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Marjorie Jackson
Services for Marjorie A. McAuliffe Jackson, 82, Marion, who died Nov. 11 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, were Sunday. Burial was in Cedar Crest Cemetery.
Marjorie was born Sept. 1, 1937, in Ottawa, Kansas. She was the daughter of Joseph Patrick and Mary Luella (Spencer) McAuliffe. She was a 1955 graduate of Princeton High School and earned a two-year diploma from Emporia State.
She was united in marriage to Larry Jackson on July 21, 1957, in Princeton. Marjorie worked alongside her husband at the El Jay Cattle Company as the business manager. Marjorie was active with the Florence Library and Harvey House in Florence. She was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary at St. Luke Hospital, and the Kansas Livestock Association Auxiliary. Marjorie served on the church board at Cedar Point United Methodist for nearly 30 years and enjoyed her Priscilla Bridge Club.
Her greatest joy was her family which includes her daughter Marsha (Ronald) Douskurt of Bryant, Arkansas, and daughter-in-law Mary (Frank) Harshman of Elmdale; grandchildren, Coleman Jackson of Kansas City, Missouri, Clayton Jackson of Kansas City, Kansas, and Garrett Jackson of Manhattan, Kansas; sister Mary Ann Oswald of Kansas City, Missouri; nephew Flint (Jackie) Oswald of Olathe and niece LaNita (Jim) Malinowski of Olathe.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husband Larry, and son Michael. Memorial contributions in her name may be directed to the Florence Library. Please sign Marjorie’s online guestbook and leave a memory at www.ymzfh.com.
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4330-10 | Protection of Employees from Violence in the Workplace
Date Approved: February 10 2015
Date Reviewed/Amended:
Any act or threat of violence directed towards an employee by another employee or a non-employee, including students, shall not be tolerated and will be dealt with accordingly.
Administrative Regulations:
1. The definition of violence is:
The attempted or actual exercise of physical force so as to cause injury to an employee and includes any threatening statement or behaviour which gives an employee reasonable cause to believe that the employee is at risk of injury. (Reference WorkSafe, Regulation 4.27)
2. All employees shall be informed of identified risks of violence related to their job responsibilities that they may encounter during their work day.
3. Training may be provided to enable employees to recognize potential risks of violence in order that they may take appropriate preventive measures.
4. All incidents of violence shall be responded to, with appropriate measures taken in accordance with the School Act and District Policies and Regulations, in order to minimize or prevent a recurrence. Post incident trauma counselling will be available for employee(s) affected by the incident.
Administrative Reporting Procedures:
1. When an employee believes they are at risk due to an act or threat of violence, the employee shall:
a) Secrure the safety of the children (if present) and remove themselves from the situation.
b) Report the circumstances of the incident to their Administrative Officer/Supervisor, as soon as possible.
2. When a report of such an incident is received by an Administrative Officer/Supervisor, they shall:
a) ensure the employee(s) is no longer at risk.
b) if deemed necessary, report the incident to the local law enforcement authority, seeking appropriate assistance to eliminate the immediate risk.
c) complete an investigation into the incident (see Incident Risk Assessment below).
d) if it has been determined that a critical incident of violence towards an employee has occurred, immediately report the full circumstances of the incident to the Superintendent or designate.
e) if the investigation confirms a violent incident, file a written report on the appropriate form (Form 4330-20) with the Secretary-Treasurer.
3. It is the responsibility of each worksite supervisor (for schools, the Administrative Officer) to ensure all employees are aware of the Threat and Violence Report (Form 4330-20). New employees shall be advised within thirty (30) days of the start of their employment with respect to these reporting procedures. Supervisors, on a yearly basis, are to review these reporting procedures with their staff.
4. The contents of a Threat and Violence Report will be shared with the staff in the workplace, if deemed appropriate by the Superintendent or the Administrative Officer/Supervisor. If a safety plan to address the risk of violence is developed and implemented, all staff in the workplace will be informed of the existence of the safety plan, as required by WorkSafe BC. A copy of the plan will be available for review by staff.
5. The School District Occupational Health & Safety Committee shall review all Threat and Violence Reports and shall make recommendations to the Board, as necessary, to reduce future risk.
Incident Risk Assessment
An investigation and risk assessment shall be performed if an incident of violence or threatening behaviour occurs in the workplace (WorkSafe Regulation 4.30(3)(d)). The Administrative Officer/Supervisor will:
Investigate the incident, asking employees who were involved in the incident or witnessed the incident to provide a statement of their observations.
If the incident involves a student, consider whether the student in question has a documented special need and how that may have contributed to the incident.
Call the “in-school” Violence, Threat, Risk Assessment (VTRA) team together to investigate the level of risk to students and staff.
Consider asking a member of the the District VTRA team to join the “in-school” VTRA team during the investigation.
Make recommendations to the Superintendent and the District Safe School Coordinator.
The written Threat and Violence Reports (Form 4330-20) are an important resource for follow-up assessments.
Work Site Risk Assessment
A risk assessment shall be performed at all work sites (as per WorkSafe Regulation 4.28) to ascertain the risk of injury to workers from violence arising out of their employment. A work site risk assessment should take place when a new school is opened and whenever there is a significant change in the configuration of a school or other workplace.
A risk assessment must include consideration of:
Previous experience in that workplace;
Occupational experience in similar workplaces; and
The location and circumstances in which work will take place.
In the school setting, risk assessment should consider:
Relevant history of violence. Records and employees can provide the information on the type, severity, frequency and the nature of past violent incidents.
Experiences and responses at other schools in the district.
The nature of the work environment. Work location, number of staff at a work site, workplace layout, lighting, and security provisions should be considered.
The attributes of workers. Considerations include the level of skill and training employees possess in dealing with confrontational incidents and recognition that women and persons with disabilities are most at risk to violence.
Employees will:
Provide input into risk assessments;
Follow procedures for prevention of violence;
Report incidents of violence;
Provide input into incident investigations; and
Consider accessing counselling services when offered by the employer.
District Staff, Administrative Officers and Supervisors will:
Risk Assessment:
Evaluate work-site lay-out, and conduct and document work site risk assessments.
Conduct and document incident risk assessments.
Inform Staff:
Inform staff of the nature and extent of the risk of violence as identified in the Work Site Risk Assessment (WorkSafe Regulation 4.30(1)).
Facilitate on-going discussions on violence issues with staff;
Provide staff with information related to the risk of violence from persons who have a relevant history of violent behaviour and whom staff are likely to encounter in their work (WorkSafe Regulation 4.30(2)) – specifically this will apply where a safety plan is put in place for a student.
Train Staff:
Instruct staff on procedures for recognizing, preventing or minimizing, responding to and reporting incidents of violence (WorkSafe Regulation 4.30(3)).
Determine training requirements, in consultation with staff;
Investigate:
Comply with procedures for reporting, investigating and documenting incidents of violence in accordance with WCB regulations and reporting procedures with a copy forwarded to the Secretary-Treasurer.
Report Incidents:
Promote and encourage reporting of violent incidents.
Establish procedures and work arrangements to eliminate or minimize the risk to workers from violence (WorkSafe Regulation 4.29); this will include:
Identifying what action(s) were taken to eliminate or minimize the risks to the employee(s); and
Taking corrective action and monitoring its effectiveness.
If required, ensure staff receive medical attention.
Advise impacted staff of counselling services available through the Employee & Family Assistance Program (WorkSafe Regulation 4.30(3)(c)).
The Work Site Occupational Health and Safety Committee will:
Provide input into work site risk assessments;
Review "Threat and Violence Reports" for health and safety implications; and
After consultation with the VTRA team, make recommendations to the Administrator.
The Violence, Threat, Risk Assessment (VTRA) team will:
Participate in the investigation of an incident of violence or threatening behaviour; and
The joint district Occupational Health & Safety Committee will:
Review all Form 4330-20 reports; if necessary:
The form will be returned to the site supervisor if further action is warranted; and/or
The results of the investigation will be reported in the district minutes so that other sites are made aware of findings that may be relevant to their site.
Basic Threat and Risk Assessment Training Guide, 5th Edition, Level 2: Safer Schools Together WorkSafe BC Regulations 4.27 to 4.30
1410-10 - 1410 - District Code of Conduct Regulation
4310 - 4310 - Occupational Health and Safety Policy
4330-20A - 4330-20A - Threat/ Violence Report - Form
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The Future Of Wind At RETECH2012
With an industry tax credit in jeopardy and new projects at a virtual standstill in the U.S., you might have expected the wind industry to come limping into RETECH2012. Instead, the audience heard from a sector that’s honing in on what it can control — namely cost reductions and innovation.
“We haven’t placed any orders for turbines for 2013,” said First Wind’s Julia Bovey in the opening remarks. That’s been the norm in 2012 for wind developers and turbine manufacturers as utilities and power purchasers have adopted a wait-and-see approach when it comes to the Production Tax Credit (PTC).
As a result, she added, three primary drivers have taken hold: reducing costs, improving turbine technology, and accessing capital in different ways.
Life Beyond The PTC
While the PTC has taken up much of the industry’s focus, wind proponents like Bovey and other green advocates are pushing for other ways to access capital. Two that have captured the discussion recently are master limited partnerships (MLPs) and real estate investment trusts (REITs). Both are used by oil and gas companies and have driven more than $300 billion in private investment. Here’s the way it was described in a NYT Op-Ed piece.
“Some economists and green tech entrepreneurs have advocated a change in federal tax law to allow renewable energy companies to use a tax-advantaged investment device known as a master limited partnership, which has attracted $350 billion in private investment but is limited to oil and gas extraction and pipeline projects. Another proposal is to allow real estate investment trusts, which are like mutual funds for real estate, to cover energy transmission networks and renewable energy generation.”
The wind industry says the subsidy discussion is really about equal footing. An LA Times report showed how lopsided it can seem depending on the data being analyzed.
“Fossil-fuel producers reap tax accounting breaks such as the depletion allowance, which is worth an estimated $1 billion a year, according to the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, a Washington think tank created to advise Congress on energy policy. Tax-expensing options for drillers bring them $1.9 billion a year. Relief on royalty payments due to drillers on government property: $53 billion over the lifetime of the leases.”
However the subsidies play out, panelists agreed something similar to the current renewable portfolio standard should be a goal. As much of a hot potato that it might be politically, more than thirty states are already enrolled to spark renewable growth. As one of the speakers mentioned, RPS is the closest thing we have to a national clean energy standard.
Innovation Brings Multiple Benefits
The pace of innovation in the wind business was certainly one of the bright spots. Taylor Geer, with energy consultancy Garrad Hassan, said turbine efficiency and reliability have improved dramatically over the last five years, something he attributes to better manufacturing processes and more R&D earmarked for things like forecasting and storage.
“We definitely have a better idea of what we need to look like within three-to-five years,” said Geer. “Not to mention we’re getting a better sense of what our cost of energy will be, and that’s a big lift.” Like other panelists, Greer emphasized the impact that energy storage would have on levelizing electricity costs. As the storage infrastructure improves, most agreed wind farms would likely resemble a generation model closer to conventional power plants.
To get a sense of how fast turbine technology is evolving, you can look at “repowering” efforts, which replace older turbines with new ones. According to Jeff Schlichting at wind developer Sustainable Legacy, one turbine can now replace up to five others as wind farms are upgraded.
Taking Costs Out Of The System
Cost reduction was another area where technology improvements are having an impact. But it’s not just better rotor technology or lighter materials that are helping, it’s supply chain efficiencies and the way wind farms are commissioned. “As the industry has matured, we’ve gotten better at everything from construction to logistics,” said Schlichting. “
And perhaps a sign of that maturity was the fact that IBM was on hand to address the operations and management (O&M) market for wind. According to Biren Gandhi of IBM Global Business Services, O&M costs can approach one-third of the total capital expenditures for a wind farm.
The company was pitching its IT-driven approach to managing large-scale wind operations, experience that it’s gained from running big servers and cloud applications for customers in the automotive industry and other manufacturing-intensive operations. IBM projects the O&M market could grow by as much as $6 billion over the next decade.
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There are two concerts this week that I’d like to bring to your attention; they’re not sold out as of this morning but you should grab tickets soon if you want to see these musicians fresh out of SXSW.
On Thursday Asobi Seksu plays at the Bowery Ballroom. Check out the video from her single “Thursday”:
Friday night you can catch Langhorne Slim at The Bell House.
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If you want something a bit… dorkier go to the Bell House on Wednesday for Union Hall’s Secret Science Club.
Mars expert JAMES HEAD recently spent his “holidays” in Antarctica, studying the bone-chilling landscape for clues that might help explain the mysterious Martian terrain. Dr. Head asks: Could frigid water below the surface of Mars contain evidence of life? What’s the latest news from recent Mars missions such as the Mars Express and Phoenix?
Professor of Geological Sciences in the Planetary Geosciences Group at Brown University, Dr. James Head spent his early career at NASA, training Apollo astronauts and planning lunar landing sites. As a geological explorer, he has traveled around the world (and to the bottom of the ocean in deep-sea submersibles) to study volcanism and tectonism. He is the author of more than 300 scientific papers on topics ranging from gullies and glaciation on Mars to Venusian impact craters. Currently, he is a co-investigator for the European Space Agency’s Mars Express Mission, the NASA MESSENGER mission to Mercury and the NASA Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3).
**Groove to spaced-out tunes and video
**Blast off with the Secret Science Club’s quantum cocktail of the night, the “Mars Express”
**Stick around for the out-of-this-world Q&A and music from PHANTOGRAM and BIG BANG TV!!
If you’re more interested in the past than the future get a history lesson on sex in NYC on Thursday at the Tenement Museum where Kat Long will be discussing her book “Forbidden Apple: A Century of Sex and Sin in New York City.” I just picked it up yesterday and it’s full of details about brothels during Prohibition and street walkers in pre-Guiliani Times Square. History has never been this steamy!
This Saturday is the 1st Saturday in April, which means it’s First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum! This month the events include swing music by The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn, tours of the Herman Bas exhibit and numerous other concerts and lectures.
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Best of all First Saturdays are totally and completely FREE!
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Trade union leaders
Sabby Sagall
Dave Lyddon claims in his latest contribution to our discussion about the 1972 docks’ strike (Feedback, December SR) that the TUC threat to call a general strike was not key to the release of the Pentonville Five, that the crucial factor securing their release was growing unofficial action in which 250,000 workers had walked out by the time the Five were released in July 1972.
Clearly the TUC would not have acted without the unofficial strikes, but to describe the threat of a General Strike as “icing on the cake” underestimates its significance.
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Commemorating the role of the early IS
Ian Birchall
I was most interested to read the obituary of Ian Macdonald QC (December SR). The story of a life devoted to fighting within the legal system for justice and against racism was indeed inspiring.
But I was a little surprised that there was no mention of the fact that, in the 1960s, Ian was for some years a leading member of the International Socialists (IS), the forerunner organisation of the SWP.
I knew Ian a little in those days. In 2009, when writing my biography of Tony Cliff (the founder and leader of the IS), I interviewed him about his memories of his days in IS.
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Britain's role in Russia
Terry Ward
I would like to add to Steve Guy’s article about the British military involvement in Russia after the 1917 Revolution.
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Corporate dominance damages film
David Gilchrist
I was somewhat taken aback by Sasha Simic’s article in the last edition of Socialist Review. Three of the world’s best known and critically acclaimed filmmakers — Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola and the socialist Ken Loach — have criticised the methods and output of the corporate giant Disney and its franchise outlet Marvel. Sasha criticises the filmmakers but not the corporation.
Amazingly Sasha dismisses the opinions of the three on the basis that he thinks they are being elitist.
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Not all Boomers!
Readers of Socialist Review will be very familiar with the ruling class’s “divide and rule” tactic, where they use nationalism, racism, sexism and homophobia to create scapegoats and divisions in the working class.
Ageism, too, whether directed against the young or the old, is often used in this way, to create intergenerational conflict and divert attention away from the real source of our problems: capitalism.
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Dockers and the TUC
Dave Lyddon
The springing of five dockers from Pentonville in July 1972 was class struggle in the raw. Sabby Sagall (Feedback, November 2019) suggests that the unofficial strike movement “was certainly crucial but, arguably, the dockers’ release would not have happened without the TUC’s intervention”. Ralph Darlington and I detailed the sequence of events in Glorious Summer (Bookmarks, 2001), building on Fred Lindop’s account. All three of us challenged the mainstream opinion that the TUC’s general strike call was key.
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Courting controversy
Shaun Doherty (October SR) raises important questions concerning the Supreme Court judgement that the government (the executive) acted unlawfully in proroguing (suspending) parliament (the legislature) for five weeks.
First, he claims the ruling “plays into [Boris] Johnson’s narrative”. Would we rather then that the Supreme Court had found for the government instead? Wouldn’t that have further convinced Johnson that he was untouchable?
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I'm not Malthusian
I was mystified and indeed a little upset at how my letter responding to Martin Empson’s excellent article in July/August SR “Are there too many people on the planet” was so badly misread by Megan James (Feedback, October SR).
She writes, “Mike Mcgrath repeats Malthus’s mistake in asserting that the cause of climate change is the number of people alive.”
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Workers' power
Fred Lindop is right to say that the 9-week London and Liverpool dockers’ strikes preceding their march supporting Enoch Powell in April 1968 following his “rivers of blood” speech had been over the “decasualisation” of dock labour rather than containerisation (Feedback, October 2019). Nor was it over housing as Dave Lyddon claims in his letter in the September issue.
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On the dockers, racism and workers’ confidence
Fred Lindop
I’d like to add a couple of points to Dave Lyddon’s response to Sabby Sagall’s article in July/August edition of SR.
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March 2, 2013 by Cafe Con Leche 6 Comments
Few realize that the “green movement” is about building large personal fortunes (green money) for an elite few. As with all robber barons, it is about the money. It is why President Barack Obama laid out his threat to again bypass Congress and ignore the American people during his 2013 State of the Union address. Mr. Obama will attempt to force his ill-conceived green energy plans into existence with the stroke of his pen via Executive Orders:
“I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy.” – President Barack Obama, February 12, 2013
Obama is determined to resurrect his green energy schemes by drying up America’s access to oil and gas no matter the pain inflicted on American families and businesses. Having put the coal industry on life-supports, his next target — restricting power plants that generate electricity to homes and businesses.
What the President hides behind the curtain and does not reveal is his alliance with international green elites, White House and Wall Street cronies and energy regulatory czars who have orchestrated a CO2 carbon-taxing scheme that puts billions of dollars into their own hands. It’s a money scheme. Three years ago, the global-warming money transfer scam surfaced and named not only this president, but a former Democrat president and vice-president as participants planning to accumulate vast personal wealth as a result. One need only ask, why did Al Gore so confidently tout that he was destined to become the “first global-warming billionaire?”
Long in the designing, the elements were close to being in full play. The plans were drawn, the carbon-credit trading exchange registered as the Chicago Climate Exchange was formulated (New York Times – Click here // Trading symbol CCX – Click here.), set to both transfer and stash cash, the green barons’ privately-owned Chicago bank was on the ready and the right president was in office to perpetrate the scam on the American people. That is, until the great global-warming-climate-change fraud stopped the United Nations-supported, elite cadre of well-connected political, banking and Wall Street associates in their tracks. British Freedom quotes The Times of India:
“Billionaire globalists like George Soros fund green groups and seek to promote the globalist ‘climate change’ scam as a way to enrich themselves and infiltrate developing nations in order to financially exploit them and their natural resources for profit.”
The June 2009 Bloomberg article, Sandor Got Obama’s Nod for Chicago-Style Climate Law by Jim Efstathiou Jr., reported that a carbon-capping bill set to be imposed on American businesses was the cornerstone of Obama’s environmental agenda. Bloomberg quotes CCX founder Richard Sandor as saying that the bill “began “way, way to the left with provisions to push U.S. utilities into bankruptcy.” The article further reads: “Sandor launched the Chicago Climate Exchange, or CCX, in 2003 after getting two research grants from the Chicago-based Joyce Foundation. Obama was on the foundation that gave us the grant, Sandor said. We know him well.” CCX reportedly now operates under the auspices of Environmental Financial Products.
When “global-warming-climate-change” was exposed as a blatant fraud, the American people and a Republican House refused to play ball. By doing so, they stymied the global clique of politicians and socialist ideologues who remain ready to bring America to its economic knees for their own financial and ideological gains. Even so, Mr. Obama is making another high-stakes play to push through his green agenda to fully activate the global CCX exchange despite the high cost to even the poorest of Americans.
While Obama is gearing up to invest billions of America’s tax dollars into the green abyss, other countries are backing away. Never mind that China and India refuse to put a dime into the scam. European nations have already experienced a severe hit to their economies and negative blow-back from their citizens. In the face of worldwide data to the contrary, Obama claimed during his State of the Union address that: “the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15.” How an American President can make such an erroneous claim to the American people in the face of existing facts reveals him as sorely misstating or misinformed.
A February 27, 2013 news release by the Global Warming Policy Foundation states that it has highlighted the global warming standstill for many years against fervent denial by climate activists. Its Chairman, Nigel Lawson, states: “there has been no further recorded global warming at all for at least the past 15 years.” Backing-up Lawson’s findings are reported reversals by such global-warming heavy-weights as the United Nation’s Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NASA’s James Hansen who both reportedly now recognize that global temperatures have not risen for more than a decade.
Europe is facing a green backlash.
“The BBC has backed down over Sir David Attenborough’s widely contested claim that parts of the world have warmed by 3.5C over the last two decades. …The comment was removed from Sunday night’s repeat of the show.” – Harley Dixon, The Daily Telegraph, 11 Feb. 2013
“…long-term consequences of the Energy Bill will be horrible. It’s a recipe for deindustrialization.” – Professor Gordon Hughes, Mail on Sunday, 24 February, 2013
“Today energy policy is framed with only one factor in mind: satisfying the green lobby. It is, to be blunt, mad.” – Stephen Pollard, Daily Express, 20 February 2013
“Carbon emissions are no longer the driving factor setting UK energy policy. The new and dominant issue is cost.” — Nick Butler, Financial Times, 21 February, 2013
Scientific facts that Mr. Obama and his cronies prefer you not know come from Edmund Contoski, an environmental consultant for more than 40 countries. In Liberty Unbound, Contoski writes: “The overwhelming majority (97%) of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere comes from nature, not from man.” Based on scientific data, “Not only are worms contributing to the CO2 in the atmosphere,” Contoski further notes that, “volcanoes, swamps, rice paddies, fallen leaves, and even insects and bacteria alone emit ten times more carbon dioxide than all the factories and automobiles in the world. Even natural wetlands emit more greenhouse gases than all human activities combined.” Nature itself foils the environmentalists as The U.S. Department of Energy admits that once emitted that 98% of all the carbon dioxide emissions are again absorbed by nature. Contosky then queries,
“Termites emit ten time more CO2 than humans, should we cap-and-tax them?”
The media neglect the real reason Barack Obama wants your dollars to flow into his green machine that will swallow them up and then divvy them up among an elite group that will reap financial gain as America loses. The scheme is hidden in plain sight. Perhaps a great investigative journalist like Bob Woodward will peel back the layers of this political fraud. After all, he’s already endured one tongue-lashing threat from the White House.
List of reported quotes from Green Globalists compiled by real-world-news, click here.
YouTube: White House and Green Globalists’ Action Plan, click here.
Email a link of this website with the information provided to fellow Americans and to Congress.
Sharon Sebastian (www.DarwinsRacists.com) is a columnist, commentator, author, and contributor to various forms of media including cultural and political broadcasts, print, and online websites. In addition to the heated global debate on creation vs. evolution, her second book, “Darwin’s Racists: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow,” highlights the impact of Social Darwinism’s Marxist/Socialist underpinnings on the culture, the faith and current policy out of Washington. Critics are calling Darwin’s Racists, “Incredibly Timely” and “A Book for our Times.” Sebastian is a featured guest on broadcasts nationwide on topics ranging from politics, the economy, healthcare, culture, religion and evolution to Agenda 21’s global green movement. Sebastian’s political and cultural analyses on a wide range of national and global events are published nationally and internationally. Website: www.DarwinsRacists.com. “Darwin’s Racists – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” may be purchased at: www.DarwinsRacists.com, www.Amazon.com, www.BarnesandNoble.com and at bookstores online and worldwide. Listen to Sharon Sebastian’s analysis on YouTube: Click here.
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Dwarves of the Iron Hills
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| members=[[Dáin Ironfoot|Dáin II Ironfoot]], [[Grór]], [[Náin (son of Grór)|Náin]], [[Thorin III Stonehelm]]
| lifespan=c. 250 years
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The '''Dwarves of the Iron Hills''' were [[Dwarves]] belonging to the house of the [[Durin's Folk|Longbeards]], otherwise known as [[Durin's Folk]], who lived in the [[Iron Hills]]. They became well-known for making a metal mesh that could be used for making flexible items like leg-coverings.
===Early history===
The [[Durin's Folk|Longbeard]] [[Dwarves]] of [[Moria|Khazad-dûm]] colonized the Iron Hills in the [[First Age]]. The Hills were their primary source of iron-ore.<ref name=Relations>{{PM|Relations}}, p. 302</ref> The [[Old Forest Road|Dwarf-road of Mirkwood]] ran north-east from Khazad-dûm to the Hills for use by dwarf-traders and merchants.<ref>{{PM|XNotes}}, p. 323 (note 30)</ref>
The [[Durin's Folk|Longbeard]] [[Dwarves]] of [[Moria|Khazad-dûm]] colonized the Iron Hills in the [[First Age]].<ref name=Relations>{{PM|Relations}}, p. 302</ref> The Hills were their primary source of iron-ore.<ref name=Relations>{{PM|Relations}}, p. 302</ref> The [[Old Forest Road|Dwarf-road of Mirkwood]] ran north-east from Khazad-dûm to the Hills for use by dwarf-traders and merchants.<ref>{{PM|XNotes}}, p. 323 (note 30)</ref>
After [[Sauron]] destroyed [[Eregion]] in the [[Second Age]], the Longbeards sealed Khazad-dûm and Orcs took control of the northern Misty Mountains and the Grey Mountains. This ended communication between the Iron Hills and Khazad-dûm for some time.<ref>{{PM|Relations}}, p. 306</ref>
After the fall of [[Khazad-dûm]] in {{TA|1981}}, many dwarves fleeing the [[Balrog]] wandered as far as the [[Iron Hills]], bolstering its population.<ref>{{PM|Third}}</ref>
=== Third Age===
In the Third Age, many Longboard Dwarves lived in the [[Grey Mountains]], but they were greatly troubled by [[Dragons]] in that region. After King [[Dáin I]] was slain by one of these dragons, his surviving sons led an exodus into the east. Dáin's elder son [[Thrór]] recreated the [[Kingdom under the Mountain]] at [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]], while his younger brother [[Grór]] led a part of the people further into the east to join their kindred living in the [[Iron Hills]].
Grór settled in the Iron Hills in the year {{TA|2590}} and became [[Lord of the Iron Hills]]. During his reign, the realm became the strongest in the North, being the only realm standing between Sauron and his plans to destroy Rivendell and taking back the lands of Angmar.{{fact}} Also, following the [[Sack of Erebor]] many of Durin's folk fleeing from [[Smaug]] and those wandering in exile, except for [[Thrór]] and his small company of family and followers, came to the Iron Hills, bolstering their numbers.
Grór settled in the Iron Hills in the year {{TA|2590}} and became [[Lord of the Iron Hills]]. During his reign, the realm became the strongest in the North, being the only realm standing between [[Sauron]] and his plans to destroy [[Rivendell]] and taking back the lands of [[Angmar]].<ref>{{App|Durin}}</ref> Also, following the [[Sack of Erebor]] many of Durin's folk fleeing from [[Smaug]] and those wandering in exile, except for [[Thrór]] and his small company of family and followers, came to the Iron Hills, bolstering their numbers.
====War of the Dwarves and Orcs====
During the [[War of the Dwarves and Orcs]], many Dwarves from the Iron Hills fought several battles, but they are mostly remembered from the [[Battle of Azanulbizar]] in the year {{TA|2799}}. [[Náin son of Grór|Naín]] and his army came to the battle in the most crucial moment, when the main Dwarven army was being decimated by the great host of Orcs. With these fresh reinforcments, the Dwarves were able to route and destroy their opponents, fighting their way all up to the steps of the [[Great Gates|East-gate]] of [[Moria]]. There, Nain dueled with [[Azog]], the [[Orcs|Orc]] commander, resulting to his death. Later in the battle,[[Dáin Ironfoot|Dáin II Ironfoot]] killed Azog out of vengeance for his father, achieving recognition because he was very young for dwarven standards. After this battle Dain led his Dwarves back to Grór's Halls.
During the [[War of the Dwarves and Orcs]], many Dwarves from the Iron Hills fought several battles, but they are mostly remembered from the [[Battle of Azanulbizar]] in the year {{TA|2799}}. [[Náin son of Grór|Naín]] and his army came to the battle in the most crucial moment when the main Dwarven army was being decimated by the great host of Orcs. With these fresh reinforcements, the Dwarves were able to route and destroy their opponents, fighting their way all up to the steps of the [[Great Gates|East-gate]] of [[Moria]]. There, Nain duelled with [[Azog]], the [[Orcs|Orc]] commander, resulting in his death. Later in the battle, [[Dáin Ironfoot|Dáin II Ironfoot]] killed Azog out of vengeance for his father, achieving recognition because he was very young for dwarven standards. After this battle, Dain led his Dwarves back to the Iron Hills.
====Dáin's Reign====
Grór ruled the Dwarves of the Iron Hills for 215 years, and he died in {{TA|2805}} at 241 years of age. [[Dáin Ironfoot]] became the next Lord of the Iron Hills. During his reign, the Iron Hills evolved to the mightiest Dwarf-realm of its time.{{fact}}
Grór ruled the Dwarves of the Iron Hills for 215 years, and he died in {{TA|2805}} at 241 years of age. [[Dáin Ironfoot]] became the next Lord of the Iron Hills.
Years later, Dáin's cousin [[Thorin]] attempted to restore the kingdom at Erebor, but he was trapped by the [[Elves of Mirkwood]] and [[Northmen]] of [[Lake-town|Esgaroth]] and sent to the Iron Hills for aid. Dáin arrived with 500 armoured Dwarves and as events developed, the Dwarves of the Iron Hills proved crucial in winning the ensuing [[Battle of Five Armies]] against the [[Orcs of the Misty Mountains]]. Thorin died in that battle, and with him the royal line of [[Thrór]]. Through his ancestor Grór, the Kingship of Durin's Folk then fell on Dáin. Dáin II Ironfoot removed from the Iron Hills, and re-established a kingdom under the [[Lonely Mountain]]. It is possible that both Iron Hills and [[Lonely Mountain|Erebor]] were ruled by him and later by his son [[Thorin Stonehelm|Thorin III Stonehelm]].
It is unknown whether the Dwarves of the Iron Hills fought alongside the Dwarves of Erebor in the [[Battle of Dale]] against the [[Easterlings]] during the [[War of the Ring]].
Years later, Dáin's cousin [[Thorin]] attempted to restore the kingdom at Erebor, but he was trapped by the [[Elves of Mirkwood]] and [[Northmen]] of [[Lake-town|Esgaroth]] and sent to the Iron Hills for aid. Dáin arrived with 500 armoured Dwarves and as events developed, the Dwarves of the Iron Hills proved crucial in winning the ensuing [[Battle of Five Armies]] against the [[Orcs of the Misty Mountains]]. Thorin died in that battle, and with him the royal line of [[Thrór]]. Through his ancestor Grór, the Kingship of Durin's Folk then fell on Dáin. Dáin II Ironfoot removed from the Iron Hills and re-established a kingdom under the [[Lonely Mountain]].
*''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', [[Appendix A]]
*''[[Unfinished Tales]]''
*''[[The Peoples of Middle-earth]]''
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"Iron Hill Dwarves" by Angelo Montanini
Origins Durin's Folk who settled in the Iron Hills in the First Age[1]
Locations Iron Hills
Languages Khuzdul, Westron
Members Dáin II Ironfoot, Grór, Náin, Thorin III Stonehelm
Lifespan c. 250 years
Distinctions Fierce warriors[2], exceedingly strong
Average height Five feet or less
Clothing Well-armoured in combat
Weaponry Mattocks, short-swords, and broad shields
The Dwarves of the Iron Hills were Dwarves belonging to the house of the Longbeards, otherwise known as Durin's Folk, who lived in the Iron Hills. They became well-known for making a metal mesh that could be used for making flexible items like leg-coverings.
1.2 Third Age
1.2.1 Founding of Grór's Realm
1.2.2 War of the Dwarves and Orcs
1.2.3 Dáin's Reign
[edit] Early history
The Longbeard Dwarves of Khazad-dûm colonized the Iron Hills in the First Age.[1] The Hills were their primary source of iron-ore.[1] The Dwarf-road of Mirkwood ran north-east from Khazad-dûm to the Hills for use by dwarf-traders and merchants.[3]
After Sauron destroyed Eregion in the Second Age, the Longbeards sealed Khazad-dûm and Orcs took control of the northern Misty Mountains and the Grey Mountains. This ended communication between the Iron Hills and Khazad-dûm for some time.[4]
After the fall of Khazad-dûm in T.A. 1981, many dwarves fleeing the Balrog wandered as far as the Iron Hills, bolstering its population.[5]
[edit] Third Age
[edit] Founding of Grór's Realm
In the Third Age, many Longboard Dwarves lived in the Grey Mountains, but they were greatly troubled by Dragons in that region. After King Dáin I was slain by one of these dragons, his surviving sons led an exodus into the east. Dáin's elder son Thrór recreated the Kingdom under the Mountain at Erebor, while his younger brother Grór led a part of the people further into the east to join their kindred living in the Iron Hills.
Grór settled in the Iron Hills in the year T.A. 2590 and became Lord of the Iron Hills. During his reign, the realm became the strongest in the North, being the only realm standing between Sauron and his plans to destroy Rivendell and taking back the lands of Angmar.[6] Also, following the Sack of Erebor many of Durin's folk fleeing from Smaug and those wandering in exile, except for Thrór and his small company of family and followers, came to the Iron Hills, bolstering their numbers.
[edit] War of the Dwarves and Orcs
During the War of the Dwarves and Orcs, many Dwarves from the Iron Hills fought several battles, but they are mostly remembered from the Battle of Azanulbizar in the year T.A. 2799. Naín and his army came to the battle in the most crucial moment when the main Dwarven army was being decimated by the great host of Orcs. With these fresh reinforcements, the Dwarves were able to route and destroy their opponents, fighting their way all up to the steps of the East-gate of Moria. There, Nain duelled with Azog, the Orc commander, resulting in his death. Later in the battle, Dáin II Ironfoot killed Azog out of vengeance for his father, achieving recognition because he was very young for dwarven standards. After this battle, Dain led his Dwarves back to the Iron Hills.
[edit] Dáin's Reign
Grór ruled the Dwarves of the Iron Hills for 215 years, and he died in T.A. 2805 at 241 years of age. Dáin Ironfoot became the next Lord of the Iron Hills.
Years later, Dáin's cousin Thorin attempted to restore the kingdom at Erebor, but he was trapped by the Elves of Mirkwood and Northmen of Esgaroth and sent to the Iron Hills for aid. Dáin arrived with 500 armoured Dwarves and as events developed, the Dwarves of the Iron Hills proved crucial in winning the ensuing Battle of Five Armies against the Orcs of the Misty Mountains. Thorin died in that battle, and with him the royal line of Thrór. Through his ancestor Grór, the Kingship of Durin's Folk then fell on Dáin. Dáin II Ironfoot removed from the Iron Hills and re-established a kingdom under the Lonely Mountain.
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "Of Dwarves and Men", "Relations of the Longbeard Dwarves and Men", p. 302
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Clouds Burst"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "Of Dwarves and Men", "Notes", p. 323 (note 30)
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "Of Dwarves and Men", "Relations of the Longbeard Dwarves and Men", p. 306
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "The Tale of Years of the Third Age"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
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Extracellular Ezrin - a Novel Biomarker for Traumatic Brain Injury
Lööv, Camilla
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Neurosurgery.
Nadadhur, Aishwarya
Hillered, Lars
Clausen, Fredrik
Erlandsson, Anna
2015 (English)In: Journal of Neurotrauma, ISSN 0897-7151, E-ISSN 1557-9042, Vol. 32, no 4, p. 244-251Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a heterogeneous disease, and the discovery of diagnostic and prognostic TBI biomarkers is highly desirable in order to individualize patient care. We have previously published a study in which we identified possible TBI biomarkers by mass spectrometry 24 h after injury in a cell culture model. Ezrin-radixin-moesin (ERM) proteins were found abundantly in the medium after trauma, and in the present study we have identified extracellular ezrin as a possible biomarker for brain trauma by analyzing cell culture medium from injured primary neurons and glia and by measuring ezrin in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from both rats and humans. Our results show that extracellular ezrin concentration was substantially increased in cell culture medium after injury, but that the intracellular expression of the protein remained stable over time. Controlled cortical impact injured rats showed an increased amount of ezrin in CSF at both day 3 and day 7 after trauma. Moreover, ezrin was present in all ventricular CSF samples from seven humans with severe TBI. In contrast to intracellular ezrin, which is distinctly activated following TBI, extracellular ezrin is nonphosphorylated. This is the first report of extracellular ERM proteins in human and experimental models of TBI, providing a scientific foundation for further assessment of ezrin as a potential biomarker.
TBI, Moesin, Radixin, pERM, ERM, actin, extracellular proteins, astrocytes
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-215151DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3517ISI: 000349314900005PubMedID: 25087457OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-215151DiVA, id: diva2:686343
1. Cellular and Molecular Responses to Traumatic Brain Injury
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Cellular and Molecular Responses to Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a relatively unknown disease considering the tens of millions of people affected around the world each year. Many TBI patients die from their injuries and survivors often suffer from life-long disabilities. The primary injury initiates a variety of cellular and molecular processes that are both beneficial and detrimental for the brain, but that are not fully understood. The focus of this thesis has been to study the role of astrocytes in clearance of dead cells after TBI and to identify injury specific proteins that may function as biomarkers, by using cell cultures, animal models and in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from TBI patients.
The result demonstrates a new function in that astrocytes, the most numerous cell type in the brain, engulf dead cells after injury both in cell cultures and in adult mice and thereby save neurons from contact-induced apoptosis. Astrocytes are effective phagocytes, but degrade the ingested dead cells very slowly. Moreover, astrocytes express the lysosome-alkalizing proteins Rab27a and Nox2 as well as major histocompatibility complex class II, the receptors on which antigens are being presented. By lowering the pH of the lysosomes with acidic nanoparticles, the degradation increases, but the astrocytes still remained less effective than macrophages. Taken together, the data indicates that the low acidification in astrocytes can preserve antigens and that astrocytes may be able to activate T cells.
The expression and secretion of injury-specific proteins was studied in a cell culture model of TBI by separate mass spectrometry analysis of cells and medium. Interestingly, close to 30 % of the injury-specific proteins in medium are linked to actin, for example ezrin of the ezrin/radixin/moesin (ERM) protein family. Ezrin, but none of the other ERM proteins or actin, is actively secreted after injury. Extracellular ezrin also increases in CSF in response to experimental TBI in rats and is present in CSF from TBI patients, indicating that ezrin is a potential biomarker for TBI.
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2014. p. 59
Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine, ISSN 1651-6206 ; 966
Traumatic Brain Injury, Astrocyte, Apoptosis, Biomarkers, Ezrin, Actin, Extracellular Proteins, Degradation, Lysosome, Antigen Presentation
Neuroscience; Neurosurgery
2014-02-28, Rudbecksalen, Rudbecklaboratoriet, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 20, Uppsala, 09:15 (English)
Hol, Elly, M.
University of Amsterdam.
Lööv, CamillaHillered, LarsClausen, FredrikErlandsson, Anna
Journal of Neurotrauma
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Uzbekistan – Belarus: prospects for security cooperation
05.06.19 0:35 | Society
During the visit of the delegation led by the State Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus Stanislav Zas on June 4, regular bilateral consultations were held between the Office of the Security Council under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan and the State Secretariat of the Security Council of the Republic of Belarus.
Congratulations on Ramadan Hayit
04.06.19 22:10 | Politics
Heads of states and governments of foreign countries have been sending congratulations on the occasion of Ramadan Hayit to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
President congratulates people of Uzbekistan on Ramadan Hayit
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sincerely, wholeheartedly congratulated the Muslims of Uzbekistan, all people with Ramadan Hayit.
Issues of rational use of land and water resources are discussed
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev held a meeting on priorities for effective use of land and water resources in agriculture.
Abdulaziz Kamilov receives the U.S. Ambassador
04.06.19 18:10 | Society
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov received the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Uzbekistan Daniel Rosenblum.
Presidents of Uzbekistan and Turkey talk over the phone
President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev had a telephone conversation with the President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Pakistan's businesspeople to attend the Investment Forum in Namangan
04.06.19 14:06 | Business
Pakistan’s companies Sichuan Gas Compressor, Pearl Tashkent Hotel and Travel Planners will attend the International Investment Forum in Namangan region.
Meeting with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia
Ambassador of Uzbekistan Ravshan Usmanov met with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia Muhammad Shahrul Ikram Yaakob.
Abdulaziz Kamilov receives the Ambassador of Venezuela
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulaziz Kamilov received the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela with residence in Tehran, Carlos Antonio Alcalá Cordones.
Turkey’s businesspeople are interested in Namangan region
The Turkish delegation at the International Business Forum “Invest in Namangan”, to be held on June 7-8, 2019, will include representatives of more than 15 companies operating in such important areas as healthcare, textiles, mechanical engineering, construction, tourism and others.
The UAE businesspeople to attend Investment Forum in Namangan
04.06.19 1:27 | Business
“Invest in Namangan” International Forum is expected to be attended by a delegation of the United Arab Emirates representing large and medium-sized business, in particular, Bin Hamoodah Group and Lootah Group holding companies, as well as, Phoenix Global and SDV Engineering companies.
Muhammad Yusuf school receives President’s gift
Today, 250 gifted students study here. They deeply study the Uzbek language and literature, artistic creativity and general subjects.
Uzbekistan – Armenia: cooperation prospects in healthcare
Delegation led by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Armenia Arsen Torosyan visits Uzbekistan.
Infrastructure needs strengthening before construction works
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with projects implemented in accordance with the master plan of the city of Nurafshon.
Creator of Mortal Combat empire visits Uzbekistan
Famous American filmmaker Lawrence Kasanoff, accompanied by members of Uzbekistan National Film Commission, visited Samarkand, Bukhara and Tashkent to select locations for his next film.
Beijing hosts Сhildren's Art Exhibition
03.06.19 18:07 | Culture
Children's Art Exhibition “The world in Children’s Eyes", organized by All-China Women's Federation and the SCO Committee on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation was held at Chinese Museum of Women and Children.
Tashkent to host Banking Summit
The banking summit of one of the largest financial institutions in the world, the Austrian Raiffeisen Bank, will be held in Tashkent on June 26, 2019.
Household waste landfill in Akhangaran near overflow
During the meeting with activists of Tashkent region, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev paid special attention to the state of affairs in social and municipal sectors.
New program comprising 784 investment projects devised for Tashkent region
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev outlined urgent tasks for economic development of Tashkent region, for creation of new enterprises and jobs.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev: Taking our compatriots back from the Middle East was not easy
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President criticizes the state of affairs in Tashkent region
Nurafshon city hosts a meeting with participation of Tashkent region’s assets, khokims and heads of sectors, responsible persons of republican agencies.
Sabina Sharipova becomes International Tournament Winner
03.06.19 0:08 | Sport
Uzbekistan’s first racket Sabina Sharipova became winner of Women’s Futures Tournament, taking place in Nonthaburi, Thailand.
Namangan to host International Investment Forum
Namangan will host International Investment Forum “Invest in Namangan”, which is organized by Namangan region’s khokimiyat together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other involved agencies of Uzbekistan.
Five Initiatives Implementation Platform is created in Buka district
02.06.19 2:32 | Politics
Ecopark of Culture and Enlightenment is created in Buka district center within the framework of the Five Initiatives forwarded by the President.
Five Initiatives radically change Buka district
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with activities carried out in Buka district within the framework of the Five Initiatives.
EU supports Uzbekistan in the Aral Sea region’s sustainable development
President of the European Council Donald Tusk took part in the presentation of the Multi-Partner Human Security Trust Fund for the Aral Sea Region dedicated to elimination of problems related to the drying up of the Aral Sea.
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President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited Sarkor farm of Buka district, where he got acquainted with the state of development of cotton and wheat.
Building Innovation plans to export products for 3 million USD
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A new kindergarten to provide modern education to more than 160 makhalla children
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited Kaldirgoch state preschool education institution in Akhangaran city.
President notes the need for improving conditions, responding to public appeals
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev got acquainted with conditions created in the new building of the Center for Public Services of Akhangaran city.
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Tampakan Mining 12-Year Extension, a “sweet deal” made of deceit - Quezon City, Philippines – The Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc. demands from DENR Sec. Roy Cimatu an immediate investigation on the 12-Year Extension g...
Merry Christmas from WWF!
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World Wildlife Fund for Nature- Philippines
Copenhagen Oceans Day highlights need for business support in Coral Triangle (15 Dec. 2009)
Businesses in the Coral Triangle must support national strategies to protect underwater environments or risk losing the precious marine resources that underpin the region’s economies, WWF said last December 15, 2009 at the close of Oceans Day at Copenhagen.
Oceans Day provided an opportunity for Parties and Observer States, as well as non-government organisations and the general public, to address the implications of the emerging Copenhagen agreement for oceans, coasts, and coastal communities around the globe.
It highlighted the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans and human wellbeing, as well as the need for the private sector to support bold adaptation actions that will minimise climate change impacts on coastal communities and marine resources.
“Nowhere is the need for global action on climate change more obvious than in the Coral Triangle, where more than 100 million people depend on the health of the sea for their income and sustenance,” said the head of WWF’s Coral Triangle Programme Dr Lida Pet-Soede.
“This is a part of the world where we have strong political will to protect underwater environments and coastal communities but this can only bear fruit with the support of hundreds of seafood businesses and fishing operators, tourism companies, airlines, and other enterprises that rely the region’s marine resources for their business.”
The Coral Triangle is scientifically described as a region covering the marine areas of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Timor Leste.
All six Coral Triangle governments committed to a plan of action at the World Ocean Conference to ensure the sustainability of their shared coastal and marine resources, and to take their concerns to the world stage at Copenhagen.
A report launched by WWF at the World Ocean Conference earlier this year found that in the Coral Triangle under the current climate change path there would be 50 per cent less protein available from the sea by 2050 and 80 per cent less by the end of the century.
Business leaders in the Coral Triangle will come together with Asia Pacific policy makers next month in Manila on January 19 and 20 to discuss the role of the private sector in protecting marine environments in the Coral Triangle.
The Coral Triangle Business Summit will be hosted by the Philippines in collaboration with WWF and will be aimed at establishing new partnerships between the private sector, policy makers and organisations interested in sustainable business opportunities.
WWF (World Wildlife Fund for Nature) Media Release
Charlie Stevens, WWF Coral Triangle Media Office, +61 (0)424 649 689;
Gregg Yan, WWF-Philippines Communications Manager, +63 (2) 920-7931 / +63 917-833-4734.
Marikina Climate Change Mural Espouses Hope (15 Dec. 2009)
Marikina Climate Change Mural Espouses Hope
Even as the historic Copenhagen climate talks were in full swing, Filipino artists and environmental advocates crafted a stunning climate change-themed mural in one of the country’s most climate-afflicted cities, Marikina. A vibrant 100-square meter mural now adorns the Marikina Riverbanks.
The Green Strokes climate mural now adorns the Marikina Riverbanks complex to remind people that simple innovations and a positive attitude can surmount climate effects such as typhoons, floods and droughts.
Says WWF-Vice Chair and CEO Lory Tan, “This mural is about empowerment and hope. “Ondoy taught us a painful and very expensive lesson. With climate change, no one is ever exempt. Its impacts are dynamic and non-linear. Coastal zones and flood prone areas along riverbanks and lake shores will of course get hit. But less vulnerable areas and sectors are affected as well. Are we prepared to adapt to this nebulous, aggressive future? Clearly not. But it is never too late to work pro-actively.”
As part of the Global Day of Action on Climate Change held last 12 December, the Global Campaign for Climate Action (GCCA) conducted a series of events – kicked off by the climate mural painting event and capped off by a climate-themed concert.
Individual Actions Key to Mitigation
Earth’s second-largest archipelago, the 7150 emerald isles of the Philippines host some of the most productive coasts and forests in Asia. Sadly, the country is also amongst those least-prepared to adapt to changing climates – as the lessons of Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng have shown. Millions of people may have to migrate from coastal regions to less-vulnerable inland areas and the ability of the country’s natural resources to provide food and livelihood might greatly diminish as more destructive climate shifts continue to assail the archipelago.
World leaders are now meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the United Nations Climate Conference to craft a successor to the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. The conference will run for two weeks and will in all probability, decide the fate of many archipelagic nations.
Painted by a cadre of volunteer artists, the mural highlights the importance of individual acts to mitigate climate effects. Says Tan, “Start with your own home. Or office. Reflect on the danger and disruption that came into your lives with the last storm or flood, and take the steps needed to make sure that this does not happen again to the people or activities closest to you."
WWF (World Wildlife Fund for Nature) Release
(Reposted with permission, from http://www.wwf.org.ph/newsfacts.php?pg=det&id=175)
Liesl Lim
Climate Consultant, WWF-Philippines
llim@wwf.org.ph
Gregg Yan
Communications Specialist, WWF-Philippines
920-7923/26/31
gyan@wwf.org.ph
El Nido Environmental Enforcement Team Honoured (27 Nov. 2009)
Five civilians were honoured for taking part in a daring night-time raid which netted seven poachers and 13 endangered sea turtles off El Nido in northern Palawan last April.
Honoured last 19 November were Edward Lorenzo, Jacques Arzaga, Zosimo Dangan, Ronald Tonacao and WWF Administrative Assistant Christopher Zata. The awards were presented during the 8th anniversary of Joint Task force Malampaya (JTFM), a composite team from the different units of the Armed Forces of the Philippines which protects northern Palawan from poachers and illegal fishers.
The awards were presented by JTFM Commander Col. Esteban Castro. Other military awardees are Cdr. Michael Ordono, LCdr. Romeo Requilman, TSgt. Ludevico Rovillos, Qtr Master 3rd Class Aranan Jalaludin, Second Man Class Electronics Technician Denmark Torres, Sgt Renato Apiado and Sgt. Michael Violante.
Aside from the main duty of securing the Malampaya Gas to Power Project, the task force has for years seen action against foreign poachers, often illegally hunting for sea turtles – the shells of which are used for tortoiseshell – a material used as far back as the ancient Greek and Roman eras to fashion jewellery, combs and brushes. Dried and mounted turtle shells are also sold as curio items across Southeast Asia.
Apprehended last 7 April near El Nido’s Cawayan Isle was a speedboat with seven Chinese nationals and 13 dead green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). The poachers have been charged with the violation of Sec 87 or ‘poaching in the Philippine waters’ of RA 8550 or the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998.
On 29 August 2008, 101 dead hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) were recovered from Vietnamese fishing vessel Q.ng 91234-TS five nautical miles east of Cabaluan Isle in El Nido.
On 6 July 2008, four Vietnamese aboard vessel Q.ng 95986 were arrested for alleged poaching off Guntao Isle, again in El Nido. Four other fishing boats, believed to be Vietnamese, escaped.
Foreign turtle poachers are no strangers to El Nido’s rich waters, dubbed as the ‘Poacher’s Paradise’ for the frequency of foreign intrusions.
Adds WWF Project Manager RJ de la Calzada, “Our message is clear – El Nido does not tolerate poaching in any form. Hand in hand with Task Force Malampaya and our allies, we shall continue our vigilance in protecting northern Palawan’s rich marine sanctuaries.”(30)
RJ dela Calzada
El Nido Project Manager, WWF-Philippines
rjdelacalzada@wwf.org.ph
WWF Tops List of NGOs Which are Best for Business Support (24 Nov. 2009)
WWF and Forum For The Future lead the growing numbers of NGOs advising top UK firms on environmental issues, according to a new report from industry analyst Verdantix.
The report placed WWF as the top NGO for business advice, hailing its breadth of resources and its practice of using strict environmental criteria to only work with selected firms - a move that ensures its credibility as a green charity is not tarnished.
Forum For The Future took the silver medal, with the report arguing that it boasts a strong awareness of the realities of running a business, and as a result provides businesses with commercially and financially viable advice.
A number of NGOs were also praised by the report for offering strong specialist advice, with the Carbon Disclosure Project singled out for its guidance on carbon management, the Green Alliance highlighted as one of the best sources of policy advice, Tomorrow's Company hailed for its best practice sharing, and Fauna & Flora International and the Forest Stewardship Council recommended for advice on bio-diversity and forestry issues respectively.
The study found that 50 per cent more CSR directors plan to work with an NGO on water scarcity in 2010 compared with 2009, while 57 per cent of respondents intend to launch NGO-related activities on climate change adaptation in 2010 compared to just 40 per cent in 2009.
Report author Rodolphe d'Arjuzon said NGOs could expect to see increased demand from businesses in a number of new areas from next year, with "running a sustainable business, water management and climate change adaptation topping the list".
The study evaluated offerings from 12 environmental NGOs and interviewed 30 CSR directors at FTSE 100 companies. They said the primary business benefit from working with NGOs is their ability to validate and challenge sustainability strategies.
Respondents also warned that while having an understanding of business is important, NGOs should not dilute their value to businesses by stifling criticism or working too closely with firms.
"They must not get seduced into believing they must always be aligned with business, and should maintain a carrot and stick approach," observed one CSR officer at a major retailer. (30)
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What (was) at Stake in Copenhagen? (21 Oct. 2009)
What (was) at Stake in Copenhagen?
The Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, where world leaders decided on the fate of humanity just recently concluded. What happens to the Philippines if the outcome is less-than-favorable? Read on to find out.
Earth’s second-largest archipelago, the 7150 isles of the Philippines form the apex of the Coral Triangle, the world’s most productive undersea food factory – able to annually generate 40 tonnes of seafood per square kilometer – more than enough to provide food for every Filipino.
Sadly, the country is amongst those least-prepared to adapt to changing climates – as the lessons of Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng have demonstrated. Millions of people may have to migrate from coastal regions to less-vulnerable inland areas and the ability of the country’s natural resources to provide food and livelihood might greatly diminish as more destructive climate shifts continue to assail the archipelago.
The Future Begins in Copenhagen
From 7 to 18 this December, environmental ministers and officials met in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Conference to craft a successor to the Kyoto protocol, which expires in 2012. The conference ran for two weeks and will in all probability, decide the fate of many archipelagic nations.
COP15 is the official name of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit — the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The COP is the highest body of the UNFCCC and is made up of environment ministers who meet yearly to discuss and facilitate climate-related developments. Over 15,000 officials, advisers, diplomats, campaigners and journalists are expected to attend COP15, to be graced by heads of state from almost 200 nations. The most significant outputs from COP15 should be the following:
1. Significant reduction of greenhouse gases for industrialized countries.
2. Specific emissions caps for developing countries.
3. Financing for climate adaptation measures, especially in developing countries.
The Decisions Will Affect Millions
WWF, the world’s largest and most respected conservation organization, is calling for the continuation of the Kyoto protocol in industrialized countries as well as a decisive protocol in Copenhagen – which should legally bind all major emitters. Should talks break down, then more frequent and destructive climate events will surely assail climate-vulnerable countries – especially the Philippine Isles.
The recent floods brought about by Typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng serve as grim testaments to remind the Copenhagen delegates that what they are discussing are not only piles of papers but documents which will decide the fate of millions of people. The US, considered the highest carbon emitter in history, must set an example for other countries in committing to substantial reductions in carbon emissions and to set up a global fund for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
As the world’s leading environmental solutions provider, WWF sent Copenhagen representatives to ensure that the right decisions are made. For what’s at stake is not land, nor money, nor power. At stake is the survival of our people.
Yeb Saño
Climate Change and Energy Programme Director, WWF-Philippines
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Archive: 10 Steps For Success in Copenhagen (6 Nov. 2009)
10 Steps For Success in Copenhagen
WWF has defined 10 elements of substance which need to be dealt with in the final outcome of the Copenhagen process. These elements must be covered by clear decisions in the Copenhagen climate deal.
1. A legally binding outcome building on the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol and their ultimate objectives and principles which include all Parties to the Convention, based on a system of five-year commitment periods with emergency review clauses to enable the accommodation of new scientific knowledge. The preferable form of the Copenhagen outcome will be an amended Kyoto Protocol, which is closely linked to a new Copenhagen Protocol. These 'sister protocols' should include the elements described below;
2. A Shared Vision to secure the survival of countries, cultures and ecosystems to establish low-carbon development worldwide and to guarantee equity. Recognition that achieving this means that global temperature rise must be kept far below 2* C compared to pre-industrial levels, recognizing that even 1.5* C warming poses great risks. And recognition that global emissions will have to peak and then start declining in the 2013 - 2017 period;
3. Agreed emission reductions targets for Annex 1 countries for the 2013 - 17 commitment period, leading them towards reduction as a group to 40% below-1990 emissions levels by 2020, and a provision that Annex 1 countries develop Zero Carbon Action Plans as the framework for their emissions reductions pathway towards decarbonization by 2050;
4. A framework for UNFCCC recognition of developing country actions, unilateral and supported, adding up to an aim by developing countries as a group to reduce emissions by at least - 30% compared to business-as-usual. The framework would recognize nationally-appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs), and would provide for these to be included in comprehensive and visionary 2050 low carbon action plans (LCAPs);
5. A mechanism under the UNFCCC for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) by at least -75% by 2020 compared to 1990 levels. This must respect the rights of local communities, indigenous peoples and protect biodiversity;
6. An adaptation action framework that in particular seeks to protect the most vulnerable countries and communities as well as ecosystems. This should include the creation of an international insurance mechanism, including just compensation;
7. A public financing framework for mitigation and adaptation under the UNFCCC which includes guaranteed provision of sufficient, measurable, reportable, verifiable public finance by industrialized countries for (a) mitigation action by developing countries to enable a low-carbon development, and for (b) adaptation action by developing countries. Such finance is to be additional to current official development assistance, must not consist of carbon market finance and should be in the order of 160 US$ Billion per year for the period 2013 - 17 on the basis of assessed contributions, raised in particular through the auctioning of emission allowances for industrialized countries and through emission allowances for the global aviation and shipping sectors;
8. A technology mechanism which supports technology cooperation to secure research, development and dissemination of low-carbon technologies, including a technology-fund financed by developed countries to secure technology transfer for developing countries. The technology mechanism should work through technology action programs, driven by technology development objectives. It should coordinate with existing international, regional and bilateral technology efforts;
9. An institutional framework with new and increased institutional capacity under the guidance and authority of the UNFCCC to secure the needed coordination, support and implementation capacity for the mitigation, technology, adaptation and REDD commitments & incentive mechanisms, based on a democratic governance system representing developing and developed countries fairly. Actual implementation could happen through existing institutions outside of the UNFCCC, provided these reported to the UNFCCC through the coordination mechanism;
10. An agreement on standards or rules for a number of foundational areas, including inventories, LULUCF treatment in developed countries, carbon markets, MRV for both developed and developing countries and compliance procedures. International shipping and aviation must be part of the overall mitigation effort and policies to reduce emissions should also generate climate finance.
WWF will be working around-the-clock to ensure that decision makers in Copenhagen come up with responsible and no-nonsense solutions to the global climate crisis. The stakes are simply too high to ignore.
WWF is the world’s largest and most experienced conservation organization. Help us come up with practical environmental solutions by visiting wwf.org.ph/howhelp.php or calling 895-6294. Together, we shall face environmental adversity - to leave our children a living planet.
Lack of Accountability Threatened Copenhagen Climate Talks ( 21 October 2009)
Lack of Accountability (Threatened) Copenhagen Climate Talks
Gland, Switzerland: conservation organization WWF today issued a warning to the world that a lack of political nerve could divert the world from achieving a climate deal in Copenhagen.
“The world doesn’t want Copenhagen to come to mean another Doha,” says Kim Carstensen, Leader of WWF’s Global Climate Initiative.
“Kite flying in the media and diplomatic manoeuvres behind the scenes are a reflection of the industrialized countries trying to lower expectations as they continue to dodge the hard decisions on slashing their emissions and funding the transition to a low carbon economy. The world is looking for leadership, but instead the leaders are starting to hand out their excuses in advance.”
WWF has been tracking the growing diplomatic whisper campaign, noting references to another plan on climate which excludes a binding legal agreement in Copenhagen.
WWF says that a legally binding deal is the only format that will give the world a chance to avoid increasing predictions of climate catastrophe.
“There is only Plan A or Plan F and plan F stands for failure,” says Carstensen.
“Climate won’t wait on ministers` political and diplomatic manoeuvres. Leaders must not avoid difficult decisions now because the fact is that these decisions are only going to get harder.
“Many countries in the developing world have already acted and are signaling that they can move further, but they also need the legal certainty and confidence that industrialized countries will meet their commitments.
“Substantial sectors of business and labour also are gearing up to move, but they are calling for the sort of certainty that comes from a legally binding global agreement. Investors and markets need confidence in order to really kick start the low carbon economy,” says Carstensen.
Carstensen says it was no coincidence that the upsurge in suggestions a deal was off appeared in the run-up to negotiating teams going into the final preparatory meeting in Barcelona in just over a week.
“This is a dangerous game because it could distract the negotiations before Barcelona next week and cause significant failure in Copenhagen,” Carstensen says.
“Every ingredient bar one to make a deal is in place. Governments have had two years of negotiating times and space, they have all the science they need, all the text options and words they need and all the arguments they need to be convinced that now is the time and place to do the deal. The only missing ingredient is political will.”
"The US Senate must pass a bill in time for December, as their leadership has promised; but we certainly don’t want to see other industrialized countries hiding behind what they think the US Senate will do.”
WWF is calling for the retention of the Kyoto protocol for industrialized countries together with a new protocol in Copenhagen that is legally binding for all major emitters.
The deal should include - amongst others - ambitious emission reduction targets from industrialized countries, recognition and support for developing country actions, commitment to scaled up climate finance especially for adaptation, and a new institutional and governance arrangement under the guidance of the UN.
Martin Hiller, Head of Communications Global Climate initiative +41 79 347 2256 mhiller@wwfint.org
Phil Dickie, WWF International News Editor, +41 79 703 1952, pdickie@wwfint.org
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They don’t count EDITORIAL 09/06/2010
They don’t count
Noticeable in the ongoing testimonies to the fact-finding body formed to make heads or tails of the botched hostage rescue that took away the lives of eight Hong Kong tourists and the hostage taker, are the many should haves and could haves coming from the police officials, all of which are usually given through the coaxing of the members of the probe body.
National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) chief Leocadio Santiago said had it had been his decision, the police assault on the bus where dismissed Senior Insp. Rolando Mendoza held the hostages would have been carried out by the elite Special Action Force (SAF) instead of the ill-equipped Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) force of the Manila Police District. Also negotiator Chief Insp. Romeo Salvador said had he been allowed, he could have grabbed Mendoza and ended the crisis with likely less trouble.
The members of the fact-finding body were obviously taking the path of getting a crystal-clear view on who really was to blame for the ugly turnout of the incident. And from testimonies given thus far, it seems that the group supposedly managing the crisis unfortunately was a mixed bag of spineless police officials, a politician who seems to believe that the crisis was a movie production and a former police general who can’t get past the temptation of taking over ground command during crisis situations.
Santiago’s and Salvador’s statements were giveaway proof that most of the police involved in ground operations on the hostage-taking incident were either not consulted or largely ignored by the so-called crisis management committee (CMC) that appeared to have disintegrated when it was most needed..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/
Biggest ‘porker’ ever FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 09/06/2010
Biggest ‘porker’ ever
Guess who is the biggest “porker” in the government?
It’s Noynoy Aquino, President of the Republic, who spoke of the need for reforms and austerity, and slammed away at those officials in government-owned and controlled corporations, and government financial institutions for giving themselves tens of millions in allowances, fat pays and bonuses.
But hey, what’s a few hundred millions when compared to Noynoy’s increased pork barrel — amounting to a staggering P1 billion, just for himself — and unaccountable too, as these are confidential funds.
And this is apart from his presidential social fund, which also amounts in the billions yearly.
It has been pointed out by congressmen that the 2011 budget Congress is now reviewing, shows that not only has Noynoy bloated his pork barrel to P1 billion but also did not provide a single centavo to the National Food Authority (NFA) for rice subsidy in the proposed P1.64-trillion budget submitted to the House.
All for him and nothing for the poor people who have to buy cheap rice?
But not only did Noynoy give himself P1 billion for his pork barrel. He even retained his P500-million intelligence funds!.... MORE
Into the Atlantic — Liberian homes destroyed by sea erosion focus 09/06/2010
Into the Atlantic — Liberian homes destroyed by sea erosion
BUCHANAN — A home right on the beach has proved anything but a dream for Frances Kwessi, 35, who has watched sea erosion destroy her house room by room, as the Atlantic washed up on her doorstep.
“As you can see only one room has not yet been touched by the sea,” said Kwessi, who lives in Liberia’s port town of Buchanan.
Dressed in a dirty blue dress with a baby strapped to her back, she now sleeps there with her three children, after rising tides claimed three quarters of the brick house, with its cement floor and zinc roof.
Coastal erosion in the west African nation has eaten up many beaches, but more seriously has endangered the many unplanned and densely populated communities who built their houses too close to the shore.
“I don’t really know what to do now,” she said.
“This was the only shelter I had. I sleep here with my children because I have no choice.”... MORE
The buck stops where? C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 09/06/2010
So, who decided against giving in to hostage taker Rolando Mendoza’s demand that he be reinstated even temporarily in exchange for the release of the hostages that fateful Monday two weeks ago?
This question is being asked after the deputy negotiator, Chief Insp. Romeo Salvador, revealed on the second day of the clarificatory hearings of the five man investigating panel headed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima that Mendoza confided to him as much. On questioning by panel member IBP Governor Roan Libarios, Salvador narrated that as early as lunchtime that Monday Mendoza told him he just needed a temporary reinstatement order to release the hostages since he also realized that he would be charged and detained anyway for the hostage taking. Unfortunately, as Salvador sadly narrated, the “higher ups” failed to act on the information at that time only to find out that a reinstatement order was issued later on when the crisis has turned into a carnage.
So, why did the crisis committee not take the offer right there and then and resolved the crisis pronto? That is the sixty four dollar question which the panel is now obligated to prove to spare us all the wailing and self flagellation which have been attending this tragedy for sometime now. P-Noy need not own up to the mistakes of his bumbling and finger pointing subordinates and lesser officials who should know better than hide behind his back propping him up as their apologist instead of the other way around.
Who disregarded the Mendoza offer and why? This is the one question which needs to be answered now before the De Lima panel and, yes, the eager beaver Palace subordinates lead the public through another round of psycho-babbling and self flagellation. Was it Colonel Yebra, the chief negotiator? As a trained negotiator, did he think Mendoza’s offer a ploy to buy time and gain advantage? Or, did he keep the information to himself hoping that he can spring it and gain clearance for its implementation at a more appropriate time?.... MORE
PeNoy: P8B for the poor, P35B for bankers DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 09/06/2010
PeNoy: P8B for the poor, P35B for bankers
Dinky Soliman, PeNoy Aquino’s Social Welfare secretary, trumpets her P8-billion cash dole-out for the poor. That’s measly compared to the P35 billion Soliman’s CodeNGO is handing out to the bankers this year through the payback to her group’s so-called PeaceBonds.
Just think: The bankers are going to get four times more than the poor. And we don’t even know if all of this P8-billion dole-out will really go to the intended recipients, given the notoriety of the PeNoy administration’s utter lack of control. Stated simply, this is my way of telling Soliman to cut the crap about her and her government’s fictitious “pro-poor” claims. Her NGO work had always been masked subversion projects of the Western funding agencies — thus, explaining why her NGO comrades are so well taken care of by such bodies as the Kennedy School of Government and the Cory Aquino foundations of the oligarchs.
As we speak, PeNoy is already increasing the number of financial rip-offs to benefit Big Business through new projects such as the MRT and the new South Expressway extensions, water privatization, power privatization (which has given us the highest power rates in Asia), plus giving tollway operators more leeway to exact exorbitant fees. All these are being contracted under PeNoy’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme, which will have P15 billion in funding cum dole-out for the big, favored corporations — again outstripping the dole-out for the poor.
Already, under this PPP arrangement, three new tollways are being planned, as well as, tourism infrastructure to be mapped out by Ayala man and Tourism Secretary Bertie Lim. In all, the P35-billion CodeNGO pay-off and the P15-billion PPP projects total to an astounding P50-billion “social welfare” for Big Business!
But even as PeNoy gives this P50-billion subsidy to the bankers and Big Business, his government’s pencil-pushers under Butch Abad, such as the Treasury boss, did not allocate a single centavo for the National Food Authority (NFA), under the Department of Agriculture’s budget. Without this, the NFA will not be able to purchase rice from our millions of farmers. In short, there will be no subsidy at all, which will place them at the mercy of unscrupulous traders and middle men, thus, drowning us in the deluge of imports from countries such as Vietnam, India, and China that subsidize their own farmers. I really wonder if NFA chief Lito Banayo will be able to stomach this as he claims to be pro-poor and a nationalist ever since his college and activist days.
In the meantime, behind the veneer of brooking “no corruption” is this reality: PeNoy now bloats the President’s pork barrel from P800 million to P1 billion and keeps his P500-million intelligence fund, which he earlier vowed to forego. PeNoy also did not reduce his travel budget as he said he would.
Following his lead, Malacañang has now increased its contingent fund under the new budget and listed this under the Special Purpose Fund which only the President can draw from. In turn, budgets for Environment and Health were reduced. Funds such as the P18.5 billion for water resources development and flood control and P40 billion for health services were slashed to P14.5 billion and P38.6 billion respectively.
Yet the palakasan in favor of the Ateneo-UP Student Catholic Action (UPSCA) club, nurtured by the Jesuits Delaney and Intengan, is ever present. Why, the Atenean Butch Abad has already allocated P34.3 billion (up from the previous year’s P15.4 billion) to UPSCAn Dinky Soliman.
All this should be lessons to the wide-eyed believers of PeNoy and the Yellow movement to snap out of their trance. This call is made to such Yellow supporters as Reyn Barnido, who has issued an open letter to PeNoy on the Internet that takes off from the hostage fiasco, saying in part: “This is not anymore about failing to handle the hostage-taking as much as this is about fulfilling the promises of your oath-taking… This is not about a singular madman shooting bullets up and down; this is about an orgy of fools shooting lies left and right... not anymore about the negotiators’ inefficiency to convince a police officer to surrender, but the government’s incapacity to comfort a nation… We don’t deserve this, Sir. This is not the covenant we entered into during your oath-taking… I grew up in the shadows of the Abads, Soliman, Deles… Do not take their analysis of society at face value for theirs is a construct designed to fuel a protest movement, not manage a large bureaucracy… Believe it or not, your cheerers may have become cynics, but they are still your companions in this journey. I, for one, will not abandon you Mr. President.”
Apparently, Barnido still thinks that the crisis bedeviling his former mentors and PeNoy himself is just a crisis of incompetence, where one is sentimentally loyal even to the failed and foolish, hoping they will learn. Well, he and his youngish ilk are the ones who have a lot to learn!
PeNoy’s budget and programs, foisted unto us by the evil powers that Barnido has been taught in the Ateneo not to see, are the best eye openers. These evil powers, the money masters to whom the Jesuits genuflect, are anti-poor and anti-human, on top of being pro-Big Business. Only when he awakens to how he was inveigled to help install a puppet that has brought us to the deepest nadir which the Yellow movement is capable of can he truly help this nation as a “Man for Others,” and not as a “Man for the Money Masters.”... MORE
A tired soul HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 09/06/2010
A tired soul
I’m a good two decades away from being called a senior citizen, if 60 years is the yardstick for age and possession of a senior’s citizen’s card’s confirmation. But at 40, I can already feel that I have lost my youthful immortality. I’m no longer invincible that I once thought I was.
It’s only rock and roll which keep me alive, but my songs, like those of my father’s, have grown old, too. Yet I learned to step back, catching up with the music of my pre-teen daughter, the eldest of three, who introduced me to B.O.B and Train and Jay Sean and Jay-Z.
If I stay away from radio quite a bit longer, I could take Justin Bieber for a time, but repetition has its cost, and the young singing sensation of good, ol’ America drives me back to New Wave, Blues and good, ol’ rock and roll.
Recently, my friends and I celebrated the 15th year of Back to the Edge, it’s the monthly series of gigs I’ve helped found with Sazi Cozino, owner of Sazi’s Bar, the former Mayric’s in front of UST where tired souls converged to refresh for the new day ahead. But our numbers have been overtaken by the younger souls, those who were once us, until gray hair and arthritis caught up with many of us.... MORE
Honoring the elderly SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 09/06/2010
Honoring the elderly
Dinah S. Ventura
There may have been a time you thought 40 was ancient, but if you have reached this age “category” yourself, you would probably love to bandy the thought that it is “the new 20.”
Regardless of how you feel about age, aging and the so-called elderly, there is no denying that we will reach “that certain age” sometime in our lives — if we’re lucky.
Looking at the elderly in your family, are you filled with wonder at how they manage to remain so strong and healthy even after all these years? Are you proud of their active minds and dependable wisdom, or amused by their propensity to learn new things, such as the Internet and those gadgets that even you have yet to master? Do they inspire you to live as fully as they are living, or do you worry about them?
In the world, according to the United Nations (UN), “one of every 10 persons is now 60 years or older. By the year 2050, one of five will be 60 years or older; by 2150, it will be one of three persons.”
Recognizing the needs of the elderly in the world, the UN General Assembly in 1990 designated Oct. 1 as the International Day for the Elderly. This holiday encourages everyone to pay their respects to the older people in their families and communities and tend to their special needs..... MORE
Verzosa admits low morale in PNP By DEXTER SEE September 5, 2010, 5:00pm
Verzosa admits low morale in PNP
By DEXTER SEE
September 5, 2010, 5:00pm
FORT DEL PILAR, Baguio City – No less than Director General Jesus A. Verzosa admitted over the weekend that a low morale pervades in the 120,000-strong Philippine National Police (PNP) organization, following the monumental blunders of the police in the Manila hostage-taking incident last August 23.
Speaking before Philippine Military Academy (PMA) cadets on Saturday afternoon, Verzosa acknowledged that the lapses of the police, which failed to avert a bloody end to the hostage drama, earned the ire of the international community.
The death of eight tourists from Hong Kong and hostage-taker, dismissed police Senior Inspector Rolando R. Mendoza, consequently portrayed a weak ability of the police to handle such sensitive incidents.
While Verzosa offered no concrete evidence of demoralization in the country’s police force, he said he can feel the low morale of the men and women in uniform..... MORE
Source: Mb.com.ph
URL: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/275719/verzosa-admits-low-morale-pnp
Joker: Palace moves ‘cheapen’ presidency By Angie M. Rosales 09/06/2010
AQUINO TAKING FULL RESPONSIBILITY ‘AMOUNTS TO NOTHING’
Joker: Palace moves ‘cheapen’ presidency
By Angie M. Rosales
President Aquino’s taking full responsibility for the botched hostage rescue operations amounts to nothing and the Palace efforts to drum it up cheapened the presidency, Sen. Joker Arroyo, a former executive secretary of Aquino’s mother former President Corazon Aquino, said yesterday.
“It cheapens the presidency,” Arroyo said in criticizing what he described as the apparent publicity stunt executed by Aquino’s advisers to defuse public outrage over the authorities’ mishandling of the Aug. 23 hostage incident.
Arroyo said Palace officials’ pronouncements that Aquino “is not resigning because he received a clear mandate” made matters worse.
“It’s a good sound bite. It’s good to the image of the President but it amounts to nothing,” Arroyo said adding that such statement made by Presidential Communications Sec. Herminio Coloma, was unnecessary.
“When he said that he’s accepting full responsibility, it doesn’t mean that those subject to investigation are already exonerated. The probe continues. So what’s the effect of that statement?” he asked.... MORE
Retiring Verzosa mimics Aquino in taking crisis rap By Mario J. Mallari and Marie A. Surbano 09/06/2010
Retiring Verzosa mimics Aquino in taking crisis rap
By Mario J. Mallari and Marie A. Surbano
Taking cue from his commander in chief, President Aquino who earlier had said he is assuming responsibility on the botched rescue operation during the Aug. 23 hostage-taking of more than 20 Hong Kongers at the Quirino Grandstand, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Jesus Verzosa, who is scheduled for retirement, also said he is taking responsibility for the tragic incident.
Verzosa, however, said his decision to retire ahead of schedule has nothing to do with the bungled police assault on Hong Thai bus, which was held by former Manila Police District (MPD) member Senior Insp. Rolando Mendoza, that ended in the killing of eight Hong Kong tourists and the hostage-taker.
“My decision to render an early retirement has been announced more than a month ago. More than ever, it is imperative to take responsibility especially with regards to what has transpired in the past week,” Verzosa said.
It was gathered that Verzosa has already informed his superiors as early as July about his plan to retire on Sept. 14, or three months earlier than his scheduled retirement on Dec. 25 this year upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 56.... MORE
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afp takes new tack on leftists By Mario J. Mallari 09/06/2010
AFP takes new tack on leftists
By Mario J. Mallari
The Armed Forces
of the Philippines (AFP) has opened its doors to militant organizations such as Bayan Muna and Karapatan that were previously linked by the military to the communist movement, in crafting a new anti-insurgency campaign plan to come up with one that is acceptable to all stakeholders.
During a recent forum in Fort Bonifacio, Army spokesman Col. Antonio Parlade said all major stakeholders — from the religious groups to the academe and even some militant groups – were invited by the military in crafting a new anti-insurgency campaign plan.
“We had a three-day symposium with other stakeholders in this insurgency campaign, from the interfaith, from the academe, the Commission on Human Rights and there were people also invited from Karapatan and even Bayan Muna, even these left organizations were invited to participate in the symposium in order to craft a campaign plan that’s really responsible, acceptable to all sectors,” he added.
With this move, Parlade said the military expects a new campaignplan that’s really responsible, acceptable to all sectors,” he added.
With this move, Parlade said the military expects a new campaign plan that is “non-traditional.”... MORE
Abu sub-leader, 2 others killed in Sulu clash 09/06/2010
Abu sub-leader, 2 others killed in Sulu clash
Government security forces clashed with al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants in Sulu province yesterday, killing at least three and wounding several others, a ranking police official said.
Acording to Philippine National Police (PNP) spokesman Senior Supt. Agrimero Cruz Jr., Special Action Force (SAF) commandos caught up with an Abu Sayyaf unit believed to be aiding foreign militants from the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group in Maimbung town on Jolo Island, triggering the fighting.
He said intelligence reports suggested that the Abu Sayyaf gunmen were protecting Marwan, a Malaysian-born member of the JI believed to be responsible for honing the Abu Sayyaf’s bombing techniques.
“They were able to neutralize (kill) Gafur and two other unidentified (Abu Sayyaf) members,” Cruz said, referring to Gafur Jumdail..... MORE
US trip to proceed; Noy plans to meet China execs 09/06/2010
US trip to proceed; Noy plans to meet China execs
While President Aquino is bidding for a more “propitious time” to visit two Asean neighbors after the inter-national outrage from the botched hostage rescue attempt that resulted in the death of eight Hong Kong tourists, the Palace said yesterday Aquino’s US trip will proceed this month.
Aquino has started preparing for his working visit to the United States, Presidential Communications
Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma said.
Aquino has been scheduled to visit Indonesia and Vietnam which are both its co-members in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN ) group, in mid-September.
Coloma added Aquino is hoping to meet with Chinese leaders during the official visit where the President will join other world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Sept. 20..... MORE
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Falling ratings EDITORIAL 06/22/2011
Falling ratings
Noynoy’s public satisfaction is fast dipping, losing, from his best net rating of +64 in November, to +48 this month, June, or just a week to complete his first full year as president.
That’s a big drop of 16 points, which is substantial, although predictably, Malacañang is playing it down, claiming that Noynoy still enjoys wide public support, citing the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey’s rating of “good” at +48,
SWS’ terminology for net satisfaction ratings are the following: +70 and above, “excellent”; +50 to +69, “very good”; +30 to +49, “good”; +10 to +29, “moderate”, +9 to -9, “neutral”; -10 to -29, “poor”; -30 to -49, “bad”; -50 to -69, “very bad”; -70 and below, “execrable.”.... MORE
Political greed FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 06/22/2011
Political greed
What a feeble excuse for Noynoy not to sign the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) election postponement measure immediately.
In trying to rid the public of suspicion that he is delaying the passage of the law on the ARMM poll postponement, he now claims that it is scheduled for signing on June 30, 2011, in order for all the “principal sponsors” of the bill to be present during its signing.
What? When the President says he will be signing a bill, or bills, the principal sponsors, all of whom are his allies, will quickly come, no matter the date. Not to attend would be seen an ally’s disinterest in the bills he sponsored. Yet Noynoy intimates that he could not schedule the ARMM delay bill because he wants the principal sponsors around?.... MORE
Little change in Moroccan air ANALYSIS 06/22/2011
Little change in Moroccan air
PARIS — Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s proposed new Constitution would do little to change the status quo, falling short of expectations raised during the heady early days of the Arab Spring, analysts say.
“In terms of the distribution and architecture of power, this constitution is still far from democratic,” said political scientist Mohamed Madani of Mohammed V University in Rabat.
The touted new constitutional monarchy is “drowned” amid a raft of qualifiers and not backed up by the text, Madani said.
Under the draft Constitution unveiled by the king on Friday, he would remain head of state and the military and still appoint ambassadors and diplomats, while retaining the right to name top officials of unspecified “strategic” administrations.... MORE
Nepal risks political chaos over constitution task focus 06/22/2011
Nepal risks political chaos over constitution task
KATHMANDU — Having won an extension to do in three months what it failed to manage in three years, Nepal’s parliament has only deferred a crisis that threatens the Himalayan nations’s fragile peace process.
Elected in 2008 after a decade of civil war between the government and Maoist insurgents, the 601-member parliament, or Constituent Assembly, was given a two-year mandate to write a new constitution.
But even after a one-year extension granted in 2010, the country’s bickering political parties were unable to reach a consensus on the new charter — meant to pave the way for fresh elections and usher in a new social and political order after centuries of inequality.
Facing a constitutional crisis, political leaders agreed late last month to a further three-month extension and downgraded the task to just hammering out a first draft for the public to see..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110622com10.html
DoJ chief wants Erap’s side in Dacer, Corbito slays By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/22/2011
DoJ chief wants Erap’s side in Dacer, Corbito slays
Former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada may still be included in the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) reinvestigation of the November 2000 murders of publicist Salvador “Bubby” Dacer and his driver Emmanuel Corbito, Secretary Leila de Lima said yesterday.
Speaking to reporters, De Lima said the former leader might be invited by prosecutors to give his side once state witness former Senior Supt. Cesar Mancao II appears before state lawyers.
“If that reference to the former President as the alleged ‘bigote’ again crops up in the statements, then so be it — he will be included (in the reinvestigation),” she told a news conference.
The DoJ chief stressed that the decision on whether to include Estrada or not would really depend on testimonies to be submitted by Mancao and other accused in the double murder case already undergoing trial in a Manila court, including former Supt. Glenn Dumlao and former Senior Supt. Michael Ray Aquino who is
expected to be extradited from the US within the week..... MORE
SC ruling ends debate on Danding SMC shares By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/22/2011
SC ruling ends debate on Danding SMC shares
The Supreme Court (SC) upheld with finality an earlier decision affirming businessman Eduardo Cojuangco Jr.’s ownership of the 20 per cent shares of outstanding capital stocks in Asian conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) that in turn ended debates on whether or not these came from the multi-billion-peso coconut levy funds.
In its ruling, the high court turned down all motions for reconsideration filed in connection with the case, and ordered that no further pleadings will be entertained and that an entry of judgment should be made in due course.
Denied were the motions filed by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) in behalf of the government, former Solicitor General Francisco Chavez, and a multi-sectoral group headed by former Senators Jovito Salonga and Wigberto Tañada..... MORE
DFA renews call on OFWs to leave Yemen By Michaela P. del Callar 06/22/2011
DFA renews call on OFWs to leave Yemen
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) yesterday renewed its call to all remaining Filipinos in strife-torn Yemen to leave as tension in the Middle East state continues to escalate.
Since the government ordered the evacuation of all Filipinos in Yemen in May 30, only 178 of the estimated 1,200 Filipinos there have returned home.
Manila raised the crisis alert level in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa to alert level 4 on June 6, where mandatory evacuation and repatriation at the expense of Philippine government is in effect. The government has also banned work deployment and all kinds of travel to the country.
Philippine ambassador-designate to Saudi Arabia Ezzedin Tago, who leads a crisis team in Yemen, said Filipinos “should not wait until it is too late for them to leave Yemen.” Manila does not have an embassy in Yemen.
Filipino workers’ refusal to take part in government evac.... MORE
Corona orders live online ‘webcast’ of Maguindanao massacre trial By Benjamin B. Pulta 06/22/2011
Corona orders live online ‘webcast’ of Maguindanao massacre trial
A live online “webcast” of the lower court’s proceedings in the ongoing Maguindanao massacre murder case has been ordered by Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Renato Corona.
In an order to the tribunal’s Public Information Office (PIO), the head magisrate ordered the webcast to allow more people, particularly those outside the country, to view the proceedings.
Corona’s order finetuens an earlier unanimous decision on June 14, granting the request of several media entities and relatives of the massacre victims for the live broadcast of the trial.
Court administrator and spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said his team is now restructuring the Court’s website and acquiring the technical requirements to comply with the order of the Chief Justice..... MORE
15-year-old girl accuses barangay chairman of ‘selling’ her to three members of PSG By Pat C. Santos and Aytch S. de la Cruz 06/22/2011
15-year-old girl accuses barangay chairman of ‘selling’ her to three members of PSG
By Pat C. Santos and Aytch S. de la Cruz 06/22/2011
A barangay chairman is now in hot water after a 15-year-old girl filed a complaint against him at dawn Tuesday before the Manila Police District-Women’s and Children Concern Division, claiming she was sold to three members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) in exchange for sexual orgy.
The victim identified as “Sweety” (not her real name) accused Barangay Chairman Angelo Morillo of Barangay 637, Zone 65 of pimping her to three PSG soldiers but failed to name them.
MPD Police Station 8 commander Supt. Jimmy Tiu said the incident happened around 11 p.m. in front of the barangay hall of Barangay 637, Zone 65, on J.P. Laurel Street near Malacañang, Manila.
The victim was in front of the barangay hall accompanied by two of her friends when they greeted Morillo who was then drunk, but after a few minutes Morillo grabbed the hand of the victim and pushed her towards a group of men who were also standing in front of the barangay hall..... MORE
Cagayan solon says current system not yet ready for DepEd’s K+12 program 06/22/2011
Cagayan solon says current system not yet ready for DepEd’s K+12 program
Cagayan Rep. Jack Enrile yesterday reiterated calls for Malacañang to review the implementation of the K+12 program as he pushed new rules that would make school administrators more accountable for the quality of education both in public and private schools throughout the country.
Enrile said protests from teachers and parents following the implementation of the Universal Kindergarten Program are an indication that the current school system is not ready to handle the additional load.
The K+12 program calls for additional year for both the elementary and the secondary levels..... MORE
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Tests And Trendlines
by David Penn
Here's a look at the S&P 500 since the May peak, by way of Sperandeo's 1-2-3 trend reversal.
Security: $SPX
I found myself in an interesting conversation with a colleague here in the office the other day. This colleague is an excellent technician, with a particularly good grasp of trading systems and indicators. But for years he has been a big fan of Gary B. Smith, formerly of TheStreet.com. Why the "but"? Because unlike my colleague, Smith is notorious for eschewing trading systems and indicators, preferring instead the simplicity of trendlines, support and resistance, and volume.
FIGURE 1: S&P 500, DAILY. The breaking of the downtrend in late June led to the demarcation of a resistance level at 1280 in early July. Retreating from that resistance level, the S&P 500 swoons toward a test of support at the lows of the May–June correction near 1220.
Graphic provided by: Prophet Financial, Inc.
In my mind, every indicator-using technician needs to come to grips with their own inner Gary Smith. As fun as indicators and systems are, I don't doubt for a second that most technicians would love to be able to thoroughly analyze price and volume charts with little more than a straightedge and a #2 pencil.
