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DVD Review: Another Year
Prior to watching Another Year I was not in awe of Mike Leigh’s track record, but rather shamefully ignorant. I was keen to watch the film though because of some glowing reviews last year, promising trailers and that wonderful artwork and logo. I remember seeing said tree sprawling massively across an Odeon in London’s West End way back in the halcyon days of 2010, and thinking that was the type of thoughtful British picture I wanted to see.
The central idea behind the story, which Leigh scripted as well as directed, is tender, realistic and probably true to life. Happily married couple, Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are lucky and they know it. The people in their lives, who seem far less blessed, gravitate towards them for kindness and warmth. Their son Joe (Oliver Maltman) is taking his time to find love as his friends get hitched left, right and centre, Gerri’s co-worker Mary’s (Lesley Manville) bubbly energy conceals her loneliness and Tom’s childhood friend Ken (Peter Wight) is trapped in Hull watching his precious roots wither away. The narrative plays out with a chunk from each of the year’s four seasons.
The opening scene was just what I had been hoping for and what Leigh’s reputation guaranteed. Imelda Staunton plays an insomniac pressing her GP for sleeping pills but understandably her doctor seeks out the true, underlying causes. Staunton’s character is clearly completely miserable; crestfallen at her lot in life and the realisation that this is all she’s likely to get. The scene lasts a full five minutes, uninterrupted; Leigh really lets it breathe and grow. For most of the scene we don’t see the GP’s face, helping us truly inhabit Staunton’s excellent performance. We’ve all felt like that at the doctors, like you’re just another appointment to be checked off by a faceless health drone.
The GP refers our dejected and menopausal patient to a counsellor. It turns out that Gerri is a counsellor. And this is where the problems begin with Another Year. Gerri continues to be a counsellor for the duration of the story, always behaving as though maintaining professional standards, even alone in bed with soul mate Tom. Ruth Sheen’s tone of voice never varies more than a fraction, making her seem either mildly interested or not that bothered. Whilst Broadbent’s range of reactions to the various problems of friends are different and human, Gerri deals with each situation on dull auto-pilot. Sheen’s performance genuinely seemed mechanical and totally robotic, which was a real shock after all the talk of quality acting.
The passing of the seasons is beautifully shot and there are moments of heart warming dialogue that is convincingly ordinary and recognisable from everyday life. Do I really want to watch a film with conversations startlingly similar to the small talk I run away from in reality though? It all gets rather dreary, with next to no drama in the first two seasons and not a pinch of escapism. Leigh’s script also has some awful expositional dialogue, particularly for Lesley Manville’s character Mary, Tom and Gerri’s desperately clingy friend. I cringed at the clumsy manner her myriad but dull problems were introduced and grimaced later at Manville’s caricatured portrayal of an overzealous eccentric going off the rails. Her drunkenness at BBQs is amateurish.
Or is it? I honestly don’t know if I fell into the trap of mistaking the annoying traits of a character for bad acting and storytelling. This is because the last two seasons, autumn and winter, went a long way to redeeming the failures of the first couple. As Mary reaches rock bottom her character becomes far more bearable and Manville’s performance finally makes you empathise and feel pity, sympathy, and even sadness. David Bradley puts in a fabulous performance as Tom’s grieving brother who is a man of few words. Some of his scenes with Broadbent, and an extended one with Manville, are superb.
I don’t want to mimic the idiotic readers of the X-Factor age who throw away a book they’re reading in disgust because the characters are not “likeable”. Novels and films are not about providing you with brief friendship. But Another Year is hard to get into. As I’ve said I was really surprised by how irritating I found the performances of Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville. In Manville’s case I think I judged her too quickly and her character was simply a vibrant pain in the neck, well realised. However I maintain that Sheen was simply two dimensional, which is disappointing given the importance of actors to such an ensemble piece. By the time Another Year ended I was starting to enjoy it but there’s no doubt that this is a film with the potential to frustrate as well as reward.
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Chiefs Sign OL Tavon Rooks, Waive WR Da’Rick Rogers & OT Kelvin Palmer
The Kansas City Chiefs announced the signing of OL Tavon Rooks and the release of WR Da’Rick Rogers and OT Kelvin Palmer on Tuesday.
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Rogers, 23, wound up going undrafted out of Tennessee Tech last year. The Colts took a chance on him, despite some of the issues that led to him transferring out of Tennessee.
However, his stay in Indianapolis lasted a little over a year as he was placed on waivers this past September following a DUI arrest. The Chiefs signed him to a contract back in January.
Last year, Rogers appeared in five games during his rookie season and caught 14 passes for 192 yards receiving and two touchdowns during his rookie season.
The Kansas City Chiefs have signed OL Tavon Rooks to a contract on Monday, according to his agent Richard Kopelman, via Ian Rapoport.
Rooks, 25, is a former sixth-round pick of the Saints last year. Unfortunately, he was unable to make the team’s 53-man roster coming out of the preseason, but was later added to the team’s practice squad at the start of the 2014 season.
The Cardinals later signed him to a future/reserve contract in January, but later placed him on waivers a few weeks ago.
Rooks has yet to appear in an NFL game.
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Report: Talbot done with Finnish team, returning to North America
By Mike HalfordJan 2, 2013, 2:40 PM EST
Another day, another locked-out NHLer heading home.
The latest is Philadelphia’s Max Talbot, who has reportedly declined to return to SM-liiga team Ilves following his stint with Gotteron at the Spengler Cup.
Matias Strozyk of Elite Prospects reports Talbot will return to North America and wait for the (possible) start of the NHL campaign, though the Flyers forward is interested in returning to Finland if the season is canceled.
This is just the latest move in Talbot’s busy work stoppage.
He, along with Flyers teammate Bruno Gervais, wrapped up La Tournee Des Joueurs in November, a barnstroming circuit of locked-out NHLers that played a series of games throughout the province of Quebec.
Shortly thereafter he inked with Ilves — scoring six points in 12 games while racking up 34 penalty minutes — before jumping to Gotteron in time for the Spengler.
The move gave Talbot the opportunity to once again play with Gervais, and a handful of other locked-out NHLers: Cory Schneider, David Desharnais and Patric Hornqvist.
Talbot finished the Spengler with 1G-2A-3PTS in four games as Gotteron advanced to the semifinals before losing to Canada, 5-1.
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News Celebrating 100 years of national forest inventories
Celebrating 100 years of national forest inventories
- Forest research and surveillance is a prerequisite for a sustainable management of our forest resources. In this regard, long-term time series are both extremely important and extremely valuable, NIBIO Director General Nils Vagstad points out. Photo: Lars Sandved Dalen, NIBIO.
Published: 30.05.2019 By: Lars Sandved Dalen
The Norwegian National Forest Inventory (NFI), established in 1919, has provided valuable information about Norway’s forest resources for more than 100 years.
In May, more than 200 researchers from 30 countries gathered at Sundvolden Hotel outside Oslo in order to celebrate a century of National Forest Inventory (NFI) in Norway.
- Long-term forest research and monitoring is fundamental for a sustainable forest resource management. Long time series, such as those provided by the Norwegian National Forest Inventory, are extremely important and valuable, NIBIO Director General Nils Vagstad emphasized while opening the conference.
According to Vagstad, establishing a national forest inventory in the early 1900s was crucial for saving Norway’s vanishing forests.
- In 1919, the forest situation in Norway was critical. Forestry was not at all sustainable. Much of the forest had been degraded, and measures were needed to restore the Norwegian forests, Vagstad said.
- That is why it is so important to support these long-term monitoring programs and take good care of them. It’s impressive today to think about the foresight they had 100 years ago.
The Norwegian NFI jubilee conference gathered both researchers and practitioners, and served as an arena for exchanging knowledge, ideas and experiences aiming at improving large-scale forest- and landscape inventory programs.
The Norwegian NFI’s 100-year anniversary gathered over 200 scientists from 30 countries. Photo Lars Sandved Dalen, NIBIO.
Saving Norway’s vanishing forests
Early in the 20th century, there was a general concern for the state of the Norwegian forests. It was assumed that harvesting was not sustainable and that the Norwegian forests were «… on the brink of disaster» («…med stormskridt mot undergangen»), as Agnar Barth, later on Professor in Forest Management at the Agricultural College of Norway, wrote in an article in 1916.
Following up Professor Barth’s worries, the Norwegian Parliament in 1917 supplied funding for the establishment of what later became the world’s first national forest inventory.
- The allocation of funds made it possible to start planning and hire people, and the first county was surveyed in 1919, Aksel Granhus, today’s head of the Norwegian NFI explains.
During the 1920s, only few years after the establishment of the Norwegian NFI, Finland, Sweden and USA followed suit, with similar inventory programs. Finland carried out its first national forest inventory in 1921-1924, and Sweden followed with the launch of Riksskogstaxeringen in 1923.
New tasks for an old institution
In the beginning, the national forest inventories were set up to answer the fundamental question: is there enough timber for future harvests? Nobody had reliable large-scale estimates on the increment of forests and the sustainability of harvests. Overall, there was widespread fear for overexploitation. There was great need for facts about the condition of Norway’s forests.
During the last decades other topics than merely cubic meter timber volume have become a part of the sampling for the national forest inventories. Measurements of forest health, biological diversity, and the forests ability to absorb and store carbon are all examples of new and important metrics for the national forest inventories. Societies’ changing demands have made NFIs all over the world change in respect to which data that are collected and what methods that are being employed.
- Climate change, and the initiatives that have been taken during the last decade to reduce deforestation, such as REDD+, have also led to many developing countries establishing national forest inventory programs, Granhus says.
Traditionally, forest inventories are based on field sampling. However, this is changing with the inclusion of auxiliary airborne or space-borne data sources.
- The greatest technological changes have been within the interplay between field measurements carried out by humans and remote sensing, i.e. measurements from satellites, airplanes and drones, Granhus explains.
- And this is also our main goal with the 100th anniversary conference – to hear how the different countries collect their data and employ new technology and new methods – methods that can give us better and even more relevant information and knowledge about our forests in the years to come, Granhus says.
Forest inventory is all about how data are collected. Professor Christoph Kleinn at the Georg August University in Göttingen was also concerned about how the data are disseminated. How data are communicated to users and target groups determines how the data are used. Photo: Lars Sandved Dalen, NIBIO.
Important to find good ways to disseminate NFI data
Christoph Kleinn, Professor in forest inventory and remote sensing at the Georg August University in Göttingen in Germany, brought up the issue of how to communicate factual information from the NFIs. Christoph Kleinn addressed the traditional manner of thought that pervades NFIs all over the world – a naive belief in that science, facts and fact-based knowledge will be able to affect policy in a one-to-one relationship.
- The very few studies that have been undertaken in this field show that it is of great importance to find good ways to disseminate knowledge about forests to politicians, NGOs and other actors, Kleinn argued.
Still, even if remote sensing and other auxiliary data sources are becoming an important part of NFIs, traditional fieldwork still makes up the cornerstone of the data acquisition – and there are different ways of collecting field data and setting up the field plots between different countries. The jubilee-conference therefore also included one day of field excursions where the participants were able to experience the systems employed by the five Nordic countries – Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland.
- This way all the conference participants get the opportunity to experience the different NFI field procedures in operation. There are differences in the way we register forests, and it can be quite valuable to experience this in practice, Granhus explains.
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National Forest Inventory
Facebook streaming of all keynote talks from the Norwegian NFI jubilee conference at Sundvolden Hotel 19.-23. May 2019 BBC Earth – Discover how Norway saved its vanishing forests – A century ago, Norway was on the brink of losing its forests forever. Toda.y they are growing every year
During the last couple of decades other metrics than volume have become part of the national forest inventory "menu", such as forest health, biodiversity, deforestation and carbon storage. Photo: Lars Sandved Dalen, NIBIO.
The report «Taksering av Norges skoger – I. Østfold fylke» (Survey of Norway’s Forests – I. Østfold) is most likely the world’s first national forest inventory report. Photo Lars Sandved Dalen, NIBIO.
National forest inventories and remote sensing – better information, better decisions
With better information, better decisions can be made. Advances in inventory technology provide forest data at ever smaller scales – from region-wide assessments of forest resources, down to detailed imaging of individual trees.
Scientific conference to celebrate Norway’s 100 years of forest inventories
Norway was the first country in the world to establish a nationwide forest inventory. The Norwegian National Forest Inventory, first established in 1919, has for almost 100 years produced knowledge about the forest resources. In May next year, the sylvan centenarian will be celebrated with a large scientific conference. And, you are invited.
Remote Sensing and Forest Inventories Contribute to Saving Tropical Forests
REDD+ aims to save and protect tropical forests, thus playing a major role in combating climate change and protecting biological diversity. However, many tropical countries lack the necessary forest monitoring method required for REDD+ funding, such as remote sensing with radar satellites and nation-wide forest inventories.
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Dr Laura Bonnett recognised at Women in Data awards
University of Liverpool medical statistician Dr Laura Bonnett has been named as one of this year’s ‘Twenty in Data and Technology’ by Women in Data UK.
The awards spotlight twenty inspirational female role models who are helping to transform our world using data and technology. As a Tenure-Track Fellow in the Department of Biostatistics, Laura is the only university academic representative in the Twenty.
Laura’s research focuses on prediction modelling within chronic conditions such as epilepsy. Her work has been used by the UK-based Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) to modify their driving regulations for people with seizures and epilepsy.
Explaining how she came to her career choice, Laura said: “I did a medical statistics module at university that was all based on real patient data and I found it fascinating. To do a job with maths and numbers but working on real patient data and making a difference to patients is a really happy mix for me.”
Laura is also a keen public engagement advocate and last year was honoured to give the Rosalind Franklin Award Lecture for Physical Sciences and Mathematics at the British Science Festival.
Speaking about her award, Laura said: “It’s an honour to be an awardee of Twenty in Data and Technology 2019. For me, what makes it more special, is that I was nominated by a male colleague who clearly thinks I do great things within data! I already do a lot of work raising awareness of the joy of statistics, and careers in data, so to have this additional opportunity is amazing. The chance to be featured in a video, and have a photoshoot was a pretty special add-on too!”
Rachel Keane, Co-Founder Women in Data UK, said: “Twenty in Data and Technology was created to showcase women in these sectors for their success, innovation, leadership or courage. Laura Bonnett is another fine ambassador who will be a visible example to inspire women at all stages of their careers.
“This is the third collection of the Twenty, which means that there are 60 role models working actively as mentors, sharing experiences in peer groups, advising in schools, and publishing content to promote the exciting opportunities in Data and Technology. Ambassadors work closely with Women in Data UK to encourage women to set their sights high to achieve their professional and personal goals.”
The awards were announced at the Women in Data 2019 conference in London, which brought together women from across the data and tech industry to celebrate their achievements and address the gender imbalance across the industry.
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Web law offers 'right to be forgotten' online
Individuals will be able to ask Facebook and Google to erase personal details they hold on them.
Image: The legislation allows people to ask for their personal data held by companies to be erased
Social media firms will have to erase personal information on individuals when asked under laws allowing people the "right to be forgotten" online.
The Data Protection Bill will make it simpler for people to control how companies use their personal details, including requesting that posts or pictures be deleted.
The information watchdog has been given extra powers to issue huge fines to companies who fail to comply with the privacy law.
Maximum fines for contraventions will increase from £500,000 to £17m, or 4% of a firm's global turnover, whichever is higher.
The fines for the largest companies - such as Google and Facebook - who use individuals' data to sell adverts, could stretch to billions.
The powers mean individuals can ask social media platforms to delete information they posted when they were children.
The bill will also require people to give explicit consent for their personal information to be collected online.
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Where a company relies on people's consent, instead of people ticking a box to "opt-out" of their data being collected, they will now need to "opt-in" to give that consent.
The legislation will:
:: Allow people to ask for their personal data held by companies to be erased.
:: Enable parents to give consent for their child's data to be used.
:: Expand the definition of personal data to include internet cookies and IP addresses.
:: Make it easier and free for people to get organisations to reveal the personal data it holds on them.
:: Create new criminal offences to deter companies from creating situations where someone can be identified from anonymised data.
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Neil Brown, a solicitor at Decoded Legal, a law firm specialising in digital legislation, told Sky News "it was unlikely that the regulator will go anywhere near the top level very quickly".
"Other corrective powers - including the power to ban a company from processing data - are likely to be the regulator's first port of call," Mr Brown said.
Elizabeth Denham, who heads the Information Commissioner's Office, said she was pleased the Government recognised the importance of data protection.
The bill, which was announced in the Queen's Speech, will be introduced in Parliament when MPs and peers return from the summer break in September.
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WNYT: Albany Memorial Hospital, Samaritan Hospital Officially Merge
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SPHP and WellNow Urgent Care Open New Location in Clifton Park
St. Peter's Health Partners and WellNow Urgent Care have opened a new location in Clifton Park. Located at 1694 Route 9 in Clifton Park, the new facility will provide immediate medical care to patients — both with and without insurance — seven days a week from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. [...]
Business Review: Urgent Care Center Moving to New Location in Clifton Park
The Albany Business Review published an article on the upcoming opening of a new urgent care in Clifton Park. The facility is the first newly built location as part of a new joint venture between WellNow Urgent Care and St. Peter's Health Partners. [...]
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Australia’s fires are a wake-up call – let’s reduce fossil fuel use
The bushfire tragedy is a poignant reminder that Australia, and the rest of the world, must get serious about climate change and reduce fossil fuel reliance
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AT FIRST, Australia’s leaders said the fires were normal. Prime Minister Scott Morrison called them “business as usual”. The deputy prime minister, Michael McCormack, described those linking the fires to climate change as “inner city raving lunatics”.
More recently, Morrison has made a point of acknowledging the link between reducing emissions and protecting environments against worsening bushfire seasons. But he has continued to insist that his government’s current environmental policies are good ones.
In fact, the Liberal Australian government has long prevaricated on meaningful climate action. As treasurer in 2017, Morrison notoriously brought a lump of coal into the Australian House of Representatives to taunt those arguing for a transition away from fossil fuels. Today, the country has no goal for net-zero emissions, and continues to be a leading global exporter of coal and gas.
The fires this season have already emitted an estimated 350 million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, roughly two-thirds of Australia’s annual industrial emissions budget. Their catastrophic wider toll – loss of human life and wildlife, environmental ruin, destruction of property and long-term health effects of smoke inhalation – is only starting to be revealed (see “Australian government report predicted severe wildfires 11 years ago“).
“If now isn’t the time for Australia to get serious about climate change, when will be?”
There has been generous support for the Australian Red Cross, state fire services and the WIRES Wildlife Rescue charity. Prominent figures, including Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, Chris Hemsworth, Shane Warne and Ashleigh Barty, have pledged large donations. But meaningful change, to prevent similar and worse catastrophes in the future, can only be enacted by government.
In crisis, the country now faces a turning point. The Australian economy’s reliance on fossil fuels must be weighed against the terrible cost of a continent that is becoming less habitable. If now isn’t the time for Australia to get serious about climate change, when will be?
We have seen swift legislation in Australia before: in 1996, the nation quickly enacted gun control measures in response to a mass shooting. Can the nation’s politicians show similar leadership again?
source: newscientist.com
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American Heart Association responds to Congress’ omnibus spending package
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WASHINGTON, D.C., December 17, 2019 — The American Heart Association, the world’s leading nonprofit organization focused on heart and brain health for all, issued the following statement in response to the omnibus appropriations bill released yesterday:
“Bipartisan majorities in Congress are once again uniting behind a substantial increase for groundbreaking research at the National Institutes of Health, including additional funding for the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Sustained research funding enables progress against cardiovascular disease, the leading disease killer in America and around the world, and ensures our nation will remain a global leader in research.
“Funding increases for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also will help combat cardiovascular disease, especially among populations with the highest burden. We are pleased with budget increases for the WISEWOMAN and REACH programs, which raise awareness of the risk factors for cardiovascular disease and ways to prevent it. We had hoped for an increase for the Million Hearts initiative, which aims to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2022, but funding is held flat in the bill.
“We are pleased, however, the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention will receive a funding increase. In addition, the Office on Smoking and Health will receive more resources to address tobacco use and nicotine addiction among youth and adults.
“Funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture includes greater support for efforts to improve nutrition, such as by helping schools nationwide successfully implement science-based nutrition standards. We are also pleased to see ongoing support for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.
“However, we are deeply disappointed the bill would allow schools to skip serving fruits before serving potatoes without another vegetable requirement in their breakfast offerings. Requiring schools to provide dark green and orange fruits and vegetables ensures other vegetable subgroup requirements are met before they serve starchy, often fried vegetables such as hash browns.
“We are also disappointed the bill would require USDA to reopen part of the requirements that guide Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) retailers on what foods to put on their shelves and redefine what the term ‘variety’ means. This could mean that more unhealthy foods qualify as staple foods for SNAP participants, a concern underscored by a recent USDA proposed rule that would allow canned spray cheese to count as a staple food.
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Remember. Do not Forget. by Bonnie Kozek, metallic pigment, pen & ink on paper
PARAGRAPH ABOUT BONNIE KOZEK:
An artist of multiple talents, the great theme at the heart of her practice the repossessing and representation of memory. Her paintings, rife with content.
The roots of her constructions reach much further back into arcane ideologies that have infiltrated—and been assimilated into--modern art’s more spiritually receptive realms. Kozek is intrigued by esoteric systems of numerical values. She cites Pythagoras’ belief in a universe governed by laws that could be understood through numbers, the numbers sacred. Her fascination with numerology appears in her paintings as letters and phrases, at times nearly micrographically rendered, coming into view only upon close scrutiny. These notations, often slightly raised and inviting touch, seem embossed onto the surface by mechanical means. But instead, they are painstakingly built up by hand, one by one, layer over layer of paint. It is a labor of obsessive devotion and long uninterrupted hours. The process acts as a kind of meditation, a ritual of entrancement, the repetition of gesture centering her, transporting her to other levels of consciousness; she hopes that in tracing her process visually, it will have a similar effect on her viewers.
All of the paintings begin with a full spectrum of color but gradually assume their distinctive final guise. Some are washed in gold, silver and other metallic paints to form lustrous monochromatic or duotone works. The colors sometimes seep through to the foreground to add subtlety of tone and an implication of spatiality, even if indeterminate in dimensions. Other works are parti-colored, and flashier. All are instruments of light, set into motion by their response to prevailing ambient conditions. The shifts in the work—the surfaces advancing, receding, brightening, dimming—are animating and correspond to the way memories unpredictably come and go: vividly present, then fading, teetering on the verge of oblivion, then resurgent, recouped.
She says that her paintings are essentially portraits, identities framed by text and numbers and color. They image memory and its flux and are the outlines, the remains of lived experience. More provocatively, she wants to “make memories,” even re-shape them. And why not? Since memories are subjective to begin with, elusive, misremembered, mutable, often as much fiction as fact. She wants them to “leave a scar on the psyche, in equal measure to that caused by pain." And she wants to will them into beauty, as emblems of both magical thinking and faith that has something to do with compassion, redemption, and greater truths.
Ms. Kozek is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Propeller Health, Boehringer Ingelheim team-up to improve for asthma and COPD patients
Dusan Belic
Propeller Health and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals are teaming-up to use digital health tools and services to help people living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma better manage their disease.
Under the deal, patients who are being treated with a Boehringer Ingelheim prescription medication approved for use in the company’s RESPIMAT inhaler, will have the opportunity to enroll at select U.S. health systems in a new program that is looking to determine how Propeller’s hi-tech tool for the RESPIMAT inhaler can impact adherence rates and patient engagement.
Cleared in March of last year by FDA, said tool uses a combination of inhaler sensors, apps, analytics, personal feedback and education. The platform passively tracks how and when each patient uses their inhaled medications, and can send alerts to patients and their caregivers. Propeller creates a custom view for each patient, allowing them to better understand the impact and management of their disease in daily life.
“We are excited to work with Boehringer Ingelheim to bring Propeller to people with asthma and COPD at health systems across the U.S.,” David Van Sickle, CEO of Propeller, said in a statement. “Together, we believe that digital tools can complement the use of respiratory medications and encourage more appropriate and effective management of chronic respiratory disease.”
Propeller has been used by people with respiratory diseases in over 40 commercial programs across the U.S., including major healthcare systems, payers, employers and other organizations. It is compatible with the majority of commonly used asthma and COPD inhaler devices including controller and reliever metered dose inhalers (MDIs), and other inhaler devices.
According to CrunchBase, Propeller Health has raised $26.46 million to date, including its most recent Series B round worth $14.5 million in September 2014.
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Happy Anniversary, Hammerin’ Hank Aaron – and other stuff…
Posted on April 8, 2014 by Paul Proia
The Rockies are going to play it safe with Troy Tulowitzki. Tulo homered among three hits, made two great plays at short – and then left the game to protect a frail groin and deal with tightness in his leg. [MLB]
It was a rough day in Tampa. Ray starter Matt Moore left the game with an injury to his left elbow. Later, Rays reliever Heath Bell drilled Royals infielder Omar Infante in the jaw with a pitch. Infante left the game with a possible concussion and will have his jaw tested for a possible fracture. [MLB/SI]
Tigers pitcher Evan Reed is wanted for questioning and likely will face a sexual assault complaint when the Tigers return to Detroit. [SI]
Dodgers catcher A.J. Ellis is scheduled to have arthroscopic surgery on his left knee for a meniscus tear. He injured himself running the bases on Saturday. It’s the second such surgery on the same knee in two years. [SI]
Yankees closer David Robertson likely heads to the DL after straining a groin, hopefully his own, in an outing against Toronto. An MRI revealed a grade one strain. [ESPN]
Hurry Back!
KC placed reliever Tim Collins on the DL with a left elbow strain, and pitcher Francisley Bueno on the DL with a sprained middle finger. Joining the roster are lefty Donnie Joseph and Michael Mariot.
Minnesota placed infielder Jason Bartlett on the DL with a sprained ankle. The Twins recalled C Chris Herrmann to take Bartlett’s spot on the roster.
Texas placed starter Joe Saunders on the DL with a bruised left ankle. Texas brings back RHP Daniel McCutchen.
Rockies pitcher Boone Logan, Oakland pitcher Ryan Cook, and Reds catcher Devin Mesoraco returned from the DL.
That Didn’t Last Long…
Boston sent Brock Holt back to the minors after having signed Ryan Roberts to a contract.
The Yankees worked out a trade that sends Eduardo Nunez to Minnesota for pitcher Miguel Sulbaran.
Cleveland traded pitcher Preston Guilmet to Baltimore for infielder Torsten Boss.
Baseball 365:
Arrivals:
(1859) Lady Baldwin
Had a short career in the 1880s, but for a couple of years was a very good lefty pitcher. His nickname, Lady, came about because of his overly gentlemanly ways and his frequently demonstrating nervousness and fear in public situations.
(1915) Kirby Higbe
(1943) John Hiller
(1946) Jim “Catfish” Hunter
Five World Series teams, and the ace of the great As teams of the early 1970s. Didn’t mess around, threw strikes, and got the job done.
(1954) Gary Carter
Like Hunter, left us way too soon. Great catcher, always looked like he was having fun.
(1979) Jeremy Guthrie
(1983) Chris Ianetta
(1986) King Felix Hernandez, Carlos Santana
(1987) Yonder Alonso
(1978) Former Commissioner Ford Frick
(2005) Eddie Miksis
(1963) The Tigers sign Denny McClain, who had been placed on waivers by the White Sox.
(1922) According to Baseball-Reference.com, the Cardinals debuted their new uniform, which includes two birds on a bat with the word Cardinals across the front in a pre-season exhibition game against the Browns.
(1969) Opening Day for four expansion teams – all winners. Kansas City, Montreal, Seattle, and San Diego all open their first seasons happily…
(1974) Hank Aaron hits his 715th homer, passing Babe Ruth, off of Al Dowling in Atlanta. [MLB]
(1994) Kent Mercker fires a no-hitter as Atlanta tops the Dodgers. It was Mercker’s first complete game.
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On the 40th Anniversary of the Lunar Landing, Edgar Gonzalez is Still Seeing Stars – and other baseball notes
Happy anniversary, Apollo 11. I was in Wisconsin on a family vacation at a summer home my Aunt Pat and Uncle John owned when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. It’s one of my two earliest memories. I also remember some goofy song about it – I had a 45 RPM (remember those) that would play this 1920s sounding swing tune “There’s an American Flag on the moon tonight, flying red and blue and white… There’s an American flag, waving on the moon, waving on the moon tonight.”
Enough of that.
Cris Carter said on Mike and Mike this morning that if you signed with the New York Mets, you’d be injured in a week. Well, for Fernando Nieve, it was more like six weeks, but it holds true. Nieve left the game in the second when he strained a quad (it looked more like an ankle or achilles injury when I watched it happen) running out a grounder. [MLB]
With Edgar Gonzalez still hospitalized following a beaning, the San Diego Padres traded reliever Cla Meredith to Baltimore for infielder Oscar Salazar. Meredith has been, at times, a very competent middle reliever – but be wary of him leaving San Diego for a park that helps hitters like Baltimore. Oscar Salazar is a long-time minor leaguer – now with his seventh organization (not counting a trip to the Mexican League) – but has hit well in a few trips with Baltimore. He’s probably not an awful short term option. Gonzalez still has headaches and ringing in his ears, dizziness, and partial hearing loss. [SI/ESPN]
Another option would have been signing Mark Grudzielanek, but Minnesota did that instead. [MLB/Transaction List]
The Texas Rangesrs will operate without outfielder Nelson Cruz, who broke a finger diving into first base on a pickoff play and now is day to day. Cruz says he can pinch hit, based on pain tolerance for the day. [ESPN]
Milwaukee is trying to hang close in the NL Central, and wanted some infield help with Rickie Weeks gone. So, the Brew Crew traded two prospects to Arizona to pick up second baseman Felipe Lopez. Lopez has a little speed (he once stole 44 bases), and is willing to work the count a little in his favor. In Arizona, he was hitting .301 with a .365 OBP – however, his career averages are nothing like that and I wouldn’t expect that heading to Milwaukee. It’s not to say he can’t have a great two months or so, but that I would expect him to hit more like .260 with a .340 OBP; still better than Craig Counsell at this stage, but not an impact player. [SI]
What did Arizona get? Cole Gillespie is a minor league outfielder with a little power and plate discipline and a little speed – but happens to be struggling a little bit with AAA Nashville. Drafted out of Oregon State, he projects to a fourth or fifth outfielder right now. Roque Mercedes might be the nugget, though – a young Dominican who has gotten better every year and started to look like a prospect last year with West Virginia in the SAL. This year at Brevard County in the Florida State League, he’s had moments of domination – so a few years from now, he could help Arizona. Ryan Roberts, a poor man’s Felipe Lopez, will likely get the second base job.
Welcome Back! Logan Kensing was recalled by Washington, Rick VandenHurk was recalled by Florida.
Hurry Back! Scott Olsen is the reason Kensing returns to the Nationals. Olsen heads to the DL with shoulder soreness. Houston sent J.R. Towles back to AAA Round Rock, while Florida sent Andy Gonzalez to AAA New Orleans.
Is it Over? Julian Taverez was designated for assignment by Washington. After 11 teams and more than 800 games as a reliever (and once a Boston starter), this could be the last rodeo for the 36 year old.
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Ontario Government Misses Opportunity to Increase Revenues from Mining
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With an overwhelming emphasis on reducing expenditures, this week's Ontario Budget misses an important opportunity to increase provincial revenues from the mining sector. When compared with other Canadian jurisdictions, Ontario has the lowest corporate tax rate for mining and recoups the lowest share of the value of mineral production. The Drummond Report recommended removing the "Resource Credit" that lowers the corporate tax rates and reviewing the Ontario Mining Tax. Today's budget does neither, giving up hundreds of millions of dollars in potential revenue.
The Ontario Mining Tax is a royalty payable to Ontario on the profits of mining that is meant to compensate the province for the extraction and sale of publicly owned non-renewable resources. The tax rate is 10% of profits but "remote" mines only pay half that and also qualify for a 10 year tax holiday. The total revenue generated from the mining tax in 2010 was $82 million (Entrans 2011), on mineral production worth $5.58 billion (NRCan 2011) or 1.5% of the total value of production. The province also has a diamond royalty, but the one operating diamond mine, DeBeers' Victor diamond mine, has not yet had to pay it. Nor has DeBeers ever paid corporate taxes in Ontario. (See DeBeers' Reports to Society)
If Ontario were to reform its Mining Tax to recoup on average a modest 5% of the gross value of mineral production there would be an increase in $200 million a year based on 2010 production. With the increased prices for gold and other minerals mined in Ontario the actual revenues could be considerably higher. Not enough to erase the deficit but not exactly chump change and enough to keep a few schools open.
The Ontario Mining Association has argued that comparisons with other jurisdictions aren't fair as Ontario doesn't subsidize road and electrical infrastructure like some other regions (notably Quebec) but much of the mineral production in Ontario is in areas like Timmins, Sudbury, and Red Lake that have well established infrastructure. And don't forget, remote mines currently benefit from both the reduced rate and tax holiday to compensate for costs of infrastructure.
Because most of the mines in Ontario are operated by multinationals, and due to the complexity of corporate tax laws, calculating potential gains from the elimination of the Resource Credit is not within our present means.
If Ontario were to take a look at reforming the Mining Tax, it would join other jurisdictions around the world that are starting to question the low return on giving up non-renewable resources for the profit of mining companies. In Australia a super profit tax has recently been introduced and Quebec has also undergone a reform of its royalties that have made revenues triple from an average of 2% in 2007, 2008, and 2009 to 6% of the gross value of mineral production in 2010.
Ring of Fire, again
For the third year running the budget also references the proposed chromite, nickel, and copper developments in the 'Ring of Fire' area of northern Ontario. There is, however, no commitment to funds for reviewing the developments, consultation with First Nations, baseline studies etc. Past budgets have established an advisory council and secretariat but the public is left to wonder what these bodies are doing and what they have accomplished as there has been no reporting on their activities — at least none that I can find.
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News Campaign Financing and the Ontario Mining Industry’s Political Influence 02.02.2018
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Bait & Switch – Fake News, propornot, the Real Inform & Influence Operation
by GH Eliason
A few days before the 2016 election I contacted several publishers and told them they were on a list to be dealt with/ taken down after what was supposed to be a Clinton victory. This effort was against news sites and websites that spoke or wrote against current US policies that Clinton supported. As I was writing this Glen Greenwald’s great article came out specifically about propornot. That plays a small part in this.
Journalists that said or wrote anything damaging to the Clinton campaign or supported her opponents in any way were targeted. News sites and journalists that failed to criticize Vladimir Putin, or worse; they were sympathetic of this or that Russian or Syria policy at any time are on the lists.
The implication isn’t that Hillary Clinton had anything to do with this. She didn’t, at least not directly. We’re going to take a clear look at this, who is behind it, and why. The political stakes and stakeholders go far beyond the presidency. It was about setting the next 20 years of US policy, cabinet positions, and redefining what the United States of America is.
Long before this election, I became aware of an Inform & Influence Operation (IIO) against the American public. While researching this I came across a list of news sites that were going to be dealt with n following what was at the time thought to be an easy “Clinton victory.”
Before the election I told different publishers this was in the works and the goal was to discredit and destroy alternate media sources and silence dissent.
The Donald Trump victory slowed this down a little bit for the moment, but redoubled the effort going into it. Let’s look behind the Fake news of propornot that is the internet rage today. I’ve been keeping tabs on some of the players involved for over 1 1/2 years now.
Propornot is another incarnation of Stopfake or the Daily Dot. Both of these propaganda sites have been doing the same essential thing as propornot since the beginning of the 2014 Coup in Ukraine. In that sense there is nothing notable or remarkable about it. What is remarkable is the amount of press this crude website has generated and why.
The website itself is a compilation of working lists developed by different sources that now work in tandem. It’s been over 3 years in the making and propornot is just the latest side dish.
OpEdNews, Washingtonsblog, ZeroHedge, Consortium News, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, the Vineyard of the Saker, and Off Guardian are among many others listed publicly and privately to developed website hit lists. Propornot pulls its own lists from sites and contacts like these. The base model is the Ukrainian website “PeaceMaker” which gained fame in March 2015.
The people that wrote the Ukrainian information policy and developed the methods for the “Myrotvorets” or Peacemaker website did so with the sole goal of creating a clearinghouse for killing dissent and dissenters. Site’s like propornot are offspring from the 40,000+ people working on the projects. At the top of the heap the lists feed downward to feed activists workloads.
Russian proxy sites are popping up and all the naive Americans posting their stories are easy to shut down. To counter, I just post a link to “Russian News And Russian Proxy News Sites” with a brief note and it usually stops. Education is a wonderful thing. There have been a ton of new websites started, probably just for this election, and I’ve simply recognized them as election propaganda sites. Not worthy for even this blog… The good news is I’m trying to gather listings for many of these sites and put them in some sort of a dump file for later. Let’s see who uses them after this election is done.”
Here is an example of their work in 2015. What exactly does “lets see who uses them mean?”
This is how open discussions have been in the past about damage done to a site, in this case Southfront.org.
This is one example of how the lists are used from inside a conversation with the people that developed them. Jessikka Aro came to fame for her expose on Russian trolls like the publication above. She has since crowd funded over $30,000 to get the necessary hacking tools to fight them.
“The process of the private sector becoming offensive actors in cyberspace has already begun. Where this leads is uncertain, but it’s hard to imagine it being particularly positive.” Tobias Feakin is a senior analyst at ASPI
Using play for pay actors to harm journalists , activists, and publications is nothing new. One of the questions I have been asked repeatedly by publishers is “how could they damage me? We are a top 100 publication.” The answer is that the people that designed the methods cut their teeth taking down the largest independent alternative media news source in history. That was Indymedia.
They used an advanced form of what would later become known as “swatting.” What is swatting? Calling SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) to raid your home after trolling you online as a final form of harassment. Imagine after publishing a political article, being in bed and your door is suddenly smashed open. Heavily armed men come in screaming because they think you are a drug dealer or the new bin Laden. What if someone hacked and planted evidence supporting this on your computer?
For one of the world’s premier news websites at the time, they called the US government and Interpol. The servers were taken, the sites shut down. No crimes were prosecuted but the accusation was enough to take it down.
The people doing the work get paid by how much measurable damage they do. This is known as cyber privateering. The people and companies that get hired and paid based on the damage they do to the publication or journalist in question.
They work for different countries. Ukraine has over 40,000 volunteers across the globe as well as paid professionals like Weisburd and Harding attacking American alternative media websites.
Within one month of writing that the Weisburd/Harding inspired “Peacemaker” was a kill list, the first journalist targeted using Aaron Weisburd’s method was Olez Buzina.
Weisburd doesn’t get paid to follow people. After stalking and collecting information his method hasn’t changed since the beginning. “Weisburd has not merely “dismantled” websites. He has harassed individuals engaged in perfectly legal online dissent, threatened their family members, harassed their employers, and harassed their web hosts. He regularly uses lies, disinformation and threats to accomplish these goals. Weisburd decides what is “threatening.”
Within a short time of writing how news websites were going to be hacked, the hacking started.
Who is paying for the new McCarthyism? It’s the same people that paid for the real fake news throughout the election cycle and were the strongest large group supporters of Hillary Clinton of course.
Let’s start with groups that are worried about deportation. Let’s talk about the Muslims. Before we do, I’ll remind you of my perspective on Muslims. It should be clear after writing “Tomi Lahren- It’s Not the Muslims Stupid!”
One of the largest Islamic groups in the US supporting Hillary Clinton are the Gulenites. The Gulenites are Islamic-fascists whose political roots are like every other group listed Waffen SS nationalists. They are so entwined in Congress right now that they were given a free pass while trying to commit a coup against a NATO partner. They are also one of the largest media operations in the world today. Gulen is also financially supportive of ISIS through the Muslim Brotherhood.
On Oct. 6, Sabah, the main pro-government paper, came out with a front-page headline “Himmet paralari Clinton’a gitti,” which translates as “Religious donations [referring to Gulenists in this context] went to Clinton.”
As a result, a majority of Turks in Turkey seem to support Trump, while a majority of Turks in the United States support Clinton, wrote Mahmut Ovur in Sabah. He added that the close relationship between Clinton and the Gulenists is not just of a financial nature, but like in Turkey, the Gulenists’ infiltration goes to “Clinton’s main arteries.”
Gülen believed that if Clinton was elected president, he would never be extradited to Turkey and that the pressure on President Erdogan would increase. Donald Trump has already made moves for his extradition back to Turkey.
According to retired Lt. General Michael Flynn:
It is unconscionable to militate against Turkey, our NATO ally, as Washington is hoodwinked by this masked source of terror and instability nestled comfortably in our own backyard in Pennsylvania.”
The Albanians and Kosovars are just as nervous. Without Clinton in the presidency, foreign policy may allow a fair trial that hangs Clinton’s long time friend Kosovar president Hashim Thaci for crimes against humanity.
Hussam Ayloush, long-time head of CAIR’s Los Angeles office, will help awaken the press to CAIR’s true Islamist identity. Ayloush wrote:
That second line is Arabic (“الشعب يريد إسقاط النظام”) for “The people wants to bring down the regime.”
In other words, Ayloush unambiguously and directly called for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
We can’t forget the Syrian American Council who, like Ahmed Chalabi won Iraq, will rule an Islamic State in Syria if ISIS wins against Assad. The brotherhood between the Syrian American Council and the Ukrainian American UCCA go back to WWII.
Nobody believes in it. You’re like, ‘f*ck this,'” a former Green Beret says of America’s covert and clandestine programs to train and arm Syrian militias. “Everyone on the ground knows they are jihadis. No one on the ground believes in this mission or this effort, and they know they are just training the next generation of jihadis, so they are sabotaging it by saying, ‘f*ck it, who cares?”…”I don’t want to be responsible for Nusra guys saying they were trained by Americans,” the Green Beret added.
As you can see the two fascist entities have a long history together. This brings us back to Joel Harding and Aaron Weisburd that hate terrorism but support ISIS, especially in Ukraine. In June 2016 Joel Harding was commissioned with updating Ukraine’s information policy. At the same time, he tried to forward one to the US Congress. Given the fact you can be shot if you disagree with the Ukrainian government, I wonder what he turned over to the US.
I need to give a brief bit of history before proceeding, about the Ministry of Information Policy
(abbreviated MIP). The MIP was founded on 2 December 2014. Shortly after I was contacted and I produced a “National Information Strategy for Ukraine” on their behalf.
After various corrections, I submitted the last version on 2 January 2014. It was apparent, however, that their interest was in cyber only, which is only one of many aspects of ‘information operations’…were accompanied by a long-time friend of mine, Christina (I do not have permission to use her last name, yet, I am protecting her)…That, plus I have worked, quite literally, for years with Christina, to educate as many as possible of Russia’s treacherous nature and actions.” Joel Harding
I’m going to come back to the phrase “cyber only.” Before going to Washington DC and meeting Harding, the Rada members were obliged to stop in Albany, New York followed by a community meet-and-greet event at the Ukrainian-American Citizens Club, located in Watervliet, New York.
Accompanying the four national deputies was Krystyna V. Dobrovolska, a U.S. Embassy-assigned government liaison and translator who escorted the delegates from Kyiv during their visits to Albany and Washington. She is the Christina that Joel mentioned working with, and is an emigre nationalist from Canada. She among other things writes at NBC.
The Watervliet Ukrainian-American Citizen’s Club is owned by Nestor Paslawsky, the nephew of Mikola Lebed, OUNb leader. It was his family that they were there to meet. And it is his family’s influence as OUNb leaders that professor Moytl states Russian President Vladimir Putin needs to be afraid of. Consider the fact that they now control CEE (Central & Eastern European) countries. The CEE is composed of 18 emigre nations that are putting their resources behind Ukraine and the UCCA (OUNb).
The second reason I mention Paslawsky is that he was, after all, a Ukrainian-American. In killing him—and make no mistake about it: Putin killed him—Putin has taken on, in addition to the entire world, the Ukrainian American diaspora. He probably thinks it’s a joke. But in killing a Ukrainian American, he’s made the war in Ukraine personal for Ukrainian Americans. Their intellectual, material, and political resources are far greater than Putin can imagine. Be forewarned, Vlad: diasporas have long memories. And this one will give you and your apologists in Russia and the West no rest.” Alexander Moytl
In other words, the OUNb and the Paslawsky’s will not rest until they have exhausted US resources in a hot war with Russia.
Andrij Dobriansky is a spokesman for the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America. It is an umbrella group for about a million Ukrainian-Americans, which is supposed to remain nonpartisan campaigned for Clinton because the OUNb (nazi-political ideology) of the UCCA was deathly afraid that Trump would force Ukraine to act like a civilized democratic country.
Someone should probably tell Weisburd and Harding that Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, wants to help ISIS militants take revenge against Russian forces in Syria “in accordance with Sharia law.”
In another statement from Gerashchenko, he recently threatened president-elect Donald Trump that he would put him on his
“Peacemaker” site as a target. The same has been done with Silvio Berscaloni in the past.
This means they are attacking US citizens for a foreign government, their property, reputation, and income because they are journalists and publishers. Harding and Weisburd also currently work for a country that threatened an elected president. In March 2015, when the Verkhovna Rada passed a law in 2383 which made it legal for Ukraine to hunt down and eliminate anyone that disagreed with the regime across the entire world.
In March 2015, I wrote an article about the beginning of an invasion scale info war being prepared and what to expect in the US against journalists and publications. At the time, one of the people standing behind the people at propornot noted that this was the definition of Propaganda in use “The word is frequently used to describe any news emerging from one’s opponent.”
Going further he stated:
As she said, and I am paraphrasing for my purposes, the vast majority of peaceful people are irrelevant…The official US government view on free speech is ‘It is also important that US citizens enjoy their freedom of speech and their unique ability to voice their own opinions. This portrays a vibrant democracy and further aids to combat oppressive governments.’…About this last paragraph, this is a source of frustration for me, personally. I believe this is, perhaps, an overly altruistic statement.
His reason is that free speech causes information fratricide. Free speech makes the IIO at best difficult and at worst impossible. To counter this a top-down disinformation charter needed to be established and “rival” media from Al-Jazeera, BBC, and beyond needed to get together and create a charter of what was acceptable behavior. Media organizations which practice conscious deception defined as propaganda were to be excluded from the community.
Today he is saying:
We also must restrict fake news sites, fake news, and their spread on social media and elsewhere. Detractors will cite the first amendment, but the issue is national security, so preventing information designed to undermine our freedom more than justifies such a law.”
The above list of emigre organizations is far from complete. These articles link over 20 emigre groups that were stakeholders in foreign policy if Clinton won. They want to keep control of the old countries from America and decide who there is worthy of living. An overview of this history shows they have been belligerent and committed atrocity to the people they are supposed to represent.
Add to this the 187 Soros groups and you have a media frenzy out to destroy what should have been an easy election for them if it were not for alternative media stepping up and playing a role by reporting facts.
The onslaught journalism is facing won’t stop unless these groups are rooted out of Congress. They supply so much graft that when one group of congressmen came under investigation, the investigators had to let them go because they were guilty on another count. Look at the Gulen articles above.
This brings us to the 3rd part of the IIO which is still to come. Protest the inauguration if you must. It is your right, no caveat there. But be aware the same minds that killed so many in Kiev and across Syria are looking to start the same kind for upheaval in the USA.
Inside Soros 187 groups are groups that to find out about you need to look at documents that have a “Nazi war crime disclosure act” release attached to them.
One group called Common Cause is translated Spilna Sprava in Ukrainian. They pushed crowds into the police so the police thought they were being attacked and threw Molotov cocktails in Kiev.
These people are fighting for the survival of WWII Axis ideologies in America and if they win, America loses. People that support ISIS, Pravy Sektor, Al-Nusra, and pick your bad guy are crying foul the loudest right now. They are fighting to keep their influence and to be able to influence governments abroad. Just be aware of who is next to you.
Should they win and gain policy positions or keep their hold on Congress through gifts and graft, the publication you are reading this in will probably be shuttered. The amazing journalism of the last year won’t be allowed to happen again. It’s been labeled information fratricide and therefore propaganda.
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Tagged with: fake news, Fethullah Gülen, GH Eliason, Joel Harding, media watch, The web they want, Turkey, ukraine
Can someone explain why the great patriot, Joel Harding, is so ashamed of his military rank of staff sergeant?
Amazing and despicable that Watervliet, whose Watervliet Arsenal machined the cannons that helped defeat the Nazis in WWII, should host this cadre of neo-Nazis whose cannons in fact, fought.
A pity this article is written in such a confusing way. Who is Silvio Berscaloni? This is all a bit new to me, and Eliason assumes knowledge I personally don’t have. It would be helpful to have a clearer breakdown for dummies.
That said, there clearly is a propaganda war going on. What I’m worried about is that access to alternative (like this one) and ‘enemy’ (like RT) news sites may eventually be shut down.
Peter, there is a thing called the internet.
On the internet there are websites called ‘search engines’.
You could use a basic one like GOOGLE.COM
You put in a term or set of words and push enter.
Then a list of related websites regarding the subject you entered will come back.
You can then read about the subject.
Point is, is you don’t know who Silvio Berscaloni is now in 2016 perhaps you just stay with television.
BigB
#fakenews – Busted: Guardian added to PropOrNot website.
Just read the latest article by Washington ‘useful idiot’ George Monbiot. Using clever sleight of hand – he seeks to disinform – telling us not to be worried about “invented stories” about “Hillary selling arms to Islamic State.”
Except that HRC did oversee a $29bn arms deal to Saudi Arabia (source-IBT) – the Clinton Foundation did receive $10-25m in donations from the Saudis (source-NYT) – Boeing (the largest benefactor of the contract) did contribute $900k to her Foundation (source-WaPo) – HRC did latterly admit knowledge of Saudi and Qatari funding of IS:-
(“to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, >> which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL” – extract from Podesta email 3774 – source-Wikileaks)
Whilst not direct support – there is a despicable ‘menage a trois’ between the ‘state sponsors’ and the terrorists – a fetid stink that Monbiot seeks to cover.
Nice try George – but these facts were NOT made up by bored 16yr olds in Macedonia (see his Guardian article)
I hope you spent your 30 pieces of silver well.
Norman Pilon
And here I thought it was all just a tempest in a teapot . . . and I was taking heart from the fact that such ‘alt-media kill lists’ were being compiled as a measure of how effective the alt-media were becoming at disseminating ‘facts.’
So blogging isn’t such a waste of time after all . . . Information matters. I mean, if it promises to get nasty(-er) and all . . .
But fuck ’em, eh, and just carry on as if you haven’t noticed you’ve pissed anyone off although by all means do flatter yourself if you have. And I wish them good luck on ‘their’ intimidation tactics. Not everyone will bend.
In case you do not think and act as a model citizen on the web they want – there is a provision in law – the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) – that Obama smuggled through – like a Patriot Act 2.0 – without the anthrax though nearly as toxic.
This nefarious bill – that even Bush would not sign – which even the NSA claimed it did not want – extended the Panopticon of the surveillance industrial complex by allowing the sharing of information with private corporations – and the searching thereof without warrant.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-18/congress-just-passed-second-patriot-act-and-nobody-noticed-how-cisa-became-law
That was last year, in America of course.
We have a much more robust and democratic parliamentary process in the UK. We would not get Her Majesty’s Opposition voting with the Tories to pass such a law here – would we now?
Now, as the Investigatory Powers Act passes Royal Assent – thanks to our SIGINT (14 eyes intelligence sharing) partners – we are well on the way to borderless, warrantless surveillance and intelligence sharing across three continents.
Thanks Labour. (Oh, you got the Trade Unions excluded – well done!)
The message seems to be clear – we are watching you. Be informed and influenced – or else.
I say – #f_ck you!
Kathleen Lowrey
Does Indymedia not still exist?
manfromatlan
Yes, though it doesn’t have the same reach it once did. https://www.indymedia.org/or/index.shtml
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World Bank To Cut Off Oil & Gas Funding
By Tsvetana Paraskova - Dec 12, 2017, 12:00 PM CST
As part of its support to countries to meet their Paris Climate Agreement targets, the World Bank said on Tuesday that it would stop financing upstream oil and gas projects after 2019.
The World Bank will only make exceptions to consider possible support for financing upstream gas “in the poorest countries where there is a clear benefit in terms of energy access for the poor and the project fits within the countries’ Paris Agreement commitments,” the bank said in a statement at the One Planet Summit in Paris.
The summit, to mark the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement, is convened by France’s President Emmanuel, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim.
Apart from ceasing to finance oil and gas, the World Bank said today that it was on track to meet its target of 28 percent of its lending going to climate action by 2020 and to meeting the goals of its Climate Change Action Plan that had been developed following the Paris Agreement.
The bank will also start reporting next year greenhouse gas emissions from the investment projects it finances in key emissions-producing sectors, such as energy. The first results will be published in late 2018, and annually after that. The World Bank will also invest in green bonds and in a green bond fund, and in loans and funding aimed at reducing fossil fuel subsidies.
Separately, the World Bank and Canada agreed at the Paris summit today to “support the acceleration of developing countries’ transition away from traditional coal-fired electricity toward clean energy to power their fast-growing economies.”
More than 50 heads of state and government as well as prominent business figures—including Bill Gates and Elon Musk—are taking part in the One Planet Summit in Paris today.
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Tom on December 12 2017 said:
So sad to see Oil and Gas, things that have been so beneficial to society, shunned by the elites. I guess as long as they are safe, warm and well fed, they assume everyone else is. How Shamefully Arrogant they truly are!
Gary Novak on December 12 2017 said:
Looks like the World Bank is trying to make America great again by denying investment in oil projects to other countries.
Peter on December 12 2017 said:
Well, it was Paul Wolfowitz as acting president of the World Bank in 2005 who brought global warming on their agenda. Who knew that he cared so much about environmental issues? I got the same chock when I noticed that it were John McCain and Joe Lieberman who started to push the global warming issue in domestic US politics with their Climate Stewardship Acts of 2003, 2005 and 2007. McCain and Lieberman also wanted to through Russia out of the G8 already in 2005 after president candidate Chodorkovsky was jailed and his climate destroying oil company Yukos was bought up by the Russian state and his Open Russia Foundation together with Henry Kissinger and Jacob Rothschild was banned. And also in 2005 we had Al Gore in the Oscar winning movie "An Inconvinient Truth" that George Soros co-sponsored.
We all know that global warming is our common enemy - as stated in the chapter "Limits of Democracy" in the book The First Global Revolution from 1991 by the Club of Rome.
Lets salute the World Bank, McCain, Wolfowitz, Lieberman, Graham, Soros and others for all the great work they are doing for our climate.
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Published: Wed, June 5, 2019 9:59 AM Updated: Wed, June 5, 2019 9:59 AM
There are 76 former major-college football stars eligible to be inducted into the Hall of Fame next year, and whittling down the list to a class of about 12 players is almost impossible.
On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, poll voter Matt Brown of The Athletic joins AP's Ralph Russo to pick through Hall of Fame ballot and select the players they think should be inducted next year.
There was praise for an underrated dual-threat quarterback from Indiana and support for the three Heisman Trophy winners, including one of the last old-school option quarterbacks to win the award. Brown makes a persuasive argument for a former Wyoming star and Russo explains why it's difficult to pass over players from your youth.
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Bear Robotics, Inc.
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The Future of Restaurants With Robotics and AI
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Bear Robotics launches food service robot named Penny. (Apr 16, 2019)
Penny is a robot optimized for food running and creates a better restaurant experience for owners, servers, and customers.
December 18, 2018 — Bear Robotics in Redwood City, CA has begun to deploy Penny, a front-of-house food running robot optimized for kitchen-to-table delivery. Penny was created to help food service operators create more efficient and sustainable businesses.
In 2017, Bear Robotics co-founder John Ha left Google to open Kang Nam Tofu House, a Korean restaurant in Milpitas, CA. As the owner, Ha experienced the challenges faced by any restaurateur, like difficulties hiring, training, and retaining staff. He also often stepped in to do physical, laborious tasks on the floor, like dishwashing, bussing, and serving.
“Imagine walking or running five to seven miles a day juggling multiple trays of food and drinks in a narrow and crowded environment,” Ha said. “A light bulb finally flashed over me when I was knee-deep in this. I said to myself, ‘There has got to be a better way to run these establishments. Why not automate it?’”
Penny, the food running robot, is meant to work alongside human servers to enhance the customer experience. With Penny, a server spends less time shuttling food back and forth from the kitchen and can spend more time with customers. During an eight-month study at Ha’s restaurant in Milpitas, when servers collaborated with Penny, they saw an 18% increase in tips and a 28% increase in total sales.
Ha credits Penny’s early success to his all-star team of co-founders: Fangwei Li, Juan Higueros, and Bren Pierce. Li worked on the AI team at Google, Pierce has been a roboticist for 15 years, and Higueros has been a mergers and acquisitions and operational leader at several Fortune 500 companies and start-ups.
Bear Robotics’ goal is to address the increased pressure faced by the food service and hospitality industry around labor management and service quality. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, restaurants have a 1.5 times higher turnover than the average private sector business. This is typically because restaurants have several seasonal and entry-level employees. With Penny, food service establishments get to automate laborious tasks with a permanent employee that works alongside existing human servers.
Penny is optimized for safe navigation in a crowded environment. The AI-enabled robot draws a map of the restaurant and always finds a safe route depending on where humans or other obstacles are. With Penny, a human server is there to load plates on and off of the robot. And when dishes are removed from Penny’s tray, the robot immediately knows to return to the kitchen. By using Penny to run plates, servers are able to stay closer to the customer and provide a better dining experience.
“Our view is that the future of the food service industry will leverage robotics and artificial intelligence to perform basic tasks alongside human workers,” Ha said. “This should free up human workers to create value for restaurants in new ways.”
About Bear Robotics Located in Redwood City, CA, Bear Robotics was started to address the increased pressure faced by the food service and hospitality industry around wages, labor supply, and cost efficiencies. The company developed Penny, the first robot optimized for front-of-house food service. Penny shuttles food to and from the kitchen to allow human servers to spend more time with their customers. The robot is optimized for the narrow and crowded spaces that restaurant operators and other hospitality providers serve within. Penny has served more than 40,000 restaurant customers worldwide.
Introducing Penny 2 In early 2019, Bear Robotics plans to launch the next generation of Penny. Based on market feedback, Penny 2 will have several new features to help solve food service challenges. The new Penny can carry up to three trays for increased capacity and a variety of tray shapes, including a food tray, a drink tray, and bussing tubs for stacking plates. It will also have improved wheel suspension hardware for enhanced driving stability on uneven floors or thresholds. If a restaurant uses multiple robots, Penny 2 will be able to collaborate with each other for optimal efficiency.
The Bay Area Partnership Campaign In 2019, the company will seek out new restaurantpartners to open with Bear Robotics to prove that with Penny, starting and running a restaurant is easier. Team is looking for a strategic partner in their local community of the Bay Area who understands how Penny can impact the entire food service industry.
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Servers / food runners walk up to 7 miles per work day. They also carry the extra burden of transporting drinks and heavy dishes simultaneously. Our robots do this heavy lifting, allowing people to prioritize more time to service and customer interaction. Owners of establishments can expect an increase employee retention as a result of this shift in tasks. Employees can expect to engage more time toward fulfilling and valuable work.
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Never in Doubt
July 5, 2016 nrlwarrior Leave a comment
The NRL season is a long and winding road. Sometimes that’s easy to forget.
Especially during those first few months, we tend to overreact, we’re quick to judge, quick to jump to conclusions. Too often we’re looking far off into the distance, trying to predict where we might end up, without remembering that everything can change in just a few days. It’s so easy to read too much into one result, so tempting to think we know what’s about to happen next. At times we’re almost certain we know what’s around the next corner, or even where our final destination will be, but it soon becomes clear that no matter where we’re going, how we get there is never set in stone.
Heading into Round 1, 2016, almost everyone had climbed aboard the Warriors bandwagon. A Top 4 finish they said. Playoffs for sure.
When things didn’t go to plan, no one could explain why. Not enough time to gel, maybe? A bit of luck? Was it the coach? Fitness? Attitude? All of the above? But then things started to turn around. Soon they were back on track.
The journey zigged and zagged, climbed over hills and sunk deep into valleys. One week we were celebrating a win at the Cake Tin, the next we were huddled together under the posts at AAMI Park, wondering how the road took such a sharp turn and how we missed all the signs. How quickly the club went from title contender to laughing stock, from crisis to competition dark horse, from pill-poppers to big boppers. One month there were calls for Shaun Johnson’s head, the next we marvelled at his magnificence and wondered where we might be without him, even on one leg.
But perhaps the greatest sign of how far we have travelled during this year’s version of our annual NRL pilgrimage— not just from the catastrophic first 40 minutes of the season to where we are now, but also from that dark day at AAMI Park, to the rough night at Yarrow Stadium, to the heart-warming win against the Dragons and all the other stops along the way — is that Saturday night’s victory against the Titans was never in doubt.
It didn’t matter that Josh Hoffman ran the length of the field to touchdown before some fans had even reached their seats. Nor did it matter that the Warriors were noticeably flat during the first half, inexplicably so given the occasion (#Mannering250) and the opportunity (a spot in the Top 8) at stake. None of that mattered because the men from Mt Smart were always going to win, always going to be too strong in the end.
While we may not know quite where this road will take us, we know where we have come from and the corner around which we have turned. While there was a time when the crew steering this ship could not be trusted, there’s now no danger that this Warriors side could lose to an under-strength Titans side. In fact, those days seem so far behind us now that they’re hard to make out in the rear-view mirror.
That’s not to say we didn’t express disappointment at halftime, didn’t lament the lack of enthusiasm and the need to create more opportunities on attack. Stern words were used. Frustration filled the air. But, as we spoke, it soon became clear that Brian had won a BBQ and that was yet another reminder that nothing bad would come of this day, that nothing bad could come of this day, because not only was it Simon Mannering’s big day, but it was also a special day for Brian, a special day for us all in many ways, because there was something for all of us in his win — one for the good guys — and we knew then with even more certainty that the Warriors would find a way to get the two points. It mattered little that they were below their best.
In the minutes that passed between Brian’s big win and the beginning of the second half, a great sense of calm surrounded us, so much so that we almost didn’t notice the game beyond the fog of serenity, hardly broke a sweat as the match meandered along for quite some time, until eventually the men from Mt Smart clawed their way to the lead. As the clock ticked down on a largely uneventful performance, some Shaun Johnson magic lifted us out of our seats, before Bodene Thompson gave us another reason to wave our Mannering face masks with glee. It was another win for the good guys, most especially Simon Mannering, before we pull into the rest stop for a short break.
And while Saturday’s outcome was never in doubt, who can say what’s around that next corner? Where will this journey end?
1) It was two points in the bag, but should we be concerned by that performance? For the second straight home game, the Warriors lost the ruck, were arguably out-enthused in the forwards and spent long periods of the game at a level well below their best.
But they still won.
Is it a bad sign to start so flat against very beatable opposition? Any concern at all that the men from Mt Smart left it so late to assert their dominance? Or is it a great sign that they can hang in there while they’re not playing well, that the defence has reached a point where they can hold on long enough for those moments of attacking brilliance to come to the forefront and secure the win? I can’t quite decide where I stand, other than to say that I’d take an ugly win over a beautiful loss any day of the week.
2) Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on, it’s fair to suggest the Warriors will need an improved effort from the forward pack as the season moves towards the business end. For much of that match, the Warriors struggled to work themselves into attacking positions. They were regularly driven back in the tackle and generated very few quick play-the-balls. It was enough to beat a weakened opposition who were down to 15 fit players by the 46-minute mark, but that performance won’t be good enough every week.
3) Bodene Thompson was superb. Last week we highlighted Thompson’s footwork, and his all-around play was excellent again this week. In particular, his emergence as an attacking threat on the edge is really starting to create opportunities for both himself and Shaun Johnson to exploit, plus it also ensures that the Warriors have threatening options on both sides of the field, when for much of the early part of the season the attack was directed towards Solomone Kata’s edge.
4) The production line continues. Young Warriors are making a name for themselves this year. Albert Vete, Sam Lisone and Charlie Gubb have become first-grade regulars, while the likes of Toafofoa Sipley and Jazz Tevaga have made encouraging starts to their careers in limited opportunities. On Saturday night, Bunty Afoa added his name to that list. His debut wasn’t particularly eye-catching, but a solid, composed performance from a 19-year-old given a late call-up to the top level is impressive in itself. Can the club provide enough opportunities to retain all this young talent?
5) Take a bow Agnatius Paasi. It wasn’t that long ago that Agnatius Paasi was toiling away for the Auckland Vulcans in the NSW Cup, unable to crack the Warriors NRL side. Now, he’s a key member of the Titans, and was arguably their most threatening attacking weapon at the weekend. Top work Agnatius.
6) The season starts now. The Warriors have worked their way into the Top 8, basically sitting in seventh position if you exclude Parramatta from the conversation. They hold their fate in their own hands and the run to the finals looks encouraging. Many of the sides below look to be falling away. The bye comes at a great time, to rest and recover before eight weeks that will define their season. Signs point to a playoff spot, but can the Warriors do enough to secure a knockout game at Mt Smart?
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Title: Irving J. Gill Document Collection
Collection Number: Irving Gill Document Collection
Creator/Collector: Irving J. Gill Hebbard & Gill Board of Park Commissioners, City of San Diego Department of Fire and Sewers, City of San Diego
Extent: 12 documents, including an original architectural detail drawing in water color.
Repository: San Diego City Clerk’s Archives
Abstract: Irving J. Gill documents discovered in the City Clerk Archives, City of San Diego, dated from 1904 to 1911. Irving Gill, an American architect, (1870-1936), is considered a pioneer of the modern movement in architecture. Gill came to San Diego in 1893 after working at a Chicago architecture firm with Frank Lloyd Wright. He designed several buildings in San Diego and Southern California which are considered among the region's best. More than a dozen of his designs are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. His works include: the George W. Marston House, Old Scripps Building at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA (the oldest oceanographic research building in continuous use in the United States), Horton Plaza Fountain, Sunnyslope Lodge, La Jolla Recreational Center, La Jolla Women's Club, The Bishop's School, Ellen Browning Scripps Residence (now the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego), The Green Dragon Cottages in La Jolla, and the Administration Building for the Panama California Exhibition of 1915 in San Diego (now the Gill Auditorium).
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Irving J. Gill Document Collection. San Diego City Clerk’s Archives
Petitions to the City of San Diego by Irving J. Gill, architect, for his clients; an original 1904 architectural drawing in water color of a proposed new style of sidewalk in San Diego submitted by Irving J. Gill of Hebbard & Gill Architects, San Diego, CA.; Resolution No. 9314 of the Common Council of the City of San Diego dated September 27, 1911 wherein Irving J. Gill along with three others are named as a committee to recommend any alternatives to the present draft of the proposed city building ordinance; and pages from the bound minutes of the Board of Park Commissioners, City of San Diego, relating to the Horton Plaza Park "electric fountain" he designed.
Landscape Architectural Drawing
Detail Drawing
Landscape Design Drawing
San Diego building ordinance
building ordinance
Plaza improvement commission
Board of Park Commissioners, City of San Diego
Electric Fountain
Horton Plaza Park
Marion Olmsted
Harry H. Timken
cost of architectural services
Richelieu building
Grant Building
New Town Park
City Hall , New Town San Diego
Irving J. Gill
Irving John Gill
Irving Gill
Hebbard & Gill
A. E. Dodson
H. H. Preibisius
John L. Bacon
W. J. Kirkwood
E. W. Lewis
Thomas O'Hallaran
L. J. Wilde
M. A. Luce
Kate O. Sessions
President Wright, Board of Park Commissioners
A. H. Stibolt
Miss Lamb
Mr. Blachman
J. D. Stibolt
L. C. Sherwood
George W. Marston
Commissioner Dwayne
Department of Fire and Sewers, City of San Diego
Office of Bureau of Public Works, City of San Diego
Common Council, City of San Diego
Architectural Detail Drawing in water color on translucent paper accompanying original letter signed by Irving J. Gill.
Resolution of the Common Council of the City of San Diego
Minutes, Board of Park Commissioners, City of San Diego
invoice or bill for commissioned work
Petitions on behalf of architectural clients for variances
President, Board of Park Commissioners, City of San Diego Architect Owner Building Inspector, City of San Diego Councilman Superintendent, Department of Fire and Sewers, City of San Diego
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Citizens With Guns Guard Military Recruitment Centers
Larry Fitzpatrick, 50, of the 3% Irregulars Militia open-carries a .22 semiautomatic rifle and a .380 Smith & Wesson “Bodyguard” semi-automatic pistol outside the Armed Forces Recruiting station at 4834 West Broad St., July 20, 2015.
This article comes from the Columbus Dispatch.
By Holly Zachariah
Larry Fitzpatrick, wearing an Old Navy T-shirt with an American flag on the front, sat in a metal folding chair in the parking lot of a W. Broad Street strip mall today and cradled his loaded .22-caliber rifle.
He had a .380-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol strapped to his calf.
Sitting there all day, practically baking in the unrelenting heat and humidity, outside the Armed Forces Career Center recruiting center was simply his civic duty, he said. The men and women from each branch of service who work in any military recruitment center — this one is west of I-270 in Prairie Township — aren’t allowed under government rules to be armed, so Fitzpatrick has decided to protect them himself.
“I can’t see why any red-blooded American wouldn’t want to be out here,” said Fitzpatrick, a member of the 3% Irregulars Ohio Militia who lives near the recruitment center. “Our troops go overseas and fight to protect us and then they can come home and get butchered on our U.S. soil? That’s unacceptable. So until these places get their own protection, I’ll be it for them.”
Since a gunman that police identified as Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez shot and killed four Marines at a strip-mall recruitment center and a Navy sailor at an operations center in attacks in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Thursday, armed citizens have taken it upon themselves to stand at post at some centers across the country.
A man also stood guard outside the recruitment center on River Valley Circle in Lancaster today, and since Thursday there has, at various times, been someone voluntarily guarding recruitment offices in Westerville. On Friday, there were a handful of reports of a couple of others in central Ohio.
Congress and military officials have debated arming military personnel in such roles for years, but nothing has ever come of any proposals. Military Times reported that after last week’s attacks, Defense Secretary Ash Carter approved a series of steps to improve immediate security. The branches raised their threat levels in some instances, the Marines instructed their recruiters to not wear uniforms for now, and the Navy increased random security checks in some areas, the Times said.
Carter told the branches of service to have additional suggestions for increased security to him by the end of this week.
Fitzpatrick said he isn’t going to wait for someone in Washington, D.C., to come up with an answer.
“I’ll be here tomorrow. And the day after that and the day after that and every day I need to be,” he said. “I can’t imagine what would stop me.”
Personnel from the W. Broad Street center weren’t authorized to make public statements, but one man brought Fitzpatrick cold water this afternoon, and Fitzpatrick said others in uniform have brought him food and said they appreciate what he’s doing.
A few passersby offered their thanks, and one woman delivered some snacks and a gallon of iced tea in an insulated cooler.
Not everyone is amused. Randall Bush is the business manager at Advanced Medical Supply, the store next door to the recruitment center. Bush said he understands what Fitzpatrick is trying to do and he agrees that the men and women in the center should be kept safe.
But a man with a gun in a parking lot is making his employees and his customers uneasy, Bush said. And he wonders if could even prove dangerous.
“Is he going to decide by himself who looks suspicious and who he is going to shoot at?” Bush said of Fitzpatrick. “And if he decides to shoot, is he going to tell us to duck? If there should be protection here for that center, it should be left to the professionals.”
Franklin County deputy sheriff did roll through the parking lot and talk to Fitzpatrick this morning, just as Lancaster police went to that recruitment center and chatted with the man standing guard there. But officials said the men are within their rights to do what they’re doing.
“Ohio is an open-carry state, and these men can have their guns,” Franklin County Sheriff Zach Scott said. In the case of the strip-mall, the property owner could ask Fitzpatrick to leave but hasn’t done so.
“You have to use some discretion, sure, so that you don’t cause a panic, but it sounds to me like the neighborhood doesn’t have a problem with what this gentleman is doing by standing guard,” Scott said.
Frank Karshner, a customer inside Advanced Medical Supply, agreed with the sheriff. Karshner had his three young granddaughters with him today and walked right past Fitzpatrick in the parking lot without a worry.
“A lot of people don’t get too concerned about seeing a gun,” said Karshner, an Army veteran. “People can tell that he isn’t there to cause trouble, and people surely want our troops to be protected at home.”
Lancaster police said the man on watch there identified himself as a member of Oath Keepers, a national organization that, according to its website is “an association of current and formerly serving military, police and first responders who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to ‘defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.’”
Stewart Rhodes, found of Oath Keepers, said in an email that the organization has been guarding some recruitment stations since Friday but that today he sent out a nationwide call-to-arms to put someone at post at every one.
He called recruiters “sitting ducks,” working unarmed in uniform in clearly-marked offices that anyone can easily enter.
“They may as well order the service members to walk unarmed down the streets of Baghdad,” Rhodes said. “In fact, it may be worse to be a recruiting station. … if they were walking down the streets of Baghdad, at least they would be moving.”
Chief Of Police Thanks SC Oath Keepers For Guarding Recruiting CentersOath Keepers National Call to Action: Help Us “Protect the Protectors” by Guarding Recruiting and Reserve Centers
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Ottawa council passes restrictions on Airbnb, other short-term rentals
OBJ staff
Nov 27, 2019 4:13pm EST
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Short & Suite BNB
Alex Dagg
Genevieve Walton
Scott Clement
City council Wednesday endorsed new rules that will restrict short-term rentals on Airbnb and other similar platforms to primary residences in a bid to crack down on so-called “ghost hotels” run by absentee owners.
Under the new rules, corporations will also be banned from operating short-term rentals and owners who rent their properties out on Airbnb and other home-sharing platforms will be required to pay $100 for a permit that will be valid for two years.
Owners will be required to provide proof of residence such as a lease or deed, and permits can be revoked if operators run afoul of the regulations. Grounds for losing a permit include criminal activity, unpaid fees, behaviour that endangers public health or safety and “repeated public nuisances.”
Rural vacation homes will be exempted from the new regulations, and council also agreed to allow owners of coach houses and “secondary dwelling units” in rural areas to use their properties for short-term rentals “regardless of occupancy.”
The new regulations are bound to generate plenty of controversy.
Critics argue that short-term rental platforms reduce the stock of rental accommodation available to long-term tenants and disrupt residential neighbourhoods. But others say the new restrictions will punish legitimate business owners.
Genevieve Walton, the founder of professional Airbnb property manager Short & Suite BNB, told a recent meeting of the city’s community and protective services committee she was concerned she’d have to downsize her 30-person company if the city’s regulations came into effect. Scott Clement, co-owner of breathebnb Vacation Rental Management, told OBJ recently that the city’s proposal would “ruin” his 40-person firm’s ambitious growth plans.
