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Ying Chen photographed by Gabrielle Parker (reproduced with thekind permission of the author)
Ying Chen was born on 20 February 1961 in Shanghai where she grew up in the former French concession, her mother’s last child, her father’s first. Her mother’s first husband, an anti-Revolutionary, had died in prison. Her father was an engineer and administrator. For Chen, ‘to have been born in China in the 20th century is a great misfortune’. Indeed, the impact of public policies on ordinary citizens is no mere backcloth but woven into their very lives. Chen was born in lean times. Plain hunger, the lingering outcome of the Great Famine, brought about by the Great Leap Forward economic policy (1958 to 1961), still stalked the land. Although subject to food rationing, Shanghai itself was protected from extreme hardship, yet Chen recalls vividly being physically and intellectually malnourished and, in her early years, being ‘fed a dry diet of slogans’.
Although her formal education coincided with the beginning of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) when the scarcity of food was matched by the aridity of cultural, social and intellectual life, she did enjoy school, especially lessons in the Chinese language at primary school (her first language is the Shanghai dialect) which she remembers as ‘fun’ with a teacher whom she ‘idolised’. University entrance examinations had been suspended in 1966 as a consequence of the ‘Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement’. In 1968, Chairman Mao had issued a call which sent young administrators from the city, children, and university students to work in the fields to gain a better appreciation of the life of the peasants and learn from them. Although ‘rustication’ (the policy of assigning urban youths to rural areas) did not end until 1980, ‘reprieved scholars’ began to flock back to education and the cities from 1977 when entrance examinations were reinstated, two years before Chen graduated from secondary school. This made the competition for admission at a prestigious institution such as Fudan all the more arduous. With higher grades in Russian than in Chinese, Chen gained admission to read Modern Languages, rather than to pursue the study of Chinese language and literature as she had dreamt of doing.
In spite of the cold, the pangs of hunger and actual malnourishment – to the point of falling ill and being advised to go home in order to be fed more substantively – her abiding memories of university years are of the camaraderie of the dormitories where she dreamt for the first time in French. Slogans had faded from 1976 onwards, and university life was about discovery and interrogation. Many intellectuals of her generation despaired at the state of their culture, left in ruins, and the campus was the locus of permanent debate and questioning. Chen identified with the youths who had lost the ability to further their education – who became known as a ‘lost generation’, ‘cette génération [dite] perdue’ – wondering whether she herself can make any claim to Chinese culture as her inheritance.
Yet there is no doubt that such a culture was transmitted in spite of the chaos brought about by the Cultural Revolution and its pervading force. She does concede that her decision to write in French may have been a gesture of rebellion – révolte – against her Chinese formal education. She recalls questioning the notion of ‘patrie’, an illusory notion, at University and concluding that the quest for a homeland is more interesting than finding one. The study of languages (she stresses the plural), including Chinese, brought a huge heightening of her horizons and a sense of expanding her personality (growing ‘un troisième œil’). Access to a range of texts – mediated by Chinese translations – helped her embark on a long voyage of intellectual discovery. Chen points out that Sartre’s play Les Mains sales had been translated and staged in early 1980. Indeed, Yan-Zi, the protagonist-narrator of L’ingratitude (1995) attends a performance. Chen graduated in French language and literature in 1983.
After graduation, Chen worked as a commercial and technical translator at the Institute of Astronautical Research in Shanghai (1983-89) using Mandarin, Italian, English and French. This was a period accompanied by cultural and artistic, as well as political and economical reforms in China, with intellectuals and students frequently calling for freer artistic and literary expression and demanding more democratic processes. A number of severe crackdowns followed, in particular in 1986 when thousands of students throughout the nation took to the streets.
Yet, this ‘second revolution’ (which had seen a programme of comprehensive economic modernization and organizational reforms introduced) also led to an opening to the rest of the world, the calling in of foreign experts, and the opportunity for Chinese students to go abroad to pursue advanced degrees in a wide range of disciplines. Like many young Chinese intellectuals of her generation, Chen left China in 1989, aged 28, to pursue her goal to become a writer, a voyage that entailed a self-imposed exile from her parents, family, culture and language. She has compared her decision to a form of suicide. Certainly, the image of death, relics of previous lives and vestigial memories are recurring topoi in her fiction. The violent clashes at Tiananmen Square occurred soon after she had left, causing her a great deal of anxiety and nostalgia for a country and family that she had just left and was already missing.
Among the authors Chen mentions, Camus, an early discovery, remains a ‘model’ – his philosophy explicitly so, and implicitly his style. Rilke and Proust are frequently quoted – as are Réjean Ducharme, Saint-Denys Garneau, Yvon Rivard (her former supervisor at McGill), or again Saint-Exupéry for the wisdom found in Le Petit Prince. She had read widely enough prior to leaving China to be aware of the truth of her grandmother’s admonishment: ‘L’odeur de l’eau est partout la même’.
Chen has often stated that she ‘always knew’ that she wanted to be a writer – indeed, a ‘famous’ writer – and recalls creating humorous plays at primary school, or embroidering stories out of tales she had read. She published a few short texts whilst still living in China. In Montreal, she enrolled for a master's degree in creative writing at McGill University. She graduated in 1991 having fulfilled the requirements of her MA dissertation by writing a critical study – of Anatole France’s historical novel Les Dieux ont soif – and an original narrative, ‘Fleurs de lotus’. Reviewed and augmented, this early text became her first novel, La Mémoire de l'eau, published by Leméac, Montreal, in 1992. The book achieved early success but also created expectations which Chen has been at pains to reverse since. Its Chinese setting and historical timeframe seemed to place its author firmly within a literary current which was being defined by literary critics at the time, that of ‘littérature migrante’, and within a thematics of exile, nostalgia and exoticism.
Les Lettres chinoises following in 1993 and L’Ingratitude in 1995 appeared to confirm those apprehensions. In part as an attempt to pre-empt such interpretations, the author re-wrote Les Lettres chinoises, stripping the second version (1998) of those details and references that situated it too evidently. L’Ingratitude, shortlisted for the Femina prize in 1995, was awarded the Prix Québec-Paris that same year, and the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle Québec in 1996. The novel was translated into Italian, English and Spanish. Immobile (1998), which won the Prix Alfred-DesRochers, marked a turning point with the start of a series of seven novels in toto ending with La Rive est loin (2012). She also changed publishing houses, leaving Leméac (Montréal) and Actes Sud (Arles) for Boréal (Montréal) and Seuil (Paris). Chen has also published poems, including a bilingual poetry collection in French and Mandarin, short stories and essays, including Quatre mille marches, a collection of essays. Le Plus Grand Obstacle, which takes the form of a long letter to her son Lee, is to be published in October 2014 (Boréal, Montreal).
Chen’s life as a writer started in Montreal – her son Yuan was born there in 1996 – before settling near Magog in southeastern Quebec where her second son Lee was born in 1998. She has now been living in Vancouver since 2003, having moved to be closer to her husband’s new job. 2003 was a personal turning point, but Vancouver’s landscapes also satisfy a yearning for sea and mountains. All the while, Chen has kept a pied-à-terre in Paris, spending short periods there. She was made Chevalière des Arts et Lettres in 2002. From the very start with the publication of La Mémoire de l'eau, Chen's work has been the object of much postgraduate and doctoral research and publications. In Spring 2009, she was Shadbolt Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, French Department, Simon Fraser University which has introduced two awards in recognition of Ying Chen's achievements and in support of creative writing, one for poetry and one for fiction, to the most deserving students who successfully completed a course in these genres during the academic year.
Montreal also marked the start of a new civil status, or identity. In becoming a Canadian national, Chen yielded to North American practice, putting family name last. A re-naming, in effect, which, combined with Western pronunciation, turned her original name into a nom de plume. Having also become an author in Chinese, particularly with her own translation of L’Ingratitude (2002), she deliberately chose to sign ‘Ying Chen’, thereby effecting a complete reversal of the original twist. Read in its ‘correct’ Chinese order and in its genuine Chinese pronunciation, her birth name became her Chinese pen name. What is in a name? A cleaved identity.
Compiled by Gabrielle Parker (Middlesex University)
La Mémoire de l’eau (Montréal: Leméac, 1992; Arles: Actes Sud, 1996)
Les Lettres chinoises (Montréal: Leméac, 1993)
—: ’nouvelle version’ (Montréal: Leméac, 1999; Arles: Actes Sud, 1999)
L'Ingratitude (Montréal: Leméac, 1995; Arles: Actes Sud, 1995)
Immobile (Montréal: Boréal, 1998; [Boréal compact No.162; Arles: Actes Sud, 1998])
Le Champ dans la mer (Montréal: Boréal, 2001; Paris: Seuil, 2002)
Querelle d’un squelette avec son double (Montréal: Boréal, 2003; Paris: Seuil, 2003)
Un enfant à ma porte (Montréal: Boréal, 2008; Paris: Seuil, 2008)
Espèces (Montréal: Boréal, 2010; Paris: Seuil, 2010)
La Rive est loin (Montréal: Boréal, 2012; Paris: Seuil, 2013)
Other Writing (Articles, Essays, Poetry, Theatre)
‘La charge’ (Liberté 37. 5, October 1995, pp. 59-65)
‘On the Verge of Disappearance (End of the Chinese Letters)’ in Passages: Welcome Home to Canada initiated by Westwood Creative Artists and the Dominion Institute (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2002)
‘L’Égaré’ (atelier ALIBI, 2003 online at http://www.lettreschinoises-lettresfrancaises.mshparis.fr/fr/atelier_3.htm)
Quatre mille marches, Un rêve chinois (Montréal: Leméac, 2004; Paris: Seuil, 2004)
‘L’Égarement’ in Mère et fils ed. by Alfredo Arias and René de Ceccatty (Arles: Actes Sud-Papiers, 2004)
‘Le tunnel’ in Alibi 2. Dialogues littéraires franco-chinois ed. by Annie Bergeret Curien (Paris: Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 2005)
Le Mangeur (Montréal: Boréal, 2006; Paris: Seuil, 2006)
‘Un écart indicible’ (Le Monde, Friday 17 March 2006 [special issue: Salon du Livre 2006, ‘Quel français écrivez-vous?’, pp. 2-3])
‘La poussière des étoiles’ (Frontières 19.2, 2007)
Impressions d’été, translated from the Chinese by the author (Saint-Nazaire: éditions meet, les bilingues, 2008)
‘Hors les trains’ in L’Histoire ou la géographie, ouvrage collectif (Saint-Nazaire: éditions meet, 2008)
‘Ombre sur l’Endurance’ in Les Théâtres immobiles ed. by Marie-Claude de Brunhoff and René Ceccatty (Paris: Seuil, 2008, pp. 178)
La Lenteur des montagnes (Montréal: Boréal, 2014)
English Translations of Chen’s Work
The River of Memory [Translation of La Mémoire de l’eau by Natasha Dagenais] (mémoire de maîtrise, département des lettres et communications, Université de Sherbrooke, 2001) ; available from Proquest Dissertations and Theses [microform]
Ingratitude [Translation of L’Ingratitude by Carol Volk] (Toronto : Douglas & McIntyre, 1998)
Chinese Translations of Chen’s Work
Zai jian ma ma [Translation of L'Ingratitude by the author (Hangzhou: Zhejiang Literature and Art Pub. House, 2002)
Andrei, Carmen: ‘Ying Chen, Les lettres chinoises’ in Parcours québécois : Introduction à la littérature du Québec ed. by Pierre Morel (Kichinev: Cartier, 2007, pp. 180-191)
Beaulé, Sophie: ‘Le corps en devenir et la machine de guerre: Bérard, Chen, Darrieussecq et Dufour’ (Recherches Feminists [special issue: Femmes extrêmes] 27.1, 2014)
Bernier, Silvie: ‘Ying Chen: s’exiler de soi’ (Francofonia: Studi e ricerche sulle letterature di lingua francese 37, Autumn 1999, pp. 115-131)
Biron, Michel: ‘La riche surface des choses’ (Voix et images 29.1, 2003, pp. 101-104)
Bordeleau, Francine: ‘Ying Chen: la dame de Shanghai’ (Lettres québécoises: la revue de l'actualité littéraire 89, Spring 1998, pp. 9-10)
Bouvier-Laffitte, Béatrice: ‘Francophonie chinoise: Langues et identités en tension dans les œuvres de Dai Sijie, Gao Xingjian et Ying Chen’ in Asian Francophoni(e)s: Contemporary Critical Perspectives ed. by Gabrielle Parker (International Journal of Francophone Studies 16.3 [Special Issue], December 2013, pp. 263-280)
Chartier, Daniel: ‘Les origines de l'écriture migrante : L'immigration littéraire au Québec au cours des deux derniers siècles’ (Voix et Images 27.2, Winter 2002, pp. 303-316)
Chul-Ki Yun: ’Aspects spatio-temporels de la migration dans Les Lettres Chinoises de Ying Chen’ (Études québécoises : Revue internationale de l'ACEQ 1, 2007, pp. 137-141)
Cox, Stephanie: ‘Transformations postexiliques dans Querelle d’un squelette avec son double de Ying Chen et Personne de Linda Lê’ (Études francophones, 25, 1 and 2, Spring and Autumn 2010 [‘Dossier thématique: Québec’ ed. by Vincent Bouchard and Fabrice Leroy], pp. 124-146)
Cox, Stephanie and Hong, Jung-Hwa: ‘Les enfants de Pitsémine: le texte comme patrie chez Ook Chung et chez Ying Chen’ (Quebec Studies [Special Issue], Fall 2012, pp. 37-51)
De Diego, Rosa: ‘Ying Chen : À la recherche d’une mémoire’ in Problématiques identitaires et discours de l’exil dans les littératures francophones ed. by Anissa Talahite-Moodley (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2007, pp. 299-317)
Dubois, Christian and Hommel, Christian: ‘Vers une définition du texte migrant: l'exemple de Ying Chen’ (Tangence 59, January 1999, pp. 38-48)
Dufault, Roseanna: ‘Identity and Exile in Shanghai and Montreal: Les Lettres chinoises by Ying Chen’ in Frontières flottantes : lieu et espace dans les cultures francophones du Canada / Shifting Boundaries : Place and Space in the Francophone Cultures of Canada ed. by Jaap Lintvelt and François Paré (Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi [Faux Titre: études de langue et littérature françaises, no 213], 2001, pp. 161-167)
Dunham, Nicole: ‘Le jeu de la création : Le Mangeur (2005) de Ying Chen’ (Voix plurielles 10.2, 2013, pp. 285-294)
Dupuis, Gilles: ‘L’Orient désorienté: le topos du Chinatown dans quatre romans contemporains’ (Voix et Images 31.1, Autumn 2005, pp. 101-114)
— :‘L'Orient désorienté : Le topos du Chinatown dans quatre romans contemporains’ in Identités hybrides : Orient et orientalisme au Québec ed. by Mounia Benalil and Janusz Przychodzen (Montréal: Paragraphes vol. 25, 2006, p. 73-91)
— : ‘La littérature migrante est-elle universelle? Le cas de Ying Chen’ (Croisements: Revue francophone de sciences humaines d’Asie de l’Est 1, 2011, pp. 23-34)
Girard, Isabelle: ‘Stylistique et esthétique dans trois fragments de La Mémoire de l'eau de Ying Chen (hypothèses d'analyse socio-critique)’ (Tangence 68, Winter 2002, pp. 137-153)
Hastings, Valérie: ‘Je mange donc je suis: le dédoublement du “je” dans Le Mangeur de Ying Chen’ in Protean Selves: First-Person Voices in Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Narratives ed. by Adrienne Angela and Erika Fülöp (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014)
Huot, Marie-Claire, ‘Un itinéraire d'affiliations: l'écrivaine francophone Ying Chen’ in Les Cultures du monde au miroir de l'Amérique française ed. by Monique Moser-Verrey (Laval: PU Laval, 2002, pp. 71-89)
Ireland, Susan and Proulx, Patrice J.: Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec (Westport, CT: Praeger, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004)
Jouët-Pastré, Danielle: ‘Entre l'attrait et l'aversion des origines: Le Mangeur de Ying Chen’ (Quebec Studies [Special Issue], Fall 2012, pp. 21-35)
Labelle, Maude: ‘Les lieux de l'écriture migrante : Territoire, mémoire et langue dans Les lettres chinoises de Ying Chen’ (Globe : revue internationale d'études québécoises 10.1, 2007, pp. 37-51)
Lambert-Perreault, Marie-Christine: ‘Rhétorique culinaire dans Le Mangeur de Ying Chen’ in Traits chinois, lignes francophones ed. by Rosalind Silvester and Guillaume Thouroude (Montréal: Presses universitaires de Montréal [coll. ‘ Sociétés et cultures de l'Asie’], 2012, pp. 175-192)
Lapointe, Martine-Emmanuelle: ‘Disparaître ?’ (Voix et Images 34.3, 2009, pp. 124-128)
— : ‘″Le mort n’est jamais mort″: Emprise des origines et conceptions de la mémoire dans l’œuvre de Ying Chen’ (Voix et Images 29.2, 2004, pp. 131-141)
Le Bras, Yvon: ‘Écrire autrement au Québec: Les romans de Ying Chen’ (Études canadiennes / Canadian Studies: revue Interdisciplinaire des études canadiennes en France 54, June 2003, pp. 143-152)
Lequin, Lucie: ‘Entre la mémoire et l'oubli: Les Lettres chinoises de Ying Chen’ (Neue Romania 18, 1997, pp. 199-206)
Lorre, Christine: ‘Ying Chen's "Poetic Rebellion": Relocating the Dialogue, In Search of Narrative Renewal’ in Asian Canadian Writing Beyond Autoethnography ed. by Eleanor Ty and Christl Verduyn (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008, pp. 267-295)
— : ‘Qui dit "je" dans Le Mangeur de Ying Chen? Une Lecture entre psychanalyse et pensée chinoise’ (CIEF : Nouvelles études francophones 24.1, 2009, pp. 19-30)
Maddox, Kelly-Anne Madeline: ‘L'identité chez Ying Chen’ in La Création littéraire dans le contexte de l'exiguïté ed. by Robert Viau (Beauport, Québec: Publications MNH [Écrits de la francité, no 4], 2000, p. 485-494)
Maindron, André: ‘Ying Chen, une Québécoise assez Chinoise’ in Identity and Alterity in Canadian Literature / Identité et altérité dans la littérature canadienne ed. by Dana Puiu (Cluj-Napoca: Risoprint 37, 2003, pp. 99-108)
McLane-Iles, Betty: ‘Memory and Exile in the Writings of Ying Chen’ in Women by Women: The Treatment of Female Characters by Women Writers of Fiction in Quebec since 1980 ed. by Roseanna Lewis Dufault (Madison & London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997, pp. 221-229)
Naudin, Marie: ‘Malaises et délires généalogiques dans Immobile de Ying Chen’ (Études francophones 16.2, Autumn 2001, pp. 41-47)
Ng, Maria: ‘Abusive Mothers: Literary Representations of the Mother Figure in Three Ethnic Chinese Writers: Hsieh Ping-ying, Denise Chong, and Chen Ying’ in Asian Women: Interconnections ed. by Tineke Hellwig and Sunera Thobani (Toronto: Women’s Press, 2006, pp. 139-160)
Oore, Irène: ‘Être ou ne pas être : le suicide dans L’ingratitude de Ying Chen, dans Unless d’Hélène Monette et dans L’île de la Merci d’Élise Turcotte’ (Dalhousie French Studies 64, Autumn 2003, pp.47-57)
— : ‘Les Lettres chinoises de Ying Chen: le mobile et l’immobile’ (Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne 29.1, 2004, pp. 74-83)
— : ‘Les Lettres chinoises de Ying Chen: un roman épistolaire’ (Voix plurielles 1.1, March 2004, pp. 1-7)
Paquin, Éric: ‘Ying Chen - Madame et son fantôme’ (Voir.ca, 29 May 2003) online at http://voir.ca/livres/2003/05/28/ying-chen-madame-et-son-fantome/
Parayre, Catherine: ‘Ying Chen et la langue littéraire, ou comment fuir l’arrivée’ (Quo vadis, Romania? 36, 2010, pp. 90-103)
Parent, Anne Martine: ‘Origines manquantes, origines en trop: héritage et filiation dans l'œuvre de Ying Chen’ in Relations familiales dans les littératures française et francophone des XXe et XXIe siècles : La figure du père ed. by Murielle Lucie Clément and Sabine Van Wesemael (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008, pp. 287-294)
Parker, Gabrielle: ‘Récits de vie(s) chez Ying Chen: mise en œuvre de transduction’ (Irish Journal of French Studies 8, Summer 2010, pp. 87-108)
— : ‘À mi-chemin entre deux mondes: Parcours féminins chez Ying Chen’ (RELIEF 5.2, 2011, pp. 75-87), http://www.revue-relief.org/index.php/relief/article/viewFile/690/757
— : ‘An Illusory Journey: The Mermaid’s Trajectory in Ying Chen’s Fiction’ in Parcours de Femme: Twenty Years of Women in French ed. by Maggie Allison and Angela Kershaw (Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2011, pp. 151-166)
— :‘Ying Chen: “l’écart indicible”’ in Traits chinois, lignes francophones ed. by Rosalind Silvester and Guillaume Thouroude (Montréal: Presses universitaires de Montréal [coll. ‘ Sociétés et cultures de l'Asie’], 2012, pp 141-158)
— : ‘Writing an Immaterial World: The Case of Ying Chen’s Fiction’ in Women Matter/ Femmes Matière : French and Francophone Women and the Material World ed. by Maggie Allison and Imogen Long (Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang [Modern French Identities 109], 2013, pp. 71-86.