To that end, I wanted to take a look at the decline in the Standard & Poor's 500 that began in May through my Gary Smith glasses. Actually, the spectacles I'll be deploying are those of Victor Sperandeo who, in his books Trader Vic: Methods Of A Wall Street Master and Trader Vic II: Principles Of Professional Speculation, points out a technique involving simple trendlines and support/resistance lines in order to make sense of markets when indicators and other technical tools seem to obscure rather than reveal.
FIGURE 2: S&P 500, HOURLY. A positive divergence in the stochastic of the hourly S&P 500 accompanies this test of the June lows.
Let's look at the known knowns, as US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld might say. The S&P 500 made a significant peak in May 2006. What followed was a correction that took out several previous minor lows going back to November 2005. Shown in Figure 1 is a trendline that connects the May 2006 high with the highest high immediately before the lowest low (that "highest high" being the June 2006 highs). This is the key trendline of the decline, and the violation of that trendline in late June was a significant event.
Just how significant remains to be seen. But the market breaking out above that trendline established the "1" of the 1-2-3 trend reversal setup that Sperandeo wrote about. In fact, the "1" is at 1280, the maximum extent of the countertrend move from mid-June to early July.
Failure at 1280 and the subsequent reversal to the downside set up the "2" of the 1-2-3 trend reversal--namely, the effort to reassert the downtrend and set a new low. The low of the May-June decline just south of 1220 is another key level. Violating that level to the downside would reaffirm the validity of the downtrend and suggest that further declines were likely.
The next phase of the 1-2-3 trend reversal, the "3," is the breakout beyond the limit established by "1." In other words, a successful trend reversal will require the S&P 500 to move above 1280 (Figure 2).
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Links 26/11/2019: LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.0 and Devuan 2.1 Released
7 great Linux gifts for the holiday season
Does your buddy need a new PC? Well, they can simply turn any old computer into a Linux PC with a Linux DVD or USB stick. Or you could buy them a ready-to-run Linux PC. There are several Linux PC companies; among the best of these are Eight Virtues, EmperorLinux, LAC Portland, Purism, System76, and ZaReason.
There are numerous great Linux laptops out there. One of my particular favorites is 2018′s Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. This model is still available for $804.99.
I haven’t tried the latest and greatest Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition, which runs Ubuntu Linux. But I’ve been using this family of high-end Linux laptops for years and they never disappoint. The XPS 13 comes with a high price-tag. The entry-level version comes with 8GBs of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and an Intel UHD chipset. It will cost you $1,139.99.
If you want as free a laptop as you can get, check out Purism’s Librem 13 or 15. These come with practical, open-source firmware, such as the Coreboot SeaBIOS, and hardware. But these aren’t cheap. The entry-level Librem 13 with an Intel Core i7 7500U, 8GBs of RAM, and 250GBs of SSD lists for $1,399. If your friend or relation is serious about “all open-source, all the way,” these are the machines for them.
Another Microsoft mess as Windows 10 November 2019 Update breaks File Explorer
When Microsoft announced that the Windows 10 November 2019 Update was going to be a rather minor release with only a few changes, many of us hoped that this would mean that its launch would be relatively problem free – but that unfortunately doesn’t seem to be the case, with users complaining that the new update is breaking File Explorer.
File Explorer is the app you use to browse the files and folders on your PC. So pretty important, then.
The biggest change the Windows 10 November 2019 Update brought was to update how you search File Explorer, giving you suggested files, and searching your online OneDrive account, when you use the search box to look for something.
Tales From The Sysadmin: Dumped Into The Grub Command Line
Today I have a tale of mystery, of horror, and of hope. The allure of a newer kernel and packages was too much to resist, so I found myself upgrading to Fedora 30. All the packages had downloaded, all that was left was to let DNF reboot the machine and install all the new packages. I started the process and meandered off to find a cup of coffee: black, and darker than the stain this line of work leaves on the soul. After enough time had elapsed, I returned, expecting the warming light of a newly upgraded desktop. Instead, all that greeted me was the harsh darkness of a grub command line. Something was amiss, and it was bad.
(An aside to the reader, I had this experience on two different machines, stemming from two different root problems. One was a wayward setting, and the other an unusual permissions problem.)
How does the fledgling Linux sysadmin recover from such a problem? The grub command line is an inscrutable mystery to the uninitiated, but once you understand the basics, it’s not terribly difficult to boot your system and try to restore the normal boot process. This depends on what has broken, of course. If the disk containing your root partition has crashed, then sorry, this article won’t help.
Top Kubernetes Operators advancing across the Operator Capability Model
At KubeCon North America 2019 we highlighted what it means to deliver a mature Kubernetes Operator. A Kubernetes Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application. The key attribute of an Operator is the active, ongoing management of the application, including failover, backups, upgrades and autoscaling, just like a cloud service.
These capabilities are ranked into five levels, which are used to gauge maturity. We refer to this as the Operator Capability Model, which outlines a set of possible capabilities that can be applied to an application. Of course, if your app doesn’t store stateful data, a backup might not be applicable to you but log processing or alerting might be important. The important user experience that the Operator model aims for is getting that cloud-like, self-managing experience with knowledge baked in from the experts.
Red Hat simplifies transition to open source Kafka with new service registry and HTTP bridge
Red Hat continues to increase the features available for users looking to implement a 100% open source, event-driven architecture (EDA) through running Apache Kafka on Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The Red Hat Integration Q4 release provides new features and capabilities, including ones aimed at simplifying usage and deployment of the AMQ streams distribution of Apache Kafka.
In addition to the registry itself, users can leverage the included custom Kafka serializers and deserializers (SerDes). These SerDes Java classes allow Kafka applications to pull relevant schemas from the Service Registry instead of requiring the schemas to be bundled with the applications.
Correspondingly, the registry has its own REST API to create, update, and delete artifacts as well as managing global and per-artifact rules. The registry API is compatible with another Kafka provider’s schema registry to facilitate a seamless migration to AMQ Streams as a drop-in replacement.
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Make Your Desktop Awesome | Here is Mine!
This video goes over the Desktop I use on my daily videos and how you can optimize and change yours. I will be covering some of the basics of Linux Desktops and showing the differences between Window Managers and Desktop Environments.
Kubernetes and Containers 2020: Ask the Experts
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To provide guidance about Kubernetes and containers, I’ll speak with two leading experts: Niraj Tolia, CEO, Co-founder, Kasten, and Sheng Liang, CEO, Co-founder, Rancher
Going Linux #381 · Listener Feedback
We describe how to generate a file with your computer’s specifications. Our listeners comment on Zorin, suggest Feren, rebel against ‘the man’, rage against paying for SSL certs, and find videos. They also provide considerations for making live USB sticks, and give us a password manager review.
Linux 5.4, FTC vs YouTube, Android, System76, Half-Life, Kodi, Brave, MPV | This Week in Linux 88
On this episode of This Week in Linux, Linux Kernel 5.4 was released and Google says they want the .Android kernel closer to the mainline Linux kernel. We’ll also take a look at some Legal News with the United States’ FTC vs YouTube regarding content For Kids vs Family-Friendly content.
Linux Kernel 5.4 Released
Linux founder, Linus Torvalds, has announced the release of kernel 5.4. Included in this latest release are a number of additions and improvements that will certainly benefit desktop linux. What are the top features? Read on.
The most important addition to the Linux kernel 5.4 iteration is the new kernel lockdown mode. The goal of this new feature is a heightened level of security via the separation of UID 0 (also known as the root user) and the kernel. This feature includes both integrity and confidentiality modes. Integrity mode does not allow userland applications and services to modify the running kernel, while confidentiality mode does not allow the extraction of confidential information by userland applications and services.
As for graphics? Other important new features to the Linux kernel include support for AMD Navi 12 and 14 GPUs, as well as AMD Arcturus graphic cards and the AMD Dali and 2020 APU platforms. Intel Tiger Lake hardware now gets early support and the Nouveau open source driver sees improved display color management.
Linux Kernel 5.4-rc8 is available for Download [Ed: This is an error. it's final now.]
Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer Set For Linux 5.5 To Uncover Data Race Conditions
Adding to the list of changes on deck for the Linux 5.5 kernel is a new “sanitizer” for spotting data race conditions.
The Linux kernel already has an address sanitizer, undefined behavior sanitizer, and other helpers while the newest is the kernel concurrency sanitizer. Like many of the sanitizers for the kernel and within compilers, the work comes courtesy of Google engineers.
Linux 5.5 Begins Sanity Checking RdRand Output Due To Buggy Processor Behavior
The in-development Linux 5.5 kernel will begin sanity checking the RdRand instruction output for randomness on CPU boot/resume due to the recent spat of AMD CPUs that have yielded non-random RdRand output.
Due to some AMD Jaguar and Bulldozer CPUs having buggy RdRand when paired with various motherboards due to firmware/BIOS differences particularly on resume, the Linux kernel resorted to no longer advertising RdRand for Family 15h/16h processors a few months back.
But as a more generic long-term solution to fend off RdRand problems moving forward, the Linux kernel is beginning to sanity check RdRand output.
Linux 5.5 Crypto Code Has The Changes To Usher In WireGuard
The main addition to the crypto area for this next kernel cycle is carrying the patches that adopt some elements of the Zinc crypto effort led by WireGuard’s Jason Donenfeld. The lack of Zinc support in the mainline Linux kernel has been the main blocker from merging this secure VPN tunnel into the kernel, but now the crypto folks have decided to integrate some of the best pieces of its design and with time some other Zinc bits could still get merged too. But what’s landing for Linux 5.5 is enough to unblock the crypto dependency in WireGuard. With that said, WireGuard should land in Linux 5.6 if the final reviews go well but sadly not in time for this new 5.5 cycle.
Vulkan 1.1.129 Brings VK_KHR_buffer_device_address To Query Buffer Addresses
Vulkan 1.1.129 is out this morning as another weekly update to this graphics API specification and in tow comes one new extension.
Vulkan 1.1.129 includes the usual work on resolving issues around documentation clarifications and other minor items while the only noteworthy item is the introduction of VK_KHR_buffer_device_address.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X / 3960X Linux Benchmarks
After the embargo on the Intel Core i9 10980XE expired a few hours ago, now we are allowed to share the performance numbers on the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X processors. These new Zen 2 HEDT CPUs pack a real performance punch, but do come in as more expensive than the i9-10980XE and there is one boot-stopping Linux bug to mention with a workaround… But besides that lone Linux support caveat, the Threadripper 3960X and Threadripper 3970X absolutely dominate in performance.
The Ryzen Threadripper 3960X is AMD’s new $1399 USD processor that features 24 cores / 48 threads, 3.8GHz base frequency, and 4.5GHz boost frequency with an impressive 140MB cache. This isn’t even the top-end Zen 2 HEDT and in core count and most other details already outpaces the Core i9 10980XE: the base clock is 800MHz higher than the 10980XE but the turbo/boost clock is 100MHz lower on the 3960X.
The Workaround To Boot Linux On AMD Threadripper 3960X/3970X Systems
As outlined in our AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X / 3970X Linux review, these new Zen 2 Threadripper processors are phenomenal processors that offer significant uplift over earlier Threadripper CPUs and easily dominate over Intel’s Core i9 HEDT competition. But there is one big issue right now with the Linux support: on Ubuntu and the like, it doesn’t boot without a workaround. Here’s that workaround for easy future reference.
See the details in our 3960X/3970X Linux article for more information, this is just a quick public service announcement for those that may have problems booting Threadripper 3900X series processors with TRX40 motherboards and wondering what’s going on and looking for a solution…
Top 5 Best Linux Password Managers
It’s easy to get lulled into a fall sense of security when using Linux, but the truth is that you’re only as secure as the weakest link in your cyber defenses. Considering that billions of passwords surface online every year, it’s clear that poor password management practices are the underlying cause of many successful cyberattacks.
The solution is simple: create a unique, strong password for each and every account, and store all your passwords in an encrypted database protected by a combination of at least two robust authentication mechanisms. How? With the help of a Linux password manager.
Display and control your Android device from Linux desktop
What is your favorite superpower? Maybe, the ability to mirror your Android phone on your Linux desktop and to use it as an integrated application.
Scrcpy does exactly that and permits you to completely control any Android device, just by connecting it through a simple USB cable. And no root access or hack is needed! This application provides a way to display and control Android devices connected to USB (or also over TCP/IP). It works fine on every GNU/Linux distribution, but it’s available also for Windows and macOS.
TablePlus prepares to launch database management app for Linux
TablePlus, a creator of GUI tools for relational databases, has provided a sneak peek of its new Linux app, due for release at the end of November.
The beta app will include MySQL and PostgreSQL support, as well as an SSH tunnel with password/private key. Users will also have the ability to edit inline, preview SQL, view data structure; run custom queries; and use advanced filters.
Currently TablePlus provides apps across macOS, iOS and Windows.
It supports databases including: PostgreSQL, MySQL; MariaDB; SQLite; Microsoft SQL Server; Amazon Redshift; Oracle; CockroachDB; Snowflake; Cassandra; Redis; Vertica; MongoDB (Beta); and any databases that use the same protocol with the databases listed above such as Percona, and Yugabyte DB.
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Linux sysadmin basics: User account management
Linux system administrators face a lot of challenges, and one of the ongoing ones is dealing with user accounts. Onboarding, offboarding, managing passwords, disabling accounts, enabling accounts, preserving home directory contents, and fixing permissions are tasks that must be done but are also tedious to perform. This article provides you with a quick solution to managing user accounts on local systems. Sure, there’s Active Directory, LDAP, and NIS+, but what if you’re like many of us who don’t use those? You have to rely on native methods to handle the job.
Set up Red Hat AMQ 7 custom certificates on OpenShift
Secure communication over a computer network is one of the most important requirements for a system, and yet it can be difficult to set up correctly. This example shows how to set up Red Hat AMQ 7 end-to-end TLS encryption using a custom X.509 certificate on the Red Hat OpenShift platform.
Understanding Crontab in Linux With Examples
This command is used to automate all types of tasks on Linux systems. This is an especially important skill for aspiring system administrators to learn. It can be somewhat challenging to get started if you’re a beginner. The syntax is different than most other commands. For this reason, this lesson will include a little more background information before I show you some of the uses.
Black Friday Deals on Python Books
Interesting in learning Python? Well you will be happy to know that I am running a Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale of my Python books. But I am starting the sale early so that you have plenty of time to decide if you’d like to buy one of my books. Check them out below!
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Linux Kernel 5.4 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu
How To Manage Layered Local Storage With Stratis On RHEL 8
The huge Journey’s End update for Terraria is delayed into next year
Terraria is set to get a massive free expansion with the huge Journey’s End update, sadly it’s not going to make it out the door this year.
When they properly announced it earlier in June, they said the aim was for this year but they were still sticking with a “when it’s done” approach. In a recent status update, they said that it comes down to a choice between scrapping a “bunch of the cool stuff that we want to see in Journey’s End and force this out for 2019 or go ahead and push it into 2020″. So, they decided to push it back but they’re “fully confident that the final product will be well worth the wait”.
Quirky and engrossing space-colony sim Oxygen Not Included has a big free update out
Klei Entertainment have recently pushed out the Meep’s Mandatory Recreation Pack free update with plenty of fixes and some new content along with it.
With this update you can expand your colony even more with the inclusion of new buildings, all of which go with the theme of recreation. You will be able to give your duplicants access to a Sauna, Mechanical Surfboard, Hot Tub, Soda Fountain, Beach Chairm Juicer and an amusing Vertical Wind Tunnel. Klei also gave duplicants some new “overjoyed” reactions.
Valve’s Open-Source Driver Developers Revise Their RADV “Secure Compile” Feature
Last month Valve’s open-source Linux GPU driver developers introduced a “secure compile” feature to the Radeon Vulkan driver to do just as the name implies and making use of SECCOMP filters for enforcing the security aspect. They have now revised this implementation in order to provide faster shader compile times.
The focus of the RADV “secure compile” functionality has been the ability to safely pre-compile large sets of shaders to help with game load times. In making sure there are no nefarious shaders, SECCOMP filters and forking the processes is done.
Petal Crash looks like a super sweet arcade-action puzzler coming to Linux
Currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter and fully funded, the arcade action puzzler Petal Crash looks like a good bit of fun.
In development by Tim Ashley Jenkins, who also made Grapple Force Rena, it has a focus on being easy to pick up and play while also being rewarding to master. In Petal Crash the basic gameplay rule is simple, you push a block in any direction and if you bump it into one of the same colour they will explode and possibly cause a chain reaction.
Building a Custom Retrogaming PC with RetroPie and Ubuntu Minimal
RetroPie is an awesome solution for playing all of your favorite retro games, including popular consoles such as Playstation, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, and more. In this video, I’ll show the entire process of taking an Intel NUC and setting up a minimal Ubuntu installation to serve as the base, and then installing RetroPie on top of it.
Stadia also appears to work fine on plain Ubuntu 19.10
After recently giving some first impressions of Stadia, mostly played on a desktop with Manjaro Linux I’ve done some additional testing with plain Ubuntu and the experience is just as good.
While in the previous article I did note about testing on Kubuntu as well, that was quite an older install. Today, the testing unit, a Dell Inspiron 5558, was wiped with Ubuntu 19.10 installed and all updates run. From there, plain Google Chrome was installed and it runs without issues.
However, if you’re after Chromium on Ubuntu it’s now using a Snap package (even when installed via apt—more on that here). This didn’t have USB input hooked up for the Stadia Controller, so I personally spoke to Canonical today and after a little testing the Chromium Snap has been updated to allow it making it even easier to use. If you prefer Chromium over Google Chrome, once installed on Ubuntu you can just run this in terminal to hook it up too:
Kubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine – Turn the heat up
Kubuntu 19.10 is exactly what I’d expect from a short-support interim release. And then, slightly better, too, because it was fast, stable and robust, and nothing broke. On the other hand, it’s a bit boring. All in all, the Plasma-clad Eoan Ermine did deliver, but in almost every area, it does the nominal thing and stops short of awesome. As if it’s being pulled back by invisible strings.
Printing and sharing can be more streamlined, KDE Connects need some polish, the application bundle is bland, there were some rough edges in the UI, and such like. Now, it’s pretty, fast and configurable. There’s a good sense of intelligent, clever decisions all over the place. But the one ingredient missing is enthusiasm. Kubuntu feels like its coasting, offering a good but never excellent alternative to other distros out there, doing just the right amount to keep the momentum going. I wish it would do more. It doesn’t take much. Now, if you’re a Plasma fan, and you’d like to taste of the fresh fruit of the geek loom, ’tis a good starting point. The distro warrants something like 8/10, but you have to be in a good mood for that. And we’re done.
Kdenlive 19.12 beta
kdenlive 19.12 beta is out with many bug fixes and improvements. The highlights include:
New audio mixer
Bin monitor redesign
Performance and usability improvements
Many Windows fixes
Master effects
Re-implement scrolling trough compositions.
Check it out and report any issues…
Shaping the Future of KDE Frameworks
Already during this year’s Akademy we started discussing our strategies for a Qt 6 transition and created a giant work board of tasks for our next major release of Frameworks. Overall our goal is to keep API breakages to a minimum while still cleaning up some cruft that might have built up over the years. We kicked off the sprint Friday morning with discussions mostly around policies and guidelines.
First of all, we acknowledged that our current release model with monthly feature updates works well but found that we need to be more conscious about merging large changes too close to a release. Furthermore, the fact that there’s actually a “string freeze” before each release to give translators a chance to catch up seems not widely known. In general, the categorization of Frameworks into 3-4 tiers worked but we realized a more fine-grained set of tiers might be necessary.
When Frameworks 5 came out QML was still relatively new and its future unclear; now that it has proven itself, a key goal of Frameworks 6 is making its features more easily used in a widget-less environment. This means for instance removing and splitting out widget dependencies. Moreover, we want to apply a hacksaw to KDeclarative which has a lot of declarative wrappers for other Frameworks which are better supplied by the individual Frameworks themselves. Also, we want to have better separation between API classes and runtime services, so external users of an API don’t have to pay a build dependency price for something they then just talk to at runtime.
Calamares translations workflow
Calamares, the universal Linux installer which is used by dozens of different small distro’s, is translated into more than 50 languages. However, I realised recently that my development workflow isn’t translator-friendly. That was before I heard from Nick Richards at the Linux Applications Summit about product management things.
In any case, I’ve decided to change my own workflow a little to be better to translators. The intended effect is that future Calamares releases ship with more complete translations.
GNOME 3.36 Desktop Environment Development Continues with the Second Snapshot
GNOME 3.35.2 is now available for public testing as the second development snapshot in the development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.36 desktop environment, bringing more new features, improvements, bug fixes, and updated translation to various of GNOME’s core components and apps. A complete changelog is available here for more details on the included changes.
“This is the second unstable release leading to the 3.36 stable series, and it’s a pretty quiet one since our most prominent modules were not updated,” said Michael Catanzaro in an email announcement. “A couple modules were temporarily back due to the various incompatibilities, but this is typical for our unstable releases and nothing that looks difficult to resolve.”
15 very small footprint distros
If you have an older PC, or a small single board computer-based system, you probably want to run a version of Linux that’s light on resources and easy to download. In this gallery, we look at very small footprint Linux distros. With the exception of Damn Small Linux, all have been updated relatively recently. Each distro can run on machines with less than 1GB of RAM and most can run in a much smaller footprint.
Zorin OS 15 Lite Linux Distro Can Rejuvenate Your Aging Windows PC
Called “Zorin OS 15 Lite,” it is not only lightweight, but thanks to the Xfce desktop environment and integrated Flatpak support, it should be quite familiar to those switching from Windows. In fact, the developers are intentionally targeting existing Windows 7 users, as Microsoft’s operating system will be unsupported beginning January 2020.
Linux Lite Users Are the First to Try Linux Kernel 5.4, Here’s How to Install It
Once again, Linux Lite users are among the first to install the latest Linux kernel series on their personal computers, in this case Linux kernel 5.4.
Announced by Linus Torvalds on November 24th, 2019, Linux kernel 5.4 is now the most advanced kernel series, adding numerous new features and improvements, among which we can mention support for Microsoft’s exFAT file system, kernel lockdown mode as a new layer of protection to block malicious software, multiple enhancements for AMD users, and much more.
As usual, Linux Lite developer and founder Jerry Bezencon was quick to package the Linux 5.4 kernel for all of its supported Linux Lite releases and distribute it to users through the official software repositories, which are now among the first to try it on their Linux Lite computers by following the instructions below.
[Slackware] Cinnamon 4.4 Packages
Cinnamon 4.4 is out and while it’s not officially announced as per this post is created, i have prepared the SlackBuild scripts along with the binary packages ready for Slackware-Current users. These new set of packages adds two new dependencies: pytz and libtimezonemap, but removed some of the packages that are no longer needed or have become part of Slackware Current.
Cinnamon 4.4 brings more improvements towards HiDPI especially through the icons, new XAppStatus applet, performance improvements, nemo external condition support, new scrollbar settings, and many more. Expect details on Clem announcement soon.
LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.0
LibreELEC 9.2.0 (Leia) the final version has arrived based upon Kodi v18.5, the 9.2 release contains many changes and refinements to user experience and a complete overhaul of the underlying OS core to improve stability and extend hardware support compared to the LE 9.0 release.
Pardus 19.1 XFCE Run Through
In this video, we are looking at Pardus 19.1, the XFCE edition. Enjoy!
Gentoo Family
HTTP/3 Support Added to cURL in Gentoo
HTTP/3 may still be in the draft state but that isn’t stopping software from adding support for it. As a Gentoo developer, I decided to maintain Gentoo’s reputation for not being one to shy away from the bleeding edge by adding (optional) support for HTTP/3 to cURL. I believe that this makes Gentoo the first Linux distribution to ship support for this new protocol outside of the Firefox and Chrome/Chromium browsers.
cURL is a command line tool as well a library (libcurl) that is used by a wide variety of software. It’s commonly used by applications written in php, it’s used by the Kodi media center, and it’s at least an optional dependency of everything from git to systemd to cmake and dovecot. By adding support for HTTP/3 to cURL, potentially everything that uses cURL will also instantly also start supporting HTTP/3.
cURL added HTTP/3 support in version 7.66.0. Rather than writing the entirety of large, complex, and evolving HTTP/3 protocol implementation again (and having to maintain that forever), cURL instead leverages libraries. The two options it currently supports for this purpose are quiche and the combination of ngtcp2 and nghttp3.
Some Fedora Users Concerned GNOME Software Promotes Proprietary Software With Flathub
The Fedora Workstation working group has been weighing the matter of the GNOME Software “app store” recommending/promoting proprietary software. But this isn’t something that is done out-of-the-box but rather when activating Flathub where Flatpaks can be installed for both open and closed-source software.
This stems from this issue report of GNOME Software recommending proprietary software. The principal issue is that when Flathub support is enabled — the de facto location for fetching Flatpaks — that GNOME Software can display banners promoting software like Dropbox or Spotify. Those Flatpaks are not open-source software.
Fedora Community Blog: FPgM report: 2019-47
Here’s your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management thislast week. Fedora 29 will reach end of life on 26 November. Elections voting is open through 23:59 UTC on Thursday 5 December.
Devuan Family
Devuan GNU/Linux 2.1 “ASCII” Operating System Released for Init Freedom Lovers
The Dyne.org foundation has announced the general availability of the first point release of the Devuan GNU/Linux 2.x “ASCII” operating system series.
Coming one and a half year after the release of the Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 “ASCII” operating system series, Devuan GNU/Linux 2.1 is here as the first major point release to add the latest software and security updates, as well as various improvements around the installer and the installation mediums.
Still based on the Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” operating system series, Devuan GNU/Linux 2.1 comes with an improved installer that makes the option to choose the OpenRC init system more prominent so you can’t miss it and no longer requires an Expert install.
Devuan 2.1 Released – Still Delivering Debian 9 Without Systemd
Devuan 2.1 is available as the latest release of this spin of Debian GNU/Linux that works without a dependence on systemd. Devuan 2.1 remains focused on “init freedom” though this new release is still tracking the older Debian 9 “Stretch” branch.
DebEX Budgie/Enlightenment – Build 191123 – with Budgie Desktop 10.5 (latest), Enlightenment 0.23.1 (latest) and kernel 5.4.0-rc8-exton (latest)
All three systems/distributions are a based on Debian Buster (10) and Debian Bullseye/Sid (upcoming Debian 11). Budgie Desktop 10.5 and Enlightenment 0.23.1 are used as Desktop environments in DebEX Barebone/Budgie/Enlightenment. Gnome 3.30 is used in DebEX Gnome. KDE Plasma Desktop 5:14 is used in DebEX KDE. The system language is English (in all three versions of DebEX).
A new version of DebEX Barebone with Budgie Desktop 10.5, Enlightenment 0.23.1 and kernel 5.4.0-rc8-exton (equivalent to Kernel.org’s latest kernel 5.4-rc8) is ready. All packages have been updated to the latest version as of November 23, 2019. DebEX Barebone is now based on Debian Buster (Debian 10).
Debian-Based DebEX GNU/Linux Distro Adds Budgie Desktop 10.5, Linux Kernel 5.4
Now You Can Run Ubuntu Touch OS On Raspberry Pi 3 With Touchscreen
Ubuntu Touch is the mobile version of the Ubuntu operating system designed for mobile devices. The operating system is developed and managed by UBPorts which has recently pushed an update that brings Ubuntu Touch to Raspberry Pi 3.
With the weekly update, now you can run Ubuntu Touch on Raspberry Pi 3 using the official Raspberry Pi 3 7-inches touch screen LCD. The update makes Raspberry Pi 3 a perfect development platform for Ubuntu Touch OS.
Ubuntu Touch Can Now Run on Raspberry Pi 3 with the Official 7″ Touch Screen LCD
UBports, the makers of the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system published a weekly update on their development progress to bring Ubuntu Touch to more devices.
While UBports is working hard to port Ubuntu Touch to more smartphones and tablets, the latest being PINE64′s PinePhone and Volla Phone smartphones, they’ve also been able to make Ubuntu Touch run on a Raspberry Pi 3 single-board computer (SBC) with the official Raspberry Pi 7″ touch screen LCD, which appears to be a true development platform for Ubuntu Touch.
“Ubuntu Touch was shown running on a Raspberry Pi 3 with a 7″ touch screen. Raspberry Pis are really maturing as development platforms and will make access to Ubuntu Touch application development possible for a much wider base,” said UBports. “That matters a lot because it will help create a true development platform for UT, for the first time.”
Ubuntu 19.10 | Review from an openSUSE User
Ubuntu is, without any dispute, the most prolific Linux distribution today. You can look at any metric and you will see that Ubuntu is number one. How did they rise to this level? I can only speculate, perhaps it has to do with the charismatic and enthusiastic visionary of Canonical’s founder Mark Shuttleworth that made Linux more approachable and attractive by the masses. Regardless, Canonical does a great job with Ubuntu. Despite any of the controversies or blunders the company makes, they are risk takers and regardless of what distribution you use, it should be applauded.
As part of the BigDaddyLinux Live challenge, we are testing the various Ubuntu flavors but for this article, I am going to focus on Ubuntu Proper, the mainline from which all the other flavors are derived. At one time, Ubuntu had their own desktop, Unity, of which they have discontinued development and now use GNOME as their core desktop.
This is my admittedly biased review of Ubuntu (Proper) as an openSUSE Tumbleweed user that prefers Plasma to all other desktops. It should also be clear that I am not a fan of GNOME at all and to use it is an absolute chore to use for me. Bottom Line Up Front, Ubuntu is pretty great and I would feel good about giving it to anyone. Regardless of my bias and preferences, Ubuntu is just a great, rock solid distribution that is a bit heaver on resources than I like but if you run a reasonably modern system, this is not an issue what so ever. If you haven’t tried Ubuntu, which would be odd that a Linux user hasn’t, or if you haven’t tried it in a while and have that restless itch, Ubuntu is worth taking around the block and maybe even on the highway to stretch it’s legs a bit.
The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 606
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 606 for the week of November 17 – 23, 2019. The full version of this issue is available here.
Specs teased for camera-focused S3-OLinuXino SBC
Olimex has asked for public comment on preliminary specs for an Allwinner S3-based “S3-OLinuXino” IP camera board with PoE support, onboard WiFi, and dual MIPI-CSI interfaces, one of which supports Raspberry Pi cams.
Olimex has published basic specs and a request for public comment on WordPress — and has posted schematics on GitHub — for an upcoming S3-OLinuXino camera board. The Bulgarian firm, which has brought us Linux-driven, open source development boards such as the A64-OLinuXino and laptops like the Teres-A64, has this time turned to the Cortex-A7 based Allwinner S3 dual-camera SoC. In addition to supporting IP camera applications such as security and home remote monitoring, the S3-OLinuXino will be suitable for voice over IP and video over IP tasks, says Olimex.
Google Unveils Mendel Linux 4.0 for Its Coral SBC, Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10
Google announced over the weekend the general availability of Mendel Linux 4.0 “Day,” the company’s in-house built, Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for its Coral Dev Board and System-on-Module (SoM).
Revealed earlier this year as a Raspberry Pi rival, Google’s Coral Dev Board single-board computer (SBC) and System-on-Module (SoM) just received a much-improved, more stable and up-to-date Mendel Linux OS, which is based on the latest Debian GNU/Linux 10 “Buster” operating system series and ships with Linux kernel 4.14 LTS, Python 3.7, and U-Boot 2017.03.3, as well as upgraded GStreamer, OpenCV, and OpenCL components.
Updates from Coral: Mendel Linux 4.0 and much more!
Last month, we announced that Coral graduated out of beta, into a wider, global release. Today, we’re announcing the next version of Mendel Linux (4.0 release Day) for the Coral Dev Board and SoM, as well as a number of other exciting updates.
We have made significant updates to improve performance and stability. Mendel Linux 4.0 release Day is based on Debian 10 Buster and includes upgraded GStreamer pipelines and support for Python 3.7, OpenCV, and OpenCL. The Linux kernel has also been updated to version 4.14 and U-Boot to version 2017.03.3.
We’ve also made it possible to use the Dev Board’s GPU to convert YUV to RGB pixel data at up to 130 frames per second on 1080p resolution, which is one to two orders of magnitude faster than on Mendel Linux 3.0 release Chef. These changes make it possible to run inferences with YUV-producing sources such as cameras and hardware video decoders.
Linux-powered handheld is like a PocketChip on steroids
Source Parts has opened $199 pre-orders for a Linux-driven, quad -A53 “Pocket P.C.” handheld with 2GB DDR3, 32GB eMMC, 4x USB Type-C, keyboard, 5-inch HD touchscreen, WiFi/BT, and optional LoRa and GNSS.
In June, Source Parts went to Kickstarter to resurrect the design of the now defunct Next Thing’s open-spec Chip SBC as a $49 and up Original Popcorn SBC. Also on tap were two “Super Popcorn” models that swapped the Chip’s Cortex-A8-based Allwinner GR8 for a quad-core, Cortex-A53 Amlogic S905D or octa-core -A53 S912. The all-or-nothing campaign for the Popcorn products failed, having achieved only $5K of its $250K goal.
Pocket Popcorn Computer Handheld Linux Computer Looks Like an Improved, Faster PocketCHIP (Crowdfunding)
PocketCHIP was a Linux handheld computer powered by Allwinner R8/GR8 Cortex-A8 based CHIP board.
Why Zephyr is not just another real-time OS
The first update to the LTS release v 1.14.1 was released less than a month before the Open Source Summit that addressed a security vulnerability in the Bluetooth 5.1 specification: “So we’re walking the talk and putting these pieces into play. By having those updates there, it’s a good signal for those who are basing products off the LTS that okay, they can go and look at how this vulnerability impacts them, and then decide to update or not.”
Besides doing LTS releases, the project has also been keeping a very close eye on its licensing to make sure it is consistent and compliant: “So it’ll be easy for people to use it to make products, not having to worry about something coming to hit them later.”
webOS Open Source Edition 2.0 keeps Palm’s spirit alive in cars and IoT
Palm’s name may have recently been revived in a small way, quite literally, with a tiny companion Android phone. Ever since it got bought then sold by HP, however, Palm has been nothing more than a historical footnote in the consumer tech market. That’s not to say its legacy doesn’t live on today and at least one effort is trying to keep it on life support thanks to version 2.0 of the webOS Open Source Edition.
webOS was born in a time when Android and iOS didn’t yet have a duopoly on the mobile market. As the name that has become synonymous with PDAs, Palm tried to reinvent and make itself more relevant with the Linux-based webOS and its card-centric interface for phones. It failed and was later acquired by HP who tried to do the same for tablets. That too failed and webOS was sold off to LG to use for its smart TVs before unleashing an Open Source Edition last year.
That webOS OSE, as it is called, reached a version 2.0 milestone last month, proving that the project was still alive. Just last week, version 2.1 was also released, proving it was more than just alive, it was also well and kicking. Better yet, at least for fans, it was growing beyond its smart TV confines and into smart homes and smart cars.
NanoPi M4B Rockchip RK3399 SBC Drops the USB 3.0 Hub, Adds Bluetooth 5.0, an ADB Switch
NanoPi M4 was launched last year (2018) as a Rockchip RK3399 SBC following Raspberry Pi 3B+ form factor with 2 or 4GB DDR3 RAM, and was followed by NanoPi M4V2 this September with 4GB LPDDR4 memory, and power & recovery buttons.
FriendlyELEC has been working on yet another revision with NanoPi M4B mixing some of the features of M4 and M4V2 such as DDR3 memory and power & recovery buttons, but the biggest change is the removal of the USB 3.0 hub which allowed for four USB 3.0 port, and now the company is going native leverage the two USB 2.0 interfaces and two USB 3.0 interfaces inside Rockchip RK3399 processor which should lower the BoM cost, and in some cases improve performance.
List of Sprint Black Friday 2019 Deals: The Best iPhone, Android, Apple Watch & iPad Deals Reviewed by Save Bubble
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Bliss OS Android 10 now available for PCs, other platforms
Stable Galaxy S10 and Note 10 Android 10 update coming in January?
Your Realme smartphone will get Android 10 update with ColorOS 7: Here’s when
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Useful and Innovative Free Fonts
If you are looking for a replacement for a proprietary font, open source fonts offer plenty of options.
Collecting fonts used to be expensive. The average font family cost several hundred dollars, which meant that you had to be selective. That changed overnight with the rise of open source fonts. Contrary to conventional wisdom, talented designers were perfectly willing to release their designs under a free license and to work in teams.
Today, there are still thousands of proprietary fonts for every free font. However, that still leaves hundreds of free-licensed fonts to choose from. Some are replicas of popular fonts or revivals of older designs, while others are original designs. The best free-licensed fonts can be as useful and innovative as any proprietary font. The days when “free fonts” were synonymous with “cheap and shoddy” are now a decade in the past. Below are some examples of the diversity that is available.
People Find Us Troll-Free Compared to Twitter: Mastodon Founder
Eugen Rochko: The idea behind Mastodon is that online communication should not be beholden to one private company. It’s way too important to be subject to commercial interests (e.g. ads), financial instability (e.g. Twitter’s problems on the stock market, CEO issues, potential buyout by another entity), or laws of a single government (e.g. USA) extending over the whole world. Mastodon turns that top-down hierarchy into a completely flat (non-)hierarchy.
As a decentralised service, legally and operationally independent, Mastodon servers are run all over the globe, and anyone can create a new one. The social network is more robust against any risks as a result and can accommodate many communities with varying needs and rules.
A framework for building products from open source projects
My first memory of playing with a computer was through an MS-DOS terminal on the x86 PC in my grandfather’s pharmaceutical research lab in the early ’90s—playing games stored on 3.5″ floppy disks and doing touch-typing exercises. As technology improved, I spent an obscene amount of time taking my computer apart to add more RAM, a new graphics card, or a new fan, mostly so I could play cooler games. It was a fun, ongoing project, and I bonded with my father over it. It was also way cheaper than buying a new computer.
What’s the point of this in the context of open source?
Well, even though I had no idea what “open source” was at the time, I was behaving like a typical developer does with open source projects today—spending my free time to piece together and build things I wanted, sometimes for a specific goal, sometimes to learn new things, sometimes as a way to connect with others.
Calculator N+ is an open source scientific calculator for your smartphone
Mobile phones are becoming more powerful every day, so it is no surprise that they can beat most computers from the not-so-distant past. This also means the tools available on them are getting more powerful every day.
Previously, I wrote about scientific calculators for the Linux desktop, and I’m following that up here with information about Calculator N+, an awesome GPL v3.0-licensed computer algebra system (CAS) app for Android devices.
State of Mozilla 2018: Annual Report
The State of Mozilla annual report for 2018 is now available here.
This report details how Mozilla operates and includes details from our financial reports for 2018. The State of Mozilla report release is timed to coincide with when we submit the Mozilla non-profit tax filing for the previous calendar year.
The 2018 State of Mozilla report focuses on how Mozilla leverages its unique structure and multi-pronged approach to influence some of the most pressing challenges people face online today. From misinformation to online privacy and security, in the last two years Mozilla has used its resources, influence and product know-how to push for systemic change that helps put people back at the center of online life.
This year’s report outlines Mozilla’s collective impact as a creator of consumer technology products, an advocacy organization and a key contributor to the development of internet policy and online standards and protocols that help ensure the internet is open and accessible to all.
Firefox 71 new contributors
With the release of Firefox 71, we are pleased to welcome the 38 developers who contributed their first code change to Firefox in this release, 31 of whom were brand new volunteers!
SaaS/Back End/Databases
Confluent introduces ksqlDB event streaming database
Confluent is looking to make it easier for developers to use stream processing with a new event streaming database it calls ksqlDB.
The ksqlDB event streaming database became generally available on Nov. 20 and builds on the vendor’s expertise in streaming technologies, including its KSQL query language for streaming data, as well as the Apache Kafka open source streaming data technology.
Kafka is widely used to stream data, though there are many ways that users use the data and pull it into different types of databases. With ksqlDB, Confluent is providing what it is positioning as a new type of database that is specifically built for event streaming.
Community Member Monday: Sokibi, Indonesia
Sokibi (no last name – it’s a typical Javanese old-style name) was born in a rural village, around 45KM away from Semarang City in Central Java island, Indonesia He now runs a small store residing in a traditional market, working on repairing computers, selling new and used computers, and provided open source solutions for migrations, support and training.
Sokibi has had extensive experience with office suites – from StarOffice and OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice. So besides his daily job, he put huge effort into teaching LibreOffice in schools, from primary schools to high schools. It was not always easy to go to different schools, which were usually very far away from his home town or company, but over the last 20 years, Sokibi has insisted on spreading knowledge about these office suites, without getting students locked in to proprietary software. During these times, Sokibi also wrote 16 books about learning computers from beginner level onwards, including four books for kindergarden kids and 12 books for primary school students.
What Sokibi has done is not only teaching computing and LibreOffice in schools. Many villages in Central Java have libraries but no computers at all. Although Sokibi has just run a small store selling computers, he decided to donate many computers to these libraries to build computer labs there, with Linux and many other open source programs – including LibreOffice – pre-installed.
Donors Challenge Conservancy Supporters with Largest Match Yet
We’ve been challenged by a group of amazing individuals and Private Internet Access to raise a total of $113,093 during this fundraising season. These are folks who believe in software freedom and believe in Conservancy. This illustrious group includes; Leslie Hawthorn, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Martin Krafft, Mark Wielaard, David Turner and Danielle Sucher, and Bdale Garbee — you’ll be hearing more about them in the coming weeks on our blog.
Fail-free Kubernetes, significant events, and more industry trends
As part of my role as a senior product marketing manager at an enterprise software company with an open source development model, I publish a regular update about open source community, market, and industry trends for product marketers, managers, and other influencers. Here are five of my and their favorite articles from that update.
Philips Hue Bridge v2.1
I recently bought a Hue Bridge to experiment a bit with Zigbee and 802.15.4. Following two posts for the hardware version 2.0 and some comments about the differences to version 2.1 I was able to get shell access on my 2.1 hardware.
As there is up to now no complete guide I describe here, what I did:
Opening the case is straigth forward. Just remove the two lower nubsis at the bottom and unscrew the two torx screws; then carefully unclip the bottom.
Python Community Interview With Brian Okken
This week, it’s my pleasure to interview Brian Okken. Brian is perhaps best known as the author of Python Testing with pytest, as well as being the host of two podcasts. Read on to find out more about the man behind the voice, his new meetup in Portland, and the advice he has for anyone new to testing software.
Creating Dashboard to Visualise Data In Python
During one of my university project modules which require us to present our data from the sample dataset of the Scottish Referendum 2014.
There I was exposed to terms like Data Wrangling and the use of D3 to create an interactive dashboard.
Which the process to do data-wrangling was a tedious process and creating the dashboard using D3 was quite bad as well.
How to Create and Manage Python Virtual Environments
It is pretty common to see Python developers installing and upgrading packages from standard and non-standard sources to develop applications. Reasons could range from using a newer version of a module to using a specific version in case there is a regression.
These requirements and use cases can be a pain to manage when different applications require different versions of the same library. Thankfully, Python provides a robust solution to isolate development environments using virtual environments.
Best Cloud Based IDEs for Python
Development environments are increasingly moving in the cloud in part or full, allowing programmers to access and collaborate on their projects on the go. Numerous such services have been launched in the past few years, especially for web developers writing code in Node.js, HTML, JavaScript and CSS. However there are very few such options available for Python, despite being one of the most popular and fastest growing programming languages.
This article will list various IDEs and text editors available in the cloud for creating Python programs.
Keep These Portable Python Builds for Linux Always With You
Most Linux distributions come with pre-installed Python packages. These packages are deeply integrated into the OS and they depend on shared libraries. If you want to keep Python projects isolated, using virtual environments is an excellent option. Another realistic option would be to use Python installed on an external drive as a portable package that you can carry it at your convenience (useful for teaching for example).
Unfortunately, as far as portability of Python is concerned, Linux users don’t have much choice. While compiling Python with shared libraries is easy, building Python with statically linked libraries takes more than a few tweaks, patches and changing lines in source code.
This article will list the few portable Python options available for Linux. Note that any of the methods mentioned below will work on external drives formatted in NTFS or EXT3/EXT4 file systems only. FAT32 file system doesn’t support symlinks which is a requirement for these packages to work.
Linux System Call Tutorial with C
While it’s inevitable you’ll use a system call at some point in your C development career, unless you are targeting high performance or a particular type functionality, the glibc library and other basic libraries included in major Linux distributions will take care of the majority of your needs.
The glibc standard library provides a cross-platform, well-tested framework to execute functions that would otherwise require system-specific system calls. For example, you can read a file with fscanf(), fread(), getc(), etc., or you can use the read() Linux system call. The glibc functions provide more features (i.e. better error handling, formatted IO, etc.) and will work on any system glibc supports.
On the other hand, there are times where uncompromising performance and exact execution are critical. The wrapper that fread() provides is going to add overhead, and although minor, isn’t entirely transparent. Additionally, you may not want or need the extra features the wrapper provides. In that case, you’re best served with a system call.
You can also use system calls to perform functions not yet supported by glibc. If your copy of glibc is up to date, this will hardly be an issue, but developing on older distributions with newer kernels might require this technique.
Now that you’ve read the disclaimers, warnings, and potential detours, now let’s dig into some practical examples.
subdirmk – ergonomic preprocessing assistant for non-recursive make
Peter Miller’s 1997 essay Recursive Make Considered Harmful persuasively argues that it is better to arrange to have a single make invocation with the project’s complete dependency tree, rather than the currently conventional $(MAKE) -C subdirectory approach.
These problems are not theoretical for me. In the Xen Project we use recursive make and sadly suffer from occasional concurrency bugs. In my work on secnet (the currently rather unproductised greenend.org.uk vpn program) I have been frustrated by unreliability of the build system (which is developing fairly rapidly, as I overhaul secnet) .
However, actually writing a project’s build system in a non-recursive style is not very ergonomic. I was complaining about this in the pub a week or two ago. Accepting my challenge, Mark Wooding demonstrated a proof of concept showing that it was possible to do better. I thought I had a better approach so I took his code and I ran with it.
Process invocation will forever be broken
Side note: why does Windows behave this way?
I don’t know for sure. But we can formulate a reasonable theory by looking in the past. Before Windows existed there was DOS, and it also had a way of invoking processes. This was done by using interrupts, in this case function 4bh in interrupt 21h.
Federico Mena-Quintero: Moving gnome-shell’s styles to Rust
Gnome-shell uses CSS processing code that dates from HippoCanvas, a CSS-aware canvas from around 2006. It uses libcroco to parse CSS, and implements selector matching by hand in C.
This code is getting rather dated, and libcroco is unmaintained.
I’ve been reading the code for StTheme and StThemeNode, and it looks very feasible to port it gradually to Rust, by using the same crates that librsvg uses, and eventually removing libcroco altogether: gnome-shell is the last module that uses libcroco in distro packages.
Develop a Kubernetes controller in Java
The official Kubernetes Java SDK project recently released their latest work on providing the Java Kubernetes developers a handy Kubernetes controller-builder SDK which is helpful for easily developing advanced workloads or systems.
If you notice, the new Java controller framework learnt a lot from the design of controller-runtime which successfully encapsulates the complex components inside controller into several clean interfaces. With the help of Java Generics, we even move on a bit and simply the encapsulation in a better way.
As for more advanced usage, we can wrap multiple controllers into a controller-manager or a leader-electing controller which helps deploying in HA setup. In a word, we can basically find most of the equivalence implementations here from Golang SDK and more advanced features are under active development by us.
p2k19 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling on iwm(4) wifi progress, more
My main goal for the p2k19 hackathon was 9260 device support in iwm(4). Firmware updates for previous device generation were an important prerequisite step. One day before p2k19, the oldest generation of hardware supported by the iwm(4) driver was switched to latest available firmware images.
Extreme C book extract: Exploring structures and user-defined types in C
In his new book, Extreme C (left), Kamran Amini outlines the essential features of the language before moving onto encapsulation and composition, synchronisation, as well as advanced programming – with code samples – and integration with other languages, including C++, Java, and Python.
This extract, exclusive to Developer, explores structures within C, as well as touching on the reasons behind the almost 50-year-old language’s continued longevity.
Remembering the TRS-80
Just a few years later I was at the Press Association, writing about technology. (There’s several other stories to tell about how that happened, but let’s tell them another day.) I was astonished that no similar mobile reporting system seemed to be available, at least not to youngsters like me. If you had to file from outside the office, you had to call a team of copytakers and dictate your pencil-scribbled lines over the phone.
Eventually, an email account was set up for reporters to file text to; but hardly anyone used it, because they didn’t have the means to send email from anywhere. Smartphones were still at least a decade away.
I was determined to find a way to file copy from anywhere, so I went shopping. I bought a Palm III, a fold-up GoType keyboard, and an Ericsson SH-888 mobile phone, which had a built-in modem. Now I could sit down anywhere, plug my Palm into its keyboard, connect the modem to the [Internet], and send and receive email.
Rudd says Assange faces ‘unacceptable’ and ‘disproportionate’ punishment
More than 60 doctors from the United Kingdom, Australia, Europe and Sri Lanka, wrote to British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Monday asserting that Mr Assange urgently needs medical treatment at a university hospital.
The doctors said in a letter, distributed by WikiLeaks on Monday, that he was suffering from psychological problems including depression as well as dental issues and a serious shoulder ailment.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Foreign Minister Marise Payne have repeatedly ruled out any intervention in the case, with the PM saying last month he believed Mr Assange should “face the music” in court.
Mr Assange will return to court briefly next month before a full hearing of a US extradition request in which he faces a 175-year jail sentence if found guilty on 18 charges relating to computer fraud and obtaining and disclosing national defence information.
Google Cloud Print will fold in 2020
GOOGLE’S GRIM REAPER has struck again, and this time its swung its scythe at the thousands of ancient printers given a new lease of life by Google Cloud Print.
The company has sent out emails to GSuite admins telling them they have just over a year to say their goodbyes to the decade-old service. It’ll stop working on 31 December 2020, meaning you’ll have time to show off your clipart skills with one last set of New Year’s Eve party invites before the service finally runs out of ink.
“Beginning January 1, 2021, devices across all operating systems will no longer be able to print using Google Cloud Print,” the company’s support page says. “We recommend that over the next year, you identify an alternative solution and execute a migration strategy.”
It feels a bit cruel to introduce you to a doomed service now, so if you’re unfamiliar you can remain blissfully unaware be skipping the next paragraph, if you fancy.
Exclusive: Humans placed in suspended animation for the first time
Samuel Tisherman, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, told New Scientist that his team of medics had placed at least one patient in suspended animation, calling it “a little surreal” when they first did it. He wouldn’t reveal how many people had survived as a result.
The technique, officially called emergency preservation and resuscitation (EPR), is being carried out on people who arrive at the University of Maryland Medical Centre in Baltimore with an acute trauma – such as a gunshot or stab wound – and have had a cardiac arrest. Their heart will have stopped beating and they will have lost more than half their blood. There are only minutes to operate, with a less than 5 per cent chance that they would normally survive.
Start with Safe
A branch of Catholic Charities in the diocese of Albany, New York, has been operating a needle-exchange program called Project Safe Point since 2010, so harm reduction is not unknown in Catholic health care. Nevertheless, such programs remain both rare and controversial—there are fewer than two hundred of them in the whole country. This is partly because they may not be supported with federal funds. One of Project Safe Point’s directors told me that their program was launched in anticipation of the second wave of opioid addiction, when deaths from abuse of prescription drugs were compounded by deaths from abuse of heroin. Predictably, Project Safe Point generated a blizzard of commentary when it was announced a decade ago, as did the 1999 announcement of a safe-injection site that the Sisters of Charity planned to run at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, Australia. That plan had to be abandoned after the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith warned the Sisters of Charity that operating a safe-injection site was “extremely proximate material cooperation in the grave evil of drug abuse.”
Does religion have a privileged status in the UK?
The infusion of religion into law goes beyond cases involving medicine and education. In 2014, the Law Society withdrew its controversial guidance on sharia-compliant wills, under which women stood to lose an equal share of their inheritance, after pressure from the above groups.
Dialysis Patients Panic As Financial ‘Life Raft’ Becomes Unmoored
Russell Desmond received a letter a few weeks ago from the American Kidney Fund that he said felt like “a smack on the face.”
The organization informed Desmond, who has kidney failure and needs dialysis three times a week, that it will no longer help him pay for his private health insurance plan — to the tune of about $800 a month.
“I am depressed about the whole situation,” said the 58-year-old Sacramento resident. “I have no clue what I’m going to do.”
Desmond has Medicare, but it doesn’t cover the entire cost of his care. So, with assistance from the American Kidney Fund, he pays for a private plan to cover the difference.
Now, the fund, which helps about 3,700 Californians pay their premiums and out-of-pocket costs, is threatening to pull out of California because of a new state law that is expected to cut into the dialysis industry’s profits — leaving patients like Desmond scrambling.
Warren’s New Proposal for Prescription Drugs Is Flying Under the Radar
Earlier this month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren put out a set of steps that she would put forward as president as part of a transition to Medicare for All. The items that got the most attention were including everyone over age 50 and under age 18 in Medicare, and providing people of all ages with the option to buy into the program. This buy-in would include large subsidies, and people with incomes of less than 200 percent of the poverty level would be able to enter the Medicare program at no cost.
These measures would be enormous steps toward Medicare for All, bringing tens of millions of people into the program, including most of those (people over age 50) with serious medical issues. It would certainly be more than halfway to a universal Medicare program.
While these measures captured most of the attention given to Warren’s transition plan, another part of the plan is probably at least as important. Warren proposed to use the government’s authority to compel the licensing of drug patents so that multiple companies can produce a patented drug.
Security (Confidentiality/Integrity/Availability)
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, enigmail, isc-dhcp, libice, libofx, and pam-python), Fedora (chromium, ghostscript, mingw-cfitsio, mingw-gdal, mingw-libidn2, and rsyslog), Gentoo (adobe-flash, chromium, expat, and firefox), openSUSE (apache2-mod_perl, haproxy, java-11-openjdk, and ncurses), Oracle (ghostscript, kernel, php:7.2, php:7.3, and sudo), Red Hat (chromium-browser, python27-python, and SDL), and Ubuntu (dpdk and libvpx).
Splunk advises users it will face a problem similar to Y2K in 2020
Analytics software firm Splunk appears to have a problem similar to Y2K, in that unpatched installations of its software will be unable to recognise two-digit dates beginning from 1 January 2020.
Additionally, the company said in an advisory, that from 12:26:39 UTC on 13 September 2020, unpatched Splunk platforms would not recognise timestamps from events based on UNIX time.
The company said customers would receive a fix for this issue automatically. On-premises customers could download an updated datetime.xml file and apply it; manually modify existing installations or upgrade to a version which had the right versions of datetime.xml.
An introduction to network defense basics
This is the next step in my series on system security hardening and network security. Please check out the previous article on 3 quick ways to reduce your attack surface on Linux.
Despite uncertain future, Lebanon’s uprising remains united against political elite
Holding a megaphone, a women chants to the crowds gathered at Martyrs’ Square in the middle of central Beirut, “We are the revolution of the people, you are the civil war!” The people, filling up the entire square and streets leading up to Lebanon’s parliament, repeat the words in unison. “You are the civil war,” they chant, “we are the revolution.”
It is an afternoon in early November, more than three weeks since the uprising against political corruption began in mid-October. Unlike previous protest movements in the small Mediterranean nation, demonstrations have spread to all parts of the country, including small towns and villages, and are targeting the entire Lebanese political elite.
“All of them, and we mean all of them!” the protesters chant, sparing no one.
Like each day, it is a diverse crowd that has gathered in the square. Parents have arrived with their children, young people with their friends. In their hands are posters with handwritten slogans or jokes, each smarter than the other.
“We are missing our lessons to teach you one,” one student’s poster says.
Indonesian policemen arrested after British man kidnapped and ransomed for £700,000
Officers staged a fake arrest of the victim at a toll road in the capital last week, reinforcing the ruse by briefly taking him to a police compound before moving him to a city hotel.
CAIR’s Support for Violent Jihadi US Criminal Group
However, even though the FBI had plenty of evidence to arrest Abdullah on various charges, the bureau was motivated to act at the time due to strong indications that he was preparing a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
Transparency/Investigative Reporting
Syria watchdog accused of making misleading edits in report on chemical weapons attack
A member of an international watchdog tasked with investigating an alleged Syrian chemical weapons attack accused his superiors of inserting bias and language that “misrepresents the facts” in an early summary of his team’s findings, an email published by WikiLeaks shows.
The message, purportedly written by a member of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, was sent to his higher-ups in June 2018, weeks after he says he and others “conducted the investigation into the alleged chemical attack in Douma” on April 7 of that year. The attack, which the Syrian government has been blamed for, left at least 43 people dead.
“After reading this modified report… I was struck by how much it misrepresents the facts,” the email reads. “Many of the facts and observations outlined in the full version are inextricably interconnected and, by selectively omitting certain ones, an unintended bias has been introduced in the report, undermining its credibility.”
Chemical weapons watchdog defends Syria report after leaks
The head of the world’s chemical weapons watchdog has defended its conclusion that chlorine was used in an attack in Syria in April 2018, after a whistleblower alleged the report misrepresented some of the facts amid Russian claims that the watchdog is being politicised by the west.
WikiLeaks at the weekend published an email from a member of the fact-finding team that investigated the attack which accused the body of altering the original findings of investigators to make evidence of a chemical attack seem more conclusive.
‘Psychological torture’: Pamela Anderson’s direct plea to Scott Morrison
Pamela Anderson says Julian Assange is facing “psychological torture” in a British jail as doctors have raised fresh concern about the WikiLeaks founder’s health.
In a speech the former Baywatch star was intending to give at Parliament House this week, Anderson warned every journalist would be vulnerable under Australia’s legal system if Assange was extradited to the United States and charged under the Espionage Act.
Seventy Percent of Foreign Vessels Intercepted Were Found Fishing in Restricted Zones
Dr. Bamba A.M Banja, the permanent secretary of the Department of Fisheries has told Foroyaa that 70% of the foreign vessels intercepted by the Navy were found operating in zones reserved for artisanal fishers in the Gambia.
“70 percent of the intercepted vessels were all found fishing in the wrong zone. We have never intercepted any vessel fishing without a license. So all the vessels that have been intercepted were issued with a license,” he said.
According to Dr. Banja, these licensed foreign vessels were supposed to fish from nine-nautical miles to 12 to the high sea. He added that the zone where these vessels were asked to fish was also stated on their license. He said if any vessels failed to stick to what was stated on their licenses, they would be intercepted and fined accordingly.
New Senate Climate Caucus Is Filled With Climate Deniers and Climate “Delayers”
What’s climate change to a senatorial non-believer? The new Senate Climate Solutions Caucus might soon answer that question.
Formed late last month, the caucus’s aim is to hold hearings with climate experts, educate fellow senators and introduce unanimously agreed-upon legislation. The caucus’s founders — Delaware Democrat Christopher Coons and Indiana Republican Mike Braun — boast of the mandated bipartisanship of the caucus. For every Democrat, there must be a Republican, and vice versa.
Floridian Sen. Marco Rubio, a former hardline climate denier, is the group’s latest addition. He joins fellow Republicans Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney (a former climate waffler) and Lindsey Graham, who once said that greenhouse gas emissions are bad but probably don’t warm the planet all that much.
Koalas ‘are almost extinct’ after devastating bushfires and drought
Slow-moving koalas, who curl up in trees to avoid danger, have been trapped by flames and heard to yelp in distress.
Fires engulfing more than 3.7 million acres of eastern Australia have also destroyed 80% of their habitat.
Eucalyptus tree leaves are a koala’s main source of nutrients, an adult can eat up to 2lb of leaves a day.
But Eucalyptus take months to re-grow after a fire, so many of the marsupials could starve.
UN Secretary-General: US-China Tech Divide Could Cause More Havoc Than the Cold War
On Friday, WIRED spoke with António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, about a topic of increasingly grave concern to him: the fracturing of the internet and the possibility that a technology meant to bring nations together might drive them apart. The conversation has been lightly edited for clarity.
Deputy Speaker condemns fake video of MPs’ immigration exchange
The altered video shows a different response from the interior minister to a Finns Party question about immigration.
Noam Chomsky: Centrism Will Only Get Us Four More Years of Trump
Noam Chomsky is not here to reassure you. As Arctic ice melts, centrists in the Democratic Party actively hinder progress on “Medicare for All” and Republicans work equally hard on voter suppression, the activist, linguist and professor is sounding the alarm.
Interfering with Laura Kuenssberg
Last night the BBC was reporting on the Conservative manifesto. This is a document whose most striking pledge is to fill in some of the potholes in roads that have proliferated due to massive cuts in local authority funding, and to give free hospital car parking to those visiting a terminally ill relative. Just think of the last one. How do you prove your relative is terminally ill? What if there is a chance they might get better? The administration of this system is going to require people to have some form of certificate or token that all hope is now lost. For the car park. The Tories are all heart.
Bloomberg’s Scandals Ignored or Underplayed by Press Cheerleaders
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s entrance into the crowded presidential race hasn’t caused big changes in polling for the top three Democratic candidates Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. It has, however, brought a number of media cheerleaders for the city’s richest resident out of the woodwork.
Sanders Campaign Charges Bloomberg 2020 Run ‘Is Against Bernie, Not Trump’
“Multi-billionaires like Michael Bloomberg are not going to get very far in this election,” Sanders said Sunday.
Bloomberg Is Running ‘Against Bernie, Not Trump,’ Says Sanders Campaign
Billionaire media businessman and former three-term Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg entered the Democratic primary on Sunday expressly to attack Sen. Bernie Sanders’ attempt to win the party’s 2020 nomination, the Sanders campaign charged Monday.
McGahn Must Testify Before House, Federal Judge Rules
A federal judge has ordered former White House counsel Donald McGahn to appear before Congress in a setback to President Donald Trump’s effort to keep his top aides from testifying.
As 2020 Election Approaches, Media Literacy Is More Important Than Ever
As we approach the 2020 presidential election in the U.S., it is necessary to examine how corporate media coverage of Donald Trump paved the way for some of Trump’s greatest media manipulations. We must also recognize that media manipulation, while in certain ways unique to Trump, has a long history within the U.S. In this interview, Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon, authors of United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It), discuss that history and what we can do to fight against disinformation.
Could the Federal government start paying for abortions after the 2020 elections?
In 1976, conservative Congressman Henry Hyde of Illinois introduced a bill that would ban the use of federal funding for abortion expenses except in instances of rape, incest or danger to the life of the mother.
Today, the Hyde Amendment, which has been added as a rider to federal budget appropriation bills since 1977, prohibits abortion coverage for approximately 74 million Medicaid recipients.
It also prohibits the federal government from covering abortion in health programs for federal employees, federal prisoners, those who rely on Indian Health Services, active military members and veterans, among others.
I’m a social work health scholar who studies vulnerable people’s access to reproductive health care. Now that the Hyde amendment has become a focus for some candidates in the 2020 presidential election, I believe it’s important to understand who it affects and how it can be repealed.
More Students Are Voting — But Republicans Are Trying to Get in Their Way
Students at the historically Black Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, lost their on-campus polling place this semester after the Republican-dominated state legislature outlawed polling places that do not stay open for the entire 12-day, early-voting period — commonly referred to as “pop-up” polls. The new law took effect in September, and Huston-Tillotson students who voted on November 5 had to trek over to the Austin Public Library’s Carver Branch a half-mile away.
“The way I see it is disenfranchisement upon students of color,” says Jared Breckenridge, a senior majoring in education and the former president of the university’s NAACP chapter. The loss of the campus polling place, he says, comes on top of other barriers Huston-Tillotson students regularly face as they navigate the state’s voter ID law, which doesn’t allow them to use their student ID cards to cast a ballot.
The university’s NAACP regularly organizes student registration and education efforts on campus, and is working on formulating what its new voter engagement strategy will look like now with the loss of the school’s polling place, Breckenridge says.
Privacy/Surveillance
What would it cost to store all 2018 phone calls in Norway?
Four years ago, I did a back of the envelope calculation on how much it would cost to store audio recordings of all the phone calls in Norway, and came up with NOK 2.1 million / EUR 250 000 for the year 2013. It is time to repeat the calculation using updated numbers. The calculation is based on how much data storage is needed for each minute of audio, how many minutes all the calls in Norway sums up to, multiplied by the cost of data storage.
The number of phone call minutes for 2018 was fetched from the NKOM statistics site, and for 2018, land line calls are listed as 434 238 000 minutes, while mobile phone calls are listed with 7 542 006 000 minutes. The total number of minues is thus 7 976 244 000. For simplicity, I decided to ignore any advantages in audio compression te last four years, and continue to assume 60 Kbytes/min as the last time.
Facebook had a facial recognition app that could identify employees
An investigation by Business Insider (it’s a paywaller, not a baller) has found that in the period around 2015 and 2016, the company developed a facial recognition package which could recognise workers and their mates just by pointing the camera at them.
Wow, Facebook Really Made a Facial Recognition App for Its Employees
While it may seem like much ado about a defunct company app, this news gives us a better idea on the extent to which Facebook experimented and fine-tuned the kind of facial recognition technology it later incorporated into its platforms in 2017, which then became the subject of fiery consumer pushback and a federal investigation. All so that users wouldn’t have to deal with the hassle of tagging their friends in photos.
Banning Strong Encryption Does Not Mean Catching Criminals. It Only Makes You Less Safe from Them.
Why not? Because the cat’s out of the bag. The genie is out of the bottle. The horse has fled the barn. Whatever metaphor you pick, here’s the truth: Strong encryption is here to stay, and making it illegal won’t make it go away. Even if the U.S. and our allies all ban strong encryption—and companies like Facebook knuckle under and comply—it will remain available. The software, and the underlying mathematical know-how, are out there. That would still be the case even if Facebook yanked WhatsApp tomorrow. And even if law-abiding companies and individuals stopped using strong encryption, the bad guys wouldn’t. Terrorists already write their own encryption software, and the purported creator of the TrueCrypt file-encryption program (which was favored by ISIS) turned into an international crime kingpin.
It sounds cliché, but it’s true: If strong encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have strong encryption. Were the U.S. to enact a mandate requiring Facebook to backdoor its messaging encryption for law enforcement, then many criminals’ immediate move would be to switch to a different program. Savvy criminals, particularly traders in CSAM, have long been technologically sophisticated in cloaking their activities; they teach one another how to hide, and they respond to reports of compromised programs by shifting tactics. If law enforcement actually gets its way and strong encryption is banned, then only the dimmest criminals would still use known-harmful programs. The FBI would find it easier to catch this low-hanging fruit, yes. But savvy criminals would continue to elude them.
Meanwhile, the law-abiding users of law-abiding companies would have weaker tools available to protect ourselves. What the police are asking for is a world where, by law, criminals have better security than law-abiding people, giving criminals more leverage over innocent people. That is what banning strong encryption means. It means legally requiring you to be weaker than the criminals. Banning strong encryption won’t stop the bad guys. It just hurts the rest of us. And yet, the police (who, remember, are supposed to protect us) are hell-bent on harming everyone’s security in the name of a measure that won’t actually stop savvy criminals.
Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
Jailed Turkish writer Ahmet Altan wins Scholl literary prize
The infamous Silivri detention center is the same jail where German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel claims he was tortured during his near year-long incarceration. Indeed, the verdict against Altan and five other journalists was announced on the day that Yücel was finally released from custody.
“[Ahmet Altan's] fate, unfortunately, exemplifies the situation of many independent journalists in increasingly authoritarian or also dictatorial societies,” said the Geschwister-Scholl Prize jury that awarded the €10,000 ($9,000) literary prize to the imprisoned Turkish journalist.
THE GREATEST CHALLENGE TO STATE POWER: JOURNALISM IN OUR TIME W/ NOAM CHOMSKY
In this brief discussion, we begin with Professor Chomsky examining the current state and trajectory of the United States empire within the broader scope of recent history, fitting the recent “withdrawal” of the US military presence in Northeast Syria, under Kurdish governance, as an indication of what the U.S. geopolitical influence in the region currently is. As Noam states, “the United States, didn’t leave Northeast Syria, they just moved its troops to the oil producing regions. The number of troops is about the same,” with more troops being sent to Iraq and Saudi Arabia “to support their murderous war in Yemen.”
Secondly, we discuss the responsibility of journalists, especially in this time, to challenge state power and stand for those that are willing to risk everything to expose the crimes of the state and its corporate allies. To highlight this, we focus on the current situation of Wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange, currently imprisoned in the high-security Belmarsh Prison in London, awaiting an extradition hearing set for February 2020, after his asylum was revoked from the Ecuadorian government and handed over to British authorities April this year. “Assange basically is being murdered by the British government,” as his health continues to rapidly deteriorate from his time holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy and his treatment by British authorities more recently. Assange faces “18 charges, including conspiracy to hack government computers and violation of espionage law, and could spend decades in prison if convicted,” (http://bit.ly/2Cjdrof) with the real possibility of him being “extradited to the United States, where he’ll be tried with crimes that, even theoretically, can lead to the death sentence, which he’s already practically suffering [from] now.” Noam compares this attack on press freedoms and whistleblowers to the Red Scare post-WWI, in which “thousands of people were deported. The independent press was virtually crushed. There was a massive attack on human rights. The so-called McCarthy period was about the same. The Trump period is innovating in a way which is familiar [to] totalitarian states. The entire system in the United States under Trump is becoming a kind of proto-fascism without the ideology, just the pertinences of fascism.” We get into this and more in this episode.
Rev transcribers hate the low pay, but the disturbing recordings are even worse
Rev made headlines this month after it slashed minimum pay for its transcribers from 45 cents per audio / video minute transcribed to 30 cents. The company justified the change by saying it was also increasing the pay for more difficult files, and so, ultimately, the amount paid out to transcribers would be about the same. But even though Rev says the changes will only affect a “very small number of jobs,” workers say they are seeing substantial pay cuts because of the change — and for some, the work increasingly isn’t worth the time and stress.
Welcome to the Global Rebellion Against Neoliberalism
If you can squint past the smoke from the barricades, the commonalities start to stand out. In Chile, anger over a 3 percent raise in metro fares revealed a population not merely miffed by “pocketbook issues”—the fare hike pushed transit costs to 21 percent of the monthly salary of a worker earning the minimum wage—but so exhausted by austerity, so squeezed by low wages and long hours and debt, so fed up with the greed and blindness of the wealthy few who run the country that they were ready to burn almost everything down. A few hours after declaring a state of emergency and dispatching the military into the streets, billionaire President Sebastián Piñera went on TV to remind the citizenry that Chile’s “stable democracy” and growing economy make it a “true oasis” on an otherwise chaotic continent. “The practices that underpin prosperity are not popular,” The Economist drily observed.
Justice, honor, politics: Navy secretary fired over SEAL case
On Wednesday, the Navy had notified Gallagher that he would face a Navy SEAL review board to determine if he should be allowed to remain in the elite force. While Trump then tweeted that he would not allow the Navy to remove Gallagher from the SEALs by taking away his Trident Pin, which designates a SEAL member, the White House told the Navy it could proceed as planned, according to a Navy officer who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.
That initially appeared to defuse the situation. The Navy SEAL review board was due to hear Gallagher’s case on Dec. 2. Spencer, speaking Saturday at an international security forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that he did not consider a tweet by Trump a formal order to stop the Navy review board. “I need a formal order to act,” Spencer said. He said of Trump’s tweets, “I don’t interpret them as a formal order.”
Bogaletch Gebre, the Ethiopian women’s rights activist who fought to end female genital mutilation, has died
So in 1997, Gebre returned to Ethiopia with ambitions of transforming the lives of women and girls where she grew up.
Along with her sister Fikirte Gebre, she founded KMG Ethiopia, a non-profit organization dedicated to justice and equality for women and girls.
Through KMG, Gebre set out to make changes big and small in the lives of Ethiopian women.
Gebre’s charity is credited with virtually eliminating the practice of female genital mutilation in the region where she grew up. In areas where KMG Ethiopia operated, the rates of the practice decreased from nearly 100% in 1999 to less than 3% in 2008.
ADL finds extreme Antisemitism among Muslims is 3X national rate
Thursday, November 21, 2019, the ADL released its 2019 survey data on the prevalence (occurrence) of extreme Antisemitism (defined, below) within 18 countries assessed between April 15 and June 3, 2019. Six of these countries—Belgium, The United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, and Italy—included a Muslim over-sample, allowing for a direct comparison of Muslims vs. Christians, those professing no religion, and the overall populations.
ADL Global Survey of 18 Countries Finds Hardcore Anti-Semitic Attitudes Remain Pervasive
The poll of 18 countries, which is part of the ADL Global 100: An Index of Anti-Semitism, was fielded between April and June 2019 in Eastern and Western Europe, Canada, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. European and other countries with significant Jewish populations were selected for the 2019 survey. Using an 11-question index that has served as a benchmark for previous ADL polling around the world since 1964, the survey of more than 9,000 adults found that anti-Semitic attitudes in Argentina, Brazil, Poland, Russia, South Africa and Ukraine have seen marked increases since the last ADL Global 100 survey.
Britain, Land of Tea and Torture
British politics is presently mired in the second general election campaign in three years, thanks to the grinding parliamentary impasse precipitated by Brexit. One of the most important features of the clamor surrounding Brexit is that very few other political issues are getting the sustained scrutiny they demand, or rather, that every piece of current affairs information is filtered through the lens of our faltering, exasperating withdrawal from the EU. Enormous and urgent issues, from climate catastrophe to austerity budget cuts, from rising homelessness to the financial crisis in the National Health Service, are all taking a back seat to Brexit, which has acted as the determinant of every political conversation in Britain since 2016. These have been boom times for those in British politics who want to get their way while avoiding accountability.
Racist Stephen Miller Must Go, Activists and Lawmakers Say
President Trump may be consumed by impeachment, but White House Adviser Stephen Miller remains laser-focused on executing his racist anti-immigrant agenda. Despite calls for Miller’s removal by lawmakers and civil rights organizations, his oppressive policies and appointments continue to be rolled out at a frantic pace.
Last week, Hatewatch exposed hundreds of emails Miller sent to the conservative website Breitbart. The emails confirm what we’ve known all along: Miller is a white nationalist hellbent on anti-immigrant policies. Since the release of the emails, more than 50 civil rights groups wrote to Trump demanding Miller’s removal. More than 80 lawmakers have called for Miller’s resignation or termination. The chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus have all called on Miller to resign. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Mazie Hirono have also called for Miller’s resignation. Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro called Miller a “Neo-Nazi” and “a shame to our nation,” and Sen. Bernie Sanders called him “a danger to the American people.”
Green Party supports striking university and college staff
Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley has today expressed the Green Party’s support for the strike by University and College Union (UCU) members at 80 universities around the UK.
Bartley said: “This is about the long-term wellbeing and welfare of both staff and students. Staff at our universities have been pushed beyond breaking-point by institutions that are not giving them proper pay and conditions, or pensions, and that are leaving huge numbers trapped in the uncertainty of zero-hours and variable hours contracts.
“The future of our world-class universities, and the quality of education of students, is dependent on staff being treated properly. I know from speaking to UCU members at previous strikes how much they fear not only for their own futures, but also their students’ futures. University pay structures need to be rebalanced away from ludicrously high pay for a few management staff, and towards maintaining the pay and conditions for those doing the teaching and research.”
The RIPE NCC has run out of IPv4 Addresses
Even though we have run out, we will continue to recover IPv4 addresses in the future. These will come from organisations that have gone out of business or are closed, or from networks that return addresses they no longer need. These addresses will be allocated to our members (LIRs) according to their position on a new waiting list that is now active.
He invented the web. Now he’s warning of a looming ‘digital dystopia’
Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist who submitted his first proposal for an “information management system” in 1989, has reiterated his call for a Contract for the Web, urging governments, companies and individuals to safeguard it by implementing nine key principles.
These proposals, made by Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web Foundation, aim to stem the rise of online threats.
Ahead of a conference in Berlin Monday, Berners-Lee tweeted a warning of the risks faced.
He wrote: “If we fail to defend the free and open web, we risk a digital dystopia of entrenched inequality and abuse of rights.”
The Americans with Disabilities Act in the Digital Age
The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) requires companies to provide reasonable accommodations and accessibility to all public and private places open to the general public.[1] It provides little to no direction, however, for what accessibility means in the digital age. The ADA was written at a time when most companies did not have websites and apps were a thing of the future. While there are voice command programs available for users who are visually impaired, they often fail in practicality.[2] Due to this frustration, disabled Americans are less likely to utilize and benefit from the [Internet]. A 2016 Pew Research survey found that only 50% of disabled users report using the [Internet] on a daily basis compared to 79% of users without a disability.[3] As technology becomes a more vital part of everyday life, lawsuits pertaining to website accessibility are on the rise.[4] Companies and consumers alike are looking toward the courts to confirm whether the ADA, which dictates America’s physical landscape, is applicable to the online landscape.
Uber May Be Banned From London, One of Its Biggest Markets
Now London officials say that’s not enough. Transport for London says it uncovered at least 14,000 incidents in which Uber’s system allowed drivers to upload their photos to other drivers’ accounts, meaning the person who picked up a rider wasn’t necessarily the person attached to the account. In other instances, drivers who had been dismissed or suspended from the platform were allowed to create new accounts and drive again.
Uber loses licence to operate in London
The regulator said the taxi app was not “fit and proper” as a licence holder, despite having made a number of positive changes to its operations.
Uber initially lost its licence in 2017 but was granted two extensions, the most recent of which expires on Monday.
Uber’s License to Operate in London Isn’t Extended
The decision will not immediately affect Uber’s presence on London streets, as the company has 21 days to appeal the decision and can continue to operate throughout that time. Uber quickly announced that it would file an appeal.
Transport for London, which regulates taxi and private hire services in the city, announced the decision in a statement, saying that while Uber “has made a number of positive changes and improvement to its culture, leadership and systems,” it had not gone far enough. The license expires at 11:59 p.m. on Monday.
Pelosi signals USMCA deal is ‘within range’
Democrats have been negotiating terms of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement with the White House for months, seeking to entrench strong enforcement mechanisms on issues such as labor, environment and pharmaceuticals.
Athena v. Mayo: Using Standard Techniques to Detect an Antibody that Correlates with a Disease
I enjoy comparing the Question Presented in a petition for writ of certiorari with the brief in opposition. Perhaps the eligibility answer depends on how you frame the question.
Patent case: BedGear LLC v. Fredman Bros. Furniture Co. Inc., USA [Ed: The patent zealots failed to raise a stink and derail PTAB through CAFC by cherry-picking. These people hate justice and law, they want neoliberal patent offices to make everything a patent and for that patent to be beyond challenge]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has vacated three Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions following inter partes review of three patents on the ground that patent owner BedGear LLC argued in its opening brief that the Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) assigned to the case were appointed in violation of the Appointments Clause of Article II of the U.S. Constitution. In accordance with the October 31, 2109, decision of Federal Circuit in Arthrex, Inc. Smith & Nephew, Inc., the cases were remanded for reassignment to a new PTAB panel. Circuit Judge Dyk, joined by Circuit Judge Newman, filed a separate opinion concurring with the notion that the panel was bound to follow Arthrex, but disagreeing with Arthrex’s remedy of requiring a new hearing before a new PTAB panel. According to Judge Dyk, the Arthrex panel opinion “improperly declined to make its ruling retroactive so that the actions of APJs in the past were compliant with the constitution and the statute.” Judge Dyk would hear the decisions on the merits, rather than vacate them for a new hearing before a new panel below (BedGear, LLC v. Fredman Bros. Furniture Co., Inc., November 7, 2019, per curiam).
CRISPR Motions Day at the PTAB: Broad Files Its Substantive Motion No. 4
On October 14th, Senior Party the Broad Institute (joined by Harvard University and MIT) filed several authorized motions in Interference No. 106,115, including Substantive Motion No. 2 and No. 3, against Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier; collectively, “CVC.” In its Motion No. 4, the Broad asks the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board for priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/736,527 to Zhang (termed “Zhang B1″ in the motion), pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(ii) and 41.208(a)(3) and Standing Order ¶ 208.4.1.
Scotch-ing decision leaves a tart taste in Isetan’s mouth
However, the Judge declined to do so, considering that there were differences between the EU legislation in that case (which expressly prohibits “indirect commercial use” as well as “evocation” of a geographical indicator) and Singapore’s equivalent legislation, the GIA, where only “use” of a geographical indicator is proscribed.*
The decision is the first reported case wherein the Singapore High Court has considered an opposition under s 7(4)(b) (although there have been several registry cases that have considered the issue.) The upshot of the decision is that those seeking to register a mark that may be associated with a particular geographic origin, should be mindful of the s 7(4)(b) prohibition.
Hold Your Colour – Cancellation Action against Nivea Blue withdrawn after 11-Year Saga in Germany
In the Nivea colour trade mark case (that had been dragging on for eleven years before the plaintiff declared the withdrawal of the cancellation action), the German Federal Patent Court answered the question in the negative.
Common sense prevails in trade mark specification interpretation
In January 2011, AxiCorp applied for registration through WIPO designating the European Union for the word mark AXICORP ALLIANCE in Classes 3, 5, 10 and 35. The applicant, Alliance Pharmaceuticals, opposed the registration based on its earlier marks; EU word mark ALLIANCE (registered August 2006 in Class 5), an EU figurative mark (registered December 2003 in Class 5) and an unregistered word mark ALLIANCE, used in the course of trade for ‘pharmaceutical preparations and substances’ in the UK.
In May 2017, the Opposition Division rejected the opposition in its entirety on the grounds of lack of evidence of genuine use of the earlier EU trade marks and the unregistered mark in the course of trade. The applicant appealed and by decision of 7 February 2018, the Fifth Board of Appeal of EUIPO partially annulled the Opposition Division’s decision and remitted the case to the Opposition Division. This is the contested decision in the present case.
The EUIPO disputed the applicant’s arguments, submitting that an example of the drafting of an exclusion taken from the EUIPO’s examination guidelines cannot provide the basis for a rule determining the conjunction which should be used when drafting an exclusion in a specification. It maintained that it is the responsibility of the applicant to draft clearly and precisely the specification of the goods and services in respect of which protection is sought. Further, the EUIPO argued, the way in which the specification was interpreted was neither unreasonable nor contrary to grammatical rules, even though other interpretations could not be excluded. Thirdly, the EUIPO stated that the extent of the protection sought must be capable of being determined on the basis of the register alone. Therefore, where the designation of goods or services lacks clarity and precision, the scope of the mark must be interpreted narrowly because the proprietor of the mark should not gain from the infringement of its obligation to draw up the list of goods and services with clarity and precision.
Polish Constitutional Tribunal rules that rightholders can claim damages amounting to twice a hypothetical licence fee in copyright infringement cases
On November 20th, the Polish Constitutional Tribunal was expected to issue a long-awaited ruling concerning the compatibility of remedies for copyright infringement with the Polish Constitution. It did not, because about two weeks earlier, another ruling of the same Constitutional Tribunal concerning exactly the same issue was published.
Microsoft Employees Being Put in Charge of Linux
Posted in GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft at 5:38 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Recent: The Linux Foundation’s New Vice Chair, Wim Coekaerts, Worked for Microsoft
Summary: Microsoft entryism, aided by misleading media (the whole “loves Linux” canard), has been spectacularly successful; while nobody paid attention Microsoft was put in charge of the kernel used on billions of computers
THE latest? Thankfully I’m subscribed to the RSS feeds of kernel.org.
Well, believe it or not, only a short time after Greg had said he can “vouch” for Levin (Microsoft) we turned from this (August 2019, exFAT controversy):
Oh, hello sir… show me to your leader.
Microsoft loves (to manage) Linux. Is GNU/FSF the next target? When you can’t buy them, kill them with (fake) kindness. The Linux Foundation accepts cash or credit card. █
“We need to slaughter Novell before they get stronger….If you’re going to kill someone, there isn’t much reason to get all worked up about it and angry. You just pull the trigger. Any discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.”
–Jim Allchin, Microsoft’s Platform Group Vice President
Startpage Looks Like It’s AstroTurfing — With Payments to Twitter — in Order to Boost the False Perception of ‘Privacy’
Posted in Deception, Search at 5:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Summary: AstroTurfing for a fee; is this what Startpage — once known for respecting people’s privacy and dignity — has been reduced to now that it is seemingly bossed by a surveillance company (it refuses to address the subject)?
OUR Startpage wiki page, which we started some weeks ago, documents our findings about the sell(out) of Startpage — a search engine we’ve used and recommended for years. It had been fine until it got sold (at least a majority of it). We’ve taken a look, over at Twitter, at all the ads currently shown [PDF]. They actually pay Twitter a chunk of money to pretend they’re still privacy-respecting. How much money? It’s hard to tell, but there’s a budget dedicated to this lie. Does System1 foot the bill?
“There’s almost no comment of substance there except Startpage staff commenting/replying to self/ves.”“Apparently,” one reader told us, “Startpage ran a Twitter ad recently to boost its image. See the one with all the likes and retweets about the “Big News”?”
There’s something ‘wrong’ about the number of ‘likes’ compared to follow-ups’. Click-farming activity? Comments like “Nice tweetThanks for sharing” do make one wonder and one calls it “big spam”. There’s almost no comment of substance there except Startpage staff commenting/replying to self/ves. This kind of AstroTurfing-esque pattern does raise suspicions. It can’t be good for Startpage’s image. They’re not trustworthy anymore. █
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Calling all moms! Ashley Graham has been raking in advice from Kim Kardashian and other celebrity mothers since announcing her pregnancy in August.
“Kim immediately started telling me, ‘Ashley, the pregnancy may be the hardest part, but the birth is the easiest,’” the model, 32, admitted in her January 2020 Vogue cover story, published on Friday, December 6. “I’m just taking in advice from everyone and not putting too much pressure on myself.”
When it comes to the nitty gritty, the New Model author gets texts from Serena Williams about all aspects of pregnancy. The tennis star, 38, told the magazine: “I text her anything that rolls off my mind. I was one of those people who wanted to know every ugly detail of what happens … down there … what happens everywhere. Like, why are my nipples so big a week into being pregnant? This makes no sense; the baby doesn’t need to eat yet. I wanted to know every single thing, and I still love talking about it. Because I feel like it’s important to kind of change the narrative and be like, it’s normal to feel scared, and not be one of those women who are like, ‘Oh, it’s so great!’ Just be scared out of your mind. That’s normal.”
Amy Schumer has also taken the Nebraska native under her wing, giving her a tour of her nursery. “I was like, ‘Come over and I’ll just tell you what I have learned and what I wish I knew,’” the actress, also 38, explained.
Graham announced in August that she and her husband of nine years, Justin Ervin, are expecting their first child. “Nine years ago today, I married the love of my life. It has been the best journey with my favorite person in the world! Today, we are feeling so blessed, grateful and excited to celebrate with our GROWING FAMILY!” the “Pretty Big Deal” podcast host wrote on Instagram at the time. “Life is about to get even better.”
Three months later, she revealed the sex on The Ellen DeGeneres Show — a baby boy!
Keep scrolling for more details on Graham’s pregnancy, from her hormones to her and the cinematographer’s sex life.
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Seeketh Not Her Own
ου ζητει τα εαυτης
ou ze-TEI ta heauTE-S
ou zetei ta heautes, ou zetei ta eautes
BRG, KJV, DR, Rhe, Wes: "seeketh not her own"
AKJV, Worrell, EJ2000, Lamsa: "seeks not her own"
Mur: "and seeketh not her own"
Gen: "it seeketh not her own things"
Rot: "seeketh not her own things"
NMB: "seeks not her own"
MKJV: "does not seek her own"
Godbey, MEV: "seeks not its own"
ASV: "seeketh not its own"
ABPE: "neither does it seek its own"
NKJV, CAB: "does not seek its own"
NHEB: "does not seek its own way"
WEB: "doesn't seek its own way"
Darby: "does not seek what is its own"
ACV: "does not seek the things of itself"
ED: "not seeks the things of herself"
ALT: "it does not seek its own [things]"
YLT: "doth not seek its own things"
DLNT: "does not seek its own things"
NASB, CENT: "it does not seek its own"
Wuest: "does not seek after the things which are its own"
NJB: "and never seeks its own advantage"
TLV: "it does not seek its own way"
Riv: "does not seek her own interest"
AMP, BSB, NIV: "it is not self-seeking,"
CLNT, CSB: "is not self-seeking"
TCNT: "Love is never self-seeking"
TEV, GNT: "or selfish"
MNT: "nor selfish"
CEV: "Love isn't selfish"
ICB, HCSB, NCV: "is not selfish,"
EHV, NMB, NSB: "it is not selfish"
LEB: "it is not selfish [literally, does not seek the things of itself]"
REB: "love is never selfish"
NEB: "never selfish"
TPT: "nor selfishly seek its own honor"
AMP: "Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking;"
Good: "It does not insist on its rights."
