running institutional bigotry has kneecapped the black community into being this nation’s perpetual servant class/punching bag, akin to the Dalits in India or the Burakumin in Japan.
That’s the priority for any oppressed group of people anywhere on the globe. Explains why some groups survive and thrive, even after a massive genocide. Hell, it took Mother Nature’s hand by way of DISEASE to finish off the Tainos and certain native American tribes.
@ Zena
Neither. HR will reach out to a close friend of a friend who went to Princeton and, despite lower quals, will cinch the job without so much as a perfunctory interview.
on Thu Jun 4th 2015 at 12:38:39 The Pragmatist
Note how lower-class white communities are rarely, if ever, berated for having “anti-social values.”
A quote from the very first paragraph of my comment:
“Anti-social values are not limited to race and can be found in white trailer parks and ghettos all across the world.”
on Thu Jun 4th 2015 at 14:28:28 Herneith
In that case, Amy Chua is a hypocrite. If she really believed Chinese parents were superior, she would have married a Chinese man.
You are going on the premise that a Chinese man would have her given her personality as portrayed in the media.
on Thu Jun 4th 2015 at 21:19:52 sharinalr
@The Pragmatist
“I believe racism in the US has marginalized *many* African Americans into poor environments. However, the worse part about these poor environments are the anti-social values that run rampant within the culture, and not the lack of resources.”—I fully agree with you. I wish I could add more, but you pretty much said all that needs to be said.
I am curious on why she is making a career using her maiden name and not her married name?
on Thu Jun 4th 2015 at 23:38:46 lifelearner
I actually enjoyed her book, Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mom. It was a memoir that has more embellishment than reality for sales. The reason I say this is, both daughters were doing their own thing towards the end of the book. The younger daughter was allowed to quit her instrument and they got a pet. Amy Chua is just like any parent trying to do right by their children, with a lot of trial by error. My take away from the book was more like battle hymn of a strict parent turned more understanding/ compromising parent because life’s too short.
on Fri Jun 5th 2015 at 01:44:21 V-4
Why would Amy Chua marry a white man or a jew at least?
Get some of that white privilege going on while since women carry the culture getting to keep her kids raised more like her own culture.
That and out of all the white cultures out there Jew culture might be the closest to Chinese culture factoring in social values and prejudices against them.
on Fri Jun 5th 2015 at 01:51:31 lifelearner
@Lord of Mirkwood – if she was really that bad, don’t you think her children would talk about it. They are of age now, especially the one at Harvard. She has a blog too. I mean really sensationalism sells. I’m sure she did some of those things but not to that extent. Do remember the book “A Million Pieces” that sold his memoir as the truth. Later to find out it was a bunch of lies to sale a book. Just saying, I don’t think Amy Chua is the demon that the media is claiming she truly is.
on Fri Jun 5th 2015 at 12:03:27 abagond
As far as I can tell the world’s best and brightest are still coming to the US, at least more so than China.
As big as China is, it is still less than 20% of the world. Even if China gets all the best Chinese minds, but not much else, the US would just need to pull in 40% from the rest of the world to be way ahead.
Chua thinks that Jews and Chinese are alike in many ways. Both are Triple Package cultures, both are rich-but-hated minorities in several countries. So from that way of looking at it, a Jewish husband is near beer.
@ Mbeti
Miss Chua’s background:
She studied economics as an undergrad at Harvard and has a Harvard law degree. She worked on Wall Street helping to write the business deal that privatized the Mexican telephone company (making Carlos Slim one of the richest men in the world).
She did NOT know about the Persian Empire till a research assistant told her about it. For someone with two Harvard degrees, and for someone who thinks she is qualified to write about history, that is pretty shocking.
She has no formal training in sociology or history. But she does have an Asian face and is willing to write books that fit nicely with White Republican views of race.
@ Mbeti @ Jefe
Amy Chua pretty much implements chapter two of “Asians: The Republican User’s Guide”:
“Chapter 2: Low Taxes, Slow Change: The Model Minority stereotype
Stereotype Asian Americans as the opposite of stereotyped Blacks: Asians as hard-working, law-abiding, family-oriented, quiet, well-educated, intelligent, etc. Choose and twist facts to show that Asians are more successful than even Whites. For example, talk about “household income” and bachelor degrees but not poverty rates or social mobility.
This makes it seem like racism is not what is holding Black people back, that there is something wrong with Blacks themselves, like bad values or bad parenting.
That means there is little the government can do about it. Therefore there is no need for political reforms or higher taxes. America is fine just the way it is!
Some Asians think the Model Minority stereotype is itself racist. How can a good stereotype possibly be racist? Besides, there are not enough Asian votes for their opinion to matter (see Chapter 1).”
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/asians-the-republican-users-guide/
I added that link. Thanks.
on Fri Jun 5th 2015 at 12:54:41 jefe
re: Abagond’s statement
Then shouldn’t it then also apply the other way around? Shouldn’t a Jewish woman see Chinese husbands as a near perfect choice, esp. if the kids are raised in the Jewish faith while tying into the husband’s family?.
on Fri Jun 5th 2015 at 13:31:19 leigh204
In case anyone’s interested, I thought I would share this interesting read. It’s an old article, but still insightful as to how Ms. Chua thinks.
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/amy-chua-philippines-chinese-minority-free-market-democracy-ethnic-hatred
on Fri Jun 5th 2015 at 14:30:39 sharinalr
@lifelearner
Part of the reason that I can not see fit to truly criticize her is because she only wrote a book describing some of my parenting style. Only this year was I willing to accept a grade B and that was after my husband talked me into being more lenient.
on Fri Jun 5th 2015 at 16:25:34 King
Sharinalr,but were you holding your kid’s stuffed animals for ‘grade ransom’ though? Were they in a big steel cage in your yard, soaked in petrol, just waiting to be ignited by mommy militant!??
“but were you holding your kid’s stuffed animals for ‘grade ransom’ though?”—No, but I was removing tablets and other toys I consider special treatment when the grades were not to my standards. The best they got was a book.
“Were they in a big steel cage in your yard, soaked in petrol, just waiting to be ignited by mommy militant!??”—Oh heck no. I thought I was crazy by my standards, but not that darn crazy. lol
Especially when you are probably the one that bought the stuff in the first place! 🙂 It’s kind of like punishing yourself!
on Sat Jun 6th 2015 at 01:21:44 abagond
Do you think she is being honest and sincere in her books or is she just writing what will sell?
on Sat Jun 6th 2015 at 17:54:36 Mary Burrell
I just finished watching one of her Youtube videos and in this interview she tells about how one her daughters Lulu rebelled and made a huge scene in Red Square in Moscow and how humiliated she was when her daughter went on a tangent and called her all kind of hateful things. Chua then gets an epiphany of how she might need to change. I hope she did change because as i said earlier i think she is a horrible woman from what i have read. She does say her parents were super strict and this is the way she was parenting her children. It’s my belief and i may be in the minority but if you put that amount of unreasonable pressure on a child they are going to be resentful of the parent and even hate them, it damages a kid. The famous Jackson family are perfect examples of this especially Michael.
on Sat Jun 6th 2015 at 20:41:33 sharinalr
You are 100% correct. While they are younger they are more forgiving and accommodating, but the older they are the more that type of parenting backfires. This is part of the reason why I started to tone down ….
1. It stress the parent more than the child.
2. Child eventually does not respond to your threats.
3. It creates low self-esteem in which the child is constantly second guessing themselves.
And like her I learned every bit of it from my father’s style of parenting towards me. It’s amazing how I resented him and rebelled and then turned around to parent the very same way.
@sharinalr: Interesting, good you decided to change your parenting style.
To many marrying “white” is considered marrying up. I still maintain Chua is an elitist snob.
@leigh204: Thanks for thank link it gave insight into who this woman is. In that link post that you provided she likes to rub it into the readers face and let them know she is rich and that her family is superior to the ethnic Filipinos. So reading her account the Chinese-Filipinos are superior to the so called “ethnic Filipinos.” She is a piece of work. SMH.
@leigh204: Thanks for the link.^^^^^
on Sun Jun 7th 2015 at 13:55:23 Mary Burrell
@Kiwi: I noticed on Google + The Asian female moderators have many white male posters and some of those white male posters are kind of creepy in my opinion. I do believe white men and some black men have a “fetish” for Asian women.
on Sun Jun 7th 2015 at 16:41:16 villagewriter
She has a very interesting take on race and success….a quack by many measures.
on Sun Jun 7th 2015 at 21:34:03 TeddyBearSniffer
Not all Chinese are equals. The fact is many Chinese provinces would probably be deferred into separate South East Asian Nations if not absorbed by feudal China into a larger nation. There’s a cast system in the Chinese society even here in America.
on Sat Jul 11th 2015 at 02:46:19 Michael Cooper
Bro, you’re an expert on calling out the Asian fetishists, which are 99 percent White males.
The movie ‘The Wolverine’ (starring and co-starring Hugh Jackman and Tao Okamoto, respectively) was made for White male/Asian female couples. The movie was very anti-Asian male. The way I viewed it, the foreign White man (White supremacist) kicks every Japanese man’s ass and screws the finest-looking Japanese women in the movie. I didn’t enjoy the movie at all. It would not have mattered if this White guy had gone to India, Mexico or the South Pacific – he would’ve done the same exact thing to the men and women in those countries/regions too. White people and many POC could NOT imagine a Black or Asian man (foreign or not) in the U.S. or Europe beating up every White guy and screwing the best-looking White woman. The movie-writing White supremacist will NOT allow it. Hollywood is the MOST powerful tool that the White supremacist uses. Hollywood brainwashes people (from all over the world) to view the White man (or White supremacist) as the “savior”/”ladies’ man” and the Black man and Asian man as the “villain thug” or “emasculated punk”. It’s no coincidence that Black American movies don’t do well overseas – in countries like the China, Japan, the Philippines, India, and, sad to say, Nigeria. Asian movies don’t do well in the States and Europe – only Asian fetishists look forward to seeing Asian movies and that’s because of the Asian actresses that these White guys love to masturbate towards. The White supremacist (that includes the Asian fetishist) is a sick-minded, egotistic individual. That’s the honest truth – take it or leave it!
on Sat Jul 11th 2015 at 14:39:28 Herneith
@Kiwi:
I noticed this as well. The Hollywood establishment, never, or rarely make films about other interracial pairings other than white/racialized ones. It is like white pairings with racialized groups is the only ‘game’ in town. This is part and parcel of the white supremacist mind set. I know as a fact that there are many other inter-racialized(for lack of a better term) pairings. However, you would never know it watching the so-called entertainment. I also find it weird that those who decry racism and by extension white supremacy(one and the same), hook up with their oppressors. To each his/her own I guess.
on Tue Aug 4th 2015 at 08:38:52 munubantu
I found today (4/8/15) an article in the CNN website that explains Asian success in the USA referring to the concept of “Asian privilege” and therefore offering a different explanation than Amy Chua’s.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/03/opinions/lee-immigration-ethnic-capital/index.html
on Thu Jan 21st 2016 at 03:08:35 Happiness in Slavery | Slouching Towards Kingston
[…] The writer, illustrator and editor all have their share of responsibility, but their track record shows that this book was an anomaly, not the norm in their careers. Besides, the System would have had just found someone else. So let’s look at that aspect of the system. And to understand it properly, we need to look at Amy Chua. […]
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#74 The Hunted by Elmore Leonard
September 2, 2010 in Book, Comedy, Crime, Fiction, Humour, Murder, Thriller, War | Tags: culture clash, Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty, Illinois Nazis, Israel, Jackie Brown, Out of Sight, The Blues Brothers, The Hunted, Vietnam, Vietnam Veteran | Leave a comment
“Are those explosives?” Surprised.
“Claymore mines. All wired and ready to go.”
“You have them at your house?”
“not officially,” David said. “This one boy, Willard, keeps some in his closet. I think he’s a little crazy.” They were silent and he didn’t add until some moments later, “But I’m glad he’s on our side.”
Hollywood loves Elmore Leonard. After Get Shorty, Jackie Brown and Out of Sight, how could they not (let’s not speak of Be Cool). He writes in a punchy, breezy manner about criminals and culture clashes, all the while spurring on the plot to a racing pace. I was worried he was another James Ellroy, someone whose writing lends itself to adaptation as opposed to the cruel wide open plains of the printed page. Thankfully I was wrong on that score.
Al Rosen is a man who enjoys the finer things in life. He measures his pleasures in hotel suites, Israeli wine and of course women. Especially American tourists on package tours. Them he sizes up by the hotel they are staying in, whether they are divorced, or widowed (he prefers a middle-aged lady over a preening teen). He can be charming, even a little mysterious when he wants to be and lies easily about his age. His life in Israel is going swimmingly, until he spends the night with Edie Broder in her hotel room. Smelling smoke, he peers out the door of the room and discovers the building is on fire. Managing to rouse the other guests, this heroic act is mentioned in the press that follows, but Rosen does not come forward to take the credit. In fact the photo that accompanies the story all the way back to the States shows a shocked Rosen starring at the camera in dismay at his photo being taken. He knows what’s coming next. There are people back in Detroit who want a word with Al Rosen, formerly known as Jim Ross. What’s worse, Rosen takes off forgetting that he shoved his passport and jacket into Edie’s suitcase before they fled the bedroom. So now he’s stuck in Israel with the mob on their way.
Fortunately for Rosen he crosses paths with a Kentucky-born Vietnam vet named Davis. Employed by Rosen’s lawyer to be a bagman, the marine takes an interest in the harried American expatriate and offers to help him escape. The guys from Detroit include the man he tried to indict, a explosives expert and Rashad an ‘Alabama Arabian’. It is the latter, hired as a hitman by Rosen’s old enemy Valenzuela, whose botched attempt on the American’s life lets him know the mob has arrived in Israel. Davis takes him on the road trying to evade capture and failing that, show these contract killers how a military man takes a life.
Leonard sets the story up as a conventional thriller. We have a man on the run, we have criminals and crooked lawyers circling like vultures and we have a noble soldier with a heart of gold. What makes this story stand out is the quick banter and the fascinating use of location. By setting the story in Israel, we have a contrast between the American mobsters, with their punching the clock attitude to murder and those who have come to see the Middle East as a constant battlefield, somehow normalised through the continuous conflict.
There’s also lots of trademark Elmore Leonard banter and humour on hand to lighten the mood. My favourite scene is a great inversion of the Stockholm syndrome cliché, with a young Yemenite kidnapped by Rashad quickly bonding with him over their shared hatred of ‘the Man’. Also I love the phrase Alabama Arabian. It reminds me of that great Blues Brothers quote – ‘Illinois Nazis’. Rashad is perplexed by his treatment at the hands of Israeli police and customs agents. He cannot understand why having a Muslim name is a problem in this country. There something absurd about his claiming to be a Muslim, making a living as a contract killer and being completed bemused about the religious conflict in the Middle East.
Fast, snappy and thrilling. This is a great little read.
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Acura RDX Versus the Competition
Which Is Better: Acura RDX or Audi Q5?
The Audi Q5’s ride is similar to that of the RDX, with a mix of athleticism and comfort. Both SUVs also have lots of standard features, good cabin space, and a refined interior. The Audi has more powerful engine options, but the Acura has better steering feedback. The Q5 has an available twin-turbocharged V6 engine, while the RDX only offers a turbocharged four-cylinder. You’ll save money by going with the RDX over the Q5.
Which Is Better: Acura RDX or BMW X3?
The BMW X3 features athletic handling, good steering feedback, and two powerful engine choices. The X3’s base engine is a tad more fuel-efficient, but the RDX’s is slightly more powerful. The Acura features more premium cabin materials and standard features – including heated front seats, a panoramic moonroof, and smartphone integration via Apple CarPlay – at a lower price. These two are close in our luxury compact SUV rankings, so the decision may come down to preference.
RDX Interior
How Many People Does the RDX Seat?
The RDX has seating for up to five people. The seats are comfortable and supportive, even in the second row.
RDX and Child Car Seats
There are two full sets of LATCH car-seat connectors on the RDX's rear outboard seats and an upper tether on the rear middle seat. The middle seat has the ability to borrow from the adjoining lower anchors when they are not in use. For ease of use, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave the system the highest rating of Good+, a rating few vehicles earn. The tether anchors are easy to find and can’t be confused with other hardware.
RDX Interior Quality
The RDX has one of the most refined cabins in the luxury compact SUV class. It's filled with mostly high-quality materials, and reviewers say that even its minimal plastics have a nice feel. Synthetic leather upholstery is standard, and Milano leather upholstery is available.
RDX Cargo Space
The RDX has a good amount of cargo space for the class, with 29.5 cubic feet behind the second-row seats and 58.9 cubic feet with the seats folded down. Every RDX features an under-floor storage compartment.
RDX Infotainment, Bluetooth, and Navigation
The RDX comes with Acura’s 10.2-inch True Touchpad Interface, which has a touchpad controller at the bottom of the center console. The system has a lot of features, but it may take some getting used to.
Standard features include Apple CarPlay, Siri Eyes Free, a Wi-Fi hot spot, satellite radio, a nine-speaker audio system, Bluetooth, two USB ports, and the AcuraLink telematics system. Available features include 12- and 16-speaker ELS audio systems, two additional USB ports, and navigation.
For more information, read What Is Apple CarPlay?
Read more about interior »
RDX Performance
RDX Engine: Good Power, but No Options
A 272-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine propels the RDX. It works well with the 10-speed automatic transmission to deliver quick acceleration. It provides enough muscle for most shoppers, but those looking for a more potent or hybrid engine will have to look elsewhere.
RDX Gas Mileage: Solid Numbers
The RDX earns an EPA-estimated 22 mpg in the city and 28 mpg on the highway, which are above-average estimates for the class.
RDX Ride and Handling: Responsive, Comfortable Ride
It's not the sportiest SUV, but the 2020 RDX boasts confident, poised handling and responsive steering that make it enjoyable to drive. Additionally, the Acura's suspension system helps mitigate bumps in the road.
Read more about performance »
RDX Reliability
Is the Acura RDX Reliable?
The 2020 Acura RDX does not yet have a predicted reliability rating from J.D. Power, but the nearly identical 2019 RDX gets an above-average rating of four out of five.
Acura RDX Warranty
The RDX comes with a four-year/50,000-mile limited warranty and a six-year/70,000-mile powertrain warranty.
Read more about reliability »
RDX Safety
RDX Crash Test Results
The 2020 Acura RDX was named a Top Safety Pick+ by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. It received the highest rating of Good in all six crash tests. Depending on the trim, the RDX's headlights received a rating of Good or a second-best rating of Acceptable for how well they illuminate the road ahead. The RDX earned a top rating of Superior for front crash prevention.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave the 2020 RDX an overall safety rating of five out of five stars. It earned five stars in the side crash test and four stars in the frontal crash and rollover evaluations.
RDX Safety Features
The RDX comes standard with a rearview camera and the AcuraWatch system, which includes forward collision warning, forward automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, road departure mitigation, lane departure warning, and lane keep assist. Available features include blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, front and rear parking sensors, a surround-view parking camera, and a head-up display.
Read more about safety »
Acura RDX Dimensions and Weight
The 2020 RDX measures about 15.6 feet long. Its curb weight ranges from 3,780 to 4,020 pounds.
Where Is the 2020 Acura RDX Built?
Acura builds the 2020 RDX in Ohio.
Which Acura RDX Model Is Right for Me?
The RDX is available in only one trim, and it comes standard with a 272-horsepower turbocharged four-cylinder engine mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission. Front-wheel drive is standard, and all-wheel drive is available for $2,000.
Additional features are available through Acura’s Technology, A-Spec, and Advance packages. The Technology package is a good choice for many shoppers. It adds niceties like genuine leather upholstery, as well as safety features like blind spot monitoring and rear cross traffic alert.
The RDX starts at $37,600 and comes with Acura’s 10.2-inch True Touchpad Interface, satellite radio, a nine-speaker audio system, Bluetooth, two USB ports, Apple CarPlay, Siri Eyes Free, a Wi-Fi hot spot, and the AcuraLink telematics system. It also includes synthetic leather upholstery, heated front seats, 12-way power-adjustable front seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, a moonroof, adaptive cruise control, road departure mitigation, lane departure warning, lane keep assist, forward collision warning, and forward automatic emergency braking.
Acura RDX Technology Package
The starting price of the RDX with the Technology package is $40,800. It adds front and rear parking sensors, blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, a 12-speaker ELS audio system, two additional USB ports, navigation, GPS-linked climate control, and Milano leather upholstery.
Acura RDX A-Spec Package
The RDX with the A-Spec package starts at $43,800. It includes ventilated front seats, performance and styling enhancements, and a 16-speaker ELS audio system.
Acura RDX Advance Package
The RDX with the Advance package has a starting price of $45,700 and includes nearly all of the car's available features, including a heated steering wheel, heated rear outboard seats, 16-way power-adjustable front seats, a surround-view parking camera, and a head-up display.
See 2020 Acura RDX specs and trims »
The high-ranking 2020 Acura RDX is a luxury compact SUV that does it all. It has a balanced ride, a generous list of technology features, and a premium interior at a budget-friendly price.
Don’t just take our word for it. Check out comments from some of the reviews that drive our rankings and analysis.
"The Acura RDX offers something a little different in the small luxury SUV class. It has a lot of available technology features, a well-built interior, excellent ergonomics, and better-than-average cargo and passenger space. There's certainly a lot to like and, feature for feature, it's significantly less expensive than European alternatives." -- Edmunds
"We were surprised by how much we liked the … Acura RDX, quite frankly. It's nice to look at outside, great to live with inside, and thoroughly competent everywhere in between." -- Left Lane News (2019)
"If you want a 5-passenger luxury SUV with standout style, the latest safety features and a wealth of features all at a price that undercuts rivals, turn your attention to the … Acura RDX." -- Kelley Blue Book (2019)
Strong Demand: The Acura RDX was one of the best sellers in the luxury compact SUV segment, just behind the German trio- the Mercedes-Benz GLC, Audi Q5, and BMW X3. It was also the top seller in Acura’s lineup. Dealerships sold about the same number of RDX models in 2019 compared to 2018.
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New Repertoire/Commissions
Music by Thomas Åberg
Carson Cooman has championed the music of Swedish composer Thomas Åberg (b. 1952) and has made recordings of a number of his organ compositions.
An extended biographical essay by Carson Cooman, Thomas Åberg: Perspectives on His Life and Work, may be read here.
Below are links to many recordings of Åberg organ works.
Two CD releases are available:
Legends in the Garden (Soundspells #CD137) contains recordings of:
Marsch Babacou (1983); I Folkton (Swedish Folktune) (1990); Swedenborg Piece No. 1, “The Clock” (2004); Swedenborg Piece No. 2, “Time goes…” (2005); In the Garden: Dew-drops (1999); In the Garden: Frosty Morning (1999); In the Garden: Rainy Day (2002); Five Miniatures (1984); Legend No. 1 (1985); Postlude (1984); Legend No. 6 (2010); Låt fran Tånum (Melody from Tanum) (1997); Legend No. 3 (1985); Toccata No. 3 (1982)
A Marvelous Love (Albany #TROY1357) contains a recording of:
Fantasy in A minor (1980)
In addition to the works recorded on CD, Carson has recorded numerous pieces by Åberg that can be listened to online at Contrebombarde Concert Hall (CCH), or YouTube (full playlist), or downloaded as MP3 files.
Angelic Meditation (2018)
Published by Svensk Musik (SMIC)
CCH / YouTube / MP3
Autumn (2005)
Cantilène (1979)
Published by Noteria
Christmas Night Prelude (2007)
The Cuckoo (1985)
Den Gode Herden (The Good Shepherd) (1985)
Dreams (1976/80)
Elegy (1984; Version A)
Elegy (1984; Version B)
Evening Sonata (2013)
Fanfare to Bethany Lutheran Church (2015)
Fantasistycke (1993/2013)
CCH / YouTube
Fantasy on a Theme of Johann Pachelbel (1985)
Festival Voluntary (1994)
See also a live performance from the 2014 La Verna International Organ Festival
I Folkton (1990)
In modo elegiaco (1987)
In the Garden: Frosty Morning (1999)
Jubelpreludium “In dulci jubilo” (2007)
Klockorna i By (The Bells in the Village) (1985)
Legend No. 2 (1985)
YouTube / MP3
Lento (1984)
Liten svit för kammarorgel (Small Suite for Chamber Organ) (1985)
1) Preludium; 2) Scherzando; 3) Allegro furioso; 4) Adagio; 5) Final
Marsch Babacou (1983)
Meditation (1989)
Meditation on “Children of the Heavenly Father” (Tryggare kan ingen vara) (2007)
Published by Svensk Musik (SMIC) (free download from Åberg website)
Organ Suite No. 3: Prelude (1983, rev. 2012)
Orrr… (1996)
Postlude (1984)
Prelude in C major (1983)
Ranae pusille (1984, rev. 2010)
Sinfonietta: Cantilena (1994)
Sonatina No. 1 (1986)
1) Allegro; 2) Adagio; 3) Finale
1) Allegro; 2) Intermezzo; 3) Finale
Sunday Sonata (2000)
Swedenborg Piece No. 1, “The Clock” (2004)
Swedenborg Piece No. 2, “Time goes…” (2005)
Swedish Wedding Music No. 1 (1985; version for large organ)
Swedish Wedding Music No. 1 (1985; version for small organ)
Swedish Wedding Music No. 2, “Seglora kyrkmarsch” (2004)
Symphony (1981–82)
Tender Moments I (2001)
Tender Moments II (2001)
Tre Böner (Three Prayers) (1984)
Three Short Fantasy Pieces (1978–79)
1) Daylight; 2) Wartet auf (“Waiting for…”); 3) Pluie d’orage sur Saint-Louis (“Thunderstorm over Saint Louis”)
Three St. George Preludes (1983)
Toccata No. 1 (Toccata on a Summer Morning) (1981)
Toccata No. 2 (1982)
Toccata No. 4, “Hommage à Stig Gustav Schönberg” (1983)
Toccata No. 6, “Sancta Clara” (1984)
Toccata No. 10 (1988)
Toccata e ostinato (1993)
Waiting for Astor… (2003)
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Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque burns at the same time as fire engulfs Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris https://trib.al/YSgw72e
Tweeted by Newsweek on April 15, 2019 at 9:10 PM
@Unionhawk how many people would it take to pull apart a luxury car into multiple <$750 parts given to each person, to then be re-assembled
@Memor-X i think the reassembly is going to be where most of the cost goes
Man suing parents for $86,000 for throwing out his porn collection http://hill.cm/Lg3dZEA
Tweeted by thehill on April 16, 2019 at 2:07 AM
> His father responded by saying he destroyed the pornography collection for his son’s “mental and emotional health.”
“I would have done the same if I had found a kilo of crack cocaine,” the father reportedly wrote. “Someday, I hope you will understand.”
i could understand the first part but you could have had a talk instead. the second bit however is just dumb because (most) porn is not illegal unlike crack
La rosace est sauvée ! #NotreDame #NotreDameDeParis
Tweeted by bougetoneglise on April 16, 2019 at 5:56 AM
Honestly, while it's obviously been a massive blow to the French Spirit, there has been a sizeable silver lining: the priceless art and relics have been saved, the walls are still standing and serviceable and apparently even the rose window has been saved. It's going to take a while to rebuild, but it could have been a lot worse
Maybe the catholic church is going to spend some of it's enormous fortune to keep it in proper shape now
> Two of the country’s richest tycoons pledged millions to the fund. François Pinault, the head of Kering, which owns fashion labels including Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen and Gucci, pledged €100m from his family’s fortune.
Shortly afterwards, Bernard Arnault, the owner of the group Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy declared he would donate €200m.
lol... they're outdonating one another..
Tim Stone
Since the summer of 2017, a handful of high-profile men accused of sexual misconduct in the tech industry lost their jobs. Most of those men now have new ones. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/tech-men-accused-sexual-misconduct-new-jobs-metoo
Tweeted by RMac18 on April 16, 2019 at 12:07 PM
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT: Man charged with throwing 5-year-old boy off 3rd-floor balcony at Mall of America told police he was angry at being rejected by women at the mall & was "looking for someone to kill" - http://2wsb.tv/2Gn9rpI
Tweeted by wsbtv on April 15, 2019 at 8:09 PM
@TimStone oh what would make this worse is if he started identifying himself as an incel
And here we see the convergence of the right’s racist obsession with Ilhan Omar and their dangerous conspiratorial fixation on the idea the cathedral fire must have been an arson.
Tweeted by ztsamudzi on April 16, 2019 at 11:47 AM
starting to think that the right hates her because of racism reasons
@TimStone jfc
Humanity was a mistake
@Memor-X I think he already did that.
@Unionhawk what? you thought it wasn't?
@Yuuki dam it, and here i was hoping that he was just a prick, not a stupid prick
Glenn Beck speculates on the Notre Dame fire: "If this was started by Islamists, I don't think you'll find out about it." https://t.co/Yvq5iRdUCw
Tweeted by JasonSCampbell on April 16, 2019 at 1:18 AM
Oh joy, we went to "abscence of evidence is evidence that brown people did it" territory"
Guuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Immediately even, just skipping all the steps in between so we can be racist conspiracy 'theorists'
@Nzall Occam's Razor suggests it was just an accident related to the renovation tools and materials.
zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/… yikes lol
@MBraedley I don't doubt that at all. This is just a tragedy, and I'm fairly sure that Glenn Beck is wrong in this case. Remember, France has had like a dozen Islamic Terror attacks 3 years ago. If they had any evidence that this was caused by Islamic Terrorists, you'd be damn sure they're going to use that
I stand with the millions who suffered horribly in French colonies, and whose wealth was stolen to build this monstrosity. https://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman/status/1117899272819593216
Tweeted by nopidgeon on April 16, 2019 at 5:01 AM
I think John here needs a bit of a History Lesson
Oh? How so?
@Kevin The Notre Dame was built in the 13th century. France didn't have any colonies in those days
Hmmm, well that's a good reason!
@Kevin It's like responding to a hypothetical fire in the Washington Capitol with "I stand with the millions who suffered horribly as a result of the Korean War"
@Nzall Or more historically accurate burning of the White House during the War of 1812 with "I stand with the millions who suffered horribly as a result of the Bay of Pigs invasion"
@MBraedley I don't think that quite works.
Or Civil War. That might be more apt
Still doesn't quite work.
The construction has to take place before the atrocity but the burning takes place after.
@Yuuki ah, fair.
There was another war between the revolution and War of 1812, right?
@MBraedley White House was built in 1790-1800 apparently
List of wars involving the United States
This is a list of wars fought by the United States of America. == 18th-century wars == == 19th-century wars == == 20th-century wars == == 21st-century wars == == See also == Military history Timeline of United States military operations United States involvement in regime change List of ongoing armed conflicts == References == == External links == Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research (HIIK) Conflict Barometer – Describes recent trends in conflict development, escalations, and settlements A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War, Center for Greater Southwest...
There's not a lot of time between the White House construction and the War of 1812 for there to be an appropriate simile.
Only things that apply are the Whiskey Rebellion, the Quasi-War, the First Barbary War, the 1811 German Coast uprising and Tecumseh's War.
I think of those, Tecumseh's war has the right timeframe and also a similar "white people oppress non-whites" feeling
Tecumseh's War pretty much became part of the War of 1812 though.
Anyways, point is that yes colonialism is/was a terrible thing and it is right to protest it. But also, do some research before you decide to grandstand.
@Nzall guess that means Trump is a Russian Lizardman and the son of Grand Lizard Putin
Side note, it's a bit weird to me that some people's attachment to Notre Dame lies solely through The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Assassin's Creed: Unity.
I have never been to france, but I did read the hunchback. I guess it's not that surprising for me.
I don't mean in the sense that "I've never been to Notre Dame in person but I did watch the Hunchback".
But more like "Notre Dame only has value to me because it appears in this game I played".
puzzlepiece87
Bernie Sanders got to call Trump a pathological liar in a Fox town hall and wasn't even challenged by the moderators? Nice, I like it.
Was this before or after they asked the crowd who would like Medicare For All?
I've been having an extremely fun time over the last several hours considering a unitedhealthcare or whatever CEO watching a fox crowd be flat out excited by the possibility of replacing their employer healthcare
after they've spent however much money on "well, you won't have your insurance anymore"
an upper middle manager bursting through the mahogany door of that guy's office "sir, you're going to need to see this"
@Yuuki After based on Conor Friedersdorf's review of the event, but I didn't watch it.
@Unionhawk That is a fun scene :)
@puzzlepiece87 That's probably for the best.
A judge just heard args in BuzzFeed and @JasonLeopold's FOIA request for the Mueller report. Judge denied request for an injunction to have the report produced under FOIA by 4/18 — judge wants to wait and see what gets released by AG Barr on Thursday and go from there
Tweeted by ZoeTillman on April 16, 2019 at 6:32 PM
Thread has more info
"Let Maduro and his cronies worry about what that means," concludes the senior administration official speaking about #Venezuela.
Tweeted by W7VOA on April 16, 2019 at 4:37 PM in reply to W7VOA
(re need for transition of power)
Uhhh actually maybe we should all worry about what that means? idk
I for one find it Really Funny that they had no plan b for "what if the opposition leader only manages to get 50 guys"
well they're working on plan b but it's going to be "continue to push their economy until it breaks" etc
@Unionhawk this admin is great at hiring people that don't think beyond step 1
don't worry they got seth adams or whoever on the case now, ready to roll out the "smuggle arms in 'humanitarian aid'" playbook oh what's that everybody knows about that now
because it's a thing we've done many times
yeah step 2 is "let's figure out what we did during that 70s/80s and try it again"
(it was "fund right wing death squads")
@Yuuki ah, that's obviously fucked up.
It's a very important historic place.
Or, was.
Still is, the structure is still mostly there.
And the Rose Windows are all intact.
@Nzall also no one died
@TimStone I should figure out how to make a button that adds a self-updating "Time is a flat circle" quote.
NEW: The beleaguered military tribunals at Guantanamo suffered another major blow Monday as a federal appeals court voided 3 years of rulings in USS Cole case from a military judge who was seeking job as an immigration judge. A blistering ruling on ethics https://politi.co/2ZfeEY1
Tweeted by joshgerstein on April 16, 2019 at 7:51 PM
Not a single human being gave to embattled Rep. Chris Collins campaign this cycle Via @lachlan https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-chris-collins-campaign-did-not-receive-a-donation-from-a-human-being-this-cycle
Tweeted by samstein on April 16, 2019 at 7:44 PM
Who knew doing finance crimes would mean people wouldn't trust you with money?
#Ecuador president #LeninMoreno tells me #JulianAssange smeared the walls of the embassy with feces and that is why they revoked his asylum. The #WikiLeaks leader exhausted their tolerance, the president told me @BBCBreaking
Tweeted by BBCJonSopel on April 16, 2019 at 8:33 PM
High quality photos from inside the Notre Dame cathedral
It's better than I hoped, especially after this was posted:
yesterday, by Ash
They're saying all teh stained glass is gone and there won't be much if anything left of the frame
@TimStone yeh, painting the walls shit brown tends to do that
CEO Jack Dorsey said Twitter is looking to change the focus from following specific individuals to topics of interest, acknowledging that what's incentivized today on the platform is at odds with the goal of healthy dialogue https://www.axios.com/how-jack-dorsey-plans-to-change-twitter-60f0e69c-808a-429d-93c6-6335ea1a38c3.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100
Tweeted by axios on April 16, 2019 at 4:24 PM
truly the worst ideas come from this man
they probably heard that the chinese version of twitter has the topics feature and want to copy it but in a completely awful way
A few days ago, I shared a video of a woman that threatened to call ICE on the owners of a taco truck that was operating in her neighborhood. In response community members brought a mariachi band in front of her home. Fight hate with love & tacos. https://t.co/ddyDc8jzbl
Tweeted by sahluwal on April 16, 2019 at 5:15 PM
@GodEmperorDune no thank you.
@GodEmperorDune we see you are interested in: POLITIC, allow us to curate content related to that <it's just ben shapiro>
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Descent: Journeys in the Dark
How Imperial Assault can change Descent?
By Beren Eoath, August 25, 2014 in Descent: Journeys in the Dark
Beren Eoath 48
I wanted to share some differences between IA and Descent. For me the biggest question is can some of the rules from IA be used in Descent via house rules? And can IA have a huge impact on Descent, how the game works or the future of this line?
Ok, so let's start with diferences betwen both this games based on the annoucments and demos from GenCon 2014.
Changes in Imperial Assault comparing to Descent:
no Overlord deck
Threat is back and a round counter is added
Threat is the mechanic for reinforcements, the Overlord need to have the same value of threat as the cost of a monster he want's to summon. Each enemy group has now a threat cost that must be paid by the Overlord to put that group back on the map. The same goes for really big big/hard enemies for example Darth Vader has a threat cost of 18 and a Stromtrooper just 6
no X on the attack dice, so no miss
on the defense dice are symbols that cancel surge and one symbol dodge that cancels all damage
LoS rules are better because now You need to trace two lines from one corner to two corners of the target space, the line must be strait an can’t pass through blacked squares (in Descent You needed only one such line to say that You see the target)
a player can use only 2 strain (stamina) for extra movement
there are only 3 skills (in Descent there are 4: Knowledge, Might, Willpower, Awareness) and the test are now made with attack dice
Endurance is the new healing/rest mechanic. You can use Rest action to get back Strain (in Descent Stamina) equal to your Endurance, each point above heals 1 point of Health
scaling and balance is now done by giving players more activations. So if the Overlord has more enemy groups then heroes the heroes get to activate more times
there is no Overlord turn and then Heroes turn. The Heroes get to activate one hero and then Overlord activates one of him monster groups, then another hero activates and once again the Overlord one monster group, and so on until all heroes activate. After that the a game round ends. Still at the activation You can do 2 actions similar to D2e
at the beginning of each round the Overlord moves the turn dial and get Threat (also on a dial)
each Hero has his abilities listed on his Hero sheet, on the other side is a wounded Hero
each time a Hero get’s KO he changes his hero sheet to the wounded site (it has one less ability). If a Hero is KO for the second time he is removed from the mission and can come back in another one.
Heroes win quests by completing mission objectives, Overlord wins by removing all Heroes from the mission (maybe also has some objectives - I do not know)
there are no archetypes but every Hero has his own class and a deck of advances
each Hero has his own personal mission that can be added to every campaign and by completing it he get a personal special item
items in search deck have now credit value and cannot be traded with other Heroes
all about the missions knows only the Overlord. He knows what is behind what door and what awaits the Heroes on every map. Heroes only know what objective to complete.
there are two modes of play campaign (one shot missions) or skirmish where two players will build their group and take an objective card to fulfill
each fraction in the game, so also each figure, has a special skirmish card with stats and cost of taking into a group. You build your team by gathering units that you want from one fraction (in core set there are: Rebels, Imperial and Scums/Bounty Hunters) using the amount of points that you have. For example before the game you say that every player has 50 points and base on that he spends them to build a team for skirmish. Also every team has a customisable tactic deck
there will be Ally and Villain packs similar to Descent’s Lieutenants but You will get a figure, a mission that can be added to every campaign, a card for skirmish game and a special mission objective for skirmish
there will be also campaigns boxes, the model of publishing will be similar to Descent
Do You all think that some of those rules changes can be used in Descent via house rules? Becouse I think that some of those are cool like LoS rule, the rule for KO Heroes (1st time he flips his sheet for the site without heroic Feat , 2nd time his out of a quest). but that all would need to be playtested becouse those could break the balance even more but just for fun I'm planing to try it.
How can IA impact Descent for official releases?
Hmm, I see the potential of some rule changes or for new ways of play. I can see Descent going into a different direction then Imperial Assault to give players other ways to play with a different feeling. Maybe Descent will more focus on solo/co-op play when IA will have his skirmish.
Carbini 80
Number 19 is what interests me the most. I'm sure they have something planned but I'm wondering how the replayability is with that. If it is something like an advanced form of "Influence" from SoN that would be interesting.
The biggest thing they've got is that Descent was basically the experiment. You can see some of the design elements changed in Decent expansions after they realized they made slips here and there. One of the most noticeable for me is that ALL new rumor quests cards give the victory to the OL if you don't attempt them. I see why, and I still don't think it's the perfect fix to rumors, but it's a step forward and I'm thinking of house-ruling it for all rumor quest cards (if we don't see it in the next FAQ that is).
Edited August 25, 2014 by Carbini
voidreturn 816
I never played it, but people have told me that many of these elements were taken from Descent 1e (hidden quest information, threat, reinforcements, large monster movement, etc). That means that they tested some of these elements in D2e and found that 1e may have worked better.
Honestly, I just want to see them better balance the power creep as the campaign progresses.
Zaltyre 1,669
A good number of the changes to IA do indeed sounds like a swing back to more of D1e. Having not played it myself I can't offer any strong opinions, but I know a good number of players who appreciate the variety in OL objective rather than "kill all the heroes."
That being said, mechanically, some of these things have already been discussed on these forums even before the announcement of IA, like more limited knowledge of quests for heroes, and the use of a value system for summoning monsters, rather than the straight counting of D2e.
Some of these things (like the LOS rules) wouldn't be that hard to house rule into D2e. Other things like the quest guide knowledge would be quite difficult. I think the alternating hero player/monster group activation is interesting, but in order to house rule a D2e mode that plays with that, there would need to be serious consideration for how to change a lot of OL cards that activate at start of turn, or end of turn, or are in effect "during your turn" or "until the start of your next turn." Since heroes would still only be able to activate once per round, I don't think it would actually change any of the timing language of hero abilities.
Also, just because they would be interesting D2e variants doesn't mean they should necessarily be implemented. D2e is a different (though remarkably similar) game than IA, and things that work for one might not work for the other. Furthermore, the updates from D2e to IA don't suggest that those changes were mistakes to alter from D1e, just that IA is intended to have a different feel.
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Steve-O 472
I suspect it has more to do with fan feedback than with testing in-house. The system for D2E is reasonably well balanced as-is, but there are definitely some people who have been complaining about the lack of exploration, or how reinforcements come in, etc.
I agree that they are experimenting with variations on the core mechanic to find something that hopefully appeals to more people, but I suspect the motivation is external more than internal. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, either - the more refined the system becomes, the better it will be.
However, incorporating some of the above changes into Descent (officially) would probably mean 3rd edition, rather than an expansion.
I agree, this would be nice. I think the problem here is mostly one of granularity. It was a problem in D1E as well, and it's still a problem in D2E. There just aren't enough different things that can be advanced, so power levels jump up quickly.
Interesting. So "missing" is moved to the defense roll rather than the attack roll. That makes sense.
I think LoS rules are largely flavour to taste. I don't have any objection to the D2E system (although I certainly have house-ruled some silly corner cases.) I also didn't have any objection to D1E center-to-center rules.
This new one looks like a good way to introduce cover mechanics, to me. Penalty if you can only draw one line, no penalty if can draw 2. I don't know if that's how it works or not, but that's the value I see in drawing two lines rather than one.
It will be very interesting to see how this impacts game play in IA. Fatigue movement is a huge part of the hero strategy in Descent. Doom didn't have any fatigue at all, and it was a lot harder to cover ground, which made missions with time limits a lot harder.
I like this. Could be house-ruled into Descent by adding an Endurance trait to each hero. I think this works well with the new KO rules to re-introduce player elimination without making it too easy to eliminate a hero. Are the revival rules the same, though? I don't see them listed as a difference.
Interesting. Actions are the primary economy of the game, so this change will probably have significant impact on how things play out. Monster groups with many units will be inherently powerful for letting the OL activate more figures at once, but they will also presumably be weaker figures. An interesting factor to influence the "zombies suck" conundrum.
Obviously a result of fan feedback. I'm not saying I mind, of course. =P
I doubt the overlord has mission objectives (other than "stop the heroes") if the entire map is not revealed at start. The overlord would be unable to take action towards his goal as long as it remained hidden, otherwise. I suppose there might be objectives involving the overlord getting monsters into the hero start area, but it would basically have to be something that begins in play for the quest.
Do You all think that some of those rules changes can be used in Descent via house rules?
For sure. Some would be easier than others, of course, but dedicated fans will always find a way.
I don't see FFG trying to incorporate too many of these rules into Descent officially. At least, not until 3rd edition. =P
mulletcheese 669
22 really good reasons to buy IA.
The bits they brought back from 1st edition have been enhanced, I'm very impressed with the changes they have made.. even though we haven't seen the full rules yet.
D1e had the win condition built into the rules, which is why all the quests had the same win condition. D2e had the win condition built into the quest but "kill the hero's" wasn't allowed by the rules. IA has "kill the hero's" back on the menu but I doubt that ffg will make the mistake of fixing the win condition in the rules. Like everything else it's the best of both worlds.
Just because we've only seen quests with hidden information doesn't mean that all quests will have to be that way. IA will have more scope for quest design than D2e.
It may start as "imperial assault" but at some point it will go into empire strikes back mode and the hero's will play empire vs a single rebel player. Or empire/rebel vs scum.
descent was about good vs evil, IA is about factions. It will allow for the kind of role reversal that descent never could.
rugal 421
Personnaly, only the 3 looks like really cool to me. Since descent V2 was out, I regret something like that wasn't implemented and reinforcement were so in advantage of big monsters. But the threat system back would be boring. Something like "1 point of reinforcement is equal to this number of monster, depending on their number/power". For example, a giant, an hybrid sentinel, 3 zombies, 4 kobolds, etc...
All other points are useless to me. 1 being the worst possible, 11 strange and useless brainstorming
I hope no other "ideas" would be implemented. The cool thing would be a new defense die, one who could cancel surge, pierce, or things like that;
I agree with you on point 1, that's why I said there was only 22 good reasons.
I quite like number 11, each monster group only gets activated once a round so the only thing that's changed is the order of activation. I think it adds new tactical decisions to the game and possibly some better designed quests.
I do not agree on you on the other 22 points;
the 23 being star wars ! I don't like how the game is made, so I would be happy if descent stays what it is.
Indalecio 381
1- no Overlord deck:
So where do the OL abilities come from if not from a pool of cards you can purchase? I like decks, I like puchasing/drafting cards, I like the semi-unkown factor the heroes have upon planning their actions (semi because they know what is in my deck but not necessarly my hand). If this is gone then it better has to be replaced by a mechanism equally satisfying, otherwise I can only see this as a major nerf to the OL's capabilties to challenge the heroes in a quest.
If they say each monster group has its own deck of cards then I can see it as being a potential replacement to the OL classes, although I really like the ability to specialize myself in a skill tree as the OL and gather generic cards rather than relying entirely on the monsters' abilities. I would really miss that opportunity.
Some of my (hero) players say that the OL deck is one of the best thing in the game in terms of how much tension and calculation it forces them to make.From my perspective as the OL, these cards are my everything.
3- Threat is the mechanic for reinforcements, the Overlord need to have the same value of threat as the cost of a monster he want's to summon. Each enemy group has now a threat cost that must be paid by the Overlord to put that group back on the map. The same goes for really big big/hard enemies for example Darth Vader has a threat cost of 18 and a Stromtrooper just 6
Sounds like a very good idea to implement in Descent for open group reinforcements, but in most quests I would prefer to keep the quest's own settings for theme purpose.
4- no X on the attack dice, so no miss
That's weird. An attack should always have a slight chance to miss, unless it is clearly stated to ignore X because the attack is automatically a hit. Or maybe blasters and light sabers always find their way through? Makes no sense in Descent anyway.
5- on the defense dice are symbols that cancel surge and one symbol dodge that cancels all damage
Really great idea. I don't see any problem managing 10+ sorts of attack dices and 10+ sorts of defense dices, like at all, on the contrary I think it would be awesome as it would provide so much variety to combat. A counter to Pierce would be nice to have as well, on top of the anti-surge or anti-damage ones. Heck, one side of a defense die could even be: "you fumbled terribly, add +2 damage to the attack", likewise on an attack die "you suffer 1 damage due to your sword boucning back to you". Why not?
6- LoS rules are better because now You need to trace two lines from one corner to two corners of the target space, the line must be strait an can’t pass through blacked squares (in Descent You needed only one such line to say that You see the target)
Sounds way overcomplicated to me. I fail to see what's plain "better". I'm neither for or against it, I admit the rules in Descent are sometimes weird to apply, but this double line thingy seems like it's going to drain some more time when playing quests. Descent is not a simulation, it's an arcade-like game. Who cares, really.
7- a player can use only 2 strain (stamina) for extra movement
Great idea. I was thinking about limiting this kind use of stamina in our games but as you can expect my heroes don't really agree with my proposal
8- there are only 3 skills (in Descent there are 4: Knowledge, Might, Willpower, Awareness) and the test are now made with attack dice
I like the fact we have 4 in Descent. I think it balances well with the OL class cards and the quest mechanisms which constantly ask the heroes to test one or several of them. Not sure what decreasing this number to 3 would bring to the game, I don't think it would simplify anything in practice. Thematically, the 4 we have is good as it is and I like the symmetry between the values and the hero classes, even if said figure varies from hero to hero.
About using attack dices: for what reason are defense dices not good enough?
9- Endurance is the new healing/rest mechanic. You can use Rest action to get back Strain (in Descent Stamina) equal to your Endurance, each point above heals 1 point of Health
I like this a lot. I would implement this right away if I could.
10- scaling and balance is now done by giving players more activations. So if the Overlord has more enemy groups then heroes the heroes get to activate more times
That's a weird way to achieve balance in a game. Sounds like a major nerf to the OL. So basically there is no point in bringing in more monsters because Han Solo is going to shoot 12 times during the same round? Seriously? So if the OL ever has the upper hand, it is automatically negated by granting heroes more activations? I may be missing something but that sounds horrible to me.
Let me bring a new game to you. If I'm winning, I'm winning. if you're winning, then there is a rule that nerfs that so I can win in the end. Riiiiight...
11- there is no Overlord turn and then Heroes turn. The Heroes get to activate one hero and then Overlord activates one of him monster groups, then another hero activates and once again the Overlord one monster group, and so on until all heroes activate. After that the a game round ends. Still at the activation You can do 2 actions similar to D2e
So over the course of two "game rounds", a monster can very well activate twice between the activations of one given hero?
I think it is very confusing, and potentially breaks the planning potential of the heroes, making every action reactive at best. There is no more sequencing like, you shoot and run, then I rest and Radiant Light the corridor and finally Scout runs between the corpses for the search token. Instead of that OL can throw more monsters into the corridor between the activations so the scout cannot reach the search token any longer. It forces you to attack more because the only way to achieve anything is when the path is clear to 100%. Me not like at all.
14- each time a Hero get’s KO he changes his hero sheet to the wounded site (it has one less ability). If a Hero is KO for the second time he is removed from the mission and can come back in another one.
So the prime purpose for the OL is to kill the heroes instead of going for objectives. What a disaster.
