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Why a 40 day bond and rest period
40 day principles
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With a growing interest and offering of birth and postpartum trainings, teachers and initiatives, we realise it is important to be very transparent about our background and resources for postnatal support. Our work is deeply rooted in the kundalini yoga teachings from Yogi Bhajan. He re-introduced the concept and support techniques of the Ayurvedic ‘Sacred window’ in the community that started in the late 1970’s in the US and later Europe. Our organizations initiators Satya Kaur and Gurujagat Kaur where part of the first group of students who received and gave help during the first weeks after labor. Many years and study on women health later, they joined their ideas to initiate this network.
Our principle of holistic, non-medical support for mothers is not exclusively from the Kundalini Yoga tradition. Many traditions include a form of exclusion from daily activities with community support during the first week after birth. Our knowledge of healing foods, conscious attitude and communication and other healing techniques is inspired by other of spiritual teachings, thinkers, birth professionals and mostly by mothers. We acknowledge other traditions and are thankful for their initiative. We trust this will inspire a bigger movement towards happy mothers, fathers, children and society.
Becoming a member to our network, you do not need to be trained through us. We are an open platform for people who feel strongly about supporting mothers and families. Please join us today, for €2 per month.
Subscribe to our periodic newsletter.
The Postnatal Support Network (PSN) addresses the importance of a well-prepared and relaxing 40 day postnatal period. It is an international organisation with a non-medical and social network, informing families-to-be about this special and delicate time after birth.
Now you can become a supporter or a member of Postnatal Support Network right away, For more details please checkout our Donations and Membership menu options . Dismiss
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Denis Waitley is one of the most sought-after keynote speakers and productivity consultants in the world today.His clients and audiences include Fortune 500 top executives and multinational corporations; small business owners and entrepreneurs; Superbowl and Olympic champions; astronauts and U.S. Armed Forces; world leaders and foreign governments; educators and youth groups.Denis Waitley is the acknowledged authority on self-development, high performance, and individual productivity.
His best-selling books and audio programs include: The Psychology of Winning, Seeds of Greatness, , The New Dynamics of Winning, The Seven Sacred Truths, The Winner's Edge and Empires of the Mind.Denis Waitley books, tapes, and teaching have been experienced by millions of people ' from the most successful major corporations, to small entrepreneurial businesses, to individual families.
Denis Waitley travels the country telling the Michael Dell story, gained from his personal experience with Dell Computers, one of the most successful business models in recent history. He's created leadership programs for the U.S. Navy,participated in conventions with Bell South and DuPont and delivered keynote speeches for multinational financial service companies, healthcare providers, and universities. He delivered his legendary mental training for Olympians during the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.In addition to his popularity in the United States, Denis Waitley is one of the most prominent high performance coaches in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Latin America, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and China.
Denis Waitley has had the #1 best-selling business books, in the Chinese language, for over a decade.Gain from the knowledge in Denis' books and audio programs and move toward achieving your full potential.
The Psychology of Winning
by Denis Waitley
The Ten Qualities of a Total Winner
Imagine there are five seconds left to play, your team is down by one point and the ball is in your hands. Thousands of people are cheering. It’s your chance to win. It’s a moment you’ve worked for all your life. Imagine the feeling. Is it too much pressure? Or is it tremendous excitement? Learn More
The Subliminal Winner
by Denis Waitley and Thomas Budzynski
Enter the world of subliminal audio knowing you’re in the best hands!
Effortlessly program your mind for automatic success. Using state-of-the-art sound technology that incorporates empowering subliminal messages into harmonious music or relaxing ocean sounds, this highly-effective audio program, The Subliminal Winner, will automatically train your mind toward more positive, productive patterns of thought and behavior. — Become the subliminal winner you've always wanted to be and achieve a more positive productive life! Learn More
Wordmaster uses the science of word order, suggestopedic music, and male/female voices to insure YOU get the most in vocabulary building in the least time with minimum effort. Each session is introduced by Denis Waitley – giving you his unique perspective, making your learning process enjoyable. Every time you express yourself more clearly, more concisely, more forcefully, more convincingly, more powerfully – you rise above your competition. Learn More
How to Handle Conflict and Manage Anger
Based Upon A Program Developed By National Seminars
Life is too complex for anyone to expect to exist in a perennial state of harmony and bliss. The reality is that in the daily push and pull of our lives, there are many sources of conflict and anger. Despite the negative image, however, conflict and anger need not erupt in disaster. They can often be opportunities for developing new skills, furthering personal improvement, and growing toward full potential. But you must take advantage of them. Learn More
How to Build Your Child's Self-Esteem
In How to Build Your Child's Self-Esteem, Denis Waitley clearly describes the many telltale signs of low self-esteem so you'll more quickly know when children are depressed or overly critical of themselves. You'll not only recognize the warning signs, but also know exactly how to counteract the situation. Learn More
The New Dynamics of Goal Setting
The New Dynamics of Goal Setting will not only put you on track toward achieving your success, but it will help you remain flexible and focused no matter how your career changes, no matter what obstacles or opportunities may confront you. Using the Flextactics System, this program is designed for high-performance individuals like you, who know your primary goals in life and want to learn new strategies that will help you reach them. Flextactics helps you see the future as a great adventure, welcoming change and thriving on challenge. Learn More
Seeds of Greatness:
In Seeds of Greatness, Denis Waitley shows you how to nurture the greatness within you and gives you a system that allows you to do in months what many psychologists take years to accomplish. Denis outlines what he believes to be 10 attributes, or seeds, that can lead to a fulfilling life. Learn More
The Seven Sacred Truths
To gain wisdom, we must gain an understanding of our own minds and hearts.This program will help you do exactly that. The Seven Sacred Truths will help give you a set of priorities that you can live by. You'll learn what is truly important in life. Learn More
Empires Of The Mind
How to Lead and Succeed in a Knowledge-Based World
Opportunities for a self-managing, self-starter have never been better. Your most valuable assets today are your abilities to use your mind to access, communicate, and creatively evaluate information. In a society in which the main commodity is becoming information, it’s not your status that matters, but what you know and how quickly you can learn. This blueprint for the new millennium and action plan for inventiveness and integrity on the new, more level playing fields of the modern workplace. Learn More
The Power of Resilience
Turning Today's Challenges into Tomorrow's Triumphs
When times are tough and you feel as if you’ve hit a wall financially, or in your career, maybe with a new business, or in a relationship, do you bounce right back, get up off the mat? Or do you take a nose dive? By implementing the principles of resiliency that you’ll learn in this program, you’ll gain more confidence and feel virtually invincible! Learn More
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Council News June 2019
Council of Assembly met at the Mary MacKillop Centre, Mission Bay, Auckland on 14 and 15 June.
The meeting agenda was a full one and the reports before Council represented huge amounts of time, energy and wisdom from the many people who serve the Church in a variety of capacities.
In the absence of Convenor Rev Richard McLean, Deputy Convenor Anne Edgar chaired the meeting. Council noted that the Moderator of Te Aka Puaho was unable to attend due to a fall and prayed for her.
A regular pattern for Council meetings is that following the presentation of a report, discussion and decision, the chair invites a member of Council to pray for that area of our life together. It reminds Council of our interconnectedness and our reliance on God in all matters.
Right Rev Fakaofo Kaio spoke about his desire to build on relationships by visiting presbyteries as often as possible to make pastoral connections, particularly with parishes “who are hurting”. He expressed appreciation for the logistical support of the Assembly Office. He noted the value of leaders sharing experiences.
Draft Budget and Resource Sub-committee
Finance Manager Sandra Kennerley joined the meeting to present the draft budget for the 2019-2020 year. She outlined the process undertaken, and noted the “wide and appreciated consultation”. The draft budget was agreed to and, with this, a 2 percent increase of Assembly Assessment.
In a wide-ranging discussion on a provision in the Book of Order (5.10) which requires presbyteries to review congregations, Council wondered about the capacity for all presbyteries to carry out this work. In the current context, and for the future aspirations of the Church, Council will appoint a small group to investigate this and report back.
Theology of Property and Money Task Group
An interim report from the Theology of Property and Money Task Group (Sharing Resources) was received on its proposed work plan, together with information and question papers. There was enthusiastic affirmation of the task group’s work to date, and Council voiced support for its approach.
Mission Enterprise Fund
Noting the decision at the General Assembly in 2018, Council received a request from Knox Presbyterian Church, Lower Hutt for a grant from the Mission Enterprise Fund equivalent to the contribution made on the sale of the parish’s property in Naenae. This was agreed.
PressGo Review
Anne Edgar, as convenor of the PressGo Review Work Group, presented the group’s report. Following discussion, where it was agreed Council supported both the direction of the report and the principals that underlie it, Council determined an executive summary including recommendations be referred to the PressGo Board and to presbytery councils for comment before they make decisions on the recommendations.
Christian Savings
James Palmer, CEO of Christian Savings Ltd, was welcomed to the meeting and gave a presentation. He outlined the history of Christian Savings and how its current structure evolved. He reported a recent credit rating upgrade and an increase in both deposits and lending. He identified Presbyterian entities as the biggest proportion of new lending. James also spoke about new developments Christian Savings is funding. He encouraged the Council to consider how best the PCANZ and Christian Savings might work together in the future.
Phase Two Change (Review of National Church Operations)
Council appointed to lead the Phase Two Change process Rev Dr Jaco Reyneke (convenor), Rev Richard McLean and Ms Kirsty McLaren - partner in the firm McLaren and Associates. This is a follow-on from the work undertaken last year in reviewing our national operations. They have begun by seeking feedback from staff on a draft proposal being prepared for Council approval. A final report is anticipated being presented to Council and staff in August.
Code of Ethics Training Task Group
Rev Nikki Watkin and Rev Brett Johnstone, members of the Code of Ethics Training Task Group, presented their report and outlined the background to the research they had undertaken to identify gaps in the understanding of the Code of Ethics. They identified that there needs to be a more detailed understanding and training at both parish and presbytery level. The report noted different options for training. They suggested that the single page Code be translated into the additional languages used within the PCANZ. They made a series of recommendations, which were all agreed en bloc. These will be rolled out over the next few months.
Board of Knox College & Salmond College
Board Chair David Richardson was welcomed to the meeting. He outlined the historical background relating to the appointment of the Board. He presented the 2018 annual report of the Board, and reported that Knox College, Dunedin, was now in a healthy position.
The Council approved amendments to the Constitution of the Board of Knox College & Salmond College Incorporated. These changes will need to be ratified at the 2020 General Assembly.
Mr Richardson explained the steps the Board had taken in response to media articles about historical incidents of alleged sexual misconduct at Knox College, which included appointment of two independent lawyers to receive any complaints or concerns from students, past students or parents on these matters. The Council also received information on the newly released sexual misconduct policy (and regulations) for the University of Otago.
The Council resolved to record its appreciation for the work and contributions to the Church of Mr Richardson and the Master of Knox College, Very Rev Dr Graham Redding.
[Note: In March, Council of Assembly retained two women lawyers to assist any past residents of Knox College affected by the type of behaviour and culture described in recent media reports. The lawyers are independent of Knox College and will explore how the Council of Assembly can help and provide support if required. This service remains in place.]
The Council noted the pending retirements of Kos van Lier and Pat Griffin, the Church Property Trustees Executive Officer and Administrator respectively, and expressed appreciation for their service to the Church. Council extended a welcome to Russell Garrett, the new Executive Officer for the Church Property Trustees from 1 July 2019.
Change Consultation – National Presbyteries
Dr Rod Watts, Northern Presbytery Executive Officer, spoke on behalf of his fellow presbytery executive officers and outlined their proposal to bring recommendations to the 2020 Assembly for structural changes to the Council of Assembly. He noted they are seeking feedback to shape the proposal. There was a period on in-depth discussion and further feedback, post Council meeting, will be provided.
The Council supported a recommendation, in a report from the Nominating committee, that the Rev Dr Darryl Tempero be appointed Deputy Convenor of the Leadership Sub-committee.
Personnel Work Group
A recommendation, received from Personnel Work Group, to reinstate the Rev Bonnie Robinson to the Ministerial Roll was agreed.
Crisis Management Policy
Council agreed to receive a draft Crisis Management high-end policy document from a small Council work group appointed to the task. It referred this document to the Audit and Risk Committee for comment prior to the formation of a national Crisis Response Committee.
Mrs Anne Edgar
Deputy Convener
Council News March 2019
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Home > Privacy Concerns Grow as “Smart Appliances” Provide Voluntary and Involuntary Access to Our Homes by Todd Rowe
Privacy Concerns Grow as “Smart Appliances” Provide Voluntary and Involuntary Access to Our Homes by Todd Rowe
We recently took a look at concerns with information gathered by our “smart vehicles.” Recent reports indicate privacy concerns should not be limited to the technology in the vehicle in your driveway. For example, we are now being warned that everything from smart teapots to thermostats store valuable data and provide access to your home and, therefore, may be targets for hackers.
Appliances that can be connected to the internet are making our homes “smarter.” Once connected to the internet, these appliances can be useful by allowing homeowners remote access and providing data concerning repairs and parts directly to the manufacturer. Of course, this access can create another route for hackers to access your home. Therefore, in addition to downloading security patches for our computers and smart phones, experts warn that “Honey, did you take out the trash?” may soon be accompanied in more 21st-century homes by: “Honey, did you download the security patch for the fridge?”
Outside these various privacy and security concerns, smart appliances also have implications that insurers should consider. Commentators are just starting to discuss the potential for “cyber breach property damage” claims. Two recent examples of property damage caused by cyber attacks include the following: In 2008, hackers shut down alarms in a Turkish oil pipeline which resulted in a massive explosion. And, hackers accessed the control panel of a blast furnace for a German factory which caused substantial damage to the factory. Of course, while gaining access to a homeowners coffee pot may not result in damage equivalent to that seen in the Turkish oil pipeline or the German factory, it can have a devastating impact on a person’s household.
Casualty insurers may consider working on the development of this “smart” household technology in the same manner health insurers worked with Apple on its health monitoring devices. Casualty insurers may also increase accuracy in assessing risk based on information gathered through these devices. Further, once a claim is made, insurers may be able to access data from these appliances to gain a better understanding of the source of the damage. Suffice it say, this technology is going to have an immediate impact on voluntary and involuntary access to our homes and the type of property coverage insurers may need to offer.
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Models, code, and papers for "Sherry Moore":
Large-Scale Evolution of Image Classifiers
Esteban Real, Sherry Moore, Andrew Selle, Saurabh Saxena, Yutaka Leon Suematsu, Jie Tan, Quoc Le, Alex Kurakin
Neural networks have proven effective at solving difficult problems but designing their architectures can be challenging, even for image classification problems alone. Our goal is to minimize human participation, so we employ evolutionary algorithms to discover such networks automatically. Despite significant computational requirements, we show that it is now possible to evolve models with accuracies within the range of those published in the last year. Specifically, we employ simple evolutionary techniques at unprecedented scales to discover models for the CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets, starting from trivial initial conditions and reaching accuracies of 94.6% (95.6% for ensemble) and 77.0%, respectively. To do this, we use novel and intuitive mutation operators that navigate large search spaces; we stress that no human participation is required once evolution starts and that the output is a fully-trained model. Throughout this work, we place special emphasis on the repeatability of results, the variability in the outcomes and the computational requirements.
* Accepted for publication at ICML 2017 (34th International Conference on Machine Learning)
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TensorFlow: A system for large-scale machine learning
Martín Abadi, Paul Barham, Jianmin Chen, Zhifeng Chen, Andy Davis, Jeffrey Dean, Matthieu Devin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Geoffrey Irving, Michael Isard, Manjunath Kudlur, Josh Levenberg, Rajat Monga, Sherry Moore, Derek G. Murray, Benoit Steiner, Paul Tucker, Vijay Vasudevan, Pete Warden, Martin Wicke, Yuan Yu, Xiaoqiang Zheng
TensorFlow is a machine learning system that operates at large scale and in heterogeneous environments. TensorFlow uses dataflow graphs to represent computation, shared state, and the operations that mutate that state. It maps the nodes of a dataflow graph across many machines in a cluster, and within a machine across multiple computational devices, including multicore CPUs, general-purpose GPUs, and custom designed ASICs known as Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). This architecture gives flexibility to the application developer: whereas in previous "parameter server" designs the management of shared state is built into the system, TensorFlow enables developers to experiment with novel optimizations and training algorithms. TensorFlow supports a variety of applications, with particularly strong support for training and inference on deep neural networks. Several Google services use TensorFlow in production, we have released it as an open-source project, and it has become widely used for machine learning research. In this paper, we describe the TensorFlow dataflow model in contrast to existing systems, and demonstrate the compelling performance that TensorFlow achieves for several real-world applications.
* 18 pages, 9 figures; v2 has a spelling correction in the metadata
TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Distributed Systems
Martín Abadi, Ashish Agarwal, Paul Barham, Eugene Brevdo, Zhifeng Chen, Craig Citro, Greg S. Corrado, Andy Davis, Jeffrey Dean, Matthieu Devin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Ian Goodfellow, Andrew Harp, Geoffrey Irving, Michael Isard, Yangqing Jia, Rafal Jozefowicz, Lukasz Kaiser, Manjunath Kudlur, Josh Levenberg, Dan Mane, Rajat Monga, Sherry Moore, Derek Murray, Chris Olah, Mike Schuster, Jonathon Shlens, Benoit Steiner, Ilya Sutskever, Kunal Talwar, Paul Tucker, Vincent Vanhoucke, Vijay Vasudevan, Fernanda Viegas, Oriol Vinyals, Pete Warden, Martin Wattenberg, Martin Wicke, Yuan Yu, Xiaoqiang Zheng
TensorFlow is an interface for expressing machine learning algorithms, and an implementation for executing such algorithms. A computation expressed using TensorFlow can be executed with little or no change on a wide variety of heterogeneous systems, ranging from mobile devices such as phones and tablets up to large-scale distributed systems of hundreds of machines and thousands of computational devices such as GPU cards. The system is flexible and can be used to express a wide variety of algorithms, including training and inference algorithms for deep neural network models, and it has been used for conducting research and for deploying machine learning systems into production across more than a dozen areas of computer science and other fields, including speech recognition, computer vision, robotics, information retrieval, natural language processing, geographic information extraction, and computational drug discovery. This paper describes the TensorFlow interface and an implementation of that interface that we have built at Google. The TensorFlow API and a reference implementation were released as an open-source package under the Apache 2.0 license in November, 2015 and are available at www.tensorflow.org.
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Election special: A new type of business for a new decade?
By John Dudding
Business in society
Trade and competitiveness
Ahead of the election we take a look at what it might mean in CPP’s key policy areas. First up is business where, whatever way we cut it, disruption to the status quo is coming in the 2020s.
Perhaps because of Brexit, perhaps in spite of it, this election could have the biggest implications for our approach to business in a generation. The Tories avoid challenging the business status-quo in the knowledge that Brexit will be disruptive enough. The Lib Dems hint at radical policies that sit uncomfortably under a “Lib Dems = Remain = pro-business” headline. Labour, perhaps to push Brexit down the running order, are proposing the most dramatic shift in attitudes to big business since Thatcher.
On the Conservative side, Johnson’s 2019 manifesto marks a clear retreat from the business interventionism of Theresa May’s in 2017. The words “industrial strategy” disappear altogether. Where business is mentioned, it is to be “supported” or “encouraged”. The only encroachment on laissez-faire will be “powers to tackle consumer rip-offs”, rules to protect customers, suppliers and pensions in insolvency and a Digital Service Tax.
Labour’s manifesto is far from laissez-faire. It is couched in aggressive language (“corporate greed”, “wanton corporate destruction”) and has an impressive barrage of policies to back this up. Amongst these there is a tension between the old and the new. Labour’s manifesto on business is dominated by the conventional narrative: government, trade unions and others need to constrain business to ensure that wider society shares in the rewards that accrue to its capitalist owners. Nationalisation is the headline example of a return to pre-Thatcher policy, and there is also a public interest test for takeovers (previously scrapped under New Labour) and a repealing of anti-trade union legislation. Newer proposals – a 32-hour week, a higher minimum wage, and banning zero-hour contracts - also fit this ‘constrain business’ framework.
But Labour’s manifesto also touches on a different, more radical idea: that the nature of business itself can be changed so that it delivers wider societal benefit directly, rather than having to be externally constrained into doing so. The Lib Dems also put forward policies that depend on this idea. Both parties want to rewrite company law so that boards – who control businesses – have objectives beyond the interests of their owners, to place workers alongside shareholder appointees on these boards and, in the Lib Dem case, to encourage forms of incorporation that are not solely centred around profit-making.
These proposals reflect a growing momentum behind redefining the role business plays in society to move away from the shareholder maximisation model that has characterised the last four decades towards a model where firms are set up to deliver a wider range of interests. This narrative shift has already been accepted in parts of the business world, for example by the Business Roundtable in the US, or by the FT in the UK, but the policy practice to achieve it is far from being agreed.
Colin Mayer sets out his new vision for business at the CPP Inclusive Growth conference 2019, with Sue Garrard, Neil Carberry and Andrew Hill
Our recent conference tackled this head-on. Colin Mayer, one of the leading academics in the field, set out his vision for embedding purpose into corporations, whilst Sue Garrard and Neil Carberry brought their experience to explore how this could mesh with the realities of business today - recent CPP research on employment practice in big UK business showed significant variations in those realities . A common theme across the speakers was the need to embed a long term perspective into the controlling rules or ownership structure of the company.
Next year CPP will build on this to question what the new social contact for business could look like and how this will deliver inclusive growth. What are current expectations of the roles business should play? How do these differ between business leaders, consumers and government and how do expectations match reality – both in law and in practice? What are the differing roles of big and small business? And then, what are the new models for how business could operate? What policy is needed to implement them and what would be their implications? Would they deliver inclusive growth?
The good life: the role of employers
Recognising the essential relationship between good work and inclusive growth, this report identifies the extent to which major UK organisations are providing good employment.
Being good or not being bad: what should we expect from business?
In this blog John Dudding looks at why we need to revisit the fundamental economic philosophy of business to shape ideas on the role of business in delivering inclusive growth.
Reasons to be hopeful – clean and inclusive growth is possible
Don’t be downbeat, argues CPP Director, Charlotte Alldritt, in her blog following our annual conference last week – there is much to be hopeful about in 2020.
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proLékaře.cz / Journals / Internal Medicine / 2018 - 11
Diabetes mellitus in complex older patients
Authors: Alena Šmahelová
Authors‘ workplace: III. interní gerontometabolická klinika LF UK a FN Hradec Králové
Published in: Vnitř Lék 2018; 64(11): 1005-1008
Care of the elderly diabetic patients requires a special approach. What must be considered is not only individualization, and in more fragile elderly patients easing the targets for long-term compensation of diabetes, but also appropriate antidiabetic therapy needs to be chosen. Most patients suffer from polymorbidity and are at a greater risk for occurrence and consequences of hypoglycemia and cognitive impairment. The treatment procedure for sturdy elderly patients with diabetes is not any different from younger patients, while appropriate drugs for fragile patients are gliptins, possibly in combination with a long-term insulin analogue.
antidiabetic therapy – complications – diabetes mellitus – level of robustness – old age
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When is Tonight – The Leader Interviews on ITV? What party leaders are taking part?
The Tonight programme will be interviewing the election front-runners this week
By Daniel Furn
Friday, 6th December 2019 at 5:10 pm
After the controversy surrounding Andrew Neil this week – specifically, whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson will or won’t agree to be interviewed by him – more interview controversy is yet to come.
Last night current affairs programme Tonight interviewed Jeremy Corbyn and was set to question Boris Johnson in Friday evening’s show. However Boris Johnson has since refused to take part, and the show instead will feature a profile of the Prime Minister using archive footage and other interviewees.
This will conclude ITV’s one-on-one interviews with party leaders, having already questioned Nigel Farage, Jo Swinson, Nicola Sturgeon, Adam Price and Sian Berry.
When is Tonight – The Leader Interviews on TV?
The Tonight – The Leader Interview with Jeremy Corbyn will be broadcast on ITV on Thursday 5th December at 7:30pm.
The Tonight – The Leader Interview with Boris Johnson will be broadcast on ITV on Friday 6th December at 8pm.
Who is being interviewed in Tonight – The Leader Interviews?
You’ve probably heard of them. Thursday’s interviewee is Jeremy Corbyn, who has been leader of the Labour Party since 2015. He has been MP for Islington North since 1983.
Friday’s interviewee is Boris Johnson, who has been Conservative party leader and Prime Minister since July 2019. He has been the Uxbridge and South Ruislip MP since 2015 and was MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008, and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016.
Previously aired interviews with Nigel Farage, Jo Swinson, Nicola Sturgeon, Adam Price and Sian Berry can be found on the ITV hub.
Who will host Tonight – The Leader Interviews?
Both interviews will be led by Julie Etchingham. The long-standing Tonight presenter has previously hosted the ITV election debate (last week), the Conservative leadership debate in July, and similar election debates in 2017 and 2015.
Are there any more leader TV interviews before the election?
There are two more TV debates to go: The BBC Prime Ministerial Debate on BBC One on Friday 6th December at 8.30pm, and the BBC Question Time special for under-30s on BBC One on Monday 9th December at 8:30pm.
When is the election?
The election is scheduled to take place on Thursday 12th December 2019.
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Morningside Elementary School serves 512 students in grades Prekindergarten-5.
The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Math is 42% (which is equal to the Idaho state average of 42%) for the 2016-17 school year. The percentage of students achieving proficiency in Reading/Language Arts is 47% (which is lower than the Idaho state average of 52%) for the 2016-17 school year.
Minority enrollment is 24% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is equal to the Idaho state average of 24%.
Morningside Elementary School places among the top 20% of public schools in Idaho for:
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Morningside Elementary School's student population of 512 students has declined by 29% over five school years.
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The diversity score of Morningside Elementary School is 0.40, which is more than the diversity score at state average of 0.39. The school's diversity has stayed relatively flat over five school years.
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U.N. chief tells African leaders not to "cling to power"
"Do we allow that group to continue ... to harass us even in our independent countries," Mugabe asked after Ban had spoken.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses the media ahead of the U.N. General Debate at U.N. headquarters in New York September 16, 2015. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told African leaders on Saturday they should not use legal loopholes or undemocratic constitutional changes to "cling to power", and that they should respect term limits.
Ban was addressing a two-day summit the African Union, a group of 54 states where several leaders have been in power for decades, some have changed constitutions so they can stay on and others are accused of seeking to remove limits.
The debate about term limits has gained momentum after triggering unrest in places such as Burundi and Congo Republic.
"Leaders should never use undemocratic constitutional changes and legal loopholes to cling to power. We have all seen the tragic consequences when they do," Ban told the gathered presidents, including Zimbabwe's veteran leader Robert Mugabe.
It echoed remarks made by U.S. President Barack Obama in the same AU hall on a trip to Ethiopia in July.
Mugabe, who turns 91 in February and the only leader Zimbabweans have known since 1980, made one of his regular swipes at Western powers who he accuses of still harbouring colonial ambitions and of monopolising power at the United Nations.
One of the top items on this summit's agenda is the crisis in Burundi, where violence erupted after President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his bid for a third term that opponents said was illegal. He won a disputed election in July.
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#185 – Guide to Dry Sprinkler Systems, Part 6: Quarterly, Annual, and Longer Inspections
The final steps to meeting NFPA 25 inspection timelines for dry sprinklers
Dry sprinkler systems are specially designed to offer reliable automatic fire protection in freezing temperatures. But once installed, regular inspection is essential to keeping them in proper working order.
In the previous installment of our series on dry sprinkler systems, we explained the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) requirements for daily, weekly, and monthly inspections. In this blog, we will take a look at best practices for quarterly and annual inspections, as well as those that happen farther out than a year.
Be sure to check out other pieces in this dry sprinkler series:
A Guide to Dry Sprinkler Systems, Part 1: System Overview
A Guide to Dry Sprinkler Systems, Part 2: Components and Installation Requirements
A Guide to Dry Sprinkler Systems, Part 3: Installation of Components
A Guide to Dry Sprinkler Systems, Part 4: Installation of Air Compressors and Air Maintenance Devices
A Guide to Dry Sprinkler Systems, Part 5: Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Inspection Requirements
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NFPA 25 requires extra inspections for dry sprinklers
The 2017 edition of NFPA 25: Standard for the Inspection, Testing and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems establishes minimum requirements for the periodic inspection of dry sprinkler systems. Dry sprinklers eliminate the risk of burst pipes that render wet sprinklers unreliable in freezing temperatures by filling non-heated pipes with pressurized air or nitrogen that holds back the water supply at a main dry valve. When heat from a fire causes one or more sprinklers to activate, the air pressure drops and the valve opens, releasing the water into the pipes and onto the fire.
But while dry sprinklers solve an important problem for property owners, their unique components and regular exposure to freezing temperatures make them more complex to properly install and maintain. With this in mind, NFPA 25 mandates extra inspection requirements for dry systems to ensure they’re ready to operate when they’re needed most.
Sprinkler inspections require trained technicians to visually evaluate system components for physical damage that would prevent them from working properly. While it’s vital to follow specific manufacturer instructions, NFPA 25 provides timelines for how often inspections should take place on each part. Let’s jump into this rundown of longer inspection deadlines:
Quarterly dry sprinkler inspections: waterflow alarms, supervisory devices, electrically-supervised control valves, and water tanks
Quarterly inspections involve waterflow alarms that sound when water movement is detected, water storage tanks, electrically-supervised control valves, and supervisory devices that monitor system status and indicate abnormal conditions that might impact operation. All system components included in daily, weekly, or monthly inspections should be checked again during quarterly inspections as well.
Quarterly inspection of waterflow alarms
5.2.4 Waterflow alarm and supervisory signal initiating devices shall be inspected quarterly to verify that they are free of physical damage.
Quarterly inspection of electrically-supervised control valves and supervisory devices
13.3.2.1.2 Valves that are electrically supervised shall be permitted to be inspected quarterly.
13.3.2.1.3 Control valve supervisory alarm devices shall be inspected quarterly to verify that they are free of physical damage.
Quarterly inspection of fire pumps
For systems that rely on fire pumps, NFPA 25 requires a handful of parts to be inspected every three months. But many other components of a fire pump assembly don't need to be inspected more than annually.
8.1.1.2.7 Fuel tanks, float switches, and supervisory signals for interstitial space shall be checked quarterly for liquid intrusion.
8.1.1.2.12 Engine crankcase breathers shall be checked quarterly.
NFPA 25 requires quarterly inspections for signs of obvious damage and weakening in the exterior of water tanks. Source: Wolf System
Quarterly inspection of water tanks
When water tanks supply water to dry sprinkler systems, NFPA 25 requires quarterly checks of water levels unless supervisory water level alarms are not installed. In those cases, inspections must be performed monthly.
A.9.2.1.1 also recommends more frequent inspections during colder months. Water temperature can still be checked quarterly if low temperature alarms are present, otherwise it must be inspected weekly during the colder months.
9.2.1.1* The water level in tanks equipped with supervised water level alarms that are supervised in accordance with NFPA 72 shall be inspected quarterly.
9.2.1.2 The water level in tanks not equipped with supervised water level alarms connected to a constantly attended location shall be inspected monthly.
9.2.2.1 Tank heating systems installed on tanks equipped with low water temperature alarms supervised in accordance with NFPA 72, connected to a constantly attended location shall be inspected quarterly during the heating season.
9.2.2.2 Tank heating systems without a supervised low temperature alarm connected to a constantly attended location shall be inspected daily during the heating season.
9.2.3.1 The temperature of water in tanks shall not be less than 40°F (4.0°C).
9.2.3.2 The temperature of water in tanks with low temperature alarms supervised in accordance with NFPA 72, connected to a constantly attended location shall be inspected and recorded quarterly during the heating season when the mean temperature is less than 40°F (4.0°C).
9.2.3.3 The temperature of water in tanks without low temperature alarms connected to a constantly attended location shall be inspected and recorded weekly during the heating season when the mean temperature is less than 40°F (4.0°C).
9.2.4.1* The exterior of the tank, supporting structure, vents, foundation, and catwalks or ladders, where provided, shall be inspected quarterly for signs of obvious damage or weakening.
9.2.4.2 The area surrounding the tank and supporting structure, where provided, shall be inspected quarterly to ensure that the following conditions are met:
(1) The area is free of combustible storage, trash, debris, brush, or material that could present a fire exposure hazard.
(2) The area is free of the accumulation of material on or near parts that could result in accelerated corrosion or rot.
(3) The tank and support are free of ice buildup.
(4) The exterior sides and top of embankments supporting coated fabric tanks are free of erosion.
Annual inspections: sprinkler heads, pipes, bracings, fire pump assemblies, more water tank check-ups, and signage
Annual inspection of dry sprinkler heads
NFPA 25 requires an annual visual inspection “from the floor level” of sprinkler heads. Inspectors must look out for damage, leakage, incorrect orientation of a sprinkler, missing sprinklers or components, and proper clearance between sprinkler heads and any objects.
Also check for loading, aka a build-up of dust or sediment on the sprinkler. If a mildly loaded sprinkler is found, it can be cleaned without touching it (per NFPA requirements) with a special tool. If loading is heavy, the sprinkler must be replaced.
5.2.1.1 Sprinklers shall be inspected from the floor level annually.
5.2.1.1.1* Any sprinkler that shows signs of any of the following shall be replaced:
(1) Leakage
(2) Corrosion detrimental to sprinkler performance
(3) Physical damage
(4) Loss of fluid in the glass bulb heat-responsive element
(5) Loading detrimental to sprinkler performance
(6) Paint other than that applied by the sprinkler manufacturer
5.2.1.1.2 Any sprinkler that has been installed in the incorrect orientation shall be corrected by repositioning the branchline, drop, or sprig, or shall be replaced.
The annual inspection also involves making sure that the stock of replacement sprinklers and tools is adequate—though there is an exception for systems with dry sprinklers of different lengths. These spare dry sprinklers are not required, so long as “a means of returning the system to service is furnished.”
5.2.1.4 The supply of spare sprinklers shall be inspected annually for the following:
(1) The correct number and type of sprinklers as required by 5.4.1.5
(2) A sprinkler wrench for each type of sprinkler as required by 5.4.1.5.5
(3) The list of spare sprinklers as required by 5.4.1.5.6
5.4.1.5* A supply of at least six spare sprinklers shall be maintained on the premises so that any sprinklers that have operated or been damaged in any way can be promptly replaced.
5.4.1.5.1 The sprinklers shall correspond to the types and temperature ratings of the sprinklers in the property.
5.4.1.5.3 Where dry sprinklers of different lengths are installed, spare dry sprinklers shall not be required, provided that a means of returning the system to service is furnished.
5.4.1.5.4 The stock of spare sprinklers shall include all types and ratings installed and shall be as follows:
(1) For protected facilities having under 300 sprinklers — no fewer than 6 sprinklers
(2) For protected facilities having 300 to 1000 sprinklers — no fewer than 12 sprinklers
(3) For protected facilities having over 1000 sprinklers — no fewer than 24 sprinklers
5.4.1.5.5* One sprinkler wrench as specified by the sprinkler manufacturer shall be provided in the cabinet for each type of sprinkler installed to be used for the removal and installation of sprinklers in the system.
Annual inspection of pipes
Pipes comprise the largest portion of a dry sprinkler system—and they also represent the biggest risk. Pipe corrosion can render an entire fire protection system useless, and many dry systems are especially prone to problems because the oxygen in the pressurized air that’s present during normal conditions is quick to react with any water trapped in the pipes due to condensation or testing. A growing trend toward replacing pressurized air in dry sprinklers with nitrogen significantly reduces the risk of corrosion.
Dry sprinkler pipes must also be perfectly pitched to avoid sitting water that can lead to microbiologically-influenced corrosion (MIC), pipe scale, or the formation of ice during freezing temperatures. Water trapped in the pipes has the potential to freeze and expand by about 10 percent, prompting micro-cracks once the temperature warms and the ice melts. Not only can these tiny cracks change the air pressure in the pipes and cause the dry valve to trip, but water that flows into the system will leak and eventually start gushing as the cracks enlarge.
To avoid these issues, pipe inspections should be scheduled before temperatures typically drop. Pipes that aren’t properly pitched should be fixed, preferably with drum drips installed. A.5.2.2.1 does allow for “a degree of judgment” about whether the extent of any surface corrosion discovered during an inspection warrants replacement of piping because it will impact the integrity of pipe strength or raise concerns of leakage.
5.2.2* Pipe and Fittings. Sprinkler pipe and fittings shall be inspected annually from the floor level.
5.2.2.1* Pipe and fittings shall be free of mechanical damage, leakage, and corrosion.
5.2.2.2 Sprinkler piping shall not be subjected to external loads by materials either resting on the pipe or hung from the pipe.
5.2.2.3* Pipe and fittings installed in concealed spaces such as above suspended ceilings shall not require inspection.
5.2.2.4 Pipe and fittings installed in areas that are inaccessible for safety considerations due to process operations shall be inspected during each scheduled shutdown.
5.2.3* Hangers, Braces, and Supports. Sprinkler pipe hangers, braces, and supports shall be inspected annually from the floor level.
5.2.3.1 Hangers, braces, and supports shall not be damaged, loose, or unattached.
5.2.3.2 Hangers, braces, and supports that are damaged, loose, or unattached shall be replaced or refastened.
5.2.3.3* Hangers, braces, and supports installed in concealed spaces such as above suspended ceilings shall not require inspection.
5.2.3.4 Hangers, braces, and supports installed in areas that are inaccessible for safety considerations due to process operations shall be inspected during each scheduled shutdown.
Functioning fire pumps are key to automatic fire protection, providing waterflow and pressure for sprinkler systems. Source: Thermotech Fire Protection
Annual inspection of fire pumps
Fire pump assemblies provide waterflow and pressure for fire protection systems. They include the pump, the water supply suction and discharge piping and valving, and any auxiliary equipment, as well as the electric, diesel, or steam turbine driver and control.
While NFPA instructs individuals responsible for inspection to consult the manufacturer’s specific instructions for fire pumps, its guidelines—which include checking bearings, circuit boards, wires, and so, so much more—serve as a key checklist:
8.1.1.2.1* Shaft movement or end play shall be checked annually with the pump operating.
8.1.1.2.2 Electrical connections shall be checked annually and repaired as necessary.
8.1.1.2.3 Pump and motor bearings and couplings shall be greased annually or as required.
8.1.1.2.4 Printed circuit boards (PCBs) shall be checked annually for corrosion.
8.1.1.2.5 Cable and/or wire insulation shall be checked annually for cracking.
8.1.1.2.6 Plumbing parts, both inside and outside of electrical panels, shall be checked annually for any leaks.
8.1.1.2.8 Supervisory signal circuitry shall be checked annually for high cooling water temperature.
8.1.1.2.9 Fuel tanks shall be checked annually for water and foreign materials.
8.1.1.2.10 Fuel tank vents and overflow piping shall be checked annually for any obstructions.
8.1.1.2.11 All flexible hoses and connections shall be checked annually for cracks and leaks.
8.1.1.2.13 Exhaust systems, drain condensate traps, and silencers shall be checked annually.
8.1.1.2.14 Back pressure on the engine turbos shall be measured annually.
8.1.1.2.15 Batteries shall be checked annually as follows:
(1) Checking the specific gravity, state of charge, and charger rates of the batteries
(2) Cleaning the terminals of any corrosion.
(3) Ensuring that the cranking voltage exceeds 9 V on a 12 V system or 18 V on a 24 V system
(4) Ensuring that only distilled water is used in batteries
8.1.1.2.16 All controls and power wiring connections shall be checked annually and repaired as necessary.
8.1.1.2.17 Lubricating oil in engines shall be changed every 50 hours of operation or annually.
8.1.1.2.18 Lubricating oil filters shall be changed every 50 hours of operation or annually.
8.1.1.2.19 The condition of sacrificial anodes shall be checked annually and replaced as necessary.
8.1.1.2.20 Circulating water filters shall be replaced annually.
8.1.1.2.21 The accuracy of pressure gauges and sensors shall be inspected annually and replaced or recalibrated when more than 5 percent out of calibration.
Annual inspection of water tanks
Most water tank components require quarterly inspections, but a few can be performed once a year, including expansion joints, hoops and grillage of wooden tanks, and exterior surfaces. To aid in the specific annual inspection for exterior degradation, it’s helpful for property owners to stencil the last-known date of interior paint jobs on the exterior of the tank in a conspicuous place, such as at eye level near a manway that provides access to the tank.
9.2.4.3 Expansion joints, where provided, shall be inspected annually for leaks and cracks.
9.2.4.4 The hoops and grillage of wooden tanks shall be inspected annually.
9.2.4.5 Exterior painted, coated, or insulated surfaces of the tank and supporting structure, where provided, shall be inspected annually for signs of degradation.
Annual inspection of signage
Signage inspections have a very practical and potentially life-saving purpose. For example, if a facility has multiple sprinkler risers, proper labeling proves invaluable when a fire department needs to shut a particular valve—especially if the risers share a common manifold. While a graphic diagram with color-coded areas of protection is most useful, NFPA 25 calls for property owners to at least include an information sign and a list of all low-point drains. A missed drain could easily lead to frozen piping and accidental system trips.
4.1.9.1 A permanently marked metal or rigid plastic information sign shall be placed at the system control riser supplying an antifreeze loop, dry system, preaction system, or auxiliary system control valve.
4.1.9.2 Each sign shall be secured with a corrosion-resistant wire, chain, or other approved means and shall indicate at least the following information:
(1) Location of the area served by the system
(2) Location of auxiliary drains and low-point drains for dry pipe and preaction systems
(3) The presence and location of antifreeze or other auxiliary systems
(4) The presence and location(s) of heat tape
Section 5.2.7 also requires information signs to be inspected annually to ensure they are available, securely attached, and legible.
Inspections that can be spaced out longer than a year: internal inspections of pipes, valves, and water tanks
NFPA 25 requires internal inspections of pipes, valves, and water tanks every five years, although the frequency increases to every three years for the interior of steel water tanks where corrosion protection can’t be verified. Non-metallic pipes are not subject to internal inspections because they are far less vulnerable to corrosion.
The primary goal of an internal inspection is to detect corrosion, but it can also uncover the presence of material that could cause obstructions in piping or sprinklers. Inspectors should look for signs of microbiologically-influenced corrosion (MIC), zebra mussels, inorganic materials like rust and scale, or materials accidentally left behind in pipes by installers like gloves and cut-out coupons.
Since internal inspections are best performed when the system is drained, it’s wise to coordinate all of them at once. NFPA 25 mandates that slime and tubercules, or small nodules attached to the inside of a pipe, are immediately tested for MIC, a leading cause of pipe destruction like pinhole leaks.
NFPA 25 calls for an obstruction investigation if “sufficient” foreign material is found during pipe inspections. But since it does not define the amount that would be “sufficient” to obstruct a pipe, inspectors must make a judgment call. A.14.2.1.4 states that small amounts of foreign materials like scale or rust inside a sprinkler pipe are normal and shouldn’t trigger an investigation.
Figure 1 shows a fully obstructed dry sprinkler pipe. Figure 3 shows a pile of rust that poured out when the pipe in Figure 2 was upended. Both of these conditions could severely impact system integrity and function. Source: Facility Executive
Longer inspection of water tanks
9.2.5.1.1* The interior of steel tanks without corrosion protection shall be inspected every 3 years.
9.2.5.1.2* The interior of all other types of tanks shall be inspected every 5 years.
9.2.5.2 Where interior inspection is made by means of underwater evaluation, silt shall first be removed from the tank floor.
9.2.5.3 The tank interior shall be inspected for signs of pitting, corrosion, spalling, rot, other forms of deterioration, waste materials and debris, aquatic growth, and local or general failure of interior coating.
9.2.5.4 Steel tanks exhibiting signs of interior pitting, corrosion, or failure of coating shall be tested in accordance with 9.2.6.
9.2.5.5* Tanks on ring-type foundations with sand in the middle shall be inspected for evidence of voids beneath the floor.
9.2.5.6 The heating system and components including piping shall be inspected.
9.2.5.7 The anti-vortex plate shall be inspected for deterioration or blockage.
Longer inspection of valves
13.4.3.1.4.1 Internal inspection of valves that can be reset without removal of a faceplate shall be permitted to be conducted every 5 years.
Longer inspection of pipes
14.2.1* An assessment of the internal condition of piping shall be conducted on a frequency determined by 14.2.1.1 or 14.2.1.2 for the purpose of inspecting for the presence of foreign organic and inorganic material.
14.2.1.1 An assessment of the internal condition of piping shall be conducted at a minimum of every 5 years or in accordance with 14.2.1.2 for the purpose of inspecting for the presence of foreign organic and inorganic material.
14.2.1.2* Where an assessment frequency has been established by an approved risk analysis, the assessment shall be performed at a frequency determined by the approved risk analysis.
14.2.1.3 Tubercules or slime, if found, shall be tested for indications of microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC).
14.2.1.4* If the presence of sufficient foreign organic or inorganic material is found to obstruct pipe or sprinklers, an obstruction investigation shall be conducted as described in Section 14.3.
14.2.1.5 Nonmetallic pipe shall not be required to comply with Section 14.2.
14.2.2.2 If foreign organic and/or inorganic material is found in any system in a building, all systems shall be assessed.
Detailed records are required for dry sprinkler inspections
NFPA 25 (4.3.1) requires property owners to maintain thorough inspection records, including an “owner’s section” completed by the property owner or owner representative. Records should be kept at least a year after the next inspection so system condition and performance can be compared for signs of deterioration (4.3.5). Electronic record-keeping is acceptable (4.3.1.1).
4.3.2 Records shall indicate the following:
(1) The procedure/activity performed (e.g., inspection, test, or maintenance)
(2) The organization that performed the activity
(3) The required frequency of the activity
(4) The results and date of the activity
(5) The name and contact information of the qualified contractor or owner, including lead person for activity
Did a dry sprinkler inspection reveal a system deficiency? Fix it!
Of course, no matter how thoroughly inspections are performed, they mean nothing if the system deficiencies they identify aren’t corrected. At the end of the day, though contractors may find an issue and propose services that fix it, it is the property owner’s responsibility to ensure that dry sprinkler systems remain in tiptop shape, ready to protect people and property from fires in freezing temperatures.
Stay tuned for the next installments in our review of dry sprinkler systems and their applications, in which we’ll explore testing and maintenance requirements, and take an in-depth look at how to prevent corrosion. And check out our previous installments in this series:
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Academic journal article Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Criminology
The Little Things: Deconstructing Christian Doctrine and Theorizing a Loving Justice
By DeValve, Michael; Brightman, Sara
"Some believe that it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
Those who know me well will be surprised by this statement: I was cleaning the other day. I was cleaning the other day, and I found a sock. It was a tiny sock, impossibly tiny to wear for any person I know currently. Incongruous as it lay seemingly fresh against a rumpled old Led Zeppelin tshirt, it sported delicate pink, yellow, and green stripes, a frilly lace band around the opening, and a tiny silk pink flower stitched to the side. I recognized it immediately, of course. It belonged to my daughter, and it enjoyed frequent use on her tiny feet when she was a young toddler just learning to use them. Powerful recollections welled like surf, but took a more generalized form; smells, energy, affect. A lump formed in my throat underneath a melancholy smile. Our daughter is almost twelve years old now; she is growing up into a beautiful, strong, compassionate, wise young woman.
When our daughter was a tiny girl, care was taken to make sure her room was kept well, that her clothes were washed and put away for her. That sock along with its companion often were reclaimed from the dryer and folded late at night. Sometimes I would creep into her bedroom, a grey specter with a laundry basket, and place her newly cleaned clothes in drawers as she slept. In the morning as I helped her get dressed, I would retrieve those socks to put on feet which so closely resembled mine in miniature.
We have been misled it would seem. We have been encouraged to seek justice in big things; big acts, big places, big power; justice we are told is gargantuan, lumbering, total, sometimes brutal, but always big and always from above. Justice, we are told, necessarily requires top-down authority, the power of coercion, the rarified nobility of fluted columns, the elevation of the judge's bench. Borrowing Jeremy Bentham's colorful turn of phrase, the idea that justice is big, forceful, and hierarchical is "nonsense upon stilts." Were she alive today, Michael's grandmother would call it "canal water." Gibberish, bunk, hooey, hokum, moonshine, hogwash, drivel, poppycock, malarkey. And then some.
Our purpose in this essay is to put the lie to golem big justice as it wanders oaflike around the American hinterlands, that only through the powerful, the downward, and grandiose is truest justice possible, that there is some economy of scale with justice. We seek to retune our attention to where truest justice truly resides. Justice does not come from the tip of a spear or the barrel of a gun, neither does it issue forth from the Leviathan, nor can it be bought in bulk, nor does it descend from another plane of being, and nor does it store well. Instead, justice is something altogether different from what we have come to understand, and yet it is something intimately familiar. Truest justice dwells in tiny acts of kindness, of listening, of seeing another for their beauty. Justice is what happens when one person commits to being present for a person in need. Real justice is granular, tiny, modest, quiet, humble, and gentle. In this essay, we will explore an example of justice in Jude°Christian doctrine that is generally well known, but is both an illustration of, and very likely a key contributor to, contemporary broken and unsustainable views of justice. We will then offer a revised (in truth, probably the intended) version of that example of justice that is both consonant with existing doctrine and yet also liberates humans from an abusive relationship with God.
Our overarching contention is that justice is love, meaning "the artlike, individualized, unconditional, aware, and end-less praxis whereby a human or organization mindfully, assertively, and continuously labors for the actualization of another human being as an end in herself, without thought of return, without reliance upon authority, without fear, or possibility of cessation" (DeValve, 2015: 103). …
Publication: Journal of Theoretical & Philosophical Criminology
DeValve, Michael
Brightman, Sara
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Tiger Woods Infidelity: Yes, He Cheated
By M Asad | December 13th, 2009
Although the car crash of Woods was not that severe, it was the post accident saga that exposed the number 1 golf player in the world having illicit relations with Rachel Uchitel, Jaime Grubbs, Jamie Jungers, Kalika Moquin and many others. His position has become very vulnerable even at home front. The superstar has been compelled to take a break from golf, for the time being atleast.
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Jaime Jungers, one of the alleged mistress of Woods while appearing on a Dateline NBC Special in “The secret life of Tiger Woods” stated that she has no regrets about her relations with Tiger Woods. She is fully convinced that she owes no apology to Elin Nordegren, the wife of Tiger Woods. Jungers 26, while replying to questions, explained her position in the following words:
No, I don’t, I feel like that’s his– that’s his business. Everybody makes mistakes. This wasn’t something that I did yesterday or a month ago or a year ago. This was years ago. I was younger. And I’m not saying that what I did then was right. But– I’m certainly not gonna say that it was wrong. I believe everything happens for a reason. And– no, I– I don’t– I don’t believe that I owe her apology– an apology. I mean, I– I’m sorry for everything that’s going down. And what may happen to … their kids’ future, you know? But no, I don’t– I don’t believe I owe her an apology. No.
She believes that her secret relationship with Woods developed from lust to love. She said that she loved Woods and she still loves him.
It wasn’t just a sexual situation, it was– I believe, it– it was love. I loved him. I still love him. "It wasn’t just, like, regular sex," she says."It was great. I mean, yeah, he– he was pretty wild…Like, it wasn’t just, like, regular sex. It wasn’t like, boring, married couple sex. Like, it was fun and exciting. It was way more than sex.
The above confession of Jaime Jungers amply proves that Tiger Woods has cheated on his wife, not once but several times.
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Behind the Candelabra Review
Michael Douglas stars as Liberace in this lurid biopic of the flamboyant pianist
Behind the Candelabra is released on Friday 7th June 2013
The story of Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson is a pretty incredible one. Thorson was 17 when he went to see Liberace in concert, and the closeted pianist took rather a shine to him backstage. Their relationship started with diamonds and champagne, and spiraled into drug addiction and infidelity. In their increasingly bizarre story, Liberace asked that Thorson have plastic surgery to look like a younger version of himself, then later tried to legally adopt him.
Michael Douglas is spectacular as Liberace, showing how the furs and diamonds hid enormous vulnerability and a controlling streak. But, really, this is Matt Damon’s film: as Scott Thorson he transforms from the naïve, fresh-faced kid who was entranced by Liberace’s world, to an angry, jaded, drug-addled man, with a face that is no longer his.
This lurid biopic is director Steven Soderbergh’s last film and he’s going out with a bang. Sex, drugs, jacuzzis, gaudy decor and Rob Lowe as a deranged plastic surgeon: it’s all here in this outrageously brilliant bombshell of a film.
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How Proptech Could Change Planning and Development in the U.S.
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Does Gigi Hadid Have Cosmetic Surgery?
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Whether Gigi Hadid had plastic surgery or not, she’s definitely one of those lucky children who’s inherited her mother, Yolanda Hadid’s beauty. Like her sister, Bella, who also happens to be one of the top models in America, Gigi has been featured in numerous publications including the Vogue, CR Fashion Book, Allure, W Magazine and more.
In fact, Gigi started her modeling career at just 2 years old after being discovered by Paul Marciano from Guess Clothing. She has done several campaigns for Baby Guess products before putting her focus back on school.
Now if that’s not good genes, we don’t know what is because there is just no way she would have been able to obtain cosmetic surgery procedures at such a young age.
So yes, Gigi was born beautiful alright.
But then…what about later on when she came back to modeling in 2011? She had the perfect face and body, which allowed her to win the title “Model Of The Year” in 2015 and even became an ambassador for the Maybelline brand.
Wouldn’t life be too impeccable (or unfair) if she didn’t have at least a tiny bit of flaws? That’s why people started speculating about her pretty face. Some think that Gigi had a nose job while others are certain that her chest is made up of entirely breast implants.
But are these rumors real or fake?.
Let’s find out today!
Did Gigi Get A Rhinoplasty?
What Happened To Gigi’s Teeth?
Has She Had Lip Fillers?
Does Gigi Hadid Have Breast Implants?
Gigi’s Beauty Transformation
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What Does Gigi Have To Say About Plastic Surgery?
One of the best ways to find out if Gigi Hadid has undergone any plastic surgery procedures is by going through her past and present photos. This will allow us to compare and check discrepancies between her facial features such as her eyes, nose, ears neck, as well as parts of her body.
Check out our exclusive before and after pictures below:
Like one of her besties Taylor Swift, Gigi has had her fair share of scrutiny regarding her own nose. Based on the above before and after comparison, we can definitely see some differences there. Her nasal bridge is visibly thinner and if you look carefully at her nose tip from before, she had a lot more volume around that area. It was rounder and bulkier so with this, we believe there’s a good chance that Gigi had undergone a nose job.
Gigi’s always had a gorgeous smile thanks to her beautiful teeth, the top row that is. Little did people know that Gigi actually has some crooked teeth on the bottom row. As you can see from above, she hasn’t visited a dentist to have them fixed and we’re not exactly sure why because this is a common problem for many females and can easily be corrected by using a cosmetic dental device such as braces or aligners.
It’s also obvious that she’s had some teeth whitening done because they are sparkling white!
Unlike the lips of Kendall Jenner, Gigi was born with thick lips so it’s been in that shape ever since she was young. Compare that to how it is now, you can’t really see any signs of lip injections. So based on this comparison, we believe that she was naturally gifted with plump lips and do not believe Gigi has gotten any lip fillers whatsoever.
Many of Gigi’s fans and followers wanted to know whether her breasts are real or fake. This is one of those difficult problems to solve because there are times Gigi’s boobs appear to be very natural, but then there are other times where we’re almost certain that she’s had a boob job.
Being a professional fashion model, there are not many reasons for her to go through a breast augmentation procedure unless she’s focusing on the swimsuit niche, which she’s obviously done many times for magazines such as Sports Illustrated. These days, implants come in all different shapes and sizes, so it is possible that she’s gotten a teardrop shaped implants because these tend to look more realistic.
While we have uncovered some evidence suggesting that Gigi may have enhanced her beauty through the help of plastic surgeons, but as we always say…camera angles can be deceiving. Therefore, we feel that it is only fair to go through Gigi’s “Then” and “Now” photos to see how she’s transformed into the supermodel that she is today.
Source: Instagram / Yolanda Foster
Talk about starting them young! Gigi was only a 2-year-old toddler when she gained her first modeling experience doing photoshoots for Baby Guess. Just look how cute she was! Big and beautiful blue eyes that turned blueish green as she grew older. You’ve got to love those chunky baby lips too… (yup, that’s her!)
Photo Credit: Baby Guess
Gigi: “Mommy, I want to be a pirate when I grow up.”
Yolanda: “No honey, you’re going to be America’s next top model.”
Gigi: sigh…
At just 6 years old, Gigi is already showing how comfortable she was posing in front of the camera. Here she was shooting another campaign for Baby Guess wearing a pink bandana, sleeveless orange jumper and long flower patterned pants with style. You can almost tell she’s going to become a tall and slim woman.
Gigi is looking sweet and sweeter with this “good girl” hairstyle and minimalist makeup. The red lip gloss is contrasting beautifully with her white skin and blonde hair. You can see that her eyes are also starting to change into blue-green colors, but what impressed us the most is her pretty eyelids. At least we know she’ll never need a double eyelid surgery.
Credit: Baby Guess
Here she was wearing classic blue jeans with a red belt along with a vintage hairstyle dating back to the “Grease” age. Who would have thought that the ladder she’s stepping on would one day take her to the very top!
This was the last Baby Guess collection that we’ve seen from the young Gigi Hadid posing as a child model. At 11 years old, it was time for her to focus back on her studies and school. Not sure if that was her mom’s decision though…
Fast forward 5 years, Gigi is back to the scene only to be told that she was too fat and needed to lose weight if she wanted to pursue a modeling career. As you can see from the pic, she definitely had some big thighs back then so it’s quite possible that she’s had a leg contouring procedure done.
Honestly, she better do something about that butt too, maybe get it toned down a bit and then a little butt lift? On second thought…perhaps she already had it all figured out and using cosmetic surgeries was all part of the grand weight loss plan after all!
After some successful body transition, Gigi was named the face of Guess in 2012 and began working as an adult model shooting 3 more campaigns for the big brand. One of the most distinctive features on Gigi’s face has to be the baby fat on her flush cheeks. So plump, so squooshy…so cute! Looks like she won’t be needing botox any time soon.
Pic Credit: Guess Jeans
Here she was shooting an advertising campaign for Guess Jeans. At the same year, Gigi moved to New York and signed with IMG models, officially beginning her professional career as a fashion model. Little did people know she was still studying in college and you’ll never guess what course or subject – It’s Criminal Psychology!
You can see that her body is becoming more lean and slender, but whether that’s through exercise workout, good dieting or liposuction fat removal treatments…no body knows!
Miss Hadid attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at the 2014 Oscars in West Hollywood, Calif. This was perhaps the year when rumors started circling about Gigi getting breast implants and it was also the same year she made her debut in the New York Fashion Week and got into high fashion featuring in the front cover of CR Fashion Book magazine.
Not sure if you noticed this, there’s something not quite right with her eyebrows here. It seems as though her brows have been lifted. It could be her makeup and we’re sure it’s still too early for her to have a brow lift, so never mind…
It’s not often you get to see a picture of Gigi without makeup on. Regardless, she still looks totally gorgeous and maybe this explains why she won the 2015 Daily Front Row’s Model of the Year award and also landed the ambassador role for the international makeup beauty brand, Maybelline.
So far, we haven’t spotted any evidence suggesting that the social media model had undergone any facial plastic surgeries of any type. No facelift, jawline reduction, chin implants or any other face contouring procedures. She better watches those baby fat though, otherwise, she might end up with a double chin.
At the rehearsal for the 2016 American Music Awards in Los Angeles. Now if you would have told us that Gigi has never had a boob job, we’ll 100% believe you! It’s photos like this that makes us question whether her large bust size has always been the result of a push-up bra. Her cleavage just seems natural here.
In saying that, if Gigi had indeed gone through a breast augmentation surgery, then you’ve got to admit that her plastic surgeon has done a truly remarkable job here! By the way, she’s looking outrageously hot with that shirt and red lipstick.
Ditching her blondes for the all new copper brown hair, Gigi reminds us of the younger version of Angelina Jolie with the same natural luscious lips. Along with the smokey cat eyes and thinning nose, you’d have to think twice before deciding whether her nose shape was the result of using good shadow makeup techniques or surgical cosmetic rhinoplasty.
You can also see that she has a lot of moles on her neck and chest area, so one has to wonder why she hasn’t gone to a dermatologist to remove them? Perhaps her boyfriend thinks they are sexy…
Gigi is sizzling on the catwalk for the Alberta Ferretti fashion show in Milan, Italy. She is looking as healthy as ever in this black swimsuit showing off her long legs and beautiful broad shoulders.
Real Name: Jelena Noura Hadid
Birthday: 23rd April 1995
Star Sign: Taurus
Birth Place: Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation: Model, TV Personality
Race / Ethnicity: Palestinian & Dutch
Relationship: Dating with Zayn Malik
Height: 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight: 57 kg (126 lbs)
Body Measurement: 35-24-35 Inches
Bra Size: 32C
Dress Size: 4 (US)
Shoe Size: 8 (US)
Natural Hair Color: Blonde
Natural Eye Color: Blue-Green
Social Media: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
During an interview with Dazed Magazine, Gigi was asked to give her views on plastic surgery. Here’s what she said…
I think that, for health reasons that I’ve learned about, and through seeing other people’s experiences with it over the years, I would personally not do it. But it’s anyone’s decision to do what they want.
You just have to wonder “who’s” experiences she was referring to…friends or family?
With over 38 million followers on her Instagram account, there’s no denying that Gigi is one of the most beautiful and sexy women alive. It’s quite obvious that she was born with some genetic advantages (that means plenty), but has she ever seek help from cosmetic surgeons to get closer to perfection?
After going through her before and after photos, there appears to be some evidence suggesting that model might’ve had a nose job to narrow her nose, liposuction to help with weight loss and possibly tear drop shaped breast implants too. Other than that, we are certain Gigi’s lips are the real deal.
While she has never admitted to any of these rumors, but given that she has a rich family, so it’s not impossible for her to access the best cosmetic surgery clinics in America.
Did Gigi have beauty enhancements?
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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Seige gameplay preview: Fortify, attack and destroy in intimate multiplayer
Mike Lowe · 13 June 2014
It's been over five years since we played a Rainbow Six console title, with the latest title Seige being Ubisoft's "just one more game" moment of the 2014 E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles.
The resulting tactical shooter, which we played behind closed doors at the Ubisoft stand at the show, is a game all about planning and take-no-prisoners execution. The "multiplayer first" approach sees you play as either an attacking Rainbow Six side looking to release a captive hostage, or the defending side where it's your job to defend.
The action takes place indoors, so the play arenas are small and intimate which adds a rapid style of play. Single shot kills aren't uncommon either, giving a gritty realism to gameplay.
Rather than most shooters' rapid-fire style, Rainbow Six: Seige is all in the planning. Whether it's fortifying windows, blowing holes in the walls or floors, setting up bomb traps, or barbed wire to slow down stairway access, there's a 60 second pre-roll to the action that's crucial for tactical play.
As the attacking side you can scout the area with miniature drones to make mental notes about the hostage location, relayed in real-time via headset chatter. Seige is a game where you really do need to talk to your team because spotting something crucial in a three minute bout could be the difference between winning and losing.
We played three rounds shifting through different character options which also impacts the style of play. Go in with a riot shield and your character will be a lot slower, but able to put up a wall and act as stalwart defence for your team's position. Go in with light armour and one shot will likely take you down, but you're much quicker. Combine variations of these choices across the team of five and you've got a greater tactical chance.
Rainbow Six: Seige is an adrenaline ride to play; a game that requires thinking and proper team coordination. From the destructible play arenas to the various ways to fortify and attack, there's originality aplenty here and it looks like a true next-gen game.
The only criticism we foresee is that once players learn the ins and outs of a map it will be easier to know how to conquer your opponents. And if there aren't enough variations to the maps then the intimate and quick style of play might lack longevity. But that's all down to Ubisoft: if enough is put into Seige then there will be loads to get out of it - and that's before we've even seen what the single and co-op campaign modes will be like.
Rainbow Six: Seige will be coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC in 2015. And we can't wait.
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AUCTION - Texas A. B. Hudson Estate Electra, Texas | County: Wichita
26,867 Acres
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The A. B. Hudson Estate consists of 26,867 remaining acres of ranch land located in northcentral Texas near Wichita Falls. The ranch properties lie in the heart of big Texas ranch country and are in excellent condition. The area is growing in popularity for hunting/recreational pursuits due to its proximity just over two hours from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The fences and corrals are excellent and the water is very adequate. Long time tenants currently lease the ranches for grazing and a qualified outfitter leases the hunting rights. The ranch lands will be offered in 22 tracts and combinations subject to a minimum reserve of $440 per acre for the surface only.
Broker(s): Bart Miller, Shawn Terrel
A B Hudson was an oilman, rancher, member and largest benefactor to the Shriners Hospital for Children. Born in 1923 in Athens, Texas to a farm family grew up in the burgeoning Kansas oilfield. He and his brothers formed Hudson Oil Company, which later sold to Koch Oil. In 1958 Mr. Hudson formed Highway Oil Company, the owner of this ranch property. Mr. Hudson prided himself on progressive land stewardship and he returned thousands of acres to native grasslands.
The A. B. Hudson Estate Ranch properties are located about 160 miles northwest of Fort Worth, Texas and 40 miles between and west of Wichita Falls, adjoining the city limits of Electra, Texas. The properties are easily accessed from US Hwy 287 and State Highway 25.
ACREAGE AND DESCRIPTION
Triangle & Lakeland Ranch – 26,867 +/- Acres
These two ranch properties, located in Wichita County and just south of Electra, Texas, adjoin each other with the Triangle on the north and the Lakeland on the south.
Combined the ranches have 25 fenced pastures ranging in size from approximately 100+ acres to 2600+ acres. There are over 45 ponds or tanks that supply adequate livestock water. The fences are mostly five barbed wires on steel posts with pipe corners. There are five sets of receiving/shipping corrals made of pipe and in top condition. Mineral and wind rights are severed from all ranches. There are numerous oil production locations on the ranches with many no longer in production. There is one building location housing a watch tower and feed storage also used as a hunting camp.
Best Ranch – 3,728+/- Acres, SOLD at AUCTION – Sept. 27, 2016
This ranch property lies several miles south of the Triangle/Lakeland properties in Archer County, TX near Lake Diversion and shown on the attached plat as Parcel 8. The property is leased for grazing and hunting with assignable leases and has excellent views of Lake Diversion. The property has 5 pastures and two traps and two sets of Corrals. The fences and gates are in excellent condition. There are 6 ponds plus small ponds in the traps. One pasture has access to Wichita River at Lake Diversion.
The grasslands are known as tall grass remnant prairie. The prominent grass varieties include little bluestem, indiangrass, switchgrass, big bluestem, sideoats grama, blue grama, green sprangletop, and buffalo grass. Additional grasses may include eastern gamma grass, tall dropseed, Texas cupgrass, Texas wintergrass, brownseed paspalum, fimbry, purple three-awn, Canada wildrye, Florida paspalum, microdentate sedge, Carolina jointtail, Mead sedge, Silveanus dropseed, tridens sps. Among the forbs, the following were found to be dominant in little bluestem-Indiangrass remnant prairies: false dragonhead, old plainsman, prairie acacias, bishops and bluets as well as prairie coneflower. The ranch has aggressively treated mesquite thickets to keep the grasses dominant and this program continues today. There are areas of the ranch that could be converted to cropland with mesquite tree removal.
RECREATION AND WILDLIFE
Recreation pursuits are a growing segment of the big ranch country. The quiet enjoyment of the property includes hunting pursuits for deer, turkey, quail and others. The demand for hunting and the income derived from hunting access is increasing as the Dallas-Fort Worth area continues to grow. For those desiring to own land for ranching, the opportunity to receive hunting lease income is a real benefit. Likewise, for those desiring to own land for hunting/recreation, the opportunity to collect significant grazing income is a win-win scenario.
Elevation: 1220 feet
Köppen Classification: Humid Subtropical Climate
This climate is characterized by relatively high temperatures and evenly distributed precipitation throughout the year. Summers are usually somewhat wetter than winters, with much of the rainfall coming from convectional thunderstorm activity; tropical cyclones also enhance warm-season rainfall. The coldest month is usually quite mild, although frosts are not uncommon, and winter precipitation is derived primarily from frontal cyclones along the polar front.
The average temperature for the year in Electra is 63.2°F (17.3°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 85.2°F (29.6°C). The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of 40.3°F (4.6°C). The highest recorded temperature in Electra is 112.0°F (44.4°C), which was recorded in August. The lowest recorded temperature in Electra is -4.0°F (-20°C), which was recorded in January.
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Electra is 28.8" (731.5 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is May with 4.3" (109.2 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is January with an average of 1.3" (33 mm). There is an average of 58.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in May with 7.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in December with 3.0 days. In Electra, there's an average of 1.8" of snow (0 cm). The month with the most snow is January, with 0.7" of snow (1.8 cm).
The opportunity to buy nearly 27,000 acres of tall grass prairie in the big ranch country of northern Texas does not avail itself often in the marketplace. The opportunity to buy the surface only provides the Buyer a deep discount when seeking agricultural and recreational amenities. The A. B. Hudson Estate ranches have been well cared for and it shows in the quality and condition of the property. This offering allows the first buyer to customize the size through tract purchases or to acquire the entire ranch.
Lakeland/Triangle Ranch: 26,867+/- Acres to be sold at AUCTION on May 12, 2017
Best Ranch: 3,728+/- Acres – SOLD
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Regulatory Focus™ > News Articles > 2019 > 3 > BIO Targets Compulsory Licensing, Regulatory Reforms Across Various Countries
BIO Targets Compulsory Licensing, Regulatory Reforms Across Various Countries
Posted 28 March 2019 | By Zachary Brennan
Following the release of PhRMA’s Special 301 Report urging the Office of the US Trade Representative to better protect American pharma companies’ intellectual property in foreign countries, BIO has released its own report this week, with an eye toward compulsory licensing and regulatory data protection.
Similar to PhRMA, BIO singles out Malaysia as a “Priority Foreign Country” following the issuance of a compulsory license in 2017 to make generic versions of Gilead’s hepatitis C treatment Sovaldi (sofosbuvir). A compulsory license allows a patented product to be produced without the consent of the patent owner.
“The use of compulsory licensing in Malaysia has far-reaching ramifications for the biopharmaceutical industry as other governments, such as Chile and Colombia are considering similar policies that would provide broad discretion to issue compulsory license,” BIO said.
Similarly, in Russia, BIO notes that multiple local firms are attempting to use compulsory licenses to produce generic versions of oncology drugs. “This raises serious concerns about the ability of innovators to meaningfully enforce patents in Russia and will discourage investors and innovators from bringing products into the market,” BIO added.
The threat of compulsory licensing in India was also highlighted by BIO, particularly as India allows for such licensing in some circumstances when the patented products are not manufactured in India.
Doctors Without Borders, however, has backed the right of certain countries to use compulsory licenses, explaining that they are “legal measures allowed under international trade rules to improve access to medicines.”
“Global trade policies give countries the right to act in the face of public health needs—they should be encouraged, not punished, for using these safeguards as they are meant to be used,” MSF said last year.
Regulatory Data Protection, Pricing and Other Concerns
In addition to compulsory licenses, BIO notes instances when countries fail to protect innovators’ data submitted to regulatory authorities when demonstrating the safety and efficacy of a medicine.
For instance, in India, the absence of regulatory data protection is a “significant problem” for BIO members because India’s drug regulatory agency approves generic drug applications based on an abbreviated submission that relies on the innovator’s safety and efficacy data. “This creates an unfair commercial advantage for Indian generic companies,” BIO explained.
Thailand was also highlighted for not using a formal system to prevent regulatory approval of generic versions of pharmaceuticals that are still covered by a valid patent.
In China, however, BIO raises concerns about a lack of transparency. For instance, in 2017, China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) finalized a policy that provides accelerated review and approval to eligible drugs for applications that meet “urgent and unmet medical needs.”
“However, to date, China has not provided a definition for ‘urgent and unmet medical needs.’ Furthermore, BIO is concerned that generic drug applications may be granted priority review and approval by NMPA in cases where another party holds a valid patent.”
And while China did join the International Council for Harmonisation in 2017, Chinese manufacturers that only export their products are not subject to regulatory oversight or review, BIO said.
In Korea, BIO raises issues with the country’s “extreme” pharmacological data requirement, which “creates unfair, discriminatory obstacles for innovative biopharmaceutical companies. Moreover, almost all other countries’ patent offices do not require that amount of pharmacological data in the original application, or those offices allow submission of such data during patent prosecution.”
In Turkey, BIO criticizes the requirement by the Ministry of Health to perform Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) inspection at every pharmaceutical production facility.
“While the Ministry of Health does allow for GMP certificates from other competent authorities, that acceptance is conditioned on other countries recognizing Turkish GMP certification. Nonetheless, with Turkey’s recent accession to PIC/S (Pharmaceutical Inspection Convention and Cooperation Scheme), which dictates international GMP standards, Turkey should begin to recognize GMP certificates issued by any of the current 52 PIC/S members. This positive development and further agreements with countries are expected to overcome the GMP hurdle and improve regulatory timelines,” BIO said.
On the topic of drug pricing, BIO takes issue with Japan’s recent efforts to establish a health technology assessment (HTA) system.
“The methodology used by the Government of Japan in its HTA pilot, on which the HTA system will be based, was not developed in a transparent process and deviates from standard methodologies aligned with the latest available science,” BIO said.
Efforts to create a supplementary protection certificate (SPC) manufacturing waiver in the EU were also criticized by BIO, as they were also previously criticized by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations.
Under the proposal, generic and biosimilar makers would be able to manufacture products protected by an SPC for export to non-EU countries where market protection for those products have either expired or never existed during the final six months of the SPC. The proposal would also allow for the stockpiling of generic and biosimilars intended for the EU market during those six months to promote faster market entry.
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CNN’s Republican anchor rips GOP for allowing Trump’s racism: ‘What a load of crap’
CNN anchor S.E. Cupp on Saturday blasted the Republican Party for enabling President Donald Trump’s racism.
“Welcome to ‘Unfiltered,’ in what might be the ugliest week of his presidency so far, Donald Trump went from dipping a toe in the pool of white nationalism to bathing in it,” Cupp declared.
First, there was the racist tweetstorm he told four women of color, elected representatives no less — to go back to their own countries. Then his followers took his cues and responded, chanting “Send her back” about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) at a rally in North Carolina,” she reported.
“After initially pretending he did not endorse that vile rhetoric, here he is yesterday tripling down on his attacks,” she continued, playing a clip of the president.
“I can tell you this, you can’t talk that way about our country. Not when I am the president,” Trump declared.
“A handful of elected Republicans have said — rather politely — they disagree with the president. Leadership, however, is just fine with it,” she noted.
“Here is tonight’s headline, you break it, you own it. The Republican Party is now fully and totally responsible for these racist, divisive, un-American ideas,” Cupp said. “They are yours as much as any policy is. In fact, it is the policy.”
“This idea that Republicans can compartmentalize Trump into categories is the lie of the century. Trump is not a buffet where you can take what you like and leave what you don’t, it doesn’t work that way,” she explained.
“Trump voters don’t separate his economic from his cultural agenda. Evangelicals don’t get to dismiss his naked immorality just because he panders to them,” Cupp said. “And Republican lawmakers can’t pretend what they are really purchasing is the legislation and the racist rhetoric is just a free staple that comes with it.”
“Through every racist flare-up, Republicans have been willing to hold their noses and continue to support Trump,” she reminded.
“There are no compartments, there is only all of Trump or none of Trump,” she concluded. “The Republican Party chose all. ”
Conservative CNN commentator Scott Jennings was asked about Sen. John Kennedy's (R-LA) comments that most senators were hearing the facts of the trial for the first time Wednesday night.
“I’ve learned a lot. Everybody has. Senators didn’t know the case,” Kennedy admitted. “They really didn’t.”
He claimed that nine out of ten senators learned something new and the tenth is lying.
Jennings dismissed the information, saying that whatever happens in the trial, senators won't want to "shut down the Senate" just to hear witnesses. He claimed that President Donald Trump's legal team would make that argument to the senators.
Jason Crow lays out the human cost of Trump’s Ukraine scheme — citing his military experience
Matthew Chapman
On the second day of the impeachment trial, Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), a veteran and one of the House impeachment managers, clearly laid out the risk that President Donald Trump's Ukraine scheme posed to human life — and drew from his own experience in the military.
"I know something about counter-battery radar," said Crow. "In 2005 I was an Army Ranger serving in a special operations task force in Afghanistan. We were at a remote operating base along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. And frequently, the insurgents that we were fighting would launch rockets and missiles onto our small base. But luckily we were provided with counter-battery radar. The 20, 30, 40 seconds before those rockets and mortars rained down on us, an alarm would sound, and we would run out from our tents and jump into our concrete bunkers and wait for the attack to end. This is not a theoretical exercise, and the Ukrainians know it."
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1413 Westhaven Blvd
1413 Westhaven Blvd is a single family residence located in Franklin, TN 37064. Built in 2008, this property features 4 bathrooms, 11,250 sq ft lot, and 3,293 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 1413 Westhaven Blvd is $765,000.
For the surrounding community of Franklin, TN 37064, the average sale price for similar homes to 1413 Westhaven Blvd is $668,630. The nearby schools are exceptional and include Pearre Creek Elementary School, Independence High School and New Hope Academy. The overall crime risk for this area is very low. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, very high tornado risk, and minimal flood risk.
Property Details: 1413 Westhaven Blvd
Parcel Number: 077B J 00400 000
Subdivision: WESTHAVEN SEC 19
Attic: 484 sqft
9/8/2008 Sold $549,990 $167 Public Records
5/13/2008 Sold $525,949 $160 Public Records
2015 $3,496 (+2.6%) $0 $0 $134,125
2013 $3,456 (+2.57%) $0 $0 $134,125
2012 $2,951 $0 $0 $134,125
1409 Westhaven Blvd, Franklin, TN 37064
420 Pearre Springs Way, Franklin, TN 37064
The average sales price of homes similar to 1413 Westhaven Blvd is $668,630 ($207/sq.ft.)
606 Stonewater Blvd $786,000 12/31/2019 $237 3,323 sq.ft. -- Bed, 4.5 Bath 0.8 mi away
147 Gardenia Way $84,000 12/27/2019 $26 3,268 sq.ft. -- Bed, 5 Bath 1 mi away
1704 W Main St $775,000 12/23/2019 $248 3,124 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1.5 Bath 2 mi away
720 Pearre Springs Way $755,000 12/03/2019 $227 3,320 sq.ft. -- Bed, 4.5 Bath 0.3 mi away
2003 Barclay Ln $530,000 11/25/2019 $165 3,208 sq.ft. -- Bed, 3 Bath 1.3 mi away
1570 Westhaven Blvd $713,000 11/13/2019 $230 3,101 sq.ft. -- Bed, 4 Bath 0.3 mi away
1421 Westhaven Blvd $865,000 10/29/2019 $272 3,181 sq.ft. -- Bed, -- Bath 0 mi away
300 Cheltenham Ave $725,000 10/23/2019 $222 3,261 sq.ft. -- Bed, 4 Bath 0.3 mi away
110 Fitzgerald St $747,500 09/04/2019 $222 3,369 sq.ft. -- Bed, 4 Bath 0.4 mi away
459 Wiregrass Ln $695,000 08/29/2019 $219 3,180 sq.ft. -- Bed, 3.5 Bath 0.8 mi away
2061 Hornsby Dr
315 Dundee Dr
221 Everbright St
256 Karnes Dr
4409 Gosey Hill Rd
1413 Westhaven Blvd was built in 2008. The lot size is approximately 11,250 square feet.
7 properties are in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned in the 37064 zip code near 1413 Westhaven Blvd Franklin Tennessee 37064 and 14 properties are in in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned in Franklin. 1413 Westhaven Blvd, Franklin, TN 37064 is in a county where 23 properties are in some stage of foreclosure or bank-owned 376,923, compared to 376,923 nationwide.