RSV: "Love does not insist on its own way;"
OJB: "ahavah does not in anochiyut insist on its own way"
NRSV, ESV: "it does not insist on its own way"
HWP: "You no ack like everybody gotta do everyting yoa way."
AMPC: "Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking"
NWT: "does not look for its own interests"
Mace: "is not self-interested"
CPV: "nor try to get things for itself"
ISV: "Never does she think of self"
Wey: "nor seek to aggrandize herself"
BBE: "it takes no thought for itself"
NLV: "Love never thinks of itself."
WENT: "Love does not just think of itself"
TFEC: "is not preoccupied with the interests of the self"
Voice: "it's not self-absorbed"
Mes: "Isn't always 'me first'"
NLT, LB: "Love does not demand its own way"
GWT: "It doesn't think about itself"
Bis: "seeketh not her owne"
LITV: "does not pursue its own things"
LONT: "does not seek its own things"
UTV: "seeks not inwardly"
NET: "it is not self-serving"
1st: "It seeketh not the thingis that ben her owne"
Tyn: "seketh not her awne"
Wyc: "it sekith not tho thingis that ben hise owne"
Wul: "ni sokeiþ sein ain"
Luther: "sie suchet nicht das Ihre"
Sch: "sie sucht nicht das Ihre"
Elb: "sie sucht nicht das Ihrige"
DN: "søger ikke sit eget"
DNB: "søker ikke sitt eget"
SV: "den söker icke sitt"
HTB: "is niet egoïstisch en voelt zich nooit beledigd"
Ice: "leitar ekki síns eigin"
RVR, SSE, NBLH: "no busca lo suyo"
NVI: "no es egoísta"
DHH: "ni egoísta"
CEI: "non cerca il suo interesse"
VFL: "não procura seus interesses"
Vul: "non quaerit quae sua sunt"
AA: "não busca os seus próprios interesses"
FD: "il ne cherche pas son propre intérêt"
FLS: "elle ne cherche point son intérêt"
HCV: "li p'ap chache avantaj pa l'"
BPKS: "ne traži svoje"
CRO: "ne traži svoje pravo"
ALB: "nuk kërkon të sajat"
Raa: "ei etsi omaansa"
SND: "hindi ito naghahangad ng sariling kapakinabangan"
Word: ze-TEo- (2212)
Strong's:
ze-TEo-, dzay-teh'-o; of uncertain affinity
To seek (literally or figuratively); specifically (by Hebrew) to worship (God), or (in a bad sense) to plot (against life). KJV "be (go) about", "desire", "endeavor", "enquire (for)", "require", "(x will) seek (after, for, means)".
Zodhiates:
ze-TEo-; contracted ze-TO-, future ze-TE-so.
To seek, transitive.
Particularly, to seek after, look for, strive to find.
Generally without any direct object.
As in Mat. 7:7,8, "seek, and ye shall find."
Followed by the accusative of person (Mat. 2:13; Mark 3:32; Luke 2:45; John 7:11; Acts 9:11; 2 Tim. 1:7; Sept.: Gen. 17:15).
To seek God means to turn to Him, to strive humbly and sincerely to follow and obey Him (Acts 17:27; Rom. 10:20 [cf. Is. 65:1]; Sept.: Ex. 33:7; Ps. 24:6). See the comp. ekze-TEo- (1567), to search or seek out.
Followed by the accusative of thing, something lost. (Mat. 18:12; Luke 19:10)
With the accusative implied. (Luke 15:8; Sept.: 1 Sam. 10:2, 14)
Generally. (Mat. 12:43; 26:59; Mark 14:55; Luke 13:6,7; 22:6; Rev. 9:6)
Of what one seeks to buy, e.g., pearls. (Mat. 13:45)
To seek the life of someone means seeking to kill him. (Matt. 2:20; Rom. 11:3 [cf. 1 Kgs. 19:10, 14]; Sept.: Ex. 4:19; 2 Sam. 16:11; Jer. 44:30)
To seek how means to seek opportunity. (Mark 11:18; 14:1, 11)
To seek, in the sense of endeavor, to try.
E.g., followed by the accusative of thing, to try to gain, to strive after, with the idea of earnestness and anxiety (Mat. 6:33; Luke 12:29; John 5:44; 7:18; 8:50; 1 Cor. 10:24, 33; Phil. 2:21; Col. 3:1; Sept.: Ps. 4:2; 34:14)
Generally, to endeavor, strive.
Followed by HIna (2443), so that. (1 Cor. 14:12)
By the aorist infinitive. (Mat. 21:46; Luke 5:18; 17:33; John 10:39; 19:12; Acts 13:8; 16:10; Rom. 10:3)
With the present infinitive. (Luke 6:19; Gal. 1:10)
With the infinitive implied. (John 5:30; Sept.: Deut. 13:10; 1 Sam. 19:10)
By implication, to desire or wish.
Followed by the aorist infinitive. (Mat. 12:46, 47 [cf. Luke 6:19; 9:9; 11:54; John 7:4; Acts 27:30])
By the accusative. (John 1:38; 4:27; 1 Cor. 7:27; 2 Cor. 12:14; Sept.: Gen. 37:15)
To seek, require, demand, expect.
With the accusative of thing. (1 Cor. 1:22; 2 Cor. 13:3; Heb. 8:7).
Followed by paRA and the genitive, meaning from someone. (Mark 8:11; Luke 11:16; 12:48)
In 1 Cor. 4:2, "it is required in the steward that one be found faithful" (author's translation).
See John 4:23; Sept.: Neh 5:12, 18.
By implication, to inquire, ask.
With peRI (4012), concerning. (John 16:19)
Mounce's:
GK 2426 (S 2212) Word occurs 117 times.
To seek, look for. (Mt. 18:12; Lk. 2:48, 49)
To search after. (Mt. 13:45)
To be on the watch for. (Mt. 26:16)
To pursue, endeavor to obtain. (Rom. 2:7; 1 Pet. 3:11)
To desire, wish, want. (Mt. 12:47)
To seek, strive for. (Mt. 6:33)
To endeavor. (Mt. 21:46)
To require, demand, ask for. (Mk. 8:11; Lk. 11:16; 12:48)
To inquire or ask questions, question. (Jn. 16:19)
To deliberate. (Mk. 11:18; Lk. 12:29)
In NT from Hebrew, ze-TEIN te-n psyCHE-N, to seek the life of any one, to seek to kill. (Mt. 2:20)
Seek:
A person can search for physical objects. (Mt. 13:45; Lk. 15:8)
Other people. (Lk. 9:9; Mt. 28:5)
Blessings such as healing. (Lk. 5:18; 6:19)
And opportunities to do things such as to betray, (Mt. 26:16; Lk. 22:6)
Arrest, (Mt. 21:46)
And kill. (Mt. 2:13; Mk. 11:18; Ac. 21:31)
People are to "search for" spiritual principles and realities such as God's kingdom, righteousness, glory, immortality, wisdom, and peace. (Mt. 6:33; cf. 7:7-8; Lk. 5:44; 7:18; 11:9-10; 12:31; 1 Cor. 1:22; 1 Pet. 3:11)
Christians are not to "seek their own interests" but rather those of Jesus Christ and his servants. (Phil. 2:21)
Paul seeks for the good of others, (1 Cor. 10:33)
which is a characteristic of genuine love. ("not self-seeking", 1 Cor. 13:5)
Regarding prayer, those who "seek" from the Father will find. (Mt. 7:7-8)
To those who "seek" glory, honor, and immortality, God gives eternal life. (Rom. 2:7)
To those "seeking" the kingdom of God and his righteousness, all necessities will be given as well. (Mt. 6:33)
The majority of Jews in Jesus' and Paul's day were "seeking to establish their own" righteousness (Rom 10:3b)
but they did not obtain it. (Rom. 9:31)
God's purpose in creating humans is "that they would seek God". (Ac. 17:27)
God himself seeks for things: people who repent, (Lk. 13:5-6)
worshipers in Spirit and truth, (Jn. 4:23)
and stewards who are trustworthy, especially in the mysteries of Christ. (1 Cor. 4:2)
Revealing his truly divine nature and mission, Jesus declares that he is the good shepherd and will bring back the sheep that are not yet in the fold; (Jn. 10:14-16)
in fact, he himself has come "to seek and to save the lost". (Lk. 19:10)
Vine's:
Endeavor, No. 2: ze-TEo-, to seek after, is translated "endeavor" in Ac. 16:10, AV, RV "sought".
Inquire, No. 2: ze-TEo-, to seek.
Rendered "inquire" in John 16:19.
"Inquire ... for" in Ac. 9:11.
Require, No.1: ze-TEo-, to seek, seek after.
Also signifies to require, demand, "shall be required", Lk. 12:48.
In 1 Cor. 4:2, "it is required (in stewards)".
Seek, No. 1: ze-TEo- signifies
To seek, to seek for.
Matt. 7:7-8; 13:45; Luke 24:5; John 6:24.
Of plotting against a person's life. (Matt. 2:20; Acts 21:31; Rom. 11:3)
Metaphorically, to seek by thinking, to seek how to do something, or what to obtain. (Mark 11:18; Luke 12:29)
To seek to ascertain a meaning, John 16:19, "do ye inquire".
To seek God. (Acts 17:27 RV, Rom. 10:20)
To seek or strive after, endeavor, to desire.
Matt. 12:46-7 RV, "seeking" (AV, "desiring"); Luke 9:9, RV, "sought" (AV, "desired"); John 7:19, RV, "seek ye" (AV, "go ye about"); so verse 20; Rom. 10:3, RV, "seeking" (AV "going about").
Of seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness, in the sense of coveting earnestly, striving after. (Matt. 6:33)
"The things that are above". (Col. 3:1)
Peace. (1 Pet. 3:11)
To require or demand.
Mark 8:12; Luke 11:29 (some manuscripts have epize-TEo-); 1 Cor. 4:2 "it is required"; 2 Cor. 13:3, "ye seek".
Thayer's:
ze-TEo-, ze-TO-; imperfect 3 person singular eZE-tei, plural eZE-toun; future ze-TE-so-; 1 aorist eZE-te-sa; passive, present ze-TOUmai; imperfect 3 person singular eze-TEIto (Hebrews 8:7); 1 future ze-te-THE-somai (Luke 12:48); (from Homer on); the LXX for da^rash, and much more often for biqe^sh; to seek.
To seek in order to find.
Universally and absolutely. (Matt. 7:7; Luke 11:9f)
tina. (Mark 1:37; Luke 2:48 [Luke 2:45 R L marginal reading], [Luke 4:42 Rec.]; John 6:24; 18:4, 7; Acts 10:19, and often)
Followed by en with the dative of place. (Acts 9:11)
With the accusative of the thing (margaRItas).
Of buyers. (Matt. 13:45)
Something lost. (Matt. 18:12; Luke 19:10)
ti en TIni, as fruit on a tree. (Luke 13:6f)
aNApausin, a place of rest. (Matt. 12:43; Luke 11:24)
After the Hebrew (...p eth-nephesh biqe^sh), psyCHE-N TInos, to seek, plot against, the life of one. (Matt. 2:20; Rom. 11:3, LXX: Ex. 4:19, etc.)
Universally, ti ze-TEIS; what dost thou seek? what dost thou wish? (John 1:38 [39]; 4:27)
To seek (i. e. in order to find out) by thinking, meditating, reasoning.
To inquire into: peRI TInos ze-TEIte met' alLE-lo-n. (John 16:19)
Followed by indirect discourse, po-s, ti, tina. (Mark 11:18; 14:1, 11; Luke 12:29; 22:2; 1 Peter 5:8)
ton theON, to follow up the traces of divine majesty and power. (Acts 17:27)
Universally, to seek the knowledge of God. (LXX: Wis. 1:1; 13:6)
To seek after, seek for, aim at, strive after.
eukaiRIan. (Matt. 26:16; Luke 22:6)
pseudomartyRIan. (Matt. 26:59; Mark 14:55)
ton THAnaton, an opportunity to die. (Rev. 9:6)
LYsin. (1 Cor. 7:27)
te-n basiLEIan tou theOU. (Matt. 6:33; Luke 12:31)
ta Ano-. (Col. 3:1)
eiRE-ne-n. (1 Pet. 3:11)
aphtharSIan etc. (Rom. 2:7)
DOxan ek TInos. (1 Thess. 2:6)
te-n DOxan te-n paRA TInos. (John 5:44)
ta TInos, the property of one. (2 Cor. 12:14)
te-n DOxan theOU, to seek to promote the glory of God. (John 7:18; 8:50)
to THEle-ma TInos, to attempt to establish. (John 5:30)
to SYMphoron TInos, to seek to further the profit or advantage of one. (1 Cor. 10:33)
Equivalent to ze-TEIN ta TInos (1 Cor. 10:24; 13:5; Philippians 2:21)
hyMAS, to seek to win your souls. (2 Cor. 12:14)
ton theON, to seek the favor of God. (Rom. 10:20; [Rom. 3:11 Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading])
Followed by an infinitive, to seek i.e. desire, endeavor. (Matt. 12:46 [WH in marginal reading only]; Mark 4:19 [L Tr marginal reading]; 12:12; Luke 5:18; 6:19; 9:9; John 5:18; 7:4; 5:19; Acts 13:8; 16:10; Romans 10:3; Galatians 1:10; 2:17)
Followed by HIna. (1 Cor. 14:12)
To seek i. e. require, demand.
se-MEIon. (Mark 8:12 L T Tr WH; Luke 11:29 T Tr WH)
soPHIan. (1 Cor. 1:22)
dokiME-N. (2 Cor. 13:3)
ti paRA TInos, to crave, demand something from someone. (Mark 8:11; Luke 11:16; 12:48)
en TIni, the dative of person, to seek in one, i.e. to require of him, followed by HIna. (1 Cor. 4:2)
Compare: anaze-TEo-, ekze-TEo-, epize-TEo-, syze-TEo-.
HELPS Word-studies:
2212 ze-TEo-.
Properly, to seek by inquiring; to investigate to reach a binding (terminal) resolution; to search, "getting to the bottom of a matter."
Word: heauTOU (1438)
Strong's: heauTOU, -e-s, -ou; heh-ow-too'; reflexive pronoun.
Of himself, herself, itself.
heauTOU, heauTE-S, heauTOU, etc. or (contracted) auTOU, auTE-S, auTOU; plural heauTO-N; dative heauTOIS, heauTAIS, heauTOIS, etc.
Reflexive pronoun of the third person. It is used:
Of the 3rd person singular and plural, to denote that the agent and the person acted on are the same; as,
SO-Zein heauTON. (Matt. 27:42, Mark 15:31; Luke 23:35)
hypsOUN heauTON. (Matt. 23:12, etc.)
heauTO-, heauTON are also often added to middle verbs: diemerISanto heauTOIS. (John 19:24)
di heauTOU, of itself, i.e. in its own nature. (Rom. 14:14)
ais heauTON ERchesthai, to come to oneself, to a better mind. (Luke 15:17)
kath' heauTON, by oneself, alone. (Acts 28:16; James 2:17)
par heauTO-, by him, i.e. at his home. (1 Cor. 16:2)
pros heauTON, to himself, i. e. to his home. (Luke 24:12; John 20:10)
With (cf. our "to") himself, i. e. in his own mind, proSEUchesthai. (Luke 18:11; 2 Macc. 11:13)
In the genitive, joined with a noun, it has the force of a possessive pronoun, as tous heauTO-N nekROUS. (Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60)
It serves as reflexive also to the 1st and 2nd person, as often in classic Greek, when no ambiguity is thereby occasioned; thus,
en heauTOIS equivalent to en he-MIN auTOIS. (Rom. 8:23)
heauTOUS equivalent to he-MAS auTOUS. (1 Corinthians 11:31)
aph' heauTOU equivalent to aPO seauTOU. (John 18:34)
heauTON equivalent to seauTON. (Romans 13:9)
heauTOIS for hyMIN auTOIS. (Matthew 23:31)
It is used frequently in the plural for the reciprocal pronoun allE-Lo-n, allE-Lois, allE-Lous, reciprocally, mutually, one another. (Matthew 16:7; Matthew 21:38; Mark 10:26; Luke 20:5; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13,16; 1 Peter 4:8,10)
HELPS Word-studies: 1438 heauTOU (reflexive pronoun of the 3rd person).
Third person reflexive (singular, plural) form which also functions as the reflexive for 1st and 2nd person (A-S).
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So I just saw movie number five in the Harry Potter saga and it was SO SO SO SO SO good!!! Definitely the best movie so far, one of the more coherently put together of the flicks, and totally enthralling. They're all so old now! Ron's huge, the twins are huger, and Neville was almost decent looking (don't think anyone saw that coming) There was an execptionally well put together preview for The Golden Compass before the movie. Too bad I can't in good conscience see it. Even if it does have Daniel Craig in it, Philip Pullman's still diabolically evil and ought to be chucked out a window. For heaven's sake, the louse said that CS Lewis was a morally corrupting influence on children, and altogether evil. He lies like a Calorman. He lies like an ape. Kudos to American kids for not being all that into his satanic series...although I'm afraid that says more about illiteracy in this country than moral qualms. Back to Harry Potter. Snape is amazing. Absolutely amazing. The way Alan Rickman delivers the most banal lines blows my mind. Things like "Obviously" or "No idea" or "I think I may vomit." You say them to yourself and it's no big deal. You hear him say them and you fall out of your chair laughing. Helena Bonahm (sp?) Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange was fantastic as well as Jason Isaacs as Lucius Malfoy. On the other hand, I expect many people watched the film version of Dumbledore in great pain, fervently regretting Richard Harris's death. As long as we're on the subject of magic and the fantastical, let's discuss the question: is it original to like (or love) The Lord of the Rings? I would say that in the sixties it was absolutely unoriginal, those books being a current fad in most college campuses. But what about now? I would venture to say that if you value your dignity and public perception of your brain power, you are being absolutely original in avowing any kind of attachment to the books, let alone (heaven forbid) having the lunacy to admit they might be your favorites works of literature. In these times, to say such (curse you, Pullman) infantile things is to consign yourself to a group of anti social, reclusive, most likely teenage, spectacle wearing and pocket protector sporting freaks who would just as soon speak Elvish as English, probably wear cloaks when they're alone (which would be most of the time) and treat the Silmarillion as Holy Writ. It's terrifying. Among the illuminati of the literary world, Tolkien is children's literature and regarded with fond condescencion. (sp???) The quaint, obsessive, perfectionist, old Englishman could spin a tale but has no right to be set among the greats. Why? Because he's too gosh darned accesible. Any person from any walk of life, at any age can enjoy his work. Teachers and writers with English doctorates are unwilling to label Tolkien as a genius because they don't have to spend hours and hours and thousands more pages explaining what it's all about. People intuitively understand that every page of The Lord of the Rings can relate directly to them, to the shabbiness and pettiness or the grandeur and glory of their lives. Tolkien wrote about "the people" for "the people". His literary labor has permeated the culture so thoroughly that the most uneducated schmuck on the street probably knows what a hobbit is. For that, the litereary elite can never forgive him. His work isn't considered original anymore. Ten thousand pathetic imitations spiralling off in all directions through the ensuing decades have seen to that. It's not exciting anymore. Ten million teenage freaks arguing over the pronunciation of Quenya versus Sindarin have seen to that. Tragic, but true. Tolkien told a story that radiated all that's good and glorious about our lives, and all that's noble and worth fighting for. He showed countless readers the pride they could take in the daily execution of the most menial duties because they were part of the overwhelmingly beautiful scope of humanity. I think in strange sort of way, The Lord of the Rings showed a great many people how and why life is worth living, and for that I will always harbor an intense admiration and affection for his work. But anyway, go see Harry Potter. It's good stuff!
From Catherine_Creagan - 13.7.07
Ben Milton said...
My parents are seeing HP as I speak...er, write. I think I'll try to get some people to see it over the weekend...
Catherine_Creagan said...
WEEEEEEEE!!!! i saw it again last night!!
Invasion!!
Eisley!
Stardust Trailer
as regards one of the previews below
Trailers!
WHERE'S THE REST OF ME!!!???
Another blankety blank day in paradise
Salmon Jerkey is good
missa simplicitatae
Eisley in Portland
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Police Show Up at Man’s Home, Demand He “Surrender” Because of Gun Tattoo
Maine resident Michael Smith works nights and sleeps days. So he was understandably upset when a tree removal crew showed up on his property at 10 a.m. and woke him up.
Smith got out of bed and went outside without his shirt on to tell the crew to get off his property and keep the noise down.
Apparently, Smith has a gun tattoo near his waistband. The tree removal crew used this information to file a false report with the cops. Not only that, they claimed Smith was waving a gun and making threats.
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Minutes after Smith had returned to bed, he was awakened by the Sheriff of Somerset and Maine State Troopers who used a bullhorn to demand that he come out and surrender himself.
When Smith came outside, the police realized they’d been duped, but stated they had to respond to the call as if a legitimate threat were being reported.
But whether Smith had a real gun or not is irrelevant because he was on his own property.
It is not illegal to have a gun or carry a gun on your own property or to ask trespassers to get off your property. Furthermore, Maine allows open carry.
Unfortunately, the tree removal crew has not yet been prosecuted for filing a false report and wasting tax dollars.
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Tag: eddie murhpy
Feds Bust Hollywood Drug Ring that Used Charter Planes
By Allan Lengel
For AOL News
Two top executives of a California entertainment company and a DJ who spun records at actor Eddie Murphy’s wedding in 2008 were among 14 people indicted Tuesday for their alleged role in a Hollywood-based drug ring that shipped hundreds of pounds of cocaine on chartered jets from Los Angeles to Baltimore.
A task force of federal and local cops worked the case in which the ring allegedly distributed the drugs in the Baltimore area and then flew suitcases of cash back to Los Angeles, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said.
Those indicted included Darrin Ebron, 43, a DJ who moves between Washington and Los Angeles, whom The Washington Times described as “‘the poor man’s Puffy’ for his fashion and entertainment businesses that endear him to stars such as Kanye West, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake.”
Ebron, who is also owner of GoodLife American Clothing, reportedly spun the records at Murphy’s wedding to Tracey Edmonds at a private island off Bora Bora two years ago. (About two weeks after the ceremony, the wedding was declared invalid.)
Others indicted included the alleged ring leader, James Brascom, 28, CEO of Behind da Scenes Entertainment, and Charles Dwight Ransom Jr., 36, of Hollywood, who is also a CEO of that company, authorities said.
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Sulin
2 Miscellaneous
Sulin is a Maiden of the Spear of the Goshien Aiel (WH, Ch. 6) who accompanied Rand across the Spine of the World into Cairhien (TFoH, Ch. 7), where she led the Maidens. Rand sent her with Perrin into Ghealdan. She is wiry with white hair (TFoH, Ch. 7), with pale blue eyes (TFoH, Ch. 20) and a scar on her face (LoC, Ch. 1).
She treats Rand like a long lost brother (LoC, Ch. 3). She considers treating him like a son to be nonsense (LoC, Ch. 18).
She initially disapproves of Cha Faile, but comes to accept them to an extent (ACoS, Ch. 4).
She is unable to understand why Seonid's Warders would offer to take her punishment and thinks this would be shaming to her (TPoD, Ch. 9).
She is chosen roofmistress of the Maidens in Rhuidean and leads the ones who cross the Dragonwall (TFoH, Ch. 20).
She physically keeps Egwene from interfering in Wise One's business with Rand (TFoH, Ch. 7).
She explains to Rand that as chief, he owns a tenth of the fifth that the Aiel were entitled to in Tear and Cairhien (TFoH, Ch. 30).
She refuses to take the Maidens away from him in the battle for Cairhien (TFoH, Ch. 43).
She holds him when he collapses after the battle (TFoH, Ch. 44).
She forces Rand to take Maidens with him when he goes to kill Rahvin (TFoH, Ch. 53).
She is one of the Maidens who goes with Rand and Taim to the farm (LoC, Ch. 2)
She advises Rand on how to regain Aviendha's affections (LoC, Ch. 4).
She uses Maiden handtalk to three gai'shain when Rand is going to Shadar Logoth (LoC, Ch. 21).
She goes with Rand to Shadar Logoth (LoC, Ch. 21).
She starts to act as a servant to make up her toh. He decides to take her on as his personal servant to ease her labours (LoC, Ch. 28).
Rand instructs her to obey Perrin and Faile as she would him (LoC, Ch. 46).
She puts on cadin'sor again when the White Tower embassy takes Rand (LoC, Ch. 53).
She is in dispute with Nandera over who leads the Maidens. They fight and she wins, but Nandera takes leadership (LoC, Ch. 54).
She leaves for Ghealdan with Perrin (ACoS, Ch. 27).
Faile leaves her behind when she goes hawking as people could be scared by a large number of Aiel (TPoD, Ch. 30).
She tells Perrin what the trackers learned about the abduction (WH, Ch. 6).
Sulin and the other Maidens scout the Shaido camp and tell Perrin they seem to be settling in (CoT, Ch. 8).
She brings a Shaido prisoner to be tortured for information (CoT, Ch. 27).
She leads a group of Maidens to kill the Shaido sentries and takes another scar to the face. It can be assumed she takes part in the later attack on the town (KoD, Ch. 29).
In the first printing of The Gathering Storm, Sulin is with Rand when he goes to kill Graendal and tells him all is clear. This is changed in the ebook to Nerilea (TGS, Ch. 37).
She leads the Maidens who scout the transplanted village in Ghealdan (ToM, Ch. 4).
Perrin sends her to check on the Whitecloaks after the trial (ToM, Ch. 40).
Sulin and Gaul choose the campsite for Perrin at the Field of Merrilor (ToM, Ch. 53).
"I am the spear. When a lover came between me and the spear, I chose the spear. Some chose the other way. Some decide they have run with the spears long enough, that they want a husband, a child. I have never wanted anything else. No chief would hesitate to send me wherever the dance is hottest. If I died there, my first-sisters would mourn me, but not a fingernail more than when our first-brother fell. A treekiller who stabbed me to the heart in my sleep would do me more honor than you do. Do you understand now?" (The Fires of Heaven, Chapter 53).
"Did you see her face? No one has set her down like that since ... since never, I think. Not even Rhuarc" (Aviendha, Lord of Chaos, Chapter 19).
"The Aes Sedai have taken my first-brother!" (Lord of Chaos, Chapter 53)
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An Introduction to Teaching Wilfred Owen
Lucy Freeland
Wilfred Owen has always been one of my favourite writers to teach, because his poetry is like a stripped nerve - alive, electric, painful, and full of power. Getting students to engage with this material can be the key to converting your classroom's most fervent poetry cynic into an advocate for the pen as mightier than the sword! It is worth bearing in mind, however, that both world wars are starting to lose their immediacy for students. Having grandparents who fought even in the Second World War already puts me in a minority in my staff room, so those in the generation below must feel the distance even more keenly. To that end, watching recitations by actors via YouTube and stressing the incredible human interest of a body of work created within fifteen hair-raising months offers one ticket to success. These are not just the poems of another faceless "dead guy" from years ago - these are the very real products of war and of humanity stretched to its absolute limit.
Whilst Owen's language speaks for itself, this poetry is dynamic and requires, in my opinion, bringing to life by fleshing out historical detail. Authentic propaganda, British Pathé footage of shell-shocked soldiers, snapshots of the trenches, handwritten letters, diary entries - it all combines to create the image of Owen as a relatable, fallible human in a situation of utter global horror. And how did he react to his hellish surroundings? Quite simply, by writing. In my experience, Owen's compulsion to return to our basic form of communication and put pen to paper is something our fast-paced, social media generation find very humbling. I like to ask them what the alternative would be today - would we tweet from the trenches? One of my students suggested Instagram would be polarised between figures of authority manipulating #gridgoals by showing valiant propaganda, and real soldiers depicting intermittently censored pictures of the horrors of war.
To that end, my resources rely heavily on visual stimuli. The outline of lessons via PowerPoint take as their background the very real scenes of suffering, hardship and sometimes even moments of unexpected humour. I foreground Owen's writing by first explaining what he was reacting against, showing jingoism to be at variance with reality. Free writing is a great starter in a module on Owen's poetry as it allows the students to put themselves in the boots of the soldiers. Working to a timer also recreates a sense of urgency, of scribbling down thoughts and feelings like wildfire in between the call of duty. Using a backing track of conflict from YouTube and dimming the lights ever so slightly creates an immersive experience - harness that imagination! The facsimile documents made available by the University of Oxford, therefore, are something I can't wait to use. Seeing work edited and scribbled on by the man himself will bring the words to life in a way no printed edition, however beautiful, would be able to manage.
"Dulce et Decorum est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" are my go-to poems. It is easy, once the groundwork has been laid, to slip in language analysis in a way that carries real meaning for students. Why has Owen chosen the oxymoron of "doomed youth"; what point is he trying to make? What is the effect of that verb "flung" in the ever-powerful "behind the wagon we flung him in"? Why not used "placed"? Why use present participles in the tricolon "he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning"? What is Owen trying to say about watching somebody die?
The old teaching adage of "a technique must always be followed by the effect it creates" is often something I find I do not have to reiterate in essays resulting from this module. Students love finding the devices Owen uses as it feels like decoding someone's most private thoughts and emotions. Indeed, it seems second nature to attribute an effect when the poetry is so emotionally charged.
Owen's poetry makes the job of an English teacher easy. This is why people write, and this is why language is powerful!
A selection of sample teaching materials to accompany this essay is also available.
Cite:An Introduction to Teaching Wilfred Owen by Lucy Freeland at http://writersinspire.org/content/introduction-teaching-wilfred-owen. Accessed on Thursday, January 23, 2020.
If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: An Introduction to Teaching Wilfred Owen at http://writersinspire.org/content/introduction-teaching-wilfred-owen by Lucy Freeland, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).
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Home News Study: Major Brands Are Victimized by Phony Traffic
Study: Major Brands Are Victimized by Phony Traffic
MADISON, WI, October 3, 2013 (ADOTAS) — MdotLabs, launched last month to help advertisers avoid being victimized by invalid traffic, today released the results of a follow-up study to its “Impression Fraud in On-line Advertising via Pay-Per-View Networks” that shows major brands well-known to most Americans are paying heavily for ad impressions that are never seen by human eyes. Among the brands are: American Express, Allstate, Maybelline, GE Capital, Disney, Comcast, Subway, LL Bean, Farmers, Starbucks, Honda, EA Sports, Priceline, Staples, Lifelock, Audi, Samsung, Avis, Choice Hotels, AT&T and another dozen or so.
“Our previous research that was presented at the USENIX Security Symposium showed just how these PPV networks operate in terms of paying publishers to run their tags and generate fake traffic – this most recent study takes the logical next step and catalogs which brands are being most victimized by these networks,” says MdotLabs CEO and co-founder Timur Yarnall (pictured). “And it’s important to note we’ve had a chance to thoroughly research a only small fraction of the PPV networks currently in operation.”
MdotLabs investigated the problem of PPV networks by posing as a web publisher and signing up for several different traffic generation services. Once these services disclosed their tags and methods, the MdotLabs team was able to locate other sites that were working with the same PPV networks. Using a variety of analysis methods on data sets collected over the past year, the MdotLabs team focused their efforts on 10 different PPV networks that span hundreds of publisher sites.
“We conservatively estimate the number of invalid impressions that are generated from these PPV networks alone to be on the order of 15 billion per month. Assuming the modest quality level for sites that are part of PPV networks, we estimate the cost to advertisers for this fraudulent traffic to be on the order of $180 million annually,” says MdotLabs Chief Scientist and co-founder Dr. Paul Barford.
“Fake display-ad impressions are estimated to account for about 30% of overall online traffic,” says Yarnall. “That puts display fraud waste at $3.6 to $4.5 billion annually in the US alone. That doesn’t include video, mobile, or the rest of the world. We believe the estimate would easily top $10 billion on a global basis.”
Brands are cheated when they pay for display ads on a CPM basis and, unknown to them, much of the traffic from those audiences is invalid or driven by bots. They are also cheated when bots instead of humans click on ads purchased on a CPC basis.
“Traffic which is not the result of genuine interest from a desired human user, including malware generated traffic, non-human (bot) traffic and fraudulent traffic generation techniques – especially from traffic exchanges – is costing online advertisers and their partners, tens of billions of dollars in wasted impressions,” says Dr. Barford, also a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin. “MdotLabs has developed campaign security analytics that provide highly accurate and timely detection of invalid impression and click activity for both online and mobile traffic. Our AdSecure Platform will assure campaign protection for brands and agencies.”
“We are already saving brands millions of dollars annually by working directly with their agencies and DSP partners to remove wasted ad spend,” says Yarnall. “We’re happy to release this research as a way to further industry efforts to remove invalid activity, and look forward to releasing additional case studies and research on an ongoing basis.”
MdotLabs, launched in late July, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM), a leading digital ad network and data services provider of revenue and technical solutions to online publishers and a trusted resource for hundreds of local broadcasters and media sites worldwide. MdotLabs’ AdSecure Platform is used by BIM to help its media clients track and eliminate invalid traffic.
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Media Release: Young Scottish designers win prestigious Jolomo Award
AN Edinburgh based fashion designer has been revealed as the winner of the 2010 Jolomo Arts & Crafts PSYBT Award.
Bespoke womenswear designer, Judith R Clark (26), was presented with a £3,000 cash prize by renowned Scottish contemporary artist, John Lowrie Morrison [Jolomo] at the awards, which are organised by The Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT).
The runners-up were Lauren Crawford (25) who lives in Fife and designs handwoven textiles, and Dundee based silversmith Genna Delaney (29).
The Jolomo PSYBT Awards were launched in March 2008 with the help of a £10,000 donation from Jolomo to inspire more young people with arts and crafts backgrounds living in North West Scotland and the Highlands and Islands to set up their own businesses.
This year, the awards and the prize money were extended to include eligible arts and crafts businesses throughout Scotland.
Judy Clark completed her internship with fashion designer, Alexander McQueen, in London in 2006 and she now runs her own successful fashion studio in Haymarket in Edinburgh, thanks to funding and advice from PSYBT.
Her bespoke designs, which have been showcased in the UK, New York and Tokyo, are made using Scottish wools and Harris Tweed, which is sent from the Hebrides by her great-uncle Donald who produces hand woven cloth on his loom in Shawbost.
As well as being inspired by her Scottish heritage, Judy’s travels also influence her designs and choice of fabrics, which include exclusive Nepali hand carved buttons, hand-dyed silks, vintage lace and other trinkets collected from foreign shores.
Last year, she was nominated designer of the year at the Scottish Style Awards 2009.
Lauren Crawford graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee in 2008 and less than a year later she was able to set up her own design business thanks to funding and advice from PSYBT.
The young designer specialises in unique fabrics and fashion accessories for all occasions including scarves, collars, wedding shawls, and garters in luxury silks and woollen fibres.
All her accessories are made by hand using a combination of traditional and innovative weaving structures and techniques to complete each signature item.
She regularly exhibits her work in galleries throughout the UK and New York, where she recently sold designs to Macy’s department store.
Ms Crawford has established a studio in Fife and is designer in residence at Duncan of Jordanstone College.
Jewellery designer and silversmith, Genna Delaney, established her business with help from PSYBT in April 2007.
Based in the Wasps artist studios in Dundee, Ms Delaney produces handcrafted award winning designs and one off pieces.
Architecture is a major influence in her work which features geometric designs and the Scottish landscape inspires some of the curves and shapes of her pendants.
In the future, she hopes to run her own retail outlets and a workshop where she can teach jewellery making techniques.
Commenting Mark Strudwick, chief executive of PSYBT, said: “Thanks to our partnership with Jolomo we are able to increase the support we provide to young people who want to turn their craft into a viable business and today’s winners are terrific examples of the commercial success that can be achieved as a result.”
Congratulating the winner and runners-up, John Lowrie Morrison said: “Scotland has an enormously talented individuals working in the arts and crafts sector and I feel very privileged to be involved in assisting young people and encouraging them to pursue their artistic career ambitions.”
For media information please contact Jen Nash, Panache Communications Tel 0141 589 0514/07971 466220/Email jen@panachecommunications.co.uk
Alternatively please contact Margaret Gibson or Emma Fitzpatrick on Tel no. 0141 248 4999 or visit the PSYBT website at www.psybt.org.uk
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Judy Clark 07933658642 /www.judyrclark.com
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REVIEW: Most Haunted - Series 1 Episode 3 (11th June 2002) Avebury Stones and The Red Lion, Wiltshire
We are back for another review of a classic Most Haunted episode. Now I know that there is some confusion regarding episode number, as some DVD releases had them in a different order, and obviously things are always filmed out of order, so I am doing my reviews purely based on air date according to Wikipedia so if it is wrong etc, don't blame me.
If you ever want to catch up on other Most Haunted reviews, just click the Most Haunted tab on the horizontal menu, and everything is there.
Also I heard from the original Most Haunted mole over Christmas and they informed me that both Yvette and Karl have been reading these classic reviews, and enjoying them immensely.
And with that said, we have a young, pretty and unsullied Yvette Fielding, and she has just opened her handbag, and as we look inside we see some kind of buzzing back massager, well I think that is what it is, anyway it has some kind of substance on it, so as I scrape it off, I can see that it is sticky blurbage, and that sticky blurbage is below!
"The Most Haunted team visits Avebury, Wiltshire. Considered by some to be one of the most paranormal places in Britain. The town sits within a prehistoric stone circle. The team investigate The Red Lion Inn, haunted by four ghosts."
I am watching the "unseen" version of this episode, which is from the DVD release.
We start off with Yvette mysteriously appearing from behind one of the 4000 year old Avebury Stones, she gives us a bit of history and is then quickly stood in front of a pub.
Her hair is a mess as you can see, but she does look quite fetching all in black.
She then tells us about some of the ghosts of the pub, and then starts to introduce us to the crew.
She then sits with Jason Karl who thank god has ditched those god awful leather gimp trousers, and is going with a straight forward jumper, black jeans combo.
Bizarrely Jason has a few ridiculous gimmicks with him, from the obligatory EMF meter (Useless) and some flour and coins which he is gonna spread about later as a way to catch ghostly foot and hand prints. Yes that is as dumb as it sounds.
A ghost can walk through walls, yet will leave footprints.
The landlord of the pub is telling us some stories, remember this is a "haunted pub" this is how it makes it's money, by selling space to idiot ghost hunters.
Here is a shot of the Landlord, known to his friends as "Dickie Bounts".
We also hear from a retired cellar-man who tells some ghost stories. Jason Karl rightly points out that the people who have seen ghosts are often people who have been drinking.
Jason Karl really was a good "para psychologist", he really did point out the more rational explanation even if sometimes his lack of knowledge of basic photographic anomolies would expose him.
Derek Acorah has arrived and we get another lovely scene of everyone sat around a big table having food.
They are talking about the location, asking questions and generally having a lovely time.
I am very much enjoying Derek's red jacket. Very fashionable back in the early 2000's
Dinner is finished and the investigation begins.
Straight away Derek is picking up on the ghosts and calls over the pub manager Dickie Bounts and tells him this ghost lady is following him around.
Derek comes up with the name Florence, which we then get confirmed with an on screen graphic.
Again I remember how people would get so involved with trying to debunk Derek, searching the internet for records to prove how he could have researched it, or his fans showing how hard it would have been to research it. It was all very intense back in the day between the skeptics and the believers. But as I said in previous reviews most of the time Derek didn't really do much work at all. He would pick up a leaflet on the location when he first came in, or his wife Gwen would and then pass to him. He could then read it in the loo. Sometimes he would just know a place because he had been there before. Derek really did just "wing it" on the day. And there was not this huge conspiracy that many people thought.
Each episode he would need to remember maybe 4 or 5 names and that is it, everything else was just educated guesswork, cold reading and so on.
And as Karl got to know Derek more, Karl would often engage Derek in conversation before filming started, and drop a few names, while talking about the location.
Back to Derek and he has now come up with the name Arthur, followed by King Edgar.
Finally Derek comes up with "Little Boy" and then utters the famous line of
"He is so excited at times, he is like a whirling dervish"
This gets a laugh out of everyone present, this really was Derek at his very best.
Derek talks what a lovely little boy this is, followed by a quick change of how he was murdered as part of a sacrifice. Well that escalated quickly.
Derek then debunks a legend of Merlin. Derek is saying that Merlin is NOT in any way buried behind some stone structure.
Just think about that, Derek is debunking a legend because spirit is telling him so.
Truly Derek is the uber skeptic!
Derek and Yvette have now entered a bedroom, and Derek starts talking about a virgin ghost. Yvette has the look on her face of "What's this virgin thing you talk of?"
I'm not saying Yvette was promiscuous in her youth, no I am NOT saying that. Nope, not gonna go there.... Unlike the local soccer team in 1985.
Derek is talking about more child sacrifices. Blimey this is all very depressing.
Jason sets up the flour experiment, while the rest of the gang go to investigate the stones during what looks like a mild hurricane.
Derek is hearing a spirit chanting, and a circle of women and men. How he can hear anything in this storm is beyond me. Derek talks about the chanting being an encouragement of the elements.
Yvette has seen a couple of ghosts! But Derek quickly debunks it as two people with hoods on. Again Skeptic Derek is on fire in this episode. Using his psychic powers for good it seems.
It is quite funny watching them struggle in the wind.
Clearly Derek knows a bit about these stones as he is talking about about various stories that are in the public domain.
Just occurred to me that this is the first ever episode of Most Haunted that does NOT feature a dog.
Back in the warm, Yvette has had her hair fixed while Derek is talking about Florence again, but also mentioning a Well. Saying she is in the Well because she was killed, thrown in the Well by 3 men.
Yvette has been "voted" to stay in the very haunted private room all by herself, before she goes in, Derek primes her with some spiritual type advice. Very similar to how if you tell someone NOT to think of a pink elephant, that is exactly what they will think about, just like you are now, as you are reading this. So Derek is telling her how to cope if ghosts touch her or sit on her etc.
We also get the first use of the "Blair Witch" shot, which then becomes a staple of Most Haunted going forward for the next 15 years. And makes the whole idea of using a video camera on a ghost investigation completely pointless.
As expected Yvette is feeling tickling on her head and other sensations.
She is putting all her professional acting lessons to good use here, as she manages to force a tear from her eye. Didn't you know she is a professionally trained actress?
She gets up, panics a bit and leaves.
We are with Jason now and he is alone in a room. He is talking about failing to be scared again, which is blatantly setting up something that is coming up.
"Come on orbs, let's have an orb go past my face" - Jason Karl
Jason is orb hunting, and getting a few out of focus particles appear close to the lens, but bizarrely thinks they are some kind of spirit manifestation. I am sure that looking back he will feel very embarrassed when listening to himself talk about orbs as if he is some kind of photographic expert.
Back in the day you didn't have Stuart throwing things, or Karl dropping items OFF CAMERA, so you had to rely on orbs as you main source of ghostly activity.
Jason panics and leaves the room.
In a voice over Yvette tells us that after Jason left the room, Karl went in to retrieve a camera and received two scratches to his neck.
Notice how they are in the exact position that a scratch would be if you reached over your own head and scratched yourself. Only episode 3 and Karl is faking stuff like this, I can only think he did it because he knew the episode was really lacking anything physical on the ghost hunting front, a few orbs, and Derek repeating well known stories about a place, does not really make it haunted, but with a nice little scratch, they can now claim physical evidence.
Remember back in 2002 people trusted Karl, he was the producer as opposed to just Yvette's Husband, most people didn't even know he was married to her. This whole show was a launchpad for Yvette, so Karl really would do anything to get attention for the show, even if it meant scratching himself on the neck.
They decide to all go back to the room to investigate the ghost that scratched Karl.
"Come on your son of a gun, show yourself" - Derek Acorah
Clearly they didn't like to swear in those days.
Derek is taunting the ghost to scratch him, nothing happens.
I get the impression here that Derek blatantly does not believe what Karl has said happened to him, and probably thinks that Karl is trying to steal his thunder.
There is a sound of a coin or something dropping to the floor OFF CAMERA, they look around but cant see anything, as they film around you notice that Dickie Bounts the landlord is there. Hmmm.
We then get one last orb.
And Yvette tells us they cant explain it. The flour experiment from earlier had no results, and with that the investigation is over, we now enter the summary interviews.
Look at that happy crew, compared to 2017 that is a huge difference.
I give this episode a fair 5/10.
We did get the legendary Whirling Dervish line, but that really was the only highlight.
No dog, no ghost monkeys. Just orbs and Karl scratching himself.
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REVIEW: Most Haunted - Series 1 Episode 2 (4th June 2002) Chillingham Castle, Northumberland
Usually I hate reviewing Most Haunted, I dread the thought of having to sit down and waste a couple of hours of my life watching the episode, taking screen grabs, repeating the words (that I invented) "OFF CAMERA" seemingly endless times, and that is why I never bothered to go back and review the Series 20 episodes that aired night after night around Halloween time. But after watching the first ever episode of Most Haunted a few days ago, it peaked my interest once again. And after checking and being impressed by how many people read that review, I find myself with sodall else to do, so why not review episode 2 and keep the momentum going.
Most Haunted truly was so much better with Derek Acorah on the show, and because it was all so long ago, I know that I will be surprised to see the ridiculous things he gets up to. So with that said, I went and started digging in Yvette Fielding's lady garden, and deep beneath the thick bramble bushes, I found some blurb, dry, flaky blurb, but it was still readable, so here is the blurb for episode 2 of Most Haunted.
"Most Haunted travels to Northumberland to reputedly the most haunted castle in England. Will they make contact with the famed Blue Boy? Derek contacts a former resident, a hissing noise frightens the crew and a box moves by itself."
Yvette is all in black again and with leather trousers on, very sexy, although this is the start of her ridiculous hair cuts that seem to change every week. I prefer her hair last week.
Seeing how Yvette was the "hotty" of the early series, it then makes it easier to understand why in later series the likes of Mel Crump would get chased off the show.
Yvette then introduces us to the crew, a mixture of family members and close friends.
NO! NO Jason Karl, it is NOT ever acceptable for a man to weather leather trousers. It is ok for Yvette, in 2002 she had smooth shaven legs, the trousers hug her figure, they improve her look. But for a man, you look ridiculous. You look like you should be in the Blue Oyster Bar. So I am docking you 15 internet points for this HUGE fashion faux par.
Yvette announces that there is one last member of the team to join them.
"A man who can talk to the dead"
Wow that sounds impressive, we then get introduced to Derek Acorah, and again reminded that he does not know where he is investigating that evening.
Yvette goes on a tour with some old posh geezer who is something to do with the Castle, sorry I didn't catch his title as I was fascinated by a dog that appears on the screen.
So in just two episodes we have now seen two dogs, this dog is called Billy.
Chillingham Castle really is a beautiful location, and they also have some appartments that they rent out, and of course they are "haunted rooms", so we need to be aware that as is nearly always the case with these locations, they rely on tourism, so they NEED the place to be recognised as "Haunted"
Derek Acorah arrives and gives Yvette a HUGE hug! You wouldn't get that today.
As Derek is looking around, Rick Fielding suddenly starts feeling faint. Now if you recall he had a funny turn in episode 1 as well, so we are already seeing a pattern develop here. So Rick is clearly putting this on as part of the show, now whether he is directed to do this by Karl or he is just doing this off his own back I don't know. But it does go to show that they were faking incidents right from the start.
Derek comforts Rick and all is fine after Derek asks the ghost to step away as she is affecting Rick.
Jason Karl has his usual incredulous look. Where as in 2017 Glen constantly looks smug, Jason Karl is unable to hide his real thoughts. Good for you Jason, even with your stupid leather trousers on.
Derek comes up with the name "Mary", Yvette asks Jason if he can confirm the name. Which he does. It is funny how serious they take this, as if Derek really is talking to some dead spirit.
Derek really is quite a good actor, well if the character he is playing is that of a crazy psychic who is convinced they can talk to the dead.
Ironically, in the business if you break character it is known as "corpsing", that being when you laugh when you are not supposed to etc, yet Derek never breaks character. Well not when he knows he is being filmed anyway, I remind you of the "Mary loves Dick" scene from a Most Haunted Live to see one of the very few examples of Derek "corpsing" when he assumes the camera feed has cut.
Remember last episode when we had everyone sat around the fire chatting, sharing ghost stories and then Derek got possessed by a monkey? Well this episode everyone is sat around a nice big table eating, and laughing.
People laughing, enjoying the experience, Derek sat next to his wife Gwen (a real life close personal friend of mine by the way). Now everyone hates each other.
As expected Yvette sees something walk past the window outside, and then Jason goes to investigate after they put the green filter on.
They find nothing, so the show then moves on.
We are told again that no one has told Derek about anything to do with Chillingham Castle. Suddenly there is a hissing noise that could be anyone, Yvette panics and everyone runs out of the hallway.
The make up lady Marcella is absolutely petrified and doesn't want to continue.
You would think that being one half of the Wild Samoans the WWE Hall of Fame Tag Team, that she wouldn't be so scared of a few ghosts.
Things have calmed down and Derek is talking to Lady Mary Berkley.
Some great acting by Derek here. Not great "possessed monkey" great, but still decent.
Look at the evil in Derek's eyes! Maybe the monkey has returned?
Derek has started to get confused and disorientated, guessing he had a few whiskeys before he started and they have started to kick in.
He also claims to be seeing "pink", he then says he is drawn to the pink!! Aren't we all Derek, Aren't we all.....
Derek then gets possessed, and it is hilarious, I had forgot how he would just be mid sentence and then get possessed. After about 15 seconds, Sam helps him regain his composure. (But not his dignity, the ghost monkey still has that)
Derek is telling stories, and Jason Karl is either confirming or denying them. Nothing of actual importance here sadly, as the episode hits a dull spot.
With Derek not playing, we cut to Karl who has gone off to "investigate" on his own.
There is then a noise OFF CAMERA, which kinda sounds like Karl dropping something. We then see a basket that is right next to where Karl's left hand would be move a couple of inches, Karl panics and runs out of the room. Again people claim the show was honest in the first season, but knowing what you know now, especially about Karl and how he has been caught cheating so many times, it becomes very obvious he is behind this. He knows exactly what is being filmed, he is the only person present, so makes sense he just nudges something and then reacts.
Back to Derek and he is talking about some ghost he been chatting to, Derek informs us that he has a 4 poster bed at home (lucky Gwen), and that the ghost is showing him a 4 poster bed.
Here is a photo of Derek Acorah in bed with Karthik, the monobrow star of The Apprentice.
Yvette is feeling a strong cold draft. Jason Karl has a laser thermometer thingy, and he states that the temperature is normal and has not changed. Yvette tells him to stand where she is, he does and he feels nothing.
Look at the state of Karl here.
Yvette in voice over talks about how some of their still photos when analysed showed a lot of orbs, she then said that "Independent Vision Engineers" had confirmed that this was NOT caused by dust or reflected light. Yes she has really claimed that.
I am curious as to who these "Independent Vision Engineers" actually were? Since clearly the orbs are in fact a mixture of dust, air particles and moisture that are too close to the camera and out of the focal range of the lens. Guess that makes me an "Expert Independent Vision Engineer".
With bold claims like this by Yvette, which are downright lies, you can understand why we ended up with an entire generation of idiotic ghost hunters claiming orbs were paranormal. If you have ever published a photo of an orb and claimed it was something paranormal, then hold your head in shame, now and forever.
Yvette takes Derek to the dungeon. Something that in 2017 I know that Glen dreams of, being taken to Yvette's dungeon, tied up, and whipped while wearing his favourite gimp suit and a ball gag in his mouth. One day the photos will leak I am sure.
Nothing happens in the dungeon and we move onto the end of episode summary clips.
Again Jason Karl pours scorn on everything that happened, and Derek claims everything was paranormal, so a nice difference between beliefs and personalities there.
A final shot of the crew sat on some steps, and we are done.
I give this episode a decent 6/10.
Not as good as episode 1, but then hard to beat a ghost monkey possessing Derek Acorah.
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REVIEW: Most Haunted - Series 1 Episode 1 (25th May 2002) Athelhampton Hall, Dorchester
I asked before on social media if people would be interested in me reviewing Most Haunted from the very beginning. And overwhelmingly people said yes. So I managed to grab the episode from Youtube and my review is below.
Depending on how engaged people are with this review will depend on if I continue on. Hopefully my expertise and knowledge on Most Haunted will let me give you previously unknown insights on the show as I look back.
Lets start with how Most Haunted was conceived.
BBC1 Halloween night, 1992, a new type of TV show was born, never before seen, that show was called Ghostwatch. It was a show filmed like a documentary, but it was a spoof, there was a warning before the show explaining that, much like how today we get "For Entertainment Purposes only", the show was clearly advertised as a spoof. Unfortunately many people quickly forgot about that, and after the show aired there was reports of people with PTSD, and sadly Martin Denham, an eighteen-year-old factory worker with learning difficulties, committed suicide five days after Ghostwatch aired.
Ghostwatch had become the most complained about show of all time, and was immediately banned. Terrestrial TV channels would take decades before aired any similar shows, no one dared even touch the subject in such a manner, but Living TV a satellite channel in 2002 finally agreed to give Most Haunted, a show that was basically a remake of Ghostwatch a chance, but aired with very strict disclaimers admitting it was just entertainment. Whereas Ghostwatch was written and scripted and then acted by professionals, Most Haunted was purely a vehicle for Yvette Fielding to relaunch her career and hopefully get her back on mainstream TV. Sadly as you know now Yvette quickly because typecast and has never broken away from the show or the genre. Her career never really getting back on track, and from being viewed by 10 million people on Blue Peter, she is still stuck on Most Haunted which rarely gets more than 300,000 viewers. And the odd appearance on reality TV shows with other Z List celebs.
So now you know the origins of the show, let us begin.
Back in 2002 Karl Beattie still had his original hair colour, his blurb was thick and strong, and luckily I managed to find the remnants of such blurbage and you can read that below.
"The Most Haunted crew travel Great Britain in a search into the paranormal. Experience the tears, laughter and fear of the Most Haunted team as the stay overnight at Haunted locations. Setting experiments and using some of the most up-to-date equipment Most Haunted captures some of the best paranormal activity ever seen."
As the show opens up, Yvette Fielding looks straight at the camera and says
"We guarantee no tricks, no camera illusions, and no practical jokes"
Many people often look back at the first series as a genuine investigation, but what they don't know is that the show was always "faked", just not to the obvious level it is today. She claimed no tricks, we see tricks every episode now, with items pulled by fishing wire or Karl being pulled up steps by a rope wrapped around his waste, no camera illusions, well we all remember the video overlay effect of ghost Stuart walking up stairs, or camera edits before beds are tipped upside down, and as for no practical jokes, well usually a practical joke is exposed as such right after, that is the joke bit, so I can give that to them, they don't do practical jokes do they.
Also worth noting that Yvette must be early to mid 30s here, and is looking quite hot. Leather skirt, hair typed up.
Hilariously Yvette says "If we find nothing, you will see nothing", if that was true, the show would have tanked after 2 or 3 episodes and forever cancelled.
Blimey as the titles roll, they have not changed the music in 15 years!
Also the production value was so much higher back then, who would have thought that 15 years later they would be making episodes on a shoe string budget.
We then get introduced to the "Parapsychologist" Jason Karl, now it is worth saying that back in 2002 no one was really familiar with this title, it sounds "sciency" so automatically makes you think that Jason Karl must be some kind of scientist who has decided to move into this field. In fact Jason Karl was just a jobbing ghost hunter employed to play the part of a parapsychologist, and his claim to fame at this point was an appearance on kids TV show Knightmare under his real name Julian Smith. (Source IMDB). Amazingly despite his lack of real knowledge or experience, I do remember him as being one of the best skeptics they ever had on the show, and he quickly became popular. (Which was also the reason he was eventually let go, remember the show is a launching pad for Yvette)
Jason introduces us to the EMF meter, and sadly this is the start of thousands of idiot ghost hunters buying these useless machines to wave about just because they have seen it used on TV.
Quite a few shots of Yvette sat on chairs with her legs crossed. The filming was so much better back in 2002, more atmospheric shots and really playing up to Yvette.
Derek Acorah has arrived, we are continually told he doesn't know the location, he didn't know he was coming here before hand and so on. It is funny looking back now how much they wanted to insist that Derek had no prior knowledge. Lots of stories would go around of his wife Gwen hidden away on a laptop looking up info that she would then pass to Derek. All very funny.
The crew are sat around the fire and discussing ghosts, this is great. Fantastic idea. Now I am watching the "unseen" version of this episode, so not sure what made the original airing or not.
Long before Watson was even born, we had this little fella, he is looking at something, and before you know it Derek proclaims that he is looking at an ape, a monkey, yes Derek Acorah is claiming that there is a ghost monkey present. And that the dog is looking at the ghost monkey.
Now surely if there was a ghost monkey there the dog would be barking or even run at the monkey.
Jason and Derek start bickering a bit about what the dog is seeing. All very bizarre.
Derek then gets possessed by the Monkey, I am not even joking.
Quick reminder of what Yvette said earlier.
After a break we are back, and Derek has been taken over by a spirit called Martin, I had forgotten how great Derek's possessions were. TV gold.
While all of this is going on Jason Karl is looking incredulous as he writes things down on his notepad.
It is interesting to see how much of the show was about Derek, and how he would become such a star through Most Haunted.
These 3 are pretty much all you see on screen from the crew, no Karl, no crew members with cameras pointed at themselves. So refreshing.
They hear a noise and a rocking cot is slightly moving. Derek says it must be one of the ghost women present.
20 minutes in an they are finally turning the lights off, they do this because stupid Jason Karl said that they are more likely to get paranormal activity in the dark. The irony being that historically the vast majority of ghost sightings are reported in the light.
Rick Fielding is Yvette's brother, and strangely he only worked on Most Haunted for a couple of years, he has since worked in America on a few TV shows as a cameraman. I do not know why he left, or anything more about him, but in his brief appearance in episode one, it is clear he is a big wuss and scared of everything, so you would think he would fit right in.
If anyone knows any more about him please let us know in the comments. Just curious.
As he is scared to go near a door, Derek and Jason investigate. Derek sees a spirit near a door, Jason does not pick up anything on his EMF meter. Derek is now talking to his spirit guide Sam, suddenly Derek has a name.
"de Lafontaine"
We get some info on screen that matches the name. This is an incredible piece of psychic evidence from Derek, such an unusual name, it could only possible come from the spirit world, there is no other possible explanation.
Just for fun here are a couple of non paranormal explanations.
1. The name is written on a plaque on a wall, in the gardens and so on.
2. In literature for the Hall this name could be written, maybe on leaflets near the entrance.
The point is that even back in 2002 there were many ways to get such information. You would not need to do massive amounts of research, such keep your eyes open as you walk around. And if in a big location like this, if you had been before, you would most likely remember such information, especially if it is part of your job.
So you have to ask yourself what is more likely, did Derek pluck the name out of the spirit realm, breaking the laws of physics, or did he just read it on a sign as he came in the building?
We get our first shot of Karl, full head of hair, and you can even see his jaw line.
You can also see how many people are present.
Derek has his eyes closed and comes up with another name.
"Ralph Bankes likes this room"
Hmmm another owner and likely person mentioned in any literature or signs around the location for visitors to see.
Another name given, incredibly specific here. Yet when you see Derek live he seems to be so vague.
Belief in Derek comes down to one thing, trust, the only way you can believe him, is if you trust that he is telling the truth, because clearly it would be very easy for him to cheat.
I can understand why Jason Karl became so popular on this show, his looks of pure incredulity towards Derek are brilliant.
We now start to understand why Derek was possessed by a Monkey earlier as we are told about the legend of Martin's Ape.
By the way for anyone wondering, yes from episode 1 they used green filters to fake night vision.
We now get a first shot of Stuart, full head of hair! He mumbles a bit about things and they quickly move on.
Jason Karl is up close and personal with Yvette, a position that Glen dreams of.
There is a lot of talk of a secret passage that a monkey would go down. They go into the passage.
Karl feels a breath on his ear, so must be a ghost.
Yvette has moved that rocking cot from earlier to a new position. Jason Karl is now asking the ghosts to give them a "flashing orb" this is the first mention of an orb in the show, so we now know we can blame Jason Karl for starting a generation of idiots who think that orbs are spirits and not just bits of out of focus fluff or insects.
The monkey ghost is breathing in Karl's ear.
Despite him sat by some stairs in an old house that is full of drafts.
As Yvette and Jason look at the cot, there are some digital artifacts that appear on the footage, remember this is 15 year old technology, but they are calling them orbs. This is easily debunked by anyone even vaguely familiar with digital photography.
The investigation ends, and we now get the summary interviews as various cast members talk about the show and what has happened.
I genuinely had forgotten how incredibly entertaining Derek Acorah was, and how he truly was the star of Most Haunted from the very first episode. It is sad to see the show today and how far they have fallen, and how it is the same old rubbish every week.
As much as I disliked Derek back at the time of this show first airing, I can better understand now that he was just playing a part, doing what he was employed to do, and he was making the most of his TV time to make a name for himself.
Of course now it seems ridiculous to even try to use facts to debunk Derek, back in the day we would spend ages looking things up as a way to prove he had researched things, and desperately tried to catch him out. Now I can watch these old episodes and just enjoy how ridiculous it all was.
Episode 1 and Derek got possessed by a ghost monkey, how did anyone ever think that was real?
For a first episode, I have to give this a really decent score, I was entertained, I never got bored, even Yvette was fun to watch as she wasn't screaming, or running around like an idiot, or having blatantly staged arguments with Karl, it was just her being herself, and she came across quite genuine.
If you take Derek out of the equation, nothing really happened, there was a cot that started rocking OFF CAMERA (I had to throw at least one of them in), and a few digital artifacts on some camera footage that they claimed were orbs, and other than the Ghost Monkey breathing in Karl's ear, nothing really happened.
And Yvette looked rather hot in her leather skirt and knee high boots.
Derek was the star by a mile, or should that be the Ghost Monkey?
I give this episode a strong 7/10.
Light years ahead of what they produce 15 years later.
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When a match is in play members and their guests are not permitted to pass behind the court until the point has been completed.
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The grass court season will be from early May to Late September. The availability and opening times of the grass courts is at the discretion of the ground staff. Please refer to Tennis Section notice board for updates and variations.
8. Special Notes
(a) Courts 11 and 12 may be used for Kent League club matches
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A number of scholarships may be awarded by the Tennis Committee to juniors, students or others and will have all senior playing rights. Some of these scholarships may be at a reduced senior subscription rate approved by the Tennis Committee.
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3. During the Grass Court season Group Coaching authorised by the Committee has priority on Courts 8-10 as follows:
Saturdays 09:00 – 11:00 and 16:00 – 18:00
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4. Coaches authorised by the Committee may coach on Courts 1-10 without priority (i.e. the coach must vacate if all available courts are in use and members are waiting).
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2. Members participating in Club Evenings and Club Afternoons shall join in organised doubles and play one short set* with a tie break at 4 games all. *Since October 2014.
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2. Bookings may be made up to one week in advance; no booking fee is required.
3. Inter-club matches have priority on courts 1-6 and 8-10, as required.
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1. Grass Courts 13-16 may be booked by full tennis members for the single session 11:00 – 12:30 on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
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3. Inter Club matches have priority on courts 1-10 as required. Junior inter club matches have priority on courts 5 and 6.
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4. Members are requested not to book more than one peak time session per week (19:00 – 22:00 Monday to Thursday) unless a session is vacant three days after bookings commence.
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Ripon b&b, guesthouse and hotel accommodation
Ripon in North Yorkshire
Visit Ripon and the surrounding villages and stay in bed & breakfast accommodation:
Ripon, West Riding, is a small market town with a great cathedral and a Horn-blower in three-corner hat who nightly sounds a horn at the market cross and in front of the Mayor's house, carrying out a tradition said to be 1,000 years old.
An Anglo-Saxon church destroyed in 950 stood where the relatively small but impressive cathedral now stands. Building took place mainly in the 12th and 13th centuries but important changes were made in later centuries, including a 19th-century restoration. The oldest part, and one of the oldest Christian shrines in England, is the crypt, all that remains of the original Church of St Wilfrid and very like the crypt from his church of the same period at Hexham. It lies below the central tower. The west front is exceptionally beautiful Early English work. Among notable furnishings are a late l5th-century screen and misencords of the same period by the local carvers' guild, among them delightful versions of Samson, Jonah, a pelican, fox and geese, pigs, an owl and an angel.
The heart of the town is the rectangular market place with its dominating 90-ft obelisk raised in 1781 to William Aislabie of Studley Royal, the M.P. for 60 years. The Town Hall, designed by James Wyatt in 1801, faces the square, and the medieval Wakeman's House is near one corner. The house was built in the 13th century and the Wakeman, or night watchman, lived there. If householders who had paid for his services were robbed, the Wakeman paid the loss. Under a 1604 charter, Wakemen were replaced by mayors. Hugh Ripley was last Wakeman and first Mayor.
Ripon was a clothmaking centre in the Middle Ages, but by the 16th century the trade was moving to towns in the West of Yorkshire. This also was a lacemaking centre, the only one in the county. Probably the craft was started by refugee monks or nuns. By 1862, only one lacemaker was left. Ripon was also famous for its spurs.
The city motto is inscribed on the Town Hall in glittering letters: “Except ye Lord keep ye cittie, ye Wakeman waketh in vain.”
Nearby towns: Bedale, Harrogate, Knaresborough, Masham, Pateley Bridge, Thirsk
Nearby villages: Azerley, Baldersby, Birstwith, Bishop Monkton, Boroughbridge, Burton Leonard, Copgrove, Copt Hewick, Cundall, Darley, Dishforth, Fearby, Ferrensby, Grantley, Grewelthorpe, Ingerthorpe, Kirkby Malzeard, Kirklington, Melmerby, Mickley, Nidd, Ripley, Roecliffe, Sinderby, Stainley, Studley Roger, Summer Bridge, Topcliffe, Winksley
Have you decided to visit Ripon or the surrounding villages? Please look above for somewhere to stay in:
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Babachir Lawal: 5 Sins That Got Buhari's SGF Suspended
Nigerian Senate, had in December called for the resignation and prosecution of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, David Babachir Lawal over infractions involving public procurement, particularly, contract awards by the Presidential Initiative on North East, PINE.
It followed the Interim Report of the Senate’s Ad-Hoc Committee on Mounting Humanitarian Crisis in NorthEast headed by Senator Shehu Sani.
The Senate indicted the SGF of sharp practices in expending the funds meant for alleviating the sufferings of the displaced in North East as well as other sharp practices.
According to the report, Lawal allegedly owns one of the companies awarded contracts in the rehabilitation of the North-East. It said Lawal resigned from the directorship of the company in September 2016 but was still a signatory to the company’s account.
The indictment, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir David Lawal has denied. He had said reports linking him to alleged “N1.3 billion Contracts” and “contracts awarded to 20 ghost firms” were untrue but failed to appear before the Nigerian Senate til date.
Here are reasons why President Muhammadu Buhari approved Babachir Lawal's suspension:
1. Global Vision Ltd., owned by Buhari’s SGF, Babachir Lawal was indicted by the Senate for allegedly benefiting from inflated and phantom contracts – or ones not executed at all – awarded by the Presidential Initiative for the North East, PINE.
2. Global Vision Ltd., owned by Buhari’s SGF, Babachir Lawal allegedly got over N200 million contract to clear GRASS in Yobe State IDP camp.
3. Global Vision Ltd. was incorporated in 1990 to carry out ICT services; but it allegedly contract to clear grass in 2016.
4. As at March 2016 that the contract was awarded to Global Vision Ltd, Babachir Lawal 'was still the director of the company. He only resigned in September 2016'.
5. According to the Senate report, Babachir Lawal is still the signatory to the account of Global Vision Ltd.
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Nets Ready Deep Run
Vince Carter at shooting guard is playing as good as he has at any point in his career. He is currently ranked 12th in scoring, shooting .433 percent from the field and is tenth in point-per- 48 minutes at 31.1 a game along with six rebounds. Carter’s transition to the Nets has been a smooth one since coming from the vitriolic situation he faced in Toronto.
This year may very well be a special one for the New Jersey Nets. Not because they clinched their fourth Atlantic Division title in five years with a 96-94 victory over the Atlanta Hawks, but because this team has the ability to make a loud noise during the upcoming playoffs.
The Nets are clicking on all cylinders and peeking at the right time. For the last month, or so, they have been the hottest team in the NBA. This month they matched a team milestone of 14 straight wins, before seeing it end on a brilliant fourth-quarter performance by Cleveland’s LeBron James last Friday.
In the Eastern Conference, the Nets are a solid three-seed behind the Detroit Pistons and the Miami Heat. Catching the second-seed Heat maybe out of reach, but that doesn’t matter much giving the Nets’ strong play at present. In fact, I think teams in the East should be very wary of meeting the Nets in the playoffs.
The chemistry of the team seems to be growing game by game and they have a rock-solid core behind Jason Kidd, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson. Jason Kidd is the league leader in triple-doubles recorded a historic 74 triple-double on April 6th adding another one against Milwaukee three nights later. Night in and out, the 14-year veteran pushes and directs the team with his leadership skills. In the NBA, he is fifth and seventh in assists and steals per game respectively dishing out 8.5 assists a game and adding 1.8 steals. And in the all important department of assists-to-turnover ration he is ranked fourth. The Nets’ floor general is on the NBA’s top ten in at least eight statistical categories.
Kidd and Carter are superstars and Richard Jefferson is right on the heels of becoming one. Jefferson has shown steady improvement and is himself a highlight reel. He is ranked 24th in scoring (19.9) shooting .498 from the field with seven boards a game.
Forward Nenad Kystic’s play is also an important factor in the Nets recent successes. Kystic is averaging 13.3 points with 6.3 rebounds. In a March 17th game against the Lakers for instance he was outstanding scoring 26 points, including the game winner. The Nets will need him to maintain a high level of play as they push into the playoffs.
So, just how will the Nets do in the playoffs? Well, it’s not hard seeing them in the Eastern Conference Finals again. In fact, I think that the Nets can beat number two-seed Miami. Yes, you heard me right. The reason I say this, isn’t just based on the Nets winning this year’s head-to-head series against the Heat. First of all, the Nets match up well against them. The Heat have only one clear cut advantage against the Nets, and that is at the center position with Shaq. But Shaq has lost a step or two and the need for doubling him incessantly is not what it once was. Yes, you still have to reserve extra fouls when you play him, but the Nets can overcome that.
Now what about Dwayne Wade? Well, Wade is no doubt a young superstar. He is a determined and relentless player. But I think that he can be neutralized by Carter and Jefferson. I would expect that both of them would take turns guarding him. Also, there is the injury factor. For example, there is the injury to Alonzo Mourning. Mourning who had been getting more minutes due to an earlier injury to Shaq was playing superbly before he went down with a calf injury. If Mourning isn’t able to play, or if, he can’t play at the level he was before the injury, it will seriously hurt Miami since he is the primary backup for Shaq. And to make matters worse, Shaq is also nursing an injury and it is unclear just how much he will be affected by it.
Moreover, unlike the Nets, Miami’s chemistry doesn’t seem to be very strong. I think that some of Miami’s changes have hurt them, such as, the trading of 3-point specialist Damon Jones to Cleveland. Consequently, their game from behind the arc is much weaker than it was a year ago.
The one thing for the Nets that is imperative is that their “bigs� must play big. Besides Kystic, center Jason Collins must play solid defense and stay out of foul trouble. If they can do that, Nets fans are in for a real treat this year.
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Review – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Uncharted 2 was everything I was expecting and more !
Like the first game, you are taken on a roller-coaster ride (not literally) in this action packed adventure, ranging from running across moving trains, to hanging for your life from a cliff face.
As with the first, the story telling is amazing, and you feel like your living through an Indiana Jones film. The voice acting and character acting to totally believable, and would be a game I’d be happy to sit back and what somebody play. The story was written in a way that you didn’t know if you were coming or going, who were your friends, and who where you enemies…totally amazing.
The story continues shortly after the first one finishes. Again you play Nate Drake, and are joined by Sully, Elena and other key members, eg Chloe Frazer, (voiced by Claudia Black) to run through the adventure with you.
The sound again can be switched to 7.1 PCM which really adds to the atmosphere created by the stunning visuals. As with the first I found myself standing looking at the scenery for minutes at a time.
The game took me 13 hours to complete on normal, and only had a handful of “Doh ! I’m stuck” moments. The combat was fairly balances, as were the puzzles.
As I write this, I’ve not tried the multiplayer, however even without this, I still feel I have value for money, and would have happily paid double for this game, if it was possible to give a game 6 out of 5, I would, it was that good.
If you have a PS3, and don’t have Uncharted 1 or Uncharted 2, buy them now, your PS3 deserves it.
Approx Time taken to beat – 13hours
Difficulty setting – Normal
Score – [Rating:5/5]
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Tags: Chloe, Cliff Face, Doh, Drake, Elena, Enemies, First Game, Frazer, Handful, Indiana Jones, Nate, Pcm, PS3, Puzzles, Roller Coaster Ride, Scenery, Story Telling, Stunning Visuals, Sully, Thieves
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The Last Guy by Ilsa Madden-Mills & Tia Louise
The first rule of office romance is don’t do it—especially if your dream is to hold the anchor spot on the nightly news and your boss is trying to get you fired.
But one look at Cade Hill, the sexy new sports director, and uptight reporter Rebecca Fieldstone is daydreaming about other things.
Sex in his office…
Sex in the on-set kitchen…
Sex in the supply closet…
She can’t stop thinking about the former NFL quarterback and how perfect he’d look between her sheets—except he’s an arrogant jerk with a huge...ego.
He’s the last guy she’d ever have a one-night stand with.
Cade Hill draws a professional line on office romance—until it comes to the hyper-focused Rebecca. He wants her, and he gets his wish when a chance encounter has them having the hottest sex of their lives.
It’s just a hook-up, she says.
When can we do it again? he says.
With Rebecca determined to keep Cade in the friend zone, it’s going to be an uphill battle for Cade to convince her that he’s the last guy for her…
THE LAST GUY is the first white-hot CONTEMPORARY ROMANTIC COMEDY from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills and Tia Louise, coming June 12, 2017!
It features Fireball-fueled hookups, Doritos Locos Tacos, attack monkeys, toddlers in tiaras, and one fabulous drag queen.
Prepare for frantic clicking and smoking-hot sexytimes all the way to the out-of-this-world happily-ever-after.
4 Star Review by Ashley
When I saw that Tia Louise and Ilsa Madden-Mills were teaming up, I didn't care if it was a book about how to tie your shoes, I knew I had to read it. I absolutely devoured The Last Guy. I could pick up each writer's style but it was truly seamless from start to finish.
I absolutely adored Rebecca. She was fearless, quirky and full of determination. She loved her friends and her job and was chasing her dream. Throw a handsy primate and some glittery toddlers in the mix and all her hopes came spiraling down. It was one hilarious "can this really be happening"? moment after another. And when the sexy new sports guy gets roped into the drama that is unfolding, all bets are off. Because Cade admires Rebecca, he respects her and he wants in her skirt.
Things between these two were combustible. SO HOT! Their connection was more than skin deep and I loved seeing them open up to each other about their hopes and fears and life. I liked seeing them relax and just be. But when things get messy at work, Rebecca takes a much needed stand. I mentally high-fived her but also wanted to hug her because the choice she made wasn't easy. And when the rest of the pieces fell into place...can you say scandalous?
This quasi enemies to lovers, office romance was unputdownable. I flew through The Last Guy. Rebecca and Cade's story was charming and hysterical. It didn't hurt that they each had a fantastic side kick that brought the sass. Ilsa Madden-Mills and Tia Louise teaming up was a rom-com dream come true and all of my fingers, and toes, are crossed to see more from them soon!
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Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills and the “Queen of Hot Romance” Tia Louise are not a secret duo, but simply themselves.
Great friends, former English teachers, and southern gals in real life, they’ve teamed up to bring you laugh-out-loud naughty romances with strong leading ladies and sexy alpha males who know how to please their women—and who sometimes you just want to slap.
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If you haven't heard about the catastrophic fire that destroyed the clubhouse on 20th August, read this report in the Shropshire Star.
All members should be getting a letter from the secretary asking them to watch the local press for information about forthcoming meetings and functions.
Bylet failed in their bid to win the Harris Cup when they narrowly lost a closely fought final against St Georges.
Bylet A clinched the Highley League 1st Division with an 8-2 home victory over Abbey. Captain Scott Harries claimed the point which assured them of the title.
Dave Elliott won the Mens Challenge Cup and Georgina Marsh the Hickman Cup.
The Bylet Charity competition at Donnington Wood has been won by Chris (Pellet) Worthington who beat Simon Rhodes 21-15 in the final. The consolation trophy was an all Bylet affair, won by Roger (Cluster) Jones who beat Kev (Slice) Brazier 21-13. The competition raised a fantastic £1155 for the rebuilding fund.
Bylet A reached the final of the Highley League knockout with a convincing 62 shot victory (42 with the handicap) over Cleobury at Bridgnorth.
Terry Field has been observed 'tucking into' a considerable quantity of bread & cheese in the legion. When asked if it was likely to cause him to have nightmares, one of his mates replied 'only if he thought there was none left'!
As reported in the Bridgnorth Journal on Friday 21st September, Bridgnorth Town Council has voted to donate £2000 to the rebuilding fund.
Bylet beat Ifton 10-4 in the last premier league match of 2007 to finish 4 points above Newport at the bottom of the table. Newport will now have to compete in a play-off to retain their premier status.
The Dudley Building Society A side completed their 2007 league programme with a closely fought match with Victoria Park B at home. Bylet only had 5 winners but with 5 losers all getting at least 18, Bylet won the shots by 17. This result ensures Bylet of Division 1 status next year.
Bylet D won the Highley League Division 2 Knockout Cup by beating Much Wenlock in the final at Chelmarsh. If anybody has the full details and photographs, please let the editor know.
Bylet A completed the double of the Highley League first division and the Knockout Cup when they beat Abbey by 5 shots at White Horse on Saturday 29th September. That concludes the bowling entertainment for the 2007 season.
Tony Moore organised the first skittles night at the Shakespeare on Thursday 1st November.
The club was well represented at the Highley League Annual Presentation Evening at Broseley Social Club on Friday 16th November. More details and some photographs are here. Many thanks to Madeley Cricket Club and Graham & Russell Morris who donated their winnings to the club rebuilding fund.
The club was well represented at the Highley League Annual Presentation Evening at Broseley Social Club on Friday 16th November. Many thanks to Madeley Cricket Club and Graham & Russell Morris who donated their winnings to the club rebuilding fund .
A collection in memory of Dave Garbett has raised over £700 for the club and has brought the rebuilding fund to £10,000. Captain Tom McGill said the fundraising effort so far had been "marvellous" and called for everyone to push on to reach the target of £30,000.
Ray Drew was in good form (jammed up some would say!) and won the Grand Domino Competition on Saturday 21st December by beating Mark Blore in the final. 'Drewy' donated his £50 to the Bylet fund, thanks Ray!
BBC presenter Adrian Chiles has donated a copy of his latest book to help with fundraising. See the Baggies Corner.
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California Focus Syndicated Column
A twice-weekly syndicated newspaper column on California public affairs.
COULD NEWSOM BE THE UNIFIER NATIONAL DEMOCRATS NEED?
CALIFORNIA FOCUS
FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2019, OR THEREAFTER
BY THOMAS D. ELIAS
Just over six months from today, we will know the outcome of California’s primary election, the earliest big-state primary of the election season and possibly the most important of them all.
So far in this election season, one big thing has become clear: While President Trump has no serious rival in his Republican reelection bid, no Democratic candidate has emerged as likely to knock him off nationally.
In fact, if the primary were held today, Trump would score more votes in California than anyone else, even as the total Democratic count would swamp his.
Every significant public poll also now indicates there is no sign of a favorite son or daughter phenomenon here in the nation’s most populous state.
Those polls do show only a few candidates in the current vast Democratic field would actually win national nominating convention delegates here if the vote were held today.
The California standings look pretty much like the national numbers, with former Vice President Joseph Biden leading with about 23 percent support among likely Democratic voters, to 17 percent for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 15 percent for Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders and California’s own Kamala Harris at about 13 percent. In fifth place at just under 10 percent is South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, with a severe dropoff after that to the four percent drawn by former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke. No one else gets enough support statewide to win delegates.
The meaning of all this should be clear to anyone who has followed American elections for the last half century, since primaries became the prime method for choosing convention delegates: Democrats urgently need a stronger candidate.
To beat Trump, that candidate would have to unify the party’s ultra-left wing, very vocal during the early presidential debates, and its moderates, the base of Biden’s continued support despite his lame debate showings. Such a candidate would require strong support from women voters and Latinos, as well as white males. Strong liberal stances would be a must; so would a record of standing up to Trump.
There is a candidate right here who checks all those boxes: Gov. Gavin Newsom. He’s been far from perfect in his eight months at the state’s helm, but still meets all the apparent prerequisites.
Start with Newsom’s strong showing in last fall’s election, the first time he topped a statewide ballot. That would have made him a presidential prospect immediately, except for two factors: He has never opposed the ambitions of Harris, his friend, fellow protégé of former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and former colleague in city government, a woman with whom he even shares campaign consultants. Neither Newsom nor his campaign gurus say Word One about joining the race as a late entrant, but you can be sure they salivate while watching Democratic debates.
Of course, Newsom promised last fall he would not run for president this year. He also has never stood in Harris’ way when she pursues her ambitions. But the longer this campaign goes, the more obvious it becomes that Harris won’t be the Democratic flag-bearer.
Why? Start with the fact she’s never been a tremendous favorite in her home state (her first race for statewide office wasn’t decided until after Thanksgiving, an underwhelming performance in heavily Democratic California).
Harris has no major constituency all her own within her party. Sure, she hypes Medicare for all, but Sanders and Warren were there long before she entered the Senate. Sure, she’s tough on crime, but so is Biden, to the point where it might turn off some minority voters.
Newsom, meanwhile, gave away the store to utility companies via this summer’s bailout legislation, but he also has brought early childhood education into the limelight, aided gays, supported rent controls and housing construction and pleased labor unions at every turn. He denied parole to several serious killers, fights Trump almost daily and is business-friendly to a fault. These are necessities for a unifying Democratic candidate.
So if Democrats really want to win next fall (and there can be doubts about that), they have a potential unifier right in front of them.
Email Thomas Elias at tdelias@aol.com. His book, "The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government’s Campaign to Squelch It," is now available in a soft cover fourth edition. For more Elias columns, visit www.californiafocus.net
Posted by California Focus at 7:20 AM
Labels: 2019, Sep. 3
Thomas Elias writes the syndicated California Focus column, appearing twice weekly in 93 newspapers around California, with circulation over 2.2 million. He has won numerous awards from organizations like the National Headliners Club, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Los Angeles Press Club, and the California Taxpayers Association. He has been nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize in distinguished commentary. Elias is the author of two books, "The Burzynski Breakthrough: The Most Promising Cancer Treatment and the Government's Campaign to Squelch It" (now in its third edition; also published in Japanese and recently optioned for a television movie) and "The Simpson Trial in Black and White," co-authored with the late Dennis Schatzman.
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Batman – The Telltale Series Review
Brash Games December 15, 2016
There are so many different takes on every superhero, but I think Batman be one of the worst (or best) offenders of that. The plot points and characters have been rehashed so many times it can be difficult to go into new iterations with an open mind. It was difficult for me to find a balance of not picking favorite versions and using source material for reference and comparison. And if it was difficult for me to do that, I wonder how well Telltale did in their take on things?
Taking up their signature art style Batman and company don’t look half bad. But that’s to be expected; the style has meshed pretty well with almost every franchise they’ve taken under their wing, and I’m not complaining. As usual they’ve brought in stylistic elements of the source material as well, in this case the comic-book like death screen, which was a nice touch.
Also returning is the intermittent quick time event gameplay. It’s not something everyone will enjoy, but I don’t mind it. The choices you make during dialogue and in action sequences, the five large choices in each episode in particular, shape the way the story unfolds. Failing to hit the quick time event buttons in time usually results in death, though in larger fights you can take a few hits. Not choosing a dialogue choice results in silence, which is also a valid option – the five main choices being the exception. The quick time event prompts lasted longer than I’m used to and occasionally it didn’t matter if I hit it or not, it would just continue as if I’d been successful.
New to the formula is Batman’s detective ability, in which you look for clues in various scenes and link them together in pairs to figure out what happened before your arrival. It wasn’t quite as in depth as the detective mode in other Batman games, but I expected that going in and it turned out to be a nice way to include that particular ability.
The game mixes the serious tones of fighting crime and corruption very well with the humor in the relationships, and that whole bit is very well written and believable. In particular I enjoyed the back and forths between Bruce and Selina. The moment they realized who they were talking to was fun. Alfred’s quips at Bruce’s expense, and vice versa, were also perfectly timed and acted out. Nothing ever felt out of place with those two and the way in which they addressed each other was a simple but effective way to convey how much they appreciate and rely on each other without every straight up explaining that.
The same goes for Harvey Dent, although his conversations with Bruce held less impact overall for me since his screen time was short to begin with, and grew more so with his descent into madness. I don’t mind because his fall, and his struggle to stay in control, was done well. Out of all of the moments through the episodes I think the scene where Bruce visits him at the mayor’s office and he starts talking to himself and trying to not succumb to the darkness building within was one of my favorite bits.
The flow of the episodes is decent. Focusing on introducing the players of the game in the first and second episodes did well to set the atmosphere. Chapter three’s focus on Catwoman brought with it a nice lull in the action and served as a good ‘calm before the storm’ episode. Episode four was interesting in that it introduced the Joker, although his screen time was so short and development so little that it almost felt as if he was shoehorned in. His appearance in the very end indicates that if there’s a second season he’ll play a bigger role, but it still feels that leaving him out and introducing him in that would have been more appropriate. The fifth and final episode had its flaws but brought with it a satisfying conclusion to the series. The final press conference scene felt incredibly lazy, however, since Telltale didn’t bother to hide the fact that they copy pasted three or four character models to create a crowd. One or two duplicates is one thing, an entire crowd made up of four people is another.
To sum up the plot, it revolves around Bruce’s parents and what they did before being murdered, and how his family’s name is being dragged through the mud. At the same time a mysterious drug is being distributed to cause people to act without inhibitions. Batman must deal with the drug and some of the heavier fights, while Bruce must attempt to restore the peoples’ faith by atoning for his families past.
I ended up going as Wayne as opposed to Batman for every choice, wanting to see that side of things. Everyone knows Batman, but there’s very little focus on the human side of him. It was enjoyable and trying to defeat evil and gain allies appealing to peoples’ humanity and compassion instead of beating the crap out of mentally ill people was a nice change.
I tried not to dwell too much on the reports of technical issues I’d seen before going into the game. Thankfully my issues didn’t seem to be quite as obscene as Bruce and Alfred not having faces but there was a heck of a lot of lag, particularly at scene changes and at the beginning of fight sequences. There were quite a lot of jerky animations that almost looked like they were missing frames and random limb jumps for no reason. At one point in a cut scene Bruce’s neck broke and he was doomed to forcefully look to his left until his model reloaded entirely in the next scene. The video and audio also were knocked out of sync a few times, which is never fun.
As of writing this there was also no choice stack-up for chapter five. By the time I played the final chapter it had been out for at least a few hours, long enough to get some information. But there wasn’t even a results screen. Seeing how your choices stack up against everyone else’s is part of the fun with Telltale games, so to be denied that felt like a bit of a kick in the face.
The technical issues were numerous and distracting, but none of them ended up grating on me like their visualization of one particular character. Everyone else has their iconic looks and habits, but Cobblepot was completely unrecognizable. He was of average height, looked dashing, and had no disfigurements or a limp. Everything that makes him Penguin was absent and nobody I showed his picture to, no matter their familiarity with the comics and movies and such, knew who he was. And when one of the two central villains in the plot is unrecognizable to fans of the series, that’s not good.
Finally, there was a missed opportunity when it came to the QR codes on the ID cards for Gordon and Vicky on the news. They’re fake, I tried them. It’s a shame, they would have been a really good way to slip some cool easter eggs into the game without doing much additional work (on the game side, at least).
Some episodes stood out while others fell short, but all in all it wasn’t a bad game. I’ve seen worse takes on the Caped Crusader and company, but it was by no means the best of the bunch. The technical issues were rife and distracting, and I didn’t agree with some character choices, but the story was mostly solid and it was an enjoyable experience.