I don't like either the fact heroes in Descent are immortal, but I don't care in reality. It makes for some balance in the game. I think all players should be in the game at all times instead of being removed from it. Thematically, heroes could well revive at a spawnpoint or bonfire of some sort. Who cares!
But I get that in IA heroes are really powerful and can't be killed as easily, unlike in Descent (err... I guess?). So no, I give this a pass.
15- Heroes win quests by completing mission objectives, Overlord wins by removing all Heroes from the mission (maybe also has some objectives - I do not know)
Yeah, that sucks balls.
16- there are no archetypes but every Hero has his own class and a deck of advances
Fantasy probably needs archetypes more than sci-fi. I wouldn't mind if each hero had his/her own set of abilities. On the other hand each hero will automatically embrace a certain role, and what better way to define this role by dedicating skills to it and call it a class. It's a question about the form.
Archetypes is not a problem in Descent, combined with personal hero skills plus equipment which makes the Hero truly unique in every way.
17- each Hero has his own personal mission that can be added to every campaign and by completing it he get a personal special item
That's kind of cool, except that it reminds me too much about Rumor quests, which are currently broken in Descent.
18- items in search deck have now credit value and cannot be traded with other Heroes1
Why???? Makes no sense at all.
Leaves the impression that because heroes look so overpowered in this game, something ridiculous had to be implemented in order to restrict their capabilities?
19- all about the missions knows only the Overlord. He knows what is behind what door and what awaits the Heroes on every map. Heroes only know what objective to complete.
I prefer the Descent 2E way of handling the map along with the open information WAY over this. I fail to see why the "action" in a game should be restricted to where the heroes are. Some monsters are in motion somewhere else and do stuff, how do you represent this if you're not allowed to reveal these sections of the dungeon?
So yeah, 3.5/23 from me. The rest I did not comment in this post is classified as being "whatever, man".
Not impressed. If some people see this as the renewal of Descent then feel free to switch, dudes. I can see that the few things I like about these spoilers I could well house rule in Descent without the need of a D3E to be released. Well, not the dices maybe, lol. But yeah, I mean, it doesn't feel to me like Descent is getting outshadowed by Imperial Assault at all in terms of gameplay, considering the information I have so far. Sounds to me like Imperial Assault is a worse game in comparison with the above points in mind, but that the fuzz about it and its franchise made people overlook the gameplay.
I realize it cannot be in FFG's intention to make Descent obsolete, but looking at the posts on these forums and on BGG, it looks like many players already want to dismiss D2E for IA, or even D1E. Which I find absurd.
Edited August 28, 2014 by Indalecio
I agree. It's strange to me how many people seem to prefer the D1e mechanics over D2e. Most of the posts I've seen praising IA equate to, "it's more like D1e than D2e, awesome!" Personally, I appreciate the simplicity that D2e brings to many of the mechanics, and especially the variety in OL quest objectives beyond "just kill the heroes." IA has some inventive elements, and I don't see a problem with some of them being house-rule incorporated into D2e (I mean, house rules are house rules, do whatever you want.) For example, resting- it would be a really simple house rule to say that when you rest, you recover fatigue equal to your stamina (already the case) but that excess fatigue recovered heals 1 wound per fatigue. However, many other aspects of IA introduce a level of complexity that is counter-productive to what it seems D2e set out to be as a board game.
I think the major attraction to this game for many people is 2 fold:
1) STAR WARS!!!!
2) STAR WARS!!!
While I like the penalty of getting knocked down and the LOS changes, the other changes are mediocre.
Hiding the quest will only work the first time. Just killing the heroes will get boring. Overlord turns will take forever again. No OL deck really nerfs the OL.
Seems like it'll be really boring for the OL and tons of fun for the heroes. How long will it last before a group runs out of players willing to be the OL player?
griton 119
4. no X on the attack dice, so no miss
5. on the defense dice are symbols that cancel surge and one symbol dodge that cancels all damage
This is one of the more interesting features, IMO.
6. LoS rules are better because now You need to trace two lines from one corner to two corners of the target space, the line must be strait an can’t pass through blacked squares (in Descent You needed only one such line to say that You see the target)
"better" is subjective. It's now also more complex. Remember that LoS (just as all other rules) are just models for attacks, and there are trade-offs with every different model. (I'm not necessarily disagreeing as I think it does improve some of the fiddly cases, but I still think it's subjective and my thought on it is just my opinion.)
10. scaling and balance is now done by giving players more activations. So if the Overlord has more enemy groups then heroes the heroes get to activate more times
I may have misunderstood this from the demo, but I believe it was just that the heroes collectively get 4, independent of the number of heroes, not one per monster group. This may also have been clarified somewhere that I haven't seen.
19. all about the missions knows only the Overlord. He knows what is behind what door and what awaits the Heroes on every map. Heroes only know what objective to complete.
I have never understood why this is considered a good thing in a competitive game. It just takes away from the replay value because if it's balanced the 1st time, then the heroes have an advantage the 2nd time around, or if one of the players is also an overlord with another group. It also puts rules interpretations squarely on the shoulders of a single individual, and we pretty much all know how many times rules questions come up in FFG games, and I doubt IA will be significantly improved in that regard.
This is great for storytelling games that aren't competitive, which is perhaps what they are doing with the campaign mode and providing skirmish mode as the competitive aspect. It would explain some of the concerns people have with the heroes having an easier time in the quests than it looks like they should (in the Descent paradigm).
Not necessarily. They may have felt that it was a better fit for the paradigm / overall system for IA, but that the current rules for Descent 2e are still a better fit for Descent 2e. You have to be really careful when looking at individual, isolated changes and not taking the whole system into account. (e.g. D1 LoS or stacking Blast in D2 would change things drastically because of things like the reduced map size.)
9. Endurance is the new healing/rest mechanic. You can use Rest action to get back Strain (in Descent Stamina) equal to your Endurance, each point above heals 1 point of Health
Improved self-healing is something you often see when you don't have dedicated healers (the way D2 does). I did see some healing in the demo I watched, but it did seem like it was a side-benefit to an ability, not the focus of the character. I also believe the "Endurance trait" is the equivalent to the Stamina value in Descent, so a new value wouldn't be needed.
As far as integrating this into Descent, I think it'd only work if you were playing a game without a dedicated healer. I think it would also require the more strict knock-down rules that IA has, though (twice down and you're out) to maintain that balance. In IA, overhealing to stay topped off is going to be a decent strategy to make sure you don't risk getting knocked down, because the penalty is much higher than it is in Descent.
11. there is no Overlord turn and then Heroes turn. The Heroes get to activate one hero and then Overlord activates one of him monster groups, then another hero activates and once again the Overlord one monster group, and so on until all heroes activate. After that the a game round ends. Still at the activation You can do 2 actions similar to D2e
If this is the case (I'm not 100% certain it is), this really just puts more emphasis on fewer, more powerful (higher cost) groups because if you only have one group, it gets to go every time a hero goes. Unlike in Descent where groups try to be balanced between each other (with strengths towards different situations) by adjusting the number of figures, IA clearly has "this group/figure is more powerful than this other one, and we denote that by its cost".
Remember that dice rolls are just a model and the "slight chance of being a miss" in IA is also factored into "defense (which isn't always considered physical armor) being greater than damage". I actually quite like this change as it removes that "ugh, my die rolls always suck" negative feeling from the attacker to a positive feeling on the side of the defender. It also is balanced by the rather significantly improved self-healing that everyone (or at least every hero) has.
It's a different paradigm. In Descent, almost every test is the same (Silver + Black, roll under your attribute value). Modifying this can be a little clunky (subtract/add one shield, change the dice) or boring (increase/decrease attribute value), and there's not really a good way to determine levels of success.
In IA, you have things like Might and Tech (I'm not sure what the 3rd one is) and each attribute is listed with dice. In the example I saw, the test required you to roll one surge to succeed. I'm not sure if that's the case with all attribute tests, but it definitely doesn't have to be as you could be required to build up to multiple successes (multiple surges, which can be done with different rolls or all on the same roll), or you could have tests that require damage symbols, or combinations of multiple symbols. To me, this makes for a much wider variety of not just skill levels, but skill tests, especially with different dice having different symbol distributions. So a skill of 1 Green die might be different than a skill of 1 yellow die, but they aren't necessarily stronger or weaker than the other; it just depends on the test being made.
I still see zero reason to switch defense dices to attack dices when it comes to testing attributes. Why make such simple and effective mechanism complicated by using a three-symbol dice when there are already equipment pieces, skills and whatnot modifying the test result? Is attribute testing all of a sudden perceived as being too straight forward? What is wrong with it, I wonder?
I largely prefer the simplicity of the defense dices over the presumed variety of the attack dices bearing in mind what the latter brings to the game, which is basically stone nothing unless you want to masturbate with the idea of another unnecessary calculation in the game. One of my core expectations of the game is for it to be relatively fast paced so I would really find it dreadful to be stuck on a freaking dice roll every time we need to calculate the dice pool of the target. This is one of these things, along many other points concerning IA where I can only contemplate and ask "why? what does it bring to the game?"
It would also make decisions for purchasing/playing attribute-related OL cards impossible to make. At this point why not rolling a D6 to see if said card succeeded or not. That seems infinitely superior to slowing the game down for something that should remain a basic thing to do.
Edited September 3, 2014 by Indalecio
I disagree that Descent's skill checks are more straightforward than IA's. With new or returning players, one of the most common questions is along the lines of "Ok, you just said to test X, what does that involve again?" or "Tests are done with which dice? Where is that info?" Whereas in IA, you tell them to test their attribute and they can see on their sheet what dice they roll for it, and the test itself will call for what's needed (that is assuming that it isn't always just "get a surge")
Try to keep in mind that just because you're familiar with item A and not with item B doesn't mean that A is straightforward and B is not.
I'd also argue that IA's is still just as simple: "Roll Dice on sheet, check for result" versus "Roll Black + Silver, compare shields against number on your sheet, remembering that this is the one case in the game where rolling lower is better". To me, it's more intuitive, and the "masturbatory calculations" that you seem so against aren't actually needed. If someone wants to theorycraft that and produce tables with percentages, they can, but it's not like people are doing that in their heads with Descent anyway.
Edited September 3, 2014 by griton
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I don't know if attribute rolls are more straighforward in Descent than in Imperial Assault, but I like the simplicity of using the same dices regardless of hero or attribute, and adding up the shields on them rather than having each hero have his own little way of testing said attribute.
I fail to see what's inherently intuitive in doing it the IA way; if you mean that it's intuitive to find the information directly on the hero sheet then yeah, the information surely helps, but it doesn't mean the system is intuitive as such. I can also throw out a custom-made hero sheet with weird abilities that don't make sense at all, the fact that my wording tells exactly the player what to do doesn't make my system any good or intuitive. What's intuitive in my opinion with regards to attribute testing is to roll a fixed set of dices (with modifiers) and roll UNDER a value, like in most games I´ve played. It's intuitive because it's a proven system that many people will be able to recognize. All they need to know is what dices to use, and then they´re set for all the games. I also like that in D2E you can easily compare your attributes with other players and decide who is going to take on that **** travel card challenge. I don't think you can do that easily if everybody rolls differents sets of dices.
I´m not saying it's bad to do it differently, I´m saying that I don't see why the D2E way would be inherently inferior to the IA one. I can appreciate other systems than the ones I have learnt to use, but the points mentioned so far don't convince me to believe that the IA system would be better in that respect.
To me there seems to be a ton of possibilities for altering or even customizing attribute testing through the use of equipment or skills. Maybe one of them could replace the black dice by a grey dice, if you really think changing the dices would be a good thing. I think re-rolling dices or taking away X shields depending on Y and Z are more finer ways to deal with the same goal. I don't want the game basics to be too complex. Cards are designed to "break" or modify the game thus making it more complex as a result, so why not using them to do this customization rather than introducing yet another mechanism.
For what it's worth, I absolutely champion more variation in the attack and defense dice pools for combat purpose. I wouldn't mind if each character would roll his own set of dices for attack or defense. But that's because I think it would bring so much to the game by including more effects on the dice especially for its possible interaction with things like surges and abilities like Blast, Pierce etc. I see that it would bring additional tools to combat these things. I just don't feel like attribute testing needs something of that kind. The variation I would seek would be on the trigger instead (the OL card or travel/quest event) more than the actual roll you make.
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Using the same dice regardless of stats isn't any simpler than using different dice based on stats. The difference is based on the steps involved: In Descent you roll the dice then check your stat to find out if you succeeded or not. In IA, you check your sheet to find out which die and then roll to see if you succeed or not. The steps are equally simple and valid. The only difference is that by switching to the attack dice, you gain the ability to put different requirements to pass tests on different abilities, all of which will be on the card, meaning that interpreting them is just part of the effects. Both are equally simple and valid.
If you had to cross reference charts and the rule book every time you rolled to see which section of a table had your results I'd agree about complexity, but this game doesn't feature anything like that.
That's cool and all, but what are the arguments then for porting the IA system for attribute testing into Descent?
Because we can keep comparing the two games, but I guess the big question is if people here would prefer the IA way over the Descent way, and for what reasons. I exposed mine but I am yet to hear somebody tell the benefits in gameplay for moving to the IA way.
I don't see any point in porting it to Descent either. The advantage to the IA system is that it allows for one extra knob of customization: because people roll different attack dice, you can do things like say "roll this many hearts to pass" or "roll a surge to pass" meaning that one character might be better at one while worse at the other compared to a different character, even though they're both might tests.
But Descent doesn't need that mechanic. Maybe for Descent 3rd edition.
As a general rule of game design: any time you can increase depth and options without increasing complexity at all, that's a good thing. The primary goal of game design is depth with minimal complexity.
Edited September 3, 2014 by Whitewing
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11. Speeds the game. OL won't wait until boredom 4 players compute their 8 actions perfectly with nothing else to do but spend sometimes 1 or 2 rare OL card drawn with bit of luck 1/15. OL should do the dishes during players turn.
In Impérial assault, you play alternatively. No more long waiting PLUS you have monster activation between players That allow you to counter their strategy.
How is this remotely a problem? As the OL and the rulesmaster, I am always involved during my heroes' turn. I cannot help them making decisions, but I am required to confirm what can be done or not, and provide information about my monsters, the range between two figures, we calculate things together etc.
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The recent surge in cryptocurrency has touched many parts of Asia and some countries are showing interest in creating national digital currencies. The People’s Bank of China is close to issuing its own cryptocurrency. North Korea has followed the lead by declaring its readiness to launch national crypto.
Suffocated by countless political and financial embargos, the nation is trying to adopt various policies to boost its economy. Issuing a North Korean digital coin might be an attempt to circumvent such sanctions and even manufacture deadly weapons. Alejandro Cao de Benos, a high-level official of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, has revealed that the country is now really interested in creating its own cryptocurrency and has adequate manpower and expertise to proceed with the plan.
Their currency experts are studying various digital coins in order to decide which of those the value of the proposed cryptocurrency should be linked to. He also said that the new currency will be like traditional ones and there is no plan to back it by North Korean won.
North Korea has already opened its door for crypto traders. On Sept 10, Cao de Benos tweeted that citizens are allowed to own digital coins and local developers “are designing crypto wallets and apps at this moment.” Several countries have come forward to help North Korea in the technical aspects of the crypto plan. Some offshore companies have signed contracts with the DPRK authorities for the development of the system for healthcare, education and finance sectors. Although the announcement regarding the introduction of crypto came from a personal level, there is no official statement yet.
Is there any real need to launch national cryptocurrency?
According to Kayla Izenman, a financial crime and security expert, North Korea has required expertise and resources to issue a cryptocurrency. However, critics are digging out ill motives from the country’s digital coin project. Most of those are related to speculation, counter international sanctions, and financing weapons of mass destruction.
Cao de Benos confessed himself that Pyongyang needs digital assets to bypass US sanctions. Without an alternative currency, DPRK will not be able to escape from the international financial system dependency. To make the ground of crypto plan more solid in front of the international community, Benos noted the advantages of cryptocurrencies- transaction speed and cost-effectiveness. Finance experts believe that Pyongyang is going for digital money because crypto transactions are difficult to trace and free from most government regulations.
Also, it is very easy to launder such currencies. These features will likely allow DPRK to trade with many countries around the globe. Although evading international sanctions is the main factor behind the country’s crypto initiative, some cryptocurrency experts think that the benefits of such a plan extend far beyond bypassing conventional payment systems. In addition, North Korea may find several countries including Iran, Russia, and Venezuela watching its back who are also exploring national crypto to evade US embargos.
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Being a low GDP country ($28 billion compared to $1.54 billion of South Korea), North Korea has been exploring various ways to raise foreign capital. Cryptocurrencies will surely bring momentum to their endeavour. According to different media, DPRK uses several techniques to collect crypto. Mining farms, masternodes, cryptojacking and participation in new, promising projects are a few among those.
The country allowed mining in 2017, which coincided with the rise of the currency. Steven Kim, a researcher from South Korea claimed that the DPRK will figure out if there are any means to exploit cryptocurrencies for financial gain and move aggressively to make the most out of it. North Korean hackers are showing desperate attitudes in hacking into the mining of Bitcoins and steal that money because the price has been rising steeply. Bitcoin is also easy to cash out on the market because of its liquidity.
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Egypt ‘List of Egypt’ threatens withdrawal from elections over legal complications for members
‘List of Egypt’ threatens withdrawal from elections over legal complications for members
Electoral commission to announce accepted candidates on Monday, campaigns to start Tuesday
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The electoral coalition known as “List of Egypt” has threatened to withdraw from the upcoming parliamentary elections, after a legal complication for its members wishing to run in the closed-list systems occurred.
The coalition includes Tayyar Al-Istiqlal, run by Ahmed Al-Fadaly, along with political parties under the Egyptian Front Coalition, such as the National Movement Party run by Ahmed Shafiq, Misr Baladi run by Mostafa Bakry, and Al-Ghad Party headed by Mostafa Moussa.
The threatened withdrawal comes as the Administrative Court, in charge of looking into appeals on candidatures, decided last week to allow members from the electoral coalitions “Egyptian Front Coalition” and “Tayyar Al-Istiqlal” to run for parliament on seats elected through the closed-lists system.
Nagy El-Shehaby, a member of the List of Egypt’s council and president of Al-Geel Democratic Party which is part of the coalition, said the new decision is being appealed against by the State Lawsuit Authority. The move came as the Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC), which El-Shehaby accused of being biased, said it was not involved and would only implement court decisions as they are.
Ahead of Tuesday’s trial session, coalition members announced that the complication is due to a SEC objection to their candidature. The SEC, however, denied that it had registered the objection.
The SEC said it would announce the lists of final candidates on Monday, with candidates able to voluntarily withdraw within two days. Electoral campaigns are due to start Tuesday, although there have already been several reported violations, including TV interviews for parliamentary candidates
The first electoral phase will take place between 17-19 October, and will include Giza, Fayoum, Alexandria, Beni Suef, Minya, Assiut, Qena, Beheira, New Valley, the Red Sea, Sohag, Aswan, Luxor, Matruh.
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A DEDICATED student has been rewarded for her efforts after overcoming health and logistics issues to build herself a bright future.
Isobel Taylor Lindop was recognised with the top award for travelling 60 miles a day by car, bus, train and on foot to study bricklaying at Darlington College despite having a disability.
Three years ago the 17 year-old developed a condition that left her living with involuntary movements in her arms and legs.
Despite the issue she travelled every day to Darlington from the village of West Tanfield, between Ripon and Bedale, a convoluted journey which took two hours each way.
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Darlington College principal Kate Roe told the awards ceremony audience of students, friends and families: “Isobel was a model student from the outset, overcoming a variety of health issues and a challenging journey to college.”
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JazzWrap review by Vern
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Harris Eisenstadt – September Trio (CF 229)
What’s the word for “wow!” in every language? Well that’s what I have to say about Harris Eisenstadt’s latest release, September Trio (Clean Feed). The Canadian born Brooklyn transplant has delivered his second record for 2011 and its even more striking than Canada Day II. This time, as a trio under the aforementioned title.
Opening with the repetitive, melodic blues of “September 1,” Eisenstadt sets the tone that this is a much different outing than Canada Day. “September 1” has you focused on the trio’s interactions and the complex and free flowing nature of Eisenstadt’s compositions. It’s improvised but held within a tight dynamic. This may not have been achievable in any other setting than a trio.
Eskelin has a muscular tone in his phrasing which reminds me of of Ornette Coleman, while Sanchez continues to show why she deserves much wider recognition. Her agile, rhythmic yet contemplative performance has really started me to put her on the same level as Kris Davis, John Escreet, Jason Moran, Sylvie Courvoisier and Irene Schweizer. A real creative at the piano. But the real focus is Eisenstadt’s compositional work.
On September Trio he has allowed his fellow musicians the freedom to move in various directions and in addition, his own timing and melodic touches are exquisite and thoughtful. There is a moment about 2/3’s of the way into “September 1” where Eskelin and Eisenstadt share some raw improvised exchanges but it will be the soft tones of Eisenstadt’s brushes that you may focus in on as they are placed just under the melody. Beautiful.
“September 3,” Eisenstadt allows Sanchez and Eskelin to paint a wonderful picture in cascading hues and a well placed use of space. The piece is superbly written and has moments “harmolodics” throughout. Eisenstadt remains settled into the background with steady timing until midway through when the trio begin to interweave and almost become one note of improvisation.
“September 6” starts of with a rich and bellowing solo period from Eskelin and then slowly turns into a haunting blues filled with counterpoints and lots stellar exchanges between the musicians. “September 6” while moving in various directions still displays as sense of order and investigation. The final three minute passage is spectacular as it rises in tone and then quietly descends into black.
Harris Eisenstadt has already established himself as one of most sought after drummers in the jazz community but its his writing that’s really becoming more significant. The ability to write material with such breath while allowing your fellow musicians a majority of the spotlight yet still producing some excellent moments of your own, is well, nothing short of phenomenal. September Trio should be the album that finally sets Harris Eisenstadt apart from many of his peers, as a performer and a writer. Album of the year material for sure. Highly Recommended and Unexpectedly Beautiful.
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Jason Robinson/Anthony Davis – Cerulean Landscape (CF 198 )
Back to the future for pianist Anthony Davis, this CD is a reminder that the improvising skill he first exhibited in the 1970s still lurks within the composer now best-known for his chamber, choral and symphonic work as well as operas such as X and Amistad. Co-leader of the band Cosmologic, multi-reedist Jason Robinson renews the on-again-off-again relationship he has had with Davis since 1998, for a series of duo numbers, most composed by either man.
Nevertheless, “Someday I’ll Know” written by Jason Shurbury, is the tune closest to a standard, and both so-called avant-gardists handle it exquisitely. Robinson’s moderato flutter tonguing quivers comfortably alongside low-frequency keyboard tinkles from Davis. Delicately emphasizing the tune’s contours as it unspools, the pianist turns to comping when the saxophonist reenters with a conclusive, andante cadenza.
Not that the experimental fire has been smothered. Harsher interface on “Of Blues and Dreams” finds the pianist nearly upsetting the balanced tension of the piece when his metronomic strums and soundboard resonations turn to harder syncopation to contrast with reed-biting, showy tongue slapping and screechy triple-tonguing from the saxophonist. Finally underlying chords are exposed from both sides for melodic intertwining.
Earlier modal jazz era tremolos from Davis and Robinson proving that his flute attack can be as rough and staccato as on it is on saxophone(s), produces the duo’s ultimate definition on the title track. Davis’ deliberately paced, pseudo-classical lines turn to key-ringing in order to match the smears and finger vibrations from Robinson’s tenor saxophone. Initially showcased unaccompanied, the reedist’s glide to legato classicism from overblowing variations on distinct sets of reed tones, ingeniously connects with the piano work.
This is a notable disc from a veteran verifying his improv chops and a young veteran proving his versatility.
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The New York City Jazz Record review by Ken Waxman
Posted on August 1, 2011 by cleanfeed | Leave a comment
Jason Robinson/Anthony Davis – Cerulean Landscape (CF 198)
Back to the future for pianist Anthony Davis, this CD is a reminder that the improvising skill he first exhibited in the ‘70s still lurks within the composer now best-known for his chamber, choral and symphonic work. Co-leader of the band Cosmologic, multi-reedist Jason Robinson renews the on-again-off-again relationship he has had with Davis since 1998 for a series of duo numbers, most composed by either man. Nevertheless, “Someday I’ll Know”, written by musical theater composer Jason Sherbundy, is the tune closest to a standard and both so-called avant-gardists handle it exquisitely. Robinson’s moderato flutter tonguing quivers comfortably alongside low-frequency keyboard tinkles from Davis. Delicately emphasizing the tune’s contours as it unspools, the pianist turns to comping when the saxophonist reenters with a conclusive andante cadenza. Not that the experimental fire has been smothered. Harsher interface on “Of Blues and Dreams” finds the pianist nearly upsetting the balanced tension of the piece when his metronomic strums and soundboard resonations turn to harder syncopation in contrast with reed-biting and screechy triple-tonguing from the saxophonist. Finally, underlying chords are exposed from both sides for melodic intertwining. Earlier modal jazz-era tremolos from Davis and Robinson, proving that his attack on flute can be as rough and staccato as it is on saxophone(s), produces the duo’s ultimate definition on the title track. Davis’deliberately paced, pseudo-classical lines turn to key-ringing in order to match the smears and finger vibrations from Robinson’s tenor. Initially unaccompanied, the reedist’s glide to legato classicism from overblowing variations on distinct sets of reed tones ingeniously connects with the piano work.
Squid’s Ear review by Kurt Gottschalk
Matt Bauder – Day in Pictures (CF 210)
Matt Bauder is one smart saxophonist. He has reliably brought himself to projects led by Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon and Rob Mazurek, among others, and works regularly with Taylor Ho Bynum, Harris Eisenstadt and Aaron Siegel. And bringing oneself means more than just showing up. Bauder has a warm, round tone on the tenor and even softens the clarinet’s edges. He’s maybe even a little romantic for some of the conceptualists he hangs out with (he’s closer to Bynum in that regard), but he consistently finds a place for himself, neither fitting too much in or too much out.
Bauder has flirted with doo-wop and minimalism in the past, but Day in Pictures is squarely jazz. Not even that mad-free-scream-at-the-sun-and-then-howl-at-the-moon improv stuff. This is jazz jazz. Some Sonny Rollins here, some Oliver Nelson there. Yeah, Bauder’s a smart cookie.
On board for the effort are trumpeter Nate Wooley, pianist Angelica Sanchez and drummer Tomas Fujiwara, representing Bauder’s current NYC stead, and bassist Jason Ajemian from Bauder’s former Chicago grounds. They pull it off with aplomb, intuitively playing the more involved arrangements, ably slinking into the hushed ballads.
In the circles of some of the conceptualists he’s hung out with (or at least among their audiences), there are concerns and questions about pushing the music forward versus repeating the past. There’s nothing particularly forward-looking about Day in Pictures. And that can be a problem — when the music isn’t this good, anyway.
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Tim Berne – Insomnia (CF 215)
Tim Berne’s choice of title stems from his inability to sleep the night before this 1997 gig (this record is the first physical proof of that day). As such, he claims that this altered state pierced his interaction with the music and his octet (culled from cohorts in his 1990’s crew, Bloodcount) with an odd clarity, Berne using the words “kaleidoscope” and “another perspective” and “make everything look sharper” to describe the event. You know, shimmering stars within Berne’s already otherworldly music.
Taking on two of Berne’s classic works, “The Proposal” and “oPEN, cOMA”, the group does advance like a waking dream, repeatedly crossing back and forth between the fence of straight-forward — multi-metered compositions, but adherence to time signatures, nevertheless — and woozy genre-bending free-form. In other words, the crew glances at Berne’s script then individually dance around the notes like tracers. On “The Proposal”, they slowly awaken with high-pitched wiggles and mouthpiece kissing sounds; eventually, strings (Dominique Pifarely on violin, cellist Erik Friedlander, upright bassist Michael Fermanek and Marc Ducret on twelve-string guitar) and reeds (Chris Speed on clarinet, Berne on alto and baritone sax) unite while trumpeter Baikida Carroll and drummer Jim Black tarry with a gurgling wah-wah and skittering flurry, respectively. Avalanche-like, everyone gathers speed with the rhythm section working hard under Carroll’s solo (Ducret’s unique instrument choice provides a sonically interesting choice for the chord-carrying comp). Of course, the band tears this apart: Pifarely and Friedlander jaunt through a quick Bartók-esque duet, stop to scrape and twist their strings, then frantically bow, rising, and the rest slowly join the harmony. Elision. Done. Change of scene, and we’re barely ten minutes into the thirty-five minute work.
The group uses this “jazz” template throughout both tracks, allowing everyone to solo alone, or over the others, or be soloed over. But due to timbre shifts, stratified ideas and counterpoint, the disc is anything but homogenous. “oPEN, cOMA” commences in the similarly delicate fashion as the previous piece, Ducret tinkering behind his bridge and setting up a percussive platform of muted pangs before launching into a bombastic rattle that prog-rock pioneers should envy; when Speed begins his fantastic run, the band shifts with the mood, then to the side, grabs the motifs, creates branches off those, then returns before it ends. This virtuosic aesthetic should be par for the course in this musical universe, but Berne and Company’s penchant for clever metamorphosis is overwhelming — “overwhelming” in the way you felt the first few times you listened to Le sacre du printemps.
In Stephen King’s Insomnia, the sleep-deprived protagonist begins to notice oddities in his waking life: some people have multi-colored auras, creepy ethereal doctors from another plane manifest and tinker with unsuspecting victims. But, like Berne’s work here, this isn’t the character’s hallucination: it’s actual. A cloudy, skewed reality that takes some time to comprehend (though Berne’s Insomnia is a celebration, not a funeral).
Tagged Baikida Carroll, Chris Speed, Dominique Pifarély, Erik Friedlander, Jim Black, marc ducret, Michael Formanek, Tim Berne
Daniel Levin Quartet – Organic Modernism (CF 212)
For a moment, recall your mentality circa age nine through fifteen: what is the phrase the rebellious you had to endure at least five times per day? “Stay away from there”, or just, “Stop it!” Specifically, this was applied to scenarios where you stood, say, near a rapidly flowing irrigation canal, dipping your toe in the water — you just had to test it out. Or maybe engaged in the “I’m not touching you” game with your hands an inch in front of someone’s face. In other words, you needed to be as close as possible without actually doing something.
It’s this sort of turbulence that makes Organic Modernism so successful and fascinating. The quartet of Daniel Levin (cello), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Matt Moran (vibraphone) and Peter Bitenc (upright bass) draw a line on the floor, mark it “Bebop” and playfully move near, almost on, briefly on, then away (not too far) from this guidepost, making judicious detours and extensions to forge something anomalous.
Bitenc begins “Action Painting” with an insistent walking line, taking on the role of loose metronome for the remaining trio to coalesce. Levin powers in with slurs and glissandi, soon twisting in tandem with Wooley’s woozy dips and staccato pops and Moran’s lower register brume; when Bitenc and Moran join at the first “jazz as we think of it” spot, it’s a nostalgic dance that you could, in a blind test, mistake for a Ron Carter / Milt Jackson duet. But of course, as the album title implies, the focus here is on The New, and the mix soon shatters into fragments with each member now absorbed in anti-solo (i.e. Moran messes around with his tremolo speed, Levin scrapes and scratches, Wooley recapitulates the aforementioned glissando motif); they resume this approach with “Zero Gravity” where the group chafes in a stew of drones (via Wooley’s breathy tones and Moran’s crescendo ostinatos), occasional dotting bursts and a motorized radio-like buzz. On “Lattice”, Levin and Bitenc freely battle and embrace, battle and embrace in a graceful fit of pizzicato, bowing, sprints to the highest pitch and string-snapping; “Expert Set” is a similar setting with Wooley nimbly adapting, leading and blasting Levin until both men fade into groggy shadows. Forgoing the far-out side of the quartet’s aesthetic, “Audacity” is a remarkable experiment in agreement-into-polyrhythm and sudden tempo shifts, first swaggering with long unison lines, then bashing the air with the sonic equivalent of scribbling, soon sinking into long passages of Bluesy head-nodding, faster, tonal interlopers, a blend of these, etc.
From the liner notes (written by the great Art Lange): “These are concepts of the 20th century modernism extended into a new century still in need of its radical adjustment — that is, a rejection of the failed conventions of realism in favor of a new, open, freer perspective…” True, but that shouldn’t be confused with pastiche. Because this crew spent the time learning the language, internalizing it, their innocent “who me?” mischief sounds poignant and masterful, not sloppy or forced different-just-to-be-different — yes, 500 words later I’m trying to tell you it’s organic.
Bruno Chevillon – Old And Unwise (CF 221)
The weight of a gesture is enhanced by conciseness in relation to the muscular strength of who makes it. In that sense the material comprised by Old And Unwise – a full hour of duos for double bass and alto saxophone – frequently seems to relate to the substantial aspect of artistry rather than eliciting the idea of Pindaric flights and schismatic tendencies. Not that Chevillon and Berne are not able to act as sympathetic visionaries when they choose to; on the contrary, their ability of mingling skill and lyricism in a piece like “Quelque Chose Vacille” is inspiring, and in the following “Back Up The Truck” the art of manly defence is completely repudiated in favour of a visit to the melodic vaults. Yet the physical definition of the respective timbres is always what emerges as paramount over consecutive listens. Perspicacious dichotomies and self-imposed constraints characterize Berne’s phrasing in every circumstance; however, when he lets the sax yelp and howl it never comes as unexpected, more a logical development of previously explored options. Chevillon is a terrific instant composer, capable of altering the unchangeable features of an instrument with sharp decisions, significant technical grounding and the unaffectedness of a pluck-and-throb shrewdness which is typical of few master bassists, those who are equally good at sustaining a conversation and let individuality shine during solitary moments of exposure. There’s no finding a weak point throughout, time literally flying thanks to copious doses of outstanding music.
http://www.touchingextremes.org/
Tagged Bruno Chevillon, Tim Berne
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All About Jazz Italy review by Alberto Bazzurro
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Sara Serpa/Ran Blake – Aurora (CF 264)
Secondo album (dopo Camera Obscura, datato 2010) del duo composto dalla trentaquattrenne cantante di Lisbona e dal settantottenne pianista del Massachusetts, Aurora raccoglie i riflessi di una doppia seduta (dal vivo e in studio) tenutasi nella capitale portoghese nel maggio 2012. Il clima che lo contraddistingue è lieve, ora più colloquiale, ora più scarno, quasi scabro, giocato per lo più su tinte tenui e volumi ridotti, con rare impennate verso temperature più accese. Ci sono eleganza e coerenza espressiva, ma alla fin fine anche una certa uniformità complessiva, che se da un lato connota e identifica il lavoro, dall’altro può determinare una qualche assuefazione in chi ascolta.
Il meglio sembra arrivare nel dittico centrale, in cui curiosamente la coppia si spezza. Così Sara Serpa percorre tutta sola l’omaggio, intenso e delicato, a Billie Holiday in “Strange Fruit,” così Blake, nel ben più ampio “Mahler Noir” (che già il titolo…), parte ad alta densità per poi farsi sottile, quasi quintessenziato, mantenendo sempre viva la tensione del pezzo.
Degni di menzione – in un ventaglio di brani comunque di livello alquanto omogeneo – appaiono anche “Cansaço,” in cui (forse non a caso) si abbandona il classico inglese per ripiegare sul più intimo portoghese, e “Fine and Dandy,” abbastanza insolitamente brioso, specie nelle soluzioni pianistiche.
http://italia.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=9236
Tagged Aurora, Ran Blake, Sara Serpa
All About Jazz review by C. Michael Bailey
Posted on June 11, 2013 by cleanfeed | Leave a comment
At the Corner: Ran Blake / Sara Serpa / Christine Correa
The common element between Sara Serpa’s Aurora and Christine Correa’s Down Here Below is obviously pianist Ran Blake. Enigmatic to a fault, Blake has made a potent name for himself among improvised music enthusiasts. Blake is an intellectual amalgam of pianists Thelonious Monk and Martial Solal distilled to a dissonant essence.
A long time professor at the New England Conservatory, Blake has taken many under his tutelage, specifically singers, beginning with Jeanne Lee on The Newest Sound Around (BMG, 1962) . Two contemporary singers claiming Blake as a mentor are Sara Serpa and Christine Correa, who each has recorded with Blake previously. These two recordings illustrate art made by like minds sharing the same intellectual space
Sara Serpa and Ran Blake – Aurora Clean Feed (CF 264)
Camera Obscura (Inner Circle Music, 2010) was the first recorded collaboration between vocalist Sara Serpa and her mentor, pianist Ran Blake. That recording was a moody assault on the fringes of the American Songbook, culminating in an “April In Paris” recorded at the Bates Motel after the word got out about Norman’s mother. Aurora continues where Camera Obscura left off. If anything, Aurora is darker and more nuanced. A bouncy “Moonride” smolders into a stark and terrifying “Strange Fruit,” full of vocal gymnastics and vocalese.
Blake contributes a lengthy original to the mix in “Mahler Noir,” eight minutes that could serve as a soundtrack of any of Philip Kerr’s Bernie Gunther stories. Imagine Wagner, mad with Beethoven, pounding out a suffering late-Romantic recital piece. Disconcerting and off- putting, this strange music has a gravitational pull that disallows any quick dismissal, reeling the listener in to hear “just what is going to happen next.”
“The Band Played On” is where everything fully clicks. The late-19th Century popular tune is delivered as a crippled calliope song with Serpa taking her liberties with the material, making it suited for the remake of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. While this sounds negative, it is anything but. A certain genius on Serpa and Blake’s part governs the interpretation of these songs, something beyond the postmodern…something well beyond.
Ran Blake and Christine Correa – Down Here Below: Tribute to Abbey Lincoln Volume One (Self Produced)
Vocalist Christine Correa has had a twenty-year musical relationship with Ran Blake that has resulted in Roundabout (Music and Arts, 1994), Out of the Shadows (Self Produced, 2010) and the present Down Here Below: Tribute to Abbey Lincoln Volume One. Neither artist show the least bit of interest in the status quo, instead opting to push the perimeter of existing repertoire well beyond the bounds of traditional performance.
As with the Serpa disc, Blake remains taciturn introspective, allowing notes to collide almost randomly while Correa provides just enough aural memory that a theme to the performances indeed does exist and that theme is based on another iconoclastic artist, Abbey Lincoln. The title piece is offered in two half—a cappella renderings, delivered full-throated by Correa, dissolving into Blake’s most introspective playing on the disc. The pianist turns inward in search of the necessary pathos to spill upon the keys.
The pair also doubles Oscar Brown Jr.’s “Freedom Day,” delivering an almost desperately anxious performance in the first take, while the second take comes off more rhythmically sound with Correa no less extroverted than the first take. “Brother, Can You Spare Me A Dime” is completely transformed from a saloon tune to a post-modern blues hymn. Where Serpa is finesse and irony, Correa is sheer power and fractured momentum.
Posted on February 13, 2013 by cleanfeed | Leave a comment
Sara Serpa / Ran Blake – Aurora (CF 264)
Classificatory issues are somehow crucial to the internet, which without the search engines and some sort of set of categories one ends up with William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion.” So we have today an exceptional recording, Aurora (Clean Feed 264), that brings together vocalist Sara Sherpa with piano giant (not in size but stature of course) Ran Blake. So I could put the CD in the guitar blog, which paradoxically also covers singers, or this blog, which covers “jazz” and tends more toward the instrumental, sans plucked strings as a central focus. I make the semi-arbitrary choice of following what I will do after writing up the review, file together with other Ran Blake recordings. We opt to let the pianist define the place, in no small way because Ran Blake has been a defining force in the music for so many years. This is in part because a collaboration of Maestro Blake with a singer (and there have been many) is going to bring a certain harmonic and melodic event horizon to bear on things. Ran plays harmonic music with a very wide set of compositional gestures that often “paint” to the implied logical edges of the harmonies of the song at hand. The vocalists who join with him have a melody line to work off of and either go beyond or contrast with Maestro Blake’s voicings. They must be very good and have a keen ear for it all to work. Aurora, by nature of the unique qualities of Sara Serpa’s vocal instrument, and because there are more original compositions performed (by Serpa and/or Blake) than is sometimes the case, there can be an all-over context that refers more to the performance event/work and less to the song, at least to the ear that does not find the song familiar. With Blake’s “Mahler Noir,” (droll title aptly applied), he directly recomposes using quotations from songs, and it’s especially about the recomposition at that point. Well perhaps that’s always the point with Ran, anyway. We push on. Those pieces are of great interest, as are the versions of “Strange Fruit,” “The Band Played On,” “Fine and Dandy,” “Last Night When We Were Young,” and other less familiar songs. Ms. Serpa has a marvelously nuanced approach, which is essential to a Ran Blake collaboration. Her voice is quite beautiful timbrally as well. Ran Blake rises to the occasion with his ever varying approach. The results are what you might hope for. Exceptional art song/art improvisation. I will listen again, surely, for there is much to gain with repetition of such a swath of creativity.
http://gapplegatemusicreview.blogspot.pt/2013/02/sara-serpa-ran-blake-aurora.html
Posted on February 1, 2013 by cleanfeed | Leave a comment
One of the things that kill jazz’s genuine sparkle is the showing of a disproportionate conversancy with a given inventory of techniques, which is the archetypal behaviour of many celebrated tricksters. A strong point in favour of Portuguese singer Sara Serpa is the lack of mannerism in that sense: the voice is apparently released devoid of excessive care about a faultless tone, not pretending a provocativeness that is not in her strings. Throughout Aurora she sings innocently, pretty much from the heart, which is more than OK when the ears have grown exhausted of performers who are hiding a mammoth ego under the alleged sheen of fatigued standards (though the “a cappella” rendition of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” presented here is creditable enough for a round of applause). Ran Blake’s discriminating pianism is at one and the same time full of empathy and supremely no-nonsense, so easy to integrate in our harmonic consciousness. “Mahler Noir” is a tutorial in digital restraint and control of the resonant colours of the instrument; we forget anything ruinous for life and let notes and chords act as photographs of serene privacy, similar to a lonely walk on the shoreline in an unclouded autumn day. His communication with Serpa is imbued with insightful tact and wisdom, a sensible way of accompanying vocals that frames, embraces and captions without forgetting that everything comes from stillness after all.
http://touchingextremes.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/sara-serpa-ran-blake-aurora/
All About Jazz interview by Hrayr Attarian
Sara Serpa: A Musical Journey
Vocalist and composer Sara Serpa is one of the most original and innovative musicians to emerge since the turn of the century. She has already made an indelible mark on the modern music scene in the span of a mere four years. Her unique style of vocalese allows her to utilize the full range of her exquisite and clear voice with the agility of an instrumentalist and stand out of the crowd as a sublime interpreter and a bold improviser. Her original pieces, meanwhile, reflect an imaginative approach to composition that matches her spontaneous creativity. Her critically acclaimed debut, Praia (Inner Circle, 2008), showcased her band-leading abilities as she headed a sextet of superlatively talented players, including the inimitable saxophonist Greg Osby.
A native of Lisbon, Portugal, Serpa studied classical piano and voice as a teenager. While in college, pursuing a degree in social work, she was drawn to jazz and augmented her musical education at the school affiliated with Lisbon’s Hot Club Jazz. After graduation, she moved to Boston and enrolled first at Boston’s Berklee College of Music and then the New England Conservatory, earning a Master’s degree in jazz performance in 2008. Almost immediately Afterwards, she moved to New York and fast established herself as one of the freshest and most versatile performers in jazz.
Her adventurous yet disciplined approach to music brought about her career’s meteoric rise. Her second album, Camera Obscura (Inner Circle, 2010), a collaborative effort with her mentor and friend, pianist Ran Blake is a haunting and sparse expression of complex musical ideas with often a cinematic flair. An avid bibliophile Serpa drew inspiration from her favorite literary works for her third release as a leader, Mobile (Inner Circle, 2011). The dynamic, sophisticated and memorable record lead to her gracing the cover of the Spring 2012 issue of Jazziz magazine.
Her latest, Aurora (Clean Feed, 2012), is her second session with Blake, a set of live duets recorded in Lisbon.
All About Jazz: Aurora is a sparse and hauntingly beautiful work and your second collaboration with Ran Blake; can you tell us about this live date in Lisbon?
Sara Serpa: Thank you, it makes me happy that you like it and enjoyed listening to it. This was the second time Ran came to Lisbon to perform, and it was a great experience, since we had an amazing hall and piano to record the album. We decided to do it in two sessions; one was the day before the concert, and then the concert itself. The day of the concert was an extremely sad day, as it was the day we heard of Bernardo Sassetti’s tragic death. Bernardo was an incredible Portuguese pianist and he wrote the liner notes for our first album, Camera Obscura. We were very emotional on that day.
AAJ: Ran Blake, of course is well known for his work with adventurous vocalists, what was it like having him as a mentor?
SS: The mentorship evolved into a great friendship. Ran is one of my best friends, and one of the most generous musicians I have ever met. Also, he is a musician that loves singers. It’s always unpredictable to sing with him, and I do enjoy those moments of not knowing what will happen and going with the flow. I feel it’s very important to learn with our elders. The way they perceive, listen and learned music is really different and deep. Ran Blake has incredible ears and that’s the most important thing he tries to pass on to his students—teach your ear, learn music by ear, listen above all.
AAJ: On both your studio recording with Blake, Camera Obscura and the live Aurora you cover an elegantly broad variety of standards and originals. How did you choose those particular songs?
SS: The choice of standards has been a bit accidental, but always follows our taste. Either these are songs that Ran loves and suggests we play, songs that I love or songs that we both love.
AAJ: What was the difference for you between the two recordings? How did each setting affect your spontaneous creativity?
SS: The first album was a big adventure for me. I had been singing with Ran in his private studio for a year, and we had built a repertoire, but going into a recording session studio was kind of crystallizing that moment. There wasn’t much pressure, it was more like let’s see what comes out. We did in two days, rarely did more than a take on each song, and it was recorded with very minimal equipment. Still, it sounds great, due to the work of Pete Rende, who mixed it and really understood the sound we were looking for. Aurora was more planned, as we were preparing a concert as well. We also played along with three movies scenes, and that was completely improvised (Dr. Mabuse is one example of it). We decided also that each one should prepare a solo piece. But having an audience definitely changes the moment, is gives you more adrenaline. I felt like I was sharing our duo bareness with a very big hall, full of people.
AAJ: You come from a country with rich musical and particularly song heritage. How did that influence your own development as a vocalist?
SS: Curiously, Fado didn’t influence me at all until I moved to the United States. I only started listening to Fado around 2006 or so. My musical education started with classical music, and although there were other genres played at my house, like Brazilian music, rock, and later on in my teens, more punk and electronic music, Fado wasn’t that much present. I recently understood that Fado was associated with the dictatorship in Portugal that ended in 1974 and my parents were part of the generation who fought against this regime, so naturally they did not listen to Fado.
AAJ: Having had western classical training ,what attracted you to improvised music and particularly jazz?
SS: I studied piano for 10 years and studied classical singing as well. And during all those years, I was always afraid of failing in any musical context. Going to a jazz school and entering this new world opened many doors for me, as I could use all my musical skills and impulses and still create something, interacting with other musicians. To learn harmony and improvisation was something that unfortunately I never explored while at the Lisbon Conservatory, and once I started understanding more about it, it allowed me to find my own style and voice within it. And jazz, it’s such a sophisticated music. It is so complex and advanced, from [trumpeter/singer] Louis Armstrong to [singer] Abbey Lincoln.Its social context and message was also something that attracted me, as there was such a vital energy about the way the old school musicians played.
AAJ: What musicians and records influenced your growth as an artist?
SS: Some musicians that influenced my growth as an artist were my teachers: Ran Blake, [pianist] Danilo Pérez, Greg Osby, and [singer] Dominique Eade. Not only they are amazing musicians, but also they are amazing musicians who have their own voice in the jazz world. Ran Blake and Danilo Perez really gave me wings to fly, encouraging me and giving me so many opportunities to be a better musician. They also taught me the social importance of the music we are making, and through their brightness and talent, showed me a very human side of jazz. . Greg Osby listened to my music and gave me a lot of opportunities to perform and record with his band, and basically he introduced me to the NY scene, when I joined him at the Vanguard—that was a great school as well. Dominique Eade welcomed me in Boston and opened the NEC doors to me, accepting me as her student, while I was searching for a creative environment. Generosity, competence, trust and solidarity is something very important in music and all of them in their own way, taught me that.
It’s hard to name some records. I can name musicians who influenced me as student, at school: Miles Davis (with his second quintet), John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Hermeto Pascoal, Theo Bleckmann, Paul Motian, Tom Jobim, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Brad Mehldau, Bill Evans, Louis Armstrong. Chico Buarque, Björk, Wayne Shorter, Abbey Lincoln, Ella Fitzgerald, Mark Turner, Vardan Ovsepian, André Matos, Maria João … but the list keeps changing, and coming back and forth, each month, each year, as the growth never stops….
AAJ: What are your “desert island” discs and why?
SS: Oh, this is a tough question. To explain why I love certain music… here are a few. Bu these days, with the iPod, do I really need just to pick a few?
Carmen McRae—Bittersweet (Koch, 1964)
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong—Ella & Louis (Verve, 1956)
Silke-Thora Matthies and Christian Kohn—Brahms Four Hand Piano Music Vol. 4 Ein Deustches Requiem (Naxos, 1999)
Tom Jobim—Matita Perê (Polygram, 1973)
Sarah Vaughan—Live at Mr. Kelly’s (Emarcy, 1957)
Pixies—Come On Pilgrim (4AD, 1987)
Farafina—Fasco Denou (Real World, 1993)
Miles Davis—Nefertiti (Columbia, 1968)
Charlie Haden—The Golden Number (A&M, 1977)
Ran Blake—Wende (Owl, 1976)
Deerhoof—Deerhoof vs. Evil (Polyvinyl, 2011)
Paul Motian, Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell—Sound of Love (Winter & Winter, 1995)
Béla Bartók}}— Bartók Plays Bartók (Pearl, 1995}
Milton Nascimento—Milton (EMI, 1970)
Abbey Lincoln—Straight Ahead (Candid, 1961)
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane—Live at the Five Spot (Blue Note, 1958)
Meredith Monk—Impermanence (ECM, 2008)
Duke Ellington—Piano Reflections (Capitol, 1953)
Johann Sebastian Bach—The Art of the Fugue
AAJ: What were your experiences coming from Lisbon to Boston and then to New York? If so how did those experiences impact your artistic development?
SS: It’s very hard to describe my experiences coming from Portugal to the USA. Just try to imagine coming from a small school in Lisbon, that doesn’t have more than 200 students, to Berklee, where you have 4,000 students from all over the world. And to be alone for the first time in a foreign country, with the ideal of studying music. With tough winters in Boston…and then going to NEC where I met wonderful teachers who really encouraged me and supported my music, like Danilo Pérez, Dominique Eade and Ran Blake. This all meant an opening of my mind, beyond what I could imagine. I was able to explore and work hard on my music, in a really focused way. And learn even more about jazz, from direct sources.