Alex Dagg, public policy manager of Airbnb Canada, told the committee that although she supports a permit system to register local hosts, the principal residence requirement is “too restrictive” and would have a detrimental effect on Ottawa’s tourism industry.
City staff estimate it will cost about $900,000 to enforce the new regulations in the first year and $834,000 in the second year. Those costs would be covered by permit and registration fees as well as the existing four per cent municipal accommodations tax that hotel guests and people who rent rooms through Airbnb have been required to pay since last year.
Airbnb voluntarily agreed to the tax, but all short-term rental operators will now be required to charge it.
Ottawa airport traffic numbers stagnant in 2019; popular Chicago service set to resume
Businesses near LRT fully on board with free train passes for convention-goers
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How Chatbots can Transform Recruiting Processes
The modern recruiter has it far from easy. In today’s dynamic business landscape, recruiters must often juggle multiple tasks at once. They must cope with the many complexities of a highly competitive market, and parse through large volumes of incoming resumes, in pursuit of the best talent.
Technology is a game changer for HR teams, as is the case, for any enterprise sector or vertical. Here, ‘Chatbots’ could make a massive difference. Geared to transform the candidate experience, Chatbots are a form of conversational artificial intelligence, now being deployed to automate hiring processes. So, the big question is, do you need a chatbot for your HR/hiring processes? Here’s everything you need to know before deploying a chatbot for your business.
Let’s begin by defining a ‘chatbot.’ In the simplest of terms, a chatbot is a tool or a software program, used by organizations to automate conversations with humans to answer their queries, based on a pre-set list of rules and algorithms.
While chatbots have been around for a while now, however, the widespread adoption of chatbots is a relatively new phenomenon. Chatbots like the Phenom Chatbot, even allows candidates to search for jobs, ask questions and get answers about registered companies, and receive personalized job recommendations.
How do HR and recruiting chatbots work?
For HR teams, chatbots can locate possible applicants based on the available data. What’s more, HR leads can also extend employee engagement capabilities, by leveraging chatbots’ ability to assess and evaluate the satisfaction levels of employees. Further, HR chatbots can also be used for career management, coaching, and training sessions. There’s also advanced technology like ServiceNow’s virtual assistant that is able to contextualize queries and offer personalized responses.
How will chatbots transform the recruitment process?
In the recruitment space, chatbots analyze candidates’ sentences or phrases to detect an underlying pattern and arrive at a decision or response. This is, in many ways similar to how recruiters evaluate multiple applicants, and select deserving candidates, even as they get closer to the final hiring stages.
Imagine for a moment: A chatbot that has completed interviewing a large batch of candidates (say 250+), and has submitted its recommendations to the recruiter, has effectively automated the entire initial round of scoring or ranking applicants. Now, recruiters can focus on candidate engagement and build long-lasting relationships with selected candidates to close the position.
“According to staffing and recruitment firm Allegis, 66% candidates are comfortable interacting with a chatbot, so the market seems poised for mainstream adoption. As chatbots prove their value in the early part of the recruiting funnel, their use will logically move downstream to processes such as onboarding and new employee training for the same advantages: on-demand, real-time feedback,” reports Ideal’s head Data Scientist, Ji-A Min.
Chatbots can engage multiple candidates at the same time, and are at work 24/7, thereby reducing timelines significantly. Their ability to scale processes like this will help organizations save time and money.
Will chatbots improve candidate experience?
Often, candidates complain of poor or unsatisfactory experiences when carrying out online applications. Notifications are vague or obscure, and then there’s also an element of uncertainty along with the pressures of having to wait for feedback – sometimes, leading to a negative impression about the company.
With the integration of artificial intelligence, several candidates can be accommodated into the hiring pipeline simultaneously, notifying recruiters when they’ve completed the initial screening processes. Shorter turnaround times reduce candidate anxiety, allowing them to scout for other opportunities that are better suited for them. Chatbots can essentially create richer, more meaningful candidate experiences.
Will HR chatbots eliminate the need for humans in the recruitment process?
The answer to this question is a definite ‘No’!
An HR chatbot can address several everyday challenges, and make the recruiters’ life much simpler, expediting systems and hiring timelines. However, in no way, can the application stretch itself beyond being a software tool. This is why chatbots find widespread adoption for automated tasks such as payroll. Pocket HRMS’ chatbot smHRty is built precisely for this purpose.
Remember, transparency builds trust. Businesses which invest in chatbots for HR programs must fully disclose the use of such technology for initial screening and other activities. This helps to dispel any doubts and manages candidate expectations. Additionally, when transparency is maintained, candidates are ready to discuss future job possibilities and discuss other potential employers.
“One of the biggest benefits of using a chatbot to promote your employer brand is that it ensures not only objectivity in how candidates are treated, but also the consistency of messaging,” says a study by Cornerstone OnDemand. “Some companies are taking this branding even further by programming their recruiting chatbot to have a personality that aligns with their values and company mission. An interesting example of a branded recruiting chatbot is the U.S. army’s SGT STAR.”
What the future holds – ‘Great Expectations’
There’s no denying the transformative impact of AI. “Whether engaging hundreds of candidates at once, contributing to a strong and consistent employer brand or keeping current employees happy, the chatbot might just become HR’s best friend,” Cornerstone concludes. And they’re not wrong: TextRecruit includes two chat agents as part of its candidate engagement solution – a live platform called JobChat, and the AI drive ARI!
With time, Chatbots will have taken over a wide-ranging array of repetitive tasks, and recruiters will primarily concentrate on the more ‘human,’ organic, and connected side of hiring, shaping genuine relationships and offering truly effective job-roles for candidates. Hiring, talent management and acquisition, and the search for tomorrow’s business leaders will become an enriching and revitalized pathway.
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By Michael S. Chase and Jeffrey Engstrom
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By Roger Cliff
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By David Logan
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By Joel Wuthnow
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By Brian W. Flynn, Joshua C. Morganstein, Robert J. Ursano, Darrel A. Regier, James C. West, Gary H. Wynn, David M. Benedek, and Carol S. Fullerton
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By G. Alexander Crowther
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Joint Force Quarterly 83 (4th Quarter, October 2016)
By Phillip C. Saunders and John Chen Joint Force Quarterly 83
Oct. 1, 2016 — DOWNLOAD PDF
Dr. Phillip C. Saunders is Director of the Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs (CSCMA), Institute for National Strategic Studies, at the National Defense University. John Chen is a Research Intern in CSCMA and a Graduate Student in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University.
Ground force officers run China’s military, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). About 70 percent of PLA soldiers serve in the PLA Army (PLAA), and ground officers occupy almost all senior positions on the Central Military Commission (CMC) and in China’s new theater commands. The PLA’s history, traditions, and organizational culture are all built upon the PLAA role in bringing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to power. Until the establishment of a separate army headquarters in January 2016, the PLA’s major organizations (the general departments) existed primarily to serve the needs of the army.1 Pictures of the CMC staff or of visiting Chinese National Defense University delegations show only a smattering of navy white and air force blue uniforms in a sea of army green.
Despite this traditional dominance, the PLAA has lost status, budget share, and end strength relative to the other services in recent years. Since 2004, Chinese defense white papers have emphasized the need for increased funding for the navy, air force, and Second Artillery (which was elevated in status and renamed the Rocket Force in January 2016). “Optimizing the composition of the services and arms of the PLA” has meant reductions in “technologically backward” PLAA units and personnel increases for the other services.2 Most of the 300,000 troops that will be cut from the PLA will come from army ranks. Moreover, the army is widely perceived as the likely loser in current PLA organizational reforms.3 Elimination of the general departments and establishment of a new army commander and headquarters reduced the army to bureaucratic equality with the other services. The PLAA also lost direct control of space and cyber units, which were transferred to the new Strategic Support Force.
Soldiers with People’s Liberation Army at Shenyang training base in China (DOD/D. Myles Cullen)
Current senior PLAA officers all retained their rank and were given new positions after the reforms, but there is no guarantee that this transitional arrangement will continue when the next military command shuffle occurs in 2017. Some positions may be downgraded once the current incumbents leave, and the other services will press for more leadership positions on the CMC staff.
The apparent PLAA sense of decline may be intensifying. Despite President and CMC Chairman Xi Jinping’s insistence that the army plays an “irreplaceable” role in protecting national interests,4 the new PLAA commander used his first media interview to refute the notion that “land warfare was outdated and the army is useless.” Editorials in the PLA Daily and other outlets followed suit shortly thereafter.5
The current reform’s emphasis on improving the PLA’s ability to conduct multi-service joint operations [军种联合作战, junzhong lianhe zuozhan] implies a higher status and increased funding for the navy, air force, Rocket Force, and the new Strategic Support Force. The steady decline in PLAA size, status, and relevance poses an interesting puzzle: why would a PLA dominated by army officers acquiesce to reforms that apparently further weaken the status of the service?
In this article, we argue that the reforms can also be read as an effort by PLAA commanders to use new joint command and control (C2) arrangements to reassert the service’s strategic relevance and political muscle by gaining the ability to command assets controlled by the other services. We flesh out the argument that core army capabilities have become less relevant to China’s most pressing external threats and national security priorities, examine why the army failed to adapt, and highlight how new PLA joint C2 structures may serve PLAA institutional interests at a potential cost in overall operational effectiveness.
Shifting Priorities and Decreasing Army Relevance
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and improved relations with many neighboring countries removed China’s most serious traditional military threats. With the exception of a continuing land border dispute with India, China currently faces no major threats on its borders, reducing the salience of the PLAA’s traditional mission of defending against land invasion.6 Although the service could be called upon to respond to border contingencies in North Korea, Burma, or Pakistan, China’s remaining land threats mainly involve cross-border terrorism or instability in neighboring countries.7
As land threats dissipated, China’s rapid integration into the global economy created increasingly important national interests well beyond its immediate land borders. The shift in China’s strategic orientation toward the sea and away from land threats began as early as the 1980s.8 Changes in China’s “Military Strategic Guidelines” in 1993 reflected an increased emphasis on Taiwan contingencies and protecting maritime interests in the South and East China seas, all of which required power projection capabilities as well as the capacity to forestall U.S. intervention in order to achieve the desired results.9
Hu Jintao’s 2004 “New Historic Missions” [新的历史使命] marked a clear shift in Chinese national security priorities, calling for the armed forces to secure party rule, safeguard national development, protect national interests, and promote world peace and common development.10 Securing sea lines of communication, protecting Chinese nationals and economic interests overseas, and contributing to global public goods such as counterpiracy, counterterrorism, peacekeeping, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations have all figured more prominently as PLA missions.11 Consistent with this shift, China declared itself a “maritime power” in the 2012 party congress work report and has given maritime and overseas operations pride of place in recent defense white papers.
Soldier makes fish trap during survival phase of Exercise Kowari 2016, Australian army–hosted survival skills exercise designed to increase defense cooperation between forces from the United States, Australia, and China, September 4, 2016 (Australian Defence Force/Jake Sims)
The PLAA is relevant to some of Hu’s “New Historic Missions,” but these do not justify much manpower or the acquisition of new capabilities. The army retains formal responsibility for the high-priority missions of maintaining domestic stability and ensuring CCP rule, but in practice primary responsibility for these functions has shifted to the public security forces and the People’s Armed Police (PAP).12
The 2015 defense white paper calls for the armed forces to protect Chinese air, land, and sea sovereignty; protect Chinese unification; safeguard Chinese security in new domains; maintain regional and world peace; protect overseas interests; maintain strategic nuclear deterrence; counter separatists and terrorists; and perform emergency rescue and disaster relief missions.13 The 2015 white paper, along with other authoritative PLA writings such as the 2013 edition of Science of Military Strategy, also place great emphasis on major power competition in the maritime, nuclear, space, and cyber domains.14
The #PLAA has either lost or never owned the capabilities most relevant to the party #leadership. #China
However, the PLAA has either lost or never owned the capabilities most relevant to a party leadership that is increasingly focused on missions outside China’s land borders. The army does not have rapid reaction airborne forces or the strategic lift capabilities needed to move forces beyond China’s land borders—paratroopers and strategic airlift assets both belong to the air force. The PLAA does not operate long-range surface-to-air missiles that can defend Chinese airspace, does not command conventional or nuclear missile forces that can enable power projection or deter nuclear attack, and has now ceded space and command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance missions to the Strategic Support Force.
Even in areas where army capabilities are relevant to China’s new strategic focus, the PLAA faces stiff competition from other services. Army amphibious units would have primary responsibility for the ground aspects of an invasion of Taiwan, but the PLA Navy Marine Corps has the lead for South China Sea amphibious operations. Each service in the PLA operates unmanned aerial vehicles of various types for its own purposes.15 The PLAA has ceded many counterterrorism missions to Ministry of Public Security forces and the PAP. Though the PLAA has developed an air assault capability, is increasingly mechanized, and has improved its ability to move forces within China, it would require considerable support from other services to get to and stay in the fight, especially if the fight is outside China’s borders or across water.
Why Didn’t the Army Adapt?
Given the slow-moving nature of China’s strategic shift, why did the PLAA fail to foresee the declining relevance of its capabilities and missions and adjust its priorities accordingly? Three possible explanations exist for the PLAA’s current predicament.
One is the historical legacy of the Soviet military. The PLAA was patterned on the Soviet Red Army, which placed ballistic missiles, surface-to-air missiles, and paratroopers in different organizations outside army control. These organizational choices may not have struck army commanders as important concessions during the early days of the People’s Republic of China, but once the missions and forces were ceded to other services, the PLAA was unable to wrest these capabilities back.
A second explanation focuses on China’s traditional status as a continental power. PLAA leaders may have believed that the mission of protecting Chinese territory from invasion was important enough to justify preservation and modernization of core army capabilities. The PLAA has focused heavily on mechanization of the army and combined arms operations to improve ground combat capability, and army leaders have been willing to accept large reductions in troop strength to fund this modernization.16 A focus on improving the PLAA’s ability to perform its traditional mission may have blinded army leaders to the increasing priority of other missions where army capabilities were less relevant.
A PLA debate in the early 2000s about the relative priority and sequencing of “mechanization” and “informationization” was a proxy for debates about the relative priority of service missions. The PLAA would have benefited most from a sequential approach that prioritized mechanization as a stepping stone toward informationization; the decision to pursue both goals simultaneously reduced the PLAA’s claim on funding and allowed other services and specialized elements of the PLA to stake their own claims for modernization resources.17
Beyond mechanization, the PLAA’s chief modernization priority has been in developing “new type forces” better suited for offensive operations. These include special operations, helicopter, electronic warfare, light mechanized, and long-range artillery units that may have more applicability to maritime and overseas missions. However, many of these capabilities remain comparatively underdeveloped despite high prioritization and two decades of modernization, and recent army transregional exercises have not emphasized an expeditionary role for the PLAA.18
A third possibility is that the PLAA’s ability to advocate for army missions and priorities may have been hindered by a lack of bureaucratic coherence. An “army-by-default” mentality undercut the need to create a PLAA-specific identity and mission set, and the abundant but diffuse army presence in the highest levels of military command meant no single voice was responsible for advocating for army priorities. In contrast, other services were forced to carve out separate identities, missions, and service cultures to assert their independence and to capture resources and personnel. Once established, the services would naturally resist any PLAA efforts to take over capabilities most relevant to new missions and priorities. (The new army headquarters will give the PLAA commander both a platform and the responsibility to advocate for army priorities; the army is also using reforms to educate soldiers about its future role and identity.19)
Australian army–hosted Exercise Kowari 2016, at Larrakeyah Barracks, Northern Territory, Australia, focused on increasing friendship and trust between forces from the United States, Australia, and China through trilateral cooperation in Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean Rim regions, August 26, 2016 (U.S. Marine Corps/Osvaldo L. Ortega III)
Military Reforms: Expanding Army Control at the Expense of Effectiveness?
Given the PLAA’s decreasing relevance to new tasks and missions, the military reforms could be interpreted as a way for the PLAA to reassert its strategic relevance and expand its control over other parts of the PLA. The new CMC Joint Staff Department, which has overall responsibility for joint operations, is commanded by former Chief of the General Staff Fang Fenghui of the PLAA. Army officers currently command all five theater commands (and hold four of the five political commissar positions at the theaters).20 The new joint C2 structure gives these army officers full operational command over forces from all services during both war and peacetime. Under the old system, military region commanders did not exercise peacetime operational control over navy, air force, and Second Artillery assets within their areas of responsibility. Under the new system, the navy and air force headquarters no longer have an operational command role. The CMC Joint Staff Department has set up a new Overseas Operations Office that should eventually exercise control over PLA forces deployed far outside China’s borders.
If the theater commands become the critical proving ground for future PLA leaders, then the PLAA will want to continue to reserve these positions for army officers. Going forward, the PLAA will likely seek to define the qualifications for joint command assignments and control the pipeline for new operational commanders in ways that benefit army officers. Reforms in China’s military education system will create a new “operational command track” in the PLA National Defense University courses that train PLA officers for promotion to senior positions.21 Attendance in command track courses will likely become a requirement for future joint command assignments. Whether that track is exclusive to or dominated by army offices will be a key leading indicator of whether the PLAA will continue to hold on to theater command slots and key CMC joint command positions. Conversely, if the navy, air force, and rocket force are overrepresented in those courses, this would indicate an intent to rebalance joint command positions in ways that benefit officers from other services and create a more joint force.
From this perspective, the PLA’s new joint C2 structure centered on theater commands may reflect the dominance of army thinking and army institutional interests. In some cases, this may produce suboptimal warfighting outcomes. The U.S. military emphasizes flexibility in conducting joint operations, selecting commanders from different Services based on the most likely missions within a theater or putting together joint task forces led by a commander from the most relevant Service for the mission. In contrast, the current PLA approach of placing joint C2 mechanisms at the theater command level injects an army commander into the operational chain of command even if the mission does not require it. An army general heading the Southern Theater Command may not be best qualified to command forces in South China Sea maritime disputes; his presence in the chain of command adds an extra layer that subordinates must navigate to include other services in planning and conducting operations.
We began with a puzzle: why would a PLA dominated by ground officers embrace joint reforms likely to reduce the size, status, and bureaucratic prerogatives of the army relative to other services? A bureaucratic politics lens produces an unexpected answer: organizational reforms nominally intended to improve the Chinese military’s ability to conduct joint operations have been heavily shaped by army organizational interests and will actually expand the ability of PLAA commanders to control forces currently owned by other services. The resulting C2 arrangements may be suboptimal for some kinds of joint operations (especially those with a heavy air or maritime focus).
A key question going forward is whether army officers will continue to hold on to key joint command positions in the CMC Joint Staff Department and in the theater commands, or whether officers from other services will eventually be able to stake a claim to those positions. Will the PLAA be able to influence selection, evaluation, and promotion criteria for theater command and joint command positions? To what extent will army-led theater commands delegate operational authority to service components? How will the new army headquarters fare in bureaucratic scuffles with other service headquarters? The answers to these questions will help determine whether the reforms will create a genuinely joint PLA, or serve as a backdoor means for army officers to extend their traditional dominance. JFQ
1 Phillip C. Saunders and Joel Wuthnow, China’s Goldwater-Nichols? Assessing PLA Organizational Reforms, Strategic Forum 294 (Washington, DC: NDU Press, April 2016); Kevin Pollpeter and Kenneth W. Allen, eds., The PLA as Organization v2.0 (Vienna, VA: Defense Group, Inc., 2015).
2 State Council Information Officer, “China’s National Defense in 2004,” December 27, 2003.
3 Saunders and Wuthnow; Kenneth W. Allen, Dennis J. Blasko, and John F. Corbett, Jr., The PLA’s New Organizational Structure: What Is Known, Unknown, and Speculation (Part 1), China Brief 16, no. 3 (Washington, DC: The Jamestown Foundation, February 4, 2016); China Security Report 2016: The Expanding Scope of PLA Activities and PLA Strategy (Tokyo: National Institute for Defense Studies, 2016), 62.
4 “Army Commander: Eliminate the Mistaken Belief that ‘Land Warfare Is Outdated and the Army Is Useless,’” People’s Daily, February 16, 2016, available at <http://ah.people.com.cn/n2/2016/0216/c358316-27744249.html>.
5 “Army Commander Li Zuocheng: Construct a Strong, Modernized, New-Type Ground Force,” People’s Daily, January 31, 2016, available at <http://sn.people.com.cn/n2/2016/0131/c358036-27662181.html>; “Innovation in Military Theory Requires Avoiding Both ‘Large Army’ and ‘Ground Forces Are Useless’ Mentalities,” People’s Daily, February 23, 2016, available at <http://military.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0223/c1011-28142430.html>.
6 See Michael A. Glosny and Phillip C. Saunders, “Correspondence: Debating China’s Naval Nationalism,” International Security 35, no. 2 (Fall 2010), 161–164.
7 Andrew Scobell et al., eds., The People’s Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China (Washington, DC: NDU Press, 2015); Paul B. Stares, Managing Instability on China’s Periphery (Washington, DC: Council on Foreign Relations, 2011).
8 David M. Finkelstein, “China’s National Military Strategy: An Overview of the ‘Military Strategic Guidelines,’” in Right-Sizing the People’s Liberation Army: Exploring the Contours of China’s Military, ed. Roy Kamphausen and Andrew Scobell (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2007), 110.
9 Mark A. Cozad, “The PLA and Contingency Planning,” in The People’s Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China, 20.
10 James C. Mulvenon, Chairman Hu and the New Historic Missions, China Leadership Monitor, No. 27 (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, January 9, 2009), available at <http://media.hoover.org/sites/default/files/documents/CLM27JM.pdf>.
11 Oriana Mastro, “China’s Military Is About to Go Global,” The National Interest, December 18, 2014.
12 See Phillip C. Saunders and Isaac Kardon, “Reconsidering the PLA as an Interest Group,” in PLA Influence on China’s National Security Policymaking, ed. Phillip C. Saunders and Andrew Scobell (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015), 46.
13 State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, “China’s Military Strategy,” May 2015.
14 Ibid.; Science of Military Strategy [战略学] (Beijing: Academy of Military Sciences, 2013).
15 Elsa Kania and Kenneth Allen, The Human and Organizational Dimensions of the PLA’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems, China Brief 16, no. 8 (Washington, DC: The Jamestown Foundation, May 11, 2016).
16 Dennis J. Blasko, The Chinese Army Today (New York: Routledge, 2012); James C. Mulvenon, “The PLA Army’s Struggle for Identity,” in The People’s Liberation Army and China in Transition, ed. Stephen J. Flanagan and Michael E. Marti (Washington, DC: NDU Press, 2003).
17 The changing language describing the relationship between mechanization and informationization in Chinese defense white papers is a good proxy for the status of the debate. See China’s National Defense in 2004 (Beijing: State Council Information Office, 2004), available at <http://fas.org/nuke/guide/china/doctrine/natdef2004.html>.
18 Dennis J. Blasko, “Clarity of Intentions: People’s Liberation Army Transregional Exercises to Defend China’s Borders,” in Learning by Doing: The PLA Trains at Home and Abroad, ed. Roy Kamphausen, David Lai, and Travis Tanner (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, 2012), 198.
19 “Army Headquarters Begins to Develop Education on Reform Topics,” Jiefangjun Bao, January 5, 2016, available at <http://cpc.people.com.cn/n1/2016/0105/c64387-28014384.html>.
20 Note that Lieutenant General Zhu Fuxi, political commissar of the Western Theater Command, is nominally an air force officer but spent most of his career in the ground forces.
21 Zhang Shibo and Liu Yazhou, “Strive to Build a Supreme Military Academy That Attains the World’s Advanced Standards and Boasts Unique Chinese Characteristics—On Deeply Studying and Implementing the Important Speech by Chairman Xi During His Inspection of the National Defense University,” Jiefangjun Bao, April 18, 2016, 6.
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The Neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 Infection
Howard Eliot Gendelman, Scott Diesing, Harris Gelbard, Susan Swindells
HIV Clinic
Nebraska Medicine
This chapter reviews the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and pathology of HIV-1-associated neurological disease and its associated encephalitis. Particular emphasis is placed on diagnosis, pathogenesis, and treatment options now available or under investigation. This chapter demonstrates how HIV-1 infection of the brain results in neuronal injury and death. Besides the significant morbidity induced by HIV-1 for cognitive, motor, and behavioral function, the CNS represents an important reservoir for continuous virus production and the emergence of viral strain variance. Moreover, the mechanisms of how mononuclear phagocytes (MP) secretory products may damage neurons have potential wide applicability for other neurodegenerative disorders where inflammation is an important component of disease pathogenesis. Adjunctive therapies such as N-methyl D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) blockers, chemokine and cytokine effectors, antioxidants, caspase inhibitors, and p38MAPK inhibitors are all potential interventions and are being developed by many laboratories. If successful, these drugs may find utility in a broad range of neurodestructive processes.
AIDS and Other Manifestations of HIV Infection
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012764051-8/50007-X
Effector Caspases
Phagocytes
Gendelman, H. E., Diesing, S., Gelbard, H., & Swindells, S. (2004). The Neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 Infection. In AIDS and Other Manifestations of HIV Infection (pp. 95-115). Elsevier Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012764051-8/50007-X
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AIDS and Other Manifestations of HIV Infection. Elsevier Inc., 2004. p. 95-115.
Gendelman, HE, Diesing, S, Gelbard, H & Swindells, S 2004, The Neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 Infection. in AIDS and Other Manifestations of HIV Infection. Elsevier Inc., pp. 95-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012764051-8/50007-X
Gendelman HE, Diesing S, Gelbard H, Swindells S. The Neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 Infection. In AIDS and Other Manifestations of HIV Infection. Elsevier Inc. 2004. p. 95-115 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012764051-8/50007-X
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Quits her Job to follow her Passion: Shoes
An inspiring story from States about Gwen Rawls who spent 24 years working for UPS. Now, she is stepping out on her own – combining her “passion for fashion” with an entrepreneurial spirit.
Rawls open an Italian shoe boutique at Trenholm Plaza in Forest Acres in the U.S. The Conway native said she has traveled often to Europe and always has been inspired by the fashions there. “I wanted to bring that to Columbia,” she said.
Rawls said she always has wanted to start a business and shoes seemed like a natural fit.
“Oftentimes, when I was planning an outfit, it would start with my shoes,” she said. “I’ve always viewed the shoes as my foundation.”
Rawls got serious about starting her own business a couple of years ago, traveling to Milan in March to meet with designers and develop her own collection. That trip confirmed what she already had set in motion. “I knew, ‘Yes, this is what I want to do, and I am going to do it,’ ” she said. excerpt from The State. How bout you? start realizing your passion and follow your dreams.
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Senseless slaughter of badgers goes ahead thanks to Welsh Labour
Sunday July 29th, 2018 Red Black Green Animal liberation, Badger cull, Elections 0
In June 2017 I posted Labour to begin killing badgers in Wales later this year. The response it generated was greater than any other article that’s appeared on this site, especially on Facebook, split roughly 50/50 between those condemning Labour and those condemning me!! It was angrily dismissed as “fake news” and I was called a Tory troll among many other insults.
Unfortunately it was all too real. From August to November 2017 a total of 37 badgers were trapped and their blood was tested for TB at the setts. Any that tested positive were killed – five in all.
After post-mortem examinations on the bodies, the blood test was repeated in the laboratory but the results were negative, no infection was present. The costs of the trapping, blood tests and post-mortem examinations came to £383,112 – the equivalent of £76,622 for each badger killed. As well as being a tragic waste of life, it was an outrageous waste of money.
We know this thanks Stop the Welsh Cull’s (SWC) Freedom of Information request to the Animal and Plant Health Agency. The official response of the Welsh Government when asked how many badgers they killed was “yet to be determined” and they also refused to divulge the cost. On its Facebook page SWC published details for the three farms where badgers were killed: Ackley Farm near Welshpool, Upper Trostra Farm near Pontypool and Ffynongain Farm in Pembrokeshire.
The Farmers Weekly claimed this was “irresponsible ” as it threatened “the security of farmers and their neighbours.” The president of NFY Cymru said: ““Our primary concern now is for the well-being of those farmers affected by this breach.” Naturally there was no concern for the innocent animals who perished.
But those with expert knowledge of badgers and bovine TB condemned the cull. Rosie Woodroffe of the Zoological Society of London said “sounds like a rubbish blood test” and the Badger Trust went further, stating it “sends out a very clear signal to the farming and livestock veterinary industry in Wales that any form of badger culling is a hugely costly distraction from dealing with the key causes of the spread of bovine TB…industrial pollution from the intensive livestock industry”.
So where do we stand now? Welsh Labour clearly wants to remain silent. The close season ended on 1 May but as far as we know there has been no trapping yet although SWC says it has “credible reports of signs of pre-cull activity at high risk farms.” It has published a map of high risk farms in Wales, with red markers denoting those with the longest lasting TB occurrence, as they are the likeliest to start culling.
In one of its latest posts SWC asks people to monitor the three farms mentioned:
For unusual activity that could indicate killing has restarted and let us know. Also report lapses in biosecurity measures the farms involved are obliged to carry out. Recent stories in farming press say farmers have criticised the Welsh government’s strategy as being too costly due to the requirements to make their farms more biosecure.
In the midst of all this in May the Labour Party announced its “Animal welfare consultation” claiming it “has always placed the welfare of animals high on the policy agenda” and saying it was “seeking feedback on is the appointment of an Animal Welfare Commissioner to ensure that government policy across Whitehall is continually informed and underpinned by the latest scientific evidence on animal sentience and best practice in animal welfare.”
In last year’s post I said any reasonable person would assume Labour’s promise to “end the badger cull” just before the 2017 general election “meant there would be no culls at all under Labour, especially as the Welsh government had stated on numerous occasions that it had no plans to kill badgers because it was ineffective and inhumane.” Now UK Labour is calling again for an end to the cull knowing full well that Labour in Wales has killed and will, in all likelihood, continue to kill badgers there.
Last year I conceded there is nothing the Labour’s leadership can do to stop the Welsh government going ahead with the cull because those powers are devolved. But to ignore what is going on in the only part of the UK where the party holds power and then try to claim Labour as some sort of beacon for animal welfare is political mendacity at its most blatant.
What I said last year provoked howls of outrage because I to dared criticise Labour just as it had exceeded all expectations at the general election and Corbynmania was reaching new heights, particularly among young people at Glastonbury who were chanting “oh-oh Je-re-my Cor-byn” as the love affair with the leader really took off.
In truth my attacks weren’t directed at him personally – I’m sure he wouldn’t agree with badger culls anywhere – but with the party itself. I pointed out that as far as the animal rights was concerned, Labour had a long and ignoble history of making promises but not keeping them. New Labour under Blair went even further and declared war on the animal rights movement, especially its antivivisection wing.
A lot has changed since then, of course, but despite the crowning of Jeremy Corbyn as the most leftwing leader in the party’s history, what the Welsh cull shows is that as far as Labour is concerned you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
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E-CLOCK: A Wiki-based Outreach and Recruitment Tool
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Joseph A. Morgan Texas A&M University
Joseph A. Morgan is a Full Professor in the Electronics Engineering Technology program at Texas A&M University. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas. His major areas of interest include wireless networking and embedded microcontroller-based data acquisition, instrumentation and control systems. Morgan has also served as Director of engineering and as a Senior Consultant to the private sector where he has been involved in several design, development and system integration projects sponsored by the FAA, USAF, and major airport authorities. As a Texas A&M faculty member, he established the Mobile Integrated Solutions Laboratory (MISL), a joint university-industry partnership focusing on the design and development of hardware and software products Morgan served 22 years in the Air Force, including a tour of duty on faculty with the Electrical Engineering Department at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Jay R. Porter Texas A&M University
Jay R. Porter joined the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution at Texas A&M University in 1998 and is currently the Program Director for the Electronics and Telecommunications programs. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering (1987), a M.S. degree in physics (1989), and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering (1993) from Texas A&M University. His areas of interest in research and education include product development, analog/RF electronics, instrumentation, and entrepreneurship.
Douglas William Twigge
John Block Texas A&M University
Mickie Byrd
E-CLOCK: A WIKI-BASED OUTREACH AND RECRUITMENT TOOLThe Electronics Engineering Technology (EET) program has established outreach and recruitingas one of its highest priorities. In addressing this need, the EET program has developed anumber of engineering kits that are both challenging and motivational for high school students tolearn more about the areas of electronics and telecommunications. The newest of these kits is E-Clock, a small microcontroller-based development system that allows students to accomplish: Soldering of both through-hole and surface mount technology Use of a wiki-based development resource Units and measurement techniques for voltage and resistance Software development, programming and testing in the C high level language Design and development of expansion kits to add functionality and capability to the basic E-ClockE-Clock consists of a printed circuit board and approximately 75 through hole and surface mountparts that the student must assemble and test. The price of the kit is low enough that the EETprogram, through support grants from a major electronics manufacturer, is capable of providingkits for a large number of students who are considering engineering as their choice for a collegeeducation. Capturing the attention of these students early and making sure they have a goodunderstanding of the EET program curriculum is expected to increase the application andtransfer of top-level students into the program. The E-Clock kit/projects are versatile enough tobe used for recruiting/retention/teaching in a variety of different programs in engineering andengineering technology alike.In addition to the initial building and programming of the basic E-Clock kit, the developers arehopeful that some of the high school students will contribute to the wiki by designing their ownadvanced kits and generating the new control software. Sharing their work with others via thewiki will allow the project to continue to expand. To support this, the developers plan to create asocial communications link via Facebook to allow for increased information sharing and trackingof the high school students as they graduate and enter college.Initial results will be reported in the paper/presentation based on kits that have been sent tofemale students who participated in the Krisys Robot Women Explore Engineering (WEE)Workshop hosted by the College of Engineering during the summer of 2011. In addition, thedevelopers are working with a local high school, using E-Clock for both lower- and upper-division students to fully test and evaluate the E-Clock design and wiki-based support anddevelopment tools. This will also be presented.
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Dynamics of the Deep Arctic Ocean
While the relatively isolated deepest waters of the Arctic Ocean show less variability than the intermediate waters, the evolution of deep heat and salt are important to understanding the past and present state of the Arctic climate system. Since 2007, moored measurements from the deepest waters in the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre have provided fascinating insight into the dynamics and evolution of these remote waters. This research is aimed at understanding mixing processes, variability and waves in the deep water, and how changes in the shallow and intermediate Arctic waters are manifest in the deep ocean.
Eddies in the Arctic Ocean
Eddies are ubiquitous in the Arctic Ocean, representing a potentially important source of mixing in the ocean, and having implications for the lateral transport of heat, salt, and other water property anomalies. In this research, measurements from Ice-Tethered Profilers as well as CTD and mooring measurements are analyzed to examine eddy formation mechanisms, lifetimes, and their impact on ocean vertical heat transport.
Ocean mixing mechanisms and the evolution of heat and salt in the Arctic Ocean
One significant recent change to occur in the Arctic Ocean has been a warming of the Pacific- and Atlantic-derived waters that lie beneath the surface mixed layer. This is of consequence to ice cover where it is possible for the heat to be transported to the surface. Vertical transport of heat is presently inhibited by the strong Arctic halocline. Measurements from Ice-Tethered Profilers and moorings are used to investigate where and how heat and salt are transported in the Arctic Ocean.
The role of horizontal buoyancy gradients in the surface mixed layer of the Arctic Ocean
The only direct ocean impact on sea-ice cover is via the surface ocean mixed layer. Arctic Ocean surface properties are traditionally thought to be set primarily by vertical processes, however recent analyses indicate that the surface layer is also strongly influenced by lateral flows, important for regulating the interaction between the ocean and sea ice. This research investigates the physics of small-scale flows in the Arctic mixed layer beneath the sea-ice cover.
Mixing and circulation in the Arctic Ocean’s Beaufort Gyre
The Beaufort Gyre is one of the main ice-ocean circulation systems in the Arctic, and the major reservoir of fresh water stored in the Arctic Ocean. This investigation is an analysis of observational data and numerical model output to examine conditions, mechanisms and variability of fresh water accumulation in the Beaufort Gyre and its release beyond the Beaufort Gyre region. The research examines the sensitivity of these processes to atmospheric and ocean circulation regimes, ocean mixing, changes in fresh water sources (rivers, precipitation, ocean straits), and to sea ice and atmospheric thermodynamic conditions.
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This article is for Medical Professionals
Professional Reference articles are designed for health professionals to use. They are written by UK doctors and based on research evidence, UK and European Guidelines. You may find the Scabies article more useful, or one of our other health articles.
Crusted ('Norwegian') scabies
Scabies is an itchy rash caused by the parasitic mite Sarcoptes scabiei. Scabies has caused pruritic infestation in humans for over 2,500 years, at least back to the Roman period. The Romans used 'scabies' to describe any itchy skin disease. The word scabies is derived from the Latin word 'scabere', meaning 'to scratch'. The mite was identified in the 17th century, and described by an Italian physician, Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo, making it one of the first diseases to have a known cause.[1]
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It is often difficult to diagnose due to the spectrum of associated signs and symptoms and its clinical mimicry of other conditions.
Globally it is an enormous public health problem, causing significant morbidity and mortality in developing countries, and a feeling that it has been neglected prompted the formation of the International Alliance for the Control of Scabies (IACS).[2]There are also concerns about increasing resistance to drugs currently available.[3]
Aetiology[4]
The female scabies mite is about 0.4 mm long, and the male is about half this size. After mating on the skin surface, the male dies and the female mite tunnels into the epidermis, and deposits eggs along the burrow. Development from egg to adult takes about 10-15 days. Adult mites then return to the skin surface to multiply. Mites die after 4-6 weeks. An average host harbours 10-12 mites, but this may be greatly increased in immunocompromised patients. Female mites can move at up to 2.5 cm per minute but they do not jump or fly. It usually requires skin contact of 10-15 minutes for mites to be passed from one host to another. Classical scabies is usually transmitted only via direct skin contact. Crusted scabies (a more severe variety, see below) can also be transmitted via bedding, towels, clothes and furniture.
There is a period of asymptomatic infection. Pruritus develops as an allergic reaction to infection, around 4-6 weeks after infestation.[5]Infection can be transmitted to others during the asymptomatic phase. One should maintain a high index of clinical suspicion for scabies.[6]
Risk factors[2, 7]
Overcrowding.
Poverty, poor nutritional status.
Homelessness.
Poor hygiene.
Institutions. Residential care homes in the UK, refugee camps in some parts of the world.
Dementia.
Sexual contact.
Children, especially in developing countries.
Immune suppression (eg, HIV infection). Like the elderly, immunocompromised individuals are at particular risk of the crusted variant. They tend to present with clinically atypical lesions and are often misdiagnosed, causing a delay in appropriate treatment and increased risk of a local epidemic.
Scabies is a common public health problem with an estimated 300 million cases prevalent worldwide.[4]There are no recent prevalence figures for the UK, although incidence is thought to be rising. Estimates in the past have suggested about 100 people per 100,000 of the UK population see their GP every month with scabies.[8]
In the UK, outbreaks may occur in residential or nursing homes, hospitals, prisons and occasionally in schools. Delayed diagnosis significantly contributes to outbreaks.[9]In other parts of the world, those in overcrowded situations such as refugee camps are particularly at risk. Prevalence is strongly associated with overcrowding and poverty.[10]
Presentation[8]
In primary infestation, signs and symptoms only develop after 3-4 weeks. Infected contacts may be asymptomatic for up to a month which is why empirical treatment of all significant contacts is suggested. Symptoms reappear within 1-3 days if the person is re-infested due to prior sensitisation.
The most common presenting symptom is widespread itching. This is usually worse at night and when the person is warm. A history of several family members all suffering with itch is strongly suggestive of scabies. Scratching predisposes to secondary bacterial infection.
On examination the skin changes vary. Lesions may be papules, vesicles, pustules, and nodules. Erythematous papular or vesicular lesions are usually seen in the sites of the burrows. The more widespread, symmetrical, itchy, papular eruption is not in the areas of burrows or obvious mite activity. This is most commonly seen around the axillae, the peri-areolar region of the breasts in women, and the abdomen, buttocks, and thighs. Excoriation marks are common and may be more marked than the underlying rash.
Scabies of the leg
Burrows may be visible as fine, wavy, greyish, dark or silvery lines, 2-15 mm long, sometimes with a minute speck (the mite) at the closed end. They are most often seen in the interdigital web spaces of the hands, flexor surfaces of the wrists and elbows, axillae, ankles, feet, buttock areas, male genitalia and peri-areolar area in women.
Scabies - burrows on a finger
Some authorities describe the 'wake' sign: scabies burrows are followed by a pattern of scale similar to the 'wake' left on the surface of water by a moving bird or a boat. The 'wake' sign is specific for scabies, can be seen with the naked eye and points towards the location of the mite.[11]
Nodules may develop. These occur particularly at the elbows, anterior axillary folds, penis, and scrotum. They are firm, dull red or brown, and may be very itchy. They may persist for weeks or months after treatment and do not necessarily indicate active infestation, but rather the result of a chronic allergic reaction to the mite. Inflammatory papules and nodules on the male genitalia, sometimes with visible burrows, are diagnostic of scabies.
Thick skin is relatively resistant, so sparing is seen of the soles of the feet and upper back region in adults. Young children, the elderly and immunocompromised may also have palm and sole involvement, as well as lesions on the face, neck, ear and scalp.
Even a single burrow is pathognomonic but burrows are often obliterated by bathing, scratching, crusts, or superinfection.
Papules are small and erythematous. They can be sparse, or numerous and close-set. Over time papules can change into vesicles and bullae.[12]
Papules and vesicles frequently develop into excoriations, eczema exacerbations, secondary infections and crusts.
Scabies of the finger
Crusted scabies is a hyper-infestation with thousands of mites present in exfoliating scales, due to the host's insufficient immune response. Those at risk include:
The immunosuppressed (eg, HIV infection, leukaemia or lymphoma).
Elderly patients.
Those with decreased peripheral sensation.
Hyperkeratotic crusted lesions typically affect the hands, feet, nails, scalp and ears, but all areas of skin, including the scalp and trunk, may be involved.
Crusted scabies is a hyperkeratotic skin disease resembling psoriasis.[13]
It may present with generalised lymphadenopathy and be associated with eosinophilia.
It often becomes secondarily infected.
This form of scabies is very contagious and is far more difficult to eradicate than classical scabies.
Differential diagnosis[8]
Misdiagnosis is common and other skin disorders, particularly those causing itching, should be considered, including:
Pubic lice and body lice
Atopic eczema
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Urticaria pigmentosa
Prurigo nodularis
Investigations[8]
The diagnosis is largely clinical. A magnifying lens may help in identification of burrows or even occasionally mites.
The ink burrow test can be helpful in confirming burrows. Ink is rubbed over a burrow (for example, with the surface of a fountain pen nib) then wiped off with an alcohol swab. Ink will track into a burrow, outlining it.
The diagnosis can be confirmed by taking a skin scraping from an affected area, placing the material on a glass slide with a drop of 10% potassium hydroxide and seeing an adult mite, egg or eggshell under light microscopy.
Whilst the sensitivity of skin scrapings is low, it is very specific and a mite or eggs seen under the microscope will remove any doubt.
Management[8, 14, 15]
All members of the household, close contacts, and sexual contacts should be treated simultaneously with the index patient. It is important that all contacts apply treatment on the same day to reduce the risk of re-infestation from an untreated contact. Patients should be advised to avoid close body contact until they and their partner(s) have completed treatment.
The primary method of treatment for scabies is by topical application of a parasiticidal preparation overnight to the whole body from head to toe. This should be repeated a week later.
Apply treatment to the whole body, including the scalp, neck, face, and ears, and especially between the fingers and toes and under the nails. Treatment should not be applied after a hot bath (as this increases systemic absorption and removes the drug from its treatment site). If the hands are washed, the liquid or cream must be reapplied.
First-line: permethrin 5% dermal cream has been the most widely studied. It has been shown to be more effective than topical crotamiton and oral ivermectin.[16, 17]Patients with crusted 'Norwegian' scabies may require two or three applications on consecutive days to ensure that enough penetrates the hyperkeratotic areas to kill all the mites.
Second-line: malathion 0.5% aqueous liquid. Malathion has only been studied in non-controlled trials.
Crotamiton 10% cream or lotion: less effective than permethrin and is not recommended due to its poor efficacy. It may help to relieve the itch caused by scabies.
Oral ivermectin (as a single oral dose of 200 micrograms/kg) is available on a named-patient basis as an adjunct to topical treatment for crusted ('Norwegian') scabies. This treatment is usually initiated on specialist advice.
Seek specialist advice for children under 2 months old - scabies is rare in this age group.
Breast-feeding or pregnant women with scabies can be treated with permethrin 5% dermal cream (or malathion if permethrin is contra-indicated), although neither is specifically licensed for such; there is, however, no indication that either product is harmful to the fetus or child. Breast-feeding mothers should remove the liquid or cream from the nipples before breast-feeding, and reapply treatment afterwards.
Clothes, towels, and bed linen should be machine-washed (at 50°C or above) to prevent re-infestation and transmission. Items that cannot be washed can be kept in plastic bags for at least 72 hours to contain the mites until they die.
Outbreaks of scabies in a residential or nursing home should be referred to Public Health. All residents, staff, and their families are treated simultaneously on an agreed treatment date.
The risk of transmission of scabies is low in schools and children can return to school after the first application of treatment has been completed.
Treatment of itch:
Antihistamines are of little help in treating pruritus. A sedative oral antihistamine at night may help with sleeping and so reduce scratching.
Crotamiton cream or lotion has soothing qualities and may help to relieve the itch caused by scabies.
Low-dose steroid creams or simple emollients and moisturisers stored in the fridge may also ease discomfort.
Suspect treatment failure where:
Itching persists >6 weeks after the first application of an insecticide.
Treatment was not applied as instructed or unco-ordinated between close contacts.
New burrows appear.
If incorrectly applied treatment has failed, repeat, ensuring all are clear as to instructions. Where correctly applied treatment has been ineffective, give a course of a different parasiticidal preparation. This reduces the development of resistance to the medication.
Secondary bacterial infections should be treated with antibiotics if significant.
The British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASSH) guidelines, developed for use in GUM clinics, suggest that those with scabies should be offered full STI screening, as there is anecdotal evidence that rates of other infections are similar to other attendees.[14]
Complications[2, 8]
Scabies can cause flaring or reactivation of eczema or psoriasis.
Secondary bacterial infection. This is a cause of much morbidity and mortality, especially in the developing world. Particularly involved are Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus pyogenes. Cellulitis, impetigo and abscesses may be the result, and bacterial skin infection can further predispose to invasive infection and sepsis. S. pyogenes infection secondary to scabies is a risk factor for acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis and possibly acute rheumatic fever. Crusted scabies has a high mortality rate due to secondary sepsis in the immunosuppressed.
Scabies nodules may require intranodular corticosteroid injection for complete resolution.
Those whose immunity is highly sensitive can present with extensive dermatitis or even erythroderma.
Scabies has social stigma and may cause psychological harm with persistent delusions of parasitosis, shame or guilt.
Prognosis[8]
Scabies persists indefinitely unless treated. Treatment, if applied correctly, has a high chance of cure. In endemic areas, re-infestation is likely.
Itching can persist for up to three weeks after treatment: warn patients that this does not mean treatment has failed. However, if itching is becoming more intense and persisting for more than six weeks, this is suggestive of treatment failure.
Crusted scabies in those with HIV may be very difficult to eliminate.
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Pubic and Body Lice
Malathion liquid (Derbac-M)
Permethrin cream (Lyclear)
These three weird bumps showed up on my wrist and I am terrified that it is scabies. I have been home from college the last four weeks and have only been from my home to the store. No unusual places....
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Justice Antonin Scalia on SuperPACS vs. the First Amendment: “You can’t separate speech from the money that facilitates the speech.”
Tonight at 9 p.m. Piers Morgan is invited inside the Supreme Court for a rare and candid visit with Justice Antonin Scalia.
In an exclusive interview from Washington, D.C., the Court's longest-serving justice touches upon topics ranging from religion to politics, explaining the thinking which allows him to arrive at his legal decisions.
The "Piers Morgan Tonight" host asks the self-described textualist if he believes Founding Father Thomas Jefferson would deem today's excessive political contributions to be abusive, and against the fundamental tenants of the Constitution:
“No, I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better,” quips Scalia, referring to the first amendment. “That’s what the first amendment is all about. So long as the people know where the speech is coming from.”
When Morgan clarifies, insisting his question refers not to speech, but instead to campaign financing and SuperPACS, Scalia surmises that the line is blurred:
“You can’t separate speech from the money that facilitates the speech.”
Watch the clip, and listen to the interview, then tune in this evening as the man who was appointed by Ronald Reagan is joined by Professor Bryan A. Garner, Scalia's co-author of the new book, "Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts."
Post by: Jason Kurtz, Kristen Holmes
Debie Ramirez
Has a pitbull lover,mr.vick was told my the courts as part of his parole he could NEVER own another DOG..He heeds to tell his kids why they can;t have a dog(god) backward.Have them understand or even better show them the viedos of what dad use to enjoy and support.Then they may understand why NO DOGS....Debie
Pierce, let the Justice finish his answer. All you seem to care about is having your question asked. Those of us watching would like to hear the answers!
Piers is brilliant with Scalia. High fives and cheers to Piers.
I hope you are right, but it looked to me that when it came to campaign financing by corporations, he let Scalia skate around the issue with his 'Why not corporate money?", statement.
On Chief Justice Scalia interview: Finally, television worth watching. Among thousands and thousands of hours of inane nonsense, you have finally cut into something worth dissecting. Good on you for choosing to create and disseminate something actually worth one's time. The best hour I have seen, and the first time ever in over 40 years I have commented on your content.
Great job Piers! Not sure a Justice should do interviews on CNN? Glad that a Brit did the interview. No holds barred!
Vick Barker
You're interviewing a sitting member of the U.S. Supreme Court, and you're asking him about his speeding tickets and guilty pleasures! Clearly you're with a mental giant much, much larger, than yourself, and have no place to go!
This "mental Giant" as you call him, is one of the primary agents in the destruction of our democracy.
that is crap there is no justce isn't it ? scalia you are a clown
Kathi Pozzi, Portland OR
Piers! FINALLY you have an intelligent interesting fascinating guest who is well educated, gracious, intense and knowledgeable and you are a complete embarrassment! You'd think you would at least have had some rehearsal and background knowledge to help you from looking like such a buffoon! OMG! What an incompetent tonight! How're your ratings lately?...KMP...PDX, OR
Chief Justice Scalia's decisions reflect why the morality and lack of compassion exists today. Money rules is his master.
How great when this Rottweiler is off the Supreme Court. The most biased appointee ever to sit. God help the U.S.
CJH
WHAT DID JUSTICE SCALIA SAY HIS FAVORITE FOOD WAS.... A SARDINE DISH IN A YELLOW CAN ???
Piers was incredibly overmatched, if CNN wants to conduct another intervieew with Justice Scalia, I suggest they find someone much smarter.
Totally agree. Morgan needs to stick to interviewing Hollywood idiots and leave the scholarly interviews to those who actually prepare for an interview.
David in Berlin
It is disappointing and frightening that programs like Morgan´s try to give pedjudiced, compassionless ideologues like Scalia and Bachman credibility.
I have stopped watching...
Piers was horribly unprepared to interview a Justice of the Supreme Court. He should be embarassed, as I was embarassed for him just to watch... Scalia did a good job of not making him look like a complete idiot. Big loss of respect for Morgan after this....
I actually watched this interview twice, only to learn that Morgan tried his very best to serve his liberal agenda and audience. Scalia was brilliant and I loved how he left Morgan without a thought to respond with on the issue of abortion and the Framers, especially when Scalia responded with "those men didn't care for their wives and daughters? As a, woman, I totally appreciated this.
So much could have come from this interview, but instead Morgan further devalued his own show and proved his inability to truly do justice to intelligent reporting. Where have the intelligent reporters gone?
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Lora DiMaggio on Hannah Anderson: "She's trouble"
Tonight “Piers Morgan Live” welcomed Lora DiMaggio, James DiMaggio’s sister, for an exclusive interview. This was her first interview since her brother’s death and the deaths of Hannah Anderson's mother and brother.
As the conversation turned to 16-year-old Hannah Anderson, DiMaggio continued to defend her brother.
"Do you believe everything a 16-year-old tells you?" DiMaggio asked Piers Morgan. He asked her to explain her skepticism:
"I know the Hannah Anderson that I saw a few night ago on the TV is certainly not the girl that stayed in my home three weeks prior to them disappearing," she began. "I remember very vividly telling my brother, she's trouble."
Watch the clip for more of Morgan's interview with Lora DiMaggio as she describes the girl she knows as Hannah Anderson, and for the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
snadrows
I want to hear more of what Lora has to say!
August 27, 2013 at 11:44 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Z. R. Bell
Lora Robinson has every right, as do tax payers, to know the evidence being withheld, regarding the full picture of what transpired and who all may be involved. How justice is, or is not, served cannot be trusted to secrecy.
August 28, 2013 at 12:47 am | Report abuse | Reply
Linda Prince
Nicely worded! I agree.
stanad
I so agree!!! We demand the details be released!!!!
RogerThat
Lora should demand / request an official clarification along with proofs about the whole issue through the court. I seriously doubt if Hannah is a Sociopath. If somebody/ police are covering up this case, they are actually releasing a sociopath into the public. This should be a serious concern to every tax payer for the security of themselves and their loved ones from a sociopath.
this lady is sharing her opinion on national broadcasting and she is disparaging this 16 year old girl......her brother was crazy and she might be articulate but so are sociopaths' in interviews.....I wish news stations would return to telling news and not this silliness. totally the wrong forum for this lady
And so was George Bush !
Hope J
Jesus can bring peace to your troubled soul, IF you let him. He loves you! He alone provides hope in despair, peace that surpasses all understanding, a real and lasting joy that's not to be confused with the kind of happiness we may seek on earth. Acknowledge Him in all your ways and He will direct your path. Justice will come, but perhaps not in this lifetime. Look to Him and be set free! Blessings!
Steve Schaefer
I would like a full investigation into the Hannah Anderson story. Is it utterly impossible that Hannah was involved in the murder of her mother and little brother? She seems to be coming across a little like Jodi Arias; as she weaves a story that is long on drama and short on facts. Knowing federal, state, and local agencies spent a lot of time and money on the search for James DiMaggio and Hannah – and that a quick kill insured a one-sided story, I'm surprised that we all bought the fairy tale ending so easily.
CNN are you listening?? Please get Lora Dimaggion back on for an in depth interview and assist her to get THE FACTS!!!!
Something about this story is off. There is more to this story. Let her talk!
Fascinating interview. The pain in this woman's voice and face was apparent. A few things have seemed odd to me. When the people riding horseback found them, one of them said that Hannah had been heard saying "Now we're all in trouble". I think that is what she said. What would that mean? Also, all of her recent pictures look like a 20 year old not a 15-16 year old. She does seem mature for her age. At the funeral, before the service, she seemed very calm and detached, looked around and smiling. She did interviews and posted comments on line very soon after the tragedy when she must have been grieving. The whole truth can never be known because he is dead but you can see why the sister might have legitimate questions.
Very well put, agree 100%
There has been so many twists and turns in this case that I don't know what to believe. It's hard to say that DiMaggio was innocent or that Hannah is guilty of something or vice versa but the FBI and police do need to release whatever evidence they have. One thing is for sure though, this isn't an open and shut case and there's a reason why they're still investigating.
I am SO glad he has a sister to bring some of these questions up. I believe in Occam's razor in many cases like this, simply appears as it seems to be, but here a lot of things felt "off", and I believe the FBI is still investigating. Hannah's instant social media response disturbed me but I was willing to accept that it's her generation's way of coping, healthy or not. But her interview really bugged my gut intuition. Lora was very careful to not implicitly accuse Hannah of anything specific, but like any familial death a painful process of clearly "eliminating" her as a suspect needs to be done.
karla81
she migh have a point, there is something about Hannah's behavior a woman can recognize that in a young girl ...you can see more pictures of the sister here
http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/tv/lora-dimaggio-james-lee-dimaggios-sister/
Is everyone serious here? Maybe she is trouble. That's not even the issue. The issue here is that man should have stayed away from that child! He had no business taking her anywhere or feeding into anything that she was doing.
Finally someone with a voice of reason
This woman's brother is dead. There is no proof that he killed anyone or even set his own home on fire with the victims inside. She has every right to know what happened and the truth is not being told, yet.
Just honestly requesting for the Proof and Facts. Not your child-adult emotional Sentimental drama. It is of Serious concern to every tax payer to know if there is a sociopath on the loose.
Perhaps the place to begin is at the end. It's reported an FBI sharp-shooter struck DiMaggio in the head. Such a shot would have to be lined-up, meaning the target would be in a gun scope. The shooter would know if the suspect was armed and aiming a weapon. If the suspect fired, the agent should have detected a rifle recoil. Who fired the shot that was heard, and that resulted in DiMaggio being killed?
If DiMaggio fired the first shot, then it's presumed he knew an agent or agents were closing-in. Perhaps he chose death-by-cop suicide because the likelihood of holding off a small army of trained assault troops is very poor. At any rate, his death was almost guaranteed when that shot was fired.
This case warrants further investigation. The people have spoken.
maxf
Could be she just hurting or her brother got played by the teen. She lie about the mother and brother and he got it in his head to save her from them. Or she did it and he took the blame trying to save her. But I ant proof too.
Ramere Jones
Piers Morgan must not have anything worthy to put on his show.
This woman is a former drug addict and apparently fell off the 12 step wagon after all of this mess that she continues to try to profit from. Everyone that knows here knows she doesn't even have custody of her own kids and she's talking about a dead woman's kids? Really? How the hell can she even give CNN viewers a halfway decent perspective on Hannah Anderson when the courts took away her own kids.
That interview with this whack job is part of the reason why people have stopped watching CNN. To put someone with zero credibility on my TV screen who quite frankly looked like a total nutcase in defense of her murdering brother shows no judgement on this network's part.
Your personal attacks on everyone are very impressive. Now shut it and let the facts come out. People / tax payers ought to know if there is a sociopath on the loose. We don't need your accusative Drama. We just need the simple facts.
bgg1175
Disgusting that CNN and Piers Morgan would give a slander and gossip platform to Lora DiMaggio. She is a sick and twisted individual who wants revenge for the death of her mutually crazy sibling.
CNN astounds and amazes with it's ability to reach new lows! Just when you think they've reach the bottom, they go deeper into the abyss of sleaze.
What's wrong with requesting for simple Facts and proof?? Is it a crime to understand what went wrong?? Probably it will prevent future crimes if everyone knows the facts. What's there to hide?? Irrespective of the personal accusations here, I would say there is something fishy, bring out the facts.
Why was she trouble? Because "she was wearing really heavy eye makeup"
Says the lady wearing really heavy eye makeup.....
Haha that's exactly what I was thinking.
I have kept my mouth shut on this, but im sick of the idea that the Hannah girl might get off free, because the FBI shot this man and killed him without all the facts!! I feel so sorry for Lora!!! I have brothers and no matter what you think of James Demaggio, it is still her brother and she loves him. She has every right to know what happened here!! Every Right! CNN please help Lora!! A lot and I mean a lot of people want to know!!!
I totally Agree !! CNN Way to go !! I really admire CNN for having the guts to try and bring out the Facts.
This woman Lora is more like a woman scorned than anything else I can compare her to. It's over. Her brother did not give up his life to save this girl. How ridiculous is Lora. This guy fired a shot first! End of story. If you were your bother's best friend...he'd have given you his money instead. You told your brother this girl is trouble? Hmmm woman scorned....or... or...do I smell incest?
You must be another sociopath friend of Hannah or may be Hannah with different name. Its not about money or not about what ever you indulge yourself in. Its about knowing the facts as they are with proof. Very simple.
This story has seemed screwy and questionable from the minute I heard that she was missing. And the longer it went on, even more questionable. I can't believe the FBI would shoot him without giving him a chance to defend himself. That does not seem like justice to me. The timer in the burned house? Why is DeMaggio being blamed for that? I think Hannah went with him on her own to get away from her mom maybe....I do not think DeMaggion kidnapped her. AND, I did not once see the dad grieving for his dead son.....he was more concerned about having a fund raiser for Hanniah....what does she need a fund raiser for???? Let's look at the dad for a while and see what his motives might have been. I don't know, the whole thing bothers me and I think there is much more to it than has come out. Writer Ann Rule would have fun with this one!
Lora seems sense when I see her talk I believe her however as we see Hanna I do not have the same feeling my feeling is of disbelief. Especially after following Hanna Anderson inappropriate posts on her insigram that is a wealth questionable posts and writings.
http://instagram.com/_hannah_x0x0
Celeste Cortes
Almost every "Conspiracy" involving San Diego Sherriff Bill Gore goes back to Medical contract and defense Contract Is this link why Hannah Anderson was not arrested and pertrade a "victim" because who the family is who like all family will protect their child. http://www.manta.com/c/mm2zw76/robert-l-anderson-inc Now go see what medical use Semiconductor provides
http://www.onsemi.com/PowerSolutions/content.do?id=16602
Now go see the defense purpuse
If what Hannah is saying now is true, that DiMaggio was signalling for help, then his sister has good reason to believe they shot him needlessly.
October 11, 2013 at 10:05 pm | Report abuse | Reply
Greer has questions about Anderson's kidnapping and whether killing James Dimaggio was really necessary. Hannah has said several times that she talked to Jim about getting the gun, firing three shots in the air for an SOS…He picks up the gun and this whole time the FBI is surrounding him.
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St. Vincent Announces New Album MASSEDUCTION, Shares New Song “Los Ageless”: Listen
Annie Clark’s new studio LP is out October 13
Photo by Nedda Afsari
St. Vincent has announced her next album. It’s called MASSEDUCTION, and it’s out October 13 via Loma Vista. It follows Annie Clark’s last studio album, 2014’s St. Vincent, and it features her previously released single “New York.” Listen to a new song from the record, “Los Ageless,” below. The album features Kamasi Washington, Jenny Lewis, Doveman, and production from Sounwave. In a mock press conference announcing the album on Facebook, she said “literally the only point” of the record is it’s about love, and stressed that the title is pronounced “Mass Seduction,” not “Mass Education. (“I did toy with calling the record Ass Education,” she joked.)
In interviews leading up to the album’s announcement, Annie Clark described the record as being “all about sex and drugs and sadness.” St. Vincent’s “Fear the Future” tour kicks off in October. She recently contributed a Beatles cover to a new Tiffany campaign.
Read Pitchfork’s recent interview with the director of the “New York” video.
MASSEDUCTION:
01 Hang on Me
03 Masseduction
04 Sugarboy
05 Los Ageless
06 Happy Birthday, Johnny
07 Savior
08 New York
09 Fear the Future
10 Young Lover
11 Dancing With a Ghost
12 Slow Disco
13 Smoking Section
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Simeon Kronenberg
“Distance contains poems that focus on family, diverse geography, history and love. Seen as a whole, this work is a celebration of the senses, where art and eroticism move in and out of focus. The poems reveal aspects of Australian and Indonesian life and culture in ways that arrest the inner attention, while ancient and modern history remain potent undercurrents. Distance, with its lyrical variousness and compelling subject matter is sure to appeal to a wide range of readers.”
– Anthony Lawrence
“Precise, beautiful, delicately sensuous but also unflinching in their honesty, Simeon Kronenberg’s poems bring before us the richly felt presence of other lives. Whether the location is contemporary Bali, Melbourne, London or New York, or a more remote historical scene or moment, Kronenberg enters into his subjects with a sure eye for detail and a poet’s grasp of rhythm and shifting tones. Part of the strength of Kronenberg as a poet is his deep humanity, the width of life he encompasses, equally at home evoking the landscapes and everyday rituals of Bali or bearing witness to the bravery of friends confronting illness and death. Distance is a powerful engaging collection of presences, a delight to read and savour.”
– Peter Boyle
Simeon Kronenberg’s name is recognised across Australia in the visual arts, not least through the regular cycle of contemporary exhibitions he hosts at the Kronenberg Wright gallery in Darlinghurst NSW. In recent years his discerning eye has turned to poetry. With strong mentorship from the likes of Anthony Lawrence and Judith Beveridge he has produced a first collection of rare maturity, depth and complexity.
Simeon Kronenberg has published poetry, interviews and essays in Australian poetry journals and in anthologies including Australian Love Poems 2013, ‘Connective Tissue’, Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology 2015, Best Australian Poems 2016 and Grieve Prize, 2016. In 2014 he won the inaugural Second Bite Poetry Prize and he was short-listed for the Newcastle Poetry Prize in 2015 He lives and works in Sydney and also writes on Australian contemporary visual arts.
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Martin Luther - an Augustinian monk and professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg, challenged the
authority of the people and attacked several doctrines of the Catholic Church. To him, the Church had become
corrupt, constituting priests who manipulated popular superstition to enrich themselves. He attacked the sale of
indulgences citing that they were fraud; argued that purgatory had no foundation in the bible and Christians could
be saved by faith alone. Stemmed the branch of Protestantism during the Reformation.
Jane Lumley - first Tudor woman to translate a play; composed an English version of the Euripides' Iphigenia at
Aulis (c.1550)
Witch Craze:
-1590s, Scotland went on witch craze
-thousands of women wildly accused and little cahnce to defend themselves
-tortured into confessions (what kind? look below ^.^)
-James the first claimed they
-were involved in 1590 conspiracy to kill him with storm when he was getting home with new bride on sea
-they were always plotting against him
Maleficium “an evil deed” (what kind of deeds were witches charged with?)
-infant cannibalism
-night flying
-sexual intercourse with the devil
-orgiastic "witches Sabbaths"
dance in plays
-all plays in the period, including Shakespeare's, apparently ended in dance
-brush off theatrical gore and change expression from woe to pleasure
-players were later warned to suppress these entertainments or go to jail
- Most english towns had stocks and whipping post.
- Drunks, fraudulent merchants, adulterers, and quarrelers could be placed in carts or mounted backward on asses
and paraded through the streets for crowd to jeer and throw refuse at.
- Women accused of being scolds could be publicly muzzled by an iron device called a "brank" or tied to a
cucking stool and dunked into the river.
Convicted criminals could have their ears cut off, their noses slit, their foreheads branded.
- Public beheadings (generally reserved for the elite, for example when Queen Elizabeth, February 1587, signed
the death warrant for her cousins (Mary) beheading (21) ) and hangings were common. In the worst cases, felons
were sentenced to be "hanged by the neck, and being alive cut down, and your privy members to be cut off, and
your bowels to be taken out of your belly and there burned, you being alive." (35)
- This was found on page 35 under the heading Alternative Entertainments.
July 1588 - pg 21
When The Invincible Armada, a Spanish war-ship, reached English waters, one of the largest, most famous,
naval battles in European history was fought. During this battle, in what was seen as an act of God, the Spanish
fleet was dispersed and many Spanish soldiers died. The war was between Catholic Spain, backed by Queen
Elizabeth’s former brother in law, Philip II, and Protestant England.
Exorcism – pg 50
Since the Catholics were unable to practice their religion freely, or openly, in Protestant England, they sought a
spectacular way to demonstrate the “enduring spiritual power and authenticity of the Roman Church”. Thus, they
turned to the ancient ritual of exorcism to demonstrate the Church’s triumph over evil. This ritual used to be
publicly performed, but now had to be conducted secretly in barns in remote villages or in the attics of secluded
houses of their supporters. The missionary priests who presided over the ritual were in danger of brutal
interrogation, torture, and horrible execution. These secret clandestine exorcisms drew substantial crowds in
Shakespearean England.
Blackness: Was considered to be a defect that African people had, although they were considered exotic in
England and Scotland in the 16th century. Later on Africans became increasingly popular to have as servants
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Climate Theory: At the time some people believed that the darkness of their skin was due to the extreme heat in
the regions where African people
Shakespeare's plays were the property of the theatrical company performing them. Normally companies would
not have their plays in print unless the theatre was closed due to the plague or the company was in need of money
to pay off debts or when a play had been performed so much that the company would not receive any profit
Shakespeare's "Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies" (71)
- highlights elements that Shakespeare shared with his contemporaries , and they insistently remind us that we
are encountering scripts written primarily for the stage and not for the study
- they make us more attentive to such matters as business cycles, plague rolls , the cost of costumes, government
censorship and urban topography and less concerned with the elusive and enigmatic details of the poet's
biography- his supposed youthful escapades and erotic yearnings and psychological crises.
William Tyndale (1525-30): He was an English Lutheran who did a translation of the New Testament, which
was printed on the Continent and smuggled into England in 1525. He later translated the Pentateuch (the first 5
books in the Hebrew Bible) in 1530. Many of the copies were burned and Tyndale was seized and burned himself
(pg 18).
Foul papers: Drafts with a lot of revisions and marks in the margins.
Fair Copies: After countless revisions, the "foul papers" would have to be written again (good copies) and given
to the theater companies; although, sometimes only the "foul papers" would be given and no fair copies would
have been made.
Promptbooks: The fair copies (or the foul papers) would be taken and transformed into these promptbooks for
the players, which included stage directions and sound effects. It was also the copy that was presented to the
Master of Revels for licensing and making sure that the content was "acceptable."
The above 3 definitions are from page 72.
Cross Dressing: Enemies of the stage claimed that cross dressing increased sexual desires in both heterosexuals
and homosexuals. Cross dressing technically violated biblical teachings, so religious antitheatricalists attacked
the theatre for that reason and claimed it was one of the reasons why the theatre was 'Satan's domain'.
Maleficium “an evil deed” (what kind of deeds were witches charged with?) – In England, witches were
charged in jury trials for Maleficium ie. evil deeds which included harming neighbours, causing destructive
storms, or killing farm animals. However, unlike the witches in Scotland, they were not charged with Satan
worship. In England, the witchcraft prosecutions happened on a smaller scale; English law prevented judicial
torture and mandated jury trials. Although King James significantly mitigated the Judicial murder of witches
after he came to England in 1603, the brutal witch hunts and severe torture methods continued to occur in
Scotland, where punishment still involved burning at the stake (p 29).
The Paradoxes of Identity - Almost all of Shakespeare's major characters relay a duality of self-division and
inward expansion. Identity transcends costume and social status, yet costume plays a great role in portraying the
notion of identity. This paradox allows us to believe characters exist beyond the play, despite having the
knowledge that they have no inner lives other that what we see on stage (p61).
JULY 1588: Catholic Spain and England were going to war. Elizabeth learned that Philip was planning to invade
England. Spanish ships reached English waters, only to be routed in one of the most famous and decisive naval
battles in European history. Then, what seemed like a miracle happened, a huge storm hit and tore apart the
Spanish ships. After this, Elizabeth (against advisement) chose to appear before the crowds and displayed her
fearlessness. She declared she was not afraid of the Spanish armies. This speech was famous for displaying her
personal courage and her love of england. (21)
The Act of Supremacy:
(in English history) either of two Acts of Parliament of 1534 and 1559 (particularly the former), which
established Henry VIII and Elizabeth I as supreme heads of the Church of England and excluded the authority of
the Pope.
supremacy: . the state or condition of being superior to all others in authority, power, or status.
Sale of indulgence: also technically called ‘letters of indulgence’—are licences issued or sold by the Roman
Catholic Church granting to sinners who feel regret on having committed sins or misdeeds. With this license that
were issued/sold to these people they were given remission, either whole or partial, of temporal punishment still
due for sins
primogeniture, right of:
A) -the right of succession(taking up title or position) belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule
by which the whole real estate of an intestate was passed to the eldest son. The word comes (in the early 17th
century) from medieval Latin primogeniture.
B)-The system of inheritance whereby an estate passed to the eldest male heir. In practice, the distinctions were
blurred, for younger children received some provision
My Shakespeare words:
Disparagement p.20 Romeo and Juliet: a). regard or represent as being little worth. B) marry someone of unequal
rank. C)discredit on.
Stoics p.77 taming of the shrew: A) a person who can endure pain or hardship without showing their feelings or
complaining. B) followers of the school of philosophy founded on the premise that virtue is attainable only by
living in harmony with nature, stoicism stressed the importance of self sufficiency and of‐ equanimity. C) A
philosophical school founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium ( 335 – 263 BCE ) which became the most influential
philosophic sect in the Greco-Roman world. Stoics conceived of philosophy as the knowledge of things divine
and human.
Alternative entertainments: plays and dances were not the only sources of entertainment. Some other examples
are jousts, tournaments, religious processions, royal entries, costume parties known as ‘disguisings’, fortune-
tellers, juggling acts, cock fighting, magic shows, and public shaming or executions, shows with trained animals.
Hornbook (p. 44-45)In Elizabethan England, children (four or five years old) began their education with two
years at “petty school,” which was attached to the main grammar school. These children carried a “hornbook,”
which is a sheet of paper or parchment (on which the alphabet and the Lord’s Prayer were written), protected
with a clear layer of horn, and framed in wood.
Skimmington Ride (as it was known in the West Country) was a public shaming ritual for women who
domineered over their husbands or who were much younger than their husbands. The ridicule, however, was
directed at the husband as much as it was at his wife. In this ritual, the villagers would use loud music to awaken
the offending couple from bed and then, stage a spectacle in which a man dressed as a women (the “wife”) would
use a ladle to strike another man (the “husband”), holding a distaff, riding backward on a donkey. (11)
Rhetorical Devices: persuasive technique used to convey meaning to an audience through argument
"Anaphora is simply the repetition of a word at the beginning of a sequence of sentences or clauses ("I/I")."
eg. I did this today.
I did that yesterday.
I did nothing last week.
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Martin luther - an augustinian monk and professor of theology at the university of wittenberg, challenged the authority of the people and attacked several doctrines of the catholic church. To him, the church had become corrupt, constituting priests who manipulated popular superstition to enrich themselves. He attacked the sale of indulgences citing that they were fraud; argued that purgatory had no foundation in the bible and christians could be saved by faith alone. Stemmed the branch of protestantism during the reformation. Jane lumley - first tudor woman to translate a play; composed an english version of the euripides" iphigenia at. Thousands of women wildly accused and little cahnce to defend themselves. Tortured into confessions (what kind? look below ^. ^) Were involved in 1590 conspiracy to kill him with storm when he was getting home with new bride on sea. All plays in the period, including shakespeare"s, apparently ended in dance.
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Oopsie Woopsies - Help Us Stop Bullying Through Theatre
By Oopsie Woopsie
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Oopsie Woopsies - Help Us Stop Bullying Through Theatre: Help us stop the next generation of bullies, victims and bystanders through the power of theatre and storytelling.