— : ‘Ying Chen: An Emblematic Trajectory’ (Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 17.5 [Special Issue: ‘Crossings, Frictions, Fusions II’], 2013, pp. 521-528)
— : ‘Poétique de la distance: deux approches contrastées, Ying Chen et Aki Shimazaki’ in Asian Francophoni(e)s: Contemporary Critical Perspectives ed. by Gabrielle Parker (International Journal of Francophone Studies 16.3 [Special Issue], December 2013, pp. 241-262)
Pham-Tran, Jeanne: ‘Ying Chen, par-delà les langues et les cultures’ (If Verso, 9 juin 2013) online at http://ifverso.com/fr/content/ying-chen-par-dela-les-langues-et-les-cultures
Porret, Véronique : ‘La féminité est-elle subversive? D'une psychanalyste française à une psychanalyste chinoise’ (2007) online at http://www.lacanchine.com/Ch_Coll_C07_Porret.html
Pruteanu, Simona Emilia: ‘Ying Chen et l'entre-deux scriptural: des Lettres chinoises à Immobile’ (Voix plurielles 5.2, December 2008, pp. 73-79)
Rodgers, Julie: ‘″Comment peut-on être moi quand on est Mère?″ Une étude de la maternité dans Un enfant à ma porte (2009) de Ying Chen’ (International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d’études canadiennes 45-46, 2012, pp. 403-416)
— : ‘La dualité de l’être chez Ying Chen’ (‘Écritures francophones contemporaines’, Dialogues francophones, Centre d’Études Francophones de l’Université de l’Ouest de Timisoara (Roumanie), 17, 2011, pp 81-91)
—: ‘“On s’occupe du multiple, on tourne le dos à l’unité”: Ying Chen and Nomadic Figurations of the Subject’ (Québec Studies, 59, June 2015)
Saint-Martin, Lori: ‘Trois romans métaféministes : Contre-voix. Essais de critique au féminin’, Montréal, Nuit blanche, 1997, pp. 235-268)
— : Le Nom de la mère : Mères, filles et écriture dans la littérature québécoise au féminin, (Montréal, Nota bene [coll. Essais critiques], 1999)
— : ‘Infanticide, Suicide, Matricide, and Mother-Daughter Love: Suzanne Jacob’s L’Obéissance and Ying Chen’s L’Ingratitude’ (Canadian Literature 169, Summer 2001, pp. 60-83)
— : ‘De Gabrielle Roy à La Mémoire de l'eau de Ying Chen: histoire d'une rencontre littéraire’ (Canadian Literature 192, Spring 2007, pp. 12-28)
Schöch, Christof: ‘Ying Chen, ou: dialogues au-delà des frontières. Une lecture de L'Ingratitude et de Querelle d'un squelette avec son double’ in Dialogues transculturels dans la Nouvelle Romania : Littératures migrantes à Montréal et à New York / Diálogos transculturales en la Nueva Romania : Literaturas migrantes en Montreal y Nueva York Dialogue transculturel dans le nouveau monde : Littératures migrantes à Montréal et à New York ed. by Anne Brüske and Herle-Christin Jessen (Tübingen: Narr, 2013, pp. 31-34)
Silvester, Rosalind: ‘″Le récit de vie(s)”: Immobility and Fluidity in Ying Chen's Works’ (Forum for Modern Language Studies 43.1, January 2007), pp. 57-68
— : ‘Reincarnation in Ying Chen’s Works: Reality, Fantasy or Madness?’ in Redefining the Real: The Fantastic in Contemporary French and Francophone Women's Writing ed. by Margaret-Anne Hutton (Geneva: Peter Lang, 2009)
— : ‘Ying Chen and the ″non-lieu″’ (Modern Language Review 106.2, 2011, pp. 407-422)
— : ‘″L'odeur de l'eau est partout la même″: Ying Chen et l'identité migrante’ in La Migrance à l'œuvre ed. by Mary Gallagher and Michael Brophy (Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien: Peter Lang [Littératures de langue française 16], 2011, pp. 89-98)
— : ‘From the Individual to the Universal: Ying Chen's Un enfant à ma porte’ (International Journal of Francophone Studies 15.1, September 2012, pp. 119-130)
Simard, Hélène: ‘Ying Chen: Éternelle mortalité’ (Les Libraires, 15 April 2002) online at http://revue.leslibraires.ca/entrevues/litterature-quebecoise/ying-chen-eternelle-mortalite
Sing, Pamela V.: ‘Origines, mouvances et la scène littéraire à Vancouver’ (co-written with Ying Chen) in Culture et littérature francophones de la Colombie-Britannique: du rêve à la réalité ed. by Guy Poirier (Ottawa: Éditions David, 2007, pp. 230-248)
— : ‘Migrance, sensorium et translocalité chez Ying Chen et Kim Thúy’ in Asian Francophoni(e)s: Contemporary Critical Perspectives ed. by Gabrielle Parker (International Journal of Francophone Studies 16.3 [Special Issue], December 2013, pp. 281-301)
— : ‘Rôder comme un chat : la ville dans Espèces de Ying Chen’ in Littératures québécoise et acadienne contemporaines, Au prisme de la ville ed. by Anne-Yvonne Julien (Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes [coll. Plurial], 2014, pp. 479-489)
Sivert, Eileen: ‘Ying Chen’s Les Lettres chinoises and Epistolary Identity’ in Doing Gender: Franco-Canadian Women Writers of the 1990s ed. by Paula Ruth Gilbert and Roseanne Dufault (Madison & London: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001, pp. 217-234)
Sorin, Noëlle, ‘Le récit de vie en classe de littérature: regards sur l’autre et images de soi’, (Tangence 71, Winter 2003, p. 93-106)
Talbot, Emile J: ‘Rewriting Les Lettres chinoises: The Poetics of Erasure’ (Québec Studies 36, Fall 2003/Winter 2004, pp. 83-91)
—: ‘Ying Chen's Evolving Lettres chinoises: An Addendum’ (Quebec Studies 37, Spring/Summer 2004, p. 125-126)
— : ‘Conscience et mémoire: Ying Chen et la problématique identitaire’ (Nouvelles études francophones 20.1, Spring 2005, p. 149-162)
Velloso Porto, Maria Bernadette: ‘Historias de exilio no feminino: Les Lettres chinoises e lettres parisiennes’ (Canadart - Revista do Nucleo de Estudos Canadenses 13, January/December 2005-May 2006, pp. 11-23)
Xavier, Subha: ‘Exiled Metaphors: Woman and Nation in Three Novels by Ying Chen’ (International Journal of Canadian Studie 31, Spring 2005, pp. 37-56)
Yeager, Jack A.: ‘Bach Mai et Ying Chen : identité et nationalisme québécois’ in Femmes et écriture au Canada ed. by Danièle Pitavy-Souques (Dijon : Centre d'études canadiennes/ Centre de recherches Image/Texte/Langage/ Éditions Universitaires de Dijon [Kaléidoscope], 2001, pp. 49-61)
— : ‘Bach Mai and Ying Chen: Immigrant Identities in Quebec’ in Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec ed. by Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004, pp. 137-147)
Ziyan Yang: ‘La figure de réincarnation, la sinité pulvérisée et l’identité hybride dans la ″série fantôme″ de Ying Chen’ in Asian Francophoni(e)s: Contemporary Critical Perspectives, ed. by Gabrielle Parker (International Journal of Francophone Studies 16.3 [Special Issue], December 2013, pp.329-352)
Assouline Stillman, Dinah: ‘An Interview with Ying Chen’ (The Free Library August 2008) online at http://www.thefreelibrary.com/An+interview+with+Ying+Chen.-a0195523014
Aubonnet, Brigitte: ‘Ying Chen, Propos recueillis par Brigitte Aubonnet’ (Encres vagabondes, n.d.) online at http://www.encres-vagabondes.com/rencontre/yingchen.htm
Lachance, Micheline : ‘Des vies à l'encre de Chine’ (L'actualité 20.18, 15 November 1995, pp. 89-90)
Le Bras, Yvon: ‘Interview with Ying Chen’ (Lingua Romana: A Journal of French, Italian and Romanian Culture 1.1, Autumn 2002, p. 1)
Lisiecki-Bouretz, Sylvie: ‘Rencontres littéraires franco-chinoises. Interviews de 4 écrivains chinois : Questions à Ying Chen’ (Actualités, 13 December 2001) online at http://chroniques.bnf.fr/archives/decembre2001/numero_courant/actualites/rencontres-fr-chinois/chinois/ying_ch.htm
Nuovo, Franco: ‘Entrevue avec Ying Chen, Je l’ai vu à la radio’ (Radio-Canada, Vancouver, 14 February 2009) online at http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/je_lai_vu_a_la_radio/2009-2010/chronique.asp?idChronique=74560
Rebollar, Patrick : ‘Ying Chen, Antoine Volodine: la survie’ [vidéo]’ (Atelier littéraire bipolaire (ALIBI), sous la direction d’Annie Curien (CNRS-EHESS), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris), 31 janvier 2003), Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche, Kraken-art, MSH, Paris) online at http://www.berlol.net/chrono2/?p=2426
Ying Chen: ‘Je suis une étrangère depuis ma naissance’ (L’Express.fr, 29 June 2012) online at http://www.lexpress.fr/emploi-carriere/emploi/ying-chen-je-suis-une-etrangere-depuis-ma-naissance_1131391.html#UqfkvZ9Lsq13AMAf.99
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Steve in Sidmouth Sidmouth Folk Week - New Director (67* d) RE: Sidmouth Folk Week - New Director 24 Aug 11
The comment from Steve Mansfield seems curious - Joan Crump was at Sidmouth for 3 years - see the Press Release.
The history of how Sidmouth was 'saved' is well documented and if any one person should be singled out it is probably Gordon Newton.
I quote from my own website:
The history of Sidmouth's International Festival in the years up to the 50th and final year are documented on this website. In 2005 things looked bleak, yet together with many local 'folkies' two men stepped forward to help ensure that some sort of festival took place. It was widely thought then (and probably correctly) that if there was no festival worthy of the name at all in 2005, it would be far more difficult to restart one in 2006 or subsequently. Therefore, 2005 was seen as a crucial year. Two names stand out - both men were prepared to risk tens of thousands of pounds of their own money in order to try and ensure that the festival didn't die completely. These were Gordon Newton, a folk musician and businessman from Kent and Malcolm Burrough, one of a family of Devon farmers and landowners - he runs the Thorn Park golf centre, where many folkies have camped for years.
At the time, Tony Reed was a local and long serving councillor and also Chairman of the Town Council. He was therefore able to 'pull strings' as needed. Whilst Gordon Newton organised events on the Ham and in the town, Mr Burrough prepared to take on the task of running an LNE event. Yet every possible obstacle seemed to be put in his way by EDDC - something that Councillor Reed could surely have tried to prevent?
Mr Burrough was even asked ' what if there were complaints about the noise from Seaton?' - Seaton is about six miles away from the Thorn Park site! Faced however with what he regarded as ridiculous demands for numbers of toilets (in addition to a large number of security guards and other demands) Mr Burrough pulled out at the last minute, rather than face losses of maybe £20,000 to £30,000. Very late in the day, Gordon Newton stepped in again to run the LNE also - and he apparently lost a lot of money in the process.
There was no doubt therefore that Gordon Newton did as much as anyone else (if not far more) to save Sidmouth festival in 2005.
End of quote - full page here: Gordon Newton - airbrushed from history?
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Download free liner notes below (Mac users use Ctrl + click)
About the exclusive use of the Peau de Buffle stop
"I think the thing about John Paul's Bach is that if you deprive yourself of the more usual means of expression, either you flop or you find some new avenue of expression. Actually punctuation, almost imperceptible breaks in the phrasing, and the "scanning" (Latin verse if you ever did it), which relies on shorts and longs, i.e. staccato notes and held notes, can if properly handled give you all the expression you need, expression in the sense of guiding the listener subtly through the different episodes and where it exists, the counterpoint.
…It's so different, almost like a totally different instrument, which of course always shows musical detail in a new light. John Paul's self-imposed limitation compels him to bring out expression and clarity of line in new ways, being deprived of the piano touch, or the harpsichord's registration possibilities and terrace dynamics. Impossible one might think, but he seems to manage it. It's also very relaxing listening."
Michael Meacock co-founder of the Oryx Recordings label,
editor and contributor Baroque Music.org , and The Baroque Music Collection,
and The Baroque Music Library
On the second volume of The Complete Clavier Suites of JS Bach, John Paul continues his phenomenal realizations of Bach's clavier suites performed on the gut-strung lautenwerck (lute-harpsichord). The Clavier Suites of J.S. Bach are among the crowning glories of keyboard music in the Baroque Era. In them Bach combines German counterpoint with the current flavors of French and Italian musical fashion to produce nineteen works of gracefulness and brilliance. Here is a recording on a lautenwerck Peau de Buffle. The lute-like sound of gut strings gently brushed by soft leather quills displays at once the intimacy and the virtuosity of these marvelous works. Tracks include: French Suite # 4, in E Flat, Partita #6 in E Minor, French Suite #6 in E.
Fanfare Magazine calls him “... a performer of considerable distinction” The prestigious British Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music says he “... plays with vigour and much expressive vitality.” This is his fifth ground-breaking, world premier Lyrichord Early Music Series recording, and is the first of 7 volumes encompassing all of J.S. Bach's Clavier Suites performed on the gut-strung lautenwerck. The delicate, intimate tone of the lautenwerck, as realized though John Paul's sensitive and expressive interpretation, sets a new standard for these wonderful suites by the 18th century keyboard master!
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Falana Writes President Buhari Over 2020 Budget (SEE WHAT HE SAID)
October 14, 2019 Naijamp3king Uncategorized 0
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has told the Federal Government to embark on a drive to recover Nigeria’s looted wealth to garner resources to fund the 2020 budget.
Falana made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Imota, near Abeokuta on Sunday.
He said the Nigerian Government must urgently seek other means of generating funds to complement the N10.33 trillion 2020 budget recently unveiled by President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to him, the N10.33 trillion budget presented by Buhari was not enough to stimulate the rapid development expected by Nigerians.
“From the budget breakdown, N2.5 trillion has been earmarked to service debt; about 70 per cent of the balance would go for paying salaries and recurrent expenditure while the remaining 30 per cent will hardly be enough for necessary developmental projects.
“The budget is not sufficient and so the government must look at other areas to generate more wealth for the country and embark on a serious drive to recover looted wealth.”
According to him, there may also be need to increase tax but it should not be now that Nigerians are facing economic hardships.
Falana, however, charged the president and other public office holders to cut down their expenditures, travelling and allowances and divert such money to developing the country.
The legal luminary also advised the government to desist from adopting any policy that could bring suffering to the masses.
He described the recent increment on value-added tax as ill-timed, saying that the interest levied on cash deposits and withdrawals should be cancelled.
Falana said the government could use other means to foster a cashless economy, including placing an embargo on the amount of money to be withdrawn from banks daily, rather than imposing charges.
“The National Assembly by virtue of the constitution would have to look at VAT whether it can be increased,”
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The Tea Fragger Party: Remember Their Names
Fragging: “To intentionally kill or wound (one’s superior officer, etc.), esp. with a hand grenade.”
Take names. Remember them. The behavior of certain Republicans who call themselves Tea Party conservatives makes them the most destructive posse of misguided “patriots” we’ve seen in recent memory.
If the nation defaults on its financial obligations, the blame belongs to the Tea Party Republicans who fragged their own leader, John Boehner. They had victory in their hands and couldn’t bring themselves to support his debt-ceiling plan, which, if not perfect, was more than anyone could have imagined just a few months ago. No new taxes, significant spending cuts, a temporary debt-ceiling solution with the possibility of more spending cuts down the line as well as action on their beloved balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.
These people wouldn’t recognize a hot fudge sundae if the cherry started talking to them.
The tick-tock of the debt-ceiling debate is too long for this space, but the bottom line is that the Tea Party got too full of itself with help from certain characters whose names you’ll want to remember when things go south. They include, among others, media personalities who need no further recognition; a handful of media-created “leaders,” including Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips and Tea Party Patriots co-founders Jenny Beth Martin and Mark Meckler (both Phillips and Martin declared bankruptcy, yet they’re advising Tea Party Republicans on debt?); a handful of outside groups that love to hurl ad hominems such as “elite” and “inside the Beltway” when talking about people like Boehner when they are, in fact, the elite (FreedomWorks, Heritage Action, Club for Growth, National Taxpayers Union, Americans for Prosperity); and elected leaders such as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, head of the Republican Study Committee, and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, who grandstand and make political assertions and promises that are sheer fantasy.
Meanwhile, freshman House members were targeted and pressured by some of the aforementioned groups to vote against Boehner’s plan. South Carolina’s contingent was so troubled that members repaired to the chapel Thursday to pray and emerged promising to vote no. Why? Not because Jesus told them to but because they’re scared to death that DeMint will “primary” them — find someone in their own party to challenge them.
Where did they get an idea like that? Look no further than Sarah Palin’s Facebook page, where she warned freshmen about contested primaries and urged them to “remember us ‘little people’ who believed in them, donated to their campaigns, spent hours tirelessly volunteering for them, and trusted them with our votes.” Her close: “P.S. Everyone I talk to still believes in contested primaries.” While they’re at it, they also should remember that Palin came to the Tea Party long after the invitations went out. The woman knows where to hitch a wagon.
Unfortunately for the country, which is poised to lose its place as the world’s most-trusted treasury and suffer economic repercussions we can ill afford, the stakes in this political game are too high to be in the hands of Tea Partyers who mistakenly think they have a mandate. Their sweep in the 2010 election was the exclusive result of anti-Obama sentiment and the sense that the president, in creating a health-care plan instead of focusing on jobs, had overplayed his hand. Invariably, as political pendulums swing, the victors become the very thing they sought to defeat.
Who’s overplaying their hand now?
It must be said that the Tea Party has not been monolithic — and the true grass-roots shouldn’t be conflated with leaders who disastrously signed on to the so-called “Cut, Cap and Balance” pledge. What is it with Republicans and their silly pledges? Didn’t they get enough Scouting? This pledge now has them hog-tied to a promise they can’t keep — the balanced-budget amendment. As many as a third desperately want a pardon from that commitment, according to sources close to the action.
Hubris is no one’s friend, and irony is a nag. The Tea Partyers who wanted to oust Barack Obama have greatly enhanced his chances for reelection by undermining their own leader and damaging the country in the process. The debt ceiling may have been raised and the crisis averted by the time this column appears, but that event should not erase the memory of what transpired. The Tea Party was a movement that changed the conversation in Washington, but it has steeped too long and has become toxic.
It’s time to toss it out.