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219 Ash Dr
219 Ash Dr is a single family residence located in Franklin, TN 37064. Built in 1971, this property features 1 bathroom, 10,650 sq ft lot, and 1,050 sq ft of living space. The estimated market value for 219 Ash Dr is $207,000.
For the surrounding community of Franklin, TN 37064, the average sale price for similar homes to 219 Ash Dr is $368,042. The nearby schools are excellent and include Liberty Elementary, Centennial High School and Freedom Intermediate. The overall crime risk for this area is very low with 1 criminal and sex offenders residing within 1 mile. The natural disaster risk for this area includes very low earthquake risk, very high tornado risk, and minimal flood risk.
Property Details: 219 Ash Dr
Parcel Number: 062I B 02100 000
Subdivision: HILL ESTATE
Heating Type: SOLAR
Basement Sq Ft: 1,050
2015 $976 (+3.46%) $0 $0 $28,200
221 Ash Dr, Franklin, TN 37064
218 Cherry Dr, Franklin, TN 37064
The average sales price of homes similar to 219 Ash Dr is $368,042 ($355/sq.ft.)
358 4th Ave S Apt B3 $300,000 01/06/2020 $268 1,120 sq.ft. -- Bed, 2 Bath 1.5 mi away
200 Cedar Dr $279,900 12/27/2019 $303 925 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 0.1 mi away
6051 Rural Plains Cir Apt 202 $282,500 12/23/2019 $304 928 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 1.1 mi away
315 Meadowlawn Dr $372,200 12/23/2019 $408 912 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 1.9 mi away
1406 Sunset Dr $479,900 12/18/2019 $480 1,000 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 2 mi away
305 Bel Aire Dr $810,000 12/13/2019 $680 1,192 sq.ft. -- Bed, 5 Bath 2 mi away
225 Everbright St $358,987 12/03/2019 $355 1,011 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1 Bath 2.2 mi away
306 Granville Rd $193,900 12/03/2019 $169 1,146 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1.5 Bath 1.7 mi away
710 Del Rio Pike $230,000 12/02/2019 $209 1,102 sq.ft. -- Bed, 1.5 Bath 1.7 mi away
1115 Carnton Ln
504 N Petway St
704 Riverview Dr
601 Boyd Mill Ave
4165 Old Hillsbo...
In Williamson County, on a 10,650 square-foot lot. Constructed in 1971.
In 12/2019, a total of 2 properties had foreclosure filings in the 37064 zip code surrounding 219 Ash Dr, Franklin, TN 37064, one in every 10,495 housing units receiving a foreclosure filing. In Williamson County, one in every 10,926 housing units had a foreclosure filing in 12/2019. Statewide in Tennessee, one in every 3,050 housing units had a foreclosure filing in 12/2019, while one in every 2,541 housing units had a foreclosure filing nationwide.
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Race-tuned Jag sixes are better than coffee
A snarling, shaking, wailing start to your morning.
By Alex Kierstein, Web Editor
In the early 1960s, to make a 3.8-liter inline-six make more than 340 hp, you couldn't exactly muffle the exhaust much. Or really at all. That's why these early-60s factory-style E-Type race cars, including what's claimed to be one of the rare lightweight coupes (12 built), sound so brutally wonderful. The best part is that you won't have the jitters after you're wide awake. Unlike, perhaps, the drivers of these lumpy-cammed monsters. Those guys are probably wired for life.
Volume up. Press play.
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Tess Holliday’s Breastfeeding Video Is Totally Glamorous & Helps Normalize The Act
By Abby Norman
Model and activist Tess Holliday has taken her quest to promote body positivity in the industry one step further: since becoming a mom to her second child this summer, she's been candid about staying positive when facing the challenges of new motherhood. On her Instagram, Tess Holliday shared a powerful breastfeeding video, and talked about the importance of normalizing the choice.
Holliday, 32, first hit the scene when she became the face of a documentary called Heavy, filmed by A&E. Holliday's likeness appears in all the promotional posters and photographs for the documentary, although she is not featured in the documentary itself. As a size-22 model, she established herself in the industry and became the first plus-sized model to be signed to Milk Model Management — in fact, the first plus-sized model to be signed by a mainstream agency.
Holliday describes herself as a body-positive activist, and she's utilized social media as a way to respond to those who criticize her weight. After the birth of her second child, a son named Bowie, over the summer, she's also been using her platform to be candid about the challenges of pregnancy, new motherhood, and most recently, breastfeeding. She posted a picture to her Instagram earlier this year, taken by her fiancé, Nick, which she captioned with:
Mondays are a dread by all, sometimes even the self-employed like myself. How I find that the day's [sic] blur together of breastfeeding, sleeping when I can, tears of happiness (& sometimes fear) & no longer having a case of 'The Mondays'... Because everyday is a new adventure when you see it through your little one's eyes. #motherhoodrising #normalizebreastfeeding.
She's since posted several photos and has continued to promote the hashtag #normalizebreastfeeding. This past week, she shared a quick video to her Instagram and gave it a totally relatable caption:
Wishing my day to day was as glamorous as yesterday I'm currently covered in baby oatmeal, nursing Bowie while I drink cold tea because I never get to enjoy hot beverages anymore #normalizebreastfeeding
Holliday has a 10-year-old son from a prior relationship, and after Bowie was born she shared her thoughts on becoming a mom again after 10 years. She told People:
It’s been 10 years since I had a kid, so there are so many things that are new. My friends that have babies are posting all of these new swings and breastfeeding techniques and new bottles, and it’s really overwhelming because I thought, ‘I’ve already done all this,’ but it feels like I haven’t. I’m having to relearn a lot!
In addition to modeling and activism, Holliday is also a burgeoning fashion mogul: her line of plus-sized attire, mblm, is available at Pennington's.
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Rosemount Area Arts Council
Most events are held at the
Steeple Center
14375 S. Robert Trail
Rosemount, MN 55068
Additional Venue:
Central Park Amphitheater
2893 145th St W,
Rosemount MN, 55068
RAAC serves the residents of Rosemount and its surrounding communities.
The Rosemount Area Arts Council (RAAC) has become an integral part of the Rosemount community, giving residents a chance to experience and take part in artistic endeavors, by offering a wide range of programming such as concerts, art festivals, music festivals, art and craft classes, plays, author and writing events, and much more.
Many of the more than 50 events per year which we sponsor are provided free of charge. We are an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Our support comes from the communities we serve, through admission to some events, donations and grants, and our most important source, membership. We have made the Steeple Center our home, and we are delighted to present a wide variety events for the enjoyment of the residents of Rosemount and the surrounding communities.
We need YOUR support! Please donate to help fund all these wonderful events!
Can you help us? We have many opportunities available. See our volunteer page
for a list of some of the help needed.
SAP is looking
Play director
The Second Act Players of Rosemount is looking for a Director for its Spring play, “Reunited.” Auditions for the show will be February 10 and 11, and rehearsals begin March 9, and generally run Monday-Thursday, 6-9 pm, through opening on May 1. Performances May 1 and two performances on May 2. This is a paid position. Interviews will be Monday, January 20 at the Rosemount Steeple Center, 14375 S. Robert Trail, 5-8 pm, in 30 minute slots. Please send resume and time request to [email protected] or mail to RAAC, P.O. Box 409, Rosemount, MN 55068 or call Keith at 651-261-1954.
Community Art Project “Gratitude Wall”
Our current Community Art Project “The Gratitude Wall” has had a lot of participation! Men, women, teens and children have contributed -
as of 11/8/19, we have had 1,233 gratitudes recorded!
Would you like to share a gratitude? Our Gratitude Wall will be at some of our upcoming events..
See our Gratitude Wall page for the complete listing of gratitudes and locations where the wall will be available.
Here are a few gratitudes from our Community Art Project: “The Gratitude Wall”:
- For faith, family, America, my parents
- For education
- For my home
- For the love of a wonderful husband
- For my son and his service in the Air Force
- For all who are ecologically minded
- For hot showers
- For trees
- For fresh water
- For love, hope, faith, family, friends
- For coffee
- For accepting I cannot “fix” everything
Gratitude Wall
RAAC participates in Melsa's smARTpass program. A limited number of free tickets are available to selected events to Library Card holders. See Melsa's website for details!
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"The Odd Couple"
The Front Porch Players 2020 Winter Play at the Steeple Center Friday, February 28, 7 pm; Saturday February 29, 2 pm and 7 pm; Friday, March 6, 7 pm; Saturday March 7, 2 pm and 7 pm.
Tribute to John Denver
Layne Yost plays Tribute to John Denver Friday, Feb 14, 7:00 pm at the Steeple Center
Friday May 15, 7:00 pm, Steeple Center
Tribute to Queen
The Crown Jewels Tribute to Queen Friday, March 27, 7:00 pm
Tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born on the Bayou Friday, March 13, 7:00 pm, Steeple Center
Singleton Street
Bluegrass Concert Series Friday, April 3, 7:00 pm
Birtzer & Johnson
Bluegrass Concert Series Steeple Center May 8, 7:00 pm
Music of John Denver Information
The Odd Couple Information
Tribute to Queen Information
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Singleton Street Information
Birtzer & Johnson Information
Cavalcade Information
Would you like to print a copy of our 2020 calendar of events?
Here is the latest version you can download.
RAAC 2020 Calendar of events (pdf)
New members and volunteers are always welcome. Please contact us with questions. We'd love to hear from you.
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Volunteers - a lifeline for my Dad
In the next installment of our Volunteers’ Week series, we hear from a family whose father has been supported and enriched by Royal Voluntary Service volunteers.
“My father was widowed in 2009. He and my late mother were rarely apart during their 50 year marriage, so the loneliness my Dad felt was profound. For a year or so, Dad struggled to re-build his life and maintain his independence. But, as he began to lose physical and mental capacity, this became increasingly difficult.
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“In 2012, Dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and the following year, it was confirmed he was also suffering from Parkinson’s. These illnesses significantly impaired Dad’s ability to get out and meet people and increased his sense of isolation and loneliness. He had carers calling in throughout the day but their fleeting and functional visits didn’t amount to meaningful company. The Royal Voluntary Service Good Neighbours service has been such an enormous benefit for Dad.
“Linda began visiting Dad in 2013. Dad is an accomplished writer, who has had plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and overseas and has also featured in the Guardian’s Country Diary. He has a vast collection of unpublished prose and poetry including numerous funny poems written for his 7 grandchildren over the years. Dad was keen to get all the pieces properly typed up and edited and he wanted to regain confidence using his computer so he could start writing again.
“For an hour each week, Linda patiently worked through his literary archive and helped him with his keyboard skills. They quickly developed a great rapport and Dad really looked forward to her visits. The company was great for him and he was boosted by the help that Linda gave him.
“When Linda stopped volunteering to look after her grandchild, our local service arranged for Fran to visit Dad and continue to help with his writing archive and his computer skills. They spent a lot of time talking and Dad particularly liked to discuss Fran’s progress with her university studies. This gave him the opportunity to slip back into his former professional role as a teacher and university lecturer. He particularly enjoyed offering Fran advice on her assignments and giving her encouragement. Whilst his Alzheimer’s progressed during the two years Fran visited Dad, he had sufficient capacity to feel he was doing something useful and this gave him a great sense of satisfaction.
“I don’t think elderly people in Dad’s position ever really get over the loss of a long term partner and rebuilding their lives after bereavement is hugely challenging. This is why the regular contact and company provided by Royal Voluntary Service volunteers through Good Neighbours scheme is so important. For people like my Dad, it has provided a lifeline; helping to him to combat his loneliness and maintain his independence.”
Read our previous blog in our Volunteers' Week series Meet our volunteers during Volunteers' Week 2016.
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One cannot spend even a single long day in India without carrying away a wonderful impression of the gentle dignity of the Indian people. Our motor drivers were extraordinarily intelligent and polite, and all we met gave the same impression.
India may be held by the sword, but it is certainly kept very carefully in the scabbard, for we hardly saw a soldier in the streets of this, 1ts greatest city.' I observed some splendid types of manhood, however, among the native police.' We lunched at the Taj Mahal Hotel, and got back tired and full of mixed impressions.'
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Remote Work Is the Future of Work
By Susan Liu
There are countless opportunities for innovative startups to digitize the many advantages of being there in person.
Remote work is an early-inning trend for enterprises and SMBs, bringing with it the demand for a new generation of enabling technologies. Some of these enabling technologies can evolve from existing applications that support remote work (think Zoom) but many more are needed to make distributed workforces as efficient and effective as traditional in-office teams.
What follows is a look at the dynamics of remote work and distributed workforces, and a quick tour of what’s still needed for communication, knowledge management, and productivity software to support enterprise-class virtual offices.
Trends Driving Remote Work
There’s been a lot of talk about remote work since the first time someone emailed “I’m working from home tomorrow”. Naturally, SaaS applications and high-speed internet connections have been key enablers.
These days, about 5% of U.S. workers regularly work from home. Yet there isn’t an established model for how remote work happens. And we often see the terms “remote work” and “distributed work” used interchangeably.
To keep it all straight, it’s useful to place companies on a continuum, with the number of remote workers as the unit of measurement. On the extreme left are companies where all employees work at one office, and no one works remotely. On the extreme right are organizations with no physical offices where all employees work remotely all the time -- a fully distributed company.
Most companies fall somewhere in the middle. Some are fully remote (meaning, all employees work outside of the traditional office setting), some are split into multiple offices, some have a physical office but offer their team members the opportunity to work remotely occasionally. What’s hit my radar lately is how open companies are to all of these different options.
Remote work is often driven by cost savings. In Silicon Valley, it’s expensive to recruit locally and many companies choose to open satellite offices or hire remote workers to tap talent in different geographies. Generally, companies will start with remote engineering, sales, or success teams.
Companies also adopt remote work as a competitive advantage in hiring. The success of remote work as a recruiting tool means that over time many professionals have gone from valuing work flexibility to accepting the idea that all work can take place online -- especially for Gen X and Millennial professionals, who are quicker to fully embrace tech at work.
Clearly remote work is here to stay -- and new startups are rushing to provide enabling technologies that accommodate the whole spectrum of remote work models. There’s a ton of innovation going on.
Opportunities to Develop the Tech Stack Further
We’ve already seen some innovative companies tackling the challenges that arise moving from an in-person office to a virtual one. Zoom delivers the richness of face-to-face meetings. Miro brings the whiteboard. Tandem imitates the office setting, where you can bug your colleagues in real time and feel like you’re working shoulder-to-shoulder.
The tech stack needed to support a distributed workforce is still in the early stages of commercialization. I’m not going too far out on a limb to say that the faster the stack matures, the faster more SMBs and enterprises will embrace remote work.
I’ve given some narrow examples of specific work activities being reinvented online using new software applications. After spending time thinking through the requirements of fully distributed workforces, I see two massive market opportunities where a new breed of applications are sorely needed.
Communication and Knowledge Management. If you speak to distributed / remote companies, their #1 challenge is communication and keeping everyone in sync.
The communication aspects of remote teams are interesting. Remote work often means that team members are in multiple time zones or on different schedules, making synchronous communication much more difficult. Email provides asynchronous communication, but obviously there’s plenty of room for improvement there.
Communication gaps can impact knowledge sharing as well. As teams become more distributed and communication becomes more of a challenge, knowledge management becomes a cornerstone to sharing info and keeping everyone in sync. Employees co-located in the same space and on the same schedule have the luxury to visit a coworker’s office to ask a question. When teams are spread across different time zones, a question might not get answered for hours, which is a big blocker to productivity.
Then there’s the issue of knowledge being housed in an increasing number of individual applications. Employees are not just searching in one application for answers, they’re searching across many. Having a thoughtful approach to organizing knowledge should be central to every team’s remote work strategy.
Companies manage knowledge in many ways. The most productive teams make it a habit to document all conversations and decisions and share this widely with their colleagues so everyone is equally informed.
Many teams/companies choose to store knowledge centrally in a wiki. Some particularly popular solutions right now are Notion, Guru, Tettra, Slab, and Slite. Other companies choose to keep knowledge distributed in the applications where people do work and add a search layer on top to help employees find the knowledge they are looking for. Some new entrants here include Command E and FYI. Shared knowledge is very much an unsolved problem, with new innovation still to come.
Productivity Suites. As more work moves online, it’s natural to think about our productivity online. SaaS productivity tools have typically been best-of-breed solutions that addressed one problem very well.
The shortcoming with best-of-breed solutions is that you often have to context switch as you move from one application to the next. Often, where you produced work was separate from where you collaborated or stored work, which makes for a frustrating experience as you lose mental bandwidth switching from workflow application to communication application.
As we spend more time doing work online, it’s natural that we’ll want solutions that increase our productivity by combining all aspects of our work into one platform.
We see some limited examples already:
Airtable. Self-described “part spreadsheet, part database” supports tons of use cases in remote work
Notion. As we mentioned above, all-in-one notes, tasks, wiki, and spreadsheets
Taskade. All-in-one platform for task management, communication, notes, etc.
As these examples suggest, there’s both a demand for and race to become the dominant all-in-one online workspace. For companies and employees to fully realize the potential of distributed work, we’ll need to say goodbye to siloed applications and fragmented knowledge.
I believe the remote/distributed work trend is one that has staying power. I see an opportunity for startups to capitalize on the opportunity to provide the “picks and shovels” that help companies build out their virtual offices to cater to this new working style. I welcome the chance to talk with founders focused on innovating on the remote work tech stack.
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WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A WINNER
Each year entries cover a range of diverse solutions representing a variety of industries. Many are simple yet effective but still make positive change to workplaces across the State.
Hear from our winners and use this list of winning solutions to inspire your entry:
With a push of a button, autocare workers can safely and effortlessly secure a vehicle by a motorised winch, no more heavy lifting!
A small manufacturing company implemented machinery safeguards, visible safety procedures and weight colour-coded storage boxes.
A construction company designed instantly accessible cloud-based job specific safety folders.
An employee designed a simple piece of yellow plastic that holds faulty twistlocks of shipping containers open.
A remote control inspector was developed to inspect risky confined spaces on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
A safety system was made available to mobile workers via smartphones and tablets in the plumbing industry.
Anti-fatigue rubber mats, roof ventilation, and a forklift warning system were installed in an industrial warehouse.
A high-pressure water system was designed to clean concrete agitator bowls, eliminating the need for workers to climb inside.
A small arboriculture business designed an interactive cloud based safety management system that gives workers step by step instructions and risks, and encourages suggestions and improvements from workers.
Quarry workers implemented a simple design that eliminates the need for a worker to handle the heavy teeth of an excavator’s bucket.
A council employee designed and developed a portable device to do the heavy lifting when removing and cleaning sewer pumps.
A safety group manager introduced a web-based reporting system, closing the reporting gap between workers and management.
All of our winners and finalists should be commended for making a difference to workplace safety and recovery at work in NSW.
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2017 EXCELLENCE IN WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY CULTURE
Small business - Sailfish Catamarans, Alstonville
Big business - Port Stephens Council, Raymond Terrace
2017 SAFEWORK NSW LEADERSHIP IN SAFETY AWARD
Paul Lyndon - Diona , Rouse Hill
2017 BEST SOLUTION TO AN IDENTIFIED WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUE
Small business - The Lacket Company, Kiama Downs
Big business - D&D Traffic Management, Unanderra
2017 EXCELLENCE IN RECOVERY AT WORK FOR BUSINESS
Specialty Fashion Group, Alexandria
2017 RECOVERY AT WORK ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR INJURED WORKERS
David Nugent - nominated by Rehab Co, Tarcutta
2017 BEST INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION TO WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
John Pearce - Coffs Harbour City Council, Coffs Harbour
Glenn Stewart - Calvary Health Care, Sydney
EXCELLENCE IN WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY CULTURE
Big business - Port Stephens Council
Small business - Sailfish Catamarans
BEST SOLUTION TO AN IDENTIFIED WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUE
Big business - D&D Traffic Management
Small business - The Lacket Company
BEST INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTION TO WORKPLACE HEALTH AND SAFETY
John Pearce - Coffs Harbour City Council
Glenn Stewart - Calvary Health Care
EXCELLENCE IN RECOVERY AT WORK FOR BUSINESS
Specialty Fashion Group
RECOVERY AT WORK ACHIEVEMENT FOR INJURED WORKERS
SAFEWORK NSW LEADERSHIP IN SAFETY AWARD
Paul Lyndon
Big business - Laing and O'Rourke
Small business - Bohmer's Tree Care
Big business - HY-TEC Industries
Small business - Bracton Industries
Kerry Dent - Cabonne Council
Shan Ruprai - SRS Roads
Endeavour Foundation
Clive Woodnutt
Best workplace health and safety management system
Crown Equipment Pty Ltd
Boasting a diverse workforce devoted to sales, engineering, clerical, technical, field service and spare parts, Crown Equipment made consultation with staff from all areas a priority when developing their new safety management system.
Key to the new system was guiding the behaviour of workers at all levels to create a values-based learning organisation. This involved early hazard identification, inclusion of management in all WHS matters, communicating safety information to all workers and continuous improvement and benchmarking.
Crown is no longer simply compliant, with significant reductions in the number of claims over the last five years. As well as developing extensive safety courses for their own staff, Crown is a certified training organisation, providing driver training for over 5000 operators each year.
“The safety management system touches every corner of the organisation”
Port Stephens Council
The best work health and safety systems are constantly evolving to meet the needs of a diverse organisation. As part of Port Stephens Council’s continuous safety improvement a team was formed to overhaul the way they handled risk, with dramatic results.
A combination of WHS and corporate risk management systems, the new integrated system was introduced after extensive consultation with workers. Incorporating the key elements of policy, planning, implementation, measurement, evaluation and review, the system provides a simplified, holistic approach to safety.
The results are impressive. Since the introduction of the integrated system, Port Stephens has seen a drop in workers compensation premiums by more than $1 million and a 70 per cent reduction in lost time injuries.
“The Council is committed to constantly improving risk management systems”
Roads and Maritime Services/University of Technology Sydney - Robotic Bridge Inspector
One of Australia’s best-known icons, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was built at a time when safety in design was not deemed as important as it is today. In order to access much of the internal structure, bridge inspectors were exposed to risks including asphyxiation, heat exhaustion, slips, trips and delayed rescue.
To avoid putting the squeeze on its workers, Roads and Maritime Services, along with University of Technology, have created the Robotic Bridge Inspector. Like something out of science fiction, the autonomous robot uses magnetic ‘feet’ and lasers to explore the tight spaces of the bridge, recording video footage that can be reviewed from the safety of the office.
The success of the robot has inspired RMS and the University to further invest in technology for safety outcomes, including assistance for the immense job of painting the bridge.
“This has a significant and immediate impact on how steel bridges are inspected”
Best workplace health and safety practices in a small business
Mavid Construction Pty Ltd
As a young company in an industry dominated by big business, Mavid Construction is using a high-tech approach to tackling the safety challenges of multiple work sites and a growing number of workers.
As well as employing external safety officers to complete regular risk assessments and safety checks on each site, Mavid developed an online system that is instantly accessible by all employees and viewable in both the office and on site.
Using an already-available online service, Mavid create cloud-based safety folders for each job, containing job-specific information such as safety policies, traffic management, induction plans, hazard reports, electrical registers and emergency response plans.
Owner-Director Matt Sharpe believes that Mavid’s agility and willingness to adapt to current technology will provide the best possible environment for his workers, and that can only be good for business.
“It gives us an advantage over other construction companies who may be more traditional and not embracing this change.”
Best individual contribution to workplace health and safety (no formal WHS responsibilities)
Andrew Ryan - Patrick
For decades, stevedores around the world have been putting their lives at risk due to jammed twistlocks on shipping containers. This became all too real for crane operator Andrew Ryan when he saw the terror on a co-workers face after having to enter a restricted work zone to hold a jammed twistlock open so a container could be lifted.
That night Andrew came up with the Ryan Key, a fork-like clip that keeps faulty twistlocks open, eliminating the need for workers to enter the restricted zone while containers are being lifted – a simple yet radical idea that has since been implemented at all Patrick terminals.
Andrew’s commitment to his colleagues’ safety has led to a solution that could have a huge impact on one of the world’s major industries.
"Andrew’s commitment to ensure his colleagues are safe at work has been inspiring"
Best indiviudal contribution to workplace health and safety (WHS representative)
Annette Celle - Bankstown City Council
With 800 employees as diverse as tradies, town planners, librarians, waste collectors, IT professionals and mechanics, Bankstown City Council is faced with the challenging task of managing safety systems that ensure all workers go home safely each day.
In spite of the challenges, Coordinator Risk Management Annette Celle has helped Bankstown achieve their best work health and safety results in 16 years. Through communication and constant engagement, she has created a culture that encourages workers in all fields to think about safety.
In just two years, Annette has created safety imagery and branding, reviewed the organisation’s consultation structure, identified high-risk areas, improved incident management and set new work health and safety objectives for the organisation.
Annette’s commitment to safety is already paying dividends, with a 34 per cent increase in incident reporting and a 64 per cent drop in lost time injuries.
“Annette has provided structure to the safety team, knowledge to the leadership team and inspiration to the organisation.”
Excellence in return to work for business
The Westpac Group
Westpac’s return to work program starts well before an injury even occurs. By educating their people, early reporting, proactive use of medical services and active engagement by management, Westpac staff receive quick and effective support, should the worst happen.
Australia’s first bank takes a ‘whole of life’ approach to worker safety and return to work, understanding that every worker’s situation is unique and a workplace injury can have a much greater impact on a worker’s life than how they do their job.
As well as minimising risks and creating a sustainable safety culture, Westpac undertakes regular reporting on hazards and near misses, early pain and discomfort detection, implementation of the InjuryNET doctor service, injury management guides for leaders and an extensive suitable duties library.
“Wellbeing depends on managing the balance between work and personal factors”
Return to work achievement award for workers
Jennifer Saben - UnitingCare Ageing NSW ACT
For Jennifer Saben, not being in control of day-to-day tasks after her injury was almost worse than the pain. After some tough days and dark nights, it was a strong support network and her determination to get back to the job and residents that she loves that led to a fast recovery.
While working as a recreational activities officer for UnitingCare Ageing, Jennifer fell and sustained bilateral fractures to both of her wrists and elbows. As a single mother of two, she faced a challenging period of recovery, including eight weeks without the use of her arms.
With the support her workplace, friends and family Jennifer returned to work on suitable duties as soon as she could. Now after almost six months of intense treatment and rehabilitation, not to mention plenty of restless nights due to frustration and a feeling of helplessness, she has returned to her pre-injury role.
"Being surrounded by colleagues is the best support you can have"
SafeWork NSW Safety Leadership Award
Craig Murray - Sydney Fish Market
Sydney Fish Market’s Craig Murray believes that exposing the safety weaknesses of a business and bringing them into the open is the first step to addressing them. Through this willingness to work with other businesses to improve their safety flaws, Craig personifies safety leadership.
As the Sydney Fish Market’s WHS Environmental Systems Manager, Craig has made a number of changes to his workplace, including a review of hazard and incident reporting and facilitating learnings for a number of businesses within the Markets. It is his work with other businesses, however, that truly sets him apart.
Since participating as a mentee is SafeWork NSW’s mentor program, Craig has shared his knowledge with a number of organisations, encouraging nine other businesses from the Market to become mentees. His journey from mentee to mentor is now complete, having partnered with a small landscaping business to share his knowledge and expertise.
"The management of WHS issues across industries only varies in application, not in theory"
Best workplace health and safety management system (private sector)
K&D Plumbing/K&D Civil
‘Pipeline’, the aptly-named management system for plumbing and civil infrastructure services provider K&D, has not only created a strong focus on workplace safety but has revolutionised the way they handle every facet of their business.
Pipeline uses the latest technology to make the system available to all workers via smartphones and tablets; ideal for a mobile workforce that spends much of its time away from headquarters. In an instant, workers can access safety training, risk management tools, safety alerts, legislation, plant and equipment safety records and return to work resources.
With only one lost time injury in the last five years, K&D have gone above and beyond what is expected of a business of their size and have built a safety framework that can grow and evolve with them.
Best workplace health and safety management system (public sector)
Hornsby Shire Council
While a work health and safety management system can appear effective on paper, closer scrutiny can yield surprising results, as Hornsby Shire Council discovered.
With around 600 employees in workplaces ranging from construction sites to libraries, Hornsby Shire Council had doubts that their safety system was being embraced at the organisation’s ‘coal face’. The result was an 18-month audit program aimed at measuring the uptake of the system in each and every one of their 120 teams.
By undertaking one-on-one engagement with their workers the Council identified a significant number of gaps, including 746 areas of non-compliance. The Council promptly implemented major improvements as part of a ‘renovated’ safety system; 87 per cent of these issues had been closed out by mid-2014.
Patrick Autocare
Through a combination of road and rail, Patrick Autocare provides motor vehicle processing, storage and distribution to manufacturers, dealerships and the general public. For workers this means a lot of loading, securing and unloading of vehicles.
As expected, manual handling on this scale can take a toll on a worker’s body. In fact, 86 per cent of all Patrick Autocare’s workers compensation claims resulted from worker body stress, often due to manually levering straps to keep vehicles in place.
Manual hand-operated pull levers are soon to be a thing of the past, however, with the introduction of Patrick Autocare’s automated tie down straps. With the push of a button workers can safely and effortlessly secure the vehicle, while a motorised winch does all of the heavy lifting.
Wicked Berries Pty Ltd
Wicked Berries is a small company with big ambitions. So when developing a work health and safety system, they needed to think ahead to develop procedures that could support a growing business for the long term.
The Coffs Harbour-based business specialises in gift-boxed chocolate-dipped strawberries, which are packed and distributed Australia-wide. With only four staff members they are the true definition of a micro business, but even the smallest workplace can have its fair share of safety risks.
A number of simple yet effective solutions have been implemented, ranging from machinery safeguards and visible safety procedures, to storage boxes that are colour-coded by weight. Future franchises will also be audited every 12 months to ensure compliance with safety procedures.
By initiating good safety practices at the ground level Wicked Berries’ future is sound, with a safety culture embedded in the workplace from the very beginning.
Best individual contribution to workplace health and safety (employee)
James Wensley (OneSteel)
Given that he’s responsible for the operation of a 135 tonne crane, it’s surprising to learn that James ‘Jim’ Wensley lacked the confidence to pursue his ambitions of making a difference to safety in the steelworks industry. It wasn’t until undertaking a Certificate IV in training and assessment that he was provided with the tools and knowledge - as well as the confidence - to make some changes.
Jim’s passion for safety has since gone above and beyond the expectations of his role to help improve OneSteel’s practices, systems and processes. As well as personally undertaking all internal competency assessments of crane driving, rigging and dogging at the Sydney Steel Mill, Jim also runs regular safety meetings and mentors his colleagues to observe and identify potential hazards.
As a result, the number of reported hazards has steadily increased. Jim is leading the way in a cultural shift that has meant improvements in injury rates, competency standards and process reviews.
Best individual contribution to workplace health and safety (WHS manager or representative)
Luke Sullivan (Staging Connections)
With a young and highly mobile workforce, the events industry has been facing somewhat of a safety crisis in recent years. Staging Connections, an audio-visual company with over 750 employees across Australia, was not immune to this.
Enter Luke Sullivan, who upon commencing at Staging Connections was faced with the challenge of keeping a workforce that spent much of its time on the road and on-site, safe.
The result is Stagesafe; the first risk management system designed specifically for the events industry. In addition to a robust system, key to Stagesafe is a mobile app, allowing workers on-site to access the system any time and any place.
In just two years the lost time injury rate at Staging Connections was more than halved. This improvement was too significant for Staging Connections to keep the product to themselves, and they have since made the app available to the rest of the industry.
Baxter Healthcare
As a global medical products and services company, Baxter Healthcare takes the same innovative and passionate approach to improving patients’ lives as it does to providing positive return to work (RTW) outcomes for its own staff.
On-site safety specialists are trained in understanding the mechanisms of injury, the typical effects on the body and psyche, the treatment required and the drivers of positive recovery outcomes. The result is a proactive and empathetic approach to injury management, allowing timely and long-lasting RTW solutions.
There are also a number of personal touches, such as an individual wellness system where staff can log in to a personal profile and track their status.
Through early reporting and prompt supportive intervention, Baxter’s injury outcomes have markedly improved, reflected in their workers compensation experience rate currently at half of the industry average.
Sgt Mathew Johnson (NSW Police Force)
After suffering a back injury as weapons trainer at Goulburn Academy, Sgt Mathew Johnson went on to re-injure it even further during a violent arrest. This run of bad luck culminated in a third injury, forcing Mathew to take a lengthy period off work.
After some dark periods, including the moment he reported being unable to use his legs, Mathew decided that the person most responsible for his recovery was him.
By maintaining strong relationships with medical specialists, his case manager, supervisors and colleagues, Mathew has been proactive in his involvement in the rehabilitation process, undertaking the physical and psychological treatment with enthusiasm and passion.
Mathew is now the Richmond local area command education development officer. Although his recovery process is still ongoing, he recently had his medical status upgraded, allowing him to assist with operational shifts inthe field as general duties supervising sergeant.
WorkCover NSW Safety Leadership Award
Hunter-New England Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service
In many workplaces a near miss is met with a sigh of relief. In the case of Hunter-New England Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service (WRHS), however, there isn’t always a second chance.
Operating four aircraft from two bases, WRHS provides a 24 hour aeromedical search and rescue service to communities over an area of 132,000 km2. In such a high-risk workplace, quality workplace safety systems can literally mean the difference between life and death.
The safety initiatives developed by WRHS are too many to list, but each is designed to keep the pilots, crew and medical staff safe. As well as reductions in injuries and serious incidents, hazard reporting in the last eight years has increased by an outstanding 673 per cent.
WRHS is also keen to share their experience by presenting their systems to other organisations and partnering with WorkCover to spread the safety message.
Veolia Environmental Services NSW
Veolia Environmental Solutions NSW made a commitment to improve safety awareness, to reduce injuries and to further decrease the risk of harm to its employees.
A new safety system ‘Always Safe – No Compromise’ was developed by Veolia aimed at establishing a proud safety culture and minimising risk. Through visible leadership activities, an emphasis on hazard and risk mitigation and increased safety training, Veolia successfully communicated the importance of safety at home and in the workplace, while reinforcingthat safety is everyone’s responsibility.
Although Veolia has since seen an increase in hazard near misses reported, there has been a significant reduction in injuries and this year saw their lowest ever rolling lost time injury frequency rate – zero.
State Water Corporation
Following a management restructure in 2009, State Water’s leadership team agreed to shift the workplace safety focus from simply complying, to making it an integral part of their culture.
The solution was to reinvigorate the expectations of staff and elevate the general profile of work safety within the business. Improvements were initially made to the induction and orientation of new starters, Board buy-in was achieved and auditing was increased.
While the journey is one of continual improvement, the benefits are already starting to show. Lost time injury frequency has dropped, as has the number of claims and the cost of premiums. State Water cite no single reason for the improved performance, but rather a company-wide commitment to a number of initiatives that can best be described as ‘safety culture’.
Bridge Solutions Alliance
The Bridge Solutions Alliance (BSA), comprising of Roads and Maritime Services, Baulderstone, Freyssinet and SAGE Automation, was formed to undertake significant maintenance works on Sydney’s ANZAC Bridge. As the largest cable stayed bridge in Australia and a major traffic artery, the WHS risks involved in the project were considerable.
In response to these unique challenges BSA developed the Custom Engineered Bridge Access System to provide a safe means of access and material transport to undertake the project works. This fully integrated system allowed BSA to safely access the bridge to undertake work and provided a solution for transporting materials to required work locations.
As a result, BSA was able to address the risks of falls from height, falling objects, manual handling, working adjacent to traffic and pedestrians, and working over water.
Zetco Valves Pty Ltd
Zetco is a nationwide distributor of valves, specialising in the importation and distribution of heavy metal valves for plumbing and industrial applications. Day-to-day operations of the organisation included manually handling heavy cartons, accessing shelves by ladder and working amongst forklifts, all within a large warehouse with no heating or cooling.
The company’s safety committee recently obtained diplomas in work health and safety, and as part of their dedication to safety for their workers, implemented a number of effective solutions.
An extensive list of improvements included a motorised packing line and a vacuum lifting system to aid with manual handling, anti-fatigue rubber mats and roof ventilation to improve the working environment, a forklift warning system, and work assist vehicles to reduce the risk of working at heights.
Rod Cook (North Coast TAFE)
Working in a number of high risk areas at TAFE campuses across the north coast of NSW, Rod Cook has gone above and beyond his job description to make his workmates safer. While work health and safety is not his responsibility, Rod has taken a keen interest in the welfare of staff, students and visitors who use the work areas he maintains.
Rod was recently required to set up a workshop and store area, for which he developed a standard operating procedure for the machinery, as well as a detailed induction procedure that has since been made mandatory for all participating students. A number of locations across North Coast TAFE have implemented a similar approach to student inductions, affectinghundreds of people across the region with the potential to be implemented at other campuses.
Sean Redmond (TOT Transport)
TOT Transport uses a significant owner driver fleet, a model which presents unique and complex work health and safety challenges. As manager of business improvement and safety, Sean Redmond is passionate about not just constantly improving the business processes of the organisation, but ensuring that every worker returns home safely day after day.
Sean has amassed an impressive list of individual contributions to the organisation’s safety, based on a core set of ‘Target Zero’ safety values. He designed and implemented an extensive range of safety and return to work policies – more than 25 in total – all in consultation with a network of key industry bodies.
Some of Sean’s other key achievements include improved worker inductions, safer driver timesheets, vehicle safety audits, industry-best protective equipment and increased incident reporting.
Adam Forsythe (A.H. Beard Bedding Pty Ltd)
When a rehabilitation provider deemed Adam Forsythe unfit and unable to return to his job, his first reaction was to ask ‘what else can I do?’ Adam had suffered a bulged disc in his spine while unloading a container as part of his job as warehouse supervisor and was keen to return to work in any capacity.
Adam’s employer A.H Beard Bedding determined that, given Adam’s experiences, he would be perfect for the role of safety officer. After extensive training Adam not only found his feet, but flourished in his new role. He possesses first-hand knowledge of the emotional effects of injury, and asks workers to consider how an injury will affect their home life.
Since taking on the role, Adam has seen a huge change in the company’s safety culture, experiencing their lowest recorded injury rate and a record time period without an LTI injury.
Cerebral Palsy Alliance
Tracy Mellor’s exceptional leadership is demonstrated by her passion for work health and safety in the disability/community sector. As part of a relatively small team, Cerebral Palsy Alliance Work Health and Safety and Injury Manager Tracy has gone out of her way to assist others in her industry in creating a safe workplace.
As part of the WorkCover Mentor Program, Tracy went above and beyond her brief by conducting research into work health and safety for lone workers and sharing her knowledge throughout the industry. Businesses in this sector are often run with minimal staff and rely on government funding.
Tracy has been able to share her philosophy that ‘safety is not about spending a lot of money – it can be easy’.
Bega Cheese
The rapid expansion of Bega Cheese five years ago created a challenge for management to ensure the company’s workplace safety systems kept pace with its growth. An increase in incidents and injuries indicated there was a need to boost safety systems. In 2008, Bega Cheese set in motion a ‘safety first’ culture, designed to improve the health and wellbeing of its workers. Major revisions to their existing workplace safety systems commenced, including the introduction of automation for high risk manual handling tasks and a behavioural safety program.The introduction of the Bega Cheese Safety System database has improved injury reporting, allowing risks to be addressed faster. During 2010-11, claims were reduced by more than 40 per cent and time-lost hours reduced by almost 4,000 on the previous period. Bega Cheese is now developing a Fit for Work policy to address fatigue and drug and alcohol risks at work.
Agi-Kleen
Manual ‘de-dagging’ of concrete agitators is possibly one of the most dangerous activities in the concrete industry today. The task involves workers physically entering the agitator with a jackhammer to remove the dried residue. Workers undertaking this task face risks such as silicosis, hearing loss, engulfment, heat stress, fatigue, RSI and falling concrete.Agi-Kleen was established as a response to the demand in the concreting industry for a safer, faster and more cost effective method of cleaning and maintaining concrete agitator bowls. By utilising a high-pressure water system to remove the built up ‘dead’ concrete and discharging it, the need to physically enter the agitator is now completely eliminated.
NA Group
Road works by their very nature are inherently dangerous and as a leader in road construction and maintenance, NA Group believes safety should always be the number one driver in their business. NA Group not only focuses on the safety of their workers – they also need to consider other road users during maintenance while ensuring the work undertaken does not pose hazards for drivers.To improve safety performance during road works NA Group introduced a paperless document management system. It includes zero harm operational forms and capacity for ‘near miss’ and incident management reporting. Dedicated safety officers at each site are equipped with tablets to complete their safety system documentation. This ensures paperwork such as risk assessments, induction training and the results of tool-box talks, do not get lost and can be easily updated as a job progresses.
Ben Woodbridge - Daracon Group Pty Ltd
Working for one of the Hunter’s leading civil engineering contractors as a welder, Ben Woodbridge identified risks in the storage and manual handling of welding materials, including gas bottles. Tools used in welding were required to be manually lifted on and off trucks and moved around work sites. Although a welder, Ben took the initiative to design and fabricate a new crate, mostly in his own time outside of work hours. Prior to fabrication Ben consulted with management and staff through a toolbox talk.The crate has successfully allowed for the safe storage of tools during transportation and has significantly reduced manual handling activities involved with welding.The welding crate can be lifted on and off a truck using plant such as a front end loader or hi-ab crane. Ben’s design received full engineering certification and the welding crate has various applications in the storage and transportation of tools across Daracon’s operational divisions.
Jennifer Ringor - Aristocrat Technologies
With the introduction of harmonised work health and safety laws, Jennifer developed a due diligence framework to raise awareness among management of their new obligations. Jennifer conducted more than 40 training workshops over three months reaching 90 per cent of senior management. Jennifer has raised awareness among line managers about their role in safety, particularly timely injury reporting.She has also introduced more structured return to work processes including working more closely with injured workers during their rehabilitation. Jennifer also introduced lead indicator reporting and measuring systems across two divisions, developing four new measures that will assist in establishing more realistic safety performance indicators.As a result of Jennifer's efforts, workers compensation claims have consistently decreased across the organisation.
Construction Safety Education Forum
The forum is a group of 40 industry members that provides free work health and safety education and resources to the high risk construction industry. The forum includes volunteers from regulators, unions and employers groups; as well as contractors and large construction companies that identify solutions to safety issues.The group has held six forums and eight presentations during the year, providing education on a range of issues including bullying, fatigue in the crane industry and youth suicide in construction. Significant achievements include the group’s small business mentoring program, where large construction firms assist small organisations to develop safe work method statements tailored to their business. The development of a falls prevention committee and the completion of a nationally recognised training module for users of swing stages are among projects completed in 2012.
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by Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Setlists featuring Sick Love
28 Feb 2019 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne Park Precinct, Australia
MainCan't Stop, Scar Tissue, Dani California, Dark Necessities, Hey, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Hump De Bump, Throw Away Your Television, Californication, Aeroplane, Go Robot, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Sick Love, By the Way
EncorePush the Sky Away by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Dreams of a Samurai, Give It Away
25 Feb 2019 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Brisbane Entertainment Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
MainAround the World, Otherside, Dani California, Dark Necessities, Strip My Mind, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Throw Away Your Television, Californication, What Is Soul by Funkadelic, Go Robot, Pea, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Tell Me Baby, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
EncoreWatching the Detectives by Elvis Costello, Dreams of a Samurai, Give It Away
20 Feb 2019 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia
MainAround the World, Otherside, Dani California, Dark Necessities, Strip My Mind, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Aeroplane, Californication, Go Robot, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
EncoreJust Like U Said It Would B by Sinéad O'Connor, Dreams of a Samurai, Give It Away
17 Feb 2019 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Derwint Entertainment Centre, Hobart, Australia
MainCan't Stop, Pea, Orange Claw Hammer by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Dani California, The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Throw Away Your Television, Lady Grinning Soul by David Bowie, Search and Destroy by Iggy & The Stooges, Californication, Go Robot, Strip My Mind, Tell Me Baby, Sick Love, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Under the Bridge, By the Way
EncoreGoodbye Angels, Give It Away
23 Mar 2018 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo, Brazil
MainCan't Stop, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Otherside, Dark Necessities, Menina mulher da pele preta by Jorge Ben Jor, Sick Love, Nevermind, Californication, Aeroplane, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Hump De Bump, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Pea, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Under the Bridge, By the Way
16 Oct 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Pepsi Center, Denver, CO, USA
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Hard to Concentrate, Search and Destroy by Iggy & The Stooges, Go Robot, Californication, Aeroplane, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
EncoreO.D.'d in Denver by Hank Williams, Jr., Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
11 Oct 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, Mexico
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Mommy Where's Daddy, Me & My Friends, Go Robot, Californication, The Power of Equality, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, Suck My Kiss, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
EncoreI Know It's Gonna Happen Someday by Morrissey, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
17 Sep 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Citi Field, Flushing, NY, USA
MainCan't Stop, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Go Robot, Californication, What Is Soul by Funkadelic, Aeroplane, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, In My Life by The Beatles + Under the Bridge, By the Way
29 Jul 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Kaisaniemi, Helsinki, Finland
MainAround the World, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Wet Sand, Me & My Friends, Go Robot, Californication, What Is Soul by Funkadelic, Aeroplane, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
EncoreDebaser by Pixies, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
25 Jul 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Stadion Cracovii im. Józefa Piłsudskiego, Kraków, Poland
MainAround the World, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Pea, Wet Sand, Search and Destroy by Iggy & The Stooges, Go Robot, Californication, Aeroplane, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Under the Bridge, By the Way
21 Jul 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Ippodromo del Galoppo di San Siro, Milan, Italy
MainAround the World, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Otherside, Dark Necessities, Hey, Fire by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Go Robot, Californication, Charlie, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, Suck My Kiss, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
18 Jul 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at L'Asse, Nyon, Switzerland
MainCan't Stop, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Wet Sand, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Me & My Friends, Go Robot, Californication, Tell Me Baby, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
EncoreHiggs Boson Blues by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
30 Jun 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at United Center, Chicago, IL, USA
MainCan't Stop, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Otherside, Dark Necessities, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Don't Forget Me, Go Robot, Californication, Aeroplane, Sick Love, Sir Psycho Sexy, They're Red Hot by Robert Johnson, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
EncoreLet Me Roll It by Wings, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
28 Jun 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI, USA
MainAround the World, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Mommy Where's Daddy, Me & My Friends, Breaking the Girl, Go Robot, Californication, Tell Me Baby, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Under the Bridge, By the Way
EncoreAdd It Up by Violent Femmes, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
20 Jun 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Centre Bell, Montreal, QC, Canada
MainAround the World, Snow ((Hey Oh)), The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Fire by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Go Robot, Californication, Tell Me Baby, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
29 May 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Scotiabank Saddledome, Calgary, AB, Canada
MainCan't Stop, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Dosed, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Me & My Friends, Go Robot, Californication, What Is Soul by Funkadelic, Sick Love, Charlie, Dreams of a Samurai, Suck My Kiss, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
26 May 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at MTS Centre, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
MainCan't Stop, Snow ((Hey Oh)), Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Emit Remmus, I Wanna Be Your Dog by Iggy & The Stooges, Right on Time, Go Robot, Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, What Is Soul by Funkadelic, Did I Let You Know, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, I Could Have Lied, By the Way
EncoreSycamore Trees by Jimmy Scott, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
13 May 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH, USA
MainAround the World, Dani California, The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, She's Only 18, Look Around, Go Robot, Californication, The Power of Equality, Aeroplane, Sick Love, Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder, Under the Bridge, By the Way
EncoreBurn On by Randy Newman, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
27 Apr 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Amalie Arena, Tampa, FL, USA
MainAround the World, Dani California, The Zephyr Song, Dark Necessities, Hard to Concentrate, Me & My Friends, Sick Love, Don't Forget Me, Go Robot, Californication, What Is Soul by Funkadelic, Detroit, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
EncoreI'll Be Back by The Beatles, Goodbye Angels, Give It Away
19 Apr 2017 - Red Hot Chili Peppers at Colonial Life Arena, Columbia, SC, USA
MainAround the World, Dani California, Scar Tissue, Dark Necessities, Hey, Aeroplane, Go Robot, Californication, Tell Me Baby, Don't Forget Me, Sick Love, Suck My Kiss, Soul to Squeeze, By the Way
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Bangladesh is a country located in South Asia, bordered by India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar. One of the world’s most densely populated nations, Bangladesh has an estimated 160 million people squeezed into its area of less than 150,000 square kilometres. Though the country’s politi-cal situation had been marked by strife, animosity between political parties and an extended pe-riod of military rule in the past, Bangladesh is today considered a Next Eleven emerging econo-my, predicted to become one of the world’s largest economies in the future.
Don’t leave Bangladesh without visiting Dhaka, the country’s capital and largest city. The beat-ing heart and economic driver of Bangladesh, Dhaka can sometimes feel like a merciless assault on the senses; with 18 million bodies in one place, the streets of Dhaka are a chaotic mix of 400,000 rickshaws, colourful billboards and banners, intensely flavoured food and hot weather. Visit the city’s majestic (but incomplete) 17th-century Lalbag Fort in Old Dhaka, as well as some of the many brightly-colored historic mosques, temples and churches scattered all around the city.
If you’re looking for a quick weekend getaway from Bangladesh, an hour long flight can get you over to neighbouring India’s Kolkata; the city is famous as the place where the remarkable Moth-er Teresa had spent much of her life. Visit the Motherhouse Convent - a museum and shrine ded-icated to the iconic nun - for an intimate understanding of the life and times of the great Mother Teresa. The Convent (where she had lived and worked within) is also the final resting place of her body. There, you can see for yourself the scantiness of her belongings and the bareness of the house one of the world’s most admired human beings had lived in without complaint.
But if you’ve time to spare and are looking for a vacation somewhere far, far away, how about a long-haul flight to Nanaimo on Canada’s Vancouver Island for some North American scenery? Nanaimo is well-known for having a diverse range of natural attractions, from the forests of neighbouring Newcastle Island, rock formations on Gabriola Island to rivers, mountains and shel-tered harbours on Vancouver Island itself.
Try your hand at deep-sea diving around Nanaimo Harbour, famous for harbouring 3 artificial reefs created from sunken ships. A dive there really is as exciting as it sounds, with colourful fish darting in and out of the barnacle-covered ruins of ancient ships. But if surface water sports is more your kind of thing, take a boat over to the nearby Newcastle Island Marine Provincial Park for some stand-up paddling, kayaking and canoeing.
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Galloping on Wings With The P-51 Mustang: Diary of an air race pilot
by Howie Keefe
Howie Keefe takes you behind the scenes to get a personal glimpse into the amazing and precarious world of air racing. The author's thrill-a-minute account is an inspiring chronicle of his many fascinating adventures from a lifetime of aviation exploits. Ride along at over 400 mph as he describes remarkable events from his early days of training to setting records and winning trophy after trophy in numerous Unlimited Class Air Races at Reno, Cape May, Miami, and more.
Howie Keefe started his flying career in 1941 flying a Piper J-3 Cub on skis while in the Civilian Pilot Training (CPT) program. After the Navy gave him a pair of gold wings, and retiring from military service in 1950, Howie found a surplus North American P-51, and highly modified it — then flew it to victory at the air races under the name "Miss America." The airplane became an icon within racing circles and is still racing today. Galloping on Wings is the story of this distinguished aircraft and the man who flew her through both trying times and victory.
Many World War II historians feel the Army Air Corps' North American P-51 Mustang was the vehicle that truly ended the war in 1945. The designers of this famed aircraft manufactured a fast, maneuverable single-engine fighter that to this day is still considered one of the most beautiful examples of the culmination of aviation art and science in the world. The legendary P-51 has acquired an almost mythical quality and remains one of the most recognizable and revered aircraft of all time.
Publisher: Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.Released: Apr 1, 2007ISBN: 9781619540460Format: book
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Galloping on Wings With The P-51 Mustang - Howie Keefe
The instrument panel of Miss America. The top eyebrow panel has the clock to tell what lap I’m on. The cluster of seven small instruments at left (induction, coolant in/out, etc.) are for easy viewing during left turn pylon races such as Reno and Miami. The clockwise (right turn) courses such as Mojave and San Diego made it tougher to monitor these and still watch for pylons on my right.
At Dulles Airport, Washington, DC after setting the speed record from Los Angeles in 6 hours, 21 minutes. Note exhaust airflow pattern.
Galloping on Wings with the P-51 Mustang
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Published 2007 by Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. Ebook edition published 2013.
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Photography and illustration credits/acknowledgement (page numbers refer to print edition): All photographs, illustrations, and articles are from the author’s collection (unless otherwise indicated), and are either owned by the author or used by permission. Photo of Cleveland air race crash of 1946 on page 92, copyright Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, used by permission. Photo page 104 copyright Paul Neuman, used by permission. Some of the air race-related photography in this book comes from John Tegler’s extensive collection (Gentlemen, You Have a Race: A History of the Reno National Championship Air Races, 1984) and is used by permission (as is the excerpt reprinted on page 295).
Cover photo ©Buddy Childers, used by permission. Taken at California Air Races, Mojave, CA—Photographer in foreground is Bill Johnson. The wingtip looked so close in his viewfinder, he dove left. Next frame showed him parallel to the ground.
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This book is dedicated to the two people who gave me the moral and financial support to have been able to race in the Unlimited Race plane class in part of three decades: 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
H.S. Pete Hoyt, 1923–2000
Pete was a few years behind me at Hamilton College. I saw him at the airport while doing my aerobatic training in the Waco and gave him a ride. Twenty years later he offered me his plane to fly. He not only started me flying again, he served as navigator on cross-country races and was a loyal member of Miss America’s crew.
Mike Eisenstadt, 1939–2001
Mike, through his company Omni Aviation, gave me both moral and financial support. When I started racing, replacing a blown engine was $1,000. When I finished, they were about $40,000. Mike helped me replace three. A great guy to have known. Always relaxed, always up.
Bob is the one P-51 Mustang pilot that all of us admire. He is truly the pilot’s pilot. His book Forever Flying is a great read for anyone in flying. His story is unique.
Bob checked me out in 1969 in his P-51 before I tried to fly mine solo. I sat in his back seat so I could be prepared for the loud roar of the engine and the landing attitude with the tail down (3 point). It was a ride I’ll never forget! Bob Hoover was kind enough to write the following for this book:
Howie and his P-51 Miss America were always stand-outs at the many air shows we flew together—they were crowd pleasers. Howie catered to the kids at the shows, to have them sit in the cockpit to have their picture taken.
Many times when I was the pace plane starting a race, I’d look back over my shoulder at the echelon starting formation of the race planes and there was Howie in Miss America eagerly awaiting my release at the race start with my transmission of Gentlemen, you have a race! Howie always deserved the term Gentleman whether on or off the race course."
—R.A. Bob Hoover
The pilot’s pilot, Bob Hoover, with his vast experience flying P-51 Mustangs checked me out in the P-51 Mustang. It was something else! (1997 photo)
Bob shows his flying skill by landing on just one wheel! The crowd was always in awe of his flying feats.
My P-51 Checkout from Bob Hoover
We took off from LAX where the North American hangar was and went to the aerobatic area off Palos Verdes in the direction of Catalina Island. Bob did a slow roll. Never have I ridden through or even tried to do a slow roll with 0-G all through it. No sensation of leaving my seat. A barrel roll might do that but not a hold-your-nose-straight-ahead slow roll. I was in awe! Coming back to land at LAX, I looked forward to the 3-point landing which didn’t happen. Instead he landed on just the left wheel, turned the plane off at the high-speed taxiway still on one wheel. When we got out he explained in his Southern gentleman accent, I’m sorry about not doing the 3-point landing. I heard that the fellows in the tower gather together when I come in to see me do that. All day long they see just airliners. Giving them a little show breaks the monotony. I understood.
A special thanks to the volunteers who made it possible from 1969 to 1981:
Crew Chiefs (from first to last)
Dick Tomasulo
Dave Zeuschel
Don Bartholomew
Bill Pitts
Skip Higginbotham
Jim Quinlan
Crew (in random order)
Pete Hoyt
Harry Quinlan
Don Reese
Brian Schooley
Ron Fleming
Jack Corrick
Len Farmer
Bill Yoak
Bill Pruitt
Jerry O’Brien
Maurice O’Brien
Steve Brown
Roger Vian
Randy Scoville
Hank Pohlman
Don Keefe
Dorrie Keefe
Mari Owens
Tom Keefe
Sue Keefe
Mike Cleary
Laura Cleary
Sue Pitts
Those who helped along the way:
(Listed in random order)
Clay Lacy—for accepting the presidency of the Unlimited Pilots Association
Don Hullet of Champion Spark Plug—for solving problems
Ben Garret of COX Manufacturing—for asking to sponsor Miss America
Bill Selzer, President of COX Manufacturing—for their sponsorship
Mike Smith—who rebuilt my scoop after I landed gear-up
Dan Macintyre, Navy Blue Angel—for getting me in the Chicago Air Show
Rodney Roetman—for donating aircraft painting
Don Dwiggins—for his articles
Verne Jobst, air boss at Oshkosh Air Show—for time slots
Starr Thompson, Oshkosh Air Show staff—for friendship
Pete Ross—for aid in getting spare parts
Dick Dobson—for building my prize-winning Glasair Magic Carpet
George Kiesel—for timely refueling at the Reno National Air Races
Bob Guilford—for advice on flying the P-51
Joe Hughes—for friendship on the air show circuit
Jim Raymond—for companionship with sponsor Omni Aviation
Dan Sabovitch, manager of Mojave Airport—for helping to bring races there
Don and Bill Whittington—for putting on the Miami Air Races
Art Scholl—for his contagious enthusiasm when COX sponsored us both
Thorton Audrain—a class act managing the Reno Air Races
Warren Lee—FAA supervisor of my early Reno Air Races, friend and advisor
Norm Winkle, LAX Center supervisor—for in-air favors
Laurie Lee Schafer—a Miss America Pageant queen who rooted for me
Marla Brubaker Pence—my secretary and parts shipper when far away
Herman Fish Salmon, Lockheed test pilot—for advice and counsel
Ken Rusnak, crew volunteer—for help developing my Sky Prints Atlas
Bill Kerchenfaut—for flight line advice on engines
Sil Petrancini, Trustee of Reno Air Races—for his can-do attitude
The Raumms: Mary, Jeannie and Bob of Aircraft Spark Plug—for top service
Richard and Ursula Tracy—for their support at the air races
Homer Groom—for drawing the first Sky Prints chart
Christa—for standing by me in good and bad times
Moya Lear—for her hospitality at the air races
Jim Reid—for working all night to repair my engine in my first Unlimited Race
John and JoAnn Adler—for friendship and great air race parties
Ted Thomas—for insuring me, and offering support and air racing advice
Phil Barber, Reno Gazette reporter—for his professional air race coverage
…and this brain trust of specialists:
Pete Law—fuel and ADI flow
Bruce Boland—dynamics
Bill Carter—headsets
John O’Crowley—radios
Ralph Payne—mechanical
Dave Zeuschel, Dwight Thorne, Mike Nixon, Jack Cochrane and Bruce Goessling—engines
Ralph Payne
Pete Law
…those who brought blue skies to my flying:
Berk Baker
Suzanne Baker
John Mosby
Lorrie Blech
Jackie Herrington
Jack Leggat
Bill and Anne McNeely
Gerry Nelson
Dr. Robert Poole
Ralph Tisdale
Manny Hirschenhorn
Barry Schiff
Jimmy Leeward
Jane Mikrut
June Allan
Robin NcNeill
Bob Newfield
Ben Schiewe
Pat Packard
Stan Brown
Margi Cellucci
Vance Stickell
Bill Sinkking
Dick Sykes
Jim Modes
Cal Conroy
Condor Squadron
Mel Larson
Pat Brady
Bob McMilin
Henry Haffke
Jack Hovey
Sandy Bloom
Buddy Childers
Joy Childers
Paul Neuman
John Tegler
Susan Oliver
Ralph Pray
Joe Friedman
Wayne Turney
Tom Quinlan
Angelo Regina
Pete Regina
Alice Rand
Frank Sanders
Frank Tallman
Alan Hanks
Leo Volkmer
Paul Czendroi
Ed Zimmer
Max Conrad
Doug Etridge
Mary Hivley
Sandy Gale
Cliff Milton
E.B. Jeppesen
Fred Kohler
E. D. Wiener
Mike Norgat
Dale Nelsen
Bob Cummings
Robyn Astaire
Vicki Montgomery
Marela Wagner
Eddie Smardan
Mike Purser
Bob Herendeen
Paul Merchant
LeRoy Berkebile
Monty Montgomery
Sandy Sanders
Walter Nielsen
Doug Cameron
Bob Schuler
Rick Schnepf
Glenn Mathews
Doris Mathews
Ron Thurber
Ron Golan
Michael O’Leary
Ed Schnepf
Lefty Gardner
Bob Cornwell
…thanks guys and gals!
Howie Keefe started his flying career in 1941 flying a Piper J-3 Cub on skis while in the Civilian Pilot Training (CPT) program. After graduation from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, he received a commission from the Navy along with a pair of gold wings.
Being a prior civilian flight instructor, Howie taught aerobatic maneuvers to fledgling Navy flight cadets. Later, he moved on to multi-engine training, flying PBYs and P2V Neptunes for anti-sub patrol within the Bermuda triangle.
In 1950, Keefe retired from Squadron VPML-54, Glenview NAS, Chicago, Illinois, and went off to civilian life as Marketing Director for the Chicago Tribune. He was also a marketing instructor at Northwestern University in the Medill School of Journalism.
After military service, Howie’s heart remained in the sky. He found a surplus North American P-51, had it highly modified by installing a new race engine, oversized propeller and clipping two feet off each wing. Howie Keefe flew his Mustang on to victory during the glory days of air racing. The famed Miss America became an icon within the racing circles and still races annually at the National Air Races at Reno.
Howie holds two records. The original speed record from Los Angeles to Washington, DC of 6 hours, 21 minutes, and the most consecutive number of unlimited pylon races—21 races.
Howie is now fully retired and spends his days writing flying memoirs. He resides in Florida with his wife, Midge.
COX made U-Controlled flying models of Miss America and Revell made a 1/32nd scale snap-together plastic model. It’s pleasing to have men come up to me today and tell me how they enjoyed making or flying these models when they were kids many years ago.
These pages make a photo album for this book…
In 13 years of air racing (1968–1980), these are the pilots I still recall racing with me.
Howie Keefe
Also: Chuck Doyle–1,3 • Ron Reynolds–1 • Mike Geren–2
They Went West —I Knew Them Well
In aviation, we tend to honor our fallen friends then surge on ahead. In these pages, I want to pause and remember them with this permanent record. These air race and air show pilots were all special. Though I lost them as friends and competitors, they went west where they liked to be—at the controls of a plane.
I lost a lot of friends who added a great deal to the exhibition and racing side of aviation, but there was no place their names were recorded so that I might honor their memory. My chin cowl became that place for me—and these pages expand on that by showing or listing those I knew in my years of racing.
Women’s Air Racing
Women’s Air Racing began with cross-country races like the famed Powder Puff Derby—then to pylon racing in the ’60s in stock planes and Formula Ones, then to T-6s and even Unlimiteds.
1929 Women’s Air Derby. Amelia Earhart is fourth from right. At far right, Pancho Barnes of the Happy Bottom Riding Club, the hangout for test pilots at Edwards Air Force base mentioned in books by Bob Hoover and Chuck Yeager.
Women’s Stock plane pylon racers, Ft. Lauderdale 1970. L–R Dorothy Julich, Judy Wagner, Mary Knapp, Edna White, Elaine (DuPont) Loening, Trina Jarish and Mara Culp. (John Tegler photo)
(Left) Joan Alford, Formula One Racer. (Right) Bernie Stevenson, Formula One Racer
(Left) Colene Giglio–T-6. (Right) Erin Rheinschild, P-51 Mustang
With Susan Oliver at a book signing relating her transatlantic solo flight in her book Odyssey.
Announcers Make the Show!
While I was racing and performing at air shows, these announcers kept the crowds alive with their dramatic voices creating an atmosphere of suspense and daring while narrating the show acts or races. Without their expert knowledge, few in the crowd would know what was happening. They and a good sound system are vital to any air event. These are some of the great announcers I enjoyed having on the mike 1968–1980.
Roscoe Morton, a great one! (not pictured)
...and many others at air shows all over the U.S. entertained the crowds.
Photographers!
Keep the Memories Alive!
I wish I had photos of all the photographers who devoted their careers to air show and air racing. These are a few of those who excelled during my time in the air.
My Youth was Filled with Aviation Heroes
I read his book WE over and over.
Meeting Roscoe Turner was awe-inspiring to me!
Max Conrad, the Flying Grandfather set amazing long distance records.
The great Jimmy Doolittle WAS aviation.
Few pictures were as pretty to me as this one of the Cleveland races in the 1930s.
I met Wrong Way Corrigan at the fete for Rutan’s Voyager. He never admitted he meant to fly New York to Ireland July 17, 1938 vs. across the U.S. He was the twinkling eye tongue-in-the cheek of aviation.
Humor was rare in air racing, but what there was, helped relieve the tension we all felt.
Nick Jones amused us all with his annual award of his Italian stiletto to the unfortunate among us during that race week.
Howie, I think we need to have a talk about your pylon technique.
My rubberband broke...
In the Navy Reserve in 1946 following WWII at the Glenview Naval Station north of Chicago. Although I was officially in the multi-engine (land) Squadron VPML-54, I could check out an SNJ (AT-6) like this one to keep up on aerobatic skills. We’d have exhausting dog fights with the SNJs. The Navy wanted us to be as versatile as possible by keeping our hands in all types of flight and navigation.
The Desire to Fly
As early as I can remember, my father would take us out to events in the areas north of Chicago. Events that were flying-through-the-air events. It was in the early 1930s. I was 10 years old in 1931. Dad was never one to take a chance himself, but he was an avid spectator. He passed away in 1966 never having been in an airplane—not even an airliner. But if there was something dramatic going on, he’d take us there.
I can recall Cary, Illinois about 40 miles northwest of Chicago where they had a giant ski jump. Dad would take us there and I’d marvel at the many foreign names of the ski jumpers. These men would fling themselves into the air and land smoothly a great distance below. It was amazing! Once it wasn’t so good. I can still see him today. He was a Norwegian.
As Dad explained it, he was jumping in a strong crosswind. He lifted off the jump with his arms stroking forward. He was high above us. Then he started to drift to our left—to the side of the landing area where we were standing. I was standing there transfixed. To me these flying guys were super-human. Nothing could touch them. They were the Spiderman and the Superman that had not even been invented at that time. They could do anything.
Suddenly, he bent over as if in a crouch. He hit the downhill slope with a tremendous impact. Chunks of snow filled the air. He tumbled downhill with his skis flailing as he tumbled over and over. My young eyes could not believe this was happening! This God-to-me had become a mortal. He had literally flown off this high precipice, had taken flight and now he had crashed to the ground. How could this happen? My vocabulary did not have the designations of super such as super-heroes or super-persons, but if it did, he would have been one.
Boys at the age of 10 feel immortal. Anything we think we can do, we can do. Nothing can happen that could end our life. Maybe it would put us in bed a few days, but that was it. Make us a hero in school by having a cast on our arm so the girls could autograph it. Skiing was just starting to become big in the early 1930s, but 10-year-old boys didn’t do it, so there were no ski injuries that you could wear as a badge to school. The stand-out hero was Tarzan. We saw his movies. We saw him swinging through the vines from tree to tree. Our neighborhood had trees. If Tarzan could do it, we could do it, too. Okay, we didn’t have vines, but we had ropes. Just hang a few ropes in two trees and swing like Tarzan. If you didn’t make the next rope, then grab the branch.
Problem was that we were not monkeys. Leaping for a branch just out of our grasp made you drop—and drop hard! If there was a pile of leaves below you, it wasn’t so bad. But without that cushion, the fall hurt and many of us suffered broken bones. I think the modern science of orthopedics grew out of the Tarzan era.
My dad took me to see the ski jumps at Cary, Illinois. I’d never seen man fly before and it fascinated me! Man flying like a bird—alone!
Between watching ski-jumping accidents and surviving my Tarzan years, I learned a great truth. Man was not born to fly. If you wanted to fly, you had better pay attention to a safe way to do it. Sometimes in later life I forgot that point, but still managed to survive.
Flying was simple back in the early 1930s. All planes had propellers. Some had cabins, but most seemed to have open cockpits. You could have your dad lift you up alongside the open cockpits to see the great number of instruments the pilot needed. Very impressive. Even the simple fluid compass mounted on top of the dashboard commanded authority. Cars didn’t have a compass. Cars had roads. Trains had tracks. But a plane—that was different. They went all over the skies to exciting places. They needed a compass!
My Own Plane
One year at Christmas, I lucked out. I was 11 years old. A new toy came out. It was a 12-inch plane tethered to a pylon. An electric motor powered it. The neat part was that it had a joy stick and speed control. I could make it go up and down. Slow it down for a landing on the living room carpet. Then make it take off by adding power and pulling back on the joy stick. I could play with it for hours. Just plug it in to the wall socket. In those days you didn’t need a trust fund to buy batteries that wore out after a few hours of play. My friends and I could do this all day long.
A plane with a spinning prop! I could make it go high or sweep low, make it go fast for takeoff, or slow to land. I flew it for hours!
The thought of getting into a real plane was about as remote a reality as it is for kids today to play with space ships and consider it a real possibility that they will ever sit in one, much less fly one. Flying an actual plane was just not available to average kids like me. Besides, my father was so conservative about risks that I’d never think of asking him to let me take a plane ride from a barnstormer of that era.
Attending My First Air Race
Curtiss–Wright Airport was a few miles west of Glencoe, Illinois where we lived. It was 20 miles northwest of Chicago. It later became the Glenview Naval Air Station. Dad took me out there for the Air Races. It was about 1932–1933. I was about 11 years old. What I saw happen at those races soured me not only on flying, but on air racing as well. Just before we arrived there, a small race plane had crashed into the powerlines at the south end of the field. Parts of the plane were still dangling from the power lines. It was announced that the pilot had been killed. This was not what I had dreamed what flying was nor what Lindy had done with his plane.
These planes were so small I felt I could lift one up by myself. These were the Formula One type racers of today, but they had open cockpits. At age 11, these cockpits were as low as my shoulder. I could look right into the cockpit and see the floorboards, the seat, the stick, the instruments, the rudder pedals, everything. But what I remember most to this day was that one of these planes had a St. Christopher medal attached above the instrument panel in plain view. Even though I was a Catholic and knew St. Christopher protected the traveler, these types of things belonged in our maid’s room or in a church, not on the dashboard of a mighty race plane that courageous men flew. Okay, so a race plane hung in the wires a few blocks away and the pilot had been killed, but he wasn’t really dead. He just died as they did in the movies of cowboys and Indians.
Then when one of my first heroes, Knute Rockne, the famed coach of Notre Dame, was killed in a passenger plane crash over the Midwest during a storm, the adventuresome world of flying started to take on a somber meaning to me. About that same time, President F.D. Roosevelt decreed that the Army Air Corp would carry the nation’s airmail to link the country even closer. The results were a disaster!
Not the Army Air Corps, not anyone, nor any plane was suited to fly tight time schedules in almost any weather, day or night. The flight and navigational instruments were okay in marginal VFR (visual) weather, when the pilot had the say of go/no-go. But when pilots trained to dog fight were asked to do long cross-country flights in any kind of weather and on a schedule, the crashes were far greater than anyone had predicted. After the nation’s hue and cry over the number of crashes, the numbers of pilots killed and the amount of mail lost, Roosevelt called off his order to have the Army Air Corp fly the mail. I remember a cartoon in the Chicago Daily News at the time that showed Roosevelt in an open cockpit plane making a U-turn in the air. The caption was, It takes a good pilot to admit he’s wrong.
Flying was now a sobering thing to me. It still held a fascination, but one I would probably never realize in the real world I lived in. Go to high school. Study hard. Go to a good college. Have a profession. Get a good job. Raise a family. And, above all, be sensible.
Well, something changed all that for me. It was the movie All Quiet on the Western Front with Lew Ayers, a young German infantry soldier. It came out about 1931. Other movies like Wings with Buddy Rogers had made WWI seem glamorous. This movie, AQOWF, was the opposite. It showed guys getting legs blown off, living in mud, bombs falling everywhere. You lived stuck in a trench, barbed wire tore at your body, machine gun fire mowing down soldier after soldier and bayonets stabbing each other in hand-to-hand combat. My aunt had taken me to see it at the State–Lake Theater in Chicago’s downtown loop area. She thought any red-blooded American boy would enjoy this after having a tooth removed. I sat through the movie wide-eyed. I had never seen anything like this before. War movies had always been glamorous. In this, Lew Ayers was killed at the end reaching forward for a butterfly from his rifle position in a trench. Whoa!—this was a different take on war.
Eight Years Later—1940
In 1940, I was a junior at Hamilton College in upstate New York in Clinton just outside Utica. War was raging in Europe. We had Bundles for Britain : food, clothing and money drives. Some dropped out of college to go to Canada to train for the Royal Air Force. To me these guys were like the adventuresome Lawrence of Arabia, Richard Halliburton and the famous race and air show pilot Roscoe Turner. There was no way I could break my station as a conservative student and toss away all the education I had been given and join these guys. I was going into the profession of law and that was it. Period.
Then a wonderful thing happened. A person from the War Department visited the campus. Of course, I was over 18 and had to be registered for the draft, so I was very interested in anything they said about what my status might be. Right now I had an educational deferment being in college full-time. He explained that the nation was short of pilots, that the government had a program that my college had in place to train pilots. My college would give us 3 semester credit points for taking the course. This sounded too good to be true!
At the time I had an English Lit course with a professor who giggled all the time and had odd theories like that the source of Shelly’s follow, follow was from Christ. I really could not handle this vague thinking. My mind was too practical for it, maybe too immature. To be able to swap a course in flying for this was like being rescued from a semester of boredom.
Because I was only 19 and not yet 21, my father had to sign a permission statement saying that I could take the flight course. My father, the conservative take-no-chances person, was the key to my getting into the program. What luck. He probably wouldn’t approve. All might be lost!
I had 30 days to get his signature on the application. All we had in those days was the mail. No FedEx or UPS. No faxes. Just the mail. Yes, there were Western Union telegrams, but not for forms and signatures. The mail took 5 days to get to Chicago and another 5 to 6 days to get back to college. There wasn’t a lot of time for correspondence back and forth. In those days, long-distance telephone calls were for business and emergencies.
My letter had all the great arguments to get Dad to approve my application to take the flight program. This was only 9 years after I had seen the movie All Quiet on the Western Front. Nine years today is yesterday to me. Then it was a different era. It looks like war is sure to come, I don’t want to be in the trenches, flying is the future, please sign and return it to me as soon as possible. Two weeks before the deadline to submit my application, I received it back signed, but with this note. Please think this over for at least a week before you turn it in.
I must confess to my departed father that it took me only two seconds to think it over. I ran through the snow across campus to the Dean’s office with my signed application for the Civilian Pilot Training course. The magic, official, signed paper was done. It created my future more than any single event ever would. It led me into the world of flight!
Free Flying from Uncle Sam
The year was 1940 and it was winter in upstate New York in that famous snowbelt that picked up the moisture from Lake Erie. It stretched from the tip of Lake Erie through Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse down to Utica where Hamilton College and the Utica airport were located.
Hamilton College sat on a hilltop above Clinton, NY about 40 miles southeast of Syracuse and 10 miles west of Utica, NY. The airport was about 5 miles to the right. It was tough academically, but I enjoyed its own golf course (top left) and the indoor hockey rink (top left building). At the time it was men only.
As I reflect back on this government flying program—CPTP (Civilian Pilot Training Program)—I marvel at the vision and the simple way it was put together at a time when flying and aviation were pretty much a sport and exhibition-oriented. The idea of an air war in pre-Pearl Harbor days and a future need for pilots was not the hot button of the time. In fact, far too little has been said about this critical program to WWII and the development of aviation in the U.S.
The only full explanation I have seen of why and how it started was published by the Smithsonian Institution in its FLYER newsletter in the spring/summer edition of 2000, 61 years after it started! Written by Stanley D. Schneider, it’s worth sharing:
"Even in these days of America’s preeminence in air and space, few people can recall or have read about in their history books the Civilian Pilot Training Program (CPTP). It was the brainchild of Robert H. Hinckley in the late 1930s to teach American youth the fundamentals of flying.
"Hinckley was a Mormon born in Utah in 1891. He was nominated by then-President F. D. Roosevelt in 1938 to be one of the 5 members of the newly-created Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA), now called the FAA. Hinckley believed that American youth not only should, but must, be introduced to the new air age by learning to fly and taking courses that would familiarize them with the emerging science of aeronautics. Soon after becoming a member of the CAA, he proposed a program that would give young people flight training through universities, colleges, local fixed-base operators, and flight schools certified by the CAA. The universities and colleges would provide ground instruction; the fixed-base operators and flying schools, the flight instruction. Hinckley believed his program would fulfill two national needs, stimulating private flying and providing a standing reserve of civilian pilots who could be called on in a wartime emergency.
Senator Robert H. Hinckley (Utah)
"But before Hinckley’s idea could take wings—and become a working government program—many obstacles had to be overcome. Not the least of these was industry’s dislike of previous Administration aviation policies and programs, not to mention the concerns of the military about the directions, controls, and ultimate worth of the program. Many educators also raised questions. And, there were doubts in Congress, which would need to approve the funding. Debates in Congress covered many issues, but particularly contentious were the issues involving the military. Hinckley and his supporters had to assure Congress that the role of the CAA would not be to train military pilots, but only to establish a pool from which young people ‘with the equivalent of primary training’ could be drawn on now or in ‘the time of emergency.’ From there, the military could take them into advanced training. The hearings continued for several rounds, with sometimes bitter debates.
"Finally, the legislation was approved and on June 27, 1939, President Roosevelt signed the CPTP Act. Debates continued over funding, however, and it was not until August of that year that the House and Senate agreed to appropriate $4 million, with a quota of 11,000 students.
"Even before its final funding was approved, a CPTP demonstration program was underway. Thirteen participating colleges and universities had been selected to start the program either because of their ‘pioneering’ work in aeronautical engineering or because they had flight training programs. Contractors bid for the flight training. The CAA selected approximately 330 students between the ages of 18 and 25 to take part in the initial phase of the program. Physical standards were developed based on military criteria, and a flight-training program was set up. Because of the success of the initial program, the pressures of the dangers abroad, and even some favorable publicity from Hollywood in the form of a movie ‘20,000 Men a Year,’ the CPTP grew rapidly. By the end of 1939, it was training approximately 9,350 men and women at 435 colleges and universities throughout the country. It continued to expand and not just in the number of participants. The CAA contracted to train 60 students in so-called unconventional aircraft, which had built-in safety features. It also began a research program involving testing and training. This research was eventually to prove invaluable in establishing objective standards for predicting pilot success and measuring improvement and progress instruction.
"After the entry of the United States into World War II, the entire nature of the CPTP changed, reflected in a name change to the ‘War Training Service.’ Hinckley’s idea of flight training to introduce American youth to the new air age gave way to the contingencies of war.
"All told, Robert Hinckley’s accomplishment in launching and pursuing his vision of the CPTP made several contributions to this country. It provided young men and women of all backgrounds and race the opportunity to learn to fly. It also gave a scientific foundation to psychological testing and research into various aspects of pilot training and helped to bring instructional materials that would support the study of aeronautics into secondary schools. And, it did provide a pool of pilots that could be trained for the military. Many of these young people served with distinction in World War II.