And then New York, where there are so many musicians, so many people, and where the scene is so competitive. And then you have to pay your bills, you have to keep working on your music, it’s like a positive struggle. It taught me that nothing is for granted, and if you really want something to happen, it has to come from you and not from others. And there are so many incredible musicians in this city that inspire me and teach me every day. To be in New York helped me to see things in a different perspective. The goal is just to keep doing the music I love, be a better musician and person.
AAJ: Your debut album, Praia, contains intriguing original compositions, presumably inspired by Cape Verdean themes, what is your connection to Cape Verde?
SS: I wonder why you ask me about Cape Verde, as there’s nothing related to it on that record. Praia means “beach” in Portuguese, and it was what I missed the most during my first years in Boston, and that feeling gave some impulse composing that music. Those songs were my first attempts of writing music, and they had a stamp on it, which was “I miss my home, I miss my friends, but I also love my new life here.”
AAJ: It is quite interesting and unique that your compositions on Mobile reflected the spirit of literary works yet your singing was primarily wordless vocalese. What inspired you in those particular eclectic mix of books?
SS: It was very random. A few months after moving to New York I realized I was only reading books from travelers and adventurous people, about travelers’ struggles, about discovering the unknown. And maybe that was related with what I was experiencing, being in NY and finding my way of living in this city. Each book was a revelation for me, and I loved reading all of them. And I thought that maybe I could try to recreate a scene or a memory from each book into music. I was fortunate to be able to explore this music with [guitarist] André Matos, [pianist] Kris Davis, [bassist] Ben Street and [drummer] Ted Poor, as I think they really understood each song and played it beautifully.
AAJ: Currently you perform leading your own group as well as in duos either with Ran Blake or André Matos. What are the different challenges inherent in each setting?
SS: For the duo setting, there are similar aspects that need to be present: communication, good time, listening, and empathy. We have to be a team.
Singing with Ran Blake is a time travel for me, as there is so much tradition and knowledge in his playing. It always has the surprise element—we might play the same song several times, and although I feel we are following a plot (just like a movie plot), sometimes we do a shorter version, some other times longer, sometimes we modulate to another key, sometimes he stops playing or throws a chord that completely blows me away. At the beginning it was very hard for me, and I realized I had to be really strong when singing the melody of a song, so that he could play whatever he felt like behind me without losing my direction.
Today, I love that feeling of not knowing what is going to happen. I love Ran’s touch, his use of pedals creates another dimension of sound, and besides all this, there’s a lots of experience, life and love in his playing. And although I am singing the melody, I feel I am following him all the time, or almost like a game, sometimes I lead and some other times he leads. His ears are incredible, and that allows to a lot of creativity in his comping, even when playing the simplest melody. Songs and words are the key with this duo, and singing with Ran woke me to this world of the words and to its power. To convey the story, and to follow Ran’s plot for each song is the most important. Also, Ran and I have many years of difference and come from different continents—I always feel I am learning something new.
With André Matos, feel we are both coming from the same place, meaning we have the same background; history and we play a lot together. We live together, we travel together—so much of that communication and shared moments comes out through our music. We also play a lot of original material, and finding my own space in that material is challenging, because I never do the same thing on every song. Sometimes I accompany him, sometimes I don’t sing, sometimes I improvise—to find that balance of when to sing and when to be silent is challenging in some way. Also, there’s a lot of nakedness in a duo setting, we can’t hide behind any other instrument, and we have to accept what comes out without being very judgmental.
AAJ: Do you also engage in other art forms? If so which ones?
SS: I love photography. I went to an Art College for two years, so I draw, I paint and I take photographs. And I love writing as well. But I’ve never exposed it the way I do with the music.
AAJ: Lastly can you tell us a little bit about your Crossing Oceans project?
SS: Crossing Oceans is still a work in progress. It features voice, trombone, tenor sax, guitar, bass (and possibly some percussion). I sing mostly in Portuguese. It is like a story about my perception of Fado, and its origins, that are deeply embedded with the history of Portugal. It started out of my curiosity about Fado music, as I wanted to know more about this song form (I never listened to it before I moved to US) .
My research made me travel in time and think about things that are key to my country’s history, but that no one talks about: the slave trade from Africa to Brazil, the music that came from Brazil to Portugal in the 18th century, (which is when Fado appeared in Lisbon)…so many things. So it’s a Fado project but it’s also my project, it’s a creative approach to it. It is a story told through music.
Selected Discography
Sara Serpa & Ran Blake, Aurora (Clean Feed, 2012)
Sara Serpa Mobile (Inner Circle, 2011)
Sara Serpa & Ran Blake, Camera Obscura (Inner Circle, 2010)
Sara Serpa, Praia (Inner Circle, 2008)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=43807&page=1
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Touching Extremes review by by Massimo Ricci
Clean Feed Sara Serpa: voice; Ran Blake: piano One of the things that kill jazz’s genuine sparkle is the showing of a disproportionate conversancy with a given inventory of techniques, which is the archetypal behaviour of many celebrated tricksters. A strong point in favour of Portuguese singer Sara Serpa is the lack of mannerism in that sense: the voice is apparently released devoid of excessive care about a faultless tone, not pretending a provocativeness that is not in her strings. Throughout Aurora she sings innocently, pretty much from the heart, which is more than OK when the ears have grown exhausted of performers who are hiding a mammoth ego under the alleged sheen of fatigued standards (though the “a cappella” rendition of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” presented here is creditable enough for a round of applause). Ran Blake’s discriminating pianism is at one and the same time full of empathy and supremely no-nonsense, so easy to integrate in our harmonic consciousness. “Mahler Noir” is a tutorial in digital restraint and control of the resonant colours of the instrument; we forget anything ruinous for life and let notes and chords act as photographs of serene privacy, similar to a lonely walk on the shoreline in an unclouded autumn day. His communication with Serpa is imbued with insightful tact and wisdom, a sensible way of accompanying vocals that frames, embraces and captions without forgetting that everything comes from stillness after all.
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Ran Blake / Sara Serpa – Aurora (CF 264)
Cinquante ans après un premier album de légende avec la chanteuse Jeanne Lee, le pianiste jazz Ran Blake remet ça avec Sara Serpa. Beauté. Critique et écoute.
La vieille légende en personne ouvre la porte de l’appartement parisien où il reçoit les journalistes. Le pianiste américain Ran Blake a 77 ans, il est physiquement usé, et se déplace avec un déambulateur. Passée la surprise, on peut y voir une certaine logique : déambuler est un mot qui va bien à Ran Blake. Un demi-siècle qu’il pratique, laissant ses doigts divaguer sur le clavier d’un piano – une oreille distraite dirait qu’il manque des touches, ou que le pianiste en a remplacé certaines par du silence.
Son premier album, sorti en 1962, est légendaire : The Newest Sound Around, avec la chanteuse Jeanne Lee, sommet inaugural de jazz blanc, minimal, funambule, inspiré par les chansons, la musique classique et le cinéma, plus cérébral que sanguin. Depuis, le grand styliste a sorti une trentaine d’albums en formations diverses et distillé son savoir au conservatoire de musique de Boston pendant près de trente ans. Pas un acharné de la production, ni une tête de gondole du jazz. De temps en temps, un album vient nous rappeler l’importance gracieuse de Ran Blake.
Il y a trois ans, c’était le méditatif Driftwoods. Aujourd’hui, c’est l’évanescent Aurora, en duo avec la chanteuse portugaise Sara Serpa. Une jeunette, une ancienne élève. Sara Serpa vient d’arriver et s’installe dans le canapé près de son mentor. “La première fois que j’ai entendu la musique de Ran, c’était au conservatoire de Boston, c’était la chanson Laura de son album avec Jeanne Lee. Je me suis dit “Mais qui est ce pianiste qui invente des mondes derrière les mélodies ?” J’ai demandé à être son élève au semestre suivant. Je suis allée dans son studio, plein de livres et de DVD, on a regardé des extraits de Deux mains, la nuit, de Robert Siodmak.” Le film noir de Siodmak est fondateur pour Ran Blake : à l’âge de 12 ans, il l’a vu dix-huit fois en vingt jours, et en a tiré la quintessence de sa musique.
Sara poursuit : “Puis il m’a demandé de chanter a cappella. J’avais peur, je n’étais pas habituée à chanter sans accompagnement. C’était la première leçon de Ran : connaître une mélodie à fond, pouvoir la chanter seule.” Ran Blake ajoute : “On a fait une merveilleuse version de Strange Fruit !” Elle est sur l’album et Sara la chante a cappella.
C’est tout le charme de ce duo (Aurora est leur deuxième album ensemble, deux ans après le plus sombre Camera Obscura) : la voix joueuse de Sara Serpa et le piano cinéphile de Ran Blake, qui s’écoutent, conversent, improvisent et rêvent en toute confiance. Sur l’album, il y a donc quelques classiques du jazz vocal, mais aussi un fado, un hommage à Malher, un autre au Dr Mabuse de Fritz Lang et encore un autre à Hitchcock. Ran Blake : “La musique autour des films, c’est ma passion. Mais j’adore aussi Stevie Wonder, Al Green, la musique orientale que j’aurais aimé étudier si j’étais plus jeune et que j’avais le temps… Je ne me souviens pas de tous les disques que j’ai enregistrés, mais j’ai encore des projets. C’est la variété de tout ça qui me garde en vie.”
Plus de quarante-cinq ans séparent Ran Blake et Sara Serpa. Mais ils semblent se retrouver comme deux enfants émerveillés par leur première séance de cinéma. “J’adore jouer dans la pénombre. Et je regarde très peu le clavier, je préfère regarder Sara”, conclut le vieux gentleman dans un sourire, du bon côté de la vie.
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December 8, 2019 – OAN Lutsenko interview outlines Marie Yovanovitch perjury; George Kent impeachment motive; Lindsey Graham motive to bury investigation
In a fantastic display of true investigative journalism, One America News journalist Chanel Rion tracked down Ukrainian witnesses as part of an exclusive OAN investigative series. The evidence being discovered dismantles the baseless Adam Schiff impeachment hoax and highlights many corrupt motives for U.S. politicians.
Ms. Rion spoke with Ukrainian former Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko who outlines how former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch perjured herself before Congress.
What is outlined in this interview is a problem for all DC politicians across both parties. The obviously corrupt influence efforts by U.S. Ambassador Yovanovitch as outlined by Lutsenko were not done independently.
Senators from both parties participated in the influence process and part of those influence priorities was exploiting the financial opportunities within Ukraine while simultaneously protecting Joe Biden and his family. This is where Senator John McCain and Senator Lindsey Graham were working with Marie Yovanovitch.
Imagine what would happen if all of the background information was to reach the general public? Thus the motive for Lindsey Graham currently working to bury it.
(Credit: Conservative Treehouse)
You might remember George Kent and Bill Taylor testified together.
It was evident months ago that U.S. chargé d’affaires to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, was one of the current participants in the coup effort against President Trump. It was Taylor who engaged in carefully planned text messages with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland to set-up a narrative helpful to Adam Schiff’s political coup effort.
Bill Taylor was formerly U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (’06-’09) and later helped the Obama administration to design the laundry operation providing taxpayer financing to Ukraine in exchange for back-channel payments to U.S. politicians and their families.
In November Rudy Giuliani released a letter he sent to Senator Lindsey Graham outlining how Bill Taylor blocked VISA’s for Ukrainian ‘whistle-blowers’ who are willing to testify to the corrupt financial scheme.
Unfortunately, as we are now witnessing, Senator Lindsey Graham, along with dozens of U.S. Senators currently serving, may very well have been recipients for money through the aforementioned laundry process. The VISA’s are unlikely to get approval for congressional testimony, or Senate impeachment trial witness testimony.
U.S. senators write foreign aid policy, rules and regulations thereby creating the financing mechanisms to transmit U.S. funds. Those same senators then received a portion of the laundered funds back through their various “institutes” and business connections to the foreign government offices; in this example Ukraine. [ex. Burisma to Biden]
The U.S. State Dept. serves as a distribution network for the authorization of the money laundering by granting conflict waivers, approvals for financing (think Clinton Global Initiative), and permission slips for the payment of foreign money. The officials within the State Dept. take a cut of the overall payments through a system of “indulgence fees”, junkets, gifts and expense payments to those with political oversight.
If anyone gets too close to revealing the process, writ large, they become a target of the entire apparatus. President Trump was considered an existential threat to this entire process. Hence our current political status with the ongoing coup.
Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, Senator Lindsey Graham and Senator John McCain meeting with corrupt Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko in December 2016.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because, well, in reality, all of the U.S. Senators (both parties) are participating in the process for receiving taxpayer money and contributions from foreign governments.
A “Codel” is a congressional delegation that takes trips to work out the payment terms/conditions of any changes in graft financing. This is why Senators spend $20 million on a campaign to earn a job paying $350k/year. The “institutes” is where the real foreign money comes in; billions paid by governments like China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Ukraine, etc. etc. There are trillions at stake.” (Read more: Conservative Treehouse, 12/08/2019)
Burisma Holdings
Codel
George Kent
indulgence fees
junkets
Marie Yovanovitch
US Agency for International Development (USAID)
Yuriy Lutsenko
December 6, 2019 – Giuliani alleges $5.3 billion in U.S. aid misused in Ukraine, U.S. embassy told police ‘not to investigate’
Rudy Giuliani (Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
“Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani alleged on Dec. 6 that $5.3 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine was misused, with much of the money going to non-governmental organizations favored by the U.S. embassy.
The embassy, which at the time was led by Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, directed Ukrainian officials not to pursue an investigation of the matter, Giuliani, who is a personal attorney for President Donald Trump, wrote on Twitter.
“Much of the $5.3B in US Aid Ukraine reported as misused was given to the embassy’s favored NGO’s. At the time Yovanovitch, witness for the Witchunt, was the Amb. That embassy directed the police not to investigate,” Giuliani said.
Giuliani did not offer any evidence for his claim. The day before, he wrote that the misuse was discovered by the “Accounts Chamber” in Ukraine, an apparent reference to Ukraine’s Accounting Chamber. The Accounting Chamber is an audit body for Ukraine’s parliament and acts as a watchdog over the state budget.
Giuliani leveled the allegation on the heels of a trip to Europe during which he met and interviewed several former Ukrainian officials, including Yuriy Lutsenko, Viktor Shokin, and Andrii Telizhenko. Shokin, Lutsenko, and Telizhenko have previously alleged misconduct by Obama-administration officials, including Yovanovitch and former Vice President Joe Biden.
One America News (OAN) filmed Giuliani’s interviews with the officials. The channel is scheduled to air the exclusive interview in a two-part series on Dec. 7 and 8. OAN claims the program will “debunk” the Democrat narrative at the center of the impeachment proceedings against Trump.” (Read more: The Epoch Times, 12/06/2019) (Archive)
Accounting Chamber
Andrii Telizhenko
Viktor Shokin
November 22, 2019 – Rudy Giuliani sends a letter to Senator Graham outlining acting U.S ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor’s efforts to block witnesses
Bill Taylor (Credit: Fox News)
“It was evident several weeks ago that U.S. chargé d’affaires to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, is one of the current participants in the coup effort. It was Taylor who engaged in carefully planned text messages with EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland to set-up a narrative helpful to Adam Schiff’s political coup effort.
Rudy Giuliani (Credit: Anthony Devlin/Shutterstock)
Today Rudy Giuliani has released a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham outlining how Bill Taylor has blocked VISA’s for Ukrainian ‘whistle-blowers’ who are willing to testify to the corrupt financial scheme. Unfortunately, Senator Graham, along with dozens of U.S. Senators currently serving, may very well have been a recipient for money through the aforementioned laundry process. So, good luck with the visas.
U.S. senators write foreign aid policies, rules, and regulations thereby creating the financing mechanisms to transmit U.S. funds. Those same senators then received a portion of the laundered funds back through their various “institutes” and business connections to the foreign government offices; in this example Ukraine. [ex. Burisma to Biden]
If anyone gets too close to revealing the process, writ large, they become a target of the entire apparatus. President Trump was considered an existential threat to this entire process. Hence our current political status with the ongoing coup. The letter.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out, because, well, in reality, all of the U.S. Senators (both parties) on the Foreign Relations Committee [Members Here] are participating in the process for receiving taxpayer money and contributions from foreign governments.
Mitch McConnell (Credit: Getty Images)
A “Codel” is a congressional delegation that takes trips to work out the payment terms/conditions of any changes in graft financing. This is why Senators spend $20 million on a campaign to earn a job paying $350k/year. The “institutes” is where the real foreign money comes in; billions paid by governments like China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Ukraine, etc. etc. There are trillions at stake.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell holds the power over these members (and the members of the Senate Intel Committee), because McConnell decides who sits on what committee. As soon as a Senator starts taking the bribes lobbying funds, McConnell then has full control over that Senator. This is how the system works.
The McCain Institute is one of the obvious examples of the financing network. And that is the primary reason why Cindy McCain is such an outspoken critic of President Trump. In essence, President Trump is standing between her and her next diamond necklace; a dangerous place to be.
So when we think about a Senate Impeachment Trial; and we consider which senators will vote to impeach President Trump, it’s not just a matter of Democrats -vs- Republican. We need to look at the game of leverage, and the stand-off between those bribed Senators who would prefer President Trump did not interfere in their process.
McConnell has been advising President Trump which Senators are most likely to need their sensibilities eased. As an example, President Trump met with Lisa Murkowski last week. Senator Murkowski rakes in millions from the Oil and Gas industry, and she ain’t about to allow horrible Trump to lessen her bank account any more than Cindy McCain will give up her frequent shopper discounts at Tiffany’s.
WASHINGTON DC – Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) is getting a high-profile perch as he joins the Senate during his latest clash with President Trump.
Romney was named on Thursday to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, giving him an opening to wade into several looming foreign policy battles between Congress and the White House. (link)
Now do you see how McConnell works?
Oh yeah, about those recess appointments…. Once you see the strings on the Marionettes you can never go back to a time when you did not see them. (Conservative Treehouse, 11/23/2019)
The following day, Giuliani tweets:
My letter to @LindseyGrahamSC
These witnesses have direct (non-hearsay) evidence of Democrat criminal conspiracy with Ukrainians to prevent @realDonaldTrump from being President, and more.
Taylor’s Embassy is uniformly refusing them visas. pic.twitter.com/LZTygHlkwy
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) November 23, 2019
(Republished with permission.)
Gordon Sondland
The Clinton Foundation
The McCain Institute
Ukranian whistleblower
November 15, 2019 – John Solomon asks 15 questions of former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch
After nearly two years of reporting on Ukraine issues, here are 15 questions I think could be most illuminating to everyday Americans if the ambassador answered them.
U.S. Embassy Kiev (Credit: public domain)
Ambassador Yovanovitch, at any time while you served in Ukraine did any officials in Kiev ever express concern to you that President Trump might be withholding foreign aid assistance to get political investigations started? Did President Trump ever ask you as America’s top representative in Kiev to pressure Ukrainians to start an investigation about Burisma Holdings or the Bidens?
What was the Ukrainians’ perception of President Trump after he allowed lethal aid to go to Ukraine in 2018?
In the spring and summer of 2019, did you ever become aware of any U.S. intelligence or U.S. treasury concerns raised about incoming Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his affiliation or proximity to certain oligarchs? Did any of those concerns involve what the IMF might do if a certain oligarch who supported Zelensky returned to power and regained influence over Ukraine’s national bank?
Back in May 2018, then-House Rules Committee chairman Pete Sessions wrote a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggesting you might have made comments unflattering or unsupportive of the president and should be recalled. Setting aside that Sessions is a Republican and might even have donors interested in Ukraine policy, were you ever questioned about his concerns? At any time have you or your embassy staff made comments that could be viewed as unsupportive or critical of President Trump and his policies?
John Solomon reported at The Hill and your colleagues have since confirmed in testimony that the State Department helped fund a nonprofit called the Anti-Corruption Action Centre of Ukraine that also was funded by George Soros’ main charity. That nonprofit, also known as AnTac, was identified in a 2014 Soros foundation strategy document as critical to reshaping Ukraine to Mr. Soros’ vision. Can you explain what role your embassy played in funding this group and why State funds would flow to it? And did anyone consider the perception of mingling tax dollars with those donated by Soros, a liberal ideologue who spent millions in 2016 trying to elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump?
In March 2019, Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko gave an on-the-record, videotaped interview to The Hill alleging that during a 2016 meeting you discussed a list of names of Ukrainian nationals and groups you did not want to see Ukrainian prosecutors target. Your supporters have since suggested he recanted that story. Did you or your staff ever do anything to confirm he had recanted or changed his story, such as talk to him, or did you just rely on press reports?
Now that both the New York Times and The Hill have confirmed that Lutsenko stands by his account and has not recanted, how do you respond to his concerns? And setting aside the use of the word “list,” is it possible that during that 2016 meeting with Mr. Lutsenko you discussed the names of certain Ukrainians you did not want to see prosecuted, investigated or harassed?
Your colleagues, in particular Mr. George Kent, have confirmed to the House Intelligence Committee that the U.S. embassy in Kiev did, in fact, exert pressure on the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office not to prosecute certain Ukrainian activists and officials. These efforts included a letter Mr. Kent signed urging Ukrainian prosecutors to back off an investigation of the aforementioned group AnTac as well as engaged in conversations about certain Ukrainians like Parliamentary member Sergey Leschenko, journalist Vitali Shabunin and NABU director Artem Sytnyk. Why was the US. Embassy involved in exerting such pressure and did any of these actions run afoul of the Geneva Convention’s requirement that foreign diplomats avoid becoming involved in the internal affairs of their host country?
Marie Yovanovitch (Credit: U.S. Embassy, Ukraine)
On March 5 of this year, you gave a speech in which you called for the replacement of Ukraine’s top anti-corruption prosecutor. That speech occurred in the middle of the Ukrainian presidential election and obviously raised concerns among some Ukrainians of internal interference prohibited by the Geneva Convention. In fact, one of your bosses, Under Secretary David Hale, got questioned about those concerns when he arrived in country a few days later. Why did you think it was appropriate to give advice to Ukrainians on an internal personnel matter and did you consider then or now the potential concerns your comments might raise about meddling in the Ukrainian election or the country’s internal affairs?
If the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States suddenly urged us to fire Attorney General Bill Bar or our FBI director, would you think that was appropriate?
At any time since December 2015, did you or your embassy ever have any contact with Vice President Joe Biden, his office or his son Hunter Biden concerning Burisma Holdings or an investigation into its owner Mykola Zlochevsky?
At any time since you were appointed ambassador to Ukraine, did you or your embassy have any contact with the following Burisma figures: Hunter Biden, Devon Archer, lawyer John Buretta, Blue Star strategies representatives Sally Painter and Karen Tramontano, or former Ukrainian embassy official Andrii Telizhenko?
John Solomon obtained documents showing Burisma representatives were pressuring the State Department in February 2016 to help end the corruption allegations against the company and were invoking Hunter Biden’s name as part of their effort. Did you ever subsequently learn of these contacts and did anyone at State — including but not limited to Secretary Kerry, Undersecretary Novelli, Deputy Secretary Blinken or Assistant Secretary Nuland — ever raise Burisma with you?
What was your embassy’s assessment of the corruption allegations around Burisma and why the company may have hired Hunter Biden as a board member in 2014?
In spring 2019 your embassy reportedly began monitoring briefly the social media communications of certain people viewed as supportive of President Trump and gathering analytics about them. Who were those people? Why was this done? Why did it stop? And did anyone in the State Department chain of command ever suggest targeting Americans with State resources might be improper or illegal? (John Solomon, 11/15/2019) (Archive)
Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC)
Artem Sytnyk
Blue Star Strategies
Clinton campaign
illegal surveillance
John Buretta
Karen Tramontano
National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU)
Sally Painter
Serhiy Leshchenko
Trump-Zelensky transcript
Ukrainian nationalists
Victoria Nuland
Vitali Shabunin
Volodymyr Zelensky
November 10, 2019 – People’s Deputy of Ukraine Andriy Derkach, releases documents that prove NABU leaked information to the US Embassy
Andriy Derkach (Credit: Interfax-Ukraine)
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“People’s Deputy of Ukraine Andriy Derkach, initiator of a criminal case on interference in the US elections, released documents from which it follows that the first deputy director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Gizo Uglava for several years provided the US Embassy in Kiev with information that negatively affected the course events in Ukraine and the USA.
At a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Wednesday, he made public the documents received from investigative journalists, including correspondence between NABU officers and representatives of diplomatic missions of foreign states in the framework of criminal proceedings opened under article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine “High Treason”. In particular, the documents that the people’s deputy possesses indicate that Uglava, through her assistant Polina Chizh, transmitted information to the US Embassy, which, he said, is an important part of the “puzzle” of interference in US elections and international corruption.
According to Derkach, he has already transferred these documents to the State Bureau of Investigation (GBR) and the Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The parliamentarian also initiated the creation of a temporary investigative commission of the Verkhovna Rada, and filed a petition for the court to resume the investigation of interference in the election in the United States by divulging pre-trial investigation.
“According to the correspondence, repeatedly, starting from July 14, 2017, from the electronic mailbox of the assistant to the first deputy of NABU Gizo Uglavy [and] Polina Chizh, the lists of criminal proceedings were sent to the legal specialist of the anti-corruption program of the US Department of Justice of the US Embassy in Ukraine Anna Emelyanova, that NABU detectives do, “Derkach said.
Gizo Uglava (l) and Polina Chyz (Credit: public domain and Karlheinz Wedhorn/DOD)
Derkach issued a letter in which Polina Chizh, a NABU employee, received an order from Anna Emelyanova, an employee of the US Embassy, to provide information on the case of Nikolai Zlochevsky, the former Minister of Ecology and owner of the Burisma Group.
The MP also announced the amount of funds transferred to the representatives of the Burisma Group, among which Hunter Biden also appears. According to documents, Burisma paid at least $ 16.5 million in favor of Hunter Biden, Alexander Kwasniewski, Alan Apter and Devon Archer.
At the same time, Derkach claims that international corruption of this magnitude could not take place without the participation of the fifth president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. “International corruption of this magnitude, as well as interference in the election of the US president, could not have occurred without the participation of Petro Poroshenko,” he said.” (Read more: Interfax/Ukraine) (Archive)
2016 election meddling
Alan Apter
Alexander Kwasniewski
Andriy Derkach
Anna Emelyanova
Gizo Uglava
Nikolai Zlochevsky
Polina Chizh
State Bureau of Investigation (GBR)
Verkhovna Rada
November 8, 2019 – Judicial Watch conducts a review of WH visitor logs to learn who the hearsay whistleblower and DNC operative Alexandra Chalupa met
“We have conducted an in-depth analysis of Obama-era White House visitor logs, and we have learned a good deal about the people who controversial CIA employee Eric Ciaramella met with while assigned to the White House.
Ciaramella reportedly was detailed to the Obama White House in 2015 and returned to the CIA during the Trump administration in 2017.
Real Clear Investigations named Ciaramella as possibly being the whistleblower whose complaint sparked impeachment proceedings against President Trump. As reported by the Examiner, Fox News’ legal analyst Gregg Jarrett indicated that a key takeaway was the “reported direct relationship” Ciaramella had with former President Barack Obama’s CIA Director John Brennan and national security adviser Susan Rice, as well as the “Democratic National Committee operative who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.”
The visitor logs also reveal Alexandra Chalupa, a contractor hired by the DNC during the 2016 election, who coordinated with Ukrainians to investigate President Trump and his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, visited the White House 27 times.
The White House visitor logs revealed the following individuals met with Eric Ciaramella while he was detailed to the Obama White House:
Daria Kaleniuk: Co-founder and executive director of the Soros-funded Anticorruption Action Center (AntAC) in Ukraine. She visited on December 9, 2015
The Hill reported that in April 2016, during the U.S. presidential race, the U.S. Embassy under Obama in Kiev, “took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and (AntAC).”
Gina Lentine: Now a senior program officer at Freedom House, she was formerly the Eurasia program coordinator at Soros funded Open Society Foundations. She visited on March 16, 2016.
Rachel Goldbrenner: Now an NYU law professor, she was at that time an advisor to then-Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. She visited on both January 15, 2016 and August 8, 2016.
Orly Keiner: A foreign affairs officer at the State Department who is a Russia specialist. She is also the wife of State Department Legal Advisor James P. Bair. She visited on both March 4, 2016 and June 20, 2015.
Nazar Kholodnitzky: The lead anti-corruption prosecutor in Ukraine. He visited on January 19, 2016.
On March 7, 2019, The Associated Press reported that the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch called for him to be fired.
Michael Kimmage: Professor of History at Catholic University of America, at the time was with the State Department’s policy planning staff where he specialized in Russia and Ukraine issues. He is a fellow at the German Marshall Fund. He was also one of the signatories to the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group Statement of Principles. He visited on October 26, 2015.
James Melville: Then-recently confirmed as Obama’s Ambassador to Estonia, visited on September 9, 2015.
On June 29, 2018, Foreign Policy reported that Melville resigned in protest of Trump.
Victoria Nuland: who at the time was assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs met with Ciaramella on June 17, 2016.
(Judicial Watch has previously uncovered documents revealing Nuland had extensive involvement with the Clinton-funded dossier. Judicial Watch also released documents revealing that Nuland was involved in the Obama State Department’s “urgent” gathering of classified Russia investigation information and disseminating it to members of Congress within hours of Trump taking office.)
Artem Sytnyk: the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau director visited on January 19, 2016.
On October 7, 2019, the Daily Wire reported leaked tapes show Sytnyk confirming that the Ukrainians helped the Clinton campaign.
The White House visitor logs revealed the following individuals met with Alexandra Chalupa, then a DNC contractor:
Charles Kupchan: From 2014 to 2017, Kupchan served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) in the Barack Obama administration. That meeting was on November 9, 2015.
Alexandra Sopko: who at the time was a special assistant and policy advisor to the director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which was run by Valerie Jarrett. Also listed for that meeting is Alexa Kissinger, a special assistant to Jarrett. That meeting was on June 2, 2015.
Asher Mayerson: who at the time was a policy advisor to the Office of Public Engagement under Jarrett had five visits with Chalupa including December 18, 2015, January 11, 2016, February 22, 2016, May 13, 2016, and June 14, 2016. Mayerson was previously an intern at the Center for American Progress. After leaving the Obama administration, he went to work for the City of Chicago Treasurer’s office.
Mayerson met with Chalupa and Amanda Stone, who was the White House deputy director of technology, on January 11, 2016.
On May 4, 2016, Chalupa emailed DNC official Luis Miranda to inform him that she had spoken to investigative journalists about Paul Manafort in Ukraine.
Spreadsheets of visitor records are grouped alphabetically by last name and available here: (Read more: Judicial Watch, 11/08/2019)
Alexa Kissinger
Alexandra Chalupa
Alexandra Sopko
Amanda Stone
Asher Mayerson
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Charles Kupchan
Daria Kaleniuk
Democratic National Committee (DNC)
Eric Ciaramella
Gina Lentine
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Michael Kimmage
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October 22, 2019 – A transcript of William Taylor’s testimony against President Trump shows all of his evidence is hearsay
“A key Democratic witness against Trump admitted in congressional testimony last month that he was not part of the July 25 phone call between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents, that he didn’t see a transcript or readout of it until late September when it was declassified and released, and that he has never even spoken to President Donald Trump.
William Taylor, the charge d’affairs of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, told lawmakers in secret testimony two weeks ago that his opinions about an alleged quid pro quo demanded by Trump were formed largely from conversations with anti-Trump staffers within the diplomatic bureaucracy.
William Taylor (Credit: Ovsyannikova Yulia/Getty Images)
“[Y]ou’ve never spoken to Mr. [Rudy] Giuliani?” Taylor was asked.
“No, no,” he replied.
“Has anyone ever asked you to speak to Mr. Giuliani?”
“No,” Taylor said.
“And if I may, have you spoken to the president of the United States?” Taylor was asked.
“I have not,” he said.
“You had no communications with the president of the United States?”
“Correct,” Taylor said.
He also admitted he had never spoken to Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s chief of staff.
When asked who exactly he had spoken to about the brouhaha, Taylor confirmed that his only contacts about the matter were with John Bolton, the former national security adviser who was fired by Trump, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, and Tim Morrison. Both Hill and Vindman are rumored to have been sources for the so-called whistleblower who filed a complaint against Trump in August.
Taylor also testified that his knowledge of the phone call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky wasn’t first-hand knowledge.
(Read more: The Federalist, 11/06/2019) (Transcript)
Updates may be added:
ZELDIN: “So do you have any other source that the president’s goal in making this request was anything other than The New York Times?”
TAYLOR: “I have not talked to the president. I have no other information from what the president was thinking." https://t.co/NS7q2jTaST
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 6, 2019
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October 15, 2019 – Notes on George Kent’s closed-door testimony
George Kent (Credit: public domain)
“The second witness in the first public “impeachment inquiry” hearing to be called to testify Wednesday by House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) will be George Kent, Deputy Assistant Secretary in the European and Eurasian Bureau at the State Department.
Kent already testified once, on October 15 — behind closed doors and long before an “impeachment inquiry” was authorized. The transcript was only recently released.
Democrats are making Kent one of their two leadoff witnesses because for two reasons. First, he comes across as a likable curmudgeon: while he has sharp criticism for President Donald Trump, he also has a quick wit. Second, he has many negative things to say about the role of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, acting as President Trump’s personal lawyer and also as a player in U.S.-Ukrainian relations. Democrats will use Kent’s testimony to lay the foundation for an attack on Giuliani that they hope will paint the president in the worst possible light as well.
(Giuliani also published an op-ed on Tuesday evening in the Wall Street Journal, which will appear in print on Wednesday: “My client’s call with the Ukrainian president was innocent, and the House inquiry is a travesty.”)
Key Democratic Talking Points
1. Kent will testify that he believes that Giuliani, through dubious sources in Ukraine, was part of a “campaign of slander” that led to President firing Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. One of the key articles in the campaign was published by John Solomon in The Hill, in which former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko claimed that Yovanovitch had given him a “do not prosecute” list. She was alleged to be anti-Trump. She denies all of the claims.
What Democrats aren’t telling you: Yovanovitch may be the innocent victim of a campaign of slander. However, new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Trump in their phone call that he also thought she was “bad.” He said: “I agree with you 100%. Her attitude towards me was far from the best as she admired the previous President and she was on his side. She would not accept me as a new President well enough.” All ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president; there was nothing illegal in her dismissal.
2. In their summary of Kent’s testimony, Democrats claim: “With respect to President Trump’s request that Ukraine investigate former Vice President Biden, Mr. Kent stated: ‘I do not believe the U.S. should ask other countries to engage in politically associated investigations and prosecutions.’” He also said that Trump’s actions were wrong.
What Democrats aren’t telling you: Kent only learned about the request because the president released the transcript. He also had no firsthand knowledge of any connection between aid and investigations. Asked by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), “Do you have any firsthand knowledge of United States aid to Ukraine ever being connected to the opening of a new investigation?”, Kent answered: “I do not have direct knowledge, no.”
3. Kent told the closed-door hearing that he had heard from Ambassador to the E.U. Gordon Sondland that “POTUS wanted nothing less than President Zelensky to go to microphone and say investigations, Biden, and Clinton.”
What Democrats aren’t telling you: Kent himself expressed misgivings about Hunter Biden serving on the board of Burisma, a company associated with Ukrainian corruption. He testified that in 2015, “I raised my concerns [with the vice president’s staff] that I had heard that Hunter Biden was on the board of a company owned by somebody that the U.S. Government had spent money trying to get tens of milljons of dollars back and that could create the perception of a conflict of interest.” He was told that then-Vice President Joe Biden could not be reached to deal with the problem because Biden’s other son, Beau, was dying of cancer. Hunter continued on the board, even though, Kent said, there were concerns in the State Department about Burisma.
Another key point: Kent testified the U.S. has made aid to Ukraine conditional on reform in the past. For example, the U.S. made sovereign loan guarantees from 2014-2016 conditional on reform in the Ukrainian prosecution services. Asked whether he thought former Vice President Biden had used a “quid pro quo” in his now-infamous threat to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid unless Ukraine fired its chief prosecutor, Kent said he preferred the term “conditionality for assistance,” saying that governments use it, as well as the International Monetary Fund (IMF). (Read more: Breitbart, 11/13/2019) (Archive)
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October 11, 2019 – Marie Yovanovitch testifies about her long relationship with Ukrainian neo-nazi official, Arsen Avakov and his fear of Rudy Giuliani snooping around
“The first hints that Giuliani was up to something in Ukraine came to Yovanovitch in November and December of 2018, when she heard that Giuliani was meeting with Yuriy Lutsenko, then the top prosecutor in the country.
Yovanovitch later testified that she learned from embassy staff that “basically there had been a number of meetings between Mr. Lutsenko and Mayor Giuliani, and that they were looking, I should say that Mr. Lutsenko was looking, to hurt me in the U.S.”
By around February, Yovanovitch said, a senior Ukraine official named Arsen Avakov told her he “was very concerned, and told me I really needed to watch my back.”
The official flagged for Yovanovitch that Giuliani, along with his now-indicted middleman Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were meeting with Lutsenko and “were interested in having a different ambassador at post,” according to her testimony.
She thought it was “exceedingly strange,” and testified that, while she understood that the men had business interests in Ukraine, nobody at the embassy had met Parnas and Fruman. Avakov told Yovanivith [sic] that Giuliani reached out to him in early 2019, according to her testimony.
Avakov thought Giuliani’s outreach was “dangerous,” Yovanovitch said, because Ukraine has had bipartisan support in America and to “start kind of getting into U.S. politics, into U.S. domestic politics, was a dangerous place for Ukraine to be.” (Read more: TalkingPointsMemo, 11/04/2019) (Archive) (Yovanovitch Transcript)
Max Blumenthal visits The American Foreign Policy Society while they were hosting neo-nazi Andriy Parubiy inside the Senate on July 2, 2018, as Nazi violence rages in Ukraine. (Credit: Max Blumenthal/Mint Press News)
The Nation writes in December 2016:
“In Ukraine today, power is split between Kiev and heavily armed ultranationalist battalions, which have a long record of not only clashing with Kiev but also defying the will of the EU and Washington.
The ultranationalists’ influence via a policy of veto-through-violence is best exemplified by their continued derailment of the Minsk Accords, the agreement for settling the conflict in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. Minsk is also the key to lifting the anti-Russian sanctions that are hurting European economies and fomenting resentment in countries like France and Italy. It’s no surprise that Paris, Berlin, and the UN have repeatedly stressed that Minsk remains the only solution to the Ukraine conflict. For Ukraine’s far right, however, the accords—which require Kiev to grant Donbass special status, including the right to use the Russian language—are anathema. Accordingly, whenever the West nudges Ukraine to fulfill its Minsk obligations, the far right steps in, often with violence.
In addition to stymieing the Ukraine peace process and resolution of EU-Russia sanctions, the far right has flouted the rule of law, fostered instability, and undermined basic democratic institutions within Ukraine. Gangs tied to the Azov, Aidar, Right Sector, and Tornado battalions have had gun battles with police, intimidated court proceedings, overturned local elections, torched media buildings, attacked undesirable Soviet monuments, violently threatened journalists, and overtly spoken of overthrowing the government.
It is difficult to imagine any stable administration tolerating three years of such brazen challenges to its monopoly over the use of force, yet nearly all of the far right’s actions have gone unpunished.
(…) One reason behind Kiev’s inability and unwillingness to rein in the battalions is because they remain the fiercest, most battle-hardened units in the armed forces; it’s hard to send in the National Guard to restore order when the National Guard itself consists of ultranationalist formations. An equally disturbing reason is that Ukraine’s far right enjoys the support of two extraordinarily powerful politicians: Parliament Speaker Andriy Parubiy and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
Both men played a critical role in harnessing neo-Nazi street muscle during the winter 2013–14 Maidan uprising that resulted in the ouster of corrupt, albeit democratically elected, president Viktor Yanukovych. Parubiy’s ties with the far right go back decades: He co-founded and led the Social-National Party of Ukraine, which used neo-Nazi symbols and whose name, according to Der Spiegel, is an intentional reference to the Nazi Party.
Avakov, in turn, developed Maidan’s “self-defense” formations into heavily equipped paramilitary units that fought in Donbass as well as brutally suppressed any hint of secession in Russian-speaking cities that had not yet fallen to the rebels. In the process, these units amassed a horrific record of rape, torture, kidnapping, murder, and possible war crimes, as attested by numerousAmnesty International and United Nations reports.
After becoming interior minister, Avakov has promoted figures such— as a veteran of the neo-Nazi group Patriot of Ukraine and the Azov Battalion who recently became acting chief over Ukraine’s National Police. The National Police—which was funded, equipped, and trained by Washington—was once held up as a shining example of Washington’s guiding Ukraine toward democracy. The fact that it’s now run by a man with neo-Nazi ties is a particularly ironic example of unintended consequences.” (Read more: The Nation, 12/05/2016) (Archive)
Considering Avakov’s violent history, why was the US Ambassador to Ukraine placating his fear of Giuliani, as well as meeting with him to discuss providing security for Ukraine’s upcoming election?
Avakov tweets on March 21, 2019: “Meeting with US Ambassador Marie Yovanovich discussed urgent issues of ensuring fair and transparent elections, security and preventing provocations at polling stations during voting.” (Credit: Yulia Babich/Twitter)
In a series of tweets by @UkraineLiberty, Yovanovitch’s relationship with Arsen Avakov is further highlighted via her testimony against Trump:
(Credit: @UkraineLiberty)
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March 5, 2019 – Marie Yovanovitch calls for Ukraine’s special anti-corruption prosecutor to be removed
Marie Yovanovitch (Credit: U.S. Ukrainian Embassy)
Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, gives a speech to the Ukraine Crisis Media Center (UCMC) on March 5, 2019, calling for their anti-corruption prosecutor to be fired:
(…) “As observers of Ukraine during this election year, we’ve noticed that since the Ukrainian people want change in their lives and in their government, everyone styles themselves as a reformer. So what are some of the things that are being discussed in Ukraine today, initiatives that could move and help institutionalize the transformation that Ukrainians seek.
I think one thing, coming after last week’s decision, would be passing – actually passing, not just proposing – a new and better amendment to the criminal code that not only restores illicit enrichment as an anti-corruption tool but reinstates the dozens of cases that were undermined by the court decision.
Instead of annulling anti-corruption laws, there are some that believe that the Constitutional Court could focus its attention on revoking the law that requires civil society to file electronic asset declarations, which was clearly intended to undermine the effectiveness of those – like media representatives – who expose corruption and hold elected representatives accountable.
To ensure the integrity of anticorruption institutions, the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor must be replaced. Nobody who has been recorded coaching suspects on how to avoid corruption charges can be trusted to prosecute those very same cases.
Those responsible for corruption should be investigated, prosecuted, and if guilty, go to jail. And in order for that to happen, all of the elements of the anti-corruption architecture must be in place and must be working effectively.
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PUBLISHED, BUT DIDN'T GET INTO MADISON? J.V.C. Comments discovers high-schoolers writing peer-reviewed articles.
I can hardly criticize attempts to prepare 17-year-olds for college-level research and writing, since too many kids learn that sort of thing on the fly--or, as many of us know firsthand, they never really learn it at all.
Still, I find it a little creepy that these kids are getting their papers "published." Since 1987, The Concord Review has reprinted nearly 650 essays by ambitious high-schoolers, and the journal enjoys a convenient symbiotic relationship with The National Writing Board, an official-sounding body that will read a student's essay and send a three-page report to admissions officers at several elite colleges and universities. They'll gladly let Yale know how spiffy they think your kid is--for a $100 fee, of course.
There is dirty work, or at least a positional arms race, at work.
Look, I can't fault the Concord Review/National Writing Board folks for spotting a way to cash in, and I support their stated mission to "celebrate varsity academics." What I can't get behind is their weird romanticization of the grad-school mindset, especially when humanities programs are already bursting with the next generation of grumpy, disillusioned bloggers. I mean, come on, these kids are seventeen. At that age, the accomplishment of having understood Beowulf or the Armenian genocide should be enough. Even if it's not, we should tell them that it is.
Besides, let's be honest about "the only quarterly journal in the world to publish the academic work of secondary students." No one's reading The Concord Review for its contributors' brilliant insights on Jane Eyre or Spanish fascism. They're reading it to study examples of essays that the National Writing Board anoints, because they hope to earn the same accolade and a useful line or two on an application to an elite school. They don't respect the contributor to The Concord Review; they just want what he has.
Not only that, the industrial reserve army in the humanities stands to swell further.
If blogs are still big in around seven years, The Concord Review will help guarantee that the chorus of commiseration sounds depressingly familiar. "Grad school...the job market...the competition...seemed like what I was born to do...why didn't anyone tell me?"
Plus ca change. I still recall the laments from university: "I always got good grades in high school. What are they doing to me?" The lament generalizes, with applicable substitution, to graduate school. Many are called, few are chosen. Deal with it.
WHAT'S FOR SUPPER? That's not just a Midwestern question.
RETROSPECTIVE CARNIVAL. Ralph at Cliopatria discovers a Call for Carnival Entries, this being Early Modern Notes requesting posts dealing with developments 1450-1850. There's also a theory-laced disquisition on the origin of carnivals, should you be curious.
CALLBOY, ROUND UP TWO CREWS: Updates to some of yesterday's posts are running.
BY THEIR FRUITS SHALL YE KNOW THEM. Tyler at Marginal Revolution asks, "Can we judge thinkers by their followers?" His focus is on the followers of Karl Marx; there is an interesting challenge at the end of the post:
Can you tell me, standing on one foot, what exactly is both important and valid in the writings of Martin Heidegger? I'll assume I can use your name unless you tell me otherwise; a blogged answer is best of all.
Some people have already taken him up.
FOURTH TURNING ALERT. What public policies best for the future, and what best for the governing conservative coalition? Dan Drezner points to a David Brooks essay that notes the following policy dimensions.
1. War on Islamic extremism.
2. Entitlement reform.
3. Social mobility
4. Restore integrity of institutions
5. Energy
6. National service.
Professor Drezner's reaction is mixed. He invites readers to read and understand the Brooks essay and offer their comments.
Mr Brooks's conclusion:
By using government in limited but energetic ways, conservatives could establish credibility that would enable them to reduce the size of government where it is useless or worse -- export subsidies, agricultural subsidies and the like. Then they could use that credibility to reduce the increases in entitlement spending -- the giant set of programs that crowd out everything else.
More than that, conservatives have it in their power to refashion the political landscape. American politics is now polarized, evenly divided and stagnant. It has become like World War I. Each party is down in its trench, lobbing the same old arguments, relying on the same old coalitions. Neither party is able to gain a lasting advantage. Neither party is able to accomplish much that it is proud of.
Trench warfare finally ended because somebody invented the tank. It is time for one party or another to invent the tank, some new governing philosophy that will broaden its coalition and transform the partisan divide. For Republicans, the progressive conservative governing philosophy is the tank. It is the approach to politics best suited to the emerging suburban civilization, best suited to life during a war on Islamic extremism. It is the way Republicans can build a governing majority and leave a positive mark on the nation and its destiny.
It also sounds a lot like the same old public policy debate as I have understood it for years: the Democrats offer all sorts of programs, and the Republicans offer to operate them more effectively. I fear that it will take something more jarring than a one-off terror raid with jetliners to get people thinking along those new lines.
RUNNING EXTRA: George Will has it about right:
From the New Deal through the civil rights revolution, liberalism strove to use expanding government to drive the alteration of society. Conservatism's mission was largely restoration -- rolling back big government. Neither persuasion is now plausible.
Kerry insists he is not a "redistribution Democrat." But of course he is. And Bush is a redistribution Republican. There is no "natural" distribution of social wealth. Distribution is influenced by social arrangements, from property laws to tax laws to educational arrangements, all of them political choices. Both parties have redistributionist agendas.
In disavowing "redistribution," Kerry presumably means he rejects the old liberal belief in recarving the economic pie, rather than making the pie grow, to ameliorate the condition of the poor. But he favors using government power to direct the flow of wealth to public school teachers, or to protect the flow to trial lawyers. Up-to-date liberalism defends the strong, not the poor, who are either reliable Democratic voters or nonvoters. Republicans defend their own muscular interests.
The vocabulary of the two-party argument just a generation ago now seems as anachronistic as the 1890s argument about the free coinage of silver. Liberals have next to nothing to say about poverty or, because of their servitude to the public education industry, about the calamitous inadequacy of inner-city schools, which is both a cause and a consequence of the social pathologies of poverty. Conservatives, whose party has delivered on its 2000 promise to increase federal involvement in education and health care, no longer invest even rhetorical energy in the cause of "small" or "limited" government. And now their presidential nominee wants an even bigger government role in policing speech.
This 11-D post on public attitudes toward politics merits attention.
THE MISSING OPTIONS.
Live from the Third Rail investigates the thin service offered by many commuter rail operators, and discovers what regular readers of Cold Spring Shops have long known, namely that the freight railroads have hived off a great deal of capacity and are now clogged with freight trains, particularly coal trains and container loads of goods from the Pacific Rim.
If trains could run at the speeds they were designed to operate, they could pose a real challenge to low-fare airlines, especially with business-related day-trips and short-notice excursions. But since it's more profitable to run freight, passenger service gets cut. Unlike trucking companies, railroads can speed up their own traffic by Is this unfair? Not really, since the companies who own the track would be negligent in their responsibility to their shareholders if they didn't try to maximize profits.
Theoretically, if the government nationalized the tracks, they could allocate use based on a variety of factors, including traffic reduction. But that's not going to happen, since Congress would never allow it, and experience in other nations has shown separating track and train owners is a very, very bad idea.
The passenger train operators could renegotiate the contracts with the freight railroads that own the tracks, so as to make it more profitable to run the passenger trains on time. Currently, however, the railroads might hold-up the passenger train operators for payments far in excess of the benefits of the faster service, or tell the operators to go away, or some combination of both. (The latest print edition of Trains notes that Amtrak's Chicago-Los Angeles via El Paso is at risk of both having part of its route further downgraded account light traffic and part of its route jammed with freight trains. The Chicago-Los Angeles via Kansas City and Albuquerque also faces both problems.)
Live from the Third Rail notes the following policy options.
So here's what's left:
Build new tracks. This is very expensive and an eminent domain nightmare of the highest order anywhere you have enough riders to build new tracks.
Add more tracks on existing lines. They're doing this in some places already, along with upgrading signaling. It costs less money, but doesn't improve service as much.