By: Kathleen Parker, Opinion Writer, The Washington Post, July 29, 2011
August 1, 2011 Posted by raemd95 | Class Warfare, Congress, Conservatives, Consumers, Debt Ceiling, Debt Crisis, Deficits, Democracy, Democrats, Economic Recovery, Economy, Elections, GOP, Government, Ideologues, Ideology, Journalists, Lawmakers, Lobbyists, Media, Middle Class, Politics, President Obama, Press, Public, Pundits, Republicans, Right Wing, Teaparty, Wealthy | Americans For Prosperity, Balance Budget Amendment, Cap and Balance, Club For Growth, Cut, Default, Fragging, Freedom Works, Heritage Action, Heritage Foundation, House Freshmen, Jenny Beth Martin, Judson Phillips, Mark Meckler, National Taxpayers Union, Patriots, Rep Jim Jordan, Rep John Boehner, Rep Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Sen Jim DeMint, Spending Cuts, Tax Revenues, Tea Party Nation, Tea Party Patriots | Leave a comment
Circular Firing Squad: Boehner Bill Is Showdown Between House Republican Purists And Realists
The run-up to the vote expected Thursday on House Speaker John A. Boehner’s proposal to provide a short-term increase in the national debt limit is quickly turning into a time of clarity for the chamber’s Republicans.
If GOP leaders are unable to muster enough support to get the plan out of the House, the only measure left would be a Democratic proposal by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), and voting with Reid is not a concession many House Republicans are willing to make.
“There’s only three choices,” said Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio), a close Boehner ally. “One is to vote for Senator Reid’s plan. One is to default. And one choice is the Boehner bill. It should be pretty self-evident what the best choice is to someone who’s a Republican.”
Increasingly, the vote on Boehner’s proposal is shaping up not as a test of wills between moderates and conservatives, but as a face-off between political purists who scorn the bill and realists who prefer it to the alternative.
“We came here to reduce the size of government and reduce spending, and this bill, I think, begins to accomplish that goal,” said Rep. Sean P. Duffy (R-Wis.), who decided Wednesday that he will vote for the measure. “It’s by no means perfect. But it’s the best bill we have.”
At a closed-door meeting for House Republicans on Wednesday, where leaders tried to rally support for the measure, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (Wis.) read from a blog post by conservative commentator Bill Kristol. “To vote against Boehner is to choose to support Barack Obama,” Kristol wrote.
But it is not an easy sale for a party that won back control of the House last year on promises to vote without regard to political consequences.
Boehner’s bill would postpone major entitlement reform and other deep cuts by passing such decisions to a new committee that would report its recommendations by year’s end. The proposal also would not require Congress to pass a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution, but only that it vote on one.
Some Republicans have vowed that they will not raise the debt ceiling under any circumstances.
Others preferred a conservative bill dubbed “cut, cap and balance” that passed the House this month but was killed in the Senate. It would have required Congress to vote to send the amendment to the states for ratification.
“The credit rating agencies have been clear that no matter what happens with the debt limit, the U.S. will lose its AAA credit rating unless we produce a credible plan to reduce the debt by trillions of dollars,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), chairman of the Republican Study Committee. The group comprises more than 170 House conservatives. “Cut, cap and balance is the only plan on the table that meets this standard,” he said.
House leaders expressed cautious optimism Wednesday that they were convincing members that the plan advanced by Boehner (R-Ohio) is the best that Republicans can hope to get.
It would avert a government default, take a bite out of the deficit and require Congress to adopt $1.8 trillion in additional cuts before the debt ceiling could be raised again next year.
Freshman Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.), whose district in Staten Island and Brooklyn is home to many Wall Street professionals, said he decided Wednesday that he will vote for the bill after he was convinced that its failure would hand Democrats control of the debate.
“I don’t think it’s perfect. I don’t think it’s close to perfect. I don’t think it’s in the realm of what I expected to get,” he said.
But, Grimm said, it would require deep spending reductions over the coming years. “That’s historic. And that’s a step in the right direction.”
The public infighting has served to rally some Republicans. Behind closed doors, members erupted Wednesday over an e-mail that a staff member of Jordan’s Republican Study Committee sent to outside conservative groups. It listed undecided members who could be pressured to vote against the Boehner plan.
“I think it’s offensive when a group that you’re a part of uses your bullets to shoot you,” said Rep. Bill Flores (Tex.). “So I have a problem with it.”
Those entreaties did not quiet conservatives who are urging that the plan be abandoned: On Wednesday, the head of the group Tea Party Nation accused Boehner of surrendering to Washington’s status quo and called for him to be replaced.
The House proposal was panned at a small rally held at the Capitol by the Tea Party Express and the American Grassroots Coalition. The GOP that rode tea party energy and activism is hoping that some of it members can look past that relationship.
“Some people are new here and this is part of the learning curve,” LaTourette said. “At times you have to say ‘no’ to people you represent who are yelling at you, if you’ve reached the conclusion that it’s in the best interests of the country.”
By: Rosalind Helderman and Felicia Sonmez with Contribution by David Fahrenthold, The Washington Post Politics, July 27, 2011
July 28, 2011 Posted by raemd95 | Budget, Congress, Conservatives, Debt Ceiling, Deficits, Democrats, Economic Recovery, Economy, Elections, GOP, Government Shut Down, Ideology, Lawmakers, Politics, Republicans, Revolution, Right Wing, Teaparty, Voters | Balanced Budget Amendment, Bill Kristol, Cap and Balance, Credit Ratings, Cut, Default, Purists, Realists, Rep Bill Flores, Rep Jim Jordan, Rep John Boehnar, Rep Michael Grimm, Rep Paul Ryan, Rep Sean Duffy, Rep Steve LaToutette, Sen Harry Reid, Spending Cuts, Super Congress, Teaparty Express, Teaparty Nation, Wall Street | Leave a comment
John Boehner: It’s His Shutdown And He’ll Cry If He Wants To
I guess this was inevitable.
John Boehner was driven to tears again today. This time it happened at a closed-door meeting of House Republicans.
According to sources inside the meeting, it happened while Boehner was speaking to the group about the latest on his negotiations with Democrats over government funding. Boehner talked about his meeting yesterday with President Obama and then, in a rousing conclusion, he thanked the House Republicans for standing by him and supporting him through these tense negotiations.
The Republican conference responded with a standing ovation for their speaker.
As you could imagine, that prompted the Speaker to cry.
Sure, but is there any chance the crying could become tears of joy after striking a deal? Time is obviously running out in a hurry — we’re now counting down by the number of hours, not the number of days — but there’s been some movement this afternoon.
Roll Call reported that the party’s leaders are at least talking again, and “there were indications that progress was being made.” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) told reporters, “I feel better about it today than I did yesterday at the same time.”
This was not a unanimous view. Politico reported that “leaders from both parties are more pessimistic about cutting a deal before the government runs out of money.”
There was reportedly some progress on the spending-cut target. Boehner moved the goalposts this week, demanding $40 billion in cuts after agreeing privately to $33 billion, but top aides today apparently met to explore another compromise between the two numbers. The bigger hurdle, apparently, is the GOP demand for policy “riders,” which right-wing House Republicans continue to treat as having equal importance to the cuts themselves.
How party leaders can work around this is a mystery to me.
The odds notwithstanding, if a compromise is reached, what about the rule GOP leaders imposed on themselves, mandating that a bill is available for three days before a vote? In this case, Republicans are prepared to waive the rule, if there’s a deal to even vote on.
In the meantime, the Koch-financed Americans for Prosperity held a rally this afternoon across the street from the Capitol, with several dozen right-wing activists on hand to listen to speeches from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Reps. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), and others. The Republican voters chanted, “Shut it down!” during the rally, and every other sign at the rally urged the GOP to shut down the government.
I think we can say with confidence which side of the aisle is “rooting for a government shutdown.”
By: Steve Benen, Political Animal, Washington Monthly, April 6, 2011
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Minecraft Wiki talk:Community portal/Archive 13
< Minecraft Wiki talk:Community portal
This is an archive page of Minecraft Wiki talk:Community portal. Do not edit this page.
New sections can be added at the current talk page.
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1 Error in emails
2 Mobile version of the wiki
3 Makeover Time!
4 Platform differences
5 wither skeletons
6 Watching subpages?
7 Tutorials Page
8 Minecraft Creative Fly Speed
9 minecraft P.E
10 Delete page
11 Wiki Server issues
12 Minecraft 2.0 mentions
13 Lowered page?
14 Item hotbar
15 Custom namespaces (requires Curse)
16 Picture usage in {{quote}}
17 Wiki header text contrast
18 Help?
19 Sponge
20 Licensing: mod images
21 Language categories
22 Trick with Redstone Comparators
23 How do u join worlds in the new update of the pe?
24 Enchanted Golden Apple
25 Bug descriptions
26 RFC: Identifying Xbox 360-specific info
27 End of game
Error in emails[edit]
When admins delete pages, why does the email that a user receives usually say this page has been created, when it has in fact been deleted? -- Numbermaniac - T- C 06:58, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Because the majority of deleted pages are deleted soon after creation. The e-mail was sent before it was deleted, but you didn't read it until after. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Contribs 07:55, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
It definitely isn't that. Multiple times, I have been online when I got an email saying it has been deleted. Sometimes pages have been there for days, such as {{static link|Talk:OCELOT}}, before it was deleted. -- Numbermaniac - T- C 10:26, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
Dunno then. I don't use emails. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
That's alright. It also applies to my own user pages. Hower64 kindly deleted 4 user pages I didn't need, and it said that he created them, when he in fact deleted them. Should I perhaps ask Wynthust? -- Numbermaniac - T- C 00:22, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
Mobile version of the wiki[edit]
Just wondering, is it possible to use a mobile version of this wiki, just like Wikipedia? // Spitz (Talk) 17:14, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
To get a mobile site, we'd have to install MobileFrontend. The current version of that extension requires a newer version of mediawiki than we're using, so unless we could find an old version lying around, it's impossible until we can update. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Contribs 17:47, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the quick reply! // Spitz (Talk) 18:01, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
This wiki has version 1.18.6 of MediaWiki, and apparently there is a version for 1.17.5 and 1.18, called MobileFrontend 0.5.77. But I never really clicked on the link, or anything like that. -- Numbermaniac - T- C 02:38, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
We are in the process of migrating our wiki network to our Gamepedia platform. I anticipate MCW will be the last wiki to migrate, and hopefully we will have this all done by the end of June (no promises...). At that time, the Mobile Frontend will be available. -- Wynthyst Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png talk 11:46, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Great! I'll be looking forward to it! // Spitz (Talk) 20:08, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
That would be brilliant! When it is changed to the Gamepedia platform, will our accounts be moved there as well? -- Numbermaniac - T- C 01:32, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Also, would the wiki require internet to acess, or would it be a download that requres internet to edit pages?--SirTurdle - Strollin' 01:50, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
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News? MediaWiki will be updated soon? Itouchmasterpro 11:14, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
Makeover Time![edit]
I think it is time for Minecraft Wiki to lose the current look and get some serious cosmetic changes. We have some really smart people in this community, lets have a contest to see who can create the best proto-type website. Then we can bribe... uh... I mean ask (:-P) ultradude and his pals to accept it! SpamTheClicker 01:32, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
Since noone has replied, might as well.
The wiki got a makeover only a few months ago. Atleast, from my knowlage, it did. -Creepergoboom64 19:24, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
Meh, it's fine as it is. And no bribing. — t numbermaniac c 21:57, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
Platform differences[edit]
Is there a style guide for how to explain platform differences in articles? For example, every time we talk about right-clicking on something should we parenthetically describe what to do in the xbox or PE versions too? Or is the PC version considered the primary version and other platforms describe their differences in sections after the main article? It seems a little haphazard at the moment. —Munin295 · 16 px 16 px · 07:16, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
wither skeletons[edit]
Why dont Wither skeletons ever spawn in the Overworld? 70.181.68.226 14:32, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
This page is for talking about the wiki (articles, templates, conventions, etc.). Use the forums to talk about Minecraft. —Munin295 · 16 px 16 px · 17:41, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
Watching subpages?[edit]
When you place a page on your watch list, does that automatically watch all subpages of that page? -- Numbermaniac - T- C 01:55, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
No, but watching a page automatically watches its talk page and vice-versa. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 01:56, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
That was a fast reply. Anyway, interesting... Your talk page is on my watchlist, and when you created archive2 of your talk page, I actually got an email for that. Weird. -- Numbermaniac - T- C 02:02, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
That's because I moved my talk page instead of just copy/pasting. When one of your watched pages is moved, the new page is automatically watched. I did what is called a "history split" where I delete a page, restore only the revisions I want to move, move suppressing a redirect, then restore the rest of the page where it was. Also, my reply was fast because when I'm on the wiki or generally browsing the Internet, my windows are arranged so that I see the minecraftwikichanges channel. I see things as they happen here. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 02:10, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Oh. What do you mean by minecraftwiki changes channel? Just the recent changes? Or something else? -- Numbermaniac - T- C 02:33, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Minecraft Wiki:IRC —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 02:34, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Tutorials Page[edit]
I was thinking the tutorials Page was a bit off, and that it could do with a couple of tables, like I did here, even tho its incomplete at the moment. Does anyone have any comments on it? --Extreme 04:05, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
The headers look good, but I'm not wild about that centering of the titles. --Mental Mouse 15:19, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
Minecraft Creative Fly Speed[edit]
HOW TO WORK OUT HOW FAST YOU FLY IN MINECRAFT Hey there after mucking around with a redstone repeater circuit and flying above the redtsone current i found that i was flying at the exact same speed as the current. all the repeaters had just the default 1 tick delay and after a little research someone had said that 1 redstone tick equals one tenth of a second delay in other words ten ticks equals a second.and as a redstone repeater covers 1 block that means the current travels at 10 blocks per second. if this is correct then that means we travel at 10 blocks per second aswell. i did a little more research after this and found that 1 block is 1x1x1 meters. so that means the current is travelling 10 meters per second and that means we fly at 10 meters per second aka 36 km/hour. WOW. buuut... if we travel 10 meters per second whilst flying and we fly 100 meters we would do it in 10 seconds fast right. but usain bolt can SPRINT it in 9.58 seconds... so in conclusion usain bolt is the fastest person on earth and in the minecraft world to.. disapointing isnt it we still are those nerds that arnt quite the fastest...
SPEED minecraft flying speed is 1 meter per 0.1 seconds = 10 meters per second = 100 meters per 10 seconds = 36 km per hour
CONCLUSION USAIN BOLT IS STILL FASTER!!!!
--TheDwarvenJaffa 13:50, 26 April 2013 (UTC)TheDwarvenJaffa--TheDwarvenJaffa 13:50, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
Interesting result. However, this would be better if you put it on the talk page for flying. -Creepers explode, don'tcha know? 15:41, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
minecraft P.E[edit]
i'm wondering in the update to come version 6.2 you know how it says you will need a mojang account does this mean we will need a account like the one you buy to get minecraft on the P.C what i mean is will we need to buy a account or will we get one because we already bought the game please coment or add or whatever this is my first topic (sorry if this is hard to read some times i am a messy writer)if you can help thx Liamperry10 12:09, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
I am not entirely sure, but Mojang accounts are free. You can register accounts for free, but getting Minecraft for the computer will cost about $26.95 USD. -- Numbermaniac - T- C 06:32, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
As far as I know, you don't need to pay for an account on Pocket Edition of Minecraft. The game itself, yes. Account, no. -Creepers explode, don'tcha know? 21:59, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
Delete page[edit]
I think this page should be deleted. It's orphan and talks about almost 4-years-old things. Useless page.--94.101.51.28 14:55, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
No, we don't delete things just because they are old. If it is no long an available feature in the game, it should be marked as historical content. -- Wynthyst Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png talk 18:06, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Wiki Server issues[edit]
You may have noticed occasional outages on the wiki. We have identified the cause of a lot of these blips in service to be the editing of :Template:Blocks, :Template:Items and all the sprite templates, and others that go along with them. Each time any one of the templates involved in these two nav boxes gets edited, it creates such a spike on serverload that it destabilizes the server for just long enough to create a service blip. We need to find an alternative solution. My current suggestion is to remove the images from the nav boxes completely. Are they really necessary given the consequences of keeping them? Or... is there some other way we can break those templates into smaller chunks so that changes would not create such a widespread impact? -- Wynthyst Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png talk 18:06, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
whatever is done, I'd strongly vote against removing the images.
as a user of the wiki, I do not really read the template. I find the image, and click it.
I believe, due to the vast amount of blocks in Minecraft, that these templates would suffer greatly if the images were removed, and that we should look for an alternate solution.
that said, which templates are causing issues, exactly? how severe are the outages? is it only when they're all edited, like during a new update? or can a single template edit do it? is there any way to ease the strain through other means, like locking the pages? --Kizzycocoa 19:30, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
We do not believe removing sprites is a solution of the issue as some other complex templates that do not include images still create major lag spikes for MediaWiki while being edited. This would also remove part of usefulness of navboxes, part of their illustrative abilities. How long actually wiki doesn't work on editing? On ru. section we experience downtime of about a minute, that doesn't hurt much. And once again, Wynthyst, please, look into issue with image revert. Sincerely, ru.wiki team. Norrius 19:32, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I would probably use the search function before I tried to read through a navbox without images. What if the content of the navboxes were not automatically loaded, but could be loaded with a LoadPage mechanic? (not necessarily that template, just something like it) Changes would then propagate to very few pages, but a load request would be pretty quick for users, I think (one or two seconds). —Munin295 · 16 px 16 px · 19:58, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
LoadPage makes it easier for server to handle editing, but every user request to the template would be followed by delay of several seconds. Minute (am I right? or it is half an hour?) downtime once when editing template or tiny but still annoying delay every time when using template? Norrius - ru.Wiki Admin 20:19, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Us admins have been discussing the practicality of this issue, as opposed to the functionality of the template. so, I'll translate the IT department's issues here.
1)the wiki is experiencing a few seconds downtime every time these navboxes get updated. even if it's just to fix a typo
2)the templates are on many, many pages. when one is updated, all the pages using the template are automatically rewritten. this causes the downtime. (every single in-game block's page use the block template. that's 364 pages, and they all need to be rewritten every time someone edits template:blocks!)
3)this automatically sends an email to the Curse IT department. they're complaining due to the volume of times this is edited.
4)the size of the templates are very large.
5)this can be a serious vandalism concern. if a vandal came in and added 50 images to the template, the wiki would crash. no ifs, no buts. it would just, die, and may take down other parts of Curse with it. it could be a large disaster.
So, there are a few options on the table at the moment.
1)we remove the images. this solves issues 1, 2, 3 and 4
2)we split the templates (blocks would become "natural", "manufactured", "ore" etc). this would solve all 5 issues, but would make ease of use
slightly worse. we can keep the large templates for the overview pages, such as the Blocks page.
3)we get another option. Munin295 suggested some "loadpage" option. no idea how it'd work, but it's worth discussing.
The template will most likely be changed. there's no other way we can see to fix this. either we inconvenience users by removing images, or we keep the images, but cut down on the content so the general catagories (natural, manufactured, ore etc) are templates. this means on an ore page, the template would only contain ores. on a redstone page, only redstone etc.
as said before, if we were to remove the images, we would lose most of the functionality. but if we split them, we lose the ability to do any "wikihopping" (like how you get from "cats" to "motorbikes" purely by related links).
Thoughts on this? any other solutions you could offer? --Kizzycocoa 20:26, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Something that I have yet to understand about using bits of one image, like the CSS images these templates use, is the image loaded once and positioned accordingly, or are these templates loading the image for every single icon? If the latter, I would like to think MW is reloading every icon when a template edit occurs and is re-parsing the image several times per page for the tons of pages it's on due to an edit causing a reload of the css code it uses from the sprite position template. We already have grid images for everything, would using a separate image for each icon help? If my assumption of MW's internal workings is correct, it shouldn't re-parse each individual image for a template change.