"Perhaps CPTP’s greatest success, however, was as a civilian pilot training program. Despite the criticism and budget cuts it suffered during its controversial period of July 1940 to June 1942, it trained more than 98,000 pilots. Largely as a result of the intensified CPTP, the number of licensed pilots in the U.S. increased from approximately 23,000 at the beginning of 1930 to 100,000 by the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
By doing this, it helped develop a generation of Americans who would ensure the nation’s leadership in ushering in today’s great age of air and space. And all that makes the story of the CPTP a bit of history worth recalling.
I was a junior, had my Dad’s permission to take flying lessons and my hockey coach gave me passes for practice. Everything was great. The snow wasn’t a problem until I tried to land! Coming down on a snow-white landscape was a real challenge!
Up high, the snowscape was rather nice, but 10 feet above the ground it was this great white sea. Depth perception to an inexperienced student was tough. It was like What can I look at! How can I tell how high up I am? Do I look straight down? Straight ahead? Out to the side and run into something? The romance of flying was a lot less with such routine problems to face in the tough situation of trying to land a plane. Forget that the Piper Cub was coming in at only 40 miles an hour—it was 40 miles faster than I had ever been suspended 10 feet in the air with the end of the field of an unhealthy cornfield to think about too!
Slowly it began to dawn on me that the ski ruts on the runway area had some subtle shadows that could tell me where the ground was. Soon Jerry, my patient instructor in the front seat of the Cub, seemed to relax his grip on the stick, figuring I would not stall him 10 feet in the air with a landing gear breaking drop or do a plow job with the skis into the ground and perhaps an uncomfortable nose over?
Later, when landing the big PBY flying boats on glassy sea, the same problem returned but no ruts with shadows. I was then using the new polaroid glasses for flying which our squadron leader made us stop using. The value of polaroids was that they saw through surface glare, but that very surface glare is what we needed to let us see where the top of the water was to judge our height above it while landing. The polaroid advantage became a disadvantage! Even without them, a landing on smooth water required us to let down slowly and literally glide onto the water. This was okay in the open sea with no end to the runway, but here on land, the get-down area was rather limited.
The Piper J3 Cub probably trained more pilots than any other plane, except for possibly the Cessna 150. I soloed it on skis in upstate New York’s snowbelt.
Every pilot remembers those first 6 or more hours before being allowed to solo. At that time, a minimum of 6 hours of dual instruction was required before you could solo and a minimum of 65 hours total before you could take your checkride to get that coveted private pilot license. After you solo, you get a Student License which gives you some bragging rights, but also the feeling that you are still in short pants when those you meet say, You mean you can’t even take someone up?
With a private pilot license you could take up your girlfriend or a buddy. Fat chance that my parents, entrusting of me as they were, wouldn’t go up with me. Dad never did in the 30 years I flew before he died in 1966, but he loved to watch planes as I explained. After Dad died, Mother, a more pliable soul, did take a memorable flight with me in my Navy fighter trainer (an SNJ or in the Air Force/Army Air Corp the AT-6 Texan) across Lake Michigan. I almost wound up in jail for doing a buzz job on our coastal house in South Haven, Michigan. The SNJ/AT-6 makes a tremendous amount of noise and as luck would have it, a retired Air Force colonel had, unbeknown to me, moved into the neighborhood.
When we landed, my mother marveled at the reception her son was getting at the local airport with three sheriff squad cars, lights flashing, following us down the inbound taxiway. In a procession of 5 family cars that had come out to meet us led by the 3 squad cars to the colonel’s house, my mother must have thought she was in a parade! Thanks to a fast talking aunt who knew the colonel and the sheriff, I don’t think mother ever thought it was anything but a nice reception for her son!
Back to 1940. In the first 6 hours, you had to learn to do nose-high stalls that left your stomach up somewhere while the plane’s nose whipped toward the ground. When you stalled, faith in your flight instructor to get you back alive was the same as you would have in a brain surgeon. You had given up all thought of saving yourself and being on your own. Your macho stayed up there where your first stall started. Then the plane, out of flying speed, whipped its nose toward the ground like a hawk diving for its prey. Maybe you could force up a breath-holding heh-heh smile as the plane picked up speed and went back to level…and your stomach caught back up with your body. Nothing we have experienced on the ground prepares us for the sensation of that first stall. As pilots know, the stall is something like trying to go up a steep hill in a car in a high gear. Eventually you stall.
In a plane, you do two types of stalls to get used to landing stalls and to warn you to avoid an accidental stall in a tight turn. Power-off stalls give you the feeling of stalling just before the wheels touch the ground. Power-on stalls add in the torque-of-the-prop element called the P-factor
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SEB Pank replies to the clients’ questions regarding macroec...
SEB Pank replies to the clients’ questions regarding macroeconomic trends
1. Macro
Recipients: Management, Economists
What are the possible EU/US sanctions on Russia?
The probabilities of sanctions are as follows: banning entry of Russian officials, freezing accounts of Russian officials in EU / US countries, banning exports of certain goods (e.g. arms) to Russia, banning imports from Russia and banning exports to Russia.
What would be the impact of the possible EU/US sanctions on Russia to the Baltic countries’ economies?
Russia-Ukraine conflict already hurts economies of Russia and Ukraine. Russian economy is in quite difficult condition now as foreign investors turn away and capital flees from the country, both equity market and rouble drop and most of economic sectors stall. In all three Baltic States, slowdown of Russia’s economy will have a negative effect on exports and transport sector. In 2013, Russia accounted for 20% of Lithuanian, 18% of Latvian and 11% of Estonian exports. As growth in Baltic countries will decelerate due to slower growth in Russia, trade among Baltic States will also be affected to a certain extent.
What is the worst-case scenario?
In the worst case scenario, which is highly unlikely according to SEB analysts, exports and imports to/from Russia would be stopped entirely. This would have notable negative effect on Baltic economies. However, many companies which have business with Russia usually also have their “plan B” for survival. E.g. ban of Lithuanian dairy exports to Russia in 2013/2014 did not have notable effect on the overall economy despite the fact that milk and dairy products is the most important Lithuanian-origin good sold in Russia. After 1998 Russian crisis, Lithuanian exporters also were able to redirect quickly their sales to Western markets.
The weakest spot for all three Baltic countries is their energy dependence on Russia, as 100% of natural gas consumed in all three countries is bought from Gazprom. However, Baltic countries put their effort to reduce energy dependence. Lithuania should open LNG terminal at the end of 2014, Estonia plans to build joint LNG terminal with Finland in the nearest years and Latvia also considers having its own LNG terminal which would allow imports of natural gas from other countries than Russia. Power links to Poland and Nordic countries are also under construction.
Latvian banking sector is somewhat more vulnerable than in Lithuania and Estonia to the consequences of the conflict as almost half of deposits at the banks are deposits of non-residents.
Would the import ban of Russian goods severely affect Lithuania’s/Latvia‘s/Estonia‘s economy if the most hardest sanctions would be put on Russia at EU level?
Lithuania: Import ban would severely affect Lithuania’s energy system. 90% of Lithuania’s imports from Russia are oil and gas. Import ban would devastate the whole energy system: power import and production, heat production, gas import.
Latvia: Inevitably, Baltic economies would suffer the most if such strict sanctions against Russia are imposed, therefore the international society will have to seek ways how to mitigate the negative impact on Latvian economy. However, 70% of Latvia’s external trade is done with European countries and Latvian businesses have gone through Russian crisis in 1998, which has given experience how to adapt to such changes and refocus on other markets.
Estonia: Import ban would affect the most the oil supply and would disrupt somewhat the raw material supply for wood industry. Less affected would be chemical and metals industry. The most would be affected the transit trade related transportation companies. The share of Russian imports in total imports is 6% and much of it is transit trade.
What may the impact of a loss of the Russian export market be on Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia?
For Lithuania: The share of Lithuania’s export to Russia is 19.8 per cent of its total export; the share of export of Lithuanian origin products to Russia is a mere 4.8 per cent. In terms of the share of export of Lithuanian origin goods, Russia ranks only number eight and, calculating in per cent, it is two times behind Germany, Latvia and Estonia. The major part of Lithuania’s export is re-export. In other words, problems would arise to foreign companies whose goods are transported to Russia via the territory of Lithuania as well as to the transport sector.
For Latvia: Russia is Latvia’s 3rd largest trade partner and in some sectors like transit and logistics cooperation with Russia is significant. However, 70% of Latvia’s external trade is done with European countries and Latvian businesses have gone through Russian crisis in 1998, which has given experience how to adapt to such changes and refocus on other markets.
For Estonia: The share of Russia in the total export is 11%, however, about 40% of it is transit trade. Thus, again, the most affected would be transportation sector, which has significant impact on economic growth, accounting for 7 per cent in total GDP. Russian related transportation services account for 15 per cent in total services export. For Estonian manufacturing companies, the loss of Russian market would affect the most the food and chemical industry and somewhat also machinery industry.
2. Banking business and relations with clients
Recipients: Contact Center, Client Executives
SEB holding statement:
For the moment we don´t see any effects on customers. Naturally, we follow the sanction decisions made by the EU or other international bodies. To ascertain that SEB's customers and counterparties are not included on the sanction lists published by the EU, SEB has introduced group-wide controls. If it becomes necessary to freeze assets, SEB will notify the Authorities.
Will SEB continue to issue loans and provide other financial services when dealing with clients who run business in Russia and Ukraine?
Such decisions are made on case-by-case basis, taking into account all the risks. We advise our clients who have businesses in Russia or Ukraine to consider the increasing risks and seek to secure themselves against risks of deteriorating economic and political situation in these countries.
Can instability in Ukraine and deteriorating economic situation in Russia have a negative impact on SEB or cause its insolvency?
SEB’s home markets are Scandinavia and the Baltic States, and SEB does not rely on Russian or Ukrainian markets for financial resources or clients. Therefore situation in Ukraine and Russia has no direct impact on operations of SEB in Scandinavia and the Baltic States. SEB will continue to maintain high levels of capital adequacy and liquidity as well as ensure safety of our clients’ assets.
What will happen to my money (clients‘ money at SEB banks) if Russia enters Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania and takes control over Swedish banks?
We do not consider any violations of Estonia’s/Lithuania’s/Latvia’s sovereignty as a viable scenario. SEB operates as usual and will continue to operate in Baltics according to its long-term strategy.
It is important to bear in mind that Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania/ is a member of EU and NATO that ensures inviolable guarantees of its sovereignty.
I have a bank account in SEB Estonia/Lithuania/Latvia. If Estonia/Lithuania/Latvia faces occupation by Russia, please describe how SEB will protect my money and what kind of possibilities do I have to use my money after occupation? Please provide detailed instructions.
We do not consider any violations of Estonia’s/Lithuania’s/Latvia’s sovereignty as a viable scenario. SEB operates as usual and will continue to operate in Baltics according to its long-term strategy. This is a very hypothetic scenario. It is important to bear in mind that Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania/ is a member of EU and NATO.
Should clients be concerned for safety of their assets and consider moving them to SEB in Sweden? Should I open an account in SEB in Sweden and move my money there for more safety?
SEB considers Baltic States and Sweden as its home market and strives for the highest level of client asset security. SEB is following developments in Ukraine and Russia closely, nevertheless, in our assessment; currently we have no reason to question security of our clients’ assets in Baltics. Taking the current situation into account, we do not recommend opening bank accounts in other countries unless it is a necessary part of your business or it is related to personal changes in one’s private life.
Despite your recommendation I still want to open and account in SEB in Sweden and move my money there. What would be SEB’s solution for me?
For Private Banking customer: If, anyway, it is necessary for you to open an account in a bank operating outside Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia due to the above indicated reasons, SEB offers a standard service to its private banking customers: to open an account at SEB’s subdivision in Luxembourg or Sweden, to which you may transfer your money.
For corporate customer: If, anyway, it is necessary for your business to open an account in a bank operating outside Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia due to the above indicated reasons, SEB offers a standard service to its corporate banking customers: to open an account at SEB’s subdivision in Sweden.
For private individual (retail):
SEB does not offer such a service for private individuals, unless it’s a SEB’s private banking or corporate customer. Private customers are advised to contact directly SEB Non Resident Department in Sweden for further procedures.
Why Estonians/Lithuanians/Latvians cannot open an account in Sweden?
Questions regarding discontinuing cooperation with several banks
Does SEB cooperate with any of the persons or legal entities mentioned in US and EU sanctions list?
According to legal requirements, we are not at liberty to disclose any information about our clients. Nevertheless, we can assure you that we are following the sanctions which have been imposed and will apply them accordingly in case of necessity.
What is SEB policy towards Russian banks or any other banks, which are owned by persons to whom EU sanctions have been applied?
Naturally, we follow the sanction decisions made by the EU or other international bodies.
Has SEB put any limits in cooperation with banks correspondents in Russia?
Due to increasing risks SEB is carefully monitoring situation in Russia running the business and keeping the limits which are acceptable in current situation.
Recipients: Management, Communication Unit
Do you see any change in clients’ behavior due to Russia-Ukraine conflict and sanctions towards Russia?
For the moment we don´t see any effects on our customers no signs of changes in customers’ behavior. However, taking into account worsening situation in Russian economic situation and risks due to the latest geopolitical development, we advise our clients / companies who run business in Russia and Ukraine to take into account the increasing risks and we are guiding them to use most secure tools of running the business with partners in Russia and Ukraine.
Do SEB clients experience negative consequences caused by US and EU sanctions against Russia?
SEB is following developments in Ukraine and Russia closely and currently we have not seen clear negative tendencies in our client business operations. However, we encourage our clients to consult with the bank if they anticipate any difficulties so that both sides can agree on best solutions.
Taking into account worsening situation in Russian economic situation and risks due to latest geopolitical developments, we advise our clients who have businesses in Russia or Ukraine to consider the increasing risks and seek to secure themselves against risks of deteriorating economic and political situation in these countries.
Has SEB seen any unusual activities or increased amounts of money flow originating from Russia or Ukraine?
Since SEB’s home markets are Scandinavia and Baltic states, our clients come mainly from these countries. We are using most efficient anti-money laundering procedures to screen our transactions and eliminate any opportunities for unclear operations. We process only those payments where we are certain about the identity of both the payer and recipient as well as legal origin of funds.
Did SEB decide to discontinue its cooperation with several banks due to US and EU sanctions?
Main reason for this decision is that we have re-assessed the risks we undertake when engaging in cooperation with some of our partners. In our opinion, in some cases the risks, including reputation risks, have become unacceptable for us, therefore we have decided to limit or discontinue our cooperation. These have been separate, case-by-case decisions.
What risks are you talking about?
Due to instability in Ukraine and Russia there is a clear risk of money outflow from these countries. SEB does not want to be a part of this since our strategy is aimed in different direction – we are a home bank for Baltic and Scandinavian clients. Such transactions always carry high reputation risks. SEB has invested a lot of time and other resources in becoming one of most trusted banks in Northern Europe, and such transactions are not acceptable for us.
Why is SEB limiting cooperation with several small banks in Latvia?
In the light of recent developments in Ukraine and Russia SEB has re-assessed its risk and compliance policies. In some cases, the level of risks and costs of compliance have increased, therefore SEB has decided to limit its cooperation with some partners to protect our clients and ourselves from unnecessary risks.
What does your decision to discontinue cooperation with several banks mean for them and your clients?
We have closed some of the Vostro accounts which we are holding on behalf of other banks. As a result, those banks will not be able to process their transactions through SEB. These are purely inter-bank relations which will have no impact on daily services for our clients. Our clients will still be able to send and receive payments from all banks in Latvia and elsewhere.
With which banks has SEB ceased to cooperate in Latvia?
These are several banks working in Latvian market whose ownership structure or business orientation has exposed them to higher risk levels in the light of recent developments in Ukraine and Russia.
Has SEB ceased its cooperation with SMP bank?
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Education funding must be prioritised on the basis of need
Sinn Féin Education spokesperson, Seán Crowe TD has called for Minister for Education, Ms Mary Hanafin to "make public the criteria she used when making decisions to prioritise certain schools for funding for major projects."
Speaking in Dublin today he said:
"While I welcome the announcement of 122 major school projects it is unclear how schools were prioritised. Schools that were previously listed as priorities have not been selected for funding while some schools seemed to have jumped to the top of the list. If there are new criteria for prioritising schools then this needs to be made public.
"Many schools are in dire need of funding with many students being taught in damp unheated classes. Some schools are lacking basic facilities such as libraries, PE halls and even proper toilet facilities. Hygiene problems also plague many schools and it is not unknown for rats to be seen in school property. These are the schools that should be prioritised.
"I would urge the Minister for Education, Ms Mary Hanafin to make public the criteria she used when making decisions to prioritise certain schools for funding for major projects and to prioritise on the basis of need any future funding for schools."ENDS
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MA Medical Anthropology
MA Medical Anthropology and Intensive Language
MA Migration and Diaspora Studies
MA Migration and Diaspora Studies and Intensive Language
MA Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies
MA Social Anthropology
MA Social Anthropology of Development
MA Social Anthropology of Development and Intensive Language
MA Social Anthropology and Intensive Language
MRes Social Anthropology
MRes Social Anthropology and Intensive Language
Culture and Society of South East Asia
Module Code:
15PANH066
FHEQ Level:
Year of study:
Year 1 or Year 2
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The course examines both the societies and cultures of Southeast Asia and the anthropology of Southeast Asia from two perspectives. Firstly, it looks at some of the reasons for treating Southeast Asia as a single ethnographic region. However, rather than simply trying to look for unities and commonalities among the region’s diverse and complex societies and cultures, it considers primarily concepts and analytical perspectives that have generated important debates in the ethnography of the region, and in anthropology in general, in relation to specific issues and processes. Such a focus is primarily provided by a consideration of key ethnographies dealing with a particular country and topic, which also have a wider comparative significance.
practices of power and polity
ethnic identity crossings and transformations
violence, criminality, and the state
food sharing and kinship
local manifestations of global religions
The module is one of several regional ethnography modules offered by the Department of Anthropology (currently Culture and Society of: China, Japan, South Asia, South East Asia, Near & Middle East, West Africa, and East Africa). Each of these focuses on major cultural and social aspects, but varies in detail according to the characteristics of and scholarship on the region. Masters students in the Department of Anthropology are encouraged to study more than one regional ethnography module (albeit not normally two modules taught in the same term), to explore synergies across regions and gain a broader comparative understanding of the discipline.
Students enrol via the online Module Sign-Up system.
MA Area Studies students wishing to take this module as their ‘major’ will normally hold a degree or substantial part-degree in social anthropology or a closely related discipline. Area Studies students wishing to take this module as their ‘major’ must contact the module convenor for approval.
Objectives and learning outcomes of the module
On successful completion of the course, students will:
be able to critically evaluate a range of theories and ethnographic source material relating to the societies and cultures of South East Asia
be able to locate and use secondary sources relevant to selected topics
have a grasp of the key debates in the anthropology of South East Asia
This will form a base which will enable MA Anthropology students to write their dissertations (10,000 words) on a topic relating to South East Asia should they so wish. Skills in reading and contextualizing works on South East Asia are readily transferable to other regional studies.
Show Required reading list
Reid, A. 1988. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680. Vol 1. The Lands Below the Winds New Haven: Yale University Press.
Geertz, C. 1980. Negara. The Theatre-State in Nineteenth Century Bali. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Leach, E. 1954. Political Systems of Highland Burma. A Study of Kachin Social Structure. London: Athlone Press
Retsikas, K. 2012. Becoming – An Anthropological Approach to Understandings of the Person in Java. London: Anthem Press.
Rosaldo, M.Z. 1980. Knowledge and Passion: Ilongot Notions of Self and Social Life. New York: Cambridge University Press
Siegel, J. T. 1998. A New Criminal Type in Jakarta. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Carsten, J. 1997. The Heat of the Hearth. The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Tambiah, S. J. 1970. Buddhism and Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Scott, J. 2009. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland South East Asia. New Haven: Yale University Press
Important notice regarding changes to programmes and modules
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La Liga Predictions: #12-9
by Brian Hall on September 8, 2009
#12: Espanol
If there is any team in La Liga that deserves a good finish to the season it is likely Espanol. The club has gone through a horrific last few months that puts frustrating season’s on the pitch into perspective. While training for the La Liga season captain Dani Jarque died on the pitch of a heart attack in a preseason practice. The newly named captain will be missed by the squad and La Liga as well.
Unfortunately, the loss of Jarque right before a season begins is not only a traumatic event for the squad, but it left Espanol with little time to bring in someone else. Espanol will likely dip in the standings this season, but we hear at LLTO are pulling for the underdogs to finish with a top six finish.
#11 Athletic Bilbao
Bilbao had one of the worst defenses of any active club last season in La Liga. The club conceded 62 goals and barely survived relegation by a two point margin. But Bilbao also showed football fans their ability to play as a team in the Coppa del Rey. Bilbao advanced to the tournmanet final only to be outdone by Barcelona 4-1. Bilbao will need more results from a similar staff this upcoming year.
#10: Getafe
Getafe has been a club all over the board in the last four years. After two straight top ten finishes in 05/06 and 06/07 the club has sruggled the last few years with finishes in 14th and 17th respectively. If Getafe wants to be a top ten team again they will need some strong defensive efforts this season. Last year Getafe conceded 56 goals; the first time the club has gone over 50 in the last four years.
#9: Malaga
Can young defnesive midfielder and Barca prospect Xavi Torres put Malaga over the top in 09/10? Malaga sure hopes so because like many middle-of-the-pack squads the roster has not changed to much in the positive direction for the eighth place squad from last season. But Malaga was a first year squad last year and they did outstanding, so you never know how well new squads will do in their second season.
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Seymour Segnit
Founder, CEO & President
Segnit
Founder, CEO & President | MAGFAST
Seymour Segnit has spent a career finding smart solutions to everyday problems that plague normal folks around the globe. As the passionate and enthusiastic founder, president, and CEO of MAGFAST – a direct-to-consumer startup with an inventive new suite of sleek and powerful wireless chargers that are “changing charging for good” – Segnit is taking the lead at revolutionizing an industry full of complications and confusion.
Segnit grew up in London, where he went to Westminster School near Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament. Although he admits that formal education was never his forte, he studied engineering at Oxford University. In his early career, Segnit worked at ad agencies Ogilvy & Mather and Saatchi & Saatchi and was a radio broadcaster at Europe's #1 commercial station, Capital Radio.
After moving to the U.S. in 1997, Segnit was co-founder of a $25-million venture-funded Silicon Valley startup. Website ventures and internet marketing followed in the decade after, including an attempt to transform transportation and even helping individuals get relief from fears and phobias. Prior to MAGFAST, Segnit started his first USB charging company, which grew far too quickly and, as he puts it, “provided the excruciatingly painful experience needed to make MAGFAST a success.” In 2017, Segnit’s laser-focus and entrepreneurial spirit led him to find the missing piece in the consumer market: wireless charging.
MAGFAST, derived simply from MAGnetic + FAST, offers a range of products aimed to “revolutionize the charging industry by finally delivering a truly great charging experience.” The suite of chargers can be used individually or connected to work as a single unit like powerful Lego blocks. With the products’ test launch exceeding their crowdfunding goal of $300,000 in just 15 minutes, Segnit says that MAGFAST is just beginning; the team already has half a dozen prototypes in the pipeline for further expansion, and the sky’s the limit for potential growth as new devices hit the market and savvy consumers demand simple and beautiful alternatives to bulky cords. Segnit describes MAGFAST as “the best work of [his] life.”
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Business briefs: London Stock Exchange
Aug. 9, 2007 12:00 a.m.
The London Stock Exchange PLC (LDNXF) turned from perennial takeover target to buyer on Wednesday as shareholders approved its $2.19 billion purchase of Borsa Italiana SpA. The 1.63 billion euro deal is a major coup for the LSE following its rejection of several formal and informal offers from suitors, including the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., over the last few years.
The peanut-butter brand will return to stores this month with a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee as ConAgra Foods (CAG) seeks to reassure customers it has fixed the problems that allowed salmonella to contaminate the product. ConAgra Foods announced a nationwide recall in February after federal health officials linked its peanut butter to a salmonella infection.
Business briefs: Aston Martin and Ford
Business briefs: Campbell and Godiva Chocolatier
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9News at Noon : KUSA : September 28, 2016 12:00pm-12:30pm MDT
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airport to help the growing need. colleen ferreira takes us into the construction zone. >> dia already has fire stations on site located within the secure airfield area, they respond to airfield rescues, you may ask why do as you know the airport area is growing and has potential to grow more, so there is a definite need to have a fire station. here long paying your boulevard to respond to public needs in the area. station 35 is going in off pena boulevard you may have seen it under construction. it is the only station that is outside of the secure airfield space. the new fire station is set to staff to 24 seven with firefighters, most of them will be repositioned from another fire station others will come from downtown denver. this station will respond to sound cargo the final approach lot, pena boulevard and the other infrastructure going in outside of the airfield the fire chief says there is a need for this. >> we've had the same structural fire protection since the airport opened it is time to add the fire station commensurate with the growth that is happening. >> you saw in the video
airport to help the growing need. colleen ferreira takes us into the construction zone. >> dia already has fire stations on site located within the secure airfield area, they respond to airfield rescues, you may ask why do as you know the airport area is growing and has potential to grow more, so there is a definite need to have a fire station. here long paying your boulevard to respond to public needs in the area. station 35 is going in off pena boulevard you may have seen it under...
9News at 5am : KUSA : September 30, 2016 5:00am-5:30am MDT
city got a slow start.only 160 residents lived broomfield is booming. 9news reporter colleen ferreira spent some time in the city this week. >> let's check in with these 23 giant panda cubs made their public debut in china yesterday. go ahead. enjoy this cuddly way to end the week. they flopped around on the ground together... hang out in trees. the panda babies are all between the ages of one and four months. they are all from a breeding program at a research base. there are even ten twins in the bunch. since its establishment nearly 30 years ago, the base has bred 176 giant pandas, the world's largest artificially-bred ruby dee meets tyra "bee"... inthe next half hour- our cutest little reporter was such a hit... she landed another star interview. --adlib live . >> this is 9 news. >> one bank, one week, two robberies, we'll tell you the details about how those robbers bank. >> all right. tarhonda, thanks much. the douglas county case is going all the way to the supreme court. we'll tell you how it could change school in a lot of kids with disabilities. >>> she is cute, she'
city got a slow start.only 160 residents lived broomfield is booming. 9news reporter colleen ferreira spent some time in the city this week. >> let's check in with these 23 giant panda cubs made their public debut in china yesterday. go ahead. enjoy this cuddly way to end the week. they flopped around on the ground together... hang out in trees. the panda babies are all between the ages of one and four months. they are all from a breeding program at a research base. there are even ten...
firefighters 24/7. it'll also increase response times in that area. 9news reporter colleen ferreira will have more on the station coming up at 6am. also at the airport.by the end of next week, you will have more parking options. they are opening up another parking garage with 18 hundred spaces. it opens on the east side of the terminal. with the opening of this garage, the airport will have 44 thousand public there are also 6 free electric charging stations. the garage is a 45 million dollar project. the money did not come from taxpayers, but from a capital improvement program. the airport uses the revenue it collects from things like concessions, rental cars and parking fees to reinvest in its infrastructure. didn't trump all of t-v. but in denver... the love of the game still rules. we'll tell you why our football fans put up a fight in the t-v ratings battle this time- the senate is blocking a spending bill... and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are standing in the way. most democrats and at least ten republicans voted to block the bill. they're fighting over funds to battle zika
firefighters 24/7. it'll also increase response times in that area. 9news reporter colleen ferreira will have more on the station coming up at 6am. also at the airport.by the end of next week, you will have more parking options. they are opening up another parking garage with 18 hundred spaces. it opens on the east side of the terminal. with the opening of this garage, the airport will have 44 thousand public there are also 6 free electric charging stations. the garage is a 45 million dollar...
9News at 6am : KUSA : September 7, 2016 6:00am-7:00am MDT
two passengers to use the lanes for need three. colleen ferreira is live across u.s. 36. colleen there's in grace period. >> reporter: cdot says right now is your grace period, and that's why you should start planning for that extra passenger right now. you know what, they say why is this happening. we'll talk about this all morning long. hov 2 is only in place until december 31st. it's a hard start day of january 1st, 2017. why do we have to go to well, for u.s. 36 to be financially viable, cdot says it has to go to hov 3 so it can provide viable travel times and pay for the infrastructure out here. colorado is expected to grow 47% by 2040. this is another way to accommodate traffic on the existing infrastructure. the express lane came on hov 2 with a plan to go to hov 3. that was part of the plan to we grow in population, as we meet the traffic needs, and as we can pay off for our added infrastructure. >> reporter: cdot tells me they know this is going to be quite a transition for many of you. maybe a little tough. that's why they have a lot of resources right now so you can st
two passengers to use the lanes for need three. colleen ferreira is live across u.s. 36. colleen there's in grace period. >> reporter: cdot says right now is your grace period, and that's why you should start planning for that extra passenger right now. you know what, they say why is this happening. we'll talk about this all morning long. hov 2 is only in place until december 31st. it's a hard start day of january 1st, 2017. why do we have to go to well, for u.s. 36 to be financially...
9News at Noon : KUSA : September 7, 2016 12:00pm-12:29pm MDT
in your car to travel the express lanes for free, right now you only need two people. colleen ferreira is joining us. this is not a popular move but it has to be done? >> the decision was made years ago, in four months it will play out a lot of you commenting on the decision to say i don't travel on there anymore. this will get you prepared for the change, hov 3 starts january 1, 2017, this means driver and two more. your grace period to figure it out and find another passenger is right now, this will start the first of the year, colorado is expected to grow 47% by 2040 existing traffic and provide reliable drive times travelers.>> the express lane came on hov 2 with the plan to go to hov 3 that was part of the plan to pay for the roads and express lanes. we will be moving as we grow in population as we meet the traffic needs and as we can pay off the infrastructure. >> cdot knows this will not be an easy transition they want to help you try to find the extra for those resources, i have put a link on our website. babies and kids are people so they count as passengers in your c
in your car to travel the express lanes for free, right now you only need two people. colleen ferreira is joining us. this is not a popular move but it has to be done? >> the decision was made years ago, in four months it will play out a lot of you commenting on the decision to say i don't travel on there anymore. this will get you prepared for the change, hov 3 starts january 1, 2017, this means driver and two more. your grace period to figure it out and find another passenger is right...
9News First at 4:30AM : KUSA : September 7, 2016 4:30am-5:00am MDT
faster -- even if you can't really tell. later this morning -- colleen ferreira will have an update on some big changes -- coming to some major freeways. they are athletes that smash boundries of sport and inspire people to dream beyond limitations. the paralympic games start today in rio for athletes overcoming physical challenges. course of 11 days of competition they will run through september 18th.. some of the events include - powerlifting, wheelchair fencing, and a triathlon. colorado will be well-represented... denver native lacey henderson will hit the track for two events -- the women's 100 meter and women's long jump. the long jump will be this weekend -- and she'll run the 100 meter later in the games. in 19-99 -- henderson lost her right leg to cancer at just 9 years old- but says she plans on turning her and here's some paralympic trivia for you -- michael phelps -- meet trischa zorn... the american swimmer tops the all-time paralympics medal count... she has 55 -- 41 are gold. zorn stopped competing in 2004 -- and was inducted into the paralympic hall of fame in 20-12.
faster -- even if you can't really tell. later this morning -- colleen ferreira will have an update on some big changes -- coming to some major freeways. they are athletes that smash boundries of sport and inspire people to dream beyond limitations. the paralympic games start today in rio for athletes overcoming physical challenges. course of 11 days of competition they will run through september 18th.. some of the events include - powerlifting, wheelchair fencing, and a triathlon. colorado...
say that it likely started on or near the back deck. >>> colleen ferreira is heading out that way, and she'll keep us up to date as the story develops. in the meantime, gary and corey with you on this broken friday morning. >> victory morning. going to get into that in a few minutes. right now, marty joins us. i think one of my favorite parts of the game is when they showed the sunset over the mountains last night. it was terrific. it was beautiful. >> it was, and one of the reasons we have so much color in the sky is that lost solar fire out there near meeker, 2000-acre fire. jeff hall with this image posted to our facebook page. a lot of smoke in the area, and it provided tremendous color here yesterday. robin with this yesterday evening. even though we didn't have very many clouds, we had ton of color because there's so much smoke in the air. temperatures in the 50s to mid- 60s this morning. visibility great over the front range. it continues to be quite low around burlington. we were socked in yesterday. we are again today. we have foggy, hazy conditions over parts of eastern
say that it likely started on or near the back deck. >>> colleen ferreira is heading out that way, and she'll keep us up to date as the story develops. in the meantime, gary and corey with you on this broken friday morning. >> victory morning. going to get into that in a few minutes. right now, marty joins us. i think one of my favorite parts of the game is when they showed the sunset over the mountains last night. it was terrific. it was beautiful. >> it was, and one of...
jersey bar . he says he's not a bit -- not a hero. >> colleen ferreira is joining us now and the fbi says they found the suspect's journal and it may point to his motivation. to guess they found the journal on him when captured by jihadist type writings and the also say the writings praised the american al qaeda current -- it says it's just a hodgepodge series of references to past events, specifically mentioning the 2009 mass shooting at fort hood. so the notebook gives investigators some clues into a possible motive for the bottlings -- for the bombings but there's still no indication realized the man sleeping in front of his bar was the man he had just seen in the news because police were looking for him. >> i realized the suspect was sleeping in a doorway across the street. i did when any american would do. i called the police. i am not a hero. the police are the heroes. the emts are the heroes. everybody was working to bring new york and new jersey together today. they are >> so rahami was shot 10 times in the shootout with police. federal agents have tried to question him but t
jersey bar . he says he's not a bit -- not a hero. >> colleen ferreira is joining us now and the fbi says they found the suspect's journal and it may point to his motivation. to guess they found the journal on him when captured by jihadist type writings and the also say the writings praised the american al qaeda current -- it says it's just a hodgepodge series of references to past events, specifically mentioning the 2009 mass shooting at fort hood. so the notebook gives investigators...
9News at 5:30am : KUSA : September 9, 2016 5:30am-5:59am MDT
. >>> colleen ferreira is heading out that way, and she'll keep us up to date as the story develops. in the meantime, gary and corey with you on this broken friday morning. >> victory morning.
colleen ferreira has numbers on how many drivers are actually using the lanes. >>> denver city council members will soon decide if they want toed a five more years to the red light camera program. they could also expand as part xerox. right now there are red light cameras at four different intersections in denver, including 8th and spear. 36th and quebec. those are not the intersections with the most crashes. so denver police say they kind of like the idea of expanding the program to help exchange behaviors and reduce crashes. >> on the back side of the storm clouds, we have phenomenal color. kevin henderson with that shot for us. high humidity levels for extremely dry conditions during the afternoon today. that combined with some gusty winds, especially in northern and central colorado resulting in high fire danger conditions for parts of grand county and jackson county through the afternoon today. from noon to 7:00, red flag warnings are out. we also have flash flood watches to the south. arizona and new mexico will be swamped by tropical storm newton while high fire danger c
colleen ferreira has numbers on how many drivers are actually using the lanes. >>> denver city council members will soon decide if they want toed a five more years to the red light camera program. they could also expand as part xerox. right now there are red light cameras at four different intersections in denver, including 8th and spear. 36th and quebec. those are not the intersections with the most crashes. so denver police say they kind of like the idea of expanding the program to...
may. 9 news reporter colleen ferreira is joining us. >> and his name may sound familiar to many of you. in the summer of 2013 mackeeda resigned in december of 2014. he is in court today for allegations that came about almost a year and a half after former under sheriff paulo presley and former sheriff's commander juan st. augustine will also be in court today. some of the things they're accused of threatening to terminate a contract with a company if that company didn't fire an employee that they didn't like. and coercing a woman who was involved in a domestic dispute to take back her the three of them posted bond back in may so they're not in jail at the moment. but they will make their first court appearance today at 1:30. >>> 6:38 right now. dreams of plenty of water and healthy fish in the south platt river. denver water and state it will include restoring clean fresh water. to restore the river to conditions in which trout can reproduce. >>> waters in canyon is such a beautiful place but as of today you're going to have to enjoy it -- pardon me -- on the weekends. crews make repai
may. 9 news reporter colleen ferreira is joining us. >> and his name may sound familiar to many of you. in the summer of 2013 mackeeda resigned in december of 2014. he is in court today for allegations that came about almost a year and a half after former under sheriff paulo presley and former sheriff's commander juan st. augustine will also be in court today. some of the things they're accused of threatening to terminate a contract with a company if that company didn't fire an employee...
Today : KUSA : September 19, 2016 7:00am-10:00am MDT
2017 passat s >>> good morning, i'm colleen ferreira at what's happening on channel 20. an explosion -- now the fbi looking for a suspect in a series of bomb beings in the new york and jersey area. springs who takes giving to a different level. we'll have those stories, but now we're going to check with amelia and belen for traffic. >> thank you so much. we're getting out to a start. it's a monday. we begin with a full closure of i-70 leading up to veil pass. i got a tweet from a woman who said i was going to take pictures today, westbound with all the beautiful fall closures, but we're closed at veil. there's a rollover and the detour off i-70 at coppermo highway 91. in denver, we're clear. 25 northbound at plum creek, but a new crash settling on c-470 eastbound at wadsworth and along those delays, 25 miles-per-hour leading up to the crash. >>> as far as the weather goes, temperatures today are going to be very summer-like. this, even though we're a few days away from summer -- fall, rather. highs in the upper 80s and lower 90s. temperatures in the foothills. 70s and 80s this sweate
2017 passat s >>> good morning, i'm colleen ferreira at what's happening on channel 20. an explosion -- now the fbi looking for a suspect in a series of bomb beings in the new york and jersey area. springs who takes giving to a different level. we'll have those stories, but now we're going to check with amelia and belen for traffic. >> thank you so much. we're getting out to a start. it's a monday. we begin with a full closure of i-70 leading up to veil pass. i got a tweet from...
Today : KUSA : September 14, 2016 7:00am-9:59am MDT
wife. colleen ferreira will have a live shot to bring us up-to-date. >>> hero's week continues. we're going to introduce you to a teacher in jefferson county going above and beyond for her students. records posted for the record to see and a russian hacking group listed and the substances they took, but the anti-doping -- >>> a couple of problems along i-25. most of them stalls not accidents. in the middle of heavy traffic. it's a slow go at i-25 at university which is somethingt to seeing. this stall on northbound at i-25 at kalamath and another one south of this is causing bigger problems on southbound i-25 right at yale. speeds directly behind that. down to 16 miles-per-hour. it's a busy area, so that's making it tougher out there this morning >> that looks wicked. for us this morning, more sun than yesterday. we'll be clearing things off in northern colorado here shortly before a few very light showers around the lunch hour. more of us will be seeing some thunderstorms later in the afternoon and evening and we're on the look out for potential heavy rain and even hail especi
wife. colleen ferreira will have a live shot to bring us up-to-date. >>> hero's week continues. we're going to introduce you to a teacher in jefferson county going above and beyond for her students. records posted for the record to see and a russian hacking group listed and the substances they took, but the anti-doping -- >>> a couple of problems along i-25. most of them stalls not accidents. in the middle of heavy traffic. it's a slow go at i-25 at university which is...
. that is before any bomb related charges is being added in. colleen ferreira will have an updating an update of what terrorism means. >>> homes and apartments in denver will 1 day be immune to the crazy prices we're seeing now. denver is working to make affordable housing more available. >>> and an old question, what's better apple or samsung? one group put both through a round of tests and we'll tell you how they graded out. >>> right now let's check the weather and traffic with amelia and -- >> it's a busy start through i-25 and the c-470 corridor is busy, but the cloud cover is helping us. this is a view of i-25 around alameda, s slowdowns are starting to inch towards the exits at logan and university. and out across our side streets, we'll talk beginning the auto-pedestrian crash with north havana closed down. on channel 20, we're going to have the detours. >> there's several of them. >>> this morning, beautiful sunrise. let's take a look at these pictures sent in by our viewer, julia sent this picture in. she's getting ready to get to work on the plains. the the winds are bringin
. that is before any bomb related charges is being added in. colleen ferreira will have an updating an update of what terrorism means. >>> homes and apartments in denver will 1 day be immune to the crazy prices we're seeing now. denver is working to make affordable housing more available. >>> and an old question, what's better apple or samsung? one group put both through a round of tests and we'll tell you how they graded out. >>> right now let's check the weather and...
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Games and the Fear of Death
By Shamus Posted Wednesday Aug 20, 2008
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The convention is that survival horror games are very brutal and unforgiving. The combat is finicky and mistakes are devastating. Resources are scarce, and consuming too many now can mean hitting an impossible barrier down the line. Your character tends to die often. Even the ability to save is sometimes rationed. Allow me a moment of presumption and arrogance, but I think survival horror game designers have been undermining the very atmosphere they’re trying so hard to build. They’re doing it wrong.
Consider these two types of fear:
Oh no! The grue is going to eat me! How horrible!
Oh man. The grue is going to eat me and I haven’t saved in half an hour.
Now, if your goal is to just create a serious challenge for tenacious players to overcome (and some people really do like that sort of thing) then routine player death is a required component of that. But I think in most cases the extreme difficulty is part of a misguided attempt to make the game more frightening. You feel the first kind of fear when you’re immersed in the game. You only feel the second when you are not immersed. The first kind is the thrilling kind. The second is an immersion-breaking killjoy. Which means that – counter-intuitively – if you want to scare a player you should make every effort to avoid killing them.
You need to approach the game with an awareness of how much real threat you want vs. how much perceived threat you need to create the right atmosphere. They are not the same thing.
When it comes to movies, people like Spielberg regularly use this sort of thing to create nail-biting moments. If you take yourself out of the movie for a second, you know Spielberg isn’t going to let the dinosaur eat the little girl. You know she’s going to live until the end of the movie. Yet when the dino is snapping and missing her face by an inch it’s still edge-of-seat time, because you’re immersed in the movie. This often works even when you’ve seen the movie before and there can be no doubt in your mind about the survival of the girl. You’re fully aware that the real threat is zero, yet the perceived threat is off the charts. (Assuming you’re into dino movies. Naturally tastes differ.)
If they’re immersed, the player will fear death the same way they will fear for the life of Spielberg’s pint-sized protagonist. Actually dying is a bit of a let down, though. They end up at the menu. Suddenly they realize that the death they feared is more of an inconvenience than a source of terror. They remember that it’s all just a game, and that they just lost. They’re either annoyed that they have to replay a lot of the game or relieved that they just saved recently. Either way, they are out of the game and death is no longer the great unknown. It’s going to take them a while to settle back into character.
Worse, dying means replaying a section of the game, which is counter-productive if you’re trying to manipulate them. They will notice that cat that jumped out or the shutters that banged in the wind right when they entered the room. The sound of footsteps from the floor above they heard right when they opened the cupboard. It seemed unnerving the first time, but when it happens again your artifice behind the experience will be exposed. Like pulling back the curtain on the Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz, they will see that there was never anything to be afraid of in the first place. Making the player replay a section is like doing the same magic trick twice.
Thus the goal is to menace the player with death while doing your level best not to kill them, to cheat (on their behalf) as far as you can without getting caught. You have to walk a fine line: If you’re too harsh, the player is yanked out of the game and dumped back at the loading screen. If you’re too gentle, the illusion will be broken and the player will realize you’re all bark and no bite. The real art of scaring the player – behind the monsters and spooky sounds and blood and frightening imagery – is to strike the right balance between these two extremes, to make the perceived threat as high as possible and the real threat as low as possible.
I’ll offer a few meager suggestions of my own:
Have monsters pause right in front of the player for a blood-chilling howl – it scares them silly, but it also gives them a chance to back off and take a free shot or run or whatever they’re doing in this context. Half-Life 2 did this with the fast zombies, and it was one of their more frightening moments, despite it making them less dangerous.
Monsters should telegraph their arrival. Those moments between the point where the player realizes they’re about to be attacked and the actual onset of combat are the most suspenseful moments, and you want to hit that note as often as you can. Silent Hill does this with the static radio sounds that precede monsters. Half-Life 2 does this with the howling of the fast zombies and their clanking as they climb the drainpipes. Again, having the monsters make noise makes them more frightening and at the same time less dangerous.
If you’ve got a third-person game: Have monsters grab and the players and shake them for a second or two before chowing down, giving the player time to recover or pull away. Like the zombie grabbing your ankle in Resident Evil, it’s really alarming to have something grasp your avatar like that, and it will get the player’s heart pounding. Many won’t even think about the fact that they didn’t get hurt, they’ll be too busy thinking, “Gah! It touched me!”
Have monsters do less damage as the player’s health gets low. This one seems cheap and obvious, but Valve Software has been doing it for years and most people never even noticed. This works the other way as well: Healing resources heal you in proportion to how injured you are.
Take a page from Spielberg’s dino, and have the monster lunge too soon or too late, so it will just barely miss them. You don’t want to do this every time, and you probably want to save it for special occasions to keep your monster from seeming incompetent. Perhaps have the monster miss once if the player is very low on health.
But in any game with combat governed by player skill, you have to allow for death and work to mitigate its negative effects on immersion.
One of your primary goals is going to be to conceal how much you’re helping the player. If the player stops fighting back – maybe they went to get the phone, or a sandwich, or the batteries died on the wireless controller – then the last thing you want is for them to come back and see they’re still alive after fifteen seconds of standing passively while the hellspawn nibble away at them. It will shatter your illusion, for good. So, standing still needs to be very deadly. The same can be said for hopeless situations: If the player gets surrounded and backed into a corner from which there is no possible escape, it’s better to kill them outright than to wait for their health bar to run out. You could make such a situation an insta-kill: The player is dragged into the mob (away from the camera) like your classic zombie-movie victim. Again, killing the player is bad, but revealing that monsters aren’t an imminent mortal threat is worse.
I’ve said before that I think survival horror is one of the purest and most challenging forms of game design. Other genres can get by with amusing gameplay and graphical pizazz, but here you live and die on the strength of your ability to create an immersive experience. As most survival horror games have proven, you can create lots of stress by making a game with tricky combat and being stingy with healing supplies, and then spacing out save points as far as possible. Throw in a few cheap “gotcha” moments and you have the formula for a really nerve-wracking game. But creating fear requires a bit more finesse. This isn’t to say existing games aren’t scary at all. Some of them are excellent. It’s just that I think they could be even better if the weren’t undermining themselves so often.
Survival horror is very much a niche genre – much more niche than its movie counterpart – and I think this is because nobody has really tapped its potential yet. It might sound like hyperbole, but I honestly think that if a game designer would approach the task as someone working to create an experience, they could create one of those landmark titles that redefines the genre and sets the standard for future games.
Barring that, if I could get them to stop yanking me out of the world with meta-game decisions about when I should save the game I’d call it a step in the right direction.
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IncredibleGeek says:
Wednesday Aug 20, 2008 at 11:23 am
I’m reminded of a moment in FEAR that sticks out to me as a good example of what you describe here. You’re crawling through dark pipes, you’ve been hearing noises all over the place, you’ve seen little glimpses of something around corners, and your flashlight is dying.
All of a sudden bam! some little girl is headed right towards you not 10 feet away! You naturally panic and unload whatever weapon you happen to have with you and the apparition dissipates under the barrage of lead.
At first you kind’ve wonder if your bullets really had any effect. Did is go away on it’s own? Was I just wasting ammo in a fit of panic? A friend of mine thought it was just a hallucination, so when he played through it, he went all tough guy and didn’t open up when she appeared. He promptly died. He was shocked.
Eric Meyer says:
I’m reminded of the first time I saw the “sentry gun” scene in the director’s cut of Aliens , after having seen the theatrical version quite a few times. It was remarkable: I knew there would be no casualties, but what I felt was quickly rising tension and even fear.
So that’s another place game developers can look for sources of fearsome inspiration.
“amusing gamplay amd graphical pizazz” <- I am assuming that was a typo? These articles are giving me an itching to make survival horror games. To bad I am only one man with no major game-company in my pocket...
Shamus says:
Kemmet: Thamks for poimting out typo. Fixed.
Also: You and me both. I’m an RPG player at heart, but I think making spooky games is where the interesting work and opportunities exist.
Nathanael Phillip Cole says:
Sometimes, I’m curious if there are any games that you actually like.
Handling character death can be a tricky thing. That goes for pretty much any medium. This wasn’t something I really thought about much until about a year or two ago when someone I know started talking about death in RPG’s (the tabletop kind) and it really made me think and I look at it a lot differently now. Before then, I (like probably a lot of people) saw character death as a necessary and important aspect of games.
Now I realize there are many many ways to tell a good story and keep dramatic tension high and that death is pretty low on the list (at least for me).
Back to your post: I think you’ve done an excellent job of seeing just how character death plays a role in this genre and how the idea of death, not just actual dying, can be much more satisfying although harder to utilize well.
droid says:
It’s not that counter-intuitive, it is like real life where if you want to scare me you should avoid killing me, cause then I would be beyond feeling.
StingRay says:
Fear is all about anticipation. Your imagination will always create something far worse than anything a designer might come up with. As such, you’re completely right, Shamus, about death. If the player is supposed to fear death, then it’s the anticipation of death that’s frightening. Death itself isn’t all that big a deal, in the end.
Another helpful tactic is creating less scripted events, and more random.
Walking into a room the second time (after a game-save reload or a second run-through) is less fearful as the first, because you KNOW nothing will attack you until a certain point (Thief: Deadly Shadows, Cradle level), or after a certain sound.
But with randomness, you may go into a room and not see a monster. Or it runs off instead of fighting (so you KNOW one is nearby, you just don’t know when it’ll attack). Or you hear the telltale sound of a monster attack, but it doesn’t actually attack (you spin circles, wondering from where the impending attack will come).
Situations like the above create the feeling of possible death, instead of the feeling of “Gotta take out the ghoul in this room, when he pops out of the cupboard.” Games like the latter tend to make the monster, while predictable, scary only because it’s so hard to actually kill. The Pinkie in Doom3 is one such example of the latter. The former is not as common, but can be weak (a single shot) and STILL take you out.
Which scares you more?
GAZZA says:
There are similar problems with pen-and-paper RPGs. Or at least I find it so – actually trying to scare players with a horror themed RPG is extremely difficult. I’ve tried it with Ravenloft, but D&D players are far too used to just killing monsters to get scared by them. I’ve tried it with White Wolf stuff, but that generally descends into Superheroes With Fangs (which is fine, but not the way that purists insist the game “should” be played).
You can get tension occasionally – a nail biting fight against nasty opposition, at the climax of the night’s game – but it’s not really fear so much as excitement (and it is as likely to crop up in standard swords and sorcery fare). I’ve tried music, but that just gets distracting – and tinkering with the actual play environment (playing by candlelight, or other tricks like that) doesn’t really work too well either (just makes it harder to see the dice rolls). I suspect you could do it with some sort of non-randomised game more easily – a horror themed Amber game, or the like.
Horror’s a tricky genre to get right, no matter what the medium. I do however unreservedly agree that actually killing the characters is generally a bad idea, no matter the medium. If you want to reinforce the idea that the big bad is … well, bad … then kill some nameless NPC/extra (depending on the medium). Don’t kill the stars – how can they be scared if they’re dead?
Exceptions made for genres where resurrection is commonplace, or if there’s a possibility of only getting “mostly dead”. Scarring and mutilating are a much better idea for the purposes of fear than killing – if the tree-demon-thing had killed Ash, then it would have just been a short movie. But by possessing his hand and forcing him to cut it off himself, it not only freaked out the viewers but it led to some awesome chainsaw action…
Fenix says:
I remember my first time going through F.E.A.R. Just remembering all the “Did I just see that?!?”, and the “Holy $h!t” moments, definitely made it one of my favorite games to come out in a long time. Unfortunately I found the combat to feel a little iffy and sort of being a filler portion for the freak out moments.
Oh, and as a side note. Many people seemed to think RE4 wasn’t really scary, and I agree for the most part, however, entering a dark hallway and hearing the heavy breathing of the regenerators still freaks me out.
Here’s an idea: what about not telling the player precisely how much health they have? Just have some indication of when the main character is getting especially low on health (their heartbeat starts pounding in their ears, everything around them seems to slow down a little, the colours start draining out of everything, they stagger around and seem exhausted and about to drop, etc.), and make sure the character still looks bloodied and bruised when they get into a fight, but don’t actually tell them precisely how much damage they have taken, and how much they can take. If the player doesn’t know whether being grabbed by the throat by Pyramid Head and thrown against the wall takes out half their health in one hit, or is simply for flavour and doesn’t actually damage them (even though the character on the screen looks a bit more battered), then you’re really messing with their mind.
Wednesday Aug 20, 2008 at 12:03 pm
One of my most memorable Silent Hill moments (other than SH1 when the world first went “dark”) was the very beginning of SH2 when you’re walking through a fog enshrouded forest… and you can hear things moving around you. You never see anything, and there’s nothing to fight, but it still creeped me right the hell out.
BTW GAZZA, you can do similar things in a D&D game. Never let them see the monster, in fact, it’s almost better if they never even encounter it. But let them hear it. Let them see some horrible evidence of it’s passing. Let them find the shredded bodies of the senior adventuring party who could wipe their group with all hands tied. Then, in the middle of the night, with one character awake beside the embers of the evening’s fire, give them an earth shattering roar of anger and rage… close by… and watch what they do.
Hawkehunt says:
@Arthur
From a player perspective, that would both suck and be extremely awesome, tending towards the latter.
Christian Groff says:
Huzzah! I’m not a big fan of being frightened out of my shorts, but I like how you think, Shamus. Striking fear in people’s hearts is an art.
Jonathan Grimwauld says:
I am gonna have to checkout Silent Hill! I love the genre.
I actually like painkiller because it has a decent underlying skin-crawling fear, even if it is very very predictable.
And I’m reminded of the very first scary game I ever played – Abuse.
http://www.acid-play.com/download/abuse/
Free Abuse – yeah, it loses the shiny scaryness after a while, but for a 2d scroller, it was amazing
Crusader Corim says:
The “not showing health” is used in the first 3 RE games (they give you a vague color, but no detail), and it’s a good idea. The scariest game I ever played was Eternal Darkness, and I think the reason that it worked is that it brought you into the game yourself. You felt like the game had it out for you, the player, as well as for your avatar, and the insanity effects that could hit either of you. It never broke immersion for me, and in fact, tended to deepen it. (One of my friends screamed like a woman at one of the scenes in that game)
One of the great ideas of horror is choosing to enter the darkness. There might be temporary safety by staying where you are, but that just means the darkness grows and will eventually consume you. So, you have to enter the darkness–in hopes of defeating it or surviving–so that it can’t consume you.
Under this paradigm, the player should only be killed if they stop confronting the horror. Make it some sort of balancing act. Say, a sanity mechanism where the more the player confronts the darkness the more they go insane. They need a break from the horror to regain sanity, but if left for too long, the darkness consumes them and they are dead/insane/whatever.
Perhaps when going insane (in the videogame) you start hearing whispers (are they coming or to get you or are you safe), hallucinate (are you shooting at a real monster or an imaginary one), and your vision darkness or gets blurry.
Finally, here’s one other thing that has gotten me in the past:
Normally monster X attacks on sight. However, this time, the monster that should attack me instead, spots the player and runs away. They have to ask themselves and answer quickly, “Should I throw caution to the wind and chase it down and prevent it from doing whatever it is planning on doing? Perhaps triggering a number of other encounters in the process? Or should I try not to panic, take a look of my surroundings and prepare for the worst.”
Dev Null says:
Shamus, about your linking of immersion with a demonstrably valid threat that (almost) never quite gets you. This balance between too easy (making the threat unbelievable) and too hard (beating you down and breaking immersion) is essentially a component of a known factor in psychology called flow. I’m not going to bang on about it, because I suspect its getting a little academic for a blog comment, but if you’re interested in what really drops people into an immersive experience, picking up something by Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi (who is a very clever man… with the world’s worst name to spell) on flow is pretty fascinating reading.
Heph says:
@Arthur: played it, no big deal. The way computer games are these days, it just means memorizing (or printing from the internet) a list like broken arm = about 25% gone, bruises in face = about 10% off, and so on. Hard to get right.
Anyway, I’ll admit to not being a survival horror fan, myself, but….no, I realyl do’nt get this post. Perceived threat can be smaller than the actual threat (oh, he’s not going to do…what the hell? he just sliced my head off?!), but hardly ever greater, for me, anyway. If I know there’s little chance of death, I’m not scared. If the zombies catching me just means a minigame fo some sort – I’ll either like the minigame and let them get me, or not like it and avoid getting caught because of that…which is a lot worse immersionwise than having to remember to save.
Can’t help it, maybe it’s just my personality, but suggestions 1 and 2 just make them easier to kill or lower their threat – “I know they’re not really all that dangerous, so why should I care about them?” or “if they catch me, I get a new 5 second head start, so I’ll slow down now”.
Suggestions 4 and 5 are similar to one another – make the player last longer when the health meter gets low, either because the monsters do less damage or because their chance to miss increases. If they start missing, it’s either by reducing their chance, so random, so, rather useless information; if they will *always* miss the first killing blow, or the first blow after my health dropped to 25%, or whatever, I’ll start takign it in consideration. The second one’s even worse for that. It just reminds me of my car’s fuel gauge. I *know* that when it says it’s half-way full, it’s actually still over 3/4, so I just adjust my view on it. *nowing* that monsters take as much time to get me from 100% to 50% as they do from 25% to 0%, jsut means the health meter is skewed, not anything extra terrifying.
Frankly, any way death is handled will, to me, have similar immersion breaking effects. Either it’s a reload, or it means losing X bonus points or progress made or whatever (which usually, to me, just means reload anyway), or it means an XP penalty, or some sort of monetary loss (think Diablo II). These are reasons to make me fear death, but nothing in-game will cause me to be scared for my avatar’s life….Worstt hat can happen is some sort of out-game punishment (XP penalty or time loss), otherwise…I don’t care.
A way to make death mean something, and yet, not have it be completely immersion breaking, would actually sort of resort back to having multiple lives. But instead of lives, have differetn antagonists. A family of five trying to get out of Zombieville, if your avatar, the man, dies, you can play on with, say, the mother…But she’ll be slightly weaker and be heartbroken at the end,b ecause, you know, her husband died. She dies as well? Try again with the teenage son…But his ending’ll be even less happy. And so on. Obviously, any part of the game needs to be passable by any avatar and such things, and since the number’d haev to be limited, it’d create new problems and may cause game-ending scenarios (as in, damn, I’ve lost X in part A. Now I’ll never get past part B!).
‘course, new people can be acquired throughout the game to replace fallen ones (up to a point), but it’ll still make the ending less happy. Hurray! you saved…err…5 people out of a village of 120? Damn, you’re a sucky hero. Man, i’m going to need some therapy to get over seeing my father eaten alive :-(
Note that even this type of death, to me, would probably result in a reload. I’m the type of person who wants to end a game as well as possible, alwyas having 2,000,000 health potions (or whatever) left over by the end of the game :-P
Than again, as noted, I’m really not a Survival Horror player type.
Wednesday Aug 20, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Dev Null: Thanks so much for that link.
henebry says:
Gazza: the best rpg system for horror is Call of Cthulhu, especially if you’ve got an experienced GM and a bunch of newbie players. Your character is equipped with a long list of everyday skills (Accounting, Listen, Sneak, Spot Hidden, etc.) and unless he can justify it by reference to back story, only minimal combat skill or equipment. Along with the rest of the party (perhaps a journalist and a schoolteacher) this accountant faces a well-financed cult equipped with hired goons and a high priest capable of summoning creatures from outer space. Worst of all, the more the party learns about what’s really going on, the closer the characters come to losing their sanity altogether.
Skelnik says:
My first encounter in survival horror is the Aliens mod for Doom 2. In particular, the first level didn’t have any enemies at all, but with the music and ambient sounds, you were creeping around every corner waiting for something to jump out at you.
Oh, and I think Yahtzee is poking fun at you at the end of this week’s Zero Punctuation.
kmc says:
If you’ll forgive me for an argument that’s a bit of a stretch, I totally agree. I remember reading that, in dog training, a very effective way to get desired behavior is, eventually, give a treat only once in a great while. The idea is that, on an instinctive level, animals, including us, remember the things better that cause a great emotional reaction but happen very rarely. Therefore, if you only give a dog a treat once every ten times, the reaction to the treat is positive, and the other nine times, he is left in anticipation.
Maybe it’s not true, but it sounds pretty viable, and from my own experience, I would bet that it would be a very successful gameplay rhythm: the player for whom, say, 95-99% of all encounters result in the anticipation of death has more invested, is more immersed, and is gaming at a higher level of emotional involvement.
The scariest moment in Amber for me was when I was exploring the house, and turned on the TV … until that point I didn’t think I could really die. I didn’t die, of course, but that made the poltergeist with the knives even scarier.
Actually, as soon as I was finished exploring the house, the game stopped being at all scary.
of course, in my masochistic dreams I’ve always wanted a game in which if you die, the game ends and then uninstalls itself, and leaves a nastygram in the registry to prevent you from ever installing the game again.
Alan De Smet says:
GAZZA (10): I love the idea of a horror RPG, and have played a fair number, but they are flawed. The “try to simulate the real world” style of design doesn’t really capture what is important, so D&D Ravenloft or Call of Cthulhu are flawed. The result focuses on the numbers. Unknown Armies with its lightweight resolution system and detailed sanity system is better, but not ideal.
I suggest checking out Dread (By Epidiah Ravachol and published by the Impossible Dread. It’s a white book with a bloody handprint. I’m not talking about Dread: The First Book of Pandemonium from Malignant Games/Neoplastic Press.) Dread chucks the core RPG assumptions out the window and starts over to build something specifically suited to horror. There is lots of good stuff in there, but the thing most people notice is the conflict resolution system. The summarize, you play Jenga. If you want to do something, and the GM decides it’s uncertain, you have to do one turn of Jenga. You can refuse, in which case your character fails but survives. If you succeed at the turn of Jenga, your character succeeds. If you fail, your character dies (or is otherwise written out). While seemingly silly, it’s far more immersive than dice and numbers, and it naturally builds up the tension as you go as the Jenga tower becomes less and less stable. The ability to refuse a turn creates very traditional horror scenarios where the protagonist fails as something, getting close to death, but somehow surviving.
Jenga. Seriously? Wow. Got to try that one. Practically speechless here (but I still post this bit of useless drivel. Hurray internet!)
Galen says:
I’m not a fan of these kinds of games but that’s mostly because I never tried. So my opinion is kinda moot. But from what Shamus has been saying I think that one key way to fix the problem of losing immersion by dying and losing immersion by never dying, could be helped along with other characters.
If the AI was smart enough then why not have other people in the creepy zombie infested mansion? One thing that always threw me out of the immersion of creepy movies and the like is because the hero is so stupid. I think to myself, “Come on man, it’s full of horrible things of pain and you’re going in ALONE?! I would never do that.” From there I lose track of the movie and start thinking how I would have done it if it were me. Point is, railroading the character to do something stupid (eg. walking into certain doom ALONE) kinda ruins it for me. Other character’s with you makes sense.
I realize that many people prefer to go it alone simply because the characters get stuck between two chairs and are rendered immobile until they get eaten. They shoot maybe one round per zombie and let you hang out in front while wasting the enemy. There are two options to fix this, 1. SPEND TIME ON MAKING AI! It’s a little old now but SW republic commandos had a good step in the right direction. your buddies DUCKED WHEN WALKING THROUGH YOUR LINE OF FIRE! So make the AI good. 2. Were someone to still want to go it alone, leave the option alone for the NPCs to stay back. In a safe place. Like, a base of some sort. Where they don’t get eaten because they wandered off. Ever.
So Npc’s are logical and could work. How does this fix the original problem though? Not only are you trying to save your own butt, but now you have to make sure that your buddies aren’t overwhelmed. There is a fine line here between the good AI where the npc can defend itself and making it invulnerable. But I think having intelligent npcs that are just as powerful but can be overwhelmed would really be a step in the right direction. So now the character has to stay alive, while making sure his npcs stay alive. Again, nobody wants to babysit the hulk who never fires his blasted gun. So the npcs need to be just as vulnerable as you but not defenseless. If you incorporate enough into the npc, I imagine your team jabbering in hushed voices about themselves while crawling through the damp dark pipe. No I think if this were done right it would ADD to the mood. The player is now focused on hearing the backstories of the characters so they have not left the immersion while doing the seemingly mundane task of crawling through a pipe. Then when the zombie drops in while you were distracted you are even more shocked because you weren’t paying full attention.
So npcs make sense, work if they are intelligent, become a liability to protect, and add more depth to the game.
Dying. There are those of us who cried when our pikmin were eaten alive. There aren’t many of those people but if the backstory is there, the player develops a bond to these people especially since you’re crawling around zombie infested areas with death at every turn. When one of your npcs dies you’ve lost something major, but it wasn’t the immersion. It was a major setback but you are still in the game. This brings us to another problem, the “oh crap! Bob died! *reset*” problem. A nice way to fix this is to not have the character DIE die, but be incapacitated long enough for it to be a setback for you. They’re out of it so long that you would go insane just waiting, but not so long that you feel you need to start over.
So now you worry not only about keeping yourself alive, but also making sure you aren’t set back by ‘losing’ one of your new friends. Death is real in the game because you keep seeing it happen, but not so bad that you feel you might as well quit. The major problem here is the balance of your npc, nobody wants to babysit necessary wimps. Again i refer back to SW republic commandos. That game had the right balance. By the end when red died, I felt bad. Maybe I’m just a sissy. Lemme know on that.
And then we open up the door for co-op mode. But I don’t run this blog and this post is too freaking long as it is. But npcs definately make that an option.
Daemian Lucifer says:
Kennet:
“These articles are giving me an itching to make survival horror games. To bad I am only one man with no major game-company in my pocket…”
That didnt stop yahtzee to make the chzo games.True,those arent really survival horrors,but they are tense.Even though there are incredebly few places where you can really die.
@Heph & Galen
The way of changing protagonists you described is how X-com deals with death.Sure,a few of your men can die,but as long as theres some left in the squad,you can finish the mission.And there are quite a few tense parts in that game.
How about the idea of the creeping death? You’ve been infected, things are going wrong, your arm is slowly turning black. You have to find an antidote or a cure or a blessing, but you don’t know how long you have…
It’s funny how the two people with the longest posts both admit to not playing this sort of game in the first place. Oh, and naturally the npc way works a lot better with say resident evil and the survival, more than the stealth. “Oh crap Bob got spotted and attracted a horde of zombies. Well he was a good soldier. *sneak away*”
trousercuit says:
FWIW, the first Metroid Prime did this very well in its opening sequence. There was nothing especially dangerous in the derelict Space Pirate vessel. The worst it had were mindless turrets and injured pirates. It was basically the tutorial section, so you could only die if you stood still in the wrong place. But with the music, the dead giant alien thing, the mangled pirate bodies, the logs of biological experiments gone wrong, the caged beasties you *knew* you’d have too deal with sometime (if they didn’t break out now), and creepy swarms of alien bugs (that did almost no damage), it totally freaked me out. I also played it first in the dark, late at night…
It stopped freaking me out during the first boss fight. I was suddenly in familiar territory: find the weak spot and shoot it. Ah, well. They had a great thing going, but it wasn’t meant to be survival horror. It did a spanking job at it for a while, though.
Kiwipolish says:
@ Arthur Re: Not showing the Player’s Health
Have you ever played the Call of Cthulhu X-box (or PC, which is sadly buggier) game? They did that, with the only visible cue to the player’s health being the character model on the menu screen, which would be appropriately battered and bloodied depending on the damage he’d taken. Not to mention, his injuries had effects on your gameplay – broken legs made him limp, too much blood loss and his vision would become blurry and monochrome, and failing to treat heavily bleeding wounds in a certain amount of time would lower your maximum health. It actually worked rather well, and the game itself was surprisingly good and genuinely terrifying (considering we had picked it up for $20 brand new, we assumed it would suck). The only trouble it had was exactly what Shamus mentioned – certain points in the game were so hard you would die a million times, and it became more frustrating than scary.
@Heph: The fact that you suggest that you’d actually print off a list of what sort of damage each thing does off the internet leads to another point for me: the thing which really destroys survival horror games is walkthroughs. Being shown, in a clear and concise manner, what you can expect to happen, what you need to do, and what the internal workings of the game are pretty much destroys any hope the game has of inspiring suspense (through gameplay, at least – I know Silent Hill 2 pretty much off by heart and the story still scares me, but the gameplay really doesn’t any more). I would argue, in fact, that if you want to design a really good survival horror game, you really need to discourage players from reading walkthroughs, or at the very least don’t do stuff which encourages them to go scampering to a walkthrough.
Kilmor says:
RE4 does this somewhat well with the mostly invisible insect monsters. You can hear them and get very itchy on the trigger but very hard to tell where they’re at.
Also, the grey elasti-men , the first time one of those got back up off the ground and immediately began feasting on the inside of my neck, I about peed myself.
Shamus, it sounds like the emotion you want to imbue is properly called “dread”: a fear of anticipated horrors. The main idea is that the one thing that actually happens is much milder than the sum of the thousand things that *might*. I seem to remember an article by Orson Scott Card on the subject, but I can’t find it online. Here’s an article by someone who agrees with Card on the subject, though.
Why?If you want to read a walkthrough before playing a game and thus ruin your experience completelly,then you are paying for the wrong kind of entertainment,but that is your choice.Walkthroughs dont ruin anything,and can be quite helpful from time to time.Just because some people dont know how to use them/are enjoying the games in a very weird manner,doesnt mean that walkthroughs are the problem.
Chris Wellons says:
In the opening of the article, it almost seemed as if you were describing good old Nethack.
Another thing that is good in survival horror would be the “holy shit that was close” feeling.
Could be pulled with maybe a strange convulsing monster that zigzags its way towards its target, and the only way to kill it is to shoot it in a weak spot. (Maybe the head.) It would move extremely fast at long range, making the player try to shoot it a lot, but as it gets closer, it begins to slow down and the player’s adrenaline-fueled aim manages to take it down when the difficulty is lowered. So the player thinks they managed to kill the super-fast crazy thing just before it managed to kill them, even though the monster was going slower than it was before, and may have even stopped for a horroar.
Did that work? “Horroar”?
Ferrous Buller says:
Death: someone wrote an article in the Escapist about player deaths in single-player RPGs, arguing that “quicksaves + frequent dying” operate at cross-purposes; rather than enhancing the sense of risk, frequent deaths are at best a minor annoyance and at worst a total immersion breaker. I’d say the same is true of all SP story-focused games: when player death is easily undone, all you’re doing is disrupting the flow of the narrative. The quicksave-reload mechanic is a crutch that game designers need to learn to do without, IMHO.
Fear vs dread: someone once said that fear is what you feel when the monster leaps through a window at you, while dread is what you feel while waiting for the monster to attack; i.e., it’s surprise vs suspense. Of the two, dread is more effective and longer-lasting, but much harder to pull off, because you’re constantly trying to convince the player that something bad is about to happen. I.e., it’s about the perception of potential danger, rather than actually being attacked.
[This, incidentally, is one of the things F.E.A.R. gets wrong, because at a certain point I realized Alma isn’t a real threat; her appearances stop being scary when you realize she can’t hurt you.]
Daemian Lucifer:
I think Arthur’s point was that the following sequence is quite common:
1) Player installs game, starts enjoying it, really gets into the suspense
2) Player runs into a ridiculously hard/complicated section of game that defies logic
3) Player finds himself a walkthrough to pass this section
4) Player reads a little more of the walkthrough, just to see if there’s anything else he needs to know
5) Player ends up losing all sense of suspense, because he’s already read what’s coming
The walkthrough isn’t a bad thing by itself, but its very existence can lead to a situation where something which would be frightening on its own loses a lot of what it has going for it. For example, maybe there is a long section of the game with no meaningful danger, but which hints at danger constantly. When the walkthrough says “Don’t worry, there’s nothing that will attack you” for that section, all of a sudden the fear is gone. Or instead of running around frantically looking for some switch you just KNOW has to be nearby while all the while being chased by a madman, you know where that switch is from the walkthrough, and several minutes of tension are gone.
I think it’s a fair point that in this age of freely available walkthroughs for any and every game, designers need to change their approaches and can’t necessarily count on surprising a player. OR, players need to resist the urge to go to that omniscient walkthrough any time they’re stuck. Focus on enjoying the game, not just beating it.
Wood says:
“amusing gamplay amd graphical pizazz” <- I am assuming that was a typo?
I do agree with the bit about a walkthrough often destroying suspense and immersion. It’s still frequenbtly used – often just for that.
Nazgul says:
I too was struck by the parallels to pen-and-paper RPGs. As the DM, you usually want to bring the fear of death (or worse) without actually killing off the players, unless they well and truly have crossed a line that makes them deserve it. But you can’t fudge it too far the other way or they’ll expect you to save them again and again with yet another “unlucky” roll. It’s easier in some systems/genres than others.
I always remember the original Doom as perhaps the scariest computer game I’ve played, much more so that the “horror” genre games I have tried. Some of the latter let you relax way too much between encounters.
Arkmagius says:
> 2. Oh man. The grue is going to eat me and I haven't
> saved in half an hour.
That’s the problem I have with Hitman: Blood Money. I’m stuck playing at Rookie and Normal difficulty because they limit your saves as you go up the difficulty curve. It’s the most artificial device I’ve seen in a game, and it really doesn’t work. It makes me not want to play, since I use elaborate, tedious to set up, half-an-hour or more assassination schemes. A death on higher difficulty just makes me turn the console off rather than start all over.
(Also, Blood Money is the most immersive non-RPG I’ve played in a long time. There’s something about not being shot at unless you screw up that makes it more… real. And it has about as many ways to complete each level as Deus Ex did. If you can get past the violence (and indeed, the basic premise: the tutorial does an incredible job of explaining just how evil you are), it’s a good game, despite the flaws.)
On the NPC issue: I wonder how much the company would put the suspense at risk. However, I’m not ready to rule it out, and what if, instead of being irritatingly prone to death, they were incapacitated (as someone suggested earlier), and to proceed you have two choices. Leave them behind, possibly losing an important asset, or help them in some way, maybe even mini-games involving using your environment to cobble together crutches or splits or something that would then cause you to linger in a dangerous (but not yet deadly) area that you’d rather move past.
For me, personally, the most scary thing in games is gore. Not run of the mill gore, because obviously that is a given in almost every game these days, but absolutely horrific “holy crap did that just HAPPEN?” gore. The prime example of this is when the chainsaw guys catch you in Resi 4 and saw off your head, slowly and deliberately. Yuck. I was creeped OUT.
Have you heard about the Splatterhouse remake they’re doing? Apparently it has completely real-time damage. Coupled with the fact that your character can’t really die, this makes for some squicky gameplay when you get caught in a maelstrom of hungry flesh-eating zombies.
Matt` says:
Sounds like Valve are going for the “make it easier if you do badly, make it harder if you do well” mechanic in Left4Dead.
So when you have a stack of ammo and full health, you can expect a zombie horde around the next corner, followed by a big bad bastard of a boss.
When you’re all limping along, barely scraping together enough bullets to put down a lame horse, it’ll go easier on you and provide some medpacks or ammo crates.
Hopefully it won’t go too far with this… it should always still be possible to fail.
I despise games where you can paint yourself into a hole unknowingly. Eg Ninja Gaiden 2, which ends in a series of boss battles. If you try and do those without HP items, you WILL fail, and there is no opportunity to go farm.
I also dislike, on some level, every game that makes me save. I don’t want to know such a thing as a savegame exists. I want to just turn it on and start playing. Anything else creates metagaming and needless frustration – like any outdated mechanic (eg permadeath and the Review Board in Bard’s Tale).
Death penalties suck. I already lost my time.
Casual games seem to grok this. Imagine if after losing Bejeweled, you had to wait 60s before you were allowed to start a new game. Craziness.
Imagine if you had to save your score. So to get the high score, you had to ‘quickload’ after every game when you didn’t beat it. People would probably claim intense use of the save system like this was cheating…
Kaeltik says:
Just brainstorming here:
A buddy and I are working on an endless maze/dungeon generator. Basically, you enter a maze and whenever you approach the “edge”, it generates more maze. If an option is toggled, then as soon as you get a certain distance into the new section, it forgets the old one, so if you backtrack, the path is different. Each maze is “perfect”, in that there is exactly one path from every point to every other point, so there is no danger of getting trapped in a loop and every subsection is traversable. (The dungeon version introduces doors, so there are multiple paths. Perfect mazes make terrible dungeon crawls.)
What would it be like to be chased through something like that by nasty, half-seen things? What if a bunch of unique avatars are released into the maze at once and you can split up or stick together as you choose? If you split up, you hear the others scream in agony and can stumble across recognizable bits of gore. If you stick together, the guy running in the rear will occasionally get grabbed when no one is looking.
Speed would be the key: keep moving and stay vigilant and the odds of death stay low; fall behind the pack or stop paying attention and you may die.
Mechanistically, it would have to be online, maybe an MMO model. Death would irrevocable and your previous save is deleted when you restart. Saving then becomes just something you do when you have to step away.
The characters can grab a couple bits of equipment here and there, but the point is to see how far you can get, not to develop any character stats or find some real big gun. Maybe if folks feel the need for closure, once your aggregate survival time or distance traveled reaches some mark you can find an end to the maze, after some sort of suitably stressful endgame challenge.
The trick to maintaining suspense would be to avoid direct revelation of some dangers and to avoid repetition. Again, this might require a development team in the MMO mold.
Unless someone can come up with a procedural way to generate new horror.
@Arkmagius
At least its not like the original hitman where you had no saves at all.The most DIAS game Ive ever played.*grumbles!*
@kmc
Well made NPCs work.Look at alyx in HL2.She cant die(maybe she can,but then she has a bajillion health or something),but you do care for her.Of course,this requires a good story,personality and AI to be developed,and thats massive work.
Thursday Aug 21, 2008 at 1:07 am
A buddy and I are working on an endless maze/dungeon generator.
What would it be like to be chased through something like that by nasty, half-seen things?
And then you could eat the big proton pill and chase the ghosts, but only for a little while. And sometimes, there’d be fruit. *wink*
I’ve seen a few mentions of flow in the other comments, and it reminded me of Beyond Good and Evil. I know that it isn’t survival horror, but there was excellent flow. To wit: the cut scenes were all done with the game engine, and I sat and watched the opening cinema in awe. Then the monster whacked me! There was no clear demarcation of the end of the cinema. This kind of thing happened more than once, to the point that I kept trying to control my avatar at all times. I think that would be an excellent way to dial up the tension and maintain the ever-important immersion that you need to have a really good horror game.
@Alexis and Kaeltik. That was sort of what they were going for with the save-and-exit bit of Diablo II. Worst way of handling saving ever. Either allowing saving when I want it, allow saving only in certain areas, or allow only autosaving by the game. Saving “only when you need to stop playing” just means more frustration to some, like myself.
Hm. Frequent death, or death with consequences? Why not both? *re-installs nethack*
(two weeks later, and finally home from coloring at the psych hospital for a while)
Oh, right. That’s why.
Tom Armitage says:
I’m playing Ico for the first time at the moment.
(I know, I know).
It’s not survival horror, but it’s interesting how the “survival” and “fear” instincts kick in precisely because there’s no HUD. Ico has no health; apart from falling too far, he basically can only be knocked over. So Yorda serves as a health-bar of sorts: if she gets sucked too far into the shadow-portal, it’s game over, man.
And nothing’s more frightening than a health bar that’s off-screen: when you can’t see Yorda, you panic, and as you hold R1 to focus on her, you lose sight of Ico. You quickly mitigate fear, because it’s very easy to pull her out of the hole, and you have quite a while to do it… but because there’s no gauge or number by her, as she sinks in, the pressure is much greater: either she’s alright or she’s not, and it could change any minute… so you just have to cope.