REVIEW CODE: A complimentary PC code was provided to Brash Games for this review. Please send all review code enquiries to editor@brashgames.co.uk.
Brash Games
Tags:adventure, Batman, Cinematic, DC Comics, DC Universe, episodic, PC, PC Review, Rating 7/10, Story Rich, superhero, Telltale Games
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Bobbin Head and Apple Tree Bay
Projects / Placemaking
Location Ku-ing-gai Chase National Park, NSW
Client NSW National Parks & Wildlife
Project Phase Master Planning
AwardsAILA – Merit Planning Award 2007, Energy Australia National Trust Heritage Award 2007 Conservation Management Plans, Corporate/Government
CONTEXT in collaboration with CM+ prepared concurrent Master Plans for Bobbin Head and Apple Tree Bay. The process involved a comprehensive assessment of the existing park conditions and identification of opportunities and constraints in respect to site management and development.
The project team worked closely with the Client to formulate designs for the precincts which protect their cultural, environmental and scenic values and at the same time cater to their significant and growing popularity.
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The Cleveland Foundation was an entirely new concept in philanthropy. Captains of business and industry such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie had conceived of creating private foundations to channel their immense wealth into philanthropic activities. Goff (see video) envisioned an alternative mechanism for ensuring the honorable and productive use of monies accumulated over and above one’s immediate needs. Endowing such a foundation was a simple and affordable way for individuals of modest to comfortable means to leave a charitable legacy.
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Goff did not believe that philanthropy should be the exclusive province of wealthy individuals such as Standard Oil Company founder John D. Rockefeller, a client of Goff’s former law firm.
Andrew Carnegie, the “king of steel,” created a private foundation to carry out his philanthropic activities. Goff invented a simpler, more affordable mechanism to serve the charitable impulses of caring individuals of all means.
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Some of Goff’s banking colleagues believed that a community foundation’s trustee banks could and should manage both the investment and the disbursement of endowment income. Goff insisted that a community trust’s income must be distributed by an independent group of citizens, of which a substantial number were to be named by the holders of positions of honor and trust in the community. Breaking with the practice of setting up foundations as private corporations with self-perpetuating boards, he proposed that only two of the five members of the Cleveland Foundation’s grantmaking body be appointed by the Cleveland Trust Company board. The appointing authorities for the remaining three members were the mayor of Cleveland, the presiding judge of the county probate court and the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in northern Ohio.
Goff’s vision of a charitable foundation that derived its powers from the people and was, in the final analysis, responsible to the people for its actions was nothing short of brilliant. Permanent but flexible … democratic in spirit but devoted to society’s elevation … “fallible but hopeful” (in the words of Ralph Hayes, the first director of the New York Community Trust)—these characteristics of a community trust were carefully devised by the founder of the Cleveland Foundation to ensure public trust in his revolutionary invention.
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IAS 1 Amendments - Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-current
Project status: Active
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On 10 February 2015, the IASB published the ED/2005/1 Classification of Liabilities and requested comments by 10 June 2015. The proposed amendments were designed to improve presentation in financial statements by clarifying the criteria for the classification of a liability as either current or non-current. The proposed amendments intend to:
clarify that the classification of a liability as either current or non-current is based on the entity’s rights at the end of the reporting period; and
make clear the link between the settlement of the liability and the outflow of resources from the entity.
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EFRAG published its draft comment letter on 24 March 2015 and its final comment letter on 22 June 2015. EFRAG agreed with the IASB’s objective to clarify the requirements in IAS 1 Presentation of Financial Statements on classification of liabilities and remove some inconsistencies in the terms used in the Standard. In EFRAG’s view, the proposals in the ED were likely to result in greater consistency in applying the principles in IAS 1 and therefore in relevant financial information.
EFRAG also recommended, to avoid further diversity in practice, that the IASB provides additional guidance in situations where the rights to defer settlement of a liability are subject to conditions that occur and are assessed after the end of the reporting period and in situations where liabilities can be settled through the issuance of shares at the option of the counterparty.
Finally, EFRAG suggested that the IASB further explores whether current guidance always provides the most relevant information including in circumstances when rights to defer settlement are not substantive as of the reporting period. It seems most appropriate if the IASB looked at this issue as part of its ongoing activities in the Disclosure Initiative project.
On 29 July 2015, EFRAG published its feedback statement, summarising responses received to its draft comment letter, on the IASB's Exposure Draft.
At its December 2015 meeting, the IASB the feedback on the Exposure Draft Classification of Liabilities (Proposed amendments to IAS 1).
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For fifteen years, Pegasus, an international biannual corporate magazine designed by Derek Birdsall, led a charmed life.
Some graphic design stories are all around us: road signs, catchy logos, well known book covers, typefaces with familiar names. Other design projects have little or no profile in the wider world. Pegasus is an example of the latter, yet it is an outstanding piece of editorial design, a perfect-bound 248mm square magazine cherished by its readers for a decade and a half.
From 1970 to 1985, the 29 issues of Pegasus, plus several specials and ‘best-ofs’, were testament to the consistently assured art direction of Derek Birdsall, along with editor Gregory Vitiello and an inspired group of regular contributors, including Michael Foreman, Harri Peccinotti, Ron Sandford, Irma Kurtz and art editor Alan Kitching.
Birdsall portrait by Phil Sayer, April 2014.
Top: Cover, Pegasus no. 20, 1981, ‘Creativity’. ‘With the help of your own pencil (and possibly an eraser) we present you with the opportunity to create your own cover.’
Funded by Mobil, Pegasus was aimed at the oil giant’s senior managers and an international élite of politicians, public intellectuals and captains of industry. At the very least, Mobil was hoping to create a positive association. Birdsall says that the magazine was mailed to ‘the prime minister of each country and the minister in charge of oil and gas!’ He recalls getting approving letters from high-profile readers, including movie star Anthony Quinn. Birdsall says: ‘It was designed to be exclusive. And for the top brass within the company. It was a very elegant bribe.’
Philanthropy often follows a guilty conscience – look at the dynamite-powered Nobel Prize – and Pegasus’s birth coincided with the early stirrings of ‘corporate responsibility’, when the environmental and social impact of big oil corporations would come under increased public scrutiny. Pegasus was also a child of the late 1960s, when the hippie dream developed into more substantial, long-lasting changes in culture, politics and the law.
The change in the air is signalled in Pegasus’s first few issues. In the ‘Youth’ issue (no. 2) Birdsall ran a spread of Sam Haskins’ fisheye photos from the Isle of Wight pop festival. On the previous page is a scan of a letter to The Times about the festival that states: ‘… let it not go unrecorded that for the first time in history some quarter of a million people of whom possibly more than half were young men, were encamped for several days for purposes other than the eventual slaughter of their fellow creatures.’
Spread from Pegasus no. 2, 1971 ‘Youth’ showing the audience at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival by South African photographer Sam Haskins.
No. 2, 1971, ‘Youth’, with button badges that reference the Vietnam war, the generation gap and 1960s culture. Mobil’s ‘Pegasus’ logo is printed within an embossed circle.
The initiative to launch Pegasus came from within Mobil, whose executive Walter K. Wilson met Birdsall in London. They quickly struck up a good relationship. ‘I did one very good thing at the start,’ said Birdsall. ‘I organised a dinner with Michael Foreman, Harri Peccinotti, Irma Kurtz, a couple more writers and my accountant. And I said to Walter: “This is your team”.’
The themes of the first few issues, including ‘Mobility’ and ‘Design’, show Birdsall’s imaginative marshalling of diverse image sources. He commissioned Peccinotti to shoot orchids, Foreman to illustrate ecology and sex, and André François to nail design, via a cartoon in which a lone designer procrastinates by rearranging pens.
But Pegasus really took flight with the arrival in 1973 of editor Vitiello, a writer and former Fulbright scholar who had worked in public television for six years. Vitiello remained at the helm until the final issue, Pegasus no. 29, ‘Performance’, in 1985. Birdsall and Vitiello value their collaboration highly: nearly 30 years later, they recall the experience as one of the best of their careers. ‘I learned what a good editor was,’ says Birdsall. ‘We worked very closely on this and I haven’t had a closer relationship since.’
‘The longer Derek and I worked together,’ says Vitiello, ‘The more integrated the issues became. The structure improved, as editorial pieces flowed into visual ones.’
Vitiello inherited the fifth issue, which had the nebulous theme of ‘Change’. ‘Ed Waggoner, the head of international relations at Mobil, was scathing,’ says Vitiello, ‘so I asked him to identify the articles that offended him and replaced them with new ones.’ The big challenge was then to sell issue no. 6, ‘Human communication’, from scratch.
A photograph by Harri Peccinotti accompanies Stephen DiLauro’s article about neon art gallerist Rudi Stern for no. 22, 1982, the ‘Innovation’ issue.
‘Derek and I developed a story slate … but an ad hoc editorial board challenged every one of our ideas. Fortunately, I was well prepared. I described each proposed article and how it fitted structurally.’ The issue includes interviews with Marshall McLuhan, Studs Terkel and Marcel Marceau, but Vitiello says that what really ‘sold it’ to Mobil was their ideas for communication at a daily level, with resonant articles about British pubs, French cafés, Japanese baths and Italian passeggiate.
Birdsall and Vitiello also had the support of the international Mobil employees who sent or personally handed out issues of Pegasus to VIPs in their countries. ‘When they praised the magazine,’ says Vitiello, ‘my bosses backed off.’
The magazine settled into a confident cycle with high standards of writing, image-making, editing, design, repro and print, which was carried out at Rowley Atterbury’s Westerham Press – which printed the type-only pages letterpress – for the first fifteen issues. The remaining fourteen were printed litho by Balding & Mansell. ‘I don’t think any company was producing anything like this,’ says Vitiello, ‘so tangential to the business and intended to be so thought-provoking.’
Birdsall: ‘All of the corporations did films, wonderful art films that hardly related to their business. So we said that this was cheaper than film, and you could get it to all the top people in an envelope. That’s the great thing about books and magazines. You know if they’re going into the right hands … television is sprayed across everywhere.’
For Vitiello, the challenge was to find themes, such as ‘Human behavior’ (Pegasus no. 7), that he and Birdsall could address in many different ways. The six-month schedule gave the virtual team enough time to communicate across continents and time zones. Communication via telex, fax, phone calls and letters was punctuated by physical meetings in London and New York – what Vitiello recalls as ‘our long boozy, idea-gathering sessions’. The choice of themes allowed them to focus on special interests, and to indulge the obsessions and passions of their contributors.
Each issue was obliged to include a ‘business article’ about the oil industry, such as the article about the Beryl A oil platform in no. 22, which uses a huge, virtuoso line drawing by Ron Sandford, originally commissioned for a Mobil ad campaign, to accompany its poetic prose. (See inside back cover.) Only 24 of the magazine’s 72 pages were in colour: black-and-white text and image predominated.
Head of a Japanese puppet carved by Minosuke Oe from a feature about Bunraku, a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, in Pegasus no. 14, 1979, ‘Über das Vollkommene’ / ‘About Perfection’. Photographs: Harri Peccinotti.
Oe paints a wooden puppet head from Pegasus no. 14, 1979. Layout by Sue Montalto Lee, Alan Kitching’s predecessor as Pegasus art editor.
Yet the structure allowed for articles by big-name writers, photo essays, long reads and short, caption-like articles, all set calmly by Birdsall in two typefaces: a serif text face, Van Dijck, and a sans serif for headlines – the new Mobil house typeface.
‘One of my favourite magazines at the time was The New Yorker,’ says Birdsall, ‘hence that three-column format. I’ve never been one for craziness. I like the quiet life. And typography is such an aid to a quiet life, isn’t it? I mean you can’t go far wrong. In 1969-70, everything was in sans serif, especially the corporate stuff, but I had fallen in love with Van Dijck. And Ivan Chermayeff had just designed the new sans typeface as part of Mobil’s big redesign [see Eye 81], so that’s how it happened.’
In the remainder of each issue there was plenty of room for exuberance, extravagance and experiment. Illustrator Michael Foreman looks back on Pegasus with affection: ‘I always say that Derek Birdsall gave me a ticket to the world.’ His Pegasus commissions gave him the chance to travel on the Orient Express to China, to visit Egypt and Russia, and to track reindeer in Norway. Birdsall made the most of Foreman’s panoramic narratives, which often included handwritten text, by planning them as gatefolds and fold-outs.
Birdsall’s use of photography in Pegasus varies widely, from the cool ‘coffee table’ appeal of photo essays to the dramatic pacing of reportage, portraits and big close-ups. ‘He had a great gift for lateral thinking, coming up with ideas that fitted the theme in unexpected ways,’ says Vitiello. For the ‘Human behavior’ issue, no. 7, Birdsall commissioned Peccinotti to shoot ‘The War Game’, a four-page feature on ‘military fashion’ styled by Caroline Baker, then fashion editor of Nova, that put garments from army surplus shop Laurence Corner alongside Yves Saint Laurent. Such photo shoots clashed nicely with more serious text, which in this issue included interviews with Margaret Mead, René Dubos and B. F. Skinner.
No.1, 1970, features an Uruguayan air-mail postage stamp, whose emblem is also a flying horse, tipped in to the centre of the cover.
‘Derek surprised me when he took a weak, boring picture and blew it up large,’ says Vitiello. ‘He explained that his rule was to use good pictures large and bad pictures even larger. As a result, the “bad pictures” often benefited by their graininess.’
For no. 10, ‘America’ (1975), the forthcoming 1976 bicentennial celebrations prompted Mobil to increase the Pegasus budget, allowing the magazine extra pages, images and stories. Vitiello commissioned articles such as ‘William Faulkner’s Mississippi’ and ‘Nathanael West’s Hollywood’, giving the issue a literary dimension. ‘America in camera’ – one photo per page – includes classic pictures of the USA by Minor White, Walker Evans and Robert Frank.
Vitiello particularly valued Alfred Eisenstaedt’s contributions: Pegasus commissioned him to take pictures of New York for no. 16, ‘Institutions’, and raided his archive for issue 17, ‘Le style’. Birdsall delighted in witty juxtapositions that recall Stefan Lorant’s Lilliput magazine – placing Eisenstaedt’s skating waiter next to a stylish Fred Astaire.
Pegasus allowed Harri Peccinotti (also known for his Pirelli calendar shoots and Nova magazine) to show the sheer range of his photography, with striking visual essays about crafts in Malaysia, performing arts in Indonesia, family businesses, home-made bicycles, Parisian street performers and Japanese puppets.
Illustrator Ron Sandford was a regular presence. ‘Alan, Derek and Greg were satisfying to work with,’ says Sandford. ‘Most of my drawings were “fill-ins”, the requirement of which became apparent when they had sorted out the magazine. We did much work in the pub in a relaxed and enjoyable way.’
‘I think they got it really well at Mobil,’ says Birdsall. ‘They got that this was a stylish magazine. I remember one manager said, “Thank you for making me look good.” There was a lovely ambiguity in that!’
Corporate culture began to shift in the 1980s: Vitiello wasn’t surprised when Mobil shut down the magazine in 1986. ‘The bold ideas of the 1960s and 1970s were supplanted by more business-oriented projects,’ he says. ‘This change was reflected in the people Mobil hired – you didn’t see long-haired intellectuals any more. The most we might have hoped for was another five years.’
Yet for those lucky to have access to copies, Pegasus remains a tribute to what can be achieved, in both form and content, within the constraints of corporate publishing.
Michael Foreman’s potato print artwork illustrates an article by Geoffrey Dutton in Pegasus no. 21, 1981, ‘Community’.
John L. Walters, Eye editor, London
First published in Eye no. 88 vol. 22 2014
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Dave Barrys 2017 Year in Review: Did that really happen?
Miami Herald ^ | Dec 29, 2017 | Dave Barry
Posted on 12/29/2017 11:59:42 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Looking back on 2017 is like waking up after a party where you made some poor decisions, such as drinking tequila squeezed from the underpants of a person you do not really know. (At least you hope it was tequila.)
The next day finds you lying naked in a Dumpster in a different state, smeared from head to toe with a mixture of Sriracha sauce and glitter. At first you remember nothing. But then, as your throbbing brain slowly reboots, memories of the night before, disturbing memories, begin creeping into your consciousness. As the full, hideous picture comes into focus, you curl into a ball, whimpering, asking yourself over and over: Did that really happen?
That’s how we feel about 2017. It was a year so surreal, so densely populated with strange and alarming events, that you have to seriously consider the possibility that somebody — and when we say “somebody,” we mean “Russia” — was putting LSD in our water supply. A bizarre event would occur, and it would be all over the news, but before we could wrap our minds around it, another bizarre event would occur, then another and another, coming at us faster and faster, battering the nation with a Category 5 weirdness hurricane that left us hunkering down, clinging to our sanity, no longer certain what was real.
Take “covfefe.” Remember? For a little while, it was huge. Everybody was talking about it! Covfefe! But then, just like that, it was gone. What the hell WAS it? Did it even really happen?
Another example: We have this vague memory that, for the briefest flicker of a moment, the White House communications director was a pathologically bronze man named Anthony Scaramucci, who — remember, this was the White House communications director — called up a reporter for the New Yorker and informed him, on the record, that he, Anthony Scaramucci, differed from White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon in that he, Anthony Scaramucci, THE WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR, was not trying to commit an act of self-gratification that would be extremely challenging even for a professional contortionist.
Did THAT really happen?
And were there really thousands of people marching around Washington wearing vagina hats?
And did the Secretary of State really call the President of the United States a “moron?”
And did the president (of the United States!) respond by challenging the Secretary of State to compare IQ tests?
We want to believe that we imagined these things. But we fear we did not.
There’s one thing we definitely remember happening in 2017: the “fidget spinner” fad. This was huge, and for a good reason: It was extremely stupid. In terms of mental stimulation, fidget-spinning makes nose-picking look like three-dimensional chess. You mindlessly spin the thing around and around, accomplishing nothing. It’s an idiotic, brain-cell-destroying waste of time.
So it was the perfect fad for 2017.
The perfect artistic achievement was “The Emoji Movie,” which was released in July and was widely hailed by critics as possibly the stupidest movie ever made. It was the fidget spinner of movies. One of the emoji voices was provided by the distinguished British actor Patrick Stewart, who has been awarded many honors, including a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.
The role played by Sir Patrick Stewart was: Poop.
If that wasn’t the essence of 2017, we don’t know what was.
So now, finally, it is time to flush this turd of a year down the commode of history. But before we do, let’s don eclipse glasses to prevent retina damage, then take one last flinching look back at the events of 2017, starting with …
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Funny...He knocks President Trump with humor...knocks Fox, CNN and all the other absurdities of 2017... Finally...humor without visciousness.
2 posted on 12/30/2017 12:22:22 AM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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I used to read him regularly - I think he’s a lib but this is pretty funny.
The best is a new nickname: Mitch “Mojo” McConnell! Hilarious.
3 posted on 12/30/2017 12:27:44 AM PST by GnuThere
And were there really thousands of people marching around Washington with a Palestinian grocery-store-bombing terrorist all wearing vagina hats?
4 posted on 12/30/2017 2:21:59 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
I bailed on this insipid, cynical article at this:
The most exciting Russian angle concerns an alleged “dossier” that allegedly alleges that Trump allegedly paid some alleged Russian prostitutes to allegedly urinate on an alleged bed that had allegedly been used by President Barack Obama during an alleged visit to Moscow.
There appears to be no evidence whatsoever that this allegation is true, but since it involves two U.S. presidents AND prostitutes AND urine, many major news outlets — you know who you are — have no journalistic alternative but to run with it.
The news here, the insanity here Mr. Barry, is that the FBI and the "Justice" Dept. "ran with it."
And that's the REAL news of 2017. A gargantuan Federal Government that willfully runs outside of the "consent of the People" with no oversight or criminal consequences.
A Republic teetering on self-immolation is no laughing matter, Mr. Barry.
5 posted on 12/30/2017 4:26:12 AM PST by TTFlyer
To: TTFlyer
You do realize Dave Barry is a humorist, right? It isn’t meant to be read as if William F. Buckley wrote it. More in line with Scott Adams.
6 posted on 12/30/2017 4:39:30 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Sophomoric cynicism is not “humor” to me.
Sophomoric cynicism is not “humor” to me....he says while looking down his pointy little nose......
8 posted on 12/30/2017 4:46:57 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
To: Hot Tabasco
9 posted on 12/30/2017 5:17:58 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
What’s it to you?
10 posted on 12/30/2017 5:57:36 AM PST by TTFlyer
Dave Barry still writing? Really? With what? Is he using a chopstick in his mouth on a keyboard while sitting in a wheel chair mimicking Stephen William Hawking?
11 posted on 12/30/2017 6:23:16 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
In sports, Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya wins the New York City marathon in a time of 2:10:53, a feat made all the more impressive by the fact that he ran the final four miles with a panhandler clinging to his leg.
Now, THAT was funny! Makes me think of Trump working to meet his agenda/promises with CNN's Acosta clinging to one leg and Jorge Ramos to the other.
To: abigkahuna
I will remember 2017 as the year of You Can’t Make This S*** UP, because I have uttered that expression at least ten times a day for the last twelve months.
Anyway, it’s a long standing Dave Barry tradition to humorously summarize the year that was. Funny stuff.
13 posted on 12/30/2017 6:43:10 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: GnuThere
Dave’s rearranged names are priceless!
Neil Gorsuch becomes “Lunch Orgies”.
His Christmas Gifts video is hilarious.
Bkmrk
15 posted on 12/30/2017 7:26:53 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
A must read, ROFLMAO good
16 posted on 12/30/2017 7:48:44 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
To: elcid1970
That column was a ton of work; maybe he writes it month by month.
17 posted on 12/30/2017 7:52:22 AM PST by GnuThere
I had a strong feeling it was going to be a “WHAT HAPPENED” year end recap!!!!
We should all have selfies with Hill’s book and shocked looks on our faces!!!
18 posted on 12/30/2017 7:53:33 AM PST by YouGoTexasGirl
My daughter is a bookseller. She set a goal to sell 100 copies of Peter and the Starcatcher co-written by Dave Barry. It’s her favorite childrens book When she hit 200 copies, I wrote Dave Barry and asks him to thank her.
He sent a nice card. She was blown away. She just sold number 300 this week in about 18 months.
19 posted on 12/30/2017 8:44:55 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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Florence, a living museum rich in history and proud in the quality in craftsmanship and beauty of its architecture, sculptures, paintings, and drawings does not exclude its citizens; who through fashion become living artwork. There is a direct relationship between a fashion house and the person wearing the pieces and becoming expressions of art. “The art we wear and live with is the art we become. Art – fashion and otherwise – reflects who we are and who we aspire to be” (Georges Berges). Art and fashion, as social, financial, academic, and political status symbols is Florentine at heart. While it is undoubtedly true today, it traces back hundreds of years to the prominent and influential Florentine families, specifically, the Medici’s. Through their commissions of paintings, architecture, and sculpture, they proclaimed their social and political status among the townspeople. The fashion they wore was no exception. They wore brightly colored garments which were expensive to produce and almost impossible to afford. Hence, making a clear statement on their status, wealth, and exclusivity. It is then no surprise that Florence is host to many museums, including the Gucci Museum. The brand, through its evolution, has become a symbol of quality, elegance, and craftsmanship and has become distinctive and an expression of “made in Italy”. The Gucci Museum is in the Palazzo della Mercanzia (Palace of the Merchandise) in Piazza della Signoria. Even if not immediately recognizable as a museum, it is a hidden gem that encapsulates the elegance, style, craftsmanship, uniqueness, and exclusivity of the House. A must-see for a fair in price. Consisting of a variety of exhibits, the museum features “Gucci Garden Galleria: A New Chapter”. Curated especially to recount the various stories of the Gucci brand, the room is supported by various media and arts; a video series displayed in a dark viewing room reminds visitors of a cinema or a nightclub lounge. All the rooms highlight not only the fashion and the items themselves, but it tells the story of the Gucci woman and the Gucci man. In the Jardin d’hiver room, the collection is delicate and exquisite. The curator uses technology elegantly and delicately to enhance the user experience, yet it does not overpower the exhibit. The use is purposeful. The room has flowers illustrated on the walls, enhanced by projected birds and butterflies flying. It is all brought together by delicate bird songs playing in the background. Giving the room an ethereal feel, the items embody the Gucci essence. While walking through the displays, visitors will directly engage with garments, travel trunks, and accessories that each tell their story. Visitors can interact with the quality, craftsmanship, and exclusivity of the Gucci brand and the Gucci client. This museum has just the right mix of history, storytelling, and feeling.
Palazzo Mercanzia, Piazza Signoria, 10, Florence
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Duckwrth Treats Hip-Hop As His Missionary Work
Duckwrth performs at 2018 wager experience in l. a.. The rapper's latest mission, The Falling Man, is due out can also 17. Aaron J. Thornton/Getty images hide caption
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Duckwrth performs at 2018 bet experience in l. a.. The rapper's latest undertaking, The Falling Man, is due out may 17.
los angeles rapper Duckwrth grew up with a foot in two worlds. One foot changed into firmly planted in his mom's Pentecostal family unit, whereas the different meandered round his nearby outdoor. The artist grew up making an attempt to navigate between these two worlds and he makes use of his upcoming EP, The Falling Man, to seem to be lower back and contain these competing forces.
Born Jared Lee, Duckwrth grew up in South primary l. a. in the '90s right through the height of the West Coast rap boom. however as a lot as he changed into drawn to the track coming out of his city, his mother tried to preserve him far from it.
"loads of the individuals developing in our nearby, they have been, like, joining gangs so she just failed to desire me to be part of a gang," he says. "but additionally, like, because i was raised religious, it turned into deemed as secular to listen to tune that would not must do with Jesus."
Duckwrth's sheltered childhood led him to spend loads of time alone drawing, writing and eventually making song. The rapper unpacks some of his upbringing on the music "Soprano."
"It reveals how track became secular but I nonetheless become curious about the track I wasn't purported to take heed to," he remembers. "however for me it wasn't like in a type of insurrection I just became just curious about it."
nonetheless, Duckwrth turned into enamored via the West Coast sounds of g-funk — from Snoop Dogg and Tha Eastsidaz to DJ Quik. "The notes in the progressions that they selected to play are literally like gratifying to the ear and to the soul," he says. "And it also type of jogged my memory of, you comprehend, the track i used to be allowed to listen to, which is like, they for sure had Stevie ask yourself and Earth, Wind & hearth vinyls within the crib."
As an adult, Duckwrth mixes up genres and influences on the The Falling Man and needs to ship the message that artists are just like any person else: They go throughout the equal emotions and can fall off their pedestal at any time. "although you hearken to the tune 'Love is like a Moshpit,' i'm literally emoting and that i'm presenting my insecurities," he cites.
even though it be taken time, Duckwrth thinks his mother is warming as much as the concept of his rap profession. He says what's most crucial is that she understands he is helping to spread concepts on his personal phrases.
"here is my form of missionary work," the artist says. "or not it's me revealing, like, the realities at this time. And it be additionally being in a position to talk to americans, however with their language."
The Falling Man is due out may also 17 by the use of Republic data. Duckwrth spoke with NPR's Ailsa Chang about incorporating religion into paintings, men displaying emotion in hip-hop and more.
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Balloon Glow
Balloon Terminology
Hot Air Balloon Competition 101
Q: Can you steer the balloon?
A: Yes and no. There is no direct mechanical means of controlling lateral movement for a hot air balloon, but a change in direction can be achieved by utilizing the wind currents at hand. Sometimes, at different altitudes, the wind will vary in general direction. By climbing or descending into these layers of air, the pilot is able to manoeuvre the balloon onto a preferred line of travel.
Q: How long are the flights?
A: On average, flights are approximately one hour in length. Some flights can vary from 45 minutes to 1 1/2 hours depending on the amount of fuel on board, the passengers’ combined weight, the temperature of the air and when the pilot finds a suitable landing field.
Q: What time of day do the flights take place?
A: Flights take place at sunrise and approximately 2 hours prior to sunset. Hot air balloons are not able to fly during the middle of the day due to thermal activity, which makes the air unstable.
Q: What type of weather conditions are needed to fly in a hot air balloon?
A: Hot air balloon flights take place in winds less than 10 knots (about 18 kph), with no rain or approaching storms in the immediate area. Flights also require visibility of at least 4 km.
Q: What type of clothing should we wear?
A: Special clothing is not required for hot air ballooning. We suggest practical wear, such as long pants, a light jacket, a hat and flat shoes (no sandals or high heels). We do not fly high enough for a significant change in temperature so plan to dress for the temperature of the day.
Q: Can I bring my camera and binoculars?
A: Yes, we encourage it. Some of the greatest pictures of the surrounding area can be taken from 500 feet in the air. Don’t forget to bring batteries for your camera and a protective case for landing.
Q: Can you fly during the winter?
A: Yes, some of the best flights take place during the fall and winter months. During this time, visibility is usually unlimited.
Q: Is it cold up there?
A: No, it is usually the same temperature on the ground as it is in the air. The temperature only begins to drop when you fly very high.
Q: How big is the hot air balloon?
A: A small hot air balloon is 77,000 cubic feet and is approximately 80 feet high and 60 feet in diameter. An average of 3 passengers and the pilot can fly in a balloon of this size. Some larger balloons can carry 8-12 passengers.
Q: What makes the hot air balloon rise?
A: Hot air! High-powered propane burners heat the air inside the balloon making it less dense than the outside air, allowing the balloon to rise. The burners create 20+ million BTU’s of heat. In comparison, an average home barbecue generates 30,000 BTU’s. Each flight uses approximately 100 litres of propane.
Q: How fast do you fly?
A: The balloon travels the same speed as the wind. An average flight is approximately 15 km in length.
Q: Can anyone fly the balloon?
A: To fly a hot air balloon you must be a licensed balloon pilot. Much like a fixed wing pilot, balloon pilots go through extensive training including ground school, written exams and hands-on flying. A balloon pilot must have a minimum of 50 hours experience to fly passengers in Canada.
Q: What is the balloon made of?
A: Balloons are made from rip-stop nylon much like a winter ski jacket. Unlike a jacket, the balloon is coated to help it resist heat and mildew, and to last longer. Balloons have an average life expectancy of 300 hours of use. Manufacturers have many different colours of fabric to choose from to create the many different patterns seen flying through the sky.
Q: How high do you fly?
A: Though the altitude record for hot air ballooning is greater than 90,000 feet, the height of passenger flights range anywhere from treetop height up to 2,500 feet.
What Are The Tasks?
These can vary depending on the level of competition you are in but most countries now use the same set of formally recognised tasks, which are set by the FAI/CIA. Listed below are many of the more common tasks currently being used by the world ballooning competition organizations:
Pilot Declared Goal (PDG): Competitors attempt to drop a marker close to a goal selected and declared by him before flight. The result is the distance from the mark to nearest valid declared goal. Smallest result is best.
Judge Declared Goal (JDG): Competitors attempt to drop a marker close to a set goal. The result is the distance from the mark to the target, if displayed, or goal. Smallest result is best.
Multiple Judge Declared Goal (MJDG) or Hesitation Waltz (HWZ): Competitors attempt to drop a marker close to one of several set goals. The result is the distance from the mark to the nearest target, if displayed, or goal. Smallest result is best.
Fly In (FIN): Competitors find their own launch areas and attempt to drop a marker close to a set goal or target. The result is the distance from the mark to the target, if displayed, or goal. Smallest result is best.
Fly On (FON): Competitors attempt to drop a marker close to a goal selected and declared by them during flight. The result is the distance from the mark to the nearest valid declared goal. Smallest result is best. The competitor must write clearly on the previous marker the declared goal for fly on. If the previous marker is not dropped or no goal is written on the marker the competitor will not achieve a result.
Hare and Hounds (HNH): Competitors follow a hare balloon and attempt to drop a marker close to a target displayed by the hare no more than two meters upwind of the basket after landing. The result is the distance from the mark to the target. Smallest result is best.
Watership Down (WSD): Competitors fly to the launch point of a hare balloon, follow the hare and attempt to drop a marker close to a target displayed by the hare no more than two meters upwind of the basket after landing. The result is the distance from the mark to the target. Smallest result is best.
Gordon Bennett Memorial (GBM): Competitors attempt to drop a marker within a scoring area(s) close to a set goal. The result is the distance from the mark to the target, if displayed, or goal. Smallest result is best.
Calculated Rate of Approach Task (CRAT): Competitors attempt to drop a marker within a valid scoring area close to a set goal. The scoring area(s) will have unique times of validity. The result is the distance from the mark to the target, if displayed, or goal. Smallest result is best. A competitor who does not achieve a mark inside a scoring area during its time of validity, will not achieve a result.
Race To An Area (RTA): Competitors attempt to drop a marker in the shortest time within a scoring area(s). The result is the elapsed time from take off to the marker drop. Smallest result is best. The timing ends at the moment the marker is released, falling or on the ground as seen by the observer or recovered in the hands of the observer whichever is first.
Elbow (ELB): Competitors attempt to achieve the greatest change of direction in flight. The result is 180 degrees minus the angle ABC. Greatest result is best.
Land Run (LRN): Competitors attempt to achieve the greatest area of a triangle “A”, “B” and “C.” The result is the area of triangle ABC. Greatest result is best.
Minimum Distance (MDT): Competitors attempt to drop a marker close to the common launch point, after flying a minimum set time. The result is the distance from the mark to the launch point. Smallest result is best.
Shortest Flight (SFL): Competitors attempt to drop a marker close to the launch point within a set scoring area(s). The result is the distance from the mark to the launch point. Smallest result is best.
Minimum Distance Double Drop (MDD): Competitors attempt to drop two markers close together in different scoring areas. The result is the distance between the marks. Smallest result is best.
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Revisiting “The Fisher King,” RIP Robin Williams
I’ve been finding myself reflecting on Robin Williams since the news of his tragic suicide broke a few days ago. It’s always moments like this when you start to appreciate what is lost, and when you seriously examine Williams’s work, it’s instantly apparent what tremendous talent the man had. As an improvisational comic, Williams was without equal. The man was lighting fast, and could instantaneously invent comedic routines far superior to the ones other established comics refined and revised for years. I imagine Williams’s mind started to run hot as he hit the full stride of his stream-of-consciousness mania; his words came out so loud and fast that it got almost to the point of being intimidating. However, no matter how crazy his commentary became it was always clear that there was a sincere humanitarian at the controls – and he never descended into insulting individuals or generalized groups. Williams found enough absurdity in the human condition, and though that does seem like an eternal wellspring of inspiration, it’s surprising how many comedians have to cheat to get attention.
In many ways, Williams’s talent didn’t exactly mesh with the silver screen, but he had so much obvious ability that you had to find a way to use him or you weren’t being true to the concept of art. In some films he gives tremendous reserved performances such as in “Good Will Hunting,” but I think that unless directors can utilize the mania, they really aren’t taking full advantage of what Williams can do.
“The Fisher King” turned out to be a pitch perfect project for a guy like Williams. In it, he plays a regular man who has his life torn apart by tragedy. The tragedy transforms him from a mild-mannered professor to an indigent who lives in a junkyard, dresses in rags, and claims to hear the voices of fairies. The character’s name is Parry, and he seems to constantly be in the throes of a desperate good mood which his obviously nothing more than a cracked mask intended to cover up his spiritual torment (you can see why Williams would be convincing in a part like this).
Parry thinks of himself as a knight, and he patrols the city streets in a personal quest to help those in need. As long as he is able to live in his illusion, he is more or less a functional person. However, if something happens which allows him to settle down and remember how regular people behave (falling in love for example), he is tormented by a vision of a red knight which chases him back to insanity.
“The Fisher King” is a lovely story of redemption and healing. The title is from Arthurian legend and Parry (his name should evoke Percival—or Parcival depending on the translation you read) tells the story of the Fisher King in one of his moments of lucidity. Parry inherently knows that he needs the grail to be healed, so the film becomes a grail quest narrative.
“The Fisher King” was directed by Terry Gilliam, himself the most manic member of Monty Python, and I think he was the perfect director to work with Williams. The performance Gilliam gets out of Williams is manic, but restrained, and hits all the right notes. I could see how other directors might be intimidated by Williams and not give him a “safe” environment in which to create – but Gilliam clearly knew what he was getting with Williams, and the pairing is inspired.
It really is a beautiful film, and I especially love the urban fantasy element. There’s a reason that fantasy remains such a popular genre in the age of cell phones, the internet, and laptop computers. The image of an armored man riding a horse in defense of good or as an emissary of evil is powerful, and Gilliam manages to explore the impact those images have on our collective psyche. The visual side of the film is stunning, but “The Fisher King” achieves its power thanks to Robin Williams through whom the audience perceives terrible torment inflicted upon tremendous humanity – just like in real life. Go watch “The Fisher King” or watch it again if you’ve already seen it. It’s a fitting tribute to a great talent, and it will make you happy...a little sad too...but mostly happy, which is good.
Robin Williams will be missed.
Get a copy of "The Fisher King" here.
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the act of associating horniness with a particular person.
Love at 1st Sight
what occurs when two extremely horny, but not entirely choosy people meet.
the process of spending enormous amounts of money, time, and energy to get better acquainted with a person whom you don't especially like in the present and will learn to like a lot less in the future.
avoiding pregnancy through such tactics as swallowing special pills, inserting a diaphram, using a condom, and dating repulsive men.
a term used to describe a woman who has the sexual morals of a man.
a method utilized by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Despite being advised to do so, many woman have difficulty looking a man directly in the eyes, not necessarily due to the shyness, but usually due to the fact that a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.
a member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.
a woman's feeling towards a man, which is interpreted to by the man as "playing hard to get."
a word a man uses to describe a woman who lets him do all the talking.
Irritating Habit
what the endearing little qualities that initially attract two people to each other turn into after a few months together.
Law of Relationships
the less you care about a given man, the harder he is to get rid of.
Law of Relativity
how attractive a given person appears to be is directly proportionate to how unattractive your date is.
a man's term for a woman who wants to have sex more often than he does.
the hor d'oeurves served at a party given by a man.
condition in which it is almost impossible to fall in love.
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Judging Roberts: Running Roughshod Over Precedent
It has been five years this month since Judge John G. Roberts Jr. went before the Senate Judiciary Committee seeking confirmation to be chief justice of the United States. Roberts won senators over with his legal knowledge, smooth demeanor, and personal charm. He also promised, if confirmed, to respect precedent, forswear any “agenda,” strive for fewer divided rulings, and decide cases like an idealized umpire — calling balls and strikes according to a strike zone defined by others, not by him.
The chief justice, of course, is not subject to reconfirmation. But if he were called on to answer for his record, how would Roberts be judged based on the promises he made in September 2005? Not that well.
Most troublingly, the Roberts Court has run roughshod over important legal precedents, not just in its ruling in January to free corporations in political campaigns but in many other ideologically divided decisions beginning as soon as Roberts’ second term. And most of those rulings fit with a consistent agenda of favoring corporations over workers and consumers and of narrowing individual rights.
As a nominee, Roberts stressed the importance of following precedent —the legal principle known as stare decisis — in promoting both stability and evenhandedness. “I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent,” Roberts said. A judge should consider overruling a prior decision, he said, not because of personal disagreement, but only because of special factors such as the unworkability of the rule or the need to adapt to new circumstances.
Roberts has paid no more than lip services to those caveats as chief justice. By my count in The Supreme Court Yearbook, the Roberts Court has expressly overruled precedents eight times in Roberts’ five terms: somewhat above the historical average of about one such decision per year. In at least half a dozen other decisions by my count, the court has bent precedent so badly as to approach an overruling.
Admittedly, two of these rulings were unanimous: an 8-0 ruling in 2006 favoring patentholders that tie an unpatented item to their patented product and a 9-0 decision in 2009 changing the procedure in constitutional rights suits against government officials. And in another 2009 decision, the court strengthened individual rights by limiting the authority of police to search a vehicle after arresting the driver. Significantly, Roberts was among four dissenters in that case.
The other overruling cases all came on 5-4 votes that pitted the conservative majority (Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito) against the liberal bloc (Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer and either Souter or in the most recent term Sotomayor). In 2007, the court buried a nearly century-old antitrust precedent that made it illegal for a manufacturer to dictate to retailers a minimum price for its product. In an otherwise insignificant case, the court decided that a missed deadline for filing a notice of appeal — in this case, because of wrong information from the court — requires dismissal of the appeal, no exceptions permitted.
Among the more controversial rulings, the court in 2009 trashed a Burger Court precedent by allowing police to initiate an interrogation of a suspect without notifying his or her lawyer. As Justice Stevens noted in dissent, the new rule gives a criminal suspect less protection than a defendant in a civil suit, who cannot be questioned by the opposing lawyer without notice to counsel.
The Citizens United campaign finance decision in January drove a huge loophole through a century-long rule barring corporate spending in federal campaigns. In a concurring opinion, Roberts sought to justify the majority’s decision to overrule two precedents, the most recent from 2003. Roberts posited a new and troubling justification for overruling prior decisions: “when a precedent’s validity is so hotly contested that it cannot reliably function as a basis for decision in future cases.” In effect, this criterion invites what Roberts said five years ago is impermissible: overruling a past decision because of personal disagreement.
The court finished its term in June with its decision to use the post-Civil War Fourteenth Amendment to extend the newly created Second Amendment individual gun right to state and local governments. That ruling explicitly overturned decisions from the late 19th century, written with the Fourteenth Amendment still in recent memory. And it built on the 2008 decision in the Washington, D.C., Heller case that itself rejected a 70-year-old precedent rejecting an individual right under the Second Amendment.
Among the bent precedents is the 2007 decision upholding a federal ban on so-called “partial birth abortions.” The ruling rode past the Roe v. Wade requirement that abortion regulations include an exception if necessary to protect a woman’s health. In the same, tumultuous term, Roberts led the court in rejecting many voluntary school integration plans and reducing to insignificance a central provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law on election-time TV advertising. Other decisions significantly narrowed high school students’ free speech rights and taxpayers’ ability to challenge government actions on Establishment Clause grounds. All came on 5-4 votes in a term with the highest percentage of one-vote decisions ever in the court’s history.
Dissenting in the school integration case, Justice Breyer added a tart comment from the bench that applies all the more three terms later. “It is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much,” Breyer said. With Roberts so young and the conservative majority so often so entrenched, the prospect is for more jolting changes ahead.
Posted by Kenneth Jost at 6:12 PM
Wade broke 200 years of law and precedent.
It is so incredibly obvious that liberals have no principles at all. If precedent favors the liberals than precedent is right, if precedent favors the conservatives then all of the sudden judicial activism is right.
This post does not claim that the liberals were any more true to precedent. And, if we are going to refer to Roe v. Wade as breaking 200 years of precedent and law, it is important to remember that the decision came down during the Burger Court with Blackmun, Burger, Stewart and Powell signing on to the majority.
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Kenneth Jost is author of Supreme Court Yearbook and Supreme Court From A to Z (both CQ Press) and Trending Toward #Justice. He graduated from Harvard College and Georgetown University Law Center, where he is an adjunct professor. He is a contributing writer with CQ Researcher and was a member of the CQ Researcher team that won the 2002 American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award. His articles have appeared in national and legal publications; he also appears as an analyst on national and local radio and television news programs.
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If I had a 2014 Hall-of-Fame Ballot
The 2014 Hall-of-Fame ballot has more deserving candidates than in any year I can remember. There were already more than 10 viable candidates on the 2013 ballot, but nobody was elected due largely to confusion and division on how to deal with players linked to the Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED). The additions of pitchers Greg Maddux, Mike Mussina and Tom Glavine and slugger Frank Thomas make the 2014 ballot even more crowded. There are 37 players on the ballot and writers can vote for up to 10 candidates. Unless a voter favors a very small elite Hall of Fame, this makes it virtually impossible to fill out a ballot without leaving off some deserving names. I, of course, do not have a vote, but will fill my theoretical ballot here.
My selection process involves comparing players to their contemporaries, other players at the same position and current Hall-of-Fame members. I value peak performance and career performance equally. I use many traditional and advanced statistics, most of which can be found on Baseball-Reference and FanGraphs. Some of my favorites are plate appearances, batting average, on-base percentage, slugging average, batting runs, wOBA,and WAR for hitters and innings pitched, ERA, pitching runs, strikeouts and WAR for pitchers. I used multiple WAR statistics in my analysis, but any WAR cited below is Baseball-Reference WAR.
I do not bring PED use into my thought process. The use of PEDs has been very widespread, not only in the 1990s and 2000's, but all the way back to the sixties and even further. It is impossible to know which players stayed clean and which used and how much it affected their performance. Eliminating or even judging players based on suspicion seems very unfair to me. It also seems pretty obvious that the game turned a blind eye to the problem for many decades. Thus, I consider PED use to have been part of the game and choose players solely based on their on-field performance.
Now, for my ballot:
Barry Bonds: He was the greatest player of his generation and is on a very short list of the best players ever. You can't have a Hall of Fame without him.
Roger Clemens: As with Bonds, it would be silly to leave Clemens out of the Hall-of-Fame. He is one of the five best pitchers in the history of the game.
Greg Maddux: There is absolutely no excuse for leaving Maddux off the ballot. He won four consecutive Cy Young Awards between 1992-1995, has 355 career victories and his 104.8 WAR is 6th on the all-time list of pitchers. There is also no hint of PED use for those who take that into consideration.
Jeff Bagwell: Not on the same level as Bonds, Clemens and Maddox, but still a slam-dunk selection. He is 23rd all-time in Batting Runs and has a WAR comparable to Rod Carew, Joe Dimaggio and Pete Rose.
Mike Piazza: Another automatic selection. He is arguably the best hitting catcher ever leading all receivers in Batting Runs and Weighted Runs Created.
Frank Thomas: Spent much of his career as a designated hitter, but what a hitter he was - an amazing 156 OPS+ lifetime and 15th all-time in batting runs. He should be an automatic selection, but some might penalize him too much for being a designated hitter.
Tom Glavine: played second fiddle to Maddux on the great Braves staffs of the 90s, but still a clear hall of famer with 305 wins, 4,400 IP and 73.6 WAR (22nd among pitchers).
Mike Mussina: Might get overlooked because he never won a Cy Young award, but had a 123 ERA+ in over 3,500 innings and his 345 Pitching Runs was an impressive 13th all-time.
Alan Trammell: He was over shadowed by Cal Ripken and slick-fielding Ozzie Smith, but his 67.1 WAR is tied with Barry Larkin for ninth all-time.
Curt Schilling: He was arguably the best post-season pitcher ever, but was a lot more than that. He had a 127 ERA+, 3,116 strikeouts (15th best ever), 77 WAR (26th best).
A voter can only check off ten names, but there are more than ten who deserve Hall-of-Fame status. Falling off of my ballot from last year are Craig Biggio, Mark McGwire, Tim Raines and Larry Walker. I still believe they belong in the Hall of Fame and would also vote for Edgar Martinez.
Posted by Lee Panas at 12/31/2013 32 comments: Links to this post
Who is the Best Ground Ball Pitcher in Baseball?
Rockies pitcher Jhoulys Chacin is excellent at getting outs on ground balls
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In an earlier post, I examined the performance of major league pitchers on ground balls in 2013 and learned that the Tigers staff had the highest Batting Average Against (BAA) on grounders. The theory was that their generally immobile infield defense was giving up a lot of hits, but it did not seem to have affected all pitchers the same way. While the staff had a .278 average on ground balls (versus an MLB average of .241), Anibal Sanchez was apparently unaffected posting a .243 average. So, I was curious to see what other pitchers in the majors had better than expected results on ground balls.
One year of data doesn't give us a good sample of ground balls to work with for individual pitchers, so I expanded to three years (2011-2013). Table 1 below shows the top ground ball BAAs for pitchers allowing at least 400 ground balls from 2011-2013. The leader was Rockies right hander Jhoulys Chacin at .176 (He was also the leader when I did this previously for 2010-2012). Chacin was a moderate ground ball pitcher during the period with a 49% ground ball rate on batted balls. Given that Chacin played half his games in Coors Field, a power hitter's paradise, his ability to gets outs on ground balls was certainly advantageous.
Table 1: Batting Average Against on Ground Balls, 2011-2013
Scott Feldman
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Some pitchers benefited from better infield defense than others with team ground ball BAAs ranging from .230 for the Reds to .266 for the Tigers. That is not necessarily all defense of course. It could have been that some staffs allowed harder hit ground balls than others. Over three years, however, I would guess that averages would even out enough to suggest something about team defense. I attempted to adjust for differences in infield defense by calculating the ground ball BAA of other pitchers on the same staff. For example, Chacin had a .144 BAA in 2011 compared to .251 for other Colorado pitchers. So, his BAA was 43% better than the average pitcher giving him a BAA+ of 143 that year.
Chacin's numbers in 2012 and 2013 were 121 and 114 respectively and the weighted average of all three years was 128. Thus, he was 28% better at avoiding hits on ground balls than the average pitcher. Table 2 below shows that this was also the top BAA+ on ground balls in the majors. The worst pitcher at preventing hits on ground balls was former Yankees' right hander Phil Hughes at 72 (28% worse than average).
Table 2: Adjusted Batting Average Against on Ground Balls, 2011-2013
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Hiroki Kuroda
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Looking at Tigers pitchers, Verlander's 233 BAA did not make the top 50, but his 114 BAA+ was 15th in baseball as he was better at preventing hits on grounders than other Tigers pitchers. Conversely, Max Scherzer was one of the worst in the majors with an 85 BAA+. So, it's good that he is an extreme fly ball pitcher as well as a strikeout artist. Other current and former Tigers pitchers include Doug Fister (109), Anibal Sanchez (100) and Rick Porcello (98). Note that Sanchez's statistics also include time with the Marlins.
I put the numbers for all MLB pitchers in 2011-2013 into a Google spreadsheet.
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A distant relative to the poinsettia and native of Cuba and the West Indies, the tropical evergreen shrub Jatropha only flourishes in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 and 11. Although many species exist under the Jatropha genus, the most popular and commercially accessible cultivar for home gardeners is variously called spicy jatropha, peregrina and firecracker (J. integerrima “Compacta”). Clusters of rose-red flowers appear on the 4- year to 6-foot tree the majority of the year. Tropical Blooms One-inch flowers saturated at a pinkish-red hue are hot jatropha’s most distinguishing attribute. Masses of those flowers, held erect over the foliage, can attract attention to a certain area of the garden. Typically multitrunked, the plant boasts leaves, as long as 7 ins, that could possibly be oblong or fiddle-shaped. Almost as interesting as the blooms, the new foliage comes in purple but turns a bright, shiny green. Butterflies often…
Water Plants for Small Ponds in Complete Sun
Small ponds provide a number of the very same benefits as a sizable body of water, but without taking up a great deal of room. Adding plants to the pond will create a balanced ecosystem while providing hiding places, food and nesting areas. If the small pond receives six to eight hours or more of sunlight, then pick pond plants that thrive in full sunlight. Marginal Plants Some species of grasslike aquatic plants grow best in the borders or margin of small ponds. Needle spikerush (Eleocharis acicularis) and corcksrew rush (Juncus effusus spiralis) are just two such marginal plants that won’t overtake the small pond with large leaf. Needle spikerush — sometimes called dwarf hairgrass — rises to only about 8 inches tall in shallow water or along the edge of slopes. It provides shelter and protection for tadpoles and small fish. It grows in full sunlight in U.S. Department…
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Vines serve many purposes in the landscape and are often valued for their ability to add grace and beauty to a fence. A vine-covered fence provides a degree of solitude for an outdoor space or breaks the monotony of a long, unsightly fence. Typically classified by their scaling habit, vines grow up a fence by clinging, twining or tendrils. Clinging Clinging vines may require a little bit of help initially, as the vines climb by small rootlets that attach themselves to the timber. Once the vine is established, it rises a fence with no advice. Vines suitable for growing a fence comprise Armand’s clematis (Clematis armandii), a hardy perennial vine valued for its stunning blooms. Armand’s clematis, suitable for growing in U.S. Department of Agriculture zones 3 through 9, reaches heights of 15 to 20 feet at maturity. Cross vine (Bignonia capreolata) is a showy vine with trumpet-shaped blooms that…
Do Taproots Assist Hold the Soil in Place and protect against Erosion?
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Erosion is one of the banes of home gardening. Often thought of as a phenomenon which affects beaches and hillsides, vandalism also eliminates dirt from home gardens when conditions are appropriate. Installing shrubs, flowering plants and other plants usually helps keep dirt in place only when they have fibrous root systems. If they’ve taproot systems, your erosion-control campaigns would not have as much success — unless the taproots have extensive lateral roots. Development of Soil Erosion Soil erosion occurs when something carries away soil on a regular basis and the dirt isn’t replaced. As an instance, water may wash dirt down slopes, and wind can blow away dry dirt. The dirt within an erosion area gradually lessens over time, leaving exposed rock or such shallow layers of dirt that planting becomes hard unless topsoil is additional. When water or wind can’t be controlled, then controlling erosion requires stabilizing the dirt…
Can Collards Withstand Multiple Frosts?
December 29, 2019 | Yarstions
Often grown for fresh winter greens, collards (Brassica oleracea var. Acephala) can endure numerous frosts and keep producing under cold conditions which prevent other members of the Brassica familymembers. In actuality, the cool temperatures which precede frost improve the sweetness in the leaves. Collard green plants have been biennials which overwinter at U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 8 through 10, with a few varieties hardy to USDA zone 6. One Tough Vegetable With normal weather patterns, collard plants can survive temperatures down to approximately 20 degrees Fahrenheit, so long as they’re growing in well-drained soil. The exception is when a hard freeze follows a period of unusually warm weather, which does not permit the plant to acclimate gradually to lower temperatures. As the weather cools before frost, the plant converts starches in the leaves to sugars and changes the structure of their proteins. This chemical reaction gives credence…
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Watching plant roots grow in transparent pots gives an intriguing look below the surface, but those clear walls do not suit all plants. Many typical potted plants grow better in nontransparent containers. For plants which naturally grow in soil, opaque pots lead to greater growth above and below ground. Sensors with light-seeking air roots, which obviously grow without soil, do nicely in containers that are clear. Soil Roots and Darkness When roots naturally grow below the soil surface, neighboring light signs they are headed the incorrect way. Like roots, roots feature growth-directing hormones known as auxins, which tell them which way to grow. In precisely the same way that upper growth on plants bends toward well-lit windows, roots naturally develop from light. They seek protective and shadow moisture rather. In transparent pots, these roots avoid light-penetrated areas of soil. Forced into high-light locations, light-sensitive roots recoil and slow or stop…
Strong a Breeze Will Uproot a Tree?
An uprooted tree, lying broken roots splayed out from the air, on its side, is a sight to get a homeowner because the root system damage spells death for the shrub. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates that a direct line end of 75 to 89 miles per hour could uproot a tree, depending on the size and kind of shrub — and its own surroundings. Weather Earth is the immediate source of uprooting, called”windthrow.” Hurricanes — even severe thunderstorms contain 75-mile-plus winds. According to the new Enhanced F Scale of NOAA trees uproot in winds ranging from 73 to 112 miles, which translates into an F-0 into F-1 storm. Strip the bark or higher winds in the categories that are over and F-3 tend to snap trunks. Soil Type and illness can reduce the end requirement for windthrow significantly. Very sandy soil lets go easily than loam, and…
The way to Grow Watercress at Home
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Clump Amur Maple Review
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Last weekend, on a snowy Wisconsin Saturday, crowds in Madison swelled to more than 100,000.
Working men and women, community activists, faith leaders, students and environmentalists gathered to tell their governor, Scott Walker, to stop the attacks on workers, middle–class jobs and our right to bargain for a better life. At the same time, working people everywhere joined solidarity rallies in all 50 state capitals and in many other cities around the country.
On Sunday, Gov. Walker ordered police to close the capitol. But the people held their house, as chants of “What do we want? Justice,” “Whose house? Our house!” and “This is what democracy looks like” filled the rotunda.
Later, Gov. Walker even bolted the windows shut. But, we prevailed in court, as a judge ordered the Wisconsin capitol opened.
In Wisconsin, protesters have been able to spend days and nights in the capitol because our movement is so strong on the ground.
The solidarity and energy of the people of Wisconsin and their brothers and sisters in other states where workers are under attack—and in all 50 states—is forging a new chapter for working Americans, and changing our politics for the better.
Solidarity from coast to coast includes ordinary Americans, famous Americans and athletes like the Green Bay Packers, who issued a statement of solidarity with Wisconsin workers early on in this fight.
Today, the Packers and all NFL players are facing their own unfair deal. Help the Packers, and all NFL players, block a lockout before their contract expires at 11:59:59 p.m. Thursday, by signing the “Block the Lockout” petition now.
Gov. Walker’s political attacks on working families are so extreme they’ve rightly galvanized a broad coalition of Americans who are fed up with losing ground while the rich get tax cuts and bailouts.
We are shifting the national debate as even multiple Republican governors have come out in disagreement with Walker and his tactics. Here are just two examples:
“We’ll begin negotiations with the public-sector unions and anticipate we’ll conduct those in good faith.”
— Gov. Tom Corbett (R-Pa.)
“My belief is as long as people know what they’re doing, collective bargaining is fine.”
— Gov. Rick Scott (R-Fla.)
What’s happening in Wisconsin has been the start of a movement that keeps going and growing in ways we could not have anticipated two weeks ago. And last weekend was only the beginning.
In Ohio, 20,000 people gathered at the state capitol yesterday at a rally to save Ohio’s middle class.
And in Indiana, rallies are continuing every single day. Already this week, more than 25,000 working men and women rallied at the Indiana statehouse voicing their opposition to legislation that seeks to limit collective bargaining, lower wages and weaken the voice of workers.
In the coming days, more rallies are expected in Florida, Indiana, New York and Ohio. Workers from coast to coast have had enough of the scapegoating. We’re ready to roll up our sleeves and find solutions—but we’re not willing to take the blame and bear the entire brunt of an economic crisis that was caused by Wall Street bankers.
As we fight to make America more balanced for workers, we will lose some battles. But when we can’t find the votes today, we will make it up with shoe-leather tomorrow. We will stand together. We will help workers organize. We will keep building our movement. We will win elections—starting at the local level and working our way up to the top. In the end, workers will win the day. But only if we fight harder and are more united than ever before.
Sign our statement of solidarity for Wisconsin workers—we’ll deliver your comments to the people on the ground.
Achieving sustained victories starts with making our voices heard. At the statehouse. At the voting booth. At the phone bank. At a town hall meeting. By writing to state or local officials.
Wisconsin’s not just a place. It’s a movement. Thanks for being a part of it.
Manny Herrmann
Online Mobilization Coordinator, AFL-CIO
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There's no disappointment as bitter as potential unfulfilled. A game that starts out as a breath of fresh air only to quickly stagnate. To borrow a phrase, a crappy game will always be a crappy game. Ikari Warriors is steaming garbage from "Press Start" to "Game Over." With little expected, Ikari's failure means little.
Motor City Patrol, surprisingly enough, starts with promise. Its "drive around a city completing tasks" gameplay makes it a spiritual forerunner to Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto series. Developed by Source Research and Development and released in 1992 by Matchbox (yes, the toy car people), Motor City Patrol doesn't boast a stellar pedigree. Source R and D's only other games are the infamously bad Noah's Ark (also released by Matchbox) and a Gameboy puzzler called The Pyramids of Ra.
But once Motor City Patrol gets revving, we see a game with a decent handle of what the NES allows. The graphics, as exemplified by the title logo in the header, are surprisingly rich. The controls are responsive and tight. The plot is simple enough: the player controls a police car which must patrol the city, stopping speeders, thieves and criminals along the way. Pressing Select brings up a map of the city which shows where the criminals are. If a criminal gets too cheeky, pressing B fires your police sidearm out the car window. Nabbing criminals earns the player points which can be used to upgrade their patrol car.
Out patrolin'...
...and checkin' the map.
To "win," the player must patrol 7 days in each of the city's 5 precincts. However, accidentally arresting innocent citizens or letting too many law-breakers escape earns the player a warning. 5 warnings, or accidentally shooting innocent motorists, ends the game. Crashing the car into too many obstacles (but strangely enough, not cars) will also end the game. To neutralize any warnings and damage to your car, 16 "stolen items," aka flashing chotchkies, are scattered through the player's patrol route. Collecting them all will reset the player's "warnings" and car damage to zero. These are vital in the later stages of the game.
That is, of course, assuming you can play to the later stages without dying of boredom first. Because Motor City Patrol is a high-priced sportscar without a road to drive.
Precinct 1 - The Financial District
The first day in the Financial District eases players into a cops' life. The map is simplistic, marked with buildings around which the car must patrol. Speeders and thieves occasionally pop up on the city map (in red and yellow, respectively). It's a joy to flash the cherries and chase truants. Once found, obstructing criminals with the lights flashing will bring them to justice. At the end of the "day" (here 2 minutes of real time) the chief assesses points and warnings depending on your performance.
The day done, you pull into the police garage. Here you can spend any points on tricked-out steering, top speed, etc, as well as repair any (inevitable) damage to you cruiser.
Okay, so it's more patrolling, more speeders, more thieves, and more time. There's still a strange joy in speeding around the map, flashing the police lights. But, dang, do you have to press select a lot to bring up the map. It's starting to feel like you spend more time looking at the map than actually playing the game.
Uh... more speeders? How many truants live in the financial district? Day 3 changes game mechanics slightly by interrupting your patrol with an APB for a big-time criminal. Except the game mechanic of catching a "big-time criminal" is the same as catching petty thieves: put the lights on and obstruct the offending car. A special screen congratulates you collar, but then it's back to the (literally) endless parade of speeders. Did I mention day three is a minute longer than day 2, which was a minute longer than day 1? And damn, my thumb is sore from constantly having to press select and check the map.
And I hope you didn't fully upgrade your patrol car's speed and handling, because past the first upgrade, it becomes an uncontrollable death missile.
Oh my god, please, no more speeders! No more speeders! But that's it. By day 3 of Precinct 1, Motor City Patrol has played all its cards. The maps (generally) become more complex from precinct to precinct and each day requires a longer patrol, but otherwise, the game doesn't deviate one damn bit. Worse, the maps for Precincts 3 and 4 are exactly the same! Constantly pressing select to check the map becomes a chore, a constant reminder of time's ceaseless march and the meaninglessness of everything.
Finishing 7 days in all 5 precincts would require over 3 hours of real time, all without saves or continues. Motor City Patrol's endless repetition quickly becomes a lesser form of torture. Look at a successful game like Super Mario Bros. 3. SMB3 uses its first world to establish gameplay tropes (running, jumping, power-ups) and then spends the next 7 worlds subverting those rules to create challenge and fun. Motor City Patrol, on the other hand, sets expectations in the first three levels and then keeps to its pattern without deviation.
Motor City Patrol plays more like a demo or proof of concept than an actual, finished NES title. It seems like the devs came up with a novel (for the time) mechanic, and then, instead of asking "how can we push this to its limits?" they simply slapped Matchbox's name on it and called it day.
Similar "drive-around-accomplishing-missions" NES titles such as Rare's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bandai's Dick Tracy and Mindscape's Mad Max, find similar shortcomings. Roger Rabbit and Dick Tracy compensate by favoring side-scrolling missions over driving. Perhaps the NES's limitations made a Grand Theft Auto-styled game impossible.
...But perhaps not.
ROM City Rampage
In June of 2015 indie game devs Vblank Entertainment released a faux 8-bit GTA homage for PC and WiiWare entitled Retro City Rampage. Retro City's mechanics mirror GTA: a ne'er-do-well wanders tough streets, making cash by performing tasks of questionable legality. Rival criminals, cops and pedestrians are all fair game. Retro City started its development life as a NES homebrew. Even after switching to more powerful hardware, those 8-bit roots show in the game's pixelated graphics and sprite-based animations. Not to mention the many NES easter eggs hidden among its graphical assets.
Normally, referencing the NES on a WiiWare/Steam game wouldn't merit mention. However, hidden in Retro City Rampage's code is a fully-functioning NES ROM. An arcade within Retro City Rampage allows players to play this 100% NES version of the game, called, ROM City Rampage. In fact, the ROM Data can even be extracted from the game and plugged into any NES emulator.
Even in its prototype version, without any "mission" functionality, ROM City Rampage is 1000 times more fun than Motor City Patrol could ever hope to be. ROM City is bright and colorful in a way Motor City Patrol's precise grey tones don't even approach. The ability to enter and exit cars and the presence of pedestrians in ROM City add layers upon layers of depth. ROM City is a NES sandbox to explore and play in. Motor City Patrol is, comparatively and functionally, a minecart on rails. Playing Motor City and ROM City back-to-back makes you ache for what Source Research and Development could have achieved if only they'd put in the time and money. Armed with an MM5 memory chip--the Rolls Royce of NES chipsets--and another year of development, Motor City Patrol could have been a late-cycle NES gem. Like Esper Dream 2 to Secret of Mana, Motor City Patrol could have pioneered a new genre of game as predecessor to GTA.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda.
Instead, Motor City Patrol is all style and no substance. It is a great game wasted, a wonderful gameplay mechanic wandering repetitive, empty streets without any real purpose.
Posted by Keith is Good! at 11:45 AM 33 comments
Labels: 8-Bit, 8-Bit Encyclopaedia, Grand Theft Auto, Motor City Patrol, NES, Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System, Retro City Rampage, Retro Gaming, ROM City Rampage, writing
A play in One Act
By Keith Good
(Lights up on a bar’s speed dating night. Two tables are set up, each with two chairs. DAVE sits at the downstage left table, in conversation with a FLOOZY. CHERYL and another MAN sit at the upstage right table. They all wear nametags. Dave can’t help but steal glances over to Cheryl as he and the Floozy talk.)
(The Floozy slides her hand under the table, slides it up Dave’s groin.)
FLOOZY
So it…?
Every time I lie.
(The Floozy nods him on.)
(a knowing lie)
I am very bad in bed.
(The Floozy’s eyes go wide. Her mouth drops open.)
It’s…it’s a fish!
A rainbow trout. Every time I lie, for about 30 seconds. Just long enough to have some real fun.
Cursed by a witch on a Transylvanian booze cruise. I tell you, though, it’s more of a blessing. This trout swims up plenty of streams.
(Ding! A bell rings and the round is over. The woman frowns as she gets up. Dave scribbles a telephone number on her wrist.)
Anytime you want to visit Dave’s animal kingdom.
(The Floozy exits, smiling at the number written on her arm. Dave wiggles with anticipation as Cheryl approaches and sits. His smile quickly fades, however, as a BEAR sits in Cheryl’s place at the table beside them.)
Oh god. Oh no.
Well hello Dave. I’m Cheryl. Pleasure to meet you.
(Cheryl extends her hand. Dave very nervously takes it, gives a limp shake.)
So, what do you do, Dave?
I…I, ah, work at…a restaurant.
You’re a Chef?
(Dave begins to nod, but beside them, the Bear perks up, sniffs the air.)
I’m a busboy! Fine! I said it.
Did I do something wrong? I’m new to this Tinder, this speed dating stuff.
No, it’s not you. (Nods to the Bear) Don’t you see? A grizzly.
Well of course she’s a bear. We’re in the 21st Century. She has every right to find love as you or I.
No…no, of course bears deserve love. It’s…I have a, phobia, is all.
(Relieved)
Oh. And here I thought you were a bear-ist bigot. Well don’t worry. I think your little phobia is adorable. Tell me more about Dave: what college did you go to?
(Pained)
I…went to school in Michigan.
No! I’m from Ann Arbor! When were you at U.M.?
(speaking carefully)
I went to school…for five years…
(The Bear again perks up. She yowls.)
I got an online criminal justice degree from my Mom’s basement in Detroit.
(The Bear shrinks back down, disappointed.)
Listen, let’s…I desperately want to hear about you. What do you do, Carol?
(looking down to her name tag)
Cheryl.
Cheryl, yes. Sorry. It’s the…(under his breath) The bear is making me nervous. Sorry. Your job, Cheryl.
(Cheryl gets flushed, hands kneading.)
I don’t usually to talk about my job on first dates…
Really, please. An accountant? A stripper? I literally don’t care. You could be a baby seal clubber. Please, anything but you asking me questions.
Oh, well, okay…I work as a—ah—as a “physiological model” for a company that produces, um...(leans forward, speaks low) Male masturbation aids?
The Maxx Pleasure Company? My, uh…(nods down to her lap) She’s the top seller. Are you familiar…?
(shaking his head)
Nnnnnnn—
(The Bear turns sharply to Dave. She leans close, begins lowing quietly to herself, pawing at the air.)
(lights up)
I can't, uh, believe I'm meeting "The Cheryl." I'm, uh, I'm a fan.
(The Bear continues looking, suspicious, to Dave, but quits her sniffing. After a moment, she slouches, disappointed back in her seat.)
I guess I owe you some of my royalty checks then. You know…the other men here all lie, they’re all “surgeons” or “corporate lawyers.” I mean, what are the odds every guy here went to Harvard, right? Your honesty is kind of…sexy.
(Leans close. Grabs Dave’s hands again)
Very. Tell me, how did you get to be so honest, Dave?
Oh no. Can we go back to talking about you? Did you, ah, study to be a sex doll in college?
(playful)
I’ve told you more than enough. Your turn. I’ll even go easy on you. Have you ever been married?
Do green card marriages count?
Please, please. I really, desperately don’t want to talk about myself right now.
But we’re on a speed date, Dave. What else do expect to talk about? The stock market?
What about that Dow-Jones Average, huh? Like it’s on Viagra!
Listen, let’s just leave. We can go to my place. Or your place. The park, laser-tag, I don’t care. I will tell you literally anything about myself, just please, please let’s leave first.
Why are you being so weird? I think you’re really cute, but you answer every question like you’re passing a kidney stone. Tell me something true.
The truth, Dave.
(Dave looks longingly at Cheryl, then at the bear. Back to Cheryl, then the bear.)
(Deep breath, all in one run-on sentence)
You’re smoking hot and I really want you to take you back to my place, but I’m kind of a loser so I need to lie, but whenever I lie, my penis turns into a rainbow trout for thirty seconds and if that happens, I’m afraid that bear will eat me.
(A beat.)
Your penis turns into a rainbow trout.
Whenever I lie. For thirty seconds. I was cursed by a Transylvanian witch.
(Cheryl stands. The rest of the speed daters turn to the conflagration.)
A rainbow trout penis?!
(Cheryl looks with disbelief at Dave’s groin. Dave looks down as well. The Bear looks interested.)
It’s not a very big trout.
No! I meant—
I knew I shouldn’t have mentioned my job! I can’t believe I was actually going to sleep with you!
(Dave stands, grabs Cheryl by the wrist.)
You can still sleep with me! I’ll prove it! I‘ll lie! (He guides Cheryl’s hand toward his groin.) I do not own two of your plastic vaginas!
(Cheryl pulls her hand away before it touches Dave’s groin. She rears back and slaps him hard across the face. At the exact same moment we hear the—ding! —of the round ending.)
You pervert! This is why I never mention my job! Everyone just assumes I’m some sort of floozy! Pigs! Ugh! You are never going see me again. You’re banned from Maxx Pleasure!
(Cheryl storms off. Dave turns and watches, whimpering, squirming and uncomfortable, as she departs. With his back turned, the Bear approaches. Beat. The Bear taps Dave’s shoulder. Dave turns, eyes wide.)
Do I smell rainbow trout?
(Dave whimpers as the lights fade to black.)
Posted by Keith is Good! at 1:36 PM 19 comments
Labels: Comedy, drama, one act, one act play, Skit, SNL, Trout Fishing, writing
Works of fiction often come to be known by their openings. "Call me Ishmael." "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
In that spirit, I'm posting the opening lines of my various short story and novel manuscripts. Today we have:
"We’re all transparent. Hold your hand up to a light. Doesn't it make you anxious? Our bones and veins and organs, it’s just fruit suspended in strawberry jello. A bright enough light and our insides glow, a neon sign, open."
Although the story is by no means done, the opening paragraph, the spark which drove me to write this story down, originally began as follows:
"It's strange. Hold your hand up to a light. There are the bones, shadows swimming in red pink jelly. Veins like neon.That we can see through so easily. Guess that's what X-rays are. Just powerful light. Light bouncing and projecting, the world always a fraction of a second in the past. Maybe the whole thing is just a projection; theory that we’re all just holograms projected on dimensions of spacetime beyond perception."
Who knows what the next month will change.
Posted by Keith is Good! at 5:00 AM 1 comments
Labels: First Lines, keithisgood, writing
By Keith Good and Terri Foltz
(Lights up on a library. A demure LIBRARIAN stands at a shelf, straightening books, humming. A BUM enters, looking rough, stumbling ever so slightly.)
BUM:
(Loudly)
I need to win friends—
LIBRARIAN:
Shh.
(quieter)
I need to win friends and influence people.
You could start with a breath mint.
No, the book.
The what?
Is… This is the library, right? Are you not familiar with Dale Carnegie? C-A-R—
I assure you, I know how to spell. Spelling is de rigueur at Yale.
Oh, you went to Yale? As in…New Haven, “Yale?”
No, the Yale School for Dogs. Of course New Haven Yale.
Yale...The best 2 ½ years of my life. New England Autumn often wins the song of poets and philosophers, but I’ve found no beauty as sublime as the campus green stirring with Spring’s flame… Co-Eds budding under budding cherry trees, sunshine molting their winter skins—
Wait, you…you graduated from Yale? In 2 ½ years?
Graduate? From Yale? Oh, no.
Labels: Comedy, drama, Library, one act, one act play, Skit, SNL, writing
8-Bit Encyclopaedia: Bucky O'Hare
Bucky O'Hare hit the NES in January of 1992 to almost zero fanfare. Developed by Konami, Bucky O'Hare drowned in the wake of Nintendo's newly-released 16-bit Super NES console. Gaming fans were too busy with Super Mario World and F-Zero to care about a green-furred, epaulet-wearing space rabbit.
Bucky O'Hare: the NES's
only hero with epaulets!
Bucky also suffered by association. Two out of every three NES games released in 1992 were either sequels or adaptions1. Much like Hollywood does with today's blockbuster films, NES game developers turned to pre-existing intellectual properties as a way to hedge potential losses in an increasingly competitive home gaming market.
The NES had mixed success with adapted properties. Turds like Back to the Future, The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants, Fester's Quest (the Adams Family), Jaws, Top Gun, Die Hard and Hudson Hawk stunk up store shelves. The Bucky O'Hare comic and cartoon were themselves seen as derivative of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. For all intents and purposes, Bucky O'Hare looked like Konami's last attempt to cash in before the NES died.
But let's remember, this is Konami, developers of Castlevania, Contra, TMNT II, Metal Gear and Tiny Toon Adventures. Books shouldn't be judged by their covers2. Bucky O'Hare is one of the best run 'n' gun platforming games on the NES console.
Posted by Keith is Good! at 10:32 AM 0 comments
Labels: 8-Bit Encyclopaedia, Bucky O'Hare, Games, keithisgood, NES, NES Hard, Nintendo, Nintendo Entertainment System, Retro Gaming, writing
Billy Beane Buys a Sandwich
Below is a lovely snippet of my latest work over at TheSpitter.com, a David Ives-ian look at baseball's fascination with Moneyball:
A Play in One Act by Keith Good
(Lights up; the scene is frozen. A Baker stands in an apron and toq behind a “Sandwich” counter in the O-Co Coliseum. Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane is standing before the counter. Very serious. OPS Machine Scott Hatteberg and Pete the stats geek browse the soft pretzels. Pete is looking at Billy Beane. They stand in tableaux, a moment of stillness.)
PETE. Is that…Billy Beane?
HATTEBERG. I think so. (Hatteberg turns and looks)
BAKER. Can I help you sir?
BEANE. I need a loaf of bread, please.
BAKER. We usually sell sandwiches, Mr. Beane, but if you want…
PETE. It’s time now.
HATTEBERG. I should go. (But they don’t move. Billy turns and looks at Hatteberg. They look in silence at one another, frozen.)
BAKER. Do you know that man? (A bell rings. The lights change.)
BEANE. (Dreamily) He gets on base a lot. Do I care if it’s a walk or a hit? If ever they make a movie about how I assemble personnel—
BAKER. They did make a movie—
BEANE. Hatteberg would be emblematic of my frugal, analytic-driven baseball.
To the small slice of Venn Diagram between "Theater Geek" and "Baseball Analytics Nerd," READ THE REST AT THESPITTER.COM!
Labels: Baseball, Billy Beane, David Ives, keithisgood, The Spitter, writing
The NFL's Choice: Flopping or Falling Slack
The NFL has a rules problem1. The 2016 Wild Card game between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh shows a league completely without control. The players can’t control themselves. The coaches can’t control their players. Coaches can’t control other coaches. The officials can’t control the game.
Steeler fans may disagree on principle, but Cincinnati/Pittsburgh ended in the worst imaginable way. The officials, waist-deep and drowning fast after a four-quarter deluge of chaos and fighting, gamely tried to scoop the water from their sinking boat with yellow flags.
Which isn’t to say either of the game’s signature penalties weren’t well-earned. I can only lament that they had but 15 yards to penalize for Burfict’s headhunting; it deserved 45. And Adam Jones has no business shoving an opposing coach (even a coach with absolutely no business on the field of play). Ultimately, though, blame rests on the NFL to have let a marquee game deteriorate to the point that two desperate flags in the waning seconds should be the difference between victory and defeat.
Sports fans moan and sneer when Major League Baseball umpires toss batters for seemingly insignificant reasons. Football fans are particularly chuckle and roll their eyes at FIFA soccer players flopping for fouls2
But an MLB Umpshow is far preferable to an NFL Shitshow. And I’d rather see a player flopping to draw a foul than a player going limp after being struck in the head by blunt-force trauma.
As the NFL rules now stand, players fear little in-game retribution from officials. Post-game, NFL Emperor Roger Goodell can hand down fines and suspensions, but what is threat of a fine if it means your team advances toward the Super Bowl? Find me an NFL player who wouldn’t trade 25 large for a win and I’ll find you the lost city of Atlantis.
The word “ejection” appears only once—once!—in the NFL rulebook, in Section 3, Article 1, in describing a player who carries a “foreign object” on the field. “Disqualification” appears 9 times, couched in either hazy or overly extreme language. A flagrant roughing the passer foul can result in ejection (but has it ever?). A player removing their helmet and using it as a weapon results in ejection. “Palpably Unfair Action(s)” can result in ejection.
Cincinnati and Pittsburgh showed the NFL needs to borrow from FIFA and MLB and amend its rulebook.
First, the NFL needs to give its officials the power to issue what in MLB is a “bench warning.” If a pitcher throws over a batter’s head, the MLB umpire can go to each dugout and inform team managers that any subsequent flagrant actions by either team will result in punitive action and player ejection.
The moment Steelers Coach Mike Munchak swung Bengal Reggie Neslon by the hair, the officials should have issued a “bench warning.” Not a sideline warning—where officials warn that coaches and players have crowded too close (or onto) the field of play—but an explicit and strict warning that any ensuing knuckleheadedness would earn players and coaches an all-expenses paid trip to the showers.
These rules need explicitly apply to players and coaches alike. Not to point fingers, but actions during the Wild Card game only continue the recent narrative of Steeler coaches interfering with on-field action. “Accidentally” tripping a player or instigating fights must result immediate in-game retribution for offending coaches.
Subsequent to any “bench warning,” on-field personnel rules must strictly enforced starting yesterday and officials must have power to toss coaches. Steelers coach Joey Porter entered the field of play late in the 4th Quarter fully intending to draw an unsportsmanlike call from out-of-control, hot-headed Bengals players3. There was no logical reason for Porter to be on the field other than Bengal-baiting. The moment his foot crossed the white line, it should have been 15-yards and enjoy your flight home.
In tandem with MLB-style “bench warnings” the NFL must also institute a FIFA-styled Red Card system. NFL rules must specify that repeated personal fouls (perhaps, outside of incidental facemask penalties) will, without question, without bloviation and without further recourse, result in immediate disqualification. Call it the #BurfictRule if you’d like. That way, if Bengals Head Coach Marvin Lewis can’t control his emotionally-challenged linebackers, the officials can step in and do it for him.
College Football already has these rules in place. Take as an example, the Fiesta Bowl pitting Ohio State against Notre Dame. The Buckeyes’ All-World defensive end Joey Bosa led with his helmet in making a tackle late in the first quarter. Because NCAA Football rules explicitly prohibit leading with the crown of the helmet, Bosa was instantly disqualified from the game4. As Walter Sobchak would say, “This isn’t ‘Nam, Smoky. There are Rules.”
If the NFL wants to see Super Bowl 100, rules changes must be made in the interests of decency and player safety. Mothers and fathers are already pushing children toward safer sports. We’re nearing the point that local legislators may have to step in: if the NFL won’t hold needless violence accountable, perhaps civil courts will. Our knowledge of CTE and post-concussion syndrome are only going to grow. Already football fans cry and moan misogyny, equating safety-minded rules changes to skipping through fields and picking posies, but its high time America’s sport and its fans take a look in the mirror.
Would you rather see Antonio Brown flopping for a foul, or Antonio Brown slack and unconscious on the field of play?
1. Actually, it has a number of them. One of the game’s basic actions, completing a catch, is now bogged down in an NFL War and Peace of hazy language and amorphous definition: “Making a football move,” “Becoming a runner,” “Maintaining the catch.” Catches in 2016’s NFL seem to be judged by Supreme Court Justice Stewart Potter’s infamous definition of pornography: “I know it when I see it.” But we digress.↩
2. Or a flopping NBA player, for that matter.↩
3. And of course they fell for his trolling like the dopes they are.↩
4. Which isn’t to say the NCAA’s Targeting rule isn’t fraught with its own problems in language, only that it’s a clear example of promising ejection to bad play and then following through.↩
Labels: Antonio Brown, Cincinnati Bengals, Flopping, Football, NFL, Pittsburgh Steelers, writing
Browns Reach Apathy-Level Awfulness
Cleveland Browns:Professional Football::Tang:Orange Juice.
At this point, Cleveland shouldn't be calling themselves a "Football Team," so much as a "American Football-styled Sports Franchise." Some pundits want the head coach fired. Other talking heads yip and yap about a bumbling General Manager or a crooked owner. In response to all this I can only say the following:
Do whatever you want, Cleveland, because it's difficult for me to find a flying rat's tail to give anymore.
Labels: art, Browns, Cleveland Browns, Football, keithisgood, NFL
Just another in a series I'm starting; taking a look at that first spark that puts my pen (UniBall Signo 207 or bust) to paper and gets the ink flowing. Perhaps I'll revisit these once I win a Hugo or Pulitzer...or five.
I should say this draft is also singular in that, instead of putting paper to pen, this one was thumb to touchscreen: this was drafted entirely on a smartphone using Google Docs. Appropriate, given it's nature.
"It's not so bad as it sounds, being your refrigerator's pet."
So what do you think? Hooked? Left cold? What story would you expect this line to belong to? Feel free to comment below.
Posted by Keith is Good! at 4:00 PM 0 comments
8 Bit Encyclopaedia - Ninja Gaiden 3
What's behind your back?
Sometimes, you beat a video game and watch the credits with a silent swell of satisfaction. Sometimes, you beat a video game and shout obscenities as the boss disintegrates into pixels and then run around the room blasting the double-bird at the dead bastard. Ninja Gaiden III: The Ainceint Ship of Doom1 falls into the latter category.
Tecmo released Ninja Gaiden III to Japan in late June of 1991 and in America a few months later. Anyone familiar with the game's more popular forebears knows the routine: Ninja Ryu Hayabusa runs and jumps through screen after screen of perilously-placed baddies, slashing everything with his dragon sword. Along the way he collects magical power-ups such as spiraling fireballs and ninja stars. The game reveals plot through cinematic cut-scenes2.
Ninja Gaiden III makes small tweaks to this formula. First, Ninja Gaiden III gives Ryu the ability to hang down from and crawl under certain platforms. It's a nice change and allows for more variety in level design. The game's powerup pods also kindly show the prizes within. Opaque pods in previous Gaiden titles often saw Ryu slashing a pod and receiving an unwanted sub-weapon3. Ninja Gaiden III also makes minor adjustments to game physics. Compared to Ninja Gaidens I and II, Ryu jumps smoother and farther.
Ninja Gaiden (1989)
Ryu jumps 4 body lengths
Ninja Gaiden III (1991)
Ryu jumps and floats 4+ body lengths
There's a plot in Ninja Gaiden III but it's terribly contrived and not really worth much mention. The opening cinematic shows Ryu's girlfriend falling from a cliff to her doom, pushed by...[gasp] Ryu! Accused of murder, Ryu quests to clear his name, stumbling onto a vast government conspiracy of clones, genetic experiments and inter-dimensional evil. It's a pity the game falls into such vanilla Anime tropes, as the first two Gaiden games had decent plotting and character development. Here? Not so much--just shut up about plot and go slash some stuff!
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Kevin McKidd has played a time-traveling journalist, a tortured Roman soldier, and a star athlete–turned–heroin addict. But nothing quite compares to his most recent role: In "Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief," McKidd moves earth and sea as the Greek god Poseidon. "You do some research into the traits of the gods, I guess," muses the actor, sounding remarkably laid-back as he reflects on how, exactly, one prepares to play a towering mythological figure. "You look at images. But in this movie, I had to take the lead from [director] Chris Columbus, pick his brains a little and see what realm he wanted us, the actors, to live in."
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As a kid growing up in "a very small, quite old-fashioned town" in the highlands of Scotland, McKidd used acting to escape his crippling shyness. "I found it very hard to talk to adults," he recalls. "Suddenly I did a school play, and I was given this dialogue somebody else wrote, and I could just pour myself into that. I think that was the initial spark for me; I could really express myself through somebody else's words."
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McKidd ultimately dropped out of university and enrolled in Queen Margaret College to study drama. One of his first breaks came in the form of Danny Boyle's 1996 smash "Trainspotting": McKidd played clean-cut Tommy, a good-natured soccer player who descends into heroin addiction. The film came out around the same time as modest indie "Small Faces," which cast the actor as a villainous psychopath—pretty much the exact opposite of his "Trainspotting" persona. Though McKidd appreciated being able to show multiple sides of his talent, he also notes that the acting jobs dried up a bit after that initial break. "I was very lucky that those two jobs came out of the gate, so nobody could kind of pigeonhole me at that point, which was great," he says. "But I think in a way, that kind of meant things were slower, because people were scratching their heads, going, 'Well, what are we going to do with this guy?' "
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Luckily, the casting community eventually figured him out, and McKidd began to build a solid, diverse career, acting in projects like the award-winning TV show "North Square" and films "Topsy-Turvy" and "Kingdom of Heaven." But it was the brutal, blood-soaked HBO series "Rome" that got him noticed by American audiences; McKidd's portrayal of brooding Lucius Vorenus won him raves from critics and passionate fans around the globe. Oddly enough, the folks behind the series had him in mind for pretty much every role except the one he ended up playing. McKidd recalls that casting director Nina Gold, who had hired him before, got him in the door for an initial read.
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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines from Google (6 articles)
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HAZ-MAT CREWS CALLED TO VANDALIA FIRE
Tags: us_oh, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
FIREFIGHTERS CONTINUE TO BATTLE WAREHOUSE FIRE NEAR HOUSTON SHIP CHANNEL
Tags: us_tx, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
SAFETY IN ACADEMIC CHEMISTRY LABS (WITH SOME THOUGHTS ON INCENTIVES).
Tags: us, laboratory, followup
INVESTIGATORS FIND POSSIBLE METH LAB IN PERRY COUNTY
Tags: us_OH, public, discovery, response, illegal, meth_lab
TWO DEATHS AND ONE FLASH FIRE BRING FINES TO WORKSITES
Tags: us_tx, industrial, fire, followup, petroleum
EXPLOSION INJURES MAN IN MORRISVILLE
Tags: us_nc, industrial, explosion, injuries, cleaners
http://www.whiotv.com/news/news/haz-mat-crews-called-to-vandalia-fire/nR2bq/
VANDALIA Ñ Firefighters from several communities and the Dayton Haz-Mat Team were called out at 3:00 a.m. Monday morning to a fire at Lipo Technologies, 800 Scholz Drive.
Investigators said fire broke out in a lab, and workers tried to put it out with fire extinguishers. The fire activated the sprinkler system in the building, which created a two-foot build-up of water. The fire was contained to the lab, but firefighters called the haz-mat team because of runoff and chemical concerns.
Crews said there are no environmental concerns associated with the fire.
According to its website, Lipo Technologies is involved in microencapsulation. The company places active ingredients inside capsules. One use of such a technology is "scratch and sniff" cosmetic ads in magazines.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Firefighters-continue-to-battle-warehouse-fire-3835052.php
Firefighters continue to battle a four-alarm fire at a chemical warehouse near the Houston Ship Channel.