If I'm completely wrong, and just the fact that it's a large template is the issue, I agree with Kizzycocoa's suggestion we split the templates into the sections it already has, like a Template:Manufactured, Template:Natural, etc. It is also possible to maintain "wikihopping" since a few blocks and items would fit in more than one of these separate categories, we just keep them in one category since listing them more than once in one template is pointless. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 20:34, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
we used to do just that. the fact that a browser had to access 50+ images at once brought the MCwiki servers to it's knees back then. if we undid our decision to do CSS trickery, we'd be in a much worse place :P --Kizzycocoa 20:38, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Issue 5: Isn't this why all these templates are fully protected? And are these measures worth it? The images are critical to templates because they are navigation templates, and images allow much better navigation. The pageload thing looks good, but it's few seconds downtime once per template versus ~800 milliseconds on each page load? Is it an "it's better for our server xor it's better for users" kind of choice? And have you even read our previous messages? --GreenStone(cont) 20:48, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
If you have to make an unnecessary comparison between the people that use a site and the ability for the site to exist for that people, the server always wins. You can't just do everything that's "better for users" and ignore hardware and software limitations. There HAS to be a balance and if the server has issues, those issues have to be rectified. This very discussion is "better for users" since it's discussing the balance we need to strike. Also, the full protection just occurred today. They've been editable by autoconfirmed users for a long time. As for your off-topic mention, that's uncalled for. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 21:00, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
Then let's remove images from all wiki pages for further optimisation and freeing disk space. Are those few seconds downtime real issue? Only serious problem seems security reasons like vandalizm and general Curse Network stability, and that's what we should think how to solve. The wiki exists not for the server but for users. Norrius - ru.Wiki Admin 21:15, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
The potential for vandalism is far too great in my opinion. if all it takes to cripple the wiki is for a spammer to register an account, then add fifty images to this one template, we need to change this. I personally do not want to see the images go, as they are vital for navigating. that said, we cannot allow this security flaw to stay. I think removing images is reduntant and a non-issue. it would solve the server load issues, but wouldn't solve the dangers of keeping this template untouched. --Kizzycocoa 21:22, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
@Norrius: Normal operations of the wiki, such as images, editing, etc. are easily handled by the server. Disk space is (I assume) not an issue. Optimization is also not the issue. The abnormally large templates are the issue. Because it's a "we need to recover from a stability issue" problem and not a "Curse wants to cut stuff" problem, this isn't a question of will we change things, it's how will we change them. You are correct that the wiki is for users, but you are using that concept incorrectly. Wiki editors exist to better the wiki they edit, which includes everything from a one byte grammar change to ensuring the wiki operates within the limits of its server. If the server has problems, things have to change.
To add to my comment, take Wikipedia's pure donation-fueled existence. If, for some reason, they weren't able to raise their annual cost one year, they would have to sacrifice. Cut on some server costs, change some policies, etc. This is a similar situation. Even though Curse does not run on donations, they are still just as limited as Wikipedia. If they aren't able to provide a super server where we could do anything, then we have to strike a balance, as I stated. The performance of the wiki is just as important as the wiki itself. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 21:40, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
"few seconds downtime once per template versus ~800 milliseconds on each page load?" -- That extra time would only be added when the user requests it (which will surely result in the navbox content being requested at a tiny fraction of the rate it is now: automatically loaded on hundreds of popular pages). Otherwise the article's load time (and the server's overall load) has been reduced by some similar amount from what it is now. —Munin295 · 16 px 16 px · 22:13, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I understand what you want. It's a problem of "making better without making worse", a very serious one due to possible unforeseen consequences. In this case, it's clear that the instability is a serious issue, possibly even critical, however, it must be resolved with minimal losses. You aren't interpreting this discussion as "Lower the server load at all costs!", right? There's the problem, losses have to be minimal, as I stated above. If you cut the templates' images, it may cause less server load, but it will slow user navigation down. And by "user" I do not only mean "editor", but "reader" as well. Is it worth it? Are there no other solutions? Pageload seems a valid solution now: the only inconvenience caused is slowdown when opening these templates. However, there may be a better solution, problems with pageload... It's clear that more experienced users should join the discussion. --GreenStone(cont) 22:16, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
I like the idea of trying the LoadPage mechanism. If these templates aren't transcluded, editing them won't cause hundreds of page rewrites, which should solve the problem. Users can still load the navboxes when they want to, so there's no real loss of functionality. As for implementing this, I think the easiest method would be to move Template:Blocks (etc.) to a new page, then recreate it as a template that loads the actual navbox. That way we won't have to update every block and item page individually. -- Orthotope 01:51, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I believe the LoadPage template can only be used to create headline elements (h2, h3, etc. -- specifically, anything that gets the .mw-headline class) which probably isn't appropriate for this purpose (thus, mechanism, not template). It would either have to be generalized, or some new javascript written for this purpose. —Munin295 · 16 px 16 px · 03:16, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
I would expect this to be a null issue once we have lua, but for now I think the page loader would be the best option. We could have a "<Category> navigation" section for each navbox so that the page loader can be used without modification (all that would need to be changed is the navbox pages to have the noinclude class around documentation). To get the page loader to work in the navbox itself would be tricky, since the border that would always be shown is part of the navbox, so the navbox template would need to be modified to only output the border, and then the page loader would either have to remove the frame from the content on loading, or the content would have to be on a separate page to the frame. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Contribs 04:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
This is an issue that needs to be resolved. I have checked with our tech team and there is no viable page loader option available to us, so this comes back to modifying the templates. Just to be clear, this is not just about the nav box templates themselves, but also the sprite templates. If you insist that the images must remain in the nav boxes, then both the sprite templates, and the nav templates have to be modified. Breaking them into smaller, more manageable sections, with a sprite image, and display template for each is what it is going to take. This is going to make them much less user friendly to use and edit. I guess I'm not sure what the importance of keeping the images if the nav boxes are smaller, more specific. Bottom line, either the community comes up with a solution that resolves the instability problem, or our tech team will impose limits on the number of pages any single template can be used on. -- Wynthyst Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png talk 16:38, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
I don't understand how the page loader script won't work. The way I understand it is we modify the main template to put in a bunch of page load links and all the content is in separate pages or subpages. This way, the main template doesn't need to be modified for any change or the hundreds of pages it's in doesn't need the template changed and the template itself stays protected. After that, the only reason to edit the template would be to add a new category of blocks/items. Is there a detailed explanation as to why this won't work? —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 17:01, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
(edit conflict) What are you talking about "no viable page loader"? It's right here and we've already got the navbox working with the script without needing any modification to the script or navbox template; we just need to actually apply it to the navbox pages. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Contribs 17:05, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
(double edit conflict) Analyzing structure "navboxSplit":
Possible result output: for example, take items. "Items" will have an item class template at the bottom (by item classes I mean, for instance, food, equipment (armor/weapons/tools)... All class pages will have 2 navigation templates: All Classes and Class Items. All item articles will only have corresponding class templates (may be more than 1 template if the item belongs to multiple classes?)
This will only result in server load decrease if sprites are removed, however, as Wynthyst said, there may be no reason to keep them if the navigation templates are split.
And it's not clear why the page loader won't work.
Analyzing structure "navboxPageLoad":
If the page loader works, this will only lag when templates are loaded: less likely to cause direct server-side issues, if the internal interpretation is correct.
Part of this analysis may be incorrect (reason: conflicting information was provided). --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 17:28, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
To my understanding, the loading of the template itself, with the sprites, on normal page viewing is not the issue. There is no noticeable difference in server load if the templates weren't there versus now. The issue is editing the templates. When something transcluded gets edited, the server has to scrap the cache of each page it's transcluded to and rebuild it. Every time someone edits these high use templates, the server hiccups. The load page solution takes the editing problem out and any edits to the content does not affect the template at all, which is why I am stating my confusion that the tech team says it won't work. In fact, my assumption about categories in my last post is wrong. I have not seen the progress that ultradude25 linked to and it's even better than what I thought. Once that is introduced, there will be zero need to edit the actual template and the server blips will go away.
This also has the side effect of essentially having the templates collapsed, shortening some pages. I brought up the suggestion to auto collapse these nav templates when we introduced the redstone template due to the excessive bottom length of some articles, but they used to be that way and someone complained the opposite in the past. This load page solution brings this back, albeit unintentionally. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 17:41, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
Ok.. I see where this is going, however, it's not the root of the problem. The root of the problem is the fact that each of these templates use a whole bunch of additional templates that are also used in other places and other ways. :Template:BlockSprite is used in over 2000 places, so any edit made to this template, parses out 2000+ times, any change to any of the 6 sprite templates that are included in the navbox does the same. So even if the navbox is only loading when someone asks for it, the changes to all the transcluded templates are parsed out with each change to each template. -- Wynthyst Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png talk 04:05, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Including the translation project articles on www, I wouldn't be surprised if the navboxes' use of BlockSprite accounted for most of that 2000 (english articles with navboxes alone account for about 400 or 20% of that, and there's how many translation articles?). Most of the templates that use BlockSprite look like navboxes, so once their content is offloaded we can take a look at the few others and see if something can be done. Let's get the navbox content offloaded and see where that puts us. —Munin295 · 16 px 16 px · 06:17, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Actually, this loadbox configuration will not just knock out the amount of direct transclusions of the main templates, the same will happen with the support templates. The vast majority of the 1619 pages the BlockSprite template is on is indirectly through the navboxes. Orthotope made a suggestion on Template talk:LoadBox#Blocks and Items Template that we should use this method on every navbox template for consistency, but with you bringing attention to the even higher use support templates, using this loadbox method on everything, including the translation templates, may just be a requirement to ensure anything that may need to be edited on a semi-regular basis isn't directly transcluded everywhere. Refitting {{Blocks}} and {{Items}} alone will knock about 700 pages off of BlockSprite's usage.
As an afterthought, while composing this reply, I was wondering why you said over 2000 pages when the current count is 1619. I assumed you were vaguely rounding, but then I realized Orthotope has already converted {{Environment}} and {{Gameplay}}. That's already 400-some pages off BlockSprite's usage. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 05:36, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Ok, I'm obviously not grasping the technicalities of this solution, so I'm taking it on faith that you guys do. Since you have already started implementing it, I have asked our sysops team to monitor server performance and alert me to any instabilities caused by any of these templates. If they find none, solution found. If they find some, we will need to revisit this issue. I'm cautiously optimistic since they have not reported any issues while you've started making changes. Good job guys! -- Wynthyst Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png talk 11:02, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Is there any update on this? is everything updated and implemented? I'm interested if whatever trickery you did works! --Kizzycocoa 20:50, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Quite a few templates have been converted for a few days now. All content of these templates are not transcluded anywhere, so updates to the content no longer cause any server problems. There are still high use sprite templates, but I do believe the issue was the cascading effect of everything used in a nav template being reparsed for every change. Sprite usage now is just direct transclusions such as simple item/block linking. As far as I understand, I believe the problem is fixed, or at least severely lessened for the purpose of stability in order to upgrade the wiki. I would imagine that an lua solution would further reduce the issue. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 09:53, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Minecraft 2.0 mentions[edit]
I continue to agree with ensuring that no info about this version gets documented outside of its article, but because of the "double trolling" nature of this version, as in joking about some of the jokes and actually adding some things, I would like to propose placing a simple link to Minecraft 2.0 in the see also section of anything that was "introduced" in that version, but then actually added. Since Block of Coal's creation yesterday, there's been at least four reverts of 2.0 info and I think a see also link will be sufficient enough to satisfy people wanting to put down something. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 11:26, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
That sounds like a great idea! 4 reverts already? Wow. I think it's better you put the link there :D -- Numbermaniac - T- C 11:33, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
That didn't work. --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 16:18, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
When I put this topic here, Numbermaniac, I wanted the thoughts of others. If I wanted to put that in already, I would've done it before saying anything. When someone brings up an idea on this page, it's probably a bit controversial. Just add your opinion and don't run off to implement the idea for them. As for the page, I threw in a wikinote. I didn't expect anything to work 100% though. Many visitors have proven that they can somehow type without being able to read. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 18:31, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
Sorry about that. I guess I was just getting a bit infuriated by the amount of people mentioning Minecraft 2.0. -- Numbermaniac - T- C 02:08, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
Agreed - Sounds like a good idea. –Goandgoo ᐸ Talk
Edit count 04:25, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
Lowered page?[edit]
I noticed that the pages of the wiki have been slid down...I cleared my cache, didn't help. Anyone else have this? -Creepers explode, don'tcha know? 16:05, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
I also have some snips of this occuring, if that's helpful. -Creepers explode, don'tcha know? 16:16, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
There's a new box above the article title which is supposed to hold ads (maybe you have an ad-blocking browser extension making it invisible?). You can get rid of it by placing the following in your css style sheet:
div.atflb { display: none !important; }
—Munin295 · 16 px 16 px · 17:37, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks! -Creepers explode, don'tcha know? 18:19, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
Item hotbar[edit]
Sort of a newb here... Can someone make a template that is a hotbar with items in it you can choose? thanks! Twkkrkt 20:07, 15 May 2013 (UTC)
Done Template:Hotbar –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Custom namespaces (requires Curse)[edit]
While composing a comment on the style guide talk page, an idea came to me. What if we had some extra namespaces to help clean up some of the big subpage articles we have? I think it wouldn't be a bad idea to make Mod and Tutorial namespaces. Those would be obvious to organize, but what if we go as far as making a Version namespace? Every major version could get an article, not just the named ones, like Version:1.6. For development versions, we could have sections within these "main" version articles that maintain the same table we do on that massive development versions page, but it would also have the official release changes on the same page, and once the official release happens, we could collapse the snapshots. Any history links would point to a snapshot like this: Version:1.6#13w19a and within the article, we could have a basic layout of all the changes in article format along with any relevant social media from Mojang about the version, like the quotes for the snapshots. Now, I'm not sure about the version namespace, even though that idea was pretty interesting to me, but I would love to see a Mod and Tutorial namespace. If anyone is not sure what I mean by custom namespaces, think of the "Forum" namespace on Wowpedia, or the five extra namespaces on Wikipedia. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 11:22, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
Disagree The first issue that occurs to me is that it multiplies the places that articles "could be". Already, if a page is in Tutorials, much less a user space, it's significantly more difficult to search for.
More basically, the namespaces represent divisions of wiki function: The Minecraft Wiki space itself (apparently aka Help) for central pages such as the front page and noticeboard, one for MediaWiki (the software we run on), and the main namespace for ordinary topic pages... but then you're on to Template, Category, File, and User. Each represents a basically different type of material, not just a different topic or category. If we had a Forum, that might well qualify for a namespace, but we don't -- and the "extra" namespaces on WP are similarly fundamental divisions of their mission. The closest we have for that is the tutorials, and those naturally blur into the topic articles. The mods are not even close, and few mods have enough editors to even finish their own pages. And versions are a small and specific topic -- we totally don't want people doing separate copies of item or mob pages for every version! --Mental Mouse 20:13, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
I personally disagree with Mental Mouse, as I see namespace functionality differently. I agree a Tutorial and Mod namespace would not be a bad idea, especially the Mod namespace. The Mainspace is for articles documenting the vanilla Minecraft as it actually exists, so while the argument could be made that Tutorials fall loosely into that area, Mods are definitely outside it. We did have a discussion when Curse initially took over the wiki whether it was something we wanted to do, and at that time, it was decided to simply have a strict naming convention for Mod pages. If there is enough belief that we have outgrown that method, then a custom namespace would be the way to go. As for searching, we simply set the new namespaces as part of all initial searches (not having to specify it in Advanced Search). Either way, it's a relatively easy thing to implement, it would be up to the community to get all the existing pages moved appropriately. -- Wynthyst Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png talk 07:48, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
What about a Version namespace though (as Kanegasi suggested)? Sounds like a good idea but ultimately i have not much say in the decision. –Goandgoo ᐸ Talk
Edit count 08:20, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Me neither, but I like the idea. Support. -- (T) Numbermaniac(C) 08:22, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
I'd be fine with the mod and tutorial namespaces, not so sure about version though. Why is a namespace beneficial for that? If we just had the versions in the mainspace it'd be easy to link to them, without needing redirects.
If we do add these namespaces Wyn, could you get the namespace aliases added that I requested awhile ago, as well? –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
I don't see much use for a Mods namespace at this point. Most of the existing mod pages are unmaintaned, and many describe mods that are no longer being updated. Of course, this could be a chicken-and-egg problem: if the wiki was more supportive of mod pages, perhaps they'd be maintained more actively.
A Version namespace would be more useful. Every minor version and snapshot (e.g., Version:13w19a) could be redirected to the appropriate part of the major version article (Version:1.6#13w19a, as in Kanegasi's example); this would work around the issues with {{Version link}}, allowing us to split the overly-long Version history/Development versions without needing to wait for a MediaWiki upgrade. Maybe not the most elegant solution, but it would be easy to implement. The old bug list/issues pages could be moved into this namespace as well.
As for a Tutorials namespace, I'm indifferent: I don't see a big advantage to it, but I don't have an argument against it either. -- Orthotope 09:11, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Again, I'm not seeing the benefit of the namespace. Why can't we have a 13w19a article that redirects to 1.6#13w19a? It's easier for linking, since you don't have to pipe out the namespace every time or use a redirect (and the 1.6 article would exist either way, it'd just be a redirect instead). –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Some thoughts: For Mental Mouse, Wikipedia may be the pioneer of wikis and a great example to follow, but we don't have to follow them. I agree that every custom namespace I've seen has some sort of special functionality, but they don't have to be like that. Any wiki can use the functions of MediaWiki as they see fit. I also don't understand what you meant by "separate copies of item or mod pages for every version".
For Wynthyst, that's my general thought process. I think that the main space, with exception to the main page, should have nothing but vanilla articles in it, but we've made exceptions by organizing large subpage trees and every once in a while, we get a random page creation that was supposed to be in these subpage trees. Tutorials normally explain vanilla concepts, but organizing them into their own space sounds nice and it would be a little harder to accidentally or ignorantly make a main space page when you were supposed to be in the Tutorial namespace. Mods, of course, need a place of their own.
For the version namespace, I don't see piping the links every time that much of an issue, and it would be the same organizational concept as Tutorials or Mods. Just simply a dedicated namespace to version history. If it still feels unnecessary, we can still follow the idea of making main version articles vice clumping changes in one big page. This namespace was mostly an idea to split that dev history page. We could still have a main history page, but not centralize all the history links to it and have it be more of a navigational thing. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 23:54, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
Disagree in principle, particulary for version namespaces. We've recently been reviewing our extensive use of namespaces over at the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (uesp.net) wiki and have come across some issues that weren't expected when the namespaces were initially set up. For instance, you cannot guarantee that the developers will be consistent when naming their updates. I see already that with Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition there are two different ways of naming the version: by version number, and by Title Update. What happens when the naming schema is changed by the developers? Do we change the namespaces to make them consistent with the new schema? A whole heap of effort for very little return, in my honest opinion. — AugurUser_talk:Augurnz 19:00, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
I took a quick look over at your wiki, and I understand your thought process, but that's not what I was going for. Your wiki makes a whole new namespace for a specific version, my idea is just one namespace called "Version". All the articles in this namespace would be the version number, so there would be a Version:1.6 article that contains all snapshots and pre-releases for that version. I'm not sure this space would be implemented though due to mixed thoughts here. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 20:32, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the further explanation. I'm still of the opinion that additional namespaces add additional complexity that can be detrimental in the long term. My objection still stands. — AugurUser_talk:Augurnz 07:37, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Custom namespaces are something you have to be careful about adding, because once a custom namespace is added and becomes used, it is very difficult to change or remove it. Certainly, if used judiciously and with careful consideration, custom namespaces can be a powerful organizational tool, but I can attest from personal experience that adding custom namespaces for their own sake, or without due consideration, can end up quite ugly.
In this particular case, I can definitely see the argument for custom "Mod" and "Tutorial" namespaces (with the singular names, not the plural ones; I can elaborate on this if requested), considering we already treat them as separate namespaces for all intents and purposes. I do not, however, see any compelling need for a "Version" namespace: pages should either be "Version/" subpages, or (preferably, I think) should stand on their own, e.g. "1.6.1" (at the very least, we should have redirects in place, I think). 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 17:01, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Picture usage in {{quote}}[edit]
Currently, it seems there is no consistency with pictures in quotes. We continue to maintain Twitter profile pictures for some reason and it just seems all the Mojangster pictures are random, like Lydia's face, C418's stuff, etc. I propose we have a full set of official Mojang avatars, cropped to the face (which we do have for a few Mojangsters) and {{quote}} will only use those. I really don't see the reason to plaster the wiki with random Twitter profile pictures. To enforce this, we should code the quote template similar to what we have for the crafting templates, so instead of the "Grid" prefix, all the Mojang avatars will be prefixed with "Mojang-" and using the Mojangster's name in the quote template will automatically display the correct picture. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 22:56, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
I like the idea. -- (T) Numbermaniac(C) 09:02, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
I don't have an issue with that, although I'd prefer the prefix to be Mojavatar. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Wiki header text contrast[edit]
I think the contrast between the black text and dark blue background on the wiki's header isn't the best.
It's readable, but not so great. Even with bold font, which is commonly used
What do people think about using white text instead?
It's more readable with standard font and bold font, and still looks nice.
–ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Agree. I thought the same thing a while ago, I just never did anything about it. It is hard to read, especially on small devices like my phone. -- (T) Numbermaniac(C) 07:09, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
Agree -Creepers explode, don'tcha know? 19:20, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Agree. Even I agree with this, and I'm anonymous... --70.181.68.226 01:19, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Disagree. The black text is completely readable for me, while the white text version is not. If you need contrast, it's also possible to change the background color. --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 05:38, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
Hmm, GreenStone has a point. The white font is readable for me, but we can change the background color also, so it would be completely readable for everyone. --70.181.68.226 13:05, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
Rephrase: We can always change the background color instead. --70.181.68.226 03:35, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
The blue color kind of matches the wiki. I do really think it should be white. –- (T) Numbermaniac(C) 07:21, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
You're right. But maybe if we put the white text, and made the blue a little bit darker... --70.181.68.226 14:36, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
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That could work. –- (T) Numbermaniac(C) 01:05, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
I agree with 70.181.68.226. --71.118.222.30 14:45, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
(729fcf is the current color)
#729fcf #729fcf
#679ace #679ace
#5b93cc #5b93cc
#5290ce #5290ce
#488bce #488bce
#3d84cc #3d84cc
#337fcc #337fcc
#287acc #287acc
#1e75cc #1e75cc
One of these, perhaps? --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 15:19, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
Probably the darkest one will work best. --71.118.222.30 16:38, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
I favor the bottom one. -Creepergoboom64 00:15, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I like 1e75cc. –- (T) Numbermaniac(C) 05:30, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
I was trying to say what both of you are saying! --71.118.222.30 05:35, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Help?[edit]
How do I create a User Talk page? -Fred071202 70.117.152.25 01:52, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Generally, IPs don't have talk pages. If you plan on being an active user with a talk page AND a user page, might I suggest creating an account? (Ok, I am going against my own words :P. I might create an account... someday... preferably in the near future...) Happy editing! :) --70.181.68.226 03:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the help! -Fred071202 70.117.152.25 15:21, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
EDIT: By the way, does it cost money, and if so, how much? -Fred071202 70.117.152.25 15:48, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
It's free. --70.181.68.226 17:38, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Just to clarify, anyone can have a talk page. It's just the userpage that wasn't accepted. For you, "Fred071202", click your own IP link, then click "talk" in the top left mini navigation under the "User contributions" title. I highly suggest you get an account first. Click here to create one. No email required and completely free. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 20:05, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Yes. I said that generally, IPs don't have talk pages. --70.181.68.226 21:00, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
You're the biggest exception. O_O -- (T) Numbermaniac(C) 01:31, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Yes. Yes I am. --70.181.68.226 02:42, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Sponge[edit]
First of all, the Minecraft Wiki states that if you want to talk about Minecraft, you should use this Talk Page (the Community Portal). Anyway, how come Sponge doesn't soak up Water anymore? Maybe after you break a block of Sponge that has Water in it, it would release all the water? -Fred071202 70.117.152.25 18:41, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
First off, it meant the wiki itself, not the game. Two, suggestions should go to the fourms or Mojang's twitter.. -Creepers explode, don'tcha know? 19:19, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
It does not state anywhere on this wiki that talk about Minecraft occurs here. All talk pages are wiki-related. Normally, they are only for the page they are attached to (named after) with exception to this page, which is for wiki-wide general topics or stuff affecting more than one page, and the Admin noticeboard talk, which is for any discussion requiring admin attention. As Creeper has stated above my reply, all general Minecraft discussion goes on the forums. There is a link on the left side menu on every page to the forums. Clicking "Minecraft discussions, ideas, and suggestions" in the yellow box while editing any talk page will also take you to the forums. —User:Kanegasi User talk:KanegasiUser:Kanegasi/edit count 20:12, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Licensing: mod images[edit]
Which license is correct for images of items/blocks added by mods and why? (example: :File:Aether Dirt (The Aether).png — Mojang license; :File:Copper Ore Block (IndustrialCraft).png — unlicensed.) --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 09:27, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
Both are just tinted versions of the minecraft textures, so fall under Mojang's license. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Obvious recolors of default textures (compare Aether Dirt with :File:Dirt.png) should have the Mojang license – "derivative of copyrighted Mojang artwork and content". If it's actually original artwork, licensing is up to the creator. Files using {{license}} haven't had a license assigned yet, usually because the correct license couldn't be determined, or simply because no one has gotten around to it. -- Orthotope talk 09:44, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
The "recolors -> Mojang license" was my assumption before I posted the first message. However, what about original work? Does the algorithm look like this:
if the image is an obvious recolor of a default texture:
put the Mojang license template
search for any information on the mod's forums, contact the creator
if the license is now determined:
put the corresponding license template
put the "Unlicensed" template
The problem is in the "Unlicensed" template. "Please set a license by using the appropriate option on the drop down list or applying the correct license template." is not very appropriate because the correct license could not be determined. (and likely will not; if asking the creator didn't work, then nothing will, unless there is a "default license") --GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 10:09, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
The unlicensed template is just there to categorise. I don't know much about copyright (does anyone, really?), but I seem to remember reading that if you don't set a specific license on something, it is automatically copyright to you. So not having a license is actually more restrictive than having say, a public domain license.
Any page without an unlicensed template (every file should have a license template, even if it's just the base {{license}}) should be assumed copyright of the uploader. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Anything that does not have an existing license falls under the CC by nc sa 3.0 license if it is uploaded here on the wiki whether it is tagged or not. -- Wynthyst Image:User Wynthyst sig icon.png talk 02:14, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Language categories[edit]
On blocks, the "type" automatically puts it in that category. This is a problem for pages in other languages. On those pages, there are categories that don't exist. There is also this problem with dyes. hotdogPi-t--c--Try my quiz! Do not click! 22:04, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
Trick with Redstone Comparators[edit]
If you place redstone to connect the front of a redstone comparator to the side, turn the redstone comparator on, then add a lever/redstone torch/pressure plate etc. it will cause the redstone current to flash. You can connect this current to a dispenser to make it shoot items at about 5 times a second. This is very useful for getting rid of many mobs with tons of arrows or fire charges. I was playing around with redstone when I found this out and I thought it would be nice to put it on this page since I couldn't find anything about it in the "Redstone Curcuits" section. Sincerely, ERBPOWOR –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 173.5.225.247 (talk) at 02:56, 22 June 2013 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~
Subtraction Pulser. Anything that generates pulses one after another is a clock circuit.
—Munin295 · 16 px 16 px · 03:01, 22 June 2013 (UTC)
There will be something like that in dylan luper you tuber redstone tips episode 2 But it's not your idea it's comepletely different. ~ LABHOUSE (LH) 19:07, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
How do u join worlds in the new update of the pe?[edit]
What the topic says
Enchanted Golden Apple[edit]
We need a grid image for his. I got confused when it seemed that both crafting recipes on Golden Apple gave the same result. — t numbermaniac c 09:24, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
The enchanted golden apple looks identical (aside from the enchantment glowyness) and has the same name. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Contribs 09:32, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
Ah, ok. It just that they both looked identical in the crafting grid. — t numbermaniac c 23:51, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
As they do in the game, aside from the minor enchantment effect (which we can't really do) and different tooltip text colour (could make custom tooltips though). –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Whatever. You're the design man :D — t numbermaniac c 02:14, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
Like this? 'Enchanted' effect needs more than 256 colors, so we cannot use GIF format. This image uses APNG format, but most browsers don't support it. --AMotohiko 10:06, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Or like this? File:ChickenSig.png ILeon ᐸ Talk
Contribs - de.Wiki Admin 13:43, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Bug descriptions[edit]
[1] The previous summary says that we have to use the original name at all times, even if it contains wrong spelling or other flaws. I do not see any logic in that. In my opinion, bug entries in changelogs have two purposes: 1) Provide a brief description of the bug; 2) Provide a link to the page which contains more details.
What if the name is not a sufficient description of the bug? (Example: "Critical server error" instead of "Server crashes when %s".) What if it contains confusing spelling errors? Are we going to leave the name unchanged because we do not change bug names?
--GreenStone (0x54; 0x43) 09:46, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
I only copy, edit in wiki format and paste the bug list. There will be numbers of issues, and I cannot edit each of them. How about posting only bug queries? Mojang started bug tracker, we don't need to file each issues. If there are crashful or fatal bugs, we can mention them in 'Notable bugs'. --AMotohiko 10:01, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Chances are I might be in the wrong here. A similar thing happened before where a bug's title was fixed for spelling errors, then undone because that is how it is actually spelt in the report. So what's the "rule" on this? — t numbermaniac c 10:38, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
I don't think there is any real rule yet. I suspect, however, that the current practice actually started with me (see my edits to Version history/Development versions on January 12, where other editors were removing the links to the bug tracker in favor of hand-curated lists and I was reverting without bothering to keep the edited bug descriptions). I never intended that we should only use the descriptions exactly as worded on the bug tracker, though; see my comment in Talk:Version history/Development versions/Archive 3#Bug Fixes. My feelings haven't changed since then; personally, I don't see any reason to insist on using the descriptions exactly as presented in the bug tracker, so long as the descriptions we *do* use are not inaccurate or misleading. 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 10:51, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
So does that mean minor things such as modifying spelling erros are acceptable? — t numbermaniac c 11:32, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Certainly, at least in my opinion (this is a community discussion, after all, so it should probably be decided by more than just one editor ;) ), but I would go farther and say that rewording or even an entirely different description is all right so long as the description we have accurately describes the bug (I alluded to this in my previous comment, but being explicit never hurts). 「ディノ奴千？！」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 11:48, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
(edit conflict) Why would we preserve the bug titles? Just write whatever is fitting... –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
RFC: Identifying Xbox 360-specific info[edit]
Please discuss here a proposed new project to rationalize and clearly identify information that is only pertinent to the Xbox 360 Edition of Minecraft. This project will address the issue raised in the Wanted Pages section of the CP, which states...
It would be nice if variations in the Xbox version were called out whenever relevant instead of just on one page. For example, in the page on bookshelves, I added a parenthetical note that there's no leather requirement on Xbox.
To resolve this, I propose making a template to add a small Xbox icon and optionally the Title Update that introduced / fixed the particular issue that is so marked. It would end up looking something like this, which may appear on the Nether Bricks page, for instance...
15px (Since TU9): Nether Brick is a renewable resource, via use of the Reset Nether option.
Another idea is to review the History template, with a view to adding XBox 360 content to the history section of each block or item's wiki page. I see that there is already the capability to include this information within the template, it just doesn't seem to be implemented extensively yet on the wiki.
Please add any other suggestions, comments, or ideas about this proposed new project. I'm keen to get some feedback before I create the project page and get the ball rolling. — AugurUser_talk:Augurnz 17:55, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
The project should be for adding missing info specific to any edition of minecraft, not just Xbox. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
The same technique can be used for any edition of Minecraft, sure. Personally, I only play Minecraft on Xbox 360, so I can't really contribute anything for other editions, but the same idea applies. Other editors who have access to the other editions are welcome to create parallel projects for their favourite edition, no doubt. Any templates I make for this project will be easily adapted to the other editions. Oh, and this project isn't really about adding "missing information" as such, it is more about highlighting existing information for easier consumption by those searching for edition-specific info. — AugurUser_talk:Augurnz 04:40, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
If you only want to work on the xbox part of the project that's fine, but I don't think a separate project for each edition is necessary. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
Fair enough comment. Thanks for the input. When I start the project, it will be broader in scope, to include all editions, but my own contributions will mostly be for the XBox 360 Edition. I'll make the icon template either reusable for all editions (using the #switch parser function), or seperate templates for each edition. Any objection to the project being called "Highlighting Edition-Specific Information"? — AugurUser_talk:Augurnz 07:24, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
I've launched the project, here. I have noticed a couple of existing projects that would probably now come under the purview of this new project, as they are Edition-specific projects as well. Notably, the Minecraft Pocket Edition project and the Raspberry Pi History project. Should these two projects now be merged under the Highlighting Edition-Specific Information (HESI) project? — AugurUser_talk:Augurnz 09:01, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
End of game[edit]
A roommate and I have been building a town in creative mode, cheats for a while now. We had crops, villagers, multiple homes, etc. We did not use that world for anything else. Another roommate came along used that same world to transport(?) somewhere and defeat some dragon(?). We're not sure what happened, but whatever he did, the game was completed. He told us that the credits rolled by on the computer screen and then a selection screen came up. He selected respawn(?) and our character appeared in some location that we've never seen before. What did he actually do in our world and how do to we get back to the town we spent weeks building? -- Oper88 12:26, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
H's obviously gone and killed the Ender Dragon to finish the game. If you had ever saved the coordinates of your building, you could /tp there, otherwise I'm not too sure. — t numbermaniac c 12:31, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
We did not know anything about coordinates. We've had the game only a short while and have not done much other than build the town. Is there another way to find the town, such as move around in the land? -- Oper88 12:42, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
It does seem that your roommate has ended your game by killing the Ender Dragon, as numbermaniac mentioned above. However, I don't believe it will be possible to return your village to the way it was, I'm afraid. Once your game has "respawned", the world is reset back to how it appeared right at the beginning, without any of your modifications to it. The coordinates mentioned above may get you back to the village, but it would be the village as it was before you had done anything to it. This is, of course, assuming that your roommate selected to respawn with the exact same seed. If a different seed were used for the respawn, then even if you did have the coordinates for your village, they wouldn't help you anyway. The only other thing I can think of that might help is if you have made a backup of your world at some time before your roommate defeated the Ender Dragon. Sorry I can't offer any better advice or hope for you. Enjoy the new world, and make it bigger and better than ever. Keep the other roommate at bay, and backup your savegame file. — AugurUser_talk:Augurnz 16:22, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
What? Since when does killing the ender dragon reset the world? You just go back to your spawn point. If you remember where you went when you first created the world to get to the town, you can retrace those steps. Or open the world in a map editor and search around the loaded chunks for your town. You can then use the editor to set your spawn point to your town, or if it gives you coordinates use them to teleport to it, or just use it to know which direction to travel from spawn.
Also this belongs on the forums. This topic has nothing to do with the wiki. –ultradude25 ᐸ Talk
If you slept in any of your homes type /kill I know what it will do and so will you but thats all you can do. ~ LABHOUSE (LH) 19:05, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
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Improving access to clean water
Keyunga County, Uganda
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MINGA is proud to partner with the Butakoola Village Association for Development (BUVAD) to provide clean water to thousands in Kayunga County, Uganda. In Kayunga, where many people still collect water from ground-water sources, nearly 20 people are admitted to the District Hospital every week suffering from water related diseases such as malaria, typhoid, and dysentery. Some never recover. In addition, the very process of gathering ground-water, which often requires walking far from the safety of one’s own village, puts vulnerable community members (especially women and children) at risk of crime and violence.
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← Newsletter Summer 2015
Notes on working to protect older people →
Posted on January 12, 2017 by WDNHWA
ANNUAL REPORT OF WORK DONE BY THE ASSOCIATION DURING 2016
Kept interested parties aware of our activities by Alert messages and via Twitter.
Enhanced and maintained our website at : neighbourhoodwatchwycombe.org
Succeeded in obtaining a grant of £793.00 from The Midcounties Co-op to enable us to provide NHW street signs to our schemes free of charge and copies of ‘Watch Out For Scams’ also free of charge. The Midcounties Co-op is now regarded as a sponsor of our association.
Held 2 general Neighbourhood Watch meetings at Godstowe School, High Wycombe.
Contributed to a number of local NAGs by committee membership or by chairing meetings and by attending their Chairmen’s meeting as a guest.
Addressed or attended 36 local community or compatible group meetings re Neighbourhood Watch and crime prevention, including several elderly groups, with due emphasis being given to cons & scams.
Had table displays at 7 mini-crime prevention events outside supermarkets, including some used as police Have Your Say Meetings.
Met the two Neighbourhood Inspectors on 2 occasions to discuss the implications of the Service Level Agreement between Thames Valley Police and Neighbourhood Watch.
Provided training re NHW on 2 occasions for members of the Neighbourhood Policing Team in High Wycombe.
Helped a local scheme by providing copies of its periodic newsletters.
Promoted the use of ‘No Doorstep Selling Zone’ street signs and ‘No Cold Callers’ stickers as supplied to us by Trading Standards.
Provided every new scheme with Neighbourhood Watch street signs free of charge out of our own resources. We have also replaced very many damaged or missing signs free of charge.
Held 10 table displays for recruitment and to provide crime prevention advice outside the Castlefield, Jubilee Road, and Totteridge Road Mosques during Friday prayers.
Met with the new Chairman of the committee relating to these three main mosques.
Been interviewed live on 4 occasions on Awaaz Radio, The RK Radio, Marlow FM, and Wycombe Sound, all of which are local broadcasting stations in the Wycombe District.
Continued our campaign to extend the presence of Neighbourhood Watch into the Muslim community in High Wycombe through the three main mosques.
Had 4,000 ‘Watch Out For Scams’ booklets printed at our expense.
Arranged for A-Plan Insurance in High Wycombe to provide discounts on household and motor insurance policies for our members and received £600 during 2016 in respect of referral fees on new policies taken out by our members via A-Plan. They are now regarded as a sponsor of our association.
Attended committee meetings of the Thames Valley Neighbourhood Watch Association and their AGM & Conference in 2016.
We continue to invite a number of people to come to our committee meetings when they can as guests. They are not able to vote at our meetings, but their news and views are just as important to us as if they were members of our committee. We would welcome the number of committee members being increased, particularly by people who can contribute something to the expansion and enhancement of Neighbourhood Watch across the district.
Resolved many Alert database issues and amended the database accordingly.
We have been involved in helping to promote a Street Association in Hughenden Parish which has an aim of helping potential victims of crime with a particular emphasis on those who feel vulnerable and isolated.
Emphasised at every opportunity the considerable change in the balance of crime from the traditional pattern of acquisitive crimes to the expanding and widening range of cons & scams and cyber-crime in particular. In this context, we are giving attention to the consequences of cons & scams on people with mental health issues, such as loneliness and dementia. Over half of all crime is now thought to fall into this category of cons & scams (i.e. fraud).
Started 17 new Neighbourhood Watch schemes with 24 Co-ordinators for those schemes and relating to a huge number of additional households across the district. This kept the total number of schemes at the end of the year at about 650 with about 1,150 Co-ordinators involved in running them. They include an estimated 48 members of the various ethnic minority communities plus 21 other nationalities that do not fall into this category. Over 90% of our database receives the Alert messages by email and we encourage more people to receive messages this way wherever possible. We estimate that our coverage of the district has doubled in the last 14/15 years. We cannot be precise, but we believe that we probably have the capacity to relate to about 25,000 households in our territory. The new schemes in 2016 include 4 retirement homes and the Stokenchurch Medical Centre – all for the benefit of the staff and, through them, the residents.
Remained totally self-funding from the sale of competitively priced security products.
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Amrita Rai works as a volunteer in Sanischare Refugee Camp. Photo: LWF Nepal
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(LWI) - When Amrita Rai was just nine years old, she was forced to flee her home in Bhutan and travel to Nepal, where she grew up surrounded by people struggling to find shelter, food and clean water.
At that tender age, she made up her mind that when she was able, she would dedicate her life to serving vulnerable people, those in need of security and protection.
Now 36, Rai volunteers tirelessly in Nepal’s Sanischare Refugee Camp and the wider host community, working with women, children and the elderly to help them gain a better life for themselves.
As The Lutheran World Federation’s (LWF) Nepal Country Director Dr Prabin Manandhar puts it, “Amrita Rai is a role model. We need many Amritas in our society to fight against inequality and injustice.”
LWF Nepal, with support from the UNHCR has provided asylum to Bhutanese refugees since 1991, finding long-term solutions to increase self-reliance through livelihood opportunities while maintaining their protection.
Make a difference in people’s lives
Approximately 6,500 Bhutanese refugees have lived in Sanischare and Beldangi refugee camps since the end of a re-settlement program in December 2018, with women accounting for approximately 35 percent of the population. Many of them face double discrimination, for being a woman, and for being a refugee.
At the age of 23, Rai joined the Federation of Women Entrepreneurs Association of Nepal (FWEN), raising awareness about child malnutrition, promoting women’s empowerment and self-sustainability and training them in bamboo handicrafts, mushroom farming and jute production.
For nine years, Rai worked for the Reclamation Gardening Program, encouraging organic production of vegetables, organizing community groups and training them about the dangers of using too many pesticides.