(Incidentally: although changed in the action-heavy RE4, the earlier Resident Evil’s did health quite well – no on-screen health bar, and a very crude on in the menu that basically said “Good”, “Alright”, “Nearly Dead”. Your character’s animation and textures served, most of the time, as crude damage feedback).
Freykin says:
Heph: Diablo II also autosaves at set intervals, without telling you. I forget how frequent it is, but it’s fairly often.
Bizarre says:
I’m reminded of Arcadia in BioShock.
The first Houdini Splicer you meet, the one who begs you to save him, calls out “Oh Jesus, help me!”, the one you always seem to be one step behind until you hit a dead end.
Then you turn around.
I nearly jumped out of my chair.
Of course, then you end up slaughtering them by the dozen with explosive buckshot and electrified crossbow bolts. But that first time you ever meet one was one of the best immersive moments I’ve experienced in a game.
Thursday Aug 21, 2008 at 12:31 pm
@freykin: Yes, but you can’t *load* from those saves, they’re only useful if the game crashes on you.
The only way to exit DII (legitimately) is by saving and exiting. And you always restart in town, no matter where you were at the moment of an auto-save. Which turns them into horrible, treasure-stealing monstrosities, really.
Thursday Aug 21, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Just thought about this today–if you used the half-life engine, for instance, you could make a portal gun where you only controlled one end of the portal. It could have a limited number of uses, or maybe a set number per time period, because you wouldn’t have to use it to play the game, and it wouldn’t give you that much of a benefit. You’d never know where the portal would open out on to. You could see through it, just like in Portal itself, but you’d have to wait until you used it to find out whether it allowed you access to a safer or unexplored area, or whether it opened out onto the room full of zombies you just left. It would only really work in games where you had more sandbox mechanics in play, I think.
DarkLadyWolf says:
I know others have mentioned it, but the very first level of Shalebridge Cradle from Thief: Deadly Shadows was brilliantly executed.
There were no enemies. None. And yet, even knowing that, even knowing that I could wander around unharmed, I was tense, I moved from shadow to shadow; and any time I had to move into the light to look at something closer, I felt the hairs of the back of my neck prickling.
The rest of the Cradle, once they introduced actual enemies, was just as tense, but for different reasons. Interestingly, most of the enemies died very easily, so weren’t much of a threat. But the background sounds, the atmosphere, kept the whole thing wound up tightly.
That’s how it should be!
R4byde says:
When you're all limping along, barely scraping together enough bullets to put down a lame horse, it'll go easier on you and provide some medpacks or ammo crates.
Hopefully it won't go too far with this… it should always still be possible to fail.
Bah, it’s Valve we’re talking about here, of course they’ll make it far too easy just like all their other games. If someone(Me) who has never played your game(Half-life 1) before, can beat it first time through playing on the hardest difficulty without EVER dieing,(Besides those God-Awful jumping bits.) you have some problems.
Stephen M (Ethesis) says:
The more I reflect, the more I’m convinced that a level design where you have to sneak and explore until you are ready to “solve” the level by running like heck through it to the next level offers some fun. Perhaps not every level, but a survival sneak/explore/sneak/run like heck game offers some fun.
You don’t have the ability to fight much, just the ability to run like heck.
So you have to scout, get tools, pass codes, etc. and then make your break and run for it.
Each level is a complex explorable puzzle, where one slip and the eat you (though you obviously will try to run for it, just not being prepared).
Has some pulse pounding potential.
I need to think about how I would put it together.
Zombies out of the sewers and you were left behind in your hospital bed? You need to sneak into the middle of the city, grab some mcguffin and get out alive? (The cure in a lab, the ransom for your kid, your kid perhaps?).
I think lots of running from things you can’t beat would add something to a game, especially if some of them are faster than you are.
Friday Aug 22, 2008 at 12:51 am
Due to Yatzhee recommending Prince of Persia, I’m currently (once more) playing one of those titles. It’s all fair and dandy, until you die (and are out of sand, or don’t have the sand thingy yet). And then you do it again. And then you die again. And do it once more. Killed the atmosphere faster than I can say the word “atmosphere”.
LexIcon says:
Friday Aug 22, 2008 at 8:04 am
When it comes to immersive horror, I’ve yet to play a game that did it better than Aliens vs. Predator. As a human marine, I’ve spent more ammo and nervious shrieks into empty shadows and creepy sounds then all the aliens I fought combined.
Not to mention how bloody fast they are. You want to keep a player on his toes, make the monster quick.
Noumenon says:
Friday Aug 22, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Here’s an alternative to player death, from Kid Icarus: turn the player into an eggplant and make them run around like that for a while.
I didn’t say it was a good alternative.
@Noumenon
It was done in prey,and its not a bad alternative(well,not the eggplant,but the spiritual world).
Neil Polenske says:
I sent an email to Shamus regarding the specifics of my ideas regarding this issue, since the thing ended up being so bloody huge, (and it was more directly related to his complaints regarding Silent Hill V) but I think I can address the concepts here without over loading with text…least ways no more than has already been done. :P
I’d say the whole idea of combat in these kinds of games is flawed to begin with. They’re too connected with the action/adventure mechanics of the videogames that were done before and the majority of the suggestions here seem to be an attempt at fixing the tires on a car with a busted engine.
These systems just don’t play for a horror game. No matter how much you change the behavior for an enemy, there’s basic issues with the core CONCEPTS that will always make complete immerssion impossible. For example, the repetitive nature of the enemies and gameplay that defeats them, the lack of connection with the rest of the elements of the game (i.e. beating the snot out of the zombies in the SH series never affected the characters, the story, the puzzles…ANYTHING).
In my opinion, this aspect of these games needs to be either removed, or altered drastically so that they can be bypassed completely. Either by making the character weak to the point of battle being an impossibility or doing a sneaky lil number where the character is infinitely more powerful than the enemies, making it a non-issue. They’d be there as part of the design of the game, like the music and atmosphere and environments. They’d enhance the horror without directly participating in it, which would keep that immersion-breaking gameplay at bay.
Kallahim says:
Monday Aug 25, 2008 at 11:50 pm
I think my strongest moment of fear in a game was a rogue-like game called zangband…its permideath in that game, and I walked down into a dungeon with my veteran character…and walked into a room of bugs, i started squishing each one easily and wading into the room, I started to realize that they were multiplying faster than I could squish plus slowly ticking away 1 hp at a time…that is when the panic set in and I tried to run toward the door…hitting ever potion in my inventory even the unidentified ones…I realized I was going to die alone, swarmed like that scarab scene in the mummy. Shock set in when I was staring at a tombstone…stunned at my gruesome fate. This was from a bunch of ascii symbols…
kamagurka says:
Tuesday Sep 2, 2008 at 5:28 pm
System Shock 2 (allocated to my brainspace under the alias “best game ever”) seemed to do this relatively well. I rarely died in that game, but I was scared the whole time.
Until near the end, that is. Then the difficulty went up. And up. And above my frustration tolerance.
Wednesday Sep 10, 2008 at 8:23 pm
I just ran into an old NES game ‘Doki Doki Amusement Park’. It’s a cute funky platformer. Its attitude to dying was something I’ve never run into before. When you are hit by an enemy, you actually get better at fighting. Instead of throwing one ball, you throw two, then you throw a larger ball, then a more powerful ball. Each time you are hit, your character changes colors to alert you to the fact that your weapon had changed. The fifth time you are hit, you have to go back to the last save point.
I don’t know of any other game that does anything similar, it’s kind of sad, because it makes the game a lot more fun. If you are good at it, you can purposely die, squandering your ‘safety’ for a better weapon, if you suck, you can keep playing and not feel penalized for not being very good at jumping onto moving platforms.
I guess I’m trying to say that not dying is a lot more fun, no matter what type of game yo are playing.
felblood says:
Wednesday Sep 17, 2008 at 3:02 am
I second the earlier statements that procedural content, or monsters with random lines in their AI, lend themselves much more to fear. The unknown is scary, and even the best spoilers’t break through can’t get past that.
I’m playing Dwarf Fortress right now, and even though I read the spoilers an I know what comes out of the glowing pits, if you happen to find one. I still don’t know if I have one under my fortress. I just know I can’t handle it.
I only once ran a DnD scenario that managed to scare my players. The best elements were an accident.
They are sent to investigate this tomb, see. –and when they get there, the tomb has been blasted open, but the thieves are long gone.
Inside are a bunch of scorpions and stuff, that they fight in the usual manner, but at the end of the level is a boss with some special build up, and giant stone seal, covered in dire warnings.
Throughout the mission, players who investigate certain objects and areas, and have good skill checks, will see sand moving in unusual ways, as if being blown by wind, in this underground tomb. When they get to the end, anyone who gets to close to the spooky seal will be attacked, by a giant monster that forms itself out of sand.
Trouble is, I lost his character sheet, so I never actually had him appear.This actually made him a million times more awful.
Your character is standing in a room with a seal engraved with images of seven eyed gods and cryptic warnings, with a boss monster that refuses to come out and fight fair.
Player theories as to what that thing was and how it was related to the seal (it was there to prevent people from opening it) abound. Until the campaign inevitably died out, they were sure, that someday, I was going to make them learn what was behind that seal, and they weren’t going to like it.
There were two important things I learned from that. In DnD, everyone assumes all the challenges are level appropriate, so they never fear a thing they can attack, even if it would obviously kill them; they just blame you if it doesn’t work.
What they do fear is their character growing in a direction they didn’t specifically dictate, and or having his movement or actions become more restricted. Being forced to join a wizards guild or being responsible for the release of an evil in a can, are fates worse than death.
If you die, you just roll up a new character, but if something bad happens to him, but doesn’t hurt his combat ability, you’re expected to play it out.
Heroic fantasy and fear just don’t mix.
MRC says:
Friday Sep 19, 2008 at 4:04 pm
CATION!! LONG POST!! no really, VERY long.
I googled Eternal Darkness, and I came up with some interesting things.
I’ve never played the game itself, so I don’t know how this really works out, but it sounds awesome:
Sanity effects
The game’s standout concept, patented by Nintendo,[2] is the “sanity meter”, a green bar on screen which is depleted under various conditions, generally when the character is seen by an enemy. It can be restored under various conditions, such as performing a “finishing move” on an enemy. As the bar becomes low, various effects occur, reflecting the character’s slackening grip on reality. If the bar remains empty, further damage to sanity decreases the player character’s health.
One effect which is consistently used is a skewed camera angle accompanied by whispers, cries, and other noises. The lower the sanity meter, the more skewed the camera angle and the louder the sound effects. Fourth wall breaking effects include simulated displays with messages apparently produced by the TV or the GameCube; this does not affect gameplay unless the player misconstrues them as actual technical malfunctions and turns off or resets his or her system, thereby losing all progress made since his or her last save.
There are many different sanity effects, the amount they last depends on each effect, and not all effects will necessarily be encountered during a given run through the game. A few more commonplace examples include:
Sounds, such as footsteps, women and children screaming, doors slamming, the rattling of chains and the sound of a blade being sharpened.
Walls and ceilings bleeding. Attacking them causes more effusion.
When casting a spell, the player character’s body above the waist violently explodes.
Appearance of large numbers of monsters that are not really there, and disappear when attacked.
The player character’s head falling off. When picked up, the head begins to recite Shakespeare (specifically, Act III, Scene I of Hamlet).
Character or monsters shrinking or growing.
A version of the blue screen of death informing the player
that all saved game data on the memory card has been deleted.
Statues and busts turning to look at the character.
Character whimpering and babbling to him or herself.
A “to-be-continued” message and promising continuation in a sequel game: Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Redemption.
Character walking into a room from a previous or future chapter that uses the same location.
When trying to save, instead of the usual “Do you wish to overwrite saved data” screen, there is a “Do you wish to delete all save files” with the options “Yes” and “Continue without saving.” No matter what you do, all files appear to be deleted.
The word “VIDEO” appearing in the top-right corner in green text on an otherwise black screen, mimicking the “video” channel setting on most televisions when the game system is turned off, and sometimes the look of the television being turned off.
Game suddenly stops responding to player’s commands just as the player-character enters a room full of zombies. The screen displays an error message claiming that the controller has been disconnected. Meanwhile, the zombies attack and kill the helpless character.
Character sinking through the floor as if standing/walking in quicksand.
Some sanity effects are character-specific and reflect the individual’s personal fears or experiences. When the sanity effect is finished, everything goes back to normal and the character often utters a panicked statement, usually something along the lines of “This can’t be happening!”
About the magic thing: It’s a strange game, because you have magic powers.
Anyway, most of these sanity effects are directed to the player itself, and I think that would work well. For example they could at one point when the character uses the lightswitch brighten the room up until it’s completely white and then let a message appear in blood, something relevant, or maybe something random. And the next time you play the same level, it doesn’t happen. Or it says something else.
Also something could be to make every monster you fight different. There would be a total of maybe 4/6 monsters, so that wouldn’t be too hard to accomplish. Or do the whole game in 1st person, you can’t see the character, and if you’re hit from behind, you can’t see who’s doing it. Or let the main character have some sort of incapability, or illness, maybe even schizophrenia! That would make for some interesting twists!
I’m sorry that was such a long post, but that Sanity Effect thing couldn’t be leftout, since I think it adds something to the discussion here. Or I could’ve posted a link..Ahh screw it!
wallie79r says:
Saturday Sep 20, 2008 at 4:46 pm
What if death does something other than killing you? Say, for example, the player character is an immortal of some description. The zombies draw you in and start feasting on your brains, your health hits zero, and the screen goes black. You wake up in the same room, most of the zombies have left once they determined that you were sufficiently feasted upon. Until you get healed somehow, you have a massive gaping wound in your head, little chunks of brain are visible if the camera gets close enough, etc. It would be difficult to have this mechanic and still have death be frightening, but I’m sure it could be done.
Wednesday Oct 1, 2008 at 12:35 am
Something to throw out there, assuming you’re still reading these older comments. Look into the demo/proof of concept that Quantic Dream just put out for Heavy Rain.
While it’s a standalone plot not related to the main game, it has a very interesting concept. You can, as the main character, die, and the game will take that into account and continue. Later sections will be seen through the eyes of a different “main” character, and the previous death will make a difference in the story.
Word is this will non-binary style will be part of the final product.
If this is true, it will be the first game in which I’ll actually care about surviving, because I know it will be a different story if I don’t.
Thought you’d be interested in this, seeing as how you also hate binary pass/fail options.
Wil K says:
Monday Oct 27, 2008 at 2:49 pm
@Susie: the mechanic (getting stronger as you take damage) reminds me of the obviously non-horror Galaga arcade game, where you could let yourself get captured, then in the second life, kill the capturing ship to get a double ship, which was much more effective than a single ship (since it shot two bolts at a time).
Anyway, Shamus, your posts on survival horror are very frustrating – they really REALLY make me want to design a survival horror game along your suggestions, but I personally cannot stand to play one myself. (I hate scary stuff!) It’s the kind of irony illustrated by a car designer saying “Drive one? Heaven’s no!” Grrr!
I’ll have to just stick to loving the posts then…
Tuesday Oct 28, 2008 at 10:50 am
Not that anybody is necessarily going to read this post except Shamus when he skims through it looking for moderate-able offenses, but from my experiences, Dead Space seems to hit a lot of the nails mentioned here right on the head. What do other people think? I played for a very short time–I’m not really used to console controls, so in the first few seconds after you have control of your character and you have to walk out a door behind where you are currently seated, I promptly walked into the back of the captain’s chair, looked at the ceiling, looked at my shoes, and walked into a nearby wall. So I’ve gotten to experience the game in a more objective fashion (vis, watching my boyfriend play through it). Lots of save points, the ambience is terrific, and the whole thing is pretty immersive. It creeped me out, and I was just watching. I could go on, but I’m curious about others’s reactions. (And Shamus, I’d love to see your take!)
Brickman says:
Tuesday Nov 11, 2008 at 12:27 am
edit: Gah, that’s long. Well, on the assumption that noone’s likely to read this page at this point, and even if they do this is way at the bottom anyways, I don’t feel like changing that.
I think Half Life Two (and one, though it’s been much longer since I played it) did a good job of proving they knew what you’re talking about. Aside from anything and everything related to the fast-zombies, there’s the first part of the game. It’s completely impossible to die, and honestly it takes a bit of an implicit agreement on the part of the player that they aren’t gonna test that in order to work, but it’s a cool chase sequence if you take it at face value. Unless, like me, you assume you are taking damage, try to go too fast and fall off the roof due to the fact that hugging a wall in first person while going fast is not as easy as it should be. There’s also plenty of suspense parts later on, though they’re usually followed immediately by action, with the main exception being Ravenholm, where the game does go for horror and doles out suspense and action indiscriminately. And I was tense in the citadel, until the action started, even though there’s a grand total of one headcrab enemy, and I think he’s hidden.
Bioshock also understood this, though they mostly forgot it later on, and they had more opportunities to demonstrate it with their less actiony feel. The biggie is the splicers themselves; they wander around throughout the levels muttering to themselves and making their presence known long before yours is, and while there are prescripted fights most of the time you won’t encounter them the same places twice. They respawn if you kill them all, not enough to more than slightly inconvenience you but enough that you can’t assume they’re gone, and they are unpredictable with plenty of emergent AI. The sneakier ones, spider splicers who’ve spotted you and are crawling around on the ceiling to reach you quietly, make just enough noise that you’ll probably either realize they’re there a few seconds before they jump down or right after they smack you. If you’re a sneaky type player like me you’ll spend far more time watching them mull about, indulging in their insanity and waiting for the right moment than you will fighting. Items are so plentiful they may as well just be infinite, except near the beginning, and because of that enemies don’t really pose a threat even on hard even if you turn off the free respawns, but they look like they do. There’s also plenty of specific scary moments, more than I’ll care to list, with a disproportionate number in and before medical pavillion. Some have bite, like two doctor-type thuggish splicers who sneak up on you in previously empty rooms in medical pavillion–one fills the room with steam after you grab an item and sneaks up right behind you without making a sound, just standing over you until you turn around, and the other you see his shadow at the opposite end of a corridor, before most of the lights cut out, get there to find it devoid of life, head back, and all of a sudden he pops out behind you with a scream (actually if you watch carefully when you know what’s going on he crawled into a locker on his side and popped out a locker on your side, though locker’s the wrong word). Some have no bite, like the part where the tunnels start flooding near the beginning (especially funny if you stop running since there’s some fish suspended in place right outside a window you’re intended to rush past, the only place in the game with any fish at all) or the part where Ryan locks you in a room, taunts you and an army of splicers starts trying to break some bulletproof glass to get to you, which they’ll crack but never break. The first enemy you see, Rose, scares you but won’t attack you until Neptune’s Bounty, and in fact won’t even attack you there the first time she makes her presence known. One of the scariest moments according to others I’ve talked to is when you get a specific subset of spider splicers who DON’T mutter to themselves but aggressively explore the level, which makes you paranoid because the game’s taking away tipoffs that you already had (though you can still hear them if you listen carefully).
The first enemy you fight hurls a flaming couch down the stairs and rushes at you, and other new enemies are generally introduced by seeing them kill a thuggish splicer or two in one hit. The houdini splicer deserves mention because for me he SHOULD’VE been scary but wasn’t–he had the misfortune of coming right after a long stretch of neither enemies nor the promise of enemies, but with plenty of items, some well-hidden, so I was in meta-game mode when I found him; far worse, though, I couldn’t tell where his cries for help were coming from and ended up searching the area I was in tooth and nail, along with the room beside the one he’s in which just housed items (I initially assumed he was above me, and spent far too long trying to find a way to climb up there when I couldn’t), before noticing the other door and finding him. Worse, I’d made the mistake of reading enough of the walkthrough that I not only knew about the teleporting fireballing splicers but in fact knew what this encounter was (since it considered him a miniboss and gave him special mention in that section), and to top it off, metagame mode was reinforced by the camera, since I knew that I would be rewarded if I got multiple photos of him before killing him so instead of just going with the flow I gamed the section to get all the pictures possible (as a side note, getting camoflage a bit earlier was probably the only point in the game where paying any attention at all to metagame paid off). This in fact involved quickloading, I’m ashamed to say. If it’d just been a matter of killing him without losing health, I’d have probably gone along with it, or at least could’ve. Anyways, I think we can consider that a comprehensive list of things that’ll break the scary parts aside from death.
Near the end of the game, they basically ruin it though. Focus gets shifted from atmosphere to action, atmosphere suffers, but more importantly enemies get massive ammounts of health–while initially you could down anyone with a good headshot or two from the shotgun, near the end it’d take entire clips of anything to take down the weaker ones, even though they did less damage if you factor in your increased health bar, and because of that and the resource overflow the few remaining cases which should’ve been scary (and note that mostly there weren’t any more) weren’t.
Wednesday Dec 24, 2008 at 1:24 am
I find it easier to fear for my avatar when I’m already in a nervous state, outside of game (but not meta-game; just me the person, not my the player). I’ve played thoroughly non-threatening games like Fable and Ocarina of Time, and been in a state of near-hysterics because my real-life tension and worry coincided with in-game fear stimuli. The “escape” in Fable [if you don’t know instantly, it’s a spoiler] and “that house full of creepies” in OoT [same deal] had me physically shaking because I was worried about something-or-other.
I don’t see that this is much good in a PC game, but in a tabletopper, try making your players tense/sad/angry/scared/happy before you actually start the session, if that’s the emotion you want.
One time, I was hoping the players would be scared enough not to abuse the game – for convoluted reasons, I needed a crypt of infinitely-spawning zombies, and I needed the players not to grind them for exp. So before we “started up the session” – before I was the DM – I manipulated them into being jittery I-forget-exactly-how.
It works across the board. I find that even as a PC, I can set the scene with my out-of-character actions far better than the DM would have been able to by himself.
Wednesday Aug 5, 2009 at 2:20 pm
The best part about having healing resources heal you proportional to your damage is that IT MAKES SENSE. Why are all these medkits you find spinning and floating by magic just as good at repairing a boo-boo as intestines falling out of your gut? You’d imagine that there’s only so much they can do for minor burns and abrasions, thus a lower HP return at high HP thresholds, but that a medkit would be a lifesaver when you’re seriously injured and need stitches, cauterization, etc.
I’ll note that one of the scariest games I’ve ever played was Vampire: the Masquerade, Bloodlines. I was a pretty maxed-out Tremere with nasty abilities, but in that hotel sequence, the invincibility of my character did not change the fact that I as a human was watching the spectral destruction of a hotel. Now, the fear factor goes down a lot the second time, meaning that horror games need to not only make immersive fear but do it through enough procedurally-generated ways or with enough scripts and threats that the average player won’t see your five best tricks. Think about most horror game fans: They mention the two scary characters, or the eight scary concepts, by rote. There’s almost never any variation, anyone who saw something scary that no one else did. That might be okay in a movie, which has one “path” through it. But in an immersive video game, one like Silent Hill in particular with many endings and lots of routes through the game? That’s inexcusable.
In any respect, Bloodlines managed to make a gritty horror world with lots of great surprises and startling, and honest fear, while giving me a character I was perfectly aware was very hard to kill, super-powered even! Similarly, Undying had many terrifying moments despite the fact that the end of the game Patrick Galloway has an FPS roster of destructive weapons and deadly ancient spells. Imagine what survival horror games could do with outright POWERLESS characters…
In particular, Undying scared me the most with one of my OWN WEAPONS: The frost dragon gun. In the dark, worrying about a zombie attack or something hissing “SEE” at me, the moment when you hear some growling and see steam rising is utterly terrifying. The fact that it’s your own weapon may seem a little silly, but nothing immersed me more than that fact: The idea that everything in the game was at some level deeply horrifying, even the things I relied on to protect me; and the fear that I experienced in that moment made other moments of fear more real as I played through the game, since the game had shown me I could be scared by it. I bought that it wasn’t just saying “BOO!” anymore.
Tuesday Dec 22, 2009 at 6:53 pm
Just wanted to show up late to the party with a pair of paradigms.
The first ten minutes of I Wanna Be The Guy will kill you, mercilessly. It is probably the most death-dense portions of any game outside the first ten minutes of your first experience with a bullet-hell shooter. You will fail constantly, and you will fail for a long, long time.
The first ten minutes of the Shalebridge Cradle are all but harmless. You could order a pizza, eat it, and come back to find yourself still alive. There is no way to fail. At all.
Is it the prospect of frequent death that creates fear?
Saturday May 22, 2010 at 8:30 am
I’m reminded immediately of the first Resident Evil (stress rather than fear, in many cases… but also lots of fear). As far as I can recall, that was the only game I ever bought that I did not muster up the desire (courage?) to play through to the end.
Oh, and Sonic 2 for Genesis. If I couldn’t beat the final bosses starting out with 96 rings, why the heck would I be able to do it with no rings at all? Oh, well. At least it had a robust save system.
Now, Super Mario Bros. 2. There’s a game that knows scary. Scary, scary masks.
Talby says:
Wednesday May 26, 2010 at 10:20 pm
System Shock 2 did this so well. Hearing a muttering hybrid or the mechanical footsteps of a cyborg midwife slowly getting closer is many times scarier than even the biggest monster Resident Evil can throw at you. The cargo bay on the Engineering deck was one of the scariest parts of the game for me, because it forced to walk past those rows of protocol bots in storage that you just KNOW could burst out and attack at any moment.
Wednesday Sep 7, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Chairmaster Frog says:
Thursday Sep 8, 2011 at 12:55 am
There was one spot in Dead Space that, in retrospect, really showed how the game could do it right: it was in a part of the ship that had no atmosphere and almost halfway through your oxygen (on the far side of the “room”) was something you needed. As soon as you grab said object, you’re ambushed by necromorphs.
The scary part was when you realize you’re almost out of oxygen and you start running towards the airlock, necromorphs flashing in and out of your field-of-vision behind you, hoping one of them doesn’t grab you, thinking you won’t make it in time.
I watched my brother play this for the first time, after I’d already played it, and it scared the crap out of both of us.
It didn’t help that, as soon as he was in the airlock, his wife comes barreling up the porch steps and bursts through the front door. Needless to say, we both screamed like little girls.
Epoetker says:
Saturday Sep 10, 2011 at 11:12 pm
You guys all talk about how to scare people and you don’t address one reason the Combine might choose to shoot headcrab rockets at people?
The rockets land, people in the immediate area are knocked out, and a bunch of headcrabs immediately pop out and attack the first (likely incapacitated) character they see. If not killed immediately, the headcrabs instead seek shelter in air vents, or they burrow into the ground. One launch in a reasonably well-stocked town might be workable. But a heavy headcrab shelling of the type Ravenholm got (especially if it took place at night) means that behind every corner and air vent could be a cat-sized creature that could end your life wand turn you into a mindless zombie with one moment of inattention. Would turn most people into psychological wrecks.
It’s like planting land mines, except land mines can be cordoned off and don’t turn the friends and resistance fighters you know into screaming monstrosities. Zombies(aside from the POISON zombies and the headcrabs required for them) are much less dangerous than armed and trained resistance fighters, and a well-trained attack force can kill them easily.
Imagine that Father Grigori wasn’t insane, per se, so much as joyous at hearing the sweetest sound one could hear in that town…the sound of blessed, sustained, gunfire coming from someone who wasn’t him. Small wonder he shouted encouragement over his PA system…he was a priest, after all, and encouraging the afflicted with Scripture was part of his duty.
xXDarkWolfXx says:
Tuesday Feb 14, 2012 at 12:50 pm
I think Amnesia: The Dark Descent gets this right, even when playing it and dying having to replay an area didnt make it any less terrifying when you hear a monster strolling into the room forcing you to hide in the corner in the dark.
natureguy85 says:
Saturday Dec 12, 2015 at 2:41 am
My go-to example for good and bad is Metro 2033’s library. The Librarians look stupid and not scary at all, but hearing them shuffling around on the other side of a wall or on the floor above me still creeps me out.
For the bad. at one point, one will reach through a hole in the wall that is obvious on subsequent playthroughs, if not the first. I remember getting scared when it first grabbed me, but that all went away when it held me so long that I realized it was a scripted thing and it wasn’t going to kill me. I just had to look at its stupid face for awhile.
Another good example is the Big ‘Un from State of Decay. They will pick you up and either bite you or rip you in half, killing you instantly. I was scared of the latter every time it picked up a character.
Two games come to mind, and neither one is a Survival Horror game.
In Vampire The Masquerade – Bloodlines the hotel level is thrilling as hell. No enemies, but then a vase fly directly in your face by a poltergeist effect. You only loose minimal health, but it has the effect that the player watches out the furniture! Plus the sound was amazing.
In Enter the Matrix the agents where always slightly better than the heroes. But not stupid gotcha one hits. The player took his attack animation on an agent and he blocked it with a fitting animation and after 10 – 20 seconds of useless player attacks the agents hit back. The player character flew back, lost a third of his health but gained distance.
And the player had this focus ability. In this Slow-Mo-mode the player could hit an agent. But there was never enough focus to surpass them for good. That could work for horror games as well.
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Southwark Memorial
Memorial Artwork Commission - a memorial for the 21st Century
In 2016 we appointed the Contemporary Art Society and formed a steering group to commission a new contemporary public artwork. As well as being a symbolic piece of contemporary art, it will serve as a 21st Century memorial to war and conflict.
Located within the new Walworth Square and established as part of the Lendlease Elephant Park development, the memorial will be used for reflection, commemoration and remembrance. It will be a marker in time and a place to inspire us to look forward as we remember the past.
The commissioning panel includes Southwark Council, Lendlease, The Imperial War Museum and the Royal British Legion as well as other representatives from the Artists Studios Company, local community centre Inspire and an independent curatorial consultant. The piece has been installed during the construction of Walworth Square in 2018.
We wanted the artwork to connect with a wide range of people who make our local communities. Focus workshops with independent curator Vivienne Reiss and the artist Albert Potrony and web based consultation provided the selected artist, Kenny Hunter, with responses about what a memorial can be today and in the future. The results of this work and research can be viewed in the consultation report (pdf, 6.5mb).
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The themes of war and conflict as evidenced in historical memorials were researched and explored in depth to support the development of this proposal drawing on modern and pre-modern examples from Ancient Greece to Henry Moore and from Rodin’s Burgher’s of Calais to Maya Lin’s Vietnam Wall. The research influenced the decision to favour empathy over reverence and on a formal level make the overall composition horizontal as opposed to vertical, positively encouraging the possibility of physical interaction and connection to the subject. Throughout the design phase Hunter has worked closely with Gillespies Landscape architects to ensure that the memorial and the planting around it are considered as interdependent elements, building on the existing network of retained mature trees.
The Southwark Memorial is a contemporary public artwork that serves the symbolic purpose of a memorial to war and conflict. The sculpture is structured around three coexisting dualities. The first sets in opposition the trauma of war and the idealism of childhood as expressed through a cast of a fallen tree and a life size sculpture of a youth. The second is between this bronze tree and the living trees that surround it. One is inert while the others continue to grow and change. Finally, the work is in a sense traditional without being conventional, whilst a figurative sculpture cast in bronze the work presents an expansive understanding of commemoration, celebrating not a fallen soldier but an anonymous youth, an everyday person you might pass in the street.
The Southwark Memorial breaks not only with the contemporary taboo of the monumental sculpture but also with the tradition of the war memorial. Hunter hopes it can become an unsentimental image that is able to express human endurance and the persistence to keep going in difficult and traumatic circumstances.
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Customers To Benefit From New Routes And Bike Friendly Buses
Bus passengers can now take their bike for a ride with Stagecoach North Scotland between Elgin, Kinloss, Findhorn, Forres, Hopeman and Burghead.
In addition, local services to and from the new Forres health centre have been increased to run every hour, with a drop-off point inside the health centre grounds.
The changes were launched in Forres yesterday by Stagecoach Managing Director for North Scotland area, Steve Walker and Moray Councillor, George Alexander.
The £213,000 project has been funded for two years by Hitrans, Stagecoach, Moray Council and the Bus Investment Fund.
The project will include the introduction of a new Sunday service linking Burghead, Cummingston, Hopeman and Duffus with Elgin, using buses equipped with external cycle racks for adult and childrens’ cycles.
The 'bikes on buses' facility on services 31 and 32 allows travellers to make any onwards journey by bicycle. The initiative meets the aims of Moray Council’s Transport Plan and Urban Freedom project in offering increased public transport provision to minimise short car journeys and hence reduce emission levels.
A plasma real time screen will be displayed within the health centre advising times of buses serving Forres to all points. Real time displays will also be promoted at Findhorn and Kinloss, and three new passenger shelters to be installed in Kinloss village and one in Findhorn
Steve Walker said: "We are pleased to support the council in the promotion of the 'bikes on buses' campaign.
"We are constantly looking at new ways to promote the attractiveness of our services. Promotion of the service will hopefully encourage some motorists out of their cars in favour of using the bus for one leg, or even just part of their journey, and cycle the rest of the way. We hope that this will be an appealing option to commuters with a significant distance between bus stop and destination.”
Customers can now board the bus and bring their bicycle with them at no extra cost. Adult bikes can be carried on the rear rack with children’s bikes inside. The service will also appeal to leisure cyclists wishing to make use of the traffic free coastal cycle routes which are ideal for families and leisure cycling. The Bikes on Buses project will encourage more cycle tourism in Moray and will provide a link between the towns and coast for those arriving by train too.
Cllr Alexander, who is also chair of the Forres Health Centre patient group, said: "I am delighted with this service improvement, in particular the buses to and from the health centre. This has been introduced in response to public demand, the council has listened to that and acted.
As a cyclist myself I’m also pleased to see the cycle provision fitted to buses. I would urge everyone to use this to access some of the marvellous cycleways we have in the area.”
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45 Possible Causes for Insomnia, Tactile Hallucination, Ventricular Fibrillation
Acute Amphetamine Intoxication
Cocaine Mechanism block biogenic amine (DA, NE, 5HT) reuptake Intoxication presentation mental status changes euphoria, psychomotor agitation, grandiosity, hallucinations[medbullets.com] fibrillation or cerebral stroke and hemorrhage caused by a drug-induced rise in blood pressure.[methoide.fcm.arizona.edu] Toluene sniffing may lead to autonomic cardiac dysfunction, ventricular fibrillation, and myocardial infarction [23], [24].[ijaweb.org]
Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
hallucinations Uncontrollable tremors Seizures DTs can be fatal without treatment, due to the increased risk of developing respiratory arrest, aspiration pneumonitis, or[waypointrecoverycenter.com] Clinical characteristics include CONFUSION; DELUSIONS; vivid HALLUCINATIONS; TREMOR; agitation; insomnia; and signs of autonomic hyperactivity (e.g., elevated blood pressure[ebi.ac.uk] Tachy-arrhythmias may manifest as atrial fibrillation (AF), torsades de pointes, or ventricular tachycardia. [17] Additionally, due to increased sympathetic activity, the[ijnpnd.com]
Crack Ingestion
hallucinations Heart attack and heart disease Stroke Respiratory failure Brain seizures Sexual dysfunction (for both men and women) Reproductive damage and infertility (for[cesar.umd.edu] Second-wave effects may include agitation, depression, dysphoria, drug cravings, general central nervous system depression, fatigue, insomnia, and nervousness.[hiredpower.com] The infant was found apneic and in ventricular fibrillation after the parents summoned rescue personnel and claimed she had ingested rat poison.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
hallucinations ("coke bugs") Sexual dysfunction in both males and females Reproductive damage and infertility Sudden death - even one use can cause overdose or death Addiction[cesar.umd.edu] There are a number of cocaine withdrawal symptoms such as exhaustion, anxiety, mood swings, insomnia, the intense craving for more cocaine and irritability just to name a[addictionhope.com] Cocaine has been found to trigger chaotic heart rhythms, called ventricular fibrillation; accelerate heartbeat and breathing; and increase blood pressure and body temperature[ehd.org]
Chronic Alcoholism
Often this is associated with tactile (feeling) hallucinations in which alcoholics think they feel insects crawling on their skin. This phenomenon is called formication.[emedicinehealth.com] […] values in patients without insomnia.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] Ventricular fibrillation causes chaotic twitching in the heart's main pumping chambers (ventricles).[m.webmd.com]
Alcohol Withdrawal Seizures
hallucinations Uncontrollable tremors Seizures DTs can be fatal without treatment, due to the increased risk of developing respiratory arrest, aspiration pneumonitis, or[waypointrecoverycenter.com] Better methods for treatment of anxiety and insomnia need to be developed.[benzo.org.uk] Tachycardia (V-Tach) Ventricular Fibrillation Long QT Syndrome Bradyarrhythmias Sinus Node Dysfunction Heart Block However, the severity of an arrhythmia changes depending[harmonyplace.com]
Cocaine Dependence
hallucinations; which can include the feeling of something crawling under the skin (formication), also known as "coke bugs", during binges.[en.wikipedia.org] Morbidity arising from use is linked to hypertension, ventricular fibrillation, chest pain, shortness of breath and respiratory arrest.[nursingtimes.net] Those rhythms may be ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation and may cause sudden death.[emedicinehealth.com]
hallucinations, Insomnia, Increased body temperature death from over dose Increased risk of exposure to HIV, hepatitis, and other infectious diseases if injected Cocaine[web.archive.org] Ice causes a very jittery high, along with anxiety, insomnia, sometimes paranoia.[web.archive.org] Izquierdo Gómez reported a patient with ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome who developed ventricular fibrillation.[lifeinthefastlane.com]
(typically visual or tactile, less commonly auditory, olfactory, or vestibular), restlessness, distractibility, tremor {which is sometimes gross), sweating. tachycardia,[who.int] However, several side effects have been described: headache, nausea, anorexia, xerostomia, insomnia, myalgia, trismus, and bruxism (2,3).[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov] Fatal dysrhythmias have been reported following MDMA use, resulting in ventricular fibrillation and asystole.[emedicine.medscape.com]
Benzodiazepine Overdose
Cocaine Mechanism block biogenic amine (DA, NE, 5HT) reuptake Intoxication presentation mental status changes euphoria, psychomotor agitation, grandiosity, hallucinations[step2.medbullets.com] Benzodiazepines were most often prescribed for anxiety disorders, mood disorders such as depression, and insomnia.[foxnews.com] They reported 14 cardiovascular AEs related to the use of flumazenil, and of these, two were cardiac arrest and one was ventricular fibrillation; all three patients died 38[onlinelibrary.wiley.com]
Brugada Syndrome
Insomnia (HCP)
Recurrent Episodes of Ventricular Fibrillation
Refractory Insomnia
Sleep Disorder with Severe Insomnia (in Adulthood)
Differential diagnoses, possible causes and diseases for Insomnia, Tactile Hallucination, Ventricular Fibrillation listed by probability for chosen subpopulation according to the database at Symptoma®, the medical search engine for diseases.
Insomnia & Tactile Hallucination & Ventricular Fibrillation
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Nebraska Anti-Bullying Laws & Policies
Prohibiting statement No
Reporting and investigations No
Communication of policy No
Parent engagement No
What are the Nebraska state laws and regulations that cover bullying?
Nebraska Revised Statutes §79-267. Student conduct constituting grounds for long-term suspension, expulsion, or mandatory reassignment; enumerated; alternatives for truant or tardy students
Nebraska Revised Statutes §79-2,137. School district; development and adoption of bullying prevention and education policy; review
Nebraska Administrative Code. Title 92, Ch. 10. Regulations and Procedures for the Accreditation of Schools
How are bullying and cyberbullying defined in Nebraska anti-bullying laws and regulations?
Nebraska anti-bullying laws include the following definition of bullying:
“Bullying” means any ongoing pattern of physical, verbal, or electronic abuse on school grounds, in a vehicle owned, leased, or contracted by a school being used for a school purpose by a school employee or his or her designee, or at school-sponsored activities or school-sponsored athletic events.
R.R.S. Neb. § 79-2,137 (2008)
Do Nebraska anti-bullying laws and regulations cover cyberbullying that occurs off-campus?
No. Nebraska anti-bullying laws do not cover off-campus conduct.
Nebraska school districts must develop and adopt a policy concerning bullying prevention and education for all students. Nebraska anti-bullying laws do no prescribe specific content for school district bullying policies.
Nebraska anti-bullying laws require districts to review policies annually.
Do Nebraska anti-bullying laws and regulations include protections for specific groups?
No. There are no specific groups listed under Nebraska anti-bullying laws or regulations.
Nebraska schools that receive federal funding are required by federal law to address discrimination on a number of different personal characteristics. Find out when bullying may be a civil rights violation.
Do Nebraska anti-bullying laws and regulations encourage or require districts to implement bullying prevention programs or strategies?
No. Nebraska anti-bullying laws do not require districts to implement bullying prevention programs or strategies.
Do Nebraska anti-bullying laws and regulations encourage or require districts to train teachers and other school staff on how to prevent and respond to bullying incidents?
No. Nebraska anti-bullying laws do not require districts train teachers and other school staff on how to respond to bullying incidents.
Do Nebraska anti-bullying laws and regulations encourage or require districts to provide safeguards or mental health supports for students involved with bullying?
No. Nebraska anti-bullying laws do not require districts to provide safeguards or mental health supports for students involved with bullying.
Do Nebraska anti-bullying laws and regulations involve parents in efforts to address bullying behavior?
No. Nebraska anti-bullying laws do not create expectations for parent involvement in addressing bullying.
Visit the Nebraska Department of Education “Bullying Prevention” webpage and/or view the Nebraska state model policy on bullying and harassment.
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Arteta hints at rest for misfiring Lacazette but expects Arsenal striker to come good
Written By Chris Burton
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Arsenal v Leeds United
Arsenal v Manchester United
Mikel Arteta
A. Lacazette
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has hinted at giving Alexandre Lacazette an enforced break, but expects the misfiring Frenchman to rediscover his spark at some stage.
The 28-year-old forward has been a reliable source of goals throughout his time at Emirates Stadium.
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He has 42 to his name from 105 appearances since completing a move from Lyon in the summer of 2017, but has managed only six in 17 outings this season.
Only three of those have come in the Premier League, with another blank drawn in a 2-0 victory over Manchester United on New Year’s Day.
Arteta was happy with Lacazette’s overall contribution in that contest and believes he has been deserving of more, but admits that a rest may help to get a proven performer back to his best.
The Gunners boss told the Evening Standard: “He had the chances to put away [against United].
“He has been really helpful in giving us a lot of options. He makes his team-mates better, that’s one of the biggest qualities.
“As well, every time he is in front of goal normally he is so clinical. I am disappointed that he hasn’t been rewarded with all the work he has done in the last three games because he could have scored three or four goals easily.
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“But the goal will come for him naturally because he is a natural finisher.
“Does he just need one to go in anyhow? Exactly. And maybe a little bit fresher legs will help as well.”
While Arsenal seek to get Lacazette firing on all cylinders once more, they are also keen to see him commit to fresh terms.
He is already tied to a contract through to 2022, but discussions regarding an extension have been held.
They have rather ground to a halt, but the hope is that an agreement can be reached at some stage which suits all parties.
If he is to be handed a break by Arteta over the coming weeks, then the FA Cup could provide a perfect stage.
Arsenal are due to welcome Championship promotion hopefuls Leeds to Emirates Stadium in the third round of that competition on Monday.
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Matt Harvey's free-agent fizzle highlights risk of assuming things
Written By Tom Gatto
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This was supposed to be the offseason that Matt Harvey broke or dented a team's bank. This was supposed to be the offseason that he and Bryce Harper formed a Scott Boras-managed tag team and ruled a historic free-agent class.
The Harvey train began rolling around the time he started the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field, in the middle of his first full big league season. Mets fans were resigning themselves to the possibility that the Dark Knight would move to the dark side of Gotham to pitch for his boyhood team.
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Then Harvey's elbow unraveled a month after that ASG start, followed by his psyche three seasons later. He left the Mets a few months earlier than expected when he was traded to the Reds for Devin Mesoraco last May.
By that point, the Yankees weren't all that interested in him. On Monday, they re-signed 36-year-old J.A. Happ for $17 million a season; last month, they re-signed 38-year-old CC Sabathia for $8 million.
On Wednesday, it will be Manny Machado, not the 29-year-old Harvey, getting the grand tour of the Stadium. Machado wasn't supposed to be available this offseason, but he and the Orioles failed to work out a long-term extension. Machado, not Harvey, will see his face Photoshopped onto a Yankees uniform. Machado, not Harvey, may receive a nine-figure contract offer from the Steinbrenners and Brian Cashman. .
Harvey will have to be content with the one-year contract he received Tuesday from the Angels that's worth a reported $11 million in guaranteed money and $3 million in incentives based on how many starts he makes.
This would be an ideal spot to say "Can't predict ball," to write a few words about how no one knows what the future holds for players, but then again, Harper is still going to be paid a ridiculous amount of money and Harvey, somehow, could still be a top-of-the-rotation starter.
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Harvey's salary may be in line with that of a mid-rotation type (think former Yankees great Lance Lynn's $10 million AAV with the Rangers), but he's arguably the Halos' No. 1 or No. 2 at the moment, depending on how one feels about Andrew Heaney and assuming LA is done spending on starters.
Heaney's rate stats over 180 innings with the Angels last season (4.15 ERA, 3.99 FIP, 1.200 WHIP, 9.0 K/9, 4.00 K/BB) were better than Harvey's over 128 innings with the Reds (4.50, 4.33, 1.250, 7.8, 3.96), but not so much better that Heaney has to be considered the ace.
Jaime Barria (3.41 ERA/4.58 FIP) and Tyler Skaggs (4.02/3.63) produced middling results in 2018, and Shohei Ohtani had his own pitching elbow unravel after he showed No. 1 stuff.
In other words, the Angels lack a horse. A Harvey who is intent on landing a bigger, better contract next offseason may have the inside track on that role.
It's also possible that Harvey is just a mid-rotation starter at this point in his career and will be that, or worse, in Anaheim.
At this point, predicting Harvey's future is mere guesswork; remember, the assumption once was that he would be getting fitted for pinstripes around this time.
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Social Sciences Anthropology & Archaeology
X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) in Geoarchaeology
Editors: Shackley, M. Steven (Ed.)
No other volume examining recently technological advances of XRF for archaeological uses.
Contributors are archaeologists, geologists, chemists and physicists
Provides invaluable guidance to the technology, pertinent for those working at historically or culturally sensitive sites where non-destructive analysis of archaeological materials is imperative
Hardcover 93,59 €
Since the 1960s, x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), both wavelength and energy-dispersive have served as the workhorse for non-destructive and destructive analyses of archaeological materials. Recently eclipsed by other instrumentation such as LA-ICP-MS, XRF remains the mainstay of non-destructive chemical analyses in archaeology, particularly for volcanic rocks, and most particularly for obsidian. In a world where heritage and repatriation issues drive archaeological method and theory, XRF remains an important tool for understanding the human past, and will remain so for decades to come.
Currently, there is no comprehensive book in XRF applications in archaeology at a time when the applications of portable XRF and desktop XRF instrumentation are exploding particularly in anthropology and archaeology departments worldwide.
The contributors to this volume are at the forefront of the newest applications of XRF to archaeological solutions. It covers all relevant aspects of the field for those using the newest XRF technologies.
M. Steven Shackley is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Berkeley Archaeological XRF Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley.
X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Twenty-First Century Archaeology
Shackley, M. Steven
An Introduction to X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Analysis in Archaeology
Factors Affecting the Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) Analysis of Archaeological Obsidian
Davis, M. Kathleen (et al.)
Non-destructive EDXRF Analyses of Archaeological Basalts
Lundblad, Steven P. (et al.)
Non-destructive Applications of Wavelength XRF in Obsidian Studies
Francesco, Annamaria (et al.)
Portable XRF of Archaeological Artifacts: Current Research, Potentials and Limitations
Liritzis, Ioannis (et al.)
Elemental Analysis of Fine-Grained Basalt Sources from the Samoan Island of Tutuila: Applications of Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) and Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA) Toward an Intra-Island Provenance Study
Johnson, Phillip R.
Comparison and Contrast Between XRF and NAA: Used for Characterization Of Obsidian Sources in Central Mexico
Glascock, Michael D.
Is There a Future for XRF in Twenty-First Century Archaeology?
Joyce, Rosemary A.
Erratum to: X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (XRF) in Geoarchaeology
Pages E1-E3
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21 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
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An Extended Epistemology for Transformative Learning Theory and Its Application Through Collaborative Inquiry
by Elizabeth Kasl & Lyle Yorks - January 27, 2002
This paper extends Jack Mezirow's theory about the transformative dimensions of adult learning. Drawing on John Heron's conceptualization of how learning is grounded in feelings and emotion, the authors suggest that transformation be understood as changed habits of being. Collaborative inquiry, a methodology based on an epistemology rooted in experience and dependent on relationship, is presented as an effective strategy for facilitating learning and transformative learning. Three cases of collaborative inquiry projects are presented.
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Elizabeth Kasl
Elizabeth Kasl is professor in the Transformative Learning Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her work focuses on small group learning, transformative learning, collaborative learning, and pedagogical practices that support these types of learning. Recent publications include "Creating New Habits of Mind in Small Groups," (In J. Mezirow and Associates, Learning as Transformation, 2000, with D. Elias), and "Teams a Learners: A Research-Based Model of Team Learning," (Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1997, with V. Marsick and K. Dechant).
Lyle Yorks
Lyle Yorks is associate professor of adult and continuing education at Teachers College, Columbia University where he directs the Adult Education Guided Intensive Study (AEGIS) doctoral program. His research interests include action learning and collaborative inquiry as strategies for fostering adult learning and inquiry, especially as they relate to transformative and organizational learning. Recent publications include "Organizational Learning and Transformation," (J. Mezirow and Associates, Learning as Transformation, 2000, with V. Marsick), and Collaborative Inquiry as a Strategy for Adult Learning, (2000, with Elisabeth Kasl).
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Sport / Football
Wilder brands VAR ‘consistently inconsistent’ after controversial Shelvey goal
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder is unrepentant over his criticism of VAR (Danny Lawson/PA)
Sheffield United manager Chris Wilder called Jonjo Shelvey “an unbelievably good actor” as the VAR row over Newcastle’s controversial second goal at Bramall Lane rumbled on.
Shelvey ran through to secure a 2-0 win for Newcastle on Thursday night despite Andy Carroll having been flagged offside for his flick on.
The England midfielder said later that referee Stuart Attwell had told him before the game to play to the whistle in such circumstances.
Wilder criticised VAR after the game, saying he is “drained” and “saddened” by the technology, and he turned his attention to Shelvey’s role in the goal at his press conference for the weekend trip to Norwich.
“Jonjo is an unbelievably good actor if he’s telling me that he knew,” Wilder said.
“He strolled up to that ball and thought ‘I’ll take a little bit of a chance. I’ll just roll it in and see what happens’.
“That’s what he did. Don’t kid yourself that he was through and he knew he was going to be in.”
Wilder said Shelvey’s goal, which came 20 minutes from time, “sucked the life” out of his players and 30,000 Sheffield United fans.
The result ended the Blades’ seven-game unbeaten Premier League run and, having slept on the incident, Wilder admitted he is still nonplussed by VAR.
“It’s consistently inconsistent,” Wilder said. “That’s what it is, it’s still subjective.
“It’s every pre-match, every post-match. It’s on the box every morning.
“(Former referee) Dermot Gallagher must be getting a right few bob! He’s getting work (on Sky Sports), so he possibly needs a holiday.
“My comments after the game, that’s the frustration on the night, and the overall situation regarding VAR as well.
“It wasn’t just condensed into that one decision. You looked at the reaction of the players.
“I went through all the spiel of my career from 14 and 16 and bored everybody to bits.
“But these boys have played football from a young age and all of a sudden it’s changed for them, and it’s changed for the supporters. You just saw the reaction of everybody.”
Wilder has no new injury concerns for Sunday’s game at Carrow Road.
The in-form strike partnership of Lys Mousset and David McGoldrick could return after being rested in favour of Billy Sharp and Oli McBurnie against Newcastle.
The ninth-placed Blades, who were promoted alongside Norwich last season, have exceeded expectations during the first half of the campaign.
But Wilder says he still needs to strengthen the squad in the January transfer window.
“There’s always a short, medium and long-term plan for this football club,” he said.
“We’re going through that process at the moment, we have to.
“It’s important we cement our position in the Premier League, we cement our position in the table as it is now, and we’ll only do that by investing in January.”
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Kidnappings hard to stop because it is now a business, says Wike
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Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike
Tony John, Port Harcourt
Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike says that the commercialisation of kidnapping in Nigeria has made it almost impossible to stop the menace.
Speaking during a courtesy visit by Rotary District Governor 9141 Nigeria at the Government House, Port Harcourt, Wike said since kidnapping is now a criminal enterprise, it could only be reduced to the barest minimum.
“It is now impossible to stop kidnapping in Nigeria. It is now a business. It has been commercialised,” the Governor said.
“It is now a major business. Everyone must partner with the government to ensure that we reduce it to the barest minimum. But it cannot be totally eradicated.”
He said that those involved in kidnapping from security reports ranged from 16 to 22 years.
“Look at what is happening across the country. Kidnapping has taken over all states. When it started here, it was politicised.
“But today, it is negatively affecting all states of the federation. A few days ago, a Court of Appeal judge was kidnapped in Benin. Before that, a Federal High Court judge was kidnapped. All of us must work together to stop this scourge,” he said.
The Governor called on Rotary Nigeria to embark on enlightenment programmes to ensure that young people are educated on the dangers of cultism and kidnapping.
He urged everyone to be conscious of their environment and take measures to secure themselves, since kidnappers use close workers, family members and associates as informants.
Wike commended Rotary Nigeria for their contributions to the development of Rivers State.
He assured that the state government will continue to partner with them to achieve development goals.
He noted that the Rivers government will continue to invest in the security of lives and property, health, education as well as vital social services.
Earlier, District Governor of Rotary International District 9141, Nze Anizor, described Governor Wike as a rare leader who has contributed to the development of the state.
He congratulated the Governor on his re-election, saying that it was an opportunity for the him to do more for the people of Rivers.
He disclosed that the Rotary International District 9141 invested about N300 million into several humanitarian projects in the state every year.
“Rotary is more inclined to service, rather than complaints. Rotary International is a great partner of government towards development,” he said.
He noted that the group has imported equipment worth N30 million for the safe transfusion of blood.
The district governor lauded Governor Wike for his investment in the construction of Mother and Child Hospital in Port Harcourt.
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Jesse Claypoole focused on developing a camera to make smart machines even smarter
on December 11 th, 2019 by Tom Ballard
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another in a series of seven articles spotlighting the start-ups that comprise Cohort 3 of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s “Innovation Crossroads” program.)
Jesse Claypoole is focused on developing a camera that does not exist in the market now so that smart machines can become even smarter. Whether it might be in autonomous vehicles or more mundane farming applications such as determining when tomatoes are ready to be picked, his technology holds the promise of impacting many business sectors.
The Richmond, VA native is another of the Fellows in Cohort 3 of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) “Innovation Crossroads” (IC) program. After spending five years at the State University of New York Polytechnic Institute earning his Ph.D. in Nanoscale Science, Claypoole is very happy to be in more temperate climates while he works for the next two years on his novel technology.
“The camera that I’m developing will tell you three things” about an item, he says. Those three characteristics are what it is made of, where it is, and what kind of shape it has. How does it make those determinations? Claypoole says the answers come from assessing an item from both depth and spectral information without a reduction of the image quality.
“We’ll enable machines to see the what and the where in a single camera form factor,” he adds.
Claypoole, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MantaPoole Technologies, has a provisional patent for the optics of the solution he is developing that he has named Plenoptics 3.0. That is the focus of his work over the two-year fellowship at ORNL.
In essence, you might say he is developing a tool that enables smart machines to become even smarter in making the right decisions. What does that require? The answer is access to all of the information they need and an assurance that it is correct. That’s no small task.
As these smart and autonomous machines become even more commonplace in the world, Claypoole says they will need an affordable sensor solution that can give them that needed information. Current approaches use standard 2D imaging sensors or expensive groups of sensors like lidar along with machine vision to interact with the real world.
“The problem with the current approaches is that they are either unaffordable to the average person or do not provide the correct amount and type of information for a smart machine to flexibly interact with the real world,” Claypoole explains. The MantaPoole Technologies solution is a new kind of imaging sensor that can capture multispectral and depth information in an affordable compact single camera form factor.
The business sectors that can be impacted are very diverse.
Claypoole’s first example during our interview was agriculture, specifically certain crops that can only be picked by hand. He said that broccoli is picked based on its shape, while strawberries are picked based on their color. The Plenoptics 3.0 since camera solution would allow farmers to know the precise times to pick.
Other potential areas could be food inspection, inspection of welds, and virtual reality where the technology would allow the use of just one camera rather than several in a headset.
Claypoole expects to spend the first 18 months of the IC Fellowship enhancing the camera before launching pilots to determine the best application areas. That period of time will also help him determine how much software MantaPoole Technologies needs to develop to bring its product to market.
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Puerto Rico: the 51st state of luxury
Puerto Rico has long been on the map for in the know Americans looking for luxury Credit: © Hemis / Alamy/Hemis / Alamy
Luke Waterson, Travel writer
5 November 2014 • 12:00am
Luke Waterson
When the Ritz-Carlton Reserve at Dorado Beach opened on Puerto Rico’s northern shores in late 2012, it announced to the world what a lot of in-the-know Americans had been enjoying for some years: the island’s arrival in the uppermost echelon of luxury destinations.
It is relatively easy, of course, to plant a hotel with well-appointed rooms and a decent restaurant in front of a band of golden sand and call it “luxury”. It is something else to deliver an experience that surpasses and redefines the term.
For a small island to bag a Ritz-Carlton Reserve is pretty prestigious. There are, after all, a mere six dotted about the globe: each unique, each elite, each at a level of luxury most five-star accommodation never reaches.
Ritz-Carlton Reserve Dorado Beach (ritzcarlton.com) is the newest of these six. It’s ensconced within an estate formerly owned by Laurance Rockefeller, on a 140-acre emerald tract of land that includes just 115 huge rooms amidst a glut of facilities too lengthy to list. Fourteen suites stand out from the other hundred. Fronting the ocean, they feature floor-to-ceiling doors that yield uninterrupted ocean views, espresso machines and private infinity pools. The 115th room? Su Casa, a rose-pink mansion from the Twenties whose 8,000 sq-ft nevertheless get lost in the surrounding private grounds.
San Juan's Old Town architecture is impressive (Alamy)
The Royal Isabela Golf Resort (royalisabela.com) is built on the cliffs in the northwest coast surfing hotspot of Isabella. Its new approach to “glamour golfing” has in many ways out-trumped Trump International, previously the most esteemed of the island’s several, already world renowned, courses.
Perhaps, once more, it is the boutique feel here that appeals most. Long-term golfing enthusiasts Charlie and Stanley Pasarell lovingly created these serene eighteen greens and the colonial-style La Casa restaurant, sourcing food straight from the resort’s own farm. Hurdles on holes include a recreation of a Scottish burn, and tees over a huge cleft in the sea cliffs and through old sugar plantation ruins. It’s a course designed for golf purists who are happy to pay top dollar for a play on holes that have been dubbed some of the best in the world. You might want to stay over in the secluded casitas – each with 1500sq-ft of space, individual pools and gardens – even if you loathed golf.
Top-end hotel openings only really become exciting when no expense is spared; when financial considerations at least appear to have been cast aside to pursue unfettered indulgence. The opening – or rather, re-opening – of San Juan’s Condado Vanderbilt (condadovanderbilt.com), falls firmly into this category.
The hotel debuted in 1919 as the island’s first luxury place to stay – a lavish address that once had Hollywood celebrities and world Royalty flocking to spend the night. As of 2014, the Condado Vanderbilt is back. The new property exudes plenty of old glamour in the public areas, while rooms have a crisp, modern look. The sea views from the private balconies – the hotel straddles an isthmus between Old San Juan and its outer neighbourhoods – might well occupy you until the hour of complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres. The 1919 restaurant in the hotel is now undeniably among the most glamorous places to eat in the city.
El Blok (elblok.com), on the island of Vieques, is an architecturally innovative building that gently mocks the tropical modernist style that inundated these islands in the Fifties. This curved-corner, white concrete structure is inspired by coral reef. The way that light filters into the rooms, achieved through external Moorish-style lattices and coupled with the sublime sea views, is particularly appealing. After sleeping on 300 thread-count sheets guests can gravitate to the bar (hewn from a single almond tree) before working up an appetite for El Blok’s most anticipated feature: the Placita restaurant. Here, stylishly simple contemporary Puerto Rican cuisine is prepared by one of the island’s brightest young chefs, James Beard Award-nominated Jose Enrique. Signature dishes include a Creole panzanella salad, rotisserie pork and a Caribbean Scotch egg.
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San Juan is where to wine and dine those you wish to impress. Colonial buildings, narrow cobbled streets and the sea lapping a mere stone’s throw away all contribute to its atmosphere. Yet Franco Seccarelli, the chef behind perhaps the best Old San Juan restaurant, Il Perugino, has just moved his enterprise out of the Old Town south, to the Hato Ray district. The ornate décor of Il Nuovo Perugino – “waves” of wood panelling flow around the dining area – sets the tone. Highlights are the sommelier service and the wine list, which is one of Puerto Rico’s greatest selections.
Some just keep doing what they have done successfully for years. Patio del Nispero resides within Old San Juan’s most romantic hotel, the 17th-century Hotel El Convento (elconvento.com). There is no better courtyard than this at which to enjoy breakfast. Meanwhile, San Juan haute cuisine is best sampled at long-standing Marmalade (marmaladepr.com) where particularly good scallop, lobster shrimp and sea bass dishes are complemented by one of the most imaginative vegetarian menus in town.
Outside the Old Town in the Condado neighbourhood, Puerto Rico’s best-known celebrity chef Wilo Benet has been at the helm of Pikayo (wilobenet.com/pikayo) in the Condado Plaza Hilton since 1990. It’s a plush eating experience and refreshingly faithful to the comida criolla (creole cuisine) that Puerto Ricans have been feasting on for centuries.
Where the island’s most exciting attractions lie, so follow its best sleeping and eating possibilities. In the surfing mecca of Rincón awaits one of the Caribbean’s most luxurious boutique hotels and restaurants, the Horned Dorset Primavera (horneddorset.com). The Toro Verde Adventure park, with some of the best ziplines in the Americas, sits high in the island’s central mountains alongside a prime spot for classic Puerto Rican food, Toroverde (toroverdepr.com). Up in the plantations producing coffee once preferred over any other by European dignitaries, one former hacienda’s estate has been converted into the wellness escape, Casa Grande Mountain Retreat (hotelcasagrande.com).
There might come a time when other types of travellers revolt over Puerto Rico’s dearth of wallet-friendly holidays. But the chances are, they’ll go elsewhere, leaving the island to continue on its trajectory towards becoming a wholly luxury escape.
B&B craze
The B&B concept has only just caught on in Puerto Rico, but there are already some top exponents of the art.
On one of Old San Juan’s prettiest streets, within a sunny yellow18th-century former National Guard’s residence, Casa Sol B&B (casasolbnb.com) provides guests with service every bit as attentive as a 5-star hotel (the owner has 20 years’ experience working at the Hilton to draw upon). The five haughty colonial rooms here were finished only in late 2013. With lofty ceilings and antique furniture, they lead onto an inviting internal patio where breakfasts tailored to your tastes are served.
El Yunque, southeast of Puerto Rico, is the USA’s only tropical rainforest, and the Rainforest Inn (rainforestinn.com) is secreted within. It’s an arrestingly exquisite eco-lodge where sumptuous accommodation is provided either in the 2-person chalet or in the ultimate seclusion of the vast 5-person villa, a mile away from the main house in the trees. Fresh flowers enliven the rooms daily, and a gourmet breakfast is served. The inn also keeps a list of the diverse birdlife spotted in the vicinity: this is one of the Caribbean’s best bird-watching locales.
Rincón’s role model where B&B’s are concerned is Tres Sirenas B&B (tressirenas.com), down a dead-end lane on the edge of town with only a lonely beach and the crashing waves beyond. The rooms look out on terraces by the jewel of a pool – your front-row pew not only on the ocean but also for sampling some of Puerto Rico’s most original breakfasts (wild mushroom, spinach and goat’s cheese frittata, for example) alternating daily. Yoga, surfing and deep-sea fishing trips are arranged.
To San Juan’s Luis Muňoz Marín International Airport, Frankfurt has weekly direct flights on Saturdays with Condor (condor.com) and Madrid offers direct flights on Thursdays and Sundays with AirEuropa (aireuropa.com). Otherwise, the most straightforward connection from the UK is to fly from London Heathrow to New York’s JFK airport with British Airways, (ba.com) then continue to San Juan with American Airlines (aa.com).
A taxi from the airport to Old San Juan should cost $19 (£12), plus $1 per bag. Puerto Rico’s public transport system is diabolical, so if you want to travel outside of San Juan, renting a car is necessary. Thrify, Hertz, Avis, Budget and Sixt have offices at the airport.
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A Santa hat that speaks volumes
New business owner responsible for seasonal “Thank you” and shop local campaign
Marie Neys posed with a Santa hat as a part of the “thank you for buying local” campaign she ran this season with 39 local businesses.
Photo by MARIE NEYS
Marie Neys says her idea for a campaign by local businesses in the run-up to the Christmas season hit her after seeing an ad in a local magazine with a woman holding a chalkboard sign that said, “Thank you for buying local.” Immediately, she floated her idea on the Bowen Business and Community Facebook group, and received an overwhelming response.
“I’m not a professional photographer or anything, and I made that clear, but I thought that if everyone involved took a photo with a Santa hat, it shows us all coming together to say thank you for shopping local,” says Neys. “I’ve learned a lot about photography since launching this, having taken more than 2,500 photos with my phone.”
Neys says she learned a lot about the island’s businesses, as well.
“I knew that Kate Hartle had a hair studio, for example, but I didn’t know about all the new products they carry,” she says. “Or The Sweet Stand, I know they made cakes and other treats, but I did not know about their syrups and other products they offer. The thank you campaign really morphed into a marketing campaign where the different businesses got to show off what they have to offer.”
Neys says that she hopes this inspires local business to work together more often.
“I’ve really noticed how businesses do this in other communities,” Neys says. “I was in Steveston in the fall, and it really looked as though the businesses worked together to decorate their shops and it made for a lovely experience being on the street. When I was in Austin, there was a campaign where the businesses had chalkboards with cheeky and creative slogans on them, and in Napa there are permanent signs with arrows that say, ‘Bakery, 0.2 miles.’ It provides a nice sense of cohesiveness, and I get the feeling the here on Bowen, businesses are really craving a greater sense of community.”
Neys says that some business owners have actually asked her if she would be interested in starting a local business association.
“It’s certainly something I would consider, but I have to get my own businesses up and running first,” she says.
Marie Neys, Emilie Kaplun and Pauulet Hohn will be launching the Catching Stars Gallery in the corner shop below the new pub building in the New Year. Marie will also moving her framing business, Marie Neys Fine Art and Framing, into the space as well.
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Albany Dutchmen split doubleheader with Utica Blue Sox
Dutchmen win opener before getting nipped in nightcap at Siena
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July 21, 2017 Updated: July 21, 2017 10:53 p.m.
The Albany Dutchmen split a doubleheader against the Utica Blue Sox on Friday in a pair of Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League contests at Siena Field in Loudonville.
Albany took Game 1 of the twinbill, 6-3, before dropping a 3-2 decision in the nightcap.
In the first game, the Dutchmen scored three runs in the third and two more in the fourth to jump out to a commanding 5-0 advantage.
Brad Gneiting and Nick Gallo had RBI singles to key the third-inning outburst and Jon Skidmore smacked a two-run home run in the fourth to build the lead.
Utica responded with two runs in the fifth but Albany answered with Adam Elliot's RBI single in the bottom half of the inning to make it 6-2 and seal the win.
In Game 2, Evan Lee came around to score on Ryan Sargent's double to snap a 2-2 deadlock in the fourth inning to lift Utica to the win.
Chase Allen hit a solo home run to lead Albany.
The Dutchmen are off on Saturday but return to action at 5:05 p.m. Sunday against Saugerties in Loudonville.
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Sarah Palin's 'blood libel' blunder
Peter Beaumont
Her misappropriation of a phrase from the history of antisemitism in discussing the Giffords shooting is a staggering affront
Wed 12 Jan 2011 14.40 EST First published on Wed 12 Jan 2011 14.40 EST
The sense of victimhood of the Tea Party and its fellow travellers should now be well known. It was Glenn Beck, after all – the man who accused America's first African American president of being "racist" – who last year told a rally of his followers in Washington that they had taken on the mantle of the civil rights movement.
Now Sarah Palin, former vice presidential candidate, has repeated this same repellent inversion, accusing those who criticised her for her violent political rhetoric against Gabrielle Giffords, the congresswoman shot in Arizona on Saturday, of perpetrating a "blood libel" against her. In using that expression, Palin has appropriated a phrase with a specific meaning in the long history of hate crime against the Jewish people.
First mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew to refer to the supposed Jewish guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus, over the centuries it came to mean something even more pernicious: the fraudulent claim that Jews used the blood of murdered children in their rituals. More awful still, perhaps, is the context in which Palin has adopted the language: to recast herself as the victim in defending herself from claims that her language and behaviour may have helped create the context for the attempted murder of a congresswoman who, in fact, is Jewish.
Now, it is almost irrelevant whether Palin's language contributed to the shootings, or whether even her campaign's drawing of a crosshairs on Giffords' district was even known to the gunman. Because in defending herself Palin has more than compounded the sense that she is unsuitable for high office. It is almost impossible to find an explanation for this use of "blood libel" that casts Palin in anything but the most damning light.
Did she – and her advisers – really not have an inkling what "blood libel" means? If she did not, then that suggests a politician yet more naïve and clumsy than even her most strident detractors had supposed.
But more problematic still is a scenario where Palin knows what "blood libel" actually means, attaching herself as a victim on the same footing as those who suffered centuries of antisemitic persecution that culminated in the Holocaust. Is this what Palin is implying? Poor Sarah. That criticism of her crass political style is of the same order as the pogroms and expulsions perpetrated against the Jewish people?
Then, there is a final issue and the most serious one: Palin's political response to the Arizona massacre has been inept to the point of being risible. Confronted with serious questions about her style at a time of national shock, her first response was to explain herself in an email written to Glenn Beck.
This video statement was a second chance to show how she could act as a statesman and engage with the debate about America's overheated political language at a time when families are still mourning their dead. She had an opportunity to demonstrate that she was not simply a polarising and partisan figure and to dismiss the suspicions that she is self-serving, narcissistic and self-obsessed.
In that, Sarah Palin has manifestly failed. And she has failed not just as a politician, but as a human being, too.
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New plans unveiled for Adelaide Oval Hotel
Under the plans, the boutique 128-room Adelaide Oval Hotel will be integrated into the eastern façade of the existing structure and will be open by August 2020 in time for the ICC World T20.
Adelaide Oval will become the first stadium in Australia to feature an integrated hotel under plans revealed by the Stadium Management Authority (AOSMA).
The hotel will integrate with the Eastern Stand, celebrating its parkland setting and context. It maintains the current scale and proportion of built form, retaining views of the seating bowl and roof structure.
Contained within the Adelaide Oval area, the hotel will not impact the parklands or the existing plaza. Rooms will have spectacular views, including St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide Parklands and the city skyline.
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Construction is anticipated to commence in May/June 2019 and is expected to be complete in June 2020 before opening in August 2020 in time for the ICC World T20.
Key facts of the development include:
The 128-room boutique hotel will feature two wings that will integrate into the existing design on either side of the East Gate. They will be linked by an elevated foyer and lounge pod with views into the east atrium and out to the parklands and city skyline.
The hotel will utilise current kitchen and restaurant facilities (including Hill of Grace Restaurant) within the Eastern Stand. Access will be via the existing lifts and from the underground carpark.
Rooms have spectacular views, including St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide Parklands and the city skyline.
The hotel integrates with the Eastern Stand, celebrating its parkland setting and context. It maintains the current scale and proportion of built form, retaining views of the seating bowl and roof structure.
The Adelaide Oval Hotel will be built and managed by the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority. It will not be operated by an external provider, nor will it carry any large-scale external signage.
The loan from SAFA of up to $42m will be provided at a standard market rate on a 30-year principal and interest arrangement. As the landlord, the State Government has provided the necessary works approval following consideration by Cabinet.
Like the Oval itself, the new Adelaide Oval Hotel will be built on Crown Land. Therefore, at the end of AOSMA’s lease, it will be returned to the people of South Australia.
Because it is on Crown Land leased by AOSMA from the State Government, there are complications in terms of borrowing from a bank including an inability to obtain a normal mortgage. Hence, SAFA has provided the loan.
The design is being overseen by COX Architecture and project managed by Mott MacDonald, the same team responsible for the award-winning redevelopment of Adelaide Oval.
AOSMA’s business case for the hotel has been built and stress-tested by consultants including KPMG, BDO and Horwath HTL.
When complete, the hotel will create 120 ongoing FTE roles.
While connected to/integrated with the current structure, the Adelaide Oval Hotel will be built as a ‘pod’, separated from the back of the Eastern Stand. Therefore, the seating bowl will not be impacted during construction.
None of the stadium’s existing access/egress including the plaza and atrium entry are affected by the development. Planning is already underway to ensure the impact of construction on gameday patrons arriving/leaving the stadium at the East Gate is kept at a minimum.
AOSMA Chair Kevin Scarce AC said in a statement, “We have a responsibility to generate funding to maintain and upgrade Adelaide Oval to the highest standard for the benefit of all South Australians."
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AOSMA Chair Kevin Scarce AC
“To do that, we must continue to create new and relevant business opportunities, and we have a proven record of doing so to date with innovations like the RoofClimb and the LED lighting upgrade."
“A boutique hotel is an innovation that will not only help offset the ongoing costs associated with operating and maintaining the stadium but will also ensure we stay at the forefront of innovation in what is an extremely competitive international event market."
Premier Steven Marshall also stated, “The Adelaide Oval Hotel will be an important addition to South Australia’s $6.7 billion visitor economy, which is a critical driver of jobs and investment.
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Premier Steven Marshall
COX Architecture Director Adam Hannon continued that, “South Australia has a history of firsts, not the least of which was the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval itself. It set new standards and has driven the investment other states are now making in their own facilities."
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COX Architecture Director Adam Hannon
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“We have deliberately designed the hotel to fit as unobtrusively and seamlessly into the design, retaining the magnificent views while not impacting the experience for gameday patrons."
“It’s a low-impact design, not only in the way in which it fits within the current structure but also in the way we can build it without adversely impacting the gameday experience for patrons during its construction.”
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Incidents from Nov 7
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Incidents from Nov 7 Incidents from Saturday. Check out this story on thespectrum.com: https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2015/11/08/incidents-nov-7/75429300/
The Spectrum Published 4:47 p.m. MT Nov. 8, 2015 | Updated 5:21 p.m. MT Nov. 8, 2015
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At the discretion of the editorial department, The Spectrum & Daily News reports police or rescue incidents of general interest where no arrest is made. These incidents were responded to Saturday.
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AT&T, DirecTV Line Up 4K for US Open
Holes 3, 13 and 17 will get 4K coverage
Michael Balderston
DALLAS—AT&T and DirecTV are hitting the links once again, as the pair will once again offer 4K coverage of a major golf tournament, this time the U.S. Open. The companies previously provided special 4K coverage of the Masters in April and the AT&T Byron Nelson in May; they have also provided 4K broadcasts of some baseball games as well.
DirecTV customers can see 4K coverage from holes 3, 13 and 17 at the Oakmont Country Club in Pittsburgh for all four rounds. To receive the DirecTV 4K broadcast, viewers need to subscribe to the Ultimate or Premiere TV package, a DirecTV 4K ready TV or the latest Genie HD DVR. DirecTV 4K customers can tune-in to channel 106 to watch the broadcast.
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Welding of Ti-6Al-4V with Fibre Delivered Laser Beams
Welding of Ti-6Al-4V with fibre delivered laser beams (October 2007)
Paul Hilton1 , Jonathan Blackburn2 , and Pak Chong3
1 TWI Ltd, Cambridge
2 Laser Processing Research Centre, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester
3 Welding and Materials, Subsea7, Aberdeen
Paper presented at ICALEO 2007, Orlando, FL. USA, 29 Oct - 1 Nov. 2007. Paper #1607.
Titanium alloys offer higher strength to weight ratios than steels, better fatigue performance than aluminium alloys and better corrosion resistance than aluminium alloys and stainless steels, and are now increasingly used in applications in the aerospace, chemical plant, power generation, oil and gas, medical and sporting goods sectors. For aerospace applications in particular, weld quality is very important, the occurrence of porosity being of particular concern. There are many potential benefits arising from the use of lasers for welding titanium alloys, however, there is little published information which quantifies the levels of porosity formed during welding under different conditions. In addition, the qualitative information currently available would indicate it is easier to produce high quality welds in titanium alloys using CO 2 lasers, than by using one micron wavelength fibre delivered laser beams. This paper will present results using a Yb-fibre laser, for the autogenous welding of Ti-6Al-4V alloy at 3, 5 and 9.3mm thickness. The quality of the resulting welds will be discussed, particularly with respect to porosity levels obtained and the weld profiles achieved. The results are compared with respect to a stringent set of criteria typical of those used in the aerospace sector.
Introduction and scope of work
Today's aircraft are by nature very complex structures, employing components of intricate design and shape. In both aeroengine and airframe manufacture, depending on the application, these components are made from materials chosen for their particular properties, such as mechanical strength, operating temperature range and corrosion resistance. In this respect, of particular interest are titanium alloys and nickel based superalloys. In many applications, because of the high cost of these materials and the expense of manufacturing from bulk solid, it is necessary to fabricate the components, and often welding is the only method available which will join the materials with the required integrity. The disadvantages of using welding to fabricate parts, however, are that welding processes can compromise the properties of the material (and therefore the component) in the fused area and heat affected zones. This meansthat before a welding method can be accepted for production applications, it must be shown to meet an established set of weld quality criteria, and rigorous testing. For aeroengine applications, these criteria are known to be very stringent.
Notwithstanding the above disadvantages of welding and the associated NDE, many aeroengine components made from titanium or nickel based alloys are currently fabricated using either conventional inert gas arc welding, plasma welding or electron beam welding. Some titanium alloy airframe components are also electron beam or arc welded. A general problem with arc welding, however, is that the speeds available are low, and the problems with electron beam welding involve the use of high vacuum and difficulties in following exactly the required joint line. Friction stir welding and laser welding offer the possibility to remove some of the problems encountered in production when using arc and electron beam welding. However, friction stir welding of titanium and nickel alloys has not yet been demonstrated as a viable production process, primarily due to excessive tool wear and lack of weld performance data. As a non-contact process, laser welding does not suffer from tool wear, and due to the very flexible nature of delivery of the energy to the joint and the advantages in terms of high speeds offered by the keyhole variant of laser welding, employment of this welding technique has potential advantages in terms of overall cost reduction. For welds in titanium alloys used in the manufacture of aeroengine components, achieving acceptable weld quality is not straightforward. Of particular concern is porosity formation when laser welding in the deep penetration or keyhole mode, and achieving the required control of weld geometry. This paper relates to laser welding performed on 3 to 9.3mm thick Ti-6Al-4V, and attempts to quantify observed porosity levels and relate these results to weld geometry.
Ti-6Al-4V is an α- β, heat-treatable alloy, consisting of a two-phase microstructure formed by the addition of up to 6% aluminium and varying amounts of β forming constituents, in this case, vanadium. Factors believed to influence the weld quality include surface appearance, weld metal porosity and weld profile, with these factors being interrelated. Although titanium is weldable by fusion processes, including laser welding, it has a high affinity for oxygen in air above a temperature of 650°C. As a result, the weld area must be protected from the atmosphere during cooling, even after the molten pool has solidified (melting point 1677°C). Without this protection, surface oxidation/contamination can cause embrittlement of the weld.