Improve trucking. All over the country, ideas for truck-only highways, bridges and tunnels are being considered as a way to move trucks away from the gridlock. As a secondary result, you'd think rail traffic would decrease, allowing for more room for passenger service. But track owners may still want to minimize Amtrak and commuter line runs out of a desire to increase their own flexibility, which has its own economic benefits.
Do nothing. Better stock up on the books on tape, because drive time radio isn't getting any better either.
There is one further possibility: bring back the discipline of moving hot trains. The steam-era railroads understood how to do that.
SECOND SECTION: Eminent domain nightmare? Perhaps. On the other hand, perhaps it is time to consider those new truck-only tollways -- with freight railroads in the median -- as a way to provide additional freight handling capability and to free up road and rail space for passengers. And, pace Transport Blog, it does not have to be the case that without eminent domain -- compulsory purchase in the U.K. -- there would be no railroads. Many of the interurbans and a few of the more speculative railroads acquired their rights of way and easements by voluntary purchase, often sweetened with shares of stock.
CARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS. It's Monday, and time for the Carnival of the Capitalists, this week at New Dog, Old Trick. (Must I phrase the announcement in the Olympian mode: the posts of the CI Carnival of the Capitalists ...?)
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Hundred Percenter posted a number of pictures from Sunday's pre-convention march through Manhattan. The person holding the sign has a bit too much of the Ann Coulter sorority chick look about her ...
The truth is out. The New Republic discovered, and Outside the Beltway relayed, the news that Communists for Kerry is a bit of guerilla theater turned loose within the guerilla theater. Outside the Beltway also links to Blogs for Bush coverage. Sylvain at Chicago Boyz is amused.
RUNNING EXTRA: Power Line and Captain's Quarters interview the current Miss America inside the convention. No guerilla theater there.
OLYMPICS, OBSOLETE? Perhaps for reasons additional to the organization of players by countries, according to Reason's Nick Gillespie.
But in an increasingly globalized world, one in which goods and people migrate without a second thought, such variety and such mixing is an everyday occurrence. An ever-growing number of niche cable channels deliver ever-more tailored sports content and the World Wide Web caters to every possible fetish, in sports every bit as much as porn. Compared to 30 years ago, it's a much smaller globe—and a far more interesting world. But in such a setting, the Olympics lose a good deal of what the ad men would call their "unique selling proposition."
Even more important, the great geopolitical struggles that energized the Olympics have almost completely vanished. First and foremost among these, of course, was the Cold War. Every bit as much as Korea, Vietnam, and Berlin, the Olympics were one of the great proxy battles of the Cold War, pitting the Free World vs. the Iron Curtain, Western Europe vs. Eastern Europe, the U.S.A. vs. the U.S.S.R. Bruce Jenner's 1976 triumph in the decathlon was not simply about shattering a world record; it also represented a slapdown of the 1972 champion, Nikolai Avilov, the Soviet "man machine" who struggled to bronze in Montreal. Nor was the Cold War the only political subtext to enliven the Olympics. Almost as compelling was the rise to athletic dominance of former colonies such as Kenya in track and India and Pakistan in field hockey.
Every Summer Olympics from 1968 through 1984 occasioned some sort of major protest or boycott.
(Via Champology 101.)
TODAY'S RECOMMENDED RAILROAD READING. In the course of researching "electricity keeping its own books" I found a reproduction of a 1923 National Geographic tribute to railroading.
The article is a great sketch of classic steam-era railroading. It sheds some light on why people still react to someplace busy with "What is this, Grand Central Station?"
Oh, and no doubt the Blame-America-Firsters of that era would find much about these sentences to complain about the ending to the article.
The United States has about one-sixteenth of the earth's land and an equal proportion of its population, yet it has nearly a third of the world's railway mileage. Its population is only one-fourth that of Europe, yet it has almost enough miles of line to duplicate the systems of Europe and Asia together.
Got to find the figures for today. Perhaps later.
POLITICS MAKES STRANGE SUPPER GUESTS. Hey, I like vegetarian tamales too. Soy ground beef substitute and spicy black beans. Yummy!
ELECTRICITY KEEPING ITS OWN BOOKS, FORSOOTH! Years ago, the Milwaukee Road's electrified mountain lines
employed regenerative braking, in which the train going down the mountain helped power the train going up the mountain. As one enthusiast describes it,
Perhaps the coolest aspect of the electrification system adopted by the Milwaukee was regeneration. When trains went down hill the electric motors were used as generators. This both slowed the train down (with substantial savings in the cost of replacing brake-shoes), and returned power to the system to help ascending trains, reducing the overall power needs by about twelve percent. Heavy capital costs, but significant operational savings (despite padding of costs); the net benefit was later found to amount to a return on investment of nine percent annually.
The Milwaukee's publicists were somewhat more colorful (40 Trains 46, July 1970, print edition.)
The restored current automatically sets back the power company's meters and credits the Railway with the amount. Electricity keeping its own books, forsooth!
Ah, but at what rate does the Power Company credit the consumer? Michael at Knowledge Problem has discovered an Iowa regulatory case in which "setting back the meter" isn't good enough for the Power Company, who would like to buy at wholesale and sell at retail.
Under net metering, a retail energy consumer with a small generator is only billed by the electric utility for the net power consumption over the billing period. In the Iowa case, the cooperative wanted to charge the retail consumer the retail price for power the consumer took from the system, and pay the retail consumer a lower “avoided cost” rate for any power the consumer put back into the system. The plaintiffs wanted to to be paid at the higher retail rate for power put back into the system.
The Iowa Supreme Court decided for the plaintiffs on the grounds that the underlying law, PURPA, was intended to encourage renewable resource development, and paying the (higher) retail rate would encourage renewable resources more than paying the (lower) avoided cost rate. In a dissenting opinion, a judge argued that PURPA required payment of a rate not higher than the incremental cost to the utility (i.e., the avoided cost), and the retail rate “is manifestly not the cost to the utility.”
After citing the dissenting opinion, IREC commented, “This argument is well reasoned, but not the majority opinion.”
Sounds like a somewhat more sophisticated meter than the St. Paul used. If the wind turbine owned by the plaintiff in the case simply runs the meter backwards, there is insufficient information to dispute the rate. There is a serious legal problem here, but the analogy Mr Giberson offers is strained.
Economically, the arguments in favor of net metering are all mush. If I picked apples from a tree in my backyard and took them into the supermarket, should the supermarket have to pay me the retail price for my apples? The cooperative’s proposal to charge retail for amounts consumed and pay avoided costs for amounts produced by the generator-equipped customer seems a little more reasonable, at least as a matter of logic.
I think his main point is that the Power Company is functioning as a sales agent for the windmill owner, who would otherwise be in the position of the orchard owner who would have to market his own apples in excess of his own consumption. But is it not the case that the opportunity cost of the apple I ate myself -- or the windmill-generated electricity I used to power my trains -- is the retail price? I have avoided paying that price by doing it myself.
Labels: energy, ferroequinology, technology
WHAT, NO CATS? King at SCSU Scholars is contemplating posting a Friday macro-economy review. The first is informative. Hie thee there and encourage him to post more.
OVERINDULGED SECOND-STRING STREET THUGS UNDERACHIEVE. Why am I not disappointed? Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel sports commentator Michael Hunt diagnoses the problem.
So the question going forward is how the United States, now in a shocking underdog role, can play catch-up to the world in the game it invented. Having a year-round coach would help. [Pro basketball commissioner David] Stern suggested importing a few expatriates from the European leagues who understand the game and could teach it to the Americans.
That makes sense, but it all starts at the top. It was Stern who made the decision to market his league on the basis of the individual star. It has made everybody rich, including Stern, but it has done nothing to enhance the basics that the rest of the world can now do better than the Americans.
Playing as a team would be a start. So would relearning how to shoot. USA basketball. It's not fundamental.
Hear, hear. Hear this, too: it is not the case that the street game has made everybody rich. There has to be research on the effect the large rewards to a few players has had on the human-capital investments of young men, particularly young men of little intellectual ambition from poor neighborhoods. The corrosive effect of big-time sports on the integrity of the universities is well-documented.
SECOND SECTION: The U.S. women's team rallied to defeat the Australian team in the gold medal game. The women's game is still a team game. And really, would you rather look at Allen Iverson or at Lisa Leslie?
THAT SUBSIDY TO THE UPPER-MIDDLE CLASSES. "Keep UW affordable," urge the editors at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
The costs of a University of Wisconsin education have been increasingly shifting from taxpayers to students and their families - setting in motion two alarming and related trends:
(*)Fewer students from middle- to lower-income brackets are enrolling than they used to.
(*)A smaller share of the state's high school grads of color are winding up as UW freshmen.
Policy-makers must reverse these trends - and pronto - by stepping up financial aid and by keeping in check future tuition increases.
These trends betray ideals that lie at the heart of America and of Wisconsin. College opens up opportunities to young people, opportunities that in America are supposed to depend solely on talents, not on race or wealth. Wisconsin observed that principle with a long-standing policy of keeping UW affordable - a policy that steep tuition hikes are threatening.
There is more to this story. On the one hand, the Journal-Sentinel have not discussed the vanishing art of working your way through college. Have the summer-replacement factory jobs gone missing to such an extent that students are no longer able to earn their tuition with such a summer job, and a part-time job during college? At one time, within my lifetime, that was possible. On the other hand, the writers have missed the expense-preference behavior of the court intellectuals in Madison. (Hat tip: Owen at Boots and Sabers).
SCHEISTENFREUDE? Bill at Atlantic Blog and Owen at Boots and Sabers have suitably caustic comments about the ownership of the bus that did an unauthorized tank-pumpout onto a sightseeing boat in the Chicago River.
Witnesses told authorities the deluge of waste came from a long black tour bus crossing the grated bridge. At least one witness gave police an Oregon license plate number.
Surveillance cameras at neighborhood businesses helped Madigan's investigators and Chicago police detectives trace the bus to Whol, a Texas man who is identified in the complaint as one of five drivers for the Dave Matthews Band, authorities said.
Whol was driving to pick up a band member at a Michigan Avenue hotel when the bus crossed the bridge, according to the three-count civil complaint filed in Cook County Circuit Court. Later that evening, the band played the second of two shows at Alpine Valley in East Troy, Wis.
A band publicist issued a statement Tuesday night saying, "Our driver has stated that he was not involved in this incident. We reserve any judgment until we see the evidence."
Luxury coaches like the ones leased by the band are equipped with 80- to 100-gallon waste tanks that are emptied underneath the vehicle by pushing a toggle switch behind the driver's seat, according to the attorney general's complaint.
In addition to seeking fines for violations of state laws, Madigan said she is asking the court to order an evaluation of the band's waste disposal practices. State officials said most charter buses dump waste at licensed disposal facilities."
This incident may be unique, but that does not lessen the environmental or public health risks posed by the release of at least 800 pounds of liquid human waste into a busy waterway and onto a crowded tour boat," Madigan said in a statement. "This situation clearly demonstrates the environmental and public health problems that can occur when laws are ignored. This act was not only offensive, it was illegal."
Two wicked thoughts come to mind. First, is the Department of Transportation going to mandate new labels for the pumpout switches? (Drivers will please refrain from ...)
Second, as the Dave Matthews Band is shilling for Senator Kerry, can it be said that the Kerry campaign has used biological weapons on its own constituents?
THE FATAL CONCEIT. Krauthammer:
Upon losing a game at the 1925 Baden-Baden tournament, Aaron Nimzowitsch, the great chess theoretician and a superb player, knocked the pieces off the board, jumped on the table and screamed, "How can I lose to this idiot?"
Nimzowitsch may have lived decades ago in Denmark, but he had the soul of a modern American Democrat. After all, Democrats have been saying much the same -- with similar body language -- ever since the erudite Adlai Stevenson lost to the syntactically challenged Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. They said it again when they lost to that supposed simpleton Ronald Reagan. Twice, would you believe? With George W. Bush, they are at it again, and equally apoplectic.
Actually, this time around, even more apoplectic. The Democrats' current disdain for George Bush reminds me of another chess master, Efim Bogoljubov, who once said, "When I am White, I win because I am White" -- White moves first and therefore has a distinct advantage -- "when I am Black, I win because I am Bogoljubov." John Kerry is a man of similar vanity -- intellectual and moral -- and that spirit thoroughly permeates the Democratic Party.
Democrats feel a mixture of horror and contempt for the huddled masses -- so bovine, so benighted, so besotted with talk radio -- who made a king of an empty-headed movie star (Reagan, long before Arnold) and inexplicably want the Republicans' current nitwit leader to have a second term.
Does it come as any surprise that many in the academy fancy themselves court intellectuals for the Donks? Got news for you: Commander in Chief is a different sort of office than, say, president of the National Honor Sociey chapter, or secretary-general of the University Council.
RUNNING EXTRA: None of the above deters Howell Raines. D.J. at Poli Pundit applies the corrective. (Hat tip: Betsy's Page.)
REMEMBER LAST NIGHT'S SERMONS? Years ago, best-selling memoirs were the work of older people, such as Civil War commanders, reflecting on a lifetime's accomplishment. Today, spoiled twentysomethings write memoirs. If the one in question becomes a best-seller, do not blame me.
THERE IS A CARNIVAL OF THE CARNIVALS. Regular readers of Cold Spring Shops will know that King of Fools has been posting the Carnival of the Carnivals regularly; the most recent is here. Regular readers of Instapundit may be excused for thinking there is no such thing yet. You've got to explore the web a bit more, Glenn!
THE REAL BULL-HEADED SUVOROV.
Robert E. Lee.
Yes, that's a bit strong, and yes, there is a conversation at Brad DeLong's place about which Civil War commander was the most wasteful of life.
Might I recommend A Victor, Not a Butcher (details or compare prices) that argues General Grant was more careful with lives than any other eastern theater commander including General Lee. The summary: (p. xv.)
In fact, an average of "only" 15 percent of Grant's Federal troops were killed or wounded in his battles over the course of the war -- a total of slightly more than 94,000 men. In contrast, Grant's major Confederate counterpart, Robert E. Lee, who is often treated far more kindly by historians, had greater casualties both in percentages and in real numbers: an average of 20 percent of his troops were killed or wounded in his battles -- a total of more than 121,000 (far more than any other Civil War general). Lee had 80,000 of his men killed or wounded in his first fourteen months in command (about the same number he started with). ...
Both Grant and Lee were aggressive generals, but only Grant's aggressiveness was consistent with the strategic aims of his government. ... Lee needed a tie but went for the win, while Grant needed a win, went for it, and achieved it.
How effective was Grant after the debacle at Cold Harbor? (Author Edward Bonekemper argues was not the pointless slaughter many have portrayed it to be). (p. 265.)
As Jean Edward Smith concluded, Grant's detaching a 115,000 man army from his foe and secretly crossing the James River "was a perilous maneuver and an incredible tactical accomplishment, and it in no way diminishes Patton's accomplishment [in changing fronts during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944] to say that it pales alongside Grant's withdrawal from Cold Harbor and his crossing of the James in June 1864."
That maneuver, incidentally, made possible the penning-up of Lee's army in Petersburg, seven weeks after Grant began his campaign. Grant's total casualties (killed, wounded, captured, and missing) from Wilderness to Appomattox totaled 116,954. Preceding eastern theater commanders suffered 143,925 total casualties (p. 249) to no effect.
Mr Bonekemper cites other sources that provide some insights into the character of the man. Contemporary leaders might study these (p. 256). First, on his alcoholism. Citing James McPherson,
[Grant's] predisposition to alcoholism may have made him a better general. His struggle for self-discipline enabled him to understand and discipline others; the humiliation of prewar failures gave him a quiet humility that was conspicuously absent from so many generals with a reputation to protect; because Grant had nowhere to go but up, he could act with more boldness and decision than commanders who dared not risk failure.
Second, on his style. Citing Adam Badeau,
Not a sign about him suggested rank or reputation or power. He discussed the most ordinary themes with apparent interest, and turned from them in the same quiet tones, and without a shade of difference in his manner, to decisions that involved the fate of armies, as if great things and small were to him of equal moment.
Labels: civil war, history
AND YET MORE CONGESTION PRICING. Peak load pricing gains support:
The Virginia Department of Transportation said yesterday that it would build high-occupancy toll lanes on a 14-mile stretch of the Capital Beltway, working with a private partner to create the first of an extensive network of the new-style highways for the Washington region.
The plan would add two lanes on each side of the Beltway, separated from other traffic, between Springfield and the Georgetown Pike. The high-occupancy toll lanes -- or HOT lanes -- would be free for car pools of three or more people, but others would pay for the privilege of using them. To keep the lanes from clogging, tolls would increase with the amount of traffic.
"We want to build HOT lanes," said Virginia Transportation Commissioner Philip A. Shucet. "I think it could be one of the few options that we have to meaningfully improve mobility."
Virginia and Maryland leaders plan a network of congestion-priced highways that they say will unclog roadways in a region with the third-worst traffic in the nation. Virginia officials are considering additional HOT lanes on parts of Interstates 95 and 395, and Maryland officials are exploring plans to build them on the Beltway, I-270, the Baltimore Beltway and I-95 north of Baltimore.
Not everybody will pay to cut the line each day.
Officials have embraced the concept as a way to give motorists relief from chronic tie-ups. They do not expect drivers to take HOT lanes every day, but they believe that everyone would use them sometimes. Occasional users might include parents who are late to pick up children from day care, business people who are rushing to meet clients, and fed-up commuters who simply want to get out of traffic.
"I'm all for it. I would gladly pay a premium," said Harry Dennis of Arlington, a lawyer who drives the Beltway almost every day. Dennis said he would have taken the Beltway yesterday to get from Reston to Springfield if it had HOT lanes, but because traffic is so unpredictable, he took back roads.
"It's such a crapshoot the way it is right now," Dennis said.
Backers also say the lanes would allow for bus service that Beltway traffic jams now make impractical. In addition, drivers on regular lanes would benefit when cars move over to the HOT lanes, supporters say.
Not everybody likes the idea.
HOT lane opponents say the tolls amount to double taxation because public funds are used to build roads. "We pay the taxes for them; we shouldn't have to pay for them again with tolls," said Jim Wamsley, transportation chairman of the Sierra Club's Virginia chapter. Wamsley said he objected to the Beltway HOT lanes having tolls at all hours, rather than just during peak times.
This statement sounds a bit surprising. But when I visited the Sierra Club's energy issues pages, I was not able to find any discussion of carbon taxation, so Mr Wamsley's ignorance is not compounded by inconsistency. And it's rather churlish of him to not thank me for kicking in some of the money for his congested roads, which I do every time I fill my gas tank or replace -- thankfully, not that frequently -- a set of tires, assuming Congress isn't playing around again with the highway trust fund.
LIGHTHOUSE, OR RADIO SIGNAL? Lynne at Knowledge Problem and Eric at Marginal Revolution are doing some heavy intellectual lifting on whether a satellite-driven, open-signal Global Positioning System qualifies as a pure public good. Neither post considers the possibility that such satellites, whether sending signals in the clear, or sending signals that require a special decoder -- and thus the possibility of excluding free riders by selling renewable code keys -- have elements of natural monopoly (or is it a transaction cost problem in which one satellite club can steal members from two or more smaller clubs??) that might vitiate contestability.
There is a precursor to the Global Positioning System that is kind of interesting. The Illustrated Longitude (the original book is a great read, there are marvelous maps, drawings, and photos in the illustrated version -- details or compare prices) tells of a plan to anchor ships at well-defined locations in the ocean that would fire guns to give the hour in London. Give or take the speed of sound, ships within earshot of the guideships would be able to reckon their longitude by comparing their observation of local noon with the hour gun signal they heard. (But if one could anchor guideships in the ocean, one could put identifying marks on them exactly as lighthouses and bell buoys, and reckoning longitude would cease to be a problem as ships could proceed from guideship to guideship.) Satellites can be anchored -- it's called geosynchronous orbit -- and run on batteries without getting lonely, thus addressing several practical problems that scuppered the guideship idea.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. Vice President Cheney plans to attend Speaker Hastert's fund-raising dinner, which will be in the Northern Illinois University Convocation Center. No doubt the Washington beat and the policy wonks (go to page 20) will find occasion to carp about Northern Illinois University again benefitting from its Washington connection. Would that I knew where the $16.5 million went.
OBVIOUSLY NOT. USA Today's William Keck rides with paparazzo Mel Bouzad, in quest of an exclusive shot. Today's quarry: Britney Spears's soon-to-be-stepchild.
Bouzad reaches Spears' house just in time to see the heavily tattooed [fiancé Kevin] Federline cruising home from the grocery store. “That guy's a chump,” says Bouzad. “And you can print that.”
Bouzad routinely injects his personal feelings for the celebs he hunts, maintaining contempt for most. He insists that if he invested enough time and manpower, he could find dirt on them all and systematically destroy their lives.
Nonsense. He's well paid for the scandals he uncovers.
Whether you love the paparazzi or share George Clooney's disdain for the ground they stalk on, there's no denying these guys live an exciting life. And with demand for celebrity photos at an all-time high and with the weekly bidding war among Star, Us Weekly, People and In Touch magazines, there's a lot of money to be made.
Those celebrity photos are not airbrushed publicity shots, I can assure you. More dirt? Just more loutishness for people with no internal compass of their own to emulate. It is encouraging, however, that the hunter of celebrities has less respect for his game than the hunter of deer.
EVERYTHING I LIKE GOES AWAY. In February, I praised ATA for making effective use of its gates at Chicago Midway Airport. So naturally, ATA may or may not be leaving Chicago, and other carriers may or may not be coveting its gates at Midway. Sounds like a parody of the Baptist call to worship. Jet Blue enters into ATA's gates with Thanksgiving, and into bankruptcy courts with Praise. (Time to power down for the night, nicht wahr?)
A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. Illinois Governor Blagojevich would like to encourage greater use of the I-Pass electronic transponders in cars and to discourage trucks from cluttering the toll roads. It's probably not yet time for freight corridors -- truck only toll roads with railroad tracks in the median strip but, as this Chicago Tribune story (yes, you must register. You too.) reveals, it might be time for discounts to encourage the use of the transponder and peak load pricing for the trucks.
FOURTH TURNING ALERT. Students return to campus, where the times, they are a-changing. Outside the Beltway points to a Time column discovering -- gasp -- libertarian-conservative thinking among the students. The column rounds up the usual Old Right suspects as catalysts of the mood shifts. There is something happening here, which to Time isn't exactly clear.
Many of them think the President has betrayed them by signing bills fattening Medicare and the Department of Education. Though the students embrace small businesses built on enterprise, they criticize big ones for knowing no borders and observing no national loyalties. And while he is fringe even among those students, 40-year-old hip-hop entrepreneur Reginald Jones — who says the Iraq invasion was unconstitutional because Congress never declared war and who decries post-9/11 security measures as infringements on our freedoms — has become one of the most popular figures among the young right. His raucous seminar on the evils of abortion, taxation, the Democrats and "milquetoast" Republicans — as well as the pleasures of NASCAR — didn't end until 2:30 one morning.
That first sentence is particularly promising, as it suggests future student radicals will discover the root cause of high textbook prices. Young people are speaking their minds in a different way.
But while professors may lean left, many students are tilting right — especially toward that brand of conservatism known as libertarianism. According to a well-regarded annual survey sponsored for the past 38 years by the American Council on Education, only 17% of last year's college freshmen thought it was important to be involved in an environmental program, half the percentage of 1992. A majority of 2003 freshmen--53%--wanted affirmative action abolished, compared with only 43% of all adults. Two-thirds of frosh favored abortion rights in 1992; only 55% did so in last year's survey. Support for gun control has slipped in recent years among the young, and last year 53% of students believed that "wealthy people should pay a larger share of taxes than they do now," compared with 72% 11 years earlier.
Many students want to win one for the Gipper.
At the National Conservative Student Conference earlier this month, the students cheered nearly every time Reagan was mentioned — which is saying something, given that the name of the recently deceased President was invoked constantly. The conference's souvenir T shirt featured Reagan's image and the words THE REAGAN REVOLUTION LIVES! On the first morning, when the students were invited to the podium to introduce themselves, several said the 40th President had inspired their conservatism.
No one mentioned Bush. Which brings us back to this year's race. Although students are moving right on many issues, the President isn't necessarily benefiting. In 2000 Al Gore beat Bush among 18-to 29-year-olds by only 2 percentage points, but recent polls show Kerry with a double-digit lead among the young. (The race is a virtual tie overall.) Of course, very few conservative students will vote for Kerry, but most of the kids who attended the conference didn't seem eager to become field troops for the President either. As National Review editor Rich Lowry noted on the conservative magazine's website the day after he spoke at the conference, "What was most notable about this year was just how many smart young conservatives out there seem to think that there are no important differences between Bush and Kerry."
Some see the value of gridlock.
One student laid out a conservative case for Kerry: "When a Democrat is in office and proposes the same policies that Bush has proposed, Republicans act Republican and kill them," said Aakash Raut, 23, a senior at the University of Illinois at Springfield, in a heated debate with pro-Bush students. "And you have actually more conservative government than you do if a Republican is in the White House."
Outside the Beltway is a bit perplexed by the Reagan nostalgia.
What's odd about the piece is that it attributes this trend to Ronald Reagan, noting that these kids all grew up in the post-Reagan era and that they seem more enamored of Reagan than Bush. While Reagan was certainly a major proponent of liberty, he was hardly libertarian by most standards. And one suspects the relative affection for Reagan over Bush 43 has more to do with nostalgic reflection and the former's oratorical skills rather than substantive policy issues.
No, it might have something to do with substance. Compare and contrast. President Reagan's inaugural address asserted, "government is the problem." President Bush greeted Congress with, "Year after year in Washington, budget debates seem to come down to an old, tired argument: on one side, those who want more government, regardless of the cost; on the other, those who want less government, regardless of the need." As that essayist put it, "George W. Bush is no Ronald Reagan."
The Time essay touches on the possibility that student libertarianism and conservatism is simply the newest form of youthful rebellion, a point King at SCSU Scholars raises in commenting on a Christian Science Monitor article discovering libertarians and conservatives, before he makes an observation that is likely closer to reality: "I don't think people are sick of "do what you want" when it means freedom. Perhaps they've learned that liberty and libertine are two different things, and maybe they've learned that what their parents had in the 1960s wasn't freedom." A companion Monitor article lends some credence to that observation.
On many campuses, protesters dwell on the margins rather than in the mainstream of campus life. Some of their fellow students may admire their convictions - but others confess that they find activism more annoying than persuasive.
At Harvard University - where protests range from noisy antiwar rallies to smaller but equally zealous antiabortion demonstrations - many students say such actions are missing the mark.
"A lot of [the activists], liberals and conservatives alike, are fanatics or hopelessly idealistic," says Michael Soto, a Harvard senior studying Latin American development. "I'm not sure how much they actually accomplish, since it's just a small group. They are mainly annoying to the rest of the campus, and ineffectual."
What's that bit about an activist being someone whose mouth is more active than his mind? Best of the Web has a somewhat more transgressive hypothesis: the make-love-not-war parents of the early Eighties aborted many of the leftist students who would otherwise be here today.
There's something happening within the establishment, too. The academician is not reflexively a leftist, although he might not be that effective as a public intellectual.
For better or worse, election years lure many members of my profession out of the ivory tower and into the real world. As political events heat up, historians are summoned to illuminate the political landscape for a wide audience that suddenly craves the insights our expertise supposedly qualifies us to deliver. Generally the appeals flatter, and generally we descend and comply.
Traditionally, the most conspicuous obstacle to our effectiveness as public intellectuals has been the idea that we're all radical lefties marching in lockstep with the Democratic platform. But this stereotype is woefully inaccurate. In reality, academics -- especially middle-aged and older ones -- are just as likely to be libertarians or conservatives as they are woolly minded liberals. In point of fact, our most skewed collective bias is something more disturbing: We're pathologically close-minded.
(Via Betsy's Page.) Not only that, the old order is rapidly fading.
First, it seems we are experiencing one of those moments when history shifts its gears, and the accredited elites cannot seem to grasp what is happening, and cling desperately to the pieces of their fraying reputation. It’s a shift that the army of talented bloggers out there, part of one of the most genuinely populist movements ever to arise in modern American politics, has been announcing for a long time---perhaps a little prematurely and self-interestedly, but what they have been predicting is now clearly upon us. The baby-boomer generation’s journalistic and academic elites sought, and gained, control over the nation’s chief organs of knowledge production, accreditation, and communication, with all the enormous power and influence that has entailed. But now the Gramscian monopoly is crumbling, and they cannot see how they are themselves largely to blame for their own discrediting. The moves by Kerry’s campaign to stifle discourse---threaten booksellers, bully publishers, file lawsuits, seek regulatory restraints---are all too indicative of a reflex to control speech, and thereby deprive a democratic society of the oxygen it needs to thrive. Those of us who live and work in universities have been all too familiar with this reflex, which has been more triumphant than not in the academy, to the enduring detriment of academic discourse. But it is much harder to control and stifle journalistic and non-traditional media of expression. The credential-flashing of Mr. Oliphant (who somehow neglected to mention that his daughter is employed by the Kerry campaign, an uncomfortable fact brought out by the bloggers) looks more and more like the flash of an empty suit.
(Via Newmark's Door.) The shift, moreover, is generational.
This collective view emerged as a rather well-intentioned product of an age of wild hope, ill-informed academic speculation, and youthful optimism about the world. Nurtured in the great European and American universities, it was statist, existentialist, anti-religious, suspicious of any science that did not support its views, snobbish, pacifist, anti-technological, hedonistic in practice, puritan in theory, postmodernist in its tastes, committed to a social rather than an individual morality, hostile to the virtue tradition, sentimentally Romanticist in its attitude to Nature (which, in an unconsciously Creationist turn, did not include human beings), relativist about cultural differences, legalistic, optimistic about human nature, and deeply hostile to the marketplace. In one sense it was a nostalgia for the aristocratic European world of our collective rose-tinted memory, when the virtues of artists and intellectuals and university-educated people were recognized automatically, and merchants and financiers were "rightly" despised. In another sense it was a yearning for the dear lost days of revolutionary fervor, moral certainty, "free" sex and callow cynicism about tradition and respectability. It was escapist in its worship of Otherness -- cultural, social, political, economic, ideological, sexual, biological -- and conformist in its anxious attention to the next move of its "coolest" current leadership.
Harmless enough as a cultural phenomenon, one might think, though perhaps unhealthily centered upon the desires and dreams of a single very large generation of people born in the years following the Second World War. The problem arises when such a fashion effectively takes over the university system, as it did in the seventies and eighties, and then rises into positions of leadership in the great institutions of journalism. The journalistic Boomers themselves, who had often been trained by scholars who believed that there might be truth about a state of affairs that could be closely approached if not fully attained, usually knew when they were bending the truth and spinning for political advantage. Their leftist principles taught them that objectivity was desirable in the abstract and might again become feasible and desirable once the inequities of society were resolved. In any case, they felt, one should not lightly fritter away the legacy of credibility built up since the Enlightenment by the great authoritative institutions of civilization -- science, historiography, the serious newspapers, the great museums, the courts, and so on. But their younger followers and employees, postmodernist in belief-system, educated by ideologically relativist and politically correct junior professors, and increasingly deprived of the basics in logic, ethics, and inductive reasoning by their specialist education, were no longer capable of making any distinction between what was true and what was conducive to their social ideals.
Not only that, the idea of a "long march" to capture the institutions might have been an error. Once one has the institutions, one has to fortify them. Fixed fortifications are more easily bypassed and left to wither than stormed directly. That the people who took possession of the forts became dizzy with success afterward cannot have helped them.
THEY'RE ALL GOING TO LAUGH AT YOU. It's the beginning of the academic conference season (Economics has its right after the New Year begins, making for a hectic spring job season) which means people who cannot find a consensus without arguing for 30 minutes about the placement of a comma attempt to speak with one voice on Pressing National Matters. Atlantic Blog uncovers two examples of silliness. First, a Guardian writer discovers the American Sociological Association speaking with one querulous voice against something resembling the Washington Consensus. Bill's reaction:
One of the more pathetic characteristics of academics is an inflated sense of self-importance. Academics are people who have, for the most part, done well in school, and are used to the praise that goes with it. It can be very hard on them to discover, when they go out into the big world, that the rest of the world does not always value highly what they do.
There's more. Go read it. Second, the American Political Science Association has rounded up the usual suspects to make the usual arguments.
What is depressing is remarkably narrow range of ideas present. If this were the annual banquet for The Nation, it would be hardly out of place. But for the APSA featured speaker line-up, it is seems as if the organizers are indulging in aggressive ideological narrowness.
Dan Drezner, who will also be presenting at the conference, notes,
APSA has about 6,000 attendees, and a crowd of 300 for these kind of talks would be impressive. These speakers influence no one, but are rather preaching to a small and committed choir.
The reasons for the poor attendance are several. First, these kind of talks are usually held during the vital hours of eating and drinking, where the real business of APSA is conducted: power-schmoozing. Well, that and reconnecting with old grad school friends. Second, after a long day of presenting, discussing, and listening to political science, the last thing most people want to do is go to a lecture about politics.
We still have the American Anthropological Association and the Modern Language Association to look forward to.
SECOND SECTION: Chris at Signifying Nothing, who will also be attending the conference, also comments.
THINKING ABOUT THE OLYMPICS. A juried performance is not the same thing as a competition. Dan Drezner has provoked lots of comments by observing,
This doesn't mean that judged competitions aren't exciting. Gymnastics, diving, ice skating can be entertaining, and they demand physical excellence -- but they're not sports.
On the other hand, the fact that an event is a competition does not make it a sport at 11D :
Is beach volleyball a real sport or is it the equivalent of the swim suit issue of Sports Illustrated. Is beach volleyball really just a way to ogle tall women in bikinis.
I put that question to a now-graduated college volleyball player who offered the following.
We all know that (women's) beach volleyball is going to be stereotyped for men's "ogling" and give them an excuse to say they're watching sports when they really just want to check out the chicks in bikinis!
But if you've ever tried to walk or run on sand on the beach (and not the hard, wet packed sand by the water), you know how hard it is to walk, let alone trying to jump and move to the ball. I'm always amazed at how much ground they can cover with just two people, especially playing at the level.
Most women's rights Nazis ... probably hate beach vball because of the focus on women and not the sport, but the reality is that men come out to watch women play in bikinis and hopefully along the way they will realize what great athletes they are, plus it helps attendance. Look at women's indoor college vball and how many males come to watch -remember the swimmers at NIU? There's also a reason the girls wear skintight uniforms and it's not because they are comfortable! It works both ways! I think both men and women benefit in some way...
Gains from trade, don't you see? The women of the fevered brow do not.
The Superintendent prefers competitions that make no distinctions as to weight or to sex. One-design planing-dinghy racing works that way. There is no reason, for example, to have separate mens' and womens' divisions for 420s or Solings.
The Olympics, though? Would it be possible to have the competitions without linking competitors to countries in national teams? Does a medal count really mean anything, when the most populous countries tend to harvest more medals (perhaps by fielding more teams?) Olympic performance as a proxy for national greatness was silly when U-boats commanded by 1936 graduates of the German Naval Academy bore the five rings on their conning towers; it was silly during the Cold War, and it is silly now.
SYMBOLISM TRUMPS SUBSTANCE. Although the University of Illinois's "Chief Illiniwek" is about as authentic as a "Captain Miles Standish" wearing a [Prussian] field-gray uniform complete with spiky helmet and dancing a [Bavarian, for you flatlanders] Schuhplattler, the evaluators from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools finds its continued use damaging to the university's reputation, the absence of any complaints about the university's academic programs notwithstanding. When in doubt, set up a task force.
Interim Chancellor Richard Herman said he will ask faculty members to conduct a formal study of Illiniwek's effect on the campus' educational mission during the coming academic year.
Will there be a formal study of legislative micromanagement that starves Urbana -- not to mention DeKalb and Macomb -- of money while forbidding tuition increases during the coming academic year?
WHOOSH. Tornadoes on radar to the east and north of me. No news of damage yet.
RUNNING EXTRA: Some commentary on the storm, from the Northern Illinois weatherman.
Very busy day today as you can imagine. The stationary front to our south yesterday morning came back as a warm front and was right around U.S. route 30 at 6 PM...and when a thunderstorm started developing in Marshall county and moved northeast across the frontal boundary, it encountered much better wind shear, which caused the storm to rotate almost immediately, and tornado soon thereafter. I knew there was enough energy for thunderstorms, but no one thought there would be enough heating/instability for that. This was eerily reminiscent of the Utica/Joliet tornadoes this spring...same thing...warm front approaches, and there's just enough instability for the storms to become severe mainly if they interact with the front. As you can tell, we need to learn more about that. Could be an interesting grad student thesis. I think I'll pass that along to someone who might want a topic of study... In any case, first, mega kudos to the National Weather Service office in Romeoville for very timely warnings...they were on top of it once the storm started to rotate. The supercell produced 4 tornadoes, as far as I know ... one just south of DeKalb (caught on tape and shown on WREX-TV), two near Burlington, and another one also captured on home video in McHenry (as seen on WBBM-TV in Chicago).
(That last one has been running on the Weather Channel.) And it's not over yet.
Monday-end of next week...as the models have shown the last several days, Monday-Wednesday we start comfortable and slowly warm into the 80s. But by Thursday through next weekend, we could enter another stormy pattern, with highs in the 80s and periods of showers and thunderstorms as fronts try to move through the area. So, look for above average temperatures through Friday, near average through Tuesday, then above average, with lower confidence, for the latter half of next week. Rainfall will be above to much above average, with localized flooding still possible through Saturday of this week, and then more storms late next week. Watch our website and emails for further updates as our wild spring/summer weather continues. Yesterday marks the 4th time the sirens have been hit in DeKalb this year, and the 5th tornado warning for our county so far this season. Stay tuned and we'll have the latest as storms develop around the area.
AND YET ANOTHER CARNIVAL. Herewith the First Carnival of the Recipes. Eat 'em up, yum!
TONIGHT'S ECONOMICS READING.
First, a Marshallian moment: can you say "price scissors?" The Noble Pundit takes the occasion of the hurricane that disrupted his neighborhood to explain that "panic buying" is the demand-side counterpart to "price gouging" on the supply side.
Next, a Schumpeterian moment: can you say "creative destruction?" I was under the impression that seminarians learned logic; evidently Reverend Greeley did not.
First, the lament:
Greed is responsible for the endless stress and ruthless competition of the workplace and the strains and tensions of professional class marriages. Greed (in this instance another name for relentless ambition) explains much of the cheating on college campuses. Greed is responsible for outsourcing, which is incapable of comprehending that the employees who lose their jobs are also the consumers who sustain the economy. Greed generates the reckless ventures that in part caused the bubble of the late '90s. Greed causes expensive wars that shatter the budget. Greed is the reason that only the wealthy are benefitting so far from the economic upturn that is allegedly happening. Greed drives loan sharks. Greed is responsible for the success of big box stores that tax the poor with low wages to provide bargains for affluent suburban shoppers. Greed is the reason poor white Appalachians, poor African Americans and poor Native Americans must fight the wars that the wealthy start. Jessica Lynch joined the Army so she could go to college. Her Native American roommate, killed in action, joined so, single mother that she was, she could support her children. Greed is the reason why the country is being run by those whom the president has described, however inelegantly, as the "haves and the have mores."
Next, nostalgia for the past:
Greed may have been a more serious problem for Americans, say, in the era of the robber barons. But the Garys and the Morgans and the Carnegies were a small bunch of men. Now their greed has seeped down to a much larger segment of the
population.
Finally, the breakdown of logic:
Ambition is not evil within limits. The struggle for success is not bad within limits. Hard work and fair rewards are good within limits. It is not good to take from the poor and give to the rich, and that's exactly what this country is doing today.
I have trouble interpreting these paragraphs as meaning anything other than a complaint about how more-widespread prosperity is a greater social problem than the less-widespread prosperity of the era of robber barons, many of whom prospered (and were cursed) for making better products and selling them at lower prices. (And the last time I checked, the big-box retailers were not catering to the Hamptons set. I bet opposition to big-box retailers correlates positively with household income.)
Finally, a Samuelsonian moment. Alex at Marginal Revolution has some cool math stuff up.
FOURTH TURNING ALERT. David Broder (via Betsy's Page) is anguished about the youngsters squabbling.
The only thing that will save the country -- and end this breach in its leadership -- is that the boomers are now in their sixties. Another generation will eventually come to power, and the country will finally be spared from constantly refighting these same battles.
True enough. But the kind of world that generation inherits will be one shaped by the social pathologies unleashed in the 1960s and thereafter. It is not enough to complain about the divisions, Mr Broder.
Will we ever recover from the 1960s?
What's happening with the bitter dispute over John Kerry's role in Vietnam confirms my fears that my generation may never see the day when the baby boomers who came of age in that troubled decade are reconciled sufficiently with each other to lead a united country.
I remember precisely when this premonition of perpetual division first struck me. On Aug. 19, 1992, the third night of the Republican National Convention in Houston, Barbara Bush and Marilyn Quayle were the featured speakers. The first lady praised her husband's fine qualities and Mrs. Quayle turned her fire on the Bill Clinton Democrats, who had just finished their convention in New York.
Through almost gritted teeth, Marilyn Quayle declared that those people in Madison Square Garden, who were claiming the mantle of leadership for a new generation, were usurpers. "Dan and I are members of the baby boom generation, too," she said. "We are all shaped by the times in which we live. I came of age in a time of turbulent social change. Some of it was good, such as civil rights; much of it was questionable."
And then she drew the line that has not been erased: "Remember, not everyone joined in the counterculture. Not everyone demonstrated, dropped out, took drugs, joined in the sexual revolution or dodged the draft. Not everyone concluded that American society was so bad that it had to be radically remade by social revolution. . . . The majority of my generation lived by the credo our parents taught us: We believed in God, in hard work and personal discipline, in our nation's essential goodness, and in the opportunity it promised those willing to work for it. . . . Though we knew some changes needed to be made, we did not believe in destroying America to save it."
It is time to recognize that, indeed, many of those changes were questionable. Perhaps it will be up to some future generation to say "enough." The counterculture got all the ink. The rest of us had to grow up in the world they left us. And, Mr Broder, your Silent Generation cohort is complicit -- by its acquiescence -- in the mess.
TODAY'S IMMIGRATION ROUNDUP. Don at Cafe Hayek understands market tests:
What distresses me about these visits – beyond the fact that I’m never able to accept their offers of employment in my Department – is that I know that the F1 student visa that each of these students have largely prevents off-campus employment. This reason is paramount, I’m sure, among those that propel these bright, skilled, and energetic young people to go begging for employment on-campus.
This policy is both immoral and economically stupid. It treats productive people as piranhas. The alleged concern is that hordes of productive, hard-working foreign students will come to America and – gasp! – work very productively and hard and, thereby, eliminate jobs for real Americans.
First of all, this policy rests on the absurd notion that the number of jobs is fixed, or that more workers in the labor force means lower average wage rates.
Secondly, and more deeply, what sort of policy is it that intentionally prevents people from producing wealth?
I’m unfailingly amused whenever I encounter people who oppose more open immigration on the grounds that too many foreigners come to America in order to suck the tit of our welfare state. If this justification for limiting immigration were truly the reason behind restrictive immigration policies, then we would not witness the many prohibitions and restraints on work by immigrants and foreign students.
There still is a factor-price-equalization argument to work through, however.
JUST SUCK IT UP AND WALK. Last year, several classroom buildings looked like middle school buildings, with all the cars waiting as students picked up their friends, and the central campus parking lots looked like the malls at Christmas, with cars idling, waiting for nearby parking spaces while more distant spaces went empty. This year, things have changed, and the editorial board of the Northern Star doesn't like it.
Campus Parking Services has said it is trying to change the campus culture by having students rely less on their cars and more on other modes of transportation.
But this is NIU, and it is well-known that a majority of NIU students rely on their cars. Perhaps once the city of DeKalb mutates into a true “college town” and students truly don’t need their cars to get around, Campus Parking Services can do its part to change the culture.
Visualize sobbing violins with lots of vibrato. There is a difference between a convenience and a necessity. Suck it up and walk.
SEEKING PRICE COMPETITION. King at SCSU Scholars has a summary of developments on the textbook pricing front. Price competition can come none too soon for Northern Illinois University's students.
From 1998 to 2003, the price publishers’ charge for textbooks has increased 34.9 percent compared to 21.6 percent for all other books, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics. College bookstores have marked up the price of their textbooks by 5.9 percent in the same period, while other books had a mark up of only 3 percent.
The University Bookstore tries to stock as many used books as they can to give students savings, said Mitch Kielb, acting director of the Holmes Student Center. He said half their sales come from used books.
The unseen part of this story is the role of third-party payments in determining the price of textbooks. It's the same problem that arises in uninformed commentary about rising health care "costs": to the extent that insurers -- in medicine -- and financial aid -- in college -- pays for the services or the books, the buyer has less incentive to shop around, and the seller has less incentive to discover the least cost technology.
RUNNING EXTRA: Joanne Jacobs asks, "Does a Latin textbook need to be updated?"
NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED. No sooner does the new athletic director arrive at Northern Illinois than does a scandal arise in -- surprise -- the women's basketball program.
In addition to losing top scorer Joi Scott, who transferred, the NIU women’s basketball team may face punishment for NCAA rules violations. Scott, who would be a junior this season, lived at the house of LaVerne Ghyant [cq], the director of NIU’s Center for Black Studies, for about a month after the spring semester, Scott said. While there, Scott accepted money for a plane ride to see her mom, accepted rides from Ghyant [cq] and did her laundry at Ghyant’s[cq] house -- all NCAA violations.
Ms Gyant is a decent person who takes an interest in the troubles some of her charges face, although what transpired might be above and beyond the call of duty.
“It’s a situation where a staff member didn’t realize they [cq] were doing something that was illegal,” said Dee Abrahamson, NIU associate athletics director.
Abrahamson said the NCAA likely won’t react until the Mid-American Conference has looked into the matter.
Scott, who hails from Ohio, said Ghyant served as a mentor and mother figure to her.
“I had [Ghyant] [cq] for a class,” Scott said. “I talked to her about all my problems and she offered me to stay at her house. I needed someone to relate to and talk to.
“If I would’ve known that I would have to pay back all the money she gave to me, I wouldn’t have taken it.”
Scott said she is being charged the rate of staying in a hotel and doing laundry for the time at Ghyant’s [cq] house. She estimated it would be about $2,000 that she has to pay back, but said an agreement may be made to give it to a charity of her choice.
“My relationship with Joi was no different than with any other student,” Ghyant [cq] said in a published report.
The coach's relationship with Ms Scott is no different from her relationship with any other player: she is denying any responsibility.
Scott said her transfer did not have to do with the NCAA violations being reported, but because her boyfriend, Rome Sanders from the NIU men’s basketball team, left DeKalb. Sanders transferred to Florida A&M after he was found guilty of a battery charge on March 19 when he got into an argument with Scott.
“First of all, Coach [Carol] Hammerle kicked me off the team after I already committed to another school,” Scott said. “I think she did that so it would seem like I left for another reason rather than the real reason. I left because of Rome. He transferred so that gave me the open door to leave.”
Scott, who first transferred to Jacksonville University before ending up at Murray State, will have to sit out the 2004-05 season as a transfer.
“I terminated her from the team because of the violations,” Hammerle said. “That was the decision I made as I thought was best for the program. I wish her the best.
“I hope for the sake of the program and the players that the NCAA doesn’t place any sanctions on us.”
So yet again, a promising recruit fails to develop either as a player or as a person, and it's not the fault of the person who recruited her. You just can't make up stuff like this.
ADAPTATION. Woodlief:
My wife copied down this quote from Eric Hoffer and left it on my bedside table:
"In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
I suspect that most of us have areas of our lives where we are learners, and areas where we are learned. It's wisdom well-taken, isn't it, that in everything where we seem to be successful, we should have the humility and intellectual honesty to consider whether we haven't crossed over the boundary from learner to learned?
But it seems to be wisdom seldom taken. So consider for a moment the areas where you might rightly be regarded by your peers as learned. Are you open -- truly open -- to the new idea?
Read and understand.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: Winston's Diary is unimpressed with the Freshman Orientation Indoctrination on offer at his college.
Also, a preview of things to come. J.V.C. and I have agreed to have a blog-to-blog discussion on what it was like to be a lower-middle-class student in the humanities. We're both of the opinion that our distaste for theory and the far-left are in part the result of our respective upbringings. For my part, I would also like to bring up what I have perceived as definite classism amongst my "colleagues." We'll probably start this in a week or so. I'm not sure who will be firing off the first salvo. I'll be working on a draft of my initial comments on the issue over the course of the next week, but will definitely have a few things to say next week about Freshman Indoctrination 101.
Winston is onto something. The humanities are no place for the down-to-earth, which is the usual state of people with a blue collar upbringing who enroll in college. (If you're stoned and blue-collar, you're probably washing cars.)
TRAINS IN THE CELLAR, BOOKS EVERYWHERE ELSE. I'm going to substitute "model trains" in place of "books" everywhere in this self-help guide from Crescat Sententia.
Are model trains a necessary part of your daily routine? Yup. Do you become grumpy and irritable if your modeling time is taken away from you? Yup. If you begin building, just a little bit, do you find it hard to stop? Frequently. Do you find yourself growing distant from friends who disapprove of your train habit? Disapprove, you ain't no friend of mine. Do you find yourself needing more and more trains to get the same "fix"? Sometimes. That New Haven freight motor is definitely not essential. When you meet a new person or enter a new room, do you instantly size up his modeling? Why else enter a train room? Does your modelling sometimes get in the way of leading a "normal" life? What's normal? Do you buy trains to make yourself feel better when sad or lonely? Been known to.
Dan Drezner found a defense of reading, at least in Greater DeKalb, that is suitable for model railroaders as well.
At least at Chicago, if not in some larger segments of the world, a person who reads books all the time is considered admirable, even if all that is gained by this reading is that the reader is entertained.
Chicago is also the place to be for O Scale in the United States, hence this defense generalizes.
ANOTHER TENNESSEE CONNECTION. Northern Illinois University president John Peters has called another name from his Tennessee Rolodex, tabbing Notre Dame's Jim Phillips (stopped also at the candy store in Champaign) as the new athletic director. One of the people the local newspaper reached for a reaction was Tennessee coaching legend Pat Summitt, who praised the hire.
That's awesome.Jim has so many qualities that will make him successful at NIU: He's a people person, and he'll inspire those around him. He has positive energy and positive attitude - if someone thinks their glass is half empty, Jim's (glass) is running over. He brings out the best in others. I'm excited for Jim and equally excited for NIU. He is a great choice. I've been to DeKalb and I know people will embrace Jim, his leadership, and his philosophy.
Yes, Pat, you were in DeKalb, in the winter of 1992, and if memory serves, your team trailed by a bucket at halftime, although they acquitted themselves well in the second half. But in those days the women's basketball team had a real coach and real players. Perhaps Mr Phillips will take his talk about the "next level" seriously and stop using the program as a plaything for the Diversity Boondoggle.