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NZ is listed in the top ten of OECD countries with the worst bullying statistics . Our resources dealing with the tragic results of bullying for teenagers and adults are never enough. How much more effective could we be if we wrote a “prescription”earlier instead of sending an “ambulance” to the bottom of the cliff?
By targeting preschool and primary school children with a "no tolerance” message in an entertaining way, young children could stand a better chance of becoming healthier teenagers and then, adults. Welcome to “SnowBright and The Oopsie Woopsies“, Nextstage Theatre Charitable Trust’s new play about bullying. Specifically written for children aged 4 to 9 years old it's hitting the stage in Lower Hutt in October.
Nextstage Theatre Charitable Trust is focused on developing Hutt Valley Cultural arts identity through live theatre performance. By providing a professional platform for storytelling, we aim to enrich our local community. Our Trust is a small but select team of highly regarded business people who wish to contribute to a better civic future for the people of the Hutt Valley.
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“SnowBright and The Oopsie Woopsies” addresses bullying and how to deal with it if you’re small. Our planned season is from 30th September to 12th October 2019 school holidays at The Little Theatre in Lower Hutt.
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My Story: From World Expeditionist to Columbia
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While non-U.S. business schools often differentiate themselves from their U.S. counterparts by touting diverse student bodies and high international student rates of 30% or sometimes higher, an American student at Columbia Business School shows what it truly means to bring a multicultural perspective into the MBA classroom.
At just 25, Jennifer Lynch has traveled to 40 different countries and can have a conversation in nine languages. After receiving her undergraduate degree in International Relations from Georgetown University, she spent two years working in Islamabad, Pakistan on a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project in economic development.
While in Pakistan, Lynch came face to face with poverty and realized that the challenge of economic development is not an issue of funding or the lack thereof. Rather, it’s the mismanagement of these resources. Now she’s pursuing an MBA at Columbia Business School to arm herself with the hard skills to do something about it. Lynch’s extensive travel and work outside the U.S. adds a unique value to the MBA classroom in that she brings a global outlook plus the experience to match.
Poet or Quant?
Definitely a poet. The last math class I took was when I was a junior in high school. I’ve always enjoyed studying different cultures, languages, and politics.
I was born in Maryland, but lived in Germany for a good part of my youth. My father was in the Air Force which caused us to move around a lot. Moving around and constantly having to adjust to new environments was a huge challenge when I was young, but it was completely an asset as I got older because it has made me who I am.
After undergrad, I worked in Washington at an international development company that had contracts from USAID and the World Bank. While these agencies fund various initiatives to promote things like health, education, and economic growth in developing regions, the company I worked for concentrated just on economic growth. Some of our focus would be on economic policy reforms, some if it would be working with private sector industries to help them be more competitive. As a project manager, I helped manage USAID contracts which we were assigned to do economic development work abroad.
I was with the company for a year and a half before I moved to Islamabad. My mission was to stimulate economic growth in the region by assisting female micro entrepreneurs in starting their small businesses.
There were hundreds of thousands of dollars pumped into these projects to help alleviate poverty, but so much of it was mismanaged. I saw that the challenge of economic growth was not a resource problem and it wasn’t a technical expertise problem. It was a management problem. For example, the current system in government and NGOs is generally not designed to give individuals clearly defined roles and responsibilities or monitor and incentivize performance.
That’s when I decided to pursue an MBA. I applied to Stanford, INSEAD, and Oxford. I was looking for a program that was really international and had a strong social enterprise component. I was accepted into Columbia, INSEAD, and Oxford. Columbia was my first choice because of its location and its resources for social entrepreneurship. The school provides a lot of resources for social entrepreneurship. For instance, they match you to do pro-bono consulting with social enterprises throughout the school year and subsidize summer internships with social enterprises.
But Columbia also has a really strong core curriculum and I wanted to get a strong foundation in all aspects of business. For now I’m heavily focused on social enterprise, but that could change 15 or 20 years from now. In our generation, it’s not uncommon to have three or four different careers so, by having this broad foundation, I’ll still have these skills that are easily transferrable to whatever I decide I want to do in the future.
Other international experiences I’ve had. I spent my junior year of undergrad studying in Madrid, Spain. I also spent a summer in Cairo doing intensive Arabic study. I have a passion for travel and meeting new people so I’ve traveled to almost 40 different countries. Some of my travels have been alone, some with friends and family, some to visit friends who are living all over the world. Others have been study abroad or professional reasons such as my work in Pakistan.
I’ve also studied and learned nine languages. While I was in high school I studied Spanish and French (and English). During undergrad, I studied Arabic, Portuguese, and Persian. While living in Pakistan I learned some Urdu and Pashto and my best friend is Croatian so I’ve learned some from my travels there as well. In general I like to know at least a few words of the language of any country I visit; it’s a way to respect your host culture and endear yourself to random strangers you meet along the way.
A major culture shock I’ve encountered? That’s a tricky question. Because I moved around a lot as a child, I grew accustomed to making big transitions. Because of this, I have a high tolerance for diversity and ambiguity. You develop a mindset where you just open yourself up to different cultures and different lifestyles.
Of course, there are small cultural things. For example, Americans smile a lot. When I studied in Spain, I noticed that smiling is not as common. A lot of Americans can perceive this as unfriendly, and Spaniards can perceive Americans as goofy. On the other hand, I found that it is very common for people to stare in Spain, while in America this is seen as impolite.
There’s also reverse culture shock after being overseas and coming back to America. Going to suburban America where shops are massive and grocery stores have no less than 40,000 different products to choose from. The consumerism in America lends itself to a reverse culture shock because many other regions just don’t have it.
I’ve acquired a wide range of business perspectives from my international experiences. In America, efficiency is prized almost above everything else. When you meet someone, it’s very common to shake hands and get right down to business. In other places, it’s considered rude not to get to know a person first; to get to know more about the person’s family and their background. The way you show respect to a person in some other cultures is to be unrushed and by giving them the impression that “you’re important enough that everyone else can wait.” I would say this is especially true in Pakistan, but also in Arab and Mediterranean countries.
I think a big reason business schools are promoting the need for international experience is because the best ideas and the best innovation come from diverse teams. That diversity doesn’t have to be cultural; it can also be professional. The more exposure you have to people who are coming from different backgrounds, the easier it is to be effective because you’re able to navigate those differences successfully. You don’t waste time learning to adapt to one another.
My international experiences have also given me a unique perspective that I bring to class. For example, in a strategy class we took a look at pharmaceutical companies and the AIDS crisis in Africa. The question was posed: should pharma companies donate or give highly subsidized drugs to African citizens? Coming from a background in international development, I was able to contribute to the conversation in ways that others could not. I had fellow students come to me after class and say, “I really appreciated your perspective.”
International exposure also gives you a degree of humility. For those who only come from one discipline or have only spent time in one culture it’s human nature and easy to say there’s only one way of doing something. But it’s always important to see that what you consider normal is considered abnormal to others and vice versa.
Four adjectives that describe Columbia Business School are challenging, diverse, practical, and collaborative. I’ve been really impressed with how collaborative the students are. We look out for each other. I think there’s a sense that there’s enough of this amazing experience to go around. Students are also really helpful with giving advice about their industries of experience or in sharing study materials. Also, with 40% international students, there are a lot of diverse perspectives both inside and outside the classroom. Being in New York City is a huge asset and gives everything we do a practical touch. I had a social enterprise class my first semester where seven CEOs of top social enterprises came to speak and I just started an internship at an organization that promotes entrepreneurs in emerging markets. This is what Columbia is all about, bridging theory with practice.
What significant life challenge have I faced? In the grand scheme of things I can’t say I’ve had massive challenges. I’ve had a pretty charmed life and in general, I take a positive attitude toward everything that I do. Some people keep a running tally in their minds of the setbacks and hard knocks they’ve experienced, but I think that’s counterproductive. Where other people see challenges, I see opportunities for growth.
That being said, I had the tragic experience of having one of my coworkers assassinated on his way to our office in Peshawar, Pakistan. And I felt the blast in my apartment when the Marriott Hotel was bombed in Islamabad. Yet dealing with violence from the periphery pales in comparison to those who deal with it first hand: the victims and their families.
Consulting is a great way to build new skills that are immensely transferrable therefore, after grad school, I’m going to apply to do consulting in the Middle East. I’m passionate about women’s entrepreneurship so I hope to find something in this area. In the long run, I’d like to start and run my own social enterprise probably in the Middle East.
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Rectify “Mazel Tov” Review (2×06)
Curiosity is the reason why we explore, why we create, why we take risks. It’s a major reason why we have so many technological and social advances, but at the same time, curiosity is also dangerous. As much as society fosters it, the pressures that come with society oftentimes prevent it from shining through, and Rectify is an in-depth exploration of what happens when curiosity comes into contact with history’s shadow, a shadow looming large over everything you do.
Daniel Holden is someone who’s inherently curious, who wants to learn to build upon that rich foundation of knowledge he already has; of course, that’s extremely difficult to do when everywhere you turn, there’s hostility. He simply can’t be Donald the Normal 24/7, but he’ll find a way to revel in the small moments. When he talks to Jared in this episode, he tells him that curiosity is a good thing, but that he has to be careful, that he shouldn’t let it spiral him straight into the paths of others who will fight to keep believing what they want to believe. Daniel mentions at Gaines’s funeral, in a wonderfully acted scene for Aden Young (what else is new?), the penchant of people to perpetually follow those preconceived notions, even if there’s evidence to the contrary; that, understandably, leads to uncertainty over whether he should talk or not, but when you strip away societal pressures, you’re left with a man who’ll continue to be Daniel Holden. This is a man who’ll put on a suit for Gaines because Gaines put on a suit for him.
Daniel’s conversation with Jared, if I may return to that, echoes the waitress at the beginning telling Daniel to be careful, as well as Janet telling him to be careful. This is a society in which you walk a fine line between safety and danger, perhaps even between life and death, but at the same time, people care about you and genuinely don’t want to see you get hurt. Daniel’s scene with Trey Willis is filmed at a distance, like a standoff of sorts, while Daniel and Jared–and Daniel and Janet–are filmed up close, a more intimate camera bridging whatever distance may remain.
There’s another standoff of sorts that I’d like to mention, and that’s the scene in which Jon turns a woman’s–who approaches him and Amantha in the parking lot and tells Amantha to go somewhere else–words right back around on her. It’s a very satisfying moment, and it also highlights the mood pervasive in Paulie, the way things get passed down and distorted until the next generation is left spouting out beliefs handed to them on a plate. The point here isn’t whether Daniel’s innocent or guilty, but rather the way the question of innocence or guilt has become one with the town.
Of course, while that question is raging, Daniel is attempting to live his life, one that involves his mother’s birthday party and a Wedgewood stove he and Lezley buy from an old man who hasn’t used it since his wife died. Daniel feels guilt as they’re discussing the stove, and that eventually leads to Daniel calling Lezley a piece of shit and Lezley responding with “At least I’m okay with it.” When Daniel apologizes after the party, Lezley urges him to look behind him as he moves on in life, and Daniel eventually follows up on that advice when he faces the past at the end of the episode; he hears Hanna’s voice as we fade to black.
When Lezley is involved, it’s difficult to tell how genuine their interactions are, though, because he seems to serve more of a symbolic role rather than as an actual human being. The relationship pushes Daniel toward the past he never had and the past he might never have wanted to face, but is that a good thing or a bad thing? There’s a sense that Daniel’s teetering and tottering, and he can fall over at any time.
Ted Jr. is in that same position, and he seems to be more like a pendulum: he can swing between one state of mind and another. However, he’ll always crack, and we see it in “Mazel Tov”; the bitterness rises up in him when he sees Daniel and Tawney–a beautiful scene, by the way–talking, and what should be a heartwarming announcement is tainted by resentment; what should be a celebration of the future is tainted by anger stuck in the past. Thankfully, earlier, we have people like Ted Sr. and Jon Stern to offset the decidedly negative tone that Ted Jr. brings to the Wedgewood stove gift. For Ted Sr., it’s a nice extension off of last week’s situation with the conflict that resulted from Daniel tearing down the kitchen. Ted was never trying to belittle Daniel, and instead, he acted reasonably and tried to help. This week, it’s even more evident, and he extends the compassion and appreciation Daniel needs in that moment.
Ultimately, there are two scenes I’ll keep coming back to. The first is the flashback in which Daniel tears up as he listens to music for the first time in a long time. It’s a brilliantly acted moment, and while the storyline with Charlie the Chaplain is written a bit too much like a successor to Kerwin, it’s nonetheless a moment that takes us into Daniel Holden’s mind, his emotions, his face, all through the slot of a prison door. As for the other scene, it’s the one in which Daniel hangs on a branch after he sees Lezley off. Rectify is one of the few shows on television that takes the time to show us these moments, and it’s a wonderful tie in to the tree branch that broke off a few episodes back. There, it represented Daniel’s desire to break free from the life he was living, but here, it isn’t breaking when he hangs on it; here, he doesn’t want to take Janet’s car; here, he’ll be Daniel Holden in Paulie.
And maybe that’s okay.
-Daggett tells Foulkes about the assault, and now, the pressure is mounting.
-I will say this again: Jon, you lucky bastard.
-Note how Teddy says “I got you pregnant.”
-Once again, great work by J. Smith Cameron, especially with her barely concealed disappointment and nervousness at the dinner table. You can see Janet’s thinking about Daniel.
-Kudos to Amantha for not blowing up at the woman in the parking lot. You’d expect something like that to happen, but it doesn’t. Kudos to the woman for listening, too.
-Interesting detail: Ted Jr. mentions the throwaway society they live in. He’s talking about overconsumption and consumerism, but it can also just as well apply to the town feeding on Daniel.
-The music Daniel listens to at the end is “Tabula Rasa: Silentium” by Arvo Part.
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Hood Canal—The Greatest Show On Earth.
Picking my way along a beachhead of oysters, the water beckoned. You can’t walk this Washington beach at Hood Canal barefoot unless you want your feet cut to ribbons. Water shoes were my salvation. It was 86 degrees, not a cloud in the sky, and with barely a breeze the air felt like a furnace, and I was pretty crispy. Just as I was about to step in a shiny head popped up out of the water.
Eyes like a lab and a whiskered snout kept a sharp eye on me. I couldn’t contain my excitement. I waved, whistled and called to it, only to hear my sister say, “It’s not a dog.” It’s not every day I get to swim that close to a seal and as they say, you can take the girl out of Brooklyn but…
Visiting family can be a wild experience—the best of the best or the worst of the worst. When it’s good, it’s golden and if you’re blessed to have siblings who live in interesting places, spending time with them is a double incentive. I’d be in Bellevue with my sister and her husband. It’s the suburb Microsoft calls home and a stone’s throw, or two, from Seattle depending on traffic.
Seattle is the big draw for many travelers who visit Washington, and rightly so, but I was here on a backyard vacation. I appreciate the delights of the Emerald City but visiting family doesn’t always give you access to your own personal itinerary and that’s okay by me. With the lack of humidity in the summer, there is no finer place to be in this rainy part of the state when the sun takes its hat off. Our ultimate destination was Hood Canal, a hamlet in Union, Washington.
A pretty blue palate seen aboard the Washington State Ferries. (Photo: Claudia Santino)
Located two hours west of Seattle, Hood Canal is one of the state’s jewels and a retreat into one of nature’s most pristine shorelines. It’s a natural saltwater fjord that splits the Kitsap and Olympic peninsula and where locals go to chill out and wish they didn’t have to make the trip back to the daily grind. You can easily drive to this stretch of paradise but parking your wheels on one of the Washington State Ferries is a nicer way to break up the trip, decompressing you into vacation mode a lot faster.
On a clear day, one of the biggest treats is feasting your eyes on the soft-serve vanilla ice cream cone perfection of Mount Rainier.
When you can see it, Mount Rainier is a perfect site to behold. (Photo: C. Santino)
“Relax, you’re at the cabin” reads the welcome mat and I do, immediately melting into Hood Canal’s south side. East and west ends of this shoreline are chock-a-block with an architectural assortment of seaside residences. Some breathtaking, some kitschy, some over the top, but all lucky because of the knock-your-socks-off view of the majestic Olympic Mountains. Behind these homes, it’s pretty much all forest.
Hood Canal is a quiet haven and for old-timers and newcomers that is one of its draws. It’s a simple times kind of place to sit and behold nature day or night. Sure, you’ll hear a speedboat or the peal of laughter from a water-skier ring across the water but for the most part it’s the silence and serenity that becomes its most obvious gift.
Spring, summer, fall or winter, if you appreciate the great outdoors and are looking to disconnect, it’s a pearl of a place.
Douglas fir, cedar and redwood trees loom high above this little cabin like sentinel giants. The cool air they provide carries their woodsy perfume and the canopy of these shady guards seems to double as a concert hall for all manner of birds. In the twilight a large, winged, dark shadow passed above my head like a death starship. It was kind of eerie but then wings pulled in and long graceful legs descended to alight on a nearby dock. It was a great blue heron, coming in for last call on sunset happy hour. A moment later its partner stationed itself on an adjacent dock.
A great blue heron settles into a Hood Canal happy hour. (Photo: Claudia Santino)
Seeing them again the following evening as they made their way towards their nest was another sight to behold as these large seabirds folded themselves towards branches, navigating them like tightrope walkers. Sibling kingfishers dove out of a tall maple tree, skimming the canal for a fresh evening meal and providing additional entertainment.
Speaking of food, locals are used to fishing it right out of Hood Canal or off its beach. Crabbing, clamming, trout, salmon—it’s all there. And then there are Hood Canal oysters. These sweet bivalves have made their way from this once sleepy hamlet all the way to New York City menus.
No matter the season, the local town of Belfair has pretty much anything you need to get your provisions, hunker down, and escape mankind. Our car was locked and loaded with food from home. More importantly, we’d bought lots of peaches for pie. Silence may be golden but it doesn’t get much better than sitting on a deck in summer enjoying homemade peach pie.
With its small town vibe, nearby Shelton seems like the town that time forgot. Located southwest of Hood Canal, it’s a lazy pace place but with a downtown area that has lots of cool and quirky shops, bars and restaurants. Vintage stores and second-hand shops draw locals and tourists and a good starting place for anyone who likes this kind of treasure hunting is Garage Sale Maniacs. It’s the kind of place that has something for everyone, with its top quality furniture and furnishings, books, jewelry, vintage photos, as well as all the bric-a-brac that goes with a second-hand shop.
If you’re not into buying someone else’s stuff, contemporary design and home furnishing shops are happy to take your disposable income and you’ll be lucky if you can get out of Lynch Creek Florist without busting your wallet open because they don’t just do flowers.
Let’s put it this way—if I owned a cabin on Hood Canal, this home decor and gift shop on W. Railroad Avenue would be my go to and I’d be in big trouble.
Just a few steps away, Nita’s Coffee Shop, in business since 1962, drew me like steel to a magnet. Spotting an authentic diner is like recognizing a first crush. It’s a good way to meet the locals and any place that has homemade pie on the menu gets a star in my book. Spending the day in Shelton is a perfect way to extend your feel of the area and revisit the type of town that is disappearing in this country.
A local hangout in Shelton, WA. (Photo: Claudia Santino)
At one time Hood Canal was a best-kept secret but no more. Over the years it’s welcomed a new demographic of visitors. In 2004 the redesigned Alderbrook Resort & Spa had the light shining brighter on this neck of the Great Northwest.
Since then, the hotel has been racking up awards for its accommodations and four-star spa.
In business since 1913, Alderbrook has served as a getaway for vacationing Washington families. It changed hands over the decades and the major facelift it got in 2001 dovetails with Hood Canal’s natural environment. Today’s design is simple and welcoming with a 30-foot stone and wood fireplace as the lobby’s centerpiece. Huge windows look out on the canal and the resort’s garden. With a mix of hotel rooms and cottages, Alderbrook’s friendly room rates are one of its most welcoming features and the 18-hole PGA golf course is a draw for locals and visitors.
Alderbrook Resort & Spa provides a nice welcome for visitors and locals.
Destination weddings are popular at Alderbrook but the vibe is so local that other guests don’t seem to mind the ceremony as they slurp down local shellfish and sip a chilly glass of Pinot Gris from the state’s Columbia Valley or a Spice of Life Bloody Mary served with a signature crab claw. Kayakers glide by and a red-sailed boat moves towards a sunset sail. It’s local meets luxury and it’s all very chill. The hotel’s location in Union is prime for hiking, fishing, or boating but I was happy to just enjoy the scenery.
It was only three miles west from where I was holed up but the view from Alderbrook took on an entirely different color. Situated on a wider point of the canal, my eyes absorbed more and the mountain range was cast in a watercolor palette of pale to indigo blue. A bald eagle in flight only enhanced the picture, as if someone said: “Cue the bird.” I couldn’t get enough of this wild stuff. Sunsets seem to go on forever here and as a crescent moon rose, the sky and water was cast in an amethyst hue that set the Olympic Mountains aglow. No acid required.
Mornings are an entirely different experience and it’s not unusual to wake to cloud cover. This summer has been golden for the Great Northwest and the sunrise lit up the Olympic Mountain range, Hood Canal’s west side view, clear as glass. Its spiny ridge is set in profile of a sleeping George Washington. A faint, wispy trail of snow formed the lining of his breast pocket. Playful swallows dipped and darted, skimming the water at a frenetic pace. Focusing solely on them I could almost feel their aerodynamic power.
Bumblebees get busy on deck flowers of hot pink-fringed gladioli, ballerina pink Japanese anemone, and orange flame crocosmia, disappearing into petals like women into a fitting room. They finally reappear, their theft of pollen hidden wherever bees stash that precious gold.
Going for the gold. (Photo: Claudia Santino)
Bobbing in the water, I watched the seal watching me. I figured by now this was flirtation so “it” became “he.” I don’t get this at Coney Island and I was as transfixed by his otherness as he seemed to be by mine. But my perfect moment was shattered when a barking Jack Russell came charging down to the water raising hell.
In a flash, my Romeo slipped into the sea and his little torpedo body vanished.
That night as twilight set, the water was cast in ripples of indigo blue. I asked my brother-in-law if he ever saw seals at this time of the evening. Not really, he said. A moment later we heard a splash and out popped Romeo. He’d go under in a big dip, smack his tail against the water sending up a plume of water that echoed across the canal.
His splashing went on for hours and I was content to contemplate this creature, staying on that deck squinting for him as the light faded, listening to his act until the inkiness of the water blended with the rest of nature.
The darkness came and then the stillness. I couldn’t see anything anymore but it was still the greatest show on earth.
This article originally appeared in Communities Digital News.
This entry was posted in Claudia's Trips, Uncategorized and tagged Alderbrook Resort & Spa, Bellevue, Garage Sale Maniacs, great blue heron, Hood Canal, Kitsap, Lynch Creek Florist, nature, Nita's Coffee Shop, Olympic Peninsula, road trip, seals, Seattle, Shelton, Union, Washington, Washington State Ferries on September 11, 2014 by portsarecalling.
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Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff – Review
September 19, 2017 September 18, 2017 / Rebecca / 6 Comments
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Series: The Nevernight Chronicle #2
A ruthless young assassin continues her journey for revenge in this new epic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Jay Kristoff.
Assassin Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church ministry think she’s far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she’s no closer to ending Consul Scaeva and Cardinal Duomo, or avenging her familia. And after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia begins to suspect the motives of the Red Church itself.
When it’s announced that Scaeva and Duomo will be making a rare public appearance at the conclusion of the grand games in Godsgrave, Mia defies the Church and sells herself to a gladiatorial collegium for a chance to finally end them. Upon the sands of the arena, Mia finds new allies, bitter rivals, and more questions about her strange affinity for the shadows. But as conspiracies unfold within the collegium walls, and the body count rises, Mia will be forced to choose between loyalty and revenge, and uncover a secret that could change the very face of her world.
Set in the world of Nevernight, which Publishers Weekly called “absorbing in its complexity and bold in its bloodiness,” Godsgrave will continue to thrill and satisfy fantasy fans everywhere.
Godsgrave is the much anticipated sequel to Jay Kristoff’s 2016 hit, Nevernight. Kristoff’s work has previously been geared towards the young adult crowd, however, the Nevernight books ARE NOT YA FANTASY. Get this outta your heads, folks. This book isn’t for the faint of heart and contains copious amounts of violence, blood, and/or gore. Usually all three at once.
Mia Corvere has gone from apprentice assassin, to Blade of the Red Church, to a voluntarily enslaved gladiator. It is only fitting that a book so clearly inspired by Rome would have at least some gladiatorial combat featured, but an entire book where such is the game was nothing short of this reader’s delight. One of the very first scenes in Godsgrave is where Mia sets herself up to encounter a particular slaver in the Wastes, eventually making an arrangement with the slaver that she would be sold as a gladiatorii. This seems odd, right? Fortunately, this absurd act will get her closer to her heart’s desire than ever before if all the cards fall into place. Of course, there are struggles, subplots, and the ever present flashback segments that reveal ever so much about dark of eye, dark of hair, Mia Corvere. (And yes folks, in my head that little bit rhymed).
Mia is one of those characters that are just really fun to read about. You basically never know if she’s about to knife someone and there’s an instance in Godsgrave where you think she’s just gone full on backstabbing beastie, but she’s really not! It was great. I was 100% fooled. I wish Eclipse had gotten more development – she remains flat compared to Mister Kindly and his overabundance of sarcasm and questionable advice. The come and go nature of the shadowy companions in this installment lessened the overall amount of page time they both had, though the absences were relevant to the play of the story. The characters introduced in Godsgrave were fantastic, particularly Sidonius who started out being another crude muscle head, but was really just loyal to the wrong people.
I gotta say, Kristoff has succeeded in impressing me yet again. At this rate I’m actually going to have to read his other books just to see if they’re anywhere near this good. She comes across as this crazy tough, fearless girl but her inner thoughts are nothing but fear and fury. Her past haunts her more than anything, but it also drives her forward. Without that I think she would be mostly empty. It leaves me wondering how things will wrap up in the final book! I would highly recommend this series, particularly if you want to see an epic battle between mere mortals and an epicly sized sand beasty reminiscent of the worms from Dune.
Kangaroo Too by Curtis C. Chen – Review
June 20, 2017 June 18, 2017 / Rebecca / 4 Comments
Series: Kangaroo #2
Set in the same world as Waypoint Kangaroo, Curtis C. Chen’s Kangaroo Too is bursting with adrenaline and intrigue in this unique outer space adventure.
On the way home from his latest mission, secret agent Kangaroo’s spacecraft is wrecked by a rogue mining robot. The agency tracks the bot back to the Moon, where a retired asteroid miner―code named “Clementine” ―might have information about who’s behind the sabotage.
Clementine will only deal with Jessica Chu, Kangaroo’s personal physician and a former military doctor once deployed in the asteroid belt. Kangaroo accompanies Jessica as a courier, smuggling Clementine’s payment of solid gold in the pocket universe that only he can use.
What should be a simple infiltration is hindered by the nearly one million tourists celebrating the anniversary of the first Moon landing. And before Kangaroo and Jessica can make contact, Lunar authorities arrest Jessica for the murder of a local worker.
Jessica won’t explain why she met the victim in secret or erased security footage that could exonerate her. To make things worse, a sudden terror attack puts the whole Moon under lockdown. Now Kangaroo alone has to get Clementine to talk, clear Jessica’s name, and stop a crooked scheme which threatens to ruin approximately one million vacations.
But old secrets are buried on the Moon, and digging up the past will make Kangaroo’s future very complicated…
Still full of crazy spy missions, wormhole pockets, and bizarre descriptions of the time, Kangaroo Too was a tremendously fun second installment. I’m surprised at how little buzz I’ve seen for Chen’s sci-fi spy series and hope that my reviews of both Waypoint Kangaroo and Kangaroo Too will persuade you to try it out. These would make fun vacation reading material!
This time around Kangaroo and Dr. Jessica Chu (Surgical) have been assigned to go rendezvous with a contact on the moon in an attempt to track down Sakraida, former D.Int and turncoat. Everything is going according to plan until Jessica Chu gets accused of murder. They’re super-secret government agents so no big deal, right? WRONG! Dr. Chu is in custody and Kangaroo offers himself up as her defense attorney, which couldn’t possibly go wrong. Things only get more interesting from this point on – moon terrorism, secret government projects, moon bases, robot hordes, and clones. Every page was something new and/or exciting and kept me turning pages in anticipation of the next wild action scene. The combination of the characters and plot keep the pace moving along smoothly with nary a moment of boredom.
Kangaroo Too was definitely a fun read on par with the first book, Waypoint Kangaroo, and I was left with a certain sense of eagerness for the next installment. Curtis C. Chen has done a great job of incorporating humor into a serious plot arc. I was left with a goofy smile plastered on my face, pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed the antics of Kangaroo despite typically being put off by “funny” books. This book would work well enough as a standalone for anyone thinking of jumping in now, but as with all series, you’ll miss some key points/event from the first book.
A Gathering of Ravens by Scott Oden – Review
To the Danes, he is skraelingr; to the English, he is orcneas; to the Irish, he is fomoraig. He is Corpse-maker and Life-quencher, the Bringer of Night, the Son of the Wolf and Brother of the Serpent. He is Grimnir, and he is the last of his kind–the last in a long line of monsters who have plagued humanity since the Elder Days.
Drawn from his lair by a thirst for vengeance against the Dane who slew his brother, Grimnir emerges into a world that’s changed. A new faith has arisen. The Old Ways are dying, and their followers retreating into the shadows; even still, Grimnir’s vengeance cannot be denied.
Taking a young Christian hostage to be his guide, Grimnir embarks on a journey that takes him from the hinterlands of Denmark, where the wisdom of the ancient dwarves has given way to madness, to the war-torn heart of southern England, where the spirits of the land make violence on one another. And thence to the green shores of Ireland and the Viking stronghold of Dubhlinn, where his enemy awaits.
But, unless Grimnir can set aside his hatreds, his dream of retribution will come to nothing. For Dubhlinn is set to be the site of a reckoning–the Old Ways versus the New–and Grimnir, the last of his kind left to plague mankind, must choose: stand with the Christian King of Ireland and see his vengeance done or stand against him and see it slip away?
Scott Oden’s A Gathering of Ravens is an epic novel of vengeance, faith, and the power of myth
Amongst the readers of the grimdark subgenre, A Gathering of Ravens has been highly anticipated and for good reason. To me it read like Beowulf meets the History Channel’s Vikings and held all the gravitas of an epic of old.
The story itself feels quite dense and isn’t something I could read all in one go. I read small chunks of story over the course of several days and still wish I could have spread it out a little more so it could be properly digested. Nonetheless, it was well written and I enjoyed the meandering journey taken by our characters Grimnir and Etain. Grimnir is known by many names, but for our purposes let’s simplify things and say that he is an orc from legend. Grimnir is on a journey of revenge and Etain is his unwilling guide to England and beyond to Ireland. Eventually she willingly accompanies Grimnir further than she truly needs to because someone’s got to retell this epic story of revenge, right?
A Gathering of Ravens is much more plot driven than character driven, making it more difficult to really bond with the characters as you read. I found that I didn’t particular care about their fates because I felt removed from the plights, successes, and failures they faced. I did warm to them by degrees as the story progressed but it took to around the 50% mark for this to happen. Grimnir’s revenge (a cool alternate title) is the primary plot arc, but the interactions between Etain and Grimnir’s respective beliefs is a close second. Prior to her capture, Etain was disguised as a monk and headed to the monastery of Roskilde to pursue her passion and bring the Danes to Christ. Grimnir is a believer in Odin, the great end time of Ragnarok and all the other Norse mythos that goes along with that. The two butt heads frequently, especially at first, but once Etain and Grimnir traverse the roots of Yggdrasil she cannot deny that the world has depths of which she was unaware. Grimnir also cannot deny that Etain’s belief in Christ is powerful and potent against his kind.
Overall, A Gathering of Ravens was very good and I would go so far as to call it a classic in the making, if only because of the subject matter and the skill in which Oden wove this story. This is essentially a story of revenge, but if you look a bit deeper, it is also a story of what happens when two worlds collide. Christianity is pushing out the Norse mythos, causing strife between those that believe and those that do not adding an additional layer of depth to an already detailed story. I look forward to checking out more of Scott Oden’s books in the future and hope to find some more awesome historical fantasy.
Stacking the Shelves: 3/9/17
March 9, 2017 March 8, 2017 / Rebecca / 6 Comments
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews and it’s all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. You can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!
It seems a little early to be posting this, but in actuality it’s a bit late. I intended to post this on Saturday, but my weekend was super busy!
Received for Review:
A Gathering of Ravens by Scott Oden
Ever since seeing Scott’s posts about his upcoming book on Facebook I’ve been looking forward to getting my hands on a copy. Thanks to Thomas Dunne Books, I did!!
Seven Surrenders by Ada Palmer
This was surprise book mail from the folks at Tor. I hope to check this one out in the next few months (busy schedule). I think the covers for Palmer’s books are beautiful and she writes hardcore, dense science fiction.
Brother’s Ruin by Emma Newman
I honestly know very little about this book and can only say that the synopsis intrigued me enough to request it on NetGalley.
Purchases:
I picked up a great trio of books from Amazon, including With Blood Upon the Sand, The Valiant, and Kings of the Wyld. I’ve seen fantastic reviews for each of these and can’t wait to check them out!!
When Audible has a sale what do you do? Well, stock up of course! I picked up Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, and The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman for $4.95 each last week. I’ve already finished Ink and Bone and it exceeded my expectations. Such a cool book!
Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Review
October 16, 2016 October 15, 2016 / Rebecca / 2 Comments
Received from Goodreads giveaway in exchange for honest review.
Genre: Fantasy – Urban
Welcome to Mexico City… An Oasis In A Sea Of Vampires…
Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life.
Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, must feast on the young to survive and Domingo looks especially tasty. Smart, beautiful, and dangerous, Atl needs to escape to South America, far from the rival narco-vampire clan pursuing her. Domingo is smitten.
Her plan doesn’t include developing any real attachment to Domingo. Hell, the only living creature she loves is her trusty Doberman. Little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his effervescent charm.
And then there’s Ana, a cop who suddenly finds herself following a trail of corpses and winds up smack in the middle of vampire gang rivalries.
Vampires, humans, cops, and gangsters collide in the dark streets of Mexico City. Do Atl and Domingo even stand a chance of making it out alive?
Silvia’s debut novel, Signal to Noise, has been selected as a finalist for the British Fantasy, Locus, Aurora and Solaris awards, and was named on seven year’s best lists in 2015: B&N’s Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, RT, BookRiot, Buzzfeed, io9, Vice, and Tor.com. She has also been nominated for a World Fantasy Award for her work on the anthology She Walks in Shadows.
Certain Dark Things is one of those vampire books that totally breaks the mold and sweeps you away. I was totally into vampire books as a teenager (Twilight and all that other crap) and I will admit that it’s king of a guilty pleasure to this day. Certain Dark Things is not like these other YA, paranormal romance things- it’s so legit.
Similar to Holly Black’s book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, vampires are openly known to exist and governments across the world have begun persecuting them and forcing them from their countries. Many vampires have gone to Mexico and some of the other South American nations that are less hostile. Our story is based in Mexico City, which happens to be a vampire-free zone thanks to the human gangs uniting and forcing them from the territory, but Atl, a native vampire of the Tlahuihpochtli subspecies, is on the run and hiding in Mexico City. Her family was a major power in the northern drug trade, but was brutally murdered by the Godoy family who are Necros vampires. Nick Godoy is now hunting her and life has gotten significantly more difficult. She is alone but for her dog Cualli and her new human friend Domingo.
The story’s focus is primarily on Atl and Domingo and how they both deal with the threat of the Godoy goons. It’s a brilliant introduction to vampiric subspecies, culture, and the social impact of vampires in this new world. I do hope this will continue on as a series because there is SO MUCH POTENTIAL HERE! This could be a goldmine and really revamp (no pun intended) the vampire fiction subgenre, which suffered a case of paranormal romance for a number of years. While there is a slight note of romanticism in this book, it’s not actually what the book is about- the whole plot doesn’t center on Atl and Domingo’s relationship, though that’s certainly a big part of it.
I really enjoyed reading through Certain Dark Things and found it to be a breath of fresh air! I think fans of The Coldest Girl in Coldtown or Nightshades by Melissa F. Olson will really dig this. I can’t wait to see what else the author has in store for readers. I hope we’ll get to see more of the other vampire species that were mentioned in the information section at the end of the book because they all sound super interesting. Some mentioned had mind reading powers, bioluminescence, and even shape-changing abilities! Not you’re run of the mill vampires, huh?
Nevernight by Jay Kristoff – Review
July 31, 2016 July 30, 2016 / Rebecca / 7 Comments
In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.
Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.
Now, Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic—the Red Church. If she bests her fellow students in contests of steel, poison and the subtle arts, she’ll be inducted among the Blades of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the vengeance she desires. But a killer is loose within the Church’s halls, the bloody secrets of Mia’s past return to haunt her, and a plot to bring down the entire congregation is unfolding in the shadows she so loves.
Will she even survive to initiation, let alone have her revenge?
Prior to reading Nevernight, I had heard much praise for the talents of Jay Kristoff but hadn’t ever had the chance to read any of his books. Now that I’ve remedied that particular problem I can officially say that I want to read all his other books too, just to see if they’re on the same level of awesome as Nevernight! It was SO GOOD. I would describe it as a little bit of Throne of Glass mixed with a little bit of The Lies of Locke Lamora mixed with just a *dash* of revenge. What makes it even better is that it’s not a YA fantasy, so it’s downright brutal!
In a world where three suns burn in the sky and true dark only comes every 2 ½ years, Mia Corvere is out for revenge and the only way she can get it is by joining the Red Church, the most deadly assassins in the world. There she will hone her skills, confront her nightmares, and learn more secrets than she knew existed. The year she spends with the Red Church is fraught with peril. Each class Mia takes brings such interesting dangers ranging from the possibility of dismemberment to the potential to be captured by the Luminati. Through all of this Mia has to remember her mantra of “Never forgive. Never forget” and that the only friend she has is Mister Kindly, her shadowy not-cat companion.
The overall plot of Nevernight is classic- revenge against those who have committed wrongs/atrocities etc., but that’s really what makes this book so great. There are very few things better than a classic revenge story, especially when it’s so well written. Yeah, we know what the character’s goal is, but it’s not about the goal. It’s about the journey the character takes to get there and in this case we aren’t guaranteed that Mia will achieve her end. She could always fail spectacularly and have a gruesome end, but I don’t think that will be the case. The real jewels in this story are the subplots, all those little plot lines that are both interesting and essential to the main arc of the story. As we progress through this first installment so many questions arise, from who’s murdering acolytes to what a darkin really is. I’m definitely going to leave you hanging about the darkin thing, but trust me it’s SO AWESOME.
This book is so full of lovely little details, tidbits of information, and curiosities. The city of Godsgrave, where we begin, is named after the gargantuan spine and ribs that citizens have carved luxury apartments into. Kristoff gives us his world’s history, theology, and culture. I highly recommend picking this up once it’s released on August 9!!! The book itself is gorgeous and has THREE maps, which is like practically unheard of… okay, okay, so there are other books with an abundance of maps, but you know what I mean. Just read it because otherwise you’ll be missing out on the start of a fantastic new series!
Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C.Chen – Review
June 19, 2016 June 17, 2016 / Rebecca / 1 Comment
A review copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
A high octane science-fiction spy thriller that puts a new spin on the outer space adventure, WAYPOINT KANGAROO kicks off a blockbuster series full of adrenaline and intrigue.
Kangaroo isn’t your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is “the pocket.” It’s a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel universe, and Kangaroo is the only person in the world who can use it. But he’s pretty sure the agency only keeps him around to exploit his superpower.
After he bungles yet another mission, Kangaroo gets sent away on a mandatory “vacation:” an interplanetary cruise to Mars. While he tries to make the most of his exile, two passengers are found dead, and Kangaroo has to risk blowing his cover. It turns out he isn’t the only spy on the ship–and he’s just starting to unravel a massive conspiracy which threatens the entire Solar System.
Now, Kangaroo has to stop a disaster which would shatter the delicate peace that’s existed between Earth and Mars ever since the brutal Martian Independence War. A new interplanetary conflict would be devastating for both sides. Millions of lives are at stake.
Weren’t vacations supposed to be relaxing?
This outer space thriller marks Chen’s debut. Chen has an extensive network of connections to prominent science fiction authors, and has studied under John Scalzi, James Patrick Kelly, and Ursula K. LeGuin.
I was very excited to receive an ARC of Waypoint Kangaroo from Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press because I requested it on a crazy whim. I really had no idea what it was about and hadn’t heard any coverage from other bloggers, but I knew it was a sci-fi spy story and that sounded pretty good. It’s hard to beat a good spy story and this one didn’t disappoint in the least.
Kangaroo is an agent with an unusual ability- he can open a portal to another dimension. This sounds very exciting but in reality it’s mostly just a limitless storage device that other people can’t see or access. He’s average in appearance and tells really terrible jokes at inappropriate times, but he’s an indispensible asset to his super secret spy team and by asset I mean that he’s basically an experiment and he’s constantly monitored by his handlers. Now that I think about it, he’s a slightly more sci-fi version of Chuck Bartowski from the tv series Chuck. Man I loved that show…
Our special agent gets sent on a mandatory vacation to Mars to keep him from being interrogated by the dreaded auditors and being revealed as the weakest link. Of course the vacation doesn’t go smoothly and Kangaroo (aka Evan Rogers) finds himself in the middle of an interplanetary crisis. It starts out with the murder of several passengers and escalates quickly from that point. In between unmanned space walks and murder investigations, Kangaroo finds time for some romantic escapades that involve the purchase of an obscenely expensive bottle of wine. The actual spy part of the story kept me on my toes the whole time! I genuinely had no idea who to suspect or what the motive for the crime could possibly be until it was stated rather clearly near the end of the book. It was unpredictable, with lots of twists and turns and people being framed for crimes they didn’t commit. I have genuine appreciation for plots that I can’t predict and respect their authors even more.
Overall, Waypoint Kangaroo was a very entertaining read- perfect for summer vacations or light reading. There will be at least one sequel to Waypoint Kangaroo and I look forward to seeing how the characters change and what types of trouble Kangaroo will manage to get himself into.
Upcoming Releases: June 2016
June 4, 2016 June 4, 2016 / Rebecca / 4 Comments
The Wheel of Osheim by Mark Lawrence
Synopsis: HERE
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee
Publisher: Solaris Books
Stiletto by Daniel O’Malley
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company
Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen
The Weaver’s Lament by Elizabeth Haydon
Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan
Publisher: Del Rey
The Dark Side by Anthony O’Neill
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Wolf’s Empire: Gladiator by Claudia Christian and Morgan Grant Buchanan
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Permanent PSVR Price Drop Starting Tomorrow
By Jason Frye
We have seen the promo pricing, but this is a real decrease in the MSRP. Starting March 29th, the new price to experience all the wonder, magic, and sometimes motion sickness is $299/€299/£259.99. That’s at lease 100 of each of those currencies lower than the previous MSRP.
As with all changes, let’s take a look at the fine print. This is for the PlayStation Camera bundle, but that really impacts two bundles in North America and one in Europe. North America will see the new pricing on the PlayStation VR Doom VFR Bundle. It includes everything, except for PS Move controllers.
The Skyrim VR bundle will be $349 USD/$449 CAD, and it includes Skyrim VR and PS Move controllers. It is still $100 off the normal MSRP, but you are paying a little more. We would argue you absolutely want the PS Move controllers to actually play a lot of the games, so do your research.
The PlayStation VR Starter Pack will drop for Europeans. It includes a download code for PlayStation VR Worlds. As with the Doom VFR pack, it will not include the PS Move controllers.
For those of you not in countries or regions blessed by PlayStation, the new prices may not take effect until after March 29th. There is no information listed as to which countries are impacted. If you don’t see the price decrease, it may just be that the employees have not changed the signs. Be nice to them. Sometimes, they are the last to know about these changes.
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Date: January 9, 2018Author: raistlin0903 58 Comments
In the time where I still played computergames, there was a certain type of mission that I always truly hated. I can tell you that many a controller almost died, when I let out my anger on that helpless piece of machinery. The type of missions that I am talking about, is the ones where you had to defend a base from a couple of waves of enemies. Usually there was a timer, and you saw that one advancing in agonizing slowness, while the health of your base dropped faster than you could even blink. Aagh, I get frustrated by even thinking about it. But we all know that anger can lead to the Dark Side (yes Master Yoda), so I’m pretty glad I don’t play computergames anymore. No, these days I am back to oldschool gaming. You know, those games that don’t use computers or controllers, otherwise also known as boardgames. Last year I purchased the excellent card/boardgame Xenoshyft Dreadmire. In this game for 1-5 players you have to defend your base from being overrun by alien enemies. Wait, what? Erm….that can’t be right? Can it?
Yup…it’s a pretty big box.
This being a cardgame it is probably not going to come as a really big surprise that this game contains cards. And a lot of them as well. You will find close to 400 cards in this box, that feature the different types of enemies, troops, weapons and other stuff that you are going to be dealing with in this game. But these aren’t just any normal types of cards. No, you will find that the illustrations on these are serious works of art. The vile enemies that you will face in this game are absolutely disgusting and horrid creatures. And the illustrations that depict them are truly the stuff of nightmares. Also included are a couple of cardboard boards, on which you will place the cards as well as the troops to defend your base (more on that below). Rounding out the game are a couple of plastic tokens that you use to keep track of health and powers, and a rules booklet. (Well, duh …you do want to learn this game don’t you?). The rulebook is written very clearly and gives enough examples to learn you the game in basically no time at all. And if you have trouble remembering a rule, you can find it quite easily during gameplay. Besides the rather dull boards, the components are top notch, and awesome to look at.
Hey, I already said the artwork for this was amazing right?
This game is being described as a strategic base defense deck builder. That is quite a mouthful isn’t it? But it is not as hard as it sounds. This game takes place in a science fiction universe where the Nortec Corporation is trying to recover the very precious resource called Xenosathem. This being the ultimate energy source that powers weapons and basically provides unlimited power, it is a highly coveted commodity. But it also has a nasty side effect: it turns the indigenous lifeforms into horrifying monsters. Of course this doesn’t stop a greedy corporation from wasting precious human lives in order to recover this stuff. And that’s where you, the players come in. This game simulates one of those mining operations, where you have to defend the Nortec base from being overrun in a series of nine game rounds.
Just a couple of the friendly neighbourhood creatures you will encounter.
Everyone starts of with a set of basic lowlevel cards. Some of these cards can be used to buy new troops and weapons in order to make your deck of cards more powerful. And that’s where the word deckbuilder comes into play. When everybody has bought their cards the “fun” begins. The troops and weapons you have purchased are placed on a player’s lane, and will be your first and only line of defense against the horrible creatures that are trying to destroy your base. Of course there is a limit to the number of troops and weapons you can place, and as such players have to think strategically what they are going to be using. When everything is placed, the enemies enter an opposing lane. There are three waves of enemies that players need to survive, and each wave consists of three rounds. So in other words players need to overcome nine rounds in order to win the game.
Each wave you can buy more powerful stuff, but the enemies also become stronger. After the enemies are placed combat begins. Enemies deal their damage to troops first, but when there are no troops left, the base gets damaged instead. The base has a certain amount of damage it can take, and when it’s down to zero, it’s game over. So that in a nutshell is how this game gets played. Pretty simple huh?
Definitely not something you see every day…..
This game is quite easy to learn. Especially if somebody is around that has played the game before and can teach it to other players. But even if you play the game by yourself, it’s relatively easy to get the hang of it. It’s the winning part though, that is an entirely different matter. This game is brutal. I have played it solo for about 7 or 8 times now, and I have not won the game even once. The closest I got was to round 8. Even when I played the game together with other players, that was the highest result that I have so far managed to achieve. There is a luck factor in this game as well (some combinations of enemies are just so powerful that no matter how well you prepare, you can’t really do anything about it), but it also comes down to thinking a lot. And that’s what I really like about it. Figuring out certain combinations of cards that really work well and manage to achieve great results is just one of the fun things this game has in store for you.
It goes without saying that it takes a while to put sleeves on these cards.
Well, what can I say this game is awesome. Even though it is incredibly tough, and victory has still eluded me so far, I have had a truly fun time playing this game. The cards look amazing, and the mechanics of this deckbuilder work really well. Not only that, it provides a good challenge, and because of the sheer amount of cards included no two games are ever the same. This is a game for people who love science fiction, and also enjoy to use their brains in order to beat a game, and not just luck.
I give Xenoshyft Dreadmire a 9 out of 10 score.
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I’m not sure this particular game is for me, but I’m glad you’ve been enjoying it Michel. 😊
Hmm, I don’t think so….it’s more a game for people that generally love sci-fi/horror and that play these types of games regularly 😀 Legendary and Eldritch Horror are games that will be more to your liking I’m sure 😀😀
How strange to be able to play a board game with just yourself and still lose! 😀 I didn’t understand any of your instructions but that’s not surprising as the last board game I played was Snakes and Ladders. 😀 😀
Haha 😂😂 No worries 😉 It basically comes down to this: the game itself controls the enemies. All that you as a player need to do, is decide the combinations of troops and weapons that you want to defend your base.
The enemies then get placed by the rules of the game itself, and then you need to defeat those enemies with the troops you placed.
Each round new enemies arrive..(and you can buy new troops and weapons to defend) and that continues until either the base gets destroyed…or you defeat the enemies in wave 9. Sounds complicated, but it’s all relatively easy.
It’s the winning part that’s hard though lol 😂😂
I’ll take your word for it ..*throws dice, moves counter 4 spaces, drops down ladder 😦 * 😀 😀
The game seems awesome!! Thank you for the review! I should start thinking in getting more board games
Wait do you usually review board games? I have to go through your archives more thoroughly. This looks awesome.
Haha, yes…the past few months I haven’t been reviewing them, but I plan on bringing those reviews back this year. And there is a special section on my blog for boardgames 😀😀
As for this game….it really is awesome…just wait till you see the review I did a couple of months back for the Attack on Titan deckbuilding game….yes, there is a game for that 😂😂
I actually knew that you had a section but I hadn’t seen a review in a while. I didn’t love the AoT game but it also depends on the poeple you play with. My boradgame group is a little, peculiar
That’s correct. Last year there came a point where things were a bit rough and I hardly played any boardgames whatsoever. Luckily things are better now, and I hope to get into them more.
Well: quite honestly all the boardgames that I own can be played solo. I hardly have friends that are into these types of games, and some of these are awesome to play even if you are on your own 😀
Those cards look so cool, especially Ambush Mantis. It’s safe to say, if I seen one of those in the corner of the shower, I’d cry. 😀
This boardgames sounds like a lot of fun. I hope you win soon 😀
Well….trust me, the Ambush Mantis is just a very friendly looking beast when compared to a few other seriously sick creatures that are in this game lol.
And if you ever find something like that in your shower, I guess it’s safe to say that the best option is to start moving lol😂
Thanks, I’m not giving up on it, that’s for sure 😊
Oh this sounds interesting! I’m not a big fan of card games, to be honest, but your review made it look so cool I even feel the need to try it hahaha
It sounds a bit complicated but I’m sure once you start, it gets really easy to understand. At least, that’s my experience with most board games.
I’m glad this one was such a hit! And once again, loved your post Michel 🙂
Aww, thanks so much for the very kind words as always 😀😀 Well, there are quite a lot of fun cardgames out there these days that are definitely worth checking out. As for this game, it’s tough to master, but ruleswise it is really very easy to get into. Glad you enjoyed the post, and again: thanks for your awesome comment! 😀😀
Indeed! I used to absolutely abhor cardgames but now I’m willing to try them 🙂 You only live once!
I think I’ll start with easy ones, first, though 😛
As always, my absolute pleasure! ^^
Sounds like fun! I love boardgames. We have one called Mansions of Madness. We haven’t played through yet as it’s pretty time consuming and challenging, but I’m looking forward to it. When we’ve played through that, we may give this one a try.
Hey😀 Haven’t seen you in a while, it’s great to hear from you again😀 Hope all is well with you.
Oohh…Mansions of Madness is by Fantasy Flight Games that is just the most awesome gamecompany ever 😀 That really is great game and well worth giving a try 😀
Yeah, I’ve been buried in my new project. It’s great to be back though. 😊
Definitely great to see you here again: glad you are back 😀
Thank you. 😊
Do it your way says:
The game is not so much important, as people that you’re playing with 🙂
Anyway it look intresting andgraphic on cards is good.
True enough: although I mostly play these games on my own. But I never care about winning, it’s the fun that counts 😀😀
And definitely when playing with other people it’s the friendship and everything around it that’s even more important it 😉
Exactly, games are for fun 🙂 competition is for winning.
You just took me to a childhood memory 😁 of my brother constantly slamming his controllers and my mom unleashing on him.😂
Haha: my parents definitely had some problems with me and my frustrations as well lol 😂😂 So true: I laugh at it now though: and luckily so do my parents 😂😂
Nice, I got this from the Kickstarter but haven’t had the time to get around to it. I played the original version and it was a lot of fun so you have me looking forward to playing this one 🙂
I have both versions (onslaught was great too), but this one is just a tiny bit better. Especially the weather effect that has been added to this game is fun (some monsters/weapons can become more powerful when it’s a certain type of weather) It was a clever mechanism. If you loved the original game< you will like this one as well 😀😀
Dani☆Touch My Spine Book Reviews☆ says:
This looks like an intriguing game Michel!😊 I am glad you enjoyed it so much!😍 I would definitely play this kind of game when I was younger but it’s been awhile. I am sure I would still enjoy this kind of game! 🎮 Fantastic Post and thanks for sharing!😘☺😍💖
Aww thanks for your sweet comment 😘😘❤️
It is a really fun, tough as nails game. I absolutely love it. Even though I keep losing all the time lol 😂😂
Stealth levels are the thing I hate most about video games. Defending a base from waves of enemies can be fun sometimes. I liked Plants versus Zombies for example.
It’s neat that you can play this game solo or with other people and the artwork does look awesome. The mechanics remind me a bit of Hearthstone’s dungeon run mode. In that game you have to beat eight bosses and each round you get to boost your deck with new cards.
Haha, I agree: stealth levels were my number two annoying things in videogames 😂😂 I rather go in with all guns blazing so to speak 😉
This game certainly is quite a lot of fun, even when playing solo. I have actually played Hearthstone a long time ago. From what I have seen of it, it really looks like a fun game. This mode you are describing sounds pretty cool by the way 😀
If you still have Hearthstone installed you might as well give Dungeon Run a bash. It’s free and you play against computer opponents. You build a deck as you go along so even newbies who don’t have any cards can enjoy it.
I think I still have it installed. Am currently at work (no I am not slacking, it’s my lunchbreak 😂😂), but I will check it when I get home. Thanks for the recommendation 😉
tetrax4berium says:
This game sounds really fun, and from your description I keep mistakening it as a mashup of tiberian sun and starcraft (haha).
Well instead of breaking controllers, it’s more cool to do the old-school flip-da-table (hehe) 😛
Haha: the old school flip-da-table definitely works as well (although I doubt the cards would survive that 😂😂😂).
It is a really fun game, even though it’s tough as nails lol 🤣🤣
But …you are not wrong about mistaking this for that kind of mash up 😉 Thanks for this comment: the table flip seriously made me laugh 😂
Sound really cool. Is it similar to Magic in any way?
It is really cool: absolutely. Erm, it is a bit similar I guess: the difference being mainly that these are fixed sets of cards: no CCG so to speak, and this game playes cooperative instead of competitive😀
Ah, that’s awesome. Is there a winner in the end?
No, there is no overall winner. Either everyone wins, or everyone loses 😀
Cool! A game where you actually don’t end up breaking up with your girlfriend 😀
Richenbaum Fotchenstein says:
Looks cool. I always want to try out a new game like this, but then I remember all the ones sitting in a cupboard that we still haven’t gotten around to even trying yet.
Haha, that is very relatable. I have so many games that I still haven’t played that it’s almost ridiculous (and even more ridiculous is that I keep adding games too lol😂😂).
This one is a lot of fun though, that’s for sure 😀
kimchisama says:
After my friends and I play catan we usually play forbidden island since it makes us work together and we repair our friendship. This looks like a pretty interesting coop game that wouldn’t be too hard to learn. Thanks for sharing.
Catan is a lot of fun to play as well: I also love the Catan cardgame and I at times even like that one even better 😀 haha: lol and playing forbidden island to restore friendship sounds like a great idea 😂😂
This one definitely is a really fun game to play. If you want to get a feel for the game and how it plays you can find a lot of videos for it on youtube 😀
Awesome! Most of the board-games I own now are because of watching TableTop!
Tabletop is absolutely wonderful 😀 Another channel you might really enjoy is watch it played😊
EGC-Jordan says:
Really intresting concept for a card game. Love the scope of the cards too. Really ensures everytime is different. Will have to check this out sometime.
Definitely😀 Despite the tough challenge in this game, it really is a lot of fun to play this one. And exactly as you say it has a high replayability factor 😀 Hope you will enjoy the game if you get around to playing it 😊
I’m hoping to buy more boardgames in the future. At present the most recent things I have played are ‘Cards Against Humanity’ and ‘Arabian Nights’. I also play G.U.R.P.S which is very similar to Dungeons and Dragons.
But I need more of this goodness in my life. And this review makes this game sound pretty awesome! Love the artwork.
Generic Universal RolePlaying System..wasn’t it something like that? That was a pretty fun roleplaying game.
I have way too little of this goodness in my life too. I’m currently playing far too little of these games. But this one certainly is quite a lot of fun. The artwork alone is worth purchasing it for 😀
That’s the one 😊
The artwork certainly looks like it is!
This was such an intriguing post! I have heard of so many boardgames that sound hella amazing, but assumed that the learning curve was just too long for me to invest in the game and enjoy it. I also think of those boardgames that has little figurines marching into war and what not. Really, I ain’t very experienced in that world. I just recognize the big names when they show up hahah This one sounds super interesting, and I love challenges. I still play video games and always for challenges hahah As a kid I also enjoyed card games, especially Yu Gi Oh and Pokemon (more collecting than playing with Pokemon cards though haha). Awesome unique post, sir. This was definitely fun. Do you have other boardgames you plan on sharing with us in the future? 😮
There are certainly quite a number of boardgames that have a very steep learning curve. I usually don’t like games like that as I really don’t want to spent hours on reading a rulebook (and then still not being able to understand the game lol).
Luckily this game isn’t like that: in about 15-20 minutes you are able to play it. The winning part though is where it gets tricky 😂😂
But definitely have some more boardgames that I plan to do reviews for. Fallout the Boardgame for instance is one that you will see a review for somewhere this year.
Thanks as always for the kind words and the great comment 😀😀
I really like boardgames 🙂 Especially when they’re this detailed and have such good artwork on the cards! It’s good that it was easy to learn at the same time 🙂 Awesome review!
Thank you! It really is a terrific game, and the artwork for the cards only enhances the gameplay experience! 😀😀
You’re welcome! That’s great 🙂
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The Cursed Amulet by Elizabeth Forest is the second book in the Crow Magic series. Suli has settled into her role as a wise woman but she couldn’t have predicted that when she helped a young girl, she was about to discover far greater trouble. She soon finds herself with an apprentice and as the two make their journey back to Suli’s home, it’s quickly revealed that Arta has her own special abilities. Arta can communicate with animals, which helps when they stumble upon a pack of dogs chasing after a young boy. Suli learns of a ploy to kill the king and queen when she discovers the terrifying reality of soldiers rounding up witches into camps. She and Arta catch the attention of the corrupt prime minister who is determined to track them down and capture the prince, no matter what it takes.
This plot is beautifully complex as Elizabeth Forest weaves together several threads to form a stunning tale of danger and adventure. The relationship between Suli and Arta is at the heart of the story as the two strong-willed and stubborn girls challenge each other. They both have big hearts and a lot of power. The story has a mystery - a sickness affecting the animals has made them stop eating and has caused the young to die. The witch camps and the animal sickness both tie directly into the prince being chased with these threads forming a larger obstacle they must face in order to save animals, people, and magic. Each threat raises the stakes for the girls and they must work together if they’re going to save everyone. Forest breathes life into this complex world of magic with a layered system of animal nations, wise women, and magic.
This is the second book in the series but the story is easily followed as a standalone thanks to Forest’s keen details and thorough building of the world. The characters are delightful with the focus remaining primarily on the perspectives of Suli, Arta, and Benno but other characters are seen throughout as integral parts either as threats or help in saving the prince’s life and his throne. The Cursed Amulet is a delightful read that all ages will love with a world that will introduce you to shapeshifters, wise women, a thrice-cursed prince, a girl that can communicate with animals, a traitorous prime minister, and an unforgettable adventure.
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Readers from middle grade right through into young adult (and beyond) are certain to adore this highly magical and immersive fantasy tale from author Elizabeth Forest. I particularly enjoyed the characterization of Suli, who puts kindness and her need to help those who ask her above all else but also has real grit and intellect that sparks just when it’s needed. The girl-power vibes in this magical atmosphere are strong and highly enjoyable and the addition of Arta adds a new dimension and stretches Suli towards a stronger new role as a mentor herself. The writing is top-notch, leaving readers wanting more on every page and flowing well with great timing, action, and dialogue. Overall, The Cursed Amulet continues a superb series with renewed momentum, and I would highly recommend it to readers who adore fantasy, animal magic, and strong female heroes.
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A list of main characters from Devil May Cry 5 (DMC 5). Included is their background information and their voice actor/actress.
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Voice Actor / Actress
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【The Legendary Devil Hunter】
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VA (JP): Koki Uchiyama
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VA (JP): Lynn
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VA (JP): Atsuko Tanaka
VA (EN): Danielle Burgio
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Lady is a demon hunter that Dante met during the incident of the demon tower Temen-ni-gru. She sought to kill her father Arkham as revenge for killing her mother. Ladye had clashed with Dante in the past, previously believing that demons are not capable of understanding the idea of “family.” She later grows to understand Dante and allies herself with him in the newly created Devil May Cry agency.
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Lineage Bluegrass brings down the house at Avogadro’s
May 2, 2018 admin Music News 0
Bluegrass sensations Lineage put a swing in everyone’s step yesterday following their rousing show as part of the FOCOMX 10 lineup at Avo’s. With a broad range of bluesy, traditional songs, the band put on an impressive show. With song inspiration coming from all kinds of places, from nature and visual imagery to hot pickles, the whole set seemed steeped in the Americana culture. Even the setting, at the classic Avogadro’s Number in Old Town, added to the down-home vibe.
Bass solos offset fun (and incredibly intricate) violin pieces to create a simultaneously toe-tapping and introspective experience. The guest fiddler, Hannah Barnes, was particularly impressive in her range of tones. With notes of mandolin, banjo, fiddle and guitar, every song was an eclectic combo of new and old. The audience clapped and cheered at nearly every available opportunity.
One concert-goer likened it to being back home at the ranch-if the ranch had gotten a lot more fun since the last time they were there.
According to the band’s website, not only is this crew inspiring to watch as a six-piece bluegrass band, they also inspire others to embrace traditional music. Each member is invested in the education of future musicians and involves themselves in areas of mentoring and education for the next generation.
For more information about the band Lineage, visit their website at https://www.lineageband.com
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By Nicholas Stock FoCoMX is coming up quickly and they have finally announced their mind-boggling gargantuan lineup. With over 300 bands performing on 30 plus stages across the entirety of Fort Collins, choosing a game plan can be overwhelming. For two days in April, The Choice City is transformed into the Choose Your Own Adventure of music festivals. It’s impossible to see it all so you have to pick […]
Music Videos take over the Lyric Cinema
April 28, 2018 admin Music News 0
Last weekend, 10 music videos were produced by creative teams of musicians and filmmakers. This project, called the 53:14 Music Video Experiment, gave filmmakers the task of creating videos with a $500 budget and in 53 hours and 14 minutes. As part of FOCOMX, these videos debuted at the Lyric Cinema last night. The youngest team, spearheaded by Milo Woodward and Cole Scayden, was a group of high school juniors […]
The River Arkansas brings the heat to Odell as a kickoff band for FOCOMX 10
April 28, 2018 admin Beer, Music News 0
Sunshine, beer and good live music reigned supreme yesterday afternoon at Odell Brewing during one of the first few acts of FOCOMX 10. The Colorado-based band, The River Arkansas, complimented the cold beer with their country/ Americana blend of tunes. Theirs is the kind of music that makes you want to get up and dance to, which a few of the more bold members of crowd did. Everything from swing […]
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This category covers:
Advanced Chemical Processes
Chiral & Pharmaceutical Engineering
Molecular Modeling
Natural Product Synthesis
Process Systems Engineering/Process Control
Statistical Thermodynamics
Theoretical / Computational / Physical Chemistry
Process System and Multi-Scale Modeling
The group focuses on the research subjects of four principles spanning from quantum/statistical mechanics to macroscopic systems; first-principle and ab-initio calculations, molecular modeling and simulation, hydrodynamics, and control and optimization of chemical processes. In our group, while individual subjects are of great importance to pose potential impacts on scientific recognitions, any parallel and series of combination of the specified principles can be autonomously engineered to yield theoretical generality by undertaking inductive and deductive approaches. While our paradigm is based on bridging characteristics of researches, our group takes on the following individual projects as initiatives:
First-Principle and Ab-Initio Calculations
By quantum mechanics and density functional calculations, we study heterogeneous catalytic reactions, surface sciences phenomena, as well as surface thermodynamics and kinetics studies to bridge between surface science’s experiments and real industrial scale reactions.
Molecular Modeling and Simulation
Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo simulation methodology are applied for studying defects in crystals, confined fluids, phase equilibria, and fluids in catalytic membrane. Current modules are built upon basis of simple potentials such as hard sphere and square well, and more realistically, Lennard-Jones and Morse potentials. While abstract understandings of the real systems are possible through those models, our intention is to extend the projects by adopting semi-empirical/empirical potentials or by developing one, hence to incarnate real systems.
We develop simplified minimal molecular dynamics model for applications such as microflows, turbulence, and multiphase flows. The ultimate goal is to create the so called minimal molecular Dynamics, which constitutes small but realistic model of fluid flows. In such modeling approaches, one tries to create molecular dynamics stripped to its bare essentials. The basic idea is to create a simple molecular dynamics with smallest possible number of degree of freedoms. The advantage of such an approach is becoming increasingly recognized as for an example: lattice Boltzmann models are now routinely used for computer simulations of fluid flows and for hydrodynamics of complex fluids.
Control and Optimization of Chemical Processes
We develop dynamic models of chemical systems including catalytic reactors, crystallizers, solid oxide fuel cells and bioreactors to better understand their behaviors, optimize their performance in the face of uncertainty and design control structures. In addition, data based methods to detect and diagnose faults in industrial processes and analyze underlying phenomenon in biomedical processes using multivariate statistics are being explored. Chemometric techniques are also being developed to improve the calibration of spectroscopic sensors that forms the basis of on-line process optimization and control.
Centre for Chiral & Pharmaceutical Engineering
Division of Chemistry & Biological Chemistry, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Dr Alessandra Bonanni Biosensor technologies Biosensors are analytical tools which combine a biorecognition agent which provides selectivity and a transducer that confers sensitivity and can convert the biorecognition event into a measurable electronic signal. The advantage of using biosensor over traditional techniques is represented by their low costs, small dimensions, portability, and fast response. The different areas for potential biosensor applications are mainly medical diagnosis, environmental monitoring and food analysis. DNA analysis DNA analysis is of extreme importance to solve problems of different nature such as investigation on genetic diseases, detection of food and water contamination by microorganism, studies on breeding origins or tissue matching, and solution of forensic issues. The techniques for genome identification are nowadays mainly based on DNA sequencing by using fluorescent labels and optical detectors. They require a few days for the analysis to be completed and the costs are prohibitive to the general public. Demand has never been greater for innovative technologies which can provide fast, inexpensive and reliable genome information. The focus of my research is on the development of analytical tools (biosensors) for the rapid, reliable and low cost identification of DNA sequences. In order to achieve that, different electrochemical techniques are used for the detection of the analytical signal. The developed biosensors are based on various platforms (such as gold, carbon and silicon) and different nanomaterials (i.e. gold nanoparticles, graphene nanoplatelets and several quantum dots) are employed for the amplification of the obtained signal and the improvement of detection limit. The final step of this work is the application of the developed genosensor to real sample analysis. Once this second part is successfully accomplished, the analytical tool could be eventually integrated into a DNA amplification process, resulting in a portable device for point-of-care diagnostic tests and for very sensitive detection of SNPs correlated to different diseases. Food Analysis This field includes research in the two following areas: - Application of DNA genosensors to identify of DNA sequences correlated to bacteria involved in food contamination (i.e. Salmonella spp, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli) - Development of electrochemical biosensors for the detection of antioxidant capacity of food and beverages
Assoc Prof Atsushi Goto Polymer Chemistry and Polymer Materials 1) Controlled syntheses of polymers 2) Development of new living radical polymerization via organic catalysis 3) Creation of new advance polymer materials using structurally controlled polymers
Prof Atul N. Parikh Membrane biophysics biologically inspired materials biosensors synthetic chemical biology
Prof Bo Gunnar Liedberg The research interests of Prof. Bo Liedberg can be divided into three main areas Surface Chemistry and Self Assembled Monolayers This part of the research concerns fundamental studies of adsorbates and ultrathin molecular architectures, like Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs), on solid supports. The group was very early in studying self-assembly of substituted alkylthiols on gold substrates. A key activity has been to study temperature driven phenomena occurring in such assemblies as well as in adsorbed layers on top such SAMs. Oligo(ethylene glycol) and oligosaccharide SAMs have attracted considerable attention, both experimentally and theoretically, because of their structural characteristics and advantageous properties in contact with biofluids. Another area concerns interfacial water and ice. Temperature programmed studies have been undertaken to improve the understanding of the nucleation and microscopic wetting behavior of water/ice. The complexity of the SAMs has increased over the years and we are today focusing on architectures based on SAMs bearing multivalent chelator heads, helix-loop-helix polypeptides and receptor functions. Bioinspired and Biomimetic Nanoscience This research concerns the development of nanoscale architectures fabricated using either top-down or bottom-up protocols (or a combination of both). We are, for example, developing plasmonic arrays based on 100 nm gold nano dots on silicon and glass surface for amplification of optical fluorescence signals, so-called metal enhanced fluorescence (MEF). We are also developing composite materials based on a combination of de novo designed peptide scaffolds, planar surfaces and nanoparticles of controlled size and shape. A novel concept based on peptide folding has been used for controlled assembly of gold nanoparticles. The group is also involved in the development of Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) for patterning of surfaces on the 30-100 nm length scale. This work is performed jointly with a previous student of the group who nowadays is setting up a nanolaboratory at the Institute of Physics, Vilnius. We are also involved in several EC projects where different types of micro- and nanoscale patterning tools are employed for production of coatings for biofouling, sensing and biomedical applications. Optical Biosensors, micro- and nanoarrays The group has a long experience in developing optical transducers for biosensing application. We were the first to demonstrate the use of surface plasmon resonance for studies of bioaffinity interactions at surfaces, a technology that today form the backbone in SPR/Biacore instruments developed for biospecific interaction analysis (BIA). We are today using it in combination with ellipsometric interrogation and imaging optics for microarraying, and in combination with nanoparticle for studies optical enhancement phenomena. This includes, for example, microarray chips for protein multiplexing. The group is also working on the development of generic biochips for studies of ligand-receptor binding. Besides working on microarray fabrication for protein detection and analysis we are also developing biochips for the safety and security area. Selected publications 1. Tinazli, A., Tang, J., Valiokas, R., Picuric, S., Lata, S., Piehler, J., Liedberg, B., Tampe, R., Chem. Eur. J. 11, 5249-5259 (2005). 2. Aili, D., Enander, K., Tai, F-I., Baltzer, L., Liedberg, B., Angew. Chem., 120, 5636-5638 (2008). 3. Aili, D., Enander, K., Baltzer, L., Liedberg, B., Nano Letters, 8, 2473-2478 (2008). 4. Andersson, O., Ulrich, C., Björefors, F., Liedberg, B., Sensors&Actuators B: Chemical, 134, 545-550 (2008). 5. Klenkar, G., Liedberg, B., Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 391, 1679-1688 (2008). 6. Aili, D., Selegård. R., Baltzer, L., Enander, K., Liedberg, Small, 5, 2445-2452 (2009). 7. Lee, H.-H., Ruzele, Z., Malysheva, L., Onipko, A., Gutes, A., Björefors, F., Valiokas, R., Liedberg, B., Langmuir, 25(24), 13959–71 (2009).
Assoc Prof Cai Wenjian Prof Cai's areas of expertise are system modelling, control and optimization, multivariable system identification and control, sensor and instrumentation, mechanical system simulation and design, and intelligent systems. His current research works focus on industry applications in building HVAC processes, renewable energy processes and environmental processes.
Prof Chan Bee Eng, Mary Dr Chan-Park has interest and expertise in nanoimprint, micro- and nano-patterning, biomaterials, tissue engineering and carbon nanotubes. She has published more than 80 journal papers and holds more than 15 patents/patent applications in these areas. She has supervised more than 12 PhD students and 15 postdoctoral fellows.