Porosity is one of the most common defects in the welding of titanium alloys and is usually caused by shielding gas entrapment before weld solidification, as reported for laser welding by Penasa et al. [1999] Since Ti-6Al-4V does not contain any elements with low vaporisation temperatures, hydrogen from the environment and contamination of the parent metal surface should be considered as causes of porosity as well as entrapment of the shielding gas. Shinoda et al. [1991] , and Denney et al. [1989] , used chemical pickling to clean the materials before welding, and reported better results regarding porosity than when using mechanical cleaning, but without quantification of the results. Coste et al. [1999] and Shinoda et al. [1991] , both compared CO 2 laser welds with Nd:YAG laser welds made in titanium, and reported that, generally, it was easier to produce less porosity at the CO 2 laser wavelength than at the Nd:YAG wavelength. No reasons for this were given. These papers, and the more recent paper by Mueller et al. [2006] , however, provide some evidence that when welding titanium, the combination of weld speed and laser power used will have an effect on weld shape, which in turn has an effect on weld porosity, with pores in the lower half of a weld being more prevalent than at the top of the weld. It is unfortunate that none of the current published literature on laser welding Ti-6Al-4V fully explains the exact nature of the gas shielding and gas flows used in the experiments or quantifies the results obtained in terms of weld quality.
This paper will address some of these issues by presenting the results of welding 3, 5 and 9.3mm thick Ti-6Al-4V plates, both as bead on plate runs and butt welds, made using a 7kW Yb-fibre laser. The welds were made autogenously,thus no filler materials were used in the trials. Cross sections of the welds made are presented as a function of laser power and welding speed. The welds were also submitted to radiographic examination, and the distribution and sizeof the observed porosity in these welds were recorded.
Equipment and experimental procedures
The 7kW Yb-fibre laser was manufactured by IPG Photonics, and has been in use at TWI for well over 3 years. It has a beam parameter product of 18mm.mradians, and its beam is delivered to the process head via a 0.3mm diameter optical fibre. For this work the process head was assembled with optics producing a 0.6mm beam waist. In the work reported here, the beam waist was kept on the surface of the material being welded. The process head was manipulated over a stationary sample, using an articulated robot arm. The titanium used in this work was supplied as machined plates which were then chemically cleaned. However, the time between chemical cleaning and welding in these experiments was not controlled. Immediately before welding, however, the edges of the plates to be welded, and the top and bottom of the plates close to the weld line, were mechanically abraded (by hand) and then degreased with acetone.
For all the results reported here, the same shielding gas arrangement was used. This used a nozzle, co-axial to the laser beam, onto which, at its base, a rectangular gas shield was added. This was approximately ten times longer than it was wide (in the welding direction), and finished with a flexible 'skirt' which trailed on the surface of the sample. To this configuration, a copper tube was added to direct a flow of gas at the region of the laser beam/workpiece interaction point. In addition, a flow of gas to the weld underbead was also used. Technical grade argon, with a purity of 99.996% was the only gas used in the experiments. For all the results described here, the shielding gas flows were nearly identical for each material thickness evaluated, only slight changes being made to these values to 'optimise' conditions at each thickness. All the welds reported later, made using this gas shielding system, displayed bright, shiny and oxide free surfaces. All the welds were made in the flat (1G) position.
Due to the limited amount of titanium available, bead on plate runs were made and evaluated before butt welds were made. The experiments reported here took place over an elapsed time of about 12 months, with the Yb-fibre laser used for other work between titanium trials. For the 3 and 5mm thick material, the 'optimised' conditions were found to be reproducible, both in terms of weld profiles obtained (for a given laser power and weld speed) and in terms of the average amounts of porosity found. For example, in the 3mm thick material, the same quality of weld was reproduced, for the same welding procedure, at least 3 times.
The laser power was measured at the workpiece using an Ophir power meter. Travel speeds were taken from the robot display. Radiographic images of the welds were made in accordance with BSEN 1435:1997. This radiographic examination was able to detect pores of the order 0.1mm in diameter. Several months after the work was completed, each of the radiographic images of all the welds reported here was re-examined by a single person, for consistency, who counted the observed porosity in a 76mm central section of each weld. Pore size was established using a calibrated viewing optic with a magnification of x10. The porosity count was recorded as the number of pores per 76mm length of weld, in the size range from 0.1mm up to the maximum seen. From this data the 'cumulative length' of porosity was calculated. To obtain data on weld profile, image analysis software was used to measure the polished and etched weld cross sections.
Weld quality criteria
AWS D17.1:2001, Specification for Fusion Welding for Aerospace Applications, by the American Welding Society, is a current international standard that can be applied to laser beam welding of aerospace components in titanium based alloys.However, the standard was not developed specifically for welded primary structures, nor for laser beam welding, since it also provides general requirements for electric arc and other high energy beam welding processes. The standard is also not specific to titanium alloys. The European Standard EN ISO 13919-2:2001, Welding - Electron and laser beam welded joints - Guidance on quality levels for imperfections - Part 2: Aluminium and its weldable alloys, was developed specifically for electron and laser beam welding, although not for titanium based alloys. The weld profile geometry criteria stated in this standard are more stringent than AWS D17.1:2001, although the sub-surface porosity criteria are less demanding. For aeroengine applications however, the quality acceptance criteria are generally much more stringent than those cited by both AWS D17.1:2001 and EN ISO 13919-2:2001, and are often company specific. EN ISO 13919-1:1997, Welding - Electron and laser beam welded joints - Guidance on quality levels for imperfections - Part 1: Steel, is in parts, more stringent than both EN ISO 13919-2:2001 and AWS D17.1:2001, and although developed for steel,the weld quality criteria in this standard compare more closely to those internal standards used by the aerospace industry than both AWS D17.1:2001 and EN ISO 13919-2:2001.
In the current absence of a broadly accepted standard, developed specifically for the laser beam welding of titanium based alloys for primary aerospace applications, the quality of the welds produced in this work have been evaluated against a set of quality criteria formulated from several current international standards. Table 1 details both the weld profile criteria and the sub-surface porosity criteria used for comparison to the welds produced in this study, for the three material thicknesses used in this project of 3, 5 and 9.3mm.
Figure 1 depicts the weld profile terminology used in Table 1.
Fig.1. Schematic indicating the weld geometry terminology used
Table 1: Typical quality criteria for weld profile and sub-surface weld porosity, for aeroengine applications
Criteria Material Thickness (mm) Sub-surface porosity9.35.03.0 Maximum dimension for a single pore, mm1.51.50.9 Accumulated length in any 76mm of weld - maximum, mm4.92.71.6 Weld Profile9.35.03.0 Undercut (Ca), mm≤ 0.47≤ 0.25≤ 0.15 Excess weld metal (R), mm≤ 1.6≤ 0.95≤ 0.65 Excess penetration (r), mm≤ 1.6≤ 0.95≤ 0.65 Linear misalignment, mm≤ 0.50≤ 0.5≤ 0.30 Incompletely filled groove (Cr), mm≤ 0.50≤ 0.50≤ 0.30 Root concavity (cr), mm≤ 0.50≤ 0.50≤ 0.30 Shrinkage groove (ca), mm≤ 0.50≤ 0.50≤ 0.30 Face weld width (L), mm≤ 9.0≤ 5.0≤ 4.0 Minimum weld width (Io)
Upper limit (mm)
Lower limit (mm) 3.02.52.0 2.01.51.0 Root weld width (I)
Lower limit (mm) 9.05.04.0 2.01.51.0
3mm Thick Material
A series of bead on plate runs were made between powers of 2.9kW and 4.8kW at speeds which produced fully penetrating 'silver' coloured welds, with no surface breaking porosity. Selected representative cross sections of these welds can be seen in Figure 2, superimposed on a graph of laser power against welding speed. As can be seen, the profiles of these welds are quite similar, notwithstanding the range of power and speed used, with the welds made at the lowest laser power showing the narrowest minimum weld width, Io. The heat input range for the welds shown in Figure 2 was from 0.062kJ/mm to 0.054kJ/mm.
Fig.2. 3mm cross-sections arranged by laser power (kW) vs welding speed (m/min)
Figure 3 shows the cumulative porosity count, taken over 76mm of weld length, for the above welds and several more welds, made within the same power range, plotted as a function of pore size, at 0.1mm diameter increments. The maximum pore size seen was 0.3mm in diameter. No pores or other imperfections above this size were seen in any of the examined welds. The first group of three results, reading from left to right, are for a laser power of 2.9kW, at the three different welding speeds shown. The second group of results correspond to welds made at a power of 3.8kW, again at the three speeds shown. The next group of 15 welds were made at a power of 4.8kW, at speeds between 5.3m/min (left hand side) and 4.7m/min (right hand side). In all these 15 welds, the only porosity detected was less than or equal to 0.1mm in diameter. In addition, these 15 welds were not all made at the same time and represent three separate experiments, performed over a time interval of several months, indicating the reproducibility of the work. Following an analysis of the bead on plate runs, selected parameters were chosen to produce a series of butt welds in the 3mmthick material. The fourth grouping shown in Figure 3, containing six results, represents the porosity levels in butt welds made using 4.8kW of laser power and travel speeds from 5.2 (lhs) to 4.8m/min. Once again, very low levels of porosity were achieved, with no pores larger than 0.1mm seen. The last group of three bead on plate runs, were also made at 4.8kW but correspond to slight changes in the gas shielding system. Although not quantified in this paper, correct gas shielding must be applied to make welds with the minimum porosity levels shown in Figure 3.
Fig.3. Porosity count for 3mm thickness Ti-6Al-4V
When compared to the quality criteria for sub-surface porosity given in Table 1, all of the butt welds and all of the bead on plate runs made at a power of 4.8kW, plus three of the bead on plate runs made at 3.8kW, met the acceptance criteria.
The welds made at the lowest laser power of 2.9kW and all the welds made with a slight change to the gas shielding system would fail the sub-surface quality criteria, in terms of accumulated length of porosity (limit 1.6mm),primarily due to the increased numbers of pores of size 0.1mm in diameter seen in these welds. In Figure 3, welds which met the porosity criteria are identified with a 'P' and welds which met the geometric criteria are identified with a 'G'.
Not all of the welds shown in Figure 3 were sectioned and assessed against the weld geometry criteria shown in Table 1. However, at least 6 of the bead on plate runs met all of the weld profile criteria. For the butt welds, both extremes of welding speed used again produced weld profiles meeting all of the geometric criteria listed in Table 1. Figure 4 shows cross sections of both the bead on plate run and the butt weld, made at 4.8kW of power, at a speed of 5.2m/min. Both these welds met the porosity and geometry criteria listed in Table 1. It is also interesting to note that there were only very small differences in geometry between these two sections.
Fig.4. Bead on plate (left) and butt (right welds made at 4.8kW and 5.2m/min in the 3mm thick material
A similar approach was taken for the 5mm thick titanium. In this series of experiments, laser powers between 3.8kW and 6.7kW, covering a speed range from 1.5 to 2.2m/min, were used to produce a series of bead on plate runs. The gas flow rates in the shielding system were changed slightly from those used for the 3mm material, but its configuration remained the same and the results reported below were all made at the same gas flow rates. Selected representative cross sections of these welds can be seen in Figure 5, superimposed on a graph of laser power against welding speed. An analysis of these weld profiles shows some interesting effects at laser powers above 6kW, where it has been possible to produce welds with smaller faceweld widths than root weld widths. For certain sets of parameters, these weld profiles also transferred to butt welds. All these fully penetrating bead on plate runs showed smooth, bright, top and underbeads, free from oxidation and surface breaking porosity. Figure 6 shows the porosity count for these bead on plate runs and a series of butt welds.
The first six groups of data in Figure 6 show (from left to right), bead on plate runs at 3.8kW and speeds from 1.5 to 2.0m/min, bead on plate runs at 4.4kW and speeds from 1.8 to 2.0m/min, bead on plate runs at 4.9kW at speeds from 2.0 to 2.2m/min, bead on plate runs at 5.4kW at speeds of 2.0 to 2.2m/min, bead on plate runs at 6.4kW at speeds from 2.0 to 2.2m/min and bead on plate runs at 6.7kW at speeds from 2.0 to 2.2m/min. It is clear that there is more small scale porosity in the welds made on 5mm thick material than seen in the welds made using 3mm thick material, and no clear trend as to how the power/speed combination affects the porosity is apparent. In fact, nine of these bead on plate welds met the acceptance criteria for cumulative length of porosity stated in Table 1 (limit 2.7mm) and these are indicated with a P in Fig 6.
Regarding weld profile, seven of the bead on plate runs met the weld geometry criteria for 5mm thick material shown in Table 1, and these are indicated with a G. All of these were at powers of 4.4kW and above. Only five of the bead on plate runs, (all made at either 4.4 or 4.9kW) met both the porosity and weld profile criteria. It is interesting to note that the two bead on plate runs made at 6.4kW, which met the porosity criteria, only failed the geometrical criteria in that the face weld width was wider than the root weld width.
Due to the lack of clear direction from the bead on plate trials, it was decided to make butt welds at four combinations of laser power and travel speed in the 5mm thick material. The results of the pore counting exercise for the butt welds can be found in the last group of eight sets of data presented in Figure 6. From left to right the conditions were, 3.8kW/1.7m/min, 2 off - 4.4kW/1.9m/min, 2 off - 4.9kW/2.1m/min and 3 off - 6.7kW/2.0m/min. In all these butt welds, no porosity greater than 0.3mm in diameter was seen but only the three welds made at the highest power (6.7kW) met the criteria for accumulated length of porosity, of 2.7mm. In addition, only one of the butt welds produced could meet all of the weld geometry criteria. The three welds meeting the porosity criteria failed the geometry criteria in that the face weld width was smaller than the root weld width. Figure 7 shows the similar cross sections of both a bead on plate run and a butt weld made at 4.4kW of power, at a speed of 1.9m/min, for the 5mm thick material.
Fig.7. Bead on plate (left) and butt (right) welds made at 4.4kW and 1.9m/min in the 5mm thick material
9.3mm Thick material
In order to penetrate the 9.3mm thick material, only two laser powers of 6.5 and 6.7kW were used to establish bead on plate welding conditions, at speeds from 0.95 to 1.1m/min. The left hand group of results in Figure 8 shows the porosity counts for the six bead on plate conditions used. Once again it should be noted that no porosity greater than 0.3mm in diameter was detected in any of the welds, but in the 9.3mm thick material,larger amounts of 0.2mm and 0.3mm porosity were observed. It is also worth noting that in the 9.3mm thick material, the number of pores of the order of 0.1mm in size, was generally less than for the 5mm thick material. Four of the bead on plate runs (marked with a P in Figure 8) passed the criteria for accumulated length of porosity. However, all the bead on plate welds which fully penetrated the material, managed to meet the weld profile criteria stated in Table 1.
Fig.8. Porosity count for 9.3mm Ti-6Al-4V
Based on the results of the bead on plate trials, five butt welds were produced, all at the highest laser power available of 6.7kW and at speeds of 0.90m/min, (2 off) 1.0m/min and (2 off) 1.05m/min (in order to obtain some idea of reproducibility). A single butt weld was also made at 6.5kW, with a speed of 1.0m/min. The porosity assessment for these welds can be seen in the grouping in the right hand side of Figure 8. The welds made at a power of 6.7kW and a welding speed of 1.0m/min, had very low porosity, in fact easily meeting the criteria for accumulated length stated in Table 1, but both of these welds failed the weld geometry criteria, with Io being too small. One of the other butt welds made at 6.7kW and a welding speed of 1.05m/min, failed both the weld geometry criteria (Io) and the porosity criteria. The remaining butt weld made at 6.7kW and 1.05m/min passed the sub-surface porosity criteria, but failed the weld geometry criteria (Io). The single weld made at 6.5kW met the weld geometry criteria and the sub-surface porosity criteria (although it contained significantly more porosity than the welds made at a power of 6.7kW and welding speed of 1.0m/min). Figure 9 shows cross sections of both a bead on plate weld and a butt weld made at 6.7kW of power, at a speed of 1.0m/min, for the 9.3mm thick material.
Fig.9. Bead on plate (left) and butt (right) welds made at 6.7kW and 1.0m/min in the 9.3mm thick material
This work has shown that it is possible to produce butt welds in Ti-6Al-4V, using fibre delivered laser beams, that, for a range of thicknesses, could be capable of meeting the extremely stringent weld quality criteria demanded by aeroengine manufacturers, particularly in terms of subsurface porosity and weld bead geometry. The work has also shown that as the material thickness increases, both these sets of quality criteria - especially those for porosity,become more difficult to meet. Figure 10 shows three sets of weld geometry criteria, superimposed on actual weld profiles, for the 3, 5 and 9.3mm thickness materials used. In this figure the relative sizes of the three welds are to the same scale. Fromthese figures it is clear that the area of most concern (with respect to the criteria in Table 1), is the minimum weld width and the acceptable range for this parameter. Also clear from this figure is that when using laser welding, the criteria for excess weld metal is easily met, as is that for excess penetration(at least for 5 and 3mm thick material). For the 9.3mm thick material, the molten volume forming the weld is quite large, resulting in quite significant excess penetration, in the case shown, quite close to the acceptable limit. It should be remembered that the 9.3mm thick material was welded at a speed of only 1m/min and it should be possible to increase this speed using a higher power laser. In these figures, even the criteria for shrinkage groove and undercut are easily met.
Fig.10. The geometric weld quality criteria outlined in Table 1 superimposed on weld macrosections for the three thicknesses of material used in this work. The images are in scale with respect to one another
An analysis of all the cross sections of welds made in this work indicated that if any porosity was evident, it occurred in the lower half of the weld. It is possible that one means by which this could be reduced further is by paying more attention to the underbead gas shielding arrangements. For all the results presented in this paper, it was always possible to meet the specification for maximum diameter of an isolated imperfection, even for the maximum thickness of 9.3mm. What was not met consistently, however, for the thicknesses above 3mm, was the criteria for cumulative length of imperfections. This reached a maximum of 4.7mm in the 5mm butt welded samples (2.7mm in Table 1) and a maximum of 6.4mm in the 9.3mm butt welds (4.9mm in Table 1). For the 3mm thick material the maximum cumulative length of porosity in any butt weld was only 0.4mm, i.e. 1.2mm below the specification.
Certainly for the 5 and 3mm thick material, and possibly for the 9.3mm thick material, there is some evidence that the weld profile is linked to porosity level. Of particular interest, are the low levels of porosity found in the welds in the 5mm thick material, made at high powers, which have a face weld width smaller than the root weld width. This could be due to unusual keyhole behaviour, producing a larger molten volume in the lower part of the weld, which in turn facilitates the escape of any trapped undershield gas. However, this phenomenon requires more work to fully understand what is happening. In addition, an analysis of the gas entrapped in the pores would be useful to determine its source.
This work has evaluated the suitability of utilising a 1 micron wavelength fibre delivered laser beam, for the butt laser welding of three different thicknesses (3mm, 5mm and 9.3mm) of Ti-6Al-4V. Analysis of the weld profiles and sub-surface porosity, via sectioning and radiography, has drawn the following conclusions:
At the correct power, and with the correct shielding gas parameters, reproducible butt welds in 3mm thick Ti-6Al-4V were made which could achieve both sub-surface porosity and weld profile criteria consistent with those stated in current stringent aeroengine standards, at a variety of welding speeds.
At the thickness of 5mm, it was possible to produce butt welds which met the comparison criteria for sub-surface porosity, but not the weld profile criteria. The only butt welds at this thickness which met the criteria for sub-surface porosity, had a face weld width that was smaller than the root weld width.
At the thickness of 9.3mm, it was possible to produce a butt weld which met both the comparison criteria for the maximum pore size, the accumulated length of porosity and all of the weld profile criteria. At this thickness, other butt welds meeting the weld porosity comparison criteria, failed the weld geometry comparison criteria only in that the minimum weld width was too small.
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This work has been supported by both the Yorkshire Forward Regional Development Agency and the Objective 1 European Regional Development Fund for Yorkshire and Humber in the UK. The authors are also grateful to The Boeing Company and General Electric, for supporting this work, providing the necessary materials used and stimulating discussions of the results.
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UEI College in Riverside, CA Celebrates Grand Opening
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 21, 2011
RIVERSIDE, Calif., November 21, 2011 -- International Education Corporation (IEC), a leading national provider of career education and operator of UEI College, celebrated the Grand Opening of its Riverside, CA, campus with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, November 10, 2011.
To celebrate the Grand Opening, Riverside Councilmember, Mr. Andy Melendrez, was joined by members of International Education Corporation’s Senior Executive Team, Ms. Janis Paulson and Ms. Ginny White and the Executive Director of UEI College in Riverside, CA, Mr. Dennis Manzo to perform the ribbon-cutting for the new facility.
Riverside Mayor Ronald O. Loveridge congratulates the UEI College campus on its upcoming ribbon-cutting, “We welcome the opportunity that the UEI College campus in Riverside offers by adding to the choices our residents have for post-secondary education.”
“Riverside is pleased to welcome UEI College,” said Councilman Andy Melendrez. “UEI’s top quality education and training programs provide a range of options that will benefit residents and our businesses in high demand areas like healthcare, business, technology, transportation, and criminal justice.”
“UEI College has been serving the residents near Riverside County for many years and we are thrilled to expand our reach through our third campus in the Inland Empire,” said Dr. Fardad Fateri, President and CEO at International Education Corporation.
“We are extremely proud to bring UEI College’s successful educational model to the Riverside community, said Mr. Dennis Manzo, Executive Director at the UEI College campus in Riverside. “Our industry-validated education and training will assist our students and graduates with the resources necessary in preparing for their new career. Our staff and faculty are very appreciative of the warm welcome from the surrounding community and we look forward to providing the local work force with skilled graduates.”
About UEI College and United Education Institute
UEI College has 15 campuses conveniently located in California. United Education Institute has 2 campuses located in Florida and Georgia. Both are owned and operated by International Education Corporation. Headquartered in Irvine, California, and named as one of the fastest growing corporations on Inc. 500, IEC is a premier national provider of postsecondary career education offering top quality programs in high demand verticals such as healthcare, business, technology, transportation, and criminal justice.
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Lemaitre is first white man to run 100m in under 10 seconds
By Paul Eddison Saturday 10 July 2010, 12:50 UK
(Photo: Erik van Leeuwen)
Young French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre became the first white man to run the 100 metres in under 10 seconds with a hugely impressive 9.98 to win the French National Championships in Valence
Young French sprinter Christophe Lemaitre became the first white man to run the 100 metres in under 10 seconds with a hugely impressive 9.98 to win the French National Championships in Valence.
The 20-year-old, who has been exciting European athletics fans ever since his European Junior record of 10.04 set a year ago in Novi Sad, also broke the French national record on his way to victory in the stifling heat of South East France.
The native of Annecy was very measured when speaking of his performance saying: “What I wanted was the first place. The time was more of a long a term goal.â€Â
However, he did admit: “It’s good to have done it before the European Championships.â€Â
The Frenchman, who is also competing in the 200m on Saturday, will be looking to gain some measure of revenge over Dwain Chambers after the Brit narrowly beat him in the European Team Championships in Bergen last month.
The pair will square up in Barcelona in just over two weeks at the European Championships, though Lemaitre’s coach, Pierre Carraz, stated that: “In Barcelona, the favourite will be Chambers, he has the experience as an advantage.â€Â
Lemaitre takes over from Polish sprinter Marian Woronin as the fastest white man in history. The Pole, who held the European record for four years during the 1980s, just missed out on achieving the sprinting holy grail with a personal best of 10 seconds exactly.
The Frenchman is only the second man not of West African origin, after Patrick Johnson, to break ten seconds. He is also the second youngest man ever to achieve the feat, younger than both Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay when they first went below ten seconds.
Comparisons have already been drawn with the Jamaican superstar, due to Lemaitre sharing Bolt’s unusually tall build in an event which has traditionally been dominated by stockier athletes.
Any talk of him challenging the triumvirate of Bolt, Gay and Asafa Powell, is of course premature, but the ambitious youngster has not set himself a particular target as he aims to take his personal best down as low as possible.
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Superstore (2015) s01e06 – Secret Shopper
Leave a Comment / NBC, Superstore, Television / 19 December 2019 19 December 2019 / America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Colton Dunn, Lauren Ash, Mark McKinney, Nichole Bloom, Nico Santos, Secret Shopper
This episode very nicely balances the sitcom potential of corporate sending a secret shopper to spy on the cast as they work with some character development on leads America Ferrera and Ben Feldman. Feldman has just aced a store policy exam, which he can’t stop bragging about, aggravating supervisor Ferrera. It comes up in relation to the secret shopper (i.e. Feldman wanting to do things by the book, Ferrera wanting to do things customer-focused) but otherwise their eventual arc is separate from the episode’s shenanigans.
Because while manager Mark McKinney is freaking out about the secret shopper, at least he’s not doing anything absurd about it. Some of the staff are going overboard, well, mostly it’s Lauren Ash, who’s harassing every customer she suspects of being the secret shopper. But she’s also picking her targets based on various biases. Her whole subplot is discomforting and fantastic.
Nico Santos is also flipping out about the secret shopper, trying to climb over his coworkers to get the possible raise, which just gives Colton Dunn the chance to prank him. There’s also some stuff with McKinney (and Santos) getting the wrong idea about a coworker being a plant, which the show nicely resolves by the end.
Ferrera and Feldman get a lot of interplay, including a bickering match over the store’s intercoms—which also gives Dunn at least one of his excellent rejoinders—before ending up banished to the stock room. They argue some more, they wreck havoc, they bond. It works out rather well, with Feldman showing a little more grit than usual as he’s unaware of why he’s grating on Ferrera so much. Once they get it worked out, it leads to a rather nice resolution for them. Before the punchline to the secret shopper arc, which comes in two phases. A shock laugh, then a series of little shock laughs.
Really nice episode. It gives Ferrera and Feldman a great showcase while still keeping the laughs coming in.
Superstore (2015) s01e05 – Shoplifter
Leave a Comment / NBC, Superstore, Television / 11 December 2019 11 December 2019 / America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Colton Dunn, Isabella Day, Jackie Clarke, Lauren Ash, Mark McKinney, Natasha Leggero, Nichole Bloom, Nico Santos, Ruben Fleischer, Shoplifter
The cold open has Jonah (Ben Feldman) and Garrett (Colton Dunn) discovering a dead body in the store, which doesn’t turn out to be foreshadowing because neither Feldman or Dunn have anything to do with the resulting dead body in the store C plot. Dunn’s just around this episode, checking in for the occasional one or two-liner (though I guess he does have something to do with the C plot).
Feldman’s busy all episode babysitting America Ferrera’s daughter (Isabella Day) while Ferrera has to counsel boss Mark McKinney, who’s the only one freaked out about the guy dying in the store. The counseling bit falls on Ferrera because actual assistant manager Lauren Ash is busy trying to bust a shoplifter (Natasha Leggero). Ferrera’s going to end up in that plot too, because “Superstore” is really good about keeping its characters nimble as they bounce around the store.
Nico Santos and Nichole Bloom end up with the biggest parts in the C plot, as they both want to buy the couch the guy died on.
If the episode’s a showcase for anyone, it’s Ash, who doesn’t just get to go off on suspect Leggero, but there’s also some character development (ish) for Ash regarding Ferrera. Plus some of her weird flirting with Feldman. Feldman’s mostly doing physical comedy with props and he’s good at it. The episode’s not heavy on belly laughs; Jackie Clarke’s script more goes with constant situational amusement (getting a lot of mileage out of three basic events, the dead guy, the tween babysitting, the shoplifter) and Ruben Fleischer’s direction is focused on the cast’s performances.
McKinney’s really good this episode too. Figuring out he should be autonomous from his workers’ perceptions continues to succeed and he and Ash get into some rather amusing banter without interruption from the rest of the cast, but still some good reactions.
So not the uproarious heights the show’s recently hit but consistently amusing, leveraging the cast over the situations. “Superstore”’s developing nicely.
Superstore (2015) s01e04 – Mannequin
Leave a Comment / NBC, Superstore, Television / 7 December 2019 7 December 2019 / America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Colton Dunn, Johnny Pemberton, Lauren Ash, Mannequin, Mark McKinney, Nichole Bloom, Nico Santos
“Superstore” significantly ups its game this episode. The cold open has Jonah (Ben Feldman) trying to show off how well he’s bonded with his coworkers by unintentionally insulting most of them. The sequence ends in a great banter showdown between manager Mark McKinney and assistant manager Lauren Ash (foreshadowing their subplot this episode) but also does some exposition on Amy (America Ferrera), revealing not just a nine year-old daughter but also a husband, which was sort of hinted at the end of the first episode. No wonder they slowed down Feldman’s romantic interest in her.
Ferrera and Feldman get one of the plot lines, with Ferrera teasing Feldman with a mannequin, which resembles him, as the store becomes more and more chaotic with Ferrera not paying attention. Lots of funny mannequin scenes, even when it’s getting old, it’s still funny stuff. Especially after Feldman starts flipping out over it, after having promised Ferrera she won’t be able to bait him. The culmination… well, it’s too good to spoil. But it’s amazing.
Ash and McKinney, instead of noticing Ferrera and Feldman aren’t doing any work and Nico Santos has got all the people he doesn’t like (almost everyone) working punishment duty in the freezer, are trying to each convince pregnant teens Nichole Bloom and Johnny Pemberton to give their baby up for adoption. McKinney and his (offscreen) wife have had foster kids but would love one “without the dings” and Ash just wants a baby. Lots of funny stuff between McKinney and Ash together, but also lots of laughs with them and Bloom separately. And the show’s figured out what I said before—putting Bloom and Pemberton together and playing them off other people is the best use of the characters. So funny.
As usual, Colton Dunn gets a bunch of great lines.
It’s only the fourth episode and “Superstore” is much funnier than the pilot ever suggested, while making its cast a lot more likable. McKinney in particular. He started out the obnoxious boss laugh target but now he’s solidly funny on his own.
Superstore (2015) s01e03 – Shots and Salsa
Leave a Comment / NBC, Superstore, Television / 7 December 2019 7 December 2019 / America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Colton Dunn, Josh Lawson, Justin Spitzer, Lauren Ash, Mark McKinney, Nichole Bloom, Nico Santos, Ruben Fleischer, Shots and Salsa
This episode is one of those sitcom episodes where you’re laughing so loud and so constantly, there’s a chance you’re going to miss something. If it weren’t paced well. And it’s paced extremely well, between Ruben Fleischer’s direction and Justin Spitzer’s writing, there’s always the right amount of time to get the giggles out.
It starts immediately with the laughs—store manager Mark McKinney getting everyone to do the pre-opening chant. It’s absurd and inappropriate (McKinney’s Christian religiosity is a very reliable punchline).
From the second scene, the show splits off its two storylines, one for America Ferrera, one for Ben Feldman, with Colton Dunn providing something of a bridge as he advises still new Feldman on how not to fall into the “quicksand” of helping customers and coworkers. Dunn’s fantastic. His deadpan deliveries are probably the best on the show, though Lauren Ash—who I’m warming to, even if she’s still the subject of laughs versus the situations she finds herself in—is getting to be a reliable second.
Ferrera’s plot line is about the store’s new house brand salsa promotion. McKinney wants someone Hispanic to sell it, which Ferrera finds gross. Her coworker, Grace Parra, doesn’t see it that way, neither does Filipino Nico Santos, who doesn’t mind McKinney can’t see the difference. Lots of funny stuff as Ferrera tries to have some morals in the face of capitalism.
“Superstore” also goes in hard on how awful Americans are going to get when it comes to racializing their consumerism. It’s shocking, accurate, and hilarious.
Meanwhile Feldman makes the mistake of helping jackass pharmacist Josh Lawson with some boxes and ends up an assistant pharmacist for the day.
Ferrera, Feldman, and Dunn are all varying comedic straight men, though Feldman a little less as he’s got some quirks more similar to the absurdist coworkers; with Feldman and Ferrera, it’s all about their facial reactions foreshadowing their eventual lines, while Dunn’s got a much shorter lead time before he makes his sardonic response.
It’s a really, really funny episode.
Really funny.
Oh, and the corporate anti-racism video… wow. So funny. And way too realistic, which is the point.
Superstore (2015) s01e02 – Magazine Profile
Leave a Comment / NBC, Superstore, Television / 7 December 2019 7 December 2019 / America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Colton Dunn, Eliza Coupe, Johnny Pemberton, Josh Fadem, Lauren Ash, Magazine Profile, Mark McKinney, Nichole Bloom, Nico Santos
Two months have passed since the previous episode—based on how long new guy Ben Feldman has been at the store and he’s gotten a settled in. During those two months he’s apparently chilled on the America Ferrera romantic interest, or—more likely—the writers realized they were rushing that plot line. Assistant manager Lauren Ash is still making googly eyes at a mostly unaware, occasionally confused Feldman however, because it gets laughs.
And letting Ferrera and Feldman actually develop chemistry is a good move; it doesn’t come up much in the episode, which has Feldman getting involved with “reporter” Eliza Coupe during her trip to the store. Quotation marks because Coupe writes for the chain’s corporate magazine, which has some hilariously odious practices.
Of course, Coupe shouldn’t be focusing on Feldman but store manager Mark McKinney, who’s a lot more sympathetic this episode than in the pilot—and no longer has gray hair, so something else happened during the two month window.
Ferrera’s time is mostly spent trying to get McKinney ready for reporter Coupe; her visit frames the episode, leading up to Ash discovering Coupe and Feldman locking lips, which leads to a really funny emergency staff meeting—though it’s unclear who gets to go to staff meetings (regular cast and supporting actors with lines) during the middle of business hours—where Ash has to have a hard talk with everyone about inappropriate sexual workplace behaviors.
The episode’s got two subplots. The first is for Colton Dunn, who doesn’t want to end up on the magazine cover… seeing as how he’s both in a wheelchair and Black, it’s not like photographer Josh Fadem (who’s wonderfully slimy) will be able to resist exploiting the combination. It’s really funny. Dunn’s great.
The other subplot is about pregnant teenager Nichole Bloom (who doesn’t look like she’s in still in high school) trying to get jackass, dimwit white boy rapper baby daddy Johnny Pemberton to record a jingle for the store. It turns out in the end, when they present the jingle to Coupe, they’re a lot better playing off people as a couple than playing off each other. It’s fine but it’s not on par with the rest of the episode, which solidly juggles laughs and heart.
Superstore (2015) s01e01 – Pilot
Leave a Comment / NBC, Superstore, Television / 1 December 2019 1 December 2019 / America Ferrera, Ben Feldman, Colton Dunn, Lauren Ash, Mark McKinney, Nichole Bloom, Nico Santos, Pilot
I’ve been wanting to watch “Superstore” on a recommendation and, starting it, I realized it’s very much my bag. It takes place in a very confined setting—a big box store, which is also very much my bag as I’ve always been intrigued at the idea of the department store and its descendants. I blame Mannequin. Also, highly recommend Robert Hendrickson’s The Grand Emporiums.
Anyway, “Superstore.” What a great cast. I’ve never seen anything with America Ferrera, except her guest spots on “Good Wife,” which I don’t remember but she’s fantastic. She’s a floor manager, ten years in at the store, serious but good-hearted. She’s got a goofus store manager (Mark McKinney, broad but likable in that Mark McKinney way) and a way too gung ho supervisor (Lauren Ash, who appears to be the “Dwight” of the show and is the only thing I’m not onboard with after this episode), but she does her job and cares about her coworkers.
The episode—and, as its the pilot, the show—is framed around Ben Feldman joining the team. He’s good looking and smart and conceited about the latter; he doesn’t seem aware of the former, which helps with his likability. He almost immediately starts crushing on Ferrera and most of his screwups in the episode are to impress her. Burgeoning subplot. But also Ash is mad crushing on him and seems primed to make a fool of herself in her pursuit, hence not being onboard with the character yet.
Also in the main cast are Colton Dunn, the only Black guy, who’s appropriately aware of it, and Nichole Bloom, as the good-hearted, pregnant, and too ditzy for the pregnancy to be a great idea pretty girl. The show gives Dunn all the great observation lines and Bloom gives it the uncomplicated heart. Ferrera is the layered heart.
Also Nico Santos starts at the same day as Feldman and sees it as a competition to be the better new person.
The cast is incredibly likable, the situations the sitcom gins up are funny, Ferrera’s great (she’s also a producer)… it’s one of those sitcoms you could easily marathon without paying attention to the clock.
I only stopped after the first episode because it was after midnight.
Last thing—Ruben Fleischer directs (and executive produces). Fleischer’s a lot better at sitcom directing than Venom directing. A lot better.
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Leak piles the pressure on Facebook over political bias
Ben Hoyle, Los Angeles
May 13 2016, 12:01am, The Times
Former Facebook contractors claimed that private agendas of editors had a “chilling effect” on conservative news and demonstrated bias against right-wing news outletsJeff Chiu/AP
Leaked documents have exposed the extent of human intervention in choosing Facebook’s “trending” topics, fuelling the political storm over the site’s alleged bias.
Facebook’s editorial team were instructed on how to “inject stories” into the trending topics box and how to “blacklist” topics for removal from the list, for reasons that include “doesn’t represent a real world event”, according to guidelines posted on the internet yesterday.
The undated documents reveal how Facebook editors override the raw popularity rankings generated by the company’s news-aggregating algorithms, applying criteria familiar to traditional media organisations to sort and customise trending lists.
On Monday the technology blog Gizmodo alleged that Facebook editors had suppressed conservative news stories and “injected” progressive ones that were not actually trending enough to qualify without…
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A Comparison of the University of California Campuses
Acceptance Rates, Graduation Rates, Financial Aid, Enrollment and More
California Hall at Berkeley. Photo Credit: Marisa Benjamin
The University of California system includes some of the best public universities in the country. Acceptance and graduation rates, however, vary widely. The chart below puts the 10 University of California schools side-by-side for easy comparison.
Click on a university's name for more admission, cost, and financial aid information. Note that all of the University of California schools are quite pricey for out-of-state students.
The data presented here is from the National Center for Educational Statistics.
A Comparison of the UC Campuses
Campus Undergrad Enrollment Student / Faculty Ratio Financial Aid Recipients 4-Year Graduation Rate 6-Year Graduation Rate
Berkeley 29,310 18 to 1 63% 76% 92%
Davis 29,379 20 to 1 70% 55% 85%
Irvine 27,331 18 to 1 68% 71% 87%
Los Angeles 30,873 17 to 1 64% 74% 91%
Merced 6,815 20 to 1 92% 38% 66%
Riverside 19,799 22 to 1 85% 47% 73%
San Diego 28,127 19 to 1 56% 59% 87%
San Francisco Graduate Study Only
Santa Barbara 21,574 18 to 1 70% 69% 82%
Santa Cruz 16,962 18 to 1 77% 52% 77%
A Comparison of the UC Campuses: Admissions Data
Campus SAT Reading 25% SAT Reading 75% SAT Math 25% SAT Math 75% ACT 25% ACT 75% Acceptance Rate
Berkeley 620 750 650 790 31 34 17%
Davis 510 630 540 700 25 31 42%
Irvine 490 620 570 710 24 30 41%
Los Angeles 570 710 590 760 28 33 18%
Merced 420 520 450 550 19 24 74%
Riverside 460 580 480 610 21 27 66%
San Diego 560 680 610 770 27 33 36%
Santa Barbara 550 660 570 730 27 32 36%
Santa Cruz 520 630 540 660 25 30 58%
You can see that acceptance rates and admissions standards vary widely from campus to campus, and universities such as UCLA and Berkeley are among the most selective public universities in the country. For all campuses, however, you're going to need strong grades, and your SAT or ACT scores should be average or better.
If your academic record seems on the low side for the UC campuses, be sure to check out some of the excellent options among the 23 California State University campuses -- many of the Cal State schools have a lower admissions bar than the UC schools.
Also be sure to put some of the above data into perspective. UCSD, for example, has a four-year graduation rate that seems a bit low given the selectivity of admissions, but this can be partly explained by the school's large engineering programs which nation-wide tend to have lower four-year graduation rates than programs in the liberal arts, social sciences, and sciences. Also, UCLA's lower student/faculty ratio doesn't necessarily translate into smaller classes and more personalized attention at the undergraduate level. Many of the faculty at top research universities are devoted almost entirely to graduate education and research, not undergraduate instruction.
Finally, be sure to not limit yourself to public universities strictly for financial reasons. The UC schools are some of the most expensive public universities in the United States. If you qualify for financial aid, you may find that private universities can match or even beat the price of the University of California.
It's worth looking at some of the private options among these top California colleges and top West Coast colleges.
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Rory McIlroy claims FedEx Cup jackpot by winning revamped Tour Championship
Rory McIlroy won the Tour Championship
Rory McIlroy exorcised two demons at the same time after winning the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup title for the second time in four years to pocket the US dollars 15million (£12.3million) first prize in Atlanta.
McIlroy carded a closing 66 at East Lake to finish 18 under par, four shots ahead of American Xander Schauffele.
World number one Brooks Koepka, who held a one-shot lead after the completion of the delayed third round, ran up a double bogey on the seventh and carded a hat-trick of bogeys on the back nine to slip into a tie for third with Justin Thomas.
One big exhale and an even bigger smile. 😄
Respect for @McIlroyRory after the win.#LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/70PYC6as93
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 25, 2019
A year ago McIlroy played alongside Tiger Woods in the final round as the 15-time major winner was victorious at East Lake and just weeks he ago he partnered Koepka on the last day of the WGC-FedEx St Jude Invitational, carding a 71 to the American’s closing 65.
“I didn’t enjoy that walk last year like everyone else did, I played terribly,” admitted McIlroy, who joins Woods as the only two-time FedEx Cup winners. “I got myself in the final group and never took the fight to Tiger.
“Going up against the number one player in the world today, he got one over on me in Memphis and I wanted to sort of try to get some revenge today so to play like that alongside Brooks and get the win, win the FedEx Cup it’s awesome.
“It’s amazing how different things can be in a year.”
The ultimate ending to an unbelievable year. 🏆@McIlroyRory has won the 2019 @PlayoffFinale, becoming a #FedExCup champion for the second time. #LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/CKJiZo1JFE
McIlroy began the week by questioning the radical format which saw the player with the most FedEx Cup points after the BMW Championship (Thomas) starting on 10 under par.
The second-highest points earner began at eight under, the third-ranked player at seven under and so on, on a sliding scale down to the players in 26th to 30th who started on level par.
McIlroy started on five under par and could therefore have shot the lowest 72-hole score and still not have won the title, but in the end his total of 13 under was the best in the field by three.
“My goal today was to go and shoot the lowest score of the week,” McIlroy added. “I made those two bogeys on 14 and 15 and a huge par save on 16 and then was able to birdie the last two.
Mic drop?
👊🎤
The lead is 3 for @McIlroyRory. #LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/AvZrTlkjyQ
“Such a cool way to end what has been for me a great season. I’ll look back on this season and there’s been a lot of good things I’ve done and I’ll try to improve again for next year.
“I’ve given myself so many chances. To win three times is awesome. I feel like I could have won more but to win the FedEx Cup again, to keep giving myself chances even when I was getting knocked back, I’m very proud of myself and I’m going to enjoy this one tonight.”
Rory McIlroy waves to gallery after winning the Tour Championship (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
McIlroy began the final round a shot behind playing partner Koepka and both men opened with five straight pars before making a birdie on the par-five sixth, but the turning point came at the next as Koepka made a double bogey following a lost ball off the tee and McIlroy holed from 20 feet for birdie.
Koepka responded superbly to birdie the next as McIlroy enjoyed a major stroke of luck when his pulled approach hit a tuft of grass on the edge of a drain and stopped short of the water.
Birdies on the 12th and 13th took McIlroy four shots clear and although he bogeyed the next two holes and had to hole from eight feet on 16 to avoid an unwanted hat-trick, McIlroy effectively sealed victory with a birdie on the 17th and rounded off the week in style with another on the par-five 18th.
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Little box, big potential: New MAN vehicles equipped with RIO Box as standard
New MAN Euro 6-standard trucks now come with RIO-Box as standard equipment. This means MAN trucks are delivered to customers ex works with preliminary setup for RIO services fitted as standard.
The RIO Box is now included as standard equipment with all brand-new MAN Euro 6-standard truck series in Europe. In ensuring this, MAN is laying the foundations for a future infrastructure whose services can link up the entire transportation and logistics sector. Using the RIO cloud-based technology solution customers will soon be able to centrally access diverse fleet data and use a whole host of transportation and logistics sector services. Here, the RIO Box acts as an interface between vehicle and platform.
Networked logistics-ready ex works: new MAN Euro 6-standard trucks now come with RIO-Box as standard equipment.
“Equipping our MAN trucks with the Box is an important first step that will bring us one step closer to our vision of a fully networked transportation and logistics supply chain. At the same time, it serves as a basis whereby customers can access digital added value services. In assuming this pioneering role in the sector we are actively shaping the logistics of the future in the interests of our customers.” says Joachim Drees, CEO of MAN Truck & Bus AG.
The RIO Box is compatible with all systems and manufacturers. It is designed specifically so it can be used in mixed fleets, thereby offering small and medium-sized logistics companies the chance to become part of Logistics 4.0. RIO Box retrofits for vehicles with an FMS interface will be possible in future too. Current users of the MAN Telematics system have the option of securely transferring their collected data to RIO.
“With RIO the customers of MAN will be among the digital frontrunners of the transportation and logistics sector. In future we will use RIO to provide not just our own services, but also OEM services and partner services. We have big plans ahead!”, announces Markus Lipinsky, CEO of RIO. Current partners of the platform include, as well as leading service providers, start-ups LoadFox, Evertracker and Synfioo. The number of prospective stakeholders is vast.
Networked logistics-ready: All new MAN Euro 6-standard trucks in Europe are now delivered ex works with RIO-Box equipped as standard.
When developing the RIO Box, the highest standards were applied to privacy and data security. The customer can decide itself whether it wants to share data with RIO and benefit from the platform’s digital solutions. A security server certified under European standards and based in Germany transmits the data encrypted by the Box before making this available to the customer via platform. This then enables additional functions which include the analysis of vehicle data, e.g. engine rotations, speed, fuel level or brake usage by the driver. The number of services offered on RIO will grow steadily in line with customer needs and existing services will be continually improved and automatically updated for the user.
About RIO:
From 2017 onwards, the Volkswagen Truck & Bus Group is set to offer an open cloud-based solution for the transportation sector as a whole in the form of its new digital brand RIO. RIO pools digital services for the entire transportation and logistics ecosystem. This means, for the first time, all supply chain players will be networked with one another via a standardised information and application system with forecast functions. In the recent past, transparent data usage within the transportation sector often hasn’t been possible because players within the sector tend to use diverse stand-alone software systems. For the first time, RIO is offering a shared solution and, as such, one which can be used irrespective of vehicle brand or telematics system. Existing stand-alone systems can be integrated on RIO.
Greta Langgärtner
RIO press contact
E-mail: Greta.Langgaertner@rio.cloud
www.rio.cloud
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https://www.trumbulltimes.com/news/town-government/article/Remembering-a-legend-Board-chooses-name-for-13911486.php
Remembering a 'legend:' Board chooses name for auditorium
Kate Czaplinski
Published 8:30 am EDT, Friday, October 11, 2013
Longtime Trumbull educator and administrator Robert E. McCarthy was remembered fondly last Tuesday as the consummate school leader. Those who worked with him recalled that he looked at the cafeteria as his classroom, respected his staff and students and had a habit of keeping peanut butter bars in his pocket, as a pick-me-up on a rough day.
Superintendent Gary Cialfi called McCarthy a “legend” in the Trumbull School District . That legend will live on when the district dedicates the new Trumbull High School auditorium in his memory.
The Board of Education voted last week to approve naming the auditorium after McCarthy, based on a recommendation from a committee formed to explore possible names for the school site.
“I used to say, ‘If I’m half as good as Bob McCarthy, then I’ve done a great job,’” board Vice Chair Deborah Herbst said.
McCarthy, who died in 2008, started his career in Trumbull in 1964 as a teacher at Nichols Elementary. He was later named assistant principal at Hillcrest, and then became principal at Middlebrook Junior High School, which later became Madison. He was finally Trumbull High principal for 15 years.
Board member Michael Ward praised McCarthy’s gift for relating to all students.
Trumbull High House Principal Lucinda Timpanelli also spoke at last week’s meeting, saying that McCarthy was a mentor and that kids enjoyed coming to school when he was in charge.
“He had extraordinary interpersonal skills,” Timpanelli said. “He used to sit and talk with the kids at lunch — he used to say, ‘The cafeteria is the principal classroom.’”
His wife, Marilyn McCarthy, and son, Robert McCarthy Jr., came to the meeting to thank the board for the honor.
“I know he would have been very moved,” Marilyn McCarthy said.
Board member Rosemary Seaman, who is a former principal in the Trumbull School District, said part of the reason she wanted to become an administrator was so she could work with McCarthy.
“At the time I was the only female house principal, and he assured me I would be treated like everyone else,” Seaman said.
Chairman Stephen Wright recalled that he was a student at Middlebrook when McCarthy was called in to help handle some discipline issues at the school. McCarthy had things in order in about a week, Wright said.
“I don’t think anyone disliked him, even the so-called tough guys,” Wright said.
While the board voted to approve the naming, there will be a formal dedication ceremony later.
The naming committee members included First Selectman Timothy Herbst, Judge of Probate T.R. Rowe, Trumbull High House Principal Lucinda Timpanelli, Trumbull High world languages Chair Nicandra Perusi, Trumbull Early Childhood Education Center coordinator Matthew Wheeler, parent Linda Bartolucci, and two Trumbull High students, Alexa Bragg and Kunal Jhaveri.
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Undergraduate physics majors at UVM can conduct research during the semester for class credit or during the summer with a stipend. Often, undergraduate research leads to thesis research, either as part of the John Dewey Honors Program or departmental honors.
It’s not uncommon for undergraduate students publish their research in professional peer-reviewed scientific journals. NSF and NIH-funded researchers can apply for additional funds to support undergraduates in their labs. In addition, the department awards students from the A. Crowell Fund support in undergraduate research in physics.
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We use molecular simulations to understand the physical principles underlying the function of biological systems. This is pertinent to lipid biomembranes, mechanosenstive channels, and enzymatic catalysis. We study the connection between chemical structure and mechanical properties at the nanoscale. Researchers in our group contribute to the development and implementation of local stress calculations from molecular dynamic simulations. If interested, please contact Professor Juan Vanegas at Juan.Vanegas@uvm.edu
Our research efforts focus on materials for optoelectronic devices like solar cells and LEDs. We are exploring low-cost and high-efficiency solar cell materials. We aim to construct electroluminescent devices with resonant cavities at visible wavelengths If you want to join us in exploring the world of materials and device physics at UVM, contact Professor Matthew White at Mathew.White.1@uvm.edu
(Image at left: Vibrating cluster of C60 molecules with a Potassium atom). For undergraduates who have completed some of the 200-level course work in physics, there are opportunities to pursue research projects in theoretical physics under faculty supervision. Theoretical projects typically involve using mathematical techniques to study the behavior of a model system. To make quantitative connections to experimental data, we often use computers available on campus to numerically study a specific system. Many projects involve one or more of the following branches of physics: atomic and molecular physics, condensed matter physics, quantum physics, surface physics, chemical physics, and statistical physics. Projects frequently relate to developing an understanding of the properties of molecules, clusters, and solids, starting from a foundation of quantum mechanics. Such studies contribute to the emerging field of nanoscience, the science of systems whose spatial extent is of the order of nanometers! Future undergraduate research projects include investigating new ways of making a quantum computer, exploring how biopolymers like DNA stick to surfaces, and studying the nature of the van der Waals interaction. (That may be what enables the gecko to walk on walls!) More details can be found on Professor Clougherty’s web site.
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These projects usually involve (but are not limited to) applications of ultrasound and light. Recent student research projects include: Nonlinear behaviors of bubbles, delivery of drugs and DNA on target, acoustic imaging and optical trapping. Students interested in this area can contact Professor Junru Wu via junru-wu@uvm.edu.
Katy Czar researches thin-film organic semiconductors
Katy Czar '19 has been a physics enthusiast since the sixth grade. She was a serial watcher of NOVA episodes, and read anything she could find about CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider in Europe that recreates conditions of the first moments of the universe. She received her B.S. degree in physics from UVM in May, along with the department’s Albert D. Crowell Award, presented annually to a senior physics major for outstanding undergraduate research. Czar credits this experience as a key credential in getting a job as technical consultant for at Galen Healthcare Solutions which begins a few weeks after graduation.
A Vermont native, Czar envisioned herself going to a college out of state. But she was captivated by the UVM campus on her first visit. “I just loved the feel of the place. It turned out to be the right decision.”
She hadn’t taken physics in high school, though she completed the International Baccalaureate program at The Long Trail School, a regimen she describes as “AP’s on steroids.” University level physics challenged her analytical skills and natural enthusiasm for the discipline. Grit and determination helped her mount the learning curve.
“I got a ‘C’ on my first test,” she remembers. “I spent every week in office hours and ended up getting an ‘A’ in the class.” She also discovered a supportive and accessible group of teacher/scholars.
“Faculty in the physics department are fantastic people,” she said. “They have set office hours but often they’ll say ‘just stop by anytime.’ It’s a really close-knit department where you get to know your professors and fellow students.”
The instructor of her first physics class, Associate Professor Madalina Furis, took high-achieving students in the class out for coffee—she urged them to get involved in research by their sophomore year. Czar had been attracted to Furis’ lab from her very first UVM tour. “Honestly, the lasers really drew me in,” Czar remembers. Furis agreed to take Czar on as a research advisee.
“In her lab we do spectroscopy of organic thin-film semiconductors,” Czar says of her work. “We use lasers to investigate the behavior of electrons.” She explains that inorganic semiconductors with silicon as the main ingredient are already present in electronic devices including LED screens and cellphones. Czar says organic semiconductors offer a more environmentally friendly alternative—they can be deposited on flexible substrates like plastics or foils.
“The challenge is they are not as efficient at moving electrons as silicon and other inorganic semiconductors,” Czar says. “Our goal is finding ways to fine tune these materials to achieve better performance efficiencies.”
Besides being more environmentally sound, the organic versions of the semiconductors would be cheaper to produce. It could result in products like flexible LEDs (think of a cellphone screen that can folded up like a wallet) or bio sensors that can be attached to and move with the human body.
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This programme aims to develop creative leaders who will collaboratively address present global challenges and opportunities with the insights and skills to develop a future for business and society.
The MBA is the premier qualification for people in a management role or seeking a management role or who want to help shape the future of their organization.
On the UWTSD MBA it is your mind that does the travelling. There is no required attendance: It is fully online.
Applications should be made directly to UWTSD.
Contact Programme Director Dr Alex Bell for details:
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Be part of rethinking business for a changing world by joining an award-winning business school*
Study an MBA to make you future ready for leadership.
Engage in collaborative learning with students from around the world.
Combine your work with study with this fully online course.
Benefit from excellent academic and pastoral support**
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**UWTSD 2017/19 ranked 1st in UK for overall postgraduate taught satisfaction In Business and Administration (out of 81 participating HEIs).
The programme is aimed at individuals seeking to gain understanding of their existing managerial practice or wish to seek a managerial position. Learners will re-think business approaches by engaging together online, sharing practice, interrogating existing practice and driving change through an online collaborative learning community.
The University of Wales Trinity Saint David has significant experience of supporting learners at a distance. As an online learner on the MBA you will benefit from a programme of study that is designed to be relevant to your current work. The programme will engage you regularly with other MBA students as well as your tutors. You will be learning with other people in different locations and in different business contexts, giving you an opportunity to experience a range of different perspectives.
The programme is delivered through our online Virtual Learning Environment where you will get access to all your key learning activities, resources and your learning group using the latest communications tools and social media applications. Our University support services are on hand to guide you through your studies.
The programme provides opportunity for a stimulating learning experience led by staff informed by scholarship, professional practice and external engagement. The values of sustainable development, global citizenship and collaboration are central to the programme’s content and learning approach.
This programme aims to develop creative leaders who will collaboratively address present global challenges and opportunities with the insights, skills and influences to shape the future of business.
Students on the programme will develop knowledge and understanding of organisations, the external context in which they operate and their management through critical engagement with their own practice.
The University of Wales. Trinity Saint David has significant experience of supporting MBA learners at a distance. As an online learner on the MBA you will benefit from a programme of study that is designed to be relevant to your current work and ambitions. The programme will connect you with key arguments and issues facing organisations and with your online tutors you engage with other MBA students across the world to address key challenges. You will be learning with other people in different locations and in different contexts, giving you an opportunity to experience a range of different approaches, practices and perspectives on sustainability in Business.
The programme is delivered through our online Virtual Learning Environment where you will get access to all your key learning activities, resources and your learning group using the latest interactive communications tools and applications. Our University support services are on hand to guide you through your studies.
The MBA programme consists of six, 20-credit taught modules followed by a dissertation in part two. Your dissertation supervisor will be available to help guide you through the independent research phase. Students who complete three 20-credit modules can graduate with an award of PG Certificate or with six modules PG Diploma respectively.
Digital Entrepreneurship (20 credits)
Finance for Business Managers (20 credits)
Global Business Challenges (20 credits)
Human Resource Management (20 credits)
Marketing Management (20 credits)
Strategic Management (20 credits)
All assessments will be submitted online and will build and reflect on the collaborative activity within the modules. The tutor will provide formative and summative feedback and will be available by email, telephone and/ or Skype for further clarification of feedback if requested by the student. Progression and award will comply with the standard University regulations for Masters programs. Arrangement for re-sit work will be provided through the University VLE. All Assessment are individual coursework built on collaborative engagement in the weekly learning activities and/or related to individual professional contexts.
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You be individually considered for admission using the following criteria:
Normally, the possession of a minimum of a 2:2 honours degree, or an appropriate equivalent, i.e. a professional qualification, from a recognised British or overseas institution.
Applicants must be employed in an organisation so that they can draw on their professional context for learning.
Demonstrably appropriate motivation and ambition for studying an MBA.
Fulfilling the essential criteria for the admission to the MBA Programmes which is primarily the applicant’s ability to complete the programme satisfactorily and benefit from it.
Applicants who do not fully satisfy the general criteria will be considered and may be admitted if they are able to demonstrate that they are capable of successfully undertaking and completing the programme at the required standard, and are able to contribute fully to, and benefit from, the learning experiences delivered within the programme.
There is no requirement for attendance in the UK for the MBA online/distance learning programme.
Applicants who have already been taught and assessed in languages other than English should have demonstrable confidence to study through the English language equivalent to IELTS 6.0.
Applicants must have suitable access to computer equipment so that they can access the University VLE.
Admission criteria and entry qualifications for the MBA Programmes may also include the applicant having equivalent of:-
A non-honours bachelors degree in a related or cognate subject from a UK university and relevant evidenced experience (normally equivalent to or comparable with two years)
An honours degree from a UK University in a non-related or cognate subject where the applicant has evidenced relevant experience (normally equivalent to or comparable with two years)
An equivalent certificated degree from a non-UK institution to those specified in (i) and (ii) above.
Non-degree qualifications such as the Higher National Diploma in related subjects (e.g. EdExel), or equivalent overseas qualifications, where the applicant has appropriate employment experience. (normally equivalent to or comparable with a minimum of three years)
Qualifications from relevant Professional Bodies, which are at a level below UK Honours Degree but demonstrate relevant professional experience,(normally equivalent to or comparable with a minimum of three years)
Candidates with related employment fields, or related area/discipline/subject experience, or defined voluntary experience, or similar related employment field experience may be admitted to the programme without degree or degree equivalent qualifications if they can demonstrate their potential to meet the learning requirements of the programme.
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Entrants with relevant and acceptable professional accreditation will be considered for exemptions. Note: accreditation already received in qualifications are not admissible.
Normally, all applicants at postgraduate level can be interviewed. An offer of a place may be made based on the application form alone including academic history, a personal statement and a reference.
International students, for whom English is not a first language, are subject to additional requirements and will be requested to provide evidence of sufficient command of spoken and written English to meet the demands of the MBA Programmes. Normally an IELTs test score of 6.0 or 232 for the computer test or evidence or supplied references to working for a period of more than one year through the medium of English.
A report by the World Economic Forum notes that by 2020 35% of the skills that are considered important for today’s employment will have changed; according to the report, the top three skills required by the workforce will be complex problem solving, critical thinking and creativity. By studying for an MBA with us you will gain the skills and abilities to creatively solve the problems of the future by engaging in problem-based learning which aims to transform your thinking about business and management. Within the programme you will be working in a rich and Internationally diverse group of students whose context provides significant additional content to your learning
An MBA is still considered to be a highly valued qualification for those seeking managerial employment and/or advancement.
It is possible to complete this programme of study without any additional costs.
Regular Private/Public access to an Internet-accessible computer is expected from applicants.
Students may wish to purchase materials for modules, such as books may do so but this is not a requirement and will have no bearing on the final grade.
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"I enjoy the flexibility of online learning. I highly recommend it to students willing to exercise discipline."
"My online MBA experience has been great so far. I like how weekly activities are laid out and reading material is provided for each activity."
"I appreciate their availability, support and understanding, as well as the realistic course load and expectations, given that I (and perhaps others) work and travel quite often."
"I particularly liked how tutors attempted to link each module’s activities and assessments to both contemporary issues and student’s workplaces."
"The online library is invaluable for further research. Tutors and fellow students responses to activities further enhances understanding and promotes discussion."
In recent years, all online/distance learning programmes at UWTSD have benefited from a £1,000 Bursary application scheme:
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The residential college system has long been an essential initiative aligned to the strategic direction of Vanderbilt. With the opening of The Ingram Commons (2007), Moore College (2014), Warren College (2014) and E. Bronson Ingram College (2018), the university is primed to further expand this key component of the undergraduate residential experience.
The Academic Strategic Plan and Residential Colleges
In 2014, Vanderbilt released a strategic plan for its future that denoted the “Undergraduate Residential Experience” as a key pillar, further escalating the importance of building a residential college system.
“Enrich the educational experience by completing and extending the residential college system and developing new infrastructure to foster further interconnections between discovery and learning” (pg. ii)
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Expansion of the residential college system is a major outcome of the work powered by FutureVU, Vanderbilt’s land use planning initiative. Specific projects include a redevelopment of the West End Neighborhood through the building of three new residential colleges (slated for completion in 2020, 2022 and 2023) and an overall enhancement of the neighborhood, creating a more park-like feel in a very active part of campus. Once complete, this effort will enable more undergraduates to have four years of the Residential College experience.
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Borussia Dortmund 4-1 Manchester United Highlights (Mourinho suffers first defeat as United manager)
July 22, 2016 By totalsportek2
Borussia Dortmund hammered United in their first pre-season game in China as they ran out comfortable winners. Dortmund took the lead through Gonzalo Castro in just 19th minute while Aubameyang made it 2-0 from the penalty spot just before the break. After the break Dortmund scored again through Dembele while their former player Mkhitaryan pulled one back for United but it was enough to get back into the game.
Manchester United 1-3 Borussia Dortmund Highlights
[ International Champions Cup, 22 July 2016 ]
19′ 0 – 1 Gonzalo Castro
36′ 0 – 2 (pen.) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
57′ 0 – 3 Ousmane Dembele
59′ 1 – 3 Henrik Mkhitaryan
Manchester United has already played one pre-season game last weekend when they took on Wigan Athletic at DW stadium where 7,000 United fans turn up and we can safely assume a packed stadium in China where Manchester United are the most followed by club by far. This tour is part of international champions cup and the match will be broadcasted live in the US on Fox while UK viewers can tune in to MUTV to watch the live action.
Team News & Lineups: United are in tug of war for Paul Pogba signing and as the recent reports suggest he might be confirmed as United player by the end of next weekend for a record 100 million (GBP). Apart from that United are taking most of their key players on the tour with Rooney, Smalling and De Gea returning to the squad after missing out against Wigan. United has given Ibrahimovic more time to rest and he won’t be part of China tour.
Dortmund on the other hand has lost several key players in Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Ilkay Gundogan and Mats Hummels which means we will see a drastically different side next season. Below are the possible starting lineups of both teams going into the China tour.
Watch Match Highlights: If you missed the live action you can always tune in here for full match replay of the game which will be available immediately after the match is over. So check after the match to recap the game here with our extended match highlights posted after final whistle.
United last played Dortmund back in 1997 in the Champions League knockout tie and this will be the first high profile friendly between the two teams.
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Addendum TDM 1 (2018) - Guidelines for Mediation in Investor-States Disputes
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Guidelines for Mediation in Investor-States Disputes
by Claudia Caluori
(Addendum July 2018) - This paper aims to give an overview of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), with descriptions of mediation and international investment, two broad and undefined (better to say undefinable, actually) concepts; and the particularities of the investor-state disputes (ISD), together with the present challenges and critics from the professionals and the public. Finally, it presents new trends currently being promoted by the Energy Charter Secretariat and the International Mediation Institute (IMI) in the energy sector which open undiscovered scenarios in the field of ISDS for both multinationals and States.
Presented at the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) Symposium "International Mediation Symposium" which was held in Salzburg, Austria, 8 - 11 June 2017. Chair: Mr. Hon. Ken Fields More information about CILS www.cils.org
Download the paper here Guidelines for Mediation in Investor-States Disputes.
C. Caluori (2018, forthcoming) "Addendum TDM 1 (2018) - Guidelines for Mediation in Investor-States Disputes"
(TDM, ISSN 1875-4120) July 2018, www.transnational-dispute-management.com
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A Fresh Look at Brazil's Stance Toward International Investment Dispute Settlement
Analyzing Country Risk Premium in ICSID Awards
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This Video of Celine Dion Singing "My Heart Will Go On" Is the Brazy 'Titanic' Sequel We Never Got
Far across the distance and spaces between us, Celine "Mother Gaia" Dion will always go on.
by Sarah MacDonald
11 July 2016, 3:09pm
Our queen. All images courtesy of Vevo... and Our Queen.
This article originally appeared on Noisey Canada.
Celine Dion is a global treasure; not relegated to just one nation, she is important to us all as human beings. Dion has left an indelible impression on pop music and, also, our hearts. Which is why I am here writing to you all with concern and love about this peculiar dream sequence-y version of Dion’s ultra classic, “My Heart Will Go On.” For those of you just tuning into pop culture, Titanic is not just iconic; it has surpassed the stratosphere of celebrated films (even with its poor dialogue and basic plotline points.) Titanic, I believe, can attribute much of its actual success to Dion’s song. That and our former collective boyfriend Leonardo DiCaprio who was still fresh-faced enough for us to give a shit about his character dying in the icy Atlantic.
Anyway, Dion’s career was, arguably, made before this mammoth song appeared (hi hello hi have you heard “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now?”) but it catapulted her into a whole different universe that allowed her to really make bank. This video of her (first???) performance of “My Heart Will Go On” at Caesar's Palace is at a staggering 75 million views so far. But why? It isn’t the filter heavy, blue diamond featuring, film montage version of the music video. Instead, it is an abstract look at key elements featured in the song and movie: drama, death, a bell boy, violins and flutes, hearts. Let us all come together to parse what in the actual fuck is happening in this gloriously weird and sad performance.
Act I: Angels Landing
We begin with silence and two figures on stage. One is, I don’t know, death or a dead person but he is smiling? There is also the moon. The moon looms menacingly over Dion's entire set because, let's face it, the moon is terrifying as fuck. Anything that can control the tide and not even be on this planet is scary because what can it be capable of?? Doomsday. I am talking about doomsday.
Look, I don’t know if this is Jack but I’m going to believe it is Jack for the sake of teen hearts everywhere. Welcome back, Jack!!! Jack's story is as follow: he emerges from the ocean, brought up by the light of the moon, of course. He is plucked from the watery depths and brought back to life a la Melisandre/Game of Thrones style. He then shuffles to and from a modest apartment in the desert to his work at the Palace where he moonlights as a doomsday predictor, just trying to stay afloat. Haha. Well, I thought it was funny. *Insert Price is Right losing horn*
Act II: Jupiter—Sorry, Moon Ascending
Next up, a stoic bellboy from The Grand Budapest Hotel who is, of course, staring at the increasingly pixelated cavities of the moon. From the outset, this performance is a far more real and direct approach to the devastation and death of the actual Titanic—I mean the ship, not James Cameron’s writing.
We get almost a minute of silence before a violinist and a group of people also dressed in white appear stage right. Remember that scene when the violinists know that they are going to die so they just start playing the incredibly sombre song, "Nearer My God to Thee?" I’m not crying right now, you’re crying.
Act III: Celine Dion: Lowkey Mother Gaia
A full minute-and-a-half in, we still don’t have Celine but we DO have a woman in white suspended and floating across the stage? Is she meant to represent the iceberg that doomed hundreds and hundreds of people? If so, fuck her. If she is actually some angel then I retract half of my sentiments.
It took almost a whole ass three minutes but she's here. Our Queen D. As in Dion not the D—anyways, Dion appears and begins singing the song you didn't know you were waiting your whole life to hear... again! As expected, she is impeccable. She's like a fucking super heavenly Megazord or Gandalf the White fused with Mary Magdalene all in one beautiful, wise human.
In case I didn't emphasize earlier, Dion is incredible. Her precise movements across the stage make her look like an actual angel gliding around rather than that of a suspended air angel. She looks at the scene in front of her—with her back turned to an audience who is so excitedly clapping for him—before she hits that chorus high note and becomes the embodiment of sea and stage despite how impractical that 'literal' part is. Just look at her pose! Look at how self-aware she is of how undeniably amazing her vocals are. This entire performance is her equivalent to the "I Don't Know Her" Mariah Carey meme but this is for literally everybody who has ever tried to sing.
There's a heart!!!! ON THE FLOOR!!! ERRRMAHGAWFDDDD
My entire body is now covered in goosebumps because Celine Dion has the kind of magic to evoke emotions in me I did not think were possible. Can we, for a moment, put into perspective that, as of next year, we will have forced Dion to sing this song for 20 years. Twenty goddamn years this song has been serenading us at weddings, this movie, in our minds, our hearts. I am now committed to bumping this view count up to 76, 80, 100 AND 30 THOUSAND Million on my own because, abstract images of death and human icebergs aside, it’s a stunning song and she's a stunning performer. Let this video be a constant reminder of Celine Dion’s unfuckwithable nature. That and also this recent outfit.
Sarah MacDonald’s heart has gone on since 1997. Follow her on Twitter.
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Home » What’s News » Weekly Commentary » Tax Increase Disguised as County Funding Aid
Tax Increase Disguised as County Funding Aid
Late last month the Senate Tourism Committee took up HB 1554, HD-1, SD-2 which would allow the counties to impose a sales tax of 1% – a sales tax and not a piggyback on the state’s general excise tax.
As we learned in the past few weeks, the state’s general excise tax is a unique creature, taxing both goods and services. It is a tax on people who want the privilege of doing business in the state and not a tax on the customer even though businesses show the tax out as a separate charge much like a sales tax would be shown on a receipt in a sales tax state on the mainland.
The lure for the counties is that they would have another source of revenue to fund their spending and in the case of Honolulu, lawmakers would get their hands on the TAT revenues that are currently shared with that county. For the Neighbor Island counties, they would be able to keep one-half of the current TAT revenues, but the other half would go back to the state.
Surprisingly, the measure garnered quite a bit of support during the past session but fell just short of full approval. Even the governor supported the proposal initially, citing the measure as instrumental in homerule. And, of course, some taxpayers looked upon the proposal as a way to avoid raising real property taxes.
That assumption is pure fantasy as there is nothing in the proposal that would require the counties to reduce other taxes. If nothing else, the counties would view the sales tax proposal as a way to raise more taxes. Would the counties leap for joy if there were a requirement in the bill that for each dollar of sales tax collected real property taxes had to be reduced by one dollar?
Then there is the naive Honolulu official who pronounced that the proposed county sales tax was the same as the general excise tax so why not have the state tax department collect and administer the tax. Obviously that official has not been reading these columns. It was also obvious that there is a lack of understanding of the sales tax when one official quoted that the tax would raise $120 million for the City & County of Honolulu.
Without knowing what the sales tax will look like and what would be taxed, it is anyone’s guess how much the one percent sales tax would raise. While one can make assumptions that the proposed sales tax would look much like the sales taxes found on the mainland, one cannot say for sure until the bill is drafted and defines what the base of the sales tax would be.
Making the assumption that it will look like other “sales” taxes, one can assume that it will not apply to services. Under political pressure will county officials exempt food from the sales tax base? Will the sales tax apply to amusements which otherwise could be considered a service?
And given that it is a vastly different tax from the general excise tax, why should the tax department be saddled with administering another new tax? It would seem far more accountable to have each county administer their own sales taxes. And what if each county puts its own spin on what is taxable in that county? Or for that matter what if only some of the counties adopt the sales tax? Who then will determine whether or not a particular purchase is taxable? For example, if someone from Hilo, where the optional tax is not adopted, orders a coffee pot from a store in Honolulu, where the sales tax is imposed, should that Hilo customer have to pay the Honolulu sales tax? And if the customer does have to pay the sales tax, what benefit does the customer receive from having paid the Honolulu sales tax?
Elected officials both at the state and the county levels should be ashamed of trying to lay yet another tax on the beleaguered taxpayer. The governor should recognize this proposal for what it is, a tax increase, nothing more.
Given the differences between a sales tax and the general excise tax, who is going to compensate the businesses for having to deal with yet another tax that looks nothing like the tax which they are already collecting? And will the tax department count the amount collected as the county sales tax as part of the gross income of the business so the business will have to pay the 4% general excise tax on that amount collected? And if not, who is going to do the extra work of keeping track of what amount collected is not subject to the general excise tax?
The county sales tax proposal may be very tempting for elected officials, but for the taxpayer it is a lose/ lose situation with less money left for the taxpayer and the economy.
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Mueller’s Investigation is Missing One Thing: A Crime
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Peter Van Buren
A baby born when Robert Mueller started his investigation would be talking by now. But would she have anything to say?
We last looked at what Mueller had publicly—and what he didn’t have—some 10 months ago, and I remained skeptical that the Trump campaign had in any way colluded with Russia. It’s worth another look now, but first let’s give away the ending (spoiler alert!): there is still no real evidence of, well, much of anything significant about Russiagate. One thing that is clear is that the investigation seems to be ending. Mueller’s office has reportedly even told various defense lawyers that it is “tying up loose ends.” The moment to wrap things up is politically right as well: the Democrats will soon take control of the House; time to hand this all off to them.
Ten months ago the big news was Paul Manafort flipped; that seems to have turned out to be mostly a bust, as we know now he lied like a rug to the Feds and cooperated with the Trump defense team as some sort of mole inside Mueller’s investigation (a heavily-redacted memo about Manafort’s lies, released by Mueller on Friday, adds no significant new details to the Russiagate narrative.)
George Papadopoulos has already been in and out of jail—all of two weeks— for his sideshow role. Michael Avenatti is now a woman beater who is just figuring out he’s washed up. Stormy Daniels owes Trump over $300,000 in fees after losing to him in court. There still is no pee tape. And if you don’t recall how unimportant Carter Page and Richard Gates turned out to be (or even who they are), well, there is your assessment of all the hysterical commentary that accompanied them a few headlines ago.
The big reveal of the Michael Flynn sentencing memo on Tuesday was that he will likely do no prison time. Everything of substance in the memo was redacted, so there is little insight available. If you insist on speculation, try this: it’s hard to believe that something really big and bad happened such that Flynn knew about it but still wasn’t worth punishing for it, and now, a year after he started cooperating with the government, still nobody has heard anything about whatever the big deal is. So chances are the redactions focus on foreign lobbying in the U.S.
This week’s Key to Everything is Michael Cohen, the guy who lied out of self-interest for Trump until last week when we learned he is also willing to lie, er, testify against Trump out of self-interest. If you take his most recent statements at face value, the sum is the failed negotiations to build a Trump hotel in Moscow, which went on a few months longer than was originally stated, and that we all knew about already.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York submitted a sentencing memo Friday for Cohen, recommending 42 months in jail. In a separate filing, Mueller made no term recommendation but praised Cohen for his “significant efforts to assist the special counsel’s office.” The memos reveal no new information.
Call it sleazy if you want, but looking into a real estate deal is neither a high crime nor a misdemeanor, even if it’s in Russia. Conspiracy law requires an agreement to commit a crime, not just the media declaiming that “Cohen was communicating directly with the Kremlin!” Talking about meeting Russian persons is not a crime, nor is meeting with them.
The takeaway that this was all about influence shopping by the Russkies falls flat. If Putin sought to ensnare Trump, why didn’t he find a way for the deal to actually go through? Mueller has to be able to prove actual crimes by the president, not just twist our underclothes into weekly conspiratorial knots. For fun, look here at the creative writing needed to even suggest anything illegal. That doesn’t sound like Trump’s on thin ice with hot shoes.
Sigh. It is useful at this point of binge-watching the Mueller mini-series to go back to the beginning.
The primordial ooze for all things Russiagate is less-than-complete intelligence alleging that hackers, linked to the Russian government, stole emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2016. The details have never been released, no U.S. law enforcement agency has ever seen the server or scene of the crime, and Mueller’s dramatic indictments of said hackers, released as Trump met with Putin in Helsinki, will never be heard of again, or challenged in court, as none of his defendants will ever leave Russia. Meanwhile, despite contemporaneous denials of the same, is it somehow now accepted knowledge that the emails (and Facebook ads!) had some unproven major effect on the election.
The origin story for everything else, that Trump is beholden to Putin for favors granted or via blackmail, is opposition research purchased by the Democrats and carried out by an MI6 operative with complex connections into American intelligence, the salacious Steele Dossier. The FBI, under a Democratic-controlled Justice Department, then sought warrants to spy on the nominated GOP candidate for president based on evidence paid for by his opponent.
Yet the real spark was the media, inflamed by Democrats, searching for why Trump won (because it can’t be anything to do with Hillary, and “all white people and the Electoral College are racists” just doesn’t hold up). Their position was and is that Trump must have done something wrong, and Robert Mueller, despite helping squash a Bush-era money-laundering probe, lying about the Iraq War, and flubbing the post-9/11 anthrax investigation, has been resurrected with Jedi superpowers to find it. It might be collusion with Russia or Wikileaks, or a pee tape, or taxes, packaged as hard news but reading like Game of Thrones plot speculation. None of this is journalism to be proud of, and it underlies everything Mueller is supposedly trying to achieve.
As the New York Times said in a rare moment of candor, “From the day the Mueller investigation began, opponents of the president have hungered for that report, or an indictment waiting just around the corner, as the source text for an incantation to whisk Mr. Trump out of office and set everything back to normal again.”
The core problem—at least that we know of—is that Mueller hasn’t found a crime connected with Russiagate that someone working for Trump might have committed. His investigation to date hasn’t been a search for the guilty party—Colonel Mustard in the library—so much as a search for an actual crime, some crime, any crime. Yet all he’s uncovered so far are some old financial misdealings by Manafort and chums, payoffs to Trump’s mistresses that are not in themselves illegal (despite what prosecutors simply assert in the Cohen sentencing report, someone will have to prove to a jury the money was from campaign funds and the transactions were “for the purpose of influencing” federal elections, not simply “protecting his family from shame”), and a bunch of people lying about unrelated matters.
And that’s the giveaway to Muller’s final report. There was no base crime as the starting point of the investigation. With Watergate, there was the break-in at Democratic National Headquarters. With Russiagate you had…Trump winning the election. (Remember too that the FBI concluded forever ago that the DNC hack crime was done by the Russians, no Mueller needed.)
Almost everything Mueller has, the perjury and lying cases, are crimes he created through the process of investigating. He’s Schrodinger’s Box: the infractions only exist when he tries to look at them. Mueller created most of his booked charges by asking questions he already knew the answers to, hoping his witness would lie and commit new crimes literally in front of him. Nobody should be proud of lying, but it seems a helluva way to contest a completed election as Trump enters the third year of his term.