SITZPINKLER ALERT. In some circles, the red pen is no longer the grader's color of choice, because it's too scary.
"If you see a whole paper of red, it looks pretty frightening," said Sharon Carlson, a health and physical education teacher at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Northampton. "Purple stands out, but it doesn't look as scary as red."
And to think that Northampton shows up on my birth certificate. Can I disown my native town?
A mix of red and blue, the color purple embodies red's sense of authority but also blue's association with serenity, making it a less negative and more constructive color for correcting student papers, color psychologists said. Purple calls attention to itself without being too aggressive. And because the color is linked to creativity and royalty, it is also more encouraging to students.
It's also linked to Finlanders on the Iron Range and bowling-shirt Poles in Milwaukee.
Thus, today's Weenie Worldview quiz: will purple first fall out of favor because of that royal connection or because somebody will discover that editors used to correct manuscripts using blue pencils? Erm, don't the education theorists have more pressing matters to think about than the symbolism of a red correcting pen? They've been fretting about this for the past twelve years?
"The concept of purple as a replacement for red is a pretty good idea," said Leatrice Eiseman, director of the Pantone Color Institute in Carlstadt, N.J., and author of five books on color. "You soften the blow of red. Red is a bit over-the-top in its aggression."
Oh, good. I have a whole desk drawer full of over-the-top aggression. Let the slackers and the credential grubbers tremble at the thought of my aggression. Fortunately, I am not alone.
Red has other defenders. California high-school teacher Carol Jago, who has been working with students for more than 30 years, said she has no plans to stop using red. She said her students do not seem psychologically scarred by how she wields her pen. And if her students are mixing up "their," "there," and "they're," she wants to shock them into fixing the mistake.
"We need to be honest and forthright with students," Jago said. "Red is honest, direct, and to the point. I'm sending the message, 'I care about you enough to care how you present yourself to the outside world.' "
Betsy's Page, who picked up the Boston Globe story, notes,
I've been hearing this vapidity in teacher workshops for the past 12 years. What a crock! As if kids don't know that a mistake is a mistake. I'm with [Ms. Jago].
Ayup, and as if pretending that a mistake isn't a mistake somehow encourages fewer mistakes. People respond to incentives. Parents, if your kids' teachers start grading with purple, plan to be assertive in teacher conferences.
RUNNING EXTRA: You'd think these hand-wringers had said something nasty about snakes the way Dr Swygert unloads on them.
Come ON people! If your students are flunking, do you really think it matters - to them, to their parents, to their lives - what color you use on their papers? My dissertation advisor used nothing but green ink in his pens and at times my dissertation drafts looked like leprechauns had bled to death on them. Do you think I felt better about having to change every word, twice, just because I got the message in green rather than red?
Here's a hint, teachers - if your students' papers are swimming in a sea of red ink, you have many more important things to worry about than the colors of your pens. Trust me on this.
Her reaction to the "cult of self-esteem" is priceless.
This is why I don't drink while blogging - I'd spit my mead all over my keyboard laughing. It's nice to know that a deep purple pen can make it all better for a student who received a D-minus. Yes indeedy. And now the teacher can feel better about herself, too, because she's not being "over-the-top" in her "aggression", which is what touchy-feely types define as "grading objectively" these days.
Erm, isn't that D-minus just a tad "aggressive?" Or does that "minus" make it passive-aggressive?
DISCHARGED IF YOU DO, DISCHARGED IF YOU DON'T. King at SCSU Scholars links to a story about two tenure-track professors at Benedict College who have been discharged for noncompliance with a grading policy that requires course grades to reflect effort as well as achievement. His post points up the difficulty a school (the term college does not quite apply) faces in balancing "access" (read: recruiting unprepared students) with "performance" (read: producing prepared graduates) as well as the obligation such a school faces in socializing new hires to the academic environment on campus.
The curious part of the story is that at this college credit for attendance matters. I recall a for-cause hearing at Northern Illinois involving a professor's ineffective teaching, including inter alia basing grades excessively on attendance. (There were other difficulties with this professor's performance, thus the two situations are not parallel.)
CARNIVALS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE MOBILE, and this week's Carnival of the Capitalists visits the aptly-named Mobile Technology Weblog. Step right up!
A PROMISING DEVELOPMENT. Students have returned to Northern Illinois University, and the police blotter is filling up again.
About 200 Northern Illinois University students and visitors to the city discovered that if you booze, you can lose at least $200.
The fines accompanied the 215 citations issued by the DeKalb Police Department between Thursday, which was Move-In Day for NIU, and Sunday for consumption of alcohol by a minor, possession of alcohol by a minor and possession of an open container of alcohol on a public way.
Although police haven't pulled statistics from previous years, the number of tickets issued this year appears to be "a fair amount higher than in previous years," Police Chief Bill Feithen said.
Locations of the violations varied, however. Several dozen citations were issued by police on foot patrols in the northwest part of DeKalb commonly known as Greek Row.
The good news is, the police might have decided not to let MTV and ESPN define college life.
Feithen attributed some of the increase in tickets to having more officers on the streets.
"It doesn't necessarily mean there was more drinking going on," he said.
In addition to the alcohol busts, one man was arrested early Sunday morning for allegedly trying to sell some 20 bags of marijuana.
The times, they are a-changin'.
PERHAPS THEY ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THE HIAWATHA CORRIDOR. Beyond Brilliance, Beyond Stupidity is a compendium of Orchids and Onions Awards in urban planning. One development worthy of an Orchid is this report from Milwaukee's Business Journal on plans for the Amtrak Wisconsin service.
The Milwaukee-to-Chicago trip currently takes about one hour and 30 minutes. The goal is to reduce the travel time to about one hour and five minutes, [Amtrak spokesman and former WNIU newscaster Marc] Magliari said.
Regular readers of Cold Spring Shops will know that this goal represents genuine progress. The best scheduled time, long before either the Superintendent or Mr Magliari were born, was 75 minutes, nonstop. A run time of 65 minutes inclusive of stops at Mitchell Field, Sturtevant, and Glenview will require average running times between stations approaching 90 miles per hour.
Labels: Amtrak, ferroequinology, State Line
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Noah Blackwell Vance Jackson Anthony Mathis Deshon Taylor Braxton Huggins Sports College basketball Basketball College sports Men's basketball Men's sports Men's college basketball
Fresno State Mountain West New Mexico New Mexico State WAC Utah State
Taylor, Huggins combine for 45 points, Fresno St. beats NM
By GLEN ROSALES - Feb. 16, 2019 10:33 PM EST
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Deshon Taylor scored 26 and Braxton Huggins added 19 in the second half Saturday to help Fresno State outlast New Mexico 81-73.
With a fifth win in six games, the Bulldogs (19-6, 10-3 Mountain West) retained its share of second place in the conference.
Fresno State had to overcome foul issues and the hot shooting of Vance Jackson, who finished with a career-high 30 for the Lobos (11-14, 5-8).
"We can shoot the ball," said Bulldogs' coach Justin Hutson. "Their zone gave us some trouble in the first half, but our foul trouble gave us more problems. I thought we found something that would work. Deshon got into the lane and kicked it out. We really moved the ball and we took good shots and fortunately we knocked them down."
Taylor added five assists on the night and Noah Blackwell had four helpers to go along with 11 points.
New Mexico took its biggest lead early in the second half, going up 43-35 following a 3-pointer from Anthony Mathis, who finished with 13.
After a quick timeout, Fresno State responded with a 12-0 run to go up 47-43.
"They called a timeout a minute and a half in and they drilled us from there," Lobos' coach Paul Weir said. "They went on a run from there that we just couldn't stop. They recalibrated themselves and we ran out of a little bit of mojo or gas, I don't know."
The Lobos, however, did regain the advantage at 57-55 before the Bulldogs got hot from the outside.
The game turned with eight minutes remaining when the Bulldogs hit 3-pointers on four straight possessions to fuel a 15-6 run and a 67-61 lead. They would not trail again.
Huggins did not score in the first half after picking up three fouls. But he was a key to the second-half effort, hitting three of the 3s in the pivotal stretch.
"Our staff found a spot for him, a little sweet spot in the zone and Deshon made some penetration and kicked to him and he knocked it down," Huston said of Huggins. "He just wasn't in rhythm in the first half because he was in and out of the game. Braxton can make shots."
Taylor had 16 in the first half in a great personal dual with Jackson, who had 20 before the break.
After taking on the Bulldogs, who came into the game sharing second place with Utah State, New Mexico gets another chance to impact the conference standings by taking on the Aggies next.
Throw out Fresno State's upcoming game with No. 7 Nevada and the Bulldogs are in a great position as their other four opponents have a combined 14-33 record.
DEPITTING THE PIT
Huggins, a transfer after three seasons at Lobos' rival New Mexico State who also played one year under Weir for the Aggies, had been 0-3 in the Pit and was not a factor in any of those previous games. He came into this game averaging 26.3 points over the last four, but picked up two fouls in the first 2:28 of the game and another one later in the half, leading to a scoreless opening 20 minutes.
New Mexico is at Utah State on Feb. 20.
Fresno State is home Feb. 20 against Air Force.
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A pilgrimage to the apostles’ tombs in Rome helps bishops renew their sense of unity as well as rededicate themselves to being missionaries bringing the Gospel to the world, said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City.
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In marking the “sorrowful anniversary” Jan. 22 of the Supreme Court’s ruling legalizing abortion nationwide, the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee said the Catholic Church’s pastoral response to all mothers in need “will soon intensify.”
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Refugees make an important impact in the United States and should not be denied resettlement as the Texas governor recently decided, said Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski.
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Cry Me A Torch Song: the Video Version – May 2017
The May 2017 issue of Cry Me A Torch Song – The Video Version. Piers Ford reviews albums from Gill Manly (Everything Must Change & Going Home – Live at Hood’s Lounge: “A supreme gift for assured, unfussy interpretation… the seamlessness of her phrasing is exceptional. ”), Hannah Aldridge (Gold Rush: “Country rock numbers fuelled in turn by rage, disappointment and dangerous collisions – emotional and physical – as well as defiance and survival”), Jessica Lee Morgan (Around the Block: “A restlessness and a sense of moving on which lend the album a compelling edge – the singer taking control of the journey”), and Eithne Ní Uallacháin (Bilingua: “The sheer quality of Eithne’s voice transcends time and the sadness felt by the listener”).
Tags: Around the Block, Bilingua, Eithne Ni Uallachain, Everything Must Change, Gill Manly, Gold Rush, Hannah Aldridge, Jessica Lee Morgan, Nina Simone
Categories Album Review, American roots singer, British female singer/songwriter, Celtic singer, Female Jazz Singer, Video
Cry Me a Torch Song: the Video Version – April 2017
The April 2017 issue of Cry Me A Torch Song – The Video Version. Piers Ford reviews albums from Betty Buckley (Story Songs: “Adventurous in her song choices and fearless in her commitment to them”), Sound of the Sirens (For All Our Sins: “A wonderfully cohesive, mature sound which will hold its own on the global stage”), Anna Coogan (The Lonely Cry of Space & Time: “Yma Sumac meets Americana… a sweeping, arresting exploration of the state of the world”), Patricia Kaas (Patricia Kaas: “Polished, expertly crafted chansons, full of complex, subtle emotions”), and catches up with Songs of Separation (“A celebration of the female voice, but also a resonant, bold statement for our times”).
Tags: Anna Coogan, Betty Buckley, Eliza Carthy, For All Our Sins, Patricia Kaas, Songs of Separation, Sound of the Sirens, Story Songs
Categories Album Review, Broadway singer, Eurovision Song Contest, Musical Theatre, Torch Singer, Video
Cry Me a Torch Song: the Video Version – March 2017
The March 2017 issue of Cry Me A Torch Song – The Video Version. Piers Ford reviews albums from Edana Minghella (All or Nothing: “References that unique phrasing and tone without ever resorting to mere imitation”), Kate Dimbleby (Songbirds: “Completely refreshing and absorbing in these clamorous, noisy times”), Helene Greenwood (Exquisitely Hopeless: “Spacious, dreamy arrangements give way to incantations and spectral echoes”) and Julie KcKee (Light on the Ledge: “Story-songs bathed in nostalgia, yet bracingly contemporary”).
Tags: All or Nothing, Edana Minghella, Exquisitely Hopeless, Helene Greenwood, Julie KcKee, Kate Dimbleby, Light on the Ledge, Songbirds
Categories Album Review, British female singer/songwriter, Female Jazz Singer, Female Singer/Songwriter, Video
Cry Me a Torch Song – the Video Version: December 2016
Welcome to the December 2017 issue of Cry Me A Torch Song – The Video Version. Piers Ford reviews albums from Katie Melua (In Winter: “Real moments of choral beauty”), Ange Hardy & Lukas Drinkwater (Findings: “Exemplary musicianship”) and Joan Ellison (Symphonic Gershwin: “She doesn’t just blow off the dust – she gets inside the raw material and inhabits it”)
Tags: Ange Hardy, female folk singers, Findings, In Winter, Joan Ellison, Katie Melua, Symphonic Gershwin
Categories Album Review, British female singer/songwriter, Christmas album, Female folk singer, Musical Theatre, Video
Cry me a Torch Song: the video version – November 2016
Welcome to the first video edition of the Cry Me a Torch Song review, which features the latest albums from Rosie Nimmo (Scrapbook), Petula Clark (From Now On) and Marianne Faithfull (No Exit).
Tags: From Now On, Marianne Faithfull, No Exit, Petula Clark, Rosie Nimmo, Scrapbook
Categories 1960s female singer, Album Review, Blues singer, British female singer/songwriter, Female singer, Video
Album review – Serpentyne: Myths and Muses
Valkyries: Maggie Beth-Sand and Serpentyne take on Wagner and win
Myths and Muses: a glorious whirl of epic tales, underpinned by irresistible thudding rhythms
Here’s a thought for the dullards in charge of the UK’s annual Eurovision efforts. Why not ask Serpentyne to sing for us next year? I have no idea what the self-styled ‘Medieval-World-Folk-Rock’ band would feel about that. But I do know that the rousing fusion of their beats and the Game of Thrones vibe of their spectacular act is more in tune with broader European musical tastes than anything we’ve entered in the last two decades.
Their new album, Myths and Muses, is a rampaging set of epic tales told through the lead vocals of Maggie Beth-Sand, so evocative of great British female folk singers, from Sandy Denny to Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins.
What sets her apart is a robust musicality that allows her voice to hold its own in some pretty fierce arrangements, where it becomes as much an instrument as Mark Powell’s guitar, cittern and hurdy-gurdy, or the mandolin, didgeridoo and tin whistle that contribute to the variety of sounds. In this, she is equally reminiscent of the more esoteric voices of world music – Norwegian Sami throat singer Mari Boine, for example, or Greece’s Mariza Koch (who actually did Eurovision service, accompanied by a bouzouki, back in 1976!)
Back and forth we are swept, from the fiery story of Boudicca and the Iceni uprising against the Roman occupation of ancient Britain, to the legendary library of Alexandria, and on to an account of the Valkyries that elbows Wagner aside. There’s a Breton dance (“Douce Dame Jolie”), and several traditional English folk songs including “A Rosebud in June”, not forgetting Henry VIII’s convivial testament to “Pastyme with Good Company”.
Comparisons with Steeleye Span are inevitable, particularly with the inclusion of the Span staple “Gaudete”. But Sand and Powell have mixed in their own arrangements, introduced new melodies and lyrics, and with the other versatile players of the band they bring a wide-ranging set of new influences and idiosyncrasies to the feast. There is a ferocity in their playing which binds electronics, choral settings and swirling strings into a glorious whirl, underpinned by irresistible thudding rhythms.
Tags: Anne Briggs, British folk singers, Eurovision Song Contest, Maggie Beth-Sand, Mari Boine, Mariza Koch, Mark Powell, Myths & Muses, Serpentyne, Shirley Collins, Steeleye Span
Categories Album Review, British folk groups, Female folk singer, Video
Album review – Reb Capper: Bakelite
Bakelite: crackling sonic references herald the arrival of a singular talent
Bakelite: nursery rhymes and plainsong are just some of the influences at work on Reb Capper’s ambitious new album
There must be something in the Suffolk water that is particularly good for nourishing the county’s female song-writing gene pool. Artists like Fiona Bevan, Rhiannon Mair and Reb Capper all have steadily rising profiles that are capturing attention well beyond the county boundaries.
With a generous 14 tracks showcasing a prodigious gift, Capper’s first full-length album is a curiosity shop of influences, styles and genres. Inside, nursery rhymes are retold, folkloric sprites summoned, passions collide, and the calming notes of evensong counterbalance gypsy dances and the crackling sonic references of the title track, “Bakelite”.
Capper’s ability to create a vivid idiosyncratic world in song has inevitably already drawn comparison with Kate Bush – and equally inevitably, garnered her the ‘quirky’ tag. There are certainly echoes of Bush’s early work in a shared gift for fusing human emotion with myth and earthy nature (“Voodoo Doll” is a case in point) but the similarity is mainly present in Capper’s eclectic range of influences – cinematic one minute, rooted in English folk music the next – which fuel her personal musical vision.
Bakelite is an ambitious album, full of charm. Lush emotional ballads like “Masquerade” and “Egg Shells” rub shoulders with numbers such as “Teddy Bears Picnic”, “Lemon Aid” and “Goblin Song”, which evoke a joyous early 1970s spirit reminiscent of the late Lynsey de Paul or Blue Mink. “Evening Song” grows from its plainsong intro into a soaring, hey-nonny folk number, eventually combining the two in an audacious mix, while plangent church bells segue into a blue-grass jig on the wry “Wedding Bells”.
All in all, a tasty feast, beautifully produced by Steve Mann and Capper herself, heralding the big-stage arrival of a singular talent.
Tags: Bakelite, Fiona Bevan, Lynsey de Paul, Reb Capper, Rhiannon Mair, Suffolk singer/songwriter
Categories Album Review, British female singer/songwriter, Female Singer/Songwriter, Indie female singer, Video
What is a Torch Singer?
Someone who sings about love and loss, and the pain of experience. The power of torch-singing lies in its effect on the listener. For me, it transcends musical genres. These pages explore the dazzling, and sometimes dark, world of the female singer through history and in the present. Concert and CD reviews, interviews and articles combine to create a comprehensive view of this vital strand of popular culture. Why not share your views and experiences of your favourite artists, suggest performers you would like to see featured - and let me know what makes a torch singer for you?
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San Diego 16-20 February 2018
CNNs and targeted combination therapy
Better diagnosis with deep convolutional neural networks
“Malignant melanoma is primarily diagnosed visually, beginning with an initial clinical screening,” said Dr Allan Halpern [9]. This step is then followed by dermoscopic analysis, a biopsy and histopathological examination.
Artificial intelligence—deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) —may help in diagnosis, according to a recent publication [10]. CNNs are feed-forward artificial neural networks and learn the filters that, in traditional algorithms, were hand-engineered. This makes them independent of prior knowledge and human effort.
The working group at Stanford University in California trained this system with a dataset of 129,450 clinical images consisting of 2,032 different diseases (two orders of magnitude larger than previous datasets). The CNN was then tested against 21 board-certified dermatologists on biopsy-proven clinical images.
The result was astonishing: the CNN achieved a performance on par with all tested experts, and classified melanoma with a level of competence comparable to the dermatologists. Even regarding the biopsy decision, the dermatologists did not outperform the CNN. According to the authors of the study, deep neural networks deployed on mobile devices can potentially extend the reach of dermatologists outside the clinic. This technique could provide low-cost universal access to vital diagnostic care [10].
“The digital ability to monitor lesions over time is going to be the state of the art in the future: the technology is already there,” said Dr Halpern.
Survival benefit of targeted combination therapy
New data are also available about therapy of metastatic melanoma. A trial published in 2017 confirmed that patients with BRAF600-mutant metastatic melanoma have a persistent overall and progression-free survival benefit when they are treated with the combination of the BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib and the MEK inhibitor trametinib [11]. Overall survival was 30% at four years and 28% at five. Survival was higher among patients with normal baseline LDH levels. This five-year analysis represents the longest follow-up to date with BRAF + MEK inhibitor combination therapy in BRAF V600-mutant melanoma. It shows that this therapy really elicits durable plateaus of long-term overall and progression-free survival that can last more than five years in some patients [Figure 12] [11].
However, treating physicians have to deal with the different toxicities of this regime. According to Dr Halpern, checkpoint inhibitors are also relevant in the adjuvant setting: in December 2017, FDA granted regular approval to the immune checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab for patients with melanoma involving lymph nodes or in patients with metastatic disease who have undergone complete resection [12]. Nivolumab was previously approved only for the treatment of patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma. Approval was based on improvement in recurrence-free survival in the CHECKMATE-238 trial that included 906 patients with completely resected, Stage III B/C or Stage IV melanoma [13]. Patients were randomly allocated (1:1) to receive nivolumab 3 mg/kg every two weeks or ipilimumab 10 mg/kg every three weeks for four doses, then every 12 weeks beginning at Week 24 for up to one year. Patients in the nivolumab arm experienced significantly fewer recurrences/deaths compared with the ipilimumab arm (34% vs. 45.5%; P<0.0001) [13].
“The problem with immunotherapy is the toxicity like hypophysitis, but rash is also a big piece of it,” concluded Dr Halpern.
Figure 12: Overall survival of patients with malignant melanoma in the intention-to-treat-population: D = Dabrafenib; D + T 150/1 = dabrafenib 150 mg twice a day plus trametinib 1 mg once daily: D + T 150/2 = dabrafenib 150 mg twice a day plus trametinib, 2 mg once a day. [11]
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Winter effect and preventing scarring
Restrictive antibiotic use and novel tetracycline
A glimpse into the future
New agents and combination therapy
Melanoma incidence continues to rise in Europe
Lesions in paediatric patients and possible correlation with coffee drinking
Better gastrointestinal tolerability with biologics than the conventional therapy
Improvement in impact of genital psoriasis on sexual activity with use of ixekizumab
Intralesional cryosurgery and itching in psoriasis
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Sligachan
Slap bang in the centre of the craziest scenery in the realm
The western fringe of Scotland is a place completely set apart from the rest of Britain by its remarkable mixture of big, rocky mountains, beautiful lush green valleys and seductive sandy shorelines. Nowhere else soothes the troubled urban soul quite like this northern paradise.
Well, that’s the western fringe of Scotland for you, summed up in a sentence or two, but not the Isle of Skye. For this remarkable island is as different from the west of Scotland as the north-western fringe is from the south-east of England. Skye doesn’t do soothing, or soft, and Skye certainly doesn’t do a lot of green. Skye is elemental, savage, bare, boggy and can be a hard mistress. But like all forms of basic beauty, Skye is completely addictive and once seen (in the right light) eats into your soul and never loses its grip. You spend your southern days waiting for the next trip north, and right in the middle of all this fanciful soul-searching savagery sits Sligachan campsite – a victim and a victory all in one place.
Dealing with sensible, practical matters first, the site’s ablutional facilities are acceptable and more than adequate, if not plush. But the squat stone building containing them reflects the harshness of the world outside, and this has somehow crept inside too. If bad weather persists it also seems to seep inside the mind, but thankfully the weather around here can best be described as ‘fast’ for no sooner have curtains of mist been drawn across the Cuillins than they’re thrust open again by a furious wind bowling in from the bay. But such ‘fast’ weather is good because it helps hinder the seeming whole world’s supply of midges from leaping out of the boggy wastes surrounding the site and brandishing their teeth.
There are good grounds for suggesting that Britain should set up its Olympic Training Village at Sligachan, as several world records are broken on any given evening when the midges are around. It’s about 400 metres from the centre of the site to the pub door, and from tent to bar, wearing big boots and anorak, it takes the average camper 19.8 seconds to cover the distance with a million midges in hot pursuit. Astounding.
If you’re getting the impression that we’re attempting to put you off a visit to Sligachan then there may be some truth in that assumption, but we do believe in painting a true picture of things. It is, of course, almost incidental that we might want the place to ourselves, for when things turn out right here, when the sun shines (and those pesky midge adversaries can’t stand the heat, muwahahaha!), then we who have been victims want to enjoy the spoils exclusively. And when things are right, some of the roughest, rockiest, most savage scenes on the island sit directly behind the hotel and campsite, daring you to dip even a toe into their territory. And dip it you must as the walking around here offers abundant visual rewards, especially from the Cuillins.
Even getting to Sligachan from the Skye Bridge is an experience always remembered, as the road winds through the big hills of the Red Cuillins into the very centre of the island, where the campsite and the fearful-looking Black Cuillins await your flimsy nylon. But the most outrageous thing about Skye is that the most outrageous scenes of all, up on the Trotternish Peninsula and all around the pinnacled northern coast, haven’t even been glimpsed as yet.
No, Skye isn’t comfortable, but it’s a place worth persevering the pain to discover, and Sligachan is the place to gainfully employ yourselves in that process.
A bit rough and ready for some, but the site is reasonably equipped with showers, toilets, washbasins, electric hook-ups, washing machine and tumble-dryer.
One of the great pubs of the world, the Sligachan Hotel (01478 650204), with its quiet and cosy MacKenzies Bar inside or livelier Seumas Bar adjacent, is directly across the road. They serve enormous meals, a baffling variety of ales (mostly brewed onsite at the hotel’s own micro-brewery) and 400 varieties of malt whisky! (No wonder it was Whisky pub of the year 2013.)
Easter–Oct.
Contact Sligachan, Sligachan, Isle of Skye IV47 8SW
The site is next to the main road running up through Skye (A850) from the bridge to Portree. Bus no. 50C goes directly from Portree Square to the Sligachan Hotel. Contact Traveline (08712 002233; www.travelinescotland.com) for times.
Rated ★★★★★ over 2 reviews
Handy and cheap enough
Crashed out in this beautiful patch got up in the morning and went and climbed the inaccessible pinnacle .couldn't see 3 ft in front of me but hey ho .still here and heading back up in a couple of weeks
Jun 13, 2018 by Alec
Not to bad...
We pitched up here for one night recently. The price is great, and its the cheapest laundry facilities we've found at any campsite! Great if your planning on walking the mountain ranges in the area! However...It is incredibly boggy and gets horrendous in the rain! (Especially when you pop to the loo at midnight and the rains been on and you've forgotton to put on your head-torch...and you just slipped on your flipflops)! Also midge seem to be in large numbers here swarming into your tent! Beautiful when the suns shining though! :)
Jun 14, 2014 by Tatt&Bear
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The Solubility of Amino Acids in Various Solvent Systems
Thomas E. Needham, University of Rhode Island
Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Interdepartmental Program
The effect of varying solvent systems on the solubilities of glycine, L-alanine, L-valine, L-phenylalanine, and DL-aminooctanoic acid at z50 C. was studied. The entire concentration spectrum from pure water to pure semipolar solvent was used for each of. the solvent systems of methanol-water, ethanol-water, n-propanol water, isopropanol-water, and tertiary butanol-water. Further, the effect of pH variation on the solubilities of the amino acids in each of the solvent systems was studied. Aliquots were withdrawn from each solvent system studied and analyzed gravimetrically to determine the resultant solubility. It was found that the solubility behavior of those amino acids studied was a function of the constant effect of the α-amino carboxylic acid portion of the molecule and the independent interactions of the remaining neutral portion of the molecule. Maximum solubility was found in pure water with a reduction to low solubility in the semipolar solvents in the order of a second degree polynomial equation. To each percent strength of the hydroalcoholic solvent systems, the ratio of water to alcoholic molecules per amino acid molecule remains constant. This would indicate that the lengthening of the nonpolar portion of the chain from the hydrogen of glycine to the methyl phenyl of L-phenylalanine 'does not affect the orientation of the water to alcohol molecules in the solvent system. Each of the amino acids studied demonstrated an ability to differentiate between the hydroalcoholic solvents used. The quantitative order of solubility in the solvent systems used varied for each amino acid, but similar solubility profiles could be seen for the entire solvent series. Variation of pH in pure aqueous solvent systems produced an isoelectric band of invariant solubility with a distinct increase in solubility above and below this band. The increase in total solubility of the amino acids· is directly proportional to the number of moles of acid or base added. As the nonpolar portion of the amino acid molecule increased, the total resultant solubility per mole of acid or base added also increased.
In an aquea is system, the total solubility is equal to the sum of the original zwitterion solubility plus the solubility of the salt that was found. For those amino acids studied, only single salts were formed. In the hydroalcoholic solvent systems, variation of pH produced minimum solubility at the isoelectric point with no distinct isoelectric band seen. As the percent alcohol increased in those solvent systems studied, similar increments of acid or base added to the system produced a proportionally greater increase in the magnitude of total solubility of the amino acid. This might be attributed to an increase in the importance of the charge species as the polarity of the solvent system decreased as well as the increased affinity of the amino acid for the Na+ or Cl- ion present.
Needham, Thomas E., "The Solubility of Amino Acids in Various Solvent Systems" (1970). Open Access Dissertations. Paper 159.
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Galaxy S10 Review: The Ultimate Android Phone
The Samsung Galaxy S10 has a hard time standing on its own. While it is easy to recommend the excellent Galaxy S10 Plus for its battery or the Galaxy S10e for its lower price, it’s hard to say the S10 is a better option than either. Let’s be clear, the Galaxy S10 is a killer phone that delivers near-perfect performance across the board. The conundrum is deciphering whether it’s worth the step up from the S10e, or a step down from the S10 Plus when price and feature list are compared. The S10 may be just right for many, while not enough or too much for others.
The Samsung Galaxy S10, the middle child of the company’s flagship series, is a fantastic phone that might easily be lost in the shuffle. Where the Galaxy S10 Plus has been lauded for its large screen and capable battery, and the Galaxy S10e for its compact form and ease-of-use, the S10 is challenged to strike the proper balance in between.
Samsung is in an enviable position. With three phones to choose from, it’s more likely to capture a purchase by those seeking an Android over iPhone. Find out what — if anything — sets the S10 apart.
Samsung Galaxy S10 review: The big picture
The equation for calculating which device is best for any given person is a complicated one at best. In simplest terms, it requires finding the right set of features at a price the person is willing to pay.
In its 2019 Galaxy S line up, Samsung has mirrored the strategy unveiled by Apple late last year. Where Apple offers iPhones for $749, $999 and $1,099, Samsung now, too, offers high-end phones for $749, $899, and $999. By covering a wider range of price points, Samsung has given itself a better chance of resolving the equation for a greater number of people.
At $899 (or more, if you upgrade the storage), the Galaxy S10 has a lot of competition from its own siblings, let alone the market as a whole. Did Samsung tweak the S10 in just the right ways to score with consumers? We’re here to tell you.
Samsung is the class leader when it comes to hardware. It improves its phones every year, at least incrementally, and this year sees a pleasing evolution in design when compared to last year’s Galaxy S9. The S10 is still metal and glass, and yet it feels more approachable to me.
The curves of the front and back glass surfaces are spot on and merge with the metal frame flawlessly. Samsung smoothed over the feel of the side edges, which came across as somewhat sharp on the S8 and S9. The frame swells a bit in thickness on the top and bottom edges, lending strength to the phone. Since the S10 is one of the first phones to ship with Gorilla Glass 6, we don’t yet have real-world data on just how shatterproof it is. Like all glass phones, I felt nervous using the S10 when walking down city streets or standing over tile or cement floors. Gorilla Glass is still glass after all.
The most important “feature” of the S10 is its size. It’s a bit bigger than the S10e and a bit smaller than the S10 Plus. It’s also a smidge smaller than competing devices such as the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, LG G8, and OnePlus 6T. In other words, if you shy away from mega-huge handsets, but still want all of the best specs, the S10 fits that mix. This goes double for folks who have smaller hands.
I used the phone without a case and came away pleased by the form factor. It disappeared comfortably in my pocket and was a breeze to use one-handed. I generally prefer phones with larger screens, but the punch hole display has allowed Samsung to put ever-bigger screens on ever-smaller devices.
All the buttons and ports do their job. I’m happy to see the 3.5mm headphone jack on the bottom of the phone, where it is easier to access. The controversial Bixby button on the left edge can, for the first time, be rerouted to other apps (except Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa.) That’s a major improvement — and a tacit admission from Samsung that its original thinking was not in line with consumer preferences. The buttons themselves deliver perfect, crisp action.
The camera array is gigantic. It stretches 1.75 inches across the back glass in a raised rectangular module. The module is black no matter the color of the rest of the handset. In addition to the three cameras and flash, the module also contains the heart rate sensor.
I checked to make sure the phone is waterproof, and the IP68 rating holds up. The S10 shook off a shower like a wet dog. The Samsung Galaxy S10 may not necessarily be perfect for me, but it is perfect for someone.
6.1-inch Quad HD+ Super AMOLED
3,040 by 1,440 pixels with 551ppi
Single selfie cutout
When Samsung first introduced the S10, it said three core pillars drove it forward: display, camera, and performance. Samsung’s focus has paid off.
Simply put, the S10 has one of the best displays I’ve ever seen. It’s a stunner top to bottom. Samsung’s Super AMOLED tech has always been impressive and the latest iteration thereof is simply fantastic.
Samsung says the S10’s screen makes use of Dynamic OLED technology. It combines blue light reduction and brightness control in a way that reduces eye strain by 42%. The HDR10+ offers lots of brightness and contrast. This means everything looks amazing. Colors are more accurate and viewing high-definition content from Netflix and other providers impresses.
The S10 does allow for alternative viewing experiences. For example, it ships set to natural color, but users can opt for vivid if they wish. The vivid setting makes colors stand out just a bit more. If you select vivid, you’ll also be allowed to tweak the white balance, and even the levels of red, green, blue saturation. The S10 includes night mode for those who prefer darker backgrounds. As always, you can adjust the resolution (high, medium, low), the size of icons, and the size of text to suit your needs.
The screen has a hole in it.
The screen has a hole in it. Samsung calls this the Inifinty-O Display. The cut out is a small circle positioned in the upper right corner of the glass. The ambient light and proximity sensors are buried under the display. This allowed Samsung to extend the screen up toward the top edge of the phone and achieve a display ratio of 93.1%. In other words, the S10 offers as close to an “all-screen” experience as we’ve seen. I haven’t decided if I like the notch or the hole more. The only time I really notice the hole is when viewing full-screen video, and then it is grating.
The fingerprint reader, which is buried under the display, is not so great. In-screen readers are the latest trend among flagship phones. We’ve seen them on the Huawei Mate 20 Pro, the OnePlus 6T, and more recently the Nokia 9. None of these implementations has been up to par, in my book, but the S10’s is more usable than the Nokia 9 or Mate 20 Pro’s.
To start, it’s an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner. Rather than take a picture of your print, it makes a 3D scan of the contours on your finger. This protects against spoofing. Samsung says the fingerprint data is stored in the Knox Trust Zone on the device, making it safe from hackers. I have no misgivings about the security. It’s the performance that’s the problem.
Like most others, the under-the-glass reader is easy to train. No issues there. It’s mostly about speed. The reader is just not fast enough. You need to place your thumb just right and hold it for a second. The process of finding the right place, touching/holding, etc., lasts only a few seconds, but feels like an eternity when you have to quickly answer an urgent message. By way of comparison, the traditional fingerprint reader on the rear of the Galaxy Note 9 is easy to find by feel and unlocks the phone in an instant.
Equally frustrating, Samsung says the fingerprint scanner is not compatible with all third-party screen protectors. It is working with accessory makers to ensure that compatible screen protectors are certified and clearly labeled as such. Thankfully, the phone ships with a screen protector pre-applied.
Snapdragon 855 S0C
2.8GHz octa-core, 7nm process
The S10 is among the first to ship with the Snapdragon 855, the top-of-the-line chip from Qualcomm. All the base Galaxy S10 devices include a minimum 8GB of RAM, which is stellar.
It should come as no surprise that the S10 crushed the usual trio of benchmarks. It scored 5,641/4,831 on the 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme for OpenGL ES and Vulkan, respectively. That’s better than 90 percent of competing devices. Similarly, it amassed an impressive 354718 in GeekBench. This score bested 90 percent of other phones, as well. Last, for AnTuTu the S10 churned out 3,423 / 10,340 for single- and multi-core tests, respectively.
We initially encountered lots of freezes and crashes from the phone. T-Mobile had us perform a hard reset — a step many consumers may be unwilling to take after they’ve installed all their apps and content — and that appears to have resolved the problems. We will continue to monitor the phone’s behavior to see if the freezing/crashing returns. Aside from this, we’ve seen nothing but excellent performance from the Galaxy S10.
3,400mAh Lithium ion
Wireless PowerShare
After using our Samsung Galaxy S10 review unit, we’re confident most people should find that the phone delivers a full day of battery life with some room to spare.
I took the phone on a road trip and didn’t once run into an issue with battery life, despite lots of photography, tethering, and other battery-intensive tasks. On days that I used the phone from 8am to 11pm or later, it typically had between 15 percent and 20 percent remaining at the end of the day. That’s not a lot, but it is just enough.
Wireless PowerShare is more gimmick than gimme.
Samsung provides plenty of control over how the phone draws power. The easiest way will be to select the power mode that best matches your needs at the time. The phone ships in optimized mode, which balances performance and battery life. You can jump to high performance for gaming, or dial back to medium power saving mode or maximum power saving mode when you need to conserve power.
All of these modes do impact battery life. When I switched to medium power savings mode, for example, I noticed the phone had more like 35 percent left at the end of the day rather than 15 percent. That’s hours of additional usage and the difference between being able to hail an Uber late at night or walking home.
The S10 charges rapidly. Whether used with the included charger or a high-wattage wireless charger, the S10 gulps in power.
The Wireless PowerShare feature, wherein the S10 can charge another device, is more gimmick than gimme. I tried to charge a Samsung Galaxy Galaxy S9 on the S10. While the S10 did transfer power to the phone, it did so so slowly that the effort just isn’t worth it. Of course it’s really meant for charging accessories more than other handsets, but even then our charging tests indicate it’s not the best experience.
Rear cameras:
12MP 2x telephoto sensor, autofocus, OIS, 45-degree field-of-view, ƒ/2.4 aperture
12MP wide-angle sensor, autofocus, OIS, 77-degree field-of-view, dual ƒ/1.5 and ƒ/2.4 apertures
16MP ultra-wide sensor, 123-degree field-of-view, ƒ/2.2 aperture
Front camera:
10MP sensor, autofocus, 80-degree field-of-view, ƒ/1.9 aperture
Imaging is another major pillar upon which Samsung rests the success of the Galaxy S10 range. Each of the three devices has a slightly different set of cameras. The S10 has three rear cameras and a single front camera. Comparatively, the S10e has two rear cameras and a single front camera, and the S10 Plus has three rear cameras and two front cameras. Confused? Yeah, Samsung didn’t necessarily make this easy to grok at a glance.
The camera app is more usable than those of previous Galaxy S phones thanks to the OneUI refresh. The controls are laid out in a fashion that makes sense. Buttons line the left edge of the viewfinder and simplify the process of switching aspect ratios, controlling the flash, setting the timer, and accessing the full settings menu. A large shutter button is affixed to the right side.
I’m very happy that Samsung has moved to the three-camera system that LG and Huawei have already adopted. It gives you so many more options when taking pics. There’s a standard angle lens for regular stuff, a wide-angle lens for that really big picture, and a 2x optical zoom lens for sharper telephoto shots. This is exactly the creative freedom that I want when shooting pictures (and not necessarily the innovative, but ultimately flawed Nokia 9.) Perhaps most importantly, Samsung has made it dead simple to flip between the three lenses thanks to a simple switch parked next to the shutter button.
Pictures look good — for the most part.
Core shooting modes include photo, video, live focus, super slow-mo, pro, panorama, food, instagram, slow-mo, and hyperlapse. Switching between modes requires you to swipe the viewfinder in one direction or another. The S10 is able to zoom through the camera app quickly, particularly when jumping between shooting modes. Thank goodness.
I found the modes each worked well. The pro mode lets you adjust a wide number of settings, such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, brightness, and focus. Photographers who know what they’re doing can put these to creative use.
The live focus mode is your bokeh/portrait tool. There are four quick options for selecting the degree of background blur and vignetting that’s applied. This sort of mimics the studio lighting effect available on iPhones, but Samsung didn’t name the options. Alternately, you can use a slider to manually adjust the blur’s intensity. It’s easy enough to use, but I think it could be more obvious to people that this mode is for portraits.
The remaining shooting modes each requires a few minutes to learn properly. Once mastered, they can deliver some fun results.
How do the photos look? Good, for the most part, with some exceptions clouding up the picture.
I was generally happy with exposure and white/color balance. Photos appeared to be balanced properly with respect to bright and dark regions. I saw very little grain in dark shots. Look at the night scenes I captured in LA. They are incredibly clean. White balance is accurate, but color was pushed a bit much for my tastes. This is signature Samsung. I was particularly impressed with the group shot I took at twilight. Look how balanced that exposure is.
Focus is where things start to get fuzzy. Literally. The S10 often delivered soft images, particularly those captured in low-light environments. The worst come from the ultra wide-angle lens. I expected some distortion, and sure enough I noticed bent lines in the corners. We saw similar results from other wide-angle lenses on phones such as the V30 from LG.
The 10MP selfie camera works great when you ignore the portrait tool. Pictures are sharp and well exposed. Switching to the live focus effect gives you all sorts of weird results. You’ll note how inaccurate the border around my head is in the samples below, and how jarring the effect is behind me.
Last up, video. The Galaxy S10 can shoot video up to 4K at various frame rates. I was pleased with the results, which were more consistently good than results from the still camera. Sound captured along with the video is also quite good.
3.5mm headphone jack
Bluetooth 5 with aptX HD
Samsung knows that people are ticked with Apple, Google, and Huawei for removing the headphone jacks from their flagship phones. That’s why Samsung made sure the Galaxy S10 has a 3.5mm jack on the bottom edge. You can plug your favorite headphones in, sit back, and enjoy your tunes. The S10 ships with a basic pair of wired earbuds from AKG. They sound decent, but I’d only use them in a pinch.
Stereo speakers should be on every flagship phone, particularly one that’s serious about video. The S10 includes two speakers that provide stereo sound when the phone is tipped on its side. A standard earpiece speaker is at the top of the screen, and a louder speaker graces the bottom edge. This combo delivers a nice sonic punch, whether you’re letting the phone play some music in the background, or watching the latest episode of your favorite show. The sound is loud enough to fill a single room.
I was impressed with the Bluetooth experience, too. Using my favorite pair of wireless headphones, the aptX HD software delivers clean sound over a stable connection.
Phone calls over T-Mobile’s network sounded excellent.
Samsung OneUI v1.1
Samsung’s software experience has been up and down over the years. Late last year it began testing refreshed software called OneUI. The Galaxy S10 family is the first to ship with OneUI, though Samsung has made the software available to older devices such as the S9 and Note 9. It’s a big step up for Samsung.
For one, Samsung tweaked the icons, fonts, and colors just enough so the experience feels different and fresh. The settings menu has been reordered and looks cleaner. I like how the various sections are arranged under fewer subheads. I think I still prefer the look of raw Android, but Samsung’s OneUI is superior to Huawei’s EMUI.
The mechanics of the underlying Android 9 Pie operating system are intact. You can opt from several home screen styles, easily access the Quick Settings/notification shade, and control nearly every facet of the theme. (Yes, you can download wallpapers that highlight and/or hide the punch hole.) It’s mostly fluid as you move through the menus. Samsung kept its Edge Screen tool, which acts like a quick-access panel for certain apps and contacts.
Samsung still insists on foisting Bixby on everyone. A dedicated Bixby button appears on the left edge of the phone and consumes the left-most home screen panel. Samsung has refreshed the look of Bixby and I think it’s better, but the voice assistant’s functionality is still not where it needs to be. Samsung added Bixby Routines, which let you combine certain actions in a manner similar to IFTTT and Siri Shortcuts. The good news is that Samsung is finally allowing people to remap the dedicated button to other apps (with the exception of voice assistants.)
Display 5.8-inch AMOLED panel
2,280 x 1,080 resolution
19:9 aspect ratio 6.1-inch AMOLED panel
Processor 8nm octa-core Exynos 9820 / 7nm octa-core Snapdragon 855 8nm octa-core Exynos 9820 / 7nm octa-core Snapdragon 855 8nm octa-core Exynos 9820 / 7nm octa-core Snapdragon 855
RAM 6/8GB 8GB 8/12GB
Storage 128/256GB 128/512GB 128/512GB / 1TB
MicroSD Yes, up to 512GB Yes, up to 512GB Yes, up to 512GB
Cameras Rear:
16MP f/2.2 ultrawide +
12MP f/1.5 and f/2.4 dual pixel with OIS
10MP f/1.9 dual pixel Rear:
12MP f/1.5 and f/2.4 dual pixel with OIS +
12MP OIS telephoto f/2.4
10MP f/1.9 dual pixel +
8MP depth sensor f/2.2
Battery 3,100mAh
Non-removable 3,400mAh
Non-removable
Wireless charging Fast Wireless Charging 2.0
Wireless PowerShare Fast Wireless Charging 2.0
Water resistance IP68 IP68 IP68
Security Capacitive fingerprint scanner. 2D face unlock. Embedded Ultrasonic fingerprint scanner. 2D face unlock. Embedded Ultrasonic fingerprint scanner. 2D face unlock.
Connectivity Wi-Fi 6
Cat20 LTE, 7CA, 4×4 MIMO Wi-Fi 6
Cat20 LTE, 7CA, 4×4 MIMO
SIM Nano SIM Nano SIM Nano SIM
Software Android 9 Pie Android 9 Pie Android 9 Pie
Dimensions and weight 142.2 x 69.9 x 7.9mm
150g 149.9 x 70.4 x 7.8mm
Colors blue, yellow, black, white, pink blue, green, black, white, pink blue, green, black, white, pink, black (ceramic), white (ceramic)
Samsung Galaxy S10e: $749.99 (128GB), $849.99 (256GB)
Samsung Galaxy S10: $899.99 (128GB), $1,149.99 (512GB)
Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus: $999.99 (128GB), $1,249.99 (512GB), $1,599.99 (1TB and 12GB of RAM)
The Galaxy S10 is a case of you get what you pay for — and that’s exactly its problem. The base S10 gives you a smaller screen, smaller battery, and two rear cameras at a more palatable price. The S10 steps up the screen, battery, and number of rear cameras to three for $150 more. If you’ve got a grand, the S10 Plus adds even more screen and battery, and a second user-facing camera.
Then there are the storage variants. All the S10 models start at 8GB RAM / 128GB storage, and microSD card support to 512GB. You can add more embedded storage to the S10 for more cash, but you’ll be much better off going with a memory card.
At least Samsung is in line with its direct competition. The iPhone Xs, LG G8, and Xiaomi Mate 20 Pros have similar capabilities and price points. If you have $900 to spend on a smartphone, count yourself lucky. The $38-per-month cost is acceptable if you buy via carrier or other financing equivalent.
If you drop down to a Nokia 9 or OnePlus 6T, you’re definitely going to see the difference in the screen and camera capabilities — and save hundreds of dollars at the same time.
Samsung Galaxy S10 review: The verdict
The Samsung Galaxy S10 is hard to put my finger on. I can imagine people at a carrier store hemming and hawing over the price and feature list when compared to the S10e and the S10 Plus. The good news is that you can’t go wrong with any of the new Samsung phones. All three perform at an exceptional level when compared to competing phones in the market.
The S10’s screen is gorgeous, the battery is sufficient, the hardware is top notch, and the software is the best yet from Samsung. Other pros include the headphone jack, expandable storage, wireless charging, fast radios, and waterproof chassis. As for detractors, I’d list the fingerprint reader, fragile materials, and the high price.
From my viewpoint, the most critical factor in picking the S10 over either of its brothers is the size. This means you’ll be best served going to a carrier store and holding each of the three in your hand. If you’re the goldilocks type, then perhaps the S10, which is the middle child in this story, is the phone for you.