While distributing saplings and ensuring proper vegetation, the community activist also wanted to share their grief, make a difference in the lives of these women. In 2017, she left her paying job and joined the Bhutanese Refugee Women’s Forum (BRWF) to work as a volunteer.
Advocacy for refugees
She soon became secretary of the BRWF, counseling women and encouraging them to become financially independent and providing aid when needed. In 2018, Rai was appointed the Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) focal person, taking responsibility for monitoring and reporting such cases.
When there was a rape case involving a 14-year-old child, she filed a report with the local police, but they were not responsive. She raised the case in a Child Protection Working Group (CPWG) meeting, and along with UNHCR and the LWF organized a meeting with the deputy mayor and the local police to ensure that cases involving refugees be taken seriously.
Now, area police consult her about cases in the refugee camp.
In July, a child was kidnapped and Rai, working with the local community and police, found the boy in Ilam and quickly arranged a rescue. She then counseled the rescued child on how to stay safe.
In 2018, Rai invited International Home Care (IHC) to witness the difficult conditions the elderly were facing in the refugee camps. IHC agreed to build the Elderly Recreational Centre, where some 80 elderly visit every month, socialize, relax and have a good time.
She also pushed the local municipality to provide free health checks and medicine.
“I am really happy about this. This is something I speak of proudly, that I made a difference in the lives of so many vulnerable elders,” Rai says.
Volunteering after 2015 earthquake
Her passion for humanitarianism doesn’t just revolve around the Sanischare Refugee Camp. When there was a donation program in the host community for the 2015 Nepal earthquake survivors, she collected relief materials and sent them to Sindhupalchwok, one of the worst affected areas. She also donated a month’s rations to the earthquake survivors.
Despite doing so much for her community, Rai sometimes gets criticized for leaving a paying job to volunteer. Despite this, she never lets such talk dim her soul.
A mother of three children, including a foster child, who was separated from her parents at a young age, Rai hopes to see them achieve even more than her in the humanitarian field. She also mentors a child, who is a school dropout with behavioral issues.
“Seeing humans help humans makes my heart happy and gives me hope for humanity. I know what difficulty is, as I have faced it myself, and I know how much even a tiny ounce of help can do.
“This is what I want in life, and this is what I shall always do,” she concludes.
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Secret Lives and the Pursuit of Liberty
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By Carl S. ~
The subject of secret lives has engaged my mind for years. Perhaps it all began with a revelation. An acquaintance, a veteran of WW II, now deceased, found among his deceased wife's belongings, a birth certificate of a child he never knew she had. No doubt, this experience or other revelations of a partner's untold life are commonplace. Indeed, even within the lifetimes of couples and friends, we take their private lives as just that, private, and go no further. And we also note the growing concern we feel at the possibility of government overreach, in prying into our lives.
Novels, murder mysteries, actual criminal cases, tell-all books and media reports are saturating societies with revealing secrets. (My older brother had to meet his future wife secretly. He was German, she Sicilian. This stuff goes on all the time.) Celebrities "come out" or are caught off-guard in their actions or words. There are wives and husbands of famous authors, scientists, etc., who are dis-interested in the passions which drive their spouses. They love them and accept them without also accepting their spouse's expressions of their most intimate feelings. When the other is caught in an affair, or found out to be a thief, murderer, con artist, or otherwise harboring a secret nasty self, the spouse or friend is incredulous, bewildered, devastated, and usually, in denial. But how could intimacy be so deceived we wonder? Maybe because the spouses or friends were only willing to accept certain parts of the person's personality agreeable to what the person wanted to accept, and no other?
We do need secret lives. One author commented that a deity capable of watching us everywhere we are, deprives us of the privacy we naturally need for mental health. At the same time, we need the freedom from pressure that insists we have the right to just be ourselves as long as we don't harm others in being so. It is this right that religions are opposed to. The religious prefer LGBT, atheists, agnostics, secularists, and many others who are harmless to be and stay "in the closet," because in their well-meaning but perverted moral sensibility, the aforementioned are NOT harmless to them, their children, their society, or their nation.
There are atheist pastors "in the closet," and among congregations, who don't make waves, and instead express their true feelings through Facebook, twitter, and the internet. Clearly, when it comes to religions everywhere, doctrines dictate the individual does not have the right to even THINK about secretly loving another, which harms no one. Witness also the punishments that await anyone who thinks in secret, alone, of seriously questioning or leaving the dogmas concluded as being ridiculous and "self"-suppressing. (Don't you wonder what mind-bending stockpiles of dirty secrets clergy cover up?)
The right to express oneself openly is frowned upon by true believers, when it isn't mocked or damned. There is a double standard involved here, for the believers feel it's their god-given right to freely express their faith, over-riding the faiths and non-faith of others, in a "tyranny of the majority." Needless to say, when this is pointed out, the righteous cry "war on religion," or "This is a Christian nation," or other such nonsense. Strange isn't it, that those who claim to hold the moral high ground don't recognize the everlasting moral precept, "Do unto others?" No, those "others" who differ should keep their objections to themselves, in secret.
The right to express oneself openly is frowned upon by true believers... There is a double standard involved here, for the believers feel it's their god-given right to freely express their faith.There is something that has bothered me for some time: People are struggling with their religions, and if they voice their secret doubts, are told they have issues and need to talk them over with a clerical member. Often, failing to get answers, the clergy will set up an "intervention" situation, like one the AA would use to confront an alcoholic whose substance abuse is harming his family and job. The "intervention" consists of clergy (Rabbi, elders, imams, etc.) or true believers who try to talk the faith and deter the doubter from asking or pursuing serious questions. In short, they gang up on the individual, or even couples who want to marry.
I will propose an alternative to this “issues" interrogation court. (We're talking about you individually, your rights.) If you are having doubts and they become so intense that you must discuss them, then give yourself the freedom from being forced to hear only one side of beliefs. Just don't allow yourself to be corralled into going it alone. Take one or more atheists, agnostics, or secular humanists with you, so that you will be represented as a free individual, and don’t allow yourself to be railroaded into submission. Let the believers find out what it's like being in your shoes, facing the issues they refuse to face. Be aware in those circumstances of those who foster an automatic and non-thinking response of denigrating you who dares to go where they fear to.
But, first see if they would be willing to have such a discussion in the first place. (As a Jewish fighter in Nazi Germany then said, " We see how brave they are when we have weapons, too.") Should you/they have a problem with this? Is truth threatened by hearing all sides?
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'Stripping People Of Their Humanity'
By New Matilda on April 28, 2011 Asylum Seekers Civil Society
I have just returned from the Easter convergence at Curtin Detention Centre in far north Western Australia where human rights activists protested the ongoing imprisonment of asylum seekers in the notorious remote immigration detention camp.
Activists came to express their solidarity with the men suffering inside, but came away inspired by the courage of those struggling for a measure of justice in the face of increasingly harsh treatment and a largely indifferent — and at times contemptuous public.
Supporters of the Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN) have grown increasingly alarmed at the number of suicide attempts and the expressions of despair we have heard about from those with whom we are in contact in the camp.
Asylum seekers have suggested that as many as 1000 applicants may have been refused refugee status in their first attempt, and a growing number have failed their independent merits review. Their next hope is to apply to the courts for a review of that decision, which means — at best — another attempt at the review stage. The entire process is riddled with unfairness and political interference.
I was privileged to be able to assist in some legal visits with the lawyer that came out to join us. Even though I visit people in detention weekly, the experience at Curtin left me terribly despondent. The region is so remote, hot, humid and the conditions so substandard. The whole area reeks of fear.
I met a torture survivor and one poor man who just shook like a frightened deer the whole time. However the messages we received after the legal visits were heartwarming. People felt they had some small measure of hope offered to them by friendly strangers for the first time since they had arrived in Australia a year or more ago.
It is now the case that there is a group inside Curtin who know how to access the courts. So some at least should be able to initiate this process themselves in future with the assistance of those who have been through the process. Still, I expect there will be great need for more human right lawyers to assist in the months to come. The lawyer made it clear he would not have come out were it not for the convergence. If his giving advice to asylum seekers was all we accomplished it would have been a trip absolutely worth taking. But I do believe we accomplished a lot more.
The activists all felt very uplifted and damn proud of the men inside we had been making connections with these past months. They are the real refugee activists: the 800 or so men protesting peacefully down the long road on the other side of the fences.
I was also personally very proud of the crew at our end of the protest, especially those who made the choice to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience to show their abhorrence of this atrocious policy.
RRAN arrived at Curtin Saturday afternoon fully expecting to begin the social visits we had applied for, and which had been approved.
As Serco and the Department for Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) were first obstructive about social visits, then they simply lied to us — despite a petition signed by 900 of the men in favour of our visit. When visits were denied, asylum seekers started a hunger strike.
RRAN had done everything to ensure Serco and DIAC had limited excuses to deny social visits. We wrote to the centre staff manager, explaining our intentions in a very polite letter weeks out from the trip. We filled in all the paperwork ahead of time. We then emailed or called the centre and spoke to managers to ensure they were approved. Yet when we arrived we were informed no paperwork had been received. We have all this on camera — extraordinary!
We had brought the paperwork with us, and copies of the emails telling people their visits were approved. They then told us we needed ID numbers, saying "we only know people by their ID numbers". We then showed them we had most of the names on the forms with ID numbers and searched our databases for a few more to add so they could find fewer excuses.
Then after stuffing us around for three hours we were told that visits were approved for those with the ID numbers. Inside the men waiting for us were also being lied to.
At one point on Saturday afternoon the men inside told us via email and phone that Serco officials had told them we turned the bus around because they would not allow visits. As we had almost constant email contact thanks to the genius of our technical team we were able to stay in touch throughout this process. It was surreal sitting in the Kimberley sun communicating with them, yet separated by several kilometres of bitumen and a double electric fence.
On Sunday when they informed us they were staging a sit down demonstration inside, some of the RRAN crew staged one as well on the road outside the temporary short fence blocking the access road. I think perhaps 16 arrests were made, but in the end just "move on" notices were issued.
By Sunday midday it was revealed that many men had been on a hunger strike, though this was denied for almost a full day by the Department.
By Monday people were starting to collapse. We had reports from inside that 20 had been taken to medical, and later some were transferred to hospital. "Please come back", they begged us. Although we expected Sunday to be our last day at the fence, five of us returned on Monday, including our three mental health experts: no bus, no cameras, no banner.
We tried to argue that since the protest was over this was just an ordinary social visit and if that they let us in, the men had assured us they would end the hunger strike. We pleaded for just a small delegation, even two of us, but to no avail.
The horror of this: that DIAC would rather risk people dying than allow these men social visits. They would be prepared to accept the death of people who have committed no crime rather then have human rights activists expose the conditions in this camp.
The last message I have heard from Curtin is that five people were taken to hospital in Derby so we remain very concerned.
The men inside have reinforced how grateful they were for our trip and protest in solidarity with them. Amazing!
I was told by one of the men in the legal visit that hundreds of people were sitting under the tree they call the crying tree, which people climb to sit and cry and threaten periodically to throw themselves off.
I can confirm from my time in this grim place that Serco has reverted to the egregious practice of stripping people of their humanity by calling people by their ID numbers rather then their names. They are doing this even when they have the clipboards with the names on them in front of them.
I was also told by the Tamils with whom I did legal visits with that several hundred of them were living in shipping containers. I could see an area with shipping containers as I was being escorted in a van into the interview area where the legal visits took place.
Conditions at this camp are, in my opinion, tantamount to torture. There have been two deaths so far; self harm is a daily occurrence. During my visits I saw people with the marks of torture from their country of origin scarring their bodies. But the hardest thing to see was the pain in their eyes from the mental torture they endure in this camp.
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Kirk or Dukakis?
By Jason Zengerle
The Boston Globe's Joan Vennochi frames the choice of Ted Kennedy's interim replacement as "a test of Camelot's clout and Governor Deval Patrick's loyalties." The Kennedys, as has now been widely reported, want Patrick to pick Paul Kirk; Patrick reportedly favors Mike Dukakis. Although it's starting to sound like Kirk's a done deal, Vennochi tries to stoke an anti-Kennedy backlash:
Kennedy's wish for an interim replacement is being framed as a noble desire to retain two votes for Massachusetts, and especially to deliver a critical vote on health care legislation, in the US Senate.
It's also about keeping Kennedy's office staff in Washington as long as possible. Given the Kennedy staff reputation for excellence, there's nothing wrong with that goal and there's nothing terrible about choosing Kirk to carry it out. He's a good man for the interim job. But let's not overwrap it in Camelot's gauze. Pushing Kirk as the temporary bearer of the Kennedy torch is typical backroom politics. And, it's being done with typically sharp Kennedy elbows.
My guess is that anti-Kennedy sentiment, never that widespread in Massachusetts to begin with, is at an all-time low at the moment, so soon after Teddy's death. Which means that Patrick will ultimately bow to the Kennedy family's wishes and pick Kirk; after all, it is only a temporary appointment. But Vennocchi makes a compelling brief for a Senator Dukakis:
It's pathetic to read the whispers of unnamed party officials who suggest that "an independent streak" makes Dukakis unsuitable for Washington. It's sad to hear the 20-year-old jokes about a politician who left office to teach college students, not make millions in lobbyist fees; who walked away from elective office but stayed in the fight for public policy; who knows what he believes in and isn't afraid to state it; and who has a humble side, at odds with the over-inflated political ego that is a Washington staple.
And let's not forget that Dukakis, a renowned train enthusiast, would surely make great use of the Capitol Subway system. Give the Duke a chance!
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Miguel Almiron: £21m Newcastle United man can be Steve Bruce’s Angel di Maria
Date: 12th January 2020 at 6:45pm
Written by: Jonathan Gorrie
During Miguel Almiron’s infamous barren run as a Newcastle United player from January 2019 until December of that year, the Paraguayan was on the end of some criticism for his lack of end product. Now, while he was the club-record signing and did miss a number of big chances, perhaps some of the flack coming his way was a touch unfair.
The former Atlanta United man was getting used to life in the Premier League, playing for a side who lost their influential manager and didn’t carry much of a threat in attack generally. Indeed, teammates Allan Saint-Maximin and Joelinton aren’t exactly in the form of their lives and that’s without the season-ending injury he suffered against Southampton back in April.
So, the fact he’s now bagged three goals in three across all competitions is an obvious boost for everyone involved at the club. In fact, now he’s adding goals to his game, the £21m signing Rafa Benitez pushed for before he left St. James’ Park is actually starting to look like a bit of a bargain across a number of positions.
During yesterday’s draw with Wolves, the 25-year-old recovered the ball 11 times, dispossessing the electric Adama Traore along the way. That stat, along with his two interceptions show just how much work he’s putting in defensively, as well as now finding the back of the net. Couple those with his assist against Manchester City in late 2019, Almiron is beginning to look like an absolute all-rounder.
Miguel Almirón vs Wolves:
51 touches
24/29 passes
11 ball recoveries
5/5 dribbles
5/5 tackles
2 interceptions
1 goal
Outstanding from front to back. pic.twitter.com/D3Q5cVtjPu
— The Spectator's View (@thespectoview) January 11, 2020
In fact, even during what was an otherwise miserable day away at Rochdale, the South American looked like one of few bright spots. Now, perhaps you’d expect a footballer of such a fee to standout against League One opposition but Joelinton, for example, failed to show up despite costing nearly twice as much. Not only that, but his willingness to drive from central midfield (as was evident in the goal he scored) was arguably the sign of a man not scared about a potential banana skin amid what was a terrible run of form. Clearly, he’s not afraid to get on the ball to try to make things happen, whether it be on the wing or more centrally, with Transfermarkt noting he’s operated in both berths this season.
That, in itself, brings with it an interesting question. Could Almiron slot into midfield should someone such as the linked Ademola Lookman come in over the course of the January window, while the team keeps its shape? Looking at the statistics, it certainly is a possibility.
Chris Waugh recently pointed out that the Magpies lack a physical threat to drive from deep so perhaps Almiron could fill that role in a way similar to Angel di Maria during Real Madrid’s 2014 run to winning the Champions League. Carlo Ancelotti infamously dropped the Argentine back into a midfield three alongside Toni Kroos and Luka Modric to accommodate the arrival of Gareth Bale to devastating effect, with the Argentine – according to Goal at the time – rescuing his career in the Spanish capital (for that season anyway) as a result.
Now, it would be fanciful to suggest this current Newcastle squad is anywhere near the level of the Real side boasting the likes of the names already mentioned plus Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Marcelo but there are certainly similarities between di Maria and Almiron. Magpies legend Nolberto Solano compared the two, after all, and doing the same to the stats between the Toon man and di Maria during that final season in the Spanish capital makes for compelling reading.
Right now, Almiron is averaging more tackles per game (1.8 to 1.6, all stats via WhoScored), more interceptions (1 to o.6) and more clearances (0.5 to 0.1) than di Maria did that season. Obviously, Los Blancos do tend to have more of the ball than Newcastle so perhaps the defensive duties aren’t as great but even the attacking stats make for pleasant reading. An average of 1.8 shots per game sees them equal, while the same can be said about dribbles per game (1.4) and Almiron actually wins more fouls (1.6 to 0.9) than di Maria did. The current PSG star did average far more key passes per game (2.6 to 0.6) but he was an established elite footballer feeding one of the fiercest attacks in European history (one who won four Champions League titles in five years) so there are mitigating factors as to the difference there.
So, in summary, it does appear that there is the option of dropping Almiron into midfield to perform a similar job to di Maria should the Magpies move for someone such as Lookman, who also tends to operate wide of a striker.
Either way, no matter what position he plays, given his work-rate already, the potential to move him around the park and the fact he’s now in the goals, £21m is starting to look like a bit of a bargain.
Do you think Almiron could play in central midfield? Join the discussion by commenting below…
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Putin’s silence on mysterious radiation accident
Russia nuclear leak: Mysterious footage of hazmat officials escalates radiation panic https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1164125/Russia-nuclear-leak-radiation-Putin-iodine-hazmat
CHILLING footage from Russia has intensified fears of a nuclear radiation accident after ambulances were spotted lined with protective chemical sheets and hospitals workers were seen wearing hazmat suits.
By OLI SMITH, Sun, Aug 11, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin has remained silent, amid growing speculation that a nuclear missile accident has caused a dangerous radiation leak at a naval base. The Kremlin have confirmed that a “rocket engine explosion” at the Archangelsk base in northern Russia killed five people and injured three. Last night, Russia’s nuclear energy agency Rostam admitted that they had been involved in the aftermath of the incident, raising concern of a radiation leak.
Rostam added that the explosion took place during the testing of an “isotope power source”.
The official said five of its employees had died as a result of the accident and three more were being treated for burns.
However, the extent of the incident and threat of radiation has not been disclosed, amid growing global concern.
The Archangelsk naval base has been placed under emergency lockdown for a month, with the nearby White Sea also closed to commercial shipping.
A sudden radiation spike detected in the region following the explosion prompted the initial speculation that the incident was related to a nuclear missile test.
The radiation level was recorded as 20 times higher than the normal level in the nearby city of Severodvinsk.
This has been reinforced by chilling footage filmed in the aftermath of the incident.
One video showed hospital workers wearing hazmat suits while they loaded the injured into an ambulance. Another terrifying video revealed a security escort of ambulances transporting the injured to Moscow.
In this footage, one of the ambulance is clearly coated in a chemical protection film.
A defence ministry source said that the worker’s clothes had been burned as soon as they were hospitalised with suspected radiation. Experts have linked the incident to the testing of the new nuclear-powered cruise missile Burevestnik mentioned during a speech by Vladimir Putin last year.
Local people have reportedly been urged to take precautions against radiation, with children from local kindergartens taken indoors after the blast.
There has also been a rush to buy iodine in Russia’s far north.
Russian expert Dr Mark Galeotti said the incident was “clearly a bigger issue than the Russians are letting on”.
He told the BBC: “Despite what the Kremlin have said, there must have been some sort of radiation leak – and they want people to not just stay out of harm’s way, but also don’t want people coming to the site with Geiger Counters.”
August 12, 2019 - Posted by Christina MacPherson | incidents, Russia, secrets,lies and civil liberties
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Tag Archives: Magnum Development
April 13, 2017 by Leo Adam Biga
The site of Omaha’s old Knights of Aksarben complex—acres of once-busy thoroughbred horse racing and concert space turned albatross—has blossomed anew as the live-work-play destination spot known as Aksarben Village.