Mueller’s end product, his report, will most likely claim that a lot of unsavory things went on. But it seems increasingly unlikely that he’ll have any evidence Trump worked with Russia to win the election, let alone that Trump is now under Putin’s control. If Mueller had a smoking gun, we’d be watching impeachment hearings by now.
Instead, Mueller will end up concluding that some people may have sort of maybe tried to interfere with an investigation into what turned out to be nothing, another “crime” that exists only because there was an investigation to trigger it. He’ll dump that steaming pile of legal ambiguity into the lap of the Democratic House to hold hearings on from now until global warming claims the city of Benghazi and returns it to the sea. That or the 2020 election, whichever comes first.
Peter Van Buren, a 24-year State Department veteran, is the author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People and Hooper’s War: A Novel of WWII Japan.
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The Prom Cast Partners With Kenneth Cole Pride Campaign
The Broadway company joins the popular brand in celebration of Pride month.
Kenneth Cole has launched its 2019 Pride initiative, making the stars of the Tony-nominated musical The Prom the face of this year's campaign. Take a look at photos of the Broadway cast members below.
Beth Leavel is nominated for a Tony Award for her leading performance as Dee Dee Allen in The Prom.
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"The entire Prom family is so honored that Kenneth Cole has selected our principal actors as the face of his Pride Campaign," said The Prom's Tony-winning director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw. "The way audiences are responding to The Prom is incredibly powerful and it's so moving to be part of a musical that can make a difference and can be entertaining at the same time. We are so proud to bring the message of acceptance and heart at the center of The Prom out into the world and thankful to Kenneth Cole for helping us spread it far and wide."
Tony nominee Brooks Ashmanskas stars as Barry Glickman in The Prom.
Directed by Casey Nicholaw, The Prom is described as follows: "Emma becomes an instant outcast, and a national headline, when her high school cancels the prom rather than let her attend with her girlfriend. Sensing a chance to correct an injustice, and maybe get some good publicity along the way, a group of fading celebrities takes up the cause, and invades Emma's small Indiana town. But their bumbling attempts at social activism make the situation far worse than they, or Emma, could have ever imagined."
Angie Schworer plays Broadway dancer Angie.
The production features music by Matthew Sklar, a book by Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin, and lyrics by Beguelin. Leading the cast are Tony Award nominee Brooks Ashmanskas, Tony winner Beth Leavel, Tony nominee Christopher Sieber, Caitlin Kinnunen, Isabelle McCalla, Michael Potts, Angie Schworer, Courtenay Collins, and Josh Lamon.
Christopher Sieber plays actor Trent Oliver in the Broadway cast.
The Prom recently earned seven Tony Award nominations, including Best Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical (Casey Nicholaw), Best Book of a Musical (Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin), Best Original Score (Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin), Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical (Brooks Ashmanskas), and two for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical (Caitlin Kinnunen and Beth Leavel).
Tony nominee Caitlin Kinnunen leads the cast of The Prom as Emma.
"As a brand, we've been supporting equal rights for the LGBTQ community for over 25 years," says Kenneth Cole. "For our latest initiative in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall and WorldPride, we are proud to partner with both The United Nations Foundation in support of UN Free & Equal and the cast of Broadway's Tony-nominated musical, The Prom, for their shared values and the importance of inclusion and acceptance that the show brings to life."
Isabelle McCalla performs opposite Kinnunen as Alyssa.
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“For so many years, two persons were inside of me,” says Deniss Metsavas, a former Russian spy. In a new documentary from The Atlantic, Metsavas tells the disturbing story of his double identity for the very first time.
Metsavas, who is ethnically Russian, grew up in the U.S.S.R. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he learned the Estonian national anthem for the first time. He joined the Estonian Defense Forces, where he served as a trusted officer for 20 years. Now he is serving 15 years in an Estonian prison for treason.
Everything changed in 2007. On a trip to visit relatives in Russia, Metsavas says he was ensnared by Russian intelligence officers who had collected kompromat, or "compromising material,” on Metsavas, in order to blackmail him into engaging in espionage for the Russian Federation. The officers worked for the GRU, Russia’s largest foreign-intelligence agency.
For years, Metsavas navigated his disparate allegiances. He got married and started a family. But as he grew in prominence in the Estonian Defense Forces, his Russian handlers began to demand highly classified information on Estonia’s involvement with the United States and NATO, specifically with regard to weapons. Metsavas tried to extricate himself, only to find that his handlers would stop at nothing to obtain the intel—including ensnaring a family member in the increasingly dangerous situation.
For more on Metsavas’s story, read Michael Weiss’s story “Estonian, Russian, Soldier, Spy.”
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The House That Groaned
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Publisher: Vintage
The House That Groaned (Paperback)
Karrie Fransman
It's 141 Rottin Road. 'A cosy, one-bedroom apartment on the first floor of a charming Victorian conversion. Newly decorated and with a separate kitchen and reception room. Located just a bus ride away from a wide range of shops, restaurants and bars'. Welcome to The House that Groaned and the six lonely inhabitants of its separate flats, characters so at odds with themselves and their bodies that they could only have stepped out of the pages of a comic novel. There's Barbara, our make-up artist heroine and man-made blonde bombshell; Matt, the photographic retoucher who can't touch; Janet, the tormented dietician; twenty-something Brian, the diseaseophile whose sexual penchant takes him to the edge of perversion; old Mrs Durbach, who literally blends in to the background; and, the gloriously fleshy and hedonistic Marion, matriarch of the Midnight Feasters. Behind the house's anonymous facade, the building is decaying. As pipes explode and walls collapse, events force the residents out of their doors and into each others lives - with dramatic consequences. Exploring the themes of body image, sexuality and the loneliness and isolation of contemporary urban life, "The House that Groaned" is a modern-day fairy tale full of magic realism and farcical symbolism which will woo both comic fans and attract new readers to the medium.
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Home Events & Meetings EFI CONNECT IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR
written by Frank G. Cannata January 21, 2019
Reflecting on EFI’s Milestones and Highlights from Past Connect Conferences
As we prepare to attend EFI Connect 2019, we thought it would be enlightening to look back at past events and past milestones in the company’s history. We believe we are the only publication that has covered every EFI Connect Conference. It all began when EFI acquired Printcafe, a supplier of print supply chain management software, on February 26, 2003.
Printcafe was the first step in a series of acquisitions that has enabled EFI to take their business far beyond digital front-end solutions for the office and commercial print environment. At the time it was announced, then CEO Guy Gecht hailed it as more of a merger than an acquisition.
At that time, Printcafe was hailed as a provider of enterprise solutions specifically designed for printers and buyers in the printing and publishing industries. Printcafe’s enterprise resource planning and collaborative supply chain software solutions were said to enable printers and print buyers to improve productivity and lower costs. Printcafe’s offerings also enabled Web-based collaboration throughout the print supply chain.
“We are excited to join forces with the Printcafe team to bring the most comprehensive procurement to production offerings to the printing industry,” said EFI CEO Guy Gecht at the time of the acquisition. “Our global leadership in printing workflow and Printcafe’s dominance in print supply chain management will offer both printers and their customers powerful end to end solutions to maximize their efficiency and profitability.”
There were many acquisitions to follow, but in our opinion the most important one was Vutek, a provider of super wide format digital inkjet printers, on April 15, 2005. Two months later EFI Connect was held in Miami. We devoted more than four pages to that event in our publication. Never once did we mention the Vutek acquisition. The transaction did not close until the third quarter of the year. We can only guess there was not much the leadership could say about that big acquisition at the time of Connect.
Frankly I don’t think even Gecht realized just how important this acquisition would prove to have on EFI’s future, particularly during the downturn in our economy in 2008-2010. This period was considered by many to have been the worst economic recession since the Great Depression.
Let’s revisit Guys statement at the time of the acquisition. “Vutek will be an excellent addition to EFI’s range of best-of-breed innovative solutions for the commercial print market. There are many natural synergies between EFI’s core expertise in digital-printing innovation and Vutek’s digital inkjet technology?”
With Vutek’s profitable business model, we wrote that we expected this acquisition to provide EFI with new revenue streams in the future.
Afterwards, Gecht told us in confidence, “We would not have been profitable in the two prior years were it not for the sale of ink for the superwide printing segment of the market in which Vutek excelled.”
He added, “Vutek will help EFI expand what it can bring to those commercial customers.” In addition, he pointed out, EFI will also benefit from Vutek’s recurring revenue stream in ink and service (which make up about 40% of all Vutek revenues).
Gecht had learned what dealers had learned a long time before””it is the annuity stream provided by service and supplies that generates the most profitable revenue.
In 2006 we attended Connect 2006 and spent a lot of time talking to Frank Mallozzi, EFI’s vice president of worldwide sales, and now the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. His message was clear and concise, “It is software that creates the differentiation and it is software that will enable dealers to remain very profitable.”
At the Print 15 conference in September 2015, EFI held a press conference and as usual Gecht entertained us all. However, he cut to the essence of the importance of industrial printing when he reminded the audience that 2014 was a very successful year for EFI when it reached $850 million in revenue, half of which came from their inkjet products.
The company had come a long way. Consider that in 2004 EFI was a sub $400 million software company and here Gecht was 10 years stating the company had doubled its revenue. We asked him what percentage of that revenue was generated by their industrial print products? His response was half.
Within 10 years EFI had built a hardware business of $425 million. We kept digging and finally learned that over that same period, EFI and placed 5,700 inkjet devices. In what other segment of the print business could claim less than 6,000 devices could generate that kind of revenue?
What EFI has accomplished is exactly what all hardware manufacturers are attempting to””move from a hardware orientation to a services (software) business model. EFI did it in reverse.
The lesson learned from all of this is that industrial print represents the future for many of our readers and we sincerely hope that they are inclined to learn from this story.
The Cannata Report is committed to bringing the best possible information about industrial print and the EFI Connect conference, and CJ, Scott, Carol and I are all attending this year’s event. No other publication can even approach that kind of commitment to a conference of this type. Look for that coverage in our next issue.
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Civilian fan that snuck into Sunday's MLB game at Fort Bragg offers apology
Posted: 1:21 PM, Jul 05, 2016
By: Alex Hider
<p>FORT BRAGG, NC - JULY 03: A detailed view of baseballs prior to the game between the Miami Marlins and Atlanta Braves on July 3, 2016 in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The Fort Bragg Game marks the first regular season MLB game ever to be played on an active military base. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)</p>
Baseball fans usually don’t have to issue an apology for attending a ball game on a summer night. But Zack Hample isn’t an ordinary baseball fan, and the game he attended on Sunday night wasn’t an ordinary game.
Hample is widely known as a “ball hawk” — a fan that travels from ballpark to ballpark with the sole purpose of collecting baseballs that travel into the stands. According to Hample’s website , he’s collected more than 9,000 baseballs from baseball games in about 20 years from more than 50 ballparks.
Hample maintains that “ball hawking” is all in good fun, he’s often labeled as selfish and a ball hog. Though he claims on his website that he has never knocked another fan out of the way stolen a loose ball from a child, there is at least some evidence that explains why some baseball fans are often upset with Hample.
On Sunday, in a nod to service men and women on Independence Day, the MLB staged its first regular season game on a military base when the Atlanta Braves and the Miami Marlins faced off at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Ticket sales to the game were provided free of charge to military members through a lottery system, and a Military ID was required for entry into the game.
However, Hample — a civilian — was able to get his hands on a ticket, thanks to dating apps and a plea to ticket holders on YouTube. On Sunday he tweeted that he had snagged 11 baseballs throughout the course of the game.
Fort Bragg commemorative baseballs? Oh yes! Martin Prado just tossed this to me after the 3rd inning. pic.twitter.com/OQoGJfExbR
— Zack Hample (@zack_hample) July 4, 2016
I got 11 balls today and gave 10 away. As promised, I'll be writing an $1,100 check to https://t.co/B7S73jb999 . Please everyone, calm down.
The reaction from Twitter was swift and harsh. The 82nd Airborne Division even went so far to suggest that Hample delete his account.
Delete your account. https://t.co/DHYwUuRHbL
— 82nd Airborne Div (@82ndABNDiv) July 4, 2016
Hample claims he gave 10 of his baseballs away and made an $1,100 donation to American Veterans, but his gestures of goodwill rang empty until he offered an official apology on Tuesday.
I am deeply sorry for going to Fort Bragg. There's lots of misinformation, so here's what really happened: pic.twitter.com/nld9YgGXAe
“The last thing I wanted to do was deprive a Soldier of the chance to attend this game, and I am deeply sorry for my idiotic behavior,” his apology reads in part.
What do you think about Hample’s apology? Share your opinion in the poll below.
Alex Hider is a writer for the E.W. Scripps National Desk. Follow him on Twitter @alexhider.
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55% of under 10s regularly create video content, says Beano
By John Glenday-19 June 2019 10:44am
58% of Gen Alpha believe gender is irrelevant in Beano study
Rapidly evolving social mores have been laid bare in a new study prepared by Beano Studios finding that (55%) of Generation Alpha (under 10s) are regularly creating video content. 58% of respondents also believe gender to be irrelevant.
Focussed on children born since 2010 the survey of 2,000 parents and their offspring paints a picture of a tech-savvy, environmentally engaged generation waiting in the wings but who also embrace traditional family values.
86% of kids are using new technology to design, build and make things, over half of those surveyed enjoyed tinkering with electronics (47%); enjoying robotics (43%) and computer coding (36%).
The research shows 98% are still playing outside, and nearly three quarters (72%) are still climbing trees. Already one in five kids (19%) aged between 5-9 have been on a march or protest about something they care about.
Among the five key character traits associated with the youngest generation are those of ‘creative entrepreneurs’, budding creatives eager to flex their creative muscles using new digital mediums. Gen Alpha has also been described as ‘activists in the home’ willing to take a stand on environmental issues such as single-use plastics both at home and in school.
As a result, the Beano study labels such children as belonging to the ‘post-stereotype’ generation where judgements are grounded in individual merit.
Emma Scott, chief executive at Beano Studios, said: “Gen Alpha is the generation that will seek to bend the digital world to their needs and ambitions and not be defined or consumed by it; they will set aside our current worldview stereotypes of identity and difference, and their love for cherishing and saving the physical world around them will literally change the face of our planet.
“Beano for Brands’ Generation Alpha report is just the beginning. We’ve only just started to scratch the surface of this exciting, impassioned generation. With the oldest of Gen Alpha yet to reach secondary school, Beano for Brands will continue to monitor their progress and educate the world on who they are and what we as parents, educators, legislators and businesses need to do to keep up with them.”
The stark findings show a marked generational divide with just 32% of their parents rejecting gender stereotypes, highlighting the views and sentiments marketers will need to get a handle on if they are to prosper in the future.
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Taylor McCune
An October sunset over North River, looking toward Beaufort. (Photo by Scott Perkins)
Welcome to the new & improved Beacon Bits, our bi-weekly news briefs delivery system. Twice a week we’ll serve up morsels of local news that you can put away in one bite. Browse past Beacon Bits.
It’s The Taco the Town
Taco Bell in Beaufort as it looked on Tuesday.
When I broke the news that Beaufort was going to get a Taco Bell, Facebook went loco. Understandable, since few fast food restaurants are quite so capable of dividing a group of people into lovers vs haters. That post reached nearly 5,000 people, and more than 100 people commented on it. My favorites: “IT’S A MIRACLE! NO ONE CAN STOP US NOW!” and “Boo…hiss.”
Anyway, Taco Bell is coming along. Town Planning Director Kyle Garner says crews have started working on the interior and the restaurant will probably open in January or February. The owners are also pouring a sidewalk that will go from Live Oak Street, then down Wellons Drive all the way to the shopping center property line. Garner says Live Oak will be lined with sidewalks and bike lanes in the future.
Finally, a lot of people have been asking what the giant, white, concrete basin behind the building is. Answer: drainage pond.
Did you know? Pelicans, gulls and other seabirds drink salt water. They have glands in their heads that desalinate the water and express the salt through ducts in their beaks.
Harkers Island Fire & Rescue Riding High
The new truck in all its glory. (Harkers Island Fire & Rescue photo)
With help from the NC Forest Service’s Firefighter Program, Harkers Island Fire & Rescue now has a high-water rescue vehicle. The truck was assembled from components that were either donated or purchased by the Harkers Island Fire & Rescue Association or fire department members themselves. Carteret Forest Ranger Brent Toler, who helped the department navigate the Firefighter Program, said the truck will be an asset to the island, the county and beyond.
Beaufort Police Get Hairy
It’s No-Shave November and the Beaufort Police Department is using it as an opportunity to raise money for the Boys & Girls Club, Loaves & Fishes and The MirIAM. Local kids designed facial hair for each member of the BPD staff, and they need you to vote for your favorite. Each vote requires a $1 donation. You can vote 8 am – 5 pm at the police station or by commenting on this Facebook post and donating through the online fundraiser.
MHC Bridge Work Continues Friday
The Morehead High Rise (the bridge by the port) will be down to one lane between 9 and 11 am Friday, Nov. 8. Crews are fixing areas where concrete took a dive into the Newport River. More Info
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The Farewell is a bittersweet Chinese tragicomedy that revolves around an elderly Chinese lady who suffers from an incurable cancer. A hastily arranged wedding between a grandson and his Japanese girlfriend serves as purpose for the family members abroad to come back to Changchun. However, the burden of this lie is heavy and conflicts, confusion and misunderstandings soon occur. Rated PG | 1hr 40min
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Paterson is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey--they share the name. Every day, Paterson adheres to a simple routine: he drives his daily route, observing the city as it drifts across his windshield and overhearing fragments of conversation swirling around him. Rated R, 1h 58 min
The Audience – A National Theatre Live Special Event
Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren (The Queen), plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Tony Award®-winning production of The Audience, captured live from London’s West End For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II has met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting. This meeting is known as The Audience. No one knows what they discuss, not even their spouses. From the old warrior Winston Churchill, to Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher and finally David Cameron, the Queen advises her…
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PLEASE NOTE - This is a 2-day class - you will need to attend 2/18 & 2/20 to complete this course. This course provides training that meets the requirements of Chapter 10B of the NC General Statutes for individuals seeking appointments as Notary Publics in North Carolina. Note: Must have no criminal background, excludes traffic violations. Also must be at least 18 years old with a high school diploma or GED equivalent. Students must purchase the book prior to the…
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This class runs from March 9 to April 29 and meets twice a week. It is a 16 session class. Whether you are looking to enhance skills for personal use or embark on a new career, this course will allow you to learn and apply hands-on skills in Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. You will learn how to effectively create and manage documents in word; create graphs and charts, perform calculations on data, organize information in…
Loaves and Fishes Run for Recovery
March 14 at 7:30 am - 10:30 am
Ann Street United Methodist Church, 500 Ann Street
Beaufort, NC, 28516 + Google Map
Can you help us change the lives of people in Carteret County struggling with addiction? We have a big goal to raise $20,000 for the Loaves and Fishes Men's Recovery program to aide men who can't pay. Many of us have family members, friends, and relatives who suffer from addition. Some of us have friends and family who have died from an overdose. Loaves and Fishes Counseling Ministries is located in Beaufort, NC and is changing people's lives. Join the…
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Daily Inspiration: DJ Rashad’s Legacy of Love
Reflecting on the life and work of the pioneering Chicago footwork producer.
By Ruth Saxelby
The first time I heard Chicago footwork, via Planet Mu's 2010 compilation, Bangs & Works, my brain took a minute to catch up to my ears. It was a thrill to feel so confounded. I had no idea what was going on, but I was in love. It wasn't just the breakneck, totally bonkers rhythms, but the fact that this was a music born of dancing, born for dancing, and that it was through the dancing that footwork revealed itself. My eureka moment was when I realized the chaotic pace was a gift to the dancer, providing endless hinges for them to pivot off and, with that, endless new possibilities for the body. In a time when musical movements are spawned on Soundcloud and blossom on Bandcamp, footwork had undeniable geography: a blood, sweat and tears culture in Chicago. It might sound like it's from the future, but it had been nurtured on Chicago soil for two decades. Like the dancers, Chicago producers DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn pivoted off the Bangs & Work compilation and took their music around the world, from Russia to Japan.
It was in April 2011 that I got to understand footwork in context when Rashad and Spinn brought three dancers—Lite Bulb, DJ Manny and A.J.—with them to London for a performance at a street dance festival held at the austere dance theater Sadler's Wells. Though we were the same age, Rashad had a fatherly way about him, no doubt from shepherding the three young dancers across the Atlantic on their first trip to Europe. There was something elder statesman about the way he talked about footwork too, with great care and responsibility. This was a music he'd been dancing to since he was in seventh grade; this was his life. That's not to say he didn't like joking around: after filming the dancers on my phone for a short video piece I was making for Dummy Mag, Rashad proved he still had the moves by doing an impromptu running man, to the delight of Light Bulb and co. Afterward, we all traipsed over to the pub next door and got pints, which is where Rashad and Spinn told me about the event they threw every Sunday in Chicago at a daycare centre. "It's just something we love to do, it's a positive thing," Rashad said in the video interview, explaining that he and Spinn made no money at all at the gig: all the door money went into a pot awarded to the best dancer of the night. "They come out and they get to hear new tracks, win money, they might even learn some new moves or gain some respect." That dedication floored me at the time, and still floors me.
In the three years since that initial meeting, I met Rashad many times, mainly in nightclubs in London where I would sweatily hug him after yet another incredible set. He never failed to give me props for doing that first interview, a move that always touched me. While the whole Bangs & Works crew continued to make music, it was Rashad who cartwheeled ahead, honing his craft and mining new emotional depths and sonic heights with every release. The last time we spoke was back in October, in the run-up to the release of his formidable Double Cup album on Hyperdub. He was getting over a nasty hip injury (he'd been in a car accident) yet, diligent as ever, took my call from a doctor's office. I asked him why footwork, and specifically his footwork music, was so sad, and for once he was a little lost for words but then gathered himself to say: “Ah well, most of the times in those samples it’s pretty much how I felt." The one that's been playing in my head since hearing the inconceivable news that Rashad died on Saturday is the one that appears in "Let It Go." While I don't think anyone who heard his music or met him is any fit state to do that any time yet, its message of love, loss, grief and forgiveness is one that's as wise and open as Rashad was–in music and in life.
DJ Rashad RUTH SAXELBY
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More details concerning the Tibetan Acoustic Levitation (original message posted here: http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1388219#msg1388219 )
https://web.archive.org/web/20110304035318/http://www.nilsolof.se/ljudkraft.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20060306044903/http://www.ianlawton.com/sl2.htm
Rudolf von Linauer, tibetan levitation:
http://ufoarchives.blogspot.ro/2013/07/rudolf-von-linauer-and-tibetan-mystery.html
UPDATE ON R. V. LINAUER:
http://ufoarchives.blogspot.ro/2013/10/rudolf-von-linauer-and-tibet.html
http://ufoarchives.blogspot.ro/2013/09/new-data-on-rudolf-von-linauer.html
On the meaning of the crescent (raif) and the bindu:
http://www.mandalayoga.net/pretty_print.php?rub=what&p=mantra_om&lang=en
An equivalent symbol is the Thule swastika: red = laevorotatory ether, white = dextrorotatory ether, black = shadow swastika/aether swastika (see http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=58472.msg1487905#msg1487905 )
Analysis of the acoustic levitation (D. Davidson):
If we assume that each monk with his instrument produced one half this much sound energy (which is highly unlikely) and we make the further gross assumption that this is the amount if power that reaches the stone (actually sound dissipates rapidly over distance), we would have about 0.04 watts (i.e., (19 instruments + 19 x 4 monks) x 0.000094) hitting the huge stone block.
This is an astoundingly small amount of energy actually hitting the 1.5 cubic meter stone to produce the effect.
To lift the stone 250 meters takes a prodigious amount of energy. Rocks such as granite and limestone have weights in the neighborhood of 150-175 pounds per cubic foot.
If we assume a nominal value of 160 pounds per cubic foot then the 1.5 cubic meter stones weighed around 8475 pounds (i.e., over 4 tons!!!). To lift the 8475 pounds 250 meters would require about 7 million ft-pounds of work (i.e., 8475 pounds X 250 meters / 0.30408 meters/foot = 6,968,035).
Since this was done over a 3 minute period then about 70 horsepower was produced (i.e., 7 x 106 foot-pounds / 180 seconds / 550 horsepower/foot-pound/second = 70.384). This is equivalent to 52 kilowatts (i.e., 70.384 X 0.74570 kilowatts/horsepower = 52.5).
The over unity power factor we obtain is 5,250,000 over unity (i.e., 52,500 watts/0.01 watts).
The density of ether and aether where humans are present is markedly different (photographs taken near a Black Sea resort in the 1970s and 1980s showing the telluric currents: no flash reflection or fake streamers; other examples of real streamers here, http://www.pinellaspascoparanormal.com/aboutorbsandstreamers.htm )
"Nikola Tesla -- the literal inventor of modern civilization (via the now worldwide technology of "alternating current") -- experimentally anticipated the ether waves by finding them in nature; from massive experimental radio transmitters he had built on a mountain top in Colorado, he was broadcasting and receiving (by his own assertion) "longitudinal stresses" (as opposed to conventional EM "transverse waves") through the vacuum. This he was accomplishing with his own, hand-engineered equipment (produced according to Maxwell's original, quaternion equations), when he detected an interference "return" from a passing line of thunderstorms. Tesla termed the phenomenon a "standing columnar wave," and tracked it electromagnetically for hours as the cold front moved across the West."
Thus Tesla was able to change the initial data for the path of the ball lightning: the destination of the trajectory, based on a spherical earth hypothesis, was wrong, and had to be modified to reach an unhabitated area (the desired location of Tunguska). His equipment detected a different density of ether and aether, signaling the presence of human habitation (city of Kezhma).
http://olkhov.narod.ru/tunguska_trajectory.gif
The initial path approached Kezhma from the south, then it abruptly changed course to the east. Two hundred and fifty miles later, while above Preobrazhenka, it reversed its heading toward the west. It exploded above the taiga at 60º55' N, 101º57' E (LeMaire 1980).
The same opinion was reached by Felix Zigel, who as an aerodynamics professor at the Moscow Institute of Aviation has been involved in the training of many Soviet cosmonauts. His latest study of all the eyewitness and physical data convinced him that "before the blast the Tunguska body described in the atmosphere a tremendous arc of about 375 miles in extent (in azimuth)" - that is, it "carried out a maneuver." No natural object is capable of such a feat.
Felix Zigel, professor of aerodynamics (Moscow Aviation Institute) and other space experts agree that, prior to exploding, the object changed from an eastward to a westward direction over the Stony Tunguska region.
It was the research done by professor Giuseppe Longo (University of Bologna) which uncovered the forgotten photographs taken in Irkutsk on June 30 and July 1, 1908.
He also was able to find the map drawn by Vasilyev (of course, Vasilyev's research ONLY reached as far east as the city of Krasnoyarsk).
There were other expeditions which went much further to the east, for example the I.M. Suslov voyage...
Evenki tribe account.
http://www.vurdalak.com/tunguska/witness/lyuchetkana_a.htm
A bright summer night fell, the fire began to diminish. In place of the heat, it grew cold. We decided to move toward the Katanga [river]. By the time we got to the Chambe river, we were already totally weak, all around we saw marvels, terrible marvels. It wasn’t our forest [any more]. I never saw a forest like that. It was strange somehow. Where we lived there had been dense forest, an old forest. But now in many places there was no forest at all. On the mountains all the trees lay flat, and it was bright, and everything was visible for a far distance.
(translation by Bill DeSmedt)
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“The universe is more like a giant thought than a giant machine and the substance of the great thought is consciousness which pervades all space.”
Spirit – transcendent verb
Thought/Emotion – intentional/visualized verb (desire)
Imagination – potential verb (word for the idea/emotion) (knowledge)
Sound – manifested verb (action)
http://www.eso-garden.com/specials/the_secret_life_of_nature.pdf (takes the reader inside a subquark: the structure of a boson/antiboson) walnut = subquark/Anu/UPA
Chapters 7, 8 and 9
Taking a closer look at one walnut, Ron saw that two threads came out of it, one of which appeared fainter than the other.The clearer one looked like a tangled, twisted piece of string, which could be pulled out into a straight line with little effort and which, on being relaxed, resumed its tangled state.
Thinking he would see a spiral within one of these strings, Ron magnified it. Instead he saw a stream of bubbles flowing back and forth so quickly he could not observe the moment they reversed direction.
As the bubbles came out of the walnut in single file to move along what looked like a tube, some form of energy appeared to expand them to their maximum over a distance of up to ten bubble diameters.
Then the current reversed.
Fastening his attention onto a single bubble, Ron saw that as it moved through the tube the tube rotated one instant in one direction, next in the opposite, clockwise as the bubbles moved away, counterclockwise as they moved toward him, though again he could not distinguish the actual instant of transition.
Estimating the distance between successive bubbles as about six times the width of a bubble, Ron noted that as each bubble passed, the tube seemed to collapse very slightly, its edges no sharper than the boundary between two liquids. Managing to move along with a bubble-obviously not moving his physical body but his viewpoint-Ron saw that it was shaped like a fat doughnut, with an indented sort of cap that led the bubble's motion and trailed a tail.Wanting to see what was happening close up to one of the walnuts, Ron approached a thread that appeared to link two walnuts.
On closer inspection, the bubbles seemed to Ron to be created in the corkscrew spiral near the exit because there was no sign of bubbles at the start of this spiral. As the bubbles flowed back into the walnut, instead of forming a puff like those entering from the other thread, they simply shrank down to nothing. Whenever bubbles reversed direction, the tail would fade away, to reappear on the opposite side.
Bubbles in what to Ron was thread number two started out as mere squiggles of energy, pointed at both ends. Then the squiggle got fatter, turning into the stable tadpole shape.
Therefore, it is the tail (Ron’s own description) itself which forms both the bosons and antibosons.
What is the structure of the tail, so far the smallest particle known to science?
The Gizeh Pyramid is a large scale model of the particles which do make up the tail (which itself becomes a boson or an antiboson).
One of the most mysterious features of this Pyramid is the scale of its measurements: certainly the pyramid could have been built larger or smaller (keeping all of the proportions equal, of course), but it could only function if and only if it was built to its present scale.
Let us imagine our Universe (http://www.freewebs.com/raacoz/enclosure3%5B1%5D4.jpg ) to be the size of a subquark (http://www.alliancesforhumanity.com/matter/matter_files/image010.jpg ). We know that a subquark has some 14 million bosons (and many more antibosons) inside its structure, and that a boson consists of two inverted pyramids which exchange aether and ether. Then, roughly, the Gizeh Pyramid would correspond to the size of such a boson’s interior pyramids.
Where are the “secret” tunnels/passages of the Gizeh Pyramid located?
Chinese five notes cycle
jiao (1)
gong (3)
yi (5)
(this, by the way, is also the origin of the Chinese five elements creation cycle)
1 – will designate the area from the base of the Gizeh pyramid to the top of the queen’s chamber
2 – from the bottom of the queen’s chamber, to the bottom of the king’s chamber
3 – from the bottom of the king’s chamber, to the top of the djed apex (just before the block separating the apex from its lower chambers)
4 – the djed itself
5 - from the top of the djed apex, all to the way to the top of the Gizeh pyramid
I predict, therefore, that there is a narrow passage from the top of the djed apex all to the way to the top of the pyramid. The “secret” passage from the top of the pyramid which leads to the queen chamber has already been discovered a few years ago.
Two more secret passages will be discovered: leading from the queen’s chamber to the djed apex, and the other one descending from the djed apex to the base.
The most mysterious feature of the pyramid is the groove (FA-MI interval) inside the Grand Gallery:
In the center of the boson we have the two apexes (called parabindu) which rotate as follows:
http://www.eaglespiritministry.com/pd/howto/images/mt_01.gif
The virtual (thought-like) pyramid is facing downwards: this is called the aparabindu particle in vedic physics. It produces aether, the medium needed for the sound to propagate.
The upward facing pyramid (imagination) produces sound, which activates the shadow/thought pyramid.
The Gizeh pyramid has a virtual twin pyramid: it faces downwards, like in the following images (posted in a different context here: http://www.aloha.net/~johnboy/Reticulum.htg/Great_Pyramid.jpg ):
Examples of the virtual component of matter (electrophotography/kirlian images):
http://webspace.webring.com/people/gl/lemagicien/kfpage/kf.html
http://webspace.webring.com/people/gl/lemagicien/kfpage/kfgalery/gal.html (plants)
http://webspace.webring.com/people/gl/lemagicien/kfpage/kfjava/kfjava.html (plants)
More photographs here: http://www.crystalinks.com/kirlian.html
The Secret Life of Plants, Tompkins and Bird, 1973
ETHERIC REGION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD (BARYONS, MESONS, QUARKS AND SUBQUARKS):
http://www.rosicrucian.com/rcc/rcceng01.htm#part2
Who actually built the Gizeh pyramid?
Zecharia Sitchin - The Wars of Gods and Men (3rd Book of Earth Chronicles)
Chapter 7, figure 42 (a and b)
In chapter 7 we will also find a very good demonstration that the Gizeh pyramid could not have been built by any pharaohs (sixth or first dynasty).
In chapter 10 (figures 66 and 71), we can see the four meters of masonry at the base of the pyramid which means that the actual height measures 136.1 meters.
In figure 42 beings are shown with a crystal in front of their foreheads. Using this crystal, it was possible to build the Gizeh pyramid in less than two months, utilizing acoustic levitation and drilling.
In all humans, this virtual crystal (actually made up of baryons, mesons and quarks) is latent: only a few have been able to activate it on a very limited scale, Nikola Tesla was one of them.
Tesla Mind Lab:
http://www.creativethinkingwith.com/Nikola-Tesla-Creative-Thinking-Secrets.html
The original configuration of the Gizeh pyramid included many pairs of stones which actually made it possible for the inverted virtual pyramid to be activated.
Ninurta (Nimrod) found inside the pyramid...
"....Escorted by the Chief Mineralmaster, Ninurta inspected the array of "stones" and instruments. As he stopped by each one of them, he determined its destiny - to be smashed up and destroyed, to be taken away for display, or to be installed as instruments elsewhere. We know of these "destinies" and of the order in which Ninurta had stopped by the stones, from the text inscribed on tablets 10-13 of the epic poem Lugal-e. It is by following and correctly interpreting this text that the mystery of the purpose and functions of many features of the pyramid’s inner structure can be finally understood.
"Going up the Ascending Passage, Ninurta reached its junction with the imposing Grand Gallery and a Horizontal Passage. Ninurta followed the Horizontal Passage first, reaching a large chamber with a corbelled roof. Called "vulva" in the Ninharsag poem, this chamber’s axis lay exactly on the east-west center line of the pyramid. Its emission ("an outpouring which is like a lion whom no one dares attack") came from a stone fitted into a niche that was hollowed out in the east wall. It was the SHAM ("Destiny") Stone. Emitting a red radiance which Ninurta "saw in the darkness," it was the pulsating heart of the pyramid. But it was anathema to Ninurta, for during the battle, when he was aloft, this stone’s "strong power" was used " to grab to kill me, with a tracking which kills to seize me." He ordered it "pulled out... be taken apart... and to obliteration be destroyed."
Among other features, Ninurta encountered:
"....Whereas in the narrow passages only " a deem green light glowed," the Gallery glittered in multicolored lights - "its vault is like a rainbow, the darkness ends there." The many-hued glows were emitted by twenty-seven pairs of diverse crystal stones that were evenly spaced along the whole length of each side of the Gallery.... each crystal stone emitted a different radiance, giving the place its rainbow effect....
Ninurta’s priority was the uppermost Grand Chamber and its pulsating stone.... he reached the Antichamber of unique design...."There three portcullises - "the bolt, the bar and the lock" of the Sumerian poem - elaborately fitted into grooves in the walls and floor, hermetically sealed off the uppermost Grand Chamber: "to foe it is not opened...." But now, by pulling some cords, the portcullises were raised, and Ninurta passed through.
"He was now in the pyramid’s most restricted ("sacred") chamber, from which the guiding "Net" (radar?) was "spread out" to "survey Heaven and Earth...." It responded to vibrations with bell-like resonance. The heart of the guidance unit was the GUG Stone ("Direction Determining").... Ninurta ordered this stone destroyed: "Then, by the fate-determining Ninurta, on that day was the Gug stone from its hollow taken out and smashed."
Finally there was the Apex Stone of the Pyramid, the UL ("High As The Sky") Stone: "Let the mother’s offspring see it no more," he ordered. And, as the stone was sent crashing down, "let everyone distance himself," he shouted. The "Stones," which were "anathema" to Ninurta, were no more.
There were several attempts to build a similar pyramid on a much smaller scale. They all ended in failure: the corners of the structure could not be aligned perfectly.
http://www.mysticalconspiracy.info/2013/12/16/the-1978-nippon-pyramid-project/
http://sacredsites.com/africa/egypt/the_great_pyramid_of_giza.html
The structure of a magnet is larger scale version of the boson itself:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=60367.msg1563059#msg1563059
Comments on antigravitons:
http://dougvanvenrooij.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/anti-gravitons-may-explain-dark-matter-dark-energy-and-the-universe-we-observe-today-2/
Gizeh Pyramid Advanced Calculus
The concept of radian measure, as opposed to the degree of an angle, is normally credited to Roger Cotes in 1714. He had the radian in everything but name, and he recognized its naturalness as a unit of angular measure
The first mention of the natural logarithm was by Nicholas Mercator in his work Logarithmotechnia published in 1668, although the mathematics teacher John Speidell had already in 1619 compiled a table on the natural logarithm.
The problem of extending the factorial to non-integer arguments was apparently first considered by Daniel Bernoulli and Christian Goldbach in the 1720s, and was solved at the end of the same decade by Leonhard Euler.
Basically, all the previous attempts to discover the hidden mathematical properties in the Gizeh Pyramid used only π and the golden section.
However, the most important figure of all is the ratio 136.1/53.33 = one hundred sacred inches. Then if we multiply this number by 25 we get the sacred cubit, or 0.63566 m. One sacred inch = 0.025424 m.
As I will demonstrate, the constructors of the pyramid had at their disposal all the details needed from advanced calculus: radian measure, Taylor series expansion, natural logarithm, gamma function, Stirling series (complete with realistic error bounds), and much more.
The sacred cubit is designated in the form of a horseshoe projection, known as the "Boss" on the face of the Granite Leaf in the Ante-Chamber of the Pyramid. By application of this unit of measurement it was discovered to be subdivided into 25 equal parts known now as: Pyramid inches.
http://guardians.net/egypt/gp2.htm
http://books.google.ro/books?id=8LZCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA270&lpg=PA270&dq=vyse+operation+gizeh+1837+queen+chamber+niche&source=bl&ots=4fJ-tNxlTs&sig=akFC7UCDV6SBqW87gq9VcokwMGU&hl=ro&sa=X&ei=OrNAUKzXE4TAhAfshYGwDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=vyse%20operation%20gizeh%201837%20queen%20chamber%20niche&f=false (page 112)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120314235117/http://www.aiwaz.net/queen-chamber/a25
http://www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_2.htm
http://thegreatpyramidofgiza.ca
http://www.samuellaboy.com/New_Folder/Special_Topics/Advanced_s.htm
http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/great-pyramid.html
100 – 36.43 = 100 sc (sacred cubits) = 360/π2
0.63566 radians = 36.4206 degrees
sin 136.12 = ln 2
ln 20sc = 2.5424 (=1si)
140.7 (total height without the apex) / 203 (steps of the pyramid )~= ln 2
sin 72.7 degrees = 1.5 sc
7.2738 = 286.1 si = displacement factor
tan 51.8554 degrees = 2 sc
(51.87 degrees = angle formed by the height of the pyramid, 5813 si, and the base, 9131 si)
Apex plateau triangle: base 224.6 si, height 286.1 si
Angle 1 = 51.87 degrees
sin 38.13 degrees = 0.618
sin 51.87 degrees = 1/2sc
51.87/38.13 = 1.3603
3.813 = 6 sc
sin 5 x 286.1 sc = sin 909.31163 degrees = -1.618/10
286.1 si x 0.4 = 1.361 x 4 x 0.534
Triangle with sides 309.5si, 286.1si and 118.1si and angles of 67.57 and 22.43 degrees
sin 22.43 degrees = 0.381562
Queen chamber niche measurements
First step – w 1.568m / l 1.0414 m / h 1.743 m
Second step – w 1.34 m / l 1.0414 m / h 0.87266 m
π/360= 0.0087266
2.618/20 = 0.1309
0.1309/1.5 = 0.087266
1.743 = 0.87266 x 2
Third step – w 1.062 m / l 1.0414 m / h 0.69733 m
0.1309 x 5.34 = 0.699
0.69733 x 1.25 = 0.87266
0.69733 = 40π/360
https://web.archive.org/web/20170605173236/http://reocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/3324/nefersschooloflearning.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20170605171457/http://reocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/3324/nefershouse.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20120802231648/http://reocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/3324/pan3.gif
There are several values to be used for the sacred cubit depending on the color of the light spectrum: starting from 0.62832 all the way to 0.64 – the most important value is of course 0.63566, the sacred cubit.
The authors of the work even express each and every value of the Gizeh pyramid using a very special type of circle:
However, I will use a different and more interesting representation in order to uncover the hidden mathematical symbols of the Gizeh pyramid, where the radius is equal to 68.05 (68.05 x 2 = 136.1 = the diameter of the circle).
On such a circle, using s = r x @ (@ measured in radians), we will obtain some very special values:
Degrees - Arclength
22.5 – 26.66
90 – 106.68 (exactly the frequencies used by the Tibetan monks)
72.9 – 86.5 (=136.1 sc)
2.142 – 2.542 (1si x 100)
136.1 – 161.8
FULL PYRAMID VOLUME
2,658,672.883 m3
We divide three times by 1si and we get,
1.6178314 x 1011
I will use all the terms up to and including 1/12x.
Γ(15.23065) = 1.6178314 x 1011
15.23065 x 180/π = 872.652 degrees (let us remember that π/360= 0.0087266).
15.23065 - 4π = 2.66428
Now let us use the special circle described above (r = 68.05) –
2.66428 x 68.05 = 181.3 (286.1 sc = 181.6)
FULL PYRAMID LATERAL AREA
87,326.424 m2
If we divide once by 1si we get 3,434,802.71
If we divide twice we get 135,100,798.7
Γ(10.966) = 3,434,802.71
15.23065/10.966 = 1.3889 = 25/18
Γ(12.495) = 135,100,798.7
12.495 x 180/π = 715.91
12.495 - 3π = 3.0702
3.0702 x 68.05 = 208.93
208.93 = 72.83 + 136.1
FULL PYRAMID VOLUME/TOTAL LATERAL AREA = 30.4452
But 15.23065 x 2 = 30.4452
APEX TOTAL VOLUME
Again, we divide three times by 1si to get,
4,785,112.6
Γ(11.116) = 4,785,112.6
11.116 x 180/π = 636.9
11.116 - 3π = 1.69122
1.69122 x 68.05 = 115.087
115.087 = 181.1 x 1sc
APEX TOTAL LATERAL AREA
88.93 = 3,497.9 si
If we divide 88.93 twice by 1si we get
Γ(7.815) = 3497.9
7.815 x 180/π = 447.7665
447.7665 /5 = 140.8 x 1 sc (140.8 total height of the pyramid without the apex)
447.7665 – 360 = 87.766
7.815 -2π = 1.5318
153.18 + 26.18 = 180
286.1/104.24 = 1/(1 – 1sc)
11.116/7.815 = 1.4224 = 64/45
VOLUME OF THE APEX/TOTAL APEX LATERAL AREA = 0.8842
1.4224 x 0.618 = 0.8842
Γ(9.564) = 137,582
9.564 x 180/π = 547.97 (= 447.76 + 100)
9.564 - 3π = 0.139222
0.139222 x 68.05 = 9.474
9.474/5 = 1.8948 = 1.361 + 5.34
It should be noted that we obtain these figures only for the Gizeh pyramid.
As an example, for the following values used for another pyramids, no correspondence can be obtained from the same kind of calculations.
1. Side of the pyramid = 8, height =3, volume = 64 cubic meters
2. Side of the pyramid = 6.18034, height = π, volume = 40 cubic meters
Let us proceed further with the Gizeh pyramid.
KING CHAMBER VOLUME
305.258 cubic meters
Dividing three times by 1si we get,
Γ(11.685) = 18,575,281.96
11.685 - 3π = 2.26
2.26 x 68.05 = 153.81 (same figure as in the apex total lateral area)
KING CHAMBER SARCOPHAGUS VOLUME
77.56si x 21.77si x 33.46si = 69288.7
Γ(9.251) = 69,288.7
9.251 x 180/π = 530
9.251 - 2π = 2.9678
201.96/π = 450/7
King chamber volume/201.96 = 1.511 exactly the distance from the queen chamber niche to the apex of the queen chamber itself.
In the next message, full calculations for the queen chamber niche, apex cone, and the queen chamber itself.
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Gizeh Pyramid Advanced Calculus (II)
VOLUME OF THE CONE GENERATED BY THE APEX PYRAMID
Dividing the volume three times by 1si, we get
1.8832 x 68.05 = 128.153
128.153 - 90 = 38.153 = 60sc
128.153/53.4=2.4
VOLUME OF THE APEX/VOLUME OF THE APEX CONE = 0.63657
VOLUME OF THE CONE GENERATED BY THE PYRAMID
4,176,223.827 cubic meters
Γ(15.398) = 2.5412838 x 1011
2.83163 x 68.05 = 192.7
192.7 = 7.2738 x 26.5
Γ(11.06) = 4,176,223.827
11.06 x 180/Π = 633.691
11.06 - 3Π = 1.635222
11.06 x68.05 = 111.277
111.277/1.618 = 68.774
111.277 + 68.774 = 180
FIBONACCI NUMBER #106
F106 = 6,356,306,993,006,846,248,183 = 6.3563 x 1021
F106/VOLUME OF THE PYRAMID = 1/2.5412838 x 10-11 (VOLUME OF THE PYRAMID CONE)
QUEEN’S CHAMBER VOLUME
VOLUME OF THE RECTANGULAR PRISM
140.9 cubic meters
11.363 - 3Π = 1.938
1.938 x 68.05 = 131.896
131.896/0.618 = 213.4 (=4 x 53.4)
VOLUME OF THE TRIANGULAR PRISM
45.57 cubic meters
1.4592 x 68.05 = 99.3
68.05Π – 99.3 = 11.448 (11.444 = 4 x 286.1si)
TOTAL VOLUME OF THE QUEEN’S CHAMBER
11,346,902.7
Γ(11.4803) = 11,346,902.7
11.4803 x 180/Π = 657.8
11.4803 - 3Π = 2.0555
139.88/99.3 = 1.408 (height of pyramid = 140.7 meters)
139.88/2.618 = 53.43
QUEEN’S CHAMBER NICHE, FIRST SECTION
w = 1.568 m
h = 1.743 m
l = 1.0414 m
V = 2.8462 cubic meters
Γ(9.67) = 173,192.62
9.67 x 180Π = 554
9.67 - 3Π = 0.24522
0.24522 x 68.05 = 16.687
16.687 = 27 x 0.618
QUEEN’S CHAMBER NICHE, SECOND SECTION
w = 1.34 m
h = 0.87266 m (Π/360 = 0.0087266)
l = 1.0414
V = 1.217776 cubic meters
Γ(9.28) = 74103
9.28 x 180/Π = 531.7
9.28 - 2Π = 2.9968
2.9968 x 68.05 = 203.93 = 6sc x 53.4 = 136 x 1.5
QUEEN’S CHAMBER NICHE, THIRD SECTION
h = 0.69733 m
V = 0.77122 cubic meters
Γ(9.07) = 46,929.81
9.07 x 180/Π = 519.67
189.64 = 136.1 + 53.4
QUEEN’S CHAMBER NICHE, FOURTH SECTION
w = 0.773
h = 0.69733
8.924 x 180/Π = 511.3
179.707/286.1 = 2Π/10
QUEEN’S CHAMBER NICHE, FIFTH SECTION
w = 0.5156
Γ(8.725) = 22,784.38
166.166 ~= 10 x 16.687 (value obtained for the first section)
554 (value from the first section) x 3 = 10 x 166.2
The builders of the Gizeh Pyramid had at their disposal a deep knowledge of differential and integral calculus.
The notions of the radian, Taylor series expansion (used to calculate the decimal/fractional values of the trigonometric functions), tables of sine/cosine/tangent values, error estimates for the Taylor series (which uses the Extended Mean-Value Theorem, attributed to A. Cauchy), natural logarithm, Gamma function, Stirling series were well known to these builders as the foregoing calculations have shown in great detail.
Furthermore, the Stirling series could not have been used without an adequate error analysis which would provide realistic error bounds. Such an error analysis would involve knowledge of the Euler integral, Euler limit form, Euler constant, the notion of an asymptotic expansion, the Zeta function.
For proofs see Asymptotics and Special Functions, F.W.J. Olver, chapter 2 - sections 1.3, 1.4, 11.1-5, chapter 8 - section 4.1
It is inconceivable to state that the Gizeh pyramid was built some 5,000 years ago: no matter which hypothesis is used (extraterrestrials coming from the 12th planet [Z. Sitchin] or from some other galaxy - which would need negative energy/tachyon technology, thus debunking/disproving the infinite universe/multiple galaxy conjecture, Atlantis, or any other) there simply is not enough time for a round planet to have formed itself, given the official chronology used for any solar system evolution physics.
The Gizeh pyramid must have been built just a few hundreds of years ago: some decades later, the mathematics and physics used in its construction were infused into the Western scientific mainstream.
L. Euler: a fictional character invented at the end of the 18th century:
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Origin of Calculus: How Mathematical Analysis Was Imported to India, Italy, France and England
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Yuktibhasa.pdf
A relevant epistemological question is this: did Newton at all understand the result he is alleged to have invented? Did Newton have the wherewithal, the necessary mathematical resources, to understand infinite series? As is well known, Cavalieri in 1635 stated the above formula (the infinite series expansion for the sine function) as what was later termed a conjecture. Wallis, too, simply stated the above result, without any proof. Fermat tried to derive the key result above from a result on figurate numbers, while Pascal used the famous “Pascal’s” triangle long known in India and China. Though Newton followed Wallis, he had no proof either, and neither did Leibniz who followed Pascal. Neither Newton nor any other mathematician in Europe had the mathematical wherewithal to understand the calculus for another two centuries, until the development of the real number system by Dedekind.
The next question naturally is this: if Newton and Leibniz did not quite understand the calculus, how did they invent it? In the amplified version of the usual narrative, how did Galileo, Cavalieri, Fermat, Pascal, and Roberval etc. all contribute to the invention of a mathematical procedure they couldn’t quite have understood? The frontiers of a discipline are usually foggy, but here we are talking of a gap which is typically 250 years.
Clearly a more natural hypothesis to adopt is that the calculus was not invented in Europe, but was imported, and that the calculus took nearly as long to assimilate as did zero.
Dr. Joseph George Gheverghese from the University of Manchester said there was strong circumstantial evidence that the Indians passed on their discoveries to mathematically knowledgeable Jesuit missionaries who visited India during the 15th century.
That knowledge may have eventually been passed on to Newton himself, he said.
A key development of pre-calculus Europe, that of generalisation on the basis of induction, has deep methodological similarities with the corresponding Kerala development (200 years before). There is further evidence that John Wallis (1665) gave a recurrence relation and proof of the Pythagorean theorem exactly as Bhaskara II did.
Although it was believed that Keralese calculus remained localised until its discovery by Charles Whish in 1832, Kerala had in fact been in contact with Europe ever since Vasco da Gama first arrived there in 1499 and trade routes were established between Kerala and Europe. Along with European traders, Jesuit missionaries from Europe were also present in Kerala during the 16th century. Many of them were mathematicians and astronomers, and were able to speak local languages such as Malayalam, and were thus able to comprehend Keralese mathematics. Indian mathematical manuscripts may have been brought to Europe by the Jesuit priests and scholars that were present in Kerala.
Other pieces of circumstantial evidence include:
James Gregory, who first stated the infinite series expansion of the arctangent (the Madhava-Gregory series) in Europe, never gave any derivation of his result, or any indication as to how he derived it, suggesting that this series was imported into Europe.
Kerala's established trade links with the British East India Company, which began trading with India sometime between 1600 and 1608, not too long before Europe's scientific revolution began.
There was some controversy in the late 17th century between Newton and Leibniz, over how they independently 'invented' calculus almost simultaneously, which sometimes leads to the suggestion that they both may have acquired the relevant ideas indirectly from Keralese calculus.
Some of Bhaskara's contributions to mathematics include the following:
Integer solutions of linear and quadratic indeterminate equations (Kuttaka). The rules he gives are (in effect) the same as those given by the renaissance European mathematicians of the 17th Century.
A cyclic, Chakravala method for solving indeterminate equations of the form ax2 + bx + c = y. The solution to this equation was traditionally attributed to William Brouncker in 1657, though his method was more difficult than the chakravala method.
Solutions of Diophantine equations of the second order, such as 61x^2 + 1 = y^2. This very equation was posed as a problem in 1657 by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat.
Preliminary concept of mathematical analysis.
Preliminary concept of infinitesimal calculus, along with notable contributions towards integral calculus.
He conceived differential calculus, after discovering the derivative and differential coefficient.
Stated Rolle's theorem, a special case of one of the most important theorems in analysis, the mean value theorem.
Traces of the general mean value theorem are also found in his works.
Calculated the derivatives of trigonometric functions and formulae.
The calculus has played a key role in the development of the sciences, starting from the “Newtonian Revolution”. According to the “standard” story, the calculus was invented independently by Leibniz and Newton. This story of indigenous development, ab initio, is now beginning to totter, like the story of the “Copernican Revolution”. The English-speaking world has known for over one and a half centuries that “Taylor” series expansions for sine, cosine and arctangent functions were found in Indian mathe-matics/astronomy/timekeeping (jyotisa) texts, and specifically in the works of Madhava,Neelkantha (Tantrasangraha, 1501CE), Jyeshtadeva (Yuktibhâsâ, c. 1530 CE) etc. No one else, however, has so far studied the connection of these Indian developments to European mathematics.
The force on a body is the resultant of gravity and the work done against it. V.S 5.1.13
In the absence of all other forces gravity exists. V.S 5.1.7
Action is opposed by an equivalent opposite reaction - V.S 5.1.16-18
Newton's laws of motion copied from the Naya Vaiseshika Sutra.
Suppose that the mass of an object is 'm' and in time interval 't', the velocity of the object changes from 'u' to 'v' due to the force acting on it. Then,
Initial momentum = mu
Final momentum = mv
Change in momentum = m(v-u)
Therefore, the rate of change of momentum = m(v-u)/t = ma (from Kanada's first law)
From Kandas second law,
force is proportional to the rate of change of momentum.
Or, p k ma
Or, p = kma (where k is a constant)
If m=1 and a=1, then
1 = k*1*1 or k = 1
Or, p = ma
Therefore, unit force is the one that produces unit acceleration in an object of unit mass.
Prashastpada
ISAAC NEWTON, THE CALCULUS THIEF: (some excerpts)
He copied his laws of gravity from "Surya Sidhanta" the great Sanskrit astronomical work written in the Vedic age . Reproduced in another written text by Bhaskara , 1200 years before Newton it clearly explains gravity without an apple. However Vedic gravity was a push ( after observing the solar eclipse ) and NOT a pull.
They took Calculus to Europe , from where the likes of Gottfried Wilhelm Von Liebniz , Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke raced with each other to translate , re-invent and market it in their own names, in a acrimonious manner.
It was John Wallis , while he was the keeper of Oxford Univeristy archives who first started pondering over translated Mathematics stolen from India.
John Wallis patented Vedic Math infinity and infinitesimal in his own name. Rest he could NOT understand . Whatever he could make head or tail of, he included in his Arithmatica Infinitorum and Treatise on Algebra.
His baton was taken over by Isaac Barrow, who tutored Isaac Newton in Kerala Calculus.
http://ckraju.net/IndianCalculus/Bangalore.pdf
The Infinitesimal Calculus: How and Why it Was Imported into Europe
https://web.archive.org/web/20130713214810/http://indianrealist.com/2009/01/26/how-jesuits-took-calculus-from-india-to-europe/
‘Calculus is India’s Gift to Europe’
In his speech at ICIH 2009, Professor C.K. Raju revealed that calculus was an Indian invention that was transmitted by Jesuit priests to Europe from Cochin in the second half of 16th century. “Indian infinite series has been known to British scholars since at least 1832, but no scholar tried to establish the connection with the calculus attributed to Newton and Leibnitz,” he said.
Dr. Raju’s 10-year research that included archival work in Kerala and Rome was published in a book “Cultural Foundations of Mathematics.” It established that the Jesuit priests took trigonometric tables and planetary models from the Kerala mathematicians of the Aryabhata school and exported them to Europe starting around 1560 in connection with the European navigational problem.
“When the Europeans received the Indian calculus, they couldn’t understand it properly because the Indian philosophy of mathematics is different from the Western philosophy of mathematics. It took them about 300 years to fully comprehend its working. The calculus was used by Newton to develop his laws of physics,” Dr. Raju added. Ironically, some British scholars claimed credit for this research despite being warned against plagiarizing Professor Raju’s work.
However, what Dr. C.K. Raju does not realize is that the same science of calculus was also imported to India, in order to create the false impression of an ancient indian history.
http://madhesi.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/did-ashoka-exist/ (how Emperor Ashoka, India's greatest historical figure, is a fictional character invented in the 19th century)
Not so ancient India:
http://breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=27888#27888
Ptolemy's Almagest: it was created at least after 1350 AD, here are the complete proofs:
When was Ptolemy's star catalogue in Almagest compiled in reality?
https://web.archive.org/web/20160306134153/http://hbar.phys.msu.ru/gorm/fomenko/fomenko3.pdf
The dating of Ptolemy's Almagest based on the coverings of the stars and on lunar eclipses
Both works appeared in the Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (17 - 1989 and 29 - 1992).
HISTORY: FICTION OR SCIENCE? VOLUME 3, DATING PTOLEMY'S ALMAGEST
https://archive.org/stream/AnatolyFomenkoBooks/History-FictionOrScienceByAnatolyFomenkoVol.3#mode/2up
Pg. 209 - 214
Tycho Brahe = N. Copernicus
Who actually wrote the works attributed to Hipparchus, T. Brahe and C. Ptolemy
J. Kepler = N. Copernic = T. Brahe = C. Ptolemy the most extraordinary analysis
The other pages include one of the best ever discussion on the new chronology of the times of J. Kepler, C. Ptolemy, T. Brahe, N. Copernicus, who were actually one and the same person.
Dating Ptolemy's Almagest (a more technical work):
https://www.jaks.sk/dokumenty/fomenko/Fomenko-%20Kalashnikov-%20Nosovsky%20-%20Dating%20Ptolemy-s%20Almagest%20-1993-.pdf
The coverings of the stars, and the lunar eclipses described in Almagest, could have occurred ONLY during the period 800 - 1350 a.d. and not one thousand years earlier. Archimedes' Palimpsest was also forged after 1750 AD.
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Quote from: sandokhan on May 24, 2013, 06:10:23 AM
Therefore, the truncated Maxwell equations refer ONLY to the temporary hertzian ripples in the ether sea, and NOT to the scalar/ether waves themselves:
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php/topic,58190.msg1489693.html#msg1489693
Now, a closed-form formula for the natural logarithm:
LN v = ((-2 +{2+[2+...(2+ 1/v + v)^1/2]^1/2}^1/2))^1/2 x 2^n
n+1 parantheses to evaluate - in the last parenthesis we substract 2 and take the square root one last time (n+1), before we multiply the result by 2^n
For v very large, we can omit the term 1/v
By summing the nested square root function, we obtain the final result:
LN v = 2n x ( v(1/2^n) - 2 + v-(2^-n) )1/2
Of course, we can use the first formula for computation utilizing only a pocket calculator with only the four basic arithmetic operations (since a square root function is essentially a continued fraction).
And there are more formulas to be derived from the logarithm continued function:
COS @ = 1/2 X (({[(2 - @^2/2^n)^2 -2)^2...]-2}^2 -2)) (n/2+1 evaluations)
COS^-1 @ = ((2- {2+ [2+ (2+ 2@)^1/2]...^1/2}))^1/2 x 2^n (n+1 evaluations)
COSH v = 1/2 x (({[( ( (2 + v2/2^n)^2) -2)^2] -2)^2 ...-2}^2 -2)) (n/2 +1 evaluations)
TAN-1 v = ((2- {2+ [2+ (2+ 2{1/(1+ v2)1/2})^1/2]...^1/2}))^1/2 x 2^n (n+1 evaluations)
ln v = 2n x ( v1/2n+1 - 1/v1/2n+1 )
This is the correct formula for the natural logarithm function, linking algebraic functions with elementary and higher transcendental functions, providing the fastest way to calculate the value for any logarithm, and at the same time help to evaluate any integral containing lnx terms.
For a first approximation:
ln v = 2n x ( v1/2n - 1 )
First results appear for n = 8 to 12, all the remaining digits for n = 19 and greater...
Example: x = 100,000 ; lnx = 11.5129255
with n=20, the first approximation is lnx = 11.512445 (e11.512445 = 100001.958 )
For the function 2n x v1/2n, there is a certain pattern for the succesive approximations, (fk+1 - fk)/(fk - fk-1); as an example for 1x108 after the first four evaluations, the ratios approach 2; for 1x105, after the first four calculations, for 5.23 x 1012, after the first five evaluations.
Now, for the first time, we can evaluate and obtain estimates for the logarithmic integral (li(x)):
Perhaps we will encounter integrals of the form ( u2n+1/(u-1) x du ) or some form of partial fraction decompositions containing 2n+1 factors, but there is an excellent chance to obtain a formula or even some kind of an estimate which will settle the matter:
li(x) - Π(x) = O(x1/2lnx) (number of primes not exceeding x and a verification of Riemann's hypothesis at the same time - I recommend H.R. Edwards' Riemann's Zeta Function for further information)
We all know that the integral of lnx = xlnx - x; however, the real beauty and significance of this formula is revealed only when we use the correct logarithm expression derived above for the first time:
2n x ((1/(1 + 1/2n+1)) x v1 + 1/2n+1 - (1/(1 - 1/2n+1)) x v1 - 1/2n+1 )
Einstein, 1905:
"The principle of the constancy of the velocity of light is of course contained in Maxwell's equations”
ALBERT IN RELATIVITYLAND
http://www.gsjournal.net/old/ntham/amesbury.pdf
However, space-time as a fourth dimension is nothing more than the product of professor Minkowski's cerebral and mathematical imagination.
On Physical Lines of Force, the original set of Maxwell's equations:
http://vacuum-physics.com/Maxwell/maxwell_oplf.pdf
The best work done on the original set of Maxwell's equations belongs to Dr. Frederick Tombe.
http://web.archive.org/web/20071006083222/http://www.wbabin.net/science/tombe4.pdf
The correct demonstration of the rotating aethereal substance within Maxwell’s vortex cells.
Dr. Tombe's paper demonstrates quite clearly the fallacy of Einstein's statement.
Dr. Tombe went even further with his paper: Gravity and Light -
http://www.gsjournal.net/old/science/tombe18.pdf
Abstract. Gravity and light are two different manifestations of aether flow.
Another classic by Dr. Tombe:
http://www.gsjournal.net/old/science/tombe5.pdf
Gravitation and the Gyroscopic Force
Double helix theory of the Magnetic field:
http://www.gsjournal.net/old/science/tombe.pdf
There is no such thing as the theory of relativity:
Dayton Miller ether drift experiments:
Circle arclength formula:
A = 2n x (2c2 - c(2c2 + c(2c2 ... +c(2c2 - 2bc)1/2)1/2)1/2...)1/2
c = radius, b = side of the right triangle which lies on the x-axis
Then, we can certainly factor out the term c1/2n+1, which means that the logarithm of the radius of a circle is definitely linked to the trigonometric functions.
Sacred cubit radians
Degrees to sacred cubit radians - divide by 36.4206 = (100 - 100 sc)
Sacred cubit radians (scr) to degrees - multiply by 36.4206
50 degrees = 1/0.7284 scr (7.28 = displacement factor of the Gizeh Pyramid)
100 degrees = 2.7457 scr = 1/0.364206
sc = sacred cubit = 0.63566 (there are several sacred cubit measurements, ranging from 0.625 to 0.64)
b12 + a12 = c12
b1 = d1 x d2 (divisors of b1)
a1 = (d12 - d22)/2
c1 = (d12 +d22/2
b1, a1, c1 in the natural numbers set
If b1 is prime, then b12 + a22 = c22 (where c2 = (b12 +1)/2 )
Using sacred cubit radians, we finally understand the importance of the arclength for the b12 + a12 = c12 formula.
b1 = 33
c1 = 65
arccos 33/65 = 1.0385 radians = 59.4897 degrees, no symmetry can be detected
However, using scr, we get 1.6334 scr.
Multiplying the arclength for the given angle by one sc we get 106.1785, and then by the scr value: 167.025
65sc2 = 26.264
167.025/26.264 = 6.36 (10 sc)
Similarly, for 5177 = b1 (c1 = 14425), we get the value 2.5424 x 1/0.2861
for 3173 = b1 (c1 = 14125), we get (2 + 1/sc2)/sc, and so on.
The sequence 2sc - 1/2sc x N (N = 1,2,3 ... ) will give the values: 5.34, 7.287, 13.6034, 63.65 and much more.
The Fibonacci numbers are actually sacred cubit numbers.
1,618034 = 4sc2 (sc = 0.636009827)
Then Fn = 1/(8sc2 -1) x 22n x sc2n
Then we get:
(b12)sc + (a12)sc =~ ([(b1 + a1 + c1)/2]2)sc
b11/sc + a11/sc =~ c11/sc
b1sc + a1sc = (k x c1)sc , 1 < k <~2
Let p(n) = partitions of a natural number
I am going to derive the asymptotic formula for p(n) using just the sacred cubit as a guide; using the above formula I have calculated p(n) up to n = 96, we also know that p(243) = 133,978,259,344,888
For starters let n!/([lnn]! x (n - [lnn])!) = f(n), where [ x ] is the integer part of x, then
f(83)/p(83) = 1/sc
f(91)/p(91) = 1/12
Using various functions to approximate ln p(n) such as (n/sc2)1/2, and n1/2/sc2, we get some special values:
ln p(33) = 331/2 x 1.6195
[(1 + 4sc2) x 33 )]1/2/sc = ln p(33) x 1/sc
For h1 = ((1 + 4sc2) x lnn)1/2/sc we get
h1(33) - (3sc + lnn) = 1sc
h1(51) - (3sc + lnn) = 1/2sc
2431/(1 - sc) = 3sc + ln 243
Finally, without using complex analysis or Ramanujan sums, we get:
ln p(n) = [(1 + 4sc2) x n )]1/2/sc - (lnn + 1 + 1/sc2 - 1/sc) - a very good approximation
Next, I am going to attempt to solve the most difficult known problem in number theory: large number factorization of semiprimes (product of two very large prime numbers), at least for a semiprime which has ten digits, using just the sacred cubit: a new formula (the leading asymptotic term) which solves the problem for numbers with ten digits or less, and a new algorithm featuring Fibonacci numbers remainders.
There is a wealth of information which can be obtained from the b1 term, using sacred cubits, and which can be the starting point to a whole new approach to factoring semiprimes.
« Last Edit: January 06, 2018, 10:39:19 PM by sandokhan »
a1 + c1 = d12
List of 4sc2 sequence numbers (Fibonacci numbers):
http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/fibtable.html
With a reasonable approximation for a1, we can obtain a very good estimate for d1 from the first formula, presented for the first time in my previous message.
8141 x 131071 = 1073602561
1073602561 = 286572 + 252378911 = 28657 x 46368 - 255165215 (where 28657 = F23, and 46368 = F24)
If b1<a1, then the a1 term will be of the form F242 - ..., or F24 x F25 - ..., F25 x F26 - ..., or F252 - ... ; if b1>a1, then a1 will equal F23 x F24 - ..., F222 - ... , that is, only 4-6 possible choices.
In order to get a very good estimate for d1, we will use the first remainder (and a few subsequent remainders if needed, more explanation below) obtained from the b1 for each of the above choices .
For the a1 = F25 x F26 - ... choice, using a10 = 255165215, and substituting in the first formula, we get:
d1 = 132578.957, an excellent approximation.
Actually, a1 = 8556257280 = 750252 + 2927506655 = 75025 x 121393 - 551252545
65537 x 131071 = 8590000127 = 750252 + 2961249502 = 75025 x 121393 - 517509698
Using the same reasoning and the same formula, we get a first estimate for d1, d1 = 130095.707
It is only by using the power of the sacred cubit that we can actually get these estimates, impossible to obtain otherwise by any other method.
But we can actually accomplish much more, by using the 4sc2 sequence to reveal the sacred cubit structure of the natural number system.
821 x 941 = 772561
772561 = 610 x 987 + 170491 = 9872 - 201608
170491 = 3772 + 28362 = 377 x 610 - 59479
The sum of the remainders obtained by dividing the numbers by Fn will equal a product of Fn numbers.
201608 = 377 x 610 - 28362 = 3772 + 59479
28362 = 144 x 233 - 5190 = 1442 + 7899
59479 = 2332 + 5190 = 233 x 377 - 28362
7899 = 892 - 22 = 89 x 55 + 3004
5190 = 89 x 55 + 295 = 892 - 2731
2731 = 552 - 294 = 55 x 34 + 861
1134 = 342 - 22 = 34 x 21 + 420
861 = 34 x 21 + 147 = 342 - 295
420 = 212 - 20 = 21 x 13 + 147
294 = 21 x 13 + 21 = 212 - 147 ; 147 + 21 = 168
147 = 21 x 8 - 21 = 13 x 8 + 43
43 = 8 x 5 + 3 = 82 - 21
21 = 5 x 3 + 6 = 52 - 4
Of course, we can immediately obtain a first approximation for d1, d1 = 918; by summing the remainders of b1 in their corresponding order, we can obtain even better estimate for d1.
Now, we can actually get the remainders of the a1 term either by noticing that 6 and 4 (remainders obtained by dividing 21 by F5 and F4) can be used to start the a1 sequence of remainders starting from the bottom up, or by using a very interesting shortcut involving b1sc.
Actually, a1 = 105720 = 3772 - 36409 = 377 x 233 + 17879
Using the same scheme as above, we get finally:
40 = 82 - 24 = 8 x 3 + 16
16 = 52 - 9 = 32 + 7
9 = 3 x 5 - 6 = 2 x 3 - 3
65 = 82 + 1 = 8 x 13 - 39
39 = 8 x 5 - 1 = 52 + 14
14 = 3 x 5 -1 = 2 x 5 + 4
Knowing that 6 and 4 are the remainders of a1, we can see that from the possible choices we eventually get (11, 19, 9 and 14) only 9 and 14 will make any sense, given the fact that the sum of the remainders at each stage of the calculation will equal a product of Fn numbers.
One of the remainders of a1 will be 2857.
3004 - 2857 = 147
772561sc = 5530
5530 - 5063 = 2 x 233
5530 - 2857 = 89 x 30
(5063, another a1 remainder)
That is, there is a certain symmetry and relationship between b1sc and some of the a1 remainders.
The same reasoning can be used for any b1 = d1 x d2.
For 1000009 = 3413 x 293, we get a first estimate of 3486, and by summing the remainders of b1 (576230 + 204130 + 62001 + 25840 + 5104 + 2817 + 947 ...) we get an estimate of 3400, which is amazing, because we only use the remainders from b1 and very simple approximations.
For 1000009, b1sc = 6515.72
9368 - 6515.72 = 610 x 4.66 = 987 x 2.88 (4.66 = 2 x 2.33 , and 2.88 = 2 x 1.44, both 233 and 144 are Fn)
9368 is one of the a1 remainders
Another a1 remainder is 3448
6515.72 - 3448 =~ 552 = 233 x 13
The algorithm uses only Fn numbers, and is proportional to the number of the digits of b1 and not to any divisor of b1.
I believe that this formula is just the first leading term of a certain asymptotic approximation to d1, and we have seen the extraordinary approximations which can be obtained effortlessly:
« Last Edit: February 28, 2017, 12:37:35 AM by sandokhan »
2123 = b1 = 11 x 193
18564 = a1
2123sc = 130.26
301 - 130.26 = 34 x 5
854 - 130.26 =~ 144 x 5
301 and 854 remainders of 18564 upon division by the corresponding Fn numbers.
21232sc = 16967.50815
a1 - 21232sc = 1596.4918 (1597 = F17)
18564sc = 516.92
902 - 516.92 = 7 x 55
902 remainder of 2123
15617 = b1 = 97 x 161
8256 = a1
463.13 - 106 = 89 x 4 (106 remainder of 8256)
932 - 308.84 = 7 x 89 (932 remainder of 15617)
1000009 = b1 = 3413 x 293
5781360 = a1
10000092sc = 293627 x 144.5 (293627 remainder of 5781360)
10000092sc - (293627 x 144.5) = 25519.6
25840 - 25519 = 233 + 89 (25840 remainder of 1000009)
1000009sc = 6515.72
6515.72 - 3448 =~ 552
231 - 1 = 2147483647
261 - 1 = 2.3059 x 1018
b1 = (231 - 1) x (261 - 1) = 4.951760152 x 1027
a1 = 2.658455989 x 1036
In a situation like this b12sc can be used to find useful relationships between the remainders of b1 and a1, and even estimates.
In fact, with a1 trial function 4 x 1035, we get an estimate for d1 = 2.353 x 1018.
I would need access to a computer which can handle division/multiplication of integers with 50 digits+, and then use the b1, a1 remainders to discover the hidden sacred cubit symmetries:
-the following powers of b1 also would be very useful to discover further formulas: 2sc + 1/2sc, 1/sc, 2sc, 1, 1/2sc, 2 - 2sc, sc, sc/2, 2sc - 1/2sc (in fact it would cover the range of all possible values of a1)
-ln (b1/a1 + a1/b1) leads to the conclusion that the remainders of 2c1 and b1 + a1 also do contain useful information
For a 200 digit number (semiprime), the required computational time (1990) for the methods then used in integer factorization will take 4 x 1015 years.
For a 300 digit number, we would need 5 x 1021 years
For a 500 digit number, the figure would rise to 4.2 x 1032 years.
An elegant method would not resort to "needle in the haystack algorithms", but would make full use of the very interesting mathematical relationships which do exist between the remainders of b1 and a1 upon division by the corresponding Fn numbers - an algorithm which is proportional to the number of the digits of b1.
Even the universal constants of bifurcation theory are related to the sacred cubit.
136/18 x 1/4sc2 = 4.66933 (Feigenbaum constant)
136/48 x 1/4sc2 = 2.8333 (-2.8333 is the Shenker-Rand constant)
4.6692 + 2.618034 = 7.2872 (displacement factor of the Gizeh pyramid, 286.1 sacred inches = 7.28)
2 x 2.8333 = 4.66933 x 3sc2
Albert Einstein,Relativity, The special and the general theory, 11th ed., 1936, p.64:
“In contrast to electric and magnetic fields, the gravitational field exhibits a most remarkable property, which is of fundamental importance ... Bodies which are moving under the sole influence of a gravitational field receive an acceleration, which does not in the least depend either on the material or the physical state of the body.”
PROJECT MONTGOLFIER - Dr. Thomas Townsend Brown proves the fallacy of Einstein's statetment; also the Biefeld-Brown effect shows that terrestrial gravity and antigravity are electrical forces of opposite spin.
Riemann’s Hypothesis – Sacred cubit structure of the zeros of the Zeta function
The zeros of the Zeta function of Riemann are angles (expressed in radians); by finding the corresponding angles in the first four quadrants, and multiplying by 68.05 (radius of the circle), we obtain a certain arclength.
Then, an intricate and extraordinary system/network of sacred cubit equations will become apparent, showing that the structure of the zeros of the Zeta function cannot be understood without employing the notion of the sacred cubit.
Furthermore, each group of five consecutive zeros of the Zeta function will form a five element cycle (as described earlier), with striking sacred cubit mathematical relationships becoming evident.
The zeros of the Zeta function can be viewed as sort of a Poincare map: the iteration of an initial point (of a periodic differential equation on a cylinder, for our case, for visualization purposes) under the Poincare map is the succesive interaction of the spiral with a vertical line on the cylinder (the sequence of Poincare maps fit together to make a spiral on the cylinder).
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RiemannZetaFunctionZeros.html
http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/zeta/physics1.htm
http://member.melbpc.org.au/~tmajlath/Riemann.html
http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/zeta_tables/index.html
The Stieltjes constants are actually sacred cubit constants.
A0 = 0.5772156649
A1 = 072815845
7.28158 is one of the values of the displacement factor of the Gizeh pyramid.
In fact,
0.078158455 – 0.07273942 = 7.6425 x 10-5
7.6425 x sc = 4.858 = 10 x (2sc – 1/2sc)
Then, the Euler constant can be expressed as:
= 0.07273942 x 18sc/(18sc – 10)
We can express Catalan’s constant, G, in terms of sacred cubits.
G x 0.2861 = 1/6sc
G/1.361 = 1/[1 + (2sc – 1/2sc)]
The Feigenbaum constant can be expressed in terms of G.
4.6693 x 0.72738 = 5.34 x sc
(18sc – 10)/18sc x sc x 53.4 = 4.27678
4.27678/4.6693 = G
The sum of the negative integer powers of the nontrivial zeros is again a sacred cubit constant.
The sum will equal 0.02309571
2.309571/sc = 7.2738/2 – 3.5567 x 10-3
355.555 = 2/3 x 533.33
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RiemannZetaFunctionZeros.html (for all the sums of the negative integer powers of the nontrivial zeros, from Z(1) to Z(6) )
FIRST FIVE ZEROS OF THE ZETA FUNCTION (see http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/zeta_tables/index.html )
We reduce the value of the zero itself (angle expressed in radians) to the first few quadrants, as needed, then multiply this value by 68.05 to find the value of the arclength.
14.134725 - 4π = 1.568354 (value of the width of the first section from the queen chamber niche)
1.568354 x 68.05 = 106.726
Let us now find further sacred cubit equations featuring 14.134725
Ln 14.134725 = 14.134725/5.3366
14.134725 x 0.618 = 1/0.11447 (11.444 is one of the most important constants of the Gizeh pyramid, and equals 4 x 2.861)
14.134725/2.5424 = 1/180
14.134725 – 21/2 = 12.7205 = 20sc
14.134725 - 5π = -1/sc
26.666 x 4 = 106.666
106.726sc = 14.134725 + 5.332
Let us now express 45 degrees as sacred cubit radians:
45/36.4206 = 1.23556
1.23541 x 180 = 222.37
Dividing 14.134725 by one sacred cubit we obtain:
14.134725/sc = 22.22363
Since 106.666 is the radian value for 90 degrees multiplied by68.05, we can see that the first zero of the Zeta function is absolutely related to the value of 90 degrees.
21.02204 - 6π 2.172476
5.29125 x 68.05 = 360.07
32.935 - 2π = 26.666
by substracting 9π and multiplying by 68.05 we get 633.658
Now, the crucial observation is made: each set of five consecutive zeros of the Zeta function, expressed as arclength (and at this early stage also as the zero divided by one sc) will obey the rules of the five elements cycle defined earlied on this page.
360.07 – 106.726 = 253.444
253.42 = 156.6 x 1.618
154.583 x 0.618 = 100sc x 1.5
530.94 – 360.07 = 170.874 (Gizeh pyramid value)
633.659 – 530.94 = 102.719
102.719/sc = 161.594 (136.1 expressed in radians and multplied by 68.05)
Since the values of the zeros at this early stage are actually spaced out quite nicely, we can divide their values by one sc to obtain further equations.