The blaze, which broke out shortly after 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Texas Distribution Services Inc., is under control but still burns, said Lt. Chad Shaw with the Harris County Fire Marshal's Office. Shaw said the blaze is expected to continue until Monday and heavy machinery is being used to clear debris.
On Saturday, two firefighters were treated for heat exhaustion but, as of Sunday afternoon, no other injuries had been reported.
Tanker trucks are being bought in to transport water because of fire hydrant shortages in the vicinity, Shaw said.
Financial losses have not been calculated, but Shaw said they will be substantial.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/doing-good-science/2012/08/31/safety-in-academic-chemistry-labs-with-some-thoughts-on-incentives/
Earlier this month, Chemjobber and I had a conversation that became a podcast. We covered lots of territory, from the Sheri Sangji case, to the different perspectives on lab safety in industry and academia, to broader questions about how to make attention to safety part of the culture of chemistry. Below is a transcript of a piece of that conversation (from about 07:45 to 19:25). I think there are some relevant connections here to my earlier post about strategies for delivering ethics training Ñ a post which Jyllian Kemsley notes may have some lessons for safety-training, too.
http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/article/20120830/NEWS01/208300309/Investigators-find-possible-meth-lab-Perry-County?nclick_check=1
SOMERSET -- Authorities arrested two men and a woman and removed a child from a home near Somerset after receiving a tip about a possible methamphetamine lab.
The Perry County Sheriff's Office said this is the seventh meth lab seized in Perry County this year.
Detectives with the Central Ohio Drug Enforcement Task Force were led to a home at 3530 Reading Township Road 123 after receiving word two men had bought items commonly used to manufacture drugs.
The people arrested are facing felony charges of drug manufacturing and endangering children. Sheriff William Barker said their names are not being released until the case is presented to a Perry County grand jury.
http://www.oaoa.com/news/fire-92624-flash-documents.html
Three Permian Basin companies were cited since the beginning of July for violations to federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules after two died in separate accidents and four were injured in a flash fire.
A flash fire that occurred at an Elite Pipeline Services Inc. Odessa location will end up costing the company $25,200, according to documents acquired from OSHA.
According to the documents, a flash fire began at 11 a.m. Feb. 29, injuring three of the four employees at the site and sending them to the hospital.
"While attempting to demolish old petroleum pipe, employees used a cutting torch to sever bolts on a valve," according to the documents. "The system had not been purged in over a year and vapors were present, resulting in an explosion and flash fire."
The employees were not properly equipped or trained for the hazards of their work and were not notified of the possible hazards at the McAfee Pump Station before they began the work, according to the OSHA complaint, which lists six specific violations.
http://www.news-record.com/node/151629
MORRISVILLE -- Fire Department officials are investigating an explosion that injured one man Thursday in a building at 3000 Bear Cat Way.
The injured man was taken to Duke Hospital. He was conscious and alert during transport, but the extent of his injuries is unknown, according to Stephanie Smith, a spokeswoman for the town of Morrisville.
The Fire Department determined that the explosion was by the improper mixing of chemicals used in food preparation, Smith said. The building is located in an industrial complex, described in real estate records as an office-warehouse facility.
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Prediction of Pulse Pressure and Pulse Interval of Change in Operation Conditions of a Pulse Air Jet Bag Filter
Lee, Deok-Gi;Lim, Woo-Taik;Cho, Jae-Hwan;Choi, Kum-Chan;Shin, Hyun-Moo;Jang, Seong-Ho;Suh, Jeong-Min 349
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In this study, using coke dust from ironwork, the pulse pressure on a pulse air jet bag filter was investigated considering the influence of the pressure loss due to filtration velocity and pressure intervals. The research on the optimal pulse pressure prediction of a pulse air jet type bag filter using coke dust showed the following results. Pressure loss volatility produced by the pulse pressure under low dust concentration(0.5, $1g/m^3$) and low face velocity(1.25 m/min) was less than $10mmH_2O$. This suggests that the pulse pressure has a low impact on the pressure loss. In contrast, pressure loss volatility under high dust concentration($3g/m^3$) and high face velocity(1.75 m/min) was $25mmH_2O$. Therefore, pulse pressure with high dust concentration and high face velocity has a strong influence on the pressure loss volatility, compared to the condition of low dust concentration and low face velocity. The optimal pulse pressure of inlet dust concentration($0.5g/m^3$) was $6kg/cm^2$ under the same face velocity(1.75 m/min). As concentration increased from 1 to $2g/m^3$, the pulse pressure gradually reached $5kg/cm^2$ thus indicating that the pulse pressure($5kg/cm^2$) is pertinent at a high concentration($3g/m^3$). The pulse intervals: 20, 25 and 30 sec, which are relatively longer than 10 and 15 sec, corresponded to high pressure loss volatility produced by the pulse pressure. Furthermore, low pressure loss volatility was noted at $5kg/cm^2$ of the overall pulse pressure.
Development of a Natural Ventilation Model in a Single Zone Building with Large Openings
Cho, Seok-Ho 359
A model has been developed to predict natural ventilation in a single zone building with large openings. This study first presents pressure-based equations on natural ventilation, that include the combined effect of wind and thermal buoyancy. Moreover, the concept of neutral pressure level(NPL) is introduced to consider the two-way flow through a large opening. The total pressure differences across the opening and the NPL are calculated, and nonlinear equations are solved to find the zonal pressure to satisfy mass conservation. For this analysis, an iterative technique of successively approximating the zonal pressure is used. The results of applying this study model to several simple cases are as follows. When there is no wind and only the stack effect is caused, a one-way flow occurs in both the top and bottom openings in the case of two openings of equal-area, and a one-way flow occurs in the top opening; however, a two-way flow occurs in the bottom opening in the case of two openings of unequal-area. When there is a wind effect, regardless of whether the outside air temperature is lower or higher than the indoor air temperature, air flows into the room through the bottom opening and out of the room through the top opening. As the wind velocity increases, the wind effect appears to be more influential than the stack effect owing to the temperature difference.
Verification of Water Environment Network Representative at the Baekcheon Junction of the Nakdong River
Ahn, Jung Min;Im, Teo Hyo;Kim, Sung Min;Kim, Shin;Kim, Gyeong Hoon;Kwon, Heon Gak;Shin, Dongseok;Yang, Deuk Seok 371
Multifunctional weirs constructed through the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project are operated as management water levels. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of water level in the main stem on the tributary water level according to multifunctional weir operation, because the operation of multifunctional weirs for water level management influences the drainage of tributaries. In this study, water level pressure gauges were installed and spatial and temporal water quality was observed. The LOcally Weighted Scatterplot Smoothing (LOWESS) technique was applied to the Nakdong River and the Baekcheon Junction, both upstream of the Gangjeong-Goryeong weir, in order to analyze water quality trends. When considering the overall analysis and observations, it was found that the water quality forecasting point located at the Baekcheon estuary point should be transferred to the Dosung Bridge, which is located upstream of the Sunwon Bridge.
Distribution of Functional Feeding and Habitat Trait Groups of Benthic Macroinvertebrates and Biological Evaluation of Water Quality in Gayasan National Park
Moon, Tae Young;An, Mi Soon;Kim, Hyoung Gon;Yoon, Chun Sik;Cheong, Seon Woo 383
In the present study, the community distribution, functional feeding groups, and habitat groups of the benthic macroinvertebrates from Gayasan National Park were investigated at eight different sites from 2015 to 2016. The correlation between habitat altitude and each group type was analyzed statistically. Biodiversity indices, including dominance, diversity, richness, and evenness indices, were calculated. The results showed a total of 4,216 individual benthic macroinvertebrates were collected, including 4 phyla, 6 classes, 16 orders, 40 families, and 100 species. Gammarus sobaegensis was dominant with 0.141% dominance, and the subdominant species was Epeorus nipponicus with 0.088% dominance. The EPT group(Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera and Tricoptera) accounted for 71.00% of the total species and 67.69% of the total individuals. The number of scraper species was highest, and the number of gathering collector individuals was highest among functional feeding groups. The individual number of scrapers(r=-0.358, p < 0.05) and gathering collectors(r=-0.343, p < 0.05) decreased with increasing altitude. The numbers of species and individuals of clingers and sprawlers were highest among the habitat groups. The individual number of clingers(r=-0.547, p < 0.01) and burrowers(r=-0.331, p < 0.05) significantly decreased with increasing altitude. The diversity and richness indices were higher in St. 3 than in the other sites. The dominance index was highest in St. 2, and the evenness index was highest in St. 7. We evaluated the biological water quality with several known methods, and concluded that ESB(Ecological score of benthic macrovertebrates community) and GPI(Group polution index) were more suitable than KSI(Korean saprobic index) and BMI (Benthic macrovertebrate index) to assess the biological water quality of Gayasan mountain stream water.
Removal of Cu and Pb Ions from Aqueous Solution by Waste Citrus Peel-based Activated Carbon
Moon, Myung-Jun;Kam, Sang-Kyu;Lee, Min-Gyu 401
Waste citrus peel-based activated carbon (WCAC) was prepared from waste citrus peels by activation with KOH. The removal of Cu and Pb ions from aqueous solution by the prepared WCAC was investigated in batch experiments. The solution pH significantly influenced Cu and Pb adsorption capacity and the optimum pH was 4 to 6. The adsorption of Cu and Pb ions by WCAC followed pseudo-second-order kinetics and the Langmuir isotherm model. The maximum adsorption capacity calculated by Langmuir isotherm model was 31.91 mg/g for Cu and 92.22 mg/g for Pb. As the temperature was increased from 303 K to 323 K, the ${\Delta}G^{\circ}$ value decreased from -7.01 to -8.57 kJ/mol for Cu ions and from -0.87 to -2.06 kJ/mol for Pb ions. These results indicated that the adsorption of Cu and Pb by WCAC is a spontaneous process.
The Distribution Characteristics of Grain Size and Organic Matters of Surface Sediments from the Nakdong-Goryeong Mid-watershed
Kim, Shin;Ahn, Jungmin;Kim, Hyounggeun;Kwon, Heongak;Kim, Gyeonghoon;Shin, Dongseok;Yang, Deukseok 411
To investigate the distribution characteristics of grain size and organic matter of surface sediments from the Nakdong-Goryeong Mid-watershed, surface sediments were collected and analyzed. The samples were collected from six sited at four different times between May 2013 and May 2014. The were analyzed for grain size, water content, ignition loss, chemical oxygen demand, total organic carbon and total nitrogen. The surface sediments were mainly composed of medium sand (mean 44.7%) and coarse sand (mean 32.8%) and became coarser in May 2014. Fine sediments at the site NG-2 were poorly sorted and positively skewed, and occur in a tributary environment that is relatively low-energy compared with the other sites. The water content at the studied sites (15.3 ~ 34.9%) averaged 20.25%, and ignition loss (0.4 ~ 5.8%) and total nitrogen (274 ~ 2493 mg/kg) averaged 1.33% and, 696 mg/kg, respectively. These values indicated that the sediments were not seriously contaminated when compared with the sediment pollution evaluation standard of the National Institute of Environmental Research. The chemical oxygen demand (mean 0.17%) was at the non-polluted level compared with United States Environmental Protection Agency sediment quality standards. The total organic carbon (mean 0.18%) at all sites except site NG-2 (lowest effect level) was the no effect level of the Ontario sediment quality guidelines. The COD/IL (0.02 ~ 0.20) and C/N (0.73 ~ 6.76) were less than 1 and 10, respectively. Organic matter in the study area produced naturally from aquatic organisms. Results of principal component analysis showed that fine sediments (very fine sand and silt) were significantly affected by organic matters (ignition loss, chemical oxygen demand, total organic carbon and total nitrogen). In addition, the highest organic matters content in the study area occurred at the site with the finest sediments (NG-2).
Numerical Estimates of Seasonal Changes of Possible Radionuclide Dispersion at the Kori Nuclear Power Plants
Kim, Ji-Seon;Lee, Soon-Hwan;Park, Kang-Won;Lee, Sung-Gwang;Choi, Se-Young;Cho, Kyu-Chan;Lee, Hyeuk-Woo 425
To establish initial response scenarios for nuclear accidents around the Kori nuclear power plants, the potential for radionuclide diffusion was estimated using numerical experiments and statistical techniques. This study used the numerical model WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) and FLEXPART (Flexible Particle dispersion model) to calculate the three-dimensional wind field and radionuclide dispersion, respectively. The wind patterns observed at Gijang, near the plants, and at meteorological sites in Busan, were reproduced and applied to estimates of seasonally averaged wind fields. The distribution of emitted radionuclides are strongly associated with characteristics of topography and synoptic wind patterns over nuclear power plants. Since the terrain around the power plants is complex, estimates of radionuclide distribution often produce unexpected results when wind data from different sites are used in statistical calculations. It is highly probable that in the summer and autumn, radionuclides move south-west, towards the downtown metropolitan area. This study has clear limitations in that it uses the seasonal wind field rather than the daily wind field.
Measurement of Fuel Vapor Concentration by Excimer Fluorescence Method
Hwang, Seung-min 437
Laser induced-exciplex-fluorescence (EXCIPLEX) proposed by Melton is used to visualize fuel vapor in spray combustion. However, in the EXCIPLEX method based on TMPD/naphthalene system, the TMPD : naphthalene ratio is strictly restricted to 1 : 9. In addition, fluorescence intensity due to the vapor phase is extremely weak. To overcome these drawbacks, we propose a new laser-induced-excimer fluorescence (EXCIMER) method to visualize the liquid and vapor phases simultaneously. The spatial distributions of liquid and vapor in fuel spray suspended by ultrasonic waves are compared using the EXCIPLEX and EXCIMER methods. The correlation between fuel vapor concentration and fluorescence intensity is experimentally investigated by measuring the fluorescence intensity of saturated vapor formed over liquid fuel at a controlled temperature. These experimental results indicate that the EXCIMER method is effective for evaluating fuel vapor visualization in spray combustion. Furthermore, the quantitative distribution of fuel vapor concentration can be correctly estimated by the EXCIMER method.
Evaluation of Diagnosis-based Control Strategy for NH4-N and NOX-N Removal of a Full-scale Wastewater Treatment Process
Kim, Yejin;Kim, Hyosoo 447
In this research, the target process was a modified type of a conventional aeration tank with four different influent feeding points and alternated aeration to obtain nitrogen removal. For more accurate switching of influent feeding, the process was operated under a designed control strategy based on monitoring of $NH_4-N$ and $NO_X-N$ concentrations in the tank. However, the strategy did have some limitations. For example, it was not sensitive to detecting the end of each reaction when losing the balance between nitrification and denitrification of each opposite part of biological tank. To overcome the limitations of the existing control strategy, a diagnosis-based control strategy was suggested in this research using the diagnosis results classified as normal (N), ammonia accumulation (AA) and nitrate accumulation (NA). Using the pre-designed rules for control actions, the aeration and volume of the aerated part of the reactor could be increased or decreased at a fixed mode time. In simulations of the suggested diagnosis-based control strategy, the $NH_4-N$ and $NO_X-N$ removal rates in the reactor were maintained at higher levels than those of the existing control strategy.
Comparison of Characteristics of Ketapang and Gallnut for Development of Environmentally Friendly Black Dye
Kang, Jae-Yong;Lee, Jung-Eun;Kim, Sung-Yeon;Park, Geun-Tae;Park, Jang-Su 457
The purpose of this study was to develop environmentally friendly black dye by comparing Ketapang and Gallnut, that have been traditionally used as a black dye. As a result of FT-IR and UV-Vis spectrophotometer analysis, Ketapang was characterized by condensed tannin, while Gallnut showed hydrolyzable tannin. Due to the dyeability characteristic analysis, the color fastness of the non-mordant dye was slightly lowered to grades 1-3. In the dry-cleaning fastness test, both non-mordant and iron mordant were excellent, in grade 4-5, and the daylight fastness was excellent grade 3-5 too. The $L^*$ values of Ketapang were 26.93 (pre-mordant) and 29.39 (post-mordant), which were higher than those of Gallnut, 41.90 (pre-mordant) and 43.02 (post-mordant), indicating that Ketapang was more easily colored as a black dye than Gallnut.
A Basic Study on Accelerated Life Test Method and Device of DSA (Dimensionally Stable Anode) Electrode
Kim, Dong-Seog;Park, Young-Seek 467
The lifetime of the electrode is one of the most important factors on the stability of the electrode. Since the lifetime of the DSA (Dimensionally stable anode) electrode is long, an accelerated lifetime test is required to reduce the test time. Beacuse there is no basis or standard method for accelerated lifetime testing, many researchers use different methods. Therefore, there is a need for basis and methods for accelerated lifetime testing that other researchers can follow. We designed a reactor system for accelerated lifetime testing and planned specific methods. Reactor system was circulating batch reactor. Reactor volume and cooling water tank were 12.5 L and 100 L, respectively. Electrode size was $2cm{\times}3cm$ (real electrolysis area, $5cm^2$). In order to maintain the harsh conditions, accelerated lifetime test was carried out in a high current density ($0.6A/cm^2$) and low electrolyte concentration (NaCl, 0.068 mol/L). Maintaining a constant temperature was an important operation parameter for exact accelerated lifetime test. As the accelerated lifetime test progressed, the active component of electrode surface was consumed and desorption occurred. At the point of 5 V rise, corrosion of the surface of the base material(titanium) also started.
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SCOTT COUNTY DISTRICT COURT
The Scott County Justice Center is located in Shakopee, MN.
This district court has original jurisdiction in all civil, family, probate, juvenile, criminal, and traffic cases filed in Scott County.
This court is part of the First Judicial District. For District information, Administrative Orders and District Policies visit First Judicial District Administration
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Give yourself enough time to get to the courthouse, park, pass through weapons screening, and find your courtroom. If you are late for your hearing or miss it, a warrant could be issued for your arrest.
Checking in for Court
After you have located your case on the monitor, proceed to the courtroom listed next to your case. Enter the courtroom and check-in with the clerk seated near the judge.
If you cannot locate your name on the monitors at the courthouse, proceed to the court administration window and ask for assistance.
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Scott County Court has display monitors after you enter weapons screening with information about daily hearings (e.g., party names, courtrooms, and judges). Hearing information is also listed on the daily Court Calendar. After you find your case on the monitors, proceed inside the courtroom and check-in with the court clerk.
Courtrooms 1- 4 are located on the 2nd floor, Courtrooms 5 and 6 are located on the 3rd floor of the Justice Center.
Bail hearings are held in the Scott County Law Enforcement Center at 301 Fuller Street South, Shakopee, MN 55379 (located across the street from the Scott County Justice Center)
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Most court proceedings (non-confidential cases) are open to the public and can be viewed on a first come, first served basis during regular business hours. Please refer to Rule 2.01(a) of the General Rules of Practice for questions about acceptable courtroom behavior.
The Scott County calendar schedule is posted daily. See the Calendar tab for the daily calendar or a general schedule of Court Sessions.
Court Holidays are observed.
Please note: Calendars may be cancelled and are subject to change for various reasons including: Continued hearings, judge availability, meetings, settlements.
Behavior at the Courthouse
Be on time for your hearing. If you miss your hearing, a warrant may be issued for your arrest.
Dress appropriately. Clean, neat and professional clothing is appropriate for court. Shorts, t-shirts, low necklines, and torn clothing are not appropriate.
Do not use ANY electronic device to take photos or record video or audio in OR near any courtroom OR in the court administration public area. This includes cell phones, smart phones, tablets, pagers, or other recording devices. Some courts do not allow electronic devices in the courtroom, even if turned off. Learn more about the policy on cameras in the courtroom.
In the courtroom, do NOT...carry a weapon, chew gum or tobacco, eat, drink, read a newspaper, sleep, wear a hat, or use electronic devices.
Only one person may speak at a time in the courtroom. A court reporter is recording everything that is said during a hearing, and the court reporter can only record one speaker at a time. Ask for permission to speak, and address the judge as "Your Honor."
Avoid bringing children to court. Unless the judge has told you to bring your children to the hearing, please arrange for someone to take care of your children. If you must bring them to court, please bring a responsible person to care for them outside of the courtroom.
No smoking or use of tobacco-related products may be used inside county-owned buildings.
Please refer to Minnesota Court Rule 2.01 (a) regarding courthouse behavior.
Juvenile Cases
What to expect at your first court appearance if you received a summons for a juvenile petty or juvenile traffic offense:
When you arrive to the courtroom, the juvenile should check in with the courtroom clerk. The juvenile will be given a number and we do our best to call the cases in the order that the juvenile checks in (some exceptions to this rule exist)
The juvenile will receive paperwork that needs to be read and signed by both the juvenile and parent or guardian.
The juvenile and parents will then be seated in the courtroom until the Judge takes the bench.
The judge will make an announcement and go over the juvenile’s rights with the juveniles and parents as a large group.
After the judge has finished reading the rights, everyone will have a seat in the hallway and will be called into the courtroom one by one according to the number they were assigned when checking in. When you arrive back to the courtroom, the courtroom clerk will collect the paperwork that you received.
The prosecutor will then discuss the charges with the juvenile and parent(s) and will go over some possible consequences.
If an agreement is reached and the judge approves the agreement, it will be put in writing in an Order.
After the hearing, the juvenile and parent will take a seat in the conference room immediately outside the courtroom and wait to receive their copy of the Order.
If there are any fines that need to be paid, those payments can be made at the Court Administration window located on the main level. If the juvenile is placed on probation under the supervision of Scott County Community Corrections, they will be directed to go and check in with that office following court.
Arraignments for Petty Misdemeanor or Misdemeanor Cases
Arraignment court is the first appearance for persons charged with a petty misdemeanor or misdemeanor. Individuals are scheduled for an arraignment by either contacting the court or they may receive a notice of hearing from the court.
Arrival at the courtroom…
The courtroom door is typically opened around 8:20 a.m. for the 8:30 a.m. calendar and 12:30 p.m. for the 1:00 p.m. calendar.
Please review the sign on the courtroom door that indicates the rules of behavior for the courtroom.
Check-in with the court clerk…
Form a line in the courtroom. Individuals are seen in the order in which they check-in; first come/first served.
Please bring your license, citation, or the notice of hearing that was mailed to you so we can more easily find your case in the computer.
You will be given two forms to read and complete; hang onto them – they will be collected later.
Take a seat in the courtroom while others check-in.
When everyone has checked in…
The judge may address all individuals and advise them of their rights.
The prosecutor addresses the group to explain the procedure and options.
If a case needs to be called by the judge, you will be advised and should wait in the courtroom until the judge takes the bench.
Individuals may request to…
Speak with the prosecutor to try to reach an agreement to resolve the case.
Individuals who want to speak with the prosecutor will exit the courtroom and wait in the hallway for their name to be called.
After speaking with the prosecutor, you must return to the courtroom clerk with the signed plea agreement so the case can be updated.
You will be given a copy of the agreement which may indicate:
The resolution of the case indicating fines, costs, etc. that must be paid.
A not guilty plea is being entered and the case will be set for a court trial or pretrial.
The hearing is being continued to another date.
Many cases are resolved without the need to appear before the judge, though some cases require the setting of release conditions or terms of probation that must be set by the judge.
Individuals who want to plead “not guilty” or apply for a public defender will speak with the courtroom clerk.
Enter a “not guilty” plea and set the case for the next hearing, which will be:
A court trial if all charges are petty misdemeanors
A pretrial if any charge is a misdemeanor
Apply for a public defender.
At least one charge must be a misdemeanor.
Individuals must complete an application and a judge will approve or deny.
There are financial guidelines for qualification.
A co-pay or reimbursement is typically assessed for the services of the public defender.
If approved, the public defender meets with the defendant the same day.
If fines, costs, etc. are part of the plea agreement, or were ordered by the Judge…
Payments are made at the court administration window located on the 1st floor.
Visa, Discover, MasterCard, check or cash are accepted.
Payment plans can be set up if the Plea Agreement allows it.
To protect the public and court employees, courthouses have metal detectors like those at airports and other government buildings. Under Minnesota law, it is a crime for a person in a "courthouse complex" to possess a dangerous weapon, ammunition or explosives. The law applies to court employees as well as members of the public. Licensed peace officers on duty and on official business are exempt. See MN Statutes § 609.66 subd. 1(g).
Please do NOT bring any item that could be used as a weapon to any courthouse. Those items will not be allowed in areas beyond screening checkpoints, and illegal weapons will be confiscated. There may be a line a the security checkpoint, so please allow yourself enough time to get to a court hearing or other appointment in the courthouse.
If you bring an item to the courthouse that could be used as a weapon and you enter the weapons screening checkpoint, security officers will give you the option to remove the item from the courthouse or security will put it in a "disposal" box.
Dangerous items confiscated by Security will NOT be returned to you. Examples of prohibited items include, but are not limited to:
Firearms;
Cutting tools or bladed instruments of any size;
Electronic incapacitation devices, such as stun guns, tasers, etc.;
Personal protection sprays such as chemical mace, pepper spray and any other protective chemical aerosol; and
Any other items that appear to be designed or used as weapons, and that are capable of inflicting serious bodily harm.
First Judicial District Policy Regarding Possession of Firearms on Court Property Within the First Judicial District
Your safety is very important. If, at anytime, you feel that you need assistance while at court or within the courthouse, you have the following options:
Prior to coming to court
You may contact Scott County Court Administration at (952) 496-8200 and advise them of the situation and they will notify a Sheriff deputy who will assist you, if requested, into the courthouse.
While attending court or at the court administration window
You may contact a Sheriff Deputy at the weapons screening station and/or in the courtroom. If a deputy is not available, speak with the court clerk.
Leaving the court
If you need a Sheriff deputy to walk you to your vehicle, please advise a bailiff at weapons screening or a deputy in the courtroom.
Documents from cases filed from 2014 to present
Scott County District Court is now “paperless” and documents from cases filed since 2014 are available electronically.
Documents from cases filed prior to 2014
Documents from cases filed prior to 2014 are stored in an off-site location. Requests for documents stored off-site may take several days to complete. Requests should be as specific as possible.
Use the Case Number
The case number of the easiest way for a file to be located. If the case number is not available/unkown, the request should include:
The full name and date of birth of each participant in the case
The date of the offence and the charge(s) if the request relates to a criminal matter
Request Specific Documents
A request for “all documents” may return more than is required. Use Minnesota Public Access (MPA) Remote to locate the case. MPA Remote will indicate activity on the case and may assist in narrowing requests.
Please note: Criminal cases which do not have a conviction must be searched by case number. Searching by Defendant’s name will not produce the case.
Documents that cannot be provided
Scott County District Court cannot provide police reports or confidential documents. Requests for traffic or criminal case documents should be made to the Scott County Attorney’s Office or the law enforcement agency involved in the case.
Plain Copies
A “plain” copy is a photocopy or a printed copy of an electronic file.
Certified Copies
A “certified” copy has been stamped and sealed by court staff, certifying it is a copy of the Court document.
Please note: A multi-page certified document will be stapled. Removing the staple means the document is no longer considered certified.
Copy Fees
There is a fee for each document requested. The size of the document is irrelevant. For example, a traffic citation and sentencing order would be charged as two documents. A two page order is charged as one document.
Scott County District Court Copy Fees »
Payments can by made:
By check, made out to "Scott County Court Administration" and mailed to
200 Fourth Avenue West Government Center - JC115
By credit card (Visa, Discover, or MasterCard) over the phone by calling (952) 496-8200
Further questions may be directed to (952) 496-8200
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By Jon Condon
A MULTI-FACETED approach, rather than any single ‘silver bullet’, is likely to be the solution to methane reduction in cattle (and sheep), the November 2019 TropAg conference in Brisbane was told.
Professor Richard Eckard from the University of Melbourne addressed the conference on the potential for methane mitigation in ruminants.
“We know that livestock industries are under pressure to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, and there is an increasing challenge to the industry’s social license as a result,” he said.
The Paris agreement had set a target for carbon neutrality by 2050, and a number of governments and businesses were starting to comply.
“That’s putting pressure on industries to look at low emissions production,” Eckard said.
Around the world, responses are occurring to that. In Australia MLA two years ago launched its 2030 carbon neutral initiative, given the right R&D and policy settings as a strong caveat. A number of livestock companies in Australia now offered carbon neutral beef products, including NAPCo’s Five Founders and Arcadian Organic. Most of these were buying international carbon offsets – not actually dealing with the issue of cattle methane production.
However, Eckard outlined a number of approaches emerging that had potential to lower cattle (and sheep) methane emissions. The strategies include grazing particular plants, adding specific ingredients to rations, and adopting grazing and husbandry methods.
“We’ve known for a long time that tannins can reduce enteric methane production in cattle. A number of legume forages were known to contain tannins.
“We started with black wattle – probably the most astringent tannin we could find, but we also know that the browse legume leucaena, for example, contains tannins, and CSIRO is looking at leucaena’s potential to reduce methane emissions,” he said.
Figure 1: Leucaena shrub contains tannins which help to reduce methane emissions. Photo: Patrick Francis
In southern Australia, work on lotus, a temperate legume also containing tannins, had shown a reduction of up to 20pc in methane emissions.
Eckard emphasised that there were some caveats, in that responses were variable when concentrations in the diet was low, and there could also be restrictions on intake and digestibility when there was too much tannin in the diet.
Work had also been carried out looking at the impact of oils, including dietary fats and lipids, often sourced as by-products from other industries – in methane reduction. One analysis showed that for every 1pc of fat added to an animal’s diet, there was a 3.5pc reduction in methane. That relationship was now one of the offset methods being explored in Australia.
Sources of oils might not come only from by-products. Research in New Zealand was looking at high-lipid grasses which could contribute to methane reduction.
“Researchers have also looked at potential complementary effects, in adding both oils and tannins to an animal’s diet. While not strictly additive, a complementary effect was shown.”
Some research also looked at grape marc (the residual product of skins, seeds and pulp left after grapes are crushed for wine production), which contains both tannins in the skin and oil in the seed.
“Prior to this work (and the drought) grape marc was a disposal problem for the wine industry. Now, it is completely sold out, mostly to the feedlot industry. So we know that putting tannins and oils together does have an impact.”
Red algae
Figure 2: Experiments in cattle and sheep have shown feeding dried and ground red algae reduced methane emissions by up to 80 percent.
Dietary inclusions of a red algae seaweed called asparagopsis have gained publicity as potential methane inhibitors in cattle.
Eckard said some very impressive results had been produced by a CSIRO team and others around the world. In live animal trials, 80pc reductions in methane had been recorded in sheep, and up to 90pc in laboratory trials using the seaweed as a methane abatement option.
“There are some issues still to be explored, because the algae does contain a bromoform halogenated compound, meaning more work needs to be done on the acceptability of that in the food chain. But again, it gives us a window that these changes are possible.”
Occasionally in science and research, something comes along that looks like a silver bullet, and right now, a new man-made rumen modifier compound designed to suppress methane production produced in Europe was doing that, Eckard said.
The compound, 3-nitrooxypropanol (3-NOP) is being produced by DSM Nutrition and going through registration in the European Union right now. However, after one trial in Canada, efficacy declined after it was fed for 300 days in a feedlot trial.
“Those of us who have been in research for a long time are cautious about silver bullets, but right now, it does look to be a fairly impressive compound. In theory, it blocks the production of methane in the rumen,” Eckard said.
“When it is mixed into diets, its efficacy can be reduced, because it has to be present in every mouthful of feed. That might work well in a feedlot environment, but for extensive grazing systems, slow release technology might be necessary,” he said.
“But watch this space as this product comes through registration next year.”
Figure 3: Methane reducing compounds may be provided to rangeland cattle via existing supplementary feeding programs. Photo: Patrick Francis.
Early life programming
Eckard said one area that he felt had been missed in the field of methane mitigation research so far was what he called early life programming.
“There is a maternal influence on the microbial structure of the animal, post weaning. We know that it works in humans, and ruminants – and nutritional intervention in early life of a ruminant can lead to a modified structure of the rumen bacteria.”
“This is something that we should be looking at in methane reduction, because it also holds potential for cattle in the developing world, as well as developed countries. Using products like red algae or feed additives like 3-NOP, may train animals to be low methane emitters, and then see if that perpetuates through generations. It’s a prospect for the future that we need to look at.”
Methane reduction vaccine
Eckard said methane vaccines had already been under study for about 20 years.
“This is the point. These things are not short term solutions – they have to be subject to long-term research programs for solutions to come through.
“We know that certain proteins are known to be methanogenic in ruminants, and we also know that saliva can produce these antibodies, which is the mechanism by which it comes into the rumen. The research into this is still going on through AgResearch in New Zealand. We’ll wait and see.”
Eckard said there were others means of reducing methane emissions, simply by removing unproductive animals from the herd.
Audits of livestock production systems often find unproductive animals, either through health or management reasons. Simple things like extended lactation that allowed a manager to change the number of replacements required in a dairy herd, could improve not only the emissions intensity, but the absolute emissions of those systems, he said.
Selective Animal breeding
Eckard said there was evidence that the extent of methane emissions per unit of dry matter intake varied from animal to animal, and were heritable.
“There are some issues we still need to think through, though, because breeding for an absolute reduction in methane may be simply breeding for passage rate of material through the rumen. While that might suit more intensive feedlot systems, it would not suit extensive rangeland systems that need a strong functioning rumen to extract nutrient from poor pastures.”
He said there appeared to be a range of options to the industry for addressing the methane reduction challenge.
“The industrial sector has a range of clean energy technologies coming through, and the livestock industry may have a future which involves a low-methane ruminant. We definitely need more research around these low-cost, sustainable, heritable type mechanisms like early life programming.
As livestock were integral to a lot of developing economies around the world, he said methane abatement in ruminant livestock was a global priority.
“But methane abatement cannot be addressed in a typical three-year funding paradigm. These things cannot be solved with any less than 20-year research programs, and we fool ourselves if we think we can do otherwise. It also lends itself to global collaboration, bringing scientists together to address these issues,” he said.
Source: Jon Condon is editor of Beef Central, the article was published on November 12, 2019. To subscribe to this free on-line news publication (as well as Sheep Central and Grain Central) visit www.beefcentral.com
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Mormon scholarship for everyone
Mormon Studies podcast is a neoteric venue for scholars and serious students of Mormonism to share their latest research with a global audience. This podcast is as its tagline states: “Mormon scholarship for everyone.” Whether you’re new to Mormon studies or a seasoned scholar of Restoration traditions, you stand to gain new insights from each podcast.
As the Mormon Studies podcast website grows, you will also have access to supplemental resources, such as published essays, multimedia presentations, and historical documents.
Our podcast is hosted by Brent Lee Metcalfe, editor of New Approaches to the Book of Mormon: Explorations in Critical Methodology and coeditor with Dan Vogel of American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon. Brent has published and delivered presentations on Mormon studies in a variety of academic forums. He also serves on the John Whitmer Historical Association Journal editorial board.
Mormon Studies podcast is a partnership with the Open Stories Foundation and is made possible through the generous donations of listeners like you.
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I am very glad this podcast exists. -A Great Idea!
I like history including the Mormon Movement, but in the larger context of American history, and in relation to the other branches of the movement, and the Brighamite branch’s reactionist behavior to the U.S. Government.
–and this concept podcast seems it will be great discussion in broader and informative ways, perhaps more so than many discussion-type podcasts by others.
Also Brent Metcalfe’s view of the movement’s origin of a few main driving ideas, like Native American origins and destiny, and how The Book of Mormon’s purposes, that largely fueled the desire for, hence production of the Book, have largely been cast aside and forgotten by the membership, in order for the Utah Church to survive by downplaying what brought into existence.
So anywho, I’m glad this is started already. I hope it’s weekly.
I’ve wished for a podcast like this for so long. Thank you for taking on this project. Please, please, please, get Will Bagley on here.
Michael Surkan
I would love to listen to this podcast but it isn’t registered on the “Stitcher” podcast app library, which I use for all my podcast listening. Mormon Stories is registered on Stitcher so hopefully this is something Mormon Studies can do too.
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Just found out about Mormon Studies Podcast today by listening to your interview with John Dehlin. I must say that your interviews with John were extremely impactful to me. Most interesting and very well done. I’m anxious to see Mormon Studies develop and mature over the years as well.
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TMI Flips English
Blog: Ion Lucidity
Thomasson Morris Instruction
So...are we flipped, or aren't we?
A lot of people, much smarter than I am, have been writing what it means to be flipped, and some other people (also smarter than me) have questioned whether or not what we're doing can even be called flipped.
Naming something, defining it, is a way of understanding. We give things names so we can catagorise, analyse, interpret. It's natural, and it's helpful.
But what happens when something changes, expands, grows, and the definition no longer is quite right? Do we come up with a new term? Do we become more strict with the definition so as to be more clear?
Or do we expand that term so that, rather than constricting our understanding, it widens it and allows for more people to come inside and be included.
That, more than anything, defines flipped learning for me: inclusive.
When I happened upon flipped learning at this time last year, I didn't see how I could fit in. My students were poor, they lacked internet at home, and I had no way of recording video. Oh yeah, and all the models out there were for math and science, and I taught English.
But there was something about flipped learning that caught my attention. In a school where direct instruction was mandated and commonplace - almost part of the DNA - it seemed like something that would both please my administrators AND help my students learn. I could do direct instruction but I could also spend more time helping my students get better at reading, writing, listening and speaking.
It seemed like the perfect solution in many ways.
So I went looking for a way to make it work. My district Ed Tech director got me an iPad so I could make my own videos. I polled my students, and only three of them didn't have a smartphone or a computer with internet access at home (this was in a 90% SED school). I arranged for those three students to use my devices during break, lunch or before/after school. So I made some videos with the week's etymology lesson, assigned them as homework, and used the time we would have spent copying the notes practicing with the content, doing real-life examples, and playing memory games. Test scores on the weekly quizzes went up, and I was confident I was on to something.
Then that same Ed Tech director pitched Twitter to us. And I was Not Interested. At all.
For a few days. Finally, I just asked my students to teach me Twitter and help me get started. They were happy to oblige.
Very quickly, I was hooked. And that's also when I discovered that there was so much more to flipped learning than I had ever expected.
I joined the #flipclass Monday chats (which now I help moderate semi-regularly).
I started blogging and sharing my posts on Twitter (which may be where you found this post).
I had conversations with some of the people I had read about - Brian Bennett, Crystal Kirch, Troy Cockrum, Jon Bergmann, Aaron Sams - and they all helped to push my thinking on various issues. Many have now become my close friends.
That's how, within six weeks of flipping, I transitioned from "Flip 101" (assigning videos as HW and former homework as classwork) to something that I still saw as flipped, but wasn't the same as how many of my colleagues flipped their class.
My classroom quickly became mastery-based, paperless, self-paced and homework free. I still made videos, I still used many of the same tools as my Flip 101 colleagues...
...and I still tweeted to the same hashtag.
Flipping my class no longer was my goal. I was flipped. Instead, my goal was to make my flipped class the best possible place for MY students, in MY context. I started to view flipped learning as a place where students had ownership (responsibility was flipped to them from me) and where I used technology to help them learn best. Later, I moved to defining flipped learning by the Flipped Mindset - a definition developed by several collaborators on Twitter.
Now, a year into my flipped journey, my classroom looks different than it did last fall, last spring, or even at the beginning of this school year.
I have what I like to call my CoLab partner, Andrew Thomasson. He helps me plan all of my instruction, prepares for and films video lessons with me, and encourages me to be a reflective practitioner, a good flipped teacher, and a better friend. I'm at a new school and operate with a BYOD policy and open wifi network. My students are much higher skilled, and require far less direct instruction (almost none). I don't assign homework, and don't always use video. I've stepped away from self-pacing and paperless (without 1:1 netbooks, that's a lot harder) and embraced a far more student-centred pedagogy that focuses on higher-order thinking skills and real-life application of concepts.
There are many people who would say I'm not flipped.
And I would argue, just as vehemently, that I am.
When Romeo asked himself, "what's in a name?" I doubt he was thinking about its application to the flipped class community. Nevertheless, it's a good question.
So, flipped class community, what's in a name?
For me, this is what's in a name:
a method by which I started to listen more to my students, and work to meet their individual needs. I learned most of those things from my community on Twitter and Edmodo.
a move to a more reflective practice - one I never imagined. I didn't know that to be reflective, you need someone who will help you process. That is what happens in the flipclass community on a daily basis.
a return to my writing - something I had always thought of, but never had inspiration to sustain. This blog is the most meaningful writing I've done since I graduated from college. And I am now writing more than just blog entries, which has helped me work through a lot, personally and professionally.
a transformational experience - one that not only changed me, but changed how my students experience me as their teacher. That was only possible by moving over the bridge that flipclass built.
a group of people - my Cheesebuckets - who listen to me, protect me, question me, challenge me, and keep insisting that I should not stay where I am, but keep moving forward, getting better. These people would not be in my life without flipclass. And my life would be far less rich without them.
and most importantly: a collaborative partner, a new BFF, someone to listen to me, help me channel my crazy ideas (and sometimes, add more craziness until they actually start to make sense), doesn't let me stay frustrated or resentful, but insists that we work things out, and most importantly, someone I can trust and who I know cares about me, both as a teacher and as a person, and about my work in the classroom.
So what's in a name? A change that has given my students a better teacher and a better education. A community where I am inspired, engaged in conversation, and often, challenged so that I don't grow stagnant.
And most importantly, I now have friends. Friends who share the family name - flipped class - and unites us around a common goal: making our classroom the best possible place for our individual and corporate student body, and for us as teachers.
And even though some of us may start to grow into more distant cousins, if we give up the family name, it would mean denying where we came from. This is the kind of family that doesn't disown a brother who shies away from family gatherings; it's the kind of family that expands, becomes more inclusive as more and more distant relations show up on our doorstep, needing our help, our acceptance, our love. It's also the kind of family that still welcomes you, even when you don't need it anymore.
This family name is where our roots are.
This family name is who our people are.
This family name - flipped class - is who WE are. Together.
That is what's in THIS name.
And I'm proud to be in this family. No Matter What.
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If a pupil can see a collaborative partner in face of his teacher, it's simply the most favorable condition to learn!!! though, no one should forget about respect!
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Tamara Altair
Portland Fashion and Lifestyle Blogger
UNIQLO : Doraemon X Murakami
We all know I love a good tshirt from Uniqlo. I love how they can collab with the best artists and still charge $14.90 for a shirt. My love for Takashi Murakami dates back to elementary school but growing up I couldn't really afford anything from him. This collaboration with Uniqlo is going to make my closet soooo happy. It's actually a double collab with Murakami and Doraemon. Doraemon is a manga that has been made into a pretty successful anime and sitcom. The first time I went back to the Philippines, again when I was in elementary school, I saw Doraemon everywhere similar to how Hello Kitty is branded on everything. I thought it was so cute but he's not as popular here in the US.
I definitely want a few shirts. I typically don't buy plush because I am an adult and also my dog would destroy them. Put 5/24 in your calendars!
LOVE, MARA
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Container Corporation of India Is Looking For Management Trainee Last Date 22-01-2018
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About Container Corporation of India:
Container Corporation of India Ltd. (CONCOR), was incorporated in March 1988 under the Companies Act, and commenced operation from November 1989 taking over the existing network of 7 ICDs from the Indian Railways.
From its humble beginning, it is now an undisputed market leader having the largest network of 68 ICDs/CFSs in India. In addition to providing inland transport by rail for containers, it has also expanded to cover management of Ports, air cargo complexes and establishing cold-chain. It has and will continue to play the role of promoting containerization in India by virtue of its modern rail wagon fleet, customer friendly commercial practices and extensively used Information Technology. The company developed multimodal logistics support for India`s International and Domestic containerization and trade. Though rail is the main stay of our transportation plan, road services and also provided to cater to the need of door-to-door services, whether in the International or Domestic business.
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MTB Race News
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Breck Epic – Stage 4
Posted on August 15, 2019 by Shannon Boffeli
Race’s longest stage incites drama in men’s field, but yields same result
Breck Epic
Photo Courtesy of Liam Doran
Davoust, Nadell break away but fall short; Nash and Swenson increase GC leads as international field marvels at terrain
By Devon O’Neil
GC TAKEAWAY: Things got interesting in Wednesday’s Stage 4—for a while. Durango, Colorado, roommates Stephan Davoust (ninth overall) and Henry Nadell (12th) launched an attack on overall leader Keegan Swenson and the men’s elite field 10 miles in. Davoust, who won the Downieville Classic All Mountain World Championship the week before, flatted twice Tuesday and lost 24 minutes; he was intent on reclaiming some time and possibly stealing a stage. He and Nadell built their lead to 3 minutes, 15 seconds by the halfway point, and Swenson was content to let them go. But Luis Mejia of Colombia was not on board, and he attacked his fellow chasers in pursuit of the lead duo. Swenson matched Mejia’s attacks, which resulted in them passing the breakaway at the top of the 2,000-foot climb out of Keystone Gulch. “I was keen to just chill today, take it easy,” said Swenson, who rides for Stan’s/Pivot. “If those guys could hold the gap, good for them—I was kind of hoping they would. But I didn’t want to let [Mejia] go.”
Swenson then took over, as he has all week. He put 53 seconds into Mejia and coasted to his fourth win in four days in 3:11:39—building his GC lead to 11:01 over Russell Finsterwald, who took seventh Wednesday. Brevard College cycling coach Cypress Gorry claimed his first podium of the week, 16 seconds back of Mejia, while Nash Dory held on to third place overall. There are now four riders within 1:44 of the final GC podium spot.
The women’s race also felt familiar. Clif Pro teammates Katerina Nash and Hannah Finchamp rode together for most of the day before Nash pulled away, staying perfect on the week and inching closer to the overall title. She finished in 3:54:43 to beat Finchamp by 1:27 and increase her GC lead to 7:16. Evelyn Dong took third in 4:00:34.
WOOOOOOO!: With racers from 25 countries here, the international finish-line flavor has been rich. Languages, accents, and eyes as wide as pinecones permeate the race. Much of their conversation has centered on the local trail network and how diverse it is, so we were interested in how it compares with their hometown terrain.
“These trails are totally different from my country,” said Ajay Pandrit Chhetri, 31, a five-time national champion from Nepal. “We ride on quite wide trail, not narrow one, but I’m getting used to it day by day. It’s quite fun. In Nepal we can ride anywhere, from 500 feet elevation to 18,000 feet. But not like this—not technical singletrack.”
“You never get tired of it,” said Laetitia Roux, 34, of Sauvines Le Lac, France. Roux is a 17-time world champion in ski mountaineering who retired from the World Cup last year and now dabbles in mountain bike racing. “In France and Europe right now, the organizers don’t want to accept much risk, so they take the easy way down to avoid crashes. It’s so nice to see that we can have these super technical trails here. French Pass was awesome. It was just like, wooooooo!”
“This feels like home, like I’m in the Rockies in Canada,” said three-time 24-hour world champion Cory Wallace, who lives in Jasper, Alberta. “Even if you’re not flying, it’s still going to be a great week on the bike. Whereas if you’re not flying at a lot of races, it’s not that sweet.”
Cat 1 30-plus racer Mathias Purtschert of Ecuador usually rides fire roads. He lives at 9,200 feet in La Sierra, surrounded by volcanoes. “We’re not used to riding trails,” he said. “But they’re really amazing; good turns and jumps and berms. It’s very, very technical. I have to focus the whole time going downhill. You can’t recover on these descents.”
BEST THING WE SAW TODAY: While sitting on a bench in a meadow halfway up Vomit Hill on Wednesday, a long procession of very fast cyclists grinded past me. It was still relatively early in the stage, so heads were down. The 41-mile Aqueduct Stage is a moving day—a good one to make up time or distance oneself from challengers. So I was surprised when Thibaut Level pulled off the trail and came over to sit down. “I’m sick,” he said. “Forget the race.” Level, a journalist from Lyon, France, who is writing about each stage, said he hadn’t taken enough time to enjoy his surroundings this week, and he wanted to make up for that. So he sat down on the bench, opened up his pack, and took out a waffle. Then he spent 10 minutes admiring the view as all the people he is faster than passed him. He couldn’t have cared less.
Breck Epic- Stage 2
Breck Epic Stage 2: Swenson, Nash build leads with Stage 2 victories
Breck Epic Stage 4
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The Mesa Press
The independent student news site of San Diego Mesa College.
Michael is a 23 year old college student at Mesa. He is originally from the Bay Area and moved to San Diego 2yrs ago for a change in scenery. After finishing his AA in Communications last spring, he decided to challenge himself and get another AA in Journalism/Public Relations. He hopes to one day work in the entertainment industry, whether it be sports or music. Michael hopes to transfer to a 4-year college next year to finish his BA and start pursuing his dreams in the Journalism field.
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Recent Poetry Collections by NER Authors
We are pleased to announce four new collections from poets previously featured in NER.
Charles Simic’s new collection, New and Selected Poems 1962-2012 has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Simic’s poetry was featured in NER 24.4 and his translations of Novica Tadic appeared in NER 29.1.
From Los Angeles Times: “It takes just one glimpse of Charles Simic’s work to establish that he is a master, ruler of his own eccentric kingdom of jittery syntax and signature insight.”
New and Selected Poems 1962-2012 is available from Powell’s Books and independent booksellers.
Headwaters, a new collection of poetry from Ellen Bryant Voigt, has been published by W.W. Norton & Company. Voigt’s poetry appeared in NER 25.3.
From Publishers Weekly: “Voigt’s…eighth collection of poetry is defined by a liquid precision.”
From Library Journal: “A highly recommended book by an important poet.”
Headwaters is available from Norton and independent booksellers.
A. Van Jordan’s new poetry collection, The Cineaste, has been published by W.W. Norton & Company. Van Jordan’s work appeared in NER 28.1 and 32.4.
From Publisher’s Weekly: “Drawn from his experience as a moviegoer, these poems prove anything but safe—each film is its own playground of dangers, of ‘strangers who mistake me for someone/ they owe.'”
The Cineaste is available from Powell’s Books and independent booksellers.
Trace, a new collection of poetry from Eric Pankey has recently been published by Milkweed Editions. Pankey has been featured in NER numerous times, most frequently in NER 34.1.
From Chase Twichell, author of Where the Answers Should Have Been: “In this age of both religious extremism and cynical atheism, Eric Pankey’s poems gleam with authenticity.”
Trace is available from Milkweed Editions and other booksellers.
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Women who lost weight had lower breast cancer risk
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Although most maternity units care for obese pregnant women, more than half have no local guidelines on caring for them, the Centre for Maternal and Child Enquires (CMACE) has found in its survey of NHS maternity provision for obese women. It is launching at today's conference Management of women with obesity in pregnancy a joint guideline developed with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).
In 2008, CMACE conducted a survey of NHS maternity service provision for obese women. Survey responses were received from 88% of the 364 maternity units in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and the Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
All 220 of the obstetric units that responded, 54% of 13 alongside midwifery units, and 62% of 87 freestanding midwifery units reported caring for obese mothers. But 124 (44%) of the maternity units that responded did not have local guidelines for the care and management of women with obesity.
Most maternity units said they had appropriate delivery beds and blood pressure monitoring equipment for obese women, but many had no immediate access to other equipment such as extra-wide chairs, ward beds, and, in a tenth of obstetric units, operating theatre tables.
Only a third (33%) of obstetric units provided specific advice on dieting and 6% provided preconception care and advice. CMACE and the RCOG say that patient information about maternal obesity should be developed. Fewer than one in five (18%) maternity units provide printed information for women specifically addressing obesity and pregnancy.
Most maternity units agreed that women with a BMI ≥35kg/m2 should be advised against a home birth; four in five (80%) had a weight threshold above which home birth was advised against.
The joint CMACE/RCOG guideline includes standards of service provision for local maternity units. This guideline will address many of the needs above as trusts and maternity units will now have evidence-based national guidelines to ensure that obese mothers-to-be are given appropriate care and treatment during pregnancy.
Professor Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, president of the RCOG, said: “Obesity is a public health concern in the UK and this is reflected in our specialty by the increasing numbers of overweight pregnant women being seen in maternity units. It can be addressed in the NHS by having good clinical guidelines and the appropriate resources in place.
“The long-term challenge however is behavioural. We need to start before a woman becomes pregnant by encouraging her to lead a healthy lifestyle and by providing her with the support and means to do so, so that she can then go on to have healthy pregnancy.”
Professor Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, agreed: “The bottom line here is that we need to help women to improve their lifestyle and health, for the sake of their own long-term health, and not just in pregnancy. Midwives have a crucial role to play in offering care and advice for obese pregnant women.”
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Nz.pinterest. 1000+ images about Posters on Pinterest. Room Decor, Growth Mindset and Icebreakers. 10 Terrific Apps and Websites for Making and DIY. Even with so much technology at our fingertips, the instinct to build stuff with our hands hasn't disappeared.
Instead, it's taken on a new form. Enter the "Maker" movement. Blending old-school physical building with modern digital creation, making and DIY have made a splash in the 21st-century classroom. This week, we're highlighting the best apps and websites that harness the power of technology to get kids learning through making. For project ideas, tutorials, and peer feedback, head to Make: Online and DIY websites to get inspired. Click Here for Our Full List of DIY Apps and Websites Subjects & Skills (click to expand) Related Posts: Maker Education. Making Matters! How the Maker Movement Is Transforming Education. By Sylvia Libow Martinez and Gary S.
Stager The Maker Movement, a technological and creative learning revolution underway around the globe, has exciting and vast implications for the world of education. New tools and technology, such as 3D printing, robotics, microprocessors, wearable computing, e-textiles, “smart” materials, and programming languages are being invented at an unprecedented pace. The Maker Movement creates affordable or even free versions of these inventions, while sharing tools and ideas online to create a vibrant, collaborative community of global problem-solvers.
Fortunately for teachers, the Maker Movement overlaps with the natural inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing. One might try to marginalize robotics or 3D fabrication as having nothing to do with “real” science and dismiss such activities as play or as just super-charged hobbies. Three big game-changers of the Maker Movement should be on every school’s radar: Celebrating Young Talent. Creating an Authentic Maker Education Rubric. While many teachers are excited about the maker movement and may even be creating projects for their classrooms, assessment can be puzzling even to veteran classroom teachers.
How can teachers prove that deep, rich learning is occurring through making? How do we justify a grade to students and parents alike, especially to the student who "just isn’t good at art"? By crafting a three-part rubric that assesses process, understanding, and product, teachers can rest assured that they are covering all the bases. Part 1: Process The process of making in the classroom needs to be incorporated in the final grade.
Photo credit: Lisa Yokana As part of a recent project in my school's senior-level public policy class, students crafted scale models of Lower Manhattan in preparation for a disaster simulation. Students created a scale model of Lower Manhattan in City 2.0 at Scarsdale High School. This is a blog about the life of a deputy headteacher.
Well, I tell a lie. This blog is actually about how ‘I am getting on’ in my new role and life at my new school. The Challenge: By the end of year 8, students are required to create a variety of texts in order to think about, record, and communicate experiences, ideas, and information across the curriculum.
To meet the standard, students draw on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for writing described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for students at this level. The difference in the standard for year 8 [as compared with year 7] is the students’ increased accuracy and fluency in writing a variety of texts across the curriculum, their level of control and independence in selecting writing processes and strategies, and the range of texts they write.
In particular, by the end of year 8, students need to be confidently and deliberately choosing the most appropriate processes and strategies for writing in different learning areas. I had the privilege of attending the Emerging Leaders Summit (ELS) again this year and as always, I got a lot of great new learning and reminders from the sessions, speakers and participants.
I really do think that experienced leaders would get a lot from these summits too - they're not just for your emerging leaders.Mark Osborne workshopped some great thinking and reminders about what effective change leadership involves. He highlighted Waters and Marzanos' (2006) first and second order change descriptions. I'm not going to go into detail here about what these are, but to summarise:First Order Change is an extension of the past and is incremental and linear and people who see the change in this way find the change easy and manageable. Second Order Change is a break with the past, is complex and non-linear. Quote: Will Rogers People don't necessarily resist change - they resist loss.
Key aspects of readinessMark Osborne explained that people are ready for change when: Inspire students. Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share. Computer Science Unplugged. The Learning Pit with James Nottingham. Epic Music Mix - Epic Drums and Percussion.
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Category Archives: Ironman 70.3 Cebu
Post-race Reports of Cebu’s Ironmen (and Women)
August 9, 2012 Ironman 70.3, Ironman 70.3 Cebujpages
CHRIS ALDEGUER: It was my first ever race that I got to smile and enjoy. I never have fun during a race, but this was different. The crowd was unbelievable. I couldn’t believe this magnitude of a race was happening in our hometown. Finish time: 5:30:52.
Photo by Catherine Israel-Angeles
ALAN CHOACHUY: It was very emotional; I broke down at the finish bringing the Biggest Loser flag. First thing that crossed my mind: for all the obese and unhealthy people who thought they have no chance to change. I’m living proof that you can be what you want to be as long as you put your heart in to it. (A year ago I was 309 lbs!) I never life imagined I can finish a 70.3 Ironman.
The race was really tough, my target time was 7 hours (finished in 7:58). I was surprised at my 40-min swim; very relaxing. The second discipline was my favorite but I had mechanical trouble in my bike’s rear tire around Km. 60. A spoke broke and the tire was wobbly. For 30kms, I pedaled harder and that caused my legs to be worn out. I had 4 hours to spare to finish the 21km. It was my longest 21K! At one point, I told myself I’m not going to do this again. But, seconds after crossing the finish, I said, “I will do this again next year!”
Photo by Mike Jo
AMALE JOPSON: Even with the crazy water start and the surprise of the gun about to go off when everyone was way beyond the supposed starting line, I enjoyed the swim leg. The water was clear and calm, which allowed me to maneuver around the slower swimmers from the first wave. Except for a slight current on the way back, swim conditions were great, helping me to clock 32:08 at the timing mat putting us in a good position for the overall win in the all women’s relay. The event was well-staged and made me feel proud that we had a world-class race in Cebu. It made me think that maybe I would like to participate in the individual race next year if I can find a way for my kids not to feel like orphans for a few months while training. 🙂
Amale, Lohriz Echavez-Lopez and Mary Joy Tabal
MENDEL LOPEZ, 3rd placer, Filipino elite. Of all my sporting achievements, this has to be the best ever. I was slow in the swim (34 mins), as I expected. In the bike, I recovered and timed 2:31. I suffered in the run (1:28) because of the biking effort. Triathlon training is not as painful as the marathon. My next target: the Timex 226 (full Ironman) in Bohol this December.
Photo by Jens Funk
JANE-JANE ONG. My 2nd IM 70.3 was very memorable. Of the 3 disciplines, swim is my weakest. However, water on race day was calm, no waves, no undercurrent, no jellyfish. YAY! I surprised myself by cutting my time by 14 min. Bike was very difficult with the strong winds from CICC to Talisay. And I thought Camsur was difficult when the rain poured… but this was worse. But the best part of it being held in Cebu, our homecourt, is that plenty of friends and fellow athletes cheered.
AYA GARCIA SHLACHTER. The most enjoyable part for me was swimming in the open water. It is challenging and you need to be mentally prepared, swimming with hundreds of people. The bike is my weakest but I managed to finish the course in one piece even though I crashed during one of the narrow U-turns. I knew I was going to crash so I decided to gracefully make a free fall to the right without resisting the crash. I picked myself up and continued the bike course injury-free. Most memorable part was when my dear friend Sen. Pia Cayetano was waiting for me in the finish. I will do this again and will recommend it to friends. 7:04:24 was my time.
BERNARD SIA, who replaced Jennylyn Mercado as biker for Team FHM (Fearless Hot Mammas), with swimmer Ripples Faelnar and runner MaiMai Hermosilla. Said Bernard, who clocked 3:06: The IM70.3 will be remembered for a long time. While I awaited for our swimmer my heart rate was already at 112, anxious & excited! During my whole ride I just remembered one tip: keep my heart rate at 150-155. We lost a cyclist, don’t know him personally but would like to dedicate that ride to him. Ramie Igaña, that was for you. Most fun: friends taking time to cheer especially Andy & Renee Ven who took nice picture and this ONCE IN A LIFETIME chance to bike the SRP & the tunnel! Most painful: Fernan bridge Mactan bound & strong headwinds to Talisay!
Photo by Michael Ocana
GANDHI TRUYA, who finished 5:43:49. I enjoy it more than a full marathon, the latter is more painful. Recovery in 70.3 is faster… Cruising at the SRP coastal road getting hit by headwind and blown away by the tailwind is something a cyclist here does not experience often. Compared to Camsur? No offense to CWC but Shangri-La is definitely better. The Marcelo Fernan bridge, the tunnel, and the SRP road are some of the things Camsur can’t offer.
Biking 90 kms. of the Ironman 70.3
To our dear friend Ramie Igaña, may you rest in peace. Life is short and unexpected. Last night while scouring through Facebook, I saw a photo of Ramie together with Richard Ho (who also did the bike relay) on their bikes at the Talisay water pit stop—just minutes before Ramie fell off his bike (possibly due to a heart attack or pulmonary embolism). We pray for his wife, Dr. Humility “Mity,” and their daughter, Niña.
BIKE. I had a personal experience with the 90-km. route because I joined the relay team, doing the bike leg while Jessica Michibata swam and ran. Here’s my short story:
In Shangri-La, less than 40 minutes after the swim start and while waiting at the Transition Area, Jessica runs from the beach area towards the tent. As she arrived, she took off the timing chip from her ankle and handed it to me as I sprinted towards the bike. Less than a minute after pedaling, upon exiting Shangri-La, my chain came off. Oh no! Relax. Don’t panic, I told myself.
The thousands of cheerers–many of them students—along the route was a remarkable sight. Left and right, everybody was cheering. (Funny: in some portions, the children were screaming, “GO, PLAYERS, GO!” as if we were triathlon “players.”) It was hard not to feel excited. As their banners announced and following the DOT slogan, it was “Double the fun in Lapu-Lapu City.”
Biking while the roads were completely free of cars is exhilarating. The asphalted roads from Shangri-La towards the bridge, especially near the MEPZ area, was terrific.
Lohriz Echavez-Lopez, the wife of champ Mendel and a former triathlon star was near me. Climbing the Marcelo Fernan Bridge was easy — because of the adrenaline rush. But the portion after the bridge (Mandaue side) was bad. There were patches of newly-minted asphalt mixed with the old. It was a rough, rocky ride. Scary.
Passing through the Bridges mall (of Alegrado) along Plaridel St. with zero traffic, again, was a rare moment. We zoomed through the intersection (A.C. Cortes Ave.) at full speed. Wow. This is the only time when you can do this.
All was smooth and easy. Until we hit the reclamation area. That’s when the headwind said… not so fast! Pedaling towards CICC, then onwards towards Radisson Blu, you could feel the wind pressure battling your face and body.
The tunnel? Gliding downhill towards the dark zone, you’re in full speed. Then, as you enter, it’s dark. You have to be extra careful because, with the sunglasses on, visibility is minimal. Bikers screamed. Not in fear—but in joy. This was the chance of a lifetime—to bike the tunnel!
The South Road Properties (SRP) was the toughest. The headwind slowed everybody down. It was as if a rubber band was pulling you from behind. Or a giant Iwata fan was blowing in front of you. It was tough. Plus, the sun was out.
Reaching the U-turn point in Talisay City, you’re surrounded by thousands and thousands of residents, many cheering and watching. Again, another awesome sight.
After the U-turn (that’s the 30-km. mark), it was a fast return (often reaching 40kph) back to the CICC where, again, at the Parkmall area, thousands of cheerers congregated. At the CICC U-turn point (45K), my watch read one hour, 30 minutes–I was on pace to finish in 3 hours.
Photo by Lemuel Arrogante
Then, back headed to Talisay, it was the headwind again. Painful. You just have to lower your head, pedal, think positive.
The return ride was difficult. Upon reaching the bridge (past 80K), your bodily resources are low. Some walked their bikes while climbing the bridge. Finally, it was back to Mactan and, beside Lohriz, a smiling finish at Shangri-La.
My time? 3:09. Slow compared to Pete Jacobs’ 2:15 split but not bad. It was only my fifth time ever on a road bike. Though I’ve been mountain-biking for years, it wasn’t until last week, when I got word that I wouldn’t run and when Chris Aldeguer convinced me and lent me his bike, that I first sat on a racer.
Jenson and Jessica
Jenson Button and Jessica Michibata in Cebu
Ironman 70.3 Cebu: All ready except for….
July 3, 2012 Ironman 70.3, Ironman 70.3 Cebujpages
… Potholes on the road.
I met Guy Concepcion yesterday. After he landed in Cebu from Manila, he traveled straight to Marriott Hotel and partook of their lavish buffet. We sat down after breakfast at 9:10 A.M.
Rene “Guy” Concepcion is no ordinary guy. Next to Fred Uytengsu, Jr., he’s the man behind the Ironman 70.3 in Mactan. He’s also an Olympian, having joined the 1988 Seoul Olympics as a swimmer together with Akiko Thomson and Eric Buhain.
“We have 1,700 participants for Cebu, all excited,” said Guy. “This compares to the 500 participants in the first year in Camarines Sur. In the second year in Camsur, we had 700. Last year, we had 1,100.”
If you think 1,700 is plenty—think again. Hundreds more wanted to participate. (This, despite the hefty $275 fee.) That number could easily have ballooned to 2,500 had all the waiting list and interested first-timers been accepted.
“We want to limit the number this year,” he said. “Next year, if all goes well, we’ll accommodate more.”
Guy is in-charge of the race operations. And since two of the country’s biggest triathlon races are held in Cebu this 2012—the XTERRA last March and the Ironman 70.3 in August—then he’s been to Cebu dozens of times thus far.
“Welcome back!” I told him. Welcome back? he asked. “I’ve been here too many times!”
Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort and Spa is ready. So are the cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu and Cebu—the threesome co-hosts. So is, happy for Guy to report, the Marcelo Fernan Bridge. “We’re glad to hear that the bridge repairs are nearly finished,” he said. “At first, reports came out that it won’t be done before August. This is good news.”
Thanks to the active participation of Gov. Gwen Garcia, all preparations are in place. Last week in Manila, Gov. Gwen sat beside Mr. Uytengsu and Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza in a glitzy launching at the Shangri-La Hotel in Makati.
Guy’s only concerns? Potholes. No, not the ones in SRP. “When I saw those huge holes at the SRP a few months back, we were concerned. Imagine the cyclists traveling at 45-kph passing through those? That would be scary. But thanks to the DPWH and other agencies, they’ve been asphalted.”
Guy is troubled with the remaining potholes in certain sections of the reclamation area: The road leading to the tunnel; the road leading to the CICC. He hopes, in a couple of weeks’ time, for these to be fixed. (Paging, DPWH!)
As to the rest of the Cebuano public, those who won’t be joining but are interested to join the revelry?
“Please cheer! This is such a huge event for Cebu and for sports and it’s exciting to watch,” he said. “Spectators can line up the roads along the reclamation area. If one leaves very early, one can be in Mactan to watch the bike and run portions.”
Inconveniences? Plenty of areas will be closed to traffic—half of the M. Fernan Bridge, the entire SRP, portions of the Reclamation Area, most of Punta Engaño—from 6 to 11 A.M. on race day. (Proper advisories will be posted soon.) Access to Mactan and the airport, though, will still be open.
“We ask for patience and for the Cebuanos to come out this August 5 to support and cheer,” said Guy. “Cheering means a lot to the participants, many of whom are foreign athletes.”
Apart from the Cobra Energy Drink Ironman race—which will fire off 32 days from now—Guy and I talked a lot about other sports stuff.
Like swimming. Guy joined the 10K Fina Marathon Swimming World Cup in Israel last April. He timed two hours, 40 minutes. (In most local triathlon races, Guy is the first one off the swim portion. At the XTERRA race last March in Liloan, he clocked five minutes in the 500-meter swim!)
We talked about Michael Phelps vs. Ryan Lochte. “Phelps has a way to elevate himself during the big occasions,” said Guy. “Expect him to win again in London.”
Finally, in one of those you-won’t-believe-who’s-joining moments, Guy revealed that one international superstar will be joining our Ironman.
The celebrity? (Hint: Not Lance.) Soon, Guy will announce that guy’s name.
Only 48 days to go before Ironman 70.3
June 17, 2012 Ironman 70.3, Ironman 70.3 Cebujpages
Barely a month and a half is left before triathletes from all over the globe converge at Shangri-La’s Mactan Island Resort for the first Ironman 70.3 race in Cebu. Exciting! I know plenty, many of whom are first-timers, who are joining. All have programmed their schedules and minds on the biggest race that they’ll join. Cebu is honored and proud to be chosen as the host. To all participants, good luck with the training!
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Mayor Rex Gerona and Tabuelan 226
February 21, 2017 Triathlonjpages
After five years of Tabuelan 111 — recognized as the country’s “Best Domestic Sports Event” last year during the 1st Philippine Sports Tourism Awards in Resorts World Manila — comes the same back-breaking event but with over twice the distance.
“Tabuelan 111 is considered as the best local triathlon race in our country. It has everything any triathlete would want,” Tabuelan Mayor Rex Gerona said. “Because of the success of the event, Tabuelan decided to level up by organizing the first-ever full distance triathlon race in Cebu.”
That’s a 3.8K swim, 180K bike and 42.2K run for a total of 226 kms. The date is September 16.
“We will be more focused since we are looking at a maximum of 200 participants only compared to almost 800 with Tabuelan 111,” said the mayor, who credits the volunteers composed of the Tabuelanons — the race marshals, water station personnel, medical teams and security — as the reason for the event’s success.
“We invested on training the organizing team. We spent time to make sure that the race would be unforgettable and checked every single detail. It has become Tabuelan’s pride!” he added. “With Tabuelan 226, we are counting on their support since this year’s cut-off is at 12 midnight.”
Tabuelan is not a large municipality. Of the Province of Cebu’s three million residents, Tabuelan is one of 44 municipalities and has a small population of less than 30,000. Despite that, Tabuelan is hugely popular in the triathlon community.
The reason: Mayor Rex Gerona. He used to weigh 230 lbs. and was pained with multiple health problems back in 2010. Mayor Rex lost 50 lbs. and transformed himself into a swim-bike-run athlete. To date, he has finished incredible feats: a 160K ultramarathon, the Ironman 70.3 for five years, the Giro d’ Luca cycling event in Bohol, the Cebu Marathon (thrice), the 10K Caramoan Island swim and a Full Ironman in Western Australia.
Thanks to triathlon, Tabuelan has achieved plenty. Said the mayor: “There is a considerable boost in our local tourism. Public recognition is achieved. We’ve created economic growth through filled resorts, home stays, restaurants, and have enhanced the positive image of Tabuelan. We’ve also built community relationships, strengthened corporate support and created youth opportunity.”
To top it all, Tabuelan 226 will do something extraordinary.
“All race kits and medals will be personalized,” Mayor Rex said. “This is a first in the triathlon world.”
The Cebu City Triathlon (CCT) experience
January 27, 2015 Triathlonjpages
Every time you coin the words “first” and “inaugural” in an event, there will always be hiccups. Not this time. That’s because the women and men behind the 1st Cebu City Triathlon are, themselves, runners, cyclists and swimmers.
That’s why, when you scan the reviews and browse through the Facebook photos after last Sunday, you’ll read nothing but praises for the organizers. I’ll say the same thing I said two months ago after San Remigio 8080: Kudos to Steve and Maricel Maniquis, Quinito Moras, Joel Juarez, Niño Abarquez and the rest of what is rapidly evolving as the top triathlon organizers in our island. CCT: Congratulations, Cornerstone Team.
What was different about the Cebu City Triathlon? First, it’s located, from start to finish, within the boundaries of the oldest city in the country. How often can a triathlon event boast that claim? I think none before. I believe this is a first with Cebu City.
How possible? Two words: swimming pool. While all other triathlon events involve the open waters of Bogo or Dalaguete or Tabuelan, this one is chlorine-vaccinated. It’s pool water. (Amale Jopson tells me that this is quite common and popular in Manila — but a new concept for our city.)
The swim was conducted in the 50-meter swimming pool of the Cebu City Sports Center — a first, I believe, at the CCSC. The next question: How do you fit 250 athletes in one rectangular body of water? The answer: You group them according to “waves.” The elite men and women (Noy Jopson, Joseph Miller) start first at 6 a.m. Next, ten minutes later, the women (Nia Aldeguer, Rhoanne Salimbangon) follow. Ten minutes after the girls, the 15 to 19 age bracket kicks off. And so forth until all the groups are swimming, free-styling, breast-stroking. It’s a fun (and somewhat chaotic) sight.
In CCT, the swim is only 750 meters long. I say “only” because, in comparison, the Ironman 70.3 race involves 1,900 meters of Shangri-La-waters swimming.
To complete 750 meters on the pool, you make five laps at 50 meters per lap for a total of 250. After one loop, you get off the pool, run around the pool then start again. You do three loops to complete 750 meters. This makes for a swim-run, swim-run, swim CCT start.
I joined last Sunday’s race and, I must admit, I had a lot of difficulty with the swim. You’re less buoyant compared to the salt water/open sea. There are 70 or more of you swimmers in the same pool, all scrambling and kicking and scooping water. I’m a non-swimmer and it’s a completely different “washing machine-like” atmosphere compared to when you’re practicing laps by your lone self. Lesson for me: more practice!
But to majority of participants, I think they enjoyed the swim. It’s less intimidating than the choppy waves and strong current of, say, Mactan; it’s a good first Tri’ to try.
After the 750-meter swim, it’s off to the bike. Positioned under the grandstand area of the CCSC, the bikes are formed in a long row. You clip-on your helmet, wear your shoes, then you’re off to the exit..
Biking along Osmeña Boulevard down to Colon St. and passing Sto. Niño Church all the way to Plaza Independencia was a terrific experience. No other time are the streets free of vehicles for you to travel 30 kph on two leg-powered wheels.
The bike leg was 20 kms. — mostly at the South Road Properties. What a fantastic moment to pedal without traffic at the SRP. The only challenge: it rained hard that 5 a.m. and it was still raining when many biked. The route was expertly managed with an “M” loop, similar to the one for IM70.3.
After the 20K on wheels, it’s back to CCSC to deposit the bikes and the last leg was for the legs. It’s a short 5-km. run from the rubberized oval in Abellana towards the Provincial Capitol and back… with a nice downhill boost on the return before circling the oval until you cross the finish arc.
The fastest? CCT: Chiongbian & Chiongbian Tandem… brothers Justin and Yuan.
8080 Triathlon in San Remigio
November 11, 2014 Ironman 70.3 Cebu, Triathlonjpages
Abby Ponce wrote in her Facebook page yesterday: “What better way to cap off my initial year as a triathlete than do it the 8080 way? San Rem 8080 was way better than the Bogo edition with closed roads, a very challenging tough swim course (all of us underestimated this – it was not shallow at all and was ‘bawd’ and my Garmin measured it at 2.35k!!) not to mention that killer 65k bike route. In the end, it was my background as a runner that saved the day for me. Congratulations Cornerstone, that was a well organized race, marshals who stayed with us to the end, townspeople who bathed us with water plus that nice loot bag (yey! bike cover!/two finishers shirts/vmv products/unbamboo medals-shhh lupig sunrise events).”
I agree with Abby. It was well-organized. Kudos to Steve and Maricel Maniquis, Quinito Moras, Joel Juarez, Mayor Mariano Martinez and the hundreds of volunteers and officials who helped organize last Saturday’s “8080 Triathlon” event in San Remigio.
The morning began with a prayer. It was the first year anniversary of Typhoon Yolanda that ravaged many areas, including San Rem.
The race proper? Roads were cleared for the cyclists. The pristine waters were rid of sea urchin. In every kilometer of the Run, there was a hydration station complete with Gatorade, Nips chocolates and medical personnel. The celebration? It started at 4 p.m. when live DJs played nonstop and bands strummed their guitars for the party. Food and San Mig Light overflowed.
Cornerstone Group, the organizers, promised an “easy swim.” And though the water wasn’t shallow, safety was paramount. Boats and bancas surrounded us. A rope with buoys lined the middle. Best of all — and I think this is a first in Philippine triathlon — a neon-colored string was embedded on the sea bottom. It was the perfect guide to follow — so you’ll swim a straight path. Well done, Niño Abarquez.
For me, joining my first full Tri’ race, the swim had always been scariest. Staying all the way back at the start to avoid the early commotion, I got stuck with plenty blocking the way. It was a “washing machine” and the first 10 minutes was a struggle. And the swim was 1.8 kms. far! Thankfully, the 200 or so traithletes spread out. Eventually, I relaxed and enjoyed the water.
The bike ride was bad and good. First, it was hot. This event could have been renamed “Sun” Rem because of the sun. We started the race at 12:30 p.m. and the sky was cloudless. My 8080 distance meant two loops of 32.5 kms. for a total of 65K. Unlike Cebu City’s flat roads, in San Remigio it was up-and-down rolling terrain. But what a sight to see long stretches of cemented road with no cars. (Though several accidents still happened in the bike portion.)
After endless minutes of pedaling, I entered the transition area with many participants already finished! Those joining “4040” (900-meter swim, 32.5K bike, and 7K run) were done. While they were relaxing, we still had to complete a 14K run.
I had cramps starting the first kilometer of the run. With hardly any practice of what they call “brick” (transition), I suffered leg pain after that swim-to-run transition. The cramps continued in the first 7K loop.
During the run, children lined-up the inner roads to high-five the runners. What’s different about this race is the schedule. Instead of starting early and finishing the run at noon, this time it’s inverted: you start at noon and end with the comfortable late-afternoon shade.
Dr. Ron Eullaran completed his first triathlon (4040) event. Same with Rhoanne Salimbangon, accompanied by her husband (and two-time IM70.3 finisher) Ken. Cebu City Councilor Mary Ann de los Santos completed the 8080, sprinting towards the end in applause. At the finish, after you cross that line, a bottle of water and a can of beer is handed to you. It’s time to drink and rejoice after the pain — especially for many of us first-timers who Tri’d our best.
Eighty eighty
October 30, 2014 Triathlonjpages
Today, there are various numbers that proliferate in the triathlon scene. There’s “111” (Tabuelan). There’s “123” (DEFY 123). There’s “5150” (Olympic distance), “70.3” (Half-Ironman), and “226” (Timex Bohol).
These all pertain to the distance. In the case of Tabuelan, that’s 111 kms. — swim for 2-K, bike for 88-K, and run for 21-K. With the extremely difficult “226,” that’s similar to the full Ironman distance: 3.8-K swim, 180-K bike plus a full marathon. (Crazy distance, no?)
There’s one more number that’s invaded the Tri’ calendar and it’s happening next Saturday, November 8.
8080. If you’re Chinese and believe in the lucky powers of the number “8,” then you’ll be happy. If you’re a graphic artist, you’ll note that when you handwrite the digits “0” and “8,” they’re endless loops — the same loops that triathletes will traverse in San Remigio.
Cornerstone Group is the organizer. Led by Steve Maniquis, he gathered two others — Quinito Moras and Joel Juarez — two years ago and decided to start an event-organizing company that “would make quality triathlon events and fun runs.”
1.8-K swim + 65-K bike + 14-K run. Summed up, that’s 80.80 kms.
“We came up with the 8080 distance,” said Steve, “so people could slowly increase their distance if they wanted to eventually do a 70.3 or Half-Ironman. We feel that the distance is finding a niche in the triathlon community.”
The Nov. 8 race in San Remigio was scheduled because it was one year ago — Nov. 8, 2013 — when a major tragedy truck our nation. “It’s our way of commemorating the one year anniversary of Yolanda,” said Steve. Next year, Cornerstone has lined-up four events: a Sprint distance in January plus three more 8080s: March in Daanbantayan, May (location to be finalized) and back to San Remigio in Nov. 2015.
Like many from Cebu, Steve got bitten by the tri-sport bug just recently, joining his first Sprint race in February 2012. He pedaled onwards, joining the IM70.3 races last year and last August.
What’s remarkable is that Mr. and Mrs. Maniquis are both Ironman 70.3 individual finishers. Maricel Martinez Maniquis, Steve’s wife and a long-time friend, herself completed the IM70.3 race last August. Next year, both husband and wife plan to do another round of IM70.3 races in Cebu and in Vietnam.
What makes 8080 different? For one, the starting time. Unlike all other events that start before 7 a.m., this race begins at high noon! Yes, around 12:30 p.m. The reason: in San Remigio, the low tide means really shallow waters. At noon, it’s the highest of tides and the best time for that freestyle. “The noon time start will make for a not-so-hot run portion and the swim portion will not be too deep,” said Steve.
There’s also a 4040 category — half the full distance. Plus, relay teams are welcome in both divisions. The event will be on a Saturday (while most are on Sunday). Timing chips will be used. “The bike route will be closed for a safer bike ride,” added Steve. “It’s a longer race than the Standard or Olympic distance and it’s also draft legal for the bike so it makes for a faster and more strategic race.” During and after the race, the party will be hosted by Cable Car.
“Triathlon is still growing but you are already seeing derivative forms like CrossFit and Adventure racing gaining exposure,” said Steve. “Triathlon is a very demanding sport and the body definitely takes a beating. Although it’s nice to see the progression of young kids who do triathlons. Before you used to be a swimmer or a biker or a runner; now, the new breed of triathletes are good in all three disciplines. It’s gonna be here for a while.”
With advice for the newcomers, Steve gave three: Get clearance from the doctor. Be careful of doing too much too soon. And, if you want to get faster, do interval training on all three disciplines.
The 8080 deadline for registration is tomorrow. Visit the Facebook page now and see you in San Remigio on the 8th.
Mayor Rex Gerona and the Tabuelan 111
June 10, 2013 Ironman 70.3 Cebu, Triathlonjpages
The Cobra Ironman 70.3 event will be this August 4. Prior to this triathlon race that is billed as Cebu’s biggest sporting affair, a must-race swim-bike-run meet is the Tabuelan 111 — which swims off this Sunday, June 16.
While Ironman’s “70.3” refers to 70.3 miles total (1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike, and 13.1-mile run), the Tabuelan organizers have creatively transformed the distance to kilometers: 2K swim, 90K bike and 21K run. Thus, 111 kms.
The municipality of Tabuelan, with a population of less than 25,000, is behind this hugely popular race. Credit goes to the leader of Tabuelan: Mayor Rex Casiano Gerona.
Here’s my Q & A with the 41-year-old mayor-triathlete whose motto is, “If others can do it, so can I.”
Why triathlon? Mayor Rex: “I weighed around 230 lbs and health problems started to arise like high cholesterol and high blood pressure. I felt I needed to exercise and do something for my health and for my family. Triathlon appealed to me because it is more challenging with three different areas which includes swimming, biking and running. I lost over 50 lbs. in a years’ time and have become healthier.”
How did you start? “When I read in a local daily that the Ironman 70.3 will be held in Cebu, it really interested me. Even without any background in swimming, biking and running, I tried to register on-line and when I was finally registered, I immediately decided to diligently train with less than 8 months to the said event.”
What events have you finished? “Cebu Marathon, Bohol Marathon, Ultra Marathon 50k, Bohol Timex 226, Cobra Ironman 70.3, Cebu Triathlon Leg Series, Cagayan de Oro NAGT Series, Camiguin Triathlon, Bantayan, Sogod, San Remigio, Siquijor, Dakak, Carmen, Danao City, Dalaguete and the Tabuelan 111”
With the Bohol Timex 226 (3.8K swim, 180K bike, and 42K run), how did you do it? “Actually I had less than a year training before I started! Triathlon training January 2012 then joined the Bohol Timex 226 triathlon Dec. 1, 2012 at Anda, Bohol. It was self-fulfillment because that is the ultimate dream of every triathlete — to be able to finish a 226 race. I finished it at around 14 hours which was a strong finish for a first timer with less than one year triathlon experience. I was also very happy to finish it with four of my close triathlon buddies who were first timers as well. Sweet victory for all of us! So happy my family was there to support me all the way.”
Future events you’re joining? “Tabuelan 111; Cebu 100k Ultramarathon July; Cobra Ironman 70.3 in August; Busselton IMWA in December, which will be my first full Ironman international triathlon; Melbourne IMWA in March 2014.”
How did you make Tabuelan 111 so popular? “When I was planning to join the Cobra Ironman 70.3 last August, 2012 in Cebu, many fellow triathletes were not able to register and others have not tried the said distance so it was just a good chance to offer them more or less the same distance at a cheaper cost, thus, a good value for their money. No other triathlon event offers such distance before the IM70.3 race.”
Why is Tabuelan ideal for triathlon? “We had good feedback last year that it was well-organized, the community was very supportive and we closed the road to traffic especially during the bike course which was highly appreciated. We have white sand beaches and the roads are in good condition. It is also cheaper to go there so it’s really money’s worth!”
What to expect? “A better race over last year. We had almost 200 participants last year. Now, over 500 triathletes have registered so it’s more challenging for all the participants as well as to the organizers. We have prepared personalized kits and finisher shirts. We are now using timing chips used in Ironman events.”
Advice to the other mayors? “We are trying to promote Sports tourism not just in Tabuelan but Cebu as a whole. As municipal mayor, I am a model not just for the youth but for everyone who wants to live a healthier life. It’s never too late for I decided to be a triathlete at the age of 40.”
In triathlon, Aya finds Himaya
March 23, 2013 Triathlonjpages
Michelle Himaya “Aya” Garcia Shlachter reads her full name. In English, himaya means “glory and joy.”
Aya is a U.S.-schooled architect who does consultancy work for clients in Hong Kong and the U.S. She’s an entrepreneur who owns the thriving chocolate and coffee shop of six outlets, Tablea. She’s a mother of Ana, 6, and Ari, 3. Her husband is Larry Shlachter, who’s finished three New York City Marathons.
Aya is a multi-tasker. Aya is a multi-sport athlete.
Two Sundays ago, she finished what I consider one of the most fearsome of outdoor gimmicks: the XTERRA Off-Road Triathlon. Consider this: of the 219 who finished the full triathlon (1.5K swim, 36K bike and 10K run), only 21 were women.
Aya was one of the brave girls. “Several people discouraged me from joining since the bike course was extremely tough and technical,” Aya said. “They were concerned about my safety since I have very poor bike handling skills. I chose to ignore them and face the challenge of the bike course instead of backing down.”
During this International Women’s Month, Aya shows the boys that they’re not the only athletic type. Last year, Aya completed the Cobra Ironman 70.3 Ironman race. Before that, she completed the Tabuelan 111 event. Prior to that, she swam 6 kms. in the Olango Challenge.
Back to Xterra, here’s Aya’s experience:
“Swim: I love swimming and I am most comfortable in the water. The first 500 meters was a warm up and easy swim for me. The rest of the distance, I did some swim intervals. Slow easy pace for 3 minutes followed by 20 fast strokes. That way, I was able to conserve energy for the bike and run portions.
“Bike: The bike portion was the most challenging since I had only been mountain biking for 2 months prior to Xterra. My bike handling skills are a bit challenged. My goal for the bike portion was to finish injury-free without getting cut-off. I had targeted to finish 1 loop in 2 hours; the problem was, I had no idea how long one loop would take since I had not finished one loop during training sessions. On the first loop, at 1:40 I saw Noy Jopson and he told me that I was making good time and that I was close to making the first loop in less than 2 hours. Noy gave me the boost and self confidence that I badly needed. I made it to the transition area 30 mins before cut off. After the bike portion was completed, I knew I was going to finish the race.
“Run: The run was the most fun for me since I knew I was going to finish the race at that point. The run was challenging since it was extremely hot and there were lots of uphills and steep downhills with sharp corals. The water stations were great! I made sure I took ice baths along the way to keep my body temperature cool. I tried to pace myself by doing a 6 minute run followed by a 30 second walk. I walked most of the steep uphills and ran as fast as I could on the downhills and flats to compensate for lost time during the uphill walking. There were a lot of children during the run course giving me high fives along the way; the kids were very helpful in keeping my spirits high. I was surprised by my run time of 1:19!”
Why not Pilates or Zumba? “Triathlon allows me to go places that I normally would not visit,” she said. “I enjoy the company of fellow triathletes. I have met some very cool and interesting people along the way. I love racing!”
Aya’s 2013 calendar? She plans a full marathon, a few “more Xterra races” and, here’s the ultimate: she will go for the Timex 226! (That’s a 3.8K swim, 180K bike and 42K run.) If that’s not enough, she already has booked Nov. 2014 for a full Ironman race in Arizona.
Aya’s mantra: “I just keep telling myself not to stop no matter how hard it gets because when it is over I know I will feel great. Pride always overcomes any kind of temporary discomfort.”