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The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation
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1 IWPR #C350a Updated April 2012 The Gender Wage Gap by Occupation Women s are lower than men s in nearly all s, whether they work in s predominantly done by women, s predominantly done by men, or s with a more even mix of men and women. During 2011, for full-time were $684, compared with $832 per week for men, a gender wage ratio of 82.2 percent (Table 1; a gender wage gap of 17.8 percent). 1 Added to the gender wage gap within s is the gender wage gap between s. Male-dominated s tend to pay more than -dominated s at similar skill levels, particularly at higher levels of educational attainment. 2 Tackling al segregation is an important part of tackling the gender wage gap. The gender wage gap and al segregation men primarily working in s done by men, and women primarily working with other women are persistent features of the U.S. labor market. Only four of the 20 most common s for men and the 20 most common s for women overlap. Four of ten women (39.5 percent) work in traditionally s and between four and five of ten (44.5 percent) work in traditionally s; only 5.8 percent of women work in traditionally s and only 4.6 percent of men in traditionally s. 3 Women Earn Less Than Men in (Almost) All of the Most Common Occupations for Women Table 1 shows the and the gender wage gap in the 20 most common s for full-time working women. The three largest s, secretaries and administrative assistants, elementary and middle school teachers, and registered nurses together employ more than thirteen percent of all women. More than 40 percent of full-time employees worked in only 20 s, but only 15 percent of full-time employees work in these s. Nine of these s are sex-typed, meaning at least three of four are women. One, teachers assistants, employs too few men to estimate the gender wage gap. Within women s 20 most common s, full-time for women range from $1,034 per week for registered nurses to $373 per week for cashiers (Table 1). With one exception, bookkeeping, accounting and auditing clerks, women earn less than men (these calculations include full-time only). The gender wage gap among the 20 most common s is largest for financial managers, with a gender ratio of 66 percent, men s are more than $500 per week than women s. 4
2 Table 1: The Wage Gap in the 20 Most Common Occupations for Women (Full-Time Workers Only), 2011 All full-time, all s Women s Women's as percent of men's Men s in $ % $ % 55,971,000 44,486,000 in all in all 20 most common s for women Secretaries and administrative assistants $ % $ % 0.2% 4.6% Elementary and middle school teachers $ % $1, % 0.8% 4.4% Registered nurses $1, % $1, % 0.4% 4.4% Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides $ % $ % 0.3% 2.6% Customer service representatives $ % $ % 1.0% 2.2% Cashiers $ % $ % 0.7% 2.2% First-line supervisors of retail sales $ % $ % 2.3% 2.2% First-line supervisors/managers of office $ % $ % 0.8% 1.9% and administrative Accountants and auditors $ % $1, % 1.0% 1.9% Receptionists and information clerks $ % $ % 0.1% 1.8% Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing $ % $ % 0.2% 1.7% clerks Managers, all other $1, % $1, % 2.3% 1.7% Retail salespersons $ % $ % 1.9% 1.7% Office clerks, general $ % $ % 0.2% 1.5% Maids and housekeeping cleaners $ % $ % 0.2% 1.4% Secondary school teachers $ % $1, % 0.8% 1.3% Financial managers $ % $1, % 0.9% 1.3% Teacher assistants $ % 1.3% Waiters and waitresses $ % $ % 0.6% 1.3% Social $ % $ % 0.2% 1.3% Percent of all women and men: 14.7% 42.4% Note: * Earnings data are published only for s with an estimated minimum of 50,000. Source: IWPR compilation of data from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Household Data, Annual Averages. Table 39. < (retrieved April 2012). Women Earn Less Than Men in (Almost) All of the Most Common Occupations for Men Table 2 shows the and the gender wage gap in the 20 most common s for full-time working men. These s employ three out of ten and one in seven full-time ; twelve of the s are non-traditional for women, and in five of the 20, automotive service technicians and mechanics, carpenters, construction laborers, electricians, and grounds maintenance, there are too few women to estimate for women. 2
3 Table 2: The Wage Gap in the 20 Most Common Occupations for Men (Full-Time Workers Only), 2011 All Men s Women s 3 Women's as percent of men's in (percent) $832 $ % 44.3% 55,971,000 44,486,000 in all in all 20 most common s for men Driver/sales and truck drivers $712 $ % 4.2% 4.2% 0.2% Managers, all other $1,406 $1, % 36.0% 2.3% 1.7% First-line supervisors of retail sales $759 $ % 43.1% 2.3% 2.2% Janitors and building cleaners $514 $ % 25.7% 2.0% 0.9% Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand $520 $ % 13.9% 1.9% 0.4% Retail salespersons $620 $ % 41.0% 1.9% 1.6% Construction laborers $ % 1.5% 0.0% Sales representatives, wholesale and $1,019 $ % 24.0% 1.5% 0.6% manufacturing Software developers, applications and systems software $1,606 $1, % 18.1% 1.5% 0.4% Cooks $406 $ % 37.1% 1.4% 1.0% Chief executives $2,122 $1, % 24.7% 1.3% 0.6% Grounds maintenance $ % 1.3% 0.1% Carpenters $ % 1.3% 0.0% Stock clerks and order fillers $488 $ % 34.0% 1.2% 0.8% General and operations managers $1,319 $ % 29.3% 1.2% 0.6% Automotive service technicians and $ % 1.2% 0.0% mechanics Security guards and gaming surveillance officers $544 $ % 20.1% 1.1% 0.4% Police and sheriff's patrol officers $948 $ % 11.5% 1.0% 0.2% Electricians $ % 1.0% 0.0% Customer service representatives $628 $ % 64.4% 1.0% 2.2% Percent of all women and men: 31.9% 13.7% Note: Earnings data are made available only where there are an estimated minimum of 50,000 in an. Source: IWPR compilation of data from the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Household Data, Annual Averages. Table 39. < (retrieved April 2012). full-time for men range from $2,122 for chief executives to $406 for cooks (Table 2). Five of the most common 20 s have above $1,000, compared with only two of the most common s for women. With one exception, stock clerks and order fillers, where women s ($501) are 103 percent of those
4 of men, men earn more than the most common s. Women have almost reached parity in the of police and sheriff s patrol officers, where women earn $938 per week, 99 percent of. Women are More than Twice as Likely as Men to Work in Occupations with Poverty Wages Three of the most common s for women, cashiers, waiters and waitresses, and maids and household cleaners, and two of the most common s for men, cooks and grounds maintenance, have for a full week of work that provide less than 100 percent of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services federal poverty levels for a family of four. 5 The poverty levels refer to annual and translating them into assumes that a worker would be able to get full-time work for 52 weeks a year; this may not always be possible in these s (which are characterized by considerable fluctuations in demand for labor and, hence, unstable earning opportunities). A further seven of the most common and eight of the most common s provide of less than 150 percent of the poverty threshold, potentially placing the in these s among the working poor, with that are often too high to qualify for public supports but too low to attain economic security. These include s such as teacher assistants and nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides. Low are a significant problem for both and. Yet overall more than twice as many women (5.52 million) than men (2.3 million) work in s with for full-time work below the federal poverty threshold for a family of four. 6 The Occupational Gender Wage Gap by Race and Ethnicity The gender wage gap differs by race and ethnic background. Hispanic/Latina women have the lowest, at $518 per week, 55 percent of the of white men; black women have of $595, 64 percent of of white men. Asians have the highest, for both men and women, and the highest levels of educational attainment. The wage gaps for Asian women compared with Asian men and white women compared with white men are larger than the wage gap for the whole population; the wage gaps between black and and Latino and are smaller. More detailed information is available in IWPR s fact sheet, The Gender Wage Gap: Table 3 provides for full-time work by race and ethnicity in seven intermediate al groups; the sample size in the Current Population Survey is not sufficient to provide reliable estimates at a more detailed al level. The distribution of women across the s varies for each group. At least a quarter of white, black, and Asian women are working in professional and related s, compared with under a fifth of Hispanic women; black and Hispanic women are more than twice as likely to work in service s than white women; Asian women are considerably less likely than other women to work in office and administrative support s, and Hispanic women 4
5 are most likely to work in production, transportation and material moving s (Table 3). With one exception (black women s are 102 percent of black men s in office and administrative support ) in each of the major al groupings men earn more than women of the same race or ethnicity (Table 3). The gender gap is magnified by a race and ethnic gap: Hispanic management, business and finance, for example, earn only 83 percent of Hispanic men in these s, while Hispanic men earn only 71 percent of white men s, and Hispanic women earn only 59 percent of white managers. The of Hispanic women are lower than the federal poverty level s in three al groups, which collectively employ four out of ten (39.5) Hispanic women (Table 3). 5
6 Fe Workers Table 3: Weekly Earnings for Male and Fe Workers, by Broad Occupational Classification and Race and Ethnic Background (Full-Time Workers Only), 2011 Occupation Management, business, and financial operations s Professional and related s White Women (Non-Hispanic Only) ($) White white Black or African American Women* ($) Black black Asian Women ($) Asian Asian Latina or Hispanic Women Latina Latina ($) $1, % $ % $1, % $ % $ % $ % $1, % $ % Service s $ % $ % $ % $ % Sales and related s Office and administrative support s Natural resources, construction, and maintenance s Production, transportation, and material moving s $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % Male Workers Occupation Management, business, and financial operations s Professional and related s White Men (Non-Hispanic Only) White men in white Black or African American Men* Black men in black Asian Men Asian men in Asian Latino or Hispanic Men Latino men in Latino $1, % $1, % $1, % $1, % $1, % $ % $1, % $1, % Service s $ % $ % $ % $ % Sales and related s $ % $ % $ % $ % Office and administrative support s Natural resources, construction, and maintenance s Production, transportation, and material moving s $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % $ % Note: * Data for black or African Americans may include black Hispanics or Latinos. Source: IWPR compilation of data based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Table A-2. Usual of employed fulltime wage and salary by intermediate, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity and Non-Hispanic ethnicity, Annual Average
7 Notes 1 The data in this fact sheet are based on the Current Population Survey (CPS) and refer to full-time (working 35 hours or more per week) wage and salary age 16 and older (excluding the self-employed); annual data for 2011 (which include 15 years and older as well as the self-employed, with for at least 50 weeks of the year) are not available until Fall 2012; the gender wage gap based on annual was 23 percent in 2010, and the / ratio was 77 percent. 2 See Ariane Hegewisch, Hannah Liepmann, Jeffrey Hayes, and Heidi Hartmann, Separate and Not Equal? Gender Segregation in the Labor Market and the Gender Wage Gap. IWPR Briefing Paper. Institute for Women s Policy Research: Washington, DC, 2010:, available at < 3 The definition of traditional/non-traditional s as having at least 75 percent of the of one gender is provided in the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998 S Calculation includes only s with an estimated minimum of 50,000. Restricting the calculation to full-time only increases segregation: 41.3 percent of women and 52.3 percent of men work full-time in traditional s for their gender; and 7.8 percent of women and 4.9 percent of men work full-time in s non-traditional for their gender (IWPR compilation of data based on US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Table 11. Employed persons by detailed, sex, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, Annual Average < Effective with January 2011 data, s reflect the introduction of the 2010 Census Standard Occupational classification system into the CPS. Data for 2011 are not strictly comparable with earlier years. 4 Among all s, the gender wage gap is largest for women working full-time as property, real estate, and community association managers, with a / ratio of 60.6 percent, a gender wage gap of 39.4 percent (IWPR calculation based on same source as Table 1). 5 The federal poverty levels for a family of four in 2011 was $22,350, or $430 per week for 52 weeks. One-hundred fifty of the poverty level was $33,525, or $645; see U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The 2011 HHS Poverty Guidelines, at < (retrieved April 15, 2012) 6 IWPR calculation based on same source as Table 1. 7 The fact sheet is available at < This fact sheet was prepared by Ariane Hegewisch, Claudia Williams, and Vanessa Harbin of the Institute for Women s Policy Research. Financial support was provided by the Annie. E. Casey Foundation and the Ford Foundation. For more information on IWPR reports or membership, please call (202) , or visit The Institute for Women s Policy Research (IWPR) conducts rigorous research and disseminates its findings to address the needs of women, promote public dialogue, and strengthen families, communities, and societies. The Institute works with policymakers, scholars, and public interest groups to design, execute, and disseminate research that illuminates economic and social policy issues affecting women and their families, and to build a network of individuals and organizations that conduct and use women-oriented policy research. IWPR s work is supported by foundation grants, government grants and contracts, donations from individuals, and contributions from organizations and corporations. IWPR is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization that also works in affiliation with the women s studies and public policy programs at The George Washington University. 7
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A potentially bewildering multiplicity of elements is elevated beyond the cacophony of Babel to reveal shared needs, aspirations and desires that underlie wide-ranging cultural practices and preferences. — The Wire, UK
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Grains of Voice, originally released more than two decades ago, is still one of the most powerful and conceptually interesting pieces of this entire selection of music.
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Très fortement recommandé.
Kevin Press, Badd Press, October 5, 2018
… it is a powerful work.
We have enjoyed previous releases Growl and Necropolis by Åke Parmerud, the Swedish electroacoustic composer, and now we have Grains (empreintes DIGITALes IMED 18150), the latest collection for this label. As before, we have the monochrome high-contrast sleeve art which appealingly plays with digital “textures” and explores its own imaginary spaces. This time we’re hearing some earlier gems form his 1990s catalogue. The main event might be Grains of Voices, a 1994-95 composition that was commissioned by Swedish radio as a dramatic form of sound-art; we might consider it radiophonic almost, were it not for the lack of a clear linear narrative. Instead, Parmerud is making a generalised statement about the diversity of the human race, by using sampled, found and recorded voices from around the world. He intends thereby to present as much information as he can about the human spirit in a deep / wide sweep; I like the idea it might be seen as “vocal graffiti”. It’s all about different languages and cultures, yet the basic idea is to reveal some commonality, something about our shared humanity. On paper, this may sound a bit “worthy”, like some committee-designed UNESCO statement about mankind, but sonically speaking it’s a compelling jumble with plenty of rich detail; and it refuses to draw any conclusions about what these artificial patterns in sound might mean. As ever with this composer, the craft of assemblage is pretty immaculate; not a wasted moment, lots of concrete events; it’s as much a vocal mosaic as a wall of audio graffiti.
More human voices on Les objets obscurs taking us even further back to 1991. This is intended as an “audio riddle” in four parts; at one level, we’re invited to guess what we might be hearing as we work through these four short works, plus there’s a friendly French-speaking woman adding some context at the start, with a further textual riddle (I think she’s pretty much asking “what am I?”, but it sounds so much better in French). All of this was done to pay homage to the INA-GRM foundation, which Parmerud respectfully regards as a “very honourable institution”, and which prompted him to try and emulate the historical traditions of musique concrète. Duly noted, but I would say he’s also emulating the surrealist René Magritte at his most playful; I’d say it’s legitimate to “read” a Magritte painting as a visual riddle, of sorts, and everyday objects were massively important to his visual lexicon. Parmerud’s suite contains the “solutions” in the final part, but the answers conceal more than they reveal, and are also intended to set us a new riddle, one without an answer. How metaphysical!
Still more voices on Alias, a 1990 work which, in a very oblique manner, is attempting to say something about the life and music of Carlo Gesualdo. This Renaissance composer of madrigals is the gift that just keeps on giving, not just to lovers of that genre but also to composers and conceptualists. In 2017, for instance, we noted Alessandro Bosetti with his Gesualdo Translations work, a very bold statement using amateur singers that really challenged our received wisdom about the “chromatics” that have made Gesualdo so famous. Parmerud’s take on the subject is a bit more elusive; the first part remakes a John Dowland song, in order to raise questions about that most fraught of subjects, the relationship between the creator and the work of art. The second half samples some Gesualdo motets, fragments and processes them in an electroacoustic way and blends in music from the first half, thereby attempting to x-ray the inside of Carlo Gesualdo’s brain. Highly effective; even if you have no interest in the subject matter listed above, the musical process here does indeed create convincing impressions of the way the human brain might operate. Fascinating.
Grains of Voice, originally released more than two decades ago, is still one of the most powerful and conceptually interesting pieces of this entire selection of music. Parmerud’s own written summary of the work is fascinating, detailing his efforts to record different human voices from all over the world (the total duration of recordings Parmerud made during his journey approaches 20 hours!) and create a piece that ventures into several ideas, or ‘islands,’ amidst a continuous flow of sound. The composer’s treatment of the voices results in dark, sonorous waves, grounded by recognizable elements — for me, the most notable of these was an appearance of Ginsberg’s Howl. The other concepts are no less enthralling, what with the auditory riddles of Les objet obscurs and the philosophical musings of Alias.
L’artiste multi-primé Åke Parmerud fait partie de ces personnes pour qui la musique est un outil de pensée, un vecteur de conscience et de réactivité. Depuis plus de 30 ans, il s’efforce de créer un univers qui allie tensions et beauté futuriste.
C’est une mini-anthologie que nous propose l’excellent label empreintes DIGITALes, véritable défricheur de pépites électroacoustiques surgies du passé. Grains tente, en quelques titres, d’offrir un aperçu du travail phénoménal d’Åke Parmerud, avec le regroupement les œuvres suivantes: Grains Of Voices, Jeux imaginaires, Les objets obscurs et Alias.
Ces titres survolent avec justesse la diversité de son travail, mais aussi de sa personnalité, très portée par les nouvelles technologies et l’emploi de vocaux samplés, créant des ambiances cinématographiques aux balancements étranges et déviants.
L’œuvre d’Åke Parmerud bien qu’abstraite et cérébrale, n’oublie pas de titiller les sens, bousculant sans cesse l’espace sonore dans lequel il se déploie, défiant constamment l’auditeur à prendre de la distance pour mieux se précipiter à l’intérieur de sa musique, aller-retour dans l’espace et le temps, les oreilles vissées du coté des artistes du GRM. Très fortement recommandé.
Sweden’s Åke Parmerud has assembled four acousmatic works dating between 1990 and 1995 on a must-have collection of out-of-print recordings. (Acousmatic is an electroacoustic subgenre composed for presentation with speakers rather than live instruments.)
These powerful, sometimes disturbing recordings all date back to the mid-1990s. Thematically and artistically, each has maintained extraordinary relevance.
Grains of Voices came out of an invitation to produce a piece of music drama for Swedish Radio. “I decided to make a composition concerning the human voice, its symbolic implications and its musical applications,” writes Parmerud in the album’s notes. “The sound of the voice is a striking symbol of the unity of mankind.”
He recorded the voices in-person, inviting speakers and singers to share anything they wished. “This way I did not (with a few exceptions) control what went into the composition, only what came out.” Parmerud describes the 31-minute work as “a multilayered, cross-cultural hybrid piece of sonic art.”
Jeux imaginaires (or Imaginary Games) was inspired by the 1992 World Chess Championship match between Anatoli Karpov and Garry Kasparov. Aside from a middle section that sounds like a frenetic game of park chess, the work is a study of the parallels between the game and composing music.
“Every night after ending my composing session in the studio I played the game (or maybe only a few moves) on my portable chessboard. Apart from it being a nice way to turn my attention away from pure musical problems for a while, I found that playing the game made me more and more aware of the likeness between chess playing and composing. … [P]laying the game as a small ritual every night released new musical ideas and composing energy without necessarily creating detectable parallels between the music and the game itself.”
Les objets obscurs (Hidden Objects) is a musique concrète piece in four parts. Or more precisely, a meta-musique concrète piece.
We’re presented with riddles (in French) having to do with the source of the sounds used. The answers are offered musically. “In the end of the last movement the ‘solution’ of all the riddles is presented. These answers, however, set up a new ‘inner’ riddle, to which no answer is given.”
Finally, Alias explores “the duality of outer and inner existence, here interpreted through the life, music and destiny of the Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (1560-1613).”
Gesualdo is a controversial 16th/17th century figure. As a composer, he’s considered to have been hundreds of years ahead of his time. As a human being on the other hand, he’s remembered for the gruesome double murder of his wife and her lover.
“ Alias is not, however, an attempt to illustrate the shifting identities of Gesualdo,” writes Parmerud, “but is rather, in a wider sense, inspired by thoughts on the relationship between the artist and the work of art.”
That being said, it’s difficult not to let the mind wander over the course of these two dramatic movements. Like the others on this important new compilation, it is a powerful work.
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NATO summit – the View from Berlin
Elizabeth Pond 4. December 2019 4. December 2019 Uncategorized
The two-day celebration of NATO’s 70th anniversary in London this week was a success. Neither the United States, France, nor Turkey quit the world’s longest-lasting alliance in a huff. This was without a doubt the lowest bar for accomplishment in the history of the transatlantic alliance.
Indeed, suggested the on-line Globalist sarcastically, French President Emmanuel Macron’s provocation a month ago in declaring the North Atlantic Treaty Organization “brain-dead” was a sly Gallic plot. Since Donald Trump branded Washington’s erstwhile European allies as “foes” last summer (because they sell more to the US than they buy from it), surely the way to reconcile Washington with its own post-World War II invention was to declare its death, whereupon the American President would oppose the Europeans by championing NATO.
To go by official statements, the ruse worked like a charm. At this week’s opening NATO breakfast Trump blasted Macron in public for his “very, very nasty statement” and defied him to withdraw his country from NATO. “You just can’t go around making statements like that about NATO. It is very disrespectful,” he scolded Macron. France “needs protection more than anybody, and I see him [Macron] breaking off” from it.
The Europeans are muting their applause for Trump’s new-found enthusiasm for the Western collective security that kept peace in heartland Europe for 70 years. Last April the Germans had tried their own scheme for averting American exit by downgrading the gala celebration on the alliance’s chronological 70th anniversary and confining the festivities in Washington to the level of the founding foreign ministers. That way the Europeans did not offer Trump, who had declared NATO “obsolete” just before taking office in the White House, a bully pulpit for any spontaneous announcement of America’s exit from the club.
Still, Macron’s coup managed to shift the alliance from mere prevention of American exit to elicit a rhetorical paean to NATO from the mercurial American president this time around.
Meanwhile, the domestic ground under the feet of NATO and its civilian counterpart of the European Union is eroding. Trump is facing impeachment proceedings and political polarization that has paralysed action on more normal policymaking.
In Germany the “grand coalition” of center-right and center-left that for a decade has produced stability is threatened by the sudden selection of little-known leftist leaders in the Social Democratic party, who might well force early elections that would produce a hung parliament. The Social Democrats’ leftward swing has already scotched a pending deal between Germany and the European Central Bank to rescue the Euro and introduce internal reforms of banks and the common currency to avoid any repeat of the financial crash of 2008.
Moreover, elections in the United Kingdom next week are expected to give a majority to hardline “Leavers” from the European Union after almost a half-century of UK membership. The Finnish government has just lost its domestic majority in its mid-term as rotating president of the EU—and thus delayed the tough negotiations on the EU’s next seven-year budget. The Italian far right is resurgent.
And while Macron has held off the far right in France until the next election, he has dismayed his NATO allies by solo gestures toward Vladimir Putin that no longer hold the Russian president to account for Russia’s ongoing undeclared war on Ukraine. He has further annoyed them, in an increasingly centrifugal European Union, by vetoing long-promised membership talks with Albania and North Macedonia. This has reduced incentives to make needed reforms in the Balkans.
As for Turkey, it remains a formal member of NATO but is mistrusted by American and European leaders. The estrangement followed President Erdogan’s two-year rapprochement with Vladimir Putin that culminated in Ankara’s purchase of S-400 missiles from Russia and in Turkey’s military intervention in Syria in October to help restore control of Syria’s there Baschar al-Assad head of state after Trump pulled US special forces out of the area.
In sum, instead of exhibiting the constant adaptation to new circumstances that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg urges on the maverick heads of government in his charge, the latest summit confirms the alliance’s current modus operandi as permanent damage limitation.
Elizabeth Pond is a Berlin-based journalist and author.
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208 JSJ MS Office with Jeremy Thake
This episode was recorded live from The Microsoft Build Conference 2016. In this episode we chatted with Jeremy Thake of Microsoft about MS Office. You can follow him on Twitter, see what he’s done over on GitHub, or visit his blog.Resources:Office Dev CenterPicksBillions (Jeremy)
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Their support is excellent and their VPS’s are backed on solid-state drives and are fast and responsive. Check them out at DigitalOcean.com. If you use the code JavaScriptJabber you’ll get a $10 credit.] **CHUCK: So, welcome everyone to JavaScript Jabber. This week we are at Build Conference. AJ and I are here. We're talking to Jeremy. What's your last name, Jeremy? JEREMY: It's Thake. CHUCK: Jeremy Thake. He's from Microsoft. He works on the Office 365 team. So, we thought we would take a few minutes and talk to him, see what Microsoft 365 is all about and how it applies to JavaScript. So, is there more of an introduction you want to give, Jeremy? JEREMY: Yeah. I've been at Microsoft for two years. So, before that I was actually a partner building solutions on top of SharePoint. And Microsoft were like, “Come over to the marketing side.” So, I'm actually [at] technical product management focused on Office 365, all that. It's a big thing to own [chuckles] because it's not just [as I said SharePoint.] It's also Office as a client wherever that's on. The Mac, PC, iPhone, Windows, 32 or even the UWP stuff that we've been talking about a lot at Build. And then obviously the browser version of Office. CHUCK: Right. JEREMY: And how you can extend office across all those platforms. And then because what we're running is an Office 365 as a cloud service, all our APIs can be hooked into as well. And we call that the Microsoft Graph. So, the three things that we focus on as we go forward with that. CHUCK: Gotcha. I'm also going to put a link in the show notes. We had somebody on Adventures in Angular talking about building those extensions with Angular. JEREMY: Oh yeah, was that Dan Wahlin or, who was that? CHUCK: No, it wasn't Dan Wahlin. It was somebody else. But… JEREMY: Oh, okay. CHUCK: Anyway, it was really interesting. So, you can effectively extend Office with HTML and CSS… JEREMY: Yeah, because… CHUCK: Or HTML and JavaScript. JEREMY: Traditionally one always uses Xobni which was inbox backwards which was the one in Outlook and you selected a mail and it allowed you to see more information about that user, which Outlook almost does now. But five or six years ago that was all the rage, was to have that plugin installed. But that was a [COM] plugin. So, it was built using C# and it was managed code. It was compiled. CHUCK: Right. JEREMY: You had to ship an MSI on everybody's PC's that they run to get it installed on the machine. And so, we realized that's not going to work when we want to try and release add-ins that are valuable not just for Windows but also for the Mac or iOS and Android eventually. And so, they looked at the architecture and decided actually this makes more sense if we do it as HTML and JavaScript and not run it as part of the Office client. So, it's not impacting the performance of Outlook. It's running inside an iframe within the Office client no matter what platform Office is running on. And essentially you use JavaScript and our API or the Office.js framework to communicate back into the host whether it be Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel. And this week we've actually announced OneNote. So, you can build add-ins using HTML and JavaScript across all of those platforms, which is pretty cool. CHUCK: So, what you're telling me is that not just the… because I've seen the web version of Office 365. But back in the day when I used Outlook it was a desktop application. So, you can write your plugins for your desktop applications with JavaScript? JEREMY: Right. And so, the same code will essentially allow you to run it whether I'm Outlook Win32, whether I'm Outlook Online in my browser, whether I'm Outlook on my Mac, Outlook on my iPhone. Those things, it'll all show up. And essentially we just got each of those platform hosts understand how to work with the HTML and JavaScript that's hosted. So, it gives you a way that we couldn't put COM on an iPad version of Outlook. So, we had to work a way architecturally to do that. CHUCK: Right. AJ: Is the data structure for each… I imagine there's a data structure for Excel, there's a data structure for Word, and are those the same as what were in the binary files? Or is that a completely different type of data now? JEREMY: Yeah, good question. So, the way that you interact, you have different shapes that can appear in Office. So, you can have a task pane that shows up on the right-hand side. You can have what we call a content add-in which is essentially a piece of content that lands in PowerPoint that you can add to a slide or lands almost like a chart in Excel. Or you can have ribbon buttons as well in Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook as well. And when you click off the ribbon buttons essentially it's executing JavaScript behind the scenes. And then you can say, “I want a pop up to say that that button is completed” or maybe a status bar shows up on the top. And in terms of the data structures, obviously COM did a lot more because essentially with COM you could totally transform Outlook or PowerPoint or Excel because you owned the whole UI. So, you could override pretty much the whole of the Office client. With Office add-ins we've put it a bit more [inaudible] and said here are the shapes you can have in each of these products, because now we're not just maintaining this on Windows Office. We're maintaining it across all the other platforms of Office. And then the Office.js calls allow me to do things like, I'm in my task pane. I want to inject content into Word. I'm going to inject this photo or I'm going to inject this body of OpenXML text with formatting. And so, those APIs, the Office API calls, there are some common ones. It makes sense to have the ability to insert into the body of an email or insert into the body of a Word document or to a slide in PowerPoint. But then there are some special APIs that you can call for each individual client. So for instance, in Excel you can insert special formulas into cells based on the X, Y coordinates on the sheet. And so, you can learn one… it's very easy to learn for Outlook. And then, oh, I want to build a Word add-in. The API is exactly the same shape and the way you call things is the same. It's just that now you've just got different hooks that you can take advantage of in Word that you couldn't in Outlook because of the context of the client you're in. AJ: Okay. So, there's… because I was just thinking of data APIs like I guess a DOCX is just a zip file that has some XML inside, right? JEREMY: Oh, okay. AJ: But there's an API for UI elements. JEREMY: Right. AJ: So that no matter which platform you are on the UI elements are similar. JEREMY: Correct. And then the way you interact with the [data][inaudible] the document itself, you're right. So, it's a DOCX, a PPTX. Essentially that's a compressed file. But when you open it up it's a bunch of XML files and the format's called OpenXML. And what you do is our APIs do that translation for you. So, you don't have to write in OpenXML if you want. You can just add text into a Word document like you would assume, like sending a string variable to an API call. But you can actually also if you're very knowledgeable in OpenXML throw an OpenXML string at it as well. So, you can do a lot more complex curation of documents that way as well. But in terms of, because you're hosted as JavaScript in the Office client you don't need to have access to manipulate the document itself. Everything is bridged by the Office.js calls. So, whatever you do with Office.js it's just manipulating the underlying document or email, for the sake of Outlook. CHUCK: So, it seems like there are two different types of APIs we're talking about. One is as AJ pointed out the data APIs. And I know that with Office 365 being in the cloud on the web and on client machines like your iPhone or things like that, that there's some data that can be passed around. And then there are the other APIs which are more the programmatic APIs. Put a button here, that kind of thing. So, what kinds of data can you push around or pull around? Is it just documents on the document level or is there more data than that? JEREMY: Yeah, so essentially the best way to manipulate it is if you have the documents living in OneDrive of OneDrive for Business you can get at those via the Microsoft Graph APIs. CHUCK: The Microsoft which API? JEREMY: The Microsoft Graph API. CHUCK: Oh, Graph API. Okay. JEREMY: Sorry, it's my accent. [Chuckles] JEREMY: Graph.microsoft.com. And then essentially it's all versioned, so you go V, V1.0/me/drive. And that allows me to get at all the files that are hosted in OneDrive. And so, in this scenario, you would either download the document and manipulate it and then re-upload it. But we actually announced a new API endpoint as part of the Graph this week which is called the Excel REST API. And what that allows me to do… and we've had it traditionally in SharePoint's server land. It was called the Excel Services API. What it allows me to do is if my Excel document is living in OneDrive or OneDrive for Business I can with one REST call essentially add a row to an Excel file or remove a row from an Excel file or query an Excel file and get out the chart a JPEG to then use in my web application. And all that's just using standard REST and OAuth to authenticate to get the tokens to make the call. CHUCK: That's cool. JEREMY: And so, that's really nice because it's… there are a lot of businesses that run on Excel. Being able to programmatically get at that data that lives in that sheet without having to download it and use… there's a bunch of different SDKs out there that can read Excel files locally. So, you don't need to install Office on your server to be able to manipulate documents. You just call the service Excel REST endpoint and it can manipulate that. And in the future we'll actually be able to do that with Word as well, which is going to be nice. AJ: So, one of the things that I don't like about Google Docs is that there's no actual document, right? When I have Google Drive, there are… none of those spreadsheets actually exist. When Google Drive went down a couple of months ago for four hours, I couldn't access any of my stuff. JEREMY: Yeah, yeah, yeah. AJ: But it sounds like with the Microsoft OneDrive APIs, you're saying you've got the file. It's on your computer. It's a legit, real file that I can open up with a program. But you're allowing access to that through the API so it's connected with OneDrive and it's going to sync back to the computer? JEREMY: Yeah. Okay, without using my hands too much because we're on an audio podcast, but essentially the way that OneDrive or OneDrive for Business works is very much like Dropbox or SugarSync or Box. You can upload documents into your drive (or Google Drive). You can upload it into the cloud. But then there's a sync client that allows me to synchronize that locally. But in terms of… if you're trying to use the Excel REST API to go to connect to those files, you'd be going directly to the version in the cloud, not the one locally. AJ: But it'll sync back? JEREMY: Yeah, yeah. So, if I… and actually one other thing which is nice, if I went and added a row to Excel, the OneDrive sync client on your local PC would sync that file so that if you're in an offline scenario you'd see those changes. But the cool thing is if I have Excel open or if I have Excel Online open viewing the Excel file when I'm doing an API call to add the row - because we do co-authoring which basically means we can all be in the same document changing it and we see those changes - when you do the API call to say add the row in the browser version of Excel you'll actually see the row come straight away. And it'll show you the author of whoever made that REST call. So, it's really nice from that real-time side that you can have a lot of systems like writing into these documents and be able to see in real-time. Essentially the API calls are co-authoring alongside real people. And then obviously then because it's in OneDrive if you've got OneDrive sync client down on your machine it's going to pull down that new change. And it doesn't pull down the whole document again. It's just doing file diffs. CHUCK: Are all of these data APIs and everything that we're talking about here, all of that is wrapped up in that Office.js that you're talking about, right? JEREMY: So, yeah. So, the Office.js API is used when you're using and adding in the Office client itself. CHUCK: Oh, okay. JEREMY: So, if I've got a task pane or a ribbon that's the framework you'd use. CHUCK: So, it's a UI library. JEREMY: Correct. CHUCK: Not a data library. JEREMY: Yeah. CHUCK: Okay. JEREMY: The data library aspect is the Microsoft Graph and we have an SDK for that. CHUCK: Okay. JEREMY: So, you need to authenticate first to the Graph. And that's just using Azure Active Directory. And there's a ton of information out there on Azure AD. It's just an OAuth hook. You need to get an identity token and then you get an access token that allows you to call with the appropriate permissions to get files or call the Excel API or get information about a user. Right now we don't have a JavaScript SDK for that. We have a .NET, an iOS, and an Android one. But essentially it's just a REST call. And the nice thing is where traditionally Office has been really bad at shapes and our API has not been very standardized, we stuck with essentially OData 4 as a standard format that comes back in JSON. And so, regardless of wherever I hit the Outlook API to get mail information back from Building 32 in Redmond or if I go and try and get a file out of OneDrive from Building 35 in Redmond, the shapes and the formatting and the naming and the casing and the REST API and the documentation is all the same. Whereas traditionally in the past they'd all go off and do their own thing and these guys would pick this way doing authentication and this format is standard for REST. Whereas now it's all standardized across all the products. So, as a developer you don't need to know the nuances of, “Okay, it works this way with OneDrive and this way with Outlook.” It's just everything is the same off one Graph.microsoft.com which makes it really, really easy. If you're using… you mentioned Angular, throwing that into strongly typed objects and then leveraging it in your SPA straight away. CHUCK: Nice. So, I'm also worried… or not worried but I'm curious about security. JEREMY: Yeah. CHUCK: You've talked about OAuth as your way of making sure that somebody is who they say they are, that they can access whatever it is that they're trying to get at. But beyond that, just checking tokens, is that the extent of the security there? JEREMY: So, the expert… obviously the access tokens and the identity tokens much like… it's the same old stack as what Windows 10 uses and what all of the Azure stack is using. Our own products. So, when you login to our Office client [where they] use their own password, you're using all the same authenticate layer. And that's one thing that at Microsoft we decided. Everything has to use the stack. And so, it is the central point of failure if ever it did fail, which it's running on a cloud so it doesn't. What that allows me to do is expire those tokens. So, you can't just have this notion of I've got that token, now I can use it forever. At some point, the user that's using your web application will get prompted again for credentials to go, “Okay, we need to make sure you're who you are.” And that's all handled within… there's an ADAL JS library in the Active Directory authentication library that you can just plug into your Angular application or your Ember application or your React application and have that authenticate dance as I like to call it handled for you. But so, from a security perspective because it's something we use across all of Microsoft you can be sure that from a security aspect, it is kind of bulletproof in that sense. CHUCK: Right. JEREMY: Yeah. CHUCK: One thing that I can see though is that a lot of systems that I've used or built plugins for, basically the plugins are isolated from the main context in some ways. And so, when people authenticate does that authentication get shared down to the plugins or do you have to authenticate separately? JEREMY: Once you've got that token you can pass that token into any of the plugins that you're using. CHUCK: Okay. JEREMY: It is separated but it's going to be in the page DOM. So technically if those plugins are aware that that exists, they could go and grab it. A lot of what we see our partners do that are building products on top of Office that leverage our APIs, there are various different was that you could hide those tokens so they're not accessible by other frameworks. We've got one partner that actually uses an iframe to hide the scope of what's going on so that other things can't get at it. CHUCK: Okay. JEREMY: So, there are a few different techniques that the Azure AD team recommends depending on what framework's using JavaScript, if you're going to have a server backend. Like if you're using Node, technically you could hide all that on the server side and have a facade on that for instance. That kind of is separated from the Office story in a sense but it is something that we get asked a lot by developers. Like, “Where should we be storing these tokens that we're using? Is it fine just to have these very open in the DOM or should we be storing those in the server side and fetching them each time?” CHUCK: Right. JEREMY: and it's the user context. So, when I hit JeremyIsAwesomeWebApplication.com, the first time I make a call to the Microsoft Graph it routes you off to the Azure AD login screen which is what you see when you go into Office 365 or when you login to any of our products. And you put in username and password. That's on their service. And then what it does is it returns the identity token back to your web application on a POST. And then you handle that token from there on out. And so, that's something. Azure are very, very careful of people who are trying to spoof login pages or denial of service attacks. They monitor all the time so that's something that is… all of our product services run on this so it's very important for us that security is tight. CHUCK: Cool. AJ's actually our security expert. [Chuckles] JEREMY: [Laughs] AJ: Do you want me to ask a question? CHUCK: Yeah, if you have any others that I didn't think of. JEREMY: That was like a hand-off. There was that awkward stare moment. [Laughs] AJ: Yeah. So, one thing I was thinking as you were talking. So the tokens, are you using JWT where you have the metadata about the expiry in the token? JEREMY: Correct. So it's all JWT. And essentially what we find with a lot of people that's starting out in this is they'll all have Fiddler running in the background or something and just watching the traffic and having a look at what's coming through to get an understanding about it. You don't need to go to that level. The ADAL JS library handles it all for you. But sometimes it's useful, especially if you're getting errors in what you're doing to be able to go to that level and have a look at the JWT token at all, look if it's expired, or actually we're not getting the correct permissions back in the access token. Because it's granulous security. For instance if my web application only needed access to OneDrive but it didn't' need access to my user's calendar or my user's inbox, the application when it does that first login, when it does the dance of I need access to this, you as a user will have to consent that application. A little bit like how Facebook apps work and so forth. And so, the access token I get back from the Azure AD service, essentially in that JWT token it declares exactly what scopes it has access to. And that's the token that you use to go get the services back. AJ: Okay. How is it that somebody would compromise the token? Obviously if they've got malware running on the device you've got access to the whole device. JEREMY: Yeah. If they can fetch that token they can then reuse in the context of that user for a set period of time until it expires. That's essentially where you would have that issue. AJ: So, with Facebook at least you get two tokens. You get your refresh token and your access token. JEREMY: [Yeah] it's exactly the same, yeah. AJ: Your access token is what you're using. But if you were to grab the refresh token that thing can last for a year. JEREMY: Yeah. The expiry's a bit different. I can't even… because it's not actually my area of expertise. But it's not a year. It's a lot lower because of the fact that it's enterprise data we're getting at. So, it's a lot more secure in that sense. AJ: Okay. JEREMY: And you could also do things like it can be encrypted and signed, too. So, the applications have to be doing this over encrypted tokens as well. So, there are levels you can escalate if you're very conscious of it. AJ: Do you allow unencrypted connections? JEREMY: The tokens are encrypted but there's another level of encryption you can do on top, yeah. AJ: Well, I mean I assume HTTPS is the default. JEREMY: It's mandatory, yeah. AJ: Yeah, okay. JEREMY: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you can go at the token level even further if you want to. AJ: Okay. JEREMY: But yeah, so the ADAL JS library just can easily be plugged in. they've actually built a special version of that library that works specifically with the Angular framework. But it's really easy to get started no matter what JavaScript framework you're using or none at all if you're a hardcore JavaScript developer I guess. But I think the real benefit to JavaScript developers out there is that there's a lot of power in the add-ins that you can build in Office now, like having that context of putting your product inside the user interface of Office where your users spend a lot of your time. We see a lot of partners now. We talked about one this week, which is the Starbucks add-in. It allows you when you go and create a new meeting in Outlook I can click the Starbucks button and it will actually pop up a task pane. You can go, “Let's give this meeting 25 bucks,” and it injects the voucher code so that whoever is going to that meeting can pop into Starbucks, use that code, and get the coffees for the meeting. CHUCK: Oh, that's cool. JEREMY: Yeah. So, there's a bunch of those kinds of things where they didn't have Office dev skills. They were web devs. We just show them that this is how you use it. You can use out Yeoman generator to scaffold out your project and just put your HTML and JavaScript here and here's the Office.js call to go and inject that into the body, and they're away. So, there's a lot of benefit of being inside our user experience. Because unfortunately it's where we spend all of our time, is [inaudible] trolling for email all day long. So, the Starbucks one is great because it just totally makes sense. Everyone's doing that. And so, Starbucks wanted to be part of that experience rather than, “Go to Starbucks.com and fill out your meeting time and location and we'll suggest your Starbucks location based on where your meeting is.” Now it's reading using Office.js into the location box within an event. And it's looking who's in a to line. And there's a bunch of other stuff they're doing there as well. AJ: So, at the keynote there was a lot about Cortana. JEREMY: There was. AJ: Cortana, Cortana, Cortana. And I thought it was awesome. JEREMY: Yeah. CHUCK: I was going to go there. So, go there. [Laughter] AJ: Yeah, so is this integrated at all with any of the, what is it, conversation intelligence of Cortana? JEREMY: Yeah, so the keynote is split in two. And so, this is going to be odd because the show is going to be published after the both have been played. But essentially we have this concept of three pillars in Office development. The first is the add-ins which is all about being inside the Office client. The second is all about our APIs which is the Microsoft Graph. And the third pillar which we've announced this week is around engaging users in conversations. And for us that's all about Skype and it's also about Office 365 Groups. So, Office 265 Groups for non-Office 265 people is essentially a container that you can go and create, a bit like Google Groups, a bit like I guess Slack in a way, where you get a place to put your files. You get a OneNote notebook to put your notes. You get a plan with basically like Trello, like boards for managing your tasks. You have a conversation thread much like you do in Outlook for email. And then you get a SharePoint site where you can do more advanced type collaboration. And so, in these groups we have this notion of having a connector that allows you to have things injected into your conversation thread. So, what we'll show tomorrow is a partner called Zendesk which is like an IT help desk support system. And what they've done is when a new ticket gets raised in Zendesk it'll actually post a new card inside the conversations view within your group. And then you can start making comments about that card. Or you can click on the card and go launch Zendesk and see the ticket. So, it's really about this notion of from a conversation perspective of my team lives in my group and I'm chatting all day in there, and allowing me to have essentially what it uses as a webhook to call a webhook to then promote and push that card into the conversation and then build it. And then the other one which they did show you in the keynote was the Skype notion of I can embed Skype into my web apps. CHUCK: Oh, [inaudible] yeah. AJ: Do you know what this sounds really reminiscent of? Google Wave. CHUCK: I was thinking that, too. JEREMY: Yeah. So, when I first saw Groups I was like, “Wow, that's interesting,” the notion of adding things into this wave is very similar to this conversation flow. And I think a lot of people see it and they compare it immediately to Slack. And I think the main difference between Slack and this is that Slack is very much a real-time notion whereas Office 365 Groups is more of a, I would say it's more like a modern distribution list. You can join the group much like you used to join a DL. And the conversation is happening more in email traffic as opposed to the Slack. So, I'd say Wave is more on the real-time side of the house. But it's just interesting that now we're saying, you can inject into that DL for lack of a better word, and then have conversations around what's going on in other systems. And there's… we announced 50 connectors today. So, there's a bunch. You can even have a Build 2016 hashtag which you wouldn't do because it would be very noisy. But you can have aggregated reports of here are the tweets that happened in the last hour that used this hashtag. Or Salesforce, here's a new customer that [got created] in Salesforce and injected in. And then you start your conversation in the group around those activities that are happening. So, that conversation aspect is cool. AJ: It is. JEREMY: And then the other one was Skype. So, the ability that I've got a web application, MDLive is the scenario we'll use in the keynote tomorrow, where it's a doctor's portal. So, I'm logged in as a doctor. You're logged in as a patient, hopefully not really ill. And then you can embed a Skype chat directly in. but you can also do voice and video, too and it's a few lines of code. It's pretty incredible. So, when I log in as a patient to the portal, if you're using Azure AD then it's going to know straight away and it's going to know your Skype identity, allow you to go. If not it's going to prompt you for your Skype creds and I can start having my conversation with my patient at my desk without having to have the Skype program installed. And as you saw with the chat box we'll get a lot more intelligent on the portal itself, the whole web application having intelligence on, “Okay, there's a voice call going on and he just mentioned the word liver,” for instance, and your web application could have a hook that when, “Okay, I'm going to show you some information about the liver of that patient,” or go look up the information on my [doctor's] journal and show it on the screen. So, it will be able to monitor your conversation that's embedded inside your web application and make intelligent decisions outside of it based on those hooks of translating your voice or monitoring what you're typing and chatting in the chat window as well. So, those two things are really strong. And I think where things have gone is it's just so easy now to integrate those things in. like the Skype team have made it super simple just to embed Skype directly and to have those hooks out to whatever you're writing in JavaScript. CHUCK: Now, my understanding is that you can write Skype bots and the Cortana integrations with Node.js? JEREMY: Yes, yeah. So, they're all platform agnostic. I think one of the decisions we made really, really early on in the process of Skype and even with the Microsoft Graph SDKs and the Office stuff was we didn't want to pick a framework, because they come and go as much as someone goes, “No, this one's here to stay.” We've all been there. We've seen them crash and burn. Just recently there was that JavaScript library that basically broke every framework. And so, we didn't go, “We're going to pick React and you're going to have to use React to work with the Skype thing.” We've essentially written it in such a way that it will just work across all frameworks without conflicts. And they do a lot of testing across all those things. Now what we will do is for the most common ones as we get the demand we'll build SDKs that makes it easy to throw it into Angular and use directives for instance or if you're in Node use that language. Or in React we can build some components. And so, we're waiting to see where the interest is based on the frameworks and the audiences on which SDKs we tackle first. We've made some educated guesses on Node for instance. But yeah, we will… I can absolutely see us coming back and doing a React one and Angular 2 and probably an Angular 1 as well. AJ: Well, I think it's a better strategy anyway to write your code to work with multiple frameworks because then, I mean honestly when you want to create an Angular service it's just like any other package manager. You're writing those five lines of code up top and the two lines of code down bottom and then you've got an Angular service now. CHUCK: Well, the other thing is that across many businesses and across many concerns, you're going to have different people wanting to use different technologies. And so, if you make it easier for people in Go or Ruby or JavaScript or any of these others to effectively say, “I want to use this. I want to wrap around the API, maybe even start building an open source version of it,” then this experience gets spread across the web and has the effect on the way people use it in their mobile apps and on the web and on the computer to where it reaches all kinds of demographics and has a major impact in the way that people interact with their machines. Well, beyond just keyboard and mouse anymore. JEREMY: Yeah. And I think it will be interesting to see which partners jump on this, or even enterprise devs in-house building applications start to leverage this in what they're building. Obviously the Starbucks one for the Office add-ins is a no-brainer. You look at it and go, “Wow, that's awesome. That's just fixing a gap that would have been a bunch more extra clicks.” I think with the Skype and the group conversation connectors it's going to be interesting to see which partners pick that up first. And having 50 connectors out of the bat I thought was quite surprising as well that our teams back at base have done a really good job of going out there and reaching out to Zendesk and going, “Look, this scenario really makes sense for you guys. You should go and build this.” But I'm excited to see where that goes and what kind of Skype integrations people build into their mobile applications or their web applications for sure. CHUCK: I think the Starbucks example is also really great just from a business standpoint. Because in a lot of cases, if they have a standard operating procedure of ‘get food for the meeting’, then it saves them the clicks. But for Starbucks a lot of those folks are going to schedule a meeting and then they've been fiddling around with this so they have the Starbucks plugin there and it says, “Hey, do you want to allocate some dollars to this meeting for food,” and they go, “Oh yeah, that's a great idea.” And so then Starbucks then benefits from that as well. JEREMY: Yeah. And it's visibility. When we first launched the Office add-ins we kind of [hated] it a little bit. Like when you had to launch a task pane you had to go to the insert ribbon group and then click on add-ins and find it. Whereas now we have the ability that we can push installs to everyone in the organization and immediately the Starbucks ribbon button shows up or the PayPal ribbon button shows up for the client. And the cool, fun thing about the Outlook example with the Office add-ins from a reach perspective is that Starbucks can build this and it works not just for Office 365 like work and school people, like people using it in business, but the Starbucks add-in also works in Outlook.com. So, for the 40 million users of Outlook.com or more than 40 million users of Outlook.com that are out there doing normal email, like they would do in Gmail, then can now go get that Starbucks add-in from the Office Store and use it. Again, no matter where they're using Outlook, whether it's in the browser or Mac, PC, it doesn't really matter. And so, there's a definite value in you write this add-in once but it will run everywhere not just work and school but also in their personal world as well. So, I think at Build like we did last year we're seeing a lot of interest from startups. The want to go to a Group, an audience that already exists, and go like, “Let's just see whether we can get market share here by just being visible in the store and people discovering us that way, rather than force-feeding marketing through broader channels.” And we've seen a lot of partners be very successful in the Office Store through that as well. CHUCK: That makes sense. AJ: Let's say I'm building a messaging application. Would I be able to use those APIs at all? Or is it only for Skype and for designated partners? JEREMY: The API is open. So, you have to register much like you would register when you go to Microsoft Graph to have permissions to go to Files API or the Mail API. You'll just basically register to go use those Chat APIs and build them out. AJ: So, I could have my own Slack-type thing or an IRC bot and have my IRC bot feed, “Here's the piece of conversation,” and then get back… JEREMY: Correct, and then get that. And that's all webhooks-based. So, essentially you subscribe to webhooks or you push off to your own services and handle that work. CHUCK: Yeah, they mentioned Slack and Telegram in the keynote. AJ: And also SMS I remember. CHUCK: Yeah. JEREMY: That's right. Yeah, so actually my friend Richard [inaudible] built the Build Bot, I don't know if you've used that yet. So, you can SMS the Build Bot and go, “When is Jeremy's session?” and it will basically look at the whole schedule list and go, “There are three sessions by Jeremy. Which one do you mean?” and then you could like, “This one,” and then it will return more information about the session, the location, what capacity is the session, that kind of thing. And so, he built that very quickly last week actually. It was a last minute, kind of like we need this Build Bot. Let's just show off the bot and have the attendees use it. He's frantically running around making sure this thing is all good. CHUCK: [Laughs] JEREMY: And people aren't asking it odd questions like the last bot that got shipped a few weeks ago. But yeah, this one has definitely proved useful. And I think a lot of the feedback I've had from the keynote is, “Oh, [inaudible] overreaching on the bot stuff.” I'm like, “It's actually really useful.” Because I can go to the session list on the Build website and see all the sessions. But just having a conversation with a bot is actually, it's more natural I think. And again, that's another area I'm like, “Wow, I really can't wait to see which partner goes and builds something really cool in a bot.” And you'll be like, this will just be part of normal day-to-day life in a matter of years, much like I have Alexa at home. CHUCK: I was going to say… JEREMY: I can't be without Alexa now. I go into one of my friend's home and start asking Alexa to play music and, “Oh that's right. I'm not home anymore.” I think the bots aspect even plugged into Alexa will be amazing once that gets going, too. CHUCK: Well, and that's how Alexa works is that you effectively add skills which are a lot like these bots, right? JEREMY: Yeah, that's right. CHUCK: And so, Alexa as far as its capability for parsing what you want, it's kind of horrendous. But when you get a new skill in there and it knows when you say these words or these kinds of words in a sequence it means, “Go look up this app and apply this API in this way,” and it sounds like yeah, the Skype bots and the Cortana plugins all work kind of in the same way. JEREMY: Yeah. And it will be interesting with the Cortana stuff in terms of you did say Slack is there as one for instance. And SMS is one, the Telegram. It won't be long before that list is a lot longer I would imagine with other partners like Alexa. So, you can actually [lot] those in. It's not an area I'm an expert in but you can imagine that's probably not far around the corner in terms of that aspect. And it's an interesting approach that Microsoft as a company has taken on saying, “Look, we're not building this so it only works with Cortana on Windows. We're just saying look, go build your bot. We know you use a bunch of different platforms but if you build them here and deploy them here, that's the area we want to be in.” And it's very, very easy to do, too. There's a lab section over here and you can go and build one step-by-step instructions in about 10 minutes from scratch. CHUCK: Nice. JEREMY: So, that side of it's really, really neat. CHUCK: In fact, I was going to say we've gotten a little bit afield from Office. JEREMY: Yeah, that's right. Totally out of my realm. But fortunately a colleague works in that team. So, I'm [inaudible]. CHUCK: So, my other question about Office and Office add-ons in particular is that because they're HTML and JavaScript do you style them with CSS? JEREMY: Yeah, good question. So, when we first shipped this three and a bit years ago now, we just said, “Yeah, you can just do what you like,” and then we got feedback from customers and partners that we're trying to mimic what Outlook looks like or we're trying to mimic what PowerPoint looks like so that it feels part of it rather than, “I'm a developer and I can't make things look pretty.” And so last year we announced something called Office UI Fabric. Essentially it's very similar to Google Material Design. But it's actually what we use internally. So, when we're styling Word Online, Outlook Online, PowerPoint Online or we're styling the Mac or we're styling the Win32 version of Office and so forth, we're using that library. And it gives you the ability to leverage those style sheets and common controls like [people] pickers, file pickers, the persona cards that we have that you see in Outlook when you click on someone's name and it comes up with a card with all their details. You can leverage all those components directly in your web application. And so, we've seen a much better consistency of look and feel now when you go to the store and you add add-ins, that they look all the same. There's a bit more uniformity. They still have their own brand. So, the Starbucks one looks like Starbucks but they're using all the same controls that we use in the product. So, it doesn't feel so jarring when you open up the task pane and see Starbucks or PayPal or any others come up. CHUCK: So effectively, you could use Office Fabric UI to build out your button and then you're saying, “But this is a Starbucks button so I'm going to tweak the style a little bit and maybe give it a little bit of that Starbucks green or maybe put a logo in it or something like that so that it has its own feel.” JEREMY: Yeah, yeah. And so, it's really a baseline for developers. And again it's been done in such a way that it's framework agnostic. There's an open source project actually that a guy called Andrew Connell has built out to build them all as Angular directives as well. So, you can essentially just chuck an Angular directive on the page and it's a lot less lines of code and it's more Angular dev friendly to be able to use the people Picker and so forth, which is cool. Or a calendar control, the date pickers. Essentially, everything you see in Office, there's a Fabric equivalent of it. And it's all open sourced. And actually there a lot of the team here this week getting feedback. And they've been great. They've had a bunch of teams go, “We'd really like these hooks in these components. Can you add them?” and they've been very reactive getting that into Fabric and getting it out there on the CDNs really quick. CHUCK: So effectively then I could build a plugin that looks like it belongs in Office that has the button that when I click it, it can connect to the Graph APIs that Microsoft has for all of this stuff including documents and calendars and email and all that stuff. JEREMY: Yeah, yeah. CHUCK: And it can also hook into some of this conversational stuff. So, I guess what I'm saying is, is it looks like it's part of the application but it has these vast capabilities that Microsoft provides as part of the platform. JEREMY: Right. And so then, there are some really cool scenarios. The Salesforce one for instance where you're in an email in Outlook and you want to go install that against your customer. Traditionally you would probably have to remember what the Salesforce email address is that you forwarded to. Now with just one click in Salesforce it goes and scrapes the body, the title, who's in the to line, the date of when it was sent, and then it calls the Salesforce API and pumps it over to Salesforce. So, it's not just our APIs that you can call in an Office setting. It's anything you want to do, because it's just HTML and JavaScript. And we actually this week have launched authentication dialog display window that allows you to pop up like the first time you do anything with the Salesforce API or open up a dialog API, that allows you to put in your Salesforce creds. And it handles the tokens back and your add-in can use it. Whereas before our partner were having to build it themselves. So, we've got that feedback and we've added this much more streamline way of handing authentication to any service from the inside of Office add-in whether it's Outlook or PowerPoint or Excel. Yeah. CHUCK: Very cool. JEREMY: Yeah. It's fun. CHUCK: Do you have any other questions or anything you want to…? AJ: No. JEREMY: So, if people want to know more, the dev.office.com is our website. We have about [inaudible] of training videos based on whether you want to use the Graph or whatever other services are available or if you want to build add-ins. CHUCK: Is there a tutorial up there? JEREMY: Yeah. And this has step-by-step labs, too. So, each of those videos has accompanying step-by-step lab that you can follow. And all you need is an Office 365 tenant. So, you can go if you join our developer program which is on the home page of dev.office.com, we'll actually give you a free developer tenant for a year. So, you can get started and play. And if you're building an Office add-in you can just use the web browser because you can use Outlook Online and Word Online. But if you've got Office for your Mac or for your PC you can test the add-ins locally really, really easily as well. CHUCK: I guess that brings up one other thing that I didn't think about before and that is that then can you build… I guess you have the Graph API so you could conceivably build plugins or widgets to go on a non-Office website. JEREMY: Absolutely, yeah. CHUCK: To put that stuff in. JEREMY: So, I could have foo.com running on the Node stack and call off to Microsoft Graph, user Office UI Fabric to style your standalone application and make it look like an Office add-in, and Office application even though it isn't. And then actually one thing I didn't mention is that you don't need Visual Studio to do this. CHUCK: Right. JEREMY: Essentially it's a website running HTML and JavaScript. And then it's what we call a manifest file, and XML file that you upload into your Office client so that it knows… it's a way of registering the add-in. Because it's just XML. You can write that yourself. Obviously the experience in Visual Studio file new project and F5 is going to be a lot nicer. But with the Yeoman generator we can even scaffold your files out so you don't even need to use Visual Studio if you choose. So, for the Mac audience it's very, very straightforward to use without having Visual Studio installed. CHUCK: Right. So, effectively then I could put a widget on my page that has some functionality that calls back into the Graph API and store stuff in a document or updates my calendar or whatever. JEREMY: Yeah. CHUCK: That's pretty darn slick. Does that work with browser plugins? JEREMY: We actually had a hackathon. A guy built a Chrome plugin that called the Microsoft Graph. And it was a really neat add-in. What he did was he was using… he had a button where essentially it would look through your mail using the Mail API and it would look for any unsubscribe hyperlinks in each of your mails. And when you push the button it would essentially go and open multiple tabs all of those unsubscribe links. CHUCK: [Laughs] JEREMY: So, rather than going into Outlook and clicking every email, finding the hidden unsubscribe link they make really… sometimes it's gray on gray so you can barely see it. But it meets [inaudible] requirement. This thing just goes through and just opens them all. And in some cases what he did was he automatically checked the button and clicked “I do want to unsubscribe”. And so, it was a really good way of clearing out the junk mail from your inbox. CHUCK: Man, I need that. I use Gmail though. JEREMY: Yeah. I believe he mimicked it on a plugin that existed already in the Gmail world. But it was just a great example of a guy that had built Chrome plugins before to auth into our Graph and grep the mail inbox information and use the unsubscribe links. CHUCK: Awesome. Well, before we wrap up one of the things that we usually do on our show is we have our guests do what we call picks. I don't know if you've listened to Twit.tv or something. So, basically the idea is just anything that you like that makes your life better, that you enjoy. We have people pick TV shows or pick coding tools or pick movies or whatever. So, I don't know how creative AJ and I are going to get if we're doing three or four of these in the next few days. JEREMY: [Laughs] CHUCK: But for you, if you could pick a couple of things. JEREMY: Yeah CHUCK: What are you into these days? JEREMY: You said TV shows. I just picked up a new show. I finally upgraded my cable box to an X1 XFINITY box so its interface is way better than the old crappy cable boxes that you get. And I discovered a show called Billions which is the guy that's in it was in Homeland. He was the soldier that came back from being captured for six, seven years, and you never quite knew whether he was turned as a terrorist or whether he was a genuine soldier come back from war. But he plays this billionaire and then there's this guy that's basically after him trying to work out whether he's corrupt or not. Very, very clever show. One of those shows that you watch the first few episodes in Netflix style. Like, do you want another one? I'm like, “No, no, please. I need to go to bed. I've got Build next week.” CHUCK: [Laughs] JEREMY: But we plowed through about 8 episodes. So, Billions is a really, really good show on Showtime. CHUCK: Okay. JEREMY: So, that was a good one that's kept me busy last week. CHUCK: Oh, there you go. Well, if you start looking tired, we'll know why. [Chuckles] JEREMY: Yeah, that's right. I stayed up watching the rest of the show. CHUCK: [Chuckles] JEREMY: No, I think my girlfriend would get annoyed if she knew I'd watched it without her. I'm sure you guys have the same problem, right? CHUCK: Oh that's right, yeah. You should have brought her with you. JEREMY: Yeah, that's right. [Chuckles] JEREMY: No, the last thing you want to do is bring a girlfriend to a tech conference. [Chuckles] CHUCK: Yeah. I took my wife to a tech conference but you have to pick the right one. JEREMY: Yeah. She's a registered dietitian. So, she has no clue about this world. And sometimes when people come up and visit us in Redmond I'll take them out for dinner and she'll come with. And at the end of it she's like, “I had no idea what you guys were talking about for the last hour.” CHUCK: Yeah. No, what I did is I took my wife to a conference that I was speaking at in Hawaii. JEREMY: Oh, that's a good idea. CHUCK: And I abandoned her in Waikiki for three days. JEREMY: Yeah, I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be complaining too much there. CHUCK: Yeah. So, she went and got her nails done and whatever, yeah. JEREMY: [Laughs] CHUCK: San Francisco I think you could have a good time. JEREMY: Yeah, it's great. I used to live in New York for three years. And I've been in Redmond now for two. And coming back here is, I've missed the big city a little bit but I'd be glad to go back to Redmond as well. A little bit more peace and quiet, not so much concrete. CHUCK: Gotcha. Well, just to wrap up, so you did mention dev.office.com JEREMY: Dev.office.com, yeah. CHUCK: Are there any other resources that people should look at? JEREMY: That one's the main one. That will bridge you to getting started or get all the training and the hands-on labs experience. Dev.office.com/podcast will go to the podcast that I run weekly. And we go into a lot more detail about each endpoint and get the engineers on the show talking about stuff, too. CHUCK: Sounds good. And then are you on Twitter or GitHub or anything where people can follow you? JEREMY: I am, yeah, @jthake. So, J-T-H-A-K-E, yeah. CHUCK: Alright. JEREMY: So, if you want Office stuff or if you're interested in Azure app services, that's the two areas I focus on right now. CHUCK: Good deal. JEREMY: Cool. CHUCK: Well, thanks for coming on the show. We appreciate it. JEREMY: No, you're welcome. I'm glad you carved out some time for us to chat. CHUCK: Yeah. JEREMY: Enjoy the rest of Build. CHUCK: Yeah. Real quick before we finally end this, I just want to shout out a big thanks to the guys from .NET Rocks, Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin. They invited us out to do this and it's been terrific just to be able to meet people, to go to some of the events. And we're sitting in this little booth in the very back of Build. So anyway, I just want to thank them publicly. I'll probably do that on all of the shows that we do this week. But yeah, it's really important for us to be able to get all kinds of different backgrounds and see what's going on in the Microsoft world. 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eCommerce MoneyAfrica
Source: Deutsche Post DHL | Mar 15, 2018
African businesses should embrace cross-border e-commerce, says DHL
Cross-border retail volumes are predicted to increase at an annual average rate of 25% between 2015 and 2020
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The DHL eCommerce MoneyAfrica Confex has established itself as one of Africa’s biggest opportunities to bring stakeholders in the fintech and e-commerce sectors together
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 16, 2018/APO Group/ --
Cross border e-commerce continues to provide significant growth opportunities for retailers and manufacturers with an international online product offering. According to a 2017 DHL (www.dpDHL.com) report, cross-border retail volumes are predicted to increase at an annual average rate of 25% between 2015 and 2020 (from USD 300 Billion to USD 900 Billion) – twice the pace of domestic e-commerce growth. Steve Burd, Vice President of Sales for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa, says that this highlights a boundless opportunity for African businesses looking to take a piece of the cross border e-commerce pie.