Asst Prof Chen Gang 1. Yang, L., Zhong, Z., Tong, C., Jia, H., Liu, Y., and Chen, G.* (2018) Single-molecule mechanical folding and unfolding of RNA hairpins: Effects of single A-U to A∙C pair substitutions and single proton binding and implications for mRNA structure-induced −1 ribosomal frameshifting. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140, 8172-8184. (IF: 14.357) 2. Patil, K.M., Toh, D.F.K., Yuan, Z., Meng, Z., Shu, Z., Zhang, H., Ong, A.A.L., Krishna, M.S., Lu, L., Lu, Y.,* and Chen, G.* (2018) Incorporating uracil and 5-halouracils into short peptide nucleic acids for enhanced recognition of A-U pairs in dsRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res. 46, 7506-7521. (IF: 11.561) 3. Krishna, M.S., Toh, D.F.K., Meng, Z., Ong, A.A.L., Wang, Z., Lu, Y., Xia, K., Prabakaran, M., and Chen, G.* (2019) Sequence- and structure-specific probing of RNAs by short nucleobase-modified dsRNA-binding PNAs incorporating a fluorescent light-up uracil analog. Anal. Chem., 91, 5331-5338. (IF: 6.042) 4. Kesy, J., Patil, K.M., Kumar, S.M. Shu, Z., Yee, Y.H., Zimmermann, L., Ong, A.A.L., Toh, D.F.K., Krishna, M.S., Yang, L., Decout, J.L., Luo, D., Prabakaran, M.,* Chen, G.,* and Kierzek, E.* (2019) A short chemically modified dsRNA-binding PNA (dbPNA) inhibits influenza viral replication by targeting viral RNA panhandle structure. Bioconjugate Chem., 30, 931-943. (IF: 4.485) 5. Puah, R.Y. Jia, H., Maraswami, M., Toh, D.F.K., Ero, R., Yang, L., Patil, K.M., Ong, A.A.L., Krishna, M.S., Sun, R., Tong, C., Huang, M., Chen, X., Loh, T.P., Gao, Y.G., Liu, D.X.,* and Chen, G.* (2018) Selective binding to mRNA duplex regions by chemically modified peptide nucleic acids stimulates ribosomal frameshift. Biochemistry 57, 149-159. (IF: 2.997) 6. Toh, D.F.K., Devi, G., Patil, K.M., Qu, Q., Maraswami, M., Xiao, Y., Loh, T.P., Zhao, Y.,* and Chen, G.* (2016) Incorporating a guanidine-modified cytosine base into triplex-forming PNAs for the recognition of a C-G pyrimidine-purine inversion site of an RNA duplex. Nucleic Acids Res. 44, 9071-9082. (IF: 11.561) 7. Devi, G., Yuan, Z., Lu, Y., Zhao, Y.,* and Chen, G.* (2014) Incorporation of thio-pseudoisocytosine into triplex-forming peptide nucleic acids for enhanced recognition of RNA duplexes. Nucleic Acids Res. 42, 4008-4018. (IF: 11.561) https://publons.com/researcher/2808043/gang-chen/ https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=5grw9vcAAAAJ&hl=en https://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/rnachen/publications.htm
Prof Chen Xiaodong Currently, Prof. Chen's research focuses on two directions: (1) Integrated nano-bio interface: to develop programmable nanostructure-biomaterial hybrid systems for monitoring, manipulating, and mimicking biological processes. (2) Programmable materials for energy conversion: to explore programmable modules for electrochemical energy conversion and storage.
Assoc Prof Chew Jia Wei Fluidized bed technology represents an important industrial application, spanning energy production, chemical synthesis, and pharmaceutical processes, among others. However, due in part to the limitations of measurement techniques, processes employing particulate flows often operate below design capacity, and operations are generally based on experience rather than theory. Thus, my research focuses on the important need for the development of measurement and/or analytical solutions for understanding and diagnostic purposes. Another area of research is scaling analysis of fluidized bed systems to develop design heuristics. In fluidized bed systems an added complexity involves instabilities that have to be included in a comprehensive model. To date, the prediction of the characteristic instability length (e.g., the bubble or cluster size) remains elusive, despite its importance in enhancing our comprehension of various phenomena (e.g., species segregation and clustering) in polydisperse fluidized beds. To this end, systematic scaling analysis is expected to be useful in the design and optimization of fluidized bed systems. Membrane technology also spans wide-ranging applications, such as water purification, gas separation, and dialysis. However, optimal performance remains elusive due inevitably to concentration polarization and fouling. Specifically for membrane distillation, although rigorous equations have been developed, the inability to account for the wide spectrum of pore sizes of the membrane and/or biofouling layer inhibits the use of such models for predicting the performance. In particular, membrane distillation enables the production of potable water using waste heat from industrial processes, thus makes for a promising Green Technology. Hence, one area of my research will be towards developing new techniques for characterizing pore sizes (such as evapoporometry), which is expected to lead to a better understanding and optimization of membrane processes. Another thrust involves study of an integrated hybrid process comprising a fluidized bed and a membrane for water purification. More specifically, the addition of particles to a tubular membrane module has been shown to significantly enhance the water permeation flux due to promoting turbulence. For the system to become a feasible and reliable method for separations, further enhancement of performance is warranted. https://sites.google.com/site/jiachew/
Prof Chi Yonggui Robin OrganoCatalysis, Chemical Synthesis, Functional Molecules
Prof Chiba Shunsuke Organic Synthetic Chemistry 1) Development of New synthetic Reactions 2) Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Products
Asst Prof Chong Tzyy Haur Membrane science and technology: - Water and wastewater treatment, seawater desalination and water reclamation, food application - Membrane fouling and cleaning; sensors for membrane processes - Module design and hydrodynamics - Energy related to membrane processes
Assoc Prof Curtis Alexander Davey DNA in eukaryotic cells is packaged by histone proteins into chromatin, a dynamic hierarchical organization underlying genomic function. The basic chromatin building block is the nucleosome core particle, in which ~147 base pairs of DNA are wrapped in 1 & 2/3 superhelical turns around a histone protein octamer. Our high resolution crystallographic analysis of the nucleosome core particle yielded a wealth of insight into histone-DNA association. In fact, the conformation of DNA in the nucleosome core is remarkably different than its naked form or that associated with other nuclear proteins and is dependent on both DNA sequence and positioning on the histone octamer. We found that even divalent metal hydrates can recognize this unique feature of the nucleosome, binding in a DNA sequence- and orientation-selective manner. Our present goal is to find new drug targets and develop novel therapeutics by studying DNA structure and chemistry within a physiological framework. Approximately 83% of genomic DNA is associated with histone octamers, rendering the nucleosome core an important therapeutic target. However, relatively little is known about the influence of histone packaging on DNA-drug interaction. Since nucleosomal DNA displays sequence- and context-dependent structural features that can be recognized by even simple small molecules, the main premise of our present investigations is to explore the possibilities for nucleosome-selective recognition by medicinal agents and nuclear protein factors. The discovery of nucleosome-specific compounds would hold promise for the acquisition of improved therapeutic agents by allowing for a level of site discrimination beyond the primary structure of DNA.
Asst Prof Dang Thuy Tram Assistant Prof. Dang’s multidisciplinary research interests span the fields of biomaterials, drug delivery and cell-based therapeutics. Our lab aims to integrate fundamental understanding of cellular and molecular microenvironment with engineering advances in the design of biocompatible materials, biologically responsive drug delivery and microfabricated cell-based systems to develop more effective treatments for diabetes and wound healing. Our current research activities center on the following three areas 1. Host immune response to polymeric biomaterials We seek to understand the influence of materials’ physical and chemical properties on their interaction with the surrounding cellular microenvironment in the host response to polymeric biomaterials. Our long term goal is utilize this knowledge in rational design of biomaterial surfaces to promote successful clinical integration of implanted medical devices, drug delivery systems and tissue-engineered scaffolds. In addition, we also study the immunogenicity of degradable polymeric biomaterials to predict their long-term performance in non-medical biological systems and evaluate their potential applications in cosmetic or food industries. 2. Biologically responsive drug delivery systems We are interested in designing novel drug delivery systems that harness altered biochemical signals in pathological states to program the release of therapeutics for effective restoration of physiological balance. 3. Modular programming of pancreatic micro-tissues Therapeutic cells, such as pancreatic islets for diabetes treatment, often suffer from decreased viability and function when transplanted into the body of recipients due to the absence of supporting blood vessels. Our team seeks to overcome this limitation by re-programming the pancreatic islets’ modular micro-structures to optimize their cellular configuration for enhanced oxygen and nutrient transports.
Assoc Prof Duan Hongwei His current research is focused on two major areas including nanomaterials engineering and biomedical nanotechnology. The goal of this work is to develop new technological platforms for early detection and targeted therapy of major human diseases such as cancer. Ongoing projects in his group include semiconductor quantum dots for live cell imaging and biomarker profiling, multifunctional nanoparticles for integrated cancer imaging and therapy, self-assembled nanostructures for disease-targeted drug/gene delivery and ultrathin films based arrays for ultrasensitive biodetection.
Asst Prof Fang Mingliang High-resolution mass spectrometry based metabolomics and lipidomics Fate and transport of emerging environmental contaminants Human exposure and biomarker discovery Nuclear-receptor related endocrine disruption by environmental contaminants High-throughput bioassay application in the toxicity assessment Effect-directed analysis to screen bioactive compounds in environmental mixtures
Asst Prof Grzegorz Lisak Environmental chemistry with focus of novel analytical protocols for determination of pollutants in environment. Analytical chemistry with focus on electroanalysis. Electrochemistry with focus on conducting materials, e.g. conducting polymers. Novel materials for the use in sensor technology. Electro stimulated transport of species across membranes. On-line determination of toxic metals bioavailability in various samples, e.g. soil.
Assoc Prof Hirotaka Sato MICRO SYSTEM micro air vehicle, MAV insect flight control insect physiology biofuel cell NANO FABRICATION electrochemical etching, deposition electroless deposition
Prof Hu Xiao Composites and Nanocomposites Functional Polymers: Synthesis and Assembly Nanocrystals Synthesis and Modification (including rods, dots and tubes) Organic-inorganic Hybrid Materials
Asst Prof Ito Shingo Organic Synthesis, Polymer Synthesis, and Structural Organic Chemistry 1) Development of Novel Synthetic Methodology in Organic and Polymer Synthesis 2) Synthesis of Heteroatom-Containing π-Functional Molecules for Device Application
Asst Prof Jack Zhang Xin a) Advanced control and topologies of modern power electronic systems/converters in smart grid, electric vehicle/aircraft/ship. b) Stability and reliability of modern power electronic systems. c) HVDC and FACTs. d) Application of SiC / GaN power devices. e) Smart green buildings. Opening positions: a) PhD students; b) Research Fellows; c) Research Associates.
Asst Prof James Jing Kwan To date, there are numerous unmet challenges that face therapies for cancer, cardiovascular, and neurological disorders. These challenges often stem from the substantial physiological barriers that prevent drug therapies from passively entering into diseased tissue. For example, tumors often have heightened internal pressure that hinders the entry of all classes of chemotherapeutic agent. Similarly, the blood vessels in the brain have an innate barrier to prevent large molecules from entering. As a result, many of these therapies either rely of excessive use of the therapeutic, or resort to life changing surgeries to overcome these barriers. My group seeks to develop non-invasive health technologies that minimises damaging side effects of treatments whilst maximising the therapeutic efficacy and quality of life in patients. To do so, we focus on using biomedical ultrasound as a non-invasive modality to provide therapy across a broad range of illnesses. Using ultrasound allows us to use and external force to illicit a mechanical or thermal response at depth within the human body. Ultimately, it is our goal to improve the quality of life of patients who suffer from debilitating diseases by mitigating the damaging side effects of potent drugs or replacing invasive surgical interventions with less invasive alternatives. Furthermore, many of these techniques can also be applied towards industrial applications such as biofilm removal. We are currently working on three major projects: 1) Remote implantation of bioresorbable ultrasound responsive particles for the treatment of atherosclerosis 2) Study the effects of ultrasound on biofilm producing bacteria 3) Design and develop ultrasound-induced hydrogel formation Our lab is currently funded by: NTU SUG (SCBE) - 2016 - 2020 NTU-ICES Seed Funding Research Award - 2016 - 2018 NMRC YIRG - 2017 - 2020 AME IAF-PP "Specialty Chemicals" - 2017 - 2020 We are currently looking for a research fellow to work on the remote implantation of bioresorbable ultrasound responsive particles as well as the development of an atherosclerosis model. If you are interested in joining my lab, please email me at jameskwan@ntu.edu.sg. For more information, please go to this link: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/career/CurrentOpenings/ResearchOpenings/SCBE/Pages/ultrasound.aspx
Asst Prof Jason England Bioinspired activation of small molecules and inert X-H bonds. More specifically, at present we seek to develop first-row late transition metal complexes able to (1) activate O2 for catalytic oxidation of unactivated C-H bonds, thereby allowing more straightforward synthesis of a wide range of organic molecules; (2) promote efficient and selective reduction of O2 to water (ORR), which is key to the function of fuel cells; and (3) electrocatalytically oxidize H2O to O2 in an efficient manner, which is pivotal to the development of photovoltaic cells designed to harvest and store solar energy in chemical form. Nature is able to catalyze all of the aforementioned chemical transformations in a highly efficient manner, and does so under ambient conditions using enzymes containing highly abundant first-row transition metals. Being able to reproduce the general function of these enzymes using small molecules would be highly desirable, and that is what our research aims to achieve.
Assoc Prof Jason Xu Zhichuan • Electrocatalysis • Electrochemical energy storage • Electrochemical interfaces • Electrochemical sensors • Magnetic nanomaterials • Chemistry for materials recycle
Prof Jimmy P Tam@James P Tam His research work has focused on the design and development of therapeutics, particularly biologics and immunologics of anti-infectives and synthetic vaccines. http://jptam.sbs.ntu.edu.sg/
Assoc Prof Julien Lescar Structural Biology Infectious Diseases Structure-Based Drug Design
Dr Ken Lee Our research focuses on Chemical Technologies and how to translate academic discoveries into practical solutions in Synthesis, Sensing and Sustainability. In Synthesis, we are interested in high-throughput experimentation, automated synthesis using robots, flow chemistry and Chembeads technology. In Sensing, we are interested to develop rapid detection methods for water pathogens and other microorganisms. In Sustainability, we are interested to develop viable solutions in heterogeneous food waste recycling and biovalorisation of homogeneous discarded food processing by-products.
Assoc Prof Kevin Pethe The primary research interest of Associate Professor Kevin Pethe is to understand bacterial metabolic and bioenergetics adaptation during host colonization, and to use this knowledge to develop innovative strategies to control disease progression. He is also interested in characterising metabolic synthetic lethal genetic interactions in bacteria. His laboratory is using a chemical genomics approach to decipher how multiple metabolic perturbation can lead to the collapse of an entire biological system, knowledge which is critical to develop antibiotic drug combinations. A related interest is to study the system-level perturbation induced by antibiotics using an interdisciplinary approach combining functional genomics, chemical biology, genetics and biochemistry. He is working on tuberculosis, leprosy, and several multi-drug resistant bacteria responsible for life-threatening nosocomial infections
Assoc Prof Kunn Hadinoto Ong Research interests: 1) Development of sustainable preparation methods of solid dosage form of nanopharmaceuticals 2) Inhaled delivery of nano-antibiotics for chronic lung infection therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm 3) Development of nutraceutical food products (e.g. probiotics, medicinal herbs) 4) Lipid-polymer hybrid nanoparticles as a new generation drug delivery platform 5) Flow behaviors of powders in pharmaceutically relevant processes (e.g. crystallizer, granulator, dryer)
Prof Lam Yeng Ming Yeng Ming’s research interests are in the understanding and the application of self-organization of peptides and polymers. She has studied a wide range of self-assembled systems in selective solvents and thin films. Her research also includes the application of self-assembly on the synthesis of nanostructures/nanoparticles, nanotemplating, organic memory, photovoltaics, etc. Yeng Ming has also demonstrated through the use of both experiments and calculations, that it is possible to accurately parameterize copolymer systems. The mesoscale morphology of the copolymer system can be predicted accurately through simulation making use of the dynamic mean field density method. This allows for a simple approach in the design of copolymer for self-assembly and to understand the conditions for self-assembly. This work resulted in the publication of numerous papers and 2 book chapters. She has also obtained research funding for self-assembly work in other applications such as surface modifications and development of nanoreactors for controlled synthesis of nanomaterials. Her most recent funding obtained through the Competitive Research Programme funding from National Research Foundation as a Project PI under a S$10 million programme on Nanonets: New Materials, Devices for Integrated Energy Harvesting.
Assoc Prof Lau Wai Man Dr Lau's areas of expertise are Fluidization, Multiphase Flow, and Reactor Design. His current research works focus on the kinetic and hydrodynamic study of Fisher-Tropsch Synthesis process, particle formulation and inhaler design in dry powder inhalation, and process engineering study of microalgae cultivation. For more information, please visit his research homepage at: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/WMLau/
Dr Lee Hiang Kwee Surface-enhanced Raman scattering Metal-organic framework Surface engineering Particle-assembled soft interfaces Electrochemistry Energy harvesting and storage Multifunctional hybrid materials Nanotechnology/nanoscience Material chemistry Gas-to-fuel conversion
Assoc Prof Lee Jong-Min Prof Lee's research interest is in analysis and design of electrochemical systems and development of ionic liquid as a green solvent for chemical and biomedical reactions and of nanomaterials and of their assemblies for applications in biomedical, optical, and electronic fields. Currently, his research interests focus on: i) the electrodeposition of mesoporous materials in a dual template utilizing porous anodic alumina and lyotropic liquid crystal for electrochemical energy systems, ii) the development of ionic liquids as media for chemical and biomedical reactions, iii) the extraction of metal ions using ionic liquids, iv) and the deconstruction of biomass feedstock using ionic liquids for production of fermentable sugars.
Prof Lee Soo Ying My current areas of research interest include: Understanding vision; many types of Raman scatering; ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopy; molecular reaction dynamics; multidimensional spectroscopy.
Assoc Prof Leong Weng Kee Professor Leong's main research area is organometallic chemistry, particularly organometallic cluster chemistry, and includes: (a) Development of novel and especially mixed-metal cluster chemistry, (b) Bioorganometallic chemistry especially of clusters, (c) Mechanistic studies in catalysis and bond activation, and (d) Organometallic clusters in nanoscience and nanomaterials.
Prof Leung Pak Hing The research interest is in the area of asymmetric synthesis and optical resolution of novel P-chiral phosphine ligands. An efficient approach to generate the desired stereoisomeric form of a particular ligand by means of an unusual exo-endo stereochemically controlled asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction, using a chiral organopalladium complex as the reaction promoter have been developed. With this catalyst, it is now possible to produce one particular target molecule in a controllable and specific manner. Currently, these findings are applied to the synthesis of new anti-cancer gold drugs. Thus far, preliminary biological tests indicate that these new drugs exhibit high activity towards various human cancerous diseases with minimal side effects. The catalytic properties of these newly generated chiral phosphines are also being investigated.
Assoc Prof Li Lin (i) rheological studies of gels and hydrogels, (ii) synthesis of nanoparticles for drug & gene delivery, (iii) 3D printing with hydrogels, (iv) 4D printing, (v) 3D food printing
Assoc Prof Li Shuzhou I am interested in exploring optical properties of nanomaterials by theoretical and computational tools. Currently, my research will focus on three directions: (1) developing high sensitive substrates for surface-enhanced Raman scattering and fluorescence; (2) optical properties of metal-semiconductor nanostructures; and (3) assembly of metallic nanostructures.
Assoc Prof Li Tianhu Associate Professor Li Tianhu's areas of expertise are nucleic acid chemistry (deoxyribozyme, G-quadruplex, i-motif, supercoiled DNA). His current research focuses are mainly on the following areas: 1. Design and construction of supercoiled DNA structures that possess desired topology and superheliex density. Generation of supercoiled structure of DNA in eukaryotic cells is associated with replication, transcription, and packing of DNA into chromatin while in prokaryotic cell, this superstructure can form with the assistance of gyrase and reverse gyrase. Typically, magnitude of superhelical density in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells is ca. -0.06 (6% underwinding). Our group is interested in designing and constructing negatively and positively supercoiled DNA that possess superhelical densities between -0.24 and +0.024 and in examining the physical, chemical and biological properties of these DNA topological isomers (Figure A). 2. Development of human topoisomerases inhibitors. Topoisomerases are the enzymes that release the topological stress of DNA generated by replication and transcription and several other cellular processes and are critical for cell growth and proliferation. It has been demonstrated in the past that human topoisomerase I is the molecular target of several anticancer agents such as the camptothecins, indolocarbazoles and indenoisoquinolines. Since 2005, our research group has been working on (1) design and synthesis of intrinsically curved oligonucleotides of different lengths that contain matched unnatural bases, nicked and gapped sites as well as mismatched base pairs; (2) examination of inhibitory effect of these curved oligonucleotides on the activity of human topoisomerase I and their interating mechanisms; and (3) design and synthesis of oligonucleotide-based human topoisomerase II inhibitors (Figure B). 3. Search for self-cleaving and self-splicing deoxyribosomes It was uncovered in our lab in 2007 that certain artificially designed non-biologically relevant G-quadruplet could carry out site-specific self-cleavage action. Since then, our research team has been examining the G-quadruplex structures formed by some telometric repeats with the expectation that such G-quadruplexes could perform self-cleaving and self-splicing actions as well (Figure C). 4. Design and synthesis of G-quadruplex-based anticancer drug candidates G-quadruplexes have been demonstrated by several research groups in the past to be potential targets of anti-cancer drugs. Our research team is interested in developing new reagents that could cause irreversible damage to the tetraplex entity in selective manners. 5. Nutritional and food Chemistry Our emphasis in these research areas are on investigating the biological activity of polyphenol antioxidants isolated from plant-based food and their anti-aging activity.
Assoc Prof Liang Zhao-Xun I am interested in the structure and function of some newly discovered proteins that are of potential importance for the treatment of human diseases. The proteins under investigation range from enzymes involved in antitumor natural products biosynthesis to potential antimicrobial targets in pathogenic bacteria.
Prof Lim Teik Thye My core research fields are: Advanced oxidation processes for water and wastewater treatment Environmental catalysis for wastewater treatment Environmental nanomaterials for water decontamination My secondary research field is: Waste-to-energy and waste-to-materials Brief summaries of my research projects are listed below. Catalytic advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) I have 15 years of research track records in redox technologies for surface water, wastewater and groundwater treatment. For the oxidation technologies, my research activities cover sulfate-radical based advanced oxidation process or SR-AOP (homogeneous and heterogeneous), UV-based AOP (homogeneous and heterogeneous), Fenton processes (heterogeneous), photocatalysis (heterogeneous), electrochemical oxidation, and sonochemical oxidation, and hybrid AOPs. On SR-AOP, my group has made significant contribution to the scientific community in terms of advancing the understanding of the mechanisms of the heterogeneous SR-AOP with metal oxides (monometallic oxide and bimetallic oxides) and carbonaceous materials as catalysts to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) and peroxydisulfate (PDS). We have discussed our works in our numerous scientific papers and 3 critical reviews in the top journals. Specifically, we have provided insights into the radical and non-radical reaction pathways associated with transformation and mineralization of a wide range of organic emerging micropollutants such as antibiotics, cytostatic drugs, bisphenol A and industrial chemicals. On the homogeneous SR-AOP, our group is among the leading contributor to post-formation mitigation strategy for controlling iodinated disinfection by-products such as iodinated trihalomethanes and iodoacids in RO water. Our group also developed composite catalytic materials which comprise mixed metal oxides, bimetallic oxides, and catalyst-nanocarbon composites that exhibit multifunctional properties such as combined catalysis, adsorption-promoted catalysis, “switchable” catalysis, etc. Our iron-based catalytic composites can function as Fenton catalyst, photo-Fenton catalyst and photocatalyst, such that their applications can be switched over the day/night cycle. When irradiated with sunlight, they trigger sunlight-driven photocatalytic redox degradation of organic pollutants without any chemical addition. The materials can be recovered from the treated water using magnet. We have also developed a hybrid TiO2-activated carbon composites, which can be used as solar-driven photocatalyst or solar-regenerable adsorbent. This invention has been approved for PCT filing as a recognition of our intellectual property. Catalytic ceramic membrane for removing recalcitrant organics Over the last 10 years, my group has advanced the research of coupling catalytic oxidation and membrane separation process. The synergistic processes were enabled through our catalytic ceramic membrane research. We developed three types of such hybrid membranes: (1) photocatalytic membrane, (2) catalytic sulfate-radical oxidation membrane, and (3) catalytic ozonation ceramic membrane. One of our inventions, Ag-decorated photocatalytic TiO2-coated alumina membrane, has three functionalities: antibacterial and antibiofouling property, photocatalytic activity, and separation function with membrane pore sizes down to 4 nm. The details of my research activities and publications are available at https://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/cttlim/
Assoc Prof Ling Xing Yi The research programs in our laboratory combine chemistry, nanotechnology, and materials science approaches to develop functional nanostructures with novel catalysis, plasmonic and sensing applications. Our research activities involve nanoparticle synthesis, surface chemistry, self-assembly, nanopatterning, nanofabrication, and materials and device characterization. Nanostructures for optimal solar energy conversion The amount of solar energy striking the earth’s surface in one hour is enough to power human activity for one year. Hence, solar energy provides one of the best options to sustain human civilization. An efficient photosystem is able (1) to absorb a large amount of broadband solar energy at full solar spectrum, (2) convert photons into electron-hole pairs efficiently, and (3) perform catalysis reaction to produce fuel at high yield. Currently, most photocatalysts suffer from low reaction efficiency. The main goal in this project is to design nanostructures with artificial photosynthesis properties to achieve high solar fuel conversion. Our strategy is focused on fabricating well-defined nanostructures by combining bottom-up self-assembly and top-down nanofabrication techniques. Important information will be gained to drive the solar-to-fuel photocatalysis towards commercialization and to reduce human’s dependence on non-renewable fossil fuel.
Assoc Prof Liu Bin Architected nanomaterials for solar-to-fuel and solar-to-electric conversion. Photocatalysis for air and water treatment. Nanocomposites. Electrocatalysis.
Assoc Prof Liu Chuan Fa Drug discovery: New strategies for peptide and protein drug development; peptide drug delivery; peptide and protein bioconjugates and antibody-drug conjugates as drug modalities; new peptide leads from phage display and natural sources. Medicinal chemistry and structure-based drug design; peptidomimetics; combinatorial chemistry for drug lead discovery. Development and use of peptide nucleic acid analogs as antisense and antigene agents. Pharmacokinetic (PK) studies using LC-MS. Peptide/protein chemistry and chemical biology: Development of chemical/enzymatic peptide ligation methods and site-specific protein modification methods; use of protein chemical synthesis for the study of protein structure and functions; study of ubiquitin biology and structural biology using homogeneous chemically ubiquitinated proteins; study of chromatin structure and biology using semisynthetic histones carrying various PTMs.
Asst Prof Liu Wen Paul Chemical looping applications Selective methane conversion Carbon capture and utilisation
Prof Liu Xuewei Research Interests The research program in our group integrates organic chemistry, chemical biology, medicinal chemistry and materials chemistry. A special emphasis is placed on training and research in carbohydrate synthesis and on the utilization of this expertise in addressing problems of medicinal and biochemical significance. i. Carbohydrate chemistry ii. Glycopeptide and glycoprotein synthesis iii. Glycobiology iv. Antimicrobial Research v. Glycal-oriented synthesis of natural products vi. Functional materials Selected Publications (1 paper is selected from each year of 2011-2016) Hua Chai‡, Kim Le Mai Hoang‡, Minh Duy Vu, Kalyan Pasunooti, Chuan-Fa Liu and Xue-Wei Liu#, “N-Linked Glycosyl Auxiliary-Mediated Native Chemical Ligation on Aspartic Acid: Application towards N-Glycopeptide Synthesis”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 10363-10367. Highlighted by X-MOL. Shaohua Xiang, Kim Le Mai Hoang, Jingxi He, Yujia Tan and Xue-Wei Liu#, “Reversing the Stereoselectivity of a Palladium-Catalyzed O-Glycosylation through an Inner-Sphere or Outer-Sphere Pathway”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 604-607. Kim Le Mai Hoang and Xue-Wei Liu#, “The Intriguing Dual-Directing Effect of 2-Cyanobenzyl Ether for Highly Stereospecific Glycosylation Reaction”, Nat. Commun., 2014, 5, 5051. Jing Zeng, Jimei Ma, Shaohua Xiang, Shuting Cai, and Xue-Wei Liu#, “Stereoselective β-C-Glycosylation via Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Allylation: Formal Synthesis of Aspergillide A”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 5134-5137. Highlight in Synfacts 2013, 9, 870. Bala Kishan Gorityala‡, Zhiqiang Lu‡, Min Li Leow, Jimei Ma, and Xue-Wei Liu#, “Design of a “Turn-off/Turn-on” Biosensor: Understanding Carbohydrate-lectin Interactions to Utilization in Noncovalent Drug Delivery”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 15229-15232. Rujee Lorpitthaya, Sharad B. Suryawanshi, Siming Wang, Kalyan Kumar Pasunooti, Shuting Cai, Jimei Ma, and Xue-Wei Liu#, “Total Synthesis of Sialic Acids by a Sequential Rhodium-Catalyzed Azridination and Barbier Allylation of D-Glycal”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2011, 50, 12054-12057
Prof Loh Teck Peng Teck Peng's research interests encompass a very wide array in organic synthesis. Research activities include green chemistry, asymmetric synthesis, the development of new synthetic methodology, and total synthesis of architecturally complex organic molecules with interesting biological activities. He also discovered many new concepts and methods for organic synthesis and completed the total synthesis of many complex molecules. To date, he has published 153 papers in international refereed journals, 106 conference papers, 5 book chapters, Hirsch-index of 38 and a total number of 3891 citations. He has been the Principal Investigator of several research grants, with total exceeding S$5 million, awarded by A*Star and Ministry of Education. Being the program leader of Medicinal Chemistry at National University of Singapore, he spearheaded a number of main programs and they were completed successfully. He has been a frequent plenary speaker or invited speaker at many international conferences. Recently, he is invited to the Editorial Advisory Board of ChemComm to shape one of the world?s top chemistry journals. He has also been frequently invited to write book chapters, review articles, etc. Teck Peng was awarded the prestigious Japanese Government (Mombusho) scholarship, which was only given to 5 students in Malaysia every year, from 1982 to 1989. In 1997, National University of Singapore bestowed him the University Outstanding Researcher Award. He has been the Adjunct Professor of Soo Chow University (China) and Tsukuba University (Japan) since 2002 and 2005 respectively. He was also the Visiting Professor of Columbia Medical School, Columbia University (USA) from 2002 to 2003. Recently, he was awarded by NTU for NTU Research Innovation Award.
Assoc Prof Loh Zhi Heng The central theme of our experimental research program is the study of coherent electron and nuclear dynamics in molecules and nanomaterials. Coherent electron motion and the ensuing quantum dynamics set forth by either optical excitation or nonresonant strong-field ionization with few-cycle laser pulses will be probed with attosecond to femtosecond time resolution. This proposed work builds upon my previous work, in which coherent electron motion in Kr+ ions that accompanies the formation of a spin-orbit wave packet is observed (Nature, 2010). The main experimental techniques that are employed include attosecond time-resolved core-level transient absorption and transient photoelectron spectroscopies, in which soft x-ray pulses produced in a tabletop setup by high-order harmonic generation are used as probe. These soft x-ray studies are complimented with optical pump-probe measurements employing few-cycle (~5 fs) laser pulses. The ultimate goal of our studies is to exploit quantum coherences to enhance the performance of nanoelectronics and artificial light harvesting systems.
Prof Lou Xiong Wen Nanomaterials for High-performance Lithium-ion Batteries and supercapacitors, Hollow nanostructures, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis
Assoc Prof Lu Lanyuan ●Developing computational methods for multiscale modeling of biomolecular systems. ● Coarse-grained simulations of biomembranes, peptides, and proteins.
Dr Lu Yunpeng Quantum Wavepacket Reaction Dynamics ab_intio calculations
Dr Madhavan Nallani We are interested in combining the proteins with polymeric self-assembled architectures. We aim to select the proteins either from nature or modified ones (e.g. by re-combinant ways or synthetic de-novo peptides). Block co-polymers as self-assembled architectures offer a unique possibility for the structural control of materials at the nano-scopic scale. Such control enables one to tune the properties for specific applications. We are exploring the above combination in applications such as sensing.
Prof Markus Kraft Professor Kraft has a strong interest in the area of computational modelling and optimisation targeted towards developing carbon abatement and emissions reduction technologies for the automotive, power and chemical industries. Together with his research team he has also contributed significantly towards the detailed modelling of combustion synthesis of organic and inorganic nanoparticles and worked on spray drying and granulation of fine powders. More recently Professor Kraft has also been working on the application of cyberphyical systems, knowledge graphs, agents and semantic web technology to study eco-industrial parks. In another activity Prof Kraft, in close collaboration with Prof XU Rong, is workingon flame synthesis of catalytically active films for water splitting and CO2 utilisation.
Prof Michael KC Tam Renewable nanomaterials, self-assembly systems, controlled delivery systems, polymer-surfactant systems, functional colloids
Asst Prof Mihaiela Stuparu Our research focus is on the preparation of corannulene-based polymers differing in their chemical composition and architecture together with studying their properties. We are particularly interested in the complexation behavior of these materials with fullerenes. In this direction, we have developed synthetic strategies leading to corannulene-core star polymers, corannulene side-chain homopolymers and block copolymers, and corannulene main-chain polymers. In our recent studies, we have shown that these polymers can interact with C60 and the strength of this interaction could be tuned by controlling the chemical structure of the polymer, chemical nature of the solvent, and temperature.
Asst Prof Ming-Hsu Chen Dr. Chen’s research group works on integrating biological and engineering principles into bioprocess procedures to improve the efficiency of the overall production system. The interdisciplinary team is interested in creating values for agricultural byproducts, optimizing the fermentation process, manufacturing bioactive carbohydrates, and elucidating substrate-specific microbial communities. Current research focuses include: 1. Sustainable food manufacturing and waste valorization 2. Functional carbohydrate development 3. Gut microbiome and microbial engineering Prospective student and researcher candidates are encouraged to contact Dr. Chen at minghsu.chen@ntu.edu.sg to inquire about open positions.
Assoc Prof Mu Yuguang Research Fields 1. MD simulation method and data analysis method development. 2. DNA dynamics, DNA ?protein, DNA-counterions interaction study. 3. Peptide, protein folding, unfolding study, specially aimed at folding, misfolding mechanism which could lead to amyloid fibril. 4. RNA dynamics and folding study.
Dr Mukta Bansal Her research is based on Supply Chain Management, Supplier Procurement, Logistics, Optimization, and Carbon reduction.
Assoc Prof Naohiko Yoshikai Our major research interests focus on mechanism, design, and development of novel homogeneous catalysis that allows efficient and environmentally benign synthetic transformations of simple, unactivated molecules into useful building blocks for electronically and biologically active compounds. The following keywords characterize our research programs: Exploration of novel catalytic activities of ubiquitous and non-toxic metals, activation and functionalization of otherwise unreactive chemical bonds and small molecules, rational design of innovative catalysis through the interplay of theory and experiments.
Prof Ng Wun Jern NG WUN JERN's research interests are largely in the area of water, wastewater, and sludge and agri-wastes management, with recovery of useful materials and energy. The focus of his efforts has been on investigations into water quality, treatment science, and development of treatment technologies and systems. These investigations span the water quality spectrum - ranging from ultra-pure water to high strength and inhibitory wastewaters, and organic sludges to agri-wastes management for recovery of soil fertility and crop yields. His research output may be found in some 400 publications. These include journal papers, conference presentations, book chapters and monographs, reports, and patents. His latest book publications are titled "Industrial Wastewater Treatment" (Imperial College Press) and "Wetlands for Tropical Applications" (Imperial College Press). Current R&D interests revolve around effluent treatment and include dehalogenation under bioreductive conditions. Of particular interest are the chloro-compounds and dehalogenation under acidic conditions with biomass sculptured into granules. The interest in bioreductive (instead of bio-oxidative) processes stems from concern over energy costs and carbon footprints of treatment processes. Anaerobic processes are therefore of interest when used to manage strong wastewaters and slurries from industrial and agro-industrial sources. R&D interest is on hydrolysis, staged and phased anaerobic processes, process stability and kinetics, gas productivities and quality, and recovery of resources. Conceptually there is a shift from viewing the anaerobic process as a wastewater pretreatment device to one which is intended to recover resources. Extending this interest is the work on biosorption where sorption is used to concentrate carbonaceous material from low strength wastewaters prior to anaerobic degradation of the sorbent with gas recovery. This approach deviates from the conventional approach of using anaerobic processes such as the UASB or anaerobic filter to address low strength wastewaters. Laboratory studies typically use the cyclic process configuration although larger scale studies can be with the cyclic or continuous flow configuration. In aerobic treatment, there is interest in the MBR applied with granulated biomass. The interest is on biofouling mitigation using this modified biomass morphology. There is also interest in using the MBR and the concept of "back seeding" to achieve better nutrients removal and degradation of resistant organics (eg textile dyes). Aerobic processes are also used to produce enzymes, phytohormones, and beneficial microbial consortia from horti-and agri-wastes. NG now leads his own research group, the Environmental Bio-innovations Group (EBiG), which as its name would suggest has focus on solutions which can be applied on the issues faced in the region. While not limited to bioprocesses, there are more numerous such solutions with intention to achieving more sustainable and circular approaches.
Asst Prof Ni Ran The concept of "soft matter" was first introduced by Pierre-Gilles de Gennes in his Nobel lecture in 1991. Essentially, soft matter is a subfield of condensed matter comprising a variety of physical systems that are deformed or structurally altered by thermal or mechanical stress of the magnitude of thermal fluctuations. Because of their responsivity with respect to perturbations, e.g. thermal fluctuations, mechanical deformation, external fields, etc., soft matter have shown great promise as the next generation “smart materials”. In our group, we use computer simulation as a tool to study and predict the structural properties and dynamic behaviour of soft matter systems in and out of equilibrium to direct the experimental fabrication of functional materials. In particular, we are interested in the self-assembly of colloidal and (bio) polymer systems and work synergically with experimentalists to design new functional materials with application in photonic devices, bio-sensor, bio-materials, etc. Presently, we are interested in the projects below: 1. Dynamic assembly of active matter 2. Glass transition of anisotropic colloids 3. Hierarchical self-assembly of anisotropic colloids 4. Self-assembly of fibril-forming polypeptides
Prof Phan Anh Tuan Professor Phan's research is at the interface between Physics, Chemistry and Biology. His group uses a combination of physical, chemical, biological and computational methods to investigate and manipulate properties of biomolecules. The research goals include: (1) Structures, dynamics, interactions and functions of DNA, RNA and proteins. (2) Noncanonical structures of DNA and RNA as molecular targets against diseases. (3) Structural design and engineering of nucleic acids and proteins. (4) Application and development of methods, including Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and other spectroscopic techniques, as well as single-molecule manipulations, for the study of biomolecular structures and dynamics.
Prof Phua Kok Khoo High Energy Physics
Dr Poernomo Gunawan 1) Nanomaterials fabrication and functionalization; 2) Heterogeneous catalysis and reaction engineering; 3) Renewable chemical feedstocks and energy; 4) Chemical engineering education.
Assoc Prof Pu Kanyi The board research objective in my group is to develop multifunctional platform technologies for understanding, detection and treatment of life-threatening diseases. Toward this goal, we will take an interdisciplinary approach that brings together organic chemistry, nanotechnology and molecular biology to synthesize functional polymers, polish their optoelectronic and biochemical properties, and shape them into smart and biocompatible nanoagents for advanced molecular imaging and amplified therapy. (1) Molecular Imaging: Detection and monitoring of pathological processes in disease microenvironment at the molecular level for prognosis, diagnosis and therapeutic outcome assessment (2) Chemical Biology: Design and synthesis of activatable imaging probes to uncover how reactive radical species modulate tumor metabolism, promote metastasis and angiogenesis, and foster drug resistance phenotypes (3) Materials Science: Development of organic semiconducting nanomaterials with state-of-art imaging modalities such as photoacoustic imaging, near-infrared fluorescence imaging and bioluminescent imaging to improve imaging penetration depth and spatial resolution (4) Biotechnology: Development of noninvasive high-throughput technologies for drug screening with a focus on real-time in vivo imaging of drug metabolism and evolution of drug-induced toxicity
Asst Prof Qiao Yuan Our research aims to elucidate the molecular cues that the gut microbiota use in communicating with the host, which may help to establish the mechanistic basis for microbiota associated diseases. We are currently developing chemical strategies to profile and characterize microbiota-derived signalling molecules involved in the bacteria-host crosstalk.
Assoc Prof Rei Kinjo Our research principally focuses on the development of novel molecules containing p-block elements (especially boron, carbon, silicon and phosphorus), and it spans the fields among inorganic, organometallic chemistry, and homogeneous catalysis. By taking advantage of characteristic properties of p-block elements, we design and synthesize fundamentally significant compounds featuring unique bonds and structures. Since the peculiar design of our molecules gives rise to original properties, they will have important applications such as building blocks, and ligands for transition metal complexes. Our research directions are outlined as follows: NOVEL BONDING AND STRUCTURAL PARADIGMS We search for new types of bonding and structural paradigms. In particular, multiply bonded compounds including boron as well as heavier main group elements have potentials to be useful synthetic building blocks to produce totally new inorganic compounds, just like alkenes and alkynes in organic synthesis. Our approach will allow for the preparation of new materials previously inaccessible by conventional methods. STABLE VERSION OF TRANSIENT SPECIES Reactive intermediates have proven to play a central role in fundamental research. We develop isolable low valent elements which are supposed to be only transient intermediates, such as borylenes, vinylidenes, nitrenes, radicals, heterocycles, and their heavier group elements analogues. We will utilize some of them as ligands for transition metal complexes, thus, the project targets the development of new catalysts. CATALYSIS One of the significant targets in our projects is to establish mild catalytic systems to produce industrially important chemical compounds from simple abundant molecule such as hydrogen, alkanes, ammonia, which would address current world-wide issues such as energy conservation and environmental impact.
Assoc Prof Richard David Webster The central themes of research in Dr Webster's group cover two major areas; Electrochemistry and Environmental Chemistry. Molecular Electrochemistry: The research incorporates many areas of chemistry including analytical, physical, biological and synthetic (organic and inorganic). When molecules in solution are exposed to a positive or negative potential (voltage) at an electrode surface, they can be made to lose (be oxidised) or to gain (be reduced) an electron or electrons. In inorganic systems, the gain or loss of electrons can produce metal ions in unusual oxidation states while in organic systems, the gain or loss of electrons often produces reactive intermediates such as radicals. Our research focuses on understanding electron transfer reactions that occur in biological systems; currently we are examining vitamin E, vitamin K and a number of coenzymes. The research uses a range of analytical techniques such as; electrochemical methods, vibrational spectroscopy (FTIR and Raman), UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Special cells have been constructed to enable reactions to be studied under ultra-dry conditions at various temperatures as well as in aqueous solutions. Environmental Chemistry: We are interested in testing air and water samples in Singapore for trace amounts of inorganic, volatile organic and particulate contaminants. The group maintains a class 1000 clean room containing a Thermo Fischer iCAP 6000 series inductively coupled plasma (ICP) optical emission spectrometer (OES), an Agilent gas chromatograph (GC-MS) with thermal desorption (TD) capabilities and Dionex ion chromatographs (IC) for analysing environmental samples.
Assoc Prof Roderick Wayland Bates Alkaloid synthesis Natural Product Synthesis Stereochemistry
Asst Prof Seh Zhi Wei Please refer to: http://www.zwseh.com
Prof Simon Redfern Professor Redfern's work explores how minerals control and reflect Earth processes and he has worked in collaboration with a wide variety of Earth and environmental scientists, from climate scientists to volcanologists to palaeontologist to seismologists and even exoplanetary “geo”scientists. In all cases he is interested in how insights into nanometre scale features provide understanding of global processes. His work has extended to using insights from nature to develop new materials in the context of materials design and engineering. His research interests focus on the physical and chemical properties of minerals and associated fluids in planetary interiors. He uses experimental and computational methods to understand the role of minerals in Earth and planetary processes at extreme pressures and temperatures. I has published more than 270 peer-reviewed papers in the scientific literature (H-index 46 [ISI], 54 [Google Scholar]), in internationally leading journals including Nature, Science, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters, JACS, Applied Physics Letters, and GRL. His research is highly inter-disciplinary and he has as many papers in the materials physics/chemistry literature as in geosciences. Professor Redfern pioneered the development of combined high-pressure high-temperature methods for the study of materials and minerals by neutron scattering and was at the vanguard of researchers using neutron methods in Earth and planetary sciences, and built new facilities at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK) for the wider user community, including the first high-temperature high-pressure Paris-Edinburgh Cell for deployment at neutron sources, now used worldwide. From 2003 to 2006 I was Chair of the working group that designed and implemented the Extreme Conditions Beam Line (I15) of the Diamond Light Source synchrotron. He has edited several thematic sets of papers resulting from international scientific meetings that he convened, including a volume of Reviews in Mineralogy (Mineralogical Society of America) on "Transformation Processes in Minerals", his primary area of expertise. I have held several competitive UK research grants (total funding of more than £25m) and has led collaborations with a strong group of postdoctoral fellows and research students. He has supervised over 30 PhD students in Cambridge, and acted as postdoctoral mentor and advisor to more than 20 postdoctoral researchers, most of whom have gone on to permanent academic, business or governmental science positions.
Assoc Prof So Cheuk Wai A. "Unusual" Main Group Organometallic Chemistry Our research group is focused on the synthesis of novel organometallic complexes derived from main group elements, particularly calcium, boron, aluminum, silicon and phosphorus, with emphasis on the elucidation of the electronic structures and unprecedented reactivates, which lead to the possible application in catalysis, activation of small molecules, organic synthesis and material sciences. One of our goals is to prepare new organometallic complexes with unusual oxidation state, coordination number and bonding. B. Heterobimetallic Catalysts We are interested in the synthesis of heterobimetallic complexes incorporated with two different main group elements or transition metals. It is anticipated that two metals with different properties combined together in a complex can apply synergetically to an entirely new electronic and chemical behavior, thus enabling possible new catalytic activity. Such complexes can be applied as catalysts in olefin polymerization and ring opening polymerization. C. New pi-electron System Our research is aimed at the synthesis of new pi-electron complexes containing organic pi-conjugated frameworks and main group elements. It is well known that organic pi-conjugated systems serve as electronic and optoelectronic devices due to the delocalization of pi-electron, while main group elements have unique electronic and structural properties. Incorporation of main group elements into the organic pi-conjugated systems can change their inherent functions, which lead to an entirely new electronic behavior. We anticipate that such pi-electron complexes can serve as new-generation optoelectronic devices
Asst Prof Soo Han Sen The overarching theme of my research program is artificial photosynthesis. I developed a novel and unique form of artificial photosynthesis including original research in the critical functions of light absorption, charge separation, and multielectron reduction and oxidation catalysis. My current interests include the development of molecular photosensitizers and catalysts to harvest sunlight for proton reduction to produce solar fuels and chemicals.My team is also preparing photocatalysts and mesoporous materials derived from earth-abundant elements to valorize biomass lignin and degrade environmental pollutants by ambient condition C-C bond activation. I recently received the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association Prize for Young Scientists 2016 in recognition of my team’s early contributions to artificial photosynthesis.
Prof Srinivasan Madhavi Asst.Prof. Madhavi Srinivasan areas of expertise are in Energy storage devices (lithium ion batteries,zinc-air batteries/fuel cells, supercapacitors), Ecomaterials (photocatalysts, ion-exchange ceramic membranes) and synthesis/characterization (XPS, XRD, SEM/TEM and spectroscopy) of nanostructured materials. Her current research works focus on employing functionalized carbon nanotubes SWNT/MWNT)and decorated CNTs as electrodes in batteries/supercapacitors. Her ongoing work involves fabrication of nanostructures of transtion metal oxide and metal nanoparticles and optimization of their adhesion on to carbon-based materials.She is also working on visible light photocatalysts such as perovskite and nitrogen doped titania along with activated carbon.
Dr Sumod Pullarkat My research interests encompasses the synthesis and applications (catalytic and medicinal) of Chiral Organophosphorous and Organoarsenic Compounds. Work is also proceeding in the field of Asymmetric Ligand Transformation Reactions especially heterofunctionalization reactions such as hydrophosphination reactions. We are also exploring the biological activity of some of these organometallic compounds.
Assoc Prof Sun Changqing Coordination bonding and electronic Engineering 1) Chemisorption 2) Average-bond Multifield Solid Mechanics 3) Nanostructure Size Matter 4) Ice, Water and Solutions 5) Electron-Phonon Spectrometrics
Assoc Prof Surajit Bhattacharyya Molecular Mechanism of cell adhesion: Interactions of Integrin Tails with Effector Proteins Designed Peptide Antagonists against Endotoxin: A structure-based approach to develop antisepsis and antimicrobial drugs. De Novo designed functional mini-proteins Structure and activity of antimicrobial peptides
Prof Tamio Hayashi Development of novel synthetic organic reactions catalyzed by transition metal complexes, particularly asymmetric catalysis
Prof Tan Choon Hong Professor Tan’s research interest is in the field of Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Catalysis, Radiochemistry. He also conducts research in the field of catalysis, in particular the development of new catalysts towards practical asymmetric synthesis. Over the years, Professor Tan had published many top quality journal papers and has more than 120 journal papers with current citation count of more than 6000. His H-Index is 45.
Assoc Prof Tan Howe Siang Development of new techniques in multi-dimensional optical spectroscopy Ultrafast optical pulse shaping and its applications in spectroscopy Ultrafast Energy Transfer Pathways in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes
Assoc Prof Tan Thatt Yang Timothy 1. Nanomedicine: Design and Engineering of Multifunctional Nanomaterials for simultaneous targeting, bio-imaging and drug delivery. The research objective of this work is to apply nanotechnology to medicine. We have developed a new class of florescent-magnetic nanoparticles as probes and aim to demonstrate their application in both fluorescent microscopy and MRI. Subsequent work will be undertaken to introduce multifunctional organic, organometallic or biological groups into nanostructured materials to render them with biocompatibility, targeting, drug loading and delivery functions. The cytotoxicity of such nanomaterial will also be evaluated. 2. Design of Nanoparticles for Drug Separation. The project focuses on the development of nano-sized achiral and chiral packing materials for Super-critical fluid Chromatography (SFC), Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) and Capillary Electrochromatography (CEC). Judging from the viewpoint of novelty of science, there are to date no known research work published in open literature on the application of chiral-nanomaterials having size ranging < 1.5 ?m for SFC, CE and CEC analyses. The reduction in size of packing materials is anticipated to lead to a huge increase in chromatographic resolution. 3. Advanced Materials for Green Architecture: Nanocomposites for Permanent Self-cleaning and Antibacterial Surface. This research focuses on synthesizing scratch resistant nanocomposite coating that are photocatalytic, superhydrophilic and antibacterial. This material can then be coated to surfaces inside and outside buildings and structures for permanent self-cleaning and antibacterial functions. Current work includes exploring various synthesis methods (including atomic deposition, sonication and sol-gel) that will give the most efficient materials.
Prof Teoh Swee Hin Prof Teoh’s main field of research is in Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering. He is well known for his outstanding contribution to the 3D bioresorbable scaffolds for bone where it has obtained FDA and CE mark and commercialised successfully to Osteopore International Pte Ltd. His research focused on the study of mechanisms that promote cells proliferation and differentiation as a result of mechno induction through load bearing scaffolds for tissue regeneration and remodelling. He did pioneering work in fracture-wear resistant biomaterials. He received the prestigious Golden Innovation Award, Far East Economic Review, and the Institute of Engineers Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award in 2004, for development of the platform technology for scaffolds in bone tissue engineering. His group was ranked 1st in bone tissue engineering scaffolds in World Web of Science 2010. He has supervised more than 60 graduate students, filed 6 patents, given 45 keynote/invited lectures and published more than 300 technical papers.
Asst Prof Terry W.J. Steele Surface Functionalization of Thin Films Surface functionalization of biocompatible materials is an area under tremendous development for medical implants. The medical implant bulk materials often lack the required surface properties needed for blood compatibility (hemocompatibility), tissue adherence, or promotion of host-cell growth. Secondary surface modifications attempt to address these issues with the grafting of known biocompatible polymers. To address the significant need for a highly versatile surface coating, we have designed a surface function methodology that incorporates water based ‘green chemistry’, acrylate-based combinatorial libraries, and living polymerization techniques. This strategy will be applicable to most known materials typically employed for solid medical implants, while providing an unprecedented versatility with a wide choice of functional groups, surface densities, and layer thicknesses. Ocular Delivery Through Periocular, Unidirectional, Biodegradable Discs We propose an innovative practical and proactive strategy to circumvent the practical hurdles in delivering the anti-CMV drug to the retina, in a safe, effective and affordable manner. We propose to develop a unidirectional nano-drug delivery technique that remains periocular (subtenon’s space) but provides drug delivery into the vitreous over a prolonged or intermittent period yet maintain an adequate concentration at the retina. We will design a biodegradable disc with selective permeability on the two surfaces. The surface adjacent to the sclera will be permeable for unidirectional drug delivery into the eye, while the other surface will be non-permeable, thus obviating the risk of diffusion of the drug externally. The aim of the therapy is to suppress viral replication, halt the progression of disease, minimize retinal damage, prevent drug resistance, prevent local complications and preserve visual function. In short term, the proposed biodegradable disc will aim to deliver the optimal concentration of the drug near site of lesion and the concentration of the drug will remain sustained over period of six months thereby preventing the need for repeated intraocular injections and also prohibit the patient to come to clinic for repeated injections. Removable after six months won’t be necessary as well, as the polymer components are designed to slowly dissolve and be metabolized into the tissue. Blood Vessel Joining (Anastomosis) With Adhesive Biodegradable Inserts Anastomosis—the joining of two blood vessels—requires precise placement of sutures through the two blood vessels that need to be healed together. The technique is technically challenging and requires a long learning curve through practice on cadavers, in vivo animal sacrifices, or both. The suturing practice of today has been nearly the same for 100 years. As the surgical theatre continues toward laparoscopic and keyhole surgeries, catheter based methods for surgical anastomosis will be sorely needed. Practical limitations to vascular surgeon’s abilities limit sutures to only the most easily accessed vessels and vessel diameters greater than 1 mm. New methods are needed for impossible to access areas such a cerebral blood vessels (i.e. stroke treatments). Methods to join micro-vasculature—such as arterioles and venules—are needed to advance severed limbs and associated limb or organ transplants. Pipe sleeves in construction and plumbing are commonly used to join gaps, protect pipes from the environment, and repair damaged or leaky plumbing. Similarly, we have designed biodegradable pipe sleaves made from FDA approved implantable polymers. In our design, the polyesters would be cast into thin film cylinders, no longer than 1-2 cm, 0.5-5 mm in diameter, and 100-500 micrometers thin. These cylinders would incorporate pressure sensitive adhesives on their outer surface to seal and join two opposing blood vessels.
Prof Tim White Tim White has thirty years of experience in the design and demonstration of advanced materials for environmental, superconducting, ionic conductivity and hydrogen storage applications. His particular interests lie in tailoring ceramics at the atomic scale to develop or enhance particular properties. These studies have been supported and facilitated through the use of advanced characterization methods, including atomic resolution electron microscopy, crystal refinement using X-ray and neutron diffraction, and synchrotron-based surface analysis for the investigation of chemical states and molecular environments. He is author or co-author of over 200 publications, 4 conference proceedings, 3 patents and confidential reports to industry. In 2006, he introduced a suite of teaching modules for materials scientists called On-line Micro- and Nano-characterisation Instruction (OMNI). These courses were extended by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council to create MyScope, a national curriculum in microscopy and imaging. For three years (2007-2009), he ran the first totally on-line course at NTU called Symmetry and Crystals. Together with a team from Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), he is delivering the Coursera MOOC Beauty, Form and Function: An Exploration of Symmetry.
Dr Tuti Mariana Lim Dr. Lim's areas of expertise include resources recovery particularly for rare earth elements separation by solvent extraction which was her PhD research topic. She was also involved in clean energy research during her undergraduate study and her final year project was on the development of Vanadium Battery technology. She was the recipient of Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) summer vacation scholarship in 1990-1991 to investigate the effect of pressure and temperature on the solubility of natural gas in LPG. Dr. Lim's current research interests include advanced oxidation technologies, hybrid membrane technologies and renewable energy technologies. She has done significant research work and published over 25 top quality international conferences and journal papers.
Asst Prof Vitali Lipik - Synthesis and Characterization of Biodegradable Polymers; - Polymer waste treatment; Technologies of waste utilization. Pyrolisis, combustion, sorting.- Environmental friendly technologies of polymer recycling; - PET degradation and chemical recycling, recycling of multilayer plastics; - Environment chemistry, development of techniques and methods of harmful substances analysis; - Wood stabilization by polymer materials; - Optimization of technological parameters and polymer propierties; - Analysis of emission of harmful substances from polymer; - Metallization of polymers.
Asst Prof Wang Mingfeng Biological systems are featured by emergent properties in many processes such as energy and chemical transduction, communication, adaptation, self-repair and reproduction. They provide the proof-of-concept for what can physically be achieved with nanotechnology. For example, the ways in which biological systems transform and store energy, as well as their capabilities to perform self-repair and to adapt to external conditions inspire materials scientists and engineers how to manipulate energy, entropy and information in synthetic nano/micro systems. The mission of my research group is to develop novel polymeric and supramolecular materials with bioinspired hierarchical structures and advanced functions, broadly defined, for energy sustainability and human health. We enable this goal through a highly interdisciplinary research program across chemistry, materials science, biology and engineering. Our specific aims include: 1) To develop bioinspired light-harvesting complexes by design, synthesis and assembly of functional molecules, polymers and nanoparticles. 2) To understand interfacial transport of energy, charge and mass in hierarchically assembled structures with integrated functions. 3) To explore new materials and device structures for sustainable energy conversion and storage. 4) To develop multifunctional nanoscale vectors for smart biodiagnostics and nanomedicines. Students and postdocs in Dr. Wang's research group will be trained with knowledge and skills in polymers and materials chemistry, supramolecular science, nanomaterials, and colloids & interfaces. They will also gain opportunities of cross-boundary collaboration in ultrafast spectroscopy, optoelectronic devices and biomedical sciences. Please contact Dr. Wang if you would like to learn more information about our research, or if you are interested to join our group.
Prof Wang Rong Dr Wang's main research interests cover membrane science & technology, chemical & environmental engineering processes. She focuses on: • Development of various novel membranes such as biomimetic reverse osmosis (RO) membrane, synthetic water channel-based RO membrane, organic solvent resistant nanofiltration (NF) membrane, forward osmosis (FO)/pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) hollow fiber membranes, low pressure NF membranes, hydrophobic membrane distillation (MD) membranes, extractive membranes and mixed matrix membranes for membrane-based separation & purification processes for water and energy productions, and for wastewater treatment in pharmaceutical industry; • Membrane surface modification for fouling control in water & wastewater treatments; modification of microporous membranes to enhance membrane anti-wetting and anti-fouling properties for MD and membrane contactor applications; dynamic membrane and system development; • Brine processing by membrane distillation crystallization and membrane distillation module design; • Simulation and optimization of various membrane processes for seawater desalination and CO2 capture in membrane contactors, etc.
Prof Wang Xin Prof Wang Xin's areas of expertise are electrochemistry and electrocatalysis. His current research works focus on fuel cell, energy storage and electrochemical reactor with co-generation of electricity and valuable chemicals.
Prof Xing Bengang Dr. XING's research interests are highly interdisciplinary at the interface of Biomedical Fluorescent Imaging, Chemical Biology as well as Nanomedicine and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Specific aims of ours are to integrate the knowledge of synthesis chemitry, chemical biology and optical imaging sensing techniques to develop and identify the "smart" probes and contrast agents for real-time sensing of diseases active molecules or precisely monitoring of biomedical pathway in living systems. We are also interested in development of unique functional nanomaterials for drug/gene delivery, biocatalysis and multi-modality imaging of biomarkers, unique biomolecules and reactive radical species (e.g. ROS, RNS etc) for potential clinical diagnosis. 1. Biomedical Fluorescent Imaging/Chemical Biology: a) Development of new fluorescent probes and specific labeling strategies for point-of-care imaging of drug resistant bacterial pathogens. b) Unique strategies for real-time monitoring of bioactive molecules in tumor cells. c) Site-specific localization of unique probe contrast agents for precise regulation of cell functions. 2. Nanomedicine: a) Unique and smart NIR light mediated functional platforms for localized tumor theranostics. b) Multi-modality sensing and imaging of biomarkers, unique biofunctional molecules as well as reactive radical species under living settings. 3. Biomaterials: Design, synthesis and characterization of new transporters and/or the peptides based hydrogels for biomedical applications.
Asst Prof Xu Chenjie Dr. Chenjie Xu's primary research interest is to solve the unmet needs in the biomedical research with micro/nano-technologies. Currently, he is focusing on the transdermal drug delivery/biosensing with technologies like microneedles and nanoparticles for regenerative medicine.
Prof Xu Rong - Photocatalysis for reduction of carbon dioxide and hydrogen production by splitting water using visible light. - Heterogeneous catalysis for environmental applications. - Organic-inorganic layered materials (LDHs) for pharmaceutical applications. - Development of artificial cornea (nanoparticle/polymer composite). - Antimicrobial membrane for water treatment (Silver in microfiltration membrane). - Immobilization of enzymes on inorganic solid support as scalable and reusable biocatalysts.
Assoc Prof Xue Can 1)Development of novel plasmonic nanomaterials for solar energy applications (photovoltaics and photocatalysis) using anisotropic metallic nanostructures that exhibit unique surface plasmon resonance properties in the visible and near-IR region. 2) Fabrication of novel metal-semiconductor conjugated nanocomposites for plasmon-driven photocatalysis. 3) Development of hybrid semiconductor nanomaterials for solar-driven water splitting
Prof Yang Chun, Charles His current research interests include Development and characterization of Lab-on-Chip devices, electrokinetic transport phenomena, microfluidics, microscale flow, heat and mass transfer, colloidal science, surface and interfacial phenomena etc.
Assoc Prof Yong Ken Tye - nanotechnology approaches for cancer detection and therapy - multifunctional nanoparticles or quantum dots for biomedical and nanomedicine applications - biocompatible MEMS devices for activated therapies - pharmacokinetics and toxicity from nanoparticle-based delivery systems - novel biomaterials with controlled properties for targeted delivery/gene therapy - nanomaterials for solar and optoelectronic applications
Assoc Prof Zaher Judeh My research interests are in the following areas: 1. Organic synthesis: Reaction mechanisms new methodologies 2. Asymmetric catalysis: Synthesis and use of novel chiral bidentate ligands based on bisisoquinolines focusing on synthesis of enantiomerically pure drug intermediates 3. Ionic liquids: Use as solvents for new reactions 4. Natural product chemistry: Study the synthesis, characterization and bioactivity of Vanicosides
Prof Zhang Hua Dr. Hua Zhang's areas of expertise are nano-science and technology. His research is highly interdisciplinary. His current research interests include fabrication of surface structures from micro- to nano-scale based on micro-contact printing and dip pen nanolithography (DPN), scanning probe microscopy, self-assembled monolayers, self-assembly and self-organization of nano- and bio-materials, and synthesis and application of nano-materials.
Assoc Prof Zhang Qichun My research primarily is focus on creating functional materials by the rational synthesis and processing and on their practical applications, with particular interests in the following areas: (1) novel nanostructured thermoeletric materials and device fabrication; (2) inorganic nanomaterials: shaped and size controlled synthesis, colloidal dispersion, surface chemistry directed assembly and functionalities; (3) synthesis and characterization of porous materials with controllable morphology and composition; (4) synthesis and organization of semiconducting clusters; (5) organic conjugated materials.
Dr Zhang Zhengyang Our research focuses on measuring the activity of catalytic reactions from the single molecule fluorescence imaging and correlate the heterogeneous catalyst reaction pathways to structural variations with nanometer spatial resolution. We are interested to develop highly sensitive, multidimensional imaging methods that improve detection of excitation energy transfer in single molecules to unambiguously determine single molecule catalytic reactions. This proposed work builds upon my previous work (Nature Methods, 2015), where we synchronously obtained the fluorescence spectra and positions of millions of single molecules in labeled cells in minutes. The main aim of our studies is to obtain useful structure–performance relationships at the level of the single catalyst particle, and further translate these insights of particle heterogeneity into the synthesis of catalyst materials with enhanced performance.
Prof Zhao Yanli The research programs in the Zhao group focus on the development of integrated systems for diagnostics and therapeutics, as well as porous materials for gas/energy storage and catalysis. They utilize interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the emerging problems at the forefront of chemistry and materials sciences.
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daveselador / 25th May 2018
Out Now – 5th Birthday EP Part Two
Selador’s 5th Birthday celebrations continue apace with the second of our trilogy of commemorative EPs featuring exclusive collaborations between some of the label’s family of artists.
Part 2 kicks off with the boss men Dave Seaman & Steve Parry who come together for the first time in the studio and as you’d expect, the result is pure Selador. ‘Repeat Offender’ carries all the hallmarks of the what you’ve come to expect from the label. Carefully crafted, contemporary club music with unwavering intent and a twinkle in it’s eye.
Next come two pairings straight from the frontline of Berlin’s vibrant electronic community. First, Martin Eyerer & Namito join forces for ‘Durant’, a no-frills beast of a tune that operates with intense efficiency. Lean and mean, a fine specimen.
We follow that with a pairing that between them, already have 6 Selador releases under their belt and it’s time to make it seven as Florian Kruse & Justin Massei step up with ‘Norssken’. A pulsating prime time workout crafted to cause optimum damage on the dance floor. Don’t say we didn’t warn you!
To round things off, two more artists who’ve been no strangers to the label throughout our first 5 years, our Manchester and French connections respectively, Simon JOBE and Antoine ‘Acumen’ Garcin. They combine for ‘Incontrolable’, a 9 minute futuristic odyssey as insubordinate as it’s title suggests. Dance music from outer space.
And that’s Part 2 folks. Hold tight. Back soon with Part 3.
Team Selador – It’s a family affair.
http://classic.beatport.com/release/selador-5th-birthday-part-two/2273795
daveselador / 15th March 2018
Out Now: Namito ‘Anakeys’ EP
After two cameo appearances on our Showcase Series (Volumes 4 & 6), Namito now returns for a starring role of his own making with the ’Anakeys’ EP.
For the uninitiated, the Iranian born, Berlin based producer is quite the team player, working behind the scenes on many a wide-ranging project from Marc Romboy’s lauded live orchestral shows to engineering for the legendary Grandmaster Flash!
It’s two solo creations though that form the basis of this EP with the title track leading from the front. A prime example of a tune that works its way into the subconscious unannounced and then stubbornly refuses to budge. A humdinger if ever there was one!
The ’Anakeys’ remixes then come from two fertile hotspots of electronic music, Berlin and Brighton via Kling Klong boss Martin Eyerer and long time friend of the label, Just Her who both bring their A-games to the party with reworks of a truly high calibre.
And finally, not to be overlooked, we’re also very proud to include ‘Little Cheat Treats’ just for good measure. A bonus track that on any other occasion could easily have commanded top billing.
For many, this may even prove to be a show stealer. You decide.
Team Selador – Above and beyond the call of duty
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UK jet engine maker Rolls-Royce is in talks with Aero Engine Corporation of China (AECC) on a possible partnership that would see the companies jointly supply engines for a new wide-body aircraft planned by China and Russia, Bloomberg reports.
The two companies met earlier this year to discuss cooperation on the turbine for the CR929 wide-body, said people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named. A request for proposals for the engine has already been issued with responses due in May, at which time the prospects for the venture may change in line with the airplane maker’s specifications.
Earlier this month, Paul Stein, chief technology officer of Rolls-Royce said his company is seeking to become the provider of engines for the Russian-Chinese wide-body long-range passenger aircraft
“We are taking it very seriously. We want to be the engine provider. The CR929 will invite a lot of positive competition and innovative opportunities to the aviation industry. China has an ambition in developing its civil aviation industry. Rolls-Royce wants to be part of that ambition and growth… The CR929 will be an excellent aircraft. We want to offer something we know already, which is the engine with one of the latest proven technologies. We want to guarantee the commercial success of this new aircraft model,” Stein said.
The new aircraft manufacturer formed by Commercial Aircraft Corp of China and Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. called Craic, is aimed at breaking up the duopoly in wide-bodies controlled by Boeing and Airbus and follows efforts by Comac to build its own single-aisle aircraft. That plane uses engines manufactured exclusively by CFM International, a joint venture between General Electric and France’s Safran.
The CR929 is slated to be a 280-seat wide-body jet that can fly about 12,000 kilometers. In May last year, UAC chairman Yury Slyusar told Bloomberg News in Shanghai that the new plane will need “billions of US dollars” in investment and it aims delivery of the aircraft to customers by 2025-2027.
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Black printing ink
C09D11/10 - based on artificial resins
Features black printing ink. As pigment ink contains chimney soot with the degree of coalescence of particles in the aggregate in the range of 0.005-0,09 and mineral oil, oleic acid, liquid rubber, asphalt enamel, indulin. Paint is characterized by high technological properties, quick fixing on paper, a pronounced blue tint. Used for letterpress printing. table 1.
The invention relates to the printing industry, namely, black printed colors.
Famous black printing ink containing carbon black as a pigment having on its surface polycyclic hydrocarbons, insoluble in paraffinic solvents and, in addition, oleic acid, inulin, engine oil [1]
Known paint (poor technological properties (poor dispersibility, low values of yield strength and flow, high viscosity), the duration of final fixation on the paper, in addition, the paint has a slight blue tint.
Known also black paint containing as pigment carbon black gas channel and the mixture channel soot from the furnace, and so is Kimi properties reduced time for final fastening on paper, but currently does not meet the increasing demands of the printing industry [2]
The purpose of the invention improve the technological properties of the paint, reducing the time the final fixing on paper, the deepening blue hue.
The objective is achieved by the fact that the black printing ink contains as a pigment chimney soot with the degree of coalescence of particles in the aggregate in the range of 0.005-0,09, as well as industrial oil, oleic acid, inulin, varnish, bitumen oil, addition of liquid rubber SKDP-N, and the components of the paint are taken in the following ratio, wt.
Carbon black with a degree of coalescence of particles in the aggregate in the range of 0.005-0,09 - 15-20
Liquid rubber SKDP-N 2-4
Oleic acid 2-10
Indulin 2-4
Bitumen oil 15-20
Mineral oil the Rest.
Carbon black having a degree of accretion of particles in the unit within 0,005-0,09 receive new technology, adjusting the reaction the number of particles and the size of the unit. The degree of coalescence of particles in the unit is the main feature.
As the liquid rubber used is a copolymer of butadiene with Pieper the acid is used in the production of AA indoline and as an excellent wetting agent, increasing the fluidity of the paint. Is used in the amount of 2-10 wt.
Solid resin oil bitumen special brand of G is used as the foaming agent in the amount of 15-20 wt. soluble in mineral oil. For example, a solution of bitumen in the industrial oil AND 40A in the amount of 20-40% is called bitumen varnish and can be used directly in the manufacture of paints.
As the mineral oil can be used any oil used in the printing industry: all industrial (I-8A to-40A) spun, machine, printing (MP-1 MP-13), oil for rolling machines (PS-28), etc. from 42 to 70%
The basis of the invention lies established fact (unexpected effect), which consists in the fact that the technological properties of the ink, the speed of its fastening and tone depend not only on the known characteristics of soot: particle size, structure and surface chemistry, but also on the degree of fusion of the particles in unit of soot, or in other words, the degree of openness has a particulate primary aggregate. In a certain interval of values of the degree of fusion of the particles in unit of 0,005 0,09 carbon black as the pigment used in the black printing ink, gives (KRA is OK paint.
Existing methods of determining the openness of the aggregate of carbon black based on the statistical relationship between the form of a flat image of the unit on the electron micrograph with the volume of voids in the aggregate. They provide a relationship between the known physico-chemical properties of the carbon black and the amount of its units expressed by the system of two equations:
SMspecific surface area, determined by electron microscope;
S specific external surface, taking into account the loss of part of the square on the contacts, which is determined by the adsorption of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB);
M the rate of absorption of dibutyl phthalate;
K the average number of contacts for a single particle;
the average degree of coalescence of particles in the aggregate;
n the number of particles in the aggregate.
Carbon black is used in the proposed composition has a degree of accretion of particles in the range of 0.005-0,09.
When using carbon black with a degree of coalescence of particles in the unit above 0,09 properties of the ink remain on the level of the prototype: falls blue tint increases the time of fixing the ink on the paper and to get the soot with a degree of coalescence of particles less than 0,005 technically very difficult, the yield of soot falls down, the LASS="ptx2">
A paint was prepared as follows.
In the apparatus with stirrer pour mineral oil and liquid rubber, heat the mixture to a temperature of 85oC, soot fall asleep, stirred for 12 h to obtain a homogeneous coarse dispersion, which is then fray on the appropriate equipment to the degree of dispersion of 10 μm. The resulting paste is mixed with bitumen varnish and oleate of indoline, passed through a dye-grater to remove air bubbles and stariway in metal drums (possible options are a separate download of oleic acid and indoline).
Example 1. In the apparatus with stirrer at 45 rpm load 660 kg of industrial AND oil-40A, 20 kg of oleic acid, 20 kg of liquid rubber, SKDP-N, mix the contents of the apparatus 2 including Load 300 kg of carbon black with a degree of coalescence of the particles in unit of 0.003, mix system 12 h and fray on kraskoterke to the degree of dispersion of 2-3 μm. 500 kg of the prepared dispersion with a content of carbon black 30 wt. loaded into the apparatus with stirrer, add 500 kg of bitumen varnish containing bitumen 30 wt. and 10 kg of indoline. The paint is stirred for 4 h at 80oC, then cooled to 40oC, passed through kraskoterke to remove air bubbles and analizu as pigment commercially used in the printing industry soot channel K-354, with the degree of coalescence of particles in the unit 0,124. Paint analyze. The data given in the table.
Conditions of experience again, but use soot with the degree of coalescence of particles in the unit 0,003, 0,005, 0,01, 0,025, 0,05, 0,09, 0,11. As soot with the degree of coalescence of particles in the unit 0,11 used a commercially available oven soot P 234. Data on the properties of the colors shown in the table.
As follows from the analysis of the data table, the viscosity of the dye obtained according to the attached invention, is almost two times lower than that of the paint using a serial soot, fluidity four times higher, spreading on 8-16 mm longer, which confirms the increasing technological properties of the paint. At the same time, the final consolidation of the ink is reduced in 2-2,5 times, the prints have a distinct blue on
Black printing ink containing a pigment based on carbon black, indulin, oleic acid, petroleum bitumen and mineral oil, characterized in that as a pigment it contains soot with the degree of coalescence of particles in the unit within 0,005 0,09 and additionally rubber SDPN on the basis of a copolymer of butadiene with piperylene in the following ratio, wt.
Pigment 15 20
Oleic acid 2 10BR>
Mineral oil Ostalnoe
Anhydrous powdered concentrate for preparing an aqueous printing ink or varnish and method thereof // 2078785
Composition for screen printing // 2073048
The invention relates to printing inks, in particular to a protective inks screen printing, designed for the manufacture of printed circuit boards, glass boards, indicators, marking panels
Paint for high or offset printing // 2059677
Printing ink uv curing // 2055741
The invention relates to printing inks, in particular printing inks for the application of the desired picture or text method setdataframe printing and subsequent fixing of the seal by photopolymerization binding upon irradiation with UV light
Ink for offset printing on non-absorbent surfaces // 2036211
The invention relates to the printing industry, in particular to the ink for printing offset on non-absorbent surfaces of the metal foil, glass, porcelain and so on
Composition to obtain a pigment forms printing ink // 2026874
Binder for printing inks // 2002774
Polyurethane resin and a method for preparation thereof, coating composition containing polyurethane resin, and use of polyurethane resin for printing on plastic substances // 2256671
FIELD: polymer materials.