One of Aya’s close triathlon buddy is Sen. Pia Cayetano, who invited her in this event last month:
“Mr. Ugo 37K Sky Run was a trail run (in Itogon Benguet province) where the first 18k were all uphills until we reached the Mt. Ugo Summit, then 18k back downhills It was a very tough and mentally-challenging course. It took me 10 hours. There was a cut off time of 8:30 hours and, though I did not make the time, I still finished the race. Fifty meters before the finish line, my friends (Sen Pia, Belle, Che, Noel) were hiding behind a big rock. They emerged from the big rock and surprised me with my own finish line. They brought me fruits and water. We were all in tears,” said Aya.
“What I lack in ability and skill, I compensate for in will-power. Before I joined the Mt. Ugo 37 k trail run, I had several doubts about finishing the race. I had just recovered from a severe hamstring injury. A few days before Mt. Ugo, a friend of mine gave me a quote from Mother Teresa: ‘Focus on small things with great love.’ This quote stuck in my mind. To finish any race, one must just enjoy the experience one step, one mile at a time with great love!”
‘Mind more important than talent’
September 20, 2012 Triathlonjpages
Yuan, IronKids first place
Sport is physical. In basketball, you pass, dribble and alley-hoop. In badminton, you lob, smash, serve. Running involves jumping forward, left leg after right leg, repeated 1,111 times. In gymnastics, it’s a different set of twisting: arms bent backwards as the neck curls and legs spread into a split.
Sport = Muscles. But when I asked proud mom to triathletes Justin and Yuan Chiongbian for the most important attribute in an athlete, her reply surprised me: “Mental strength is, for me, the most important trait of an athlete. Talent is only 2nd.”
Wow. This wasn’t the first time I heard this quotation from Millette, who is the only Cebuana to join the Boston Marathon, finishing the world’s most prestigious footrace in 2011. “The marathon is 90 percent mental,” said Millette, in a speech a few years back.
Justin Chiongbian (from Facebook)
Via email, I interviewed Millette. Her boys, Justin and Yuan, having competed in one of the world’s fastest growing sports — triathlon — only last March, have won their respective age-groups. They’ll compete in Singapore next weekend.
How important are the parents? I asked the wife of Frederic Chiongbian. How do you motivate your kids?
Millette’s answer: “Justin and Yuan have become aware of our active lifestyle since they were tots. This parental and environmental influence to train, compete and the love of sports is the foundation.
“An invitation to a Tri clinic in Plantation Bay Resort and the recruit by TRAP brought on to these boys the competitiveness and the more serious matters to their attention. I saw no reason not to support this because of their expressed commitment.
“Since both train together, each other’s presence and performance is each other’s stimulus and motivating factor. Both are intrinsically motivated.
“Rewards and prizes are not emphasized to catalyze them to attain goals. Rather, the small increments of success in the track, pool or race splits is what motivates both the most. ‘Only the fastest wins!’ is a favorite phrase for both.”
The aforementioned lines are important. They reveal several lessons. One, if the parents are active and competitive… then, possibly, so will the children. Two, “sibling harmony” instead of “sibling rivalry.”
Aged 13 (Justin) and 11 (Yuan), it’s good that they’re two years apart — which means they don’t compete against each other. They practice together, pushing each other to swim, bike, run faster.
And, the words I relish best… “rewards and prizes are not emphasized… to attain goals.” Dear parents: This is essential.
TIPS. I asked Millette for parenting tips. She offered plenty…
ON TRAINING: A. Be consistent & regular on training schedules afforded and allowed. Journal in the progress of your athlete. (So if one’s sked can warrant a 4x weekly swim, 3x weekly run and bike then these should be done week per week).
B. Be sensitive to the mental, psychological & emotional demands of the athlete. (If your athlete often cries when training, openly talk about it and get to the root of his emotions. Mental strength is for me the most important trait of an athlete, talent is only 2nd).
C. Carefully study and consider the demands of the race event the athlete will be competing in. If your athlete is a newbie in the sport, joining smaller but well-organized events gives your athlete a positive experience. On the other hand, too big an event can overwhelm your athlete–getting lost and getting confused with signs on the course and changing kits rules may leave your athlete undesirous to join another race.
D. Suggest to help manage the student-athlete’s time. One has to understand the downtime of the sport. Training hard can leave your athlete too exhausted to do schoolwork. (Manage your athlete’s time by prioritizing studies–tackle home works before training time, study everyday and be ready for unscheduled exams, never wait for deadlines.)
E. Be knowledgeable on the sport in general. Read about the sport as much as you can.
ON NUTRITION: Healthy, natural or unprocessed and, enough.
ON RECOVERY: 7-10hrs of sleep and living in a clean, peaceful yet jovial atmosphere.
Justin and Yuan Chiongbian
Next Saturday, on Sept. 29, after the dust from this weekend’s Formula One race has settled, one prominent Cebuano family will fly to the Lion City to join an event: The Singapore Triathlon 2012 National Championships. Justin and Yuan Chiongbian, two of the country’s most promising young triathletes, will compete in Singapore.
Justin, 13, and Yuan, 11, won 2nd and 1st place, respectively, at last month’s Alaska Ironkids event at Shangri-La.
How did the brothers first try Tri? (As a backgrounder, both parents are sports devotees: dad Frederic is a finisher of the Singapore and Hong Kong marathons, plus an avid golfer; mom Millette is a fast and famous runner, joining last year’s Boston Marathon.)
Millette answered: “Tri came when both seriously began to compete in their chosen sports – Justin was into running since 6 and Yuan into swimming since 3. Looking long term, the reason is because of the higher incidence of overuse injuries specializing in a sport. Also, a multi-sport athlete has a stronger cardio capacity and has a better proportioned physique. We took awhile to decide to get them into road biking because of road conditions and safety.”
In their first triathlon race, exactly six months ago–last March 18–at the 1st Talisay Age Group Triathlon, guess what ranking the Chiongbian siblings got? First place and first place.
Yuan Chiongbian (from Facebook)
Then, in March 31 at the Plantation Bay Resort and Spa for the National Age Group Triathlon (NAGT), it was here when the Philippine Tri coach, Melvin Fausto, saw with his own eyes the potential of the brothers.
“Coach Melvin immediately phoned TRAP that he has got recruits from Cebu and said he’s never seen anyone who runs as stable like Justin. Yuan on the other hand is naturally talented and fast. Although coach Melvin said that there are a lot of talents in the 13-15 age category nationwide,” said Millette.
At Plantation Bay, Yuan won first and Justin, second place (in their respective age-group categories).
Next, in Alabang last April for the Century Tuna NAGT, Yuan once again won first and Justin, in his category, 4th place. The following month for the first international race in Subic, the Chiongbian brothers both placed a respectable 10th place.
All these culminated with the August 4, 2012 race in Mactan that was the biggest sporting event Cebu has hosted: the Cobra Energy Drink Ironman 70.3. Yuan: first; Justin: second.
Triathlon is tough. It’s not only cycling or running or swimming but all three. It’s time-consuming. It’s exhausting, physically and mentally.
How, I asked, do your kids cope with the strenuous training? How do you “push” and motivate them?
Millette’s reply: “Through principles of Graduality, Overcompensation; Knowledge on healthy food and the discipline to rest and recover. Both take naps in school after lunch when necessary…
“The ‘pushing’ part is when the boys have to sleep at a certain time to meet their nightly or mid-day sleep quota. I am also there if they needed to be spirited with my presence or my high-fives. A magic phrase I yell that works effectively when they’re getting tired is ‘happy thoughts’.
“Although the basic core to achieve the balance I believe is that when an athlete wants it, there is no need to push it. What develops then is the product, passion and when an athlete becomes passionate, the athlete attains success.
“Justin and Yuan are both at a point wherein their ambitious drive is what pushes them every training time. They’re connectedly focus.. checking their splits in the track, pool or on the trainer. In addition, I also believe that sport knowledge and, to be thoroughly acquainted and be experienced with training/racing, perpetuates the holistic success cycle of an athlete.
“Further, the emotional, mental and psychological strengths should be developed to keep the athlete balanced and in harmonious order with the physiological aspect. Discipline and character are the values inherent to success according to Fr. Manny.”
Talisay City is fast becoming a sports hub
This weekend—March 23 to 25—is one of the year’s busiest in sports.
Last night, we had the Alex John Banal vs. Raul Hidalgo quarrel. Held at the Waterfront Hotel and Casino in Lahug, that was the 13th edition of Pinoy Pride. Coming off the embarrassing Boom-Boom and Gernaro Garcia debacle, I’m sure the ALA Promotions team couldn’t wait for this Saturday night. A successful, full-packed crowd will erase the Tagbilaran nightmare.
At the same time yesterday evening, if you crossed the Marcelo Fernan Bridge and headed for the Hoops Dome in Lapu-Lapu City, you’d enter a boisterous crowd. It’s the Commissioner’s Cup tip-off between Talk ‘N Text and Rain or Shine. What makes this exciting is this: it’s no exhibition contest—but a crucial, bearing PBA game that happens prior to the playoffs. That’s boxing and basketball. Cebu vs. Mexico. Jimmy Alapag vs. Gabe Norwood.
This morning? It’s one of the most anticipated of road-running races this 2012: the Globe Run For Home. Did you know that Globe Telecom cancelled their annual Manila event to hold it right here, this morning? Yes. That’s 5,000-plus runners that will flood the streets from CICC to the SRP. That’s running.
Chess? Sure. Over the weekend is the 1st Cebu Age Group Challenge—a preliminary event whose winners will proceed to the Visayas championships in Kalibo, Aklan. After the world-record activity that involved over 43,000 children, this event signals a continuation of the sport of chess. Good move.
In football, there’s a pause in the competition for the 14th Aboitiz Cup to give way to the school where many of the Aboitizes studied at: Cebu International School. The event is the CIS Friendship Cup and, with children as young as four years old participating, a total of 108 teams are represented. That’s football. (And we’re not even talking about the contest, as written by Mike Limpag yesterday, called the “CFA Elections.”)
Tennis? There “was” supposed to have been a mega-event. At the Plantation Bay Resort and Spa, today would have been the Cebu vs. Sarawak tennis challenge called the Lapu-Lapu Cup. Sarawak is one of the major cities of Malaysia and two of their country’s top juniors—coming from Sarawak—were supposed to be in Cebu this weekend. But last week, one of their players got sick. And you need two for doubles, right? Jacob Lagman, our Cebu No.1, was ready. So was Johnny Arcilla. And, for doubles, the tandem of RJ Abarquez and Kennex Abadia. Plantation Bay’s Efren Belarmino prepared his clay-surfaced tennis court. But it wasn’t meant to be.
Which brings us to… Talisay. After last weekend’s XTERRA in Liloan, the show continues this morning for the 1st Talisay Triathlon Race. Over 100 swimmers-bikers-runners are participating in this race that features a 1-km. swim, a 30K bike ride and a 7.5K run. If my little research is correct, the bike route will take the cyclists inside the SRP. Interesting because the SRP is also closed for the Globe Run. The two events are not expected to merge, though, because one will occupy the Cebu City side and the other will, of course, pass through their own boundary.
Talisay is becoming a sporting destination. This is good. As we know, the Gullas family is comprised of sports fanatics. From Eddigul to Dodong to Didi to Jiji to Samsam to Johnvic, the Gullases are all sports lovers. They play basketball, tennis, golf, badminton—name a sport and they like it, play it, support it.
Which brings me back to Talisay. Much like the cities of Cebu and Lapu-Lapu (and now, Liloan, with the XTERRA), the city of Talisay is getting sports-crazy. Apart from this morning’s triathlon, there’s the 5th Governor’s Cup Horse Show and Competition this weekend. The country’s best cowboys are in town.
What’s more, there’s the Takas sa Talisay All-Women Beach Volleyball Invitational. One city, one weekend, three sports.
XTERRA experience 2: MTB and trail run
(Photo by Reynan Opada)
MTB stands for mountain-bike. It’s that vehicle on two rugged tires with a flat handlebar that we used to maneuver the treacherous landscape of Liloan during the XTERRA last Sunday.
After my “waterloo” (the water, open-sea swim) was done, it was off to the 35-km. MTB ride. I loved it. You’re outdoors. You climb rocks and descend on slippery sand. You pedal amidst thick grass and brake once a giant boulder glares at you. After my 14:39 swim time, my bike ride was 2 hours, 44 minutes. Not fast; conservative. Early on my first of two loops, my three CO2 bottles fell. Had I gotten a flat tire… Oh, no.
(Photo by Icky Salazar)
Thank, God, that didn’t happen. The one occurrence that I also avoided did not transpire: meeting an accident. With such a technical and scary bike route—the architect of whom was Architect Miguel Flores—not getting battered or wounded was the goal. Another “Thank you, Lord” moment, I only fell once with a minor hip bruise.
If you’re a MTB’er and didn’t join XTERRA, you ought to drive to Liloan soon and try the experience. We passed a small opening in-between two bahay-kubos after ascending a steep climb. We descended (I walked) the famous Bagacay Point Lighthouse that’s now, according to Gov. Gwen Garcia, been renamed “graveyard” instead of “parola.”
Porter Marina? Beautiful. We entered the enclave surrounded by yachts and pedaled to the tip where we circled the gazebo. The Gatorade station awaited us. Guess who I saw there? A Cebuano whom I admire the most, Dr. Wyben Briones. He helped with his team from the All-terrain Medical Relief Org (AMRO).
(Photo by Dr. Wyben Briones)
The cheerers? I’ve joined numerous marathons and I’ve never witnessed as many loud voices—especially children—than four mornings ago. Because you bike on narrow paths, the residents troop out to watch and cheer. In the schools that we passed, the elementary girls and boys shouted, “YOU CAN DO IT!” Well-orchestrated by Mayor Duke, the Liloan residents provided extra boost to fuel our tired legs.
Not only were the spectators nice but the pros were, too. Before Ben Allen zoomed past me, he signaled, “Will pass through the right!” As he—and the other pros—would zip through, they never failed to say, “Thank you” after the pass. Amazing. This is the beauty of this sport. You not only get to compete right beside the world’s elite—but they’re courteous and respectful.
(Photo by Astrid Concepcion)
RUN. Since I joined the Lite, my run was 5K. After three hours of swimming and biking, the body gets weary. Still, not to have drowned nor gotten injured (yes!), the run was extra fun. I clocked 38 minutes. We zigzagged through off-road ground and hopped towards the beach. We ran beside the Liloan shoreline and, upon reaching the tip, had to wade through knee-deep waters for over 100 meters. I thought this was a swim-bike-run triathlon… Are they adding a swim as the 4th and final obstacle? Ha-ha.
After 3 hours and 36 minutes, with Jasmin, Jana and my mom Allen waiting at the finish, I crossed that line with arms raised high. Yes!
NOTE: I got a phone call past 4 P.M. when I reached home. It was Caecent Magsumbol of The Freeman. Did I hear the news? she asked. Oh, no. Not a terrible accident on a participant, I thought. I was in 2nd place! No way, I said. No way. In my 40 – 44 age bracket (Lite), I placed No. 2 behind Jun Barcenas. Wow, hard to believe! (Before you get too excited: excluding Goyo Larrazabal, who didn’t show up, we were only seven in the age group. Still, the trophy looks good!)
BEN ALLEN STORY. Two days before race day, Ralph Sios-e and I visited Amara for a practice swim. As we finished changing and were about to leave, a man approached us. Can I hitch a ride? he asked. He was alone and had no vehicle ride back to the city. Sure, we said. We didn’t know him but he needed help. But just as we were packing our things, Jacs Jacalan drove by. He, Tenggoy Colmenares and Jomer Lim were ready to go… and so he rode with them instead.
At the Carbo-loading Party the night after, Jacs tells me: remember that guy who rode with us? His name is Ben Allen. He was Xterra champion in Guam the week before. Simple, ordinary-looking fellow but he beat all the top-rated elite pros. We saw Ben later that night at CICC and, like he was when we first met him, he was relaxed and had none of that “celebrity air” found in others. It turns out, Ben was a P.E. teacher in Australia and had no sponsors. He joined and needed to win to earn enough money to compete!
The next morning, Ben Allen obliterated the field—winning in 2:30. His is an example of this adage: Nice guys finish first.
XTERRA experience: Surviving the swim…
(Photos by Dr. Wyben Briones)
Let me begin with the party. Saturday night at the CICC. Gov. Gwen Garcia knows how to celebrate and make the Welcome Dinner… XTERRA-special. As dozens of foreign triathletes arrived, they were accorded the famous “Cebuano hospitality.”
Dancers wowed the audience. Actors Richard Guttierez and Jericho Rosales added glitter to the ballroom. Pasta overflowed. I got to meet the energetic drive behind Liloan, Mayor Duke Frasco. Then, organizer Fred Uytengsu, Jr. beamed with pride as he proclaimed, “I’m happy to bring XTERRA to my hometown of Cebu!”
XTERRA is one of the few events where more participants come from out-of-town than from Cebu. And, judging from their faces that night, the visitors were awed: nowhere are they accorded as dazzling a Welcome Party as in Cebu.
RACE DAY. I woke up at 3:50 A.M. After drinking coffee and munching on chicken sandwich, I donned my one-piece Speedo suit—my solitary attire that morning.
At 5:15, Jasmin, Jana and I were off. As soon as we entered Amara, the usually-serene subdivision reverberated with energy. “Boom-Boom Pow” pulsated from the speakers. Colorful tents littered the marina. Parking was full. I met Gianluca and Matteo Giudicelli and wished them good luck.
It was body-marking time. And no less than Boying Rodriguez, the man responsible for bringing Xterra to our shores, marked “425” on my left arm and right leg.
Kisses and hugs between triathletes and family members ensued. Birthday boy Rio de la Cruz’s hair further electrified the crowd. Photos, ready for FB, were snapped. Gov. Gwen arrived. Eddie and Annabelle Guttierez were next. It was panic time. By 6:40, nobody but the participants would be allowed inside the starting area.
Tenggoy Colmenares helped strap three GU gels in my bike. We took a 5-minute warm-up swim to acclimatize our bodies. Then, as a remote-controlled helicopter circled the marina and the emcee Jaime Garchitorena counted down, “3… 2… 1!” the siren blared as the triathletes were off…
SWIM. Luckily, the sea was calm; but the splashes and bumping of bodies were choppy. They would encircle the rectangle (buoys) twice to complete 1.5 kms.
Our group? About 60 of us—XTERRA Lite competitors—waited for an hour. (My mom Allen sneaked in to give his son a hug!) Then, as swimmer after swimmer emerged, it was our turn.
At 8 A.M., we swam. I had always been anxious about open-sea swimming. An athlete on land, I was not accustomed to the dangers of the ocean. I reminded myself: relax. Yet, I couldn’t relax. Swimming near the rope and buoys, that was where the most traffic was located. Bad move. I had to stop, tread, pedal again. I got kicked. I kicked. Had to overtake; was overtaken. All you could visualize were bubbles and splashes. The sand underneath was 10, 15 feet deep!
Mentally, I told myself to target one buoy at a time. The finish was still far and if you think too far ahead, more pressure sets in. One white buoy at a time.
I struggled. It wasn’t until halfway through our 500-meter distance when the swimmers had spread out that I felt more comfortable. Still, the heart rate was 100 percent max and all you can tell yourself was, “Let’s get this over with!”
Finally, after what seemed like 30 minutes (I finished with an actual time of 14:39; that includes the transition time from swim to bike), I reached the shore. Thank you, Lord! (Compare my swim time to former Olympiad Guy Concepcion – the winner of our Lite swim leg who finished under six minutes!)
I had always told myself that after the swim, my race was done—I can completely enjoy myself. Which was true…
(These photos by Nimrod Quiñones)
BIKE. I love mountain-biking. Given Cebu’s mountainous terrain, it’s one of the most exhilarating activities. And that’s how my 35-km. ride transpired. I loved it. Many times I’d whisper, “Thank you, Lord!” for the fresh air and mountains.
In the first 17.5-K loop, I biked with Matteo Giudicelli and his group. It was good. Why? Everybody knows Matteo. And so, with hundreds of spectators lining the inner, narrow roads of Liloan, they all cheered us on!
One funny moment: a spectator shouted, pointing at me from afar, “Naa si Richard Guttierez! Si Richard!” Then, realizing I was not, “Ay, dili man diay si Richard!”
My goal was not to get injured or have a flat tire. The scary part? I lost my three CO2 bottles—to help fix a flat tire. (More on the bike and run this Thursday.)
Extra! XTERRA! Cebu hosts the off-road TRI
As one of the hundreds of participants of this weekend’s Vaseline Men XTERRA Off-Road Triathlon Series, here are some points…
RACE PACKS. Within the first hour when the race kits were released last Friday, I made sure to visit the Holiday Spa. After paying P3,800 to register, you’re expected to receive plenty of freebies. True enough, this international event did not disappoint. A race cap, running belt, two GU gels, a temporary tattoo, plus a pair of 2XU compression socks were inside the bag. T-shirt? Not yet. Those will be given at the finish line. Courtesy of the mayor, Titay’s rosquillos and goodies were part of the giveaways.
The one that interested me most was the wrist I.D. After they give you the pack (Igi Maximo and I got our kits together), they put a neon-colored (yellow) race band on your wrist that can’t be removed (unless you cut it off after the event). Unlike race bibs for running that are easily transferrable, the non-removable wristband ensures that nobody else but “John Pages” uses my kit. Wise! Also, you get to sleep and dine with your race band for a couple of nights – adding to the excitement.
IRONMAN. Arland Macasieb is often described as the country’s Ironman. The first Filipino to cross the finish line at the 2011 Ironman 70.3, Arland has won gold in numerous events. Two nights ago at Justin Uy’s J Centre Mall, Arland gave a talk on triathlon. What sets Arland apart from any other triathlete-teacher is that he’s armed with a degree in Exercise Physiology. This means he speaks not only from first-hand experience but also with scientific backing. Given his packed schedule, it was commendable for Arland to share his time with the Cebuanos. Kudos to organizers Jerome Mil, Benjoe Gimenez and Great Adventures and Concepts @ Work.
THE BRICK. Tonight is the grand opening of the business of a top sportsman. Noy Jopson is formally opening his multi-sport business that caters to runners, bikers, swimmers. Visit The Brick at the lower level (beside Tablea) of J Centre Mall.
GOV. GWEN. Volleyball, horse-back riding, and airsoft have been supported, among others, by Gov. Gwen Garcia and the Provincial Government. Add “triathlon” to the list this 2012 as the governor supports XTERRA and Ironman 70.3. Last night at the CICC, after our race briefing at 6 P.M., she hosted a carbo-loading party for the participants.
SWIM. On a personal note… I’ve been biking since I was eight years old. I’ve been running since my elementary school-days. So biking and running come naturally. Swimming? No, no. It’s the one obstacle that has disallowed me from joining the Ironman 70.3. Thanks to the Lite version of the XTERRA (swim is only 500 meters instead of 1.5 kms.), I’m joining the race — as you read this today.
Fear? Sure. Last month, I accompanied Jacs Jacalan, Tenggoy Colmenares and Joseph Miller for a dip in Shangri-La. Bad timing for me that day, the waves were tall. No problem for my triathlete-companions, but major concern for me. I struggled. Held on the buoys and rope every five meters. It was excruciating; a far negative experience compared to the enjoyable mountain-biking or running.
But you know what I realized? Patience. While I’ve been running and biking for three decades now, my swimming habit only started two months ago. So I shouldn’t be overly optimistic—or put myself down if I can’t swim like a fish. This morning, I’ve lowered my expectations: will swim slow and easy. I’ll hold on the buoys and rope as often as my mind says so. It doesn’t matter if I finish late. What matters is I relieve the unnecessary pressure on myself. Relax. That’s another reminder.
Two mornings ago, I had a practice swim with top triathlete Ralph Sios-e at Amara. The waters were semi-rough. They weren’t as smooth as a lake. (We even saw a foot-long sea snake!) Still, being an ignorant, non-swimmer, this I realized: you float on open sea water. Little effort is needed to stay afloat. Said Ralph: “It will take more energy to drown that to float.”
Mayor Duke Frasco: ‘Liloan, sports hub’
While Lapu-Lapu City organized the Davis Cup tennis “Battle Of Mactan” and Mandaue City played hosts to PBA games, Dennis Rodman, horse-back riding contests and Cebu City has Guinness World Records in dancesport and chess, another Cebu locality is carving its name in sports: Liloan.
“I think Liloan is prime to be the sports tourism capitol of Cebu,” said Liloan Mayor Vincent Franco “Duke” Frasco. “We have the beaches for water sports and possibly, wake-boarding; bike trails for the mountain-bike enthusiasts, and trail runs for international and huge events, like XTERRA Championships.”
Mayor Duke is right. If we talk of “outdoor and adventure sports,” no city or municipality in Cebu today boasts of capturing that niche or segment.
Water sports? Check. Wake-boarding? Check. This was popularized nationwide by Camarines Sur but, with the loss of the Ironman 70.3 from Camsur, how about Cebu—maybe in Liloan’s Silot Bay—building a wake-boarding facility? Mountain-biking? Check. Twice, I’ve trekked the MTB route of Xterra and it’s challenging and beautiful. Above the hills near Amara, you have the encompassing view of the sea and the mountains. Trail running? Check. The Columbia Trail Run, held last month in Liloan, has received laudable reviews. I saw a video produced by one of the participants, Dr. James Guardiario, and the Trail Run in Liloan was breathtaking.
“Lilo-an has the complete package,” said race organizer Ralph Pilapil. “It’s coastal and it is also near a mountain, which has a very scenic view.” I agree. “Liloan Sports” has the potential to be a huge tourism booster because the man at the helm of this 1st class municipality is, himself, a first-class athlete.
I spoke to Duke two days ago and he’s an avid sportsman. He plays golf and is a fan of Rory Mcilroy. He lifts weights thrice weekly. His favorite? Running. “I’ve finished two 21Ks,” said the mayor. “The Cebu Marathon and the Operation Smile Run.” The 42K? Sure. Liloan’s mayor has enlisted himself in the online lottery for this November’s New York City Marathon. “Last year, I also joined the lottery but did not make it. I hope to enter this time and finish my first full marathon.”
Duke ran for public office as mayor in 2007 but he’s been running on the road since 1998, in high school. “I love to run. It’s not only a great way to stay fit and keep healthy,” he said, “but it helps me relieve tension and stress acquired from a demanding schedule and job.” Running helps the mayor run Liloan.
With this weekend and the XTERRA Championships, Mayor Duke is not only busy with all the preparations—he’s also busy preparing, physically. “Like last year’s XTERRA, I’m joining the Relay. Our team, Abante Liloan, will have Keith Ocampo as swimmer and my cousin, Aljew Frasco, as the biker. I’ll do the 10K run. My target is to finish the run in 53 minutes. Last year, our team placed 3rd. Let’s see this Sunday…”
XTERRA is lucky to be held amidst the rugged terrain of Liloan. Being the off-road version of the triathlon, Liloan’s clear waters plus rocky and tough landscape are a perfect mix. Liloan, obviously, is also fortunate for having been chosen by Fred Uytengsu, Jr., race director Guy Concepcion and their Sunrise Events team for this international meet.
“XTERRA is as big to Liloan and to me as it is to the individual participants coming from all over the world,” said the mayor. “It’s an opportunity for us to showcase our beautiful town and the hospitality of our people.”
Plus, of course, it helps that the major backer not only of XTERRA but also of the bigger triathlon event, the Cobra Ironman 70.3 (this August 5), happens to be the Provincial Government, headed by Gov. Gwen Garcia—the mother-in-law of Mayor Duke Frasco.
With all these, Liloan will succeed in sports. It’s going the “XTERRA-mile.”
XTERRA: the swim-bike-run adventure
www.xterraphil.com
This 2012, the “Year Of The Water Dragon,” Cebu will host two major triathlon events: the Ironman 70.3 in Mactan and the XTERRA Off-Road Triathlon. While the Ironman 70.3 — a major loss for Camarines Sur — is still this August 5, the XTERRA is happening on March 18. That’s seven mornings from today.
What’s XTERRA? It’s off-road. It’s mountain-biking instead of the road bike. It’s a trail run. It’s more adventure than speed. And, best of all, it’s happening here, at one of the most scenic real-estate projects of our island, where the sea and sun beckon for free: the Amara residential community in Liloan.
I’m joining. A mountain-bike fanatic, how can I not? While others travel to distant locations to participate, the Cebuanos are lucky that this event of Fred Uytengsu, Jr. is being organized in his home place of Sugbu.
The XTERRA Lite. That’s the event I’m joining. Unlike the full XTERRA Triathlon with a 1.5-km. swim, a 35K bike and a 10K run, the Lite version only has a 500 meter swim. The bike distance is the same while the run is cut to 5K.
Why the Lite? I have zero background in open-sea swimming. The only time I tried the Tri was a couple of years back in the “Pipti-Pipti” race and Joel Garganera and myself were holding on the buoys and rope (and to our lives!) in the short 300-meter swim. There are 49 of us joining the Lite. For the full version, 171 have confirmed.
This is not all. There’s also the XTERRA Trail Run. This happens this Friday, the day before the triathlon. Only 69 have registered so far and, Cebu being such a huge running haven, I’m surprised that hundreds haven’t enlisted. The Trail Run, with choices of 5K, 10K or 21K, is all-adventure. You’ll climb short hills, jog on grass, step over boulders and bask in the terrain of the country’s newest trail run playground called Liloan. Registration is still open.
Yesterday, thanks to Tyrone Tan, who owns a beautiful, overlooking-the-sea property in Amara, several of us congregated at 6 A.M. to do a simulation run. We swam. (Well, they did; I swam-and-stopped, pausing often to “acclimatize.”) We biked the full two loops. While biking, I high-fived a child/spectator and fell on hard cement. (My butt is still sore as I sit typing this.) We also did a short run. Igi Maximo, Bernard Palermo, Dodong Sulatre, Tenggoy Colmenares, Meyrick Jacalan, Joseph Miller and several more joined. Regan King, Niño Surban and another group also did the bike trek.
C. Aldeguer launches Fish18 Sport + Vellum
Dan Brown will arrive in Cebu. No, he’s not that Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code. He’s a triathlete. And, no, he’s no ordinary biker, runner, swimmer. He’s a 15-time Ironman finisher. He placed 8th in the Hawaii Ultra Man Championships — an unbearably strenuous race involving a 10K swim, a 421K bike and an 84K run. He’s also the current national coach of the Philippine Triathlon team.
Mr. Brown will visit Cebu on Thursday to update this soon-to-be “triathlon capital” (with the XTERRA and Ironman 70.3 landing in this island) and to unveil a partnership that will involve Chris Aldeguer and his newly-relaunched brand: Vellum bikes.
What’s Vellum? “Vellum is a special kind of paper,” Chris Aldeguer said. “We thought the name was appropriate because our bikes are mainly made of carbon fiber and, just like paper, this material is very light in weight. We also liked how it sounded. Fast and Aggressive.”
With his return to competitive triathlon, Chris also formed Fish18 Sport. “Years ago, I planned to form a competitive Triathlon Team if and when I decided to go back to racing,” Chris said. “I wanted to gather a group of Triathletes that share the same philosophy and approach. That philosophy is to Race. To Compete. I believe it brings the best out of each other during Training and Racing. So, last December, with the help of Michael Flores, my partner in Vellum, we formed the team; sponsored by and called Fish18 Sport with Vellum, K-Swiss and GU as major sponsors.”
The six members: Chris Aldeguer, Leo Oracion, Eugene Sanchez, Michael Flores, Franz Baguio and Gerrie Calinawan.
“The selection process was easy,” said Chris. “Leo Oracion needs no introduction. Other than being the first Filipino to climb Mt. Everest, he has won a lot of Triathlon Races and competed several times internationally. Though he is identified with climbing Everest, and being an Adventure Racer, Leo is a successful Elite Triathlete.
“Eugene Sanchez has been doing Triathlons for nearly 12 years. He is very competitive and very accomplished. He is known to be the King of Pain.
“Michael Flores, a VIP of Cebu Cycling, is probably the top cyclist of the Team. He brings in the energy and intensity during our Training Rides and is making a comeback to Triathlon. He is also the Team Manager.
“Franz Baguio is an up and coming Triathlete. He was the second best-performing Cebuano in last year’s Ironman 70.3 in Camsur behind Gerrie Calinawan.
“Gerrie Calinawan, I believe, is the top Cebuano Triathlete today. He was still a junior when I last raced against him 10 years ago. His potential is extremely high and I believe he can be one of the favorites to win or podium among the Filipino Elites in the Ironman 70.3’s near future.”
I interviewed Chris about biking. Why is it so much more popular today? “Huge difference (now vs. before),” he said. “We can’t compare it. There are so much more people riding bikes these days. You see a lot of Mountain Bikes, Road Bikes and even Folding Bikes. The Bicycle events and races have not grown, though. It still is far from being mainstream. But what has grown are the number of recreational riders. Now, you see a lot doing the night rides in Busay, Mountain Biking in Maria Luisa, etc. Mountain Biking has always had a mix of both Recreational Riders and Serious Riders, while Road Cycling were always more of the Hardcore and Competitive riders. Today, there are tons of new and recreational guys on their road bikes. It’s unbelievable.”
Aldeguer cites three factors for the popularity of biking.
One: more people are health-conscious and cycling is a terrific form of exercise. Two: The running boom has led to a cycling/triathlon boom. “The runners either add cycling to their training or they shift because of the wear and tear and injury from too much running,” said Chris. Three: the bike shops. More bikes and parts are now available. Said Chris: “These shops are now in strip malls that are easily accessible to customers.”
Tri again! Chris Aldeguer returns
February 2, 2012 Triathlonjpages
The last time the youngest son of Antonio Lopez Aldeguer joined a triathlon event? In 2003. The next time Chris Aldeguer will try the Tri? Three days from now.
“It’s been nine years,” said Chris. “It’s been that long. I joke my teammates that while they had a two-month off-season, I had nine years. But it’s quite different now. I seem to have more fun. Before, triathlon was my #1 priority. My life revolved around it. This time, it’s only behind family and work.”
Chris’ dive back into the triathlon waters will commence this Sunday. On the island of Siquijor, he’ll join the Olympic Distance contest: 1500m Swim, 40K Bike, and 10K Run.
“I don’t know what to expect,” Chris said. “I feel my swim and bike are ready. That’s easy to predict. I feel I am prepared, but am not certain how fast I can run off the bike. It’s been 9 years since I last did such a transition. It’s that element that remains uncertain. I’m hoping I did enough with my training, but the absence from racing is what will make this challenging.”
In college, Chris played point guard for the USC Warriors. And, beginning 1998, he trained for triathlon. From ‘98 to 2003, Chris swam, pedaled, ran. He joined over 100 races. He was part of the RP triathlon national squad.
“Every medal I won was special,” said Chris, when I asked which event stood out. “But the highlights are the races that I won (2000 Catmon, 2001 in Danao and Batangas, 2002 in Mactan). Every race I did internationally to represent the country was special: in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, and Mexico.”
Fast forward to Siquijor, ever the competitive athlete, Chris says, “I would like to podium, but I hope to at least be in the Top 5… There seem to be several fast new Triathletes. It will depend on how strong the field will be this Sunday.”
After nine years of triathlon inactivity and after dabbling in 42K races (Chris joined the Las Vegas and Hong Kong marathons), in basketball, in MTB’ing around the hills of his Maria Luisa home, why the return this Year of the Water Dragon?
(Philippe Desmazes/AFP/Getty Images)
“I always believed that I might race Triathlons again. I did not expect it to be this soon. Having the Ironman 70.3 in Cebu somehow played a part in my decision. One of the things I hated when I raced full time was the travel. I would travel several times a month to join races nationally and internationally. Now that the Ironman 70.3 and Xterra are here, it makes things easier. I know with these two races, there will also be plenty of local races. Racing locally is more fun for me.
“As a triathlete by heart, and the Ironman 70.3 coming to Cebu, it did not make sense for me not to join. A funny part of me was hoping it would not come here so I will not be forced to go back to Triathlon. But it is coming.”
Very timely, Chris’ reentry to triathlon is also marked by his return to the biking business.
VELLUM. That’s the “high-end boutique brand” of performance bikes that Chris (with Mike Flores and Eugene Sanchez) founded in 2004. But after several years, Chris relinquished his role with Vellum to concentrate on being President of family-owned Loalde.
Now, he’s back as CEO. “Being more active with Vellum is perfect timing. It’s easier to grasp the industry while I am back to racing. It gives me a better feel overall. Though I don’t think it had any influence on my decision to race again.”
As to triathlon’s popularity? Chris adds: “It actually has a downside. I feel triathlon was more pure and genuine before. Now, it is very commercialized. So many are in the sport for its popularity and image rather than the purity of the sport’s heritage and what it is all about. However, I believe the upside outweighs the downside. Because of the sport’s growth, events are now more organized and professional. There is more media coverage. The number of participants are 10 times more. With the popularity of running, the growth of endurance sports is overwhelming. A lot of runners are expected to transition to Triathlon. I think Triathlon’s growth is far from its peak.”
2012: Year of the (Water Dragon) Triathlete
December 4, 2011 Ironman 70.3, Triathlon, XTERRAjpages
According to the Chinese Zodiac, next year will be the Year of the Dragon. It will run from January 23, 2012 until February 9, 2013. The exact name? Year of the Water Dragon. This terminology is fitting because in 2012, water will be the leading and predominant form of sporting events.
While running has blossomed into an every-Sunday event the past three years, another sport will become so popular that thousands will dive into this exercise. It’s called triathlon and it involves swimming, biking and running. Next year, an astounding two mega-triathlon events will happen in Cebu.
First, the XTERRA. This is the off-road version and will be held in Liloan. The Start/Finish line is at Amara with the race passing through Porter Marina and Papa Kit’s. “Instead of one XTERRA race in March,” said race organizer Guy Concepcion of Sunrise Events Inc., in his email a few days ago, “it will be an XTERRA Weekend (trail run on March 17; XTERRA full distance triathlon and XTERRA Lite on March 18). The XTERRA Lite will not be a Maui qualifier. It is a shorter distance race to encourage mountain bikers who have not yet mastered swimming and/or running.”
XTERRA is not a Manila or national sporting brand—it’s a world-recognized event. Right here in Cebu. Added Guy: “This past September and October, Lance Armstrong joined the XTERRA USA Championship and the XTERRA World Championships as his first triathlon races in 20 years. As you may know, Lance Armstrong started off as a triathlete before focusing solely on cycling, and the rest is history. Imagine, of all the events he could join after retiring from cycling for good, he chose XTERRA. And he was quoted re: XTERRA: ‘… it’s cool to come out here and test yourself, and also just support a sport that I think is really cool.’
Does this mean that, like Kobe Bryant and David Beckham arriving in Manila, the 7-time Tour de France champ, Mr. Armstrong, might land in Cebu this March? Abangan.
(Jim Urquhart/AP)
The second “Year of the (Water Dragon) Triathlon” event is the Ironman 70.3. Wow. This is overwhelming news. This is terrific for Cebu, painful for Camsur. This was the one event that made Camarines Sur popular. Now, after three years, it’s taken away from them. In August 5, 2012, it will be held in the cities of Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue and Cebu. The start/finish line is reportedly at the Shangri-La Resort and Spa in Mactan.
What does this mean? Many runners will swim. Many swimmers will bike. Many mountain-bikers will do road cycling. This is a tremendous victory for Cebu.
ACCIDENT. Dr. Raymund Bontol sent me this text message yesterday: “Good day, I have sad news. I was in an accident yesterday during my bike ride. A speeding motorcycle overtook me from behind and to my right side then hit me causing me to crash. My helmet and shades broke in two and I have stitches in my face and many abrasions in my hands and body. I did not lose consciousness and was immediately brought to the hospital by my mom.
“With God’s blessing, I am fine and healing. This made me open my eyes to the poor laws we have for road safety. The speeding motorcycle was said to be driven by a topless man and he was believed to be drunk. He had no helmet, too. If only our laws would be more strict regarding road safety then accidents would be less for us cyclists or pedestrians. We never caught the motorcycle because the witnesses helped me to get out of the road.”
The case of Dr. Bontol, a super-fit marathoner/triathlete, is not the first involving reckless motorcyclists. There have been thousands. Another almost similar accident involved a good friend last month. While biking near Carcar, a motorcycle driver made an unexpected U-turn that caused him to crash and be hospitalized.
“I hope we can impose better laws regarding road safety,” said Dr. Bontol. “Motorcycle drivers are sometimes disrespectful and to think they demand the same space as cars. And yet they can’t even respect pedestrians and cyclists.”
Aloha, Hawaii! Noy is the Ironman Pinoy
October 2, 2011 Triathlonjpages
“I was 14 years old when I got a hand-me-down copy of Triathlete magazine from my uncle Jeng, who was the Philippine champion at that time,” said Noy Jopson.
“I was drawn to the images of the race, the lava fields, the legendary winds of the Queen K Highway, the crowd at Alii Drive as you’re about to finish the race. It’s what got me in the sport in the first place 22 years ago.”
The Ford Ironman World Championship. It’s the Wimbledon of triathlon. It’s their Super Bowl, World Cup, and Olympics. It’s happening next Sunday, October 9. And Noy Jopson is joining.
Only one other Cebuano has ever participated in this event that covers a 3.9-km. swim, a 180-km. bike ride, and a 42-km. run. That Cebuano is Fred Uytengsu, the owner of Alaska Milk and one of the country’s most influential sportsmen. Fred, who resides in Manila, is “Cebuano” because he was born here. Noy is also Cebuano. He’s married to Amale Mendezona and, for many years now, has called this city home.
The Ironman in Kona, Hawaii is exclusive. Only qualifiers (the elite triathletes) can join. Noy qualified in last August’s Ironman in Camsur.
Noy is a legend in this swim-bike-run event. He is a 4-time Phil. champion (1994, 95,1997,98), a silver medalist in the Asian Championships in Korea, and was the Philippine record holder in the Olympic Distance from 1998 to 2009, timing 2:01:04.
In the inaugural Ironman two years ago in Camarines Sur, he was the Filipino Elite Champion. Two months ago, he was 2nd overall, 35 to 39 age group—which made him qualify for Hawaii.
Next Sunday? As expected, he aims high. “I expect to have a great race since I prepared very well for this event,” he said. “I also expect to savor every moment of the whole experience.”
Noy’s goal is to become only the second Filipino in history to go under 10 hours. The reigning Cobra Ironman 70.3 Philippine champ, Arland Macasieb, holds the record at 9:48. Noy wants to be “the first one to do it in the Kona Ironman World Championships.”
His time goals: 58 mins on the 3.9km swim, 5:28 on the 180km bike and then a 3:28 marathon. His favorite discipline? The bike. “I love the technology and the feeling of speed,” he said.
A total of 14 Pinoys are joining. “There are 11 Pinoys who qualified in Camsur, all the original Camsur Podium Placers, myself, Peter Gonzales and Ferdie Catabian have qualified. Its awesome that I will get to share the journey with five of my teammates from Polo Tri Team, Ferdie, Fiona Ottinger, Larry Ocampo, Amanda Carpo and captain Fred Uytengsu who will be doing Kona for the 2nd time. There are also 2 Fil-Ams who have qualified in the US, so all in all there will be 14 Pinoys at the Ironman World Championships.”
This 226-km. distance is not new to Noy. In the only two Ironman events held here, he’s placed first (Phil. Enduraman 2003) and second (Phil. Iron-Distance 2002).
Noy’s schedule includes joining 20,000 others in today’s Milo Half-Marathon. He’ll pace with his wife Amale. “It be my last long run and we hope to run it in 1:45, which will also be my target pace for Kona on Saturday,” he said. “Tomorrow (Monday), I head to The Brick Multi-Sport Store in McKinley Hill to pack my bike in a hard case and get nutrition supplies. Tuesday after lunch I’m off to Honolulu, staying with my Tita overnight, then Kona early Wednesday morning. I’ll be back in Cebu on the 14th in time for Mendel and Lhoriz’s wedding.”
I asked Noy, What will you think about in those 10 hours of suffering in Hawaii? “I will be thinking a lot about my family back here in Cebu, my wife Amale, kids Mikele and Rafa. I’ll also be thinking about my mom, who’s been my number one sponsor over the years; my sister Joyette, cousins Pong, Redg and Ogie who are all triathletes and have all shared the journey with me. I’m so blessed to have a supportive family, I have to make it up to them big time when I get back.”
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Games Beaten 2015
Anything that is gaming related that doesn't fit well anywhere else
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Re: Games Beaten 2015
by prfsnl_gmr Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:55 am
1. Cut the Rope (3DS)
2. Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
3. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (XBOX)
4. Jewel Link Chronicles: Mountains of Madness (NDS)
5. Super Mario 3D World (WIIU)
6. Mario Kart 7 (3DS)
7. Kirby Triple Deluxe (3DS)
8. Gunman Clive (3DS)
9. Child of Light (WIIU)
10. Gunman Clive 2 (3DS)
11. Mighty Switch Force! Hyper Drive Edition (WIIU)
12. Shifting World (3DS)
13. VVVVVV (3DS)
14. Mega Man 9 (PS3)
15. Mighty Switch Force 2 (WIIU)
16. Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (PS3)
17. Castle Crashers (PS3)
18. Pushmo (3DS)
Speaking of difficult games...
Pushmo - which is a fantastic puzzle game - really brought the pain at the very end. I was able to roll the credits on it last night, however, and I have unlocked the extra-challenging "bonus" puzzles.
In Pushmo, you play a cartoon sumo-wrestler names Mallo who must push and pull blocks to create platforms he can navigate to reach the each puzzle's goal. The levels are often pixel art, and although its mechanics are completely different, the game often reminded me of Picross. The game starts out quite simple, and it teaches you its mechanics - as well as a few tricks for navigating its puzzles - with only the most basic tutorials. The difficulty ramps up steadily, and the game is wonderfully designed. It features a "rewind" feature that lets you undo your last 15-30 seconds of gameplay; you can skip past difficult puzzles after you have been stuck on them for a certain amount of time; you can easily zoom and pan over the entire play area; the puzzles are easy to pick up and put down; and (unlike Shifting World, which I completed last month), the game is clearly designed with player convenience in mind.
Moreover, the game is incredibly lengthy. Howlongtobeat.com list the average time to beat the game at 14 hours, and I would not be surpised if it took me nearly that long to beat it. (It will certainly take me several more hours to get through the incredibly challenging "bonus" puzzles, and the game features a "studio" where you can create and download player-created puzzles.) Even though I received the game for "free" from Club Nintendo, the game is a great value at full retail price. I highly recommend it to anyone with a 3DS, and I anticipate downloading its sequels, Crashmo and Pushmo World, in the near future.
by BoneSnapDeez Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:20 pm
You are killin' these puzzle games!
I believe we've talked about it, but I think you'd be into LocoRoco (PSP) as well as its sequel.
by prfsnl_gmr Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:46 pm
BoneSnapDeez wrote: You are killin' these puzzle games!
It is my second favorite genre (right behind 2D platformers)! I have all of the LocoRoco games, and I really need to play them. (Despite the size of my collection, I have never actually beaten a PSP games... )
First 50:
1. Grandia (PlayStation)
2. Jungle Hunt (Xbox - Taito Legends)
3. Jungle Hunt (Atari 2600)
4. Jungle Hunt (Plug & Play - ColecoVision Flashback)
5. Donkey Kong (Atari 2600)
6. Donkey Kong (Intellivision)
7. Donkey Kong (ColecoVision)
8. Bubble Bobble (NES)
9. Side Arms: Hyper Dyne (PSP - Capcom Classics Collection Remixed)
10. 1941: Counter Attack (PSP - Capcom Classics Collection Remixed)
11. Ys: The Ark of Napishtim (PSP)
12. The Ninja Kids (Xbox - Taito Legends)
13. Neutopia (TurboGrafx-16)
14. Golden Axe Warrior (Xbox 360 - Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection)
15. Phantasy Star Online Ver. 2 (Dreamcast)
16. Growl (PlayStation 2 - Taito Legends 2)
17. Arabian Magic (PlayStation 2 - Taito Legends 2)
18. Dungeon Magic (PlayStation 2 - Taito Legends 2)
19. Gekirindan (PlayStation 2 - Taito Legends 2)
20. Ys II (Saturn - Falcom Classics II)
21. Darius Gaiden (PlayStation 2 - Taito Legends 2)
22. G Darius (PlayStation 2 - Taito Legends 2)
23. Giana Sisters DS (DS)
24. RayStorm (PlayStation 2 - Taito Legends 2)
25. Mr. Do! (ColecoVision)
26. Beauty & the Beast (Intellivision)
27. Boxing (PlayStation 2 - Activision Anthology)
28. Crystalis (NES)
29. Dragon Warrior (NES)
30. Faxanadu (NES)
31. Tombs & Treasure (NES)
32. Kirby's Dream Land (Game Boy)
33. Kirby's Adventure (NES)
34. Kirby Super Star (SNES)
35. Hoshi no Kirby 64 (Nintendo 64)
36. Kirby: Triple Deluxe (3DS)
37. Dig Dug (Wii - Namco Museum Megamix)
38. Phoenix (Xbox - Taito Legends)
39. Phoenix (Atari 2600)
40. Pleiads (Xbox - Tecmo Classic Arcade)
41. Kangaroo (Atari 2600)
42. Final Fantasy Adventure (Game Boy)
43. Gorf (Atari 2600)
44. Richard Scarry's Huckle and Lowly's Busiest Day Ever (Pico)
45. Mickey's Blast Into the Past (Pico)
46. Secret of Mana (SNES)
47. Psycho Soldier (PSP - SNK Arcade Classics 0)
48. Genshi-Tou 1930's (PSP - SNK Arcade Classics 0)
49. Datsugoku: Prisoners of War (PSP - SNK Arcade Classics 0)
50. SAR: Search and Rescue (PSP - SNK Arcade Classics 0)
51. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
52. Tic-Tac-Toe / Shooting Gallery / Doodle / Quadra-Doodle (Channel F)
53. Robot War / Torpedo Alley (Channel F)
54. Pinball Challenge (Channel F)
55. Elevator Action (Xbox - Taito Legends)
56. Elevator Action II (PlayStation 2 - Taito Legends 2)
57. Altered Beast (Xbox 360 - Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection)
58. Congo Bongo (Xbox 360 - Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection)
59. International Soccer (Commodore 64)
60. Out of this World! / Helicopter Rescue! (Odyssey²)
The Year Challenge continues.
Out of this World! / Helicopter Rescue!
Finding a suitable game from this year was a bit tricky. My top choices - Armor Battle (Intellivision) and Hockey! / Soccer! (also for the Odyssey²) both turned out to be two-players only. Since I had dragged the O² out of storage and had it hooked up, I decided to seek out another action-packed 1979 title for that particular console. I settled on Out of this World! / Helicopter Rescue!, which, as you may have guessed, is comprised of two "sub-games." A hi-res scan of the box art found on GameFAQs informs me that Out of this World! supports "One or two players!" and that Helicopter Rescue is suitable for "One or more players." Good to go!
Out of this World! is, in fact, not the seminal French Amiga adventure. This one has an exclamation point! What we have here is an incredibly simplified copy of Atari's Lunar Lander. There's no steering or jagged moon terrain here, just a flat lunar surface and a ship that only travels vertically up and down. Thus only the fire button (for thrusting) is used; there is no joystick movement needed. You ship begins in outer space and begins to plummet to the lunar surface. A few careful presses of the fire button will slow it to a gentle landing. Then it's time to launch upward and connect with the mothership. This is where fuel comes into play; there's a limited supply and you don't want to waste too much on the initial landing. Oh, and the game box lied. This a two player game. There's no AI opponent, nor is there an option to choose no opponent whatsoever. The game is won if you connect to the mothership ten times before the other player - who, in my case, was no one... So I decided to set an arbitrary criteria for beating this - ten trips to the mothership with no crashes. Next game!
Helicopter Rescue! is like a half-assed Choplifter! (dear God make the exclamation points stop). There's no action here. No tension, no fear of losing, no antagonists, nothing. This is the game: you're a helicopter, you "rescue" a guy standing on a building by dropping a basket to his aid, you return him to the ground. That's it. This goes on for two minutes. But with "One or more players" there's some potential for good competition, right? No, because the box lied again! This is a one player game. The second joystick doesn't do anything. I guess theoretically more than one person could play if each person passed the joystick around after every round. But by that logic any video game could support an infinite number of players. The "high score" (mine was a whopping 6, though I've heard that the pros can reach 7) isn't even saved anyway.
Out of this World! / Helicopter Rescue! doesn't seem to have many fans.
The Video Game Critic states:
this cartridge is a turkey all the way
And The Odyssey² Homepage:
Are you ready to play a thrill-packed, exciting, challenging game with fantastic graphics and sound? Well, then, stay away from this cartridge! These have routinely been called the worst Odyssey² games ever.
And while I wasn't thrilled with this cart I can't bring myself to hate it. It still oozes that awkward quirky charm that characterizes so many "bad" second gen titles. It's a humorous kusoge game, and I'd even (somewhat hesitantly) recommend it to those who own an Odyssey² and are looking for a good chuckle.
Onward to the 1980s!
BoneSnapDeez wrote: kusoge
That page is awesome. The Typing of the Dead and T&C Surf Designs definitely do not deserve to be listed there, however.
by BoneSnapDeez Tue Apr 28, 2015 10:33 pm
61. Alien Invaders - Plus! (Odyssey²)
Alien Invaders - Plus!
We're in the 80s now!
Space Invaders (1978) was an arcade shooter that revolutionized the gaming landscape. While Atari had exclusive rights to the second gen home versions, other companies developed their own Space Invaders "equivalents." The Apple II had Apple Invaders, the Bally Astrocade had Astro Battle, Commodore computers had Avenger, Intellivision had Space Armada, and Magnavox launched Alien Invaders - Plus! for the Odyssey² in 1980.
First let me state the elements found in AIP that were ripped straight from Invaders. This game is a fixed shooter; only left/right movement is allowed and your ship fires upwards. There are "waves" of extraterrestrial enemies swaying from side to side while slowly descending. A large mothership sails around above the waves and three shields are present should you need something to hide behind.
It sounds derivative - and it is - but Alien Invaders - Plus! shakes things up a bit, and ultimately the game almost ends up feeling like a whole new experience. One worth playing, even.
The aliens present themselves in three very distinct rows that move around in a staggered formation. Row one is actually comprised of force fields. These absorb your gunfire so it's necessary to time shots properly to hit row two. Row two consists of cannons that continually fire downwards. And row three is actually the aliens themselves that man the cannons. Eliminate a cannon and the alien behind it becomes a sitting duck.
Unlike the saucer of Space Invaders, the mothership of AIP is an omnipresent entity. It tracks your movements above the screen and continually fires down. If it's destroyed while other aliens are present it reforms after a few seconds. However once all alien waves are eliminated the mothership heads downward for an intense one-on-battle. Defeat the ship to gain access to the next level.
Oh, and the shields? Gunfire doesn't destroy them here. In addition to blocking shots (from both sides) they also serve a completely novel function. If your ship is to be hit by enemy fire the pilot pops out. By ducking under a shield and pressing the fire button a new ship for the player materializes and the shield vanishes. This gives you a few "lives" per level, though the game becomes much more difficult once the shields start vanishing.
There's a score system here too. Complete a level and earn one point. However, if the aliens complete a level (by draining all the player's lives) they gain a point. First to 10 wins. The game surprisingly doesn't loop, thus making its "beaten" status unambiguous. There is no ending to speak of though, gain ten points and the game simply freezes.
I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would. How does it stack up to Space Invaders? Well, it's not nearly as good. Controls are a bit stiff and trying to shoot around the force fields can be infuriating at times. But it's an extremely impressive title for 1980 and belongs in any Odyssey² collection.
by Ack Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:34 am
1. Renegade Ops (PC)(Multidirectional Shooter)
2. Borderlands 2 (PC)(FPS/RPG)
3. Gunpoint (PC)(Puzzle Platformer)
4. Robotrek (SNES)(RPG)
5. The Tick (SNES)(Beat 'Em Up)
6. Alien vs Predator (SNES)(Beat 'Em Up)
7. X-Kaliber 2097 (SNES)(Action Platformer)
8. Metal Slug (MVS)(Run and Gun)
9. Shadowrun (SNES)(RPG)
10. Quake II (PC)(FPS)
11. The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang (SNES)(RPG)
12. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (PC)(Action)
13. A Story About My Uncle (PC)(Platformer)
14. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (PC)(FPS)
15. Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith (PC)(FPS)
16. Catacomb (PC)(Top-Down Shooter)
17. Catacomb Abyss (PC)(FPS)
18. Catacomb Armageddon (PC)(FPS)
19. Catacomb Apocalypse (PC)(FPS)
20. The Catacomb (PC)(Top-Down Shooter)
21. Catacomb 3-D (PC)(FPS)
22. EarthBound (SNES)(RPG)
23. Quake II: Ground Zero (PC)(FPS)
24. Quake II: The Reckoning (PC)(FPS)
The Reckoning is a weird Mission Pack for Quake II. Sure, it keeps the same basic structure of the base game, but it utilizes an entirely different game's philosophy. When I first started playing it, I noticed that it didn't really feel like Quake II, and now that I am through it, I can confidently say that The Reckoning feels more like Doom parading around in Quake II's skin than anything else.
Why do I say that? Well, first there is the color palette. Quake II uses mostly browns and reds in its design, and Ground Zero kept this. The Reckoning throws a lot more green into the mix, in lighting, textures, and in toxic waste. Each new area presents a player with the closeup of a facility, as opposed to the fuzzy map of Quake II/Ground Zero. Enemy ranks are heavily stuffed with guards and enforcers, which I find reminiscent of the zombies and shotgun guys of Doom. There are also monster closets everywhere(including one for the final boss) and an abundance of exploding barrels in certain areas.
But is it good? Well...yes and no. I found it cool to play through, but I also found it a buggy, infuriating mess at times. So I guess I should start at the beginning:
THE BUGS
The version currently on Steam is problematic and is out of date, for both The Reckoning and Ground Zero. Both may have issues starting and Steam Boostrapper immediately crashing(though this can be circumvented by accessing them directly from the Quake II directory as opposed to using Steam). Worse yet, both have the potential for your save games and map data to corrupt. I made it through Ground Zero without this ever happening, thank goodness. The Reckoning, however... I basically restarted at one point because my save files went to shit and I ended up in a situation where I could no longer advance due to the game crashing when it tried to load the next map. Thankfully I manually patched the game and alleviated the issue. It took me a little while to figure this out though, as the Steam forums were largely unhelpful.
THE WEAPONS
There are three new weapons in this one, which I have a love/hate relationship with. The first is the Trap, which is lethal to anything that steps on it, and it pulls in whatever is closest. Unfortunately this means you. It also can pull in something bigger than the space it occupies, which means that enemies will occasionally get trapped up against the wall because they are too big. Luckily they tend to worry more about the trap instead of you, so it becomes like shooting fish in a barrel. The Ion Ripper is the next, and it's nasty: it basically shoots energy-based blades that ricochet off walls and do a great job of cutting the legs out from under things. I didn't use this as much as I should have because it uses the same ammunition as both the Hyperblaster and BFG10k, but you get to see how effective it is through the game because quite a few enemies pack one as well. And then there is the Phalanx Particle Cannon, which is basically a double-barreled shotgun that shoots explosions and pure hate. I love you, Phalanx Particle Cannon. You look like evil and you hit like the fist of an angry god.
THE ENEMIES
This is where things get a bit annoying. The Reckoning throws hordes of Gekk lizard men, Strogg, Beta Class Strogg, and new varieties of guards at you. This latter part especially sucks, because they're small, numerous, and not worth the ammunition I have to expend to kill a lot of them, especially the laser-armed sniping ones. Are you worth a railgun slug? Probably not, but I hate you so much that I want your unborn grandchildren to feel it. You're gonna end up knee deep in the dead for this one, particularly in some of the later levels which contain 90+ enemies at a time. I think that's the most enemies in any Quake II level. But don't worry, even when you get to the final section of the game, and the enemy numbers suddenly drop back down to sub-50, the game still has one final "fuck you" prepared for you:
The Gladiator (Beta Class)
I already hate the Gladiator, because he has a railgun. The Beta Class lost the railgun, but gained a shield, and then decided it was a good idea to strap my beloved Phalanx Particle Cannon to his shoulder and show me just how much damage it can really do. Being hit with a Phalanx Particle Cannon is a lot like having God flick you with his finger as he says, "Nope!" You don't die, you cease to be. And on the Strogg moon base, there are a couple dozen of these assholes. They have over 10 times the health you do, making them comparable to a boss, only again, there's a couple dozen of them. In a row.
The final boss, a rehash of the Makron fight, is easier than these assholes, and the final boss has a BFG10k. He also only has twice the health of the Gladiator Beta Class, and he's slower than they are, so after those...he's pretty much a joke. I wiped the floor with him without bothering to use the Quad Damage and Dual Fire I had banked. I killed him and ran into a different level to escape. Only in that level, I discovered one last Strogg ready and waiting for me, the true final boss of the game.
A fucking Gladiator (Beta Class).
I activated the Quad Damage and unloaded my BFG10k into his face. That was how I beat The Reckoning.
I have a movie review website now: https://moviereviewsbyamook.com/
by MrPopo Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:48 am
I actually found the Gladiator Betas in the ship to be worse than the moon base due to the confined quarters. But in the moon base I did use a lot of traps on them to avoid dealing with them.
I think the reason I preferred The Reckoning was the new enemies were overall easier to deal with. The Gladiator Beta is mostly a meat sponge (his weapon has a slow travel speed), while the new guards are as easy to kill as the old guards, so it was mostly making sure you take advantage of that so they don't laser you to death (go go machine gun). Whereas the Ground Zero monsters were sadistic in their design.
I found it to be the opposite for me. The Ground Zero enemies were sadistic and challenging, but a lot of the Beta versions of enemies in The Reckoning felt cheap. They beefed up health and gave them nastier weapons, and then they throw hordes of them at me or let them take potshots. I basically gave up trying to snipe with the shotgun or machine gun and started popping guards with a railgun because I was tired of being continuously lasered the instant they looked at me. The amount of health in the Gladiator Beta Class is ridiculous; I would rather they toss in a handful of other enemies than one bullet sponge who could one shot you if he hit in the right place and you were unarmored.
I do like the level ideas more for The Reckoning; the starport, freighter, and moon base were all excellent levels. And I find I prefer the weapons of The Reckoning more overall(with the exception of Ground Zero's Proximity Launcher), but enemies just felt poorly handled to me.
by BoneSnapDeez Wed Apr 29, 2015 10:30 pm
62. Ice Hockey (Atari 2600)
While I haven't been impressed with Activision's output in recent years it's hard to deny that they absolutely killed it during the Atari 2600 era.
Ice Hockey is an excellent sports game. It's two-on-two hockey, and you're always in control of the player closest to the puck. The sprites are well animated, though there is an interesting quirk here. It seems that the game can only support two hockey sticks on the screen at once so passing the puck also involves "passing" the stick.
Controls are spot-on and subtle joystick movements can dictate the puck's trajectory. Ice Hockey is fast too - games are only three minutes long so expect to score over 10 points if you plan on beating the computer. Goalies can exit the goal (to an extent) and it's not uncommon to find your goalie in the position to score in your opponent's goal.
Most hockey games include some element of physical violence. Here a well-timed button press can stun an opponent for a few seconds, though the opposing team will be looking to do the same to you. Two "modes" are available in Ice Hockey: one standard and one that's super-fast with more erratic puck control.
My attempts to explain this game don't really do it justice. It's just plain fun, probably even more so with two players. It's available on multiple consoles via Activision compilations, so definitely check this one out even if you don't own a 2600. Oh, and the FDS/NES game with the same title? Completely different. And worse.
I just wish I had discovered Ice Hockey earlier. It's too late for me to get the patch.
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June 12, 2011 - Riverdale Riverfest - Metro-North and Amtrak [20]
December 17, 2006 - LIRR ESA display @ GCT [7]
March 21, 2007 - Buses on Trinity Pl & Church St [13]
January 1, 2012 - Giants vs. Cowboys [1]
July 21, 2009 - [1]
February 29, 2004 - Panning the (Q) @ Avenue M @ 2:00AM [2]
June 15, 2008 - TM Nostalgia Train to Rock Park (Arnines) [104]
December 23, 2007 - Museum train in service [19]
November 21, 2004 - Lo-V MOD Trip @ GCT Shuttle Platform [15]
August 17, 2006 - Atlantic-Pacific, W 4 St [7]
August 25, 2006 - (1) at 23 St, boarding through the rear door [6]
December 9, 2005 - Snow Storm photos at Riverdale MNCR [45]
January 2, 2009 - Metro-North at Marble Hill [9]
January 14, 2005 - SubChat Field Trip on the LIRR Lower Montauk Line [39]
September 28, 2003 - Kool-D's photos from the MOD Trip [101]
March 16, 2003 - Queensboro, 33 St, Smith-9th, Bush Terminal scrap yard, more [104]
February 27, 2006 - Riding with G1 [3]
September 21, 2003 - Branford Trolley Museum [39]
February 12, 2008 - A Railroad Reborn: Metro-North at 25 [41]
September 07, 2003 - (J) & (M) with C. Rivera [39]
April 27, 2003 - Peggy's Eastern Division Tour [158]
November 3, 2004 - Subway Style exhibit @ GCT [28]
March 2, 2008 - Chris Rivera from 242 St to Dyckman St [11]
August 29, 2004 - HBLR [9]
August 19, 2008 - 34th and 14th at 8 Av, Union Square, GCT [10]
January 25, 2006 - The 9-11-01 bus [2]
January 29, 2007 - Bravo Top Design at Grand Central shuttle platform [6]
April 24, 2009 - LIRR 175th Anniversary Ceremony at Penn Station [26]
August 30, 2006 - Trophy and Newspapers at GCT [5]
December 5, 2008 - Vintage bus 7340 on the Q32 [18]
August 31, 2008 - Great North River Tugboat Race - 16th Annual [69]
May 6, 2004 - Grand Central Terminal [4]
February 9, 2005 - Mixed R-32/38 (C) train [1]
December 3, 2008 - Vintage bus 5227 on the M14A [74]
November 19, 2009 - Rockettes on the Arnines [27]
May 23, 2008 - New Entrance at 59 St - CC [5]
August 26, 2003 - Lower Bergen "NO GO" G.O. [7]
September 7, 2004 - Fishbowl and Gun Hill Road (2/5) [11]
April 28, 2004 - MNR M7a on public display at GCT, Track 37 [44]
May 27, 2005 - The Very Last (9) Train [18]
December 31, 2009 - Snow storm [13]
February 19, 2009 - 1 at 231 St, R-38 on the C [16]
June 24, 2007 - BUS ROADEO, MNCR & Amtrak at Riverdale [62]
June 24, 2003 - NEW (Livonia Av EL) [5]
April 15, 2007 - East 180th Street Maintenance Facility - Part II [18]
October 18, 2007 - Times Square IRT [4]
May 26, 2008 - dead line at 207 Street Yard [10]
August 26, 2003 - Rector St and more [9]
October 31, 2008 - Halloween [2]
January 13, 2010 - R-32 A at 207, SEC, NMS, Marble Hill MNCR, and Broadway Bridge with ICE [21]
July 22, 2007 - TM Nostalgia Trip (photo batch 2) [39]
September 4, 2011 - Railfest 2011 - A Celebration of Railroading [5]
June 17, 2009 - NYCT O5 6000, Water Main Break [3]
December 25, 2008 - Riverdale MNCR and Amtrak [17]
May 4, 2011 - Workers along the tracks with 3 train at 34 St - Penn Station [1]
September 10, 2007 - 75th Anniversary of the IND Subway [44]
August 6, 2006 - Spuyten Duyvil MNCR & Amtrak [25]
July 10, 2007 - Times Square: 42 St Shuttle Platform [7]
August 25, 2011 [1]
July 20, 2009 - Meadowlands Rail Station Inaugural Train Ride and Opening Ceremony [65]
July 2, 2009 - Times Square BMT, Shutte Wrap [11]
June 21, 2010 - R-32 A train [2]
August 1, 2006 - Union Sq, Brooklyn Bridge [16]
August 20, 2006 - Arnine Transit Museum Trip - Part I [42]
May 22, 2011 - NYTM Lo-V trip Bronx Week [90]
March 14, 2003 - Amtrak @ New Brunswick [10]
September 1, 2009 - Bus ad, redbirds on barge, 207 st bone yard, (1) at 215 st [23]
July 30, 2006 - Riverdale MNCR [9]
December 11, 2006 - NJT Multi-level Rail Car Inaugural Run [7]
September 4, 2006 - MNCR & PV& Amtrak traffic jam at Riverdale [29]
September 28, 2005 - Spuyten Duyvil and GCT [20]
February 5, 2007 - R-32 (E) on 6 Av Local [2]
March 3, 2006 - MO Tower, MoW, SRS, Spuyten Duyvil [10]
July 3, 2005 - MNR along the Hudson [8]
July 9, 2009 - Barge of Death #21, Metro-North, Major Deegan [35]
August 30, 2004 - US OPEN SPECIAL (7) Train [25]
June 12, 2009 - Final day of service for the R-40 Slants [32]
October 1, 2003 - R-32 (C) @ 34 St-Herald Square [3]
December 6, 2005 - Spuyten Duyvil [10]
October 7, 2009 - Lo-V trip to Yankee Stadium playoff game and Williamsburg Bedford Avenue [79]
April 20, 2007 - MTA Earth Day Fair at GCT [11]
May 5, 2008 - 42 St Shuttle Wrap - Hugo Boss [6]
February 11, 2004 - Harrison, NJ [8]
November 3, 2003 - Last Revenue Redbird Trip [58]
October 9, 2005 - Highbridge Water Tower, MNCR, High Line [60]
August 10, 2006 - D at 34-8, Penn station people, A train mom and baby [11]
September 10, 2003 - Brighton Line [46]
August 3, 2006 - Times Square station photo tour [10]
April 11, 2007 - Remembering Dante Angerville [12]
January 9, 2004 - 59 St-CC renovations starting [4]
July 27, 2006 - MNCR MOW, 23 St BMT, Times Square BMT, more [23]
March 22, 2006 - 23 St-Ely Av [5]
October 20, 2003 - Flushing line night photos, redbird, R-142A at Corona Yard [30]
June 19, 2005 - A drive to Philadelphia [18]
December 17, 2003 - JFK AirTrain Opening [65]
December 31, 2010 - New York Botanical Garden Train Show [10]
September 19, 2011 [1]
July 7, 2004 - Museum train on the 42 St Shuttle [68]
October 22, 2004 - Redbird work train @ 34 St [2]
December 27, 2009 - Barge #28 departs [31]
October 27, 2004 - Centennial pics - City Hall Station Tour [36]
August 27, 2007 - R-160B at Ditmars Blvd, R-40M at Astoria Blvd [9]
February 27, 2011 - My Two Turbos [2]
July 29, 2003 [6]
July 01, 2003 - Brighton Line [61]
October 23, 2005 - Newark Penn, Hoboken, & Newark Broad [43]
June 24, 2010 - My last ride on the M to Brooklyn [5]
November 13, 2011 - Veterans Day Ceremony at VCP Memorial Grove [18]
December 3, 2004 - F and 7 [4]
February 22, 2009 - the Barge of Death returns [6]
May 26, 2003 - New Howard Beach station [9]
May 10, 2009 - Burned out car, Broadway Bridge subway [7]
August 3, 2011 - Tropicana Wrap on the 42 St Shuttle [6]
October 13, 2006 - Long Island City, Arch St, Shuttle [16]
July 30, 2008 - New York Penn Station, 34 St - Penn Station [9]
July 06, 2003 - Flushing line redbirds, Sea Beach [178]
November 9, 2003 - MOD Trip - Parsons to Parsons [48]
November 27, 2006 - GCT model trains, MSG Shuttle wrap, Diamond district bus [19]
April 11, 2008 - Continental Airlines ad on the 42 Street Shuttle [6]
July 24, 2013 - Tour of NYNJ Rail - Brooklyn Car Float [50]
April 22, 2004 - Queen Mary 2 & buses on South St [35]
February 13, 2006 - Trains and Buses in the snow [26]
Ultimate Ride photos by Sumeet and Neelam [49]
August 04, 2003 - Redbirds @ 45 Rd, Amtrak and LIRR (smokey) @ Sunnyside [68]
February 16, 2004 - Newark City Subway [53]
April 18, 2004 - Transit Museum IRT Nostalgia Trip [61]
March 9, 2004 - Smoke condition at 34 St and Work train at 96 St [9]
August 14, 2003 - Blackout of 2003 [19]
November 29, 2009 - Bus and Rail transit in Philadelphia for Eagles game [36]
June 24, 2008 - No (B) on 8 Av [3]
May 1, 2008 - Train of Many Colors [17]
February 13, 2004 - NJT & Amtrak on the NEC @ Edison, NJ [27]
May 20, 2007 - Amtrak and MNCR at Riverdale [19]
June 29, 2008 - First Run of the + Select Bus Service Bx12 (+SBS) [44]
October 11, 2006 - NJT Mutilevels preview at Newark [27]
February 11, 2016 - Amtrak Cross-Country Train Trip [1]
October 17, 2006 - R-160A-2, R-40, Orion VII [7]
December 10, 2007 - Vintage Bus 7340 in service on M34 - Complete Photo Set [36]
June 3-7, 2004 - Trip to San Diego, CA [56]
August 26, 2005 - Spuyten Duyvil MNCR [18]
April 27, 2004 - MNR diesels and electrics at Marble Hill [24]
December 20, 2009 - SNOW STORM - Riverdale MNCR, Dyckman (1), and NYCT buses [14]
February 26, 2010 - Snowicane Metro-North GCT Subway Penn Station Buses [18]
November 25, 2008 - R-40 Slant on the (A) to 207 St [20]
November 26, 2004 - Tri-Rail @ Sheridan Street Station [13]
June 16, 2006 - New Haven Line Departures to Mamaroneck - U.S. OPEN [4]
August 7, 2008 - R-42 and R-46 (E) trains at 14 St [37]
June 6, 2010 - NYTM Lo-V Nostalgia Trip [228]
January 27, 2011 - Snow Storm, MNCR Spuyten Duyvil, MTA Bus [23]
February 21, 2007 - Ossining [15]
January 21, 2016 - MNCR Harlem - 125th Street [8]
April 29, 2010 - R-46 AA set on the (A) [2]
June 20, 2008 - Subway car barge on the Hudson River [18]
May 17, 2011 - Lady Gaga wrap on the 42 St Shuttle [3]
June 17, 2007 - British Double Decker Bus, 2 at 86 St, J to Prospect, FS, A at Franklin [105]
March 5, 2009 - British Transport Police at New York's Penn Station [4]
June 22, 2007 - LIRR & 7 at Woodside [10]
August 14, 2008 - Bx9 using an Orion V [4]
September 24, 2006 - NJT Raritan, Newark, M&E [32]
September 3, 2009 [53]
March 19, 2009 - MNCR, 1, 7, Lo-V [5]
January 12, 2006 - Riverdale MNCR [10]
December 19, 2006 - MTA The Bus 7888 and 3417, Orion I 8831 [10]
October 6, 2009 - East River State Park and Bedford Av (L) [23]
September 1, 2008 - Barge of Death #7 [8]
July 9, 2006 - Amtrak and MNCR at Riverdale and Spuyten Duyvil [42]
September 11, 2003 - Towers of Light [17]
November 28-29, 2007 - Philadelphia, SEPTA, Amtrak [37]
November 21, 2006 - Northern Dreams at Grand Central Terminal [7]
August 8, 2009 - Barge of Death Photos by David-Paul Gerber [23]
November 30, 2006 - GCT kaleidoscope [2]
December 24, 2008 - new Circle Line Manhattan boat [4]
June 13, 2007 - 125 St, E 149 St [6]
June 8, 2007 - 23 St, 34 St - Herald Square, 5 Av [10]
November 23, 2005 - Spuyten Duyvil and GCT [10]
October 26, 2006 - Great Neck LIRR [11]
February 19, 2006 - Hoboken and Secaucus Transfer [62]
September 18, 2005 - Newark Penn, Newark City Subway [59]
January 12, 2011 - Snow Storm [89]
October 31, 2011 - Pittsburgh [2]
June 4, 2009 - R-40 Slants at 34 St - Penn Station & more [34]
May 23, 2004 - R-9 MOD Trip to 9 Av LL and Coney Island [94]
October 3, 2006 - R-62A 1801 no graffiti, GCT Lamborghini [3]
February 12-13, 2004 - Journal Sq & Harrison [3]
January 16, 2006 - Spuyten Duyvil and folded R-62A cab [6]
December 30, 2009 - Holiday Vintage MACK Bus and Times Square Police Activity [19]
June 29, 2003 - SMEE MOD Trip [157]
September 2, 2009 - R-30 8336 on Barge of Death, MNCR [11]
December 31, 2016 - New Year's Eve Inaugural Ride of the Second Avenue Subway [50]
June 24, 2012 - Metro-North and Amtrak at Mt. St. Vincent [20]
January 11, 2008 - Barge of dead subway cars destined for the reef [3]
March 30, 2007 - NYCT Bus #2006 Painted White [5]
March 15, 2003 - Edison, NJ [9]
July 24, 2007 - Two hours @ Inwood - 207 Street [11]
August 17, 2006 - R-160 first revenue trip [16]
September 18, 2011 - Pittsburgh [7]
March 2, 2009 - Snowstorm - buses and firetruck [9]
March 10, 2009 - Meadowlands Sports Complex NJT Rail Station [6]
May 7, 2003 - Redbirds [21]
February 22, 2008 - Grand Central Terminal, Shuttle wrap, Times Square [9]
September 21, 2008 - Lo-V trip to the final game at Yankee Stadium [11]
June 26, 2005 - Manhattan, NJ, & Westchester [10]
August 27, 2009 - M5, M10, M11, M20, M31, M57, M104, 59 St - Columbus Circle [42]
June 18, 2004 - IRT Museum Train IN SERVICE [21]
July 25, 2004 - BU Gate Cars MOD Trip [34]
April 25, 2004 - IRT MOD Trip - ALBUM II [62]
January 6, 2010 - Buses on W 57 St, 57/6, 59-CC [31]
December 13, 2010 - NJT at NMS - Jets vs. Dolphins [16]
December 29, 2008 - SEPTA Mid-Winter VIII - Philadelphia [117]
May 20-22, 2005 - Amtrak and WMATA - Washington, DC [27]
August 22, 2004 - Arnines on the (A) in service [36]
May 19, 2009 - Amtrak NY Travel by Rail [3]
March 14, 2004 - Queensboro Plaza [17]
March 19, 2007 - Heins and LaFarge at TM Gallery Annex at GCT [5]
July 13, 2006 - Broadway & 37th St Intersection all f'ed up, GCs [38]
December 19, 2007 - Queen Mary the bus (2124) on display outside Penn Station [3]
May 4, 2008 - 207 St Yard dead line [35]
July 9, 2010 - Mt. St. Vincent and Metro-North at Ludlow [21]
December 18, 2003 - Howard Beach AirTrain Terminal [19]
June 13, 2010 - Amtrak and MNCR at the College of Mount St. Vincent [27]
August 24, 2003 - AMUE MOD trip - PART II [47]
June 1, 2006 - E 149 St, E 143 St, GCT [17]
February 10, 2009 - PJ Love Patrol at Penn Station [12]
April 24, 2007 - Bowling Green, Trinity, Church [5]
December 27, 2011 - SEPTA Mid-Winter Trip XI [59]
September 02, 2003 - New (L) alignment [63]
October 13, 2004 - IRT Museum train in service on the 42 St Shuttle [35]
July 18, 2004 - MOD Trip: BU Gate Cars [54]
January 28, 2007 - NJT Raritan Valley Line [22]
February 26, 2006 - MNCR Field Trip - To Waterbury & Wassaic [37]
December 1, 2008 - R-40 slant (A) [13]
March 18, 2010 - Stainless Steel R-44 [4]
June 29, 2005 - lost staten island ferry, terminal [20]
March 13, 2010 - Disabled MNCR train near Marble Hill [10]
December 21, 2005 - MTA Strike related photos [27]
October 20, 2004 - Yankees Special [3]
December 12, 2005 - GCT, wrapped shuttle, buses [11]
December 21, 2003 - Redbird Ramble MOD Trip [104]
December 10, 2008 - Another truck under the el [5]
February 11-12, 2004 - Whitehall St & Harrison [20]
March 12, 2010 - Philadelphia, Amtrak, SEPTA, Metro-North [17]
November 4, 2004 - Court House Sq [6]
July 7, 2006 - R-68 W, GCs 7 plat, GCs Lex performers, GCT [27]
August 8, 2004 - Polo Grounds Shuttle TOUR [64]
September 14, 2004 - HBLR, Hoboken, Secaucus [29]
Elevator at Atlantic Av that BrooklynBus denies the existence of [1]
April 28, 2009 - Newark Penn Station - NJT & PATH & Amtrak [41]
November 13, 2008 - Arnines with the Rockettes from WTC to 47-50th [41]
May 14, 2008 - R-40 Slant to 145 St [15]
July 31, 2006 - Artists at Spuyten Duyvil MNCR [6]
August 7, 2005 - Riverdale MNCR [25]
June 3, 2005 - Riverdale MNR station [10]
February 8, 2005 - New Rochelle Toll Barrier [3]
January 20, 2005 - L Train at 8 Av [2]
July 30, 2009 - Dirty buses, cable truck, and R-6-3 1000 at 207 St Yard [19]
July 26, 2006 - 23 St, 34 St - Herald Sq, Grand Central - 42 St [23]
May 17, 2007 - Metro-North at Irvington and more [42]
December 19, 2004 - Lo-V MOD Trip [140]
July 28, 2006 - 42 St Shuttle - Grand Central [2]
February 1, 2012 - Tour of LIRR's ESA Project [61]
August 7, 2007 - (J) to Jamaica [14]
September 13, 2004 - Newark City Subway [9]
June 28, 2011 [2]
Aerial Photos - NEW [35]
2010-09-13 [3]
July 27, 2007 - Ossining Bee-Line and Metro-North, 6176 Samuel Morse [26]
August 3, 2005 - Spuyten Duyvil station [8]
January 30, 2006 - that building and two buses [5]
November 7, 2011 - Pittsburgh [1]
October 15, 2003 - Redbirds and Corona Yard [28]
January 25, 2008 - Bloomingdales No 59 METRO, R-160 at Lex Av - 59 St, Times Sq artwork [25]
August 14, 2011 - 1 and A shuttle buses on Broadway [42]
October 12, 2007 - 1 trains at 238 St [7]
July 08, 2003 - Redbirds and GCT [69]
June 13, 2004 - NYCT Bus Roadeo [12]
November 9, 2006 - Sunnyside freight and passenger action, 23-Ely, 23 St (D) [23]
November 21, 2008 - Barge of Death in the ship canal [61]
December 22, 2005 - TWU Strike: Day 3 [11]
December 16, 2009 - Holiday Vintage Buses and more [33]
March 4, 2004 - R-40 Slant @ 34 St-Herald Square [1]
September 11, 2004 - NEW - SIRT @ St. George [9]
August 2, 2005 - Spuyten Duyvil Swing Bridge (Inwood Movable Bridge) [3]
July 12, 2006 - 63-Lex, HBLR [29]
February 22, 2004 - Resumption of Full Service over the Manhattan Bridge [46]
September 17, 2003 - Ave J station, a Peter Pan bus [3]
September 26, 2004 - Arnines from 2 Av to 179 St [52]
October 18, 2006 - LIC, 7, G, Court Sq, Van Alst, Ely Av [31]
August 20, 2006 - Arnine Transit Museum Trip - Part II [32]
April 06, 2003 - South Ferry and New Lots [39]
October 28, 2004 - Museum Trains In-Service on the Astoria El [42]
May 28, 2007 - Livonia, Canarsie, E 105, Bway Jct, 14 St [50]
February 22, 2005 - The Gates and 231 St in the rain/snow [9]
January 1, 2007 - LONDON [49]
September 22, 2004 - Canal St, Bowery, Fulton St, Prince St, and much more [82]
December 19, 2010 - Giants vs. Eagles and NJT and more [4]
May 17, 2006 - CP & MNCR @ Spuyten Duyvil [15]
September 2, 2010 - Meadowlands Sports Complex NJT Station [2]
March 20, 2003 - Times Square [12]
June 27, 2010 - Henry Hudson Bridge Pedestrian Path [9]
September 17, 2006 - 207 St, Transit Museum, R-160B, R-32 ENY [26]
April 11, 2008 - Continental Airlines exterior ads on 42 Street Shuttle [6]
August 16, 2006 - Brighton, 42 St reroute, Alice Tan Ridley [29]
June 23, 2004 - R-32 (Q) train, Astoria EL, more [19]
May 4, 2010 - Weeks Marine Crane 552 leaves 207 St Yard [7]
August 06, 2003 - Redbirds and ACMUs at GCT [43]
September 12, 2004 - Philly via NJT including PATTISON LOWER LEVEL! [76]
November 11, 2004 - 86 St & 96 St on the LEX [6]
September 25, 2011 - Lo-Vs on the West Side IRT Express [30]
June 28, 2006 - Fulton St, Chambers St, Brooklyn Bridge, GCT [32]
April 15, 2007 - East 180th Street Maintenance Facility - Part I [55]
July 23, 2006 - 96 Street IRT w/ new lens [20]
October 9, 2003 - NY Underground screening at Pace University [10]
NEED TO COMPLETE!!! --- April 2, 2008 - Jamaica, LIRR, East New York, L, M, D, N, R [9]
October 27, 2004 - Centennial Ceremony Photos [18]
January 20-22, 2006 - Washington, DC by train [27]
January 6-7, 2007 - LONDON [23]
May 27, 2009 - LIRR M-7 cars on flatcars [16]
February 21, 2011 - Presidents Day Snow Storm [18]
August 2, 2008 - IRT ToMC SMEE Nostalgia Train - All photos by David-Paul Gerber [74]
February 1, 2005 - (V) trains at Utica Av [8]
July 24, 2005 - Riverdale MNCR [31]
March 23, 2009 - Israel [28]
May 31, 2004 - NYTM YawnFest and more [12]
March 28, 2004 - IRT and MNR portals in Manhattan [14]
January 23, 2005 - BLIZZARD! Snow Pics at Broad Channel and Rockaways [94]
August 4, 2006 - PART II -14 St IRT/IND, 47-50, 34 St-Penn Station [15]
July 15, 2003 - Redbirds at 33 St - Rawson St [49]
July 30, 2003 - HBLR [25]
December 26, 2010 - Blizzard - Dyckman - 190 St - Buses [18]
July 2, 2008 - 34 St, Times Square [8]
September 6, 2006 - LIRR Atlantic Terminal (Flatbush Avenue) [10]
September 12, 2007 - MIAMI (Tri-Rail, Metrorail, Metromover) [164]
March 5, 2004 - R-42 sets on the (L) [4]
June 29, 2003 - PATH Exchange Place Grand Reopening [43]
December 13, 2009 - Vintage Holiday Arnines [23]
March 10, 2004 - (L) trains at Graham Ave (incl. the Siemens train) [11]
July 12, 2009 - Buses replacing #1 train service [89]
November 30, 2008 - Vintage Nostalgia Train - Arnines in service [100]
May 25, 2008 - Dyre Avenue Line [65]
June 30, 2003 - Brighton Line [34]
January 30, 2009 - Orion VII NG and ACES [12]
November 7, 2005 - Spuyten Duyvil [6]
January 15, 2007 - Amtrak and MNCR in the fog at Spuyten Duyvil - DV Tower [5]
January 3, 2007 - LONDON with James [94]
December 31, 2006 - LONDON [52]
August 15-18, 2003 - SubTalk Field Trip to Washington, DC [116]
October 14, 2003 - Last Redbird O.T.N. [13]
July 19, 2006 - HBLR in Newport, Jersey City scenes [24]
September 3, 2006 - Riverdale MNCR [10]
April 8, 2008 - Train of Many Colors to final Shea opening day game [16]
January 25, 2005 - R-32 (V) train @ W 4 St [3]
February 28, 2005 - MOD Trip (Train of Many Colors) [82]
October 16, 2005 - Amtrak @ Yonkers, MNCR @ Ludlow [22]
April 5, 2004 - Amtrak to New Carrollton [43]
September 20, 2004 - Nassau Re-alignment [9]
January 6, 2005 - R-68A (B) train [2]
May 4, 2009 - Broadway Bridge raised for Circle Line Manhattan and spud barge [15]
July 11, 2010 - Lackawanna train amusement ride at Nay Aug Park [5]
May 7, 2003 - NEW (R-36ML 9542-3) [17]
December 7, 2008 - Barge of death with R-32 and R-38 cars [2]
May 10, 2007 - Kings Highway on the Brighton Line [6]
August 05, 2003 - 179 St & 8 Av trains @ 47-50 Sts [39]
October 19, 2008 - Amtrak reroute to Grand Central Terminal [14]
November 25, 2007 - Junction Blvd, R & G at Roosevelt, 21-Van Alst, C40LF [29]
July 17, 2006 - Newark Light Rail Grand Opening [57]
March 26, 2004 - Orion VI 6353 on the M96 [25]
March 29, 2009 - ISRAEL, Barge of Death and Weeks Crane 533 [2]
April 6, 2009 - Vitamin Water wrap on 42 St Shuttle [7]
April 29, 2009 - Duke Ellington 110th and the Bahamas Express R-1/9 [74]
March 27, 2003 - Woodlawn Line , no Redbirds [34]
December 16, 2007 - Museum train in service, West End, Astoria [85]
June 29, 2004 - ACMU-1100 & GCT [11]
February 10, 2004 - PATH and M23 [19]
June 12, 2008 - The Barge at 207 St [17]
October 29, 2004 - Arnines in service to Astoria [22]
August 9, 2006 - Hemstead and West Hempstead LIRR, Jets Training Camp [45]
May 7, 2009 - Newark, NJ [1]
February 23, 2008 - R-40M (N) and 28 St action [10]
January 19, 2009 - Day and Night SNOW shots of the (1) at 231 St [10]
April 15-16, 2004 - IRT, Upper Broadway [28]
November 29, 2005 - R-160 cars on display at Hoyt-Schermerhorn [34]
August 21. 2003 [11]
June 12, 2005 - 2005 NYCT Bus ROADeo [92]
August 11, 2003 SubTalk Field Trip to Philadelphia [237]
May 15, 2007 - Graffiti on R-46 XXXX [2]
May 14, 2004 - MNCR @ Spuyten Duyvil [22]
May 14, 2009 - Newark Penn Station, Barge of Death, 190 St, Fort Tryon Park [36]
August 14, 2009 - NYCT DesignLine ECO Saver IV hybrid bus in-service debut (M42) [23]
December 24, 2007 - Flxible 5117 in service - Vintage Bus - Holiday 2007 [56]
September 14, 2003 - Rockaways and the Transit Museum [87]
Stills from NY Underground [8]
August 2, 2009 - Museum train Arnines at 181 St [67]
January 30, 2007 - Bravo Top Design, Orion I, O7 bench [8]
September 11, 2005 - R-142s to South Ferry [13]
August 1, 2003 - C, B, 7 [15]
August 24, 2003 - AMUE MOD trip - PART I [54]
August 31, 2003 - Snediker deconstruction, Stillwell Av, more [41]
April 30, 2008 - SRS 403 [2]
January 11, 2004 - New Lots Av to JFK AirTrain (via B15) / MACY'S wood escalator [36]
March 26, 2009 - Israel Railways in Tel Aviv and Haifa [99]
Random Stuff [224]
Buses [532]
Home / Latest Photos / May 13, 2007 - Gun Hill Road (2/5) [69]
Gun Hill Rd (2/5). Platform level. R-142 6430 in the distance. Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 5/13/2007.