Burd says that as the market leader in express logistics, DHL Express works with thousands of e-commerce customers around the world, with a lot of them at start-up phase. “We are therefore well aware of the perceived hurdles involved when considering to trade across borders.”
He points to five common areas which domestic e-commerce customers consider to be a challenge when deciding where to trade internationally.
1. The cost of express shipping
There is no risk at offering your customers an express delivery option, says Burd. “Customers want choice, not only in their product selection, but also when and how they receive it. In our experience, customers are willing to pay a fair price for a faster, more efficient service.”
2. Returns rates
“We’ve found that the return rates are actually much lower on international shipping. Businesses could always do it on a trial basis and measure the benefits over losses and adjust their strategies accordingly.”
3. Basket values
“We have found that basket values often increase with the introduction of express shipping. Customers tend to buy more to justify the premium shipping costs.”
4. The customer’s business is doing well locally
Evidence shows that international customers will spend significantly more than local ones, says Burd. “So even if international traffic to your website is small, it can be worth a lot for limited effort. There are free online tools available which will give you an indication of your international traffic on your website – this will provide an idea of which countries to focus your efforts on. There is no risk in opening doors to the international market – only the risk of getting left behind.”
5. Unfamiliarity with customs procedures and processes
“This is where your choice of delivery partner comes in. If your paperwork has been done correctly, there shouldn’t be any customs delays or worries. Collaborating with an experienced partner that has extensive knowledge and know-how of customs procedures on the African continent will assist the business’ e-commerce offering to evolve.”
To further connect and support the e-commerce industry in Africa, DHL Express recently signed on as title sponsor for the 2018 DHL eCommerce MoneyAfrica Conference & Exhibition (Confex), taking place on 14 and 15 of March this year.
“The DHL eCommerce MoneyAfrica Confex has established itself as one of Africa’s biggest opportunities to bring stakeholders in the fintech and e-commerce sectors together. This year’s event features presentations and knowledge sharing from an array of African and international thought leaders, geared at enabling participants to formulate innovative strategies to unlock more opportunities on the continent,” concludes Burd.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Deutsche Post DHL.
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African businesses should embrace cross-border e-commerce, says DHL Cross-border retail volumes are predicted to increase at an annual average rate of 25% between 2015 and 2020 CAPE TOWN, South Africa, July 16, 2018/APO Group/ -- Cross border e-commerce continues to provide significant growth opportunities for retailers and manufacturers with an international online product offering. According to a 2017 DHL (www.dpDHL.com) report, cross-border retail volumes are predicted to increase at an annual average rate of 25% between 2015 and 2020 (from USD 300 Billion to USD 900 Billion) – twice the pace of domestic e-commerce growth. Steve Burd, Vice President of Sales for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa, says that this highlights a boundless opportunity for African businesses looking to take a piece of the cross border e-commerce pie. Burd says that as the market leader in express logistics, DHL Express works with thousands of e-commerce customers around the world, with a lot of them at start-up phase. “We are therefore well aware of the perceived hurdles involved when considering to trade across borders.” He points to five common areas which domestic e-commerce customers consider to be a challenge when deciding where to trade internationally. 1. The cost of express shipping There is no risk at offering your customers an express delivery option, says Burd. “Customers want choice, not only in their product selection, but also when and how they receive it. In our experience, customers are willing to pay a fair price for a faster, more efficient service.” 2. Returns rates “We’ve found that the return rates are actually much lower on international shipping. Businesses could always do it on a trial basis and measure the benefits over losses and adjust their strategies accordingly.” 3. Basket values “We have found that basket values often increase with the introduction of express shipping. Customers tend to buy more to justify the premium shipping costs.” 4. The customer’s business is doing well locally Evidence shows that international customers will spend significantly more than local ones, says Burd. “So even if international traffic to your website is small, it can be worth a lot for limited effort. There are free online tools available which will give you an indication of your international traffic on your website – this will provide an idea of which countries to focus your efforts on. There is no risk in opening doors to the international market – only the risk of getting left behind.” 5. Unfamiliarity with customs procedures and processes “This is where your choice of delivery partner comes in. If your paperwork has been done correctly, there shouldn’t be any customs delays or worries. Collaborating with an experienced partner that has extensive knowledge and know-how of customs procedures on the African continent will assist the business’ e-commerce offering to evolve.” To further connect and support the e-commerce industry in Africa, DHL Express recently signed on as title sponsor for the 2018 DHL eCommerce MoneyAfrica Conference & Exhibition (Confex), taking place on 14 and 15 of March this year. “The DHL eCommerce MoneyAfrica Confex has established itself as one of Africa’s biggest opportunities to bring stakeholders in the fintech and e-commerce sectors together. This year’s event features presentations and knowledge sharing from an array of African and international thought leaders, geared at enabling participants to formulate innovative strategies to unlock more opportunities on the continent,” concludes Burd. Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Deutsche Post DHL.
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Dynamical theory
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Théorie dynamique (Fr). Dynamische Theorie (Ge). Teoria dynámica (Sp). Teoria dinamica (It)
2 Darwin's theory
3 Ewald's theory
4 Laue's theory
In the geometrical, or kinematical theory, the amplitudes diffracted by a three-dimensional periodic assembly of atoms (Laue) or by a stack of planes (Darwin) is derived by adding the amplitudes of the waves diffracted by each atom or by each plane, simply taking into account the optical path differences between them, but neglecting the interaction of the propagating waves and matter. This approximation is not compatible with the law of conservation of energy and is only valid for very small or highly imperfect crystals. The purpose of the dynamical theory is to take this interaction into account. There are three forms of the dynamical theory:
Darwin's theory
Charles Darwin (the grandson of the author of the theory of evolution) takes into account the interaction between the waves partially transmitted ([math] S_n, \ S_{n+1} [/math]) and partially reflected ([math] T_n, \ T_{n+1} [/math]) at the successive atomic planes, n, n+1 etc. by recurrence equations.
Ewald's theory
Paul Ewald solves the propagation equation deduced from Maxwell's equations in a medium constituted by a three-dimensional periodic array of discrete scattering dipoles.
Laue's theory
Max von Laue considers that the negative and positive electric charges are distributed in a continuous way throughout the volume of the crystal. Since the crystal must be neutral, they cancel out and the local electric charge and density of current are equal to zero. The interaction of electromagnetic waves with the positive charges is neglected as a first approximation in the usual dynamical theory, although resonant nuclear scattering of X-rays exists and has been observed for γ- and X-rays. The medium is polarized under the influence of the electric field and E = D/ε, where D is the electric displacement and [math]\epsilon = \epsilon_0(1 + \chi) [/math] varies with the space coordinates. The continuous dielectric susceptibility, or polarizability, χ, takes into account the interaction of the electromagnetic radiation with the distribution of electric charges. By eliminating D, the magnetic field, H, and the magnetic induction, B, in Maxwell's equations, one obtains a wave equation for E:
curl curl [math]{\bold E} - 4 \pi ^2 k^2 (1 + \chi({\bold r})) {\bold E} = 0 [/math]
where k = 1/λ is the wave number in vacuum.
While div E is equal to zero, this is not true for div D, and the electric displacement is in general a more suitable quantity than the electric field because it simplifies the description of the polarization states of the field inside the crystal. It is used in Laue's formulation of the dynamical theory. With a small approximation the propagation equation becomes:
[math]\Delta {\bold D}[/math] + curl curl [math]\chi ({\bold r}){\bold E} + 4 \pi ^2 k^2 {\bold D} = 0 [/math]
For material waves such as electrons or neutrons, the propagation equation is derived from Schrödinger's equation:
[math] \Delta \Psi + 4\ \pi^ 2k^2\left[1 + \chi ({\bold r})\right]\Psi = 0 [/math]
[math]\chi({\bold r}) = \varphi ({\bold r})/ W [/math] in the case of electron diffraction ([math] \varphi ({\bold r})[/math], potential in the crystal and W accelerating voltage)
[math]\chi({\bold r}) = - 2mV({\bold r})/h^2k^2 [/math] in the case of neutron diffraction ([math] V({\bold r}[/math]), Fermi pseudo-potential).
The purpose of the dynamical theory is to solve the propagation equation taking into account the boundary conditions. It offers many similarities with the band theory of solids. The difference is that, in the band theory, one studies the possible energies of electrons as a function of their wavenumber while, in diffraction theory, the energy is constant and one looks for the possible positions of the wavectors in reciprocal space.
Laue's geometrical theory: Friedrich W., Knipping P. & Laue M. von (1912), Sitzungsberichte der Kgl. Bayer. Akad. der Wiss., 303-322, reprinted in Ann. Phys. (1913), 41, 971. Interferenz-Erscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen.
Darwin's geometrical theory: Darwin C.G., (1914), Phil. Mag., 27, 315-333. The Theory of X-ray Reflection.
Darwin's geometrical theory: Darwin C.G., (1914), Phil. Mag., 27, 675-690. The Theory of X-ray Reflection. Part II.
Ewald's dynamical theory: Ewald P.P. (1917), Ann. Physik, 54, 519-597, Zur Begründung der Kristalloptik. III. Die Kristalloptik der Röntgenstrahlen.
Laue's dynamical theory: Laue M. von, (1931), Ergeb. Exakt. Naturwiss., 10, 133-158, Die dynamische Theorie der Röntgenstrahlinterferenzen in neuer Form. & (1931), Röntgenstrahl-Interferenzen., Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main.
For a detailed eaccount of the historical developments, see P. P. Ewald, 1962, IUCr, 50 Years of X-ray Diffraction, Section 15.
Section 5.1 of International Tables of Crystallography, Volume B for X-rays
Section 5.2 of International Tables of Crystallography, Volume B for electrons
Section 5.3 of International Tables of Crystallography, Volume B for neutrons
Authier A. (2005) Dynamical Theory of X-ray Diffraction, Oxford: IUCr/Oxford University Press
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Malaki Branham : Highschool Baller Sensation Primed for the Big League
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Easily one of the nation's top 40 college prospects, Malaki Branham is towering over his high school adversaries with a height of 6'4 and weighs in more than 190 pounds and is very quick and agile for his size. His length adds a different dimension to his game to help him contour his way inside the the other teams defense and sky over them. This helps him as well defensively to guard the passing lanes and disturb shots. But like all prospects, the kid needs guidance from a school and a coach to hone his skills on the college level where the competition kicks up a notch.
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Recently, a handful of teams already reached out to Malaki to offer him a scholarship to join their respective team. They are aware of the impressive build, skillset and work ethic this kid has. Duquesne and Akron has sent out their offers as well as Miami (Ohio) and Ohio University to try their luck in snagging the prized athlete. Though there is one major program who had offered Malaki a scholarship that is making headlines today, the Ohio State Buckeyes which already made deals with Kalen Etzler, the first 2021 recruit and Justin Sueing, a transfer. But unlike Etzler who decided right away to commit to Ohio State the same day he was offered the scholarship, Malaki Branham wants to sit down and look at his options.
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Visits to Columbus
Just recently, Malaki Branham made a visit at the Ohio State campus where he was allowed to check on the available facilities and even locker rooms before being invited inside the office of the Buckeyes coach, Chris Holtmann. After a small chat about the history of the school program, Malaki was surprised with an immediate offer to join the team. It was indeed an amazing moment for the young potential star.
It might be the first major basketball school that offered Branham a scholarship, but he would like to take his time and decide. And he's gonna have ample time to decide on this future and we can bet on that more major basketball programs will make their offers to snatch him away from Ohio State.
Joining Malaki Branham and Kalen Etzler on the 2021 prospect class radar for the Ohio State Buckeyes is guard Meechie Johnson. Lets see in the upcoming weeks who will add up on this list of standouts the Buckeyes set their cross hairs on.
Malaki Branham’s confidence shows in St. Vincent-St. Mary’s 68-59 win at Warrensville Heights
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Biological activities of spores and metabolites of some fungal isolates on certain aspects of the spiny bollworms Earias insulana (Boisd.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
Eman Mohammed Abd-ElAzeem1,
Warda Ahmed Zaki El-Medany1 &
Hend Mohammed Sabry1
Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control volume 29, Article number: 90 (2019) Cite this article
Biological activities of spores and metabolites of some fungi isolated from dead larva of the spiny bollworms (SBW), Earias insulana (Boisd.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), against the newly hatched larvae of the pest were carried out. Results showed that the fungi Metarhizium anisopliae, Acremonium sp., and Paecilomyces variotii had affected the newly hatched larvae of (SBW). Acremonium sp. was the most potent one as it had the highest newly hatched larval mortality percentage (65 and 58.33%) for its spore suspension and metabolites, respectively, while the lowest one (41%) was for P. variotii metabolites. Also, spore suspensions of the all fungal isolates had the highest larval mortality than fungal metabolites. Studying the enzymatic activity showed that Acremonium sp. produced protease enzyme on media containing gelatin, which caused the highest larval mortality (72.22%).
These isolates showed different effects on all stages of the pest and decreased pupal weight, adult emergence percentages, deposited eggs, and hatchability percentages than the control. Identification of Acremonium sp. EZ1 was confirmed using 18 s rRNA and its accession number MN25101.
The spiny bollworm (SBW), Earias insulana (Boisd.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), is an essential lepidoptera pest located in many countries of the Mediterranean basin, as well as in Africa and Asia (Mansour 2004). The SBW is one of the main cotton pests. Its larvae usually attack cotton flower buds, flowers, and bolls causing damage to seeds and fiber, especially at the late growing stage of the cotton plants leading to a decrease in the quality and quantity of the lint and the obtained oil yield (Salem 2008).
Entomopathogenic fungi (EPF) are biological control agents against insect pests. Fungi invade insects through penetrating the body cuticle by a combination of mechanical force and enzymatic degradation depending on the structure and composition of the insect cuticle (Reda et al. 2013). Microbial degradation of insect lipid, protein, and chitin as well as production of lipase, protease, and chitinase has captured the worldwide attention for insect control and has become the object of extensive research (Barra et al. 2015).
Reda et al. (2013) studied the effects of several microorganisms as biological control agents on economic pest showing cuticle degradation against the pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saund.), causing a high larval mortality and affected pupation and hatchability. Duarte et al. (2016) investigated the effect of Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium rileyi on all biological aspects of diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella L.). Ibrahim et al. (2016) showed that B. bassiana and Paecilomyces lilacinus were virulent against the greater wax moth Galleria mellonella L. causing 98.0 and 87.5% larval mortality with a lethal time (LT50) of 1.7 and 2.2 days, respectively. Latent effects were markedly obvious on pupation and rates of adult emergence. Also El-Massry et al. (2016) reported the efficacy of Trichoderma harzianum on the cotton bollworms E. insulana and P. gossypiella.
Proteases from a variety of sources (viruses, bacteria, fungi, plants, and insects) have toxicity towards insects. Other proteases play roles in insect development or digestion, but exert an insecticidal effect when over-expressed from genetically engineered plants or microbial pathogens. The sites of protease toxic activity range from the insect midgut to the hemocoel (body cavity) to the cuticle (Robert and Bryony 2010).
The main objectives of this study were to isolate fungi from dead larvae of SBW and evaluate the efficacy of these isolates on the pest and its ability to produce cuticle degrading enzymes.
Rearing of the spiny
Full-grown SBW larvae of field strain were collected from infested cotton bolls in Sharkia Province, Egypt, and reared in the laboratory at the Bollworms Research Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt, for 6 generations. The neonate larvae were transferred into glass tubes (2.5 × 7cm) containing about 4 g semi artificial diet Shorey and Hale (1965). The experiments were performed at constant temperature of 26 ± 1 °C and 75 ± 5% RH. The diet for maintaining laboratory colony preparing by adding boiled water to 250 g kidney beans and 125 g wheat grated then add over heat for 70 min, lifted and left for 20 min to be cooled and clarifying water from them. The diet was blended by 100 ml milk in an electric blender and placed in the refrigerator for 24 h. After that 49 g dry active yeast, 3 g ascorbic acid, 1.75 g sorbic acid, 1.75 g methyl parahydroxy benzoate, 8 ml mixture of vitamins, and 2.5 ml formaldehyde 34–38% were added, all thoroughly blended and kept in the refrigerator for 24 h before being used (Amer and El-Sayed 2015).
The culture was away from any contamination with any microorganisms or pesticides. The dead larvae in culture were obtained at full grown and stored slowly in sterilized tightly closed vials at 4 °C in a refrigerator until needed (Mahfouz and Abou El-Ela 2011).
Fungi isolation technique
In order to reveal any microorganisms associated with the dead spiny bollworm SBW larvae (4th instar), each of the refrigerated individuals was examined through 24–72 h from the time of storage under aseptic conditions. The larvae were surface sterilized by dipping in 2% sodium hypochlorite for 3–5 min to isolate fungi on insect’s surface, then passed through 5 separated washings with sterile distilled water (Crecchio and Stotzky 2001). For insuring the appropriate surface sterilization, checks were made by spreading the last washing solution on Czapek- Dox agar medium. Sterilized larvae were dried up between 2 filter papers (Whattman No. 1), then transferred aseptically into a sterile mortar and macerated with a sterile pestle, diluted and plated on Czapek- Dox agar medium for growth incubating at 30 °C for 5–7 days. Incubated plates were inspected daily to observe the colonies growth that were then purified and stored on slants of the desired artificial media at 4 °C. The isolates were cultured periodically until they had been used in the subsequent experiments. Healthy larvae were subjected to the same procedures of isolation for obtaining the expected dormant pathogens.
Screening of fungal isolates for their mortality effect on E. insulana
Spore suspensions were obtained by washing the 7-day-old slant of tested fungal isolates (Dulmage et al. 1971; Mohd-Salleh and Lewis 1983), then inoculated a 100 ml of Czapek- Dox agar medium (Oxoid 1982) composed of (g/l) 20 sucrose, 2.0 NaNO3, 1.0 KH2PO4, 0.5 MgSO4·7H2O, 0.5 KCl, and 20.0 agar-agar and dissolved in 1 l tap water, pH 5.0 in a 250-ml Erlenmeyer flask with each suspension. The inoculated broth was incubated at 30 °C for 7 days, while metabolites were obtained by filtration using the filter paper (Whattman No.1.). Spore suspension and filtrate of all isolates were tested for their mortality effect and on biological aspects of E. insulana as described in the bioassay method.
Two milliliters from each spore suspension and metabolites was mixed with the artificial diet in each dish, while the diet of control was mixed with water only. Each treatment was replicated 3 times. Batches of 20 1st instar larvae were transferred immediately after hatching using a fine brush to each treated Petri dish after about 30 min from mixing in the diet. Treated Petri dishes were covered by a fine and soft paper below the glass cover to prevent larvae to escape. All treatments were incubated at the constant conditions of 26 ± 1 °C and 70 ± 5% RH. After 24 h of exposure and feeding, dead and alive larvae were counted. The mortality percentages were calculated.
$$ Larval\ mortality\%= dead\ larvae/ total\ larvae\times 100 $$
Mortality data were corrected according to Abbott (1925).
$$ Corrected\ mortality\%=\frac{mortality\ in\ treated- mortality\ in\ control}{mortality\ in\ control}\times 100 $$
The remained alive larvae of each treatment were transferred singly to glass tubes (2 × 7.5 cm) containing about 4 g of untreated control diet and covered with a piece of absorbent cotton and held under the same conditions as mentioned above. Larvae were examined daily to record the biological parameter, larval duration and pupation percentage; then, pupae were transferred individually to other clean tubes and incubated until moth emergence. Pupal duration, adult emergence percentage, sex ratio (as females), and deformed adults were calculated. Emerged moths from each treatment were sexed and caged in 2 pairs, and eggs deposited on strips of muslin cloth hanged in the chimney cages.
Forty pairs were used from each treatment (male and female) under the previously mentioned rearing conditions. A piece of cotton wool previously soaked in 10% sugar solution was hung inside the jars near its upper opening for moth feeding and changed by new one every 2 days. The upper openings of cages were covered by muslin cloth followed by a tightly secured paper with rubber bands. Each cage was examined daily to record data of several biological aspects such as preovipositional, ovipositional periods, number of deposited eggs, postovipositional period, and longevity of males and females. The deposited eggs were collected daily from strips of muslin cloth then transferred to a convenient glass jar and incubated at the same conditions to record hatchability percentages.
Characterization of most potent fungal isolate
Identification of isolated fungi by light microscope
The developed fungal colonies were examined daily, and the purified fungi were identified to the species level whenever possible. The identification of fungal genera and species was carried out by the help of the following universally accepted keys for identification of the different isolates. Morphology based on colony shape, height, and color of the aerial hyphae as well as the base color, growth rate, margin characteristics, surface texture, and depth of growth into the medium. Tests were contrasted with an ordered key for the genus Acremonium sp. (Rifai 1969).
Molecular characterization (sequence of 18S rRNA gene of DNA)
Sequence of 18S rRNA gene of DNA of fungal isolates was done at Sigma Scientific Services Co, Cairo, Egypt, also kindly confirmed by Plant Pathology Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt (Figs. 1 and 2). Molecular characterization involved the following steps according to the protocol adopted by Woese and Fox (1977) and Abdel-Salam (2003).
18S ribosomal RNA gene of Acremonium sp.
Phylogenetic dendogram of different fungal isolates accessions revealed by average linkage cluster analysis based on 18S rRNA partial sequence
Screening of lipase, protease and chitinase produced by Acremonium sp.
Seven-day-old fungal culture was used as a standard inoculant. At the end of incubation period for each enzyme (protease, lipase and chitinase) respectively, the fungal cultures were filtered and the clear supernatants were considered the source of crude enzyme (Reda et al. 2013).
The most active isolate of Acremonium sp. was screened for lipase, protease, and chitinase production according to clearing zone technique using Dox-yeast extract-tributyrin agar (Elwan et al. 1977); Dox agar with replacing of NaNO3 by 0.2% gelatin (Ammar et al. 1991) and chitin media which consists of (g/l): colloidal chitin, 0.5; yeast extract, 0.5; (NH4)2SO4, 1.0; MgSO4. 7H2O, 0.3; K2HPO4, 1.36; agar-agar, 20 (CM) (Rajamanickam et al. 2012), respectively.
The culture filtrates of lipase, protease, and chitinase media of tested strains after incubation for 7 days at 30 °C were obtained and screening against SBW.
Obtained results were analyzed according to Little and Hills (1975), using CoStat computer program Cohort Software, P. O. Box 1149, Berkeley CA 9471 (CoStat Statistical Software, 2005).
Ten fungal isolates from naturally dead larvae of the SBW were preliminary bioassayed for pathogenicity against neonate larvae of the pest. The most effective isolates were identified morphologically and biochemically as Metarhizium anisopliae, Paecilomyces variotii, and Acramonium sp.
Data in Table 1 show the effect of selected isolates on percentage of larval, pupal mortality rates, adult emergence, and deformed adults. Analysis of variance revealed highly significant effects on larval mortality percentage for all fungal isolates than the control (3.3%). Acremonium sp. showed the highest larval mortality (65.00 and 58.33%) for its spore suspension and metabolites, respectively. The pupal mortality indicated that effects of the 3 isolates for their spores and metabolites were insignificant; also Acremonium sp. showed the highest pupal mortality (14.48 and 14.40%) for spores and metabolites, respectively. Regarding adult emergence percentage, data indicated that there were highly significant effects between all isolates than the control. Acremonium sp. showed the lowest value of adult emergence (73.89 and 71.03%) compared with control (100%). On the other hand, there were significant effects between all isolates concerning deformed adult percentage (14.48 and 12.71%) for spores and metabolites compared with control (0%). From the previous results, it was obvious that Acremonium sp. was the most active isolate.
Table 1 Effect of some fungal isolates on larval, pupal and adult stages of the spiny bollworm Earias insulana
Data in Table 2 represent the effect of the previous selected isolates on duration (in days) of some developmental stages (larvae, pupae, and adult longevity) of SBW. Statistical analysis showed a significant influence in the developmental period of survived larvae for all isolates. The 3 isolates shortened the larval duration than control. There was a highly significant effect on the pupal period for all isolates which showed shorter periods than in the control. Longevity of emerged females treated with the isolates proved significant effect on the preovipositional, ovipositional, and postovipositional periods.
Table 2 Effect of some fungal isolates on duration in days of some developmental stages of spiny bollworm Earias insulana
Regarding longevity of males, data indicated that all tested treatments for the 3 isolates had significant effects on the longevity of males than on the control. Number of eggs, hatchability percentage, and sex ratio are presented in Table 3. Data indicated that there was significant effect in percent of sex ratio, while a highly significant effect was noticed in number of eggs and hatchability percentage than the control. Nada and Abdel-Azem (2005) revealed a significant effect between the control and treated larvae of P. gossypiella with P. violacea for the same previous aspects.
Table 3 Effect of some fungal isolates on sex ratio, fecundity, and fertility of spiny bollworm Earias insulana
Acremonium sp. was selected for further study as the most active fungus causing the highest larval mortality. Screening of the selected isolates for production of lipase, protease, and chitinase enzymes, using clearing zone technique, was carried out. The results revealed that Acremonium sp. exhibited high activities of protease, while no activity of chitinase and lipase. So, further study was completed on protease in vivo.
The results showed that the screening of proteolytic, chitinolytic, and lipolytic activity of Acremonium sp. filtrates against SBW (in vivo) were (72.22, 5.50) and (5.20) compared with the control (5%). These results indicated that it had a proteolytic activity and caused the highest larval mortality effect. The same results of protease were produced from P. violaceae (Nada and Abdel-Azem 2005). Also, Jain et al. (2012) purified protease from Acremonium sp. for commercial purpose. Also, Reda et al. (2013) studied pathogenicity of protease and lipase enzymes produced from Streptomyces vinaceusdrappus against the PBW P. gossypiella.
Sargin et al. (2013) and Cristina and Gheorghe (2017) investigated the virulence of different EPF, like M. anisopliae, B. bassiana, and Paecilomyces sp. associated with cuticle-degrading enzymes. These enzymes usually hydrolyze the major components of the insect’s cuticle (protein, chitin, and lipid) through the infection process.
The results indicated that the protease filtrates gave a high mortality percent in E. insulana larvae. Also Nada and Abdel-Azem (2005) reported similar results on P. gossypiella by protease secreted by Paecilomyces sp.
Molecular identification of the selected fungus
The PCR product of the selected fungus (Acremonium sp.) was sequenced using forward primer ITS1 (1). The resulting DNA sequences of the PCR compared with the published sequences were made using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) program (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast) and investigated whether homologs to the Gen Bank data.
Figure 3 illustrates the sequence of the eluted PCR products of the selected fungus was homologs (97%) with the sequence of Acremonium sp. Phylogenetic tree of the tested isolate showed a position of Acremonium sp. isolate also constructed from the evolutionary distance matrix based on the partial 18S rRNA gene sequences (Fig. 1).
18S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; internal transcribed spacer1 and 1.5.8S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence; and internal transcribed spacer 2, partial sequence
The fungus Acremonium sp. had the ability to produce cuticle degrading enzyme (protease), so it can play an important role in the control of E. insulana in a safe manner and reduce environmental pollution by pesticides.
All data are available in the manuscript, and the materials used in this work are of high transparency and grade.
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Thanks are due to Prof. Dr. Ali Ahmed Elsayed, Plant Protection Research Institute, for his effort and helpful to carry out this experimental work.
This work was not supported by any funding body but personally financed.
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The conception and design of the study were done by all authors, 1st author EMA isolate entomopathogenic fungi, screening of fungal isolates for their mortality effect and screening of lipase, protease and chitinase produced by Acremonium on E. insulana. The rearing of the spiny bollworm and detection the effects of the fungal isolates spore suspension and metabolites by WAZM and EMA. The identification of the most potent fungus by HMS and EMA. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Eman Mohammed Abd-ElAzeem.
This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals
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The authors declare that they have no competing interests
Abd-ElAzeem, E.M., El-Medany, W.A.Z. & Sabry, H.M. Biological activities of spores and metabolites of some fungal isolates on certain aspects of the spiny bollworms Earias insulana (Boisd.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Egypt J Biol Pest Control 29, 90 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41938-019-0192-y
Accepted: 26 November 2019
Spiny bollworms
Earias insulana
Entomopathogenic fungi
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Paecilomyces variotii
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Small Town Jewish Life Takes Center Stage
June 11, 2019 By eJP
By Rabbi Rachel Isaacs
In my final year of rabbinical school, a leader from the Conservative movement shared an alarming assessment, “The future of the American Jewish community is in 12 major cities, and we need to find a way to let the rest go.” As an emerging American Jewish leader, predictions of demographic gloom were not novel for me and generally no longer evoked a strong response. However, in this instance, I was simultaneously livid and inspired. For the previous five months I had been working as a student rabbi in a small post-industrial college town: Waterville, Maine. I fell in love with a small town Jewish community because it fully realized the core Jewish values that brought me to the rabbinate: deep personal commitment, a fighting spirit to raise Jewish children, and an unshakable dedication to hospitality. This congregation was also located in a town where 80 percent of school-aged children qualified for free or reduced lunch.
Whether he knew it or not, this leader was not just proposing a cost-effective strategy for our movement’s future, he was making a claim about who deserves Jewish life. In effect, if not in intent, he claimed that you must live in an economically prosperous area in order to enjoy the support and services of Jewish community. His dismissal of communities like Waterville inspired my wife, Mel, and me to begin our life here, and forge a path that made small town Jewish life sustainable, vibrant, and relevant.
From the beginning I was fortunate to have mentors, partners, and benefactors at Colby College (also located in Waterville) that made our work possible. Dr. Rabbi David Freidenreich, chair of the Jewish Studies Program at Colby, joined forces with then provost, Dr. Lori Kletzer, to create a joint faculty-chaplain position that would allow me to serve Jewish students on campus, increase Jewish Studies offerings, and serve the local community. Not long after, Beth Israel Congregation hired Mel to serve as educator, caterer, and administrator of the shul. Their investments not only invigorated Jewish life at Colby and in Waterville, but also laid the groundwork for a sea change in Jewish life throughout Maine. It was the first step that allowed David and I to launch the Center for Small Town Jewish Life (CSTJL) at Colby College, an academic center committed to providing superlative Jewish learning and invigorating Jewish life in small towns nationally through institutional and multigenerational collaboration.
Forging partnerships among the Jewish Studies program, the chaplaincy, and the synagogue facilitated a deep, synergistic collaboration that created a critical mass of people and resources for excellent Jewish programming. Our core values of economic accessibility, dynamic learning, and collaboration across institutional and generational lines have animated all of the center’s programs since its inception. Our keystone program, the Maine Conference for Jewish Life, brings together all of Maine’s synagogues and Jewish institutions for a weekend of Jewish life and learning that rivals gatherings in Manhattan or Tel Aviv.
Drawing upon global resources and the participation of Jews from across the region, the CSTJL shows what is possible when we convene small communities strategically to fortify Jewish life. After a presentation at the Jewish Federation of North America’s Generational Assembly, this model inspired another community – the Jewish Federation/JCC of San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly Hillel – to join forces for the first annual Central Coast Festival of Jewish Learning.
The center has grown significantly since its founding with the strong support of Colby’s president, David Greene, transformative grants from the Covenant Foundation and Hillel International, and the generous support of local and Colby donors. Our staff has grown to include our Assistant Director, Rabbi Erica Asch; a full-time program director; and an administrative specialist, bringing together top local talent across denominational lines. We employ eight undergraduate fellows of all faiths and backgrounds who forge ever deeper roots throughout the state of Maine and acquire invaluable tools of community leadership. Rabbinical students of all denominations now come to Maine for mentorship in serving small communities, and bring fresh ideas and energy to our synagogues and Hillels.
According to the JFNA, there are over 100,000 Jews living in their network of independent communities who fall outside the catchment area of major federations. All serious Jewish leaders must ask themselves, will we leave those Jews behind? In an age of increased income inequality and political polarization, small town Jews are both increasingly vulnerable and valuable. We are the faces and messengers of Torah in an America that feels left behind and is increasingly susceptible to retrograde strains of antisemitism. However, antisemitism should not be the only, or even the primary, motivation for supporting our communities. Many of our world’s most inspiring Jewish leaders share a common bond: they were raised in small town synagogues. Small town Jewish communities have always demanded elbow grease, innovative solutions, and a determined entrepreneurial spirit. If you look at who is leading major Jewish organizations today, you would be surprised by how many of them come from towns like Waterville, bringing their determination and hard won Jewish knowledge back to the centers of Jewish life.
The future of American Jewish Life will continue to look more like Waterville than the Upper West Side. The majority of small town Jews have hailed from intermarried families for decades, have developed strategies for sustaining community with small numbers and limited resources for centuries, and continue to produce many of our community’s leaders. It is time for the mainstream Jewish community to pay attention. We are not the periphery, we are the frontier – and the future.
Rabbi Rachel Isaacs is Director, Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College.
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Mary Ann Oppenheimer says
Wonderful to read this article. Many years ago I lived in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont and was active in an organization called The Conference on Judaism in Rural New England. Annually we gathered several hundred Jewish individuals and families from throughout small town New England and New York (many from communities in Maine) for a weekend Shabbaton on the campus of what was then Lyndon State College. One family told me it was the only time their children saw more than 5 Jews in one place. At the time I was involved the Conference was in decline, because many smaller communities had hired rabbis of their own and the Internet was bringing Jewish learning and people together in new ways. I am delighted to read about the work of Rabbi Isaacs, and to know that small town Jewish life is not totally forgotten.
Helene Weingarten says
I loved reading this article because it is universal. We too often bow to the majority will, whether it be for social services, educational offerings, and health care. There is a good reason: financial investment. Organizations want to know the bottom line; is it worth their money/time to invest in something where the return is considered small. Truth is: It is worth everything to bring individuals together as a Jewish community and to accept the challenges of that community. I believe that this is the future of Judaism…in the small towns across America. They may not have the influence of a New York City, or even a Chicago, community but the “ruach” is there.
Jonathan R Cohen says
My wife and I (full disclosure, two of Rabbi Isaacs’s congregants) have long felt that our lives in a small town in Maine sustain our Jewish values better than life in a mainstream Jewish suburb of a big city ever could: closeness to nature, distance from materialism, valuing every individual, time and space to notice God’s little gifts, etc. Oh, and did I mention lack of big-city arrogance?
Yoshi Silverstein - JOFEE Fellowship Director says
Thank you for this Rabbi Rachel!
Whether small town or big city, we’re inspired by all those strengthening and enlivening what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century. We love having Sarah in our current JOFEE Fellowship cohort and are particularly excited for your ongoing work connecting Jews throughout Maine who are involved in food systems and production!
Edward Finkel says
Jewish Life is indeed dynamic and vibrant in Maine! The Jewish Federations of North America Network of Independent Communities commends Rabbi Rachel Isaacs for her visionary leadership at the Colby College Center for Small Town Jewish Life and the impact she and her team have made in the Jewish Communities of Mid-Maine and beyond. JFNA Network, serving over 300 small Jewish communities and 200,000 Jews, is a proud co-sponsor of The Maine Conference for Jewish Life, and partners with the Center for Small Town Jewish Life in facilitating similar opportunities for other smaller outlying Jewish communities throughout the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Edward Finkel, Regional Director
Jewish Federations of North America | Network of Independent Communities
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December 8, 2015 December 10, 2015 by Estelle Lovatt
Assemble Announced 2015 Turner Prize Winner | itv
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Assemble’s Granby Four Streets helped regenerate an estate in Liverpool. Credit: PA
The Turner Prize 2015 has been awarded to the collective Assemble for their work Granby Four Streets that helped regenerate part of the Toxteth estate in Liverpool.
Sonic Youth singer Kim Gordon presented the award to members of the 16 member collective of artists, architects and designers, all aged under 30.
The London-based group’s work was commended for working across fields of art, design and architecture to create projects in tandem with communities in Liverpool who use and inhabit them.
Their spaces were praised by the community for promoting direct action and bringing art into everyday living.
Assemble collective artist Lewis Jones said winning the Turner Prize was “surreal”.
Nominees (front row left-right) Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel, Nicole Wermers and (back row left-right) Assemble collective members Lewis Jones, Amica Dall and Fran Edgerley. Credit: PA
We used the nomination to start up a new social enterprise, the Granby Workshop, based in Liverpool and employing local people to make products. All of the funds from that go back into that neighbourhood and continue the rebuilding of it after years of dereliction. We make tiles, doorknobs, fireplaces, all sorts of domestic products that are all handmade so each one is different and they really show an investment of time and care.
– LEWIS JONES, ASSEMBLE
Assemble have also worked on a playground in Dalmarnock in the east end of Glasgow, a child-led space for children to play in a “free and unencumbered way”, Jones said.
“I hope that this award and the nomination before it helps give recognition and value to different ways of creating places in our cities and around our homes,” he added.
Art critic Estelle Lovatt said that having Assemble as one of the nominees made this year’s Turner Prize different.
“Not since the Renaissance has art had such an input on the community,” she said, adding: “Leonardo da Vinci would have loved it.”
Assemble snatched the £25,000 prize from three other nominees: Bonnie Camplin, Janice Kerbel and Nicole Wermers.
Camplin was nominated for The Military Industrial Complex, South London Gallery – a study room of books and videos discussing conspiracy theories and unexplained incidences to explore “consensus reality”.
Kerbel was nominated for her operatic work Doug which narrates a series of hapless accidents that befall a fictional character using audio recordings, performance and printed matter.
And Wermers was nominated for her exhibition Infrastruktur, Herald Street, London, an installation of fur coats sewn into the back of chairs exploring art and design in consumer culture.
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Best 8 Social Media Trends In 2018
January 19, 2018 January 20, 2020 admin Digital Marketing, Social Media. permalink.
Best 8 Social Media Trends to Watch Out for In 2018
Social Media is ever evolving every day. New updates for each app are waiting for you to enter the Wi-fi zone. From Twitter to Instagram, From Quora to Snapchat, every social media is rebuilding, restructuring and re-engineering its app/website to engage more and more users every day. 2017 brought tremendous changes in social media. The meaning of a story changed completely for everyone. Earlier while everyone had a story, now everyone is on a story! With New Year all the social media platform are all geared up to bring new things to your mobile.
Here are 8 Social Media trends that you need to look forward to in 2018!
1. Twitter changes:
Twitter was one of the most popular social media websites after its inceptions. Now with the introduction social media like Instagram and Snapchat, Twitter has been losing out on its daily users. The top management at Twitter is head storming to look out for new features to increase the engagement on the Social Media. There’s a lot on Twitter to watch out for.
2. Chatbot:
Artificial Intelligence is ruling the technology ever since its inception. Every website is designing its own chatbot to produce responses that are relevant. Bots are visually interesting and websites are employing content writers to predict answers that feel like chatting with a human on the other side. Facebook, Gmail, and every other Social Media are integrating chatbots to enhance the user experience. Chatbots are here to stay.
3. Live streaming:
This feature has been added to many Social Media sites recently. Experts see a huge potential in Live Streaming. The users instantly connect to the streaming video and get the actual feel of being there. Youtube and other sites are continuously working on making Live streaming more glamorous and appealing. Many brands are engaging in Live streaming to promote their brand. It is can be seen an emerging Digital Marketing tool.