Dividing the previous values of the first five zeros of the Zeta function by one sc we get:
39.346 (1/1si)
33.07 = (the Euler constant x 180)/π
39.346/22.22363 = 1.77
e1/1.77 = 1.759398 = 1 + 39.346/51.81
e0.75943 = 4 x 53.4
0.75943 = 1/1.31678
47.862/33.07 = 1.4473
1.4487 = 52.762 degrees/36.4206
140.6/52.762 = 2.666
With an angle of 5.29125 and a radius of 68.05 the triangle formed will have sides measuring: 37.2285, 56.9635, 68.05 – their sum will be 99.884
If we subtract π/2 from the 3.0196, we get again 1.4488 – the corresponding triangle will have sides measuring 8.2768, 67.54, 68.05, and a sum of 143.872
143.872/99.884 = 1.4462
47.862/22.223 = 2.154
2.154/5.34 = sc2
2.154/1.5666 = 1/0.727296
2.154/1.316777 = 1 + sc
1.316777 + 0.25 = 1.56666
32.935 – 14.134725 = 18.8
Volume of Gizeh pyramid/Lateral area = 30.4452
30.4452 x 0.618 = 18.815
30.4452 x π/180 =1/1.882
Volume of apex/Lateral area of apex = 0.8842
5.29125 – 1.4488 = 3.84246
205.487/261.479 = 1/2sc
261.479/360.07 = 0.7263 (one of the values for the displacement factor)
360.07 x 2sc = 458.01
530.94 – 458.01 = 72.931
ZEROS 6 THROUGH 10
Using the same procedure (1. Deriving the value of the arclength and 2. Dividing each zero by one sc) we will get again equations involving sc.
Most importantly, again, the consecutive five zeros will obey the rules of the five elements cycle defined earlier.
In fact 1463.0528/1074.2345 = 1.361 (1463.0528 is the arclength for 49.772, and 1074.2345 is the arclength for 40.9187)
Moreover, we meet again with the constant 2.534
ZEROS 125 THROUGH 129
Again the same precise mathematical relationships involving sc and the five elements cycle.
From the list posted earlier, let us pick at random the following five zeros:
361574.94195
The angles reduced to the first two quadrants will measure:
1.90582 (3sc)
Multiplying by 68.05 we get:
I invite the reader to discover the precise equations involving sc and the five element cycle of values expressed as various formulas involving sc.
At random, again, let us pick another set of five consecutive zeros.
1132486.2441
1132486.87488
Arclengths:
We obtain again mathematical equations involving sc, and the precise five element cycle values expressed as various formulas involving sc.
Let us now put the sacred cubit to the ultimate test: the Lehmer phenomenon.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LehmersPhenomenon.html
169.48024 – 166.7679 = 2.71234
2.71234 x euler’s constant = 1.5656
2.71234/2sc = 4 x 0.533
2.71234/8 = 0.339 = 0.53333 x sc
2.71234 – 0.1695 = 2.54284 (2 x 0.1695 = 3.39)
The builders of the Gizeh pyramid must have had among their ranks the equivalent of G.F.B. Riemann and must have had at their disposal the Riemann-Siegel formula:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Riemann-SiegelFormula.html
Either all zeros lie on the x=1/2 line, or none of them do (each set of five consecutive zeros are part of a five element cycle, and of an intricate system of equations involving sc: if a single zero is to be found on different x = @ line, then the previous four zeros will no longer be part of a five element cycle, and so on right back to the very first zero.
The zeros of the Zeta function are intersections of the helical sound wave travelling from the pyramid to the apex (at the quantum physics infinitesimal level, see my previous message on this page for a complete explanation) with the outer surface of the cylinder (or some similar shape) which links the pyramid with its apex, then the values themselves are projections onto the central axis (in our case the x = ½ line).
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So if I get the gist of it, Newton merely adopted what was known earlier (and aided in the Gizeh construction), as evidenced by the surprising finding that he did not fully comprehend his own supposed invention? Very interesting!!! I also found the Wolfram links quite helpful. Thank you Levee.
Quote from: James on August 26, 2011, 05:40:53 AM
I saw a slight haze in the hotel bathroom this morning after I took a shower, have I discovered a new planet?
Here is a work on Riemann's Zeta function which explains further the findings of C.L. Siegel in the 1930s: the discovery of the asymptotic formula of the Zeta function in Riemann's archives, and of course, much more on the Riemann's hypothesis, if you are interested in this problem:
http://books.google.ro/books?id=ruVmGFPwNhQC&pg=PA298&lpg=PA298&dq=edwards+riemann+zeta+function&source=bl&ots=P4HbjJaNFk&sig=ySMxAy_uEaOaKAkKCo6gbN_w-CQ&hl=ro&sa=X&ei=LbEhU8jmKafF0QHukIHoBg&ved=0CGoQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=edwards%20riemann%20zeta%20function&f=false
Believe or not, the value of the first zero of the Zeta function on the x = 1/2 line has everything to do with the value of the frequency of the musical instrument (drum) used by the tibetan monks, as described earlier - the single drum of 534.4 Hz.
Height of apex of pyramid: 7.2738 units (286.1 si)
Two apexes in merkabah formation: 9.245 units total height (http://www.absoluteempowerment.com/attachments/Image/Merkabah/002.gif )
Pyramid total height (including subterranean chamber): 174.6 units (140.6 + 30 + 4)
Each and every boson/antiboson has in its center two truncated pyramids facing each other, with their two apexes rotating in opposite direction right in the center of the distance between the truncated summits.
The importance of the value of 534.4 is as follows: 340 + 9.245 + 170 = 534 - 2x7.27
The distance between the pyramids is 186 (actually 185.58625)
In the center lie the two apexes in a merkabah mathematical figure.
Then, 185.586 - 1/0.0063566 = 2 x 14.134725 (where 14.134725 is the value of the first zero of the Zeta function on the x = 1/2 line).
9.245 - 7.2738 = 1.9712
9.245 - 2x1.9712 = 5.3026
2x14.134725 - 5.3026 = 2x11.483425
11.483425 - 11.444 = 0.039425 - where 0.039425 = 2x0.0197125
In order to discover the true significance of the value of 14.134725 we must make use of the one of the most interesting geometrical figures of the Gizeh pyramid: the sothic triangle (http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/SothicTri.jpg ).
That is, we embed the apex itself into a larger triangle as follows:
the side angles of the sothic triangle will measure, of course, 51.87 degrees
its height will measure 16.786 units
the base of the sothic triangle will measure 26.35224 (2x13.17612)
For the apex there are only two possible side angle measures: 68.57 degrees and 51.87 degrees.
Substracting 1/2 the value of the base of the apex from 1/2 the value of the base of the sothic triangle we get:
14.134725 - 10.32135 = 3.813375 = 6 sacred cubits
14.134725 - 7.4666 = 6.666 = 1/0.15
Now things get really interesting.
tan 51.87 degrees x 13.17612 = 16.786
16.786 - 14.134725 = 2.65129 = 5.3026/2
e2.65129 - 14.134725 = 1/26.6
2.65129 - 2.648634 = 0.00266
We remember that ln 14.134725 = 2.648634
Then, we understand precisely the significance of this figure:
http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mrwatkin/zeta/zeros.jpg
The distance from the very center of the boson to the apex of the sothic triangle will measure exactly 14.134725
Then the sound wave vortex manifests itself and each intersection of this helix with the outer surface of the cylinder (in the shape of a very complex sine wave) will appear on the center axis (its projection) with a certain value: the exact values of the zeros of the Zeta function on the x= 1/2 line).
As the a new wave starts from the pyramid and travels towards the its apex in the center, more values of the zeros of the Zeta function will be plotted on the x = 1/2 line, and so on.
"Although the Riemann zeta-function is an analytic function with [a] deceptively simple definition, it keeps bouncing around almost randomly without settling down to some regular asymptotic pattern. The Riemann zeta-function displays the essence of chaos in quantum mechanics, analytically smooth, and yet seemingly unpredictable."
M.C. Gutzwiller, Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics (Springer, 1990), p. 377
"One idea for proving the Riemann hypothesis is to give a spectral interpretation of the zeros. That is, if the zeros can be interpreted as the eigenvalues of 1/2 + iT, where T is a Hermitian operator on some Hilbert space, then since the eigenvalues of a Hermitian operator are real, the Riemann hypothesis follows. This idea was originally put forth by Pólya and Hilbert, and serious support for this idea was found in the resemblance between the "explicit formulae" of prime number theory, which go back to Riemann and von Mangoldt, but which were formalized as a duality principle by Weil, on the one hand, and the Selberg trace formula on the other.
The best evidence for the spectral interpretation comes from the theory of the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE), which show that the local behavior of the zeros mimics that of a random Hamiltonian. The link gives a more extended discussion of this topic."
"Gutzwiller gave a trace formula in the setting of quantum chaos which relates the classical and quantum mechanical pictures. Given a chaotic (classical) dynamical system, there will exist a dense set of periodic orbits, and one side of the trace formula will be a sum over the lengths of these orbits. On the other side will be a sum over the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian in the quantum-mechanical analog of the given classical dynamical system.
This setup resembles the explicit formulas of prime number theory. In this analogy, the lengths of the prime periodic orbits play the role of the rational primes, while the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian play the role of the zeros of the zeta function. Based on this analogy and pearls mined from Odlyzko's numerical evidence, Sir Michael Berry proposes that there exists a classical dynamical system, asymmetric with respect to time reversal, the lengths of whose periodic orbits correspond to the rational primes, and whose quantum-mechanical analog has a Hamiltonian with zeros equal to the imaginary parts of the nontrivial zeros of the zeta function. The search for such a dynamical system is one approach to proving the Riemann hypothesis." (Daniel Bump)
However, these distinguished mathematicians will NEVER be able to understand the true significance of Riemann's hypothesis outside of the subject of my previous messages: the Gizeh pyramid and the sacred cubit.
The Gizeh pyramid is the architectural equivalent of Riemann's Zeta function.
There were several people who wrote the works attributed to Newton: one wrote the Principia, another the texts on alchemy, another the treatises on chemistry, and others who compiled the works on optics and Newton's private letters.
Newton merely adopted what was known earlier (and aided in the Gizeh construction), as evidenced by the surprising finding that he did not fully comprehend his own supposed invention? Very interesting!!!
Indeed. The Gizeh pyramid was constructed only a few hundreds of years ago: calculus was then slowly infused into the Western cultural/scientific mainstream during the Renaissance which occurred during the 18th century.
Ukraine/Crimeea/Moldavia - Flat Surface of the Earth
In the official historical chronology, Dimitrie Cantemir is recognized as one of the greatest geniuses ever produced by Eastern Europe.
Dimitrie Cantemir (1673–1723) was twice Prince of Moldavia (in March–April 1693 and in 1710–1711). He was also a prolific man of letters – philosopher, historian, composer, musicologist, linguist, ethnographer, and geographer.
In 1714 Cantemir became a member of the Royal Academy of Berlin. Between 1711 and 1719 he wrote his most important creations. Cantemir was known as one of the greatest linguists of his time, speaking and writing eleven languages, and being well versed in Oriental scholarship. His oeuvre is voluminous, diverse, and original; although some of his scientific writings contain unconfirmed theories and inaccuracies, his expertise, sagacity, and groundbreaking researches are widely acknowledged.
http://www.dacii.go.ro/materiale/dacii/spiritualitate/pagini/monument_megalitice_ceahlau.htm
From the classic work signed Dimitrie Cantemir, Descriptio Moldaviae (http://www.educatlaiasi.ro/uploadpoze/2%20martie%20semnificatii.jpg ), we have the following quote:
"Cel mai inalt multe al Moldovei este Ceahlaul si daca acest munte ar fi fost cunoscut poetilor vechi, el ar fi fost tot atat de celebru ca si Olimpul, Pindul sau Pelia. De alta parte, cat de inalt este muntele acesta se poate conchide din imprejurarea ca in timpul cat cerul este senin si soarele se inclina spre apus, acest munte se poate vedea intreg si asa de curat de la orasul Acherman (Tyras, Cetatea Alba), departe de 60 de ore, ca si cand ar fi in apropiere. Iar pe dealurile din jur se vad urme de cai, de caini si de pasari, imprimate in stanci, in numar asa de mare ca si cand ar fi trecut pe acolo o oaste imensa de calareti.”
Acherman = Cetatea Alba = White Fortress
Here is the map:
Carpathian Mountains, Ceahlaul Range, Toaca Peak:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Csalh%C3%B3.jpg/800px-Csalh%C3%B3.jpg
Exact location on map: http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A2rful_Toaca,_Masivul_Ceahl%C4%83u
TOACA PEAK MEASURES 1907 METERS IN ALTITUDE
DISTANCE CETATEA ALBA/WHITE FORTRESS TO TOACA PEAK: OVER 300 KM
Dimitrie Cantemir is saying that he could see the highest peak of the Ceahlaul Range all the way from the White Fortress very clearly.
The visual obstacle, for a distance of 300 km, altitude of observer some 20 meters above sea level (White Fortress) measures some 4 km.
Of course, now we know that the works attributed to Cantemir were invented at the beginning of the 19th century...however, the description is extraordinary.
Here is a historical figure which did exist: Gheorghe Asachi.
Gheorghe Asachi, surname also spelled Asaki; March 1, 1788 – November 12, 1869) was a Moldavian-born Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation. Asachi was a respected journalist and political figure, as well as active in technical fields such as civil engineering and pedagogy, and, for long, the civil servant charged with overseeing all Moldavian schools. Among his leading achievements were the issuing of Albina Românească, a highly influential magazine, and the creation of Academia Mihăileană, which replaced Greek-language education with teaching in Romanian. His literary works combined a taste for Classicism with Romantic tenets, while his version of the literary language relied on archaisms and borrowings from the Moldavian dialect.
http://www.mlnar.ro/system/files/images/gheorghe_asachi.thumbnail.jpg
http://romaniapress-misterelelumii.blogspot.ro/2011/01/misterele-ceahlaului-fenomene.html
Ceahlaul nu se ridica, nici pe departe, la altitudinea altor piscuri muntoase din România sau din tarile vecine. Cu toate acestea, in mod paradoxal, el este singurul masiv care poate fi vazut de la sute de kilometri departare. in anumite conditii atmosferice si de luminozitate solara, piscurile Ceahlaului se zaresc cu o deosebita claritate de pe tarmul Marii Negre si de pe malurile Nistrului. Gheorghe Asachi scria despre acest fenomen inca din anul 1859: „Corabierul de pe Marea Neagra vede piscul cel inalt al acestui munte, de la Capul Mangaliei si pâna la Cetatea Alba. Locuitorul de pe tarmul Nistrului vede soarele apunând dupa masa acestui munte, iar pastorul nomad, dupa ce si-a iernat turmele sale pe câmpiile Bugeacului, se intoarce catre casa având in vedere vârful Pionului, sau Ceahlaului”.
Translation: The ship owner (corabier denotes actually each member of the crew, from captain to sailor) sailing the Black Sea can see the highest peak of the Ceahlaul range, starting from Mangalia all the way to the White Fortress.
The local inhabitants located on the banks of the river Nistrul can see the sunset, as the sun disappears behind the Ceahlaul range.
Mangalia on the map:
http://romeonet.ro/imagini/forum.romeonet.ro_litoral.jpg
River Nistru:
http://romaniancoins.org/harti/entransnistria.jpg
Banks of river Nistru:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Ua_river_dnestr_piliptsche.jpg
THE VISUAL OBSTACLE FROM MANGALIA TO THE TOACA PEAK MEASURES OVER 12 KM.
THE VISUAL OBSTACLE FROM RIVER NISTRU TO TOACA IS 2.7 KM.
Mountain climbers say that they can see the Black Sea all the way from the Carpathian mountains, Bucegi Range, Omu Peak (2505 m in altitude):
https://web.archive.org/web/20090422052937/https://www.infomontan.ro/Galerie/Turism%20Diverse/Files/009.html
It is absolutely impossible to see the Black Sea from Peak Omu on a spherical earth: the visual obstacle measures 800 meters (Peak Omu on the map):
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A2rful_Omu,_Mun%C8%9Bii_Bucegi
Photographs of Peak Omu taken from Bucharest, residential neighborhood, building measuring 20 meters in height:
http://forum.softpedia.com/lofiversion/index.php/t21996.html
Each and every geographical detail can be seen over the 150 km distance: no curvature whatsoever.
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=28196.msg674444#msg674444 (curvature, visual obstacle formulas)
« Last Edit: March 26, 2018, 09:32:13 AM by sandokhan »
Here is another clear proof that the surface of the Earth is actually flat:
Grand Haven Daily Tribune April 3, 1925
COAST GUARDS SEE MILWAUKEE LIGHTS GLEAM
Captain Wm. J. Preston and Crew See Lights of Milwaukee
and Racine Clearly From Surf Boat
ANSWER TO FLARE
Crew Runs Into Lake in Search For Flashing Torch
Captain Wm. J. Preston and his U. S. Coast Guard crew at Grand Haven harbor witnessed a strange natural phenomenon last night, when they saw clearly the lights of both Milwaukee and Racine, shining across the lake. As far as known this is the first time that such a freak condition has prevailed here.
The phenomena was first noticed at shortly after seven o’clock last night, when the lookout called the keeper’s attention to what seemed to be a light flaring out on the lake. Captain Preston examined the light, and was of the impression that some ship out in the lake was “torching” for assistance.
Launch Power Boat
He ordered the big power boat launched and with the crew started on a cruise into the lake to locate, if possible, the cause of the light. The power boat was headed due west and after running a distance of six or seven miles the light became clearer, but seemed to be but little nearer. The crew kept on going, however, and at a distance of about ten and twelve miles out, a beautiful panorama of light unfolded before the eyes of the coast guards.
Captain Preston decided that the flare came from the government lighthouse at Windy Point at Racine. Being familiar with the Racine lights the keeper was able to identify several of the short lights at Racine, Wis.
Saw Milwaukee Also
A little further north another set of lights were plainly visible. Captain Preston knowing the Milwaukee lights well, easily distinguished them and identified them as the Milwaukee lights. The lights along Juneau Park water front, the illumination of the buildings near the park and the Northwestern Railway station were clearly visible from the Coast Guard boat. So clearly did the lights stand out that it seemed as though the boat was within a few miles of Milwaukee harbor.
Convinced that the phenomenon was a mirage, or a condition due to some peculiarity of the atmosphere, the keeper ordered the boat back to the station. The lights remained visible for the greater part of the run, and the flare of the Windy Point light house could be seen after the crew reached the station here.
DISTANCE GRAND HAVEN TO MILWAUKEE: OVER 80 MILES (128 KM).
http://www.coastwatch.msu.edu/images/twomichigans2a.gif
Windy Point Lighthouse:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Wind_Point_Lighthouse_071104_edit2.jpg/800px-Wind_Point_Lighthouse_071104_edit2.jpg
The lighthouse stands 108 feet (33 m) tall
THE CURVATURE FOR 128 KM IS 321 METERS.
Using the well known formula for the visual obstacle, let us calculate its value:
h = 3 meters BD = 1163 METERS
h = 10 meters BD = 1068 METERS
h = 20 meters BD = 984 METERS
h = 50 meters BD = 827.6 METERS
h = 100 meters BD = 667.6 METERS
No terrestrial refraction formula/looming formula can account for this extraordinary proof that the surface across lake Michigan is flat.
In fact: http://ireland.iol.ie/~geniet/eng/refract.htm#
If we use h = 50 for the observer, and 140 for the distant object height, we get a negative answer: no way it could be seen over a 128 km distance; while the actual data for the account is h = 5 m, and d = 40 m.
Looming/modified lapse rate:
http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/atmos_refr/altitudes.html
The formula used here does not recognize the change in the range of temperature values, nor do we know if it takes into consideration the very basic formula I posted earlier for the visual obstacle: http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=28196.msg674444#msg674444 - however, it is an excellent place to start and to explore the effect of looming/ducting on the visual target being observed.
Let us use several values, starting with the value of 15 C for that day (Milwaukee/Racine/Holland/Grand Haven) and increasing the value for the target by 1-3 degrees.
For a value of 15 C overall we get of course a negative altitude value of the target.
For a value of 16 C (for the target) we get, again, a negative altitude value for the target (−0.317 degrees of arc) - target is hidden by horizon
For a value of 17 C (for the target) we get: −0.207 degrees of arc, target is hidden by horizon
Let us decrease the value to 12 C.
Increasing the value for the target to 15 C degrees, again, we get negative values. This would also correspond to a huge k = 0.613 value.
From the textbook on atmospheric science:
"So the ray curvature for an arbitrary lapse rate γ K/m will be
k = ( 0.034 − γ ) / 0.154
where we take γ to be positive if the temperature decreases with height, and a positive curvature means a ray concave toward the Earth.
Example 1: the Standard Atmosphere:
In the Standard Atmosphere, the lapse rate is 6.5°/km or γ = 0.0065 K/m. The numerator of the formula above becomes .034 − .0065 = .0275, so the ratio k is about 1/5.6 or 0.179. In other words, the ray curvature is not quite 18% that of the Earth; the radius of curvature of the ray is about 5.6 times the Earth's radius.
Example 2: free convection:
In free convection, the (adiabatic) lapse rate is about 10.6°/km or γ = 0.0106 K/m. The numerator of the formula above becomes .034 − .0106 = .0234, so the ratio k is about 1/6.6 or 0.152. In other words, the ray curvature is about 15% that of the Earth; the radius of curvature of the ray is about 6.6 times the Earth's radius. This is close to the condition of the atmosphere near the ground in the middle of the day, when most surveying is done; the value calculated is close to the values found in practical survey work."
Moreover, as we have seen, the light from Windy Point was continuously observed, during the approach, and during the return to the station:
The power boat was headed due west and after running a distance of six or seven miles the light became clearer, but seemed to be but little nearer. The crew kept on going, however, and at a distance of about ten and twelve miles out, a beautiful panorama of light unfolded before the eyes of the coast guards.
The keeper ordered the boat back to the station. The lights remained visible for the greater part of the run, and the flare of the Windy Point light house could be seen after the crew reached the station here.
Now, the calculation for the most pronounced form of looming: ducting.
However, ducting requires the value for the ray curvature, k, to be greater than or equal to 1.
This amounts to at least a five degree difference in temperature.
With 10C in Grand Haven (or Holland) and 15C in Racine, we get k = 1.182.
For the very same geographical/hydrographical conditions, for the same latitude in question, for cities located on the opposite shores of Lake Michigan, it is absolutely impossible to have a five degree difference, at the very same instant of time - moreover, looming/ducting do not apply to the two cases presented here:
FURTHERMORE, as we have seen, the light from the lighthouse located in Racine was seen all of the time.
For the second case exemplifed here, see below, Mr. Kanis did see the very shape of the buildings: in the case of ducting/looming a very distorted image would appear making it instantly recognizable:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Superopr_mirage_sequence.jpg
http://3sky.de/Div/Luftspieg/Summary.html
http://finland.fi/public/default.aspx?contentid=160069&contentlan=2&culture=en-US
'As twilight deepened, there were more and more lights.'
Bringing out a pair of binoculars, Kanis said he was able to make out the shape of some buildings.
'With the binoculars we could make out three different communities,' Kanis said.
According to one Coast Guard crewman, it is possible to see city lights across the lake at very specific times.
Currently a Coast Guard crewman stationed in Holland, Todd Reed has worked on the east side of Lake Michigan for 30 years and said he's been able to see lights across the lake at least a dozen times.
The highest building in Milwaukee has a height of 183 meters, the difference from h = 5 meters in altitude being 946 meters, and those residents saw the buildings from THREE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, two of which have buildings whose heights measure way under 183 meters.
Therefore, the only way those buildings could be seen, given the 128 km distance, would be if the surface of Lake Michigan is completely flat.
THE TALLEST BUILDING IN RACINE IS THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 40 METERS; IT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE THIS COURTHOUSE FROM 128 KM DISTANCE, FROM HOLLAND.
On Memorial Day, it was 60 F degrees (15 C) in Milwaukee on that day.
Black Sun photographs, the Moon and the Sun are disks and not spheres:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=58190.msg1490183#msg1490183 (solar/lunar ISS transit videos)
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=58190.msg1490299#msg1490299 (Thierry Legault photographs)
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Re: Advanced Flat Earth Theory
Earth is not a Globe, chapter IX, Cause of Sunrise and Sunset:
ALTHOUGH the sun is at all times above the earth's surface, it appears in the morning to ascend from the north-east to the noonday position, and thence to descend and disappear, or set, in the north-west. This phenomenon arises from the operation of a simple and everywhere visible law of perspective.
It does not only appear to ascend (rise), it actually DOES so.
http://www.moonglow.net/eclipse/2003nov23/
Official science information:
The sun "travels " between the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 N) on the Northern Solstice (first day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere) to the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5 S) on the Southern Solstice and back to the Tropic of Cancer in one year (365 days). Thus the sun travels 47 degrees of latitude * 2 (to compensate for the round trip) = 94 degrees of latitude during a solar year.
In the Flat Earth Theory, the diameter of the Sun is only some 600 meters - therefore, as it travels between the two tropics, rising and setting each and every day, there will be a limited amount of space/distance to account for the yearly solar precession phenomenon.
Due to precession, the Sun's apparent position relative to the vernal equinox slowly regresses about 50 arc seconds (0.014 degree) every year, or approximately one degree every 72.2 years. This results in the difference of 20 minutes between the sidereal and tropical years.
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/8711/bun1copy.jpg
No matter whether the other FE will accept the six gates/180 windows theory or not (http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1566598#msg1566598 ) we can understand that there will be an upper bound for the distance/space alloted for the precession of the Sun, as it orbits above the flat Earth.
Works on precession:
http://www.aloha.net/~johnboy/Preces.htg/precession.htm
http://www.crystalinks.com/precession.html
This means that our entire history is only some hundreds of years old - confirming the comet tail paradox/new radical chronology proofs. Moreover, if the other FE are not happy with a 354 year old history, they can calculate themselves an upper bound: it cannot exceed some 500 years, because of the very distance between the two tropics.
It is not nearly enough to state that the surface of the Earth is flat: the shape of the Earth is part of a much larger question - has our entire history up to at least 1825 been forged/falsified?
Let us remember that currently the FE cannot answer at all the axial precession question (with my exception), as the RE can immediately state that the historical/astronomical records from Hipparchus up to B. Franklin are true, and thus prove that the Earth has been rotating around its own axis for at least the past 2000 years.
The solar precession is the best key to answer not only the question about the correct chronology of history, but also it provides a direct way to prove that the Earth is actually flat.
One of the most important canonical books of the orthodox church, in the official history, is the Syntagma by Matthew Vlastar.
Matthew Vlastar’s Collection of Rules Devised by Holy Fathers, or The Alphabet Syntagma. This rather voluminous book represents the rendition of the rules formulated by the Ecclesial and local Councils of the Orthodox Church.
Matthew Vlastar is considered to have been a Holy Hierarch from Thessalonica, and written his tractate in the XIV century. Today’s copies are of a much later date, of course. A large part of Vlastar’s Collection of Rules Devised by Holy Fathers contains the rules for celebrating Easter. Among other things, it says the following:
“The Easter Rules makes the two following restrictions: it should not be celebrated together with the Judaists, and it can only be celebrated after the spring equinox. Two more had to be added later, namely: celebrate after the first full moon after the equinox, but not any day – it should be celebrated on the first Sunday after the equinox. All of these restrictions, except for the last one, are still valid (in times of Matthew Vlastar – the XIV century – Auth.), although nowadays we often celebrate on the Sunday that comes later. Namely, we always count two days after the Lawful Easter (that is, the Passover, or the full moon – Auth.) and end up with the subsequent Sunday. This didn’t happen out of ignorance or lack of skill on the part of the Elders, but due to lunar motion”
Let us emphasize that the quoted Collection of Rules Devised by Holy Fathers is a canonical mediaeval clerical volume, which gives it all the more authority, since we know that up until the XVII century, the Orthodox Church was very meticulous about the immutability of canonical literature and kept the texts exactly the way they were; with any alteration a complicated and widely discussed issue that would not have passed unnoticed.
So, by approximately 1330 AD, when Vlastar wrote his account, the last condition of Easter was violated: if the first Sunday happened to be within two days after the full moon, the celebration of Easter was postponed until the next weekend. This change was necessary because of the difference between the real full moon and the one computed in the Easter Book. The error, of which Vlastar was aware, is twenty-four hours in 304 years.
Therefore the Easter Book must have been written around AD 722 (722 = 1330 - 2 x 304). Had Vlastar known of the Easter Book’s 325 AD canonization, he would have noticed the three-day gap that had accumulated between the dates of the computed and the real full moon in more than a thousand years. So he either was unaware of the Easter Book or knew the correct date when it was written, which could not be near 325 AD.
G. Nosovsky: So, why the astronomical context of the Paschalia contradicts Scaliger’s dating (alleged 325 AD) of the Nicaean Council where the Paschalia was canonized?
This contradiction can easily be seen from the roughest of calculations.
1) The difference between the Paschalian full moons and the real ones grows at the rate of one day in 300 years.
2) A two-day difference had accumulated by the time of Vlastar, which is roughly dated 1330 AD.
3) Ergo, the Paschalia was compiled somewhere around 730 AD, since
1330 – (300 x 2) = 730.
It is understood that the Paschalia could only be canonized by the Council sometime later. But this fails to correspond to Scaliger’s dating of its canonization as 325 AD in any way at all!
Let us emphasize, that Matthew Vlastar himself, doesn’t see any contradiction here, since he is apparently unaware of the Nicaean Council’s dating as the alleged year 325 AD. A natural hypothesis: this traditional dating was introduced much later than Vlastar’s age. Most probably, it was first calculated in Scaliger’s time.
With the Easter formula derived by C.F. Gauss in 1800, Nosovsky calculated the Julian dates of all spring full moons from the first century AD up to his own time and compared them with the Easter dates obtained from the Easter Book. He reached a surprising conclusion: three of the four conditions imposed by the First Council of Nicaea were violated until 784, whereas Vlastar had noted that “all the restrictions except the last one have been kept firmly until now.” When proposing the year 325, Scaliger had no way of detecting this fault, because in the sixteenth century the full-moon calculations for the distant past couldn’t be performed with precision.
Few scientists remember the original debate between Immanuel Velikovsky and Carl Sagan, where the creator of the original Cosmos series was debunked on each and every statement on cosmology made later in the series:
http://www.varchive.org/lec/aaas/transcripts.htm (original debate)
http://www.varchive.org/lec/aaas/afterword.htm (Velikovsky's final response and notes)
http://www.varchive.org/lec/aaas/challenge.htm
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Flat Earth Solar Precession Facts
The real orbit of the Sun above the Flat Earth:
Distance between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn: 3,234.64 miles (center of first map)
Arclength: 6356.621 KM (side of figure/map) - this is the absolute uppermost bound/limit
Polar axis length (official numbers): 6356.7519 km = actual radius of the flat earth map (http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/7857/africabrazil.gif )
Precession = a slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic
RE maps of the solar precession:
The orange axis was the Earth's rotation axis 5000 years ago when it pointed to the star Thuban. The yellow axis, pointing to Polaris is the situation now. (official astronomical information)
The orange axis was the Earth's rotation axis 5000 years ago when it pointed to the star Thuban. The yellow axis, pointing to Polaris is the situation now.
Annual solar precession: 50 arcseconds
1 full degree every 72 years
TIME CALCULATION
The time difference between the mean solar day and "precession"(sidereal "what's real" time) is 3.141592654 (Pi) seconds (of time) per day. Pi seconds per day accumulates to 22.94884425 hours in 72 years or approximately 1 degree (day) of arc. (Precession is approximately 1 degree in 72 years.)
The 3 . 14 seconds is the mean deviation. The actual deviation, over time, is from 3.11 seconds to 3.17 seconds daily. In other words, the TIME required for the Earth to complete one orbit around the Sun (a year) decreases daily by the rate of 3.14 seconds (of time) and accumulates, annually, to approximately 18 minutes (+-).
Every (approx.) 72 years the annual 18 (+ -) minutes has accumulated to almost one full day, and has done so despite the addition of 'leap years', 'leap seconds', etc. So, after 72 years we actually 'show up early' for the 'Vernal Equinox' and decide that the entire outer visible universe has 'mysteriously' backed-up one whole degree (day) in the last 72 years! We call this 'backing up' The Precession of The Equinoxes.
π = 3.1416 = 2/sc per day
1146.68132 seconds per year
As I have argued before, the year really has 364 days (of a slightly different length).
1146.68132/364 = π + 1.361sc/100
For a 354 year old history, we obtain 404778.5054 seconds
404778.5054 = (1000sc)2
That is, the total precessional time for a 354 year old history amounts to exactly 1,000,000sc2 seconds or 636,619.7723sc seconds.
The reader can calculate a similar total precessional time of his/her own choosing (the choice rests upon the figure used for the total duration of history in years).
DEGREE/ARCLENGTH CALCULATION
Full arclength between the tropics: 6356.621 km
The calculation for the six gates/180 windows configuration has already been done (the figures used in the Bundahisn).
Now, the calculation for the six gates/12 window used in the Book of Enoch.
http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/enoch.html#Enoch_71
And in the fourth gate, through which the sun with the moon proceeds, in the first part of it, there are twelve open windows
Solar precession, 50 arcseconds per year
1 degree per 72 years
For a 354 year old history, we get 4.91666 degrees (0.02861 x 3 radians)
Total arclength of precession (using a radius of 6356.621 km) = (534 + 11.444) km
In the Flat Earth model, the effect of the precession is cumulative: that is, as the Sun moves between the summer/winter solstices, we add 4.233 meters for each day of the year.
For a 354 year old history, there will be 1.5408 km/year of arclength precessional distance.
1.5408/364 = 0.004233 km
For the 12 window configuration, there will be 2.5 days assigned for each window.
One gate arclength = 1060.86 km
One window arclength = 88.405 km (actually we could use 87.266 km and account for the difference by assuming that there is a certain distance between the gates themselves).
545.4 (total solar precessional arclength) km/6.18034 = 88.405 km
That is, in a 354 year old history, if we divide by approximately six, the total figure of 545.4 km, we get the exact arclength of a single window.
87.266/12 = 7.272166 (= the actual displacement factor the Gizeh Pyramid!)
The reader can choose a certain total duration of history and play with the figures to calculate the effect of the solar precession on any FE model.
He/she will discover that already for a 354 year old history, the total effect of the solar precession will account for exactly 1/2 the arclength of a single gate: thus we can see that our history is very short, not more than some 500 years old for its total duration.
Since the orbit of the Sun is bounded/limited between the two tropics, we can see that the solar precession can last only for a very precise amount of time (see the TIME CALCULATION section): in that very year where the solar precession will exceed the arclength of single window, it would mean that at either the summer or winter solstice, the Sun would rise BEYOND either the Tropic of Cancer or the Tropic of Capricorn, which is impossible.
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There is one remaining possibility for the flat earth solar precessional hypothesis: the tropics and the north/south poles move also, along with the equinoxial points.
For a very nice estimate concerning this case, I will make use of the information contained here:
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tierra_hueca/tierrahueca/Chapter5.htm
"Starting at 70 to 75 degrees north and south latitude the Earth starts to curve IN. The Pole is simply the outer rim of a magnetic circle around the polar opening. The North Magnetic Pole, once thought to be a point in the Arctic Archipelago, has been lately shown by Soviet Arctic explorers to be a line approximately 1000 miles long. However, as we stated above, instead of being a straight line it is really a circular line constituting the rim of the polar opening. When an explorer reaches this rim, he has reached the North Magnetic Pole; and though the compass will always point to it after one passes it, it is really not the North Pole even if one is deluded into thinking it is, or that he discovered the Pole due to having been misled by his compass. When one reaches this magnetic circle (the rim of the polar opening), the magnetic needle of the compass points straight down. This has been observed by many Arctic explorers who, after reaching high latitudes, near to 90 degrees, were dumbfounded by the inexplicable action of the compass and its tendency to point vertically upward. (They were then inside the polar opening and the compass pointed to the Earth's North Magnetic Pole which was along the rim of this opening."
For a circumference of approximately 1600-1800 km, the diameter can be calculated (the reader can increase the circumference by actually following the Peary/Cook expeditions as they are described in chapter 5 of Hollow Earth)
The region the HE take as the entrance to the inner earth, is actually the region on the Flat Earth which cannot be accessed by either land, sea or air, as the expeditions of both Peary and Cook proved clearly: neither could discover the North Pole at all (in Antarctica, we have already seen how R. Scott was assasinated in an earlier discussion). The curvature paradox also applied equally well to the HE hypothesis: since there is no curvature at the surface of the Earth, the Hollow Earth cannot be true.
Antarctica Maps: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_antartica.htm
The Black Plague never happened. There is no way, under any conspirative scenario, for the Ebola virus to have been brought from Zair/Congo to Europe and then to have been placed in each and every well in each and every small village or city.
http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/could_the_black_death_actually
http://www.rense.com/general12/bub.htm
http://archive.archaeology.org/9611/newsbriefs/ebola.html (even "ancient" Greece stood in the way of the Ebola virus)
Of course, those who falsified the history knew the exact details about the virus itself. It is not currently ackowledged by either scientists or conspiration websites that some 70 years ago, a well known biologist/physicist did discover, accidentally, the Ebola virus and its origin.
D" parameter paradox
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=58514.msg1488114#msg1488114 (full details)
Although many exceptional books have been published in the last 200 years pertaining to this subject, the modern development of the study starts with the intriguing paper by R. Newton (1970, 'Ancient Astronomical Observations and the Accelerations of the Earth and Moon', Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins Press), in which the author shows that, based on the ancient records of eclipses, the values of the parameter D" (lunar elongation, second derivative) calculated for the period 1200 BC - 1200 AD, cannot be explained in view of current geophysical theories (especially the law of gravity). This paper created quite a stir in the scientific community, and several leading astrophysicists started to actually research how the law of gravity could be modified to account for such incredible figures.
In 1980, the well known russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko realized that a different, and correct, approach, would be to realize that the data for the eclipses during that period were falsified and written down much later, he says in the 15-16th centuries AD. As such, the correct graph would look like this:
The original paper by A. Fomenko: http://www.pereplet.ru/gorm/fomenko/dsec.htm
How the tables of Nineveh (library of Ashurbanipal) were falsified
http://www.scribd.com/doc/21746049/Velikovsky-Worlds-in-Collision#
http://www.truthseekersministries.org/files/Velikovsky-Worlds-in-Collision.pdf
Part I: Venus, chapter 10: Venus moves irregularly
Part II: Mars, chapter 8, The reforming of the calendar
If the tables are true, then both the attractive law of gravity AND Kepler's third law of motion are completely wrong; if they have been falsified, then we have another extraordinary proof of how the "ancient" history has been forged, confirming the findings of Dr. Gunnar Heinsohn:
http://www.specialtyinterests.net/heinsohn.html (a step by step demonstration that the period of history 2100 BC - 600 BC has been invented/falsified)
The heavenly body which does cause the lunar eclipse (same diameter as that of the Moon itself) is emitting the dextrorotatory subquarks (terrestrial gravity).
The laevorotatory subquarks are emitted by the Black Sun, the celestial disk which is responsible for the solar eclipse.
The force of gravity is not proportional to mass and is a pushing force due to the pressure exerted by the telluric currents (the string of subquarks).
Telluric currents: the work of Dr. T. Henry Moray, Dr. Gustave Le Bon, Dr. Bruce DePalma, Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev:
Biohomochirality and Terrestrial Gravity:
The Moon has astonishing synchronicity with the Sun. When the Sun is at its lowest and weakest in mid-winter, the Moon is at its highest and brightest, and the reverse occurs in mid-summer. Both set at the same point on the horizon at the equinoxes and at the opposite point at the solstices. What are the chances that the Moon would naturally find an orbit so perfect that it would cover the Sun at an eclipse and appear from Earth to be the same size? What are chances that the alignments would be so perfect at the equinoxes and solstices?
Farouk El Baz,
http://www.rense.com/general69/moon.htm
http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/Encyclopedia/03-ss2.htm#Nebular
http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/Encyclopedia/03-ss2.htm#Fission
http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/Encyclopedia/03-ss2.htm#Capture
http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/Encyclopedia/03-ss2.htm#Accretion
http://www.pathlights.com/ce_encyclopedia/Encyclopedia/03-ss2.htm#Planetary
No curvature across the strait of Gibraltar, no ascending slope, no midpoint 3.5 meter visual obstacle, a perfectly flat surface of the water all the way to Africa:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x42v7ip
From the same spot, a splendid photograph:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlosromero/130948289#
No curvature whatsoever, just like the image in the video itself.
To the producers/writers of the series Cosmos: Please do your homework.
Here is the helium flash paradox:
FLAT EARTH FIELD EQUATIONS
The greatest theoretical physicist of all time, James Clerk Maxwell, formulated a set of original equations in 1861, which unfortunately have been modified by several scientists (Gibbs, Heaviside and Lorentz).
The most important scientific paper ever published: ON PHYSICAL LINES OF FORCE, by JAMES CLERK MAXWELL - the original set of ether equations, which are almost unknown to modern physics.
Dr. Frederick Tombe has undertaken a painstaking research in order to discover how the original Maxwell equations have been modified into their currently known form, and why it was done.
http://www.nanotechinnov.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Maxwell-Original-Equations.pdf
While Maxwell refers to twenty equations at the end of this section, there are in fact
only eight equations as such. Maxwell arrives at the figure of twenty because he splits
six of these equations into their three Cartesian components. Maxwell’s eight original
equations,
will be discussed in depth in individual sections throughout this paper.
In Part I of his 1861 paper, Maxwell proposed the existence of a sea of
molecular vortices which are composed of a fluid-like aether, whereas in
Part III, he deals with the elastic solid that these molecular vortices
collectively form. Maxwell’s third equation is derived hydrodynamically,
and it appeared as equation (9) in Part I,
curl H = J (Electric Current) (C)
Once we realize that the vector A and the vector J are in fact one and the
same thing, it becomes clear that the two curl equations, (B) and (C), are
jointly pointing us to an aethereal sea in which closed solenoidal circuits
of magnetic lines of force are interlocked with closed solenoidal circuits
of electric current ‡. Part III of Maxwell’s 1861 paper deals with the
elasticity of the medium for the propagation of light and the physical
nature of the electric displacement that is involved in the electromagnetic
wave propagation mechanism within this medium. At the beginning of
Part III, Maxwell says “In the first part of this paper I have shown how
the forces acting between magnets, electric currents, and matter
capable of magnetic induction may be accounted for on the hypothesis
of the magnetic field being occupied with innumerable vortices of
revolving matter, their axes coinciding with the direction of the
magnetic force at every point of the field. The centrifugal force of these
vortices produces pressures distributed in such a way that the final
effect is a force identical in direction and magnitude with that which we
observe.” The magnetic intensity H therefore represents an angular
momentum or a vorticity.
A Lorentz transformation is an unfortunate product
of Hendrik Lorentz‟s misunderstandings regarding the subject of electromagnetism,
and these misunderstandings led to even greater misunderstandings when Albert
Einstein got unto the job. Neither Lorentz nor Einstein seemed to have been aware of
the contents of Maxwell‟s original papers, while both of them seemed to be under the
impression that they were fixing something that wasn‟t broken in the first place. In
doing so, Einstein managed to drop the luminiferous aether out of physics altogether,
claiming that he was basing his investigation on what he had read in the so-called
„Maxwell-Hertz equations for empty space‟! But whatever these Maxwell-Hertz
equations might have been, they certainly can‟t have been Maxwell‟s original
equations. This is a tragic story of confusion heaped upon more confusion. The aether
was a crucial aspect in the development of Maxwell‟s equations, yet in 1905, Albert
Einstein managed to impose Galileo‟s „Principle of Equivalence‟ upon Maxwell‟s
equations while ignoring the aether altogether. The result was the abominable
product which is hailed by modern physicists and known as „The Special Theory of
Relativity‟. Einstein himself knowing that something wasn‟t right with his special
theory of relativity, attempted to make amends in 1915 with his „General Theory of
Relativity‟. But he only made things worse by virtue of spiking Newton‟s law of
gravity with his toxic special theory of relativity. In later years, judging from his
Leyden speech in 1920, Einstein realized that the aether was indeed needed after all,
but by this time it was too late, because he already had a following.
Maxwell’s original works are pioneering works of
enormous value which pointed us in the right direction, and any
shortcomings within these works pale into insignificance when compared
with the errors that followed in Maxwell’s wake. A series of derailments
culminated with Einstein taking us into a mad world of relativity where
two clocks can both go slower than each other, and where
electromagnetic waves can propagate in a pure vacuum without the need
for any physical displacement mechanism.
The Coriolis Force in Maxwell's Equations
Equations [A], [ B ], [D], [E], [F], and [H], would not normally appear in a modern
day set of Maxwell’s equations. A modern textbook would combine equation [A] with
equation [C] as per equation (112) in part III of the 1861 paper, and the combination
would be referred to as the Maxwell’s displacement current equation. In a modern day
textbook, the addition of Maxwell’s displacement current to equation [C] would not
be explained in terms of total electric current as per Maxwell’s 1861 derivation, but
rather in terms of adding on an extra term to Ampère’s circuital law, in order to retain
the solenoidal nature of electric current in a capacitor circuit. Modern day
displacement current is divorced from its dielectric origins, and it is explained as a
time varying quantity that possesses some of the characteristics of electric current, but
that is not actually a real current.
Modern day sets of Maxwell’s equations therefore only contain three of the original
set, with two of these having been amalgamated into one. Added to these two
originals in modern textbooks, are Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction, and
the equation stating that the divergence of B is always zero. These two extra modern
day Maxwell’s equations are equations (54) and (57) respectively in part II of
Maxwell’s 1861 paper.
Also includes the appendix called Maxwell's Minor Errors discussing the wrong minus sign in equation D.
The Distortion of Maxwell's Equations
http://www.cartesio-episteme.net/ep8/distortion.pdf
Maxwell was most certainly not a stepping stone for Einstein as is often
suggested, even by some anti-relativists. Maxwell’s most important work has
been swept under the carpet and a set of equations with a partial connection to
Maxwell have been promoted in his name and used in a manner which is far
removed from Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism.
The Aether and the Electric Sea
E=mc2 and Maxwell's Fifth Equation
http://www.cartesio-episteme.net/ep8/maxwell5.pdf
E=vBX and Maxwell's Fourth Equation
http://gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Research%20Papers-Mechanics%20/%20Electrodynamics/Download/206
The Connection Between Gravity and Light
The Speed of Light
http://gsjournal.net/Science-Journals/Research%20Papers-Mechanics%20/%20Electrodynamics/Download/5373
How Maxwell's original equations have been removed from the textbooks on physics:
SPINTRONICS, secret world of magnets, the most thorough work on the double helix theory of the magnetic field (double helix of the telluric currents):
http://freeenergycommunity.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/the-secret-world-of-magnets-spintronics-2006-howard-johnson.pdf
Needless to say, the original set of Maxwell's equations applies only to a fixed flat earth and not at all to the science-fiction hypothesis called the UA acceleration: terrestrial gravity is due to the pressure exerted by the dextrorotatory subquark strings.
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES AND J.C. MAXWELL'S ORIGINAL SET OF EQUATIONS
Magnetic monopoles discovered for the first time:
http://www.london-nano.com/research-and-facilities/highlight/magnetic-monopoles-discovered-by-lcn-scientists
http://www.london-nano.com/research-and-facilities/highlight/%E2%80%98magnetricity%E2%80%99-observed-and-measured-for-the-first-time
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2014/jan/30/magnetic-monopoles-seen-in-the-lab
In fact, no matter how many times the magnet is divided, the north and south poles remain coupled – even as far down as individual atoms, which themselves act like tiny magnets. This is reflected in Maxwell's equations, which say that isolated positive and negative electric charges exist but isolated magnetic charges do not.
NOT MAXWELL'S ORIGINAL SET OF EQUATIONS.
Here is the truncated set of "Maxwell"'s equations (actually the Heaviside/Lorentz equations):
"Brutally, not a single one of those Heaviside/Gibbs equations ever appeared in a paper or book by James Clerk Maxwell, even though the severely restricted Heaviside/Gibbs interpretation is universally and erroneously taught in all Western universities as Maxwell’s theory.
“Maxwell’s” vector equations taught in university are actually Heaviside’s truncated equations, and are only a simplified version of what Maxwell originally wrote."
"For the deliberate “fixing” of the already sharply curtailed Heaviside equations, see H. A. Lorentz, “La Théorie électromagnétique de Maxwell et son application aux corps mouvants,” [The Electromagnetic Theory of Maxwell and its application to moving bodies], Arch. Néerl. Sci., Vol. 25, 1892, p. 363-552. [Also in H. A. Lorentz, Collected Papers, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, vol. 2, pp. 168-238, esp. p. 168.] This is the work that Lorentz cites later (in 1895) for his proof of the symmetrical regauging theorems (the two equations of symmetrical regauging)."
MAXWELL'S ORIGINAL SET OF EQUATIONS DESCRIBE THE VERY MAGNETIC MONOPOLES DISCOVERED BY THE BRITISH SCIENTISTS AND MUCH MORE.
(also includes the appendix called Maxwell's Minor Errors discussing the wrong minus sign in equation D)
E = vXB − ∂Α/dt +gradψ
Maxwell’s third equation is derived hydrodynamically, and it appeared as equation (9) in Part I,
Once we realize that the vector A and the vector J are in fact one and the same thing, it becomes clear that the two curl equations, (B) and (C), are jointly pointing us to an aethereal sea in which closed solenoidal circuits of magnetic lines of force are interlocked with closed solenoidal circuits of electric current.
Modern day sets of Maxwell’s equations therefore only contain three of the original set, with two of these having been amalgamated into one. Added to these two originals in modern textbooks, are Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction, and the equation stating that the divergence of B is always zero. These two extra modern day Maxwell’s equations are equations (54) and (57) respectively in part II of Maxwell’s 1861 paper (http://vacuum-physics.com/Maxwell/maxwell_oplf.pdf ).
Neither Lorentz nor Einstein seemed to have been aware of the contents of Maxwell‟s original papers, while both of them seemed to be under the impression that they were fixing something that wasn‟t broken in the first place. In doing so, Einstein managed to drop the luminiferous aether out of physics altogether, claiming that he was basing his investigation on what he had read in the so-called „Maxwell-Hertz equations for empty space‟! But whatever these Maxwell-Hertz equations might have been, they certainly can‟t have been Maxwell‟s original equations.
MAGNETIC MONOPOLES AND MAXWELL'S ORIG. SET OF EQS.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120303052100/http://smphillips.8m.com/pdfs/ESP_of_Quarks.pdf (pg 66-73)
A rigorous and extraordinary demonstration that subquarks = magnetic monopoles.
http://www.smphillips.8m.com/news.html
An in-depth look at the most recent discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics which DO PROVE the correctness of the subquark ether model.
A subquark is composed of strings of bosons and antibosons. A boson = a neutrino = a photon and does have mass.
Let us remember that in one extension to the Standard Model, left- and right-handed neutrinos exist. These Dirac neutrinos acquire mass via the Higgs mechanism but right-handed neutrinos interact much more weakly than any other particles.
Aspden calls the neutrino ‘a figment of the imagination invented in order to make the books balance’ and says that it simply denotes ‘the capacity of the aether to absorb energy and momentum’.
Maxwell's original set of equations can be used immediately to explain the levitation of large blocks of granite, especially the Baalbek monoliths (see http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1539399#msg1539399 ).
The weight of an object is a measure of the amount of DEXTROROTATORY MAGNETIC MONOPOLES/SUBQUARKS being subject to the pressure force exerted by the DEXTROROTATORY SUBQUARKS STRINGS (Steve Lamoreaux' negative energy).
The laevorotatory magnetic monopoles/subquarks ARE NOT subject to the terrestrial gravity law of pressure.
Therefore, any addition, by any means (torsion - Dr. Bruce DePalma, Dr. Nikolai Kozyrev, electricity - Dr. T. Townsend Brown, Dr. Francis Nipher, cymatics - Dr. Hans Jenny, tibetan acoustic levitation) of laevorotatory subquarks will result in an antigravitational effect.
Matter has a sound aspect, and when a vibration is caused it generates an acoustical wave which travels through the air working with it concurrently and resulting in oscillations of particles in the air and this causes the intermolecular space of the air to rise in vibrations and causes the atoms to eventually work into the first state of the ether.
First state of ether = baryons
https://web.archive.org/web/20120128042636/http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_09_4_phillips.pdf (for a complete description of the atom - and how the concepts of quarks, antimatter, higgs boson/field were simply copied from the pages of the Occult Chemistry)
http://www.alliancesforhumanity.com/matter/matter.htm (diagrams of the etheric atom)
HYDROGEN ATOM: 18 SUBQUARKS - 9 LAEVOROTATORY AND 9 DEXTROROTATORY subquarks
A proton is made up of NINE laevorotatory subquarks - an electron is actually comprised of NINE dextrorotatory subquarks (called now preons).
However, modern science has mistakenly named a SINGLE dextrorotatory subquark as an electron and has ascribed THE TOTAL charge of the NINE corresponding subquarks as the total negative charge of a single electron, thus confusing the whole matter.
TELLURIC CURRENTS are represented by double torsion waves of BOTH laevorotatory (antigravity) and dextrorotatory (terrestrial gravity) subquarks.
Second state of ether = mesons
Third state of ether = quarks
Fourth state of ether = subquarks
Fifth state of ether = aether, the very medium used by subquark strings to propagate/travel
Astral state of ether = bosons/antibosons
LAMOREAUX-CASIMIR EFFECT: THE ULTIMATE PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF PRESSURE GRAVITY
Newton, student notes on Descartes:
Gravity is a force in a body impelling it to descend. Here, however, by descent is not only meant a motion towards the centre of the Earth but also towards any part or region...
His belief at that time was that, to quote Westfall, ‘gravity (heaviness) is caused by the descent of a subtle invisible matter which strikes all bodies and carries them down'.
In the following decade, and deriving from his alchemical studies, Newton came to develop his views on the workings of the gravity-ether. As communicated to the Royal Society in December of 1675 and written up in their History, it went as follows:
Newton: in which descent it may bear down with it the bodies it pervades with a force proportional to the superficies of all their parts it acts upon...
In other words, the larger the surface of body, the greater the force of gravity acting upon it. After condensing, this gravity ether descends into the bowels of the earth to be refreshed, and then arises until it ‘vanishes again into the aetherial spaces.'
Here is a letter from Newton to Halley, describing how he had independently arrived at the inverse square law using his aether hypothesis, to which he refers as the 'descending spirit':
....Now if this spirit descends from above with uniform velocity, its density and consequently its force will be reciprocally proportional to the square of its distance from the centre. But if it descended with accelerated motion, its density will everywhere diminish as much as the velocity increases, and so its force (according to the hypothesis) will be the same as before, that is still reciprocally as the square of its distance from the centre'
A clear description of PRESSURE GRAVITY.
On the real causes of the Casimir effect:
"Each of the plates in the Casimir effect displace the aether. The displaced aether which exists between the plates is pushing back toward each of the plates which causes the force associated with the aether displaced by each of the plates which exists between the plates to offset. This aether is more at rest than the aether which is displaced by the plates which encompasses the plates. The reduced force associated with the aether which exists between the plates along with the displaced aether which encompasses the plates which is pushing back and exerting inward pressure toward the plates causes the plates to be forced together.
In zero-point energy theory, it is now believed that the Casimir force works in exactly the same way. This force is created when the distance between the plates becomes so narrow that no "virtual particles" or aetheric energies are able to fit between them.
So, there is no "sucking" going on at all; in fact it is a complete absence of energy that exists between the plates, aetheric or otherwise. And so, a form of "aether vacuum" is formed between the two plates, where no aether can flow inside the crack. Then, the surrounding "virtual particle flux" or aether pressure pushes the plates together from the outside!
In Dr. Puthoff‘s model, this pressure is believed to be caused by the “virtual particles ” themselves, as they will continually emerge from the zero-point energy long enough to exert a constant force upon the plates, thus pushing them together. Either way, it all comes back to a fundamentally aetheric design, and no other model seems to adequately explain why this incredibly powerful Casimir effect would occur.
Bearing this in mind, we are continuing to see how the background aetheric energy plays a role in the world that we can observe. The Casimir effect reveals to us exactly how much pressure the aether is truly exerting on us. And yet, since Dr. Puthoff and most other theorists believe that it always "cancels out" to zero, we can never detect any major changes in the world around us."
Steve Lamoreaux (Yale University): proof of the existence of negative energy (zero point vacuum energy - that is, subquark strings/telluric currents/magnetic monopoles double torsion strings):
(starts at 7:50 - Dr. Lamoreaux explains the pushing gravity experiment)
Steve reasoned that if he created a narrow-enough region of empty space like the area between the two ships, then some of the shimmering zero-point energy would not fit inside it.
The energy of empty space outside the narrow region would be stronger and force it to shrink.
That force would be the signature of negative energy, and Steve set out to create it in his lab.
It was an idea that would consume him for more than a decade.
Inside this vacuum chamber are two small metal plates sitting less than the width of a human hair apart from one another.
To get them that close and not touch, the metal has to be perfectly flat, down almost to the atomic level.
The zero-point fluctuations of free space won't fit between those plates, as well, so when you bring these two plates together, there are fewer fluctuations between the plates than there are outside the plates.
The force builds up, and it actually gets stronger and stronger as the plates get closer together, and that force we refer to as arising from negative energy.
The zero-point energy fluctuations outside the plates are stronger than those between, so pressure from the outside pushes them together.
Or think of it another way.
The negative energy between the plates expands space around it.
Steve's years of meticulous labor have made him the first person on Earth to have measured a force produced by negative energy.
Negative energy = effect of telluric waves/strings upon matter (see http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/9803/9803039.pdf )
(see http://milesmathis.com/caven.html for a complete presentation of the tremendous errors inherent in the experiment "performed" by Cavendish)
http://www.rexresearch.com/nipher/nipher1.htm
The relationship between gravitation and the electric field was first observed experimentally by Dr. Francis Nipher. Dr. Francis Nipher conducted extensive experiments during 1918, on a modified Cavendish experiment. He reproduced the classical arrangements for the experiment, where gravitational attraction could be measured between free-swinging masses, and a large fixed central mass. Dr. Nipher modified the Cavendish experiment by applying a large electrical field to the large central mass, which was sheilded inside a Faraday cage. When electrostatic charge was applied to the large fixed mass, the free-swinging masses exhibited a reduced attraction to the central mass, when the central mass was only slightly charged. As the electric field strength was increased, there arose a voltage threshold which resulted in no attraction at all between the fixed mass and the free-swinging masses. Increasing the potential applied to the central mass beyond that threshold, resulted in the free-swinging masses being repelled (!) from the fixed central mass. Nipher's conclusion was that sheilded electrostatic fields directly influence the action of gravitation. He further concluded that gravitation and electrical fields are absolutely linked.
Dr. Francis Nipher, one of the most distinguished physicists of the 20th century:
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/missouri/biography-of-francis-eugene-nipher-ll-d.htm
Dr. Nipher has devoted his entire life to physics, largely along the line of research work, although as an educator and as a contributor to scientific literature his name is widely known. From 1870 until 1874 he was instructor in the physical laboratory of the State University of Iowa and in the latter year became professor of physics in Washington University of St. Louis, occupying that position until 1914 when he was made professor emeritus. In 1885 he was chosen president of the Academy of Science of St. Louis and continued to occupy the position for five years. He was also president of the Engineers Club of St. Louis in 1890 and became a member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, also has membership with the American Philosophical Society, the Society Francaise de Physique, the Royal Society of Arts and the Authors Club of London.
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL:
After tracing to the action of the surrounding medium both the magnetic and the electric attractions and repulsions, and finding them to depend on the inverse square of the distance, we are naturally led to inquire whether the attraction of gravitation, which follows the same law of the distance, is not also traceable to the action of a surrounding medium.
RICHARD FEYNMAN:
There is no explanation of gravitation in terms of other forces at the present time. It is not an aspect of electricity or anything like that, so we have no explanation...But is it still not very remarkable that the two laws [electrical & gravitational] involve the same function of distance? Perhaps gravitation and electricity are much more closely related than we think.
TORONTO - NEW PHOTOGRAPH - BEAMER FALLS CONSERVATION AREA
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chris_baird/14067034302
Taken from a viewing stand at Beamer Memorial Conservation Area, Grimsby
DISTANCE 55 KM ; CURVATURE OF 59 METERS
Beamer's Falls #071114
River Forty Mile Creek
Class Ramp
Crest: 20
The Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority acquired Beamer Memorial Conservation Area in 1964, to protect and preserve the Niagara Escarpment and the Forty-Mile Creek valley system. The site is home to a variety of Carolinian plants and wildlife.
http://www.gowaterfalling.com/waterfalls/beamer.shtml
Therefore, from 45 meters in altitude, we should see a huge 59 meter curvature right in front of us, and a visual obstacle of some 65 meters.
Here is the other photograph from Beamer Falls:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suckamc/53037827/#
Again, no curvature whatsoever across a distance of 55 km, no 59 m midpoint visual obstacle.
Ms. Kerry Ann Lecky-Hepburn took these photographs some years ago: the RE called her, and were told they were taken at an altitude of 170 m in Grimsby.
No ascending slope, no midpoint visual obstacle of 59 meters, no curvature whatsoever.
From the very same spot, Ms. Lecky-Hepburn used a reflector telescope for this zoom:
No curvature whatsoever across a distance of 55 km.
Another photograph signed Mrs. Lecky-Hepburn:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487755017/#
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planetrick/487726854/#in/photostream
No curvature whatsoever, from Hamilton to Lakeshore West Blvd: no visual obstacle, just a perfectly flat surface of the water all the way to the other shoreline.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tundrabluephotography/312939439/#
No 59 meter curvature whatsoever, a perfectly flat surface of the water.
Let us go to lake Michigan now.
More information on lake Michigan here:
POMPEII/HERCULANEAUM NEW CHRONOLOGY DOCUMENTARY: A. TSCHURILOW - POMPEII DESTROYED IN 1631 AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sc5PfjuCqQ#
http://www.tschurilow.de/index.php/ru/2013-06-19-16-50-14/2-2013-05-23-07-35-05/8-2013-05-23-16-24-04 (page to be translated from russian)
Pliny's letters about Vesuvius (research by A. Tschurilow):
http://bloggingpompeii.blogspot.de/2013/01/plinys-letters-about-vesuvius.html#uds-search-results
Ortelius map (1570) featuring Pompeii:
http://bloggingpompeii.blogspot.ro/2010/02/review-features-of-domenico-fontanas.html
http://www.bergbook.com/images/22775-01.jpg (REGNUM NEAPOLITANUM (THEATRUM ORBIS))
http://www.ilya.it/chrono/pages/pompejidt.htm (page to be translated to English: A. Tschurilow detailing the proofs which do show that Pompeii was destroyed just a few hundreds of years ago)
http://www.vetrotech.com/us/eng/SAINT__1580.asp
The first historical records of the glass rolling process in Saint Gobain date back to 1688.
This process involves pouring molten glass onto the rolling table, spreading it out and rolling it. It produces flat glass of an even thickness. Another advantage is that this process enables the production of glass sheets with the dimensions of 40 x 60 inches, which is ideal for mirror making.
And yet, perfectly flat glass at Herculaneum:
http://www.ilya.it/chrono/images/gallery/pom15.jpg
MATRIX OF ANCIENT HISTORY: CHRISTOPHER PFISTER
http://www.dillum.ch/html/pfister_christoph_matrix_der_alten_geschichte_2013.pdf
PAGE 117: POMPEII FRESCO, A COPY OF THE WELL KNOWN PAINTING BY TIZIAN
Christoph Pfister archive:
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg998158#msg998158
http://books.google.ro/books?id=YcjFAV4WZ9MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=history+science+fomenko&hl=ro&sa=X&ei=gtOWU_WQD4PDO_XjgZAP&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=history%20science%20fomenko&f=false
PAGES 61-64 POMPEII GLADIATORS WITH MOBILE VISORS (INVENTED IN THE 15TH CENTURY)
"The use of Renaissance artists of identical details, same colors decisions, motives, general composition plans, the presence in the Pompeian frescoes of the things that emerged in the 15 to 17 century, the presence in Pompeian paintings of genre painting, which is found only in the epoch of the Renaissance, and the presence of some Christian motifs on some frescoes and mosaics suggest that Pompeian frescoes and the works of artists of the Renaissance come from the same people who have lived in the epoch. "Vitas Narvidas," Pompeian Frescoes and the Renaissance: a comparison, "Electronic Almanac" Art & Fact 1 (5), 2007.
Spectroscopy of stars near the ecliptic shows that there is a varying doppler shift from red to blue with a period of exactly one year. This implies that we move alternately toward and away from a particular star each year. The shift is consistent with the Earth's orbital velocity in RE theory.
Similarly, there is a daily redshift consistent with the rotation of the Earth. These shifts have to be accounted for routinely by astronomers.
In FE, what is the explanation for the observed sidereal and annual doppler shifts?
From Hubble:
' … redshifts are evidence either of an expanding universe or of some hitherto unknown principle of nature…”
Nernst's Interpretation
Hubble made two mistakes:
The first one lay in choosing to research an interpretation of redshift that was exclusively within the field of Einsteinian relativity.
The second lay in the hypothesis that his 'law' was 'clearly linear', thus ignoring a fact that is well-known to any physicist, even an amateur one, namely that for small z values (redshift) a straight line constitutes a good 'first approximation' of a logarithmic curve.
The Doppler effect, star aberration, and even the change of wavelength due to the Compton effect, can be explained by taking into consideration the aether field the existence of which was confirmed by many experiments made by Nikola Tesla (see also the Airy experiment).
The aether, by definition, is the light-carrying medium.
http://freespace.virgin.net/ch.thompson1/Essays/Chubykalo.PWA.htm
Einstein took as axioms that space is empty and that the speed
of light (and all other EM wave propagations) is constant c. Both
assumptions are false, due to the (some 15 years later) discovered
Hubble Redshift of star spectra, at the time (ca 1930) wrongly
interpreted as a Doppler effect (with the Big Bang hypothesis
following by time reversal;-) Hubble himself, in a footnote, admitted
that he would prefer a 'tired light' explanation, with redshift
proportional to distance, but that "new physics" would be required
to support this (i.e. an ether filling of space, hence a universal
frame). Clearly he did not want to stick his neck out against
the 'empty space' assumption of Einstein, which was mainstream by
then. Similarly Eddington, in a 1919 remark on light bending around
the Sun (thus in a gravity field), suggested that this could readily
be "simulated" by a non-homogeneous filling of space with some medium
('ether') that would have greater density near a heavy body, using
the known refraction law of Snellius. Both men saw the light, but
hesitated to go against the mainstream of the day.
AETHER REDSHIFT PHYSICS
http://www.aetherpages.com/redshift.htm
http://charles_w.tripod.com/red.html
Moreover, astronomers are USING THE WRONG MAXWELL EQUATIONS.
"In the 1880s, after Maxwell was deceased, Oliver Heaviside — a brilliant but self-taught scientist who never attended university — played a major role in converting (reducing) Maxwell's equations to what today is vector algebra. Heaviside detested potentials, and stated that they should be "murdered from the theory."
The reduction work by Heaviside, Gibbs, and Hertz resulted in the modern four vector equations in some four unknowns. These are taught — along with a further truncation by Lorentz — in every university as "Maxwell's equations." They are in fact Heaviside's equations, further truncated by Lorentz symmetrical regauging.
Today, the tremendously crippled Maxwell-Heaviside equations --- symmetrized by Lorentz --- are taught in all our universities in the electrical engineering (EE) department. Note that the EE professors still dutifully symmetrize the equations, following Lorentz, and thus they continue to arbitrarily discard all asymmetrical Maxwellian systems.
THEREFORE, EINSTEIN NEVER BOTHERED TO DO SOME BASIC RESEARCH REGARDING MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; HE HAD NO IDEA ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF THE ORIGINAL SET OF MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, WHICH STATE VERY CLEARLY:
THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS VARIABLE, AND NOT CONSTANT.
HERE IS THE ORIGINAL SET OF JAMES CLERK MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS: THE EXISTENCE OF ETHER, AETHER AND THE VARIABILITY OF THE SPEED OF LIGHT:
At the beginning of
So this doesn't fit in with a flat earth... Less so the proposed model.
A simple example would be tropical cyclones.
In northern hemisphere they turn counter clockwise while in the southern hemisphere they rotate clockwise. The reason we have for this is due to angular momentum relative to the equator on a round planet that is spinning on it's own axis.
The ferociousness in circulation of these storms fundamentally get's predicted via the angle above or below the equator they form.
In fact, all weather patterns, cold front's, warm fronts and currents all fall under this rule of angular momentum with a global model. Most tornado's too.
Mach's Principle/Geocentric Coriolis Effect
"The effect of the Coriolis force is an apparent deflection of the path of an object that moves within a rotating coordinate system. The object does not actually deviate from its path, but it appears to do so because of the motion of the coordinate system. On the Earth an object that moves along a north-south path, or longitudinal line, will undergo apparent deflection to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere."
By maintaining the relativity of all motion, especially rotational motion, E. Mach denied the existence of absolute motion and of absolute space. Accordingly, Mach maintained the equivalence of the Ptolemaic and the Copernican systems and the equivalence of rotating-system/fixed-universe and universe-rotating/fixed-system situations.
Mach's Principle: A body experiences no inertial forces when it is at rest or in uniform motion with respect to the center of mass of the entire universe. When its motion is nonuniform (accelerated) with respect to the total mass of the universe, it experiences forces such as centrifugal force and the Coriolis effect. Hence, the "local" behavior of matter is influenced by the "global" properties of the universe, i.e., those properties that describe the universe as a whole, which are studied in cosmology.
The Lense-Thirring effect as a consequence of Mach's Principle:
http://www.answers.com/topic/mach-s-principle
H. Thirring observed that the complete equivalence between the reference frames, explaining such phenomena as the Foucault pendulum equally well in a geocentric reference frame, is secured by definition by Einstein's 1915 work: "the required equivalence appears to be guaranteed by the general co-variance of the field equations." That is, Einstein's field equations are structured to supply the necessary upward force on the geosynchronous satellite in a geocentric as well as a heliocentric framework. Thus, H. Thirring notes that: "...in an Einsteinian gravitational field, caused by distant rotating masses, forces appear which are analogous to the centrifugal and Coriolis forces."
Max Born in his famous book,"Einstein's Theory of Relativity", Dover Publications,1962, pgs. 344 & 345 says:
"...Thus we may return to Ptolemy's point of view of a 'motionless earth'...One has to show that the transformed metric can be regarded as produced according to Einstein's field equations, by distant rotating masses. This has been done by Thirring. He calculated a field due to a rotating, hollow, thick-walled sphere and proved that inside the cavity it behaved as though there were centrifugal and other inertial forces usually attributed to absolute space.
Thus from Einstein's point of view, Ptolemy and Corpenicus are equally right."
Einstein himself also says:
"The struggle, so violent in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, 'the sun is at rest and the earth moves,' or 'the sun moves and the earth is at rest,' would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS. -- Einstein and Infeld, The Evolution of Physics, p.212 (p.248 in original 1938 ed.)"
Therefore, distant rotary masses can cause local inertial forces, like the Coriolis and centrifugal forces, which perfectly mimic the inertial effects of a spinning Earth . This implies that there are two possible explanations for the inertial forces whenever objects are in relative rotational motion.
Mach's principle has been confirmed in theory by Hans Thirring and no experimental test has ever disproved this principle of relative motion.
The experiment performed by J. Barbour and B. Bertotti proved that a large hollow sphere (representing the distant star fields) rotating around a small solid sphere inside (modeling the Earth) produced exactly the same pattern of Coriolis and centrifugal forces that are claimed as proof of Earth's spinning in space. If the hollow shell of matter accelerates or rotates, any object inside the shell will tend to be carried along with the acceleration or rotation to some extent. There have arisen some questions re: the Lagrangian used by Barbour and Bertotti and also about the coordinate transformations discussed in their article, but the main experiment showed, quite clearly that Mach's Principle is correct.
http://www.freelists.org/post/geocentrism/Overview-Barbour-Bertotti
Ernst Mach proposed that it is the weight of the stars circling the Earth that drags Foucault pendulums around, creates Coriolis forces in the air that give the cyclones to our weather etc. Barbour and Bertotti (Il Nuovo Cimento 32B(1):1-27, 11 March 1977) proved that a hollow sphere (the universe) rotating around a solid sphere inside (the Earth) produced exactly the same results of Coriolis forces, dragging of Foucault pendulums etc. that are put forward as 'proofs' of heliocentricity!
Conservation of momentum in the atmosphere is a complex process, but basically the earth/ocean/atmosphere system must conserve angular momentum. Angular momentum is transferred from the earth to the atmosphere by the tropical easterlies, where air is rotating faster than the earth and transferred from the atmosphere back to the earth by the westerlies in the mid-latitudes, where the wind is rotating slower than the earth.
"Now, the 'conventional' treatment of our atmosphere is that these molecules interact with one another, such that the angular momentum of the whole is conserved. This is wrong for at least two reasons: There are thermal convection
currents within the atmosphere (and, boy, if you lived in Caithness, you'd know all about them!) which have a great effect on the air molecules. These convection currents have absolutely nothing to do with angular momentum (these
are perhaps the greatest reason why Mike's so-called 'closed system' is invalid). They are due to the incoming heat from the Sun, heating up different components of the World and its atmosphere at different rates, depending upon
composition. These convection currents will act so as to disrupt any alleged angular momentum of our considered molecule. Their effect upon our molecule will be totally overwhelming, compared with any possible transference of
angular momentum. ANY 'ANGULAR MOMENTUM' THAT OUR MOLECULE MAY HAVE HAD WILL BE CHANGED BY THE ACTION OF SOMETHING ORIGINATING OUTSIDE OF THE WORLD/ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM.
Once changed, the total angular momentum of the whole atmosphere (if such a thing existed) would be changed. If it has changed, then it is not conserved. I hope that you will all see that there is no way that total angular
momentum can be conserved and that we are not talking of any form of theoretical 'closed system.' The second reason is closely tied to the first. As I have said many times now, angular momentum is an attribute of rigid bodies. That is how it is DEFINED. Note that ALL the particles within a rigid body have the SAME angular frequency about a COMMON axis of rotation, irrespective of how far each of them is from that axis. Angular momentum does not apply to gases, nor, in general, to fluids.
The boundary layer (BL) in general is the interface area between 2 different
environments, the region where one environment influences the other. If
there is no effect of one env. on the other then there's no BL.
The BL between air and the earth's surface includes the transfer of heat and
moisture and wind currents (convection). The local friction of earth and air
on a flat surface is only inches thick, since the air is non-viscous. But
the irregular topography of the earth is said to produce a frictional BL of
about 6 miles - Death Valley to Mt. Everest.
The problem with this picture is that if the air is dragged along by the BL
of the rotating earth, it should display a latitude-dependent velocity
profile, with upper level winds blowing to the West, which is exactly what
is NOT observed.
If the air somehow rotates with the earth, the coupling being achieved by
some special dispensation from scientific principles, then there's no
frictional BL, since there's no relative motion between ground and air.
Here's the tricky part: the atmosphere is not attached to the Earth.
Therefore, the Earth can spin independently of the atmosphere. But we've got
these convection cells of air rotating from the equator to the poles, and an
Earth spinning beneath it. Thus, the air appears to be moving eastward as
the Earth moves eastward at a rate of 1050 miles per hour along the
Whoa, professor!
If the Earth spins independently of the air, and the N-S Hadley convection
cells prove this, then why is the E-W motion of the air NOT independent of
the Earth's rotation (sic), as the N-S circulation is? Is the air a gas when
moving along a longitude line, and a solid when moving along a latitude?
What is the origin of this astounding anisotropy? When does the 'tricky'
part become 'untricky'- it seems more like 'impossible' ?
Put another way: if the Sun's heating (insolation) at the equator provides
the thermal energy that maintains the Hadley cell N-S rotation, what
force/energy keeps the equatorial winds rotating at the same speed as the
rotating (sic) Earth?
The Earth is not rotating in space.
The Earth’s surface is composed of similar materials.
Solar heating and loss of infrared radiation cause a temperature gradient of hot air at the equator and cold air at the poles, forcing warm air away from the equator toward the poles.
The velocity should exponentially increase with altitude at the equator from 0 to 1054 mph. Based on the conventional Hadley cycle and Coriolis force model:
If there is a jet stream anywhere it should be east-to-west, at the equator, but it is not.
There is a Northern hemisphere mid-latitude west-to-east jet stream, but that is the wrong location and the wrong direction.
There is a Southern high-latitude east-to-west jet stream, which is the wrong location.
The highest steady winds at altitude anywhere seem to be about 50 knots, way below the rotational predictions.
Hence, it seems that the Earth is not rotating, but variable winds are caused by thermal and pressure gradients. Rotation only seems to be discussed in theory regarding the secondary Coriolis side effect, not the main feature, that is, the transition from an accelerated to an inertial frame. Remember, the Coriolis force is not unique to a rotating Earth; the same inertial forces would be present if the universe rotated around an immobile Earth. Mach’s principle is still in effect, as always. But how can inertial winds of 1054 mph not play a significant role in a predictive model of terrestrial air patterns? It seems that no matter which choice for the atmosphere one takes – that it turns with or does not turn with the Earth – it defies either logic or observation.
If we are on a rotating Earth with air subject only to gravity (i.e., the atmosphere is not coupled or bound by any forces to turn with the Earth), then we would experience tremendous wind problems, in which the spinning Earth encounters the full weight of the atmosphere. (NB: The atmosphere weighs more than 4 million billion tons.) The minor thermal differences between poles and equator would be wiped out by the blast of west-to-east air, that is, the collision of free air and the spinning Earth.
Conversely, if we are on a rotating Earth and somehow this atmosphere is turning with us, what is the coupling mechanism that enables it to do so? It must have some link to provide the torque to continue the coordinated rotation of the Earth with its wrapper of air. Would not a co-turning atmosphere and Earth mean nothing else could move the air? Otherwise, is not the air was acting as a solid, not a gas? No one has proposed a mechanism for this connection of the supposedly spinning Earth to the supposedly spinning air that is so strong that the atmosphere is forced to spin along with Earth, though otherwise it is free to move anywhere that gravity permits! We easily demonstrate the air’s freedom every time we walk through it or breathe it. Yet, we are told, the air obediently follows the Earth as it twirls through the heavens.
RESTORING FORCES PARADOX:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120726102954/http://www.realityreviewed.com/Restoring%20forces.htm
There is another way to prove the new radical chrononlogy hypothesis, to show to what degree history has been forged/falsified.
This one can't be denied by anybody, RE or UAFE.
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
Of course, we are told that Matthew and John WERE IN THE SAME ROOM, AT THE TIME THE EVENTS DESCRIBED IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, CHAPTER 13, THE SERVILE WORK EPISODE, WERE TAKING PLACE.
However, there is a huge problem.
Numbers 28:18 (describing the laws/regulations for the Passover)
In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein
In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Exodus 12:8 even specifies the very first day of Passover: In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
It is very obvious that the authors of the gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke had no clue, no idea, no knowledge about the commandments issued in Numbers (28) and Leviticus (23).
These commandments were added later, together with the gospel of John, AFTER the Priestly version was introduced in the Old Testament, that is why the date of the last supper was changed by a whole day.
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=45731.msg1130692#msg1130692 (more about the four versions/documentary components of the Old Testament)
HOW COULD Clement, Origen, Ignatius, Polycarp, Paul, not to mention Augustine, Eusebius and Jerome/Hieronymus himself, miss these incredible discrepancies?
Any scribe in the 1st or 2nd century AD would have noticed these serious and grave errors and would have pointed them out.
It is inconceivable that these errors could have passed unnoticed for some 2000 years.