Gun Hill Rd (2/5). Platform level. Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 5/13/2007.
Gun Hill Rd (2/5). Artwork by Andrea Arroyo called "My Sun, My Planet, My City". Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 5/13/2
Gun Hill Rd (2/5). Supports for the former Third Avenue El. Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 5/13/2007.
Gun Hill Rd (2/5). Fare control at street level. Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 5/13/2007.
Gun Hill Rd (2/5). Stairs and escalators from street level up to the mezzanine under the tracks. Photo taken by Brian Weinberg,
Gun Hill Rd (2/5). Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 5/13/2007.
Gun Hill Rd (2/5). The Third Avenue El used to terminate on the lower level. Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 5/13/2007.
NYCT New Flyer D60HF 5709 @ Gun Hill Rd and White Plains Rd (Bx41). Photo taken by Brian Weinberg, 5/13/2007.
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Yet problems still popped up after the rollout. We are currently working on opening our Training Department, which will shortly be available to get you prepared to face the planet of VATSIM and airline flight as a Virtual allegiant pilot. allegiant said in developing the pajamas, it worked using an auditor to visit supplier manufacturing facilities and cloth mills, conducted use testing, allergen testing and dye testing, and created alternatives such as the 100% cotton and non-wool uniform bits. allegiant has been requiring workers to get verification from a physician of what they are allergic to and to try alternatives like cotton, silk, non-wool and lined bits before granting approval to wear white and black clothes of their choice. Flight Simulator A VATSIM account with at least 20 Flight Hours Published A working understanding of IFR flight procedures and ATC interaction. "As allegiant flight attendants are non-union, at-will workers, many are hesitant to complain about the problems with their pajamas and suffer in silence, and other flight attendants wear undergarments or long underwear to protect themselves from new pajamas," the lawsuit states. And being afraid to say anything because you’re too afraid you’ll make somebody angry. "Even though allegiant and Lands’ End conducted in-depth testing during every step of development, a small number of workers have reported skin discomforts," allegiant said in a written statement. "While less than 1 percent of workers in the new uniform program have reported issues, allegiant takes this very seriously and is working directly with workers on solutions that satisfy their unique needs. " Staff members are just regular members with added duties. DeCrescentis filed a workers’ compensation claim this month and was allegedly told that "only a ‘very restricted source ‘ of untreated uniforms could be released. " She’s still required to put on the uniform to get the job. Or do you want to have a long haul to the gorgeous vacation destinations of London or Paris? Would you want to file your PIREP thru FSPassengers, FSACARS, or manually through our site?
What is the deal with all these VA’s that are ran by dictators? Is this not the USA? Flying is presumed to be enjoyable. The issues arose despite the firm taking three years to create the new uniform collection, examine it together with 1,000 workers and make adjustments prior to the introduction. Gilbert stated Lands’ End delivered her a replacement shirt which has been "allegedly ‘untreated,’" but it left her skin "sense as though she had undergone a burn. " The uniforms are treated with substances for anti inflammatory and stain-release properties. She alleges in the lawsuit that she broke out in a rash after wearing uniform bits such as a mock turtleneck, pants and a blouse. The lawsuit claims Gilbert was placed on short-term disability leave from allegiant from March 5 until April 2. We also advocate having Teamspeak, as we are a private group of friends and interact regularly using Teamspeak.
Not gods. Would you want to overlook overhead politics and drama so commonly present in other va’s? Would you want to i thought about this pick which plane you really feel like flying now or do you want to stay firmly with the MD-80?
Would you want to fly to Orlando-Sanford on an actual allegiant route. Apply anyway, and we’ll get the ball rolling. Somewhere in the mix of items, many va’s lose sight of the direction begins tweaking things to better fit the self ‘s of the higher-ups. She returned to work April 3, the suit says, and is currently allowed to put on a black pantsuit and white blouse, which haven’t caused any physical symptoms. You must be willing to make a minumum of one trip per 31 days! You should be 18 or older. Perhaps you aren’t quite a pro at IFR flight processes or ATC interaction.
NIOSH stated this month it had been in the beginning phases of collecting data for the Health Hazard Assessment. The other plaintiff in the lawsuit, Monica DeCrescentis, is a allegiant flight attendant in New York who alleges in the litigation she experienced skin reactions, headaches and a low white cell blood count over the past year she has been wearing the uniform. Gilbert filed a workers’ compensation claim in January, and a dermatologist determined she is allergic to dyes and formaldehyde in the uniform, according to the complaint. A week after allegiant rolled from the brand new pajamas, allegiant said that it had received about 25 reports of chafing and irritation. At vAAY, It’s Your Pick! The airline said that it plans to soon provide a new untreated uniform option, which will also require medical documentation when it is offered in June. Of course, every group of people is going to possess it’s problems, however there’s ‘s a difference in issues.
Our staff/admin have a few additional jobs around the house. Yes, they’re billed with "running" the VA, but that doesn’t mean we must pray to them! She alleged that the dye in the clothes transferred on her body, towels, sheets and other items.
Not 18? We could waive the need on a case-by-case basis after a meeting on Teamspeak.
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According to the surviving victims, the two men participated equally in the crimes so why did they end up with different fates? It’s not uncommon for one suspect to turn on another in order to get a break. That’s not what happened here. Neither man cooperated.
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James Ray has served his sentence and is obviously remorseful. Shame on you Piers to keep digging and digging and digging. Have you never made a horrible mistake? Honestly, today society just seems to love to kick anyone who is down. Traded Roy Rogers and two first round picks to Houston for Kevin Willis. Traded Chauncey Billups and rights to Tyson Wheeler to Denver for Micheal Williams, rights to Zeljko Rebraca and a first round pick. Signed free agent Michael Stewart.
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The Marine unit leaving this week had been stationed in Somalia for a month, dividing its forces between Mogadishu and the famine belt city of Baidoa. In the capital, their job was to restore order a task that military officials say has yet to be completed. In Baidoa, Marines carried out more humanitarian work, primarily escorting relief food convoys; they were replaced this week by 900 newly arrived Australian troops..
At the time, it was the worst kept secret in England that the son of King Edward “Longshanks” (so named for his height), the unrelenting warlike oppressor of the Scots and his equally fierce wife Queen Eleanor I, was (possibly) homosexual, which may have been one reason why the pope was so impatient for Isabella to officially become the newly kinged Edward’s wife. Prince Edward himself greatly resented Isabella, even sitting with Piers instead of Isabella at their own wedding feast, greatly offending her uncles. Ignoring her as much as he could, Edward showered Piers, his lover since boyhood, with attention and gifts, even opening the royal coffers to Piers, allowing him to spend as much as he pleased.
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Une vingtaine de policiers demandaient porter un signe qui refl leur religion, comment pensez vous que les Qu r [.] Est ce qu’ils diraient c’est un probl non existant, comme le pense M. Couillard? Non. On se retrouverait en pleine soupe encore une fois avait il dit dans une entrevue Radio Canada..
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“Don’t be like this.”
The wind whipped her braids to her face. Whatever he’d just said had lazily reached her earbuds and evaporated into the trance track booming through her skull.
She sighed and languidly took an earbud out.
“I’m sorry,” she stated.
Placing the earbud back, she watched through drooped lids the way his mouth took on a warping ellipse, growling, snarling. Then he touched her, and she lost it.
She was alone on the roof when it happened, she’d say.
But when what happened?
She was truly alone on the roof.
“These disappearances have happened more frequently over the past month,” the news anchor read.
Kira impatiently flipped strands of her ink black hair over her shoulder, “What are we supposed to do about these?”
Sabine shrugged, taking cashews from a bowl on the kitchen counter. “Exactly what the letter says?”
While her friend groaned, Sabine wiped her hands free of salt and again reached for the lavender-scented parchment paper.
You must think like her.
“We know it’s a she,” Sabine offered hopefully.
“Out of the thousands of women and girls in Kelsey!” Kira switched off the television. “I’m dying. This is ridiculous. I’d actually rather do homework.”
“We could meditate,” Sabine retried, “make a list of the clues the media has shown us.”
“Males have disappeared,” Kira sighed.
“In and around the southeast.”
“High school juniors to college freshmen.”
“Students of Kelsey High and Kelsey Tech.”
“We don’t know Kelsey High kids!” Kira whined.
“Kira,” Sabine wheedled, “yes you do.”
“Can’t we just end on, ‘Those boys deserved it?’” Kira crossed her arms.
“No one deserves to disappear.” Sabine paused, frowning, “Disappear…”
Kira’s phone rang, jolting Sabine from her thoughts. After a few minutes of nodding and yessing, Kira hung up and gave Sabine a tight smile.
“Guess who gets to do work experience at Kelsey High for spring break?”
Magician’s Rite Academy’s Work Experience Program was basically a week of torture that Elite Scholars kids endured by silently counting volunteer hours like crosses against the soul-sucking remarks of spoiled rich kids, according to Kira. It didn’t help that Kira and Sabine were among the few that wore impressive, albeit overly formal uniforms for the occasion of trying to show the world that Magician’s Rite wasn’t the rough, shady school that the Kelsey High kids so readily wrinkled their noses at.
Sabine smiled easily, hoping her dark face would be further obscured by blindingly white teeth. Kira levelled an even gaze at anyone who dared to size her up. Meanwhile, their student ambassador giddily showed them around the school before stopping in front of a door labelled 1A.
“These students really need your help and I mean really,” the ambassador hushed.
Sabine frowned slightly before replying, “Do they get enough support from their teachers?”
“Of course!” The girl squealed. “But even they can’t help them. I was going to mention that you have Mrs. Wilson as a supervisor, if ever you guys need help,” she slyly added.
Suddenly, a girl bumped past Sabine’s shoulder and reached for the door, knocking past the student ambassador as well.
“Hey watch it!”
She ignored the warning and entered the room, black earbuds embedded in her ears. Sabine’s shoulder felt hollow where she was touched.
1A sprawled out like a computer lab with various circular tables scattered around where students in similar antisocial gear including headphones and bangs concentrated hard on their notebooks or snickered at their laptops. Once Sabine and Kira were introduced and started checking up on each student’s work, Sabine patiently gathered her courage for an opportunity to approach earbud girl.
“Hello, what are you working on?”
The girl’s heavily mascaraed lashes never lifted. Sabine had to concentrate hard on her physical presence, for fear her all-black garb would turn her into an inconsequential shadow.
“Are you trying to disappear on me?” she asked.
The girl’s hand, wielding a felt pen that steadily coloured black streaks against the margins of her paper, paused then resumed.
“If you ever need help,” Sabine finally offered, “just ask Kira or me.”
Meanwhile, Kira made the mistake of sitting next to a blast from the past, literally, judging by his air blown fro.
“Hey good-looking,” her ex-creeper-admirer grinned, “you gonna be my teacher for the week?”
Kira’s smile froze. “Yeah, call me when you’re actually doing work.”
“Aww, come on, don’t be like that,” he pouted.
Resisting the urge to groan, Kira zeroed in on an opportunity. “Know any of the guys who’ve disappeared?”
The guy’s smile faded. “No, but I know who’s done it.”
Kira raised an eyebrow, “Really?”
“Ms. Emo over there,” he whispered, jerking his head in the direction of a table that Sabine was leaving.
Kira narrowed her eyes. “Why do you say that?”
“All the dudes that disappeared,” he replied, leaning closer, “she was playing them.”
Kira rolled her eyes, getting up from the table. “Don’t you mean they were stalking her?”
At night she wandered the city. The wind whipped through her braids. Adrenaline pumped a healthy pink across her sallow cheeks. Again, she visited the roof. Again she wasn’t alone.
“Hello,” a shadow detached itself from a chimney wall, dressed in a black skater dress, boots and fingerless gloves, a mask below the odd cat ears. “My name is Sceptre.”
Another shadow crouched in the moonlight, lit by a white jester’s cosplay resonating with the bells on her three-pronged hat as she grinned beneath a white mask. “Jester at your service,” the figure bowed.
Again, the girl lost the words they said, except for a snippet that finally reached her ears.
“We’ve come to help you disappear,” Jester announced.
Suddenly, the girl’s cheeks drained of pink and she shook her head. An earbud fell out and she tried to put it back in, but this proved unexpectedly hard as the earbud slipped and slipped again.
“Ms. Emo needs to go,” Sceptre confirmed, spinning her namesake in one hand. “Played too many boys to stay.”
Jester slipped cards from her sleeves. “Time to play our game.”
The girl lost it.
In a second, the roof was enveloped in black ink and Sceptre and Jester tumbled in its darkness.
“Now what?” Sceptre snapped, unable to glimpse her partner.
“We think like her,” Jester swept her gaze around the darkness, searching for a way out.
“Help!” A voice shouted.
“We’re gonna die,” another whined.
“So this is where the losers went?” Sceptre frowned. “Is this a pocket dimension or…?”
“Yes,” Jester nodded. “It’s like she’s been filing them away…”
“Well obviously she hates the thought of others thinking she played them,” Sceptre deduced, “but why did she pay attention when you said we’d make her disappear?”
“It’s a defence mechanism. Naturally she doesn’t want to, and those boys must have provoked her somehow.”
Sceptre paused, deep in thought.
Jester pondered, “Scared her into thinking they’d make her disappear…”
“I’ll kill you!” A voice shrilled. “I swear!”
“They touched her,” Sceptre realised.
“Really?” Jester frowned.
“Trust me, I know.”
Taking a deep breath, Sceptre advanced in what she hoped was the direction she last saw the girl.
“They won’t go away,” she stated matter-of-factly, then raised her voice, “They will never go away.”
The darkness tremored. Jester’s heart fluttered, suddenly wary of shifting ground.
“You haven’t let go of them you know,” Sceptre continued. “They’re still here, inside of you, closer than ever. You’ve just pushed them deeper into you.”
Jester tripped as the ground became a wave that heaved her up and dropped her.
“Let them go,” Sceptre calmly ordered. “Let yourself go.”
The air groaned like a beast in a cavern.
“It’s the only way you’ll grow from this. You need to cut loose, pull out the weeds.”
She reached forward and wrapped her arms around the space in front of her.
“And for that you need to rely on someone other than yourself for once.”
Suddenly the darkness became peppered with shimmering dots until it blended with the Kelsey skyline. Sceptre withdrew her arms from the girl’s shoulders, allowing her to dry her tears with her sleeves.
Glancing at the five boys who either lay prone on the ground or blinked in bewilderment, Jester gave the signal and the three of them disappeared behind a screen of smoke.
The next day, Julie waved Kira over to her table, shyly murmuring for help with Maths. Beneath the black colouring of the previous day, the words ‘Thank you’ sprawled in generous cursive.
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Born of Necessity
“Death is an old joke but it comes like new to everyone.” Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
It is no doubt entirely reasonable that Death should have a very high opinion of himself. You too would have an immensely high opinion of yourself if you were the sole sentience responsible for ushering departed souls into the netherworld. To his credit though Death never let his very important role go to his head. He simply saw himself as an ordinary worker even though he was almost always at work. It’s also probably a good thing that he had no time to think as then he would question his origins. Death had neither childhood memories nor anticipations of growing serenely old. No, Death just worked every moment and enjoyed each such moment, revelling in the fact that he was at the crux of Reality, ushering out the old to bring in the new.
Death’s high opinion of himself though took a slight hit when he met God. He was returning to his one bedroom flat in Chippendaille to have a quick break and a wee tipple of some choice ale. He did not expect to be accosted by his real name when entering his apartment block.
‘Death! I say, Death! Over here!’ Death turned around. He was being hailed by an old Man, casually Dressed and with a fulsome Beard.
‘I’m not Death,’ replied Death when the old Man was close enough to hear. ‘You must be crazy, old man.’
‘I’ve never been saner, Death. And I Know you’re Death because I’m God. We’re both in the same business, more or less.’
‘You’re God,’ Death asked incredulously. ‘Then I’m Santa Claus.’
‘I am indeed God, or the Maker as I prefer to be called, and I can Prove it simply.’ God then Passed His Hand in front of Himself and Death felt all of his bones separate. He remained conscious, in no pain, and looking at his separated skeleton. To Enforce His point God Clenched His Right Hand into a Fist and Death watched all of his bones except his skull suddenly become piles of powder. He was now only a hovering Death’s mask.
‘Do you believe Me, now,’ asked God. He had a smirk whilst asking.
‘Maybe,’ replied Death. ‘Put me back together and you will have made your point.’
God once more Waved His Right Hand in front of Himself and Death found himself hale and hearty.
‘Okay, so you’re God. I’ve been wondering where You’ve been throughout eternity, but You’ve probably been too busy to make Yourself Known.’
‘Exactly. But I have recently very happily Acquired a Sabbath and Plan to take things a lot easier from now on. Which is what Brings me to you.’
‘I don’t need a Sabbath, God, I’m far too happy in my work.’
‘No, but all work and no play does eventually make Jack a dull boy. Which is why I want you to take a short holiday. My Own Sabbaths of late have been very, very enjoyable and I Wished to Share the experience with the uninitiated: I instantly Thought of you. My Son and I will reap the souls whilst you’re away and your job will still be here when you return. The Truth is is that I can’t do without you.’
‘And if I refuse?’
‘Then you’ll eventually wind up a very a dull and unhappy person, with nothing more than your job to make you happy, completely reliant upon it for your sense of self. Trust me, Death, a break from your work will do you the world of good, as it has Done for Me. Although the First One, or rather the Second One, was somewhat mournful, having lost a new lady friend. But, get out, Death, see a bit of life, before life passes you by and the Universe has eventually torn itself completely apart, leaving you with nothing at all. I don’t Think I shall Create a new one. And to Make the Request all the more tempting you may reside in Paradise while you’re off work.’
That temptation Death found sweet, very sweet, always having wondered where his harvested souls eventually ended up.
‘How many weeks off do You Want me to take?’
‘It’s up to you. But I Think four weeks is just the right amount.’ Death considered God’s offer. He soon decided.
‘Okay, God . . .’
‘Call Me Maker.’
‘Well, okay, Maker. Consider me officially on holidays. How do I get to Paradise?’
‘Just say, “homeward bound” and you’ll be there in a jiffy. You’ll arrive in a flat I’ve Created for you.’
‘Thank you, G…, Maker. I think I’ll start the adventure in Paradise.’
‘Suit yourself.’
And after the invocation Death did indeed find himself in Paradise and in a well-appointed one bedroom flat. He began to plan his holidays.
Death decided to start his adventures in Melbourne, a city that he had always preferred above all others in the world, a mix of the artistic and the relaxed and easy going. He had dressed in his most expensive suit and entered the Arthouse Café, a pub in North Melbourne, feeling glad that he had acquiesced to the Maker’s wish and surprisingly enjoying have his own time completely at his own disposal.
‘A schooner of Carlton Draught,’ he said to the barman. The barman though looked at Death with his mouth open, having no intention of pouring Death his schooner.
‘You don’t need a schooner, mate,’ he said to Death, ‘you look like you really need a good feed. You’re all skin and bones. When was the last time you had a decent meal? How many years? You look like you’ve been living on schooners.’
‘Fine,’ said Death, ‘just give me a midi.’
‘Sorry, mate, can’t do. You look like you’d die over the drink. Man cannot live by wine alone. If you buy a couple of pies beforehand I’ll probably give you a midi.’
And that was how Death started his vacation, being constantly refused intoxicants on the grounds that he was all skin and bones and that a beer was the last thing he needed. He eventually left each pub when they offered him a pie, gratis. By now Death had become fixated on having a beer to celebrate his freedom from work and eventually succumbed to the plethora of bar staff refusing him service. He found a Chinese BBQ place in Brunswick and ordered half a roast duck. He ravenously ate all of it but doing so was perhaps unwise as he soon ejected the masticated bird in a secluded alley. Once having recovered himself he thought tenderly of the pies he’d been offered and the ensuing ale he’d been promised. Ah well, he thought, he’ll go back to one of the pubs that had refused him and take up their offer of a free pie before a drink. The duck had taken the last of his money though and after checking to make sure he had an ATM card (which he had very rarely used but was miraculously always activated) he found an ATM and entered his PIN.
The machine, after Death had only entered his PIN incorrectly twice, swallowed his card.
‘This freakin’ vacation is a freakin’ nightmare,’ he said to himself. But it was the thought of his free access to Paradise that made him stick with it and not return to the saner world of reaping souls. But without money there was no holiday, and he couldn’t ask anyone in Paradise for a loan as he knew no-one there. He was also unable to ask the Maker for a loan as he had absolutely no idea on how to contact Him. He was in a fix.
A busker outside a supermarket in Brunswick gave him an idea as to how to get the needed money. He could simply use his small sickle, which was always on his person, to perform tricks for the needed cash. He would reap souls for small change, slaying a volunteer and then returning them to life the next instant. It seemed like a great idea. Thus he took up a station outside the Brunswick Library, removed his coat and placed it by his feet, addressing the passing crowd.
‘Good people of beautiful Melbourne, witness the impossible!’ Some people turned to stare at the madman and Death approached one at random.
‘Madam, may I impose upon you for a small bit?’ The young lady replied,
‘I’m sorry, but . . .’ Before she finished her sentence though Death drew his sickle across each of the carotid arteries at the sides of her neck. She reached up to stem a flow that did not appear, even though she had felt keen, stinging cuts, and felt the arteries close under her hand. Some young men approached the damsel in distress but she held them off with an upraised hand, looking enquiringly at Death.
‘Be not surprised, young lady, this plain golden sickle has the power to take or give life at my choosing. It has been wrought with ancient magicks and a spare dollar or two will go far in keeping its edge keen.’ The lady felt her neck again. Completely healed.
‘Do that again,’ she said to Death. He obliged and when once more she had confirmed that no harm had been done she left a five dollar note on his jacket. One of the young men who had come to her assistance placed a couple of two dollar coins on top of it to stop the note floating away, and asked to examine the small sickle. Death naturally obliged.
‘Do that to me,’ said this young man. Death slashed the man’s arteries and he was likewise unharmed, leaving the presence of the mad busker with the conviction that life was indeed a greater mystery than he had given it credit for.
Death plied his trade for an hour, at the end of which he had a small stunned crowd around him and $150 piled atop his jacket. It was time to call it a day.
‘Good people of beautiful Melbourne, your generosity has been a great boon but this secret sickle must return to obscurity. Fear not though, its magicks will continue to do no harm, giving pleasure instead.’ Which was in a sense true: Death, upon resuming his work, would continue to ease others into their respective eternities.
After escaping his fans with some difficulty he headed back to one of the pubs that had offered him a free pie before a drink. He asked for and received the pie and a beer shandy midi, with lemon squash instead of lemonade. The barmaid however would only give him his shandy after he consumed the pie. That done he chose a table near a window and sat back luxuriantly, surprisingly satisfied at having had to earn his ale. When it was finished he ordered another pie and shandy and ate the pie under the barmaid’s supervision. His second ale was even finer than the first.
This then was how Death spent his holidays: performing his tricks for about an hour at which point he had enough money for two or three days. He spent it in pubs all over inner city Melbourne alternately eating and drinking. Near the end of his vacation his favourite pubs allowed him the shandy without first forcing him to eat something. He was looking forward to his next holidays and upon returning to Paradise for the final time he managed to track down the Maker who gladly Granted him permission for a vacation each year. Next year he plans on visiting the Northern Territory, a far warmer clime than Melbourne and thus a more relaxed locale. He plans to busk once again even though he usually has plenty of money on his ATM card: the busking was half the fun of the vacation. He expects to make a lot more money, his potential audience being even more easy going than in Melbourne.
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Two brothers dead in apparent overdose following party
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Re: Two brothers dead in apparent overdose following party
by Buck Wheat » Thu Jun 18, 2015 6:47 am
Piss poor parenting may have also been a contributing factor. Or perhaps the deaths and near deaths were a suicide pact?
Buck Wheat
by Happy Mom » Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:50 pm
Hundreds attend visitation for Savage brothers
Updated: Thu 7:10 PM, Jun 18, 2015
By: Megan Hickey - Email
Hundreds of people lined the halls of Penn High School Thursday afternoon to support the family of two former students, Nick and Jack Savage, who both died of an apparent overdose Sunday morning.
Mishawaka, Ind. Hundreds of people lined the halls of Penn High School Thursday afternoon to support the family of two former students, Nick and Jack Savage, who died of an apparent overdose Sunday morning.
Nick Savage, 19, and Jack Savage, 18, were found unresponsive in their parents' home on Woodington Court in the Brendon Hills subdivision shortly before 11 a.m.
St. Joseph County Metro Homicide detectives said the two brothers consumed a cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol at a party Saturday night in the 15000 block of Bryanton Court.
Visitation goers said the brothers were well known students and hockey players at the school.
“He was one of the best captains I think I've ever played against,” fellow hockey player Charlie McFadden said of Jack Savage. “He knew how to lead a team.”
Students, friends, family, teachers and other community members paraded slowly into the gym where the visitation was being held.
The family had assembled a memorial of pictures, hockey trophies and jerseys, paying tribute to their athletic careers.
“If anything bad happens the community comes together and supports whoever,” said fellow hockey player Andy Han, who plays for St. Joseph High School with McFadden.
Many visitors said the tragic way that the students died would serve as a lesson for area teens for many years to come.
“I mean life is obviously precious and life is obviously quick and it gave me a wakeup call to always value the time we have,” McFadden said.
The funerals will take place Friday, June 19, at Sunnyside Presbyterian Church at 115 S. Frances Street in South Bend.
The Nick and Jack Savage Memorial Fund has been established at Teachers Credit Union. Donations may be made at any branch office.
According to the St. Joseph County Prosecutor's Office, no criminal charges have been filed at this time.
Toxicology tests could take up to eight weeks to determine the exact causes of the brothers' deaths. The investigation remains active and ongoing.
http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/Hund ... 85891.html
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Location: Granger
by Happy Mom » Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:19 pm
BREAKING: Granger brothers died by acute oxycodone and alcohol intoxication
Posted: Mon 7:07 PM, Jul 20, 2015
By: Karina E. Flores
The St. Joseph Chief Deputy Coroner Chuck Hurley tells us the deaths of the two brothers, Nick and Jack Savage, were caused by acute oxycodone and alcohol intoxication.
Granger brothers Jack (left) and Nick (right) Savage died Sunday of an apparent drug overdose after attending a party Saturday night.
GRANGER, Ind. New information in the deaths of two Granger brothers found dead after a party last month has been released.
The manner of the deaths was ruled accidental.
Nick and Jack Savage were found in their home unresponsive on June 14th of this year after attending a house party the night before. Metro Homicide said one brother was found in the basement while the other was discovered upstairs. The brothers were pronounced dead at their home.
http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/BREA ... 45051.html
by Happy Mom » Tue Jul 21, 2015 10:16 pm
Charges filed in connection with party where Granger brothers overdosed
Granger overdose deaths highlight prescription drug abuse
Probable cause affidavit for Kyle Treber
Charges against Kyle Treber.
Probable cause affidavit for Lauren Schwindaman
Posted: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:12 am | Updated: 4:52 pm, Tue Jul 21, 2015.
CHRISTIAN SHECKLER South Bend Tribune csheckler@sbtinfo.com
St. Joseph County prosecutors Tuesday filed criminal charges against two teens in connection with the June house party that resulted in the overdose deaths of two Granger brothers, but stopped short of directly accusing anyone of supplying the fatal doses of prescription drugs and alcohol.
Nineteen-year-old Nick Savage and 18-year-old Jack Savage were found dead in their parents' home June 14, after they attended the party at another home. On Monday, the county coroner's office released toxicology results that showed the brothers died from a combination of oxycodone and alcohol.
Kyle Treber, 19, is charged with three felony counts of dealing in a narcotic drug and one felony count of possession of a narcotic drug, the St. Joseph County prosecutor's office announced today. He was booked into the county jail and released on bond.
Lauren Schwindaman, 18, is charged with a misdemeanor count of furnishing alcohol to a minor. She also was booked and released on bond.
An attorney was not listed for either Treber or Schwindaman.
Because investigators have not ruled out the possibility that the Savage brothers got oxycodone from a source other than Treber, no one has been directly charged with furnishing drugs to the brothers, Jessica McBrier, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office, said in a news release.
According to court documents released today, Schwindaman hosted the party at her parents' Bryanton Court home while they were out of town. She allegedly encouraged party-goers to bring their own alcohol, and witnesses reported widespread underage drinking at the home that night.
At one point, Treber allegedly arrived with a prescription pill bottle of oxycodone, widely known by the brand name Oxycontin, and passed the bottle around to several people. Three witnesses told police they took some of the pills from Treber.
However, investigators found two other pill bottles at other locations where the Savage brothers may have been able to access them, according to the documents. McBrier said she could not discuss where the other two bottles were found.
Through McBrier, Prosecutor Ken Cotter and Deputy Prosecutor Chris Fronk denied an interview request from The Tribune today.
McBrier also could not discuss whether prosecutors expected to charge anyone else in connection with party or file additional charges related to the Savage brothers' deaths.
A cell phone belonging to another individual who had been at the party was found next to one of the Savage brothers. The cell phone's owner consented to police searching it for text messages.
"When detectives reviewed text messages that had been sent and received on Saturday the 13th, they saw several texts about the OxyContin pill bottle being passed around at the party and statements about who had taken the pills along with who had been passing the pills out," a Metro Homicide investigator wrote in the probable cause affidavit. "The number of text messages was upwards of 100."
Treber also was later found suffering from an overdose, and the bottle of oxycodone was found in one of his pockets, according to the documents. Emergency workers revived him using the drug naloxone, which counteracts the effects of opioids.
Treber was an all-state linebacker on the Penn High School football team as a senior this past school year. He played for the North team in the annual Indiana Football Coaches Association North-South All-Star game Saturday in Indianapolis.
An attempt to reach the family of Nick and Jack Savage by telephone for comment was not successful today.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/pu ... db843.html
by Bingo » Wed Jul 22, 2015 10:40 am
And you thought drugs only affected poor people !
by bdcbbq » Wed Jul 22, 2015 1:27 pm
What's rather ironic is that when I was a teenager back in the early 70's we used to have parties just like this, booze, and whatever pills we could get out of the medicine cabinets. Some of the drugs we had access to are more dangerous than many of the drugs today. Nothing has changed in the "War on Drugs" in 45 years. The same things happen. People die in car wrecks, overdoses, and accidents.
bdcbbq
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.” John Stuart Mill
by Shinigami » Tue Aug 11, 2015 12:31 pm
Xenokilla wrote: That is complete and total nonsense.
In reference to Marijuana being a gateway drug, I agree with Xenokilla on this.
Besides, alcohol is the gateway drug as it lowers inhibitions and almost always is paired with heavier drugs. Everybody knows just how bad alcohol is.
For Hire, will post and moderate for beer.
Location: Indianapolis
by Happy Mom » Wed Aug 26, 2015 8:39 am
PHM changes student drug policy after overdose death of two Granger brothers
Posted: Aug 25, 2015 10:16 PM EDT
By Veronica Jean Seltzer, Multimedia JournalistCONNECT
MISHAWAKA -
Big changes for Penn High School Families. The school is making a major shift when it comes to the student drug policy. It comes after a recent PHM graduate, and his older brother, died from an overdose at a party earlier this summer.
The deaths of Nick and Jack Savage shocked the community and was a big reason for the change in policy. The goal? To save students' lives.
"We're trying to remove any of the barriers we can so they'll reach out for help," said Superintendent Dr. Jerry Thacker.
Effective immediately, Penn High School's code of conduct says students won't get in trouble if they call for help when a friend needs medical attention. Also, students can seek help for a drug problem without fear of punishment.
"If we reduce the fear we can have more people reaching out and calling for assistance," Dr. Thacker said.
A board member suggested the policy, basing it on similar rules at Big Ten schools.
The board's research shows they're likely the first high school in Indiana to have such a policy. They felt the need for a change after two graduates, Nick & Jack Savage, overdosed on prescription pills.
"That tragedy for the next several years we're going to have students who truly take this seriously," Dr. Thacker said.
Police say they like the new policy; they think it'll help them save lives.
"We want kids to be interested in making good decisions, but when they don't we don't want them to be some kind of cascading effect that results in a tragedy," Assistant St. Joseph County Police Chief William Thompson said.
Police say more students will come forward if they see the school holding up their end of the bargain by not punishing those who seek help.
"It's not going to keep it from happening, but our goal is by more people reporting it, we're able to get them the help they need," said Mishawaka DARE Officer Lt. Tim Williams.
A good step that police and school officials hope will prevent another tragedy.
"We want to see it stop, you know. We don't want families to have to go back and remember their children through photographs," Lt. Williams said.
You may remember Indiana already has a lifeline law. That allows anyone to call for help during an overdose and not get in trouble. Before, any consumption or possession of alcohol or drugs would have meant a student couldn't take part in half an athletic season or extracurricular activity.
http://www.fox28.com/story/29879763/201 ... r-brothers
by Happy Mom » Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:06 am
Dad says teen saved Penn student's life and shouldn't be charged with a crime
Doctor, lawmaker agree she shouldn't be charged
Posted: Thursday, September 3, 2015 5:55 am
By Jeff Parrott South Bend Tribune
Rob and Marisa Schwindaman were angry when their daughter Alex called them at 1:30 a.m. in their Orlando, Fla., hotel room.
Alex told her parents that she and her older sister, Lauren, had disobeyed them, hosting a party that night at their Granger home. But that wasn't the worst of the news. She explained that Penn High School all-state football player Kyle Treber, one of their guests, had to be rushed to the hospital for treatment of an apparent overdose of oxycodone mixed with alcohol.
Their anger then turned to horror about noon the following day, when the Schwindamans received word that brothers Nick and Jack Savage, 19 and 18, respectively, had died of apparent overdoses at their own home after having attended the party.
As a father of four, Rob Schwindaman said he can't imagine the pain the Savages’ parents are suffering, and he acknowledges Lauren made a huge mistake by hosting the party June 13.
Still, he said, his daughter is no criminal and feels how she responded to events that night should have shielded her from a criminal charge she now faces.
“She didn’t even hesitate or think about any charges that could come to her,” he said. “There were 15 other kids sitting down in that basement watching Kyle turning blue and passing out.”
After hearing about the case, a state lawmaker said he’ll introduce a bill next year to expand legal immunity for teens who host parties and then seek medical help for their young guests who become sick from drug or alcohol use.
Indiana’s Lifeline Law, authored in 2012 by Sen. Jim Merritt, R-Indianapolis, shields help-seeking teens in such situations from public intoxication and minor possession, consumption and transportation of alcohol charges. The idea is to encourage them to seek help without fearing legal repercussions.
But Lauren has discovered the hard way that the law, which she first learned about at Penn, doesn’t necessarily mean kids who call for help won’t face any charges.
About a month after the party, St. Joseph County Prosecutor Ken Cotter charged her with furnishing alcohol to a minor, a Class B misdemeanor. She was handcuffed, booked and quickly released after her father posted bond.
Dr. Brett Stephens, a radiologist who lives across the street from the Schwindamans, said he didn't want to comment on the legality of Lauren's case, but he said he's convinced her actions that night helped save Treber's life.
After Alex noticed Treber had passed out and his lips had started turning blue, Lauren ran across the street and asked Stephens for help. Stephens and his wife, a nurse, came over and assessed the situation. Some of the kids had been trying to induce vomiting in Treber, but Stephens told them it was too late for that, and that could cause him to choke.
Treber was still breathing but his breaths were shallow, Stephens said. He still had a pulse, but if he hadn't had one, the doctor was ready to perform CPR.
Stephens quickly told one of the youths to call 911. He said he wasn't sure any of them would have done that on their own.
"I was upset that Lauren was never given any credit in the media or publicly for having the courage to come get me and tell me that someone was in trouble in her basement," Stephens said. "Had she not, that boy probably would've died within the next 10 minutes. Timing was of the essence."
Paramedics arrived and gave Treber Narcan, a drug that counteracts the effects of the oxycodone, and he regained consciousness. Stephens rode in the ambulance with Treber to Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, where he spent the next three days and recovered. Treber now faces felony charges alleging he gave oxycodone to other teens — not the Savages.
The next morning, Alex and Lauren told Stephens and paramedics that an exchange student also had taken oxycodone, Stephens said. Stephens and some of the teens rushed to the home of the exchange student's host family about five minutes away, and he also was found to have overdosed. He had been vomiting all morning, but his complications weren’t as severe as the Savages’ and Treber’s, and he survived.
“What if she wouldn’t have called?” Rob Schwindaman said. “We would’ve been burying more kids. What message is this sending if you’re going to prosecute Lauren? Here’s what I’m getting between the lines: Two boys are dead and someone needs to be held accountable. But that doesn’t mean prosecute people just to prosecute.”
According to the probable cause affidavit in Lauren’s case, prosecutors aren’t alleging she gave anyone alcohol. Other teens told police the party was “BYOB,” an acronym meaning, “bring your own beer,” the affidavit states.
Instead, the affidavit alleges she did “recklessly, knowingly or intentionally provide or arrange for the use of property for the purpose of allowing or enabling a minor to consume an alcoholic beverage on the property.”
Merritt, who travels to schools and teaches kids about the Lifeline Law, indicated the charge against Lauren, filed pursuant to a statute commonly known as “The Host Law,” might be legally correct, but it violates the spirit of the Lifeline Law.
“We will work on The Host Law to protect (teens) in future situations such as this because we want no barriers to calling 911,” Merritt said. “We will work on legislation that will give immunity to the future Lauren Schwindamans of the world. There will be a bill. I will work on this the rest of my career if I have to.”
Rob Schwindaman said Lauren’s attorney, Len Zappia, initially approached Cotter with a request to enter a plea agreement that would include pre-trial diversion, which would allow the crime to be wiped from her record if she complies with conditions and stays out of trouble. But he said Cotter refused.
Now Schwindaman said he wants his daughter to fight the charge and take it to trial. He’s become more certain of that as he has learned more about the Lifeline Law, although he realizes it doesn’t apply to her case as furnishing alcohol to a minor isn't one of the crimes it exempts.
Cotter declined to comment because the case is still pending, as did David Powell, executive director of the Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys Council.
Lauren is now a freshman at Indiana University Bloomington. Her next court date is Nov. 24, when she’ll be home for Thanksgiving break.
Schwindaman said he had not heard of the Lifeline Law before this case. He credited his brother, Mike Schwindaman, with researching the law and making connections with several nonprofit groups that work to educate teens about the law.
They include the Indianapolis-based Indiana Youth Services Association, whose “Making Good Decisions” campaign urges teens and young adults to call for help if a peer has abused alcohol or drugs.
“Ultimately, young people need to hold a belief that getting in trouble is still better than letting a friend die,” said Michele Welchel, chief advancement officer with the IYSA. “We also hope that the legal system will recognize that young people making the bigger decision to save a life should impact the decision to prosecute. As far as Lauren’s case, we are in hopes that the legal system will recognize that she made the call and saved two lives and she will not face any charges.”
Stephens agreed.
"I think it's going to be a shame if the charges go through," Stephens said, "and kids learn about this case and say, 'Lauren got into trouble, why should I do anything?' "
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by Spider » Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:03 pm
So when one of these kids suffers longterm damage, the prosecutor can tell the parents "Well yes they threw the party and supplied the favors, but they called the police".
Lets extend it to battery! If I stab someone, but then call 911, I should be immune to prosecution.
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Spring Forest – December(!) in the Sugar Block Club {handmade}
Had I finished my SugarClub Blocks in December, Sugar Plum Forest, the final block, would have been gently seasonal, a hint to the Christmas decorations brightening up dark corners, adn perhaps I would have needed to find the darkest greens and blues to make them frosty and brilliant.
But this is definitely a Spring sort of a quilt, and as it turns out, these threes are perfect for the month in which I finished the blocks. They may be tall and pointy like a Christmas tree, but they’re covered in spring blooms and set on a carpet of tiny flowers and fresh new leaves breaking through into the sunshine.
I love that some of my favourite fabrics managed to sneak in again right at the end. The blue elephants that starts the year as a fat quarter is all but gone now, and the daisy tree trunks are the very very end of one of the first lengths of fabric that ever came to live in my stash. Over the years it’s appeared in several quilts and other little projects and I’m both a little sad to see it go and glad that it’s in something we’re keeping.
The tree blocks are all paper pieced, and with such skinny little bits as the tree trunks you really need it to stop the block skewing off to one side. If I’ve got to grips with anything this year it’s the foundation paper piecing, and it does let you do some amazingly intricate work without too much hassle. It’s also an amazing eater of fabric; I’m not sure I could ever make an entirely foundation pieced full size quilt but for a component part ….!
I think I’m going to say “never ever” and then I see things like the Forest Abstractions quilt and “never” becomes “quite possibly maybe”.
For now though, I’m finished. Well sort of finished.
24 blocks sit in a stack on the back of my desk. A year and three months after I jumped into the SugarBlock Club on a whim, I’m finished. That’s not a bad result for me, I’ve still got sock of the month clubs from before Kitty was born where I haven’t even wound the wool.
The next step will be to divide them into their two quilts, one block of each month in each, and then lay out their diamond shape. What’s missing at the moment, aside from a lot of plain white blocks, are the blocks that will make up some pattern of little squares to break up the white. I think I’ve got an idea in my mind as to how I want it to look but then I need to start cutting and sewing again and audition a few options. I’m giving myself until Christmas to have these quilts wrapped up under the tree for the girls, which sounds like it’s a long way away but that’s two quilts, if I’m being fair then I really need to make three and do something for Pip too, and somewhere in all of this we’ve got to move house.
Which is why the first thing I did once I’d finished these blocks was crack on with the rest pull out a box of Liberty print scraps and start playing around with an idea for the central block of a very delicate little lap quilt.
It’s going to be a busy year.
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Hello Sunshine! – November in the SugarBlock Club {handmade}
It’s March, so clearly it must be time for November in the SugarBlock Club! There are only two more main blocks after this so with these blocks it feels as if I’ve turned a corner and I’m finally on the home stretch.
When I ran races (many years ago now; pre-children and mostly pre-marriage) I would plod along at the end, certain that I was pushing myself as hard as I could go, and then we’d turn the corner and see the finish and my brain would spot that finish line, send the clear and certain message around the rest of me, “Get there and we can stop” and I’d take off, entirely without conscious thought of a final push. I could see where I’d get to sit down and I was going to get to sitting down as fast as possible. I’m not sure I could claim to have sprint finished a marathon, because nothing I do could ever seriously have been called a sprint, but it was fast for me (and is possibly why I hold the family PB for both half and full marathon despite John being a much much much better runner!).
It’s the same for my quilting, or knitting, or any other project; when the end is in sight it’s all I want to work on until it’s done, and so it’s proving with this quilt. Watch out for December coming soon.
But first, November, and Dresden plates.
I have made a Dresden plate block before as part of a sampler quilt, and if I’m remembering it rightly it was pieced together, curved seams and all, rather than the plate block appliqued onto a base. The Hello Sunshine block uses the applique method, and some clever fabric origami to boot, and it’s definitely the simpler of the two.
The rays of sunshine are made from wedge shapes, folded in half lengthways, sewn across the top, and then folded out to reveal a pointy ray. You end up with a beautifully crisp point and perfect edges on the point and raw edges down the sides and across the bottom which you sew together to make the quarter circle and then applique on to a base block. It was one of those bits of sewing whiztrickery that make you feel very very clever.
I joined the lower edge with a zig-zag on the machine, but to keep the crispness of the points I hand stitched them down, and found it a lovely change to do a little hand stitching and watch it all come together.
Two very similar blocks; you can start to see that I’m running out of original fabric that has any large pieces left but as I’ve decided to do two quilts I’m not bothered if they’re slightly more matching on this block than on some of the others.
And with two finished it was actually really hard not to press on and make more. I love this block, and I know I’ve said that about at least half the blocks in the club, (sign of a really good club), but this is one I could seriously see myself making a quilt’s worth. Not perhaps to do big Dresden circles, though that could look amazing, but even with two blocks, the side of the bookcase and some washi tape you can see the fun you can get up to in setting them at odds.
The possibilities are vast, and if I ever make even half the quilts I have planned it will be quite the achievement.
Editing the SugarBlock Club {handmade}
Making a scrap quilt has taught me the importance of editing my blocks. Editing in writing makes sense; even though I’m loath to part with words that are hard won in time and inspiration, the finished piece will always be tighter and read better for a bit of care and attention and the brutal cutting of some of my lovely words. I’d not really made the connection to quilting before these scrap quilts (for there are now definitely going to be two – see my last SugarBlock Club post for the plan), my quilts had been made with variations on a colour, or were bought together as a bundle and then added to, or simply had a really clear visual style from the get go.
These blocks, scrappiest of the scrappy, did not. In the first few months I simply pulled the fabrics that I thought looked good together, looking at the existing blocks for a bit of reference, but not overly fussed about finding a cohesive whole while I had so few to put together.
As the months have gone on I’ve found that the precise colour scheme started to reveal itself, and the more I lifted and laid out the blocks, and moved them around and put them back, the more one or two started to niggle at me, and I knew they needed a do-over.
I tried to leave it as long as I could bear it, but with the end clearly in sight, and only two months’ left to go, it was time to tackle the miscreants so that I would no longer try to hide them in the corners where it might not matter. If you’re going to go to all the trouble of making quilt blocks and then turning them into a quilt then that’s a serious investment of time, so they need to earn their keep and be perfectly beautiful, not hidden.
On careful examination, three were up for the chop.
The first was this one from February, and in it’s original incarnation it was fine apart from the corners. The quilts I’m making are warm colours and the green is cool, and it just jars. I know I’ve written before that I was going to pull it apart and do it again, and now I really have:
Blue spotty corners and it all works perfectly. The pulling apart wasn’t as bad as I thought either; I just took it back to its constituent elements and added in new half square triangles on the corners, which gave me confidence to tackle the next candidate, and another of the blocks with the pretty but all wrong green print.
This wasn’t so much a problem with the colour clashing as the colours being too close; you can’t really see all those pretty triangles, they just blur into one big splodge no matter how much I convince myself I can make it pop with the quilting (is that the quilting equivalent of a knitter’s “it’ll all block out”?).
So off the borders came. I only needed to remake the central flying geese, everything else stayed the same and put back together quite happily, but you can see the difference when I overlay two of the old flying geese; there just wasn’t enough distinction between the two fabrics at that sort of scale to make it work.
The final editing was a block that I thought I liked, and I do still really like, even though I’ve redone it.
It’s the other block from March and as soon as I’d sorted out those borders it became the one that I was hiding at the bottom of the pile, and so it had to change. It wasn’t bad per se, it just didn’t quite sit right, and as the seam ripper and I were old friends by that point, off came the borders and on went new ones.
This is probably the most dramatic of all the changes and it gives it a lightness and a freshness compared to its predecessor.
And so we’re all ready to power through to the finished, there isn’t a block left that I try to hide away without realising it and that puts me a good step nearer to turning them all into quite. I’m trying to tell myself that the first versions weren’t failed blocks, so much as teachable moments; for all that sometimes it feels like treading water to go back and redo the blocks I’m certain that I’ll be able to pick fabric for a scrap quilt with a much more intelligent eye than when I started this one, so the earlier versions are just part of the evolution of these quilts. Now on to evolve the final months!
To and Fro: September in the SugarBlock Club {handmade}
Amy named the September Sugarblock to represent the busyness of the back to school month; everyone going here, there and everywhere while the patterns of a new academic year shake down into normal. I may have only got to it in February, but it’s been apt none the less; a busy block for a busy month.
One of the biggest challenges I had with this block is that I’m starting to run out of fabric. At the start of this quilt I went through my scraps and my stash and pulled out anything that seemed to vaguely fit “blue, yellow, green, white background, Spring” and I ended up with a tote bag of fat quarters and scraps and bits and bobs, but a I went through it each month to pull out fabrics for the block I found I was naturally editing towards one particular version of blue, yellow and green. And I think as I got further into the quilt the edit became stronger; there are blocks that I made in the first few months that I’m still itching to go back and do over (and pretty certain that I will). But it meant that the bottom of the bag is a puddle of scraps that really should be going back in to the scraps box, and an ever diminishing collection on top.
I have lots of teeny tiny little bits so the little triangles in To and Fro were perfect for sneaking in the very last little scraps of some of my favourite fabrics, and some of the fabrics that fit best in teeny tiny amounts.
The smaller triangles are flying geese made with half square triangles across each corner but the bigger ones were foundation paper pieced. I suspect if you were ever going to make an entire quilt of these blocks you might do better with the tri-recs tool that I used to cut all the triangles for my Fishing Net quilt. They’re just a larger version of the same block and it’s definitely more economic on the fabric than foundation piecing. I love foundation piecing for the precision when handling teeny tiny bits of fabric, but amount of fabric wastage on the bigger blocks is still a little eye watering!
And speaking of precision..
OK, so they’re not quite all perfect, but for me that’s a pretty good triangle point survival rate!
I think if I’d made every full size quilt that I’ve loved from the SugarBlock Club I’d be buried under a small avalanche of quilts, and as it’s February and I’m sewing up September, it’s probably a good thing I never started or we’d still be on March, but the Razzle Dazzle quilt is seriously tempting.
If two of the blocks look like this, should I not just throw in the towel on the rest of the quilt and make more of these?!
Fear not, with only four more blocks to go (I’ve already done October’s) I’m not backing out yet and I’m really looking forward to seeing all 24 together, and it being dry enough to lay them all out together as we’ve easily reached the critical point at which I need to do my laying out on the lawn!
But Razzle Dazzle‘s going on the list!
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July, August and October in the SugarBlock Club {handmade}
In February we’re well into 2017 and yet this week I seem to be ignoring the changing of the year and sticking resolutely to my 2016 plans. My current knitting is Pip’s Christmas jumper, now on the right front with only sleeves, hood and just the 3 balls of yarn to go, and I thought it was high time that we had a little quilting update to see where I’d got to on the question of the Sugarblock Quilt, or possibly quilts.
Selling a house and making a quilt are not the happiest of bedfellows, the one requiring our habitually chaotic studio to look as though no one ever so much as opened a paint tube in it and the other inevitably shedding teeny tiny little snips of white thread all over the floor. In the flurry of viewings my blocks and precut bits and pieces have spent a lot of time stacked up in a corner, but over Christmas I had a bit of a quilting flurry and spent some happy evenings holed up in the studio sewing my way through the months.
The last block I showed you was the first of the Maritime Stars and the second, while cut out, was scattered to all corners of the house when we moved some furniture around. Finally brought back together it looks like this:
As blocks go it’s still my favourite of the whole quilt, and only the prospect of paper piecing all those sections holds me back from making a full size quilt from them. Maybe I shouldn’t throw it off entirely but just save it for later in the hope that in years to come there might be a little bit more time and it will feel achievable.
So that brought us to August and Shenadoah.
It’s a variation on the Virginia Star, the sort of star your mind conjurs up when you think of a star quilt, and this version is the perfect canvas to show off some pretty fabric.
This blue Paris print I bought to make a dress for Kitty; she wore it, Elma still wears it and the leftover fabric is still featuring in quilts and little scrap projects and when it’s finally all used up I will be a little bit sad.
For the other block I choose the elephants, both to show that that actually is the pattern; lots of other blocks have had snippets of trunk or tail so it’s nice to put them all together and reassemble poor Nelly, and to add balance. I think this is one of the most dominant fabrics in all of the blocks, and I know when I added the first block with it in I thought I’d made a horribly mistake. The more I add, the more balance the quilt gets. At least that’s the theory.
I’ve hopped over September for a minute because it’s another part paper pieced pattern and our printer hasn’t been the same since Pip decided to feed it felt tip pens, and moved straight on to October and the bear paws.
And it was at this point that I realised that even raiding my stash for unused fat quarters, the scraps are not going to make it to the end. The two bear paw blocks are made from the only fabrics that I had on hand with enough to make the paw, and I’m pretty sure I’ve exhausted the elephants and the blue spots now. I know this was hoping to be an entirely from stash sort of a quilt, both for the satisfaction of making something from leftovers and because big quilt splurges are not in the current budget, but I’m hoping to find a handful of fat quarters just to get me to the very end.
And I do now have a plan for the very end. It’s going to be two quilts. I’ve got September, November and December blocks to go and then I’ll have 24 in total, hopefully vaguely hanging together in some semblance of order. I loved the layout that Amy suggested (taken from her Quilt Block Cook Book), a diamond of 12 blocks set in a white background; the blocks shine, there’s nothing to compete with them and overall it’s gentle on the eye. But not necessarily that practical.
(I can no longer fit all of the blocks on the floor and it keeps raining outside, so this is just a snippet!)
I think of predominantly white quilts, I imagine these on the girls’ bunkbeds in the absolutely perfect next house, their room softly lit with gentle sunshine while they play on the floor nearby, the scatter of only the most instagrammable of their toys surrounding them, and then reality hits. That much white, for a six and four year old, is asking more of my daughters than is seriously reasonable. At the very least we need a little something to break up the white.
So my plan is to start with the concept of the diamond, but add in a corner to corner X made up of tiny scrap blocks. I’m thinking nine tiny squares to a block, or possibly five; whatever adds colour without taking away from the original.
Target completion date is probably Christmas 2017 so I’ve got a bit of time to play around; what would you do?
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Fascia-nating!
Posted by Christopher on February 12, 2019
Posted in: Event & Article Comments, Fitness, Health, Running. Tagged: fascia, michelle bond, robert schliep, yin yoga. Leave a Comment
How serendipitous that just last week I was looking for the latest edition of Fascia: In Sport and Movement. This nicely bound compilation of articles, edited by Robert Schliep, PhD— noted fascia researcher from Ulm University in Germany— offers tremendous insight from many perspectives on the significance of the body tissue that had once been summarily cut away and discarded by anatomists and physicians. I wanted to add this text to my library and was hoping to find a good price on the latest edition from amazon.com. Rats!— sold out. So I visited Schliep’s website. Bingo! As well, I discovered his Fascia in Movement & Sport seminar was being hosted by Michelle Bond of Fascia Fundamentals right here in Los Angeles. Rather than buying the book right then I enrolled in the workshop. And what a fascia-nating workshop it was.
Dr. Robert Schliep leading the Fascia in Movement & Sport seminar, February 9 & 10, 2019.
Schliep detailed:
Biotensegrity
Fascia as a sensory organ
Elastic recoil properties and conditioning of fascial tissues in jumping, running and walking
How “Rolfing” for rats prevented receptive stress injury and “Yin yoga” (a long hold posture) for rats reduced cancerous tumor proliferation by 52%
Embryology of fascia (Michelle Bond)
What’s more, I had the great fortune of personally asking Robert Schliep (far too many) questions, sharing ideas with some of the six-dozen physicians, physical therapists, body workers and fitness trainers in attendance, doing several fascial-oriented exercises with the class and meeting Michelle Bond— a local, up and coming a-fascia-nado, herself. We all received the Fascial Fitness (companion) DVD, the slide presentation from the seminar, a thumb drive with additional fascia-related research articles and sources for continuing inquiry.
I bought the book, too. At a discount. And, signed by Dr. Schliep.
Despite World Record, van Niekerk Leaves Speed on the Table
Posted by Christopher on August 16, 2016
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As astounding a run as it is in the 2016 Olympic 400m men’s final, Wayde van Niekerk leaves even greater speed untapped. How’s that? Notice that in these video stills he doesn’t begin falling until about 13° past the vertical! He ultimately reaches about 30° of Fall which clearly is sufficient for setting a World Record of 43.03″, but what if he begins falling at 0°? Like previous WR holder, Michael Johnson, and his mentor Usain Bolt.
Wayde van Niekerk hits the Vertical Moment of his running stride.
Here, van Niekerk reaches the Running Pose at about 13° from the vertical.
Then, at about 30° from vertical, van Niekerk reaches the end of his Range of Fall.
By the way, there is a reason for this, and it can be seen in this video still. By leaving the previous support behind (his right foot, in this case) after his bodyweight passes over it, van Niekerk is forced to coast past the ideal midpoint of the running stride stride— the Vertical Moment— before he’s able to start falling again.
Late recovery of support leg prevents reaching Running Pose “on time.”
Not Harder, Smarter!
Wayde van Niekerk has the talent— that is, exceptional neural, metabolic and psychological capacity— to continue developing as a runner, and it’s inspiring to anticipate his realizing even grander achievements in the coming years. I suspect more records will be set as he further refines his skills, maybe harnessing those unused 13°. And why wouldn’t he? Since it’s said that we’re either striving to move forward or allowing ourselves to drop behind, and, since van Niekerk set a new WR from lane 8, effectively racing against himself, it’s really a foregone conclusion. That’s what he does. You see, genetic potential is quickly reached— we compete against our physiological peers— but skill can always be improved. Greatly, in fact, and at any age. And, while not the only factor in racing, skill is a primary factor. While no one needs to work harder per se to acquire new / refine current skills, they must work smarter. That begins with knowing precisely what to train.
You can learn more about how you can apply the skills of Pose, Fall, Pull to your own running success, right now. Start here: Correct Running Form.
A Plethora of Pose Method Drills
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It’s been said there’s a right way, a wrong way, and the Army’s way. Growing up a military brat I sat ringside to this truism. Today, while there’s not been wholesale change, at least fitness-wise someone’s been doing something.
Spearheaded by Majors Charles Blake and David Feltwell, both physical therapists, Pose Method founder, Nicholas Romanov and his son, Severin, Pose Method is now being incorporated into the United States Army’s physical readiness training (PRT) routine because it’s standardized, thus easily taught and learned, and because Pose Method prevents injuries.
That last part’s a big deal because, ironically, soldiers suffer a far greater prevalence of injury from running than from battle! Since such consistent damage to government property at once reduces the fighting force and costs many millions of dollars annually, any viable solution should get the attention of the top brass. And, it did.
Long story short, the right way would become the Army way.
The plethora of Pose Method drills recently introduced into the Army’s Fitness Manual (see Military Running) allows you to learn for yourself exactly how the health, fitness, and performance of Army troops is now being improved– and medical expenses averted– step by step. For greater context, just search on this site for “running” and read more.
Running Form: Distilled
Posted by Christopher on July 22, 2013
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Confusion Is the First Step Toward Clarity
Today, clever quips, sound byte solutions and silver bullet expectations dominate the fitness discourse. So do confusing, often self-contradictory running form tips, techniques and testimonials. An alphabet soup of running advice is served up daily by coaches and athletes, health professionals and hucksters. Most, like the commercial varieties, offer little clarity and less sustenance. But that running form has become at all food for thought is a good thing.
Now, when people ask “What’s Pose Method running?” I know they anticipate some snap, crackle, pop answer. Nothing substantial, helpful nor healthful, really, just something that’s easy to ingest, digest and pass.
While any twenty-five-words-or-less explanation risks reducing potent grains of insight into pablum or processing them into poison I think, within context, this sums it up:
Pose Method distills running into its essential elements (Pose, Fall, Pull) which best coordinate natural forces, so we can run– farther, faster, and free from injury.
What It’s Not
Pose Method isn’t the latest thing, the shiniest thing, nor any pop-culture physical patois. It isn’t esoteric advice from some grizzled guru, and it isn’t another pet endorsement of a Hollywood celebrity. Most of all, Pose Method isn’t a new and improved running style.
Pose Method is a system of movement that identifies gravity as the prime motive force human beings use to run, cycle, swim, etc., and recognizes muscles’ efforts a subordinate force. That is, instead of creating movement themselves, muscles only redirect the motion that already exists, which is the vertical pull of gravity. This may intuitively ring true to you, or not. Either way, conventional wisdom sure appears blind to its implications.
As Pose Method founder, Dr. Nicholas Romanov puts it…
Gravity is still very much the elephant in the room and it is treated as something that “applies to this, but not to that”, “it is here, but not over there”. Fact is, gravity is a silent dictator that rules this world.
All human movement is gravity-dependent. Whether you’re running, swimming, walking to your car or reaching for milk in your refrigerator– you’re moving under the influence of gravity. … But it doesn’t just pull us down.
Pose Method Running
Pose Method teaches running as a skill sport, with its own technical particulars, like golf, martial arts and ballet. The running Pose is the key position– a standard. How a runner gets into and out of it distinguishes deviations from, or adherence to good form. Specific exercises develop the sensory awareness and frame of movement that allow a runner to discern “correct” from “incorrect,” and adjust as needed.
Romanov says…
A “standard” is an… accepted model of something… used as a basis for judgment…
When there is a clearly identified and put forth model… any deviation from that… is easily seen. That [deviation is] the definition of an “error”.
[W]hen it comes to human movement in sports, when it comes to running… [a standard provides a] precise model to learn, to teach, [and an] ability to correct errors.
He specifies…
The laws of operation of all natural forces with gravity at the helm consequently lead to a particular set of rules in movement of a human body.
Unless we figure out how to defy gravity or it suddenly changes the way it works, we will abide by its current standard of operation…
Novel, But Not New
Others of note have described precisely how the vertical force of gravity is translated into horizontal movement.
From antiquity, Romanov references…
Leonardo da Vinci [as] the first to recognize gravity as a propulsive force, [quoting him:] “Motion is created by the destruction of balance, that is, of equality of weight for nothing can move by itself which does not leave its state of balance and that thing moves most rapidly which is furthest from its balance.”
Then, from a hundred years ago…
[Neuro-scientist] Thomas Graham-Brown [who] expanded on da Vinci’s thoughts, [wrote], “It seems to me that the act of progression itself– whether it be flight through the air or by such movements as running over the surface of the ground– consists essentially in a movement in which the centre of gravity of the body is allowed to fall forwards and downwards under the action of gravity, and in which the momentum thus gained is used in driving the centre of gravity again upwards and forwards; so that, from one point in the cycle to the corresponding point in the next, no work is done (theoretically), but the mass of the individual is, in effect, moved horizontally through the environment.”
I might add that in 1952 physician Dudley Morton reiterated specifically…
Under the effects of an unbalanced body center, the combined action of these constant factors, gravity and structure, produces a mechanically determined rate of forward motion which is almost independent of muscular exertion.
Even so, the birth of a universally applicable running form, along with a unified theory of general movement would have to wait for Nicholas Romanov to connect the dots of scientific research and practical action.
Necessity Is a Mutha
Dr. Nicholas Romanov founded Pose Method in the late 1970s. As a university professor of physical culture and sports he was immersed in teaching track and field events to his students. But, unlike other sports, when it came to running, technique was more a matter of mojo than method. Incredibly, there seemed to be no commonly accepted platform from which to coach. Over time, by sifting through the strides of thousands of runners and distilling their common elements, the clouds confusing the issue would clear and he’d see the one, single, correct running form.
In going forward, bear in mind the perspective of aviator and author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery…
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
…because it’s so beautifully expressed in Pose Method running. Better still, begin experiencing it yourself by doing the perception drills below. Just remember, less is more.
Anatomy of a Stride
Variables & Invariables
What Romanov found was that invariably, all runners Pose, Fall and Pull. Not every runner, though, heel strikes nor tries to paw at or push off the ground. These other pieces of the running puzzle, then, are affectations, embellishments, superfluities. All variables. Romanov’s Method includes particular drills that train runners to eliminate the variables and reinforce the invariables. At the same time, his conceptual model of running dismantles the prevailing paradigm that running is generated by muscular effort.
Running Pose as seen in stride to stride sequence.
Conventional Wisdom
A common belief is that because we’re all seemingly so different, running form and running success are individual affairs. Runners should celebrate the freedom of their own unique style, however convoluted it may be. Therefore, for better or worse, running fast and far boils down to genetic gifts and dutifully training muscles’ strength / stamina. Injury– incredibly, pervasive among runners– is normally attributed to biomechanical deficiencies, over training and inappropriate footwear. It’s expected, inevitable and immutable. And, the role of gravity, despite its universal presence and overwhelming power, is roundly ignored or dismissed.
On the Flip Side
Pose Method operates under irrefutable facts. Because we human beings are more alike than we are different, and because Nature’s laws work the same for us all, the prospect that there could be a naturally right way of running ought to be self-evident. What’s more, one correct running form is liberating even as it might sound limiting.
Yes, some runners perform better than others, but human hearts and lungs all work the same way. It’s true for eyes and ears, too. Isn’t it nonsensical to think that our functionally identical musculo-skeletal systems would behave differently from runner to runner under the same laws of physics and in response to the same mechanical demands? You see, in shaping our bodies and prescribing our movements Nature has already done the math and engineering so that with nary a thought we precisely express her most complex equations of locomotion just by running. Running right, anyway. But we’ve also grown big brains which let us think we might outsmart, defy and deny the forces that have created us. Nature, it seems, is not without a sense of humor.
Myth Bustin’
There could hardly be a more definitively human activity than running. Yet, it’s rarely questioned how something so natural could prove so inherently injurious as to require radical external intervention, such as those orthotic devices known as running shoes? And, we do need support, cushioning and motion control to run, don’t we?
Researcher Adam Daoud investigates…
There is evidence that evolutionary pressure selected for endurance running ability around 2 million years before the development of the modern running shoe in the 1970s (Bramble & Lieberman, 2004). It is therefore reasonable to hypothesize that natural, habitually barefoot (BF) running is adaptive in ways that habitually shod running is not. If natural selection acted on running, then one would predict BF running to be both efficient and safe.
Then how might running become unsafe?
Daoud goes on…
…modern distance runners use a maladaptive [landing] pattern, specifically heel strike running, which is promoted by running in modern, viscoelastic cushioned running shoes.
You see, because insulating shoes so dampen our sensory acuity it’s nearly impossible to interact with reasonable certainty, or sure-footedness within our physical world. Not until, anyway, we can dispense with the arbitrary, shoe-sales-based notion of some seven billion unique stride signatures, and instead reorient our mindset and movements within the absolute, unifying framework of gravity.
It Starts with Perception
In running, once we break the balance of the Pose position we begin translating the vertical pull of gravity into horizontal motion by utilizing ground reaction, musculo-skeletal interaction and intent. An accurate perception of ourselves within and as part of our three-dimensional world allows us to best refine our movements, consciously or otherwise. But popular training, treatment and tangible goods touted to improve our running experience usually interfere. The modern zeitgeist of “more” continues to distance our senses from our activities. Far too many runners notice little more than their injuries. Some can’t even tell whether or not they heel strike! Happily though, as Gestalt therapist Fritz Perls would say, “awareness is curative.”
And, as Romanov says…
Our progress will only be as good as our ability to differentiate one movement from another, one effort from another…. taking in and processing all the signals, all the information about our body position in space, the timing of our movements and the level of efforts exerted…
He continues…
Gregory Bateson, a great American scientist, wrote that learning and “science [are] way[s] of perceiving… But perception operates only upon difference… and all perception of difference is limited by threshold. Differences that are too slight or too slowly presented are not perceivable.”
For instance, with one or two centimeters of foam underfoot diluting or fully depriving us of instructive stimulation, how could we possibly feel what’s naturally correct or incorrect? Short of having a conceptual model and a standard of running in mind, how else would we effectively frame, evaluate and adjust our actions? Successful running always remains a “less is more” proposition. Here, less distraction affords more awareness.
Cushioned Running Shoe
This Leads to Running
Start from the Pose position where we’re balanced on (the ball of) one foot while the other is pulled up under your hips. Picture this as arranging the lower body in a closed-top, figure-four position (4), with the upper body resting vertically above.
This “Pose” is that singular point in space and time that separates the previous stride from the next. It is where the centers of gravity of the body and swing leg are in line with support, the ball of the foot. Ideally, this occurs at mid stance. But, whether at mid stance or slightly beyond, the next component of continuing running– the Fall– cannot happen until the the Pose is reached. This isn’t my opinion, nor is it Romanov’s creation, rather it’s the laws of physics that make it so. Nature sets the standard.
So from here, in this Pose position, we stand on the precipice, ready to give ourselves to gravity and fall forward at 9.8m/s2 into the next stride, and the next…
Pose Position | Figure 4
* Experience it yourself: Get the feeling for the running Pose. Maybe do a few single leg quarter squats. Bounce up and down a bit. Do all this barefooted and feel support. Lean forward and back, exploring balance and imbalance. Notice where support begins to disappear.
It’s important to know that only by initially touching down on the ball of the foot are we able to access all the available leverage and elastic properties as we gently load our biomechanical spring system at mid stance. The first force plate graph is revealing. The running Pose occurs at the peak of the curve.
Force Plate | Gentle Forefoot Touchdown
In contrast, by crashing down on the heel or a so-called mid foot we forfeit the soft and safe loading of our natural spring and impose an oblique impact to a system ill designed to receive it. (Jump rope on your heels and flat footed to drive this point home.) But, in running we don’t feel it so much because even the thinest of soled shoes can attenuate enough local pain to allow the error to persist. Still, the harsh impact of 2 to 3 times bodyweight evidenced by the second force plate graph is being hammered into the body, stride after stride. With heel striking typical of most runners, is it any wonder that injury is so prevalent?
Force Plate 2 | Harsh Heel Strike
So, immediately following mid stance our compressed biomechanical spring is quickly uncoiling and pushing us up slightly as we are now falling forward like a felled tree through a speed-appropriate range. Instead of pawing or pushing, our muscles simply hold our Pose position as we rotate from the ball of our foot which takes our center of mass along a horizontal plane, from point A to point B. Happily, rather than hitting the ground like the tree, we just change support and fall again, and again.
* Experience it yourself: Run in place. Notice how you’re interacting with the ground. Find to the differences between naturally running in place, landing flatfooted, and landing on the heel. Which feels right? Are you pushing into the ground, or are you pulling each foot from the ground. Now, keep running in place and let yourself fall forward…
End of Fall
* Also: From the running Pose stand maybe twelve inches from a wall. Now, let your whole body fall forward as a single unit, toward the wall, while holding your Pose position. Make sure to pivot on the ball of the foot instead of leaning from the ankle. (Please catch yourself with your hands before bumping your nose, okay?) Push yourself back to the vertical and repeat several times. Then, step back six inches and Fall again. Finally, step back another six inches and Fall once more. Switch support legs and repeat.
Notice how different it feels to Fall from twelve inches, eighteen inches, and twenty-four inches away from the wall. This is an easy way to begin understanding gravitational acceleration, and the difference between a narrow and wider range of Fall.
* And, now: Put your back against a wall and your feet a few inches from the wall and try running by using your powerful leg and hip muscles. Go ahead, try harder.
Bottom line, no one runs until they Fall. Again, Nature sets the standard.
Range of Fall Determines Pace
In the Pose Method, the concept of gravity plays a prime role to make us run fast. It works just through different angles of deviation of the general center of mass from the point of support. If we want to run faster, the first thing we have to do is to [fall] forward more in each step. … At this point we are talking about high perception of the athlete allowing him to recognize all these nuances of the body [falling] forward… and its timing happening in a fraction of a second.
Our usable range of Fall, by the way, is narrow. From 0° to 22.5° from the vertical. Imagine falling from 12:00 to 12:04 on a clock face as the full extent of horizontal displacement. What’s more, most runners will access only a fraction of this available Fall. Slower runners necessarily Fall through an attenuated range, whether they are holding themselves back, or because they inadvertently arrive late to the running Pose. Dispense with the description “Speed = Stride Rate x Stride Length” and know now that it’s range of Fall and a complimentary cadence– a more specific rate of foot turnover– that are the real arbiters of pace.
Range of Fall | 12-Oh-4
Usain Bolt is a good example of a runner giving himself to gravity, as he Falls here from the vertical to more than 20°. See how he’s maintaining the Pose position? His knee is still bent, and his ankle is neutral as he hinges over the ball of his foot. Here, he’s accelerated and ready to release the ground.
Romanov explains 22.5°…
The forward displacement of the runner’s body is determined by the geometry of the falling body on support. The horizontal movement (acceleration) of the body is a function of the angle of deviation of the body from its vertical position that is a function of the vector of gravity and ground reaction force.
Of most interest was the dynamics of correlation between the horizontal and vertical components of [the] resultant vector between gravity and ground reaction, for every angle of deviation. The maximal prevalence of the horizontal component occurs at 22.5° angle, after which the vertical component starts dominating.
At the end of the Fall, when vertical ground force has dropped below one bodyweight, all that’s left to do is to get the support foot off the ground and recover the running Pose. This is the one volitional muscle action in running– simply, bending the knee– and its timing is everything.
Whether it’s just forgotten and left behind, or whether by trying to push off or paw back, a tardy trailing leg tends to precipitate an active landing, that is, having to throw a foot out in front of the body to prolong time on support so that that sluggish leg can catch up. What’s more, exaggerated leg-muscles tension interferes with letting go and freely falling with gravity around the support foot.
In any event, when precise timing is degraded, through dulled senses or because neural fatigue has set in– despite even extreme aerobic and muscular fitness– concomitant increases in impact, time on support, and biomechanical irregularities begin conspiring to undermine endurance. Endurance, then, can best be described as how well we’re able to maintain good technique, rather than by long we’re willing to continue slogging out the miles. Skill must last.
Pull Sequence
Like a musician practicing scales and arpeggios, or a martial artist rehearsing katas, a skill set is taught, learned and mastered so that technical fluency can flow, just so. Freely. Mindlessly. Indefinitely. Fortunately, instead of a multitude of notes or postures, running requires only that we become proficient at one thing– releasing the ground on time. That is, we Pull!
Romanov describes…
In order to do this an athlete has to have quite a high level of skill, which includes pulling the foot from the ground coinciding with falling in space and time, and muscle efforts enough to make this pull, but not more than this in order to avoid muscular tension.
* Experience it yourself: Balance in the running Pose, then change support, meaning Pull your support off the ground, and let the other foot find the ground on its own. Easy? Maybe not.
The tendency to reach for the ground before actually lifting the support foot indicates a greater concern with regaining support rather than removing it. See this by recording a couple of your stationary Pulls on video. Step through each, frame by frame, and notice where your feet pass each other. Is it about knee level, or closer to ankle level?
You’ll probably need to unweight yourself to leave support, and that’s okay– a brisk shoulder shrug is enough. Make sure to Pull before you begin letting the other foot down. Snap crisply into the running Pose with each Pull. Practice on each leg. Then, explore the Pull as you Fall toward a wall (as before).
Hardwired, But Short Circuited
Where we adults have to work at it, most young kids do all this naturally. And why wouldn’t they? Their primal grace, their inherent physical fluencies, still intact, engender action aligned with intent. Ah, the purity of movement.
Kid, Running Pose
But, since childhood, most of us have been unwittingly rewiring ourselves to forget the sensations and coordinations that permit us to run fluidly and easily. Why? Again, wearing shoes disconnects us from any tactile appreciation of terrain, balance and motion. Also, by thinking of running in terms of muscles’ efforts we errantly reverse the current between brain action and bodily effect. That is, by our typical disregard for the primacy of gravity in creating human structure and locomotion we impede our conscious reacquaintance with natural motion. This, all bad.
And Now?
The good news is, by looking at the schematic of running as simply a linking together of one pose to the next we are able to again switch-on our psycho-physiology and run safely and effectively. Pose, Fall, Pull– nothing more, nothing less.
It could be that your desired fitness menu includes some combination of running farther, running faster, and running free of injury. If so, by learning to land in the running Pose you can avoid the injurious impact transient that is created by active heel strike and mid foot landings. By utilizing greater ranges of fall, you can capitalize on the same gravitational acceleration that the very fastest runners are using. And, rather than arbitrarily exercising muscles, by specifically training to consistently pull the support foot from the ground on time you will develop the metabolic and neural endurance– and confidence– that can extend your running skill even out to ultra distances. Finally, by re-learning how to work with instead of against physical laws you can now start running “naturally.”
Thus, we come full circle. Pose Method distills running into its essential elements (Pose, Fall, Pull) which best coordinate natural forces, so we can run– farther, faster, and free from injury.
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Drozd, Christopher, Correct Running Form
Drozd, Christopher, Running Form: Simplified
Drozd, Christopher, Running Form: Convoluted
Drozd, Christopher, Running Nekkid
Drozd, Christopher, A Rant On Running
Pose Method TV
Assorted Pose Method Drills
Runnin’ Nekkid
Posted by Christopher on June 5, 2013
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The New York Times occasionally publishes sound articles on fitness, but I’ve found their take on running to be routinely flawed. Tragically so— like their misguided pleas for gun control. In following suit, columnist Gretchen Reynolds asks Is Barefoot-Style Running Best? and reports that “If foot muscles become tauter and firmer, the scientists say, people’s arches should consequently grow higher.” Normally content to laugh and shrug off such errors, today I feel compelled to provide some perspective on running barefooted beyond pointing out that it’s ligaments— not muscles— that determine the height and integrity of the arch of a human foot. Since 140 Twitter characters just won’t cut it, here is “Runnin’ Nekkid,” a full chapter from my book Fitness, Straight-Up.
Bass Ackwards
Mark Twain said, “Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”
Shoe companies and health care providers have traditionally put forth that various levels of biomechanical shortcomings are the root cause of our locomotive problems. We are inherently flawed, and only cleverly designed footwear is the solution. It’s no surprise then that the Brooks shoe company president, Jim Weber says, “We strongly believe most of our mileage should be logged in a performance running shoe, not barefoot.” He goes on, “Supportive, cushioned footwear is not only beneficial, it also plays an essential role in delivering a comfortable, injury-free running experience.” That perspective is not without precedent. Since the 1930s, corrective shoes have been designed and marketed as tools necessary for proper function.
Again, that we are inherently flawed is the presupposition, and indeed, physician R. Plato Schwartz plainly stated that humans need a heel under their shoe to throw their weight forward, step by step. Schwartz, an unseemly looking gent had eked out a niche for himself as an insurance company bloodhound sniffing out fake limps from genuine, injury-caused disabilities before he’d give himself fully to gait research. Later, he would claim that the horrors of flat feet could be mitigated with specialized heel-counters that prevent errant movement of the heel bone beneath the shin (pronation).
That Schwartz’s research and gait laboratory were directly funded by the Armstrong shoe company seemed to have escaped scrutiny by American physicians. Even his far-reaching claims that his Balance In Motion shoes, “when properly fitted, would correct flat feet, obliterate bunions, and callouses, alleviate sacroiliac pain, and,” in certain cases, “cure mental derangements by removing strains from the muscles and tendons of locomotion” weren’t sufficient to arch an eyebrow. Rather, it was Schwartz’s application of his methods to race horse performance that finally raised the ire of the medical community.
Fashion or Function
Historically, shoes and especially shoes with heels have served several functions, but none (save for, say, protective motorcycle boots) were functional, per se. On the acting stage heels and platforms were employed to distinguish rank and social status. Ancient Egyptian royalty was depicted in murals wearing heels while commoners were relegated to the lowly stature of bare feet. In Venice, Italy, platform shoes of 18” to even 30”— chopines— were worn by those who could afford such finery, along with the concomitant expense of hiring assistants to help them ambulate through street refuse and debris. Eventually, horseback riders found that a heel on their boots was useful for securing their feet in stirrups. The term well-heeled, by the way, derives from the association of the riding wear and the wealthy equestrians who wore them. However, in human locomotion and stance heels are necessarily problematic.
Consider the Leaning Tower of Pisa. This example of a columnar structure tilted slightly at its base leaves its crown hanging precariously farther afield. We’re similar, except our joints allow adjustment which provides a more visually vertical posture, but not without severely compromising our musculoskeletal alignment, our interface with the ground itself, and our very manner of movement, all so carefully arranged over eons by Mother Nature. I’d like to add that physician Victor Barker, in his book Posture Makes Perfect, describes any heel under a shoe as a “retrograde step…back towards the four-legged posture.” Such a pervasive artifice undermines some twenty million years of human evolution, and precipitates modern infirmity.
As a fashion accessory, shoes have their place. I appreciate a stylish pair of pumps on a shapely set of legs leading up to a short, short skirt as much as the next guy. But aside from the aesthetic, heels of any kind are bad news.
Nix the Kool-Aid
Now, incredibly, the problem of gait and shoe research is exacerbated by the presupposition, which is the assumption— and you know what happens when we assume things, right? — that the shod condition is somehow the baseline, the norm. Naturally, this skews all subsequent results. Conclusions are built on faulty premises. Of course, within that context, trying to talk sense to those invested in the medical / shoe-industry complex is akin to admonishing the ills of alcohol abuse to revelers at college fraternity bacchanalia. The intoxicated, you know, know no reason. Now, on the sober side there are podiatrists, MDs, and researchers who recognize some irrefutable facts.
Michael Warburton, an Australian physiotherapist, says…
Running related chronic injuries to bone and connective tissue in the legs are rare in developing countries where most of the people are habitually barefooted.
Canadian researchers, Robbins and Hanna say…
Where barefoot and shod populations exist, as in Haiti, injury rates of the lower extremity are substantially higher in the shoe wearing population.
Lynn Staheli, MD, renowned pediatric orthopedist says…
If you look at a place like China, and you compare the feet of those who don’t wear shoes with those who do you find that the non-shoe-wearers have better flexibility and mobility. Their feet are stronger, they have fewer deformities, and less complaints that the shoe-wearing population.
Further, the late podiatrist and author, William Rossi (who grew up in Boston, living above his parents’ shoe store) points out that…
From infancy on, most of the hundreds of millions of shoeless people of the world habitually stand and walk, not on soft, yielding turf (a persistent myth among the medical practitioners) but mostly on unyielding ground surfaces. Most shoeless children are raised in such environments in cities like Bombay, Manila, Mexico City, Calcutta, Jakarta, Bogota, etc., where the streets are either cobble-stoned or paved or hard packed turf. Those uncovered, unsupported feet grow with strong, normal arches.
Rossi continues…
A century ago, the rickshaw, which originated in Japan, was the common means of transportation in many Asian cities. In 1910, some 18,000 rickshaws and 27,000 rickshaw men were registered in Shanghai alone. The rickshaw men, most of whom began their occupations in their late teens, averaged 20 to 25 miles daily, trotting barefoot, mostly on cobbled or paved streets and roads. Many stayed at this occupation for 40 or 50 years. The feet and arches of almost all were healthy and exceptionally strong.
Consider too that researcher Adam Daoud of Harvard University references the 2004 work of Harvard professor, Dan Lieberman and University of Utah professor, Dennis Bramble, when he says that…
…evolutionary pressure selected for endurance running ability for around 2 million years before the development of the modern running shoe,” and, that “one would then predict barefoot running to be both efficient and safe.
What About Injury?
Over the last 40 or 50 years, as recreational running has enjoyed immense popularity in America, foot and leg ailments have become increasingly prevalent. Despite the claimed advances in running shoe technology, rehabilitation techniques, and training methods, there is still no real consensus on the actual cause of these injuries, and thus there has been no real remedy offered in the mainstream.
There is, however, the business model that treating the symptom is preferable to finding a cure because the revenue stream stops right there, with the cure. But, who would really believe such tacit collusion could exist in the modern, civilized, medical / shoe-industry complex? It can’t happen here, right?
In any event, about half of runners will be injured by their sport this year, next year, and the year after, and it will continue like that indefinitely. This necessarily indicates that the running shoe, and any other external fix has proven to be— based on evidence— an overall, abject failure. Instead solving problems, our trusted shoes could very well be causing problems.
The running shoe has been shown to materially alter sensory perception, making it more difficult to respond in correct context to variations in surface firmness. Moreover, cushioning makes it near impossible to sense the additional impact transient of a heel strike, which tends to accompany shod running, but is normally absent in barefoot running. You don’t feel the shock, but it’s still there! Compounding this, shoes, because they insulate and “support” the foot, necessarily weaken it in the same way that helping a chick peck its way out of its shell prevents initial, natural strengthening.
I know some might bristle at such a conclusion in large part because it’s unlikely many of us know a world without shoes. Most of us were forced into shoes before we were walking! So, such knee-jerk defensiveness of convention can be expected. The tenacious grip of belief can be hard to shake even in the face of irrefutable fact.
I might point out that through all the research that has sought the cause or causes of injury, running technique has taken a back seat. That’s because running, unlike other sports, is considered to be a natural activity. It’s argued humans already know how to run, which is true— up to a certain point.
As a species we’re more similar than we are different. We’re hard-wired for (endurance) running. As children, before we know anything, most of us experience our three dimensional world viscerally. From this most primal level, we begin running with a technique as fluid and efficient as that of any wild beast. Prescriptions of society— restrictive shoes, and fearful or irritated early parental admonitions, “Stop! Don’t run into the street.” — negatively affect gait, and create a cognitive dissonance that can be recognized in the body language of most runners. A heel-strike, common to about three-quarters of the running population is a startling example of the conscious mind saying, “Go!” and the subconscious mind saying, “No!” Every step slams on the brakes. This running style is a gestalt that reveals just how far we’ve veered from our natural alignment with those physical forces that originally modeled our form to suit our function. Understand that running speed is irrelevant in this equation, and that endemic injury is the smoking gun. That leads right to running technique, because it’s only through egregious misuse that we could so consistently be injuring the most resilient structures of our bodies, our feet, and legs.
I address this in lectures and in other, more running-specific writings, but let me just offer a quick aside. There could hardly be a greater voluntary insult to the body, to the lungs especially, than smoking cigarettes. Anyone who can recall their first smoke probably remembers the physical effect: quite a bit of coughing, burning, watery eyes; and, probably dizziness and nausea, too. That smoking provokes physiological responses akin to poisoning, or allergic reactions, would clearly seem to demonstrate that inhaling cigarette smoke, which contains carbon monoxide, among other toxins, presents a clear and present danger to the physical health of the human organism. Yet, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center determined that the likelihood of getting lung cancer from smoking, which is said to kill about 130,000 people each year, can be accurately predicted by age, sex, and smoking history. For instance…
A 68 year-old man who smoked two packs a day for the past 50 years and continued to smoke had a 15% (less than 1 out of 7) chance of developing the disease in…the next ten years.
That 15% is at the high end of the scale. Compare that with the certainty that this year about half of all runners will be injured by their sport— running! — which is as natural to human beings as breathing fresh air. The issue here is not the severity of the ailments, say, lung cancer versus shin splints, but their respective prevalence. How could the odds possibly favor smoking forty cigarettes a day (more than two per waking hour), every day, for half a century? Let me say again: only through egregious misuse are we able to so consistently injure the most resilient structures of our bodies!