4. Influencer marketing taking turns:
Brands have started recognizing the power of influence marketing. There are many celebrities who are being approached to endorse products/brands on their personal social media handles. Influencer marketing is not only restricted to certain people, but it also identifies the popular handles or pages on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to promote their brand.
5. Social Media Marketing becoming the mainstream advertising:
It’s high time everybody realizes the power of Social Media now. The penetration of Social Media in India is not only restricted to the millennial generation now, Social media is now engaging the older as well as the younger generations now. There is a huge scope for marketing and branding via the different Digital Marketing tools and many Digital Marketing Solution providers are emerging to cater to the digital marketing needs.
6. Instagram Stories to rule:
Instagram has slowly but steadily been making a firm grip on the Social Media users. Since the introduction of stories has happened, Instagram usage has increased tremendously. Every brand is looking out for how they can increase the user engagement through Instagram stories.
7. Facebook has already become a cult:
It would be unfair to term facebook as just a Social Media. Facebook now has everything from news to weather updates. People practically live on Facebook. There are efforts taken by every brand to create their presence on Facebook. Everybody is now looking at tricks for a Facebook platform for business growth.
8. The rise of Virtual reality and Augmented reality:
Mobile gaming, better purchasing, location-based food and travel suggestions everything is possible because of virtual and augmented reality. There are many types of research going on to bring Virtual and Augmented reality in Social Media to increase the user experience.
There are many speculations being made as to what and how things will take a turn in 2018, and these were mine. But the one things that are sure that in the year 2018, there is a lot coming on our cell phones to engage us and change the way social media is now!
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Noah Syndergaard and Wilson Ramos Power Mets to a Win Over the Nationals
WASHINGTON — Wilson Ramos hit a first-inning grand slam after Washington failed to complete what should have been a routine double play, Noah Syndergaard took a no-hitter into the sixth and the Mets beat the Nationals, 6-2, on Tuesday.
The Mets have won three games in a row. The Nationals lost for the 11th time in 15 games, fell to 2-12 in series openers and are 16-25 overall. In the National League, only the rebuilding Miami Marlins have a worse record.
Syndergaard (3-3) allowed two runs and four hits in eight innings, lowering his E.R.A. to 4.74. The first hit he allowed was a single by Wilmer Difo to open the sixth, and Victor Robles followed with a homer off a 98 m.p.h. fastball.
It was Robles’s seventh homer of the season — and third off Syndergaard.
Other than that two-batter hiccup, the 6-foot-6, 240-pound Syndergaard was dominant on a cold night, repeatedly reaching 99 m.p.h. on his 102-pitch evening and striking out six.
Ramos, who used to play for the Nationals, connected with a low 80 m.p.h. offering from Jeremy Hellickson (2-2) and sent it out to left for his second homer.
He never should have been at the plate in that spot: With a man on first and one out, Robinson Cano hit a grounder that appeared to get Hellickson out of the inning. But backup shortstop Difo’s relay throw was off the mark and forced fourth-string first baseman Gerardo Parra to stretch to try to make the grab. Parra managed to get his glove on the ball but couldn’t hold on.
Cano initially was called out, but that was overturned after a review. “We made them pay for a little mishap there,” Mets Manager Mickey Callaway said, “and that’s what you have to do when you’re a good team.”
Pete Alonso followed with a single past Difo, and Michael Conforto walked to load the bases, bringing Ramos to the plate.
“That first inning bit us. It really did,” Nationals Manager Dave Martinez said. “Like I’ve said before, we’ve got to play clean baseball. We really do. Got to give us a chance.”
Dominic Smith, pinch-hitting for Syndergaard in the ninth, hit his first homer of the year.
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Reaching a Summit
May 16, 2015 David Ozab
Brownie Journey Summit Award
It’s a good thing that Anna is bridging to Juniors in August, because her Brownie vest is almost full! Together with the other brownies in her troop, Anna completed the World of Girls Journey in April. And in doing so, she also earned the Journey Summit Award for completing all three journeys.
World of Girls Badges
We organized a condensed version of the World of Girls Journey, completing a badge each week, and finishing the whole journey in a month.
Week One: Hear a Story. We assigned a single story in the World of Girls book to each girl the week before, and they told the stories to their fellow Brownies during our first World of Girls Journey meeting. Then we “flew” around the room, traveling to where each story took place (Jordan, Thailand, and Nunavut, Canada) and talked about the ways people in each country shared stories. We created a story of our own using “Tell Me a Story” cards, and we finished with an “All About Me Limbo,” where each girl said something unique about herself while walking under a foam pool noodle.
Week Two: Change a Story (Part One). We talked about the stories from Week One, this time focusing on how each story could be changed. We then talked about stories in our own community and ways in which we could change them. Together, we decided to take some of the money we raised through cookie sales, and give it back to the community by going to a nearby St. Vincent de Paul and buying children’s books for kids staying at a local domestic abuse shelter.
Week Three: Change a Story (Part Two) and Tell a Story (Part One). We met at St. Vincent’s and spent about a half hour shopping for books. Each girl picked out five picture books and five chapter books at $0.50 each ($5 per girl charged to the troop account). Then each girl selected one of the books she chose, and agreed to write a short paragraph about why she selected it.
Week Four: Tell a Story (Part Two) and World of Girls. The girls each completed the “Tell a Story” step by recording their paragraph on their favorite book on video. Then we got out white poster sheets and colored pencils, and each girl made a bright and happy picture to cheer up the families living at the shelter. This last activity brought the journey to a close.
Two weeks later, we held our Cookie Celebration and handed out all the awards that the girls earned during Cookie Season. First, we called up all the Brownies and awarded them the two Cookie Business badges and the two Financial Literacy badges. As you can see, she went from two full rows of badges to almost three in one night!
Four new cookie badges!
Then after the Juniors received their badges, each girl came up individually and received her patches and prizes based on the number of cookies sold. Everyone who sold cookies earned at least one patch, a certificate, and a prize. Anna, as top seller, got the most awards, the most prizes (tied with the top selling Junior), and a special certificate.
Check out all the patches!
Ten fun patches total, just from cookie season, and as I said before her vest is almost full.
Just a little space left in the corner.
For being in Brownies only a year, and talking half that time to find a stable troop, she’s done a fantastic job. We’re so proud of her.
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Britney Spears debuts fashion line for Candie's this week
By Archana Ram
Updated June 29, 2010 at 08:31 PM EDT
After making a major comeback with her album Circus and massive tour, it was only natural for Britney Spears to capitalize on the recent stream of success. So this week we’ll see the fruits of her labor in a different area — fashion — as she unveils a collection of clothing and accessories for Candie’s, the company for which she serves as current poster girl.
We remember Spears most fondly for her barely there get-up at the VMAs and red leather bodysuits, but Spears’ line is thankfully less costume-y. She tells InStyle.com that a slick black trench coat and studded skirt are among her favorites in the juniors’ collection. Not too shabby, Brit. Personally, I’m digging the gray leather jacket.
The line will be available in Kohl’s stores nationwide beginning Thursday but only for a limited time. Will you be checking it out? And is it safe to say that our 1990s pop princess is back in action?
Photo: Candie’s
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For many Kiwi businesses, using an outsourced payroll service like Ezypay is the perfect solution for fulfilling their payroll needs.
One such business is Access Solutions, an award-winning, nationwide rental company that specialises in elevated work platforms (such as cherry-pickers and scissor lifts), aluminium scaffolding and forklifts.
The company started out as Oldfield’s Access, a division of a larger Australian company. Managing Director Michael Biddick bought the New Zealand branch in 2000. At the time, Oldfield’s Access was using Ezypay as its outsourced payroll supplier and the relationship continued through the transition. Almost two decades later, the partnership is still going strong.
Michael says that Ezypay is a great fit for Access Solutions because it removed the salary and overhead costs of employing an inhouse staff member to take care of its payroll and all the tasks associated with it.
“We use the Ezytime Online Portal to upload our information to coincide with an agreed timeline for payment. Ezypay then processes it and sends it back to us for approval. Once we have signed it off, our payroll is then finalised and funds are sent to the bank.”
Over the years, Access Solutions has greatly expanded its fleet of equipment and opened new branches in both the North and South Island. The company now has more than 60 staff on its payroll and uses Ezypay to take care of all payroll needs including salaries, wages and everything in between.
Michael says for any businesses looking to outsource their payroll to an external provider, Ezypay is the way to go.
“I would certainly recommend Ezypay to anyone with the same needs as us. It’s a good, cost-effective way of managing your payroll,” Michael says.
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Targeted epigenome editing of an endogenous locus with chromatin modifiers is not stably maintained
Goran Kungulovski1,
Suneetha Nunna1,
Maria Thomas2,3,
Ulrich M Zanger2,3,
Richard Reinhardt4 &
Albert Jeltsch1
DNA methylation and histone 3 lysine 9 (H3K9) methylation are considered as epigenetic marks that can be inherited through cell divisions. To explore the functional consequences and stability of these modifications, we employed targeted installment of DNA methylation and H3K9 methylation in the vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) promoter using catalytic domains of DNA or H3K9 methyltransferases that are fused to a zinc finger protein which binds a site in the VEGF-A promoter.
Expression of the targeted DNA and H3K9 methyltransferases caused dense deposition of DNA methylation or H3K9 di- and trimethylation in the promoter of VEGF-A and downregulation of VEGF-A gene expression. We did not observe positive feedback between DNA methylation and H3K9 methylation. Upon loss of the targeted methyltransferases from the cells, the epigenetic marks, chromatin environment, and gene expression levels returned to their original state, indicating that both methylation marks were not stably propagated after their installment.
The clear anti-correlation between DNA or H3K9 methylation and gene expression suggests a direct role of these marks in transcriptional control. The lack of maintenance of the transiently induced silenced chromatin state suggests that the stability of epigenetic signaling is based on an epigenetic network consisting of several molecular marks. Therefore, for stable reprogramming, either multivalent deposition of functionally related epigenetic marks or longer-lasting trigger stimuli might be necessary.
Although (almost) all cell types in a multicellular organism contain the same genetic information, they are functionally and morphologically different. Such diversity can only be attained with highly regulated spatial and temporal control of gene expression enacted by the so-called epigenetic mechanisms. Epigenetics is currently understood by most researchers as a process for generation of heritable but reversible signals that do not alter the DNA sequence. These epigenetic mechanisms extend the information content of the genome and mediate the heritable propagation of transcriptional cellular programs and cellular identity, which is a cornerstone of organismic development [1-5]. Examples of inherited epigenetic signals [6] include imprinting and X-chromosome inactivation in mammals [7,8], and trans-generational inheritance of epigenetic states recently shown in plants [9] or worms [10]. Epigenetic signaling is not only essential for normal development but it plays a central role in the onset of diseases including cancer as well [11-14].
DNA methylation and post-translational modifications (PTMs) of histones are critical epigenetic signals. In mammalian cells, the DNA molecules can be modified by methylation at the 5 position of cytosines, typically in a CpG dinucleotide context, which in turn can be oxidized to 5-hydroxymethylcytosine and higher oxidation states [15]. In a similar vein, the n-terminal tails of histones can be massively modified, including methylation of lysine and arginine residues, acetylation of lysine, phosphorylation of serine and threonine, as well as ubiquitylation and sumoylation of lysines [4]. DNA methylation of CpG islands in gene promoters is correlated with gene repression, whilst DNA methylation of gene bodies is associated with gene expression [16,17]. Similarly, some histone modifications can be associated with silenced chromatin states (such as H3K9me3, H4K20me3, and H3K27me3) but others occur on actively transcribed chromatin (such as acetylation of histone H3 and H4, H3K4me2/3, and H3K36me3). The transmission of epigenetic marks over cell divisions can be explained by different molecular models: in the case of DNA methylation at palindromic CpG sites, the modification occurs on both strands of the DNA and after DNA replication, the hemimethylated sites can be specifically emethylated by DNA methyltransferase (Dnmt) 1 in a process of maintenance methylation [3,5]. For the maintenance of histone modifications, models propose a stochastic distribution of old modified histones on the two DNA daughter strands after replication and additional incorporation of new histones. Afterwards, the modification state can be copied from the old histones to the new ones by epigenetic ‘readers’, which bind a particular mark and then recruit a modifier, setting this mark. For example, in the case of H3K9 methylation, the HP1 protein binds di- and trimethylation lysine 9 moieties and then recruits the SUV39H1 and H2 enzymes, which can introduce H3K9me2 and H3K9me3 on nearby H3-tails [2,3].
The central role of epigenetic signaling in diseases, together with the principle reversibility of epigenetic states, has raised much interest in epigenetic editing approaches aiming to specifically modulate epigenetic states. One way to approach this is to use chimeric enzymes consisting of a targeting module that specifically binds defined DNA sequences (such as zinc fingers, transcription activator-like effectors (TALEs), or CRISPRs) and an effector domain that harbors a defined epigenetic activity, such as catalytic domains of DNA- or histone methyltransferases [18]. In the past years, a number of proof of principle studies have validated the feasibility of epigenetic editing in reporter plasmids, viral DNA, and endogenous targets (reviewed in [18]) and paved the way towards more comprehensive studies. These include zinc finger-targeted DNA methylation [19-22], TALE-targeted DNA demethylation [23,24], TALE-targeted H3K4me2 demethylation [25], or zinc finger-targeted H3K9 methylation [26,27]. However, the stability and heritability of such epigenetic editing remained an unsolved question.
In this study, we have successfully designed and employed adenoviral vectors harboring a zinc finger protein binding to the vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) gene promoter, fused via a flexible linker to the catalytic domain of a DNA or a histone H3K9 methyltransferase (Figure 1). Upon transient expression of the constructs in SKOV3 cells, we monitored the time-course of changes of DNA and H3K9 methylation, as well as VEGF-A gene expression and made intriguing observations. After infection with adenoviral vectors, we detected dense deposition of the epigenetic marks (DNA methylation or H3K9 di- and trimethylation), which peaked at day 5 after infection. We observed substantial spreading of H3K9me2/3 and strong gene repression. Surprisingly, after loss of expression of the targeted methyltransferases, the induced epigenetic marks were lost over several days and the VEGF-A gene was reactivated to its original level. Interestingly, after targeted histone H3K9 methylation, we observed an excessive increase of histone acetylation during reestablishment of gene expression, suggesting that a response of the epigenetic network led to loss of the silencing marks and gene reactivation. Our data show that targeted chromatin repression of endogenous loci is attainable but difficult to maintain. It is likely that for preservation of the repressed state either multivalent deposition of functionally related epigenetic marks or longer-lasting trigger stimuli are necessary.
Schematic overview of the strategy used in this study and time course of the expression of adenoviral-encoded genes. (A) Adenoviral vectors harboring the genes of targeted DNA and H3K9 methyltransferases were used to infect SKOV3 cells. (B) The enzymes were fused to a zinc finger domain which binds a site in the promoter of the VEGF-A gene. The schematic picture of the VEGF-A promoter shows the gene structure in dark blue, an annotated CpG island in green, the zinc finger-binding site in red, and the amplicons used for bisulfite DNA methylation analysis and ChIP-qPCR in light blue and black, respectively. Additional ChIP-qPCR amplicons located outside of the region shown here are indicated in Figure 3. Transcription factor-binding sites to the VEGF-A promoter are indicated in Additional file 1: Figure S1A. (C) The chimeric zinc finger-fused DNA and H3K9 methyltransferases are targeted to the VEGF-A promoter where they introduce DNA or histone H3K9 methylation. (D) Time course of the expression of adenoviral vector-encoded genes after cell infection. The adenoviral vector also expresses GFP to allow for the FACS analysis of infection yields and follow the expression levels of virus-encoded genes. The time-course of GFP fluorescence of all data sets analysed in this respect was similar, and its average is shown here. The data shows averages and corresponding standard errors of the mean of 21 experiments. GFP, green fluorescence protein; ZF, zinc finger; HKMT, histone lysine methyltransferase; DNMT, DNA methyltransferase; d, days; bp, base pair; qPCR, quantitative PCR; VEGF-A, vascular endothelial growth factor A.
Establishment of an adenoviral system for delivery of targeted DNA and H3K9 methyltransferases
Based on the novel achievements in genome targeting, including the discovery of the CRISPR-Cas9-targeting system, epigenetic reprogramming has moved into the center of research [18,28,29]. However, up to now, the stability of targeted epigenetic rewriting has not been studied in depth. We used chimeric DNA and H3K9 methyltransferases consisting of a zinc finger (ZF) domain that recognizes a 9-bp motif in the VEGF-A promoter coupled to the catalytic domains of the DNA methyltransferase 3a (Dnmt3a) (ZF-Dnmt3a-CD) or the ZF-protein lysine methyltransferase 1D (GLP) H3K9 methyltransferase (ZF-GLP-CD) for targeted epigenetic rewriting of the VEGF-A locus (Figure 1A,B,C). Our aim was to study the kinetics and stability of targeted DNA and H3K9 methylation after transient expression and loss of these targeted methyltransferases. Moreover, we studied the chromatin response to the targeted methylation and changes in the VEGF-A gene expression. The VEGF-A gene encodes for a signal protein involved in angiogenesis that has a critical role in cancer growth and metastasis [30]. In SKOV3 cells, the VEGF-A gene is expressed and its promoter is not methylated (Figure 2). The chimeric methyltransferases were delivered into the cells by adenoviral vectors. These vectors do not express the adenoviral E1 and E3 proteins, which are essential for the generation of viral particles [31]. Hence, they can infect SKOV3 cells but cannot propagate in these cells and are degraded after some time. The constructs also express green fluorescence protein (GFP) as a marker for tracking of infection and expression of the virus-encoded genes. Upon adenoviral delivery to SKOV3 cells, we generally observed infection of >95% of all cells based on GFP fluorescence (Additional file 1: Figure S1B). Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) analyses of GFP fluorescenceshowed that the expression of the virus-encoded genes increased after infection until a maximum was reached at day 5. Afterwards, the expression of virus-encoded genes declined, and it was almost lost after 10 days (Figure 1D).
DNA methylation-dependent induction of silencing. (A) Example of the time-dependent deposition and loss of DNA methylation analyzed by bisulfite sequencing. Each row indicates one sequenced clone and each column indicates one CpG site. The blue and red colors display unmethylated and methylated CpGs, respectively. (B) Quantification of DNA methylation over time. The averages and SEM refer to the data sets shown in Additional file 1: Figure S2. (C) Methylation level ranking based on the data sets shown in Additional file 1: Figure S2. (D) Quantification of VEGF-A expression normalized to SDHA. The averages and SEM are based on two to three biological repeats. VEGF-A, vascular endothelial growth factor A.
Silencing induced by targeted DNA methylation is not maintained
In a previous study, we have shown that transient transfection of a plasmid encoding a DNA methyltransferase fused to the VEGF-A-binding zinc finger into SKOV3 cells led to an establishment of DNA methylation and gene silencing [20]. However, with transient transfection, even after MACS purification of transfected cells, the maximal transfection rates were not higher than 50% to 80%. We wanted to extend this study in two ways: first, our aim was to introduce the chimeric DNA methyltransferase (ZF-Dnmt3a-CD) into the vast majority of cells via adenoviral delivery. Second, following the adenoviral infection, we wanted to monitor the changes in DNA methylation and expression state of the VEGF-A promoter over time. After ZF-Dnmt3a-CD delivery, we observed a gradual elevation of DNA methylation from day 1 after infection onwards (Additional file 1: Figure S2 and Figure 2A,B,C). The methylation signal peaked at day 5 with similar methylation levels, as observed previously after transient transfection of a similar targeting construct [20]. Since H3K9me3 is a silencing mark correlated with DNA methylation, we investigated if DNA methylation would induce deposition of H3K9 methylation. However, chromatin immunoprecipitation quantitative PCR (ChIP-qPCR) analyses of mononucleosomes isolated at day 5 from the infected cells showed no changes of H3K9me3 methylation, indicating that a crosstalk did not occur (Additional file 1: Figure S8A). After the 5-day period of incremental increase in DNA methylation, we observed a gradual loss of DNA methylation, which returned to its basal levels at day 15 (Additional file 1: Figure S2 and Figure 2A,B,C), indicating that DNA methylation levels directly correspond to the expression levels of the virus-encoded targeted DNA methyltransferase (Figure 1D). We also monitored the levels of VEGF-A gene expression upon deposition of DNA methylation. Interestingly, we observed a strong reduction of mRNA levels, most notably at day 5, followed by a gradual re-activation of the gene until day 10 to 15 (Figure 2D). Hence, the time course of VEGF-A gene downregulation and re-expression mirrored exactly the changes of DNA methylation in the VEGF-A promoter (Figure 2). The specificity of the targeted DNA methylation and repression was confirmed with several control viruses, including one construct in which the zinc finger was fused to a catalytically inactive Dnmt3a-CD variant (ZF-Dnmt3a-CD E752A) and constructs with ZF only, untargeted Dnmt3a-CD or empty vector (EV) (Additional file 1: Figure S3). To conclude, these data indicate a direct link between deposition of DNA methylation and gene silencing, with methylation and silencing levels comparable to previous results [20]. However, somehow unexpectedly, both the methylation and gene repression were not maintained upon loss of the targeted fusion DNA methyltransferase.
Silencing can be induced by targeted H3K9 methylation but it is not maintained as well
The question whether histone PTMs are drivers or consequences of chromatin processes is a cardinal scientific issue that has been hotly debated [32]. For this reason, we wanted to directly study the effect of the targeted installment of an individual histone PTM on gene expression and to investigate the stability of this modification after removal of the epigenetic modifier. To this aim, we fused the catalytic domain of the GLP H3K9 methyltransferase with the zinc finger protein binding to the VEGF-A promoter (ZF-GLP-CD) and cloned this into an adenoviral vector. After adenoviral delivery of the targeted H3K9 methyltransferase, we followed the time course of H3K9 methylation and VEGF-A gene expression. We observed a gradual deposition of H3K9me2 and H3K9me3 at the target site (Figure 3). Interestingly, we also detected a massive spreading of both marks at least 5 kb upstream and 15 kb downstream from the zinc finger-binding site (Figure 3). Like DNA methylation, H3K9 methylation peaked at day 5, which was followed by return to its basal levels, indicating that the mark was not stably maintained. While H3K9me3 returned to initial levels at day 10, the kinetics of disappearance were slower for H3K9me2, which returned to its native state only at day 15 (Figure 3). This finding suggests a stepwise histone demethylation after the loss of expression of the targeted methyltransferase, in which H3K9me2 is generated as an intermediate by demethylation of H3K9me3. We also analyzed the gene expression of VEGF-A after targeted H3K9 methylation and found strong gene silencing at day 5 (Figure 4A). However, the trend of gene repression mirrored the deposition of H3K9me3 trimethylation and expression was reestablished fully at day 15 (Figure 4A). In addition, we measured the levels of histone H4 acetylation 200 bps downstream from the zinc finger-binding site and observed a strong surge of histone H4 acetylation at day 10 when the expression of the targeted methyltransferase had declined (Figure 4B,C). This effect was not due to changes in nucleosome occupancy, as determined by MNase mapping (Additional file 1: Figure S5). This result suggests that a histone acetyltransferase activity is recruited to the VEGF-A promoter by undetermined mechanisms. Similarly as before, we did not observe positive feedback between DNA methylation and H3K9 methylation, since no changes in DNA methylation levels were observed after targeted H3K9 methylation (Additional file 1: Figure S8B).
Targeted deposition, spreading, and loss of histone H3K9 methylation over time. The black boxes indicate the location of the amplicons used for ChIP-qPCR (also compare with Figure 1B for a larger image of the VEGF-A gene promoter). The numbers above the bars indicate the distance of the qPCR amplicons from the zinc finger-binding site. (A) ChIP-qPCR measurements of H3K9me2 at the designated amplicons covering the promoter and gene body of VEGF-A. (B) ChIP-qPCR measurements of H3K9me3 at the designated amplicons covering the promoter and gene body of VEGF-A. The averages and SEM are based on two to three biological repeats. The corresponding P values can be found in Additional file 1: Table S2. VEGF-A, vascular endothelial growth factor A; bp, base pair; ZF-GLP-CD, zinc finger-protein lysine methyltransferase 1D-catalytic domain.
H3K9 methylation-dependent induction of silencing. (A) Quantification of VEGF-A expression normalized to SDHA. The averages and SEM are based on two to three biological repeats. (B) ChIP-qPCR measurements of H4 acetylation at the promoter of VEGF-A. The averages and SEM are based on two to three biological repeats. (C) Time course of GFP of all experiments analyzed in this respect. The dark green bars show the average data of experiments which led to VEGF-A silencing (N = 7). The light green bars show the averages of the controls not leading to silencing (N = 14). The error bars indicate the standard errors of the mean. VEGF-A, vascular endothelial growth factor A; GFP, green fluorescence protein; d, days.
The specificity of our targeted epigenome editing was confirmed in several control experiments with zinc finger only or untargeted GLP catalytic domain, which both showed only residual silencing (Additional file 1: Figure S4). In an additional set of control studies, the zinc finger protein was fused with two different catalytically inactive GLP variants (ZF-GLP-CD C1201A and ZF-GLP-CD ΔNHHC) (Additional file 1: Figure S4). These constructs differ in their ability to interact with the endogenous G9a H3K9 methyltransferase which forms a heterodimeric complex with GLP in cells [33]. The GLP C1201A variant is still able to form heterodimers with G9A but the GLP-CD ΔNHHC is not. The slightly stronger residual silencing of VEGF-A expression observed with the GLP C1201A variant suggests that a recruitment of native G9A by the chimeric ZF-GLP-CD protein has some enhancing effect on gene repression in our system. We also detected a slight increase of H3K9me3 at the VEGF-A locus with untargeted GLP-CD (without zinc finger) at day 3, which declined to basal levels at day 5 unlike ZF-GLP-CD, which peaked at day 5 (Additional file 1: Figure S6-S7 and Figure 3). To conclude, our data indicate that the downregulation of VEGF-A is a direct consequence of H3K9me2/3 deposition and spreading and suggest that these particular histone marks likely have a direct role in the regulation of gene expression. In addition, as in the case of DNA methylation, the H3K9 methylation mark was not stably maintained and the observed gene silencing was only transient. Interestingly, our data also suggest that the surge of histone acetylation at day 10 is likely a feedback ‘over-reaction’ from the cellular epigenetic network, which overrides the repressive state and leads to gene reactivation.
Loss of DNA and H3K9 methylation is not due to a growth disadvantage of cells caused by VEGF-A silencing
We wanted to determine if the loss of the DNA and H3K9 methylation signal after 5 days could be caused by a selective growth disadvantage of cells after VEGF-A silencing. However, the gradual loss of DNA and H3K9 methylation and gene silencing observed after day 5 was not correlated with a shift of cell populations. This is illustrated by the observation that the time course of loss of GFP expression was identical in cells infected with the various control viruses (such as EV, virus encoding ZF alone, or viruses that encode for catalytically inactive methyltransferases) and viruses that lead to DNA or H3K9 methylation and corresponding gene silencing (ZF-Dnmt3a-CD or GLP-CD virus) (Figure 4C). These data indicate that the relative proportions of cells with or without the adenoviral vector did not change regardless of whether the VEGF-A gene was silenced or not. Hence, the loss of the DNA and H3K9 methylation mark reflects a true loss of the signal and not a diminishment of the cell population that carries the signal.
The epigenome of each cell from a multicellular organism is a highly dynamic entity that realizes the transcriptional programs encoded within the genome, balancing between phenotypical stability and environmental plasticity. In this study, we were able to provide a valuable insight into the inner workings of chromatin by setting a defined chromatin modification at an endogenous locus and following the dynamics of its appearance and disappearance with a spatial and temporal resolution. Previous studies have successfully designed and applied modular DNA-binding proteins fused with eukaryotic or prokaryotic DNA methyltransferase activities for targeted DNA methylation [34]. Notably, the technology involving mammalian Dnmt catalytic domains fused to zinc finger proteins was successfully used for targeted methylation of endogenous promoters of cancer-associated genes, including VEGF-A [20-22]. In previous studies performed in our lab, transient transfection methods were employed for delivery of the targeted DNA methyltransferases. This allowed to transfect about 50% to 80% of all cells leading to significant DNA methylation and gene downregulation of the tested genes (EpCAM or VEGF-A) [20,22]. In the current work, we extended these experiments and used an adenoviral delivery system, which has significantly improved the number of infected cells expressing the targeted DNA and H3K9 methyltransferases. We observed a clear anti-correlation between gene expression and the DNA and H3K9 methylation levels, suggesting that these epigenetic marks have a direct effect on gene regulation. The viral delivery system enabled us to follow the dynamics of the establishment and loss of the H3K9 and DNA methylation in the VEGF-A locus, and interestingly, we observed a lack of preservation of both marks after loss of expression of the respective targeted methyltransferase. Our results indicate that activating signals from the surrounding chromatin domain of the VEGF-A gene overruled the local silencing signal and led to its disappearance.
Different from our results, in a previous report, DNA methylation introduced at the Maspin locus was stable over multiple generations [21]. One explanation for this discrepancy could be the chromatin context of the loci tested, with one being more permissive to permanent silencing than the other. This difference may also be attributed to the technical approach, because in the Rivenbark study, stable cell lines were generated, which contained the gene of the targeted methyltransferase. While it was found that the expression levels of the chimeric methyltransferase were drastically reduced after several cell generations, it is still conceivable that a small amount of the effector was still present in the cell, sufficient for the maintenance of the silenced state.
Only a few studies prior to this one showed promise in testing the utility of ZF-targeted histone methyltransferases in epigenome editing [26,27,35]. Apart from validating the general feasibility of this approach, we also monitored the dynamics of the establishment and disappearance of the H3K9 methylation and show lack of preservation of H3K9 methylation. Moreover, we show spreading of the modification for at least 15 kb downstream and 5 kb upstream from the nucleation site. Similar observations of heterochromatin spreading were made by chemically induced recruitment of the HP1 chromo shadow domain to an artificial promoter [36]. In this study, the heterochromatization was inherited only after a prolonged chemical stimulus (4.5 weeks), which led to a local gain of DNA methylation. Similar to our study, the presence of chemical stimulus for 3 to 7 days, only led to a transient deposition of H3K9me3 and reduced transcriptional output, both of which were lost after cessation of the inducing stimulus. In another study in Schizosaccharomyces pombe strains, a heterochromatic block of H3K9 methylation was successfully established but lost over days which is in agreement with our findings [35].
The data obtained in our experimental system indicate that the epigenetic chromatin state can be easily edited by setting a trigger ‘repressive’ mark, concurrently leading to gene silencing. Interestingly, after discontinuance of the trigger signal (both in the case of DNA and H3K9 methylation), the chromatin state and transcriptional levels shifted back to their native state. This suggests that the maintenance and mitotic inheritance of an epigenetic mark, even DNA methylation, which is considered to be one of the most stable silencing signals, might not be a trivial task. This finding is in agreement with recent observations suggesting that the initial model of DNA methylation inheritance in a maintenance process was an oversimplification, and that DNA methylation is better described by a dynamic and stochastic model [37]. Our data suggest that epigenetic states are encoded in a network of epigenetic marks, and they cannot be reset easily by rewriting a single mark. To achieve this, a multivalent deposition of functionally related epigenetic marks or longer-lasting trigger stimuli might be necessary (Figure 5). The epigenetic network provides feedback regulatory mechanisms; and processes such as imprinting, heterochromatization, or housekeeping gene transcription are most likely continuously supported with balancing regulators in order to preserve their initial chromatin state. Furthermore, our data show that DNA methylation and H3K9 methylation did not enforce each other and the targeted H3K9 methylation and gene silencing did not reduce H4 acetylation. It would be interesting to see if additional treatment of cells with demethylase inhibitors, generation of longer-lasting trigger signals, or combined deposition of DNA and histone methylation could induce mitotic stability and true epigenetic inheritance. In addition, it is an interesting question to study the effect, stability, and network response of the targeted deposition of an ‘activating’ chromatin mark, such as H3K4me3 or histone acetylation. Finally, with the development of novel genome targeting technologies, it will be compelling to observe the effects of setting or erasing single or combinatorial epigenetic marks in different chromatin contexts. For this, it will be necessary to study the stability of epigenetic reprogramming at several loci and learn about the influence of the chromatin environment on the stability of gene silencing. This will pave the way into true epigenetic editing in the sense that the newly generated epigenetic states would be as stable as the natural ones and have comparable biological effects.
Conclusions for the reprogramming of epigenetic states. (A) Individual stimuli (indicated by the purple arrow) can edit the epigenetic state and silence gene expression but the silenced state is not stable. (B) For stable epigenetic silencing, presumably multiple triggers or individual triggers lasting over longer times are needed.
Cloning and production of recombinant adenovirus
The zinc finger protein which binds a 9-bp sequence (GGGGGTGAC) in the VEGF-A promoter [26], ZF fused to Dnmt3a-CD (amino acids 608-908, UniProt no. O88508), or Dnmt3a-CD alone were amplified and sub-cloned into the pAdTrackCMV vector using the BglII and XhoI restriction sites. The DNA fragments containing the catalytic domain, H3K9 methyltransferase G9a-like protein (amino acids 1002-1295, UniProt no. Q96KQ7), were cloned in empty or zinc finger-containing pAdTrackCMV vector using the SalI and HindIII restriction sites. The production of adenoviral vectors and adenovirus was based on [31]. Briefly, the pAdTrackCMV vector containing the gene of interest was linearized with PmeI and was co-transformed with pAdEasy-1 vector into Escherichia coli BJ5183. Successful recombination was confirmed by restriction digestion and Sanger sequencing. Six micrograms of PacI linearized vector was transfected into HEK293 cells in T-25 flask. HEK293 are E1 positive, thus allowing virus production. After transfection, the HEK293 cells were maintained in DMEM supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum in a CO2 incubator at 37°C for 14 to 21 days, with addition of 2 ml medium, every 4 days. The adenoviral vector also expressed GFP to allow for the FACS analysis of infection yields and follow the expression levels of virus-encoded genes. The expression of GFP and the targeted zinc finger-fused methyltransferases was both driven by a CMV promoter. Total infection was confirmed microscopically, and viral lysates were prepared for high-titer virus production. In the end, the mature virus was collected using cesium chloride (CsCl) density gradient centrifugation and gel filtration (Nap™ columns, GE Healthcare, Pewaukee, WI, USA), and it was used for further infections. The optimal viral titer for infection of SKOV3 cells was determined by serial dilutions.
Infection of SKOV3 cells with recombinant adenoviral vectors
SKOV3 cells were obtained from ATCC (American Type Cell culture Collection) and cultured in DMEM supplement with 10% fetal bovine serum, l-glutamine, and penicillin/streptomycin. SKOV3 cells were seeded in a density of 2 × 105 cells per well in a six-well plate, and the following day the cells were infected with the adenoviral vectors. Virus dilutions were selected to yield >95% of infection without affecting the cell viability. The infection yield was determined by measuring GFP fluorescence (FACSCalibur, BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA, USA), where uninfected cells were used as a control. One day post-infection, the free virus was removed and the cells were washed with warm PBS. The samples were collected by trypsinization at day 3 or day 5 post-infection. Half of the cells harvested at day 5 was propagated until day 10 or day 15. For chromatin isolation, the whole protocol was up-scaled to 2 × 107 cells. Corresponding samples were always used for bisulfite sequencing, chromatin immunoprecipitation, and gene expression experiments. The generation of adenoviral particles and infection of SKOV3 was done in compliance with Biosafety Level 2 regulations.
Analysis of methylation by bisulfite conversion
Genomic DNA was isolated using the QIAmp® DNA mini kit (Qiagen, Limburg, The Netherlands). Four hundred nanograms of genomic DNA were digested with BamHI overnight at 37°C, and bisulfite conversion was carried out using sodium bisulfite and sodium hydroxide as described [38]. After bisulfite conversion the genomic DNA was concentrated and purified using Amicon filters (Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA) and amplified using the following primers: FP 5′-GTT TGT TAT TTT TTA TTT GAA T-3′ and RP 5′-AAT CAC TCA CTT TAC CCC TAT C-3′ [20]. The PCR product was subcloned using the Strataclone PCR cloning kit (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA) and several individual clones were sequenced.
Native chromatin immunoprecipitation (nChIP) and gene expression
Native mononucleosomes were prepared from around 20 million SKOV3 cells by micrococcal nuclease digestion of nuclei as described [39] with minor modifications. More precisely, after MNase treatment, the nuclei were spun down at 13,000g for 10 min, and the soluble nucleosomal supernatant was collected and snap frozen. We used 10 to 15 μg (based on DNA absorbance) of pre-cleared native chromatin per ChIP with anti-H3K9me2 (ab1220, Abcam plc, Cambridge, UK), anti-H3K9me3 (ab8898, Abcam plc, Cambridge, UK), or pan-H4-acetyl (AM 39243) (go to Additional file 1: Figure S5 to see their peptide array specificity profiles). After immobilization on protein G-coated magnetic Dynabeads (Invitrogen, Waltham, MA, USA), the antibody-chromatin complexes were washed with: 1× low salt buffer (20 mM Tris-Cl, 150 mM NaCl, 1% Triton × -100, 0.1% SDS, and 2 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)), 1× high salt buffer (20 mM Tris-Cl, 500 mM NaCl, 1% Triton × -100, 0.1% SDS, and 2 mM EDTA), 1× LiCl buffer (10 mM Tris-Cl, 250 mM LiCl, 1% NP-40, 1% DOC, and 1 mM EDTA), and 2× TE buffer. After each wash, the beads were rotated for 10 min at +4°C. The bound nucleosomes were eluted in elution buffer (50 mM Tris-Cl, 50 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1% SDS), for 45 min at room temperature with rotation. DNA was recovered using ChIP DNA purification columns (Active Motif, Carlsbad, CA, USA).
The quantitative PCR assays were performed on a CFX96 Connect Real-Time detection system (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) using SsoFast EvaGreen supermix (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA). In the nChIP experiments, a standard curve was generated to calculate percent of precipitated DNA and test the efficiency of each primer set covering the VEGF-A locus. The primer sequences can be found in Additional file 1: Table S1. To correct for technical quality between the different samples, each amplicon signal was normalized to an internal positive control which carries the corresponding mark and is not affected by the reprogramming (satellite alpha or gene desert-12 amplicons in the case of H3K9me2/3 or PABPC1 amplicon in the case of pan-H4ac). To this end, the percent of precipitated DNA was calculated for each amplicon and then divided by the percent of precipitated DNA obtained with the amplicons from the internal positive control. For nucleosomal mapping, mononucleosomal DNA was compared to a standard curve from genomic DNA and normalized for technical variability to an internal control (HOX11).
For gene expression analyses, total RNA was isolated for each time-point using the Purelink™ RNA mini kit (Ambion, Life Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, USA) and cDNA was prepared with oligo d(T)18 primers (New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA, USA) from 1 to 2 μg of RNA. After this, qPCR was carried out using VEGF-A specific primers (FP 5′-AGA AGG AGG AGG GCA GAA TCA-3′ and RP 5′-ATG GCT TGA AGA TGT ACT CG-3′), normalized to the housekeeping gene SDHA (FP 5′-TGG GAA CAA GAG GGC ATC TG-3′ and RP 5′-CCA CCA CTG CAT CAA ATT CAT-3′). Non-RT controls were included in all experiments, and the total VEGF-A expression was quantified using the 2−ΔΔCT method (threshold cycle (CT)) [40].
Data are reported as means of biologically independent experiments as indicated. Error bars indicate the corresponding standard error of the mean. P values were determined by Excel using two tailed T tests with equal variance.
Dnmt3a:
DNA methyltransferase 3a
EDTA:
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
EpCAM:
epithelial cell adhesion molecule
GFP:
green fluorescence protein
protein lysine methyltransferase 1D
post translational modification
TALE:
transcription activator-like effector
VEGF-A:
vascular endothelial growth factor A
ZF:
zinc finger
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This work was supported by the Sander Foundation, the DAAD, the BMBF (FKZ: 0315886A), and the Robert Bosch Foundation GmBH, Stuttgart, Germany. We acknowledge the help of Dr. Sergey Ragozin (Stuttgart) in the viral experiments and the sharing of materials by Dr. Marianne Rots (Groningen).
Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Stuttgart University, Pfaffenwaldring 55, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany
Goran Kungulovski
, Suneetha Nunna
& Albert Jeltsch
Dr. Margarete Fischer-Bosch Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Auerbachstraße 112, 70376, Stuttgart, Germany
& Ulrich M Zanger
University of Tübingen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz, 72074, Tübingen, Germany
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AJ and GK conceived and designed the experiments. SN and GK performed the experiments. SN, GK, and AJ analyzed the data. MT and UZ contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools for the cell culture work and participated in the design and data analysis of this part of the study. RR contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools for the sequencing analysis and participated in the design and data analysis of this part of the study. GK and AJ wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.
Goran Kungulovski and Suneetha Nunna contributed equally to this work.
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Kungulovski, G., Nunna, S., Thomas, M. et al. Targeted epigenome editing of an endogenous locus with chromatin modifiers is not stably maintained. Epigenetics & Chromatin 8, 12 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13072-015-0002-z
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World Mission Sunday 2002 Letter
Dear companions in Christ:
The Episcopal Church will celebrate World Mission Sunday on February 10 in 2002, with a theme of “Companionship.”
More than 80 dioceses of our church have companion relationships with dioceses or provinces in other parts of the Anglican Communion. In addition, thousands of congregations have exciting links with parishes, projects, and persons in countries very different from our own. As you know, these dynamic relationships incarnate our faith in Jesus Christ, our redeemer and friend. They provide windows on the world, and open doors to a life of fellowship, service, and witness that enriches us beyond measure.
The enclosed poster celebrates the joy of being partners in the missio Dei, or “God’s project” as our Presiding Bishop would say! (Of course, cross-cultural relationships can be complex, so I and my colleagues here in the Anglican and Global Relations cluster hope you will call us whenever you have questions.)
The poster is the third in a series that we have produced in response to the 1997 General Convention Resolution A205, “that educational opportunities be provided at every level of the church … to increase awareness of and participation in world mission.”
Additional materials and resource suggestions may be found on special pages in the Anglican and Global Relations section of the Episcopal Church web site: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/world-mission-sunday. These include a bulletin shell, bulletin insert, and activity sheet for young persons that may be downloaded and photocopied as needed.
Please note that the resources developed for 2000 (“Hear Their Cry!” focusing on the persecuted church, particularly in Sudan) and for 2001 (“We Are A Missionary Church!”) are still available on the web site or through Episcopal Parish Services (1-800-903-5544). World Mission Sunday materials are not dated, so as to enable choices that might suit particular interests in your parish at any given time.
We would be delighted to share any World Mission Sunday resources that you may have developed on the web pages, so that others may use or adapt them. Feel free to contact me at mlarom@episcopalchurch.org, or by telephone at 1-800-334-7626, ext. 6224.
May God bless you in your ministry, and bring peace to our hurting world.
Margaret S. Larom
World Mission Interpretation & Networks Office
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Starr Investigation of President Clinton
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A Letter to the Editor of The New York Times
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Ascension Day - May 21, 1998
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© European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA), 2016
In September 2017, the Commission adopted a cybersecurity package with new initiatives to further improve EU cyber-resilience, deterrence and defence. As part of these, the Commission tabled a legislative proposal to strengthen the EU Agency for Network Information Security (ENISA). Following the adoption of the Network Information Security Directive in 2016, ENISA is expected to play a broader role in the EU’s cybersecurity landscape but is constrained by its current mandate and resources. The Commission presented an ambitious reform proposal, including a permanent mandate for the agency, to ensure that ENISA can not only provide expert advice, as has been the case until now, but can also perform operational tasks. The proposal also envisaged the creation of the first voluntary EU cybersecurity certification framework for ICT products, where ENISA will also play an important role. Within the European Parliament, the Industry, Research and Energy Committee adopted its report on 10 July 2018. An agreement was reached with the Council during the fifth trilogue meeting, on 10 December 2018. The text was adopted by the European Parliament on 12 March and by the Council on 9 April 2019. The new regulation came into force on 27 June 2019.
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Committee responsible: Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) COM(2017) 477 of 13.9.2017
procedure ref.: 2017/0225(COD)
Ordinary legislative procedure (COD) (Parliament and Council on equal footing – formerly ‘co-decision’)
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Shadow rapporteurs: Peter Kouroumbashev, (S&D, Bulgaria),
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Dario Tamburrano (EFDD, Italy),
Christelle Lechevalier (ENF, France),
Procedure completed. Regulation (EU) 2019/881
OJ L 151, 7.6.2019, pp. 15-69
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Indonesian Artist Made Bayak Weaves Cosmology With Sociopolitical Issues
By Jessica Smith
"Rarung, Dance of Anger" by Made Bayak
In recent decades, Western portrayals of Bali as an exotic paradise have significantly contributed to an explosion of unsustainable real-estate development that has devastated the environment and disrupted the island's infrastructure. While many Balinese have come to depend on tourism for their livelihood, they have also begun to experience extreme anxiety living on an island that is becoming increasingly dominated by tourism-driven development and foreign investors.
Indonesian artist Made “Bayak” Muliana, aka Made Bayak, who will visit Athens for an exhibition and community-wide event series, is dedicated to activism through art. Beyond painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, his body of work expands into teaching, performance art, and music with his sociopolitical rock band Geeksmile.
On view Mar. 25–Apr. 28 at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, “New Gods | Old Gods” demonstrates how Bayak combines energetic portrayals of ancient cosmology with imagery from modern political and ecological movements to draw attention to ongoing environmental degradation and human suffering in Bali. Alternating between ink, acrylics, stencils, plastics and traditional techniques, his colorful yet violent narrative pieces are emotionally burdened with heavy themes relating to dispossession, pollution and out-of-control consumerism.
The exhibition was co-curated by Peter Brosius, a distinguished research professor in the UGA Department of Anthropology, and Alden DiCamillo, an interdisciplinary artist pursuing an MFA at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. DiCamillo first encountered Bayak’s artwork in 2017 while enrolled in a Maymester study-abroad program in Bali. Along with their colleague Sarah Hitchner, an assistant research scientist at UGA, they are conducting research into how Bayak’s creative practice serves as a space for reimagining history.
“Bayak’s work takes narratives of land and cultural dispossession through real-estate corruption and mass development—which destroys the ecology of the land—and presses it up against histories of colonialism and histories of genocide,” says DiCamillo. “However, the way that he approaches those subjects is super important. He doesn’t just say one thing or another is bad or wrong, which would actually lend a kind of gaze towards colonizing bodies. He reaches back from those histories and grievances, while also reaching forward with a powerful understanding of the culture from whence he came.”
In response to tourism and real-estate development’s contributions to the crisis of plastic waste, Bayak began “Plasticology” in 2012, an ongoing project through which plastics are utilized in paintings and art objects. Believing that artists must do more than merely critique the world around them, he aims to educate the next generation by also offering workshops.
Emphasizing the transformations of landscape and displacement of indigenous communities that accompany development, his work occasionally obscures idyllic scenes with garish real-estate signs and foreign-owned properties. He also calls out the legacy of Western exoticism, observable through the appropriation of Balinese imagery, by juxtaposing traditional religious iconography with symbols relating to mass consumption.
“Balinese cosmology—depictions of gods and other holy symbols like rerajahan drawings—have been pivotal to Balinese culture, both inside of and outside of tourist endeavors,” says DiCamillo. “Bayak brings those gods forward from his experience in a way that skirts the gaze of the colonial and neocolonial. It’s a dismantling of linear, simplified structures. His work purposefully complicates and challenges our notions of history and narrative.”
One of Bayak’s most complicated trajectories concerns the Indonesian genocide of 1965, which targeted accused communists and led to the establishment of the authoritarian New Order regime. Approximately 5 percent of the population of Bali was executed, paving the way for new investments and hyper-development to swarm in. For decades, systemic silencing surrounding the genocide has prevented public discourse, but today, a loose coalition of activists, including Bayak, are working to collect oral histories, locate mass graves and uncover the truth.
“Bayak’s work has such a long, long memory to it. It reaches back to the beginnings of Balinese cosmology and gathers up histories of colonialism, cultural appropriation, genocide, resilience, beauty, punk, grief, land loss, land definement—dear God, it’s everything,” says DiCamillo. “That kind of work is brave to me, and it teaches me how to have a long memory related to everything from personal history to really large and broad histories of race, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, religion and land… We, including me, tend to create new things for the sake of a ‘fresh start.’ But there aren’t fresh starts, really, and I think Bayak’s work really points to the importance of that.”
In order to provide a more immersive experience, the exhibition will extend off the walls and into the community through various events that range from artist workshops and musical performances to academic lectures and a film screening. These activities aim to illuminate the complicated historical, political and cultural contexts that the artist draws connections between within his body of work.
“I think we just recognize that anthropology and art are both loud practices,” says DiCamillo. “They speak to every sensory part of the human body. They each try to honor the ability of creatures to remember and re-remember, and to empathize and to reorient their thinking. Both art and anthropology ask us to immerse ourselves.”
“New Gods | Old Gods” Opening Reception at ATHICA. Mar. 25, 5–7 p.m.
Roundtable Discussion on “Representations of Violence, Radical Storytelling, Art-based Activism and Imaginative History-making” at the UGA Miller Learning Center. Mar. 27, 3–5 p.m.
Musical performance with Made Bayak, Killick and others at ATHICA. Mar. 27, 7 p.m.
Made Bayak Artist Talk and Performance: “Radical Resilience Within Visual Art-making (Art as Activism)” at ATHICA. Mar. 31, 4–6 p.m.
Performance by Gamelan Chandra Natha at ATHICA. Apr. 2, 7 p.m.
Traditional Balinese painting workshop with Made Bayak at the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Apr. 3, 2–3 p.m.
Screening of the documentary The Look of Silence at LDSOA. Apr. 3, 5 p.m.
“Art with Recycled Materials/Plasticology,” a youth workshop led by Made Bayak, in conjunction with Abigail West’s “Plastic Bodies: River Tribute,” at the Lyndon House Arts Center. Apr. 4, 5:30–7:30 p.m.
Eco-Art Festival at Lake Herrick. Apr. 6, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
Curators Talk: “Revealing Systems of Violence through Interdisciplinary Collaboration” by Peter Brosius, Sarah Hitchner and Alden DiCamillo at ATHICA. Apr. 8, 5:30–7 p.m.
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art: ATHICA
5–7 p.m. FREE! www.athica.org
Indonesian artist Made Bayak presents "Old Gods | New Gods." See Art Notes on p. 10.
7 p.m. www.athica.org
Made Bayak
Indonesian artist Made Bayak, whose exhibition "Old Gods | New Gods" is currently on view, gives a musical performance with Killick and other local musicians.
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