The booming mixed-use development is home to popular eateries, a movie theater, health club, and two colleges. This is part of why Pacific Life Insurance Company moved its regional business operations office from downtown to a new five-story building there in late 2015. The company’s Omaha office has grown from 250 to 450 workers since the blue-gray motif structure’s 2014 groundbreaking.
The gleaming, glass-fronted Holland Basham Architects design offers many creature comforts and inhabits prime real estate at 6750 Mercy Road.
The new digs provide a branded presence after a low-key profile at downtown’s Landmark Center.
Angela Greisen, Pacific Life assistant vice president for human resources, says, “We couldn’t have our name on the previous building in any big, visible way. We’d been in Omaha 12-plus years and people still didn’t know we were here.” That’s changed, she says, as events “bring thousands of people to the village and our new building with our big branding and signage is right there in the middle of everything.”
“That’s been huge for us. It’s also given us higher applicant flow because people now know we’re here and here to stay and we’re growing.”
Where many employees had to use off-site parking downtown, they now have an 850-stall covered garage. A heated, enclosed skybridge connects the building to the garage.
Greisen was part of a project team drawn from each Pacific Life business unit that polled employees about their likes and dislikes.
“The three most important things employees said they wanted were parking, amenities, and a nearby location with easy access,” she says.
Aksarben was the clear site choice. Pacific Life partnered with Magnum Development on the $33 million new build. The company occupies the second through fifth floors. Eateries and shops fill the ground floor.
“Staff response has been great,” Greisen says. “They love the parking, the amenities, the bright, airy feel of the building with the wide-open layout, natural lighting, and clean, modern finishes. Though we added only about 10,000 square feet, it’s organized much more efficiently.”
Each floor plan incorporates cutting-edge work spaces to enhance communication, team-building, workflow, and group projects via huddle spaces, conference rooms, and commons areas. She says, “Staff can seamlessly interface in real time with colleagues at other locations through videoconferencing, teleconferencing, and webinar technology.”
There’s a Wall Street trading-room floor look to the third floor internal wholesaling area. Flat-screen panels stream motivational performance messages and live market conditions to the sales desk floor.
In multiple areas, adjustable, stand-up work stations are available. Employees can indulge their freshly brewed beverage cravings at several Keurig stations.
The in-house Park View Cafe is a grab-your-own, pay-with-your-phone Company Kitchen model. The spacious room converts into a meeting-reception space with audio-video connectivity. A covered balcony offers a panoramic overlook of Stinson Park.
Though not green certified, the structure integrates many conservation features, including energy efficient windows, LED lighting, HVAC that is programmed to shut off when areas are unoccupied, low water usage restroom fixtures, and motion-sensor lighting.
Greisen says employees appreciate Aksarben Village’s warm welcome and plethora of things to do. Proximity is a big plus, too, as Pacific Life is an employer partner of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, whose south campus is in the village. As an employer partner, company representatives promote their job opportunites and participate in career fairs; staffers also speak to classes and conduct mock interviews when asked. Greisen hopes this partnership will grow.
“We expect an increase because we have a partnership with UNO, and now we are literally on the edge of their campus,” she says. “It’s very convenient. Increased visibility. It gives us even more opportunities to partner with the university.”
This visibility, along with the popular amenities, could mean an increase in sought-after employees at Pacific Life in the near future. And that can help secure Pacific Life’s future.
Visit aksarbenvillage.com for more information.
This article was printed in the Spring 2017 edition of B2B.
Posted in: B2B Magazine, In the Office, Omaha Magazine
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Reflections on the One by One research
by Rosie Clarke, 18-11-19 News & Views
Our latest guest blog post was written by Fiona Talbott, Head of Museums, Libraries & Archives Policy UK at the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Reflective artwork at Cartwright Hall (c) National Lottery Heritage Fund
For the past few years, the National Lottery Heritage Fund has been a partner in the One by One collaborative digital research project. In that time, I have attended two ‘Research Retreats’ that turned out to be two of the most stimulating and creative exercises I’ve ever participated in.
This has made me reflect on some of the things I’ve learnt from the project process and content – and what they mean for a museum funder.
I came in to this research on the back of an internal report that looked at the digital projects which the National Lottery Heritage Fund had funded since our 2011 digital policy change. A key feature was the lack of confidence and skills in museum staff at all levels of the organisation. One by One offered an opportunity for us to be part of an initiative that looked at how to shift thinking and practice to embed what we called ‘digital literacy‘ in museums.
From the beginning, a people-centred design approach was used to define the propositions we wanted our Digital Fellows to address. Shout out to Hannah Fox of Derby Museums, who led us through the process with energy and enthusiasm! What struck me was how vital it was for us to work this way.
If we couldn’t define propositions that were people-centred, then how could we expect museums to build their digital literacy to be people- rather than technology-centred?
The final propositions look at digital confidence through different lenses, moving away from the reactive, narrow, siloed, disconnected approach. From the Heritage Fund research findings, this is exactly what is needed. As funders we need to support projects where digital is part of the weft and weave, rather than an add-on or too removed from what the museum is trying to achieve overall.
The other striking feature I’ve noticed is the changes that the Digital Fellows have made with their host museums. We talk about culture change, and how it is often a long-term process – however, the Fellows quickly became embedded in their host organisations and set about culture change. I was particularly taken by their fearless approach of bringing together the pertinent people who needed to be involved in the action research. That idea of involving everyone who can help shift the approach of a digitally confident museum is a strong learning point coming out of the research.
Thinking back to the two Research Retreats, the predominant issue that ran through all of our discussions was putting people at the heart of digital work, whether that be in understanding how to nurture digital confidence or how to design digital products and services.
For the Heritage Fund, this is a key lesson to ensure digital is fully integrated into our continued commitment to funding high quality projects.
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Politics amp Law
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Lives of nouns and adjectives, Gordon McLauchlan
Posted on March 1, 2007 by NZ Books
A Fish in the Swim of the World
Longacre, $34.99,
Family Silver
Richard Shallcrass
Victoria University Press, $29.95,
Jacqueline Fahey
Auckland University Press, $39.99,
Terra Incognito
Douglas Wright
Penguin, $35.00,
Memoir is a flash word sometimes used to imply that what are really autobiographies bear more important news than they do, and that the authors may have dabbled in more dramatic events than they have. According to my hand-crafted definition, a memoir is an account of the author’s participation in, or association with, events that have impacted on the public consciousness, whereas autobiography is the fuller story of the writer’s real life, not a professional or official one.
But whatever your definition, the genre has never been more fashionable and popular in this country than right now. And why not? Every writer and journalist should know that the good stories are always the ones about people. I’ve never heard this better expressed than by a famous American deep-sea fishing writer who fielded questions from a group of journalists on such matters as the size of famous catches and the best places to catch the big ones. But then, perplexed, he said, “Look, I don’t write about fish, I write about people who catch fish.” No surprise then that biographies of all sorts are so often sought-after reads.
Despite claims that two of the above titles are memoirs, all four books are essentially autobiographies, with the exception of part of Richard Shallcrass’s Family Silver, the tale of his work with Treasury. And they confirm my belief that the well-told story of a well-examined, relatively ordinary life is worth much more than fame-washed celebrity fantasies, the flossied up lives of the important, the powerful, the very rich and the famous-for-no-apparent-reason-at-all, full as they always are of evasions and self-justifications.
A Fish in the Swim of the World is the story of a nobody who, in his own way, is everybody of his time. A good blunt name like Ben Brown, short, sturdy sentences about people of the land, and a wry, understated and droll tone will seduce any Kiwi in love with this country, as I am. Brown springs from outback Australia and Tainui, and he writes like Hemingway without all the conjunctions. For example, a character tries to steal some jeans hanging out to dry:
The cops were good about it. Stanley looked in a hell of a state they reckoned. Stanley looked feral. He’d been on the run for several days. They didn’t charge him. The lady whose clothesline it was didn’t want them to either. She was a Christian soul. She forgave. She would have given him the jeans but they were too big for him. Stanley was a tin-arse sometimes.
With this sort of style, you appreciate early on that Ben’s not bullshitting you, man. This is a social history of rural post-war New Zealand, which was full of boring, repetitive work between sleeps. Only personal loyalty, drinking among mates and storytelling made it tolerable, and sometimes even enjoyable. Brown’s anecdotes bring it to life. However, after a while, the staccato style echoes in your head like tom-toms in the hills:
A bootlegger’s still is practical science. A little bit of chemistry. A little bit of thermodynamics. Ethyl alcohol boils and turns into vapour at just over seventy-eight degrees Celsius. It can get you drunk. Really drunk. Or you can mix it with petrol and run engines on it. Tractors, cars, picking machines.
Ben was raised on a tobacco farm in Motueka, son of an Australian father and Maori mother. They were both battlers, living lives of hard nouns, without adjectives, just the way Ben writes. The Browns weren’t poor, but not rich either. Both parents just got on with it, his courageous mother fighting tuberculosis for much of her life. He attended Te Aute College and has since worked as a fencer, shepherd, construction worker, barman, and design and art tutor. What he writes about farming and the people of the land grabbed me and I have to say I enjoyed the side-stories, their earthiness and humour, despite the tinnitus from the tom-toms.
Family Silver is mostly about Richard Shallcrass’ life before and after a stint with Treasury, during which he helped manage the sale of the eponymous family silver. Overall, he emerges as a man with a wavering sense of himself, but likeable and engagingly candid. He evokes an early post-war New Zealand that remains familiar and loved by my generation, although we all knew it had to change.
The 70-odd bustling pages covering his journey as Treasury’s sales manager for government-owned assets are pure memoir and, I think, less personally genuine. He writes as though the policy and all its consequences were ineluctable, given the context of the time, presenting the issues as straightforward alternatives: sell immediately to diminish government debt, sometimes at any cost, or live forever with state-owned white elephants. His comments on politicians and other bureaucrats seem cautious and artificial, perhaps because, beyond enthusiasm, no underpinning of thought seemed to exist in Treasury – real thought that is, not just this year’s good ideas. And the relations among staff range from uncaring to vicious. In terms of self-doubt or quiet reflection, the Treasury people may not have been John Waynes but they were certainly a long way closer to him than to Hamlet.
Sadly, it is not enough for Shallcrass to have been sincere and honest; he yearns to be retrospectively right. I wince when people insist that history will vindicate them, as he does, especially in the wake of similar declarations by George Bush and Tony Blair. It betrays the sure nag of doubt. By his own account Shallcrass was a genial misfit for the first 15 years of his working life, seeming to find the Department of Foreign Affairs and its place in the world of politics and bureaucracy beyond full understanding. His career with the department came to an abrupt, inglorious end. His Treasury career also finished when he was in his mid-50s because his employers had no further use for him. But Shallcrass shoots straight when discussing his demise, and with a lack of bitterness at treatment that would scar most people.
If you’ve met Jacqueline Fahey, you will hear her voice as you begin to read Something for the Birds. You can’t say that of many writers, that their talk is so distinctive you can hear it in their writing. She talks to you frontally, sometimes in such well-formed sentences you wonder if she’s working off a script. But, no, she just has plenty to say that she’s mulled over. And so does her autobiography. The early chapters are studded with what seem like folk stories of her forebears, including her parents. Some of these characters are rather breathlessly overdrawn but others take charming, credible and memorable shape, especially her three maiden aunts.
Reeling at first from her adjectival style, I was soon captured by the sheer exuberance of Fahey’s writing. Just when you think the adjectives are out of control, the paint dries, so to speak, and the picture comes into focus. Get this:
My best friend at art school was Julie. One of the things that had attracted me to her was that she knew all about colour and texture. This impressed me as instinctual and innate because she was herself all colour and texture. With glowing gold skin and shining black hair, she wore clean red lipstick revealing pearly white teeth. She also had lovely eyes with a languorous glance. Her clear yellow linen shirt was a stroke of inspiration, and her dull purple corduroy trousers were the texture of the underside of a mushroom.
Not hard to guess this writer is a painter who understands that painting is about “the magic of looking”. Richard Shallcrass’ brisk descriptions of negotiating the sale of national assets may be more historically important but they don’t have the hilarious touch of Fahey negotiating with a kindergarten teacher:
I explained that my mother always wore her singlet outside her pants and so did I. This became such a serious standoff in the lavatories that the headmistress was called. I demanded to know where Mrs Barr’s singlet went, inside or outside her pants. She assured me inside her pants. I wanted to see. She said I had to take her word for it, that in polite society you did not show your pants. Well, she got around me and in time I put my singlet inside my pants.
Fahey and her family seemed uncertain of their place in the world. She writes a lot about class and about sectarian prejudices. Her mother and father were atheists but the family, long settled in Timaru, had strong Irish Catholic roots, so Jacqueline and her sisters were sent to Teschemakers Catholic boarding school in Oamaru. She hated the place, especially as she had no sense of a Catholic God, and still can’t quite grasp why her parents sent her there.
An air of improbability hovers over some of Fahey’s anecdotes but I don’t care. They should be true even if sometimes they may not be, quite. Anyone who can pull you along as she does and make you laugh in the process deserves special dispensation. Near the end, as she reflects on her young life and her marriage to psychiatrist Fraser McDonald, the book is moving, and I closed it glad to have been her guest.
It is difficult to imagine the travails of dancer, choreographer and writer Douglas Wright as he copes emotionally and physically with AIDS, and with the crush of sorrow as he loses friends and lovers. In Terra Incognito he tells of descending the vortex of despair. AIDS sufferers stagger around like weightlifters, an invisible hand heaping on more and more weight as if to discover how much pain and grief they can carry. Wright takes us on a journey towards understanding these tribulations and largely succeeds. His stories of fellow sufferers, of their bizarre behaviour in the throes of their illness, are acutely observed, richly sympathetic and even funny.
Some passages are so piercingly true they will stab the reader with their simplicity and understatement. For example:
[Matt] told me that weighed down with time, boredom and the fears that become palpable when there is nobody who understands to share them with, like disembodied arms and hands pushing down, always down, he often sat in his chair holding an unlit cigarette, looking at the lighter on the table which he only had to lean forward slightly and stretch out his arm to reach, for hours, unable to move, as if he’d turned to stone … . Matt said that at such moments the cigarette lighter seemed miles away from him, as far away as health, and we were both afraid that one day we’d get permanently stuck in this terrible stillness, this catatonia, and be taken away and put on a shelf with other living statues in a big room.
Engrossing, too, are the accounts of his creative process as a choreographer as a new dance begins in his mind, is transferred to words and drawings, and then the studio; although it’s never actually that tidy. No more than anyone else can he explain what one writer has called “God’s share”, the mystical creative bit away beyond reason.
However, much as I admire Wright, his courage, creativity and ability to paint brilliant word-pictures, I was fazed by his reactions, even before he was ill, to situations which would have caused, at worst, embarrassment and even a self-mocking response in most people, reactions so inappropriately intense they mystify rather than move. Readers of any book are obligated to engage their own emotions and imagination in response to the author’s. But with Terra Incognito, language and images are sometimes overdressed for their outings. Wright is, it seems to me, profligate with his gifts. I accept that nothing heightens sensitivity to life more than proximity of death, but as the book progressed, I couldn’t help becoming somewhat hardened to his story. I mean, when everything is a deep and intense experience … well, in the end, nothing is.
Gordon McLauchlan is an Auckland writer and reviewer.
Tagged with: Auckland University Press, Autumn 2007, Ben Brown, Douglas Wright, Gordon McLauchlan, Issue 77, Jacqueline Fahey, Longacre, Penguin, Richard Shallcrass, Victoria University Press
Posted in Memoir, Non-fiction, Review
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Ottawa companies turn to tech, training to fill cybersecurity talent gap
Oct 24, 2018 4:24pm EDT
Cytelligence
Willis College
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
Interset
Daniel Tobok
Stephan Joe
Dave Masson
As the risk of cybercrime climbs, a lack of cybersecurity talent has organizations looking to technology to fill the gap. However, experts from Ottawa’s cybersecurity sector say a mix of both tech and talent is necessary to keep Canadians and businesses safe.
In 2017, more than a fifth of Canadian businesses were affected by a cybersecurity incident, according to Statistics Canada. A report by Deloitte estimated a seven per cent growth in demand would result in approximately 5,000 cybersecurity jobs between 2018 and 2021.
Dave Masson, the Ottawa-based country manager for cybersecurity software firm Darktrace, says there may be a gap in human talent, but training more people isn’t enough to keep up with the changing world of cybercrime.
“They’re going to need machines,” says Masson, explaining that most cyberattacks are done by automated processes and need to be fought by the same. That’s why machine learning and artificial intelligence are increasingly becoming central to cybersecurity, he says.
Ottawa-headquartered Interset’s software uses data analytics to identify high-risk anomalies. For example, if a computer uploads a file to an IP address it has never accessed before, the program flags that event so the user can investigate.
Interset’s chief technology officer Stephan Jou says the goal is to maximize efficiency: “We’re taking what a naturally gifted human would be able to do if he or she had enough time, and we’re automating that.”
Tech tools meet talent
Darktrace’s software takes this a step further – it stops anomalies first and asks questions later. Instead of focusing on specific types of attacks – of which there are new types every day – Darktrace’s software learns the network inside and out, stopping all anomalies before further investigation.
The tool is not, however, meant to replace the role of humans.
“This is AI that’s actually supporting that scarce human resource,” says Masson. “It’s going to support them and free them up to concentrate on the really meaningful tasks.”
Masson says the nervousness people have about AI stems from the concept of broad AI, currently the stuff of science fiction. For now, AI is targeted, used as a tool alongside humans; in a sector with a talent gap several thousand jobs wide, AI-based programs may be a welcome asset.
Daniel Tobok, CEO of cybersecurity consulting firm Cytelligence, says machine learning and human expertise are both critical to fighting today’s cyberattacks.
"You cannot replace people with tools. ... It's really a combination that will make the difference."
Cytelligence CEO Daniel Tobok
“You cannot replace people with tools,” says Tobok. “It’s really a combination that will make the difference.”
Tobok and Masson say a key mistake companies make is housing cybersecurity under the IT department, when it should be part of overall business risk strategy.
Something businesses can do to significantly lower risk is to train employees in what Jou calls “basic cybersecurity hygiene.” Making employees aware of risks, such as the implications of reusing a password, can go a long way.
The Deloitte report also highlights another gap: most cybersecurity professionals are male, with an IT background. Extending the net to women and visible minorities, as well as people from other industries with useful skillsets, could help fill the gap.
As for cybersecurity companies, many are looking to educational institutions to advance training and innovation in the sector. For example, Interset provides real datasets to post-grad students at Carleton University and works with them to solve problems.
Software companies Sophos and Fortinet both reached out to Willis College, a private career college in Ottawa, to help them train the next generation of cybersecurity talent.
Michael Anderson, senior vice-president of Sophos, says between 80 and 85 per cent of Sophos’ Ottawa staff graduated from Willis College’s advanced network security program, and took a third of the time to train.
“There’s a constant need for new people,” says Anderson. “The idea was essentially to grow our own.”
‘An unclassified space:’ Federal government looks to private sector for innovation
Tobok says it’s not enough for businesses and schools to tackle the problem; cybersecurity is an issue the government needs to take leadership on.
Canada’s new cybersecurity strategy acknowledges the talent gap and mentions plans to support education and partnerships. It also consolidated the federal government’s cybersecurity operations into one branch: the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.
The centre, which became fully operational Oct. 1, includes an increased online presence and awareness campaigns. A new physical space is also underway for 2019.
Scott Jones, head of the CCCS, says the new space is designated for more than just employees. Jones describes it as an “unclassified space” where companies and institutions can collaborate with the government to tackle some of the biggest challenges in cybersecurity.
“It’s not the federal government’s (problem) to solve. It’s all of ours to solve together,” says Jones.
The government also decided to open-source Assemblyline, its malware detection software.
“This was a critical tool for us, and we realized we can share this with the community,” says Jones. “I think the important thing was it showed that we were willing to share.”
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Justin Merritt
Associate Professor, School of Dentistry
Emailmerrittj@ohsu.edu
Bacterial biofilm and dentistry.
Merritt, J., Anderson, M. H., Park, N. H. & Shi, W., 2001, In : Journal of the California Dental Association. 29, 5, p. 355-360 6 p.
Mutation of luxS affects biofilm formation in Streptococcus mutans
Merritt, J., Qi, F., Goodman, S. D., Anderson, M. H. & Shi, W., Apr 1 2003, In : Infection and Immunity. 71, 4, p. 1972-1979 8 p.