Because the running shoe materially alters natural gait and simultaneously robs us of the feedback necessary to correct and adjust our faulty stride, this protective, supportive device creates, and becomes itself a threatening environment. Sadly, with cushioned shoes, we don’t even get the initial red flag that a drag on a cigarette provides.
In our consumerist society, according to the author of the best-selling book Born to Run, Christopher McDougall says, “We’re told to just buy something, instead of to just learn something.” Then, after purchased pain killers, hi-tech shoes, and orthotics fail, we still seek other passive remedies, dismissing learning how to run differently as too much bother. Lack of consensus confounds the issue. McDougall, in his book, queries Irene Davis, MD, then head of the Running Injury Clinic at the University of Delaware, “So, what’s the right way to run?” She replies, “That’s the eternal question.” And, it gets worse. “There is no correct running form— and you can’t learn it. Form is God-given…If you systematize it, you destroy it,” says Olympian, Kip Keino in Roy Wallack’s book, Run For Life.
I say, however, that there must be one correct running form because Nature is parsimonious. Her process painstakingly fashions function and filters out the faulty. Correct running form is defined by that technique that allows each of us, with our functionally identical musculoskeletal systems to run in harmony with Nature. That means to run comfortably within the framework of the same physics (including gravity and ground reaction) that determined our morphology and physiology, and to do so without shims, splints, or crutches. If you cannot run barefooted with a particular running style— heel striking, paw back, foot drag, what-have-you— then that style is necessarily invalid. By the way, McDougall learned how to run barefooted, and in so doing he cured an injury that stymied two MDs, and a marathon-running podiatrist. Barefoot is potent medicine! Well, more accurately, let’s just say that running barefoot removes one cause of injury.
While running form itself is fully detailed and annotated in Correct Running Form and Running Form: Simplified, the following briefly describes how running really works.
As a Pose Method running coach I consider running in a novel way, but one that’s as natural to humans as are the undulations of flying to sparrows, and swimming to elephant seals. That means regardless of medium, on this planet, horizontal locomotion requires us to hitch a ride with gravity. In running it’s like this:
From the moment our (fore) foot touches the ground until mid-stance, aka the running pose, our bodies hinge from that support on the ground. As they do this gravity is accelerating our center of mass as it falls to the earth. At the same time our natural biomechanical spring— that musculoskeletal system so carefully arranged through eons of evolutionary processes, and which includes the arch of the foot, the ankle, knee, and hip joints, and all their elastic tissues— is being compressed, not unlike a pogo stick. From mid-stance, this spring quickly recoils and pushes us up to where we can again give ourselves to gravity.
Following this rebound, as our stride continues, the hip, knee, and ankle extend further, but not to push us forward. This extension serves only to keep the foot in contact with the ground so the body can fall through a longer arc, pivoting about its support like a tree felled in the forest. This increases the horizontal displacement of the center of mass. Beyond a certain point foot traction begins giving way to slippage.
All this occurs in about a quarter second and between -6 and 22.5 degrees from the vertical, depending on speed. In faster runners it happens more quickly, there is less knee flexion, and vertical oscillation is reduced.
The last step is to change support. That is, to lift or pull the foot from the ground. The center of mass and the body then begin free falling more downward than forward, right into the next stride.
I’d like to mention that an erroneous concept in running— the push-off— endures perhaps because of a visual illusion. An extended lower limb appearing to powerfully drive an archetypal running stride reinforces the impression of strong muscular effort in fast running. Yet, for the push-off to work as described the posterior ground reaction force (PGRF) would have to be greater than bodyweight to provide acceleration. This, according to Newton’s Third Law of Motion— for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The problem is, it isn’t. PGRF is always below bodyweight, so push-off cannot accelerate the runner.
What’s more, ground reaction forces are the same between faster and slower runners at the same lean angles meaning faster runners are not pushing themselves any harder. You see, both speed and PGRF increase with lean angle because of angular velocity (of the body rotating about its contact with the ground). Posterior ground reaction, instead of being the seat of propulsion assumed by conventional wisdom, since it remains below bodyweight, turns out to be merely supportive. PGRF is a frictional force that allows a longer horizontal resultant vector.
So, running correctly and naturally is elegantly simple— just Pose, Fall, Pull! I advocate and teach this running technique because I’ve researched running enough to understand the Pose Method to be precisely that singular correct form that necessarily allows safe and efficient running. (If there were something better, I’d be using it instead.) The system of Pose Method drills ingrains proper mechanics and that all-important perception that allows runners to know, by feel, when they are running correctly, and more important, when they are not. While having such a blueprint dramatically shortens the learning curve, just by barefootin’ we tend to move closer and closer to the natural ideal anyway, each time we run. Our success becomes a matter of awareness, practice, and patience.
Whether or not you will choose to learn Pose Method running, my recommendation for now is that by taking off your shoes and running you will immediately begin to reconnect with the natural function of your body. Injurious and inefficient heel-striking will soon give way to springy forefoot landings, a quicker cadence (foot turnover), and a much greater proprioceptive sense, which over time will allow you to run across a variety of terrain, lightly and comfortably, with or without shoes.
So, barefoot running is best learned during the preseason when fitness is a lesser concern. Unless you are already regularly barefooted the progression toward appreciable distance takes weeks for some, and months for others. Avoid rushing this! Should you be able to get through two miles on your first time out, prematurely exposing your tender feet to the harsh world, you could be rewarded with deep blood blisters, surface abrasions, and aching and burning sensations that can last for more than a week. That’s hardly encouraging. You might erroneously conclude that barefoot is not for you. Frequency, not duration, is your key to successfully adding barefoot to your training. Rx: Run a city block every day for a week. Then run two blocks for two weeks. Run three blocks for three weeks, and so on. Get the feel for barefoot running, step by step and give your bones, muscles, and soles of your feet the months of time required to sufficiently develop and strengthen. Your body will adapt at its own pace.
By the way, Andrew Weil, MD, in his audio book Breathing: The Master Key To Self-Healing, describes one of his patients who, suffering terribly from stress and anxiety, was prescribed specific breathing exercise to elicit his desired calm and relaxation. Though it took several years of practice before the patient would realize the full internal peace he sought, he did eventually succeed in taking charge of his own state of mind instead of turning himself over to passive, anesthetic treatments. My point is, however long it takes, it’s worth your time and effort if you can learn to more comfortably run without restrictive, numbing, and gait-altering shoes.
Choosing Your Path
As you weigh the evidence on both sides of the argument, and perhaps apply Occam’s razor— the simplest solution is probably correct— you could very well determine for yourself that shoes are an unnecessary necessity. Or not.
I don’t really expect that you will throw away your shoes for good and now only run barefooted. Indeed, because of additional traction, protection from ground-surface heat, the occasional bottle-cap, or piece of broken glass, or the unknowns of nighttime running, a light, flat pair of shoes is probably a good idea. (So is looking where you’re going.) Nonetheless, the compelling reason for you to include unshod sessions in your training is that barefoot supports and generally strengthens your feet, and therefore your fitness, overall.
Without admitting they got it wrong all along some shoe companies have hopped aboard the barefoot bandwagon with various iterations of minimalist footwear. Some are vast improvements over ordinary running shoes while others are just more of the typical bells and whistles. Remember, less is more.
For what it’s worth, when I run barefooted I prefer to run without shoes. When I do wear shoes for running I’ll use the Vibram Five Fingers, Classic. Their new EL-X model looks like a promising model, too. In triathlon, for speed of transition, I’d choose a racing flat that would just quickly slip over bare feet. Besides consuming precious race time, putting feet into socks is doubly confining and restrictive. When I do wear socks I choose Injinji five-toe socks to keep my digits free inside of motorcycle boots and dress shoes. So to sum it up, instead of cultivating fragility and weakness by wearing shoes, my aim in runnin’ nekkid is to celebrate what Leonardo Da Vinci called a masterpiece of engineering: that is, the human foot.
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Making BFFs – Obama Curries Favor with Big Business and 1%ers
Posted on August 20, 2014 by bcse
Editor’s Note – For almost six years as President, along with his campaign rhetoric prior, and his short stint in the Senate, Obama has railed against big business, fat cats, bankers, Wall Street, and beyond. He always tried to appeal to the masses as being separate from the 1%, and for the 99%.
The problem is, he IS part of the 1% and caters to their needs in order to line Democrat Party coffers as well his two campaigns for the Oval Office. Hypocrisy is a word to describe others, while he sees himself as doing what has to be done to achieve his goals. He is the king of the ‘say or do anything crowd’ to get your way and becoming BFFs with big business.
Picking winners and losers, dividing peoples and industries, catering to the wealthy as he vacations on Martha’s Vineyard, and golfing with the elites of the world are his stock in trade. Why do his followers and the MSM not see him as the fake and fraud he really is?
Why the White House Is Now Trying to Be Besties with Big Business
By Gerren McHam – Daily Signal
Ready for a backroom deal brokered by the White House?
White House officials met Monday with business leaders and interest groups to talk about executive actions President Obama should consider on immigration, per press reports. Instead of working to secure the southern border, the White House appears to be looking to obtain allies for its administrative amnesty approach that is unjust, costly, and will increase illegal immigration.
Unfortunately, government and big business collusion is nothing new. We’ve seen them team up to support the Export-Import Bank and back a nearly 1,000 page comprehensive immigration bill that purported to have something for everyone.
So what opportunities are up for grabs on immigration? The president will likely insist on an administrative amnesty for perhaps as many as five million illegal immigrants.
According to Politico, business leaders and interest groups are advocating for measures that include “allowing spouses of workers with high-tech visas to work, recapturing green cards that go unused, and making technical changes for dual-purpose visa applications.”
The implication is that if the White House gives them some of these goodies, they will support Obama’s inappropriate administrative amnesty.
Lost in the conversation are those who lose out or who aren’t shown the same favoritism as the involved players, such as the American taxpayer who has to foot the bill for illegal immigration. Legal immigrants and those waiting patiently in line to immigrate from abroad legally also will lose
Other business interests are being left out, too. For example, as Politico mentions, representatives of the construction industry would like their slice of the pie by incorporating a low-skilled worker provision into any executive action agreement.
This semi-comprehensive approach is frustrating the left. “All bets are off” for broader immigration reform if Obama continues down this road, said Tamar Jacoby of Immigration Works USA, a pro-immigration reform group,adding that “Obama will poison the well” if he continues excluding their members—many of which are builders and contractors—from private discussions and neglecting to include their own carve outs in Obama’s final orders.
With similar negative responses from other groups, it’s easy to see why the administration continues to communicate that everything is still up for consideration
So why is Obama pursuing this partnership with Big Business?
“White House officials are in talks with business leaders that could expand the executive actions President Barack Obama takes on immigration.”
For the administration, such a partnership would help blunt criticism. Instead of faithfully enforcing our immigration laws, the administration has gone out of its way to undermine them, making promises to supporters of amnesty that Obama will do everything within his power to address immigration through executive action.
Unfortunately for them, a recent CNN poll indicates that 45 percent of Americans believe Obama has gone far enough with executive action, leaving one to believe that handling the immigration issue unilaterally may prove unpopular.
As the New York Times points out, the administration is “essentially making policy from the White House, replacing congressional hearings and floor debates with closed meetings for invited constituents.” This “go-it-alone” approach is a far cry from an administration that “claims to be the most transparent in United States history.”
With the November elections quickly approaching, the Obama administration is likely trying to both appease its supporters and also be able to show. a collective front from business. So instead of focusing to secure the border and properly address the crisis of young accompanied minors, the White House appears to be pursuing business as usual in Washington—something we have unfortunately grown to expect.
Tagged with 1%, Big Business, Export-Import Bank, hypocrisy, illegal immigration, Obama, transparency
'Sequestration' Hypocrisy – Gov Still Hiring as Services are Cut
Editor’s Note – The height of hypocrisy is on full display by the Obama White House as tours are closed, FAA personnel and towers are cut, Blue Angels training is postponed, soldier tuition assistance is cut, and the list just keeps getting longer, all cited as cuts due to ‘sequestration’, yet many departments are hiring.
Not only that, but so much waste, duplicity, fraud, and abuse still goes on, despite Obama’s pledge to go line by line over the budget to cut such egregious spending. But, “we have to keep releasing illegal aliens…!”
Government Advertises for Nearly 2,600 New Jobs Since Sequestration
This includes 107 new positions at the Department of Homeland Security, which has freed illegal immigrants citing budgetary constraints.
By Bridget Johnson – PJ Media
With Office of Management and Budget fact sheets in hand, President Obama warned of dire cutbacks and consequences should sequestration go into effect March 1. The cuts happened, White House tours have been halted, and the administration swears it’s not overreacting to the bare-bones budget directive.
But in the days since the hammer of sequestration fell, the federal government is hiring anew. A search tonight of the USA Jobs federal employment website, filtered to positions in the United States and posted over the past 10 days, yielded 2,596 results.
This includes 107 positions at the Department of Homeland Security, which has claimed cutbacks have resulted in everything from a more taxing security line at airports to the need to free illegal immigrant detainees.
Jobs included transportation security officers in rural areas, a library technician in Baltimore, a recreational boating safety specialist in Cleveland, natural hazards program specialists in Denton, Texas, and various program analyst positions in the D.C. area. Various six-figure supervisory jobs are also open.
One hundred and fifteen jobs have been posted since sequestration began for the Agriculture Department, which warned of Americans falling ill from tainted food due to short staffing should sequestration go into effect.
Jobs posted included soil technicians, a recreation forestry technician in Sedona, Ariz., a dairy grader in Winnsboro, Texas, an archaeologist in McCall, Idaho, and a social science analyst.
The highest number of job postings since sequestration went into effect is at the Department of Veterans Affairs, with 909 new openings at the time of publication. The OMB painted a grim picture of tens of thousands of homeless vets being returned to the streets due to the budget cuts.
As the OMB warned Indian tribes would lose nearly $130 million in funding from the Interior Department, 115 new jobs have been posted in the sequestration era including multiple park guides to stock up for the summer, a museum aide, plant technicians, and more.
And while the White House warned of hundreds of furloughed federal prosecutors and a thousand fewer criminal cases being brought to court each year, the Justice Department has 46 new job postings including a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Attorneys, a law librarian, a trial attorney, and a deputy chief for the civil rights division.
New job postings at random agencies include a six-figure IT specialist at the Railroad Retirement Board, an exhibition aid for the National Gallery of Art, an Albanian-language broadcaster, and a space-assignment technician at the National Archives.
The office of the president is advertising for a management analyst, with a salary of $51,630 to $97,333 per year, to provide “assistance, research, advice and consultation on a full scope of administrative, managerial and financial projects in support of the Office of Administration.” Relocation assistance is not included.
If anyone does want to complain about sequestration job losses, though, the Office of Personnel Management is hiring a customer service specialist for its call center.
Last week, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wrote to Acting OMB Director Jeffrey Zients, noting that many nonessential federal job postings were still going up despite pressure on the office to warn agencies that hiring activity should be scrutinized in the face of sequestration.
On the first business day after sequestration, 606 new jobs were posted on the USA Jobs site.
“While some of these positions may be essential to the mission of the agency, others plainly are not,” Coburn wrote. “…According to OMB, the average annual salary for a government employee is around $76,000. This means that the average new hire equates to a one week furlough for 52 current government employees.”
Jobs found by Coburn on March 4 and highlighted in the letter to Zients included 23 openings that included “recreation” in the title and a historian for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
“While the Air Force may need leadership for its museums and history programs, and the USDA may need to keep its literature in order, those needs should take a back seat to the dire threat to public health and safety that some have claimed will result from sequestration,” Coburn wrote. “Canceling the opening for the librarian position at USDA could offset one week of furloughs for as many as 104 to 156 food inspectors.”
Tagged with federal hiring, hypocrisy, Sequestration, white house tours
Bozel reveals "Pinocchio" on the stump
Posted on July 11, 2012 by bcse
Editor’s Note – Does truth matter? Not if your working on the Obama campaign.
Its almost become a running joke, especially on the social networking sites – How can you tell if Obama is lying? His lips are moving.
This also goes to the completely hypocritical talking heads like the DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She had the nerve to say:
“It Would Be Nice If We Had A Candidate for President Who Was Committed To America”
Certainly connoting that Obama displays more commitment to America than Mitt Romney.
Alex Wagner, MSNBC host: Do you think there is something illegal here because there’s certainly — the line, the rhetoric would certainly seem to suggest that as it has been voiced by folks on the left and the president’s reelection campaign?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC: That’s the problem. We don’t know because Mitt Romney has released one year of tax returns and an estimate of another year. That’s totally contrary to his own father, when he ran for president, who said that releasing only one year is unacceptable because it could be an anomaly.
The funny thing is, the DNC learned of his accounts, from his tax return. Now they demand more returns, even though Romney already met the bar of previous campaigns, yet no one holds Obama to his record – the ones we cannot see. What about that Connecticut Social Security number…etc., etc., etc?
There seems to be a complete whitewash of the fact that Obama, for years, has hidden every last vestige of information about his life, yet they want to hold others to a different bar! Hypocrisy and lying, now there’s something to hang your hat on when you ask for America’s vote.
Read what Brent Bozell has to say in response to recent speeches and statements:
Obama’s Stump Speech Myths
By Brent Bozell – Town Hall Online
Barack Obama has trouble telling the truth.
This is the man who admitted his memoir “Dreams from My Father” was semifictional. “For the sake of compression, some of the characters that appear are composites of people I’ve known, and some events appear out of precise chronology.” Translation: On some pages, I’m taking poetic license with the facts to burnish my image.
The problem is, Obama’s still using poetic license. So where are the reporters to point out when he doesn’t tell the truth? Let’s take just one typical Obama stump speech, on July 5 in Sandusky, Ohio, and look for the fibs and stretches. They’re not hard to find.
1. There are the biographical tall tales. “My grandfather fought in Patton’s army.” In 2009, AP’s Nancy Benac noted that the president’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham, was in a supply and maintenance company, not in combat. That’s noble work, but “fought in Patton’s army” implies something else. Moreover, Benac reported Dunham’s company was assigned to Patton’s army for two months in 1945, and then quoted Obama’s own self-boosting memoir: “Gramps returned from the war never having seen real combat.” Why has Benac been alone in exploring this blatant exaggeration?
2. There are the policy myths. “So when folks said let’s go ahead and let the auto industry go bankrupt, we said no let’s bet on American workers. Let’s bet on American industries, and now, GM is back on top, and Chrysler is moving, and Ford is going strong.”
Put aside for a moment that GM being “on top” is a stretch. GM still owes the public $30 billion for the bailout. But the real screamer in that passage is Ford never succumbed to bankruptcy and bailouts and therefore shouldn’t be included in any boast of any sort of Obama achievements.
Some lines in the speech just sound ridiculous based on the last three and a half years, such as: “I want to balance our budget. I want to reduce our deficit, deal with our debt, but I want to do it in a balanced and responsible way.” This might not be strictly “false” — it’s opinion — but it’s certainly disingenuous. He said the same thing in 2008 and then delivered the biggest trillion-dollar deficit in history.
Obama also refuses to admit the failure of the “stimulus,” claiming in one passage, “I do want to rebuild our roads and our bridges” because it would “put a lot of people back to work — and that’s good for the entire economy.” Except, it’s demonstrably not true.
3. Then there are the religious myths. “When I first got my job as an organizer for the Catholic churches in Chicago … they taught me that no government program can replace good neighbors and people who care deeply about their communities (and) who are fighting on their behalf.”
In how many ways is this deeply insincere? Obama was hired by a Jewish Alinsky-ite leftist named Jerry Kellman for something called the Developing Communities Project, which did have Catholic support, but Obama’s own memoir described the community organizing work as a chance to “start to build power” — with a “hard-headedness” based on “politics, not religion.”
In his stump speech, Obama’s trying to create two false impressions:
That he’s not waging war on the Catholic Church with his Department of Health and Human Services mandate to force Catholics to fund contraceptives and sterilization against their conscience.
That he’s some sort of moderate about how government programs couldn’t possibly replace person-to-person private charity. If he were Catholic, he might be excommunicated.
4. Finally, there are the campaign myths. Obama bizarrely told the crowd in Sandusky “back in 2008, everybody said we couldn’t do it because we were outspent, we weren’t favored.” Did Obama mean in the primary race? By a slim margin, he outraised Hillary Clinton, who was the early favorite. But this spin is comical if it refers to the general election, where Obama outraised McCain $779 million to $347 million.
Then Obama added: “That first race that I ran as a state senator, Michelle and I, we were going around knocking on doors, passing out leaflets. Nobody gave us a shot. Everybody said, ‘Nobody can pronounce your name, how are you going to win?'” But Obama ran unopposed in 1996, both in the primary and the general election. In a burst of Chicago-style politics, Obama removed his primary opponents, including the incumbent state senator, Alice Palmer, from the ballot by challenging their signatures.
When will the alleged fact-checkers in the news media vet Obama’s stump speech and demand he start telling the truth?
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Former NHS director dies after operation is cancelled four times at her own hospital.
Posted on March 31, 2011 by Admin • 0 Comments
A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an operation – at her own hospital.
Margaret Hutchon, a former mayor, had been waiting since last June for a follow-up stomach operation at Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex.
But her appointments to go under the knife were cancelled four times and she barely regained consciousness after finally having surgery.
Her devastated husband, Jim, is now demanding answers from Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust – the organisation where his wife had served as a non-executive member of the board of directors.
He said: ‘I don’t really know why she died. I did not get a reason from the hospital. We all want to know for closure. She got weaker and weaker as she waited and operations were put off.’
Mr Hutchon, of Great Baddow, Essex, said his wife, 72, had initially undergone major stomach surgery last June but the follow up procedures were repeatedly abandoned.
The former mayor remained at the hospital for months but her family feared she was becoming institutionalised and decided to bring her home until an operation was a certainty.
Mr Hutchon, 71, said: ‘The case has been referred to the coroner because of the long time it has taken. In some ways, I would like the coroner to order a post mortem.’
The pensioner said his wife had been left very weak before her operation because she had been unable to take in nutrients.
‘From July to October there was talk of another operation and then between November and December there were three or four postponements and she was becoming so institutionalised we decided to get her home until an operation was certain.
‘It was a blessing because although neither of is could have guessed it – it gave us a last month together.
‘Nevertheless, she was unable to take proper nourishment and went into the operation on the better side of a low state – she was very weak.’
Mrs Hutchon was well known and respected after serving in local government for the past 30 years and she became mayor of Chelmsford in 2006.
Mike Mackrory, a fellow Liberal Democrat councillor, said: We were all stunned to hear she had died after the operation. There were constant delays she had to endure before surgery.
‘We were given the very sad news and as word spread it threw a pall over the civic dinner. Margaret was much loved and respected in this town.’
A spokesman for Broomfield Hospital said it could not comment on individual cases.
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DVD & Blu-ray Featured Reviews
DVD Review – ‘Pyewacket’ is a slow-build horror that never runs hot
22/04/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adam MacDonald, April 2018, Bianca Melchior, Certificate: 15, Chloe Rose, DVD, Eric Osborne, Horror, James McGowan, Laurie Holden, Nicole Muñoz, Pyewacket, Rating: Poop
UK Release Date: 23rd April 2018
Director: Adam MacDonald
Writer: Adam MacDonald
Starring: Nicole Muñoz, Laurie Holden, Chloe Rose, James McGowan, Eric Osborne, Bianca Melchior
Synopsis: A teenager summons a demon and orders it to kill her mother, only to regret the decision and search for a way to send the demon back to where it came from.
This Canadian horror movie, which is arriving straight to DVD and VOD in the UK, is one with a simple enough conceit. A goth teenager, obsessed with occult literature and Satanic culture in general, has an enormous row with her mother when the two of them relocate away from her like-minded friends. Unsurprisingly, mum isn’t a big fan of her daughter’s supernatural leanings and tears a pentagram ring from her finger in the middle of their argument. In a sullen mood, the teen wishes death upon her and then enacts a complex ritual to summon a demon in order to murder her parent. I think we’ve all been there.
The teenager is Leah (Nicole Muñoz) and, immediately after the ritual, her mother (The Walking Dead‘s Laurie Holden) starts being incredibly lovely and understanding. Struck by the buyer’s remorse of a misinformed Brexit voter, she attempts to put the demon back in the bottle, if indeed demons go in bottles. Is that just genies? Either way, a conference call with her favourite occult writer (James McGowan) reveals that the only way for Leah to avert the coming disaster is to repeat the ritual, but in reverse.
The first half of Pyewacket is very interesting, building a degree of tension as it introduces the audience to the world of Muñoz’s character, from her ‘edgy’ teen friends to her fractious relationship with her mother. The scene of the ritual itself has a real sense of creepiness and the gradually escalating spiritual appearances are managed nicely by writer-director Adam MacDonald, who keeps a very firm hand on the tiller. This is a very controlled movie that eschews the jump scares and cheap jolts of many modern horror films.
He’s helped by a solid cast. Muñoz is in more or less every shot of the movie and definitely holds her own, selling the various emotional ups and downs of the story in a far more coherent way than the rest of the film, which seems to generate changes of heart solely for the purpose of narrative progression. Laurie Holden is equally impressive and Chloe Rose makes the most of a bit-part role as one of Leah’s friends who is left cowering in a car outside Leah’s home when Pyewacket seemingly strikes during a sleepover. It’s one of many terrifying, unexplained moments in a film that trades in ambiguity.
Unfortunately, there’s never quite enough in Pyewacket to pay off that ambiguity. Everything that is initially intriguing about Pyewacket quickly becomes tedious as the narrative is left without any sort of explanation or pay-off. The climactic set piece is an eye-catching moment of bracing nastiness, but it’s not enough to satisfy an audience that has been waiting for over an hour in the hope of being scared silly. Mildly unnerving is about as strong as it gets.
Some interviews and a behind the scenes featurette focusing on the climactic set piece. Mildly interesting stuff and better than you often get on a small horror release.
Pop or Poop?
There are all of the constituent parts of a compelling supernatural horror movie in Pyewacket and it’s clear that Adam MacDonald knows exactly what film he wants to make. Unfortunately, though, that film is all sizzle and no steak, fizzling out well before it has any chance to inflict real scares upon its audience.
Do you agree with my review? Let me know in the comments section.
Pyewacket is available on DVD in the UK now, courtesy of Signature Entertainment.
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Medio online escrito por el crítico Pablo Bardin, sobre la actividad musical clásica en Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Harmonies at the Brick: good start of a new project
Patricia Pouchulu has long been an enterprising organizer of concert cycles, and in recent years has added a new career as a conductress. She did good work at the Museo de Bellas Artes, the Salón de Pasos Perdidos of the Congress, and especially in two activities of the institution she leads, La Bella Música: symphonic and choral-symphonic concerts, and for many years Premium Concerts at the Sofitel (four each season).
In 2016 the Sofitel experience is replaced by a longer one called Armonías at the Brick Hotel (just where the Caesar Park Hotel was, Posadas in front of Patio Bullrich) The venue is the First Floor Salón Cabildo, much bigger than those used at the Sofitel. Recently the Herald published the whole season (ten concerts, one each month)). The seats are comfortable and the acoustics satisfactory, just a trifle incisive. The splendid thing for Pouchulu is that the project has attracted a full house; may it continue in the same way.
The roof is much higher than at the Sofitel, and as there are many rows, the feeling is less intimate, more like a concert hall. As at Sofitel, champagne is served as you arrive, but the difference is after the concert: Sofitel included a catering and a chance to talk with the interpreters; here it ends like a normal concert, though you are suggested to try the Brick Ground Floor restaurant.
At Sofitel, Pouchulu presented the artists and the programme; here she only spoke briefly at the end, to thank the audience and announce the following date. Frankly you go to concerts to hear the music, not a talk, unless it is a didactic one, so this is an improvement. What hasn´t ameliorated is the hand programme, which offers in a single page the bare facts and with mistakes (they will be mentioned later).
The concert was billed as a Mozartian gala with Orchestra of La Bella Música conducted by Pouchulu. The programme was very pleasant, though quite short (barely an hour).
The Divertimento K.138 (three movements, as its companions K.136 and 137) is an amazing proof of early maturity (Mozart was 16). And hearing them together as we did, the ultrafamous "A Little Night Music" K.525 didn´t seem to be so different in style (it was wrongly listed as Little Night Serenade; it is Serenade Nº 13, called as stated above). Both are very often played and got clean, stylish versions from Pouchulu and the Orchestra, led by concertino Daniel Robuschi.
But the main interest was that jewel, the Concerto for flute and harp K.299 (it is a double concerto but the composer didn´t call it thus, so the word "Double" shouldn´t be in the programme). Written in 1778, it has strong influence of Mozart´s Parisian period, for at that time the French capital liked this sort of combination, and not only in Concerti but also in the Sinfonia Concertante genre, where there were always at least two soloists of diverse kinds (Mozart wrote two). It is an exquisite score, one of the most beautiful and serene he ever produced, and not only gives precious material to both flute and harp but also to an orchestra enriched by gratifying moments for oboes and horns.
Hugo Regis (flute) and Tiziana Todorov (harp) are fine members of different generations of the Teatro Argentino Orchestra. Regis, veteran member, is still a musical and expressive player. And Todorov a tasteful and accurate young artist. Very well accompanied by the Orchestra and with reasonable cadenzas, they all rounded off a successful evening.
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Gelber´s return plus Respighi´s Roman evocations
The Buenos Aires Philharmonic´s under Enrique Arturo Diemecke offered its first concert of the fifteen that comprise the subscription series and the Colón was packed, for after many years of absence Bruno Leonardo Gelber played again in this hallowed hall. To boot, in what I believe is a first, the three Roman tone poems by Ottorino Respighi were heard together in BA.
Gelber is one of the trilogy of illustrious septuagenarian Argentine pianists, and later in the season we will hear the other two: Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim. As is common knowledge, Gelber has held a lifelong battle with the consequences of the poliomielitis that struck him when he was a child, but he has shown tremendous constancy in developing his great talent despite this disadvantage. His repertoire, never very big, centered on Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. He had a very long international career and was widely feted for his interpretations of the Beethoven and Brahms concertos.
His childish appearance always contrasted with the sturdy solidity of his very orthodox playing. Decade after decade he gave both here and abroad reliable recitals and concertos with the world´s orchestras. However, in more recent years his old problems worsened, and his schedule began to be sparser. Aggravated by overweight, his playing became more effortful and less precise. But last year, even under such conditions, he gave an extensive tour of our provinces, showing an admirable fighting spirit. A recital at the San Isidro Hippodrome during Holy Week (I wrote about it) gave evidence that even with some shortcomings Gelber still had a lot to offer.
The same can be said about his Colón performance of Beethoven´s Fourth Concerto. He loves this score and has played it many times before in this city (and in countless other places). However, his execution was uneven, with passages that sounded confused with others where we recognized the Gelber of yore. His sound was always better in soft passages; the "fortes" were overemphasized and had a metallic tinge. I don´t know if he played in the Colón´s newer Steinway or in the older, but the chunky feeling was there. He was at his best in the dreamy slow movement.
The Phil wasn´t as helpful as I hoped, there were dirty horn sounds and some uneasy joins. Perhaps, faced with the heavy Respighi challenge, they needed more rehearsal.
A mail arrived today and informed me that Darío Lopérfido has promised Gelber a recital this year, date to be announced. Trajectory matters, and although the pianist´s best years are past, he still deserves this opportunity to be applauded by his faithful audience at our best venue.
In Italy no one has orchestrated better than Respighi, a true disciple of Rimsky-Korsakov. It is generally agreed that in a country where most composers were inclined to write operas, although Respighi did so (his masterpiece is "La Fiamma") he also created the most imaged and colorful symphonic music. There is general agreement that his highest achievements are the three tone poems he dedicated to his beloved Rome: "Fountains of Rome" (1917), " Pines of Rome" (1924) and "Roman Festivals" (1928).
All are divided in four tableaux, blending each one with the following. "Fountains" is the most impressionistic, as it portraits aurally from dawn to dusk Villa Giulia, Triton, Trevi and Villa Medici; it goes from the most subtle "pianissimo" to joyful washes of sound. "Pines" gives us kids playing near Villa Borghese, mournful Christian mementos near the Catacombs, poetic nature impressions (including birds) at the Gianicolo, and the marvelous crescendo of the Roman legions at the Via Appia.
"Festivals" is by far the most noisy and popular, as befits the subject. "Circus" is the one of the cruel Roman Empire, with Christians sacrificed by lions; the music has brutal impact. "Giubileum" has several moods. "L´Ottobrata" ("Feast of October") is dynamic and joyful. And "La Befana" is an enormous succession of dances during Epiphany: the cumulative brilliance becomes overwhelming. Although the orchestration is varied and rich in all three, "Festivals" is stunning, with abundant percussion, full brass, mandolin, organ and piano. In the last tableaux of "Pines" and "La Befana", trumpets strategically placed in a central loge reinforce the excitement of the main orchestra.
All this together amounts to 55 minutes and is very difficult to play and conduct. Diemecke and the Phil gave us a triumphant tour de force. The conductor put "Festivals" first, then "Fountains" and "Pines", but he made no break between the latter two, which seems to me unwarranted. A detail: Respighi asks for "buccine", a revival of ancient trumpets in the shape of a G; they sound savage and fortissimo, but the Colón doesn´t have them. No matter, the sound was tremendous anyway.
Diemecke was born for this sort of music: sanguine, showman, with a gift for balance of very complicated mixes of instruments, communicative extroversion and a fantastic memory, he gave us model interpretations. The Phil, with evidence of thorough rehearsal, met the challenge with cohesion, discipline and intensity, along with fine solo playing from all concerned.
I have to end with bad news: although the Colón has made no announcement, the planned performances (with the Phil) of "Swan Lake" by the Ballet at the Luna Park won´t take place. That leaves the Phil with blank weeks until the next concert, scheduled for April 7th.
“Beatrix Cenci”, perverse Ginastera opera in porn staging
This is the year of Alberto Ginastera´s hundredth anniversary of his birth. And although nowadays Astor Piazzolla is the most widely played of our composers, Ginastera not only holds the second place in frequency but is considered worldwide as the most significant Argentina has produced. So of course the Colón will pay homage to him throughout the season, especially in the Philharmonic´s subscription series.
But the Colón is foremost an opera house, and Ginastera wrote three. Unfortunately Darío Lopérfido chose the weakest of them, when pride of place should have gone to his first, "Don Rodrigo", premièred there in 1964 and never revived. It is an ambitious historical opera of considerable demands and huge orchestration, but the challenge must be met for it contains a deal of fine music in a very complex language of great intensity but also haunting lyricism.
I won´t rehearse yet again the vexed question of Onganía´s cancellation of "Bomarzo" ; it was finally offered in 1972, 1984 and 2003. I admire certain aspects of the music, especially the expressionistic orchestration, creating mysterious ambiences, and also the arias for the courtesan Pantasilea and for Julia Farnese, but I strongly dislike the story and the abundance of forced spoken passages, as well as the gloating of both librettist and composer in depicting the unseemly aspects of life with heavy underlining and grotesque effects. The Mujica Láinez original novel is much better, and of course the famous Garden of Monsters has a visual attraction of its own.
That leaves "Beatrix Cenci", a sordid true story of the very Late Renaissance. Three well-known writers gave their own views: Percy Shelley wrote a tragedy in five acts in the Romantic period; in the Twentieth Century Antonin Artaud, the often deranged promoter of the Theatre of Cruelty, wrote a play in 1935 in his over-the-top style, and the Italian novelist Alberto Moravia gave his disenchanted focus on the family.
Well, Count Francesco Cenci was powerful in Rome during the last years of the Seventeenth Century and although his malignity was common knowledge, not even Pope Clement VIII helped his family to be freed of the Count´s tyranny. As Guillermo Scarabino (conductor of this revival) wrote, Francesco was "violent, avaricious, sadist, corrupt and vicious". He evaded jail and death (such was the sentence for sodomy at the time) by wholesale bribing. Finally his family (second wife, two sons and Beatrix) killed him but were condemned to death for the deed (except the youngest son).
The libretto by William Shand is deplorable in every sense: the language is stilted and unmusical, the events are narrated grossly, the structure is poor. And the characters pile up adjectives about their own condition instead of interacting. Some hermetic poems by Alberto Girri are interspersed and at least allow the composer isolated lyrical moments.
I witnessed the Argentine première at the Colón in 1992 and was very disappointed not only by the drama but by the music, to my mind the weakest in Ginastera´s whole production. His technical command of contemporary trends is beyond reproach but it is almost constantly used for cheap effect There´s some Renaissance pastiche in the Bacchanale. The final minutes (the execution of Beatrix) end with a very complex choral ululation that necessitated the presence of the choir director. The whole thing only lasts 90 minutes, shorter than "Salome" or "Elektra", and the opera was presented without an interval, perhaps wisely (avoiding an exodus?).
I have only admiration for the singers that solved such ungrateful music. Mónica Ferracani was Beatrix 24 years ago and keeps both her splendid presence and vocal fortitude intact. Víctor Torres (Francesco) is an accomplished professional; however, his soft-grained voice and relative volume aren´t right for this brutal villain. Gustavo López Manzitti (Orsino) again showed his firmness in the constant high range of his part. Alejandra Malvino was ideal as Lucrezia, Francesco´s long-suffering second wife.
Florencia Machado sang well the trouser role of the adolescent son Bernardo; Alejandro Spies was imposing as the other brother Giacomo. Smaller parts were well done by Mario De Salvo, Sebastián Sorarrain, Iván Maier and Víctor Castells. Scarabino did a brilliant job preparing the Orchestra, and Miguel Martínez managed well the choral fragments (he is uncredited in the hand programme!).
Alejandro Tantanian was the producer. He tells us in an interview in the programme that this opera is "a ghost tale, a pornographic narrative and a Gothic novel". Well, he put the accent on the porn, with the obsessive presence of men naked from the waist down and fully lighted, in the worst taste of Calixto Bieito or La Fura dels Baus; I haven´t seen the likes at the Colón before and I don´t accept it. I am no prude but I believe in suggestion; Jaime Kogan didn´t have recourse to such cheap genitality when he staged the opera in 1992. And of course we saw mock sex acts in the Bacchanale.
Oria Puppo contributes Neo-Greek columns in her stage design; the costumes veer between different centuries, and there are some weird contraptions for the half-naked men. Good lighting by David Seldes and interesting projections by Maxi Vecco don´t save the show. Four well-behaved mastiffs made an ominous contribution.
Three performances with two casts in non-subscription performances: it´s easy to infer that the non-inclusion in the subscription series was a sign of lack of confidence in this opera. The list of invited audience was huge.
Teatro Argentino: short strange season and renovation plan
Simultaneously the authorities announced the 2016 season of the Teatro Argentino (La Plata) and an ambitious renovation plan. On the one hand, Martín Bauer replaced Valeria Ambrosio as General and Artistic Director. He concocted a rather strange short season ending on the last day of October. On the other hand, November will see the beginning of surprising and expensive ameliorations of the massive brutalist Theatre that replaced the old beautiful Italian horseshoe-shaped Opera House. In just 16 years the building is in need of important reforms, which speaks of evident shortcomings in the construction. (Both the Argentino and the CCK are unfinished!).
I must say that I was rather bothered by the election of Bauer, for his specialty is contemporary music, not opera, and the Argentino is basically an opera house, even if it also offers ballet and concerts, and has always been a traditional theatre in a traditional town. Innovations must be introduced with tact. After the Ambrosio seasons, heavily conventional on the instructions of Jorge Telerman ("La Traviata", "Tosca"), Bauer accepts "la Boheme", cancelled last year for lack of money, and only adds Mozart´s chamber "Così fan tutte" to repertoire fare. The other two choices of this mini-season are strictly contemporary: "De materie" (1989) by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen, and "Written on skin" (2012) by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp. The proportions between repertoire and new works aren´t right.
Of course, the TACEC (created by Bauer as the Argentino´s counterpart to the Colón´s CETC during the period of Lombardero´s Artistic Direction) is back. But the Ballet, now with a new Directress, Maricel De Mitri (until last year an exquisite Colón ballerina) will insist on the bread-and-butter big standards ("Giselle" and "Don Quichotte" plus just one programme of modern choreography).
Bauer brings famous contemporary concert musicians, such as the Arditti Quartet and the Ensemble Modern. The Orchestra under the stalwart maestro Carlos Vieu started the season with Mendelssohn´s "Elijah" and will follow with such important scores as Mahler´s Second Symphony, "Resurrection", whilst Christian Baldini will dare to combine Ligeti´s "Atmospheres" with Stravinsky´s "Rite of Spring".
Before I refer to "Elijah", some data on the proposed reforms to the building. The expense will be huge: 490 million pesos. There will be five main areas with different time lapses, starting in November. Perhaps the most relevant: reparation of the stage machinery (six months). Then, waterproofing of terraces and roofs (a year). Renovation of façades and plazas (18 months). Reconditioning of turrets and fire security (18 months). And sprucing up of the great Ginastera Hall and of the microcinema (6 months). With all this, the Argentino will still be unfinished!
Bauer admits that in 2017 (and perhaps 2018?) activities will have to take place elsewhere, and he mentions at La Plata the recently renovated Coliseo Podestá, a fine old theatre through rather small, quite adequate for chamber opera; he will also move the Argentino´s artists to venues in our city: the Auditorium of the Parque Centenario and the Usina del Arte. (At La Plata the Summer possibility of the Auditorium Martín Fierro won´t be available, for it is also undergoing reform).
So it seems that we are in for a long transition period in an overdimensioned institution with 900 employees. As I arrived to the enormous Ground Floor foyer, I was received by sirens and yells, and a leaflet was put in my hands. It said that unless the Government changes the status of a number of employees under contract and incorporates them as members of the permanent staff, they will impede the start of the renovation works! Typical labor brouhaha.
Now to the positive side. Apart from one blot (the lack of hand programmes) Vieu did it again. As you may remember, he closed last year with an impressive performance by the Choir and Orchestra of Haydn´s wonderful oratorio "The Creation". This time he gave us an admirable rendering of the greatest 19th Century oratorio, Mendelssohn´s "Elijah", where he shows his serious side with maximum quality. Marvelous ability in counterpoint from the man who brought Bach´s St Matthew Passion back from oblivion coupled with sensitive melody and contrasting moods.
Old Testament tales are stark, and Elijah smites the Baal priests, brings water to a parched land and finally goes to Heaven in a chariot of fire. All this in music that is a joy to hear and follow with a score.
I find both the Chorus (under Hernán Sánchez Arteaga) and the Orchestra in excellent shape, worthy of comparison with the similar Colón organisms. But if the results are so good it is because of the guiding hand of Vieu, may be our best resident conductor (Alejo Pérez works mainly in Europe). He has admirable technical control and a keen sense of the best tempi and phrasings.
And he had a good quartet of soloists, especially Hernán Iturralde as Elijah, full of authority and command. After the first uneven minutes tenor Carlos Ullán found his best level in the parts of King Ahab and Obadiah. The fresh voice and musicality of Marisú Pavón shone in the soprano parts. And Chilean mezzosoprano María Luisa Merino Ronda, incorporated to the Argentino in recent years, sang well though with less character than needed for Queen Jezabel. A child sang purely the moving part in which she announces the forming clouds that will end the terrible drought.
The Met´s “Manon Lescaut” saved by the leading couple
Prévost´s story about Manon Lescaut is an early Eighteenth Century romance that inspired Nineteenth Century opera composers. The girl is sensual, quite young and beautiful, the Chevalier Des Grieux rescues her both from the convent and an old seducer, but the attraction of splendor leads her astray and she will live in a palace with a rich protector. Eventually, Des Grieux has her back, but she will pay dearly: she is condemned to prison in the colonies , falls ill and dies in the arms of her lover.
In his charming opera Daniel Auber accentuates the lightness rather than the drama, but in the much better known "Manon" by Massenet the comedy of the initial acts becomes gradually more dramatic, though never losing its refined Gallic air. In Puccini´s 1893 "Manon Lescaut", his first success, there is less comedy and the drama becomes stark already in the final minutes of the Second Act. And the style of the music is clearly Italian and even verista.
In Massenet´s version the libretto makes Manon die in Le Havre; in Puccini there is a scene at that port in which he tries to liberate Manon but fails; however, he appeals to the captain to take him on and he goes with her to New Orleans. And the final act takes place in a wasteland, for they are fugitives. There´s no wasteland near that city in real geography, but no matter, the libretto says so; she dies there, and so will probably be the destiny of Des Grieux, though we are not told.
No less than four librettists labored on the libretto for Puccini, not a good thing for there are too many styles of writing and it shows. Nevertheless, the composer made a giant jump from his "Edgar", very uneven and with a truly bad libretto. Here the passionate melody, the feel for character and the skillful harmony, plus the colorful orchestration, make "Manon Lescaut" the first Puccini opera that has remained in the repertoire. In fact, this year we will see it at the Avenida in the season of Buenos Aires Lírica.
The Metropolitan Opera´s HD Live performances are seen at the Teatro El Nacional and presented by the Fundación Beethoven, and by now they are a yearly and very welcome feature, for we see many artists that don´t visit the Colón with good sound and image.
The protagonists dominate "Manon Lescaut", for she and even more Des Grieux have long parts with several arias and duets, and the flank roles add little. When it was announced, Jonas Kaufmann was supposed to sing the Chevalier, and as he has recorded it with Kristine Opalais (the Met´s Manon) I was looking forward to their joint interpretation. Unfortunately, Kaufmann fell ill; fortunately, Roberto Alagna learnt the role in record time and partnered the soprano. And although I deeply admire Kaufmann, truly Alagna was a splendid Des Grieux. In excellent voice, he showed a complete command of the part and acted with conviction. A veteran of a hundred Met performances, he is a stalwart tenor.
This was the first time I had a chance to appreciate the art of Latvian soprano Kristine Opalais. Born in 1979, at 37 she looks gorgeous, with as fine legs as any model, and although both artists are far from the age of their characters (Manon only 18, Des Grieux in his early Twenties) they prove to be quite believable. She has made a specialty of Puccini roles, and in fact the next date of this series couples them in "Madama Butterfly".
In Manon looks certainly help, but Opalais is also a gifted actress and sings with a fine expansive voice; she has a natural feeling for Puccini´s long lines and a communicative warmth that is crucial in these parts. The timbre isn´t particularly individual, and sometimes she is slightly under the note in her high range, but she remains quite a find and is having an important career.
Manon's brother, Lescaut, was sung correctly but with too much vibrato by Massimo Cavalletti. Geronte, the old seducer, was perfectly sung and acted by bass Brindley Sherratt. The others were in the picture.
Fabio Luisi is the Met´s Principal Conductor and he has just been named to very important posts, for he will be Zurich Opera's Musical Director and has also taken over the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. He deserves them for he combines fine technical control with a sense of color and phrasing that makes his conducting dynamic and expressive. And of course the Met's Orchestra is admirable. So is the Choir.
Alas, the Met is cutting corners with coproductions with Europe, in this case the Festival Hall Baden/Baden, and that comes with the distortion that nowadays pervades opera in that continent. Producer Richard Eyre has had the absurd idea of moving this staging to 1941 occupied France, thus ruining a lot of what happens, mixing the German soldiers with the joyful crowd of the First Act or the prisoners at Le Havre. Curiously, the Spanish translation of the libretto had distortions of its own, the stagecoach becoming a train!
The stage designs (Rob Howell) had their faults in the three initial acts, but became ridiculous in the Fourth, where the "wasteland" was replaced by the uncomfortable ruins of a city. The costumes (Fotini Dimou) at least allowed Manon to be sexy.
The complete Tchaikovsky symphonies in a week (II)
Some days ago I covered the initial three Tchaikovsky symphonies at the Colón played by the Buenos Aires Philharmonic conducted by Enrique Arturo Diemecke starting the astonishing marathon of the complete creations of the composer in this important and difficult genre. As you may remember, this special series of concerts also includes other symphonic works.
Thus, the Fourth was preceded by the Italian Capriccio; the Fifth, by the tone poem "Francesca da Rimini"; and Nº6, absurdly followed by "Romeo and Juliet", when that symphony is Tchaikovsky´s supreme masterpiece and his swan song. I was sorry to miss the Friday date (the one with the Fifth) but that was the day of the National Symphony´s first pre-season concert, and both the artists and the programme were very enticing: the NS merits full support. I will write shortly about this event.
Probably the lowest point of the Colón series came with the Italian Capriccio, a typical "light classic" without the quality of Rimsky-Korsakov´s "Spanish Capriccio". Pleasant enough, especially in the final fast dance, but also with excessive percussion and square rhythms, it was the victim of a second-rate interpretation in two basic senses: far too noisy on the one hand; on the other, in the main slow melody, a wrong distortion of phrasing gave us a huge slowdown in the first three notes of the melody each time it appears.
Things picked up sharply with the Fourth Symphony. Written in 1877, it shows great command of orchestration and a powerful handling of rhetorics in the dramatic First movement, dominated by the Destiny theme of the very beginning. The Second is elegiac and imbued with lovely melody. But the pearl is the Third, with its impish long pizzicato and then the contrast with flighty woodwinds and humoristic brass. The Fourth movement is a brilliant popular feast...but near the end it is interrupted by the Destiny fanfare; to no avail, for the joyous mood goes on with ever increasing speed until the final chord.
There were small flaws in the First movement (some unclean trumpet sounds) but the phrasing was right and the impact of this dense music reached the audience. From then on the level was consistently high, especially in the impeccable playing of the pizzicati and the dynamic rushes of the feast.
Reliable people told me that the concert with the Fifth was very good, but of course that´s as far as I can go as I was hearing Elgar and Reger at the time.
Apart from my total rejection about putting initially on programme the Sixth Symphony instead of giving it the lion´s part, I found both interpretations very convincing. Apart from a glaring horn mistake and a small misadjustment in the First movement, everything in the Symphony was as it should be, with fine control of phrasing and different tempi from the conductor and intense, accurate playing. I particularly admired the refined pianissimo execution by clarinet soloist Mariano Rey.
I have long been amazed by the sleight-of-hand of the composer, who somehow contrives to give the feeling of a waltz in the Second movement, although the typical pulse of three beats is converted to five (two plus three) in every measure. And even more in the Third movement, where what is probably the greatest symphonic March ever written is marked in four beats instead of two! But the ending dispels the triumphant and massive moods, with what may be the most moving of all symphonic laments.
I find "Romeo and Juliet", called by the composer Fantasy overture, Tchaikovsky´s most accomplished tone poem. Both the slow melodic parts and the vivid evocation of the fights, with its dislocated and imaginative rhythms, give us the gist of the Shakespearian drama. The splendid discipline of the orchestra under the firm and intelligent command of the conductor gave us a model interpretation.
With so much that was positive, I´m sorry to have to mention two matters that bothered me. One: in recent years (not before) Diemecke has been increasingly showman, and always addresses the audience with remarks upon the scores that are often kitschy, infantile and superficial. As you know, the Colón´s hand programmes always carry comments on the works, so even if what the conductor says were relevant, the job has already been done, and much better. One good thing about Diemecke is that he has always asked the public not to applaud between movements, so I was astonished when he mentioned that at the end of the third movement of the Sixth the music is so brilliant that many people applaud, but this time he did NOT ask them to refrain from doing so, and so they did...
Two: a healthy and ingrained custom is that home orchestras don´t give encores (visiting orchestras do) but this time Diemecke, prompted by an undiscerning section of the audience, ceded, and in a bad way, providing a chunk of "Romeo and Juliet". This was unmusical and wrong.
But I want to finish on a positive note: this integral series was a real treat for Tchaikovski fans and proof of the stamina and knowledge of conductor and orchestra. It was only possible because the players came from their Summer holidays two weeks before the start on March 1, but for many of them the first three symphonies were new scores, and they learned fast and well.
The complete Tchaikovsky symphonies in a week (I)
Last March Enrique Arturo Diemecke inaugurated his tenth year as Principal Conductor of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic with a tour de force: the nine symphonies by Beethoven in a special subscription series. It had an enormous success. So, in what seems to be a trend (the artist has in mind for 2017 the four Brahms symphonies), this March he is presenting the integral Tchaikovsky symphonies at the Colón: not just the popular ones (fourth to sixth) but also the neglected initial three.
Diemecke has programmed in an intelligent way, combining them with tone poems and other orchestral pieces. To judge from the first two sessions, this will be a cycle to remember.
Back in the Fifties Fabien Sevitzky was the first conductor to do here the integral Tchaikovsky symphonies; I don´t recall another series, though I may be wrong. Anyway the special interest for me or other seasoned concertgoers that keep their curiosity alive is the possibility of hearing the first three. As a kid I knew and liked the Third, Polish, in 78 rpms recorded by Kindler with Washington´s National Symphony. I met the First and the Second much later and I also enjoyed them, and of course I eventually had the complete series by Svetlanov and the USSR Symphony Orchestra and Maazel with the Vienna Philharmonic in the vinyl era.
I drew a conclusion: for every ten times one hears the last Tchaikovsky symphonies, proper programming should let us have twice the initial ones. In fact their presence is much more spaced, so I especially welcome the Diemecke initiative. Just one blot: in the Third he made cuts in movements one and five, and I am adamant on this matter: if the composer goes on too long for the conductor´s taste, it doesn´t give him the right to emasculate the original.
He had done it with with the early Dvorák symphonies: Diemecke conducted all nine for the first time here, and he premièred then the First, Second and Fourth, as well as revived the Third (premièred by Smetácek in 1973); I felt then that he did a disservice to the music lover by cutting huge chunks in all four, especially as they had never been done. We have the right to hear them as the composer wanted.
The First Symphony is rightly called "Winter Dreams" due to the wistful character of its first movement. Written in 1865 when he was only 25, he later revised it in 1874. Bear in mind that at the time the only Russian composer of some renown that had written symphonies was Anton Rubinstein, who wrote six but kept to a rather Germanic style; three of them were created between 1850 and 1855. Balakirev finished his First in 1866, Borodin in 1867, Rimsky-Korsakov in the same year as Tchaikovsky. They were exploring new territory and they did it with great talent.
Whenever I hear the First I am astonished that the Tchaikovskian imprint is already there, although it´s true that we hear the revision (but in fact all of the above revised their symphonies ). There´s the melancholy, the gift for melody, the rich harmony, the love for give-and-take between orchestral groups, the exuberance in the fast joyful music and, yes, his rhetorical exaggeration. It´s silly to denigrate it because it isn´t as important as the Sixth, what we have is an admirable first step in a difficult genre.
The Overture 1812 is well-known but rarely programmed in subscription series: its bombastic final minutes seem to relegate it to the category of Light Classic Concerts, and they are few and far between in BA. It´s a shame, every March we should have a whole series for there´s plenty of worthwhile stuff to play. In fact, the Overture, which of course concerns the victory of Russian troops over Napoleon, mixes the Marseillaise with the Russian hymn "God save the Czar" with cunning ability and plenty of counterpoint.
I haven´t seen a score but several recorded performances add canons in the final minutes, and I heard at River Plate Stadium decades ago such a version. I don´t know what instrument gave the effect of canons in the Phil´s execution but it was pretty realistic.
As is his style, Diemecke was in both Overture and Symphony his dynamic, charismatic self, with well-chosen tempi and reasonably good playing considering that it´s the first concert of the season.
The following night gave us the Second and the Third Symphonies. The Second (1872, revised 1879) is called "Little Russian" ("Ukrainian") due to the folk melodies of the last movement. It shows a growing maturity especially in the First movement, where the sad music of the Introduction is an omen of what we will hear in the Fifth and Sixth, and then we have the splendid main fast part, admirably handled.
The Third is rather curious for it has five movements. Again, its nickname "Polish" is given due to the last movement, "alla Polacca". Written in 1875, it wasn´t revised. I particularly enjoy the humor and charm of the Second movement ("alla Tedesca"), and the flighty Scherzo (Fourth movement).
With considerable changes in its personnel, this second team of the Phil showed flexibility and good training to assimilate music that for many was new. The audience responded with cheers to Diemecke´s vehement but controlled interpretations.
Unexpected chamber music surprise at Museo de Arte Decorativo
"Wonderful", was my reaction as the first movement of Brahms´ First Sextet ended. And after the final chord of Tchaikovsky´s Sextet "Souvenir de Florence" sounded out, an amazed "wonderful throughout" was my feeling. For I had heard what will remain as an occasion worthy of grateful remembrance.
It was last Saturday at 7,30 pm at the lovely Museo de Arte Decorativo. An immense queue tried to get in but many couldn´t make it; the concert was free and it had a banner name much admired here: violinist Nicolás Chumachenco. The session was organised by the Dirección Nacional de Gestión y Programación of the Culture Ministry.
Those of us who went last year to several concerts at the Museum (Saturday after Saturday) knew that the programming quality of the cycle had been high and hoped that this project would continue this year. I learned about this concert just three days before it occurred and I changed my plans to be able to attend, for Chumachenco has for decades been a guarantee of musicianship. The result was even better than my expectations.
The lean hand programme had no biographies, so I decided to Google and I reaped a fine harvest that explained what had happened, if you crisscrossed the information. I was intrigued by a fact: four players were the nucleus and three were invited, so this was an ad-hoc situation that implied a relationship between the four principals: and it was so.
The four: Chumachenco; Stanimir Todorov and Marcelo Montes, celli; and Rolando Prusak, viola. Both Nicolás and his sister Ana were born in Poland of Ukrainian parents, but came to Argentina at an early age and studied with Ljerko Spiller. Nicolás went on to study with two luminaries: Jascha Heifetz in California, Efrem Zimbalist at Philadelphia´s Curtis Institute; and he afterwards won the Queen Elizabeth Competition (Belgium). He led the Zurich Quartet for many years, and currently he is the Director of the Orquesta de Cámara Reina Sofía de Madrid and professor at Freiburg (Germany). He is now almost 72.
Todorov is Bulgarian, born at Sophia in 1967. His career connected him with Gstaad (Switzerland) where he studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy, and then at the Paris Conservatory. He went on to be first desk at various orchestras: Danish National Radio, Suisse Romande, Montecarlo Philharmonic. He has been living in Argentina during the last decade and is a great player.
Montes is young and Chilean, but he studied in Freiburg (connection with Chumachenco) and has worked with such aces as Walevska, Gabetta and Meneses. He is now first desk of the Córdoba Symphony.
Rolando Prusak also studied with Spiller and at Gstaad (with Menuhin, Lysy and Vegh); and with Ana Chumachenco at Munich and Nicolás at Freiburg! He held a post at Aragón and is now back in Argentina.
And now the invited players: Sebastián Prusak (violin) is Rolando´s son and has played both classic (at the National Symphony) and tango (now at the Orquesta Filiberto). Pablo Sangiorgio is a gifted violinist of the Camerata Bariloche. And Juan Castellanos (viola) is from Córdoba and at the present time a member of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic. The latter two are quite young.
With this information you see why this sextet jelled and seemed a seasoned stable group playing at its best. But obviously apart from the individual professionalism there was a guiding hand of deep knowledge and taste: Nicolás Chumachenco returned after eight years to give seminars and concerts at Buenos Aires and Córdoba and showed that he is a past master of chamber music. Also, he chose a blinding masterpiece, for that's what Brahms' early First Sextet is, and Tchaikovsky's lighter but beautiful and charming Sextet, quite Russian in character (the reference to Florence is simply because he wrote part of it there).
I was astonished by the homogeneity and mutual ensemble; in both works there´s constant give-and-take and all six instruments are active almost throughout; the cues were always taken at the precise moment, all phrased as one. Todorov was first cellist in Brahms but Montes took over in Tchaikovsky: the quality remained impeccable. Sangiorgio was second violin in Brahms, Sebastián Prusak in Tchaikovsky, and again the ensemble was beyond reproach.
What a way to start the chamber music year. Long life to these Saturday concerts!
LA TEMPORADA OPERÍSTICA 2017 DEL COLÓN: UNA MIRADA HACIA EL FUTURO
A principios de Diciembre envié al Buenos Aires Herald un artículo llamado "Directores de casas de ópera se unen para proyectos musicales", cuya sustancia era la reunión de directores de casas de ópera iberoamericanos con la intención de complementarse en el planeamiento operístico. Lo concluí con una advertencia: cada teatro tiene su historia y las temporadas deben programarse con sólidas razones históricas: poner en escena las óperas que son realmente necesarias; si se puede encontrar la manera de compartirlas, de acuerdo, pero sino, hacer la ópera que corresponde sin compartir.
Antes en ese artículo cité cinco óperas que fueron mencionadas por Darío Lopérfido como posibles candidatas para 2017. De acuerdo a una fuente confiable, tuve dos títulos más. El artículo presente se basa en ambas informaciones y aventura una teoría propia con algo de esperanza.
Empezaré con la esperanza: tener para 2017 el mínimo de títulos que un año de Colón debería ofrecer. Como saben, este año veremos diez óperas pero en nueve funciones (ya que una de ellas es el doble Dallapiccola). Esto es sin duda mejor que los siete títulos del año pasado, pero creo que con buena administración y presupuesto adecuado debería ser perfectamente posible llegar a los diez títulos. Las condiciones imperantes parecen hacer utópico llegar al nivel de los años Sesenta: catorce títulos de Abril a Diciembre más tres en Verano. (Agregado: el mal arreglo del teatro después de su cierre en 2006 ha limitado fuertemente la capacidad productiva y además las absurdas régies actuales son más complicadas y lentas; si ambos temas se atacasen fuertemente podríamos volver a esa época de oro, pero dudo mucho que eso ocurra).
Ahora les comunico mi teoría. Resulta un hecho indiscutible que Verdi es el campeón entre los compositores operísticos. Creo que una casa de ópera como el Colón está históricamente entre las diez más importantes del mundo incluso con sus enormes vaivenes, y que cualquier planificación requiere un conocimiento profundo de su historia pero también del repertorio: si se va a hacer un buen trabajo hay que ver más allá de 2017 e imaginar al menos hasta 2020.
Creo que una buena manera es imaginar franjas de diez años y tener en cuenta con qué frecuencia ciertas óperas deben retomarse: algunas merecerán verse dentro de los diez años, otras entre diez y quince, otros grupos en hasta 20, 30 y 60. Otro factor que sirve de guía es el estreno de óperas injustamente relegadas de cualquier época que deben ser incorporadas si queremos llamar al Colón un teatro serio...y espero que volverá a ser considerado así. Y por supuesto óperas nuevas que presenten razonables garantías de calidad, argentinas o extranjeras.
Hay sólo dos compositores que nos dieron diez óperas merecedoras de estar en la franja de los diez años: Verdi y Wagner. Verdi tiene muchas más a las que les corresponde el rango de los 15 años; en cambio en el caso de Wagner son precisamente diez. Wagner es un caso especial porque cuatro de sus óperas forman "El anillo de los Nibelungos" y la manera ideal es dar las cuatro en un mismo año. El Colón no lo ha logrado desde 1967 y creo que repetir esa proeza está muy lejano. Pero debería ser factible dos por año.
Vayamos a las óperas mencionadas por Lopérfido. Estoy plenamente de acuerdo con "Aida", que en versión escenificada falta desde 1996 (la de Barenboim/Scala fue de concierto). Y con "Der Rosenkavalier" de Richard Strauss, obra esencial ausente desde 1998. Vamos a tener un estreno wagneriano; parece una buena idea, pero "Das Liebesverbot" ("La prohibición de amar"), basada en "Measure for measure" de Shakespeare, es una obra de cierto encanto aunque sin atisbos del futuro estilo wagneriano; es lógico que el venerable Covent Garden lo incluya puesto que ellos atienden convenientemente el repertorio wagneriano habitual, pero el Colón no lo hace: sería vastamente más necesario darnos "Los Maestros Cantores de Nuremberg", que se vio por última vez, créase o no, en 1980. Y como "Porgy and Bess", la última ópera de este año, se hace con un coro importado, sería ideal programar "Los Maestros Cantores" a principios de 2017.
"Grandeza y decadencia de la ciudad de Mahagonny" de Weill es un amargo panfleto muy adecuado para períodos de reconstrucción como el que estamos viviendo, como ocurrió en su última reposición en 1992. Se mencionó la posibilidad de un estreno interesante: "Yerma" de Villalobos, sobre García Lorca. De modo que estamos en cinco óperas.
Sin embargo, se agregarían otras dos. Una es la mejor ópera de Händel, "Giulio Cesare", sólo ofrecida en 1968; quisiera una versión historicista en lo musical y lo escénico. La otra sería "Adriana Lecouvreur" de Cilea, bella ópera que se vio en el Avenida hace unos años pero en el Colón en 1994; tendríamos la presencia de una cantante valiosa, Angela Gheorghiu.
Con tres más llegamos al número mágico. Mis elecciones: para finalizar la temporada, el estreno que García Caffi quería hacer: la versión completa de "Los Troyanos" de Berlioz. Una ópera de bel canto largamente esperada: "Anna Bolena" de Donizetti (sólo se vio en 1970). Y el estreno de la ópera de Britten más esperada, "Billy Budd". Sólo lamento no tener espacio para una ópera eslava: a ver si en 2018 tenemos un Janácek o un Rimsky-Korsakov.
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“Matinée Fantômas”, Argentine variation on a Weill-Desnos partnership
From the hand programme of « Matinée Fantômas": "he was known as the genius of evil, the Emperor of crime, the master of horror. He was the protagonist of dozens of feuilletons by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Bloodthirsty mock-dandy and matchless robber, Fantômas was the antihero of five pictures by Louis Feuillade". Well, that strikes a chord in my memories, for I saw decades ago one of these silent films and it was huge fun.
In a way, the outrageous exaggerations of Fantômas´ adventures make him a successor of another feuilleton character, Rocambole; a couple of years ago I belatedly read the Ponson du Terrail account of his exploits, and I could understand why the French say "Rocambolesque" referring to improbable adventures; but again, as I had seen the Fantômas picture with pleasure, I avidly read the wildly diverting course of a larger-than-life character.
November 3, 1933, Radio-Paris and other broadcasting stations emitted "La Grande Complainte de Fantômas" ("The Great Lamentation of Fantômas"), dramatic suite in 12 tableaux by Robert Desnos on a melody by Kurt Weill, directed by Antonin Artaud (yes, the famous practitioner of the "théâtre de la cruauté"- the theatre of cruelty) and musical direction of no less than Alejo Carpentier, the great Cuban writer who was also a musician. That same day Allain published in Le Petit Journal the first of a new series of feuilletons, "Si c'était Fantômas", "great novel of unpublished adventures", so the broadcasting officiated as publicity for the new printed series.
The broadcasting was called "Soirée Fantômas" (not "matinée", an appellation that is very nostalgic for veterans like me, for the term has little sense or use nowadays). The Studios Foniric were the venue for this emission, and Desnos and Carpentier went on to work together at the radio until the war.
One thing in this account (which I found in Google) intrigues me: it mentions ONE melody by Weill. And that brings me to "Matinée Fantômas" (although the two shows were at 8 pm). It is billed as an "open-air radiophonic operetta", idea, dramaturgy and translation by Ricardo Ibarlucía, direction by Walter Jakob and Agustín Mendilaharzu, conducting and composition by Gabriel Chwojnik.
In fact, it was a commission of the CETC (the Colón Center for Experimentation, a cellar, not open-air) for the 2014 season (I didn´t see it then) and was incongruously (nothing is filmed) part of the BAFICI that same year. So, as happened with "L´histoire du soldat" and with "Mahagonny Songspiel", this was a revival of an earlier production. It´s easy to concoct a Summer season this way...
But does it work? Well, it´s emphatically NOT radiophonic: what we see is a vertiginous succession of Fantômas´ exploits wirh two actors that bear the brunt of the show: the Inspector of Police and Fantômas . They are assisted by two other actors in multiple parts, one a young man and the other a girl, though she sometimes takes on men´s parts. And four other actors are seated like statues in front of microphones on the right side of the stage and do nothing for most of the 52 minutes the whole thing lasts. Plus a singer-emcee, who serves as fast interval between brief sketches of the actors. And at the end all eight sing together the final march-like tune (Weill´s?).
The whole thing was rather diverting but I grew tired of the very numerous interruptions by the emcee, always singing the same basic tune with some changes. One bad thing is that the hand programme only identified the singer, Gabriel Carasso, but the actors´ parts weren´t specified; and as they are in alphabetical order I don´t know who did the main parts, which is unfair to the artists and the audience. Well, the Inspector and Fantômas took their gestures from silent movies, and the directors are right in that decision. The singer was portrayed as a mannered fop; he sang correctly.
As to the musical side, I surmise that the interludes, rather shrill, are by Chwojnik imitating Weill. There were only four players and again the artists weren´t related to their "parts" (instruments) in the hand-programme. I recognised the player of clarinet and bass clarinet, Griselda Giannini, but I can only mention the other three: Matías Cadoni, Gonzalo Terranova and Martín Mengel. The other instruments were a trumpet, a bass and various percussions, plus a distorted Glockenspiel played by the director. Frankly I didn´t find Weill´s tune one of his best (and failed to find a recording in my R.E.R. catalogue of CDs). The sound had its problems, sometimes the music covered the actors.
The basic stage props (by Ariel Vaccaro), especially the central one, were moved repetitiously and tiringly. The lighting by Eduardo Pérez Winter was adequate and the costumes by María Emilia Tambutti were imaginative.
It´s not an operetta nor is it radiophonic, but I have a reminiscent side and I appreciate the attempt to bring back the feuilleton era.
“The Great Waltz”, a tribute to the world´s most refined society dance
Think of marriage parties nowadays. They usually start with a Johann Strauss II waltz, danced initially by the father and the bride (I did this ceremony twice with my daughters), followed by Sinatra (habitually "New York, New York") and then the senior citizens leave the "stage" to the younger crowd and their music. So in 2016 the waltz is still a symbol of elegance and beauty in social occasions.
With good reason: the waltz is such a beautiful dance that the most "waltzy" city, Vienna, made both Johann Strauss I and Joseph Lanner the heroes of both the common people and the nobility before passing the scepter to Johann II, phenomenally popular and admired by all the great composers of the time. But apart from the balls, the waltz also had a place in opera (Richard Strauss), of course operetta, in symphony and ballet (Tchaikovsky) or even as a sui generis tone poem (Liszt).
And it still draws vast amounts of people, as demonstrated by the five thousand that attended "The Great Waltz", the fine selection imagined by veteran maestro Mario Perusso for his concert with the Colón´s Resident Orchestra ("Estable") at the Plaza Vaticano. It was the only "traditional" instance of the current Colón Summer Festival, heavily biased towards the 20th-21st Centuries.
I am not an enthusiast of the Plaza Vaticano, I prefer my music in theatres and concert halls; the open air means city noise and amplification and I can do without both. So I would have enjoyed this concert much more at the Colón. Also that night was windy, and the poor musicians spent part of their time keeping their scores in place with brooches.
The particular feeling for give-and-take of the waltz is quite tricky, and the sort of rigid beat of chains of waltzes -bits from several glued together- in marriage parties goes against the grain. Naturally such a distortion didn´t happen in this concert, but to be frank the particular "rubato" flexibility of the best practitioners wasn´t there: we had good, honest music-making, not the unmistakeable lilt of such references as Boskovsky, Krauss or Jansons.
The start came from a great composer, Carl Maria von Weber, famous for his Romantic opera (the first so-called) "Der Freischütz", but also for a lovely piano piece, "Invitation to the dance": slow introduction, waltz and slow coda; it became famous in its inspired orchestration by Hector Berlioz, and many decades later it was the basis of Fokin´s gorgeous ballet "The spectre of the rose", danced by the likes of Nijinsky and Nureyev. The reading was rather tame, but from then on things picked up.
I would have preferred a more imaginative choice than Johann Strauss II´s "Blue Danube" (or if you prefer the whole appellation, "On the strands of the beautiful blue Danube"); well, these days the river is hardly blue, but no matter: the waltz is still the most famous. But not necessarily the best; my own favorite is the "Emperor Waltz". By the way, it may interest you to know that originally the "Blue Danube" wasn´t written for orchestra but for male choir! The performance was nice enough.
Another piece that was originally for piano is Franz Liszt´s "Mephisto Waltz Nº 1 " and as such it is a stunning tour de force for virtuosi; I like it it very much in that form, but also in what feels in fact as a tone poem, the orchestration that converts it in the second episode for Lenau´s "Faust": "The dance in the village´s tavern". As suits the character evoked, the waltz is interspersed with rather sinister slow fragments. Perusso gave it some character and I enjoyed the version, although the amplification wasn´t good enough to appreciate the subtler details.
My way of feeling and thinking is completely un-fan-like: I believe fanaticism blurs the mind and the senses. But whenever that malady tempts me, Richard Strauss´ "Der Rosenkavalier" is never far: for me it is the greatest of German-Austrian dramatic comedies, and the composer had an intuition that proved pure genius: the action happens during the years of Marie Therese´s Eighteenth Century reign when the waltz was non-existent, for that was the age of the minuet, but the waltz permeates large patches of the whole opera and is one of the things that make it unforgettable.
After the enormous success of his opera, Strauss made a Suite which included waltzes but also such sublime pieces as the great Trio; eventually he made three sequences : one with waltzes of Acts 2 and 3; the second with those of only Act 2 (in which he corrected what he felt were ugly transitions); and one with Act 3. As I have no score I can´t be sure, but probably Perusso did the third of these sequences for he started with a waltz of the very beginning of Act 3 (after the Prelude). He did a pretty good job.
A charming Waltz from Shostakovich´s curiously named Jazz Suite Nº 2 (I see nothing jazzy except the presence of a saxophone solo) preceded that marvelous blend of Impressionism and Expressionism, Ravel´s "La Valse"; Perusso managed a decent version; however, comparisons with fantastic previous interpretations kept intruding in my mind (e.g., Abbado with the Berlin Philharmonic). The encore wasn´t a waltz but a famous polka by Johann II: "Tritsch-Tratsch".
Weill-Brecht and Stravinsky, witnesses of a troubled era
1927, Baden-Baden: première of "Mahagonny-Gesänge", "Songspiel"; in three parts, 23 minutes. Music by Kurt Weill, texts by Bertolt Brecht. Born in the declining years of the ill-fated Weimar Republic, after the disastrous hyperinflation of 1923, this small masterpìece shows in a nutshell the tremendous nihilism of a shaken society seen with a Communist bias. In 1925 Berg´s "Wozzeck" gave us the most finished portrait of anguish and misery in operatic history. By 1929 the rise of the Nazis was uncontrollable, though four years ealpsed before Hitler was named Chancellor.
Weill and Brecht expanded the short piece into a full-length Singspiel (spoken and sung) in that same year 1927 : "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" ("Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny") and converted it into a bona fide opera in 1930. I bought in 1956 the first integral recording (conductor Brückner-Rüggeberg) and was stunned: a revelation. So I was happy when it was premièred at the Colón in 1987 and revived in 2002. And now it is announced for 2017. It figures: Argentina is prone to recurrent major problems and this is the ideal crisis opera.
1917, Stravinsky´s "L´histoire du soldat" ("The soldier´s tale" ) is premièred in
Switzerland, where the composer is living poorly due to WWI and the confiscation of her family´s patrimony by the Bolsheviks. This was four years after his "Rite of Spring" changed the History of Music. The text by the Swiss writer Charles Ferdinand Ramuz is based on a Russian folk tale about a soldier on leave tempted by the Devil; the Soldier gives him a violin and receives in exchange a book that reads by itself and shows the future. In the end, the Devil wins...
This piece for a Narrator, actors playing the Soldier and the Devil and a dancer (the Princess) has wonderfully inventive music for seven instruments (the composer extracted later a Suite from it). The folk tale is ingenuous rather than ingenious but it has charm if properly done. It was often staged in BA and I saw my first in the early Fifties. During the last two years four different productions were seen; I wrote about one of them, with Les Luthiers and Barenboim.
This year the Colón has launched a Summer Season and of course, in principle it should be a good thing. But obviously venues matter, and so do choices of repertoire. Well, the venue chosen for most of it is open air with amplification: the Plaza Vaticano next to the Colón. "Mahagonny" cries out for a small theatre or a big tavern and amplification is quite wrong for it. On the other hand, "Histoire" was designed to be ambulatory, so it can be accepted in the open air.
As to the choice, the moot point is that both productions are presented by the Colón but have been seen elsewhere in recent years without that theatre´s auspices, so it was a matter of simply taking advantage of ready-made productions.
Weill-Brecht and this particular piece have been close to Marcelo Lombardero´s preferences since the start of his career as a producer and he has presented it in several occasions: the seedy, scurvy ambience, the social criticism, its angry attacks on capitalism, its mix of realism and surrealism, suit his instincts; and the cast, practically identical I believe to the one seen at the Usina del Arte a couple of years ago, is wonderful both acting and singing. The two whores are done with plenty of insight by soprano María Victoria Gaeta and mezzosoprano Cecilia Pastawski: in their voices the "Alabama Song" and "Benares Song", bittersweet jewels, have near-ideal versions. And the four men who have gone to Mahagonny for easy money, booze and women, are sung and acted with great dramatic presence by tenors Pablo Pollitzer (in very good voice) and Santiago Burgi, whilst baritone Mariano Fernández Bustinza and bass Juan Pablo Labourdette sang with powerful delivery and splendid material.
The very good small orchestra was perfectly handled by Pedro Pablo Prudencio, giving Weill´s music the cutting edge it needs. Lombardero´s team saw eye to eye with him: Noelia González Svoboda (stage design), Luciana Gutman (costumes) and Horacio Efron (lighting).
As "Mahagonny" is short we were offered a fine selection of fragments from other Weill-Brecht collaborations: "Die Dreigroschenoper" and "Happy End" (from it, the haunting "Surabaya Johnny") with the same admirable singers and players.
The translation and adaptation by Beatriz Sarlo of "L´Histoire du Soldat" seems to me misguided: it doesn´t respect the original: here the Narrator does not only his part but also the Devil and the Soldier; and there isn´t one dancer but three, for both the Soldier and the Devil dance. Listen in their marvelous 1962 recording what Jean Cocteau as the Narrator and Peter Ustinov do as the Devil to feel the enormous difference with the exaggerated and shouty interpretation of Pompeyo Audivert.
The instrumental side was decently done, with violinist Daniel Robuschi especially good but trumpet player Osvaldo Lacunza below his best level, perhaps because he didn´t play the part in a cornet, as in the original. Correct conducting by Santiago Santero. Paradoxically the added choreography and dancing was a plus factor: fine dancers (Ramiro Cortez, Juan González, Paula Almirón) in dramatically well-imagined steps by Edgardo Mercado. I fail to understand what was the contribution of Martín Bauer as Stage Director.
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Lic. Pablo Bardin
Licenciado en Musicología y Crítica de la Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales de la Universidad Católica Argentina.
Fundador y director de la revista Tribuna Musical, 1965-82.
Asistente del Director Artístico, Teatro Colón, Enero-Julio 1973; asistente del Director Musical y del Director Programador, Teatro Colón, Febrero-Agosto 1998.
Asistente de programación de la Orquesta Filarmónica de Bs.As. (Teatro Colón) bajo la dirección del maestro G. Gandini, 2000-2001.
Director General, Teatro Argentino de La Plata, 1992.
Crítico musical del Buenos Aires Herald desde 1991 hasta 2017.
Conferencista, redactor de notas musicográficas, traductor.
Ex profesor titular de la cátedra de Crítica musical en la Fac. de Artes y Ciencias Musicales de la U.C.A.
Profesor en cursos varios: Universidad Católica, Universidad Tres de Febrero, Universidad de Lomas de Zamora, Museo Larreta. Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Centro de Ingenieros. Club del Progreso.
Autor del único libro que existe acerca de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional. Editorial Manrique Zago.
Ciclos radiales y televisivos varios, incluso el programa lírico del Teatro Colón (1971), los del Mozarteum Argentino y de Amigos de la Música, “Tribuna Musical” en Radio Clásica, Radio Cultura Musical (F.M.100.3) y “Nuevas experiencias” en Canal 7. Fue colaborador en revistas Radio Clásica, ARS, IDEA y Monsalvat. Colaborador en la revista “Cantabile”.
Intervino en el Coloquio Internacional del Liberty Fund sobre “Don Giovanni” de Mozart. Fue jurado en concursos de piano, canto, composición y musicología.
Críticas según Medio de Comunicación:
Buenos Aires Herald (692)
Cantabile (5)
OPERNWELT (1)
Sobre el Teatro Colón (22)
Tribuna Musical (95)
Historia de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional
Texto que se publicó pero no se distribuyó por desaveniencias entre la Secretaría de Cultura y el Editor. No existe otro libro sobre la Sinfónica. Integrantes de la Orquesta han decidido integrarlo en su blog. Acceda cliqueando en: http://www.historiasinfonica.blogspot.com/
La influencia de la música europea sobre los argentinos
También escribí para un libro que editó el Mozarteum de Jujuy un largo artículo denominado “La influencia de la música europea sobre los argentinos” que tiene gran cantidad de información desde el principio de la colonia hasta nuestros días.Consúltelo en:http://bardinmozarteumjujuy.blogspot.com/
Teatro Colón: Diagnóstico y Prospectiva
Artículo: "Teatro Colón: Diagnóstico y Prospectiva": http://teatrocolon2007.blogspot.com/
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The most intractable problems of this jittery moment come from the human sweet-tooth for conflict and excitement. The sweet-tooth is natural, it is good or bad by context. If you are an ancient human and opt to look at the exciting thing, you are better at staying alive. If you are an ancient human and your clan starts getting pumped up over increasing tension with another clan, you are your clan are more cohesive and motivated. In this context the “sweet tooth” is a healthy (pro-survival) relationship to your environment. It’s a bit like our love of actual sugar, fat and salt: That love becomes destructive when these go from rare, random windfalls to a superabundance. When we can have as much of something as we like, we keep mashing the button till we find out how that ruins us. Morbid obesity is what THAT button does. What does this other one do?
Our hunger for excitement and conflict became more complicated when our “news” input went from direct observation and word of mouth to massive information pumps like newspapers that could flood a large city in a day with a single message and point of view. Thousands of opinions could be massaged and tweaked at once. “Yellow journalism” was the click-bait of that time. The radio hit people like a massively purified version of the newspaper drug. Music and voices could hit sweet spots in our monkey guts that letters on paper could only dream about and rather than the isolated one-at-a-time experience of newspapers, radio could flow like a connecting current though everyone in earshot. And everyone was within earshot. Then the television became a cultural charging station in the center of every home. At night we were quietly filled with a homogeneous informational snapshot of the day. Of course we felt more united, any axes we were grinding were not wirelessly communicating with all the other axes. You couldn’t make that world combust because there was no connecting medium of petrol fumes.
The issue now is that we are a different organism as flashing, participating virtual neurons on a network then we were as slow-moving, disconnected creatures who got the news from kids on bikes, or in the mail, god help us, or arriving on the TV like a friendly little train at the same time every day.
The organism we are now is constantly lit up, alert and watching for movement like meerkats on crack. The news equivalent of plasma waves erupting from the sun flare and sweep endlessly across the internet. Our new atmosphere is a highly combustible, volatile medium. The ignition behind these flare-ups is mostly outrage, as one group or another does a “football stadium wave” of alarm in response to some stimulus. Tsunamis of cortisol are washing over us 24/7, leaving us feeling hypervigilant and weary.
Why? Because we are idiots who like that sort of thing. We can’t help being idiots who like that sort of thing…BECAUSE WE LIKE THAT SORT OF THING. Part of the rush is certainly negative but part of it is the fun of holding hands with like-minded neurons and cascading as a gigantic wave across the world. It’s thrilling because we are playing with a new level of complexity and connection.
We are a new species variant of humans and we are figuring out what this human is, what it does and what it can do.
And because we are the only animal enemy we have left, we are looking for its weaknesses; feeling around for its windpipe, thumbs and eyes.
The danger from this all-out competition for eyeballs and clicks is low except where real territorial stuff is on the line. There, virality means masses of people losing control of themselves and losing all sense of proportion. You know, like angry mobs.
The internet is a place where people push buttons to feel things. The ubiquity of porn just shows that we think about sex a lot, that we are lonely and bored and want to feel something better. Feeling horny and titillated is a place you can get to by clicking. It’s a warmer, sexier place than that lonely room you were kind of bumming out in a minute ago. Funny meme sharing is like pushing a button to receive a tiny “feel good” pellet that lasts almost a second. Perhaps another would hit the spot. Real hormones and neurochemicals are the rewards here and they are absolutely in social media as well.
Righteous Smiting
YouTube political videos are often labeled with words like: Destroys, demolishes, murders, and obliterates, etc. Because we are looking for a strong enough dosage to feel something. Usually, that description is madly inaccurate and disappointing but it did as intended, it handed that YouTube channel 1/800s of a penny. People sitting around talking about politics may be informative but it is not a guilty pleasure; it doesn’t say: C’mere, you!” But people puffing and raging and triumphing spiritually over our common enemy gets the glands going. It’s like political viagra but mixed with jimson weed. You can’t take that drug without a trace of delirium and last November we all woke up in a drainage ditch wearing only a box marked Amazon Prime.
When groups (like gangs or tribes for example but any such group) are building to an explosion of violence they have to build pressure. Think of angry mobs and you’ll see a style of moving and talking that escalates till it pops. Everywhere has social norms of “no mad-dog attacks”. There are repercussions to public violence, like jail, shame, getting hurt or even killed: A mob heats itself with hate till the members are transformed past caution. It’s a shamanic transformation from citizen to wolf. During this phase, if someone says “You know, those guys really aren’t so bad” everyone tells him to shut up because he’s lowering the temperature and the pressure. Mob talk raises the ante about how bad and inhuman those guys are. When you play that role, you simultaneously feel more committed to the group and the group feels an increasing sense of self, ready to act. It’s all about loyalty, virtue and outrage with a rock-solid wall of belonging around it.
Which is what social media felt like during the election, eh? We all spent months pushing the Loyalty, Virtue and Outrage buttons, feeling sweet purity of purpose all the while. We were “helping”.
This side of the Russian hacking of our election required no old-school computer hacking. What they hacked was human weakness.
They hacked the recent human variant we are, swimming about in our highly combustible environment, looking for exciting sparks we can share with those we love about those we hate. Oh, and using our conflict sweet tooth as a dowsing rod for truth.
The Russians didn’t HACK Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube, the Russians played them like a piano. These Russians were simply well funded social media experts with a murderous oligarch ladling money over them. “Trolling” is a type of shitty internet behavior where the troll joins a chat or thread and posts things intended to make everyone argue till the group dissolves in fury. The Russians weaponized trolling. What was our election but a flame war and lingering horror? Is there any way we can give up the pleasure of virtuous sharing? I really don’t know. it’s delicious and right now given a choice to drop social media or representative government my money is on liking and sharing. Turns out dropping representative government may be an outcome of liking and sharing.
In this new world we become morbidly obese and die from the sweet tooth for conflict and excitement because, in our shared global nervous system, conciliation and harmony don’t buy clicks. Cooperation isn’t going to drive the numbers, the precious viral numbers that keep the machine running. In a sense, we have all become the programming director for the news and as the ancient journalistic truism goes, “If it bleeds, it leads”.
The internet is a marketplace where you can metaphorically purchase chard or custard donuts. There is nowhere you can go on the internet without seeing about a million custard donuts. Some are decorated with tits! Some insult the government. Some of them may even contain a little chard for those trying harder to resist.
The core algorithms of Facebook, Twitter, Google and YouTube are functioning exactly as intended, by being a carnival midway for the Darwinian selection of memes that will make us taste them. Having tasted them we spread them, either by direct sharing or simply by being noted as another set of eyeballs that couldn’t help looking. Our every nibble of an internet Bon-Bon is a unit of energy that massed with millions of others equals virality. Virality is amoral and apparently, pretty easy to manipulate.
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and YouTube are now in the position of any business that realizes their product occasionally fucks things up and hurts people. The corporate response will not be “OMG, I’m so sorry, let me fix that.” even though some individuals probably feel that way (There are probably a few hushed conversations internally about whether or not they broke western civilization). These companies are in the strange brief social limbo of a person who’s done something embarrassing and awful in public and are still trying to figure out who noticed and if they can fade into the crowd. They are still deciding what look they should have on their faces.
These businesses more or less ARE the very algorithms the Russians used against us. These corporations cannot be exactly what they are, do what they do, and maintain what they are invested in if forced to significantly alter the way these products work. Expect mumbles and shrugs. Expect reluctance and resistance. Expect denial of news stories.
Expect these companies to explore the global-communications-threat-equivalent of climate change denial.
Meanwhile, we are all dog-paddling in a steep-sided swimming pool full of gasoline and armed with nothing but cigarette lighters.
Posted in Culture, Politics, Society, The Community Organism
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