SUBSTANCE: polyurethane resin is a product of reaction of at least one diisocyanate component and isocyanate-reactive components having first group of at least one polyol, second group of at least one polyol, and third group of at least one polyol, at least one amine, and, additionally, reaction-stopping agent, all polyols of the first group having average molecular mass between 1000 and 10000 g/mole, those of second group having average molecular mass between above 10000 and 20000 g/mole, and those of third group having average molecular mass equal to or higher than 800 g/mole. Ratio of diisocyanate component to isocyanate-reactive components is selected such that all isocyanate groups are present as products of reaction with isocyanate-reactive functional groups. Resin is used as film-forming binder in coating compositions, in particular in printing inks for printing on polyolefin substrates. Printing ink is preferably used for manufacturing printed layered articles.
EFFECT: increased gluing ability and heat resistance of ink laid on plastic substrate.
Dye for deep printing hardening by effect of uv-radiation // 2288244
FIELD: dyes.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates typography dyes, in particular, to dye for deep printing. Invention describes dye for deep printing comprising the first binding agent chosen from group of water-soluble or water-diluted acrylate oligomers, photoinitiating agent and, optionally, a monomer as the second binding agent chosen from group consisting of water-soluble or water-diluted monomers of polyethylene diacrylates or polyethoxylated triacrylates used for correction of the composition dye viscosity value. Dye can comprise additives, such as pigments, filling agents, photosensitizing agents, photostabilizing agents and special pigments. Dyes shows viscosity value from 7 to 60 Pa . s at temperature 40°C and dispersed completely in aqueous washing off solution with sodium hydroxide in the concentration from 0 to 0.5 wt.-%. Dyes possesses the excellent capacity for paint removing and it is can be precipitated from the indicated washing off solution.
EFFECT: improved and valuable properties of dye.
28 cl, 9 ex
Aqueous dye for stenciling, method for its preparing and using // 2296144
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to composition of aqueous dye used in stenciling, to a method for preparing indicated composition of stenciling, using indicated dying composition for stenciling and to securities printed using indicated dying composition. Invention describes composition of aqueous dye for stenciling containing the following components: (a) emulsion of acrylic or urethane-acrylic copolymer taken in the amount 30-70 wt-%, preferably in the amount 35-60 wt.-%, and more preferably in the amount 40-55 wt.-% of self-cross-linking emulsion of acrylic or urethane-acrylic copolymer as measured for the total mass of composition; (b) cross-linking agent taken in the amount 0.25-3 wt.-%, preferably in the amount 0.5-2 wt.-%, and more preferably in the amount 1-2 wt.-% of mass indicated cross-linking agent as measured for the total mass of composition; (c) optional catalyst; (d) optional pigments, and (e) optional additives and wherein indicated cross-linking agent comprises at least two different functional activity in a single molecule. The first functional activity is chosen by so manner to form a covalent bond with indicated polymer before printing and the second of indicated functional activities is chosen by so manner to carry out cross-linking indicated polymer for hardening printed dye. Emulsion of acrylic or urethane-acrylic copolymer is chosen from group possessing self-cross-linking property and wherein the composition shows pH from 7.0 to 8.5, preferably from 7.5 to 8.3 and more preferably from 7.5 to 8.0. Invention describes a method for preparing above said composition of aqueous dye for stenciling and comprising the following steps: (a) preparing emulsion of acrylic or urethane-acrylic copolymer; (b) optional preparing catalyst, optional pigments and optional additives; (c) preparing a cross-linking agent able to form a covalent bond under the first conditions with polymer prepared in (a), and cross-linking prepared polymer under the second conditions; (d) thorough mixing components prepared by points (a), (b) and (c) and providing interaction of polymer prepared by point (a) with a cross-linking agent prepared by point (c) under indicated first conditions; (e) regulation of pH value of the composition in the range from 7.0 to 8.5. Also, invention describes using the indicated composition of aqueous dye as a dye for stenciling and security document with signs printed by using indicated composition of aqueous dye. Proposed composition shows improved stability and improved toxicological properties in the combination and excellent stability of printed and hardened dye to chemical and physical effects.
EFFECT: improved properties of dye, improved preparing method.
Composition of pearly ink for decorating the wallpaper // 2318850
FIELD: light industry; composition of decorative coats for wallpaper; manufacture of pearly ink for intaglio printing on wallpaper.
SUBSTANCE: composition of proposed printing ink for wallpaper contains 16-16.5 mass-% of pearly pigment; 12-12.5 mass-% of ethyl alcohol; 46-46.4 mass-% of binder - acrylic latex of butyl acrylate copolymer (19-21%) and methacrylic acid (10-12%) and water; copolymer acrylic latex is produced by method of radiation emulsion polymerization of butyl acrylate, vinyl acetate and methacrylic acid under action of ionizing radiation at dose rate of 0.05-0.1 g/s to absorbed doses of 1.5-2 kgr.
EFFECT: avoidance of lamination of ink; easily washable ink; enhanced heat resistance of ink.
1 tbl, 2 ex
Polyurethane resin, obtained from poly hydroxilated resins, method of obtaining it and its application // 2331655
SUBSTANCE: invention pertains to polyurethane resin, which is a product of a reaction between at least one diisocyanate and components, containing functional groups, which have capacity to react with isocyanates, with the following composition: (a) first group, which is formed by one or more polyester-polyols based on ethers, each of which has average molecular mass ranging from 400 to 12000 g/mol, (b) second group, formed by one or more poly hydroxilated resins, chosen from a defined group of resins, (c) optional third group, formed by one or more polyols, each of which has average molecular mass, equal to or less than 800 g/mol, which are also chosen from a defined group of polyols, and (d) at least one amine and a reaction chain-stopping agent. The ratio of equivalent masses of diisocyanate and components, containing functional groups, with capacity to react with isocyanates, is chosen such that, naturally all isocyanate groups of diisocyanate are present as a product of the reaction with one of the above mentioned functional groups, with capacity to react with isocyanates. The invention also relates to the method of obtaining the above mentioned polyurethane resin, to polyurethane resin obtained through such methods, to coating for plastic substrates, containing the proposed resin, as a polyolefin binding substance, to use of such a polyurethane resin as a film forming substance in printing ink for printing on plastic substrates, as well as to the method of obtaining a laminate, which has a layer obtained when printing an image, including stages (a)-(d), with use of coating from polyurethane resin, and to a laminate, obtained using such a method.
EFFECT: obtaining a coating from polyurethane resin, with good heat resistance and excellent initial adhesiveness.
Biodegradable flexographic ink and preparation method thereof // 2398806
SUBSTANCE: water based flexographic contains biodegradable polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) consisting of monomers having the following formula: where n is an integer from 1 to 5, and R1 is selected from a group comprising hydrogen, alkyl from C1 to C20, and alkenyl from C1 to C20, and having molecular weight ranging from 500 to 5000000 g/mol, binder substance which is three-block amphiphilic compound having two hydrophobic terminal areas with linear and/or branched aliphatic chains CnH2n+2, n = 1-40, and one central hydrophilic area - polyethylene glycol and its derivatives; or having one central hydrophobic area with linear and/or branched aliphatic chains CnH2n+2, n = 1-40, and two hydrophilic terminal areas, a solvent, and a dye or pigment in amount sufficient for leaving a visible mark on a base. Concentration of PHA in the ink ranges from 20 to 80% (weight/volume), concentration of the binder ranges from 0.5 to 20% (weight/volume), concentration of the solvent ranges from 1 to 25% (weight/volume) and concentration of the dye or pigment ranges from 1 to 40% (weight/volume). Described also is a method of preparing water based flexographic ink and a printing composition which contains the said flexographic ink.
EFFECT: improved biodecomposition properties.
Substrate having improved adhesion of ink and colour stability to effect of oil // 2466230
FIELD: textiles and paper.
SUBSTANCE: non-woven fabric is proposed, on the visible surface of which the ink composition is applied comprising from about 40 wt % to about 80 wt % of the dry weight of the ink of linking agent - aziridine oligomer with at least two aziridine functional groups. Also an absorbing article is proposed comprising a liquid-permeable upper layer, an absorbing core and a liquid-impermeable lower layer that contains the specified non-woven fabric with the said applied ink composition. The application of ink on the non-woven fabric can be carried out by the method of flexography or a method of ink-jet printing.
EFFECT: printed non-woven fabric has high resistance to abrasion even in case of its contacting with fatty substance.
Ink for plastic carrier // 2470969
FIELD: printing.
SUBSTANCE: carrier based on high-density polymer is decorated with ink for printing, comprising at least one pigment and one binder. The binder is an oxygenised polyolefin wax in the form of an aqueous emulsion, and the wax has a Brookfield viscosity of less than 5000 mPa*s at 150°C and a pH level of 28 to 32 mg KOH/g, and the said ink has a viscosity of less than 2000 mPa*s at 25°C. The ink is applied in a continuous or discrete manner on at least one surface of the carrier. The subject of the invention is also a decorated carrier based on high-density polymer, a multi-layered product, and a method of manufacturing of a multi-layered product with a coating of the said ink.
EFFECT: creation of the ink of simpler composition and easier to use.
16 cl, 1 dwg, 4 tbl
Printing ink system for printing on polyamide-based casings for food products, printed casings for food products and method for production thereof // 2485153
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to polyamide-based printed films which are used as casings for food products, particularly artificial sausage casing. Disclosed is a printing ink system for printing on (co)polyamide-based films. Said system contains a radically curable primer ink and UV radiation radically curable printing ink which forms an almost colourless layer of primer ink. The primer ink contains a reactive compound which, in one molecule, contains a group capable of bonding with a (co)polyamide surface and an ethylenically unsaturated group which can undergo radical-initiated polyaddition. The invention also discloses a (co)polyamide-based single- or multilayer film which is printed with said printing ink system and a method for production thereof.
EFFECT: printing ink system enables to print on (co)polyamide-based food films with high adhesion to the film, resistance to friction, scratching even without an additional lacquer coat, mechanical and thermal processing, resistance to migration of ink components, which prevents foreign odours from food products.
Photolatent catalysts based on organometallic compounds // 2489450
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to organometallic latent catalytic compounds which are suitable as catalysts in polyaddition or polycondensation reactions which are catalysed by a Lewis acid type catalyst, particularly for cross-linking a blocked or non-blocked isocyanate or an isothiocyanate component with a polyol or a polythiol to form polyurethane. Polyaddition or polycondensation reactions are initiated by that a catalyst is released while holding in electromagnetic radiation in wavelength range of 200-800 nm. The latent catalytic compound has formula I or II, Me(FG)(m-x)Ax (I); Ax(FG)(m-1-x)Me-O-Me(FG)(m-1-x)Ax (II), where Me is Sn, Bi, Al, Zr or Ti; m is an integer from 1 to the coordination number of Me; x is an integer from 0 to (m-1); A is a C1-C20 alkyl, halogen, C7-C30 aralkyl, C1-C20 alkoxy group, C2-C10 alkanoyloxy group, C6-C18 aryl or C6-C18 aryl, which is substituted with one or more C1-C20 alkyls; and under the condition that if x is greater than 1, A are identical or different; and FG independently represents a group of formula (Z), (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), (L) or (M)
where values of radicals are given in the claim. The invention also relates to a polymerisable composition and a method for polymerisation in the presence of said catalytic compounds. The invention enables to initiate the reaction only if desired by external activation, such as heating or light.
EFFECT: widening the operating window with a polymer mixture until the chain reaction begins.
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Teen pregnancies a barrier to fulfil youth potential
Young people respond to questions to causes of teenage pregnancy during health session at YCA summit
The Youth Connect Africa Summit (08-10 October 2018) in Kigali brought together thousands of young people from all over Africa and the world at large.
During the Health Session held under the theme; “Straight Talk: Transforming Africa through the prevention of Teen Pregnancy” jointly organized by UNFPA and the Imbuto Foundation, the session highlighted regional challenges to realizing young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, leading to teen pregnancy.
Voices of youth leaders amplified the major causes of teenage pregnancy: poverty to meet basic needs, barriers faced to accessing sexual and reproductive health information and services especially controlled access to contraception, and cultural beliefs making young people extremely vulnerable to unintended pregnancies and impeding their ability to access education and employment.
Guests participating in health session at YCA2018: L-R UNAIDS Country Director, Rwanda Gender Monitor Chief , EU Ambassador,DDG Imbuto Foundation, Minister of Youth and Sport Bostwana, Rwanda Minister of Health, UNFPA Rwanda Representative and UN Resident Coordinator Mauritius.
( Photo: Aimable Twiringiyimana)
Real - life testimonies by teenage mothers from Rwanda and panelists from across Africa revealed the importance of a multi-sectoral approach to young people’s health and development, starting with young people’s involvement and leadership.
“Harnessing the full potential of youth requires that they are fully engaged, educated and healthy. When teenage pregnancy occurs, a girl’s healthy development into adulthood is side swiped and her chances of achieving her full potential are placed at serious risk,” said Mark Bryan Schreiner, UNFPA Representative to Rwanda
UNFPA called for stronger policies to help young women and girls easily access sexual and reproductive health information and services as part of a plan to contain unwanted pregnancies, undermining socio-economic transformation.
Geraldine Umutesi, Deputy Director General of the Imbuto Foundation, highlighted that teenage pregnancy in Africa is a “pertinent issue” that deserves focused attention and innovative interventions.
“Teen pregnancy has a ripple effect, which touches various sectors in our countries. It raises questions about our health and education systems, and the standard of living of all Africans,” Umutesi said.
She noted that as much as young girls mainly bear the brunt, teen pregnancy also affects the boys, parents and entire communities as well.
Approximately 95 per cent of teenage pregnancies occur in developing countries with 36.4 million women becoming mothers before the age of 18. Sub-Saharan Africa is believed to have the highest prevalence of teenage pregnancies in the world.
Photo: Panelists during Health session at Youth Connect Africa summit
“To the young girls,” Rwabuhihi Rose, the Chief Gender Monitor said “teenage pregnancy often means an interruption of young girls’ educational aspirations, a life of discrimination and stigma from their families, friends and communities.”
Rwabuhihi emphasized that investing in teen pregnancy prevention contributes to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as it improves their health, education and facilitates more gender-equal relationships.
It is imperative to foster an enabling environment for young people especially adolescents’ participation in development – to address discrimination against youth, meet their multi-sectoral needs; promote and support youth-inclusive legislative and policy frameworks; enable the opening of new spaces for their engagement and leadership; mainstream them in all relevant aspects of development and peace; and work with them as advocates and equal partners for change.
Key players emphasized that public policy action is equally needed to address the social, cultural and economic challenges many young mothers face. It is an essential strategy that contributes to reducing poverty, upward economic development, including reaping the benefits of the demographic dividend.
The event was organized by UNFPA, United Nations Sexual and Reproductive Health Agency and the Imbuto Foundation.
Tackling teenage pregnancy with youth-led innovation
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Rwanda launches iAccelerator Phase 2: calling all youth innovations to prevent teenage pregnancy!
Phase 2 of the Innovation Accelerator (iAccelerator) was launched in Kigali, Rwanda, on 20 September at Westerwelle Startup Haus. The iAccelerator is...
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Lewis Carroll's, Henry Holiday's and Joseph Swain's Tragicomedy
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Snark too Dark
On the left side of this image comparison you see a scan (source: commons.wikimedia.org) of Henry Holiday’s illustration to the final chapter The Vanishing in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark. It already is a quite faithful reproduction of the original illustration.
The image on the right side has been generated from a scan of an original illustration from my own 1st edition of The Hunting of the Snark, where I grew the white areas a bit. (First I enlarged the image by 2:1. Then I applied GIMP → Filters → Generic → Erode. After that I scaled the image back to its previous size.)
In prints made by Ian Mortimer (for a limited edition of The Hunting of the Snark published by Macmillan in 1993) from Joseph Swain’s original woodblocks, the illustration has better quality, but looks even darker. That is as faithful to the original as it can get.
I am not sure whether in the original printing from electrotypes the dark areas of the illustration might have grown wider than it was intended by Henry Holiday. It looks as if too much black ink had spilled into the white areas. But Ian Mortimers wood prints are as dark as the electrotype prints. If this was overprinting, then Lewis Carroll must have tolerated it.
In order to fix overprinting with the technology available to in the 19th century printers, one perhaps would have to redo the electrotypes and then try to erode the black areas using etching. Or just less ink would just do the job. But I don’t know too much about electrotyping (and printing in general), so I am just guessing here. Whatsoever, since many Snark editions hade been sold already, the dark Snark with the well hidden face of the Baker is the standard today (if it wasn’t intentional anyway).
Further reading: Lewis Carroll’s cat-astrophe, and other literary kittens by Mark Brown, The Guardian, 2018-11-22. (A tweet by Susan J. Cheadle drew my attention to that article. “Carroll’s Trump-like anger at the printing of his book Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice Found There is revealed in a new exhibition opening at the British Library which explores and celebrates cats in literature.” (As for cats, you might like my bog post “Kitty”.))
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2018-06-17, updated: 2020-01-20
Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2020-01-20 2020-01-20 Categories Baker, bellTags Fit8
What – me worry?
Source for “Alfred E. Neuman”: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mad30.jpg
After a Butcher/Jowett comparison I run into a page published by Arthur Neuendorffer. (Art perhaps is in Oxford what Alois Kabelschacht is in room 354 of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich.) Art discovered a resemblance between Henry Holiday’s depiction of The Butcher in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark and Alfred E. Neuman. He wrote: “When Mad Magazine was sued for copyright infringement, one defense it used was that it had copied the picture from materials dating back to 1911.” Incidentially, my first copy of the The Hunting of the Snark was an American edition published in 1911.
It seems, though, that Alfred E. Neuman and the Butcher are quite distant relatives:
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/03/03/a-boy-with-no-birthday-turns-sixty
https://historylink.org/File/20210
www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201516021681606&set=o.115919138428537&type=1&stream_ref=10 (Jeffrey C. Hughes).
Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2020-01-19 2020-01-21 Categories Benjamin Jowett, Butcher, miscellaneous
Repetition increases perceived truth
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-019-01651-4
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
October 2019, Volume 26, Issue 5, pp 1705–1710
Repetition increases perceived truth equally for plausible and implausible statements
Lisa K. Fazio, David G. Rand, Gordon Pennycook
Repetition increases the likelihood that a statement will be judged as true. This illusory truth effect is well established; however, it has been argued that repetition will not affect belief in unambiguous statements. When individuals are faced with obviously true or false statements, repetition should have no impact. We report a simulation study and a preregistered experiment that investigate this idea. Contrary to many intuitions, our results suggest that belief in all statements is increased by repetition. The observed illusory truth effect is largest for ambiguous items, but this can be explained by the psychometric properties of the task, rather than an underlying psychological mechanism that blocks the impact of repetition for implausible items. Our results indicate that the illusory truth effect is highly robust and occurs across all levels of plausibility. Therefore, even highly implausible statements will become more plausible with enough repetition.
Keywords: Truth, Repetition, Illusory truth, Plausibility
Cite the article as: Fazio, L.K., Rand, D.G. & Pennycook, G. Psychon Bull Rev (2019) 26: 1705. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01651-4
What I tell you three times is true!
Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2020-01-11 2020-01-11 Categories Bellman's rule
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Snrk.de mostly is about Henry Holiday‘s illustrations (engraved by Joseph Swain) to Lewis Carroll‘s tragicomical ballad The Hunting of the Snark.
If – and the thing is wildly possible – the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this great blog, I will not (as I might) point to the fact that throughout my Snark hunt, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart; and that the crooked Boojum also played its cards very hard and, as everyone knows, failed to stop me – which would qualify me as not smart, but genius….and a very stable genius at that!
As promised, I will not point to that – even though it would be true if I would state it three times. Very true. Very, very true. Rather, I point to those (like John Tufail and Mahendra Singh) who really helped and encouraged me and, last not least, to those many people who turned the Internet into a humongous museum through which I could stroll while loafing on my sofa. That was the place where my Snark hunt started in December 2008, and snrk.de is place for presenting my trophies since 2012.
On 2017-10-09, snrk.de underwent a major change. I added a blog to the site and rearranged it completely. If you previously used links to snrk.de and your browser now doesn’t find them anymore: Some of these links still may work if you replace snrk.de by old.snrk.de.
In snrk.de you’ll find a few assumptions:
※ The Beaver‘s lace making is “wrong” (in Carroll’s view) if lace making stands for vivisection.
※ Lewis Carroll liked to create “portmanteau words”. I suggest that the Boots is the maker of Bonnets and Hoods.
※ Last not least, since 2010 I think that the most important assumption is that Thomas Cranmer could be among the historical persons to whom the Baker (with four nicknames related to something which was heated or burned) might be related. As a protestant, Cranmer wrote the Forty-Two Articles. Under threat, he left those articles behind like the Forty-Two Boxes, which the Baker left behind on the beach. Then Carroll associated the Baker with pets of catholic saints: Macarius’ hyenas and Corbinian’s bear. (See also: Angus MacIntyre’s suggestion “The Baker’s 42 Boxes are the original Protestant Articles of 1553, with Thomas Cranmer’s name on each.” in The Reverend Snark, Jabberwocky 23(1994), p. 51~52.)
I am an electronics and mechatronics engineer living near Munich in Germany. I know how to work scientifically, but not in the field of arts and literature. In that field of research I am an amateur. Therefore I don’t have to protect any reputation in academic Snarkology. Nevertheless, if you publish papers about, for example, references from The Hunting of the Snark to Thomas Cranmer, please give credit to those, who addressed that topic already. That’s me (2015, 2015, 2016), but also Karen Gardiner (2018), Mary Hibbs (2017, pen names: Mary Hammond and Sandra Mann) and Angus MacIntyre (1994).
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(Source: sheltonfamilystore.com)
Do you think that this “baker” on page 83 really proves that the book is a first edition and that it should be “butcher”? You find the answer in any contemporary Snark edition.
More Examples for advertising the first edition of “The Hunting of the Snark”, offered for prices between €200 and €1000:
First edition, first printing, with “Baker” for “Banker” on page 83.
First issue with “baker” not “butcher” on page 83. It is unknown how many copies were printed this way.
This is about line 560 on page 83, the last page of Lewis Carroll’s tragicomedy. A “Baker” in that line is no proof that the book is a rare first Snark edition. All copies are printed this way, because that is how it should be. In Henry Holiday’s illustration on page 82 you see the head and a hand of the Baker, not the Banker (and not the Butcher either). Remember, the Banker had to be left behind in the previous chapter.
So there is nothing special about “Where the Baker had met with the Snark.” This alleged error is a myth. Those rare book traders just didn’d (and still don’t) check the facts.
Then there is the JubJub. If you read somewhere that the bird never will look at a “bride”, then better check line 386 on page 55 in the original Snark edition. It’s “bribe”. You can find “It will never look at a bride” in the Internet many times. But that’s wrong.
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Rare book sellers often claim, that the first edition of ”The Hunting of the Snark” can be identified by the word “Baker” instead of “Butcher” or “Banker” in the 560th line on page 83. However, “Where the Baker had met with the Snark” is correct. “Butcher” or “Banker” in the 560th line is wrong. Also “bribe” in the 386th line on page 55 is correct, even though in the Internet the erratic “It never will look at a bride” can be found.
(The hyperlinks in this text where not part of the WP text.)
Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2019-11-28 2019-11-28 Categories Baker, Banker, Butcher, fact check, Jubjub, rare books, snark businessTags Fit8
Eternal Disconnect
All men shall not be saved at the length. They also are worthy of condemnation, who endeavour at this time in restore the dangerous opinion that all men, by they never so ungodly, shall at length be saved, when they have suffered pains for their sins a certain time appointed by God’s justice.
Article 42 on eternal damnation in Thomas Cranmer’s Forty-Two Articles (1552)
No one shall speak to the Man at the Helm, and the Man at the Helm shall speak to no one.
Rule 42, with the second part of the sentence having been “completed” by the Bellman in Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (1876)
Pope Francis said eternal damnation is not a torture chamber but distance from God.
Vatican Radio, 2016-11-25
If something like eternal damnation (Article 42) would exist, then that also would be an eternal disconnect (Rule 42) between the Abrahamic god and those who adhere to that god.
What are those Forty-Two Articles?
The Forty-Two Articles were intended to summarise Anglican doctrine, as it now existed under the reign of Edward VI, who favoured a Protestant faith. Largely the work of Thomas Cranmer, they were to be short formularies that would demonstrate the faith revealed in Scripture and the existing Catholic creeds. Completed in 1552, they were issued by Royal Mandate on 19 June 1553. The articles were claimed to have received the authority of a Convocation, although this is doubtful. With the coronation of Mary I and the reunion of the Church of England with the Catholic Church, the Articles were never enforced. However, after Mary’s death, they became the basis of the Thirty-nine Articles. In 1563, Convocation met under Archbishop Parker to revise the articles. Convocation passed only 39 of the 42, and Elizabeth reduced the number to 38 by throwing out Article XXIX to avoid offending her subjects with Catholic leanings. In 1571, the Article XXIX, despite the opposition of Bishop Edmund Gheast, was inserted, to the effect that the wicked do not eat the Body of Christ. This was done following the queen’s excommunication by the Pope Pius V in 1570. That act destroyed any hope of reconciliation with Rome and it was no longer necessary to fear that Article XXIX would offend Catholic sensibilities. The Articles, increased to Thirty-nine, were ratified by the Queen, and the bishops and clergy were required to assent.
Source: Wikipedia, 2018-03-15
I assume, that Carroll’s “forty-two” serves as a reference to Thomas Cranmer’s Forty-Two Articles. And Rev. Karen Gardiner suggested in The Carrollian (July 2018, № 31, p.25~41), that this is a reference mainly to Article 42 (about eternal damnation) in the Forty-Two Articles.
As far as I understand, eternal damnation was a controversial issue in the era of the Oxford Movement, and the Rev. C. L. Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) objected to the belief in eternal punishment in 1897, but his article on Eternal Punishment was not published during his lifetime. In the article, one of Dodgson’s points is that “αἰών” should be translated as “of indefinite duration”, not as “eternal”. (See p. 52 in Robert D. Sutherland’s Language and Lewis Carroll, 1970.) The controversy on eternal punishment seems not to have ended yet .
Today, “42” mostly is known as an answer to an unknown question. That answer had been revealed in a popular travel guide and invented by Douglas Adams as an answer to an unknown question. Of course neither Lewis Carroll nor Douglas Adams would have provided us with spoilers which could help us to understand their “42”. Holding your readers responsible for their interpretations is much more fun to writers like Adams and Carroll. Therefore Adams told us that the “42” just popped up in his mind out of the air when he enjoyed the view of his garden. And Carroll told us that the last line “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see!” in The Hunting of the Snark popped up in his mind during a walk near Guilford (incidentally the birthplace of Ford Prefect, and then again not his real birthplace).
Lewis Carroll’s Snark and Douglas Adams’ Guide (the BBC radio series) have more in common than just having fits instead of chapters. But among both authors, it probably was only the Reverend Dodgson to whom “42” had a special relevance in the history of the church, that vessel which had been snarked so many times.
Lewis Carroll, Eternal Damnation, in The Lewis Carroll Picture Book (1899, edited by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood), p. 345-355
Lewis Carroll on Eternal Punishment, posted by “Nick”, 2008
John Tufail, The Jowett Controversy – Understanding Carroll’s Philosophy, 2010
User “pog” in The Evangelical Universalist Forum: List of those of who reject traditional hellism, 2013
About articles in the Knight Letter № 100 (by Goetz Kluge, LCSNA 2018) and The Carrollian (by Rev. Karen Gardiner, July 2018, № 31, p.25~41)
2017-12-25, updated: 2018-07-06, 2019-10-24
Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2019-10-24 2019-12-10 Categories 42, 42 Articles, Bellman, Douglas Adams, eschatology, eternal damnation, in focus, John Tufail, Oxford Movement, rethinking the Snark, Rule 42, Thomas CranmerTags Fit3
“Thought to be based on Gheeraert’s iconoclasm image”
https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-art-of-hidden-faces-anthropomorphic-landscapes/
(Snapshot 2019-10-10)
Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder’s allegory of iconoclasm, ca.1566 — Source.
The next picture is an illustration by Henry Holiday for Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark. The face hidden in the darkness of the trees is thought to be based on Geheert’s iconoclasm image above.
The tenth of Henry Holiday’s original illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark, 1876 — Source.
Info to the Public Domain Review: This was my first discovery of one of Henry Holiday’s allusions. This finding started my Snark hunt in December 2008.
By the way, Henry Holiday contributed only nine (not ten) illustrations to The Hunting of the Snark and two illustrations for the book cover. The Ocean Chart probably had been made by a typesetter.
And there are various way’s to write Gheeraert’s name. 😉
Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2019-10-10 2019-11-06 Categories 1st finding, Baker, iconoclasm, Marcus Gheeraerts the ElderTags Fit8
In this allegorical English School painting (ca. 1610, by an unknown painter) of Queen Elizabeth I at old age you see the allegories of Death and of Father Time.
In the inset you see on the left side a depiction of the Bellman from Henry Holiday’s front cover illustration to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark (1876).
Only now, after a few years of having found this painting, I recognized, that not only Henry Holiday’s Bellman looks like that unknown painter’s Father Time, But also the posture of the old queen and the old man are similar.
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Author Goetz KlugePosted on 2019-06-17 2019-06-18 Categories Barrister's Dream, Beaver, gallery, in focus, John Everett Millais, John Martin, maintaining topological relationsTags Fit4, Fit5, Fit8
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What is the largest (engineered) physical object dreamed of in science fiction? [closed]
I can think of 3 kinds of big.
By a linear measure
By mass or weight
Bonus points for all three. Extra bonus points for the object being realistic in construction.
Let's add to it that it not be naturally occurring.
DampeS8N
Perhaps consider removing the 'bonus points' .. how will you award them? – Tim Post♦ Feb 19 '11 at 21:30
@Tim Post: perhaps consider growing a sense of fun. But to answer, I awarded them by picking the answer I did. – DampeS8N Feb 20 '11 at 2:22
By far not as big as Ringworld, but since it seems to be described in a relatively uncommon book, I'll mention The Ship, described by Robert Reed in his novels Marrow and The Well of Stars. It's a spaceship the size of Jupiter, containing, well ... a surprise ;-) – takrl Jun 16 '11 at 10:48
I have been known to award bonus points for answers I really like, by means of awarding a bounty. – Flimzy Nov 3 '11 at 1:18
Would the Tardis count for the "By Volume"? It's bigger on the inside, and as big as it needs to be! – AidanO Aug 15 '12 at 9:22
The biggest in terms of volume would probably be a Matrioshka brain.
A Matrioshka brain is a collection of multiple Concentric Dyson Spheres which make use of different wavelengths of light.
Here's the list from Wikipedia's article on Megastructures where I found it:
The Alderson disk is a theoretical structure in the shape of a disk, where the outer radius is equivalent to the orbit of Mars or Jupiter and the thickness is several thousand miles. A civilization could live on either side, held by the gravity of the disk and still receive sunlight from a star bobbing up and down in the middle of the disk.
A Dyson sphere (also known as a Dyson Shell) refers to a structure or mass of orbiting objects that completely surrounds a star to make full use of its solar energy.
Larry Niven's Ringworld is an artificial ring with a radius roughly equal to the radius of the Earth's orbit. A star is present in the center and the ring spins to provide artificial gravity.
A Stellar engine either uses the temperature difference between a star and interstellar space to extract energy or serves as a Shkadov thruster.
A Shkadov thruster accelerates an entire star through space by selectively reflecting or absorbing light on one side of it.
Topopolis (also known as Cosmic Spaghetti) is a large tube that rotates to provide artificial gravity.
A couple of the others that move entire stars around would probably be considered bigger in terms of mass if you count the mass of the star.
Bill the Lizard
feel free to split that up into different answers. So we can all vote up the biggest ones. I'm not looking for a list. I'm looking for the BIGGEST one. – DampeS8N Jan 12 '11 at 16:22
@DampeS8N: I separated out the one I think is biggest. – Bill the Lizard Jan 12 '11 at 16:28
How does the Matrioshka brain uses different wavelengths of light? – pupeno Jan 12 '11 at 17:38
The point of the Matrioshka brain isn't so much to capture all the energy as to convert all the matter of the solar system into computational power. – user1030 Jun 6 '11 at 21:46
There is a bigger structure discussed, though I don't know if it has ever been used in a story. In his essay, Bigger than Worlds, Larry Niven discusses several, getting progressively larger, finishing up with his "megasphere". Basically, a Dyson sphere around the center of the galaxy rather than a single star. "We live in free-fall, above a surface area of tens of millions of light-years, within an atmosphere that doesn't thin out for scores of light-years." It's the final essay in Jerry Pournelle's collection, The Endless Frontier, Volume 1. – William B Swift Aug 27 '12 at 5:52
In Greg Egan's Diaspora, the manufactured objects at the end of the characters' journey are inconceivably vast in terms of our universe. Each sub-atomic particle contains an entire universe, each sub-atomic particle of which contains an entire universe, then iterate millions of times until you get to our universe.
Nothing else in SF comes within trillions of orders of magnitude of being as large.
Woah! Nice one! – DampeS8N Jan 12 '11 at 17:39
+1. If there were more writers like Greg Egan, then this question would pretty much be like “what’s the largest number dreamed of in mathematics”… – PLL Feb 7 '11 at 5:50
I'd like to point out that it's theorized, albeit with little credibility, that the universe is a strange loop, that subatomic particles might eventually become a universe if you go small enough, say beyond a quark. Most people dismiss this because it sounds a hell of a lot like stoner-talk, which is shown in Animal House. – Apoc326 Apr 14 '11 at 6:16
@Apoc326, theorized by who? I assume you mean hypothesized. When talking about science, a theory is something well described and understood that accurately describes what can be observed. – DampeS8N Jun 2 '11 at 12:01
@DampeS8N, Sorry about that. I wasn't thinking that a choice of words that are interchangeable in common parlance would warrant correcting on a relatively casual site. Yes, I did mean hypothesized. There are a few ideas that have been published regarding the "universe" as a strange loop" idea that I mentioned. – Apoc326 Jun 3 '11 at 0:13
Isaac Asimov's Multivac.
In "The Final Question," Asimov refers to the last version of Multivac as the known universe. It finally becomes a god when it answers the question: Can entropy be reversed?
Gelvis
Specifically, The AC creates a new universe. – Steve Melnikoff Jan 15 '11 at 16:11
As a creation of our creation, could we therefore claim the Universe as the largest creation in Sci-Fi? – Jeff Feb 8 '11 at 19:15
@Steve: Proof by example is still proof. – Sukotto May 23 '11 at 16:08
@Sukotto: indeed. I agree with the answer; I was just attempting to add a little more explanation. – Steve Melnikoff May 23 '11 at 16:21
Similarly at the beginning of Stephen Baxter's book Manifold Time, the entire Universe is connected computationally (probably some pieces physically and some pieces by radiation) as a type of giant computational engine/computer. – Jim2B Feb 27 '15 at 5:34
A device that's surrounding a star is fun but why not use those stars to build something? Fry did it!
beat you to it ;) but kudos on adding the image – DampeS8N Feb 19 '11 at 16:14
Frederic Brown wrote a story called Pi In The Sky, in which a guy used light refraction and other tricks to "move" the stars in the sky to spell out an ad slogan. – VBartilucci Apr 25 '19 at 13:07
How about the Great Attractor created by the Xeelee in Stephen Baxter's Ring? Being an artificial structure of galactic super-cluster proportions, it should at least be on the list.
JustJeff
Vacuum Diagrams has a plethora of megastructures -- the Great Attractor probably the largest 'engineered structure' but there are indications of even bigger Works -- including architecting a 'low density field' millions of light years across by harvesting matter from several galaxies. The Ghosts also attempt the construction of a dark matter star... :) – Joseph Weissman Mar 18 '11 at 20:05
This is certainly the largest by far, being millions of light-years in diameter. – Stephen Collings Mar 9 '13 at 1:30
In Stargate Atlantis the star gate's on Earth and Atlantis create a wormhole three million light years in length. It is a single engineered object when instantiated. Of course three million light years is its perceived external length; presumably it is much shorter when travelling through it.
The wormhole in Stargate Universe at the start of the series is much longer (but I don'r recall how long).
Also in Stargate Universe they discover the Ancient Starship Destiny's mission was to investigate some background radiation from the creation of the Universe that seemed to indicated intelligent life, possibly that our entire Universe is created. I think that qualifies as being pretty big. – Jonathan Miller Aug 27 '12 at 20:13
nah, the universe was much much smaller then. – John Meacham Mar 18 '15 at 7:50
Not as big as an universe, but the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"'s planet-builders are impressive and fascinating.
Unfortunately, the planets would be naturally occurring, but, who knows at the end...
Gabriele D'Antona
Actually, this might be the smallest thing on this list. :) – DampeS8N Jan 12 '11 at 20:07
In the book, the Magrathea factory floor is much larger on the inside than the outside, being large enough to work on several planets at once while fitting inside Magrathea itself. – neilfein Feb 18 '11 at 0:58
Building on what neilfein said, the "factory floor" as it's called is in another dimension, and with lighting similar to that of a decent star, the outer walls of the factory floor are hardly even visible, depending on how reflective that surface is, that could be a MASSIVE distance away, making it a possible candidate for the Volume winner. – Apoc326 Apr 14 '11 at 6:19
The Hitchhiker's Guide also has the house of Wonko the Sane, which contains almost all of the whole universe. – b_jonas Sep 29 '13 at 11:41
In The Galaxy Railways there is a galactic size interstellar railway system. (This is the same universe as the Harlock Saga, and Galaxy Express 999)
Ringworld However, I know you guys can do better! It is roughly 300 million miles in circumference and about 1 AU in radius (i.e., 93 million miles). It is composed of material with a tensile strength close to that of the strong nuclear force. It is roughly as massive as all the planets in a star system.
One of my favorite books. I've replaced the book twice, finally getting a hardback. – neilfein Feb 18 '11 at 0:56
Schlock Mercenary has a power generator built from the Galactic Core. It was originally built as a sort of trojan-horse (the beings who designed it wanted our galaxy destroyed, the beings who built it were misled into thinking it was just a generator). It was stopped from being a bomb and kept as just a generator by an alliance of pretty much every sapient around, along with the formation of the largest AI around.
Michael Kohne
In "Bill, The Galactic Hero", ships are powered by a "Bloater Drive" which causes the ship to expand until it's as big as the galaxy. When the ships are that big, the individual atoms are so far apart that no one notices the presence of the ship. The ship is then reduced back to its original size at a different location.
That would be one unhappy trip if it doesn't also do it to the people... I guess that might be unhappy too. Just an unhappy thing all around. Especially if it breaks down mid-way through. – DampeS8N Feb 18 '11 at 1:15
It also does it to the people. On his trip away there is a little slippage and Bill's home planet comes through the wall of the ship to his room, then shrinks an vanishes. – Oldcat Aug 13 '14 at 17:46
In Peter Watt's Blindsight, the alien artifact Rorschach is incredibly massive (although shadowed by a nearby planet), but there are indications that it is constantly growing, possibly beyond plantery size.
In Alastair Reynold's Pushing Ice, the structure in which the ships are trapped is engineered and at the end it is indicated that its size is immense (possibly light hours in scale).
In the Star Trek universe, it’s surely the Borg Collective. It spans a significant proportion of our galaxy.
hmm. Interesting take on the idea of an 'Engineer Object.' – DampeS8N Feb 21 '11 at 3:51
The Slaver Empire, referred to in the animated series episode "The Slaver Weapon", occupied the entire galaxy a billion years ago, and so was bigger than the Borg Collective. There are plenty of empires in SF that span multiple galaxies. But I wouldn't call an empire an "engineered object". – Keith Thompson May 3 '15 at 22:43
@KeithThompson: Point taken, but the Borg Collective isn’t merely a large empire consisting of billions of individual biological units. I can easily argue that the Borg Collective is a single ginormous computer/AI in a way that living civilizations aren’t. – Timwi May 21 '15 at 12:48
In Time Keeps on Slippin, an episode of Futurama, Fry uses a Bad-Ass Gravity Pump to move a whole mess of stars to spell out a message to Leela. The message reads:
"I Love You, Leela."
Wow! I wonder how many civilizations were wiped out by that love letter. – Bill the Lizard Jan 12 '11 at 16:47
@Bill the Lizard: Eeehh.. They were all destroyed in a Globe-trottered up Doomsday Implosion later on, anyway... – DampeS8N Jan 12 '11 at 16:52
Nothing says, "I love you" like omnicide. – Jeff Feb 8 '11 at 19:16
In Dan Simmons' Endymion books, the Ousters were growing modified trees in orbit around a star, intending to eventually enclose it completely in a living Dyson sphere. I remember the phrase "Leaves the size of continents". Though they did not do so in the book, their plan was to eventually do this with other stars, and maybe connect them, to fill the space between with life. I give them credit for thinking big.
Also, in Carl Sagan's Contact,
at the very end of the book it is mentioned that a message is hidden in the digits of PI, which suggests that all of space/time was created by something...
JohnWinkelman
Hmm.. Not necessarily. Given a starting digit, any string of digits can be found in pi. Here is a fun illustration – DampeS8N Feb 22 '11 at 13:50
@DampeS8N - Not disputing reality, but in the book, after enough digits the message appears, then a series of 1s and 0s, then the last digit. – JohnWinkelman Mar 18 '11 at 21:07
IIRC, the 1s and 0s formed a circle when arranged in a matrix. – Ferruccio Jun 16 '11 at 13:11
@DampeS8N: That is conjectured (and widely suspected, I think) but not proven. – user1030 Mar 3 '12 at 21:40
I can disprove it. 1 repeating forever is not found in pi. Any finite string might fit, but not any string. – Oldcat Aug 13 '14 at 17:48
In Terry Pratchett's Strata, the protagonists' job is to build habitable planets with fake histories, such as fossils for beings that never actually existed. There seems to be an irresistible urge for such builders to include little impossibilities as signatures. The characters do learn more during the book, and...
At the end of the book, the protagonists find one of those little indications that their Universe was built by people with the same "signature" habit.
David Thornley
I was going to bring up the fact that The Hitchhiker's Trilogy is entirely dependent on the concept of constructed planets, but this seems like a similar thing. – Adele C Mar 3 '12 at 22:57
In Stargate universe, Rush discovered that the Destiny was launched to investigate a hidden message written onto the cosmic microwave background. Presumably some intelligence that existed prior to our universe's existence was able to emplace this message using undreamt of physics. Unfortunately the series terminates, so we will never find out who (or what) created it for what purpose. But it does span the entire universe!
Omega Centauri
In mass this might not be very big, but in terms of the scale of distance it covers, it's HUGE - the stargate's in the stargate series. A series of wormhole transports that span not only this galaxy, but connect over to another (Andromeda) galaxy.
The network also extends to the Pegasus galaxy in Stargate Atlantis – Apoc326 Apr 14 '11 at 6:22
The McKay/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge would be a nice candidate here too! – AidanO Aug 15 '12 at 9:20
How about the "Fleet of Worlds" - the home planets of the Pierson's Puppeteer race. Consisting of the actual homeworld, called "Hearth", and its agricultural worlds, arranged in a pentagonal Klemperer rosette. and accelerated to 80% of light speed by inertialess drives.
WOPR
In the Cyberiad from Stanisław Lem someone constructs a giant robot out of nearly all the matter in the Universe. The whole story is quite tongue-in-cheek, but it might still qualify.
vsz
I voted for the dyson sphere as being the biggest realistic. If you want something that's not as big but maybe more realistic - then the culture ships from the iain banks books. Ships that are miles long, housing millions of people, other ships and capable of building other ships.
not familiar, are they FTL? – DampeS8N Jan 12 '11 at 18:52
What about the multiple dyson sphere's in Iain M Banks book Matter, on the Shellworld of Sursamen which is vast dyson spheres wrapped around each other, with a more ascendant race on higher levels. At the core is the super advanced alien, and on level 6 or 7, live the parasites of the super advanced alien creature, who have advanced far enough to get their own level. Each sphere is vast. – scope_creep Jan 17 '11 at 18:38
@DampeS8N - Yes to the FTL. The ships were one of my favorite things in the Culture series. They had an interesting concept that the more massive a vessel, the higher speeds it could obtain. These massive city sized ships would cruise around regular circuits or explore new areas, dropping and picking up smaller ships in different quadrants. Because of the disparity of speeds obtainable, they had tug-style ships that could slow down, pick up a smaller vessel, then boost it up to speed for a rendezvous. – Saiboogu Jan 19 '11 at 1:54
Hm, if they were FTL then they can't be more realistic. Since it would just take a very long time to make the Dyson Sphere without FTL, but it could be done. – DampeS8N Feb 18 '11 at 1:10
Not sure the Shell Worlds are Dyson spheres. Dyson Spheres are structures designed to encompass a star and gather its output. The Shell Worlds are just shells built onto a (very big) superstructure. – Rob Feb 22 '11 at 23:12
Perhaps not the biggest, but the computers in David Zindells A Requiem for Homo Sapiens trilogy, The Broken God being the first, the computers are truly vast covering 300k planets with each planet computer associated with a star to power it. The plot deals with people being vastened from normal humans into each of these computers, and some of the vast computer sentient entities being de-vastened into a childs toy, after being destroyed. A trully excellent series of books worth a read, about the ascendency of man, written in Zindells poetic language.
scope_creep
What allows them to communicate between planets? Some kind of FTL communication system? – DampeS8N Jan 17 '11 at 4:28
Communication through the Manifold, (the place underneath quantum foam), the sort of foundations of reality or matter. Well worth a read. Start out main hero and his tribe have genetically engineered themselves back into Neanderthals who travel the Manifold in ships looking for new routes. I'll say no more. – scope_creep Jan 17 '11 at 18:30
The Wikipedia plot page describes only the first coupla hundred pages of The Broken God. Its a hard SF book. – scope_creep Jan 17 '11 at 18:33
The structure simply known as The City or the Megastructure in Tsutomu Nihei's Blame! appears to outclass everything else here.
It's a classically engineered structure (i.e. no quantum "there's an entire universe inside!" cop-outs) that extends roughly spherically outwards from the center of the solar system to a point at or beyond the orbit of Jupiter. It's constantly expanding, being built by out-of-control AIs. It's multi-leveled ("the megastructure" nominally refers to the constructs separating the levels but is also shorthand for the whole thing sometimes) and so the theoretical "habitable volume" is enormous, although in practice few areas have oxygen, or gravity, or lack of killer androids, or etc.
Nominally this makes it a Dyson sphere, or rather a series of Dyson spheres, but I'm not aware of any other work of fiction that portrays a Dyson sphere this large. It also has some elements of a Matrioshka brain, as some kind of computer network appears to run throughout it.
(nitpick) there is at least one more universe inside, probably several (Toha Heavy Industries is bigger on the inside and connects to alternate realities), even more if you count the Netsphere. That doesn't take anything away from the external size though. – user36551 May 12 '15 at 18:10
I think we all are forgetting "The Death Star" here and ultimate weapon as big as a few hundred suns.
Eastern Monk
If you refer to Star Wars' Death Star, its actual size / volume of the death star has not been specified in the movies, but it is clearly smaller than a Gas giant, and could be mistaken for a Moon by an unsuspecting Observer – sum1stolemyname Mar 15 '11 at 11:24
"That's no moon..." – Apoc326 Apr 14 '11 at 6:23
Allen Steele's book Hex describes a Dyson sphere, but made of hexagons, 1000 miles (K? I forget, but 1000 of the units) long, 100 miles wide, each as a discrete habitat.
Ya, I know Dyson spheres have been mentioned, but this is an interesting example of it. 36 Trillion biopods (each arm of each hex).
Other Dyson Sphere example might be in Roger Mcbride Allen's Hunted Earth series (alas only two books, but great ones!)
Ring of Charon
Shattered Sphere
In the Perry Rhodan Multiverse we have
The Loolandre is the heart of the endless armada with a diameter of at least four light years
The Tiefenland is a discworld with a diameter of one light year (and a transmitter dome every light second)
Reinstate Monica - M. Schröder
How about The Stone from Greg Bear's EON. The description of it is that it was endless, bigger on the inside than the outside; a hollowed-out asteroid connected TARDIS-fashion to The Way, an cylindrical artificial space a dozen kilometers in diameter and infinite length.
In the sequel, Eternity, it is revealed that the Way is not actually infinite; it ends by opening up into a small universe (finite but unbounded). The length of the Way is difficult to calculate from the book, but since it takes the Geshels at least several thousand years of subjective time to travel it at very nearly the speed of light, a rough estimate of a billion light-years would be very conservative.
The Magog World Ship is quite big, i can't find any facts about its size, but it's a solar system with at least 11 planets..
Starting in the second season of Lexx, Mantrid created a von Neumann probe drone of his own arm. Eventually Mantrid is tricked into summoning all of the Mantrid drones, which at this point had consumed all of the matter in Mantrid's original universe, to one place.
The Mantrid drones collected all of the matter in a universe and artificially created a big crunch when Mantrid summoned them to the same location.
eta-carinae
Isn't there a space-opera series where an (obviously) disappeared alien race literally carved a galaxy ? I even remember there are some kind of tourists visiting this galaxy.In fact, I remember, it's not a galaxy, it's a chain of stars, linked each one to the other by ... a typical Ancient Disappeared Race means. According to timday's excellent comment, it's the kiimt homeworld in Night's Dawn hyper-huge trilogy of Peter F. Hamilton.
Riduidel
Find the details! – DampeS8N Jan 12 '11 at 16:36
This should probably be a comment. – neilfein Feb 18 '11 at 0:59
My guess for this one: the Kiint homeworlds in The Naked God, 3rd book in the Peter F. Hamilton Night's Dawn trilogy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_God#Plot_summary . – timday Feb 18 '11 at 22:53
Yes ! Thanks @timday – Riduidel Feb 22 '11 at 10:54
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PLEASE DON’T MAKE ANOTHER SEASON: WHY TV SHOWS NEED TO LEARN TO QUIT WHILE THEY’RE AHEAD
Posted by JoBradley on August 7, 2019 August 7, 2019
Like many, many people on the internet, I entered Big Little Lies season two with equal parts excitement and apprehension.
On one hand: Meryl Streep! Nicole Kidman! Reese Witherspoon! How could I resist? On the other, season one was so, so good, a perfect mini-series that worked so well because of how tightly the show moved through every episode, building suspense before the climactic, deadly, finale. I worried that making a second season would, in hindsight, tarnish the masterpiece that was season one. I was right.
Sadly, Big Little Lies isn’t the only show that has suffered from second season syndrome. Many shows have faltered after a hit season one. Sometimes these shows run out of stories to tell. This is often the case if they are based on a book like Thirteen Reasons Why, The Handmaid’s Tale or Big Little Lies. Or, when their show was conceived as a one-season murder mystery and decided to milk the premise (see: Broadchurch, Riverdale, True Detective, How to Get Away with Murder, Veronica Mars and many more).
Sometimes the second season is ok, and sometimes the third is too. But the showrunners, refusing to quit while they’re ahead, just keep making more and more seasons until the premise eventually turns sour. See: The Walking Dead, Suits, Game of Thrones, American Horror Story, Orphan Black, The 100, Big Little Lies, Glee, Sherlock, The OC, Sleepy Hollow, etc etc. It’s examples like these that make me so nervous when I hear that The End of The Fucking World and Russian Doll, some of my favourite TV shows of the last year, have both been renewed for upcoming second Netflix seasons.
There’s a certain type of heartbreak that comes with watching a show you loved slowly go downhill, year after year, until it’s just a shadow of its formal self. I recently experienced this very acutely with Game of Thrones season eight, and Sherlock season four, both of which can be fairly be described as a hot mess.
Watching the deterioration of a much-loved show is what makes me even more appreciative of the brilliance of a one hit wonder, shows that could have gone longer, but made the commendable decision to quite while they were ahead. A quick scour of the internet finds a litany of these “Best One-Season Shows” list, of which hits like Freaks and Geeks, Firefly, My So-Called Life, The Getdown, Life Unexpected and Sharp Objects feature.
Unfortunately, just like franchise fever has gripped the Hollywood movie machine, so too has it taken over television world. In this era of peak TV, with more streaming services getting launched every day, showrunners are under a lot of pressure to retain viewership. And with all that pressure, inevitably comes the decisions to stick to what you know (as Netflix proved recently when they shelled out $100 Million USD to keep Friends on their platform for only one year).
Sadly, there’s no easy solution to this. Just like relationships, with every TV show that we let into our lives and our hearts, comes the knowledge that these TV shows might one day break your heart. I guess if you really want to avoid the pain, you could only ever watch one season of every show. But where’s the fun in that?
Jo Bradley
This article was originally posted on Blitz UNSW
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DrWeb says:
Just saw where Disney is “rebooting” Home Alone and Night at the Museum.. and a live action Peter Pan…
The generation behind these and efforts you document well are not creative nor imaginative enough to create a new. Instead they feast on the past, endlessly.. quite sad indeed.
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scribblingadvocate Writing and the Law
Getting Noticed
So many books are published every month that getting your book noticed by potential readers is a problem for any author. I have just managed to prise the sales figures out of my publisher, (why are they so reluctant to give them?) because I wanted to look at how sales had been effected by the publicity I have been given. I was rather disappointed with the overall figure of 190 to mid June. It is also quite difficult to analyse the figures in relation to the individual pieces of publicity I received, however I have tried to make some sense of it.
Crucial Evidence became available as a paperback on 14th February 2014, five copies were sold before that date which I think were probably review copies, although I was a guest on the blog CMashlovestoread on 29th January. Amazon ordered ten copies on 13th February again I assume to have some in stock, although to begin with they were showing a three week wait for the book to arrive. Between 14th February and 20th February Amazon bought twenty-three books. Again I have to make the assumption that these were sales to friends and family who bought the book as a result of my emailing them about its availability.
The Western Morning News, a regional newspaper in SW England with a distribution of over 20,000, did a two page spread in their Magazine section on 22nd February and on 28th February an on line magazine AfterNyne broadcast an interview with me. Sales during the last week of February were quite low; one through the distribution company Bertram Books, two through Amazon in the UK and two Amazon US. My ex sister-in-law I think.
I had a book launch at The White Hart in Moretonhampstead on 8th March for my friends in Devon- a fantastic cream tea – and sold 20 copies to the those who attended.
At the beginning of March the novel became available in the ebook formats and by March14th thirteen books had been sold by Amazon Kindle. During that period I did a Giveaway of two books on Goodreads, which finished on March10th. Over 100 people put it on their ‘ to read lists’ but it is my impression this has not resulted in many sales.
I had been asked to do an interview for TalkRadioEurope and that was recorded in February but not broadcast until 27th March and on 3rd April the Exeter Express and Echo which has a distribution of 20,000 had a two page spread about me and my novel. Between 14th March and 14th April two copies were sold through Bertram Books, sixteen were ordered by Books on Demand and eleven sold for Kindle.
Books on Demand are a German company who my publisher New Generation use for printing copies in Europe. I don’t know that many people living in Europe so I assume these sales were a direct result of the radio interview. TalkRadioEurope broadcasts to English speakers in Spain and Portugal. I guess sitting out in the sun by your pool means you read a lot- so quite a good market. Indeed sales in Europe continued with another sixteen being sold by Books on Demand on 16th April.
The novel is set in London and I wanted to have a launch party for people we knew who lived in the city and that was held on 10th April at the Slightly Foxed Bookshop on Gloucester Road. It was a lovely evening, there are some photographs on this blog at Celebration Party and Publication Party, and the shop sold twenty three copies.
I did a talk to a local Ladies Group and sold a further sixteen copies of the book.
So what conclusions can I draw from this. I think I can say the following
1. Doing talks is the best way of selling books.
2.Two books for a ‘giveaway’ on Goodreads is not enough.
3. Some publicity is better than no publicity but only just.
4.Your own email list is a good source of readers.
5. Launch parties are good fun but can be expensive – I did feel like a writer when I was reading excerpts from my book in a bookshop.
I reduced the price for the Kindle version as I felt having looked at the top 100 books the price was too high but as yet the sales figures since are not available. t may be that it’s too late but it was worth trying.
My next publicity stunt is booksontheundergound.tumblre.com who are placing ten books on tube lines. These are books I have bought and I think having some books available as giveaways should be part of any sales campaign. I would be interested in any ones opinions on marketing, giveaways and pricing.
Tags: AfterNyne, Amazon Kindle, Books on Demand, Exeter Express and Echo, GoodReads, New Generation, Publicity, Publishing, Sales Figures, Slightly Foxed Bookshop, Western Morning News
About scribblingadvocate
Born in Lancashire, Law degree from Sheffield University and MA in Creative Writing from Exeter. A barrister for twenty five years, who appeared in the Crown Courts in and around London until I retired and moved to live on Dartmoor. Married, no children but own an affable Springer Spaniel. I love reading and have written a novel called Crucial Evidence set in London Legal
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Scuttlebutt Europe #3096 - 3 June
Alpari World Match Racing Tour Announces First Ever Event In Holland
London, UK: The Alpari World Match Racing Tour today announced the addition of the Dutch Match Cup as an official stage of the 2014 world championship tour.
The Dutch event joins the current schedule of six championship events in Germany, Sweden, Poland, Chicago, Bermuda, and Malaysia. Today's announcement comes just two days before the start of the 2014 Alpari World Match Racing Tour on the shores of Lake Constance at Match Race Germany from 5-9 June.
The Dutch Match Cup will mark the first ever Alpari World Match Racing Tour event to be held in Holland. The event will take place from 24-28 September in Lelystad, the largest municipality in Holland and the capital of the province of Flevoland. The event will offer a prize purse of USD75,000 (adding to the current 2014 Tour prize purse of USD1.4million) and teams will compete in an identical fleet of Maxfun 25 keelboats with four crew per boat.
The racing will take place directly off the harbour wall at Bataviahaven in Lelystad, one of the largest marinas in the Netherlands located on the 700 km2 Markermeer in between North Holland and its larger sibling, the Ijsselmeer.
In addition to hosting the Dutch Match Cup, the Batavia Sailing Center also plans to launch an annual match racing series in Holland in partnership with the Alpari World Match Racing Tour and ISAF (International Sailing Federation). The national sailing program will provide a valuable pathway for aspiring Dutch sailors to hone their match racing skills and increase their world ranking. The series will also incorporate a youth development program to attract new sailors to the sport, and to match racing.
www.wmrt.com
www.dutchmatchcup.com
WIM Series At The Royal Cork
Next week the Women's International Match Racing Series (WIM Series) starts the new season in an exciting historical context. The first event will not only be hosted by the oldest yacht club in the world, the Royal Cork Yacht Club, but the event will also continue a tradition of ISAF Women's Match Racing World Championships dating back to 1999. And on top of that the surroundings, with the newly renovated Camden Fort Meagher, offer a really beautiful and historical setting.
The WIM Series began in 2013 with its inaugural season, comprising five successful events in France, Denmark, Korea, USA and Sweden. No less than 25 crews from 13 countries raced each other in hundreds of thrilling matches, and the title and the USD 50 000 prize pool were still up for grabs until the last day of the final event, the Lysekil Women's Match in Sweden. Lucy Macgregor of Great Britain became the first skipper to put her name on the Terry J Kohler Perpetual Trophy, with Swede Anna Kjellberg runner-up.
The second season of the still young, growing and aspiring WIM Series will open next week in a context with far more tradition, routine and history. The Royal Cork Yacht Club hosts the first event in Ireland on June 3 – 8. Private sailing started to become popular in Cork Harbour already in the late 1600s, and by 1720 interest in the sport had progressed so much that the 26 year old William O'Brien and some of his friends established The Water Club of the Harbour of Cork. This club is known today as the Royal Cork Yacht Club, and it is the oldest yacht club in the world.
www.wimseries.com
Marinepool Club And Crew Jacket Collection 2014 - A Sportive Look And Maritime Chic In Classic Style
2014 has seen the introduction of a new Club and Crew Jacket line that is the perfect outfit for get togethers in the clubhouse, an apres sail drink in the cockpit or for any trip both on water and land. Garments for all occasions and events that require a sportive look in a classic style.
There is hardly any other sport that is similarly demanding on clothing than sailing. Garments used on boats or for regattas require highest reliability in terms of waterproofness, breathability, abrasion resistance. Functional cuts, light weight and further intelligent design features are indispensable - and the ideal crew wear brings all these qualities together. Furthermore, sailing as a sport and lifestyle reaches beyond the action on board and on race courses. Maritime clothing has a wide appeal and has become a way of living for many. The functionality of the garments is a welcome add-on and asset. The new Club and Crew Jacket collection by Marinepool is designed for racing crews, club teams, the ambitious amateur and fashion conscious water sports enthusiast alike. The utilization of technical high-quality fabrics ensures crucial features in terms of function such as breathability, wind and waterproofness and highest wearing comfort.
Consequently, these products can be used for racing, day sailing and any other dynamic outdoor activities. Maritime colours and fashionable details such as the striped knitted sleeve cuffs, collar and hem of the "Storm Jacket", available for men, women and kids bring a casual touch to the functional jackets. In combination with jeans, chino trousers, shirts or polo shirts and with its stylish design, the "Cruising Jacket" is the perfect outer layer for casual looks or sportive elegant outfits.
The new Marinepool club and crew jacket collection.
Design. Technology. Passion.
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RORC North Sea Race Report
A fleet of 52 yachts entered the 180-mile RORC North Sea Race, the fourth race of the RORC Season's Points Championship. Starting from Harwich on the East Coast of England, the line was blessed with a 15 knot easterly wind, providing a true beat to the first turning mark of the course. The breeze was to fade during the race which suited Volvo Ocean 65, Team Brunel.
The Dutch team, skippered by Bouwe Bekking, took line honours and the overall win under IRC after time correction. Wouter Hermsen's Sydney GTS 43, Luctor 3 was second overall and winner of IRC One, and Harm Prins Volvo 60, Pleomax, was third and winner of IRC Zero. Congratulations should also go to the winner of IRC Two, Ard Moerman's Bashford & Howison 36, Ace, and to Paul van der Pol's J/109, Yeti, which won IRC Three.
This is the first RORC race in which the new VOR 65 has competed and it was a great warm up for the Volvo Ocean race, which starts in the autumn, providing an opportunity for Bouwe Bekking to trial his new team and to give his sponsors the sail of their lives.
The overall winner of the North Sea Race under ORC was Frans Rodenburg's First 40, Elke. Robert Jockin's Dehler 39, Griel, was second and also winner of ORC Two. Anita Bakker's Dehler 35, Gast-Vrij, corrected out to win ORC 3 & 4.
15 teams, all from The Netherlands, raced in the IRC Two-Handed Class and, after a race lasting over a day and a half, the result was decided by just one minute. John Van Veen's J/105, Dream Machine, with Rob Vis as crew, was the winner of the class, beating Chris Revelman & Pascal Bakker's J/122, Junique, into second place. Chris Schram's JPK 10.10, 'So What', was third. -- Louay Habib
For full results from the North Sea Race: www.rorc.org
Laser Europa Cup Winners Crowned at WPNSA
Great Britain's three-day Laser Europa Cup event drew to a close amid glorious racing conditions at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy on Sunday (1 June).
Battling against a light and shifty breeze on the opening day of the regatta (Friday 30 May), conditions slowly improved across the course of the weekend with today's superb sunshine and South Westerly 10-15 knots resulting in a fantastic finale and a full schedule of races across the Laser 4.7, Laser Radial and Laser Standard classes.
In the Laser Standard, the British Sailing Team's Podium Potential sailor Lorenzo Chiavarini - the under 21 World and European Champion - revelled across the eight race series and cemented his position at the top of the leaderboard, having led the event from the outset. Elliott Hanson finished seven points behind in second with Jack Wetherell in third.
In the Laser Radial event, Jon Emmett did enough in today's final two races with a second and first to hold onto his overnight lead and claim event honours ahead of John Booth in second and Jack Aitken in third.
Europa Cup victory in the Laser Radial female fleet went to Hannah Brant, who also secured a qualification berth for Great Britain in the Byte CII class for this summer's Youth Olympic Games in May.
Hollowell Sailing Club's Arran Holman was victorious in the Laser 4.7 class clinching Championship honours with three race wins from the eight race series.
Full results: events.sailracer.org/eventsites/default_s.asp?eventid=189526
Seahorse Sailor Of The Month
Last month's winner:
Leigh Mcmillan (GBR)
In spite of the influx of America's Cup teams last year's Extreme Sailing Series champion has continued to fight it out at the front this year in relentless and unruffled style. 'One of the fastest - and nicest - guys on the grand prix circuits' - Jed Smith; 'This year has shown that Leigh can take on and defeat the very biggest names in sailing' - Jenny Hargrove; 'He has taken all that Tornado experience and mastered the VX40s better than any other skipper' - Hamish Calder; 'All hail the catmeister' - Bob Smith.
This month's nominees:
Giles Scott (GBR)
After a brief interlude in the America's Cup with Prada the man who arguably came closest to denying Ben Ainslie his fourth gold medal is back in the Finn and is only interested in one result at Rio 2016. And he's back with a vengeance winning the recent tricky European championships by the quite extraordinary margin of 50pt from his closest rival. All those Finn sailors who sighed with relief at Big Ben's retirement can think again.
Gwenole Gahinet And Paul Meilhat (FRA)
Two young tigers indeed... in winning the Transat AG2R Gahinet and Meilhat defeated many of the very biggest names in French offshore sailing including the biggest name of all, Michel Desjoyeaux. There was very little subtle about this victory, the fast pair claiming simply 'to have sailed like hell and pushed at full throttle from start to finish... That is the only way to race, n'est ce pas?'
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Cast your vote, submit comments, even suggest a candidate for next month at seahorsemagazine.com/sailor-of-the-month
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Nick Bonner has joined Elvstrom Sails UK in a new role as Sales Consultant. Nick brings with him a wealth of racing and big boat experience. A sailor since the age of 4 on his fathers Sigma 33, he then moved into dinghies and sailed single-handers in the British Youth Squad.
His twenty years experience of professional trimming has subsequently included Whitbread projects on Rothmans and Fortuna, three Admirals Cup campaigns, the IOR 50' circuit, Ultra 30's, Farr 40's and more recently mainsail trimmer on the mini-maxi 'Shockwave', amongst numerous other projects. He is a Swan 45 World champion and Farr 40 European champion and has previously worked in the sail making sector.
Nick will be working alongside loft manager Jeremy White, who took over the loft in 2012 to regenerate and drive Elvstrom's market development strategy
www.elvstromsails.com
The 13th International Sailing Summit (ISS) will be held in Amsterdam this year on Monday, November 17 - the day before the start of METS.
Hosted by British Sailing, one of the British Marine Federation's (BMF) group associations, this year's summit theme is 'Waking up the sailing industry - how sailing needs to modernise, diversify and develop to attract and retain participants'.
Topics will include:
- Recent innovations in the industry
- Growing sailing in Asian and other international markets
- Existing programmes successfully growing sailing amongst women and young people
- Examples of organisations and programmes that have re-invented themselves to grow through recent challenging times
- Alternative sports that have been successful in increasing participation
IBI News: plus.ibinews.com
Henri Lloyd has boosted their marine sales team, with the appointment of Daniel Tudor-Williams as the UK Marine Sales Support Assistant, Daniel will be supporting both Henri Lloyd's expanding corporate and wholesale marine accounts, and shall be based out of the Henri Lloyd Lymington office.
Daniel has a considerable wealth of knowledge from the marine branding and retail sector and has previously worked for Force 4, Grapefruit Graphics, Rule 26 and Coast Graphics.
henrilloyd.co.uk
McConaghy Boats has announced a strategic move to the large yacht market. Part of this strategy includes the establishment of a New Zealand office to add to the company's existing presence in Australia, where the company is headquartered.
With facilities in China and Australia, McConaghy produces racing yachts, composite components and dinghies, as well as sail and powerboats. The builder says it will apply its race boat expertise and technology to the superyacht sector.
This new focus will complement the company's ongoing work in the sub 30m sector.
Previous high profile superyacht projects from McConaghy Boats include the multi-award winning trimaran Adastra and Mike Slade's racing heavyweight Leopard 3.
IBI News: https://plus.ibinews.com
In a move that consolidates its long-term future, the UK's Solent Refit signed a 20-year lease on its site at Hythe in Southampton. The lease was signed with the Home & Communities Agency (HCA), the owner of the site which also includes Green Marine and a group of other yacht and marine sector service companies.
Solent's facilities comprise a 1,500-tonne slipway with linked transfer system and some 10,000sq m of covered space. -- David Robinson
www.superyachtbusiness.net
VALENTIN MANKIN
The only sailor to win three Olympic Gold medals in three different classes has died in Viareggio, Italy. All told he won four Olympic medals.
Born in 1938, Valentin Mankin was initially from Kiev, before emigrating to Italy in 1988 where he worked as a yachting coach.
His first Olympic success under the flag of the USSR came at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico where he sailed in the Finn class, winning the Gold medal, winning three of the seven races sailed, and finishing in the top three in the other races that he counted for his final score. Mankin finished over 40 points ahead of the Silver medalist, Hubert Raudaschl (AUT) in the seven race series contested by 35 competitors sailing supplied boats.
His great win was a little over-shadowed by the win of Rodney Pattisson and Iain Macdonald-Smith (GBR) who dominated the Flying Dutchman class with five wins and a second place, also finishing 40 points clear of the second placed boat.
In the next Olympics, he teamed up with Vitaly Dyrdyra to win a second Gold medal in the Tempest class in 1972 Olympics sailed in Kiel, Germany. In Montreal in 1976 he had a new crew Vladyslav Akimenko, after his regular crew was injured just weeks before the start of the regatta. They finished second to win the Silver medal.
In the 1980 Olympics in Tallin, in his native Russia, Mankin (then 41 yrs old) won his third Olympic Gold medal In the Star class, sailing with a new crew Aleksandr Muzychenko. The series was only decided in the last race. Ironically he again beat Hubert Raudaschl (AUT) who finished second - the two great sailors had both won Gold and Silver in the Finn class in 1968. -- Richard Gladwell in Sail-world.com
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Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 Now Available
Published: July 9th, 2015
- SD Times Newswire
REDWOOD SHORES, CA–To enable organizations and developers to more easily and flexibly create and deploy on premises and cloud applications, Oracle has announced that Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0, the latest release of the world’s most popular free and open source, cross-platform virtualization software, is generally available today.
A key tool for developers and users creating cloud and local applications without the overhead of using a full server environment, Oracle VM VirtualBox runs on standard x86 desktop and laptop computers. It allows users to set up multi-platform virtual machine environments for software development, testing, and general purpose operating system (OS) virtualization, with optional runtime encryption. Software engineers can develop for cloud technologies such as Docker and OpenStack from within Oracle VM VirtualBox VMs directly on their Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Oracle Solaris machines, making it easier to create multi-tier applications with just a standard laptop. Oracle VM VirtualBox also enables users to create and update virtual machines locally, including the OS and applications, and then package them into an industry standard file format for easy distribution and cloud deployment in conjunction with Oracle VM Server, or other server virtualization solutions. Oracle VM VirtualBox allows users to run nearly any standard x86 OS to run applications that are not available natively on their systems.
“Creating, testing and deploying today’s applications, be they cloud, on premises, or software for desktop computers, can present significant challenges for developers and organizations, as it requires them to run a complex mixture of environments, operating systems and interfaces,” said Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle. “Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0 addresses these challenges by enabling the use of a wide range of virtual machine environments easily on standard desktop and laptop computers, and simple deployment to a server virtualization solution, which makes developing and delivering applications an easier and faster experience.”
The 5.0 release supports the latest guest or host operating systems including: Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, other Linux operating systems, and legacy operating systems. New capabilities in Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.0:
Paravirtualization Support for Windows and Linux Guests: Significantly improves guest OS performance by leveraging built-in virtualization support on operating systems such as Oracle Linux 7 and Microsoft Windows 7 and newer.
Improved CPU Utilization: Exposes a broader set of CPU instructions to the guest OS, enabling applications to make use of the latest hardware instruction sets for maximum performance.
Support of USB 3.0 Devices: Guest operating systems can directly recognize USB 3.0 devices and operate at full 3.0 speeds. The guest OS can be configured to support USB 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0.
Bi-Directional Drag and Drop Support for Windows: On all host platforms, Windows, Linux and Oracle Solaris guests now support “drag and drop” of content between the host and the guest. The drag and drop feature transparently allows copying or opening of files, directories, and more.
Disk Image Encryption: Data can be encrypted on virtual hard disk images transparently during runtime, using the industry standard AES algorithm with up to 256 bit data encryption keys (DEK). This helps ensure data is secure and encrypted at all times, whether the VM is sitting unused on a developer’s machine or server, or actively in use.
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Eighteenth century mirror writing in Ottoman calligraphy. The phrase means 'Ali is the vicegregent of God' in both directions.
Islamic calligraphy, also known as Arabic calligraphy, is the art of artistic handwriting, and by extension, of bookmaking.[1] It is both an art, and a practical way of writing.
Arabic calligraphy may be found on tiles and other ornaments. The text usually comes from the Koran (Qur'an).
Styles[change | change source]
The different styles of Arabic writing mostly derive from early versions of the Koran. There are geometric styles such as Kufic, and cursive (flowing) styles like Naskh, Thuluth, and Muhaqqaq.
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Kufic script in a Qur'an from the 9th-10th centuries
Naskh script in an Egyptian Qur'an from the 14th-15th centuries
Page of a 12th century Qur'an written in the Andalusi script
Example showing Nastaʿlīq's (Persian) proportion rules.[ 1 ]
Inscriptions in calligraphy, form regular bands throughout the Qutb Minar, India, built 1192 CE
Bismillah in calligraphy
The instruments and work of a student calligrapher.
↑ Bloom (1999), pg. 218
Wolfgang Kosack: Islamische Schriftkunst des Kufischen. Geometrisches Kufi in 593 Schriftbeispielen. Deutsch – Kufi – Arabisch. Christoph Brunner, Basel 2014, ISBN 978-3-906206-10-3.
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Kipling, Song of Songs
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) imbued his works with the poetry of genuine heartfelt emotion, and he was an honest and probing observer of life and human nature. The plainspoken vigour of Kipling’s writing is made manifest on the cover of this Paperblanks journal, which features his illustrated letter entitled “The Song of Songs which is Solomon’s.”
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Bad news about air delays ending: Airports don’t have money for improvement
Alan Levin, Bloomberg
- May 02, 2013 4:24 am
Stop-gap solutions are not just temporary, getting to these solutions means money has to come from somewhere else, and that hurts those other desperately-needed projects as well.