Since on the FIRST DAY OF PASSOVER there must no servile work done therein, the quotes cited above, from the gospels attributed to Matthew and Mark, leave no doubt whatsoever: the Old and New Testament were invented/falsified just a few hundreds of years ago, that is why the first criticisms about the Bible started to be voiced after 1830 or so: it was only a few decades earlier that this work was actually published and offered to the world.
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1488947#msg1488947 (correct dating of the Council of Nicaea)
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg1539392#msg1539392 (new radical chronology = flat earth surface)
http://www.jewishpath.org/hdshabbospesachwhyntisunre.html (an extraordinary account of the events described above in the gospels, from a jewish perspective, great insights)
Also, there is a debate with regard to the dative case supposedly used in Matthew 26, Mark 14 and Luke 22; however, it can be shown to be wrong:
I still object to interpreting the Dative in Mt26:17 for a Dative of Reference, because, if it were a Dative of Reference, the word order would have been different, and Matthew would have written, “The disciples came to Jesus and said to Him, With reference to the first day of unleavened bread, Lord, .....”.
Luke, would also have changed the Subject, and would have written, “When they sacrificed the passover, his disciples came to him, and said to him, With reference to the first day of unleavened bread .....” But as it stands, there are two Subjects in Luke, “the day”, and “He”, Jesus. “Then came the day”; “Then CAME THE DAY of un-/de-/without-leaven when the passover must be killed”; “Then came the day of un-/de-/without-leaven when the passover must be killed, and HE (Jesus), SENT Peter and John .....”
Mark even worse fits a Dative of Reference interpretation, because he identifies the specific day through his dual perception of it, “Then on the first day of de-leaven WHEN (‘hote’) the passover always gets slain, the disciples asked Him.....”
Now, the extraordinary works which prove that EVEN THE ORIGINAL QUOTE FROM JOHN 13:1 WAS MISTRANSLATED:
John notes the time of the next event as just before the Passover Feast. According to ancient Jewish reckoning, the Passover Feast day would have run from sundown Thursday until sundown on Friday. This has caused some scholars to take the position that John understands the “Last Supper” to have taken place on Wednesday evening, just before Passover. This cannot be reconciled with the Synoptic accounts, which clearly identify the Last Supper as a Passover meal (e.g., Luke 22:15). But this is an easily explained contradiction. John does not say “the day before Passover” but “just before.” The episode he relates next, Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, is done immediately before the meal really begins (1998, p. 285, emp. in orig.).
“Before the Passover” could mean months, days, hours, or seconds before the meal took place. Considering all the evidence, John 13:1 makes reference to only a few minutes before the actual Passover lamb was eaten.
www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?...=11&article=1196
What, then, shall we make of John’s statement that Jesus was crucified on “the Preparation of the Passover?” At first glance, we assume that John means that the “preparation” concerns the actual Passover lamb. However, that assumption is not correct. The “preparation” described by John simply was the day before the Sabbath that fell during the Passover festival. Lenski noted: “When John uses the exceptional combination paraskuea tou pascha, ‘Preparation of the Passover,’ he simply has in mind the Friday of the Passover festival, the one that occurs during the festival week. The Sabbath of this great week was considered especially holy, and preparation was made accordingly” (p. 1271).
In fact, the translators of the NIV were so confident of this meaning that they rendered the verse: “It was the day of Preparation of Passover week, about the sixth hour.” In their commentary on the NIV passage, Bryant and Krause remarked:
The force of the NIV’s interpretation is that this is “Friday of Passover Week.” While this may be what John intends (and I believe he does), it is possible to interpret this as “Preparation for the Passover,” i.e., Thursday. This is the translation of the NRSV and others, but this is every bit as guilty as the NIV of overtranslation…. Actually, the text is ambiguous and cannot answer the day of the week by itself. It is from other considerations that we should conclude that this is Friday… (1998, p. 376).
If John 19:14-18 could mean simply the preparation day during the Passover feast, then John’s timetable would match perfectly with that of the other three Gospels—almost.
THEREFORE, even John tells us that the Last Supper was celebrated ON NISSAN 14 (Thursday evening - Friday evening).
https://books.google.ro/books?id=dfogiEOQdckC&pg=PA376&lpg=PA376&dq=john+preparation+day+passover+actually+friday+bryant+krause&source=bl&ots=9Oo7kcGcL5&sig=hltpYk2Yq1I1RzKDB-H_0V-88IY&hl=ro&sa=X&ei=WvTVVNmTFaWeywOzjoHoDw&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=john%20preparation%20day%20passover%20actually%20friday%20bryant%20krause&f=false
There were several attempts to move the Last Supper to Nissan 13, but these works rely mostly on the misleading translation from John 13:1 - more on the Last Supper:
http://biblelight.net/pasover.htm
http://jimmyakin.com/was-the-last-supper-a-passover-meal
Again, Dr. Akiva Belk:
Dear reader, these types of problems are generally unknown to most Christians / Messianics because they do not truly understand the Torah or the correct process of the Pesach seder. They haven't consider that Jesus took leavened bread instead of matzoh. They don't know that one does not begin the Pesach meal without first saying kiddush. How would they know that kiddush is not said in the middle of the Pesach meal? How would they know that the blessing is first said on the wine and then on the matzoh?
Holy reader, what these contradictions to the Torah show is that either the writers did not know the most basic precepts of Torah or that they openly violated the very concept of Pesach. Why would they go to prepare? Why would they rid the house of chometz? Why would they bother if they were going to eat chometz, bread anyway?
Holy reader, these are just a few of the many problems presented within the New Testament. There are many more.
Later during the Pesach meal we read that Jesus, according to John, "He {Jesus} arose from supper, and laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself and that he poured water into a basin and began to WASH THE DISCIPLES feet, and to wipe them with the towel..." John 13:3,4
Again, holy reader, this sin is so obvious to observant Jews. Bathing oneself during Pesach is prohibited. Even washing one's clothes is prohibited during the eight days of Pesach. This should be a clear sign to any Jew like the other aforementioned problems that Jesus and his disciples were NOT TORAH OBSERVANT They openly disobeyed the commands of G-d! There is no missing this! It is blatant!
NEW RADICAL CHRONOLOGY PROOFS (SUMMARY)
Pompeii/Herculaneum destroyed during the Renaissance
Christoph Pfister archive
C. Pfister, one of the very best european historians, has discovered that there was no human settlement prior to 1700 AD in Switzerland, and that all gothic/medieval buildings and all ancients documents pertaining to the period 500 AD - 1600 AD were actually created in the 18th Century AD. He also found out that the printing press was invented around 1730 AD, and wrote the exceptional book Matrix of Ancient History: http://www.dillum.ch/html/matrix_werbeblatt.htm
Gregorian Calendar Reform hoax:
Mozart, Bach, Euler, B. Franklin:
Great Wall of China, constructed after 1900 AD:
http://www.breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=27892#27892 (not so ancient china 1)
http://de.geschichte-chronologie.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83:chronological-revolution-part-1&catid=2:2008-11-13-21-58-51&Itemid=90 (section Glorious Chinese History is a Fake) - on google search with eugen gabowitsch a historical analysis )
Council of Nicaea: could not have taken place before the 876-877 AD, best proofs
Stone Age Hoax/Dinosaurs at Pompeii
Almagest by Ptolemy, written at least after 1300 AD
Gizeh Pyramid Radian Measure/Natural Logarithm
Origin of Calculus: 18th Century
Temple of Solomon, human forms
New radical chronology = flat surface of the Earth
Age of the heliocentric solar system paradox
Gospel eclipses fiction
Templars in the 18th century
Egyptian Pteranodon
MYSTERIES OF EGYPTIAN ZODIACS/ZODIACS TIMELINE OF EGYPT BY A. FOMENKO:
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/freebooks/history/Zodiacs.html
http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/freebooks/history/timeline.html
(see the table of contents I posted earlier, with quotes from the books)
Here is the superb work done by Gunnar Heinsohn re: the ancient civilizations:
http://www.specialtyinterests.net/heinsohn.html
http://www.chrono-rekonstruktion.de/beitraege/cyaxares.pdf
Heinsohn is not a radical new chronologist, but does prove very conclusively that the period 2100 BC - 600 BC NEVER ACTUALLY OCCURRED, and was invented in later times.
Isotopic dating/Ice core dating
Who wrote the Bible
TOTAL DEMOLITION OF THE "THEORY" OF RELATIVITY
Maxwell's original set of equations tell us a very simple fact: THE SPEED OF LIGHT IS VARIABLE.
Therefore, the annual/daily shift is a MEASURE OF THE EXISTENCE OF A VARIABLE ETHER FIELD.
The measurements taken by Dr. Dayton Miller meant that they were latitude-dependent (see http://www.orgonelab.org/miller.htm ).
The greatest scientific catastrophe of the 19th century: the Michelson-Morley "experiment":
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ELECTRIC COMET THEORY
"Comets are perhaps at once the most spectacular and the least well understood members of the solar system."
M. Neugebauer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
From English Mechanic & World of Science, 11 Aug 1882, pp. 516-7:
COMET’S TAILS”…There seems to be a rapidly growing feeling amongst physicists that both the self-light of comets and the phenomena of their tails belong to the order of electrical phenomena.”
"At the end of the nineteenth century there was considerable interest in electricity and the phenomena of electric discharges in evacuated glass tubes.
Scientists of the day could see the many parallels between the behavior of the luminous comet and a laboratory glow discharge. But in the following decades they abandoned that vision. Electrified comets required an electrified Sun. Astronomers in the 20th century were never taught the physics of gas discharges, and the idea of electricity in space was anathema to them. They turned their eyes away from the signs of electrical activity and adapted the older mechanical theories to explain comet behavior as buffetings in a solar “wind.” The gas discharge model was passed over for Fred Whipple”s ‘dirty ice ball’ model of comets."
Wal Thornhill
COMET WILD 2
As anticipated, Comet Wild 2 provided more puzzling questions for astronomers while adding confirmation to the Electric Universe model.
http://www.holoscience.com/wp/comet-wild-2/?article=ayxpdjcb (EXCEPTIONAL DOCUMENTATION)
On the jets of comet Wild 2:
http://www.holoscience.com/wp/comets-impact-cosmology/
COMETS LOVEJOY AND ISON
http://www.sott.net/article/269357-Why-didnt-Comet-ISON-melt-in-the-Sun-How-NASA-and-Official-Science-got-it-all-wrong-again
Here's what the Stardust program director said when the images came back:
"We thought Comet Wild 2 would be like a dirty, black, fluffy snowball," said Stardust Principal Investigator Dr. Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, Seattle. "Instead, it was mind-boggling to see the diverse landscape in the first pictures from Stardust, including spires, pits and craters, which must be supported by a cohesive surface."
What differentiates 'comets' from asteroids' is their electrical activity.
When the electric potential difference between an asteroid and the surrounding plasma is not too high, the asteroid exhibits a dark discharge mode8 or no discharge at all. But when the potential difference is high enough, the comet switches to a glowing discharge mode.9 At this point the asteroid is a comet. From this perspective, a comet is simply a glowing asteroid and an asteroid is a non-glowing comet. Thus the very same body can, successively, be a comet, then an asteroid, then a comet, etc., depending on variation in the ambient electric field it is subjected to.
Note that a comet can also exhibit the third plasma discharge mode, namely lightning or 'arc mode discharge', which is probably what happened when Comet Shoemaker-Levy entered the vicinity of Jupiter in July 1994:
Astronomers expected the encounter to be a trivial event. "You won't see anything. The comet crash will probably amount to nothing more than a bunch of pebbles falling into an ocean 500 million miles from Earth." Then came the encounter and an about face. As reported by Sky & Telescope, "When Fragment 'A' hit the giant planet, it threw up a fireball so unexpectedly bright that it seemed to knock the world's astronomical community off its feet ..."
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) detected a flare-up of fragment "G" of Shoemaker-Levy long before impact at a distance of 2.3 million miles from Jupiter. For the electrical theorists, this flash would occur as the fragment crossed Jupiter's plasma sheath, or magnetosphere boundary.
Pierre Lescaudron
More on Electric Comet Wild 2:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/040805electric-comet.htm
Comets, Gravity, and Electricity:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2005/arch05/050523halleyborrelly.htm
Electric Comet Proofs:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/00subjectx.htm#Comets
K. Vshekhsviatsky was the leading expert in comet astrophysics as his works clearly demonstrate this.
Two months after the discovery of the ring around Jupiter, the Soviet Union claimed joint credit for the discovery, contending that Vsekhsviatskii had predicted the ring’s existence as early as 1960 in a journal called Izvestia of the Armenian Academy of Sciences. The passage from the relevant paper is as follows:
‘The existence of active ejection processes in the Jupiter system, demonstrated by comet astronomy, gives grounds for assuming that Jupiter is encircled by comet and meteorite material in the form of a ring similar to the ring of Saturn.’
Despite the fact of his priority, Vsekhsviatskii’s name has remained conspicuously absent from the scientific literature pertaining to comets and planetary rings.
He did demonstrate that the capture theory is completely wrong.
On page 107 he estimates with great accuracy the age of the Halley comet:
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1962PASP...74..106V/0000107.000.html
Comets, Small Bodies, and Problems of the Solar System, full article
K. Vshekhsviatsky, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 74 (1962)
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1958SvA.....2..433V&classic=YES
ON THE CAPTURE HYPOTHESIS OF SHORT PERIOD COMETS
His demonstration stands correct to this day.
His expulsion theory of comets was considered to be too advanced for the scientific period of the 60s, and was put on hold, until a better understanding the subject was to be gained.
But today we have the electric comet theory: Comets are the result of electrical discharge machining of planetary bodies that occurs in the catastrophic evolution of planetary orbits. It is far too simplistic to assume that the planets were formed along with the Sun and remained in their present orbits ever since.
Now finally his expulsion theory can be explained.
When passing close to the sun, comets emit tails. It is assumed that the material of the tail does not return to the comet's head but is dispersed in space; consequently, the comets as luminous bodies must have a limited life. If Halley's comet has pursued its present orbit since late pre-Cambrian times, it must "have grown and lost eight million tails, which seems improbable." If comets are wasted, their number in the solar system must permanently diminish, and no comet of short period could have preserved its tail since geological times.
But as there are many luminous comets of short period, they must have been produced or acquired at some time when other members of the system, the planets and the satellites, were already in their places.
Dr. D. Russell Humphreys:
According to evolutionary theory, comets are supposed to be the same age as the solar system, about five billion years. Yet each time a comet orbits close to the sun, it loses so much of its material that it could not survive much longer than about 100,000 years. Many comets have typical ages of less than 10,000 years.
Evolutionists explain this discrepancy by assuming that (a) comets come from an unobserved spherical "Oort cloud" well beyond the orbit of Pluto, (b) improbable gravitational interactions with infrequently passing stars often knock comets into the solar system, and (c) other improbable interactions with planets slow down the incoming comets often enough to account for the hundreds of comets observed. So far, none of these assumptions has been substantiated either by observations or realistic calculations. Lately, there has been much talk of the "Kuiper Belt," a disc of supposed comet sources lying in the plane of the solar system just outside the orbit of Pluto. Some asteroid-sized bodies of ice exist in that location, but they do not solve the evolutionists' problem, since according to evolutionary theory, the Kuiper Belt would quickly become exhausted if there were no Oort cloud to supply it.
Dr. Danny Faulkner:
http://creation.com/comets-and-the-age-of-the-solar-system (very well documented)
The standard model of a comet is one in which all of the material observed is released by an icy nucleus only a few kilometres across. This model strongly suggests that comets are very fragile, losing much of their material during each close pass to the Sun. Most comets follow orbits that take them vast distances from the Sun. If a comet’s orbit takes it too far from the Sun, then the comet could easily be captured by the gravitational attraction of other stars and thus would be lost to the Solar System. This places a maximum distance from the Sun that a comet may orbit. If this maximum distance can be estimated, Kepler's third law of planetary motion can be used to deduce the greatest possible orbital period that a comet may possess (about 11 million years). When combined with an estimate of how many trips around the Sun that a comet can survive, we can estimate the maximum age of comets. This figure is far less than the adopted 4.6 Ga age of the Solar System. Because no source of creation for comets has been identified, comets are assumed to be primordial. If this is true, then the age of the Solar System must be less than the estimated upper age of comets.
COMET HOLMES P17
The unpredictable behavior of comets continually contradicts the tenets of traditional comet theory - to the point that some experts now wonder if a theory even exists. “It's a mystery to me how comets work at all,” said Donald Brownlee, principle investigator of NASA's Stardust Mission.
One need only review the extraordinary spectacle provided by Comet Holmes 17P to see how deep the crisis in cometology reaches. In October of 2007, Holmes suddenly and unexpectedly brightened by a factor of a million. In less then 24 hours, it grew from a small 17th magnitude comet to a magnitude of 2.5, so large it was easily visible to the naked eye on Earth. Holmes' coma continued expanding until by mid-November of '07 it had become the largest object in the solar system, vastly larger than the Sun. The coma's diameter had grown from 28 thousand kilometers to 7 million km.
At the time of Holmes' extraordinary display, the comet was actually moving away from the Sun, and therefore cooling.
Among the common sense questions posed by the enigma: how does such a gravitationally minuscule body hold in place a uniform, spherical coma 7 million kilometers in diameter?
If Holmes' flare-up was the result of a collapse or explosion (as some scientists speculated) why was the ejected material not asymmetrical (as one would anticipate from an explosion)? Why did the claimed explosion not produce a variety of fragmentary sizes instead of the extremely fine dust that was actually observed? What explosive event could have caused the comet to luminate for MONTHS, rather than the SECONDS typical of an explosion's luminescence? Why did the comet's gaseous, dusty, spherical cloud persist for months, rather than dispersing quickly away from the comet?
“The remarkable properties of comets are not even remotely explicable by any of the numerous ad hoc assumptions of ‘modern’ comet theory.”
— R A Lyttleton, FRS, Journey to the Centre of Uncertainty, Speculations in Science & Technology.
Therefore, for example, the ‘Oort Shell’ hypothesis of comets surrounding the Solar System is considered an unnecessary fiction. Indeed, Professor Ray Lyttleton described the Oort Shell theory as ‘a piece of trash.’
Professor S. Vsekhsviatskii, Director of the Kiev Observatory and Head of the Faculty of Astronomy, University of Kiev, has concluded from his studies of comets that:
i). Celestial mechanics, the distribution and statistics of cometary orbits, and consideration of the kinematics of the cometary system leave no doubt whatsoever that all comets, and therefore the products of their decay, were formed inside the Solar System, and were formed a little later, on the average, than were the planets.
ii). The existence of the families of short-period comets of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and the peculiarities of their motion and nature – their chemistry, the presence of ice in their nuclei, their close association with Jupiter prior to discovery, etc. – demonstrates the recent origin of comets.
This is in accord with the theory of the eruptive development of planets, as developed by Lagrange, Proctor, Crommelin and Vsekhsviatskii. Recent, comprehensive investigations by Everhart (1969) confirmed once more that peculiarities of the observed distribution of short-period comet orbits cannot be explained on the basis of the ‘gravitational capture’ hypothesis.
Comet Holmes 17P in the shape of a sphere
http://www.racingshadow.com/CometMet/17P_Holmes/17P_Holmes.html
1 and 4 show Comet Holmes as a circular disk, in reality a sphere, of dust with a well defined explosion front.
It also has a slight but definite ring appearance, as if some of the light is coming from a hollow, spherical, glowing shell.
This 12-arcminute-wide frame from Arkansas Sky Observatory shows the comet as a brilliant, near-circular disk on the morning of October 25th. Clay Sherrod used a 0.4-meter (16-inch) Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope at f/3.
http://www.rense.com/general79/cmet.htm (solar wind/gravity of comets paradox)
WHEN DID SHAKESPEARE LIVE?
"William Shakespeare" did not write a single word from the plays attributed to his name.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biggestsecret/bigsec/biggestsecret08.htm
It may have been Francis Bacon who communicated some of the secret knowledge ‘for those who have ears’ in ciphers and symbolism in the works called the Shakespeare plays. He, like the writers of the Old and New Testaments and the King Arthur ‘Grail’ stories, was a high initiate of the secret mysteries communicating through code and hidden meaning. Manly P. Hall says that Bacon indicated that he was the true author in a series of codes. His esoteric number was 33 and on one page in the first part of the ‘Shakespeare’ play, Henry The Fourth, the name ‘Francis’ appears 33 times.
Bacon also used watermarks in paper to transmit his symbols, as did the Rosicrucians and secret societies in general. These included the rose and the cross and bunches of grapes - the vine, the bloodlines.14 Bacon also used Tarot symbolism in his codes, including the numbers 21, 56 and 78, which are related to divisions in the Tarot deck. In a Shakespearean Folio of 1623, the Christian name of Bacon appears 21 times on page 56.
The term Rota Mundi frequently occurs in the early manifestos of the Fraternity of the Rose Cross. Rearrange the letters in Rota and you get Taro, the ancient name for the tarot cards.’ Shakespeare is known as the Bard. A Bard was a Druidic initiate of the secret knowledge and, the Concise Oxford Dictionary tells me, there is another definition of bard... “a slice of bacon placed on meat or game before roasting”.
The famous Globe Theatre in London where the plays were performed was built according to the principles of sacred geometry and the last ‘Shakespeare’ play, The Tempest, included many Rosicrucian concepts. It is equally possible that the ‘Shakespeare’ plays were written by another initiate of Elizabethan society, Edward De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, who also fitted the bill and some believe even more so than Bacon.
The idea that the world famous plays were written by an illiterate from Stratford-upon-Avon called William Shakespeare is patently ridiculous and, like so much accepted ‘truth’, does not survive the most basic research. Shakespeare, the ‘Bard’, grew up in Stratford, a town with no school capable of communicating such a high degree of learning. His parents were illiterate and he showed a total disregard for study.
Yet the plays were written by someone with a great knowledge of the world which could be gleaned only from a fantastic range of books and personal experience through travel. Shakespeare had no such library, not that he could have used it if he had, and he is never known to have left the country. Bacon had just such a library and travelled widely to many of the places featured in the plays. Where did Shakespeare acquire his knowledge of French, Italian, Spanish, Danish and classic Latin and Greek? Answer, he didn’t.
Ben Jonson, a close friend of Shakespeare, said that the ‘Bard’ understood: “small Latin and less Greek!” But Bacon and DeVere were learned in these languages. Shakespeare’s daughter, Judith, was known to be illiterate and could not even write her name at the age of 27. It really makes sense that a man who wrote so eloquently would have a daughter who could not write her signature.
There are only six known examples of Shakespeare’s own handwriting, all signatures, and three of these are on his will. They reveal a man unfamiliar with a pen and a hand that was probably guided by another. His will included his second best bed and a broad silver gilt bowl, but nothing whatsoever to suggest that he wrote or owned a single work of literature! Nor is there one authentic portrait of Shakespeare.
The differences in the depiction of him by artists confirm that no-one has any idea what he looked like. Yet the power of conditioning and accepting the official line attracts millions of people to Stratford from all over the world to see the home of the man who didn’t write the Shakespeare plays! This is only one small example of how the official fairy story called ‘history’ is used to control current behaviour and perception. What else in history isn’t true? Just about everything. Behind the Shakespeare plays was the hidden hand behind most historical events of significance - the Brotherhood networks.
And nothing sums up the attitude of this group better than the words Bacon/DeVere wrote in his play, Macbeth:
“Fair is foul and foul is fair.”
As Manly P. Hall, the Freemasonic historian, wrote of Bacon:
“He was a Rosicrucian, some have intimated the Rosicrucian. If not actually the Illustrious Father C.R.C. referred to in the Rosicrucian manifestos, he was certainly a high initiate of the Rosicrucian Order... those enthusiasts who for years have struggled to identify Sir Francis Bacon as the true “Bard of Avon” might long since have won their case had they emphasized its most important angle, namely, that Sir Francis Bacon, the Rosicrucian initiate, wrote into the Shakespearean plays the secret teachings of the Fraternity of R.C. and the true rituals of the Freemasonic Order, of which order it may be discovered that he was the actual founder.“
Shakespeare's plays include abundant references to Paul's epistles.
http://www.shmoop.com/comedy-of-errors/marriage-quotes.html
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+law+made+flesh%3A+St.+Paul's+Corinth+and+Shakespeare's+Vienna.-a0353319364
EDWIN JOHNSON, THE GREATEST OF ALL BRITISH HISTORIANS, DEMONSTRATES WITH EXTRAORDINARY PROOFS THAT NOBODY IN WESTERN EUROPE KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT THE FOUR GOSPELS/PAULINE EPISTLES BEFORE 1550 AD.
MOREOVER, HE DEMONSTRATES THAT, AS LATE AS 1592 THERE WAS NO VULGATE (LATIN BIBLE).
http://www.egodeath.com/edwinjohnsonpaulineepistles.htm#_Toc54459891
But the Post-Apostolic Men Do Not Know Their Alleged Apostolic Masters, Which Is Absurd!
It is, however, part of the mistaken view of the subject, arising from the acceptance of the false chronology, to suppose that the alleged "Apostolic Fathers" quote from and build upon the Apostles. The discovery of this it was which led me first to see the enormous fictions that had been at work in the Christian literature, for it is absurd to suppose that Paul, after making a vast reputation as a literary man in the first century, was afterwards almost lost in oblivion in the second century. And the like applies to the deeds and sufferings of Christ himself, and to the whole fable of the origins. After all, these mythologists have made some great blunders in their system.
They Do Not Know the Epistle to the Romans
Take the richest theological Epistle ascribed to Paul: that to the Romans. Positively these so-called post-Apostolic men do not know it. They have merely some faint echoes of its contents; which is a very different thing. And it is the merest sophistry to confound them, or to talk of "Reminiscences," where there is no proof of anything of the kind. I must distinctly warn my readers against this fallacy of the handbooks and introductions to the New Testament, the only thorough cure for which is to read these "post-Apostolic" men for themselves. They will then discover that these writers, assumed to be following in the steps of their forerunners, and to be diligently perusing their writings as we have them, are doing nothing of the kind. They are dreaming, rambling, and raving; but they do not know that romantic figure of Paul that is known to us, nor yet his alleged writings as we have them.
In the interests of devout belief, it would be well that none should ever read this so-called "second-century literature." But, in the interest of literary science, it should be denounced as a discreditable falsehood on the part of any scholar, who has studied that literature, to assert that the writers know anything of the tremendous events which are described in the Canonical Gospels and Acts and Epistles as having taken place in the preceding age. No student who follows the path of science can possibly, when this matter is understood, adhere any longer to the ecclesiastically "orthodox" opinion of Christianity.
Had they calculated upon intelligent readers, they would have felt the necessity of enlarging the "post-Apostolic" men pari passu with the "Apostolic" men. Barnabas and Hermas and Clement and the rest ought not to be left so deeply in the dark, after the brilliancy that has been made to flash upon Paul!
It is beyond expression ludicrous, when you inquire of an Ignatius, or a Polycarp, "what interesting traits have you to narrate of those great Apostles and their writings, and those Epistles which you are so fond of alluding to?" to listen in reply to their maunderings and mutterings, as if they were in a dream, or moving about and groping in a world half realised. You demand a fact or two, and you are offered a theory, a creed expressed in language the most flatulent and vague that can be devised. The truth is, that the outlines of this creed and theory are at the bases of both the alleged "Apostolic" and "post-Apostolic" writing, and can be clearly detected; but the Apostolic writings, as we have them in the New Testament, are later than the "post-Apostolic" writings as we have them. Consequently, the notion that our New Testament is the earliest source for Christian origins is absurd; and equally so the notion that our Pauline Epistles are earlier than those of Clement, Ignatius, and the rest. The converse is nearer the truth.
He also discovered the following incredible fact about what was known in the alleged XVIth century about ancient history:
Polydore has only before him a slight version of the tale about Hieronymus or Jerome, showing that our List was not in his hands. He says that the monk was well educated in Greek and Latin at Rome; that, for the sake of a holier life, he repaired to Judea, and learned the Hebrew tongue; that his writings on Divinity were accepted and approved by the Fathers as holy.
Then follows this remarkable criticism: "I know there are some who falsely assign that deed to the pontiff Damasus, who had died a very long time before Jerome."
I am the first to call attention to this passage, which, once for all, explodes the whole Jerome fable, and proves it to be a recent invention of Polydore's own time. Moreover, it proves his ignorance of the tale which "Jerome" is made to tell of himself, that he had rendered the New Testament from the Greek; and, once more, it proves that Church chronology and history were not yet fixed, for the dates of Jerome and Damasus are not yet agreed upon. The Preface to Damasus must be later than 1533.
IN THE OFFICIAL CHRONOLOGY, JEROME AND DAMASUS ARE CONTEMPORARIES.
J. Scaliger (De Emendatione Temporum - 1583, Thesaurus Temporum - 1606), D. Petavius (De Doctrina Temporum, 1627), P. Crusius (Liber de Epochis - 1578) mention Pompeii and Herculaneum as having been destroyed in the year 79 AD (Vesuvius eruption).
And yet, in the SAME DECADE, in the official chronology, the famed cartographer Abraham Ortelius depicts Pompeii as a city in full activity in his Regno de Napoli maps (published in several editions from 1570 to 1578):
http://www.antiquarius-sb.com/Catalogue_c.asp?page=4&area=115&subarea=27
http://www.bergbook.com/images/22775-01.jpg
http://www.antiquarius-sb.com/Details_c.asp?ID=8669
http://www.answers.com/topic/abraham-ortelius (biography of A. Ortelius)
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php/topic,30499.msg1243598.html#msg1243598 (Plutarch, Josephus, Dio Cassius, Pliny the Elder, Eusebius - fictional characters invented at least after 1700 AD)
"Shakespeare" did own a copy of Ortelius' maps.
http://www.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/spotlights/shakespeares_study/world01.htm
Since Pompeii must have been a city in full activity in 1570 AD, this makes Shakespeare and Josephus contemporaries.
Abbildung 11: Italienische oder pompejanische Renaissance:
Tizian: Liegende Kurtisane (oben) und liegende Mänade aus
Pompeji (unten)
Abbildung der Mänade aus: Pietro Giovanni Guzzo: Pompei, Ercolano, Stabiae, Oplontis;
Napoli 2003, 75
Figure 11: Italian Renaissance and Pompeian:
Titian: Horizontal courtesan (top) and from lying maenad
Pompeii (below)
Figure out the maenad: Pietro Giovanni Guzzo: Pompei, Ercolano, Stabia, Oplontis;
The well-known painting by Titian copied perfectly at Pompeii...
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764 people per sq mi
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5-9 1,103 1,087 2,190
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Total 460 2,253 2,732 2,494 2,287 1,538 784 298
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Total 412 409 449 448 433 434 427 444 452 471 409 375 417 390 361 332 369 278 290 264
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ZIP Code 28411 is in the New Hanover County School District. There are 2 different elementary schools and high schools with mailing addresses in ZIP code 28411.
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Tomb Raider 2 Beta [PSX / Saturn / PC]
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Overview: The first Tomb Raider game became a success with high ratings and sold well. Core Design of Derbyshire had already planned a sequel, the game underwent big changes through development. According to rumors, due to the original game being such a success, Sony paid for the game to be exclusively made for the PlayStation which in turn resulted in the Sega Saturn version being cancelled. There is no evidence of this happening, if anybody has any official information please do update this. Core Design managed to successfully remaster and implement Lara’s ponytail which was a major issue back in 1995. Tomb Raider 2 was released on the Sony PlayStation and PC early November 1997. In 2004, an external company ported Tomb Raider 2 to the Tapwave Zodiac handheld device which is now defunct. The port was cancelled due to unknown reasons but is available to download from some places on the internet.
Early Alpha Stage – Date, Late 1996
These screenshots come from an early alpha build of Tomb Raider 2. As you can see, Lara has no braid, her model is exactly the same to the first Lara in Tomb Raider 1. There aren’t supposed to be stairs in Bartoli’s Hideout, the gate where the boat is supposed to drive through is missing. These are most likely the first set of screenshots showing Tomb Raider 2.
Alpha Stage – Date, Early 1997?
Platform: PSX
This build is similar to the one above. However, Core Design began experimenting with Lara Croft having a braid. Some early E3 preview videos show a similar build.
Beta Stage – Date, 16th June 1997 (E3 Build)
After E3 1997, Tomb Raider 2 E3 build leaked onto the internet. As a result it is now available on many websites. The alpha consists of 3 playable levels in early development
Bartoli’s Hideout.
The Wreck Of Maria Doria
Ice Palace / Catacombs of the Talion
In the first level Bartoli’s Hideout, you can notice that the Pistols’ Sound effects are completely different. The health bar is also different in color, just an early placeholder. In the beginning, you don’t start in the boat, they may not have created it yet. The original gate where you are supposed to go through with the boat is locked and the room in there doesn’t contain the clock tower door, it’s just a white textured room, could this be an early alpha room from the previous level? The sword men have no sound effects whilst their sword goes down. The Debug cheat ‘DOZY’ is available, Lara will swim once the user holds down ‘D-O-Z-Y’. The building shelters are normally textured with a red cloth like surface but in this version they are plain wood. In addition, there are no wired gates which separate areas, they are replaced with wooden slats hammered together unseen in the final version. The first secret is missing, the veranda which leads to the stone dragon is there but the door itself is missing. The positioning of the room under the fireplace was changed slightly in the final release. The inventory is the same to Tomb Raider 1, the guns are also identical: Pistols, Magnums, Shotgun, Uzis. The Magnums were later changed to ‘Automatic Pistols’ in the final build. The compass is still functional but was later changed to statistics watch to give a more modern game play experience. Whilst climbing up walls, there is a glitch which allows Lara to draw her guns, this was a problem back in July 1996 for Tomb Raider 1 which they fixed in the final, but it has re-occurred in this build. Secrets aren’t yet implemented, the locations are there though. The detonation key is different from the final one, it is gold and red where as, the final is grey entitled ‘TNT’. At 08:59, you can see an additional room which was removed from final. It has nothing in it, it may have been a placeholder room for the Stone dragon secret. It isn’t possible to complete the level, the TNT explosive device is not in this version, there are no end triggers so the only way to skip to the next level is to rename the level files.
In the second level, there appears to be a huge difference visually and with sound. The sound effects are from Tomb Raider 1, the first level contains early/final sound effects for Tomb Raider 2. The level is so early, it starts right at the end. In the beginning, there are no textures. The costume itself is completely different from final, it’s striped with orange whereas, in the final it’s white,blue,grey and black. There is a glitch with the lever at 1:53, you must rush to get to the other lever before the door itself closes, DOZY is a quick way of doing this. This area of the level is pretty much final, there aren’t many noticeable changes but the glitch at 3:59, the texture underneath the water is a rock texture. The inventory noise is exactly the same as Tomb Raider 1, in the first level it’s just a high pitched noise, the key has placeholder textures which aren’t final. The ending of the level is yet again untextured with no option to proceed to the next level.
Beta Stage – Date, 16th June 1997
PSX E3 Demo, it is identical to the PC E3 Demo.
Beta Stage – Date, Early September 1997 (Demo)
This is a playable beta demo of the first level, there are several differences such as the title screen picture. It’s completely different, shows a picture of early Xian in china. At the beginning of the level, you can jump forward and grab the top ledge which you shouldn’t be able to do, it was fixed in the final build. Also, the helicopter doesn’t exist, it’s supposed to fly by at the top of the Great Wall, she seems to look though. Halfway through, in the room with the flying discs just before the boulders are introduced, the flying discs have the sound of darts from Tomb Raider 1, the sound was later changed in the late September build below. The level ends right after the spike crushers because it’s incomplete. If you bypass the ending, there is no way of proceeding since it’s nothing but a dead end. In the inventory, statistics has the extra feature ‘Hit/Miss Ratio’ this isn’t available in the final version. It may be because in the 30th September build, it is non-functional due to a glitch in the code which they didn’t have time to fix for final release.
Beta Stage – Date, 30th September 1997
This particular version was burnt to many pirated Tomb Raider 2 discs. Though close to the final game, the last levels are slightly unfinished with Temple of Xian and Lara’s Home being impossible to complete without glitching. The DOZY cheat can be accessed which turns Lara Gold, allowing her to swim in mid-air most likely used to help the developers navigate to specific rooms more quickly.
Beta Stage – Date, 17th October 1997
Pretty much the final game with dozy.
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Gh0stblade – Added June 1997 Footage, September 1997 Footage, Early 1997 magazine scans. 05/12/11
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Butcher [Xbox 360 – Prototype]
The Butcher was one of many character prototypes created by Rare Ltd. in 2008. When the company’s direction shifted to Kinect software, all work on this prototype was abandoned. Currently we don’t know what kind of game Rare planned to use the Butcher into, or even if it would ever be used in some commercial project. As far as we know, this could have been a character study, without any gameplay connected at all. Only a few images and animations remain, to preserve the existence of this project.
Thanks to Moren for the contribution!
Videos (please note that parts of the video contain animations that do not directly relate to the original prototype) :
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Fire Emblem: the Sacred Stones [Beta / Debug – GBA]
Recently a beta version of Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones has been found. It is a very early version of the Sacred Stones and contains many differences. This pre-alpha ROM uses many things from the previous game as placeholder; even the title and menus from the Blazing Sword are still there. The game opens up with a debug menu that is identical to the one from the Blazing Sword prototypes. Although the game does have some of the stages programmed in it many of these still need much work. Some do not yet have enemies and have a level two Cavalier as the only enemy. The game’s own music has not been implemented and certain moster enemies are missing battle artwork. Many character portraits are absent; those that do exist were changed in the final. These alterations are mostly minor but some characters were changed quite a bit. Also Ephraim’s name was originally Izark.
Alpha on the left. Final on the right.
Debug Title Screen
Additional information from Serenes Forest:
Amelia has Tana’s role; her class was planned to be a flying Trainee.
L’Arachel has a variation of Tana’s portrait, while Tethys has a variation of Neimi’s portrait.
There was a Wyvern Rider called Nate planned Ephraim’s name was planned to be Irzark (seen in the debug menus).
These characters were changed drastically in the final.
Many of the World Map locations have different names. Some of the battle map layouts are slightly different.
In Chapter 6, after Eirika hands over her bracelet, the Grado soldiers kill the civilians in front of her eyes.
At the end of Chapter 6, Saleh appears and kills the boss with a critical attack. Chapter 6’s battle map is the same as Chapter 11’s (Eirika’s route) in the retail version.
The boss of Chapter 8 is Dyude Rubarth, one of Grado’s Seven Generals, also known as the Black ?-stone.
By using the debug options one can remove an enemy’s weapon. This shows sprites that are not viewable in normal gameplay.
Eirika promotes at the beginning of Chapter 17 The Final Chapter is comprised of just one map.
The Tower of Valni has two extra stages- seen in Floor 2 and 3.
You can find even more infos at Serenes Forest! Props to them
Below you can see a bunch of scans from Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones beta, before it came out. You can see its earliest scans (first reveal scans) where the first couple chapters are different and there are different animations and mugshots for some characters. The stolen prototypes (they were stolen from Intelligent System’s network) seem to have some content from this earliest version, but also content that wasn’t present in the earliest OR the final version.
Thanks to Iven Allen for the scans!
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Packers hold off Seahawks 28-23 to reach NFC title game
Posted: Jan 13, 2020 / 12:05 PM EST / Updated: Jan 13, 2020 / 12:05 PM EST
Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers celebrates as he walks off the field after an NFL divisional playoff football game against the Seattle Seahawks Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Green Bay, Wis. The Packers won 28-23 to advance to the NFC Championship. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers have relied more on character and resilience than offense or defense this season, lagging well behind past editions in aesthetics.
This divisional round win over Seattle, though, was a vintage Rodgers performance. He helped the Packers pull within a game of the Super Bowl with an array of clutch completions at the most critical of moments.
Rodgers connected with Davante Adams eight times for 160 yards and two touchdowns, Green Bay’s spruced-up defense fended off a spirited Seahawks rally, and the Packers held on for a 28-23 victory Sunday night to reach the NFC championship game for the third time in six years.
Seattle Seahawks’ DK Metcalf runs after a catch during the second half of an NFL divisional playoff football game against the Green Bay Packers Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke)
“It’s one of those feelings that starts to creep up in warmups, when you really feel like you’re locked in,” Rodgers said, “and I was glad it translated to the field.”
Aaron Jones rushed for 62 yards and two first-half scores for the Packers (14-3), who will travel next weekend to take on top-seeded San Francisco. Rodgers, who went 16 for 27 for 243 yards in his 17th career postseason start, Rodgers has 38 touchdown passes in the playoffs. That’s good for fifth in league history.
Green Bay Packers’ Davante Adams runs to the endzone for his touchdown catch during the second half of an NFL divisional playoff football game against the Seattle Seahawks Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
“He’s definitely hungry for another Super Bowl. He deserves it, so we’re doing everything in our power to put him in that position,” said Adams, who set Green Bay’s postseason record for receiving yards.
Russell Wilson carried the Seahawks (12-6) on yet another comeback, this time from a 21-3 halftime deficit, but the Packers forced a punt shortly before the two-minute warning on the second sack of the game by Preston Smith. That was Green Bay’s fifth of the game.
“Five minutes left, we’re getting the ball back, the thing’s going to be over. We’re going to win it,” Wilson said. “I think everybody in the stadium, and I think everybody watching felt like that, too.”
The Seahawks never got the ball again.
Green Bay Packers’ Davante Adams celebrates his touchdown catch during the second half of an NFL divisional playoff football game against the Seattle Seahawks Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
Rodgers sealed the win with two third-down throws: a 32-yard strike to Adams on third-and-8 with 2:19 left and then for 9 yards to Jimmy Graham on third-and-9 right after the two-minute warning to take down a Seahawks team that was 8-1 on the road this season entering the game.
“I’m just going to enjoy a nice glass of scotch tonight,” Rodgers said, “and get on to the film of San Fran and get ready for a tough opponent.”
Rodgers exacted some payback for five years ago, when the Packers blew a 16-0 halftime lead in the NFC championship game at Seattle and were beaten 28-22 in overtime. The Seahawks lost their next game to New England when Wilson was infamously intercepted late at the goal line and haven’t been back to the conference title game since then.
Rodgers is running out of time faster than Wilson, though, nine years after his only championship. Though many of Green Bay’s performances haven’t been pretty, with so many hold-on-at-the-end wins, Rodgers and Matt LaFleur have sure meshed well in the coach’s rookie season.
“Let’s be honest, I don’t know that even our fans felt supremely confident in us,” Rodgers said.
Green Bay Packers’ Davante Adams runs to the endzone for his touchdown catch during the second half of an NFL divisional playoff football game against the Seattle Seahawks Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
The Seahawks had just a plus-seven scoring margin during the regular season, making quite the habit of second-half rallies. Wilson did some of the finest work of his eight-year career in 2019, helping the Seahawks stay on track despite a steady stream of injuries, including the late setbacks in the backfield that prompted the emergency call for Marshawn Lynch.
Racking up 64 yards rushing on seven scrambles and completing 21 of 31 passes for 277 yards, Wilson directed touchdown drives of 69, 84, 79 right out of the gate after halftime. Lynch finished two of them with scores, and Wilson threw on the run to Tyler Lockett, who had 136 yards on nine receptions, for the other one.
“Every time I looked up, he was making somebody miss in the pocket, creating and extending plays,” LaFleur said. “That’s what he’s done his whole career.”
Lynch’s second touchdown with 9:33 left cut the lead to 28-23, but Jaire Alexander blew up the 2-point conversion attempt with a sack on an unblocked blitz. The Packers gave the ball back to the Seahawks with a second consecutive punt, this time with 4:54 left at the Seattle 22, but Wilson ran out of tricks in his seemingly bottomless bag of them.
“He tested our cardio and heart and endurance today,” Smith said.
Lynch, who has 12 rushing touchdowns in 13 career postseason games to tie for fourth in NFL history, had only 26 yards on 12 carries.
“We made it exciting,” Wilson said. “We just wish we would have left here with a win.”
Green Bay Packers’ Aaron Rodgers talks to Seattle Seahawks’ Russell Wilson after an NFL divisional playoff football game Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Green Bay, Wis. The Packers won 28-23 to advance to the NFC Championship. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
STRONG START
The Seahawks brought their pass rush to life with seven sacks while grinding out a 17-9 win at Philadelphia last week in the wild card round, with Jadeveon Clowney making his presence felt including a hit that knocked Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz out of the game with a concussion. The Packers mostly kept Rodgers much better protected, though, and a Seahawks defense that forced 32 turnovers in the first 14 games played a fourth straight time without a takeaway.
The Packers had three touchdown drives of 75 yards apiece over the first three quarters, plus a 60-yard march preceded by a missed 50-yard field goal try from Jason Myers.
Rodgers hasn’t had much help beyond Adams and Jones this season, but he and LaFleur did a masterful job of getting them the ball with some Graham mixed in. On the opening possession, Adams and Geronimo Allison ran angled routes toward each other before faking the pick and zagging away. Seahawks cornerback Tre Flowers was caught in the confusion, allowing Adams to break free for the 20-yard score.
OH, NO, LAMBEAU
Seahawks fans have plenty of bad memories of their favorite team’s performances in Green Bay, with the losing streak at Lambeau Field now at nine straight games. The last such win for Seattle was on Nov. 1, 1999.
There was the hot mike that picked up Matt Hasselbeck’s ill-fated boast during the overtime coin toss that the Seahawks would win, preceding his pick-six in the 2003 playoffs. There was the blowout in the snow in the 2007 playoffs, which turned out to be Brett Favre’s final win for the Packers. There were also the regular season losses with Wilson in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Seahawks: LG Mike Iupati was out with a neck injury, and Jamarco Jones left in the second quarter with a concussion. That forced rookie Phil Haynes into action. … Clowney, who has fought through a core muscle injury this season, was holding his midsection in the second quarter and briefly absent for the first TD run by Jones.
Packers: RT Bryan Bulaga, one of six players the team reported this week as being limited by illness, was active for but did not play. Jared Veldheer replaced him.
Seahawks: head into the offseason, needing replenish their depth on the offensive line and on defense while Wilson remains in his prime.
Packers: advance to their third NFC championship game in six years. They lost 37-8 on Nov. 24 to the 49ers, who beat Minnesota 27-10 on Saturday in their divisional round game. All four of Green Bay’s appearances in the NFC title game with Rodgers at the helm have been on the road. They won at Chicago after the 2010 season to reach his only Super Bowl.
Organizers finalize details ahead of UP200
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MARQUETTE, Mich. (WJMN) -- This year marks the 30th anniversary since the first UP200. Organizers gathered together to discuss final details that need attention before race day.
Darlene Walch, President, U.P. Sled Dog Association said, "We need to finalize issues with the trail because we've had such a challenge this year with all the damage that was done in November. The trails have been very difficult to get cleared off, but our trail crew has assured us that they're making progress and they will have a trail come race day."
Broken pipe in Mackinac Straits is 200 feet long
Mich. (AP) -- Officials say a 200-foot-long broken boring pipe remains embedded in the Straits of Mackinac and may not be recoverable by a company that operates a fuel pipeline.
Enbridge Inc. retrieved a broken 45-foot rod in December and told state regulators that a pipe of similar length remained. But the Detroit Free Press reports that the leftover pipe actually is 200 feet long.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Sports bettors may be able to place wagers in person at Detroit casinos this spring but will wait until 2021 to do so online.
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Why the homeless need their pets.
Mark Hay
Image by Alan Light via Flick
It’s not uncommon for people passing a homeless person with a dog on the street to voice sympathy for the animal and derision for the human.
Often based on the assumption that a homeless individual is just using a pet for warmth or to guilt people into giving them money, it’s easy to argue that people who can’t take care of themselves could be subjecting animals to deprivation and risk.
This skepticism is so baked into society that some people apparently consider it acceptable to cut the leashes of homeless people’s animals as they sleep, taking them to a better life. Authorities regularly sweep homeless camps, picking up animals, or grill homeless people for proof of animal ownership they may not have and few pet owners would ever keep on their person.
Yet according to a new study, authored by Michelle Lem of the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph and published last month in the academic journal Anthrozoos, these attitudes and practices may be woefully misguided.
Homeless people with pets, the study argues, are drastically less likely to get depressed or engage in risky behaviors than those without animal friends.
“These pets are their only friends,” the CBC recently quoted Lem as saying, “the only way that they’ve experienced unconditional love… These pets have saved their lives in many cases.”
Lem’s study was small, based on the experiences of 198 street youths in the Canadian cities of Hamilton, Kingston, Ottawa, and Toronto, only 98 of whom had pets.
But it matches with previous studies and the opinions of experts who add that there’s no reason to think cats, dogs, or any other animals on the street suffer more or receive less love and care than those in homes.
All of this suggests that both we and our social institutions need to seriously reevaluate how we assess and accommodate these extremely common but often-vilified human-animal relationships.
“Animals become vehicles for redemption,” writes University of Colorado sociologist Leslie Irvine in a 2013 academic article.
They “encourage a sense of responsibility… reward the fulfillment of that responsibility… [and acting] as silent witnesses, they keep [their owners] from lapsing into risky behavior… [they] allow for the construction of a positive moral identity.”
Image by Laurie Avocado via Flickr
Irvine speaks with great authority on the subject, in no small part because she used to believe differently. Years ago, in the Colorado Desert, she recalls calling animal control on a homeless man who wouldn’t let her “save” his dog from his rough lifestyle.
But after sitting down to properly study the situation, she changed her tune. Her must-read 2013 book My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People and Their Animals is perhaps the greatest repository of hard (rather than knee-jerk) information and solid (rather than emotional) arguments on the subject.
Beyond supporting Lem’s conclusions that animals can help homeless people achieve a sense of connection and avoid a downward spiral, Irving’s works point out that, while they may worry about paying for pet food and veterinary services, the homeless tend to be good pet owners.
They almost never use their pets to score sympathy donations, and almost always prioritize feeding their companions before themselves. Sure, they may not have a roof, but many animals—dogs especially—don’t actually need that human construct. What they need is attention and affection, which homeless owners can often offer more of than owners with houses; there’s no guarantee that an owner with an address is any more caring or capable than a homeless owner.
“Homeless people report levels of attachment to their animals that may surpass those found among the domiciled public,” writes Irvine.
Recognition of the benefits of homeless animal ownership is spreading beyond academia these days as well. A number of shelters have opened up around the world that explicitly welcome and provide for homeless companion critters. And even more programs exist to help homeless people find free food, supplies, and veterinary aid for their companions with no risk.
Yet for all the mounting evidence in favor of homeless pet ownership, the vast majority of social services—not just people on the street—still officially reject the idea. In the United Kingdom, only perhaps 9 percent of shelters allow dogs. It’s arguably worse in the United States. More often than not, in order to claim social services, the homeless are compelled to give up their pets.
“They can’t access shelters, they can’t access some addiction treatments, they can’t go into hospitalization,” Lem writes of the situation in Canada, which is not dissimilar to the US.
Image by Steve Willey via Flickr.
Meanwhile the services that cater to homeless pet owners are small; Pets of the Homeless, one of the major advocates for homeless companions and a hard-working charity, only has four part-time employees in their Nevada offices with a budget of just over half a million dollars a year.
As a result, many homeless people eager to seek help wind up sleeping on the streets rather than giving up their pets. This means existing attitudes and policies perpetuate homelessness by threatening to take away one of that population’s greatest aids.
This situation isn’t always a result of knee-jerk assumptions like those made by people on the street who want to “save” homeless pets. Often in the US it’s just the result of regulatory restrictions or a lack of capacity that precludes animals from the homeless services equation.
Those policies, Lem’s study and the works of people like Irvine clearly show, need to change. In order to address homelessness, we need to factor in and respect the value of offering people in that situation a form of companionship, support, and responsibility they often need and desire. We need to make pets a part of our homeless services, not just retroactively but proactively as well, perhaps working the homeless into adoption schemes for neglected animals.
As we do, the inevitable outrage over these programs and policy shifts from the “homeless dogs need saving” camp will hopefully spark dialogue in which the hard facts will win out. For now, the next time any of us feel a reactionary twinge of judgment at the sight of a homeless individual with a pet on the streets, we can start by recognizing our feelings for what they are—a stupid, baseless bias.
This story originally appeared on GOOD.
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United Airlines to refund fares to all Flight 3411 passengers
Ben Mutzabaugh
Passengers on United Express Flight 3411 will get a refund, United Airlines said Wednesday.
"All customers on Flight 3411 from Sunday, April 9, are receiving compensation for the cost of their tickets," United said in a statement to USA TODAY's Today in the Sky blog.
Flight 3411, of course, has been at the center of news headlines since Sunday, when Chicago airport security officials forcefully dragged a man off the plane. The incident was captured on video by several passengers on the flight. One clip showed the man being removed from the aircraft, his face bloodied from the episode as others could be heard expressing dismay about the scene unfolding before them.
News that United will refund Flight 3411 passengers for their tickets comes on the same day airline CEO Oscar Munoz apologized again about the incident while on ABC’s Good Morning America.
United Airlines CEO: ‘This will never happen again’
"This will never happen again," Munoz said during the Wednesday interview with the morning show. "We are not going to put a law enforcement official onto a plane to take them off … to remove a booked, paid, seated passenger; we can’t do that."
United has faced a fierce firestorm of criticism to the incident, which has remained a top story in the United States, China and across the globe.
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46. The Decade That Roared
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village.
Model T — 1919
The 1920s saw the culmination of fifty years of rapid American industrialization. New products seemed to burst from American production lines with the potential of revolutionizing American life. Other products that had previously been toys for the rich were now available to a majority of Americans. The standard of living increased as the economy grew stronger and stronger. The results were spectacular. The America of 1929 was vastly different from the America of 1919.
The automobile was first and foremost among these products. The practices of Henry Ford made these horseless carriages affordable to the American masses. Widespread use of the automobile ushered in changes in work patterns and leisure plans. A host of support industries were launched. Dating and education were changed by the automobile. Radio usage brought further changes. For the first time, a national popular culture was supplanting regional folkways. Americans across the continent were sharing the same jokes, participating in the same fads, and worshipping the same heroes. Housework was minimized with the introduction of labor saving devices. As a result, leisure time was increased.
The bleak outlook and large sacrifices of the wartime era were now a part of the past. Young Americans were looking to cut loose and have a good time. Prohibition did not end alcohol usage. The romantic subculture of the speakeasy kept the firewater flowing. Organized crime flourished as gangland violence related to bootlegged liquor plagued America's cities. Flapper women strove to eliminate double standard values. Young females engaged in behaviors previously reserved for men including smoking and drinking. Sigmund Freud's assertion that sexual behavior was a natural instinct brought down more barriers as young Americans delved into sexual experimentation. The Harlem Renaissance brought a new form of entertainment. The sounds of jazz bands had appeal that transcended African American audiences, as thousands flocked to hear the new sounds.
The 1920s ushered in more lasting changes to the American social scene than any previous decade. Escapism loomed large as many coped with change by living in the present and enjoying themselves. The economic boom that unleashed the transformation and its consequences made the Roaring Twenties an era to remember.
Picture Palace
Decades ago movies were too grand to be seen in mere theaters, so Picture Palaces sprang up in major American cities. Each was an "acre of seats in a garden of dreams," and some could hold as many as 6000 eager patrons.
Catch the spirit of Flapper Culture on this colorful website. Great art, great links. Your great- grandmother did what?
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Paedophile caught using wife's laptop to download child abuse images
Christopher Norris had already been through sex offender treatment programmes
Liz DayCourts Reporter
(Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)
A paedophile who was caught by the police using his wife’s laptop to download images of child abuse claimed he did it “out of curiosity”.
Christopher Norris, 66, who had been sent to prison twice before, claimed he did not get any sexual gratification from the indecent photographs and videos found on a USB stick. Speaking at Cardiff Crown Court Judge Eleri Rees said: “He just will not learn.”
The court heard police software indicated an IP address linked to Fields Road in Cwmbran had downloaded indecent images.
Hashim Salmman, prosecuting, said Gwent Police searched the defendant’s address on the morning of May 17. Norris, who was at home with his wife, told officers: “There’s nothing here.”
Prosecutors said the police seized a laptop and USB stick and arrested the defendant, who replied to the caution: “You’ve not found nothing.”
He was taken to Newport Central Police Station and released under investigation.
The court heard a forensic examiner found two videos of the most serious Category A, one photograph at Category B and two photographs of Category C on the USB.
Doctor of psychology used 'spy watch' to film children getting changed at Cardiff pool
Police returned to his home on June 21 and Norris said: “I didn’t put them on there.”
He was taken to Ystrad Mynach Police Station and answered “no comment” to all the questions he was asked.
Mr Salmman suggested his criminal record was “clearly a significant aggravating factor” as he had committed 54 previous offences.
Prosecutors said he was jailed for six years in 2008 for indecent assault and gross indecency as well as making, possessing, and distributing indecent images.
He was ordered to register as a sex offender indefinitely and a sexual offences prevention order was made until further order.
This is what you need to know about the sex offenders register:
Paedophile downloaded images of young girls during library trip
Mr Salmman said he was back before the court in 2015 when he was jailed for three years for breaching that order by possessing and distributing indecent images.
Norris, from Fields Road in Cwmbran, admitted three counts of possessing indecent images of children in breach of a sexual harm prevention order.
Hywel Davies, defending, said the offending happened over a short period of time and his client said he accessed the images “out of curiosity” and not for sexual gratification.
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Judge Rees said the sex offender treatment programmes did not seem to have had any impact on him.
She said: “Here you are again before the court for possessing indecent images, again breaching a sexual harm prevention order.”
Norris was jailed for 16 months. The judge made a new indefinite sexual harm prevention order and the defendant must register as a sex offender indefinitely.
Cardiff Crown Court
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Zion Williamson’s exceptional debut provides Pelicans hope
UPDATE: Man killed during shopping complex shooting, suspected shooter still on the loose
by: Olivia Stump
Posted: Feb 9, 2019 / 11:33 AM CST / Updated: Feb 11, 2019 / 10:20 PM CST
UPDATE 2/11/2019 1:50 P.M.
20-year-old Christopher Edward was killed during Saturday’s shooting, and another person was injured by flying glass, according to MPD. The suspected shooter is still on the run. Police say the shooter was not one of the four people arrested on Saturday.
Police have identified the four people under arrest as 24-year-old Oscar Phillips, 20-year-old Jeremy Nelson, 22-year-old Joseph Nelson, and 19-year-old Keondrea Adams.
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) —
Update 1:13 p.m.
The following is a press release from Mobile Police:
Mobile, Al. – On Saturday, February 9, earlier this day, police responded to the Cash America located at 3054 Springhill Ave. inference to the report of shots fired. Upon arrival, officers discovered (2) males had been shot. Both victims were transported to the hospital. Their condition is unknown at this time.
The suspects involved in this incident were spotted by police fleeing the scene in a vehicle. Officer attempted to stop the vehicle and the vehicle continued on. Officer then pursuited the vehicle until the occupants bail in the area of Perimeter Rd. @ Avenue O near Brookley Field Airport. Officers were able to successfully take (4) male suspects into custody within moments.
The investgation is ongoing.
Additional information will be released once it is available.
News 5 spoke to the sister of one of the alleged victims. She says her 20-year-old brother was an innocent bystander and was in Lace shopping when he was shot. She says he is going to be ok.
Witnesses on the scene tell News 5 two people were shot and at least one person may have died in the Crichton Shopping Center. In the parking lot, there are shell casings and at least one car appears to have bullet holes. We have reached out to police for more information.
There is a heavy police presence on Spring Hill Avenue.
Police have taped off an area. This is a developing story and News 5 is working to find out more information.
Witnesses on the scene tell News 5 two people were shot.
Large police presence at Spring Hill shopping centerPosted by WKRG on Saturday, February 9, 2019
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Mobile judge ends bond hearing early after convicted killer yawns
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Social Q's
How Stylist Farren Fucci’s Instagram Became Rihanna’s Go-To Mood Board
by Emilia Petrarca
It's not every 25-year-old who is deemed worthy enough to be counted among Rihanna's "favorite fans" by the pop star herself, but that's exactly what stylist Farren Fucci—a pseudonym combining his first name and Gucci—has done.
In fact, it was Rihanna who first DM'ed him four years ago in admiration of his looks, which she claimed to then steal directly from his page. For example, that now-iconic Hillary Clinton t-shirt that Rihanna wore once? Fucci posted it and then got on a plane to hand-deliver it to the pop star, who was photographed in it shortly thereafter. She repaid him by renting out an entire club just so they could get a drink together.
Fast-forward to today when Fucci doesn't have "time to play" on the shopping platform Polyvore, anymore, because he's too busy working. Born in California and raised in North Carolina, Fucci currently divides his time between New York and Atlanta and his clients now also include Bella Hadid, whom W once declared best dressed in one of his looks, as well as the actress Keke Palmer. Plus, he counts Zendaya and some other 65,000 others as Instagram followers under the handle @Karlie.Floss. His latest collaboration with Rihanna is a recent magazine cover featuring the singer in a futuristic but recognizable New York bodega. "The Paper cover was our first official collaboration but not our last," Fucci said in the days after the Fenty x Puma show during Paris Fashion Week.
So, how did Fucci go from his humble beginnings at an Apple tech support job to having an Instagram account that Rihanna uses as her personal mood board?
What were some of your first encounters with fashion growing up?
The women in my family were my first fashion icons. My mom and my grandma were serving looks before I even knew what looks were. I mean, my mom was the lady in the grocery store with heels on. I got free haircuts because she was always on point and looked good at all times. My grandma would go all out for Saturday services [the family belongs to a Seventh-day Adventist church] with the hats, dresses and suits. I would steal my mom’s magazines and post editorial photos all over my wall. I think at first my family just thought I was into the girls, but I was really obsessing over the clothes.
Your favorite article of clothing as a child:
I had this grey and green G-Unit sweatsuit that I adored. My grandma bought it for me when G-Unit was popping. It was definitely one of my faves.
You’ve had a difficult beginning to your career. Where did you start and how does it feel to finally be where you are now?
I wouldn’t say I had a difficult career start—more like a difficult life. All of this started out of pure boredom while working at my day job. This was a hobby for me and it was fun. I love fashion and never really looked at it from a career, until I noticed that people were really [into] what I was doing. I didn’t think everything would happen this fast. What I’m doing now feels like a dream because I thought it would take at least five years to get where I am today.
Rihanna calls you her “favorite fan.” When did you first get in contact with her and how? In what capacity have you worked with her since?
Rih followed me about 4 years ago on some funny s--t. My Twitter name was @paidho, or something like that at the time. We would kiki here and there. She DM’d me first saying that I was one of her favorite accounts which was great because I had been debating if I should slide in her DMs, but I didn’t want to seem presumptuous. Before, she would go on my page to see what’s in and check out the latest runway collections. There would be moments where I’d see her in certain pieces and I’m like, 'Did she see that on my page?' I finally got some sort of confirmation when I sent her some looks and she responded: 'Bruh, I just stole those from your page today.' That went on for some years and then I started doing my Polyvore looks. Since then, I started doing 'Special deliveRIH' where I’d send her clothes from upcoming designers.
What do you love most about Rihanna and what has she said to you that you’ll hold on to forever?
What I love the most about her is the fact that she’s so unfiltered. What you see is what you get. She’s very much herself at all times. She’s unapologetic. She always tells me to remain humble and stay true to myself. She makes me feel like I am enough and dope which is a great feeling for someone who did not always have the highest self-esteem and confidence.
Three words that describe your aesthetic:
Sexy, Confident, C---y. That’s what “hoesthetics” is about. I always want women to feel powerful and own their truth.
Styling mantras you live by:
”There’s no such thing as being overdressed, only best dressed.”
Fashion icons/inspirations:
Rihanna, John Galliano, Carlyne Cerf de Dudzeele, Andre Leon Talley, and Edward Enninful.
Fashion pet peeve:
As stylists, you should never put more than one client in the same piece. I also believe that you should always wear the clothes, never let them wear you. Most importantly, I cannot stand criticism that isn’t constructive.
Your personal daily uniform:
Jeans, a T-shirt and sneakers. I’m pretty simple when it comes to my personal style.
Beauty secrets:
Drinking lots of water and minding my business keeps me unstressed and looking fresh-faced. A cucumber-melon mask helps, too.
Best recent discovery:
Leyna Bloom! She’s a trans model and one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen. I want to work with her a lot this year to see what kind of magic we can produce.
Last purchase:
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. It’s a book about self-love and awareness of the world.
Lusting after:
Balenciaga presidential campaign bomber jacket.
Pieces you saw on the Fall 2017 runways that you can’t wait to get your hands on:
I can’t fairly answer that yet because I haven’t gotten a chance to look at all the collections. However, those sloughy knee-high glitter boots by Saint Laurent are to die for.
Something you would never wear:
Sperry tops-iders.
Most prized possession(s) in your closet:
My thrifted red, white, and black motorcycle jacket by Joe Rocket.
Something you’re looking forward to wearing this spring:
I’m getting my hands on a few pairs of Y-3 sneakers. I’m really excited to wear those.
Designers you’re currently obsessed with:
K2O USA, Y/Project, Vetements, and Christopher Shannon.
Dream job:
I want to be an entrepreneur. I do not ever want to be placed in a box. I hope to grow into a modern Renaissance man.
Rihanna Is the Ultimate Fashion Icon
The rising star arrived at the Baby Phat Spring 2006 fashion show in a baby doll-style sundress with lots of eyeliner and nude-pink glossed lips.
Wearing baggy jeans and a crop halter top, Rihanna was cute and sporty at Z100’s Jingle Ball.
Rihanna went for the glamorous, diva look at the Conde Nast 3rd Annual Fashion Rocks Concert in a metallic Zac Posen gown.
Rihanna sparkled in a white, Marilyn Monroe-inspired dress after winning Best Female Artist of the Year at the 2006 Billboard Music Awards.
Rihanna donned a daring new asymmetrical bob and a neon pink, mermaid-style gown at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Rihanna visited TRL at MTV’s Studios in Times Square in a strapless bustier top, flared jeans and a knit beanie.
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Rihanna was edgy and fun at the Nickelodeon’s 2008 Kids’ Choice Awards thanks to a new pixie cut and pink polka dot bustier top.
The singer played with color at the 2008 BET awards in a neon yellow Giambattista Valli gown and a playful purple lip.
Rihanna’s short, cropped hairstyle gave a little edge to her Jasmine di Millo ruffled dress at the RIAA and Feeding America’s Inauguration Charity Ball.
Rihanna went for the men’s wear look in a Dolce & Gabbana tux with ’80s-inspired shoulders to the ‘The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion’ Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Newly blonde, Rihanna arrived at the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards in a ruffled Victorian-inspired Elie Saab Haute Couture gown.
Rihanna attended the Echo Award 2010 in a geometric high-fashion Alexander Vautiher bat-cap jumpsuit with serious shoulder pads.
Rihanna switched up her hairstyle–yet again. This time opting for a cherry red, voluminous curls.
Continuing her love affair with scarlet, Rihanna attended the ‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’ Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art rocking a long, red French braid, rimmed eye make-up and maroon lip that perfectly coordinated with her sheer, embellished gown.
The singer looked effortlessly chic at the Stella McCartney presentation during London Fashion Week in a green silk slip dress, courtesy of the designer, with sun-kissed blonde shoulder-length hair.
Rihanna arrived to the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards in a backless white Adam Selman dress debuting, of course, a new cropped hairstyle.
The singer turned heads at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards in a gorgeous sheer gown by Azzedine Alaia.
In a sexy Jean Paul Gaultier couture two-piece and coordinating head wrap, Rihanna was completely seductive at the 2013 American Music Awards.
Rihanna attended the ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion’ Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a Stella McCartney two-piece dress that showed off her perfectly toned stomach.
Rihanna in custom Adam Selman at the CFDA awards.
Rihanna showed some skin in a Tom Ford gown at the 2014 amfAR LA Inspiration Gala. Her ponytail, long lashes and bright orange lip upped the overall glam factor of the look.
Getty Images for amfAR
Pretty in pink. The singer filmed an episode of ‘Good Morning America’ in a Pascal Millet jumpsuit, blazer and faux fur stole.
GC Images
Rihanna attends the ‘China: Through The Looking Glass’ Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in a yellow couture gown from Chinese designer Guo Pei.
Rihanna looked gothic chic in a look of her own design during the FENTY PUMA by Rihanna Fall 2016 show at New York Fashion Week.
Getty Images for FENTY PUMA
Showing off her killer body yet again, the singer attended the 2016 MusiCares Person of the Year event in a sheer, embellished gown and pointy-toed converse-inspired sneakers, both by Marc Jacobs.
Rihanna in Dior.
Rihanna in Altuzarra.
Rihanna in Kiko Mizuhara for Opening Ceremony.
Rihanna in Giambattista Valli couture.
Rihanna in Vivienne Westwood Red Label.
Rihanna in Kurt Geiger.
Rihanna in New York, March 2016.
Photo by Josiah Kamau/BuzzFoto via Getty Images.
Rihanna in Burberry in New York, New York, January 2017.
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Butterflies of Paris: How Street Style Stars Do Paris Fashion Week
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Donald Trump Will Have You Know He Saved That Chunky Beauty Queen's Job
Trump doesn't think she's a 'ten' anymore.
The very best thing about Donald Trump is that when he hits rock bottom, he just keeps digging. During Monday night's debate, Hillary Clinton ZINGED! him by bringing up former Miss Universe Alicia Machado as an example of how horrible Trump is to women. He called her "Miss Piggy," he called her "Miss Housekeeping," he followed her to a gym with cameras to talk about what a porker she had become ... just really nice stuff. Tuesday morning, Trump "defended" himself on "Fox & Friends," saying not only was she real chunky, she also had a real bad attitude.
And here he goes, doubling down again!
"I saved her job because they wanted to fire her for putting on so much weight,” Trump told Bill O’Reilly on Fox News Wednesday. “And it is a beauty contest, you know. I mean, say what you want, they know what they're getting into. It's a beauty contest. And I said don't do that.” [...]
"They wanted to fire her. I saved her job because I said that's going to be ruinous. And I’ve done that with a number of the other young ladies, where I've saved their job,” he said.
"And you know what happened? Look what I get out of it. I get nothing," Trump added.
Awwwww, what a mensch! Trump verbally berated her all the time for being a Biggie McLargeHuge, but he didn't want her FIRED for it. It was just like the birther thing, where Trump ENDED the speculation over whether Obama was born in the United States. In this case, Trump ENDED all this talk of firing the lady for being too fat, all while noting that she was super gross and fat.
Just disgusting!
Or, to cite another example of Trump doubling down and stepping on his own dick, did Trump learn no lessons from his experience with the Khan family, where every time he opened his mouth, he simply stuck his foot further inside it and made himself look worse? Trick question, Donald Trump is too stupid to "learn lessons."
But that's not the only Alicia Machado news this week! You see, as the week has gone on, Trump trolls and their media stooges at Fox News and other journalistic heavyweights like The Daily Mail have been giving Trump a helpful reach-around, by dredging up old accusations that Machado, back in the 1990s in her native Venezuela, drove the getaway car for her boyfriend after he attempted to murder his brother-in-law. (Sean Hannity's website calls the attempted 1998 murder a "grizzly 1998 murder," because those are the same, and apparently the victim was a fuzzy bear.)
In response to these accusations, Machado told Anderson Cooper, "I'm no saint girl," said that just like everybody else, she has a past, and it was a long time ago, and besides, "That is not the point now." Fair enough. For the record, she was never convicted of anything.
Oh, also:
[Trump] was really rude with me. He tried to destroy my self-esteem. And now I'm a voice in the Latin community. That is the point. He can say whatever he wants to say. I don't care. I'm in a great moment in my life and I have a very clear life. And I can show my taxes.
YA BURNT, DONALD TRUMP!
So let's see where we are. Trump is a misogynistic asshole, Alicia Machado might have maybe been an accessory to a bad thing 20 years ago, but now she's living her best life, and also telling us what a misogynistic asshole Trump is.
Oh look, here is the whole interview if you want to watch it:
In conclusion, we like Alicia Machado just fine, and fuck Donald Trump.
[Washington Post / New York Daily News]
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Digital Modelmaking: Laser Cutting, 3D Printing and Reverse Engineering (Paperback)
By Lansdown, Helen
Digital manufacturing hs become an intrinsic part of the modelmaking profession, so today's practitioner must be skilled in both traditional hand-making techniques and digital technology. Relevant to a wide variety of creative industries, including film and television, theatre, a...rchitecture and product design, Digital Modelmaking offers a comprehensive insight into the manufacturing processes and technologies used within contemporary modelmaking. Each chapter contains an in-depth explanation of each topic, presents examples of how each process is used and includes case studies from professional modelmakers and students. Topics covered include: making models using a laser cutter, 3D printer and CNC milling machinery; generating 3D digital data using a 3D scanner and photogrammetry; two-and three- dimensional drawing software such as CAD; designing models for digital manufacturing; selecting materials based on their suitability for modelmaking; combining traditional hand-making skills with digital manufacturing; painting and finishing models, and finally, moulding and casting using silicone and resin. This invaluable book will be of great interest for students, young professionals and everyone with a passion for design and making.
The Crowood Press Ltd
Modern Database Management, Global Edition (Paperback, 13th edition)
By Hoffer, Jeff; Venkataraman, Ramesh; Topi, Heikki
For courses in database management. A comprehensive text on the latest in database development Focusing on what leading database practitioners say are the most important aspects to database development, Modern Database Management presents sound pedagogy and topics that are critic...al for the practical success of database professionals. The 13th Edition updates and expands materials in areas undergoing rapid change as a result of improved managerial practices, database design tools and methodologies, and database technology - such as application security, multi-user solutions, and more - to reflect major trends in the field and the skills required of modern information systems graduates.
30-Second AI & Robotics: 50 key notions, fields, and events in the rise of intelligent machines, each explained in half a minute (Hardback)
By de Miranda, Luis
30-Second AI & Robotics will help the reader to navigate the world of ubiquitous computers, smart cities, and collaborative robots. At last, an optimistic and friendly book about our human possibilities in the time of automata.
Misc - United Book Distributor
30 Second
The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality and the Race to Save the World (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
By Chivers, Tom
A Jon Ronson-esque deep-dive into the weird and wonderful world of Artificial Intelligence
Orion Publishing
The Signal: The History of Signal Processing and How We Communicate (Hardback)
By Lewis, Ted G.
Computers are the foundation of the information age, but communication technology is the foundation of the foundation. Without the theories and practical applications of theory brought to us by the pioneers of communication, the computer age would perhaps have remained in the bac...k office, hidden away as infrastructure like electricity or running water ~ critical to modern life, but not as transforming as the combination of communications and computing. The information age exploded, once machines were endowed with the ability to talk among themselves. The Signal connects everything to everything else, in both communication, and in the metaphorical sense as the link between and among people.
Mining goes Digital: Proceedings of the 39th International Symposium 'Application of Computers and Operations Research in the Mineral Industry' (APCOM 2019), June 4-6, 2019, Wroclaw, Poland (Hardback)
Edited by Mueller, Christoph; Assibey-Bonsu, Winfred; Baafi, Ernest; Dauber, Christoph; Doran, Chris
The conferences on `Applications for Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industry' (APCOM) initially focused on the optimization of geostatistics and resource estimation. Several standard methods used in these fields were presented in the early days of APCOM. While ...geostatistics remains an important part, information technology has emerged, and nowadays APCOM not only focuses on geostatistics and resource estimation, but has broadened its horizon to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the mineral industry. Mining Goes Digital is a collection of 90 high quality, peer reviewed papers covering recent ICT-related developments in: - Geostatistics and Resource Estimation - Mine Planning - Scheduling and Dispatch - Mine Safety and Mine Operation - Internet of Things, Robotics - Emerging Technologies - Synergies from other industries - General aspects of Digital Transformation in Mining Mining Goes Digital will be of interest to professionals and academics involved or interested in the above-mentioned areas.
Data Warehouse Designs: Achieving ROI with Market Basket Analysis and Time Variance (Paperback)
By Silvers, Fon
Market Basket Analysis (MBA) provides the ability to continually monitor the affinities of a business and can help an organization achieve a key competitive advantage. Time Variant data enables data warehouses to directly associate events in the past with the participants in each... individual event. In the past however, the use of these powerful tools in tandem led to performance degradation and resulted in unactionable and even damaging information. Data Warehouse Designs: Achieving ROI with Market Basket Analysis and Time Variance presents an innovative, soup-to-nuts approach that successfully combines what was previously incompatible, without degradation, and uses the relational architecture already in place. Built around two main chapters, Market Basket Solution Definition and Time Variant Solution Definition, it provides a tangible how-to design that can be used to facilitate MBA within the context of a data warehouse. Presents a solution for creating home-grown MBA data marts Includes database design solutions in the context of Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, and Teradata relational database management systems (RDBMS) Explains how to extract, transform, and load data used in MBA and Time Variant solutions The book uses standard RDBMS platforms, proven database structures, standard SQL and hardware, and software and practices already accepted and used in the data warehousing community to fill the gaps left by most conceptual discussions of MBA. It employs a form and language intended for a data warehousing audience to explain the practicality of how data is delivered, stored, and viewed. Offering a comprehensive explanation of the applications that provide, store, and use MBA data, Data Warehouse Designs provides you with the language and concepts needed to require and receive information that is relevant and actionable.
Pre-order title, release date has been delayed
Big Data Systems (Hardback)
By Shamsi, Jawwad Ahmad; Khojaye, Muhammad
Big Data Systems encompass massive challenges related to data diversity, storage mechanisms, and requirements of massive computational power. Further, capabilities of big data systems also vary with respect to the type of problems. For instance, distributed memory systems are con...sidered ill-suited for iterative algorithms. Similarly, variations in big data systems also exist related to consistency and fault tolerance. The purpose of this book is to provide a detailed overview of big data systems. The book adopts a challenge-centric approach in which platforms are evaluated based on their capabilities to solve specific challenges.
Taylor & Francis Inc
Chapman & Hall/Crc Big Data Series
The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work (Trade Paperback / Paperback)
By Davenport, Thomas H.
Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence for business benefits and competitive advantage.
MIT Press Ltd
Management on the Cutting Edge
Television News: The Heart and How-To of Video Storytelling (Hardback)
By Keller, Teresa
Television News is a comprehensive resource for newswriting, reporting, shooting and editing video, and producing a newscast. This book provides instruction in the basic steps of telling video stories, and is perfectly suited for preparing young professionals for entry-level posi...tions as a television or multimedia journalist. Moreover, the text goes to the heart of storytelling with guidance appropriate for advancement in an industry that is challenged more than ever to retain the public trust. The reporting and video storytelling skills found in this book can also be applied in non-traditional video communication jobs in both businesses and nonprofits. Conversational and easy to understand, this book grounds readers in the ethical and legal consideration necessary to do the job right. New to the fourth edition is coverage of social media, shooting and broadcasting with mobile phones, and a discussion of fake news. This book can be used in stand-alone introductory broadcast courses or across multiple, specialized modules. It features a website with ancillary material that helps students learn to write, shoot, and edit video with practical activities.
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WhereIsMyTransport
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We have a suite of custom tools designed specifically for mapping complex public transport networks in emerging markets. We’re constantly developing and adapting it to capture new data that we discover to be valuable to the community.
Our integrated mobility data hub - our API - includes proprietary algorithms, features, and capabilities designed for complex transit networks in emerging markets.
Through mobile apps, web apps, and digital services, the API turns data into information for different audiences - multi-modal journey planning and navigation for commuters, and knowledge products - e.g., accessibility reports, transit network analysis, ridership and revenue estimates for cities, DFIs, and NGOs.
Architected for scale, our API gives city governments the ownership and control they need as their public transport ecosystem expands, including custom communication tools that enable a real-time conversation between transit operators and passengers in markets where there is no real-time infrastructure.
We're always on the lookout for brilliant people to join our team. Right now, we're hiring for the following roles: Android Engineer, Digital Designer, Full-stack Engineer, Marketing Manager - User Aquisition, Project Manager for in-field mapping, Senior Data Engineer, UX Designer.
If you'd like to know more about our work, please get in touch.
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