— Rafat Ali
The law that ended furloughs of U.S. air-traffic controllers covers most of the cost largely by taking about $250 million from airport construction-project funding this fiscal year, according to trade groups.
The cash will come from an account intended to finance work such as safety improvements and pavement repairs, said Todd Hauptli, head of the American Association of Airport Executives’ Airport Legislative Alliance, based in Alexandria, Virginia.
“The impacts will definitely be felt by airports,” he said in an interview. “This is not an insignificant cut.”
The cut means fewer construction jobs at airports this year and sets a precedent that Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program money can be redirected to deal with agency cash shortages, according to Hauptli and Debbie McElroy, executive vice president for policy and external affairs at Airports Council International-North America. Congress passed the legislation April 26.
“This must be the first and only time AIP funding is used for FAA operations,” the Washington-based Airports Council said in an April 30 letter to agency Administrator Michael Huerta. “We will adamantly oppose this practice in the future.”
Bill Signing
President Barack Obama signed the measure yesterday, letting the FAA transfer $253 million within its budget to end the unpaid time off that led to thousands of flight delays. Huerta had said the furloughs were necessary to cut $637 million in spending under the across-the-board federal budget reductions known as sequestration. About 15,000 controllers were affected.
The legislation says the agency can use airport improvement money or funds from “any other program or account” as needed.
All employee furloughs were suspended April 27, according to a statement from the FAA. The agency hasn’t said where it will get the money needed for the action. It also hasn’t said whether 149 airport towers operated by private contractors will be closed June 15, as scheduled.
While specifics haven’t been released, agency officials have said in discussions that the bulk of the funds to prevent the unpaid time off for controllers will come from airport- improvement grant money, Hauptli said.
The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in Louisiana plans to request $1.6 million this year from the FAA to repave an area where planes park, Anthony Marino, the East Baton Rouge Parish director of aviation, said in an interview. If the money doesn’t arrive, the airport’s federal funding would be cut more than 20 percent, Marino said.
Funding Reliance
The facility, with an annual budget of $13 million, has become accustomed to getting FAA funds each year, Marino said.
“Somebody at the end of the list is going to lose some projects,” he said. “I just hope it isn’t going to be us.”
The program is funded by taxes and fees on airline tickets and aviation fuel that are exempt from sequestration cuts.
The $253 million that could be taken away from airport improvements is 7.5 percent of the $3.35 billion allotted by the program for projects this year. The effect of the cuts may be much larger on some airports than others, according to Hauptli and McElroy.
Most grants are awarded by formulas to eligible facilities and those will be distributed as planned, Hauptli said. The $253 million will come from a $400 million to $450 million account used for discretionary project funding, he said.
U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the Maine Republican who is the ranking member of the chamber’s appropriations transportation subcommittee, said on the Senate floor April 25 that the AIP program had sufficient funds to support the transfer.
“This is a common-sense solution,” said Collins, a co- sponsor of the measure. “It doesn’t involve additional money. It is a one-time shift of unused moneys. It does not make a permanent change in the Airport Improvement Program.”
Senator Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, is preparing a letter with other lawmakers asking Huerta and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to keep the towers open, Garrette Silverman, a spokeswoman for Moran, said by e-mail.
–Editors: Ted Bunker, Don Frederick.
To contact the reporter on this story: Alan Levin in Washington at alevin24@bloomberg.net.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Bernard Kohn at bkohn2@bloomberg.net.
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National Shotgun C’ship: Simran Preet Kaur Johal takes lead in women’s skeet
Punjab’s Simran Preet Kaur Johal tallies 72 out of 75 at the 62nd National Shotgun championship in Jaipur.
Jaipur 02 December, 2018 22:25 IST
Simran Preet Kaur Johal shot rounds of 25, 24 and 23. Representative Image: Getty Images - GETTY IMAGES
Simran Preet Kaur Johal of Punjab led with 72 out of 75 following rounds of 25, 24, 23 in women’s skeet at the 62nd National Shotgun championship held at the JDA Range on Sunday.
Maheshwari Chauhan followed with 69, while Asees Chhina, reigning National champion Rashmmi Rathore, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Shambhavi Kumari followed on 65. Another former national champion, Saniya Sheikh, was on 63, following a below par second-round of 18. Pooja Vishwakarma Ganemat Sekhon, Zahira Mufaddal were placed above Saniya on 64.
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Arti Singh — who has been the National champion many times — was not at her best and had rounds of 18, 19 and 21, for a total of 58. Two more rounds will be followed by the final for the top six on Monday.
In the junior section, Simran Preet Kaur Johal was in the lead on 72, seven points ahead of Asees Chhina, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Shambhavi Kumari.
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III. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo - Poco piu presto
Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102
I. Allegro
II. Andante
III. Vivace non troppo
Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
I. Allegro con brio
II. Scherzo - Allegro molto - Trio - Meno Allegro
III. Adagio
IV. Finale - Allegro
Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87
II. Andante con moto
III. Scherzo - Presto - Poco meno presto
IV. Finale - Allegro giocoso
Trio for Violin, Violoncello and Piano No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 101
I. Allegro energico
II. Presto non assai
III. Andante grazioso
IV. Allegro molto
Quartet for Violin, Viola, Violoncello and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
II. Poco adagio
III. Scherzo - Poco Allegro - Trio
II. Intermezzo - Allegro ma non troppo - Trio - Animato
III. Andante con moto
IV. Rondo alla Zingarese - Presto
Quartet for Violin, Viola, Violoncello and Piano No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60
II. Scherzo - Allegro
IV. Finale - Allegro comodo
Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op. 78
I. Vivace ma non troppo
III. Allegro molto moderato
Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op. 100
I. Allegro amabile
II. Andante tranquillo - Vivace di più
III. Allegretto grazioso (quasi Andante)
Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in D Minor, Op. 108
III. Un poco presto e con sentimento
IV. Presto agitato
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Where Are You, Christopher Sly? Early Modern Analogies for a Post-Modern Audience
From the Induction to Kate’s final speech, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is a play rife with controversy for our post-modern times. These controversies range from the comic nature of the spousal abuse, which Petruchio inflicts on Kate, to his abuse of servants, to whether Kate’s final speech is feminist or anti-feminist. This study discusses one structural and performance controversy of the play: What happens to the Induction characters after they “disappear” from the play and is there a need to bring them back on stage through a pirated epilogue?
Building on current literary and performance criticism, I argue that The Taming of the Shrew is structurally complete. I go on to offer a performance solution that demonstrates thematic parallels that were obvious to early modern audiences but escape post-modern audiences. The Induction characters may well have disappeared in the original early modern performances but cutting them today does a disservice to the historical message of the play about the parallels between wife and servant taming in the early modern family. My performance solution creates a double spectacle, emphasizing themes of taming, impersonation, and subjugation while still bringing out the humor of the play and creating a way for our audiences to glimpse what early modern audiences saw in Shakespeare’s original production.
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About Computer Science at Queen's University Belfast
The School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS) aims to enhance the way we use technology in communication, health services, data security and many other related areas.
Pioneering research is the lifeblood of the School and is evidenced by REF 2014, in which 100 per cent of the School's research was judged to be internationally excellent or world leading. Our commitment to research has led to the establishment of ECIT (the £40m Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology) and more recently the Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), which is the UK's lead university centre for cyber security research.
With the research from these centres, and the spin out companies supported by the School, EEECS is in an excellent position to drive and influence the economy at a local, national and international level.
Research within the School is organised into research clusters, three of which are:
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"My field has historically catalysed science and engineering by enabling the simulation of complex phenomena that are impossible to replicate in laboratory experiments. The research proposed here builds software to allow HPC systems tackle global challenges, problems that profoundly affect the lives of millions."Professor Dimitrios Nikolopoulos
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Gwen Stefani’s Son Zuma Dresses as Boba Fett and Shoots the Paparazzi – Photo of the Week
Juan Sharma/Bruja, Pacific Coast News
There is a whole lot going on in today's Photo of the Week. For one, Gwen Stefani is picking up her 4-year-old son Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale (yeah, we know) from school on March 26.
For another, he apparently spent the day dressed as Boba Fett, the bounty hunter from 'Star Wars'.
Why? We don't know. But what we do know is he took some pointers from his science-fiction hero and decided to shoot the paparazzo who was photographing him and his mother.
With his finger gun of course. Psh, gun control is lax, but we're hoping it's not so lax that it allows toddlers to buy firearms. With or without adult supervision.
Although they apparently make children's clothing featuring evil/chaotic Boba Fett so we're not shocked that Zuma took some cues (including adorable pew-pew-pew noises) from a character modeled to be wicked and ambiguous like Satan in 'Paradise Lost' and Iago in Shakespeare's 'Othello.'
What we're saying here is we're not that surprised by any of this.
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Legends articles, Articles with conjectural titles, Battles of Naboo,
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Battle of Naboo (Imperial Period)
This article is about the battle in 18 BBY. You may be looking for another Battle of Naboo.
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18 BBY[1] (17 ArS)
Decisive Imperial victory
Kylantha becomes Queen of Naboo
Queen Apailana assassinated
Combatants
Galactic Empire Royal House of Naboo
Darth Vader Queen Apailana †
Scout troopers
Imperial engineers
Imperial officers
At least 1 TX-130T fighter tank
Phase Zero dark troopers prototypes
RNSF soldiers
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Moderate stormtrooper losses
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Apailana
Most rogue Jedi (at least a dozen)
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Vast majority of RNSF soldiers
"During the rise of the Empire, the Emperor's home planet of Naboo rapidly established itself as a major irritant. After a number of Naboo's ambassadors were sent home in various states of dismemberment, her newly elected Queen broke off diplomatic ties, and began exploring military options. Clearly it was time for a regime change, a change that would be effected by the 501st, now under the direct command of Darth Vader."
―Retired 501st legion stormtrooper[src]
In 18 BBY, Queen Apailana of the planet Naboo broke off diplomatic ties with the Galactic Empire, leading the Empire to dispatch the 501st Legion to suppress the growing opposition on the world and retake Naboo.
"I hate the Empire, even the Emperor who runs it."
―Anonymous Royal Naboo Security officer[src]
Because of Queen Apailana's polite and subtle refusal to accept the New Order, the Empire harbored suspicions about her true allegiance.
This state of unease kept up for one year, until Darth Vader found out that the Naboo were hiding Jedi refugees trying to escape the Great Jedi Purge. Vader ordered Apailana's execution on the charges of treason, but knowing her guards would expect the assassination attempt on her, he sent the 501st Legion, an elite group of stormtroopers, to deal with the Royal Naboo Security Forces.
The battle Edit
"Our orders were simple, to infiltrate the city and take out their leader, sending a clear signal to other potential troublemakers in the Empire."
―Retired 501st legion stormtroooper[src]
Naboo's capital of Theed was immediately placed under siege by the 501st when the city would not surrender its queen, however, bold Naboo security guards defended their home with loyal soldiers and AAC-1 speeder tanks. The 501st Legion landed in the royal plazas and engaged the nearby Naboo soldiers, quickly securing their landing area.
The Theed Royal Palace was well armed by a grid of powerful particle cannon turrets which were operated by a defense console grid near the palace gates; despite the opposition, Imperials succeeded in establishing a secure offensive surrounding the main gates.
In order to buy time and prevent an escape by the queen, the 501st decided to surround the queen and her palace. Focusing all forces on three strategic locations, stormtroopers worked from right to left, and set up a line of defense. Commanders then managed to triangulate the exact position of the main defense grid console, thus allowing the Imperials a clear albeit difficult chance to neutralize the defense turrets.
501st Legion stormtroopers, under support fire from a TX-130T fighter tank, worked their way onto the balcony where the auto-turret grid console was guarded. They saturated the area with grenades, killing the guards and destroying the console.
Death of the Queen Edit
An Imperial Sniper makes his target on the Queen.
Imperial troopers skirmished with Naboo forces inside Theed Palace. Shortly after the deactivation of the defensive turrets, several Jedi Masters and Padawans the queen was previously suspected and accused of harboring broke free of the castle. The Jedi, though formidable, were outnumbered, surrounded by the elite Imperials, and ultimately exterminated, but not before they killed many of the stormtroopers that attacked them head on.
Faced with no other choice, the queen and her small band of Jedi protectors attempted to flee in an act of desperation, driving themselves among the bulk of the Imperial forces; outmanned and outmaneuvered, the dwindling Jedi protectors were swiftly dispatched, and the queen was terminated.
As seen in the journal entry of the retired clone trooper, a sniper hidden on a bridge shot the queen with a high powered sniper rifle; her escorts were surrounded and executed by stormtroopers thereafter.
Aftermath Edit
"With the Queen eliminated, Naboo quickly fell in line. It was the first time the 501st was called upon to 'adjust' a planet's government, but it wouldn't be the last. Within months, the 501st gained a well-deserved reputation as 'Vader's Fist'."
Queen Apailana during the battle, as she is pursued by two Stormtroopers.
The security and palace guards were taken prisoners and were said, like many of the Empire's captured enemies, to "disappear". They were in fact transported to the secret, under-construction Death Star for safekeeping. Most would join Rebel inmates and die fighting in the later Death Star Uprising.
To cover up the incident, the Empire declared that terrorists had attacked Theed Palace and the 501st Legion had arrived to stop the chaos, the Queen being killed "just before she could be saved" amidst the intense assaults. The Royal Security Forces never got a say in the matter, however.
An Imperial Officer overseeing the stormtrooper's efforts said that it would intimidate potential uprisers into submission, and that it would "save countless lives", but it ultimately would have the opposite effect.
On Naboo, the Empire would proceed to install a puppet monarch and government (headed by Queen Kylantha) which would not be rebellious in any aspect. The Royal Naboo Security Forces was profoundly limited to a more individualized group of a select few bodyguards (allowed to be chosen by the monarch) who, it was believed, would never have enough strength to initiate another uprising.
Nonetheless, the remainder of the security forces, along with other Naboo opposed to Imperial rule and supported by Gungan Rebels, were able to rise up against the disorganized Empire during the Uprising on Naboo in 4 ABY.
The Battle of Naboo first appeared in the Pandemic Studios video game Star Wars: Battlefront II, which was released on November 1, 2005.
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We are a video agency based in Old Street, London. We’re a friendly bunch of creatives who take care of the whole film making process, from coming up with award-winning ideas to producing high end commercials, promos and brand films all under one roof.
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Ben Zand: Filmmaker and Journalist
Ben Zand is a journalist and documentary filmmaker who works with BBC2, BBC3 and Panorama and is currently the Editor of BBC Pop Up. Original, authentic and creative, Ben researches and features in all his current affairs documentaries, which take him all around the world.
In this Creative Cut Ben advises that creatives can’t just ‘want’ they have to ‘do’. His ambitious, proactive approach to work, combined with his innovative style, produce some fantastic results and is one of the reasons he won 2016 Young Talent of the Year at the RTS journalist awards.
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LUKE ABBATE DRIVER
Abbate spent the remainder of the off season with the Saints after failing his physical with the Redskins. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. After redshirting his first year in college, Abbate immediately became a starter in In a severe case of irresponsible and reckless teen-age driving, and over the objections of Luke and the other young passengers, the driver lost control of the car at nearly 90 miles-per-hour, spinning off a narrow road and landing in an embankment some seventy feet below. After earning a spot on the Chicago Bears as a free agent, he developed a close friendship with fellow Bears running back Gale Sayers. Piccolo died of embryonal cell carcinoma at 26 in Before his junior season, Abbate asked head coach Jim Grobe whether he could switch his jersey number from 40 to 5, the number his brother had worn.
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Abbate was re-signed by the Texans again on August 24, after wide receiver Harry Williams was placed on injured reserve. Jon Abbate born June 18, lukd a former American football linebacker. Player stats at NFL. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. In Print Fall View the Flipbook. Piccolo died of embryonal cell carcinoma at 26 in This page was last edited on 27 Decemberat Abbate was placed on season-ending injured reserve on September 1,with an ankle injury.
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And, in so doing, dedicated the new season to the memory of his brother. He did this at the end of the third quarter. Abbate was on the roster of the Sacramento Mountain Lions formerly known as the California Redwoods for parts of the and seasons.
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Footage from actual football games appears in the movie, as do scenes filmed during and after the WFU-Duke game. Abbate was picked up by the Redskins in the offseason but was then released due to failing his physical.
In Februaryyoung Luke Abbate accepted a ride home from a fellow student following his high-school team abbbate. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
“The 5th Quarter”: A movie, a tribute
In paying homage to Luke, Jon would signal his family sitting in the stands Section 5 by holding up his hand with all 5 fingers outstretched. Gradually, the rest of his team started to do the same.
Jon credits the University with believing in him — abbaate and athletically — over the years, including helping him find a career path to fit his background. Jon Abbate luie proud that the movie shows his alma mater as a nurturing place. As the season progressed, Abbate’s teammates, Wake Forest fans, and even fans of opposing teams began holding up five fingers as well—a tradition that attracted much media attention during the Deacons’ successful year.
From the Abbate family album: His senior season, he was the state of Georgia’s leading tackler with total, averaging more than 15 tackles a game. Fans who heard about the story, even those for opposing teams, started holding up five fingers at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
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He also had abbaet tackles for a loss and 10 sacks that season.
During the season, Abbate led the team in tackles with second in the ACC. He was all county and all state every year except for his freshman year. Abbate spent the remainder of the off season with the Saints after failing his physical with the Redskins. Along with the dramatic issues addressed in the movie — reckless teenage driving, family tragedy and organ donation — the portrayal of Wake Forest as a caring community will be poignant for graduates, says Bieber. And, although having lost their starting quarterback, starting running back, and starting defensive end to injuries at the beginning of the season, Wake Forest went on to complete their most successful season in school history, winning 11 games against 2 losses.
Additionally, the Abbate family created the “Five Foundation” to raise awareness among young people of the responsibilities and dangers of driving. Linebacker Personal information Born: Five recipients were almost immediately identified, including a young mother who was suffering with serious heart disease.
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In Lady of the Golden Sword of Winterfell I showed a connection between Ned Stark and Catelyn Tully as that having pointed echoes of the myth of Osiris and Isis. Catelyn’s link to Isis does not end with her being shown Ned’s bones and noticing he is missing his sword. And the mystery of Eddard Stark’s remains remains related to chthonic beliefs and practices with regard to Osiris. Catelyn orders the silent sisters, escorted by Hallis Mollen, to bring the bones to Winterfell. In this essay I will explore the possible fate of Ned’s bones. This fate itself can be deduced through pure analysis of the books, but I also tie it to Egyptian mythological beliefs as well as James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake to illustrate George’s possible inspirations for his choices of that fate.
A proper burial
“I am grateful for your service, sisters,” Catelyn said, “but I must lay another task upon you. Lord Eddard was a Stark, and his bones must be laid to rest beneath Winterfell.” They will make a statue of him, a stone likeness that will sit in the dark with a direwolf at his feet and a sword across his knees. “Make certain the sisters have fresh horses, and aught else they need for the journey,” she told Utherydes Wayn. “Hal Mollen will escort them back to Winterfell, it is his place as captain of guards.” She gazed down at the bones that were all that remained of her lord and love. “Now leave me, all of you. I would be alone with Ned tonight.” (aCoK, Catelyn V)
One of Isis’ roles was making sure that the dead were properly buried and protected. That is why she is so often depicted on ancient thombs. The proper way to bury a Lord Stark is to lay his bones at rest beneath Winterfell, in the crypts, with a statue, a direwolf at his feet, and a sword across his knees. It is his place. We get an echo of that particular phrase for Hallis Mollen, as escort. In this way, Catelyn takes on the Isis role of ensuring the correct burial rituals are preserved.
A proper burial is something that every culture known to man finds important. It does not matter what you believe or even that you believe in an afterlife, but the majority of people hold to some type of ritual that respects the integrity of the deceased’s body. Purposeful desacration of the remains of the deceased is one of the biggest taboos and therefore often used in wartime as the final demoralizing insult to the enemy, which is exactly what Lady Dustin intends to attempt and what the Freys certainly did to Robb Stark and Catelyn.
The silent sisters are an order of the faith of the Seven sworn to the Stranger, the aspect representing Death itself within the Faith. They are called the Stranger’s wives or death’s handmaidens. They prepare the dead’s bones for burial and accompany them to their resting place or family. In essence, they are akin to psychopomps who deliver the dead from the living world to the underworld. Every feature about them fits the chthonic lexicon:
their vow of silence: the dead do not speak, at the most whisper or echo
their vow of chastity: the dead do not reproduce
they keep their faces cowled, except for their eyes: the dead are anonymous
they are shrouded in grey garb: black, white and grey are the dominant colors. Brown, green, red and blue only chthonic in certain hues, such as the cold blue of ice and stars, the brown of earth and gnarled roots, the dark red of blood, or the green of moss and lichen.
By ordering Hallis Mollen to escort the silent sisters, Catelyn makes him a psychopomp as well. As Captain of the Guards of Winterfell and House Stark with the grey direwolf as sigil, we can regard him as serving the role of Anubis (with the head of a canine), who was the embalmer god before Osiris and later became the guide of the dead souls. While Anubis had the head of a canine, he was heavily associated and conflated with Wepwawet, a god of war whose name means opener of the ways, and had the head of a grey wolf. He was initially seen as a scout our outrider, and the one who accompanied the pharaoh. Because war leads to death, he too became a chthonic deity who opened the ways for the dead to enter Duat, the Egyptian underworld. With dead Eddard Stark without his phallic sword being shifted by George from Hades to Osiris, and Hallis Mollen the Captain of the Guard, he would indeed serve perfectly as the one to accompany Ned Stark to Winterfell.
As Lady Stoneheart, Catelyn herself becomes a figurative silent sister, wife to the Stranger. While she made no vow of silence, her ability to speak is severely hampered, because of her cut throat. Lady Stoneheart is her most often used epiteth, but people also call her The Silent Sister. She wears grey garb, a cloak and tends to disguise her face most of the time with the hood of her cloak.
“She don’t speak,” said the big man in the yellow cloak. “You bloody bastards cut her throat too deep for that. But she remembers.”(aSoS, Epilogue)
“Lady Stoneheart.”
“Some call her that. Some call her other things. The Silent Sister. Mother Merciless. The Hangwoman.”
A trestle table had been set up across the cave, in a cleft in the rock. Behind it sat a woman all in grey, cloaked and hooded…[snip]… Her eyes glimmered under her hood. Grey was the color of the silent sisters, the handmaidens of the Stranger. (aFfC, Brienne VIII)
So, as the grey-garbed Silent Sister, Catelyn fully becomes a figurative sister-wife to Ned Stark, such as Isis was to Osiris.
The Two Ways through the Land of Rostau
The Book of the Dead is one of the more famous titles of a selection of Egyptian texts and spells regarding the journey into the underworld with an elaborate focus on the judgment of the dead souls – the Egyptians believed the deceased’s heart would be weighed against a feather Ma’at (truth). These incantations and spells to be recited by the deceased were written on papyrus and copied over a milennia. The first mentioning of a weighing ritual can be found in the much older Book of Two Ways. This is not an actual book, but a collection of spells deciphered and gathered from coffin wirting in the 19th and 20th century, for which much of the analysis was compiled in 1961. There is no papyrus version of this book, only what was carved into the coffins (and rarely on tomb walls). The spells in the coffins were meant to help the deceased in reaching their chosen destination in the afterlife. The lid of a coffin contained images and spells regarding the sky (the sky-way to join Ra). The spells written on the bottom of the coffin were of use to voyage into the subterranean, the way of the resurrected Osiris, where the soul’s goal was to be seated next to Osiris in Duat and be resurrected like him. Before the period of the Coffin Texts, there were the much older Pyramidic Texts, engraved in the walls of the pyramid. They were spells asking and ordering gods to open the way for the pharaoh to join them in the heavens, with ladders, wings and sky-barges as methods of ascension. So, the afterlife concept in ancient Egypt evolved, first from an exclusive celestial afterlife with the gods that only a king could hope to achieve, to that of a concept where commoners also could achieve an afterlife, in the underworld and join the company of Osiris.
Book of the Dead: the weighing of the heart and Osiris’s subterranean throne as the final destination.
In the Greek Hades, the destination of a dead soul is predestinated by their actions and choices in life. The judges, such as Minos, decided whether a shade goes to Elysian Fields, just Hades or Tartarus. But the Duat concept of the Egyptians is different. The soul decides for itself where he (or she) wants to go. However, the dead must overcome obstacles, challenges, guards, tests and demons along the way to reach it1. If the dead soul failed, he or she died a second death and it was game over.
Since Osiris did succeed in such a voyage himself and Ra traversed that very realm every night, the deceased would identify himself as Osiris or Ra when dealing with these guards, gods and demons in order to succeed when they used the spells. We could regard the dead rulers of Winterfell seated on their throne in the crypts as a series of Osirises, one seated next to the other. Since the crypts of Winterfell is his place, Ned’s dead spirit would choose the way of Osiris, like his forefathers, and take his rightful place next to them for an eternal second life. If given the choice, Eddard Stark would not choose the celestial way.
The lands and realm the soul must travel through in order to reach Osiris in Duat is called the Land of Rostau, meaning the Land of Necropolis (the city of the dead). The path leads through a realm of rivers and roads.
“The paths by water and by land which belong to Rostau” (CT1074)
The lands that the silent sisters and Hallis Mollen had to traverse in order to get to Winterfell were the Riverlands. Not only are the Riverlands a land of nine rivers, but also the region where several main roads intersect into the crossroads: the riverroad, the kingsroad and the high road. Hence, the Riverlands is the land of water- and landways.The lands around the Gods Eye burn and the fighting reaches as far as the Twins. Here are several poignant passages from aCoK, aSoS and aFfC.
It was midday when they arrived at the place where the village had been. The fields were a charred desolation for miles around, the houses blackened shells. The carcasses of burnt and butchered animals dotted the ground, under living blankets of carrion crows that rose, cawing furiously, when disturbed. Smoke still drifted from inside the holdfast. Its timber palisade looked strong from afar, but had not proved strong enough.
Riding out in front of the wagons on her horse, Arya saw burnt bodies impaled on sharpened stakes atop the walls, their hands drawn up tight in front of their faces as if to fight off the flames that had consumed them. (aCoK, Arya III)
Two days’ ride to either side of the kingsroad, they passed through a wide swath of destruction, miles of blackened fields and orchards where the trunks of dead trees jutted into the air like archers’ stakes. The bridges were burnt as well, and the streams swollen by autumn rains, so they had to range along the banks in search of fords. The nights were alive with howling of wolves, but they saw no people. (aSoS, Jaime III)
After that, hardly a hundred yards went by without a corpse. They dangled under ash and alder, beech and birch, larch and elm, hoary old willows and stately chestnut trees. Each man wore a noose around his neck, and swung from a length of hempen rope, and each man’s mouth was packed with salt. Some wore cloaks of grey or blue or crimson, though rain and sun had faded them so badly that it was hard to tell one color from another…[snip]… Some of the dead men had been bald and some bearded, some young and some old, some short, some tall, some fat, some thin. Swollen in death, with faces gnawed and rotten, they all looked the same. (aFfC, Brienne VII)
High Sparrow: “Most have lost their homes. Suffering is everywhere . . . and grief, and death. Before coming to King’s Landing, I tended to half a hundred little villages too small to have a septon of their own. I walked from each one to the next, performing marriages, absolving sinners of their sins, naming newborn children. Those villages are no more, Your Grace. Weeds and thorns grow where gardens once flourished, and bones litter the roadsides.”
The Riverlands are effectively turned into a dangerous underworldly realm, a Necropolis littered with bones left and right – a land of Rostau where death triumphs as Pieter Breugel the Elder depicted so well.
The spells on the coffin aimed to help the soul in preventing dying a second death in the Land of Rostau and are a conceptual map of places to avoid. The Book of Two Ways compares to a cheater’s guide that helps a gamer to avoid the traps or know the combination of buttons to get across an unavoidable deadly obstacle as well as the hidden perks. The Book of Two Ways does indeed look like a visual map of a house infested with dangers and obstacles in different rooms where the player hopes to reach the final succesful destination.
Below is a photograph of the Book of Two Ways in color as it was engraved in the coffin. The black and white renderings above give a more detailed black & white look of the imagery to help you understand what you’re looking at. We “read” the cheater’s guide from right to left, top to bottom.
The Two Ways do not solely apply to the choice between two possible final destinations, but if the dead soul chooses the way of Osiris, he can choose between two different paths:
the Abode of the Knife Wielders crossing and following rivers
the demonic Announcers crossing and following roads, into tombs, and so on.
Let’s call the two paths separated by a red band (a like of fire), box I. When either one of those is succesfully traversed, without dying a second death, the deceased gets clothing and items to give the dead his status. Moving to the left, the dead soul then enters the Land of Rostau. First, he or she enter a hall divided in three compartments by walls of flame, passing entities called the Watchers (box II). Next, the paths criss cross in confusion (box III). Scarab headed demons holding lizards and snakes lie in wait there. At the end of it, the dead soul reaches Osiris. At least, he does if he chose the short-version.
Coffin of Sepi, Book of Two Ways (copyright, Werner Forman)
There is also a long-version, which continues in the lower band, again from right to left. After the dead soul traversed the Land of Rostau, he or she meets Toth first who weighs the heart (what later becomes the Book of the Dead). If the deceased had a featherlight heart they could embark on Toth’s barge to pass along seven gates in the circle of fire, with three gatekeepers at each gateway. The guardians of the first four gateways need to be repelled, whereas the last three are protectors. After that the dead finally gets to meet with Osiris, and all ends happily and truly ever after. (Truly, the ancient Egyptians would totally think Tombraider the bomb)
George plays with this concept when even a dead Eddard Stark faces numerous difficulties in arriving at his place. Neither Hal Mollen nor Ned’s bones have reappeared in the books, or at least not recognized as such. Catelyn wonders about the final resting place of her husband’s bones as she accompanies Robb and Edmure to the Twins.
It made her wonder where Ned had come to rest. The silent sisters had taken his bones north, escorted by Hallis Mollen and a small honor guard. Had Ned ever reached Winterfell, to be interred beside his brother Brandon in the dark crypts beneath the castle? Or did the door slam shut at Moat Cailin before Hal and the sisters could pass? (aSoS, Catelyn V)
Notice how Catelyn thinks of Moat Cailin as a door that may have been shut, and is thus comparable to a gate that needs to be overcome.
Moat Cailin, north of the Neck, certainly serves as a gate to keep people outside. While much of the building is now ruinous, three gatehouse towers remain. It is thus a gate with three guardians. Here follows Catelyn’s integral description of Moat Cailin, where she explains to the Blackfish how it is an unavoidable death trap where snakes and lizard lions in the bogs and moat are its natural guardians.
Just beyond, through the mists, she glimpsed the walls and towers of Moat Cailin … or what remained of them. Immense blocks of black basalt, each as large as a crofter’s cottage, lay scattered and tumbled like a child’s wooden blocks, half-sunk in the soft boggy soil. Nothing else remained of a curtain wall that had once stood as high as Winterfell’s. The wooden keep was gone entirely, rotted away a thousand years past, with not so much as a timber to mark where it had stood. All that was left of the great stronghold of the First Men were three towers … three where there had once been twenty, if the taletellers could be believed.
The Gatehouse Tower looked sound enough, and even boasted a few feet of standing wall to either side of it. The Drunkard’s Tower, off in the bog where the south and west walls had once met, leaned like a man about to spew a bellyful of wine into the gutter. And the tall, slender Children’s Tower, where legend said the children of the forest had once called upon their nameless gods to send the hammer of the waters, had lost half its crown. It looked as if some great beast had taken a bite out of the crenellations along the tower top, and spit the rubble across the bog. All three towers were green with moss. A tree was growing out between the stones on the north side of the Gatehouse Tower, its gnarled limbs festooned with ropy white blankets of ghostskin.
“Gods have mercy,” Ser Brynden exclaimed when he saw what lay before them. “This is Moat Cailin? It’s no more than a—”
“—death trap,” Catelyn finished. “I know how it looks, Uncle. I thought the same the first time I saw it, but Ned assured me that this ruin is more formidable than it seems. The three surviving towers command the causeway from all sides, and any enemy must pass between them. The bogs here are impenetrable, full of quicksands and suckholes and teeming with snakes. To assault any of the towers, an army would need to wade through waist-deep black muck, cross a moat full of lizard-lions, and scale walls slimy with moss, all the while exposing themselves to fire from archers in the other towers.” She gave her uncle a grim smile. “And when night falls, there are said to be ghosts, cold vengeful spirits of the north who hunger for southron blood.” (aGoT, Catelyn VIII)
Now tell me that Moat Cailin does not sound like an Egyptian’s wet dream of what one of the gates of the Land of Rostau would be like.
Lady Barbrey’s words to Theon in the crypts seem to confirm that them bones as of yet have not reached their destination. Though she wishes to prevent Ned’s bones from reaching the Winterfell crypts, she does not have them herself either. Instead, she is waiting for Hallis Mollen to emerge from the Neck.
Lady Barbrey Dustin: “….but I promise you, Lord Eddard’s bones will never rest beside [Lyanna’s]. I mean to feed them to my dogs.”…[snip]… “Catelyn Tully dispatched Lord Eddard’s bones north before the Red Wedding, but your iron uncle seized Moat Cailin and closed the way. I have been watching ever since. Should those bones ever emerge from the swamps, they will get no farther than Barrowton.” (aDwD, The Turncloak)
Lady Dustin takes the role of a demonic guardian or one of the Watchers of the Land Of Rostau, lying in wait to feed Eddard’s bones to the dogs. She even uses the phrases of “the way” and “watching”. Barrowton is a land of barrows, or burial mounds and thus tombs. A town of barrows is a necropolis.
A wide plain spread out beneath them, bare and brown, its flatness here and there relieved by long, low hummocks. Ned pointed them out to his king. “The barrows of the First Men.”
Robert frowned. “Have we ridden onto a graveyard?” (aGoT, Eddard II)
Barbrey Dustin mentions how the goal of Ned’s bones is to rest beside those of his sister. In the depictions of dead Osiris on his throne, in general his sister Nepthys and his sister-wife Isis are depicted beside him too. In that sense, Lyanna can be seen as taking Nephtys’ place. Nephtys and Isis personify two sides of the same coin, where Nepthys belongs to the night and Isis to the day. By Roman times, Nepthys was regarded as the wife of Set (the benevolent aspects of Set) and the mother of Anubis, who was raised and adopted by Osiris and Isis, not unlike Eddard Stark raising Jon as his own bastard son, while he is widely believed to be Lyanna’s son by most readers.
If Lady Barbrey succeeds in her plan perhaps Eddard Stark dies a second time, for the bone marrow seems to preserve some memory.
Summer dug up a severed arm, black and covered with hoarfrost, its fingers opening and closing as it pulled itself across the frozen snow. There was still enough meat on it to fill his empty belly, and after that was done he cracked the arm bones for the marrow. Only then did the arm remember it was dead.(aDwD, Bran III)
Guardians of the Crossing
Another Egyptian book of coffin spells (mostly found on Seti I’s coffin), the Book of Gates, are an expansion on the spells for the twelve gates of the night, one for each hour. This tells the tale of Ra who has to travel through the underworld each night, starting west in order to come out east and shine for another day. For example the serpent Saa-set is the guardian of the first hour gate.
He who is over (i.e. has mastery over) this door opens to Ra. Sa [divine intelligence] says to Saa-set, “Open your door to Ra, throw wide open your door to Khuti. The hidden abode is in darkness, so that the transformations of this god may take place.” This portal is closed after this god entered in through it, and there is lamentation on the part of those in their mountain [a barrow] when they hear this door shut.” (adapted from the translation by E. A. Wallis Budge, Book of Gates, Chapter III, Gate of Saa-set)
Similar words are used over and over to open each gateway for the sun Ra traversing the night sky, and this was the phrase Catelyn thought of in relation to Moat Cialin.
Book of the Gates, 3rd hour
The first passage is not really a gate as it is a mountain pass or valley in the West, with a river cutting the mountain in half, guarded by buried gods of the mountain. The second gate is but a leaf serving as a door with the Ahau as guardians. These guardians spring or stand up from the earth to fetter souls they capture. The Battle of the Whispering Woods feature several references to this first and second gate.
We see the Whispering Woods for the first time as Catelyn waits at night on top of a ridge of a valley, while her son hid his army beneath ground leaf, bushes and trees. As Robb’s men wait for Jaime to enter the narrow valley, they whisper. Hence, the valley and its woods are referred to as the Whispering Woods ever after. Once Jaime and his warriors arrive, the Northerners and Freys seal off the passage of the valley behind Jaime and the fighting breaks out.
The woods were full of whispers. Moonlight winked on the tumbling waters of the stream below as it wound its rocky way along the floor of the valley. Beneath the trees, warhorses whickered softly and pawed at the moist, leafy ground, while men made nervous jests in hushed voices…[snip]…To east and west, the trumpets of the Mallisters and Freys blew vengeance. North, where the valley narrowed and bent like a cocked elbow, Lord Karstark’s warhorns added their own deep, mournful voices to the dark chorus. Men were shouting and horses rearing in the stream below.
The whispering wood let out its breath all at once, as the bowmen Robb had hidden in the branches of the trees let fly their arrows and the night erupted with the screams of men and horses. All around her, the riders raised their lances, and the dirt and leaves that had buried the cruel bright points fell away to reveal the gleam of sharpened steel. (aGoT, Catelyn X)
We have a moonlit night scene with whispering, hushes, woods, mourning, dirt and ground, men buried beneath foliage, or hidden. By itself the above scene already has many chthonic lexicon references, and is in general underworldly. But notice some of the specific details. It is a passage in a valley, that is orientated from west to east, with a stream passing through a rocky (mountainous?) bedding. Towards the north, the valley itself bends like a cocked elbow, not unlike the mummy guardians at the gates in Rostau. And when Ra speaks unto mummified guardians he speaks of their hidden arms, meaning the swaddled bent limbs. George cleverly uses it to hide the weapons (double meaning of arms). Here is an example of such speech:
O UTAU of the earth, whose duty it is to stand near his habitation, whose heads are uncovered, and whose arms are hidden, may there be air to your nostrils, O UTAU, and may your funeral swathings burst open, … (The Book of Gates, chapter IV, Gate of Asuebi, adapted from the translation of Wallis Budge in 1905)
Leaves litter the soil and are used hide the guardian army of Robb, like a door, who rise or spring up from their graves. Or we could see the leaves as the swathings of Robb’s men that burst open after which they jump up like the Ahau.
The third gate crosses water, a type of corridor between two walls with swords, spikes or arrows on the top. It is referred to as the Double Bull. Two uaraei (cobras standing on their tails) spew divine fire that strengthesn Ra into the corridor. The corridor itself or the crossing of it is personified by a great, monstrous snake beared by a procession of men. Snakes are featured constantly at these gates, some are benefactors, some are enemies, such as Apep (Chaos), who coils itself around Ra’s barge and attempts to eat it. But the Ra incarnation Atum (or Tem) chops its head off.
Catelyn to Robb: “You may have lopped the head off the snake, but three quarters of the body is still coiled around my father’s castle.” (aGoT, Catelyn X)
And in the middle section of the gateway is a lake or pool of water. Architecturally the Twins resemble the concept of the repeated gates with its corridor. It even has swords on the walls and a water tower in the middle. And when Robb’s army crosses from east to west, the procession is referenced to look like a snake.
They shifted Lord Walder from his litter and carried him to the high seat of the Freys, a tall chair of black oak whose back was carved in the shape of two towers linked by a bridge… [snip]…”I called my swords, yes I did, here they are, you saw them on the walls…”
They crossed at evenfall as a horned moon floated upon the river. The double column wound its way through the gate of the eastern twin like a great steel snake, slithering across the courtyard, into the keep and over the bridge, to issue forth once more from the second castle on the west bank. Catelyn rode at the head of the serpent, with her son and her uncle Ser Brynden and Ser Stevron Frey. Behind followed nine tenths of their horse; knights, lancers, freeriders, and mounted bowmen. It took hours for them all to cross. (aGoT, Catelyn XI)
The gates that follow after the second are similar, each time with several enshrined or entombed guardians that are mummified and thus have their arms crossed or bound. These guardians must be appeased, goaded, commanded or praised in order to allow a crossing. The Lord of the Crossing, Walder Frey, has that same posture when Catelyn haggles for her son’s army to cross.
“Well, you can’t!” Lord Walder announced crisply. “Not unless I allow it, and why should I? The Tullys and the Starks have never been friends of mine.” He pushed himself back in his chair and crossed his arms, smirking, waiting for her answer. The rest was only haggling. (aGoT, Catelyn XI)
Not only is Walder Frey referenced as a guardian of the type of gate that Ra crosses every hour between dusk and dawn, he is also identified by George as one of the Watchers of the Land of Rostau, just like Lady Barbrey is one.
Afterward, Catelyn would remember the clatter of countless hooves on the drawbridge, the sight of Lord Walder Frey in his litter watching them pass, the glitter of eyes peering down through the slats of the murder holes in the ceiling as they rode through the Water Tower. (aGoT, Catelyn XI)
At the sixth hour, Ra arrives at the hall of judgment where a soul’s heart is weighed against a feather and Osiris is seated just beyond. Ra gets to sit beside Osiris and basically becomes Osiris. After that the voyage continues where more and more people are depicted as having been taken captive, tied by a noose to banners, representing Ra who defeats the night and begins his journey towards rebirth as the day-sun. Many of the figures at the Twelve Gates are mostly different representations of Ra in his various states through the night – lions, lizards, mongoose, bull, ape – revealing in part the creation story of the world and humanity out of chaos.
Tem or Atum as old man with his staff
Notable characters as guardians are an old man Tem (or Atum) with bent back, leaning on a cane in the company of knife wielding guardians who slew the sun’s enemies and are lords of the boiling waters. Walder Frey has much in common with Tem. Re-Atum in his old man form represents the evening sun or night sun, the rays of the setting sun who begins his journey into the night lands. Tem means the completed one and he is a creation god. First, he created himself out of chaos and water. Out of loneliness he masturbated to beget his children. When they went exploring by themselves into the darkness, he was heartbroken. In order to find them again, he created the sun (the eye of Ra). When his children returned to him, he cried tears of joy, from which humanity was born. Despite being a creation god, he was also feared for apocalyptic reasons. Because when old, he had grown so weary of life that he desired to bring creation back to its primal chaotic state, and thus undo his own creation.
Walder Frey is very much introduced to us as a creation figure, said to be able to create his own army with his seed.
Her father had once said of Walder Frey that he was the only lord in the Seven Kingdoms who could field an army out of his breeches. When the Lord of the Crossing welcomed Catelyn in the great hall of the east castle, surrounded by twenty living sons (minus Ser Perwyn, who would have made twenty-one), thirty-six grandsons, nineteen great-grandsons, and numerous daughters, granddaughters, bastards, and grandbastards, she understood just what he had meant. (aGoT, Catelyn IX)
Walder Frey is ninety, gouty, unable to stand on his own.
Lord Walder was ninety, a wizened pink weasel with a bald spotted head, too gouty to stand unassisted…[snip]… “Now my bastards presume to teach me courtesy,” Lord Walder complained. “I’ll speak any way I like, damn you. I’ve had three kings to guest in my life, and queens as well, do you think I require lessons from the likes of you, Ryger? Your mother was milking goats the first time I gave her my seed.” (aGoT, Catelyn IX)
Gout and brittle bones had taken their toll of old Walder Frey. They found him propped up in his high seat with a cushion beneath him and an ermine robe across his lap…There was something of the vulture about Lord Walder, and rather more of the weasel. His bald head, spotted with age, thrust out from his scrawny shoulders on a long pink neck. Loose skin dangled beneath his receding chin, his eyes were runny and clouded, and his toothless mouth moved constantly, sucking at the empty air as a babe sucks at his mother’s breast.(aSoS, Catelyn VI)
At the mentioning of a paper dry kiss, the thought of papyrus is not far away. Later we are reminded of his crispiness too.
When he was settled, the old man beckoned Catelyn forward and planted a papery dry kiss on her hand. (aGoT, Catelyn IX)
One of Walder’s favorite words is boil and boiling, especially in relation to his children and grandchildren. While Walder Frey has always been proud, with age he has become so petty that it has turned on his own brood even. It seems that he actually looks forward to the chaos his death will cause, which is not unlike the old Tem.
[Catelyn to Walder Frey] “I have every hope that you will live to be a hundred.”
“That would boil them, to be sure. Oh, to be sure. Now, what do you want to say?”
He bobbed his head side to side, smiling. “Oh, yes, I said some words, but I swore oaths to the crown too, it seems to me. Joffrey’s the king now, and that makes you and your boy and all those fools out there no better than rebels. If I had the sense the gods gave a fish, I’d help the Lannisters boil you all.”
Lord Walder jabbed a bony finger at her face. “Save your sweet words, my lady. Sweet words I get from my wife. Did you see her? Sixteen she is, a little flower, and her honey‘s only for me. I wager she gives me a son by this time next year. Perhaps I’ll make him heir, wouldn’t that boil the rest of them?”(aGoT, Catelyn IX)
They heard the Green Fork before they saw it, an endless susurrus, like the growl of some great beast. The river was a boiling torrent, half again as wide as it had been last year, when Robb had divided his army here and vowed to take a Frey to bride as the price of his crossing.(aSoS, Catelyn VI)
Here is a quote of one of the translated text of the Book of Gates with regards the third gate where we first meet Tem and its green boiling waters.
“[Here is] the lake of water in Duat, surrounded by the gods who are arrayed in [their] apparel and have [their] heads uncovered. This lake is filled with green herbs. The water of this lake is boiling hot, and the birds betake themselves to flight when they see its waters and smell its fœtid smell. (The Book of Gates, chapter IV, Gate of Asuebi, adapted from the translation of Wallis Budge in 1905)
At the fouth Egyptian gate of the night, we are introduced to the dozen maidens of the night (one for each hour) where six stand on land and the other half on water. And Walder Frey introduces us to twelve maidens as well. Well, he introduces thirteen girls, but one is a widow and not a maiden.
Lord Walder named the names. “My daughter Arwyn,” he said of a girl of fourteen. “Shirei, my youngest trueborn daughter. Ami and Marianne are granddaughters. I married Ami to Ser Pate of Sevenstreams, but the Mountain killed the oaf so I got her back. That’s a Cersei, but we call her Little Bee, her mother’s a Beesbury. More granddaughters. One’s a Walda, and the others . . . well, they have names, whatever they are . . .”
“I’m Merry, Lord Grandfather,” one girl said.
“You’re noisy, that’s for certain. Next to Noisy is my daughter Tyta. Then another Walda. Alyx, Marissa . . . are you Marissa? I thought you were. She’s not always bald. The maester shaved her hair off, but he swears it will soon grow back. The twins are Serra and Sarra.”…[snip]… “There they are, all maidens. Well, and one widow, but there’s some who like a woman broken in. You might have had any one of them.” (aSoS, Catelyn VI)
Oldstones is another gateway in the books. It is an old ruin castle on top of a hill overlooking the Blue Fork. Its curtain walls have long been gone, not unlike Moat Cailin. What remains is the winding path that coils around the hill and a weathered sepulchre (tomb) of a king long gone. A tomb and a hill makes for a barrow.
Yet in the center of what once would have been the castle’s yard, a great carved sepulcher still rested, half hidden in waist-high brown grass amongst a stand of ash. The lid of the sepulcher had been carved into a likeness of the man whose bones lay beneath, but the rain and the wind had done their work. The king had worn a beard, they could see, but otherwise his face was smooth and featureless, with only vague suggestions of a mouth, a nose, eyes, and the crown about the temples. His hands folded over the shaft of a stone warhammer that lay upon his chest. Once the warhammer would have been carved with runes that told its name and history, but all that the centuries had worn away. The stone itself was cracked and crumbling at the corners, discolored here and there by spreading white splotches of lichen, while wild roses crept up over the king’s feet almost to his chest. (aSoS, Catelyn V)
Though it is probably not how you culturally imagined the likeness when you first read it, you can see that King Tristifer is depicted with all the typical features of the depiction of a pharaoh in his tomb – crown, beard, smooth faced, hands folded across the chest holding a shaft or staff (of a warhammer).
The road up to Oldstones went twice around the hill before reaching the summit. Overgrown and stony, it would have been slow going even in the best of times, and last night’s snow had left it muddy as well…Once more around the hill, and there I am…The curtain wall of Oldstones had once encircled the brow of the hill like the crown on a king’s head. Only the foundation remained, and a few waist-high piles of crumbling stone spotted with lichen. Merrett rode along the line of the wall until he came to the place where the gatehouse would have stood. (aSoS, Epilogue)
Tutanchamon’s Mask – smooth faced, beard and crown with uraeus on the brow.
George does not use snake related vocabulary here, but he is indeed describing a coiling road. Where Robb’s army was a snake crossing the Twins, here the road is like a snake. The hint to this snake is the comparison he makes with the curtain walls being like a crown. The crown encircling a pharaoh’s head had an uraeus on the brow. Every legitimized Egyptian king had this king-cobra on the brow of his crown since the Old Kingdom of the 3rd millenia BC and every Rostau gate from the third hour on had two of these snakes inside the corridor passage breathing divine fire. The pharaoh’s crown also shows us why George uses the phrase curtain walls. Curtains are made of cloth, and aside from the uraeus, so is the pharaoh’s crown made of cloth.
The lack of standing walls does not make Oldstones any less of a gateway. It are not its walls that are dangerous, but who and what resides within. Despite the walls and actual gate being gone, George mentions the invisible gatehouse and walls to make clear to the reader that this is a Rostau gateway. He even reminds us of the Whispering Wood with Merrett’s thoughts of outlaws hiding in the trees of the lower slopes of the hill, and then springing up from out of nowhere, much like those Egyptian enshrined guardians, who tend to appear in groups of nine or twelve.
Beneath the castle ruins, the lower slopes of the hill were so thickly forested that half a hundred outlaws could well have been lurking there. They could be watching me even now. Merrett glanced about, and saw nothing but gorse, bracken, thistle, sedge, and blackberry bushes between the pines and grey-green sentinels. Elsewhere skeletal elm and ash and scrub oaks choked the ground like weeds. He saw no outlaws, but that meant little. Outlaws were better at hiding than honest men.
Bloody outlaws, always hiding in the bushes. It had been the same in the kingswood. You’d think you’d caught five of them, and ten more would spring from nowhere. When he turned, they were all around him; an ill-favored gaggle of leathery old men and smooth-cheeked lads younger than Petyr Pimple, the lot of them clad in roughspun rags, boiled leather, and bits of dead men’s armor… [snip]… Merrett was too flustered to count them, but there seemed to be a dozen at the least, maybe a score. (aSoS, Epilogue)
And of course, the right time for all of this is during or after the sun is setting in the west and starts it journey in the Lands of Rostau. Both when Catelyn and Robb talk at Oldstones and Merrett brings the ransom it is dusk already. In the Land of Rostau you die after the sun has set.
It was there that Catelyn found Robb, standing somber in the gathering dusk with only Grey Wind beside him. (aSoS, Catelyn V)
But only if he was there by sunset with the gold. Merrett glanced at the sky. Right on time… In the west, the sun had vanished behind a bank of low clouds…[snip]…Leaves crunched beneath their heels, and every step sent a spike of pain through Merrett’s temple. They walked in silence, the wind gusting around them. The last light of the setting sun was in his eyes as he clambered over the mossy hummocks that were all that remained of the keep. Behind was the godswood.
Petyr Pimple was hanging from the limb of an oak, a noose tight around his long thin neck. His eyes bulged from a black face, staring down at Merrett accusingly. You came too late, they seemed to say. But he hadn’t. He hadn’t! He had come when they told him. “You killed him,” he croaked. (aSoS, Epilogue)
We also have a reference to the concept of judgment of the captured soul – whether he speaks truth and whether he lived a righteous life or not.
Robb studied the sepulcher. “Whose grave is this?”
“Here lies Tristifer, the Fourth of His Name, King of the Rivers and the Hills.” Her father had told her his story once. “He ruled from the Trident to the Neck, thousands of years before Jenny and her prince, in the days when the kingdoms of the First Men were falling one after the other before the onslaught of the Andals. The Hammer of Justice, they called him. He fought a hundred battles and won nine-and-ninety, or so the singers say, and when he raised this castle it was the strongest in Westeros.” She put a hand on her son’s shoulder. “He died in his hundredth battle, when seven Andal kings joined forces against him. The fifth Tristifer was not his equal, and soon the kingdom was lost, and then the castle, and last of all the line. With Tristifer the Fifth died House Mudd, that had ruled the riverlands for a thousand years before the Andals came.” (aSoS, Catelyn V)
“Get off there,” Merrett said. “You’re sitting on a king.”
“Old Tristifer don’t mind my bony arse. The Hammer of Justice, they called him. Been a long while since he heard any new songs.” (aSoS, Epilogue)
Merrett’s comment follows the older Egyptian concept that only a king could sit with the gods. But the chance to sit with Osiris, who was once king of Egypt, is available to anybody. George portrays this idea superbly with the commoner Tom O’ Sevens of Sevenstream sitting on the king’s tomb. And that King Tristifer Mudd is connected to Osiris becomes clear with the nickname Hammer of Justice. Of course, a hammer of justice is a modern court symbol. The Feather of Justice as a nickname for a king would not sound as formidable to our modern ears, especially since we associate feathers with quills to write, rather than a weapon of war. It is at Oldstones where Lady Stoneheart and her personal band of the Brotherhood without Banners hang Petyr and Merrett Frey for their participation in the Red Wedding.
Something that all the gateways had in common so far is that they are tied to maidens. For example the name Cailin in Moat Cailin is an Irish Gaelic word that means girl or maiden. So, Moat Cailin actually means Maiden’s Moat. And at the Whispering Woods the fighting is overseen by Catelyn at the top ridge of the hill overlooking the valley. Catelyn Tully may not be a maiden anymore, but Cateline is the French version of the Irish Cailin. In other words, Catelyn’s name itself means maiden. At the Twins, the Lord of the Crossing introduced us to twelve maidens and Walder Frey organized the Red Wedding to avenge these maidens who were spurned by Robb when he married Jeyne Westerling. Lady Stoneheart is not to be fully identified with Catelyn anymore, and hence at Oldstones the maiden is Jenny of Oldstones, with the flowers in her hair like Persephone.
“There’s a song,” [Robb] remembered. “‘Jenny of Oldstones, with the flowers in her hair.'” (aSoS, Catelyn V)
From somewhere deep within the castle, faint music came drifting through the trees…[snip]…[Merrett] took another swallow, corked the skin up, and led his palfrey through broken stones, gorse, and thin wind-whipped trees, following the sounds to what had been the castle ward. Fallen leaves lay thick upon the ground, like soldiers after some great slaughter. A man in patched, faded greens was sitting crosslegged atop a weathered stone sepulcher, fingering the strings of a woodharp. The music was soft and sad. Merrett knew the song. High in the halls of the kings who are gone, Jenny would dance with her ghosts . . . (aSoS, Epilogue)
The sole line we know about this song, so far, is the line that Merrett thinks to himself -“High in the halls of the kings who are gone, Jenny would dance with her ghosts.” That line portrays Jenny as still being eerily present at Oldstones somehow, dancing with the ghosts.
This concludes the introduction into the concept of the ancient Egyptian Two Ways and Gates, and how there are stylistic links between the Riverlands and Barrowlands as a Land of Rostau, Moat Cailin and the Whispering Woods as a death trap gateway, Lady Barbrey as one of the Watchers lying in wait to prevent Ned’s Bones to reach his destination, the Twins resembling the typical night gateway for Ra’s nightly voyage, Walder Frey featuring as the aged Tem or Atum and Oldstones as a gateway that is also a hall of justice. It is time to apply the Two Ways concept to Hallis Mollen and the silent sisters traveling with Ned’s bones. Which route would they have taken initially? Which problems might they have encountered? And did they attempt to reach the North via an alternative route – a second way?
The Ways of Hallis Mollen
We do not have explicit confirmation which route Hal Mollen took, but Catelyn’s thoughts in the Whispering Wood on her way North to the Twins with Robb’s army suggest that Hal and the silent sisters went directly north of Riverrun. Robb’s original intended route north from Riverrun is the short way through the Riverlands – through the Whispering Woods, then cross the Blue Fork at Fairmarket, and from there straight to the Twins where they would cross the boiling Green Fork to reach kingsroad and follow it into the Neck and open the shut door of Moat Cailin with a military plan. It seems logical that their planned route would also have been Mollen’s overland short way.
Like Catelyn and Robb, Hal Mollen would have managed to enter Rostau and pass through the leafed Whispering Woods without any danger. The next gates are Ramsford, Fairmarket and Oldstones. Robb and Catelyn could not cross there, as both bridges had been washed away by the overflowing Blue Fork, foreshaodwing how the gates in Rostau area closed to Robb and he lost the power and knowledge to open them.
Five days later, their scouts rode back to warn them that the rising waters had washed out the wooden bridge at Fairmarket. Galbart Glover and two of his bolder men had tried swimming their mounts across the turbulent Blue Fork at Ramsford. Two of the horses had been swept under and drowned, and one of the riders; Glover himself managed to cling to a rock until they could pull him in. “The river hasn’t run this high since spring,” Edmure said. “And if this rain keeps falling, it will go higher yet.”
“There’s a bridge further upstream, near Oldstones,” remembered Catelyn, who had often crossed these lands with her father. “It’s older and smaller, but if it still stands—”
“It’s gone, my lady,” Galbart Glover said. “Washed away even before the one at Fairmarket.”
But Hallis Mollen left long before the heavy rains started and would have crossed the Blue Fork fine at either Fairmarket or Oldstones. We have no description of Fairmarket, but we know it was the end of the lifeline for Ryman Frey, the heir of Walder Frey after his father Stevron Frey died at the Battle of Oxcross and one of the names Merrett Frey gives as organizer of the Red Wedding to the Brotherhood without Banners. It was also the location where Arrec Durrandon was massively defeated by Harwyn Hoare, and thereby the Storm Kings lost dominion over the Riverlands to the Ironborn.
“Has some ill befallen Ser Ryman?”
“Hanged with all his party,” said Walder Rivers. “The outlaws caught them two leagues south of Fairmarket.”
Jaime frowned…Still . . . these outlaws are growing bold, if they dare hang Lord Walder’s heir not a day’s ride from the Twins. “How many men did Ser Ryman have with him?” he asked.
“Three knights and a dozen men-at-arms,” said Rivers. “It is almost as if they knew that he would be returning to the Twins, and with a small escort.” (aFfC, Jaime VII)
If you are curious what the Brotherhood without Banners may possibly plan as actions for tWoW then I recommend Lady Gwyn’s essay Riverlands Edition: the Capitulation of Riverrun, or Wolfish Hearts in the Riverlands. It is also incorporated in the radio westeros podcast episode BWB – the Last King’s Men.
At first sight, there is not much in Fairmarket’s name to link it to a maiden. From the series alone it seems nothing but a town at the Blue Fork with a bridge. Except, as a noun a fair and a market are synonomous. As an adjective fair is related to justice or beauty. And then there is of course the song The Bear and the Maiden Fair, where the bear is taken to a fair and meets a maiden. Any other information we have about Fairmarket comes from the world book. Aside from the battle between the Stormlands and Ironborn, one of the nine mistresses of Aegon the Unworthy was a common woman, Megette (or Merry Meg), who he bought from her blacksmith husband under threat.
MEGETTE (MERRY MEG): The young and buxom wife of a blacksmith
While riding near Fairmarket in 155, Aegon’s horse threw a shoe, and when he sought out the local smith, he came to notice the man’s young wife. He went on to buy her for seven gold dragons (and the threat of Ser Joffrey Staunton of the Kingsguard). Megette was installed in a house in King’s Landing; she and Aegon were even “wed” in a secret ceremony conducted by a mummer playing a septon. Megette gave her prince four children in as many years. Prince Viserys put an end to it, returning Megette to her husband and placing the daughters with the Faith to be trained as septas. Megette was beaten to death within a year by the blacksmith.
Children by Merry Meg: Alysanne, Lily, Willow, Rosey. (tWoIaF, The Targaryen Kings: Aegon IV)
If you read some of my bear-maiden essays, you might see how Megette and the blacksmith of Fairmarket are apt figures for the fair maiden and the bear at a fair, albeit a darker version as the blacksmith murdered Megette after she was returned to him (a bear taking his revenge). Notice too how two of her children were named after flowers. George could have chosen Megette to come from any town as well as give her a husband with any type of profession. But he crafted her to be linked both with flowers and bears in a subtle way.
After Fairmarket, Hallis would have gone straight for the Twins. I can see no reason for Hallis to insist the silent sisters to journey straight into the Neck over the kingsroad, unless there is dire need for it. So, one of the questions is whether Hallis Mollen reached the Twins before Walder Frey learned that Robb married Jeyne Westerling, especially since the Freys showed a particular enjoyment in desacrating both Robb Stark’s body as well as Catelyn’s, nor do they show any fear for the gods by breaking guest right. At least Walder Frey, nor any other Frey, assures Catelyn that Hallis and the silent sisters crossed the Twins. Timeline projects suggest that Hallis would have had time to cross the Twins before Walder Frey learned of Robb’s marriage. Walder Frey not mentioning Hallis to the Starks might be out of pettiness.
Since Lady Dustin has been watching for Ned’s bones to emerge from the Neck, Moat Cailin was most likely already in Ironborn hands, before Hallis reached it. Lady Dustin’s assumption about Hallis Mollen being trapped in the Neck also lends credence to the belief that the Freys did not hamper Hallis in crossing the Twins. Lady Dustin would have inquired with Roose Bolton as well as Aenys and Hosteen Frey regarding Ned Stark’s bones (though neither of them would have been at the Twins at the time to confirm the crossing with their own eyes).
It is a reassuring thought that crannogmen came to Hallis’s aid and that Ned’s bones are veing hosted at Greywater Watch in the Neck for the time being. Since Isis managed to hide Osiris’s remains in a swamp, it seems fitting for Ned’s bones to be in the Neck at present. However, after Isis hid Osiris’s body in the swamp, Set discovered it and scattered his remains all across Egypt, prompting Isis to search and recompile the remains for years. And yet, it seems unlikely that Hallis would prefer to hang around at Greywater Watch, while Ironborn attack the North and his king is south. Is it not far likelier that Hallis would try to get back south to warn an outrider, a scout, the Freys, as well as make sure the silent sisters can continue their voyage North with Ned’s Bones? To reach the North, one does not always need to ride solely in the northern direction. There is an alternative route, a second long way. Hallis could have turned back south with the intent to escort the silent sisters to a port, such as Saltpans or Maidenpool, from where they could embark and sail to White Harbor. And if that is the case, then their fate would have been more akin to what the High Sparrow reports to Brienne on the road from Duskendale to Rosby and to Cersei in King’s Landing.
The septon had a lean sharp face and a short beard, grizzled grey and brown. His thin hair was pulled back and knotted behind his head, and his feet were bare and black, gnarled and hard as tree roots. “These are the bones of holy men, murdered for their faith. They served the Seven even unto death. Some starved, some were tortured. Septs have been despoiled, maidens and mothers raped by godless men and demon worshipers. Even silent sisters have been molested…” (aFfC, Brienne I)
Maidenpool inthe Bay of Crabs was sacked thrice, by Lannister forces, Stark forces and finally Bloody Mummers. The latter foraged, knifed, raped and burned their way up as far as Saltpans in the north-east of the Riverlands, Maidenpool in the east, and any septry in the areas in between. Jaime renders us the description of Maidenpool.
Their host shook his head. “You’ll never reach Maidenpool by river. Not thirty miles from here a couple boats burned and sank, and the channel’s been silting up around them. There’s a nest of outlaws there preying on anyone tries to come by, and more of the same downriver around the Skipping Stones and Red Deer Island. And the lightning lord’s been seen in these parts as well. He crosses the river wherever he likes, riding this way and that way, never still.”(aSoS, Jaime II)
At Maidenpool, Lord Mooton’s red salmon still flew above the castle on its hill, but the town walls were deserted, the gates smashed, half the homes and shops burned or plundered. They saw nothing living but a few feral dogs that went slinking away at the sound of their approach. The pool from which the town took its name, where legend said that Florian the Fool had first glimpsed Jonquil bathing with her sisters, was so choked with rotting corpses that the water had turned into a murky grey-green soup. (aSoS, Jaime III)
I do not have to fall back on the World Book to link Maidenpool to a maiden. It is supposedly the location where Jonquil and her sisters bathed.
Jaime took one look and burst into song. “Six maids there were in a spring-fed pool . . .”
“Care for a bath, Brienne?” He laughed. “You’re a maiden and there’s the pool. I’ll wash your back.” (aSoS, Jaime III)
Maidenpool’s name actually makes it the alternative to Moat Cailin. With the gate shut at maiden’s moat, the maiden’s pool would have seemed the best alternative, at that side from the Twins. It also features judgment when Brienne witnesses Randyl Tarly judging criminals.
And then there is Jon’s dream about Maidenpool. Well, not literally about Maidenpool, but figuratively.
When the dreams took him, he found himself back home once more, splashing in the hot pools beneath a huge white weirwood that had his father’s face. Ygritte was with him, laughing at him, shedding her skins till she was naked as her name day, trying to kiss him, but he couldn’t, not with his father watching. He was the blood of Winterfell, a man of the Night’s Watch. I will not father a bastard, he told her. I will not. I will not. “You know nothing, Jon Snow,” she whispered, her skin dissolving in the hot water, the flesh beneath sloughing off her bones until only skull and skeleton remained, and the pool bubbled thick and red.(aSoS, Jon VI)
The weirwood has his father’s face. In aCoK, he once dreamed about a weirwood sappling with Bran’s face talking to him, while Bran was hiding in the darkness of the crypts to stay safe from Theon and Ramsay. It seems that the weirwood’s face indicates which spirit or soul is sending the dream. In this case, Ned Stark appears to cause the dream. It is not Ned Stark doing the talking though, but Ygritte. Meanwhile Ygritte is a maiden – in the sense that she is a young woman, not necessarily a virgin – in a pool, basically telling hm that he is a fool. And she dissolves into a skull a bones. So we have Ned Stark, Maidenpool and skull and bones left.
Thrice the sparrows mention bones together with the claim that even silent sisters were raped:
The High Sparrow tells it to Brienne.
A one legged sparrow repeats the speech to Cersei when she asks them about their intentions with all them bones at Baelor’s statue.
The High Sparrow repeats the crime against the silent sisters in his first conversation with Cersei as well as asking whether she has seen the bones.
When she saw what they had done to Baelor the Beloved, the queen had cause to rue her soft heart. The great marble statue that had smiled serenely over the plaza for a hundred years was waist-deep in a heap of bones and skulls. Some of the skulls had scraps of flesh still clinging to them. A crow sat atop one such, enjoying a dry, leathery feast. Flies were everywhere. “What is the meaning of this?” Cersei demanded of the crowd. “Do you mean to bury Blessed Baelor in a mountain of carrion?”
A one-legged man stepped forward, leaning on a wooden crutch. “Your Grace, these are the bones of holy men and women, murdered for their faith. Septons, septas, brothers brown and dun and green, sisters white and blue and grey. Some were hanged, some disemboweled. Septs have been despoiled, maidens and mothers raped by godless men and demon worshipers. Even silent sisters have been molested. The Mother Above cries out in her anguish. We have brought their bones here from all over the realm, to bear witness to the agony of the Holy Faith.”
[High Sparrow:] “Yet everywhere septs are burned and looted. Even silent sisters have been raped, crying their anguish to the sky. Your Grace has seen the bones and skulls of our holy dead?” (aFfC, Cersei VI)
When George repeats teamed phrases thrice in a chapter or arc of the same book (The High Sparrow’s arc in this case), then he usually wants us to pay attention to it .It is not just there for the High Sparrow’s sake or to tell the tale of war’s impact. Bones and silent sisters are mentioned in combination with each other to not make us miss the clue. And be honest – at least at second read your mind wondered once to the thought, “Could it possible be?” Very likely you dismissed the idea as soon as you thought it, clinging to the High Sparrow’s assertion that those are the bones of septons. In reality, the High Sparrow would be unable to tell whose bones they find. If hypothetically Hal and the sisters went to Maidenpool or guested at a septry along the way and chanced on the Bloody Mummers, then the High Sparrow could not have known the box with Ned’s Bones were not a septon’s bones. Hence, we should indeed ask ourselves whether some of the bones the High Sparrow has in his cart may actually be Ned’s bones.
There is actually a subtle passage shortly after Brienne met with the High Sparrow, where George suggests to the reader to ask themselves whose bones they might be. Brienne wonders whether the septon she saw being strung up by the Bloody Mummers once lies in the High Sparrow’s cart. Meanwhile, Creighton mentions the rape of a silent sister (again) and how they are wives to the Stranger, cold and wet as ice. Brienne carries half of Ned Stark’s reforged Ice with her. She is a bit of a silent sister as well. She may be a chatterbox in her mind, but sullen and silent most of the time. Later on, Brienne meets The Silent Sister, who once wondered in the Whispering Woods where Ned’s bones found their last resting place.
Ser Creighton lifted one cheek off the saddle to scratch his arse. “What sort of man would slay a holy septon?”
Brienne knew what sort. Near Maidenpool, she recalled, the Brave Companions had strung a septon up by his heels from the limb of a tree and used his corpse for archery practice. She wondered if his bones were piled in that wayn with all the rest.
“A man would need to be a fool to rape a silent sister,” Ser Creighton was saying. “Even to lay hands upon one . . . it’s said they are the Stranger’s wives, and their female parts are cold and wet as ice.” (aFfC, Brienne I)
Initially the sparrows pile the bones around Baelor’s statue in King’s Landing. This is the same square where Ned confessed to treason and was beheaded on Joffrey’s order. The High Septon at the time considered it a profanity of the holy location, just as Cersei uses the same argument to the sparrows over piling bones at Baelor’s statue.
“This business with Eddard Stark . . . Joffrey’s work?”
The queen grimaced. “He was instructed to pardon Stark, to allow him to take the black. The man would have been out of our way forever, and we might have made peace with that son of his, but Joff took it upon himself to give the mob a better show. What was I to do? He called for Lord Eddard’s head in front of half the city. And Janos Slynt and Ser Ilyn went ahead blithely and shortened the man without a word from me!” Her hand tightened into a fist. “The High Septon claims we profaned Baelor’s Sept with blood, after lying to him about our intent.”
“It would seem he has a point,” said Tyrion. (aCoK, Tyrion I)
Brienne learns of molested silent sisters and the bones that the High Sparrow has in his wayn, shortly after leaving King’s Landing to search for Sansa who fled from the city on the night that Joffrey was murdered. Ned Stark confessed to his treason at Baelor’s Sept for Sansa’s sake and safety.
Afterwards, the Sparrows cleaned up the square, and I assume they buried the bones beneath Baelor’s Sept along with the kings of Westeros and the caches of volatile wildfire.
So His Grace commanded his alchemists to place caches of wildfire all over King’s Landing. Beneath Baelor’s Sept and the hovels of Flea Bottom, under stables and storehouses, at all seven gates, even in the cellars of the Red Keep itself.(aSoS, Jaime V)
“There is a vault below this one where we store the older pots. Those from King Aerys’s day. It was his fancy to have the jars made in the shapes of fruits. Very perilous fruits indeed, my lord Hand, and, hmmm, riper now than ever, if you take my meaning. We have sealed them with wax and pumped the lower vault full of water, but even so . . . by rights they ought to have been destroyed, but so many of our masters were murdered during the Sack of King’s Landing, the few acolytes who remained were unequal to the task. And much of the stock we made for Aerys was lost. Only last year, two hundred jars were discovered in a storeroom beneath the Great Sept of Baelor. No one could recall how they came there, but I’m sure I do not need to tell you that the High Septon was beside himself with terror. I myself saw that they were safely moved. I had a cart filled with sand, and sent our most able acolytes. We worked only by night, we—” (aCoK, Tyrion V)
If those two hundred jars beneath Baelor’s Sept were the sole cache of wildfire located beneath it, then it is likely the only safe location in King’s Landing. The allusions to Cersei using wildfire to set King’s Landing ablaze are too numerous to ignore. And in that case Ned’s bones would be at the heart of that Egyptian underwordly ring of fire.
And yes, the thought of Ned’s bones circling back to King’s Landing and ending up beneath the sept of the Faith of the Seven hurt. Unfortunately, for the time being we cannot rule it out, not through logic, nor through symbolism. It is all so circular.
Riverrun’s Circle
The location where Ned’s bones were last seen is quite suspect for a circular fate. Riverrun is the opening word of James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake. It is one of the most mysterious books written by Joyce, and considered one of the most difficult. Though published in 1939, two years before Joyce’s death, and lots of essays have been written on it, it still remains one of the most elusive books in English literarure. It was also Joyce’s ultimate Opus on which he worked for seventeen years. The opening sentence of the novel should actually be attached to the last unfinished sentence at the end of the book. Once you do that you get
a way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. (Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce)
The sentence’s subject is about recirculation. The book is circular because of that cutting of the sentence. Its theme is the circle of life and death. Finnegan is a character from an Irish song, Finnegan’s Wake. Drunk from whiskey he falls from a ladder while building a wall. Breaking his skull, everyone believes him dead. During his wake, the mourners get rowdy and spill whiskey on Finnegan’s body who wakes from his coffin and is thus resurrected by the same element that killed him, whiskey or “water of life”. In Joyce’s book though the guests tell him he is better off where he was and put him back to rest (and thus kill him).
Rivers are Joyce’s ultimate symbol in the book to evoke this circle of life and death. One of the most favored and hailed sections of the book is about two washerwomen washing clothes at either side of the river (the Liffey), gosipping about the wife of the man accused of a crime. As the day grows darker into night, the river gets wider and overflows, while the washerwomen turn slowly into stone and tree and their voices become whispers.
And in relation to that renowned passage of the book, I want to point out the paragraphs of the chapter where Catelyn and Robb cross the Whispering Wood back to the Twins and then learn Fairmarket was washed out. Catelyn and Robb reached Riverrun via the Whispering Wood, and now they have to journey the same way back.
As the gods would have it, their route took them through the Whispering Wood where Robb had won his first great victory. They followed the course of the twisting stream on the floor of that pinched narrow valley, much as Jaime Lannister’s men had done that fateful night. It was warmer then, Catelyn remembered, the trees were still green, and the stream did not overflow its banks. Fallen leaves choked the flow now and lay in sodden snarls among the rocks and roots, and the trees that had once hidden Robb’s army had exchanged their green raiment for leaves of dull gold spotted with brown, and a red that reminded her of rust and dry blood. Only the spruce and the soldier pines still showed green, thrusting up at the belly of the clouds like tall dark spears. (aSoS, Catelyn V)
Immediately after Catelyn remembers her marriage to Ned, including her wedding and how different Ned Stark was to her than Brandon Stark, follows the above paragraph where George starts by alluding to the gods. Even if there are no actual gods in Planetos and even if you are an atheist, some turns in life have an unavoidable ironic recirculing to them that it does feel as if some god or gods are pulling a prank on you that can only be droll to them. Sometimes life and fate just seems bigger than rationally negotiable. The Whispering Wood can be seen as one of the two washerwomen whispering and turning into a tree at one side of the stream that is starting to widen and overflow the banks.
While obviously the above paragraph foreshadows Catelyn’s and Robb’s fate at the Twins where they will be unable to negotiate with the Lord of the Crossing to avoid death, the next paragraph pulls in Ned Stark’s fate as well. The whole paragraph is a reflection back onto the past and what-ifs.
More than the trees have died since then, she reflected. On the night of the Whispering Wood, Ned was still alive in his cell beneath Aegon’s High Hill, Bran and Rickon were safe behind the walls of Winterfell. And Theon Greyjoy fought at Robb’s side, and boasted of how he had almost crossed swords with the Kingslayer. Would that he had. If Theon had died in place of Lord Karstark’s sons, how much ill would have been undone?
Then the paragraph after that alludes to the second washerwoman who turned into stone, while even the dead are nourishing life. Where the initial paragraph in the Whispering Wood uses nothing but chthonic lexicon to only denote death, in this one death has been long past and bright colors and faces re-emerge. What lives must die, but recyles back to new life. The sun must set and Ra must voyage the night lands, but comes out the other side to start a new day. It portrays the cycle of life and death and back to life.
As they passed through the battleground, Catelyn glimpsed signs of the carnage that had been; an overturned helm filling with rain, a splintered lance, the bones of a horse. Stone cairns had been raised over some of the men who had fallen here, but scavengers had already been at them. Amidst the tumbles of rock, she spied brightly colored cloth and bits of shiny metal. Once she saw a face peering out at her, the shape of the skull beginning to emerge from beneath the melting brown flesh.
Right after, Catelyn wonders about Ned’s final resting place.
It made her wonder where Ned had come to rest. The silent sisters had taken his bones north, escorted by Hallis Mollen and a small honor guard. Had Ned ever reached Winterfell, to be interred beside his brother Brandon in the dark crypts beneath the castle? Or did the door slam shut at Moat Cailin before Hal and the sisters could pass?
As the snake of Robb’s leftover army passes through the valley, Catelyn questions whether she will ever see Riverrun again, this of a place named after a circular sentence of a circular book.
Thirty-five hundred riders wound their way along the valley floor through the heart of the Whispering Wood, but Catelyn Stark had seldom felt lonelier. Every league she crossed took her farther from Riverrun, and she found herself wondering whether she would ever see the castle again. Or was it lost to her forever, like so much else?
As I said, Riverrun is the opening word of Finnegans Wake, and every extra word and sentence you read takes you farther from it, and yet the end of the novel takes you back to the start. So, at some point as you read, you are not going farther away from Riverrun, but approach it again.
Finally, the passage concludes with the news that Fairmarket’s bridge has been washed away, with Galbart Glover clinging to the washerwoman who turned to rock for dear life.
Five days later, their scouts rode back to warn them that the rising waters had washed out the wooden bridge at Fairmarket. Galbart Glover and two of his bolder men had tried swimming their mounts across the turbulent Blue Fork at Ramsford. Two of the horses had been swept under and drowned, and one of the riders; Glover himself managed to cling to a rock until they could pull him in.
So, overall we have a very vivid scene with a stream overflowing in a wood of trees that whisper, two bridges being washed out, Glover clinging to a rock for dear life, and Catelyn reflects on the passage of time, cycle of life and death, all twisting and curving around thoughts of Ned Stark. In total there are seven paragraphs that reference the two washerwomen whispering as stone and tree at the overflowing banks of the Liffey of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, and at the heart of it, Cat wonders where Ned’s bones lie now.
“Where are the rest of you?” Bran asked Leaf, once.
“Gone down into the earth,” she answered. “Into the stones, into the trees…” (aDwD, Bran III)
You may ask yourself what Finnegans Wake has to do with the Two Ways and Gates of Egyptian myth. Well, at the heart of Egyptian mythology of Osiris and Isis as well as the Rostau voyage of Ra is the concept of the cycling of the sun and of life – a daily resurrection for the sun and a resurrection of the dead in some way. One source is ancient, the other of the 20th century, but in essence are about the same issue on which humanity has pondered ever since humans evolved to a level of cognitivity to wonder about it and even in our dreams rivers and roads are a symbol where we reflect on the state of our life and the passing of time.
Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. … (aDwD, Bran III, courtesy The Fattest Leech)
For a tree time is circular. Even the age of a tree can be counted through tree-rings. And there are indications that Ned Stark’s spirit managed to reach out for the weirnet, and has become part of the world, not unlike the wood witch tells Varamyr’s mother.
“Your little one is with the gods now,” the woods witch told his mother, as she wept. “He’ll never hurt again, never hunger, never cry. The gods have taken him down into the earth, into the trees. The gods are all around us, in the rocks and streams, in the birds and beasts. Your Bump has gone to join them. He’ll be the world and all that’s in it.”(aDwD, Prologue)
Varamyr experiences this, before he chooses to use his spirt to live a second life in his wolf.
For a moment it was as if he were inside the weirwood, gazing out through carved red eyes as a dying man twitched feebly on the ground and a madwoman danced blind and bloody underneath the moon, weeping red tears and ripping at her clothes. Then both were gone and he was rising, melting, his spirit borne on some cold wind. He was in the snow and in the clouds, he was a sparrow, a squirrel, an oak. A horned owl flew silently between his trees, hunting a hare; Varamyr was inside the owl, inside the hare, inside the trees. (aDwD, Prologue)
Since Ned Stark has not shown any sign of being a skinchanger, he would have been unable to actually go into an animal’s skin, but the wood witch’s words as well as Leaf’s would indicate that his spirit could have gone into the environment. The Starks are a family steeped in chthonic symbolism while alive, whose power may actually grow as dead spirits roam the underwordly realm that is the North (see the Cursed Souls of Eddard and Robert). And the links to Osiris suggest that Ned Stark’s spirit might be stronger than just anybody’s. Even Ned’s southern wife ends up being resurrected as Lady Stoneheart, and she is only wedded to a Stark. Had the Freys buried her properly according to Tully customs of burning a body on a boat, Beric could never have resurrected her.
Bran and Rickon meet and talk with Ned Stark down in the crypts at his empty tomb in a dream the night before they receive the confirmation message that Ned is dead.
The mention of dreams reminded him. “I dreamed about the crow again last night. The one with three eyes. He flew into my bedchamber and told me to come with him, so I did. We went down to the crypts. Father was there, and we talked. He was sad.”
“And why was that?” Luwin peered through his tube.
“It was something to do about Jon, I think.” The dream had been deeply disturbing, more so than any of the other crow dreams.
“Shaggy,” a small voice called. When Bran looked up, his little brother was standing in the mouth of Father’s tomb. With one final snap at Summer’s face, Shaggydog broke off and bounded to Rickon’s side. “You let my father be,” Rickon warned Luwin. “You let him be.”
“Rickon,” Bran said softly. “Father’s not here.”
“Yes he is. I saw him.” Tears glistened on Rickon’s face. “I saw him last night.”
“In your dream …?”
Rickon nodded. “You leave him. You leave him be. He’s coming home now, like he promised. He’s coming home.” (aGoT, Bran VII)
Both Bran and Rickon appear to have had the same dream about Ned Stark in the crypts several days after his death. The raven arrives with the message about Ned’s fate, but it would take days for the raven to fly. That this is a special dream is emphasized with the three eyed crow, which would be Bloodraven, making Bran go down into the crypts (and perhaps Rickon too). Ned is not just talking with Bran father to son, but about Jon, something about him that Bran is as of yet unaware of. This indicates that Ned’s spirit is acting and communicating days after his death, independently from Bloodraven.
Arya talks with a voice she believes to be her father at the weirwood of Harrenhall before she decides to escape.
Then, so faintly, it seemed as if she heard her father’s voice. “When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives,” he said.
“But there is no pack,” she whispered to the weirwood. Bran and Rickon were dead, the Lannisters had Sansa, Jon had gone to the Wall. “I’m not even me now, I’m Nan.”
“You are Arya of Winterfell, daughter of the north. You told me you could be strong. You have the wolf blood in you.”
“The wolf blood.” Arya remembered now. “I’ll be as strong as Robb. I said I would.” She took a deep breath, then lifted the broomstick in both hands and brought it down across her knee. It broke with a loud crack, and she threw the pieces aside. I am a direwolf, and done with wooden teeth. (aCoK, Arya X)
While initially her father’s voice repeats what he once said to her in King’s Landing, and it can be waved off as a memory of her father, his second reply is not an actual memory, but that of a father in the present referring to the past. It is possible that his spirit was indeed talking to her through the weirwood. And then I have already argued that Ned Stark’s spirit tries to show Jon the fate of his bones and how it is linked to Maidenpool.
Osiris only became the ruler of the afterlife in death, but Ned Stark already was a ruler of of the underworld in life. Why would death make him less so? Because the previous Lords of Winterfell and Kings of Winter do not seem to have power anymore? But they are actually properly buried within the tombs of the crypts, beneath their statues, with swords in their laps, well those that have not rusted away or have been taken. Their residual power seems contained at one location.
By ancient custom an iron longsword had been laid across the lap of each who had been Lord of Winterfell, to keep the vengeful spirits in their crypts. The oldest had long ago rusted away to nothing, leaving only a few red stains where the metal had rested on stone. Ned wondered if that meant those ghosts were free to roam the castle now.(aGoT, Eddard I)
But as long as Ned Stark is not properly buried, he seems to be free to manifest himself or appeal to Jon, Bran and Arya from anywhere, wherever they are.
The Greek myth of King Sisyphus (of present day Corinth) is a fine example to make my point. In Ancient Greece it was believed that those who were not properly buried would be ignored by Charon, the ferryman, and left at the shores of the upper world at the Achethon, denied both the afterlife in Hades and life in the flesh with the living. King Sisyphus did not wish to be in Hades at all, and he used this to his advantage. Before dying, he requested his wife to prove her love for him by throwing his naked corpse onto a public square once he was dead. When she had done so, he begged Persephone for permission to be allowed to return to the upper world to scold his wife for the improper burial. Persephone allowed it, but Sisyphus refused to return to Hades after his wife finally buried him as custom decreed it. Hermes had to drag him down by force. At heart the message is that improper burial can enable the deceased to remain an influence in the upper world. This seems to be what Ned Stark’s spirit seems to be doing. And without a living Lord Stark of Winterfell, the threat of the Others and the upper world messing with the underworld this may actually be for the ultimate benefit of all.
Conclusion (tl;tr)
While we hope that Ned Stark’s bones are safely waiting in the Neck with Howland Reed to be brought to Winterfell, it is not certain that Hallis Mollen and the silent sisters would have waited there, but instead may have decided to turn south for Maidenpool (that was sacked thrice) in order to board a ship for White Harbor. Their fate after exiting the Neck south again would have been dire. George repeatedly informs us of the fact that silent sisters were molested, and always in combination with bones they carry of people the Sparrows believe to have been septons. Jon’s dream of Ygritte in the godwood pool while the weirwood has his father’s face, suggests that Eddard Stark is trying to show that his skull and bones found their way to Maidenpool at the time. Those bones were carried back to King’s Landing, displayed at the location where Ned was beheaded, and presumably buried beneath Baelor’s Sept. The sole balm to the grievous idea that Ned’s bones circled back to rest at the location where he was killed, with no one ever able to figure out which of those bones are indeed his and thus forever lost, is that it might enable his spirit to be free to help his children (and nephew), for there is no sword to lock him in the crypts of Winterfell.
The Riverlands, Neck and Barrowlands seem to belong to a type of underwordly realm that the Ancient Egyptians would refer to as Land of Rostau, a necropolis, full of dangerous gateways where guardians and watchers aim to capture and kill souls to prevent them from reaching a status like Osiris. The identifiable gates are Whispering Woods, Fairmarket, Oldstones, Twins, Moat Cailin and Maidenpool. All are related or feature maidens. Both names Catelyn and Cailin mean maiden. Catelyn is the supervizing “maiden” at Whispering Woods. At Oldstones we have Jenny and her song, while the information on Fairmarket in the world book puts Aegon IV’s mistress Megette forward as the maiden fair in relation to the Bear-song. At the Twins, Walder Frey introduces us to twelve maidens, one for each hour of the night. Moat Cailin is actually Maiden’s Moat, making Maidenpool its alternative counterpart.
Furthermore, the name of the keep Riverrun where Ned’s bones were last seen in the text and the passages where Cat wonders about their fate are steeped in allusions and references to some of the most famous features and paragraphs of James Joyce’s novel Finnegan’s Wake, a book that was written to be circular and has as its major theme the circle of life and death.
I would like to thank Daendrew for pointing out that Riverrun is the opening word of Finnegans Wake and looking up the meaning of the name Cailin. Thank you also to the Fattest Leech for challenging me to delve deeper into the possibility of the Maidenpool route of Hallis Mollen and finding related quotes in relation to the Riverrun concept of recirculation.
The Egyptians were not the sole culture with such a journey concept of the dead. The Mayan Popul Vuh describes a similar underworld of tests, crossroads and fiends, where the deceased either dies or succeeds in being resurrected. And the Christians have a concept of purgatory where the dead soul has to go through stages of punishment in order to reach heaven and be in the presence of God.
Posted on 1 November 2016 4 November 2016 Author sweetsunrayCategories Chthonic CycleTags A Song of Ice and Fire, Book of Gates, Book of Two Ways, Catelyn Tully, Eddard Stark, Fairmarket, Finnegans Wake, Isis, Land of Rostau, Maidenpool, Merrett Frey, Moat Cailin, Ned Stark's Bones, Oldstones, Osiris, Ra, Riverrun, Silent Sisters, Twins, Walder Frey, Whispering Woods4 Comments on Them Bones
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Law Firm Capitalizes on Reports Apple’s iPhones Exceeded Radiofrequency Radiation Safety Levels in Some Tests
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A report yesterday from The Chicago Tribune suggested Apple’s iPhones were emitting radiofrequency radiation beyond federal safety limits following independent lab testing, and now, a law firm is capitalizing on that report and has announced the launch of an investigation into the claims.
Fegan Scott, a Chicago-based law firm, has not yet levied a lawsuit against Apple, and it’s not clear what “investigation” will be conducted. Beth Fegan, a managing partner, said that “this could be the Chernobyl of the cell phone industry, cover-up and all.”
“If we found that produce sold in grocery stores contained twice the levels of pesticides as the law allows, we would be up in arms, demanding the products be pulled from the shelf – this is no different,” said Beth Fegan, managing partner of Fegan Scott. “In this case, we know the cell phone radiation is dangerous, but the terrifying part is that we don’t know how dangerous, especially to kids’ brain development.”
Fegan went on to claim that research suggests that cell phone manufacturers “knew or should have known” that radiation levels were well above claims, despite no evidence.
The fact that the Chicago Tribune can convene a group of experts and develop such convincing findings shows that the phone manufacturers may be intentionally hiding what they know about radiation output.
The Chicago Tribune‘s investigation contracted an accredited lab to test several smartphones according to federal guidelines. The testing facility found that some of Apple’s iPhones emitted radiofrequency radiation beyond the legal safety limits, and in some cases, double what Apple reported to federal regulators.
The iPhone 7 was the worst performer, measuring well over the federal radiofrequency radiation limits across multiple tests, but higher than expected levels were also detected from the iPhone X and the iPhone 8. Smartphones from other companies like Motorola and Samsung were also tested with similar over-limit results.
Apple told The Chicago Tribune that testing had not been conducted properly and was not “in accordance with procedures necessary to properly assess the iPhone models.” Apple also said that it re-tested the smartphones and confirmed its devices meet all exposure guidelines.
“All iPhone models, including iPhone 7, are fully certified by the FCC and in every other country where iPhone is sold,” the statement said. “After careful review and subsequent validation of all iPhone models tested in the (Tribune) report, we confirmed we are in compliance and meet all applicable … exposure guidelines and limits.”
In response to the report, the United States Federal Communications Commission said that it will be doing its own retesting of smartphones in the coming months.
Fegan Scott provides no other details on the upcoming investigation or what testing will be done to verify the claims made by both The Chicago Tribune and Apple and other cell phone manufacturers. Those interested in learning more, says the law firm, can send an email with contact information.
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The dual-SIM (Nano) Samsung Galaxy A71 features a 6.7-inch full-HD+ (1080×2400 pixels) Super AMOLED Infinity-O Display. This phone also has a 32-megapixel selfie camera situated in the punch-hole at the front.
This smartphone is powered by an octa-core processor, coupled with up to 8GB RAM and 128GB of in-built storage, which is also expandable via a microSD card (up to 512GB). On the software front, the phone runs on One UI 2.0 based on Android 10. It also features an in-display fingerprint sensor for authentication and a 4,500mAh battery under the hood that supports 25W fast charging.
As for the cameras, the Galaxy A51 sports a quad rear camera setup that includes a 64-megapixel primary camera with f/1.8 aperture, along with a 12-megapixel secondary ultra wide-angle camera with f/2.2 aperture. The camera setup also houses a 5-megapixel macro camera with f/2.4 aperture and a 5-megapixel depth camera with f/2.2 aperture.
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HTC Launches Standalone VR Headset, Vive Focus, This December 12
By Florin Ivan
This month, we’ll see the standalone VR gear from HTC hit the market in China. Vive Focus is going to launch on December 12 with shipping expected to start next year, in January #realitymagic
If the first HTC Vive was a pain to install and kept you tethered to the PC, the new Vive Focus is set to eliminate wires altogether. It’s a standalone VR headset from HTC with the same 110-degree field of view as its predecessor but better display. This time around, the device will sport a 2,880 x 1,600 single-piece AMOLED display instead of two panels that made up 2,160 x 1,200 together (1080×1200 /eye).
Vive Focus will also be powered by the latest Qualcomm processor, although it’s refresh rate will be a bit slower. Expect a 75 Hz refresh rate than the original 90 Hz.
What other tricks does it know? Well, it’s got WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, so you’ll be able to add accessories like a 3DoF controller. Charging is not going to be a problem, the company says. You’ll get it done with Quick Charge 3.0 through USB-C. Once you bring it to 100%, you should have around three hours of use. On standby, the battery will get depleted in about a week.
HTC is releasing the gadget in two colors, electric blue and white (special edition). The retail price will be 3,999 yuan for the blue model (that’s around $600) and 4,299 yuan (about $650) for the white version.
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Gwen Stefani is being sued for encouraging a stampede at her show
By Nathan Jolly
Gwen Stefani may learn the hard way that rock ‘n’ roll rebellion just doesn’t fly when your most of your audience is sitting on lawn chairs.
A supposed fan is suing the singer, as well as promoters Live Nation, after an audience surge left her with a broken leg, and probably newly-forged emotional reactions to Tragic Kingdom.
Lisa Stricklin alleged that during a show at the PNC Music Pavilion in North Carolina last July (as in, an entire year ago), Stefani encouraged those seated in the lawn section to rush the reserved area in front of the stage.
“Just fill in anywhere you like”, Stefani advised the audience, throwing the very notion of “reserved seating” to the wind. It gets worse. “Who cares about your lawn chairs? You can get new ones”, she said – infusing this previously sedate crowd with a rebellious disregard for material items and arbitrary audience boundaries. After the one-two punch of ‘Sunday Morning’ and ‘Hollaback Girl’*, this was no doubt the tipping point from pleasant evening to all-out riot.
The lawsuit states: “This announcement created a stampede rush of patrons from the lawn seating area through the reserved seating area and toward the front of the performance stage, with people knocking over and breaching the security barricades and other security matter, jumping over seats in the reserved seating area, and pouring in through the aisles separating the various sections of the reserved seating area.”
Stricklin “was trampled by the rush of patrons and into a wall along the reserved seating area, causing her severe physical injuries.”
The lawsuit even quotes Stefani as saying: “I got in so much trouble for telling you guys to come up here!” which — lawyers will no doubt argue — demonstrates that officials were displeased with her instructions. Or maybe it was Blake Shelton who wasn’t happy. It’s unclear.
Stricklin is asking for $150,000 from Stefani and Live Nation, as well as punitive damages of an undisclosed amount from Stefani.
* Imagined set-list only.
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“Thej” is a Technologist, developer, blogger, data enthusiast and traveler from Bangalore, India. He graduated as an Electronics and Communication engineer from VTU in 2002. His career started with Siemens Information Systems Ltd as an intern. After spending about six months, he joined Infosys Technologies Ltd as Software Engineer. Since then, he has taken many roles such as Developer, Programmer Analyst, Technical Specialist and Senior Technical Specialist. As of now he works as a Technologist at Mavrix Technologies Ltd.
Python, MongoDB, Web.py, GAE, PHP, MySQL, Processing, JavaScript, HTML5, Jquery, Java, Struts, Websphere family of tools.
Visvesvaraya Technological University 1998 – 2002
Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and communication Engineering. Graduated with distinction.
Mavrix Ltd: Tech Architect Jan.2010 – current
Mavrix is a startup with a vision to develop India’s best music discovery engine. At Mavrix Thej works as Technology Architect. His job involves architecting and building the music discover engine for Indian Music.
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Janaagraha is a not-for-profit organization that aims to strengthen democracy in India by working for citizen participation in urban local government. His association with Janaagraha started as a full-time volunteer as part of Infosys Fellowship. Currently he works as a Technology manager guiding the project teams in technology and evangelizing the use of technology and data in civic projects and decision making.
During his tenure he worked with iPaidABribe, iJanaagraha, JaagteRaho and other projects at Janaagraha.
National Institute of Design,Bangalore: Guest Lecturer Jul.2011 – Aug.2011
Taught a short course on Processing programming language to students of PG Programme, namely Information and Interface Design. Its a short 4 weeks course.
Infosys Tech Ltd: Senior Tech Specialist Jan. 2003 – Dec 2009
Infosys Technologies Ltd is a global technology services company headquartered in Bangalore. He joined Infosys as a Software engineer and left as Senior Technical Specialist in 2009. Infosys also sponsored his full time volunteer work at Janaagraha under Infosys Fellowship program. He has worked for multiple clients like North Western Mutual, Sears.com, PMI to name a few, in domains like e-commerce, supply-chain management, insurance, funds etc.
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Posted by Miranda Siwak | Dec 3, 2018 | Coming Soon, First Look, Movies, Superheroes | 0
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The iconic superhero Captain Marvel is almost here. With the film three mere months away and a new trailer expected to drop later today, Marvel Studios debuted a brand-new movie poster that shows Brie Larson suited up and ready for action.
The new poster shows Larson in her Captain Marvel outfit and surrounded by a glow, a nod to the hero’s power. The poster’s background teases Carol Danvers’ life on Earth and her intergalactic history in a split-screen, as we’ve already seen in the first trailer.
Check out the new poster and tune-in to @ESPN’s Monday Night Football to see the brand new trailer for Marvel Studios’ #CaptainMarvel. pic.twitter.com/43EPkcTBET
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 3, 2018
The poster is a tease to the new trailer, expected to debut this evening during ESPN’s Monday Night Football during halftime of the NFL game between the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles.
Captain Marvel takes us to the 1990s for Carol Danvers’ origin story as the MCU heroine, and stars Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Crazy Rich Asians‘ Gemma Chan, Rune Temte, Algenis Perez Soto, McKenna Grace, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, and Jude Law. The anticipated Marvel film debuts in theaters March 8.
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Push provides a fascinating primer on why the cost of urban housing continues to skyrocket
Updated: July 19, 2019 7:58 AM PDT
A still from Push. Hot Docs
Chris Knight: Push doesn’t hide its politics any more than director Fredrik Gertten’s last doc, Bikes vs. Cars
One can almost feel the ghost of Jane Jacobs hovering over this well-meaning documentary, whose mild title – Push – refers to the way the urban poor are thrust out of neighbourhoods they can no longer afford. Gentrification, it’s often called, to which one of the film’s experts responds: “If only. It’s much deeper than that.”
As director Fredrik Gertten succinctly sums up, we are living through a time when large corporations can buy up huge swaths of inexpensive housing, make some modest renovations and then hike the rents so that the current dwellers can no longer afford to live there. It’s a multinational issue on an international scale; Push finds examples in Canada, Germany, Chile, Korea, Spain, Britain, Italy – basically anywhere there are cities.
One result is that neighbourhoods empty out while the buildings remain, devoid of human life but still generating equity for the owners as prices rise and one absentee landlord sells to another. But as one interview subject notes: “Gold is not a human right. Housing is.”
That would be Leilani Farha, a mild-mannered Canadian whose hifalutin title of U.N. Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing belies her lack of power on the world stage. When she presents her findings to a sparsely attended conference, more people are looking at their phones than listening to her news that the global value of real estate assets now dwarfs the GDP of the planet. And her meeting with Blackstone, the U.S.-based firm that over five years became the biggest private owner of low-income housing in Sweden, is summarily cancelled by the company with no mention of rescheduling.
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The film finds community groups (and sometimes squatters) pushing back in small ways. But Farha concludes that the state has to regulate the financiers so that people around the world can afford adequate housing. In some jurisdictions, this may also require pension-fund reform, since some of these asset pools grow their wealth through the likes of Blackstone’s real estate (mis)management.
Push doesn’t hide its politics any more than Gertten’s last doc, Bikes vs. Cars. “You can make money by destroying the world,” says economist Joseph Stiglitz. “And there’s something wrong with that.” But even leaving aside issues of right or wrong, Push provides a fascinating primer on why the cost of urban housing – whether in Toronto and Vancouver or Berlin and Barcelona – continues to skyrocket. In its mildly upbeat closing, it even suggests ways to change it.
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Dr. Foo Maw Lin
Email: chmfml@nus.edu.sg
B.Sc. (Hons) and M.Sc. National University of Singapore (2000); Ph.D. Princeton University (2005); Senior Chemist: Air Products and Chemicals (2006-2008); Post-doctoral Associate: UC Berkeley and Kyoto University (2008-2012); Special Appointed Assistant Professor: Kyoto University and Tokyo University (2012-2015)
Pedagogical interests include employment of Socratic methods to teach physical/inorganic chemistry with focus on real-life applications. Application of technology to facilitate laboratory teaching and learning.
Research interest include physical properties (photocatalytic, electrical, magnetic and gas adsorption) of 2D solid-state inorganic compounds and metal organic frameworks. Structural elucidation of crystal structures via single crystal and powder X-ray diffraction.
Dodds University Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2004-2005.
Senior Chemist, Air Products and Chemicals (2006-2008), commercialized one amine curing agent
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Foo, M. L.; Matsuda, R.; Hijikata, Y.; Krishna, R.; Sato, H.; Horike, S.; Hori, A.; Duan, J. G. ; Sato, Y.; Kubota, Y.; Takata, M.; Kitagawa, S. An Adsorbate Discriminatory Gate Effect in a Flexible Porous Coordination Polymer for Selective Adsorption of CO2 over C2H2. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 3022-3030.
Foo, M. L.; Matsuda, R.; Kitagawa, S. Functional Hybrid Porous Coordination Polymers. Chem. Mater. 2014, 26, 310-322.
Foo, M. L.; Horike, S.; Inubushi, Y.; Kitagawa, S. An Alkaline Earth I3O0 Porous Coordination Polymer: Ba2TMA(NO3)(DMF). Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 6107-6111.
Schaak, R. E.; Klimczuk, T.; Foo, M. L.; Cava, R. J. Superconductivity phase diagram of NaxCoO2∙1.3H2O. Nature 2003, 424, 527-529.
Foo, M. L.; Wang, Y. Y.; Watauchi, S.; Zandbergen, H. W.; He, T.; Cava, R. J.; Ong, N. P. Charge ordering, commensurability, and metallicity in the phase diagram of the layered NaxCoO2. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2004, 92, 247001.
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Les Moonves Accused of Sexual Harassment by 6 Women; CBS CEO Says He 'Never Misused' His Power
By Rebecca Iannucci / July 27 2018, 3:01 PM PDT
New details have emerged about CBS Corporation president Leslie Moonves‘ alleged sexual misconduct, after six women spoke out against him in a New Yorker expose published Friday.
Reported by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow, the investigation details incidents of unwanted kissing and touching by Moonves, as well as intimidation, across multiple decades. An excerpt from the article reads:
Six women who had professional dealings with him told me that, between the nineteen-eighties and the late aughts, Moonves sexually harassed them. Four described forcible touching or kissing during business meetings, in what they said appeared to be a practiced routine. Two told me that Moonves physically intimidated them or threatened to derail their careers. All said that he became cold or hostile after they rejected his advances, and that they believed their careers suffered as a result.
Four women — Illeana Douglas, Janet Jones, Christine Peters and Dinah Kirgo — spoke on the record with Farrow. Moonves responded to their allegations with the following statement, in which he admits he “may have made some women uncomfortable” throughout his career, but “never misused [his] position” to stop any woman’s career in its tracks:
Throughout my time at CBS, we have promoted a culture of respect and opportunity for all employees, and have consistently found success elevating women to top executive positions across our company. I recognize that there were times decades ago when I may have made some women uncomfortable by making advances. Those were mistakes, and I regret them immensely. But I always understood and respected — and abided by the principle — that ‘no’ means ‘no,’ and I have never misused my position to harm or hinder anyone’s career. This is a time when we all are appropriately focused on how we help improve our society, and we at CBS are committed to being part of the solution.
Big Brother host/The Talk panelist Julie Chen, who has been married to Moonves since 2004, issued a statement of her own on Friday, saying, “Leslie is a good man and a loving father, devoted husband and inspiring corporate leader… I fully support my husband and stand behind him and his statement.”
Farrow’s investigation into CBS and Moonves had been rumored for several months. Ahead of the article’s publication, it was reported Friday morning that the expose would include allegations against Moonves, which prompted the Independent Directors of CBS’ Board to issue the following statement:
All allegations of personal misconduct are to be taken seriously. The Independent Directors of CBS have committed to investigating claims that violate the Company’s clear policies in that regard. Upon the conclusion of that investigation, which involved recently reported allegations that go back several decades, the Board will promptly review the findings and take appropriate action.
Moonves, who also serves as CBS Corporation’s CEO and Chairman of the Board, is not the first CBS staple to be accused of sexual harassment. In November 2017, journalist Charlie Rose was accused by multiple women of making inappropriate phone calls, exposing himself and groping them without their consent over a 20-year period. Both CBS and PBS quickly severed ties with him.
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I’m pretty excited to have been chosen to write this article as it is a brilliant subject and one we love to cover here at TopFoundFootageFilms.com. This article will be covering the first UFO sighting documented in America.
Kenneth Arnold was the man who witnessed one of the earliest alien sightings on record back in June 24, 1947. Who would have known that this sighting would lead to an absolute explosion in interest and a snowball effect that would never lose pace…..
The First UFO Sighting Documented
So this is the precise date the world stood up and noticed the possibility of life somewhere else in the universe – June 24th, 1947. All of the earliest alien sightings originate from this point!
Kenneth Arnold was a an amateur pilot that lived in Idaho, USA. He often took trips in his CallAir A-2 across the skies of America and this day was no different!
He was making his way to an airshow in Oregan but he had taken a little detour to follow up a mystery that had surfaced on the news recently.
A marine transport plane had been reported to have gone down somewhere in the area he was flying so he thought he would check things out for himself.
There was apparently a $5000 reward for anyone who came across the location of this marine plane, so why not?
Without any warning – the first documented UFO sighting was born! Arnold was confronted with a bright flash of light that had a blue tinge to it.
He immediately freaked out thinking the flash was from another plane – was he flying to close to this plane?
He quickly scanned the area and spotted a passenger jet but this vessel was over ten miles away…it couldn’t of caused this extreme flash so close to him!
He relaxed back into his seat and put it down to the sun playing tricks on him. Without warning – the flashes returned!
This time he counted at least nine full flashes in rapid succession…….
Five Miles Long
So this was the first UFO sighting documented? Did Kenneth Arnold witness one of the earliest alien sightings recorded?
Many years later Arnold claimed that the flashing airborne objects stretched out over a distance of 4 to 5 miles. They remained horizontal in formation but every now and again one of them would flip and perform a fast banking technique.
He reported that the line of craft moved in unison so he at once put it down to the military testing new fighter planes.
He turned to follow the strange crafts to try and find out more about them but realized their speed was basically off the chart.
He did a few rough calculations against landmarks and determined the UFO’s were clocking up speeds of 1,700 miles per hour.
It didn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out this was faster than any human aircraft was capable of at the time!
This was the first documented UFO sighting so Kenneth Arnold was obviously a little worried by what he had seen.
He would tell friends and colleagues that the sighting always filled him with an ‘eerie feeling’ whenever he thought back to it!
At 4 p.m. that day Kenneth Arnold landed his plane in Yakima, Washington. He instantly went about telling his friends and staff at the airstrip what he had encountered way up in skies and they took great interest in his tale – after all this was one of the earliest alien reports so it was news to everyone!
The story did not take long to develop into the first public UFO sighting. Reporters somehow got wind of the story and there was huge interest in what had actually happened.
The interviews that followed between Arnold and the reporters created the ‘flying saucer’ tagline. In one of his interviews Kenneth Arnold had told reporters the objects had a saucer or disk shape to them.
The funny thing is that Arnold later claimed the reporter that published the ‘flying saucer’ term had completely misquoted him. There was evidence that the editor of the paper and the reporter in question had come up with the term themselves!
Kenneth Arnold would later claim that he had not had a moments peace since he told the story to friends and workers at Yakima, Washington.
The story gathered pace and because of the ‘Chinese Whispers’ effect that happens naturally in life it’s hard to tell which part of this first UFO sighting documented is true.
Was this one of earliest alien sightings recorded? Well we’ll never really know but one thing is for sure – the whole idea of UFO’s and alien life was introduced to Americans that day in June, 1947.
If you have any thought or opinions on the first UFO sighting documented then please feel free to leave them in the comment section below. We welcome all opinions but we do not tolerate spam! Thanks 🙂
UFO sighing have really captured the imagination and wondering of several generations of earthlings. My son just returned from training in San Diego and we drove through the Nevada desert on our way home. We went through several sleepy little towns built around marketing the theories surrounding Area 51 and other UFO sightings. The memorabilia was 50+ years old and still packed in the visitors.
That’s a pretty awesome area to be driving through Wendy – steeped in UFO history. I’m very jealous of you actually!
It’s mad that the US government still claim that Area 51 is nothing more than a simple military testing base for flight…even after all the whistle blowers came forward!
Nate Stone
This is absolutely fascinating!
I had no idea the first UFO sighting was that far back or that the encounter was that close. It’s interesting that the whole concept of the flying saucer was fabricated by the press, as the real encounter sounds far more interesting. Do you know if Kenneth Arnold made decent money to make up for the infamy?
Hi Nate,
No I’m not really sure about that side of things, but that’s an excellent question. Hopefully one of the visitors to this article will know the answer and take the time to post it here in the comment section!
Wow!! What a great story! I had no idea about all this! Thank you for explaining all of this in details. I shall translate it into French for my dad. He is soooo interested in this topic but he does not speak English. He himself claims to have personally seen 3 UFOs in his life, once when he was in the playground of the Lycée Français in Marrakesh when he was 8 or 9 years old (around 1951-1952) with many other pupils and some school staff.
Thank you for writing about this topic!
Hi Nathalie,
Wow – three UFO encounters in his life!!! He’s a lucky man (and I’m pretty jealous!). Hope he enjoys the article (and thank you for translating for him!).
Very interesting article! The topic about aliens, UFO and extra-terrestrial stuff has fascinated me for as long as I can remember. I have been hearing stories and reading articles about UFO’s and how these are real and not just figments of peoples’ imagination. And who doesn’t know about the “flying saucer?” My high school classmates always joked about it.
I believe this fascination on aliens and UFO’s is what inspired TV and movie producers to come up with sci-fi (science fiction) dramas and series. What do you think? By the way, there’s this very popular notion that people who get to witness UFO’s or ETs are likely to lose their minds, how true is this? Perhaps, Kenneth Arnold was perceived to have lost his sanity after telling his friends and co-workers about the earliest UFO and alien sightings.
Hi Alice,
That’s a really interesting angle there – about people losing their minds after seeing UFO’s or aliens. I’ve made a note of it and I think I’ll use the subject as an upcoming article in the future!
A pretty interesting read about aliens. Whether they exist or not has all probably been in theory and no particular real proof has been seen. All we hear are stories about a person that saw one thing or the other related to aliens. Though I do not dismiss the fact that we might not be alone in this universe but we need to see actual concrete proof that there are others that exist outside of earth.
Well Jay – a lot of people would suggest that there is already a lot of proof out there! (remember Roswell and Area 51?)
as a person who is very passioante and curious about UFO and everything that surrounds it or is related to, I am always on the look for new valuable information, experiences and sightnings. Therefore, I am very happy that I’ve stumbled across Your article which I found to be very informative and engaging. As far as first UFO sighting goes, I definitely did not expect it to be wtinessed and documented in such early years of 40’s! But the thing which stood out for me the most and caught most of my attention was the actual appearence of UFO in this sighting, which was very unusual and mysterious. I can only imagine what a terrifying, and utterly amazing epexrience it was to witness super bright (like You’ve said- ”bright flash of light”) flying objects with blue tinge to them streching out for 4 or 5 miles. It’s really fascinating what their (UFO’s) technology is capable of and how advanced they are in comparison to us, especially when You consider how fast their aircrafts move! Basically, they are capable of moving with the speed of light as far as we are concerned. Thanks for this captivating article, I really enjoyed it! Keep up the great work
Hi there Evald – I think we’ve met before on this site, haven’t we?
Great to hear from you once again, and great to hear that you enjoyed another article here! 🙂
I have seen similar UFOs in movies before now but had no idea about the documentation of the first UFO sighting that was documented. This shared experience and encounter has caused for us a revolutionary turn around in America and the world at large. The ‘flying saucer’ term by the editor of the paper and the reporter wasn’t a bad idea anyways. 🙂
Hi! Thank you very much for this very interesting post! Flying saucer has been a term used by all of us as kids. And as it intrigued us back then, so it continues to do so now. But it’s quite interesting that the term originated from a reporter misquoting Arnold. But as adults we now are inclined to use the term UFO than flying saucer. 🙂
Reading Arnold’s encounter, I have always been interested in the distance involved in the encounter. From what I have researched, 500 ft seems to be the border line most accept to classify near encounters from far away encounters. I think this distance plays an important roll in this unique experience.
Hi Henry,
I don’t really know about the borderline distance for sightings, but what you’ve mentioned here (500 ft) does seem realistic!
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CRIME HUNTER: Pedophile monsters 2.0
Philip Chicoine, 27, of Saskatoon, was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to 40 child porn-related charges in November 2017.
(WARNING: Contains graphic content)
Phillip Chicoine coughed up thousands to feed his twisted desires.
Specifically, the Saskatoon man was shipping the cash to the Philippines for the pleasure of watching children being tortured and sexually abused.
He did so from the comfort of his parent’s basement.
All these child sex victims were under 14. Some were toddlers.
As a wise old cop once told me, where there’s smoke there’s fire.
And Chicoine was fired up to go to the Philippines to taste some of the action first hand.
But before his sick nirvana could come to fruition, the 27-year-old was pinched at the airport.
He’s gone away now — for 12 years — to a place where his fantasies will be on ice.
Sadly, the Prairie pedophile ain’t alone.
In remote corners of the impoverished Asian nation, western pedophiles have turned the country into their happy hunting ground.
And they share their evil output with like-minded men — as well as some women — around the planet.
Virtual child molestation via webcam is the latest tool for monsters to feed their depraved sickness.
Peter Scully, 55, is serving a life sentence in an Australian prison after being found guilty of one count of human trafficking and five counts of rape in June 2018.
Two of the leading purveyors were a disgraced Australian businessman named Peter Scully and a roofer from Peoria, Ill. named David Timothy Deakin.
Both men — and we use “men” loosely — look like they came out of pedophile central casting.
“I just started sobbing when I first saw the videos,” one veteran law enforcement official told The Australian.
Officials wanted to send Scully to the gallows but he missed oblivion by mere months when the motion to reintroduce the death penalty was stalled in the country’s senate.
Scully, 55, is accused of raping, torturing and murdering children in the southeast Asian country.
David Timothy Deakin was 53 when he was arrested in April 2017 in connection with the largest seizure ever of illicit digital content in the Philippines.
“I’d categorize Skully as the worst case I’ve ever come across,” Det. Glen Hulley told Nine.com. “He is a psychopath and sociopath with very little regard or empathy for suffering.”
The father of two fled to the Philippines in 2011 where he established a sordid enterprise of horror that spanned the globe.
One of his movies — entitled Daisy’s Destruction — was so unrelentingly vile that it spawned a global manhunt for its maker.
In that sinister video, an 18-month-old girl is violently abused.
Working with his girlfriend, Liezyl Margallo, 19, and two other young women, the trio gleefully raped and tortured children online, usually poor kids who were offered food and money.
Liezyl Margallo
Murder was also part of his M.O.
Cops say after Scully finished raping one 11-year-old he then strangled her and buried her body beneath the house he was renting.
His trademark was to have his victims dig their own graves.
“These aren’t your standard pedophile crimes,” Hulley the cop told 9 News.
“This is a next level type of operation which turned commercial, and he was making a lot of money.”
Scully was hit with a life sentence in May. He will never see the light of day.
American monster David Timothy Deakin went down in the spring of 2017.
Inside his filthy lair, detectives found all the accoutrements of his stomach-churning enterprise.
A look inside the Philippines home of David Timothy Deakin.
Filthy mattresses, kids clothes, bondage gear, sex toys, ashtrays piled sky-high, cameras and stacks of hard drives.
One child had penciled on the filthy wall: “My Mum and Dad love me.”
Deakin played dumb.
The greasy pervert asked: “Why is everyone asking about children coming into my house?”
The ugly American and his Aussie competitor are gone for good.
But there will be others.
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Webcam sex tourism is here to stay and the FBI calls it an epidemic with a staggering 750,000 child sex predators online at any given moment.
And the Philippines is ground zero.
Former Ottawa Police Sgt. Keith Daniels — who went on to set up online task forces around the U.S. — painted a grim picture nearly 20 years ago.
“I could take every graduating cop in this country, put them in the ACC (now the Scotiabank Arena) with a laptop and they’d be there until the day they retired (hunting pedophiles and those who make child porn because the problem is so rampant),” he told me at the time.
NAME: Wei Li Pang
411: Pang — who uses the aliases Linda Pang, Wai Li Pang, Weili Pang — is wanted for failing to appear for sentencing after she pleaded guilty in December 2008 to human trafficking related crimes. Pang was at the centre of a sex ring that forced females to engage in prostitution inside massage parlors and elsewhere. She may be traveling with her husband and business partner, Shu Gang Li.
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City awards contract for new Cortez park
DHM Design will create design for site of demolished high school
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 2:46 PM
Updated: Wednesday, June 26, 2019 6:28 PM
The new park at the old Montezuma-Cortez High School site will fill a need for south side Cortez residents, city officials say.
Journal file
DHM Design will design the park being built on the south side of Cortez.
The Cortez City Council approved a $92,753 contract to design the park in a 6-1 vote during its regular meeting Tuesday, with Councilor Gary Noyes the lone dissenter.
Durango-based consulting company DHM Design was low bidder, outbidding Connect One Design and Davis Engineering Service.
The two lowest bidders – DHM Design and Connect One Design – were interviewed by a committee composed of city staff members, according to Parks and Recreation Director Dean Palmquist.
“After interviewing each team of consultants, the selection committee discussed pros and cons of each team of consultants and gave their input with a consensus reached the same day,” Palmquist said.
Now that the contract has been awarded, design work is scheduled to begin mid-July, Palmquist said. The services will be paid for using two funding streams: $50,000 from Great Outdoors Colorado grant funds and $42,753 from the Conservation Trust Fund.
The 11-acre park will be built at the site of the demolished Montezuma-Cortez High School, on West Seventh Street. The park will fill a community need, according to city staff – right now, all large city parks and municipal green spaces in Cortez are on the north side of Main Street, or U.S. Highway 160, leaving south side residents with fewer accessible and affordable recreation opportunities.
The park is expected to include a concrete outer walking path, a shaded tree area with lawn games, two playgrounds, sports fields, skate park, a few BMX bike parks, a challenge course and a misting wall.
The entire project is projected to cost around $4 million and take about six years to complete, Palmquist said.
At Tuesday’s meeting, councilors and city staff members voiced some concerns and clarifying questions about park funding.
“Is this (contract) contingent upon receiving funding?” asked City Attorney Mike Green.
Palmquist replied that the contract was tied to a $350,000 GOCO grant the city was awarded in March. The city must submit progress reports to receive the money, but Palmquist said the grant had already been awarded specifically for the park.
The city’s recent audit delays held up allocations from the Conservation Trust Fund, he said. Conservation Trust Fund dollars are distributed annually to eligible Colorado municipalities on a per capita basis.
“As soon as we get the audits submitted to the Department of Local Affairs, we then will receive that money,” Palmquist said.
He added the city would still be able to pay for the project even without the audits submitted. Originally, the city planned to be further along on the project, and had budgeted extra general fund dollars for it this year, although the money would be paying for a different stage of the work.
“We did budget general fund monies for this project, which exceed what we have – we’re requesting right now,” he said. “It would be robbing Peter to pay Paul, but we have that budgeted in the budget right now.”
When asked by Councilor Ty Keel, Palmquist clarified that the city would pay for services out of the general fund, and be reimbursed by the grant funds.
In terms of design timeline, Palmquist said consultants anticipate that 30% of the design will be finished in the latter half of August, which will provide most of the base cost estimates. By the beginning of November, 90% of the design work should be finished.
The design plans and more specific construction details will help the city secure continuing funding, he said, including for a Colorado Health Foundation grant the city will apply for in October.
“By getting these more exact numbers, it helps give you stronger applications for your grants,” Palmquist said.
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Fox News and the House GOP Look to Bush/Cheney for Advice on Iraq
It turns out the Republicans do remember things that happened before January 20, 2009. Too bad they only remember all the wrong things.
It turns out the Republicans do in fact remember things that happened before January 20, 2009. Too bad they only remember all the wrong things.
Yesterday morning, the talking monkeys on Fox & Friends suggested that President Obama seek advice from George W. Bush on how best to handle the situation in Iraq. I'm reasonably certain they weren't joking.
ANNA KOOIMAN: Just talking to President Bush though, how much would that help being that he fought two wars, one of them in Iraq on the very same soil, and pretty much everything that President Bush has said about not leaving a strong enough residual force, and, and, the warnings about what could happen come true.
BRIAN KILMEADE: Well listen to this, Nixon was used by every president after he was left office. Think about how often -- I remember JFK said he went out of his way -- he didn't tell me this, but if you read the biographies, he went out of his way to call Eisenhower on almost every major international decision out of respect and out of interest to see what a 40-something-year-old would ask a, a general who was president for years. It's a tradition which seems to have stopped here.
STEVE DOOCY: Well, you, you listen to some people and they say, uh, this president doesn't need anybody else's opinion because he believes that he is correct. On all matters. [...] He should call all of the ex-presidents.
First of all, Bush never said we should leave a residual force in Iraq. In fact, as some of us already know, President Bush signed the Status of Forces Agreement that required all troops to leave Iraq. Duh. It's difficult to remember probably because during the press conference announcing it, an overzealous thug hurled his shoes at Bush's head, and that became the story.
Second, how do we know Obama hasn't talked with Bush about Iraq? Of course he shouldn't under any circumstances get advice from the president who totally up-ended the Middle East, but do we know for a fact that he hasn't? No, we don't.
And finally, as far as Doocy's ridiculousness, it's common knowledge that the president absolutely consults a long roster of advisers, both civilian and military, with regards to foreign policy decisions. Doocy should remember the existence of some of the advisers since his network demonized Obama's hiring of "czars," a nickname for advisers created by the press decades ago which Fox News tried to blame on Obama.
Now, you might be thinking it's easy to pick on Fox & Friends. It's a triptych of dumbstupids, after all, and so we should just ignore them and they'll go away. People have been telling me this for years and sadly, nope, they haven't gone away. And besides, it's not just the Fox & Friends zoo crew who are actively trying to amplify the Bush administration influence on Iraq.
While Doocy, Kooiman and Kilmeade barely resisted the urge to produce fart noises with their armpits, the House Republicans met with Dick Cheney on Capitol Hill to discuss Iraq. Because nothing says "winning strategy" like the man who was wrong about literally everything having to do with Iraq. Of all people, the House GOP consulted with Cheney, whose name has become a neologism meaning "wrong about Iraq" -- as in, "Ground troops and no exit strategy? Seriously, you're so Cheney." Yet there he was, likely escorted by his personal varlet Mr. Smithers, injecting horrible ideas about the Middle East into the squishy heads of the congressional Republicans.
Some actual reactions:
"[M]ost of us think we did the right thing in Iraq." --Rep. Pete King (R-NY)
"No one challenged the vice president. I think that his analysis and the information he shared was accepted as pretty accurate." --Rep. Dave Reicher (R-WA)
"It's important to be strong, and that's what he talked about." --Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
"It was a great message, something we needed to hear, and hopefully it sticks with a lot of my colleagues who've kind of had this creep towards isolationalism in the Congress lately. Hopefully this is an awakening that we have to be very strong and very serious." --Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL)
"This is a complex issue. I don't want to relitigate the past -- why we went in in the first place, the president's decision in 2011 to withdraw every last troop. At this point, I think we have to look forward not backward." --Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA)
Regarding Dent's statement, to repeat: it was Bush who signed the 2008 agreement mandating the complete withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq. Not Obama, and not in 2011. Maybe Dent ought to look backward long enough to take note of actual historic events rather than making shit up. Meanwhile, if we're only looking forward, why resurrect Cheney for advice? Is there anyone from the majority party in Congress who isn't a contradictory idiot?
So, yes, we can anticipate that most of the congressional GOP reactions to the president's televised ISIS remarks tonight will be at least partly informed by Tuesday's group genuflection before Cheney's mobile cryo-chamber. Not only will there be a demand for ground troops and the like, but in the wake of endless complaining about how Obama hasn't revealed his ISIS strategy, we're absolutely going to hear that Obama "tipped his hand" to ISIS. In other words: Why won't you tell us your strategy?! Hey -- why did you just tell us your strategy?!
And you can forget about the Bush-era idea of not criticizing the commander-in-chief during military action. That one died on January 20, 2009 -- the same day when any GOP deference to the foreign policy of the Bush administration should have died as well.
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Timehop Hacked — Hackers Stole Personal Data Of All 21 Million Users
July 09, 2018Mohit Kumar
And the hacks just keep on coming.
Timehop social media app has been hit by a major data breach on July 4th that compromised the personal data of its more than 21 million users.
Timehop is a simple social media app that collects your old photos and posts from your iPhone, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Foursquare and acts as a digital time machine to help you find—what you were doing on this very day exactly a year ago.
The company revealed on Sunday that unknown attacker(s) managed to break into its Cloud Computing Environment and access the data of entire 21 million users, including their names, email addresses, and approximately 4.7 million phone numbers attached to their accounts.
"We learned of the breach while it was still in progress, and were able to interrupt it, but data was taken. Some data was breached," the company wrote in a security advisory posted on its website.
Social Media OAuth2 Tokens Also Compromised
Moreover, the attackers also got their hands on authorization tokens (keys) provided by other social networking sites to Timehop for gaining access to your social media posts and images.
With access to these tokens, hackers could view some of your posts on Facebook and other social networks without your permission.
However, Timehop claims that all the compromised tokens were deauthorized and made invalid within a "short time window" after the company detected the breach on its network on July 4th at 4:23 PM Eastern Time.
The stolen access tokens cannot be now used to gain access to any of your social media profiles, and the company also claims that there is "no evidence that this actually happened."
"In addition to our communications with local and federal law enforcement, we are also in contact with all our social media providers, and will update users as needed, but again: there are no credible reports, and there has been no evidence of, any unauthorized use of these access tokens," the company said.
It should also be noted that these authorization tokens do not give anyone, including the company itself, access to your private messages on Facebook Messenger, Direct Messages on Twitter and Instagram, and things that your friends post to your Facebook wall.
Timehop is also confident that the security breach did not affect your private/direct messages, financial data, social media and photo content, and other Timehop data including streaks and memories.
Timehop also pointed out that there was no evidence that any account was accessed without authorization.
Data Breach Aided By Lack of Two-Factor Authentication
"The breach occurred because an access credential to our cloud computing environment was compromised," Timehop said.
The same day Timehop identified the breach on its network, we reported about the Gentoo GitHub account hack that allowed intruders to replace the content of the project's repositories and pages with the malicious one, after guessing the account password.
The Gentoo breach was aided by the lack of two-factor authentication (2FA) for its Github account. The 2FA makes it mandatory for users to enter an additional passcode besides the password in order to gain access to the account.
The same happened with Timehop.
Since the company was not using two-factor authentication, the attacker(s) were able to gain access to its cloud computing environment by using compromised credential.
Timehop has now taken some new security measures that include system-wide multifactor authentication to secure its authorization and access controls on all accounts.
Timehop immediately logged out all of its users of the app after the company invalidated all API credentials, which means you will need to re-authenticate each of your social media accounts to the app when you log into your Timehop account to generate a new token.
The company is also working with security experts and incident response professionals, local and federal law enforcement officials, and its social media providers to minimize the impact of the breach on its users.
Since the new GDPR privacy law defines a breach as "likely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of the individuals," Timehop claims to have notified all of its affected European users and is working closely with GDPR experts to assist in the countermeasures.
To know more about the incident and how it happened, you can head on to the technical report published by Timehop, which provides a more detailed breakdown of the security incident.
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Google Makes 2 Years of Android Security Updates Mandatory for Device Makers
When it comes to security updates, Android is a real mess.
Even after Google timely rolls out security patches for its Android platform, a major part of the Android ecosystem remains exposed to hackers because device manufacturers do not deliver patches regularly and on a timely basis to their customers.
To deal with this issue, Google at its I/O Developer Conference May 2018 revealed the company's plan to update its OEM agreements that would require Android device manufacturers to roll out at least security updates regularly.
Now, a leaked, unverified copy of a new contract between Google and OEMs obtained by The Verge reveals some terms of the agreement that device manufacturers have to comply with or otherwise they have to lose their Google certification for upcoming Android devices.
Google's New Terms for Android Security Updates
According to the leaked contract, Android OEMs will now be required to regularly roll out security updates for popular devices—launched after January 31st, 2018 and activated by more than 100,000 users—for at least two years.
The Android device makers are mandated to release "at least four security updates" in the first year following a smartphone's launch, but for the second year, the number of updates is unspecified.
Besides this, the contract also stipulates that the manufacturers must not delay patch updates for security vulnerabilities for more than 90 days.
In other words, the minimum requirement of the contract is a security patch update every quarter.
A Google spokesperson says that the 90-day requirement is "a minimum security hygiene requirement" and that "the majority of the deployed devices for over 200 different Android models from over 30 Android device manufacturers are running a security update from the last 90 days."
As of now, the authenticity of the new Android partner contract is not verified, but the new changes made by Google will definitely have a massive impact on the overall state of Android security and benefit millions of Android users.
In separate news, Google last week announced its plans to charge a licensing fee to European Android phone manufacturers who want to include the Play Store, Gmail, YouTube, Maps, and Chrome on their Android handsets, that otherwise come free with Android OS.
You can read more about it in our previous article published here.
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1 show during 1 tour
Joshua Tree Tour 2017 (1 show)
2017-07-16 Rome, Italy
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In God's Country (1)
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Mothers Of The Disappeared (1)
Mysterious Ways (1)
Pride (In The Name Of Love) (1)
Red Hill Mining Town (1)
Running To Stand Still (1)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (1)
Trip Through Your Wires (1)
Ultra Violet (Light My Way) (1)
Where The Streets Have No Name (1)
With Or Without You (1)
Along with 8 different snippets
California (There is no End to Love) (1)
Church Not Made With Hands (1)
Eeny Meeny Miny Moe (1)
Hear Us Coming (1)
Live Forever (1)
Wise Blood (1)
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Three years on, will Wairoa AFFCO workers finally be paid?
Safe from prying 5Eyes
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:22 pm, December 8th, 2018 - 62 comments
Categories: australian politics, China, Free Trade, infrastructure, interweb, tech industry, telecommunications, us politics, winston peters - Tags:
I like my Huawei phone. Apparently the US National Security Agency can’t break its encryption. That’s presumably the “security” issue why Spark is being blocked from using Huawei here, and why Meng Wanzhou is held hostage in Canada at the behest of US neocons.
Ironic isn’t it. But also very dangerous. As Chinese technology races ahead, the US is desperate to support its companies like Cisco, whose technology everyone can break. Trade war can easily become hot war, as happened in the Pacific last century.
Winston Peters went to the to the US last week hoping to meet, Bolton, Pompeo and Pence. I doubt if he will be able to charm them the way he charmed Condoleeza Rice. What will be interesting will be if he is still insisting that no decisions have been made and we are following our independent processes to evaluate Huawei’s “risk” to Spark’s networks.
Even more ironic Papua New Guinea is standing out against Australian pressure to block them. The Five Eyes might block Huawei, but the rest of the world will be rushing to their door. Watch this space.
62 comments on “Safe from prying 5Eyes”
xanthe3 1
Absolutly This is not because huawei gear is a security risk but because it is not. Thats a big problem for the US.
joe90 1.1
This is not because huawei gear is a security risk but because it is not.
And you know this, how?
joe90 2
Who wrote the linked article?
McFlock 3
Pretty big “presumably” there.
It could be more to do with longstanding issues around transparency, intellectual property, and who else it chooses to do business with and does R&D for.
It probably doesn’t matter a damn to most private citizens, but if you’re building network infrastructure of any importance you need to be reasonably sure nobody has put in a back door, or even a nice little switch to brick the entire thing at their convenience, without putting it in the EULA.
Adrian Thornton 3.1
Well I guess if that is true, you could call that “chickens coming home to roost”our industries in the West think that they can just exploit the labour of other countries forever and not at some point have to pay the piper, well that’s not how it works, there are no free lunches.
McFlock 3.1.1
Pretty much – that’s one reason the US is big on domestic producers for essential equipment. But they’re big enough to have leaders in every facet of the tech development chain (when it doesn’t just become a rort).
Countries without tens of millions of people in them need to place trust in overseas organisations for some step of the chain.
Why does the left always do handsprings to defend China?
Doogs 4.1
I am left Ad, and I have no sympathy for China and the way it operates in the world. China is a self-professed ‘world leader’, in that it intends to be top dog in every aspect of world interaction – politics, sport, commerce, technology and I suspect in other areas such as the arts in all its forms. This is why there is a push through soft power channels to infiltrate into other countries’ political and commercial structures. I also read recently about how all manufacturing entities in China are required, if asked, to do espionage for the communist party. This push for what can only be seen as world domination is something we all need to be aware of and push back against where we can.
In saying this, I am aware that other powers, the US in particular, have similar aspirations. They go about it differently. However, I see the Chinese process as being quite invidious and all-consuming, and the most dangerous one.
Ad 4.1.1
Good to hear sense talking.
Adrian Thornton 4.1.2
Try telling that to the civilian population in Yemen.
KJT 4.1.3
Given the destruction, US inspired corporate Neo-liberalism has done to the lives of the majority of New Zealanders, I don’t think there is much to choose between them.
Huawei want to sell to the West, so i think they have pretty strong motivations not to be caught spying.
Back-doors for Government agencies, are already compulsory for US suppliers.
The creeping advances in repression, surveillance, and privacy breaches from the NZ Government, currently worry me far more than the Chinese.
RedLogix 4.1.3.1
You miss the timescale. The US Empire has been around since the end of WW2, while the Chinese one has yet to really flex it’s muscle.
If you think there is little to chose between them, I suspect you haven’t travelled much in SE Asia lately where resentment over Chinese soft power is already rife.
The US hegemony certainly had it’s shady side, but it’s fundamental premise was always quite different to Xi Xinping’s overt totalitarian ambitions.
Mark 4.1.3.1.1
What is this ‘fundamental premise’ of what you rightly label US hegemony – care to explain?
BTW: The South East Asian nations and China will soon come to an agreed code of conduct concerning the South China Sea. The issue is for Asians to sort out among themselves. The US is just there to make trouble:
“Everything’s been excellent between China and the rest of Asean, except for the fact that there’s friction between Western nations and China,” President Rodrigo Duterte
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/duterte-says-china-already-in-possession-of-south-china-sea-tells-us-to-end-military
RedLogix 4.1.3.1.1.1
I talk with real people on the ground. I’ve discussed here a wide range of ideas and opinions for many years.
You on the other hand only ever turn up whenever this one topic arises uncritically parroting CCCP lines.
One of us looks and behaves like a paid shill.
Have you talked to some real people on the ground in Yemen? They might have a bit to say about the “shady” side of the US. Or you could ask the people of Iraq, or Palestine, or Vietnam or most countries in South America…
I think it’s pointless trying to decide who is the worst (although the answer is easy) when we should just be strategising for how to weave a path between these two lumbering giants.
SPC 4.1.3.1.1.2
I’ll raise you … Malathir on the threat posed to ASEAN by China … I will presume you are aware of this but find it too inconvenient to mention.
ASEAN has two unwelcome options, appease China or be dependent on American protection.
Believing that ASEAN will succumb is a dangerous presumtion, for it implies any other outcome is unthinkable/unacceptable – not part of China’s plans for dominance of the region.
KJT 4.1.3.1.2
China hasn’t napalmed a few million Asians, to my knowledge!
“Uppity” Asians with their culture of win-win, long term mutual benefit, in business relationships, rather than the US, “winner takes all” appears a better option for the future, than the USA’s failing imperial descent into totalitarianism, as they struggle to retain the economic power they have given away.
With a great many Chinese, the hope is that their Government becomes more democratic and peaceful.
The same as our hopes, for our Government.
Mark 4.1.4
Yes – the Chinese – ‘invidious’ and ‘all-consuming’ and ‘dangerous’ – because they aspire to be the best!
Uppity coloured folk eh?
Western record in the Pacific: driving people off their home islands to test nuclear weapons, ‘blackbirding’ , indentured labour (Fiji and Hawaii), happily allowing a third of Samoans to die from influenza, terrorism (Rainbow Warrior)…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbirding
Yet the Chinese are the ‘most dangerous one’ because they offer to sell us some excellent high-tech gear?
Resorting to the racist card is pathetically weak. You’ve absolutely no idea about who I am, who I associate with, and why I have such clear views about the current Chinese regime.
Hint, it has hilariously nothing to do with uppity or coloured.
xanthe 4.2
why are shills transparent?
RedLogix 4.3
Because some of us never saw an authoritarian tyrrany we didn’t have a sneaking admiration for?
Or maybe just the idea of being President for Life appeals?
Hauling a previously backward nation of a billion out of the muck hole they were put in by Western imperialism, and in an historical blink of an eye, does deserve admiration.
Essentially by cheating; by coating tailing on the liberal worlds economic success, without becoming democratic or liberal yourselves.
Without Western markets to sell to China would remain as poor and brutal as it was under Mai’s Great Leap Backward.
China is a massive parasite that openly plans to dominate.
Ahh….there you go….the old yellow peril, Yeah….the West’s ‘economic success’ came through being ‘democratic and liberal’. What planet are you from?
Why the heck do you think the US has a 1000 military bases around the world (vs China’s one)? To spread ‘democratic or liberal’ values?
Coloured people becoming rich are parasites…..its just natural that white people continue to enjoy a wildly inordinate share of the world’s resources, right?
greywarshark 4.3.1.1.1.1
Actually sounds like a symbiotic relationship and that negates the argument talking place here.
Adrian Thornton 4.3.1.1.2
WTF are you talking about?, we (the west) actively pursued cheap slave labour all the way to China with the sole purpose of driving down wages in the west, and making more money for share holders and CEO’s, why do you think there has been stagnant wage growth in the west since the early nineties? …coat tailing off the back of slave Labour that has made the 1% rich while most others who feels rich are probably living in the fantasy world of a housing bubble.
‘Rising employment overshadowed by unprecedented wage stagnation ‘
“More worryingly, wage stagnation affects low-paid workers much more than those at the top: real labour incomes of the top 1% of earners have increased much faster than those of median full-time workers in recent years, reinforcing a long-standing trend.”
http://www.oecd.org/employment/rising-employment-overshadowed-by-unprecedented-wage-stagnation.htm
The underpants you are sitting in right now were probably made by some 14 yo girl factory worker earning some sort of shit wage and working in shit conditions in China..how does that figure into your Red logic?
Not long ago those same underpants would have been made here in NZ by NZ workers on a pretty good wage and pretty good conditions…better blame the Chinese for that too.
…..ever wondered why Swanndri’s never got cheaper once they shut down NZ production and manufactured with labour at 1/10th cheaper in China?
“Manufacturing valued added as a percentage of GDP in New Zealand has fallen significantly in the past 30 years, sitting at 27% in 1982, compared to 11.9% in 2012
Had New Zealand had maintained manufacturing activity closer to 30% of GDP, much like Germany managed over the same period, average incomes would now be substantially higher. Employment has increased in some sectors with lower earnings, such as tourism.”
http://www.johnwalley.co.nz/271-thirty_years_of_manufacturing_.aspx
“cheating; by coating tailing on the liberal worlds economic success”..holy shit! any success the Chinese might have had has been paid in blood,sweat and tears of it’s exploited workers, and for what.. so we could have cheap flat screen TV’s, cell phones to negate those lower wages.
‘The grim truth of Chinese factories producing the west’s Christmas toys’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/04/the-grim-truth-of-chinese-factories-producing-the-wests-christmas-toys
Sure, the Western corporate was looking for both the cheap labour supply and the large consumer market – capitalism searching for profit growth under global market policy settings.
And the idea that while we take resources from tyrannies, China is a parasite off trade with us, because they are not a democracy, was a silly argument.
Those underpants used to be made in NZ factories, paying local people local wages, and run to NZ labour standards and environmental regulations. Their currency has been consistently undervalued, they’ve actively stolen vast amounts of IP from the West… and you call this success.
Exactly who do you think controls these things in China?
“Their currency has been consistently undervalued”
Oh…ffs ….their currency has been ‘undervalued’ because they are or were a poor developing nation. And recently that argument has lost currency for a number of years now (no pun intended)
https://www.ft.com/content/11e96e1e-03a7-11e5-b55e-00144feabdc0
The fact is the West plundered vast amounts of wealth from the East (both India and China) – read up on the Opium wars.
What motivated the so called ‘Age of Discovery’ ….it was the West wanting trade and trade routes to the East.
NZ was part of the imperialist West, became rich through being the privileged protected farmers of the Anglo Saxon West, while Chinese, Indian, African peasants bore the brunt of Anglo Saxon imperialism.
Hopefully that era is drawing to a close, but of course not without a last possible desperate attempt by the West to maintain its privileged position throughout the world.
RedLogix – you still have not provided an answer:
What are those 1000 military bases of the US doing round the world – promoting ‘freedom’ and ‘liberal democratic’ values?
RedLogix …
I’ve consistently argued here for years that the age of nation state empires is over.
All your paid for lines amount to is for a Chinese imperium to rise and replace the ones that preceded it. It’s an unthinking repitition of a dullards history.
The world’s real parasite:
“A child born in the United States will create thirteen times as much ecological damage over the course of his or her lifetime than a child born in Brazil,”
https://www.thestreet.com/personal-finance/the-countries-that-use-the-most-resources-per-person-14699472
What do you want RedLogix – coloured people to carry on living on rubbish tips while the rich world lives it up indefefinitely?
The most important thing for countries like China is DEVELOPMENT, at almost any cost. Without DEVELOPMENT you have absolutely nothing.
You need DEVELOPMENT so you can have a powerful military, a powerful economy and people to enjoy the things that people in the West take for granted and think is their birthright.
For the short term at least, so-called Western notions of ‘human rights’ should take a back seat.
That’s a resentful and bigotted view of history Mark. The West was not always wealthy; it was our scientific revolution, our industrialisation and crucially our legal and democratic reforms that entrenched principles such as equality before the law, innocence until proven guilty, freedom of religions, open speech, the value of private property rights, workers right to unionise, and crucially the right to hold our leaders accountable via elections … were all reforms that were hard won.
But even as late as 1890 most people in the West were still very poor; most lived on the equivalent a few dollars a day. It was not until after WW2 that the average person in the West rose out of absolute poverty. Hell my own father lived the first five years of his life in a miserable tent in the middle of what is now a very plush Auckland suburb.
You seem to have an exceedingly narrow view of Western history; while it’s absolutely true that in the past 500 years or so you can count some 15-20 ’empires’ or dominant hegemonies, you can point to many dark episodes in our history (as you can the East’s as well) … at the same time there is a positive story, one where legal, political and economic rights have been established and over time their scope expanded to include wider and wider populations.
An informed view shows that in just the past several decades much of the world is quite rapidly moving out of absolute poverty, out of utter deprivation and towards something resembling a middle class. And yes China has been part of this story too, having wealthy Western markets to sell it’s goods to has been enormously advantageous to you.
But the expectation was that in becoming part of this liberal world order China would reform it’s own political systems and take a legitimate, substantial part of this system. Instead it has taken an increasingly totalitarian, authoritarian anti-liberal path.
Instead of the internet being a pathway to the world, you built a wall. Instead of building on the rule of law and adopting global norms you’ve turned opacity and commercial untrustworthiness to an art form. Instead of elections you’ve appointed a “President for Life”. Instead of respecting religious rights you’ve created mass labour camps in Uighuyr regions. Instead of protecting wildlife, your medieval superstitions are wiping out rhinoceros, elephant and other species. Instead of dealing with an insane tyranny in North Korea you’re doing your best to imitate it with mass surveillance systems and a deeply intrusive ‘social credit’ system designed to overtly manipulate and control your populations according to the CCCP’s whims and fancies. Need I mention the repugnant trade in body parts; the persecution of minorities and the endless stories of corrupt trade practises. And openly dreams of dominating the world as it once imagined it did.
All these are mistakes the West too has done in it’s past; we too know failure, humiliation and catastrophe. But to varying degrees we’ve learnt the lessons and stepped back. While China’s CCCP, convinced of it’s historic superiority and global destiny charges headlong into all of these errors simultaneously.
Mao?
He saved more lives than perhaps any other political figure in human history:
China’s growth in life expectancy at birth from 35–40 years in 1949 to 65.5 years in 1980 is among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history
Suck it up. And you can see from the chart that even during the Great Leap Forward, infant mortality was still lower than it was in 1950, just a year after the communist victory. The Great Leap Forward was a relative setback, but your small mind probably finds it difficult to grasp that basic concept.
“Without Western markets to sell to China would remain as poor and brutal “
The Wanhsien Incident: British gunboats shelled innocent Chinese civilians killing about 3000 in 1926. The British Consul thus described this incident: “Its a wonderful show on the part of the navy, but we can never forgive these bloody Chinks…’ Also the Shanghai English language press hailed the killing of innocent Chinese claiming they had been “put in their place.” Of course this is just one minor incident in the overall catalogue of imperialist crimes committed against China during the Century of Humiliation.
Of course under the principle of extraterritoriality the British and other Westerners could kill Chinese with impunity in China — shoot them down like dogs, with absolute legal impunity.
Winston Churchill had particular racist contempt for the Chinese urging at one point in the 1920 the “systematic bombing of the Chinese army as well as the use of poison gas.”
In fact it could be argued that British imperialism was far worse than Japanese imperialism – the British created about 50 million opium addicts, in order to reverse an unfavourable balance of trade.
So you should read up on a bit of history before characterising the China as a massive parasite. That’s an obviously racist statement, deny it all you want.
Possibly from where you are the internet is censored so you cannot access the real history of Mao Zedong. He was history’s greatest Mass Murderer, and he boasted about it. Conservatively he set about murdering an estimated 65 million people in his repeated efforts to forcibly turn China into a socialist utopia.
That’s worse than Hitler or even Stalin. Maybe these links will be accessible to you; or maybe you’re just too scared to read them. There are literally hundreds of similar sources, these are just a handful of random ones:
https://fee.org/articles/who-was-the-biggest-mass-murderer-in-history/
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/maos-great-leap-forward-killed-45-million-in-four-years-2081630.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/opinion/a-bleak-anniversary-mao-the-mass-murderer.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes
Assuming you haven’t read any of these though, your claim Mao ‘saved more lives than anyone in history’ is again blinkered by resentment and ignorance. The increases in life expectancy you mention were simply following exactly the same trends that had already happened elsewhere in the Western world after we invented public sanitation, clean water supplies and understood how to control disease and prevent mass epidemics. Mao can take zero credit for any of this; all he did was impose one massive setback after another on China for decades.
It was only after he died, and China decided to copy aspects of the Western economic model that the country became prosperous and modern. And that was achieved ONLY because you were given access to massively wealthy Western markets to export to. China’s own domestic markets, even today are still too weak to have ever supported such growth. In that strict economic sense yes China has become an enormous parasite, bloated on it’s exports to the West, but remaining a politically anti-ethical to us.
All history is an endless catalog of atrocities; including several thousand years of Chinese imperial warfare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_China_before_1911
Of course British Imperialism in China was nothing anyone would defend; but typical of the era; and in the broader scale of history it’s relatively small beer. This doesn’t excuse it, but it places into a context quite unremarkable for the period. It’s what Empires do, they expand at the expense of any other group they can dominate, militarily, economically or by uncontrolled migration. It’s precisely the same ambition your glorious President for Life Xi Xinping has openly outlined … albeit with softened edges to avoid overt alarm at this early stage.
Still I’m sure none of this will detract from your uncritical loyalty to China; although not quite the same could be said for the millions of wealthy Chinese (the ones who have options) who’ve left the country as soon as they could, and purchased homes, businesses and properties just as fast as they could get their capital out of China and into nasty, racist, thieving imperial places like Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver and Auckland.
Pat 5
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/five-eyes-nations-to-force-encryption-backdoors-511865
Thanks for the link Pat !
The US has for some time been engaged in a war on encryption.The 5 eyes and our GCSB are just one arm of this (pointless) struggle.
The only way to build a system that cannot be remotely “bricked” (by whoever, take your pick) is to go open source . If the GCSB had any intention of actually protecting our security it would be mandating open source systems
Open Source is “brick” proof?
xanthe3 5.1.1.1
No open source is not “brick proof” only orders of magnitude less so than propriatory gear. But the point is that there cannot be hidden backdoors in open source gear because its open and contuniously peer reviewed. Every human artiface will propably have some exploit somewhere in this case our interests are best served by avoiding gear with deliberate clandistine exploits inbuilt and having a transparant process to identify and mitigate the unintentional ones…. in tech terms open source best meets these interests
Which makes it even more vulnerable to “hacking”, as anyone can obtain the source code.
xanthe3 5.1.1.1.1.1
What you are promoting here is the idea of security through obfustication. It simply does not work. Why do you think the web mostly runs on some flavour of linux?
Xanthe is 100% correct in terms of software vulnerability; unfortunately open source software does little to address attack vectors at the firmware or even silicon level.
The Huawei exec is being held for using a controlled company to get around sanctions on Iran.
And yes 5 Eyes is as much spying on communications of the citizens of our nations (thus the encryption issue) as it is spying on the rest of the world (as we are part of the imperial US security order), but the fact remains 5G is linked into intelligent devices and involves a higher level of intrusion into system security than anything before it – so having a Chinese government obedient organisation’s tech involved in the roll out is a whole new level of risk.
It’s borderline farcical for anyone with concerns about America’s operations to have little concern for those of China. The corporations of each are in bed with their governments and obey their imperial masters.
PS You can still use a Huawei phone on 5G after this begins.
Pat 6.1
It would be interesting to see the results of a poll/referendum with the question…who would you prefer having exclusive access to your personal communications/browsing history ?
a) the NSA or
b) the CCP
Sorry no option c) neither of the above.
Given that Australia has just legislated against encryption, they will only be using gear that has a NSA-sanctioned back door.
One Two 8
Risk to human health, animals, insects and the environment…
Where is the discussion in NZ going to come from about the damaging multiplier effects…
The infrastructure heavy requirements and pollution generated from yet another layer of unecessary technology and the effects of it…
Note: In the UK Gateshead council recently lost a gag attempt in local court…
Huawei is a distraction…
“It took a thousand years for the world’s economic centre of gravity to shift from Asia to Europe.”
It will take only a few decades for it to shift back, says a report from the McKinsey Global Institute.
A thousand years ago, the economic centre of the world was in central Asia, just north of India and west of China, reflecting the high levels of wealth enjoyed in the Middle and Far East at that time, says the report, Urban world: Cities and the rise of the consuming class. At that time, Asia accounted for two-thirds of the world’s wealth.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/07/05/world-economic-center-of-gravity_n_1651730.html
Why do you think all those Europeans went round the world in those creaky old boats – the so-called ‘Age of Discovery’ was all about the West wanting to get its hands on the wealth of the East.
And unfortunately, because of the military weakness of the East and superior technology of the West (in the past couple of centuries), the East was pauperized by the West (opium wars and all that).
New Zealand was England’s farm, and directly benefitted from this plunder of the East (and Africa). That is why in the late 1960’s we were the 6th wealthiest per capita nation on earth. It was ill-gotten gains.
Now the developing world is rising. With the waning power of the Western imperialists, Westerners cannot automatically assume a good standard of living simply because they are Westerners. They have to compete with the yellow, brown, and black masses of the world on an increasingly equal footing.
And RedLogix can cry in his beer all he wants, but that ain’t gonna change things – I’m sure he feels absolutely sick about it. Boo.Hoo.Hoo.
SPC 9.1
We had the high level of wealth per capita because
1. we had a lower population.
2. agriculture was a higher proportion of the GDP of economies back then and we were and are very competitive in pastoral farming.
This had little to do with the past of our then major market the UK.
Our ill gotten gains, was Maori land.
New Zealand became rich through being the privileged farmers of the white Anglo-Saxon imperialist West – we were not treated like Indian or Kenyan or indeed Chinese peasants (China only freed itself from Western domination in 1949)
New Zealand was a fully signed up member of Western imperialism and benefitted from that enormously.New Zealand’s wealth entirely due to what was effectively subsidies and protectionism, through favours granted by mother England. However in 1973 the UK joined the EEC. We lost privileged access to the UK market, and hence had to look for markets elsewhere.
And that is when our current accounts deficit plunged. Rogernomics came more than a decade after that.
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/research-and-publications/speeches/2002/speech2002-01-25
The free trade deals are part of New Zealand’s need to forge new markets, to make its way in the world by itself, and not as parasite on the rest of the world through being attached to a former imperialist power.
New Zealand was part of Western imperialism and fought Western imperialism’s wars. In that way NZ became rich.
SPC 10.1
Utter tosh.
One Two 10.1.1
Why is it, tosh?
What Mark has been saying is far more ‘informed’ than those who are replying to him…
Like your one word ‘rebuttle’…and bewildereds two word ‘sentence’..
SPC 10.1.1.1
Why – the only reason we were rich in the 1950’s/1960’s per capita was because
1. small population
2. most efficient pastoral farm in the world (temperate/grass)
3. agriculture was larger share of the economy back then
(while our major market was then the UK, we would have been as wealthy with access to the global market at the time under WTO rules).
Mark ignored my earlier comment and it is once again not informed it is devoid of relevant argument.
It deserved the repost on grounds of the lack of substance to his point and then simply restating it rather than respond to the criticism is intellectual cowardice.
Bewildred 10.2
Loon alert
gsays 11
What Mark has outlined seems reasonable.
Is this one of these ideological things that I missed the memo for.
As an aside/confession/observation, a lot of the impetus for the lack of concern over the rise of China, comes from a distancing from the actions of the USA over the last century, especially since Hiroshima and Ngasaki.
Richard 12
Which doesn’t quite explain how we’ve stayed rich since we lost preferential access to the UK and never really had it to the US.
As for Huawei being more secure than Cisco (love to hear a credible voice in the tech community back that up), tell that to the African Union.
Mark 12.1
“Which doesn’t quite explain how we’ve stayed rich since……”
By borrowing heaps of money and living beyond our means and trading with countries like China and other Asian countries.
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/research-and-publications/speeches/2017/speech-2017-07-17
SPC 12.1.1
Ha ha, our public debt is much lower than that of China, Japan most of ASEAN and near all of the OECD.
Richard 12.1.1.1
Not sure he meant to highlight that net foreign liabilities reduced quite a lot under the Key govt either.
boggis the cat 13
Huawei is the leader in 5G technology. This is just about keeping the Chinese tech sector from overtaking the Western corporations — and that has already happened in any case.
The spooks can always tunnel in to systems at other vulnerable points, and any ‘suspicious activity’ flagged by metadata analysis can get a court warrant and legal surveillance. US technology is known to be open to the NSA and partners, so it would be surprising if China didn’t want similar access built in to domestic technology — however, that is only suspected at present.
Trying to prevent the rise of China is a fool’s errand. Western governments have plenty of fools to spare.
With Xi Jinping China is going down exactly the right path. He does not want to betray his people down by ‘reforming’ in the way the West wants him to reform.
The Chinese have learned the lesson of the Soviet Union. In Russia, Gorbachev, who was feted by the West, is now widely reviled as the traitor that he was, whereas Stalin, who is demonized in the West, is consistently rated as the greatest person in history:
https://www.voanews.com/a/russians-josef-stalin-greatest-figure-history-poll/3916559.html
All this abuse about ‘totalitarianism’, etc is just a load of bollocks. The Chinese leadership is responsive to the needs of the vast majority of Chinese people, and that’s all they should care about. The bleating of Westerners who want to bring the country to its knees should be treated with the utter contempt it deserves.
Liberalization means death, literally:
Millions of excess deaths in immediate post-Soviet Russia:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2009/1/18/685673/-
Indian ‘democracy’ vs Chinese ‘authoritarianism’, life expectancy:
From the article “Today, China’s life expectancy for both sexes is remarkably close to the average life expectancy of Europe – just some 2 years lower. …. Compared to China, India’s life expectancy for both sexes has increased much slower. Today, it is more than 8 years below the level of China and more than 14 years below the level of the United States of America….These numbers demonstrate the remarkable development success of China, whose government has focused on bringing basic health care to most (rural) regions and social groups. “
http://www.china-profile.com/data/fig_WPP2008_L0_1.htm
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Doesn’t anybody worry about the ‘security’ of US conglomerates like Microsoft, Google etc etc spying for THEM??
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The Risks of Exploring Trauma Through Fiction
Anakana Schofield's new novel Bina examines the psychology of suffering and abuse
July 2, 2019 November 1, 2019 - by Rudrapriya RathoreRudrapriya Rathore
Illustration by Sarah Gonzales Updated 10:11, Nov. 1, 2019 | Published 13:56, Jul. 2, 2019
Bina (“that’s Bye-na, not Bee-na”) isn’t a woman who’s interested in “mithering,” “standing about,” or otherwise making small talk. The seventy-four-year-old from western Ireland is quick to note that she is a very busy woman—one who spent a week in prison and is now facing fourteen more years of incarceration for “aiding, abetting or counselling” in the deaths of an untold number of people. As she awaits her trial, Bina writes her story on envelopes, receipts, and other scraps of paper, intent on explaining how and why she got into this unfortunate position.
Bina’s entries are oblique and evasive. She can’t go into much detail lest it be used as evidence against her. Her notes can also be erratic, like her repeated warnings against certain days of the week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays). But, as the fragments accumulate, they reveal that Bina was involved in an activist group that gave sick and elderly people assistance with suicide, and one of the deaths that she is now charged in relation to is that of her best friend, Philomena, or Phil—though responsibility for that particular killing is something that Bina is quick to deny.
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Throughout the eponymous novel, written by Anakana Schofield, Bina predicts that the authorities and the courts will warp the story of her mercy killings, and she sees her notes as the only chance to preserve her own truth for whatever posterity might be afforded to it. She also appears to be losing her memory, so her entries about her past serve a practical function as well. More importantly, Bina sees her writings as a way to make herself useful to others. She compiles this memoir as a collection of “warnings” so other women won’t suffer as she has suffered: “I’ve made all these mistakes for you,” she writes.
Fictional depictions of a trauma-afflicted mind tend to be experimental by nature, and Schofield’s latest is no different. Bina highlights the effects of suffering and abuse on an individual psyche, following thoughts as they bounce between fear, guilt, and forgetfulness. As the reader pieces the story together, it becomes apparent that a lifetime of experience has led Bina to conclude that great harm to oneself is often caused by trying to help others, even when one acts with the best of intentions. All she has left is to share this wisdom. “If I do nothing else in these warnings,” Bina writes, “I will train you to say no.”
Anakana Schofield, forty-eight, has made a literary career on the psychology of troubled minds. The Irish Canadian author’s debut, Malarky, winner of the 2012 Amazon First Novel Award, centered on an older woman debilitated by grief. To research Martin John, her 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted second novel about a compulsive groper and his mother, she studied Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s foundational Psychopathia Sexualis. To craft her titular character’s voice, she employed a linguistic pattern of circular thoughts and associations, effectively building his internal instability into the text.
In Bina, which acts as a spiritual sequel to these earlier works, Schofield turns to the protective instincts that victims develop to make sense of the past and shield against future suffering. From Bina’s telling, men enter into her life as though to intentionally wreak havoc, only to step out again when consequences are afoot. She drops hints about the person who initiated her into the assisted-suicide group—a seemingly sociopathic individual she simply refers to as “the Tall Man”—and warns her reader to “worry about the civilized types / On Tuesdays.” The majority of Bina’s ire, though, is directed at a young man named Eddie, who crashed his motorbike near her home. “I’m warning you not to lift men out of ditches,” she says, and readers soon gather that she once did exactly that, allowing Eddie to move into her home as he recuperated. But Eddie stuck around for another ten years, becoming something of a rotten surrogate son.
Bina recounts Eddie’s many misdeeds over the decade: he hit her, locked her cat in a room without food for two days, leeched off her finances (by begging or stealing, depending on how you see it), and killed four of her ducks (backed over by a trailer). “I was trapped inside my home with a violent man. . . . And the bald, uncomfortable truth that not only had I invited him in, I’d physically conducted him in,” she writes. Eddie left around the time Bina became the subject of a police investigation, but he’s still in touch to demand money. Bina’s constant fears about whether he’ll return seem more requisite than paranoid.
Schofield’s biggest risk lies in voicing the book the way she does. Bina’s mind is hyperactive, full of repetitions, obsessive ruminations, and blank spaces—she remembers the day of the week she met Eddie (Tuesday) but cannot recall how to use a bank card. Whether these gaps are caused by trauma or dementia, however, is never made explicit. Her language, which displays the incessant uneasiness that remains in the traumatized consciousness long after the abuse itself has occurred, flits between the whimsical, the poetic, and the outright confusing. Due to its associative, errant routes to meaning, her fear produces wordplay, as seen in her early, vague description of the Tall Man: “It was dark, remember. It is also a dark remember, so I need to get this written out quick, lest I lose my courage to record it.” Then there are the aphoristic phrases, variations of which she can’t help but repeat: “Men stay on the mat / Don’t let them in / In means din.”
Bina’s patterns of misremembering and epiphany sometimes resemble those of the speaker in Samuel Beckett’s one-act play Not I. That unnamed narrator, seen as a floating mouth on an otherwise blacked-out stage, delivers a disjointed monologue about a childhood of neglect and loneliness that led to years of silence. The sudden flash of this voice recalling what it felt like to finally burst into speech brings to mind Bina’s flashbacks to her time with Eddie: “Anytime I hear that name I take a jolt. There was a dog passing recent and I thought I heard a voice call out Eddie. I ran inside and hid in my bed. . . . And I waited. I waited to hear Eddie’s gorsy tones. Nothing. That was when I realized Eddie had gone to my head.”
I’m not the first to compare Schofield’s work to Beckett’s—in a 2016 Irish Times interview, Schofield noted that she stopped reading the modernist (barring his letters) to avoid “succumbing to his influence”—but the difference between the two works, in this case, is instructive. The voice of Beckett’s restless narrator is powerful because it provides no relief, whereas Bina’s fears and recollections are often cut through with the banal and confusing world of her present, such as her digressions about the annoying legion of young activists (or “Crusties”) that has set up camp outside her home to show support. These regular asides dilute the urgency of the story and separate the narrative into layers, some of which are less compelling than others. Suffering may be something Bina knows intimately, but translating a life story through such an unreliable and inconsistent narrator may be an impossible task.
If Bina and Phil feel familiar to previous Schofield readers, it’s because they’ve met them before. Phil is the protagonist in Malarky, where she struggles with her husband’s infidelity and her son’s decision to enlist in the army. After landing in the hospital, struck with grief, she relies on Bina for comfort and support. In that book, Bina, with her characteristic fierceness, leaves no doubt she’d sneak Phil out of the ward if necessary: “We’ve to be sly about this,” she says to Phil then. “You’ve to tell the nurse on the QT I’m yer sister, any form needing signing is only to be signed by me.”
On the surface of this latest novel, Bina and Phil’s friendship seems just as love filled as ever, and it’s presented as an emotional antidote to Bina’s relationship with Eddie. However, as Bina continues to write, it becomes clear that the two women’s friendship was not unfettered by pain. When Phil discovered Bina’s activism, she asked her friend for help in taking her own life. Though Bina has hinted at her involvement with many suicides and is quick to justify those actions, she rejected Phil’s request. Phil kept on asking, and Bina demurred time and again, until, one day, she finally appears to have acquiesced. “She had promised that when Phil said she’d had enough, she would believe her. / She does believe her. / She just doesn’t want to.” Though Phil ultimately succeeded in killing herself, the role that Bina actually played remains murky. “I did put the idea inside her head / By confiding to her what I had done,” she admits, but exactly how far her culpability extends remains unsaid. Whenever Bina gets close to the specifics of Phil’s death, she is quick to halt: “Stop Bina. / Stop it. / If you write out everything you think / They’ll think it’s everything you did. / Rather than everything you thought about doing.”
At times like this, the novel’s constant cat-and-mouse game with simple plot points can be frustrating. On the few occasions when a key piece of information is delivered directly, it is easy for the reader to mistake relief for pleasure. Because Schofield employs so much narrative evasion, compelling her readers to constantly search for the basic foundation of the story between the lines of Bina’s musings, the nuanced feelings and moral complexities around her friendship with Phil blur and lose significance.
Still, there are some signs of how Phil’s end has affected Bina’s outlook on life. It’s telling that most of the broad warnings that Bina delivers throughout the novel have as much to do with her best friend as they do with the likes of Eddie and the Tall Man: “Do not open your heart,” she writes. “Say No.” “Practise saying No.”
Rudrapriya Rathore
Rudrapriya Rathore’s work has appeared in Hazlitt, the Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Notes and Queries, and This Magazine. She lives in Toronto.
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Entrepreneurial women’s official guide to kicking ass and taking names: Rowen Rose
Sille Eyser Overgaard Sørensen
“She is a woman that assumes her masculinity just as much as she assumes her femininity and power.”
In this very first chapter of Entrepreneurial women’s official guide to kicking ass and taking names we speak with the young Creative Director behind the new IT brand ROWEN ROSE about her story and the brand. Diving in to the many ups and downs of being your very own boss.
Emma Raphaëlle Rotenberg was one of those cool kids that found a passion in all forms of art and artistic expression from a very young age. You know the kind: The kid we all wished we were and want our children to be. Furthermore she was born and raised in Paris, giving her an extra nudge up the coolness scale. Emma – that now goes under the name Emma Rowen Rose – comes from a multicultural background with a French, Spanish and Polish family. The Whoman Journal sat down with the Creative Director to speak about her brand ROWEN ROSE, which she launched as a one woman band this year. We talk about the struggles of being both chief cook and bottle washer all at the same time and her best advice to the women out there dreaming of starting their own company.
Oh, and did we mention that she is only 22? Go ahead and feel intimidated. We do.
Give us the elevator pitch for ROWEN ROSE. What is the idea behind it? What story do you tell?
“The collections that ROWEN ROSE proposes always tell a story. From the product to the image: everything is curated to create a special atmosphere. All the collections are based on a specific book, poem, art or movie.”
“Based on the play of Federico Garcia Llorca, La Casa de Bernarda Alba, the collection Santa Cruz goes back to the Spanish roots of the designer…”
“The woman behind the brand is always elegant, androgynous – but not in a genderless way. She is a woman that assumes her masculinity just as much as she assumes her femininity and power. It is the same woman every season, but in a different setting, telling a different story. She is always mysterious, with a contrasted personality – with a style in between two worlds. We explain on our website for each season what the base of the collection was, and then the images and all the garments and their details represent the inspiration. Nothing is created out of nothing.. And that’s also why all the collections have a name. It is very important to me.”
“(..) when it is your company and you are the only one holding it together, you have to stay strong.”
Have you always known you wanted to be an entrepreneur?
“I have been a fashion passionate since… forever. I have wanted to become a creative director since I was 13, but at that time I wanted to work for others. It was and is still my dream to become the creative director of an established brand, but today I also have my baby, ROWEN ROSE. I wasn’t born an entrepreneur, but now realize how much it fits me! I am such a control freak, and I can’t stop myself from creating! It is a lot of hard work and mentally it isn’t easy everyday. Having low days happens in every company, but when it is your company and you are the only one holding it together, you have to stay strong. It is hard but very fulfilling.”
Emma launched ROWEN ROSE with a capsule collection for Resort 19. The collection was themed A Chambermaid’s Diary, and at that time ROWEN ROSE was yet to even be a company.
“I didn’t expect such excitement for the collection! By seeing the growing interest people had for the brand and its concept I decided to make it official, and that’s how ROWEN ROSE was born in July 2018. I had to have big balls!”
“They dare, and they like to experiment with fabrics, shapes and colors, and that’s why they fit ROWEN ROSE”
Despite only launching in July this year, ROWEN ROSE is already sported by top fashionistas around the world, bringing the creative works of Emma to international fashion weeks, Chanel shows and our little – fashionable – city of Copenhagen.
ROWEN ROSE is already an IT girl favorite. What do the women you work with have in commen? Who is the ROWEN ROSE girl?
“Thank you! I hope it is an IT girl favorite! The girls that wear my clothes all have a main common point: they are passionate about fashion. They dare, and they like to experiment with fabrics, shapes and colors, and that’s why they fit ROWEN ROSE so well. I can’t wait to see more people dressed in my brand. The clothes will be available from February in Galeries Lafayette Champs Elysées, H Lorenzo and online.”
“Again, have the balls and work hard. That’s key.”
What would be your best advice to women out there dreaming of starting something of their own?
“Starting something on your own is very scary. And even though you have to start with a lot of courage, you still have to think about it for a while before jumping in! Then if you believe in your work, and you know you have the shoulders to carry a company: Go! And again, have the balls and work hard. That’s key.”
Sille Eyser Overgaard Sørensen 7. december 2018
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Slavin War Memorial: Remembering WW II
Slavín Soviet military grave and Slovak war memorial, Bratislava, Slovakia | Photo by Kiwiev, Link
Located near Slovakia's capital of Bratislava, the Slavin War Memorial is both a moving monument and a cemetery. During WW II, thousands of Russian and Slovak soldiers died fighting the Germans, and almost 7,000 are buried in the cemetery.
The monument was built in the late 1950s and a couple of years after its construction, was designated a national Cultural Monument. The striking monument overlooks the city, and is almost as popular for its fine views.
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Bombón - el perro
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Life is no bed of roses for 52-year-old Juan "Coco" Villegas. He, who has been a gas station attendant for twenty years in Patagonia, finds himself jobless overnight. He first tries to survive by selling knives of his own making. But business is bad and he can't find real work. One day though, after fixing a vehicle on a farm, he acquires a beautiful Argentinian watch dog. From this blessed day on, things start shaping well at last... More
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"El entusiasmo" is set in Chile in 1980. Three young people, Guillermo, Fernando and Isabel meet and become friends during the dictatorship years. Ten years later, Fernando and Isabel are married and have a baby, and, enjoying the new political freedom, they move to another part of the country where they meet Guillermo again. It is the story of the chilean society right after Pinochets military dictatorship. More
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Meet "Scorpion," The Real-Life Santa Claus
Topics: CategoriesThe Tim Ferriss Show
“I believe that peace means that one person has the biggest stick. I build those sticks.” – Walter O’Brien
UPDATE: This episode ended up sparking a lot of controversy. Many skeptics asked pointed questions about Walter’s background, claims, and credentials (often pointing to pages like this or this). This is the first time I’ve run into such an issue with the podcast, so it took me some time to figure out how to respond.
Here is my post-game analysis, as well as Walter’s response.
I struggled with whether or not to take down this episode and blog post entirely. In the end, I decided it was more instructive to leave the below original up (with this new preface) and add an audio note to the beginning of the podcast (coming soon).
I’m hoping it will help us all improve, especially yours truly. Thank you for all of your feedback.
Walter O’Brien (AKA “Scorpion”) (@walterobrienscs) is the founder of Scorpion Computer Services and ConciergeUp.com, a for-hire global think tank that provides intelligence-on-demand as a concierge service. The tag line for the latter is, “for any funded need.”
Need to defend against chemical warfare?
Move an entire manufacturing operation over a weekend?
Save a loved one from a deceitful spouse?
Thread the needle on a thorny legal issue?
Become a pop star in a foreign country?
When Walter and his team of 2,000+ distributed geniuses say “any funded need,” they mean it literally.
Born in Ireland, Walter was diagnosed as a child prodigy with an IQ of 197. He became an Irish national coding champion and competed in the Olympics in informatics.
Fast forward to today, he and Scorpion get paid to fix every imaginable problem for billionaires, startups, governments, Fortune 500 companies, and people like you and me. On the large side, it ranges from mitigating risk on $1.9 trillion of investments to inventing artificial intelligence engines to protect United States war fighters in Afghanistan.
Walter is also the executive producer of the hit CBS TV show Scorpion, inspired by his life, which has reached more than 26 million television viewers.
I was introduced to Walter well before the show, and we go deep in this conversation, with lots of amazing and also hilarious examples of problem solving.
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Want to hear another podcast from a world-class computer scientist? — Listen to my conversation with Luis von Ahn, the founder and CEO of DuoLingo. In this episode, we discuss learning languages, building companies, and changing the world (stream below or right-click here to download):
#135: Luis Von Ahn on Learning Languages, Building Companies, and Changing the World
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QUESTION(S) OF THE DAY: What is a problem you would like to have ConciergeUp solve for you? Please let me know in the comments.
Scroll below for links and show notes…
Selected Links from the Episode
Learn more about ConciergeUp
Learn more about the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bad Science by Ben Goldacre
Learn more about HTC VIVE
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson and Jonathan Davis
Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell by Barrie Sherman and Phillip Judkins
Learn more about Teslasuit or tactile feedback suits
Learn more about ScenGen
Watch the TV show based on Scorpion
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Green
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Into the Heart of the Mind by Frank Rose
How Walter O’Brien began his relationship with NASA [8:15]
How Scorpion came to be [13:20]
The Emotional Quotient vs. Intellectual Quotient phenomenon [15:05]
The origin story of the name Scorpion and current status of the company [16:40]
The largest project Scorpion Computer Sciences has worked on [20:05]
How Scorpion implements “any funded need” solutions [20:42]
The “Gold Digger” story [23:07]
The current state of head transplants and why it may be of interest [30:00]
Why Walter O’Brien has never tried alcohol [38:28]
How Walter O’Brien cultivated a higher EQ [43:25]
Thoughts on developing the skill of rational thinking [45:30]
Meditative practices [53:10]
On virtual reality [57:15]
What is ScenGen? [1:04:20]
Are high IQ intellectuals more susceptible to emotional highs and lows? [1:12:47]
Cognitive patterns in people with high IQ [1:14:54]
How the TV show Scorpion came to be [1:16:45]
When you think of the word successful who is the first person who comes to mind and why? [1:30:22]
How Walter O’Brien gets out of a funk [1:32:09]
Most gifted books [1:33:20]
What purchase of $100 or less has most positively affected your life? [1:34:40]
Advice to Walter O’Brien’s 30-year-old-self [1:37:45]
On the challenge of sleeping [1:39:35]
Particular morning routines [1:41:35]
Thoughts on New Year’s resolutions, goal setting and completing the to-do list [1:42:30]
Historical figures that Walter O’Brien identifies with the most [1:43:50]
If you could put one billboard anywhere, with anything on it, where would it be and what would it say? [1:45:00]
Final words and asks of the audience [1:48:10]
Topics: CategoriesThe Tim Ferriss ShowTags: Tagsscorpion, scorpion computer services, walter o'brien
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306 Replies to “Meet "Scorpion," The Real-Life Santa Claus”
Arielle Joy says:
Thanks for the post, Scorpion is one of my favorite shows! It’s so cool to learn a bit more about the real Walter O’Brien 🙂
Hey all! That “Life” university does exist and its called the ‘School Of Life’
Sohrab says:
Boll and Branch is a new one! Loving this site.
Has Walter O’Brien written about prioritizing and getting organized?
Hi Tim, I enjoyed the Podcast with Walter.
In a future podcast could you sit down with Marcus Lemonis? He has a show on CNBC called the Profit. I think you’ll find that he has high integrity and a good heart.
Ugh. Surprised you’re featuring someone who clearly embellished his history and claims.
Not to be that guy, but there is some pretty solid evidence this guy is making everything up…. Was rather disappointed to see this guest on here without some proper vetting beforehand.
Check this out: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140924/14422128627/another-story-fake-brilliant-inventor-is-scorpion-walter-obrien-real-computer-security-genius.shtml
mitchellcameron says:
Hey Tim, I was about to raise these concerns too. have you seen his website? For a $1.3B company, this is horrendous: http://www.scorpioncomputerservices.com/the_team.html
And then there are these claims tied into the article Sean mentioned above:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h5c7p/i_am_walter_obrien_the_inspiration_behind_the_cbs/ckq070j
Are Sean and I seriously missing something? Or is this guy a phonie? I mean I enjoyed the interview and all but if it’s dodgy…
aidarov says:
Not to defend Scorpion here, but here is Berkshire Hathaway’s website http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
Also not defending the guy, but reference point 5 above, I noted from a quick read of the Sussex University article “Walter and his team-mates had previously come sixth in the world in a similar competition held in Wisconsin…”. Also, studying COGS at Sussex University isn’t something you get to do without ability.
James Compton says:
Tim, you should research the people who you’re going to interview a bit more..This guy is a flat out joke charlatan. Get Nassim Taleb on your show then you’ll be cooking w gas!
bcbates says:
WTF this guys claims are documented to be unsubstantiated and the NSA denied his claims. Please tell me I’m wrong!
YES, I’m glad you and many others here also realized there is something off about Walter. When I saw this podcast come up, I was shocked how he conned his way into it. I met this guy many years ago through a mutual introduction, and after a few times hanging out with him I had a strong suspicion that he was a fraud. I researched him and his company the same sort of discrediting proof came up, nothing he claimed could be substantiated or verified. As a car enthusiast, he would also brag about his not so great cars, with exception to the Lamborghini Countach he claimed he had. Growing up admiring this car, I was DYING to see his car, and when that day finally came I noticed right away that his car was in fact a REPLICA! A cheaply done one at that. For someone who made all these millions and worked on billion/trillion dollar projects to try and pass off his Feiro kit car as a real Lamborghini was all the proof I needed to know that he was a fraud. Never talked to him again.
chinamsg says:
Yeah, go to his website – right away he seems to be completely full of BS.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141004/07211128727/mythical-almost-certainly-made-up-legend-walter-obrien-continues-to-grow.shtml
yeah, totally agree.. I feel he talks in all generalities and buzzwords and what he’s saying about his history sounds off in so many ways. Clearly psychopathic self-aggrandizement. He rented out a Starbucks during business hours for his billionaire sting operation and filled it with actors? come on..Starbucks are company run stores.
If you want to hear what someone successful with IQ an over 150 sounds like listen to a youtube video by Demis Hassabis.
Mark McDonald says:
Scott – Demis Hassabis would be an incredible interview…or maybe not; he is almost certainly too intelligent to keep up with, and I doubt he speaks in the kind of Hollywood-cliché-generator lines which make for good copy…you know, like “when I was 13, I invented the DDOS”, “I have an IQ of 197”, and so on.
swag says:
and check out his fake lotus.
http://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f152/lotus-x100-concept-car-westlake-village-89859/
http://www.lo tustalk.com/forums/f165/lotus-x100-manhattan-beach-13569/
Josiah Munsey (@26PM) says:
One of my favorites. Crazy interview.
I really urge everyone to do a little background on this guy, and it is rather obvious that all of his claims are completely unsubstantiated. It’s a very interesting interview, but it somewhat discredits the entire process when you discover that there is nothing to back up anything what this man has claimed. Would a 1 Billion dollar business have a P.O. Box as their office location, and have a website that looks as basic as theirs is? Very disappointed in this interview without some proper vetting first.
I’m looking for audiobook recommendations for a project these podcasts inspired. After Seth Godin’s interview, a friend and I took his advice and are making a practice out of repeatedly listening to a select set of wisdom-rich audiobooks (The War of Art was the first one I got, and it was well worth it). This also follows Seneca’s advice of not wasting too much time reading broadly. So the idea is to get as much value as possible for the time spent.
Walter O’Brien’s ideas about developing emotional intelligence seems to fit perfectly with this concept. Instead of actively observing experts and receiving EI coaching from experts, we can select books that are the best available for a number of aspects of EI (or life in general) and reprogram our own admittedly amateur reactive thinking.
I have several categories in mind, and a few books, but I was hoping to get recommendations for exceptional audio-books that specifically offer master insights in a wide range of personally relevant categories. I’d appreciate any thoughts or recommendations from anyone!
Sitric says:
Hey Tim, do not be fooled by Walter O’Brien. Most of what he says is completely made up. The guy is a pathological liar. Read Mike Masnick over at techdirt.com or even just check out his wikipedia page.
Hey Tim, Walter O’Brien lied to you. He lies to everyone, and hasn’t a shred of evidence backing up his claims. There’s even a section on his wikipedia page calling him out.
Vance says:
I’m not sure if I would want him to fix the political process or the economy more…
Just a quicky (oh, and great stuff, thank you!!) that stuff about the navy seals not breathing for 20 minutes… how do they get rid of all their co2 during that time – isn’t it excess co2 that causes our “breathing urgency”?
while under water one can not breath in, you would drown if you do that, but you can definitly breath out, expelling the co2.
Like when you go scuba diving
How about if we start a “go fund me” campaign and raise money to pay Walter’s think tank to figure out how to get the military planes and Chem companies to stop spraying Chemtrails and save the planet? Or has somebody already paid Scorpion to do the opposite? 😉
dopplerbob says:
Truly a phenomenal interview. There was so many practical takeaways from this entire show. Loved his real-life answers to the rapid-fire questions at the end. I love how he prioritizes against things that have single points of failure.
If Scorpion were to solve a problem for me it would be this: I am a Chiropractor in Australia, and Chiropractic in this country (and in the USA) has an element of negative brand equity, and an often mediocre public perception. There are people in every profession who are on the fringes but the problem we have is how to communicate on a large scale just how positive making Chiropractic a part of a healthy lifestyle can be. The general public can benefit greatly from using the services of trained, register Chiro’s, so how do we get the message across that what we do is safe, gentle and effective?
PS – yours is my favourite podcast by some margin. Thanks for doing it, and anytime you want to do a podcast ‘on the road from down under’ I will be there!
Chris Peterson says:
Here’s your problem: Chiropractic is considered alternative medicine. “What do they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic
BS, Peterson! I’ve been helped tremendously by “Alternative Medicine” including chiropractic. I’ve also seen many lives completely transformed by it. In contrast, “conventional” MD’s almost killed me in childhood by the inherent dangers and side-effects of many of their treatments. After years of struggling to find answers in conventional medicine, getting steadily worse and worse, I was able to heal myself completely using Chiro, nutrition, herbal medicine, acupuncture, and other “Alternative” treatments. “What do you call medicine that works? Alternative Medicine.”
metcalfe1010 says:
Awesome, down-to-earth interview with a true genius. SO many practical, real-world takeaways from this. Loved his answers to the rapid fire questions at the end. Interesting how simple his answers were and how he prepares to avoid “single points of failure.” Great interview Tim!
John Greer says:
Hey Danny,
I think the backup marketplace is too crowded to start from scratch. Crashplan is probably the most prominent service with Carbonite and others being up there as well. It would probably be pretty hard to compete with them. Though, I’m all for finding your muse and asking for feedback! 🙂
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h5c7p/i_am_walter_obrien_the_inspiration_behind_the_cbs/
This guy has gotten so good at telling his story that even Tim fell for it…
Yep, this is a real shame to have such a podcast given the people who have been on before. You been had TF
DNA2907 says:
Tim – do you really believe this guy is legit?
He seems to be a complete fraud – check out;
http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/walter_obrien/
Normally love your podcast so incredibly disappointed you let this guy on
Heather Simpson says:
I’m curious what this is all about: https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/50/50361_06ScenGen_Summary002.ppt
My thought about him is that it perhaps is true that he actually has done a lot of classified and confidential work. Also, as such a big nerd, perhaps his EQ never alerted him to how awful his website is…? Just a thought
cr0wscalling says:
It’s not the person who was conned who was to blame but the con who ran the hustle. We can all be fooled. Tim should leave the podcast up and post a caveat, and links that disprove the information
“Scorpion” endorsed.
Is this guy for real? Just because they have a fascinating TV show doesn’t mean it’s real. I need to verify this before listening. (the tone of Wikipedia & Techdirt doubts his veracity)
Loved the interview. I would love to have ConciergeUp see if they could get my drug addicted son on a healthier path.
Be careful Zoe, everywhere I look Walter’s claims don’t stack up. Whatever you do, definitely do not get your drug addicted son involved.
Tim, you it owe to us to call this guy out, it’s flat out dangerous to promote someone like Walter O’Brien.
jmes says:
Try Dr. Drew’s podcast for some pointers on addiction. Very useful stuff, for both you and him.
Art Rimbaud says:
Tim, many good episodes but clearly this guy is lying.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Brien
synaspora says:
ConciergeUp, can you solve this problem? I am trying to figure out if US financial system and monetary policy are fundamentally sound. I worry that they may not be and I want to hedge against another major collapse. But, as small retail investor, I don’t know what my best options are.
Tim, you are the best really but if you do a little research on Walter O’brien I think you will find reasons to be extremely skeptical. Not sure if you screen him or if you just thought it was an interesting story but I think some healthy skepticism and critical thinking goes a long way here.
BTW love the podcast. Keep’em coming!!
https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=walter+o%27brien
and for a good laugh or laughs
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h5c7p/
Emeric Damian Thorpe says:
Strange Days (1995) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/
It’s a great movie that fits well with this conversation. It’s beautiful to check any kind of judgement and meet a conversation with an open mind. Thx Tim
Rob L says:
Was anyone else’s BS alert system going off on this guys backstory and actual career? Hear me out, he sounds like an intelligent, connected guy, but don’t you think he would be on to bigger things than consistently shilling for a CBS show over the past few years and trying to get us to ask for gigs that start at a measly 5K? What are the odds none of us have heard about the actual company Scorpion or hear about them in the news like we do for other special ops companies like this. Even his IQ claim is pretty bogus. Reddit was all over this. Check out his response to his IQ claim on his Reddit AMA, or just google his name and “fraud”.
That said, I agreed with pretty much everything he said. I still enjoyed the podcast and would recommend it for the solid advise, but just realize it’s good advice regardless of the source.
TV show or not, I need to research if this guy is real or not. Not very good article on him in wikipedia and TechDirt is skeptical as well
I suspect bullshit.
smartsartner says:
Don’t want to be a wet blanket but I was thinking the same thing whilst listening too, did a quick search and up came the articles…
I’m trusting Tim Ferriss on this one. I’m certain Walter O’Brien has figured out what to say to maximize the benefit to him and his business and how to say it as economically as possible.
He won me over by his comments on apathetic people. They are the worst.
wichhartr says:
My bullshit radar was going off throughout the podcast. Glad to see others seem to think so too.
I use many of Tim’s podcast interviewees as role models. I don’t want to role model the “wrong” attributes. Tim knew him before the TV show, perhaps he has more inside info that he can let us in on.
Tim Raveling says:
I’m a programmer and not terribly black hat, but I’m getting a strong, strong scent of BS from this guy. His website looks like it’s from 1995, none of his more major claims (including “invented the DDOS attack” in this podcast, as well as the 197 IQ score) have any evidence for them whatsoever, and all of the clients he lists in his references section are relatively inconsequential — exactly the sort of clients you might expect if, for example, a company had a flashy (if inane) television show based on it.
Absolutely. I was a bit struck by how he said its a 1.3 billion USD company and all the case studies on the website are 15 years old or more. Have a look at Palantir’s site, that’s a 1 billion in revenue firm….
jmtrimble says:
$1.3 billion over 30 years doesn’t hake it a billion dollar company.
Corrected & noted thanks. That means 43m USD a year since he first opened the doors. Not likely on a project by project deal pipeline, thats a full time sales team rocking in projects right after the other and no sales people seem to exist on LinkedIn or anywhere else.
I also found this article online related to Scorpion: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/stryke-industries-and-scorpion-computer-services-award-winning-scengen-software-selected-by-socom-special-operations-command-for-live-experiment-on-army-base-300110526.html
Laconicus says:
Heather, PR Newswire merely distributes press releases provided by its members. STRYKE and Scorpion probably wrote that up themselves.
Ok, curious about people’s take on this: https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/50/50361_06ScenGen_Summary002.ppt
Just seems like few dug further than TechDirt, Wikipedia and Reddit.
Walter O’Brien is a pathological liar, he hasn’t a shred of evidence for his claims.
The content on head transplants is laughably wrong and poorly thought through. Of all the complexities involved in such an undertaking one of the most glaring omissions is the lack of consideration for the role immunology will play. 1st world healthcare systems can barely manage transplant rejection now let alone the interplay between such a sheer amount of tissue and the foreign CNS and head. That a surgeon is considering carrying out a head transplant in the coming 3 years is no better than vivisection. If “Scorpion” gets head transplants sideways what else has he missed?
And why not go 100% organic food, ultra healthy lifestyle so you can live longer naturally and catch the wave of life extending tech? Nah, I’ll eat ding dongs and drink root beer waiting for a new head.
Dael says:
mobile.twitter.com/AsherLangton/timelines/514456527118143488
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140924/14422128627/another-story-fake-brilliant-inventor-is-scorpion-walter-obrien-real-computer-security-genius.shtml
Lots of debunking……….
Carl Milsted says:
What was the name of that computer language used to make ScenGen again? After multiple replays I hear “raw nzc” which yields nothing in Google.
Richard Olpin says:
He said ‘Raw ANSI C’ which is quite valid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C
But calling ANSI C a forgotten language is puffery. Threw me off. (I’ve done a fair amount of coding in C. Still do from time to time.)
Michael Sullivan says:
But if you look at the wiki link, nowhere does it mention “raw”, and us programmers are the sort to argue over tabs vs. spaces, etc 🙂 hence the kerfuffle over O’Brien’s odd choice of words. ANSI C is certainly valid, but “Raw” ANZI C is not. Raw, in the software world, is usually used to refer to something before it’s been transformed into a friendlier format, I guess the closest example in layman’s terms (heh heh) would be the the raw image format created by a digital camera. From wikipedia: “A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner.” So nobody says “Raw” when referring to a language really, but who knows, maybe in Ireland? By itself, this mistake wasn’t so bad, but in high contrast to the Louis Von Ahn (Duolingo), O’Brien came off as your typical “sysadmin from hell” computer stereotype, i.e the one, when the pointy haired boss asks a question, mumbles something about dept first regression and raw Anzi C and cloud-native architecture (see latest Dilbert), and thus many a computer mess hath been created. This is where the “Five Whys” comes in, and is a great way to stop an disaster like this in the tracks. I just heard today Accenture is known colloquially as “Accidenture” due to their skill at turning simple tasks into giant, expensive messes. Hey, go figure.
Rainer says:
“Raw Ansi-C”. That’s why adds that he doesn’t use any libraries.
Helmut says:
ANSI C
Ordie Page says:
I think he was saying “raw ANSI C” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C
jtpt77 says:
Interesting about Bill Gates. Be greedy when you’re young and then charitable when you are older? Wasn’t that the same for Carnegie and some other philanthropists? Great episode..
Fiction can be enjoyable
ryansponseller says:
At the age of 13 in the year of 1988:
At 10:02 “(…) 4 days later, I invented a denial of service attack and reverse torrent and pieced together bits of binaries and concatenated it and got it all down (…)”
I lol’d
The copper wire in rural Ireland in those days hardly carried a telephone conversation
Slightly confused. You mean southern Ireland, the country that had fibre optic cable before England and most of Europe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland
I’m a genius but I’m at best a half assed doer. That’s why I listen to your podcast for inspiration.
Your opportunity cost comment about dissatisfaction from choice applies to people with regular jobs and financial resources. Knowing oppurtunity cost between two choices causes indecision and regret for most people.
Douglas Drumond says:
When I saw this episode in my Pocket Casts list, my first thought was “he deceived Tim Ferris too”, then I came to post some links, but found a lot of good ones already. Thanks everyone.
Create says:
Tim, Walter, amazing podcast!!! I had a braingasm! – Thank you!!!
Life University.
I always think we need one, all the time, maybe we need to create an online one at least, place to teach people how to take care of our body (basic nutrition, cooking, importance of exercise and breathing etc.), mind, finances, improve social resilience etc. – all those necessary basics to NOT die from heart attack or diabetes, or depression at the very least, to not be broke and suicidal… I believe someone who will deliver this idea to mass-market somehow in entertaining and compelling way…maybe through VR…who knows… will make…lots of money
Question to Walter. how are you so good with computer languages (79 mastered back in your teens) and not good with natural languages that is basically the same thing? I always thought that because I’m naturally good with human languages computer languages are easy for me. Cause it’s basically telling a machine what to do in its native language.
Do you think it has something to do with emotional intelligence? And not being able to connect to your intuition and gut feeling and mental intelligence at the same time?
When I speak or learn a foreign language I pick up a lot from non-verbal communication, emotions of people, gestures etc.
Head Transplants:
Again Walter, Tim…
Do you think head transplants can really transplant one person’s essence to a different body? Do you really think that what we are as people, it’s all in the brain, in the head space? Do you think we are in fact just a collection of data stored on a molecular level in the brain? What about our emotions? They are not stored and originate from the brain, do they?
What about studies showing that we have separate “brain” in the heart and that it sends more signals to the brain than vice versa? That makes scientists question the location of the “ultimate governor” of the body and person.
Do you really believe that consciousness is just a product of the brain and it resides there? And if not, how can a human being be reassembled “mechanically”, if consciousness, our true self, is not in the brain at all? Maybe essence, who we are, has not so much to do with our physical brain or any other organ? (Remember that scene from Avatar, when they put Jake Sully’s Essence/Personality into a different body? They were not concerned too much with head transplants, I know it’s just a movie but still.)
Do you really believe there is NO metaphysical aspect to who we are? Something beyond what we can observe with certainty through our senses?
Isn’t a true purpose of science is to discover and explain (or try to) things we yet to prove and yet to understand? Things we can observe results of and have a intuitive feeling of their origin? Things that don’t make full sense in today’s scientific reality?
Like feeling “something is not right” before major disaster in our life?
Or thinking about a person and they call us right away?
Wasn’t death from bacterial infections considered “mysterious and magical” at some point before we fully developed the toolkit to observe bacteria?
Suffering of people with High IQ:
I have no idea what my IQ is but I do know that I grasp things easier and faster than most people I know on many levels, most things/skills/tasks I encounter come easy to me and do not pause a challenge big enough, that’s why I lose motivation for and interest in a lot of pursuits…And that’s why the whole world seems to me mad and crazy because I see simple solutions to big problems that many see as too simplistic or too crazy…
Definitely makes it harder to connect with lots of people…
I want to make people to live till 1000 and most people tell me I should think of getting rich instead that for me (for whole lot of reasons is a stupid goal).
Just sharing…Maybe you have a solution. Sometimes I believe I’ve been given too much to handle, abilities I still can’t figure out how to handle or where to apply…
My favorite Quote:
“If you come to a fork in the road – take it”
Similar to one of my favorite quotes by Peter Diamandis, “Peter’s Laws”: “When given a choice, take both”
Craig G. Lewis says:
Thank You and Blessing 🙂
Dear Tim,
I until today was a big fan of your shows. But interviewing somebody like O’Brien who is so obviosly fake leaves me with a really bad feeling. If you do such a bad fact checking before an interview, this tells me a lot about your style of work and makes your other stuff appear less worthfull spending my time on.
turdstomp says:
I call BS.
PeterSav says:
Is it April 1st already?
Thanks for this episode. It did indeed blew my mind!
Unfortunately, to much of Walter’s background stories seem to be hugely exaggerated or just false, as Reddit and TechDirt clearly show.
I don’t think you should help promote these stories as real, even though it might inspire one in some weird illusional way. Best to put up a disclaimer?!
Can’t believe you would link yourself to this guy Tim, honestly your hovering just on the border between reality and spoof yourself. This guy is a well known con man who has tricked media all over the world and like yourself they have ate it up and helped to propagate it even more. You are really endangering your brand here in my opinion. This really calls into question lots of the other guests you’ve had who I wasn’t so sure on but due to my lack of knowledge about them thought to give a chance as they came recommended by you. Seriously though even a bit of light googling shows this guy as a complete fraud and you didn’t even question him it.
I’m currently listening to this podcast and find it extremely interesting, Love the fact that Walter is doing such amazing things with his gift and helping people.
It got me thinking how useful his services would be in our country and how he would solve issues we’re currently facing.
For example we have a dumbass government running our country into the ground, instead of solving problems like the current drought we are facing the smartest thing they could come up with was that its apartheid’s fault, no one takes accountability for anything, number 1 problem of the human race now a days.
” A former Queenstown (Eastern Cape) town Councillor asked one of the present Councillors what the current state of affairs was regarding our water supply considering that we have not had much rain lately and were running low. He was told it was the fault of the ‘previous apartheid regime’
When the previous Councillor asked how he worked that one out he replied…………….. ” You built the dams too big , so they take a long time to fill. You should have built them smaller, they would fill quicker and we would have plenty of water and never run out.”……… I mean seriously…
or taking the ostrich approach and denying entirely that we actually have a water crisis.
The other issue we have is the rampant drug trade going on in our country, Did you know that we have a section of JHB that the police specifically avoid even though they know the people there are taking drugs and selling it in the area? Im sure that goes on all over the world, but to just turn a blind eye on something like that is that not condoning what they are doing? but worries me more is how prevalent it is in our area and not just in poor areas but the fact that they are infiltrating our schools and households.
Men who are supposed to be responsible husbands or fathers are falling victim to it as a form of escapism from the stresses of their work or family life leading to more problems and woman becoming victims of their abuse when they get agitated. I sadly hear so many stories of cases such as these just in our social circle alone there are 2 mothers who’s sons are currently in rehab, a wife who is dealing with a husband who takes drugs behind her back, a mother who had to find out her son was arrested for buying drugs, family members who are hooked on some sort of drug and refuse to acknowledge its an issue even though they ended up living on the street, just to name a few… and I would genuinely like to help them in a way that would really make a difference but I neither have the funds nor the support to really make an impact (or maybe I’m not thinking hard enough)
I highly doubt I could afford the services of the Scorpion to solve issues such as these but it would be extremely interesting to find out if this kind of thing falls in your “any” category or even just to get an idea on how you would tackle these kinds of problems….
Happening Everywhere. Thanks for speaking truth. Blessing
Jason Tang says:
Come on, Tim. Did you at least fact check up on this guy before interviewing him? I question how reliable IQ tests can be once people score over 150. At that level you’re basically answering every set question accurately and the rest comes down to timing. With nothing to show for it, are we meant to just believe he’s telling the truth? Besides that, I literally couldn’t find any credible sources to back up all the other things he’s claimed.
Usually I can pick out at least one or two useful pieces of information from these podcasts (and that’s on a bad day). Maybe it’s just me, but I learned nothing today. All I got from him was carefully coated bullshit with zero substance. If there actually was anything of significance to be taken away from this, please let me know. Maybe this time around, I’m just inept at understanding what he had to say.
I apologize, Walter, if everything you claimed turns out to be true. However, you can understand how one would be skeptical, right?
I enjoyed the interview even though felt that some of the stories were a bit too much “scripted” (like the golddigger story).
Then I made the mistake to google Mr. Scorpion and came across several articles debunk in many claims he has made.
Unfortunately they were much more convincing than O’Brian in the interview.
This got me thinking:
Why did Tim – one of the smartest guys around – fell for this guy if he is the fraud some people claim he is?
Was it because they were introduced by someone who Tim trusts and he then proceeded under bias that makes us seek evidence that supports our believes?
Or has Tim seen some actual evidence that proves beyond doubt that Walter O’Brian is the genius he claims to be.
I’d love to hear why Tim really thinks O’Brian is the real deal — and not just a great storyteller with great lies and some mental issues.
Elliot says:
Completely agree. I was so taken away by the stories that I didn’t think at all that there was anything wrong. I do feel that Tim needs to do a quick followup with his explanation. Still 100% on Tims boat because he backs stuff up with substance.
Martin Marzidovsek says:
Waiting for Tim’s explanation too!
wooow this definitely is one of the most amazing interviews ever!!!!! if you have this in February, I don’t know how your going to top this!
Thanks for the Podcast. Not aware of that show here in the UK, but what a facsinating guy.
Hi Tim and Walter,
Is there any chance that list of Top 10 books is published somewhere?
QOTD – I would like Walter to answer a question about farming. How can British farmers react to the situation a lot of us are in where our businesses live or die by the swings in the commodity prices?
As an arable farmer, myself and my peers seem to be stuck in this situation where our profitability is now dependent on which side of bed the commodity speculators get out of. How can you ‘add-value’ to commodities?
Would be interested to hear his thoughts.
Thanks gents. Brilliant stuff.
His website looks like the website of a typical IT services company. Look at the specialties of his top employees (adobe, ms office etc.). If it turns out that he’s full of shit, it has to be one of the greatest dupes ever – CBS based a primetime TV show on his life.
Cedric Vanlandeghem says:
wtf^10
I’m going to listen to this podcast multiple times!
Thank you Tim for this profound guest!!
I’ve been watching the tv-show Scorpion and some times I had a feeling like sure why not jump off the cliff or going up in the balloon…
I always thought it’s tv it’s entertainment, but now I think everything could happen :-).
Any Funded Need… hmm
I have a very personal need, Now I’m 29years old.
I’ve been in pain for 10 years
(3 surgeries low back L5-S1 fusion, they messed up the first surgery)
trying to get to a normal life.
I did a lot to fix this or cope with it, not coping in the sense of “I give up” but in managing time & energy to get “a” result. But it’s getting harder every year because the chronic pain made my body oversensitive which leads to more pain which leads again to .. and so on. My body is not getting “fitter” but neither is my mind.
The only thing a hear from “doctors” is everything looks ok (padding themselves on the back) and suggesting to pop pills for my “minimal pain and discomfort”.
I know this is not gonna save the world , but it’s my need.
thank you for the great content & insights!
Verne Weisberg says:
How can I streamline the operations of a medical weight loss practice and improve the culture so that we increase value and make the model scalable (I.e. National)?
Michon says:
Great and fascinating interview. Where is the top 10 book list located? I liike the $100 idea.
90% certain this guy is a fraud.. A lot of his claims don’t seem to check out.
brian gormanly says:
A sincere thank you for your podcasts, and doing what you do, it has added tremendously to my life.
I also am a bit troubled by what I have found doing some research on Walter as others have mentioned, it seems he has convinced some very high up the military food chain marketing his IQ as his credentials. I find the idea of questioning a person’s authenticity that might be as involved in the military as claimed and have a fair amount of influence within very unsettling.
I hope this does not come off as being small minded, or petty, I have never met Walter and try not to be quick to judge. I just finished the interview feeling a bit not sure about some of the responses and claims. Which led me to search around a bit on him. The holes on the internet leave me feeling that he is more about creating the persona that the military wants, rather than being that person they found.
I still absolutely loved the format of this interview, and still gained many ideas from it.
Els Coleman says:
My “problem” for solving would either be: What really happens when we die? or Find my perfect man/job/life!
Michael C. Sekora says:
I find Walter’s quote of “I believe that peace means that one person has the biggest stick. I build those sticks.” very interesting.
Before there was a ConciergeUp and a Scorpion, there was the Socrates Project in the Reagan White House. Socrates was the massive “big stick” that President Reagan used in negotiations with Gorbachev to convince him to dismantle the Soviet Union.
If you want more information on Socrates pls let me know. I was the founder and Director of the Socrates Project.
Michael C. Sekora
Great as a sound bite, but what does it really mean? Any way you slice it, it’s certainly not an unassailable truth anyway: the ruled under a tyrant probably wouldn’t call that state of affairs peaceful (“orderly” maybe, “peaceful” not so much).
Not sure the quote applies any better in practice: hasn’t the one with the biggest stick been made to play an expensive and extensive game of whack-a-mole for the better part of a century at this point? And isn’t *using* the stick non-peaceful, by definition?
Curious how effective the “massive ‘big stick'” has really been – Iran may have been held in check militarily and economically (more than 1 stick??), but what about numbers of states that continue to challenge the U.S. hegemony? (ESPECIALLY the Russians and Chinese)
Lastly, Walter may not be quite as prolific at stick-making as he lets on (“technology” as the third stick??)
Thanks TIM for this really amazing interview, i would argue your best; a quick search trough the interwebs and you find a lots of challenges to his claims, nevertheless still impressive even if some are exagerated. Really interested in his personal book club, i can see some of them, you have already posted on the show notes. Any insight in the recruiting process of scorpion?
PS. This episode really kept me up all night
My to 🙂
Sounds like he has an IQ of 97.
Jonathan Douche Beck says:
Would write a detailed insightful wish in the near future.
At hand I have a immediate challenge. The feeling of being stuck is raising my cortisol levels to a unprecedented level.
I believe this wish/challenge is worth more than 5k. Probably 10 percent of my future earnings..
I have to choose between 2 woman.
Y. She is beautiful. Gorgeous. Exciting. Known less than a month. Definitely in love with her. She has a temper though. Extreme ends of emotions with her. Very happy and very sad. She is like a soul mate. We can just talk forever.
W. 7 in the looks. Not exciting but caring. Very patient. Puts up with my shit. Known 3 years. There is love for sure but maybe not intense. Affection is a apt word. Passion might be lacking. Future should be stable and plaid.
Now I am in 21 day hermit mode. Told both I need this time. No contact. Just going through demons from the past. Evaluating my strengths . Weaknesses. What is me. What makes me happy. Pretty sure whoever I choose is the one I would marry.
Though Y has already said good bye. She can’t wait.
W is accommodating and kind. She said she is okay waiting.
I just want to know who I should choose . To follow love?
Even if in the end I lose both. Just want clarity. And wake up with vision.
By now you might have guessed. I cheated on W. Y knows about W but W is in the dark.
How would a genius go about this..
And because a happy relationship would make me liable to earn much… thus I believe this is more than 5k answer. Can’t really tag a amount to it though.
Choosing a right mate.. how much is it worth?
Sounds to me like you really shouldn’t be with W.
If you do choose W, I doubt you will be happy. Because everything she does ‘wrong’ in your eyes will be compared to what you think Y would have done.
Choose Y.
If you don’t you will always end up wondering, and that will lead you to not giving W the attention and love she deserves.
But in general, just make a decision. Keeping people waiting isn’t a nice thing to do.
That’s my 2p worth.
And by the way. You should probably refrain from scoring women on looks and attaching monetary values to relationships. It doesn’t come across very well.
Date Both!
Go out in nature, Enjoy sharing time!
In 21 days you will know, what path to follow.
No need to rush. Decisions, when they come, will answer themselves.
Have open Heart, and no judgement, for anything.
Be your Best for them, give them your True self and BE the Love.
chrislewismh2 says:
Sounds like Y might have a psychological disorder (read about BPD and see if it rings true). If that’s the case, she will seduce you, then proceed to chew you up, spit you out, and spend months complaining about how bad you tasted. You’ll tell yourself that you’re happy with her until she beats you to an emotional pulp and you’re forced to admit that she was the biggest mistake you ever made. Never make a relationship decision based solely on emotion and excitement. Read Mark Manson’s articles on relationships.
The whole your body is in the game is how I feel when playing League of legends (free to play online game) and its not even realistic to reality lol games are getting better and better at sucking you into them every year. can’t wait for the future of gaming.
Linus says:
Wrap your head around this one:
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isaiah 55:8–9)
mike sage says:
10 books??
Hilarious and entertaining! Reminds me of the book “Charlatan” by Pope Brock 😉
Kellan McGlynn says:
Anon (because I don't want to piss off a psychopath) says:
I have first-hand experience to say that he’s an absolute psychopath and a master bullsh*t artist. This episode should be very entertaining – I look forward to listening.
Reach out if you want more details, Tim. 🙂
Good interview. Hopefully the negative on him can be explained.
Damn this podcast is packed with value
Jan P says:
Usually I try to have an open mind to even the most controversial guests on the podcast. But this guys sets off my BS detector like no other. Not only do his claims sound improbable, but most of all they are fashioned in such a incredibly cliche way. The whole ‘misunderstood genius that is above the folly of the common man’ shtick. Furthermore I understand that Tim doesn’t have a technical background, but everything this guy says about technology sounds specifically designed to impress non technical people. Just one example was his claim of being _fluent_ in 79 programming languages. My mom would think that sounds cool. A programmer on the other hand would react with: “sure you do”.
On top of these issues his all to prevalent use of buzz words and bro-science was uncharacteristic for the usually high level of Tim’s guests. So I took and googled his name and found his Q&A (IAMA) on Reddit which exactly embodies my sentiment.
So I wonder, is this guy able to substantiate any of his claims?
nichoggan says:
An even cursory glance at the Google machine quickly shows that this “genius” is almost undoubtedly a charlatan and fraud. Which is a shame because the interview was fascinating. The real disappointment is that Tim decided to play along.
So many hard questions unanswered in this podcast. Why didn’t Walter get his IQ ratified my Mensa? why he claims 6th in the Olympiad but records show Ireland was 90th.Why do business records show him at a 1-10 million revenue company with 1-15 employees but he claims so mush more?. why is some of the writing to scorpion so wrong technically? really, first episode they had running a Ethernet cable from a Ferrari to a 747 to save all planes crashing. My tech friends this laughed out out of the room. there is a Reddit thread on this. So many hard questions you didn’t ask Tim. I love you podcast but ask tough questions please
I really enjoy & respect Tim’s work – so how the hectic did he get in a situation where he was taken in by a fraud like Walter O’Brien ???
Tim is getting called out on this on Twitter and here but is remaining silent.
Surely you own you an audience a reply? Do you genuinely believe Walter is telling the truth – despite all the articles on the web pointing to fraud – or can you just admit you got duped ?
Ever since “Scorpion” began I have loved and watched it. The relationships and how everyone interacts are the most interesting aspects. The math and science is far above my head though I can understand much of the basic ideas. That said, there are occasionally scenarios that seem absurd. Like either something wasn’t explained, or doesn’t show how the situation evolved to such a point or whatever is going on is completely unrealistic. Sometimes the chain of events are unbelievable or your film crew has messed up somehow. Using more varied locations instead of always in the LA area would also help the show seem more realistic. The disaster scenarios often are beyond realistic. Fascinating show however. If you’re wanting to recruit, have your writers get the details down. I suppose you could recruit plenty of people who can see the situation and assume certain things must have happened. If I were a genius, which I am not, I’m sure I wouldn’t need things spelled out for me however, but I often find myself saying, “Whatever! That wouldn’t happen!”
Peter S says:
Would love for ConciergeUp to build me a $5k+ a month cash flow business so I can graduate medical school without debt…It’s a lot of work to get to the point of a 4 hour workweek…
Based on what I read after listening to the interview, it seems like Walter is a bit of teller of tales, as any good Irishman would pride himself on being. I have known a few people like this. They are indeed very smart, but not smart enough to outrun the truth, in the long run. If he has wildly exaggerated even one of his claims, as it seems quite clear he has (even told outright lies), then the intelligent thing to do (for us “not so smart” people) is to pay absolutely no attention to anything he has to say, as he is not to be trusted. Using as much reason and logic as I can muster, the best conclusion that I can come to is that I wasted my time in listening to this interview, as there is nothing that can be trusted in it. If my time was wasted, then so was the time of everyone else who listened. Assuming about 10,000 people listened to it (just guessing) and that’s about 10,000 hours wasted. I hope that Tim vets his future interviews a bit more thoroughly. I feel used. I will never watch that show, even for Katherine McPhee.
Phuckle says:
Thanks Tim. I often wondered what the Blarney Stone would say if it could talk. If you need any more imaginative Irish guests, give me a shout.
The lower-bound number of possible chess games is 10^120. For a computer to play out every possible game within 100 years would take 10^110 games per second—obviously impossible. This guy uses that strategy for solving a chess game as an analogy to advertise his ScenGen service, but in fact it’s a perfect analogy for what’s wrong with his “root-to-tip” approach: any optimization problem worth solving will have a virtually inexhaustible set of possible inputs.
Did I miss something? Apparently he’s successfully used this program for the Navy SEALS, so he can’t be totally nuts… hopefully.
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/attach/50/50361_06ScenGen_Summary002.ppt I found this regarding ScenGen….not sure what all it means
Graham Wheeler says:
Hey, he can explore massive exponentially exploding combinatorial problems in seconds using just a laptop because he used his highly arcane programming language skills of ANSI C! This Walter guy is like the 13 year olds on Quora who claim to have mastered programming and are wondering why the world isn’t falling at their feet.
This is the first time I’ve caught the scent of bullshit on this podcast.
Definitely a smart guy, but also has a tendency for exaggeration. The anecdotes about the coding competitions were pretty suspicious as someone who has experience in those areas.
In response to QUESTION(S) OF THE DAY: What is a problem you would like to have ConciergeUp solve for you?
Who killed my Dad and will they ever be a caught. I believe there are enough clues and avenues for resolution which could be determined by the right person or people.
Morten says:
Hey Tim, this interview had me fired up, I must admit however that I found it strange of a guy who’s supposedly as “successful” as Scorpion to end on a self-promotional note like he did, so I decided to check out Concierge Up’s website. With a team of more than a thousand geniuses, you’d think one of them knew about proper web design, but the design looked like ancient and quite frankly terrible.
Where there’s smoke there’s usually fire, so I looked around, his Twitter seemed remarkably strange, with half assed self-promotion. Then I found the Tech Dirt article, and the Reddit AMA..
Maybe you’re privy to some information we’re not, but it would seem the “Scorpion” is indeed not who he claims to be. Since I consider you a most trusted source of information, as I know many others do as well, I think it would be in it’s place to clear up the confusion as to Scorpion’s identity – with his many remarkable claims, surely it would be no problem to conjure up some proper sources?
I’ve been following your work for many years, and I’m a big fan. This is the first time I’ve seen anything sketchy.
Looking forward to your response.
Why does his website look like it was built in 1980? Doesn’t make sense…
Because it does it’s job. What happens next, I’m about to find out 🙂
Looks like one slipped through your bullshit detectors Tim.
This guy is a charlatan.
Look forward to a QA in the future.
Jaap says:
Did any one catch the programming language he mentioned that he wrote ScenGen in? Something like raw NCC without microsoft libraries? When I google that I don’t find anything. Curious 🙂
Without re-listening I think he said ANSI C, which is if not the most widely used programming language ever then at least up there.
Oh, you’re right. When I heard it I thought he just made up a language, “Raw NZC” — but in fact he did say “raw ANSI C with Microsoft Libraries,” which is something you might say if you were a teenager pretending to be l33t, as opposed to “C” which is what you’d say if you were, you know, a programmer.
Jadie says:
Awesome show. How about interviewing Megan Hine next? She’s a survival consultant. Would be awesome to hear her story!
I would love ConciergeUp to figure out a way for me to motivate my students to read independently outside of their classwork. As a reading and language arts teacher, 8th grade, we have done assignments to hold them accountable, but many students view it as a chore. I’d like for them to come up with better ideas on how to get them to invest in this idea of independently reading.
Jae Lee says:
Awesome episode!
This is gold: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h5c7p/i_am_walter_obrien_the_inspiration_behind_the_cbs/?limit=500
I’m an avid fan of the podcast and this one has really brought Tim’s credibility into question for me. An IQ of 197? A couple minutes into the podcast I began to doubt this, and it only took a couple minutes of googling to find out that there is a lot of controversy around his claims. If it was this easy to find out that most people believe him to be a fraud, how is it possible that Tim was unaware of this controversy and was so easily fooled? Or was he fooled, which would have even more deleterious implications.
Here’s a list of facts, by no means exhaustive, that should make you think twice about this episode.
-He has no record of his IQ test
-There are many lists of the highest IQ’s, and he is on none of them.
-He claims to have been contacted by the Department of Homeland Security several years before it was conceived.
-The picture on his website http://www.scorpioncomputerservices.com/whoweare.html is actually a photoshopped https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Leonardo_Glass_Cube
-He claims to have competed in the 1993 Informatics Olympiad and ranked as the “6th Fastest Computer Problem Solver” yet he was not one of the 82 medalists, and the only record of him being there (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:V6LlkAN5j_YJ:www.sussex.ac.uk/internal/bulletin/downloads/1990-1999/1993/November/19931119.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ie) says that his team got 90th place out of 250.
Get this guy on the Joe Rogan podcast!
Joe’s a little more combative than Tim. I think he’ll ask him about his lack of evidence etc..
Shankha says:
Loved the podcast Tim – most profound answer to the “When you think of the word successful…” question I’ve heard thus far! Any suggestions for resources that will help improve critical thinking (books, puzzles, etc)?
Jon Clary says:
I’m a huge fan, and listened to this one twice in a row it was so interesting. Less than a day later, I’m wondering how you could be fooled into going along with this nonsense Mr. Ferriss? This guy is a wonderful storyteller and a true genius of the humble brag. He’s also completely fake. His 1.4 billion dollar company has a fake website, with fake employees and fake clients. He’s practically begging for work “anything above $5 thousand dollars” at the end of the podcast, while working on 10 billion dollar gov’t programs? I love the podcast Tim Ferriss, please vet your guests.
I was born and raised in Ukraine and the story about the gold-digger made me feel bad, ashamed and angry 🙁
I want people to know that not all Ukrainian girls are that evil…
Apart from that the podcast is really mind blowing! The guy is fascinating! Now probably one of my favorite podcasts ever.
I didn’t come away with that impression of Ukrainian girls.
It was just one bad apple. It can happen anywhere!
thanks 🙂 it happened to me a couple of times when I met people who had prejudice because of some experiences or gossips… But for somebody who can think it should be obvious that not all people are the same 🙂
greetings from Switzerland
jsnoshima says:
Same. my great grandparents were from the Ukraine. I did not take offense, nor feel ashamed from this story. But what a great story!
andymac01 says:
I can make you feel better – the story was in all probability BS told by Walter Mitty
I also thought about that for a moment 🙂 but we’ll never know…
Yachika Verma says:
wow, really amazing..is this for real?
prolly not…
Mr Dee says:
No taking away from the Quality of what Mr Ferris does. Mans a Dude, but I gotta say, I didn’t find this quite as mind blowing as I thought I would.
I know super intelligent types are not always the most engaging when they are speaking, but Tim usually has a way of pulling the good stories out of them. Listening to this guy, I just felt like I was listening to so many different Bullsh!ters, in so many different Bars.
gbell12 says:
Unfortunately, this guest’s claims don’t add up.
See: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141004/07211128727/mythical-almost-certainly-made-up-legend-walter-obrien-continues-to-grow.shtml
He did an AMA as well, which didn’t go well: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2h5c7p/i_am_walter_obrien_the_inspiration_behind_the_cbs/?limit=500
Another problem: There never was a “400 baud” modem as he says he used as a kid. There was 300 baud, 1200 baud, 2400 baud… everybody makes mistakes, but for a computer genius with a 197 IQ…
This podcast was amazing, ‘the scorpion’ has not only mastered the NLP techniques, etc to allow himself to communicate effectively and develop his EQ, but he also has some great beliefs, I love the line about Mother Teresa and Bill Gates.. Be selfish when you’re young so you can make a difference when you’re old.
It’s awesome to see a different character on the podcast, another left of field topic that it would be awesome to see covered is the art sex.. I finished Ian Kerners ‘She comes first’ the other day, and damn.. I wish someone had taught me this stuff a few years ago. After all great is a key to a great life.
Yeah my bullshit meter was going off too. There were some chronological inconsistencies that first raised alarms. This is the first interview of Tim’s where I googled the interviewee not to learn more but to see if he was real.
I hope either Tim knows sometime we don’t or Tim was too busy to really vet this guy. Otherwise, how many other guests have been spewing pure bullshit. It would be nice to hear from Tim on this subject.
R.E. says:
Tim, it’s a bit sad that you fell on this. You are so smart and I’d be surprised if you haven’t noticed during the interview that this guy is a hoax.. I felt it, so I did some research afterwards and found all the proofs about his lies. The simplest – Google Image the image of the Scorpion building that appears in the Scorpion LinkedIn page and you’ll see it’s photoshoped from a glass company German building.. And there’s so much other proven BS.. Just sad 🙁 but I’ll forget about this one as I get so much value from your podcast. Thanks 🙂
Hi Tim, I have never posted here, I listened to every single Podcast, read your books. And followed every thing you do, but this podcast mad me sad since it had so much potential. what a great guest. so many amazing things we could have learned from him. huge respect for him but this was a weak episode. thanks for your work
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Madurai News
Discharge of sewage into Vandiyur channel stopped
TNN | Dec 8, 2019, 4:28 IST
Madurai: The PWD has initiated steps to prevent discharge of sewage into a channel that carries water to the Vandiyur tank. The initiative was taken following a report appeared in TOI on Saturday.
Residents of Gomathypuram – Thendral Nagar Residents Welfare Association, had gone to the entry point of the channel on receiving information that water from the Vaigai would be reaching the channel.
But they were shocked to see sewage gushing into the channel from underneath, which was reported in TOI.
On Saturday, PWD officials inspected the spot and found that a leak in the sewage pipeline of a private hospital in the area has caused the sewage spillage.
However, the hospital authorities repaired the pipeline, which is carrying sewage to a manhole at Surveyor Colony.
However, the residents, including the secretary of the association and members of the Walkers’ Club in Madurai, have opposed to the hospital laying its sewage pipe through the supply channel.
“It was repaired because we noticed the leak, but it can happen again, and all our carefully sourced and stored water could be polluted again,” said Pandi, a resident.
They want the PWD and the Madurai Corporation to ensure that the sewage pipeline is shifted away from the supply channel. Meanwhile, hotels near the channel were also found to be discharging their sewage into the channel and they said that the ongoing road works was the reason that they had to discharge sewage into the channel.
This should be stopped by constructing septic tanks for the purpose, said D Raghavan, president of the association.
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LeAnn Rimes Criticized After ‘X Factor’ Performance With Carly Rose Sonenclar
Aaron Davidson, Getty Images
Everyone said the right things after LeAnn Rimes and 'X Factor' contestant Carly Rose Sonenclar finished singing the country superstar's 1997 hit 'How Do I Live.' But it was clear during the duet that there was concern for what was happening on stage. The day following, Rimes is being called "unstable," "out of it" and worse by internet news and tabloid sites.
The 13-year-old Sonenclar said Rimes made her feel very comfortable during their performance, and the 30-year-old star clearly appreciated the contestant's talent, wrapping her in a big hug afterward. Facial expressions and body language (including a "What the heck?" stare by judge Britney Spears) told a different story. Instead of melting into one voice, the pair battled like singers would on 'The Voice.'
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Rimes was hoarse due to being sick before the show aired. On Tuesday, the singer tweeted about having a cold that was getting worse. "Leno was fantastic and I was and am SO sick," she shared after an appearance on 'The Tonight Show.' "Thank you GOD for pulling me through and talking w/ jay was was always fun!!!"
If an illness was to blame, the singer isn't saying, but she's laughing off accusations that she was drinking before the 'X Factor' performance. “I mean are some people for real … what a joke," she tweeted, according to RumorFix.com. That message has since been deleted.
Truth be told, there seemed to be troubles before Rimes joined Sonenclar on stage. In the clip, the young singer looks thrown off during her first lyrics. Throughout the song their vocals lacked balance, making the performance seemed unrehearsed.
Rimes tells TMZ that she thought Sonenclear was having difficulties with the song and she was trying to help the teen contestant get through it. "I was trying to help this 13-year-old girl who was having some trouble with the song," she said. Her lawyer, Larry Stein, added, "LeAnn was not performing the way she would normally perform, because she was on stage with a young girl."
Viewers will find out if Sonenclar, country singer Tate Stevens or Fifth Harmony wins the $5 million prize on the 'X Factor' finale on Thursday (Dec. 20).
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Source: LeAnn Rimes Criticized After ‘X Factor’ Performance With Carly Rose Sonenclar
Filed Under: LeAnn Rimes, X Factor
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