Streptococcus mutans
Quorum Sensing
Acyl-Butyrolactones
Inactivation of the ciaH gene in Streptococcus mutans diminishes mutacin production and competence development, alters sucrose-dependent biofilm formation, and reduces stress tolerance
Qi, F., Merritt, J., Lux, R. & Shi, W., Aug 2004, In : Infection and Immunity. 72, 8, p. 4895-4899 5 p.
Transcriptional analysis of mutacin I (mutA) gene expression in planktonic and biofilm cells of Streptococcus mutans using fluorescent protein and glucuronidase reporters
Kreth, J., Merritt, J., Bordador, C., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Aug 2004, In : Oral Microbiology and Immunology. 19, 4, p. 252-256 5 p.
Glucuronidase
A unique nine-gene comY operon in Streptococcus mutans
Merritt, J., Qi, F. & Shi, W., Jan 2005, In : Microbiology. 151, 1, p. 157-166 10 p.
Contagious Ecthyma
Competition and coexistence between Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sanguinis in the dental biofilm
Kreth, J., Merritt, J., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Nov 2005, In : Journal of Bacteriology. 187, 21, p. 7193-7203 11 p.
Bacteriocins
Co-ordinated bacteriocin production and competence development: A possible mechanism for taking up DNA from neighbouring species
Kreth, J., Merritt, J., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Jul 2005, In : Molecular Microbiology. 57, 2, p. 392-404 13 p.
Identification of genes associated with mutacin I production in Streptococcus mutans using random insertional mutagenesis
Tsang, P., Merritt, J., Nguyen, T., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Dec 2005, In : Microbiology. 151, 12, p. 3947-3955 9 p.
Insertional Mutagenesis
LuxS controls bacteriocin production in Streptococcus mutans through a novel regulatory component
Merritt, J., Kreth, J., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Aug 2005, In : Molecular Microbiology. 57, 4, p. 960-969 10 p.
mutacin I
Non-disruptive, real-time analyses of the metabolic status and viability of Streptococcus mutans cells in response to antimicrobial treatments
Merritt, J., Kreth, J., Qi, F., Sullivan, R. & Shi, W., May 2005, In : Journal of Microbiological Methods. 61, 2, p. 161-170 10 p.
Preclinical Drug Evaluations
Luciferases
Cell density- and ComE-dependent expression of a group of mutacin and mutacin-like genes in Streptococcus mutans
Kreth, J., Merritt, J., Zhu, L., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Dec 2006, In : FEMS Microbiology Letters. 265, 1, p. 11-17 7 p.
IrvA-dependent and IrvA-independent pathways for mutacin gene regulation in Streptococcus mutans
Tsang, P., Merritt, J., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Aug 2006, In : FEMS Microbiology Letters. 261, 2, p. 231-234 4 p.
Milk helps build strong teeth and promotes oral health.
Merritt, J., Qi, F. & Shi, W., May 2006, In : Journal of the California Dental Association. 34, 5, p. 361-366 6 p.
Tooth Remineralization
Construction of a counterselection-based in-frame deletion system for genetic studies of Streptococcus mutans
Merritt, J., Tsang, P., Zheng, L., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Apr 2007, In : Oral Microbiology and Immunology. 22, 2, p. 95-102 8 p.
Galactosidases
Lac Operon
Genetic characterization of the hdrRM operon: A novel high-cell-density-responsive regulator in Streptococcus mutans
Merritt, J., Zheng, L., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Aug 2007, In : Microbiology. 153, 8, p. 2765-2773 9 p.
Streptococcus oligofermentans inhibits Streptococcus mutans through conversion of lactic acid into inhibitory H2O2: A possible counteroffensive strategy for interspecies competition
Tong, H., Chen, W., Merritt, J., Qi, F., Shi, W. & Dong, X., Feb 2007, In : Molecular Microbiology. 63, 3, p. 872-880 9 p.
lactate 2-monooxygenase
The response regulator ComE in Streptococcus mutans functions both as a transcription activator of mutacin production and repressor of CSP biosynthesis
Kreth, J., Hung, D. C. I., Merritt, J., Perry, J., Zhu, L., Goodman, S. D., Cvitkovitch, D. G., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Jun 2007, In : Microbiology. 153, 6, p. 1799-1807 9 p.
Peptide Biosynthesis
Characterization of irvR, a novel regulator of the irvA-dependent pathway required for genetic competence and dextran-dependent aggregation in Streptococcus mutans
Niu, G., Okinaga, T., Zhu, L., Banas, J., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., Nov 2008, In : Journal of Bacteriology. 190, 21, p. 7268-7274 7 p.
Genetic Vectors
Immunological evaluation of Lactobacillus casei Zhang: A newly isolated strain from koumiss in Inner Mongolia, China
Ya, T., Zhang, Q., Chu, F., Merritt, J., Bilige, M., Sun, T., Du, R. & Zhang, H., Nov 19 2008, In : BMC Immunology. 9, 68.
Lactobacillus casei
Role of sucrose in the fitness of Streptococcus mutans
Kreth, J., Zhu, L., Merritt, J., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Jun 2008, In : Oral Microbiology and Immunology. 23, 3, p. 213-219 7 p.
The cia operon of Streptococcus mutans encodes a unique component required for calcium-mediated autoregulation
He, X., Wu, C., Yarbrough, D., Sim, L., Niu, G., Merritt, J., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Oct 2008, In : Molecular Microbiology. 70, 1, p. 112-126 15 p.
Autoaggregation response of Fusobacterium nucleatum
Merritt, J., Niu, G., Okinaga, T. & Qi, F., Dec 2009, In : Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75, 24, p. 7725-7733 9 p.
Fusobacterium nucleatum
Bacterial and host interactions of oral streptococci
Kreth, J., Merritt, J. & Qi, F., Aug 1 2009, In : DNA and Cell Biology. 28, 8, p. 397-403 7 p.
Mouth Diseases
Genes involved in the repression of mutacin I production in Streptococcus mutans
Nguyen, T., Zhang, Z., Huang, I. H., Wu, C., Merritt, J., Shi, W. & Qi, F., Jan 1 2009, In : Microbiology. 155, 2, p. 551-556 6 p.
Role of the Streptococcus mutans irvA gene in GbpC-independent, dextran-dependent aggregation and biofilm formation
Zhu, M., Ajdić, D., Liu, Y., Lynch, D., Merritt, J. & Banas, J. A., Nov 2009, In : Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75, 22, p. 7037-7043 7 p.
Community and gene composition of a human dental plaque microbiota obtained by metagenomic sequencing
Xie, G., Chain, P. S. G., Lo, C. C., Liu, K. L., Gans, J., Merritt, J. & Qi, F., Dec 2010, In : Molecular Oral Microbiology. 25, 6, p. 391-405 15 p.
Dental Plaque
Examination of the hdrRM regulon yields insight into the competence system of Streptococcus mutans
Okinaga, T., Xie, Z., Niu, G., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., 2010, In : Molecular Oral Microbiology. 25, 3, p. 165-177 13 p.
Regulon
Genomic island TnSmu2 of Streptococcus mutans harbors a nonribosomal peptide synthetase-polyketide synthase gene cluster responsible for the biosynthesis of pigments involved in oxygen and H2O2 tolerance
Wu, C., Cichewicz, R., Li, Y., Liu, J., Roe, B., Ferretti, J., Merritt, J. & Qi, F., Sep 2010, In : Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 76, 17, p. 5815-5826 12 p.
Peptide Synthases
Polyketide Synthases
genomic islands
Identification of a novel bacteriocin regulatory system in Streptococcus mutans
Xie, Z., Okinaga, T., Niu, G., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., Dec 2010, In : Molecular Microbiology. 78, 6, p. 1431-1447 17 p.
Mutanobactin A from the human oral pathogen Streptococcus mutans is a cross-kingdom regulator of the yeast-mycelium transition
Joyner, P. M., Liu, J., Zhang, Z., Merritt, J., Qi, F. & Cichewicz, R. H., Dec 21 2010, In : Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. 8, 24, p. 5486-5489 4 p.
Regulation of ciaXRH operon expression and identification of the CiaR regulon in Streptococcus mutans
Wu, C., Ayala, E. A., Downey, J. S., Merritt, J., Goodman, S. D. & Qi, F., Sep 2010, In : Journal of Bacteriology. 192, 18, p. 4669-4679 11 p.
The hdrRM operon of Streptococcus mutans encodes a novel regulatory system for coordinated competence development and bacteriocin production
Okinaga, T., Niu, G., Xie, Z., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., Apr 2010, In : Journal of Bacteriology. 192, 7, p. 1844-1852 9 p.
Regulator Genes
The Streptococcus mutans IrvR repressor is a CI-like regulator that functions through autocleavage and Clp-dependent proteolysis
Niu, G., Okinaga, T., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., Mar 2010, In : Journal of Bacteriology. 192, 6, p. 1586-1595 10 p.
Lysogeny
Cloning-independent and counterselectable markerless mutagenesis system in streptococcus mutans
Xie, Z., Okinaga, T., Qi, F., Zhang, Z. & Merritt, J., Nov 2011, In : Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 77, 22, p. 8025-8033 9 p.
molecular cloning
Differential response of Streptococcus mutans towards friend and foe in mixed-species cultures
Liu, J., Wu, C., Huang, I. H., Merritt, J. & Qi, F., Sep 2011, In : Microbiology. 157, 9, p. 2433-2444 12 p.
Streptococcus gordonii
Veillonella
Genetic transformation of Veillonella parvula
Liu, J., Merritt, J. & Qi, F., Sep 2011, In : FEMS Microbiology Letters. 322, 2, p. 138-144 7 p.
Genetic Transformation
Hydrogen peroxide-dependent DNA release and transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in Streptococcus gordonii
Itzek, A., Zheng, L., Chen, Z., Merritt, J. & Kreth, J., Dec 2011, In : Journal of Bacteriology. 193, 24, p. 6912-6922 11 p.
Microbial Drug Resistance
Establishment of a tractable genetic transformation system in Veillonella spp.
Liu, J., Xie, Z., Merritt, J. & Qi, F., May 2012, In : Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 78, 9, p. 3488-3491 4 p.
The mutacins of Streptococcus mutans: Regulation and ecology
Merritt, J. & Qi, F., Apr 2012, In : Molecular Oral Microbiology. 27, 2, p. 57-69 13 p.
Cloning-independent plasmid construction for genetic studies in streptococci
Xie, Z., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., 2013, In : Journal of Microbiological Methods. 94, 2, p. 77-82 6 p.
Development of a tunable wide-range gene induction system useful for the study of streptococcal toxin-antitoxin systems
Xie, Z., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., 2013, In : Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79, 20, p. 6375-6384 10 p.
antitoxins
Xylose
gene induction
Ubiquitous sialometabolism present among oral fusobacteria
Yoneda, S., Loeser, B., Feng, J., Dmytryk, J., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., Jun 4 2014, In : PLoS One. 9, 6, e99263.
sialic acids
A YadA-like autotransporter, Hag1 in Veillonella atypica is a multivalent hemagglutinin involved in adherence to oral streptococci, Porphyromonas gingivalis, and human oral buccal cells
Zhou, P., Liu, J., Merritt, J. & Qi, F., Aug 1 2015, In : Molecular Oral Microbiology. 30, 4, p. 269-279 11 p.
Porphyromonas gingivalis
Hemagglutinins
RNA regulators of host immunity and pathogen adaptive responses in the oral cavity
Kreth, J., Liu, N., Chen, Z. & Merritt, J., Jul 1 2015, In : Microbes and Infection. 17, 7, p. 493-504 12 p.
RNases J1 and J2 are critical pleiotropic regulators in Streptococcus mutans
Chen, X., Liu, N., Khajotia, S., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., Apr 1 2015, In : Microbiology (Reading, England). 161, p. 797-806 10 p.
Ribonucleases
The Streptococcus mutans irvA Gene Encodes a trans-Acting Riboregulatory mRNA
Liu, N., Niu, G., Xie, Z., Chen, Z., Itzek, A., Kreth, J., Gillaspy, A., Zeng, L., Burne, R., Qi, F. & Merritt, J., Jan 8 2015, In : Molecular Cell. 57, 1, p. 179-190 12 p.
5' Untranslated Regions
Effect of salivary agglutination on oral streptococcal clearance by human polymorphonuclear neutrophil granulocytes
Itzek, A., Chen, Z., Merritt, J. & Kreth, J., 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Molecular Oral Microbiology.
Let there be bioluminescence: Development of a biophotonic imaging platform for in situ analyses of oral biofilms in animal models
Merritt, J., Senpuku, H. & Kreth, J., Jan 1 2016, In : Environmental Microbiology. 18, 1, p. 174-190 17 p.
bioluminescence
Real-time assessment of Streptococcus mutans biofilm metabolism on resin composite
Esteban Florez, F. L., Hiers, R. D., Smart, K., Kreth, J., Qi, F., Merritt, J. & Khajotia, S. S., Oct 1 2016, In : Dental Materials. 32, 10, p. 1263-1269 7 p.
Composite Resins
The road less traveled - defining molecular commensalism with Streptococcus sanguinis
Kreth, J., Giacaman, R. A., Raghavan, R. & Merritt, J., 2016, (Accepted/In press) In : Molecular Oral Microbiology.
Stomatognathic Diseases
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The very first New York Minute restaurant opened in Moonee Ponds after a huge renovation phase, transforming it from an old gelato cafe into the first New York Minute burger restaurant that would set the path for many more to follow.
NYM first started with an 8 seat inside 8 seat outside establishment on a little corner in Moonee Ponds with only passion and dedication to back it. Now, after only a few short years New York Minute has been recognised and transformed into Melbourne’s premier gourmet burger at value prices.
The New York Minute difference is that every member of our team, from wait staff to franchisee owners, knows and understands the local origins of every ingredient that goes into creating the food that we prepare. Sourcing bespoke local produce makes our burgers taste great, but it also ensures that New York Minute is supporting local producers and businesses.
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Ohio Transit Authority Breaks Ground on Hydrogen Fueling Station
Lauren Tyler
The Stark Area Regional Transit Authority (SARTA), which provides transportation services in Stark County, Ohio, marked the official groundbreaking of its new hydrogen fueling facility on Tuesday.
When completed, the facility will service the fleet of seven hydrogen-fuel-cell-powered buses that will begin operating on SARTA routes in late 2016 and throughout 2017. The authority says the new fleet – which is being built by the Integrated Product Team (IPT) of Ballard Power Systems, BAE Systems Controls, and El Dorado National – will be the largest in the U.S. operating outside the state of California.
According to SARTA Executive Director Kirt Conrad, construction of the $1.6 million fueling facility marks the first visible step in the authority’s concerted effort to “use the energy of tomorrow to fuel SARTA today.”
“We’ve been working with CALSTART, a national consortium of more than 150 companies, transit authorities and agencies dedicated to expanding and supporting clean transportation across the United States, for a number of years to secure funding for the project,” said Conrad, noting that SARTA has received funding from the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Federal Transit Administration.
Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, who was at Tuesday’s event, said, “SARTA’s first-of-a-kind transportation technology is fantastic for both the local community and Ohio. Innovative projects like this help diversify our economy and put Ohio on the map as a leader in alternative energy.”
Conrad added, “Along with enabling us to increase our fuel mileage as much as 50 percent in the years ahead and maintain our position as a leader in the use of green technology to fuel public transit, this project will drive investment, business creation and job growth in Ohio.”
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Kathy Griffin faints during stand-up show
By Francesca Bacardi
November 9, 2017 | 3:59pm
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Kathy Griffin might need to take it easy for a little while.
The stand-up comedian fainted during her show in Dublin on Wednesday, but by all accounts appears to be doing well after the incident.
Griffin, 57, passed out after more than two hours onstage, shortly before the show was scheduled to end, according to the New York Times. Griffin was reportedly starting to tell a story about Mariah Carey when she froze, slumped and said, “I’m going down.”
According to the report, Griffin’s boyfriend then hurried onstage and grabbed her. Griffin later posted a video on Twitter explaining her health scare.
“I’m embarrassed more than anything. This one’s for you, Wendy Williams. Girl down. I had a girl-down moment,” she quipped, referring to Williams’ on-air fainting spell on Halloween. “Anyway the audience was fantastic, and thank you for being forgiving and understanding.”
“I promise to be upright the entire show next time,” she joked.
Griffin’s rep didn’t immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.
Griffin’s spell comes after she was in the news for publicly slamming attorney Lisa Bloom and former friend Anderson Cooper following the fall-out from her controversial photo with what looked like Donald Trump’s severed head. She also publicly condemned TMZ’s Harvey Levin and Bravolebrity Andy Cohen in a lengthy video.
Thank you for an amazing night Dublin! pic.twitter.com/SBRmkjgmHB
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) November 8, 2017
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Parental Cheat Codes
A Parents Guide to Gaming
Kid Friendly Nintendo News
Those behind the scenes people who work hard to bring forth gaming knowledge to the parental masses.
Anna “Froggie” LaVerne
Writer of novels and mom of three very rambunctious boys, Anna fell into gaming out of necessity. Her oldest child is on the autism spectrum and through Splatoon on the Wii U she was able to build a connection with him. Gaming has brought a harmony to her house that she will forever be grateful for. Parental Cheat Codes is the brain child of both Anna LaVerne and Alex Mills after discovering many video games and online game bloggers are often not as kid friendly as they appear. It then became evident that there needed to be a single online source to help guide uninformed parents in the right direction, and PCC was born.
You can find Anna on Instagram and on Twitter
Alex “Sun Spirit” Mills
Lifelong gamer, lover of classic retro games and retro inspired indie games. Alex has been playing video games almost his entire life and spends most of his spare time researching the ins-and-outs of video game mechanics and development. Father of a three year old son, he one day hopes to bring his passion over to his young boy and potential fans of PCC. He met Anna through a gaming group focused solely on Splatoon and made a quick connection with her. Also an avid collector of video game and movie inspired collectables.
Alex can be found here on instagram and Twitter
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Fact Sheet E3: Sub Judice Convention
Summary: Members debate many topical issues freely in the Chamber. There is an unwritten rule, called the sub judice convention, that they do not debate a current court case if it could prejudice the case. This avoids debates influencing what happens in court, or undermining confidence in judges. Several principles guide how the convention applies.
Sub judice's meaning Deciding a topic is sub judice
Need for a convention Convention's practical effect
Convention's development Example of the convention being used
Sub judice's meaning
Sub judice means 'before a judge or court of law' or 'under judicial consideration'. Members choose not to speak about current court cases during debates, if the debate could prejudice the cases. This practice is called the sub judice convention.
Need for a convention
Members can speak freely in the Chamber with the benefit of parliamentary privilege. This means they can talk about issues, and mention people by name, without fearing litigation. It is very important that members can speak freely, so they can debate any matter in the public interest.
However, if an issue relates to a current court case, members may agree not to speak about it. There is no law or rule setting this restriction, it is something members do voluntarily. The reasons were explained by Speaker Plowman in 1980:
the media might report the debate, influencing a judge and jury
Parliament should not try and take over the role of judges, who study the facts of cases and interpret the law.
Convention's development
We can trace the convention back to 1889 in the United Kingdom. Speakers from that time decided when members should not discuss court cases. This became more formal in 1963, when the House of Commons agreed to a set of rules.
The House of Commons later refined the rules and agreed to a completely new set in 2001. The Legislative Assembly uses the House of Commons' procedures as a guide.
Deciding a topic is sub judice
The Speaker decides if a court case could be prejudiced by members' speeches. He or she has to balance members' right to freely debate issues, with the risk of prejudice. If the Speaker feels a topic is sub judice, he or she interrupts the member and tells them not to speak about it.
Even if the Speaker does not intervene, a member can take a point of order and ask the Speaker to rule a matter sub judice. The Speaker listens to members debate the point of order, and then rules.
Convention's practical effect
General references to court cases are allowed
The key point is if a reference to a court case could affect justice. The convention does not automatically prevent members making broad references to cases.
Parliament can still change the law
The convention does not stop Parliament from passing bills about an issue before a court. Therefore, debate can take place on a bill that covers the same subject as a court case.
Difference between criminal and civil cases
The convention applies to criminal matters from when the police lay charges until the verdict and sentence are announced.
It applies later in civil matters. Members cannot discuss cases when parties have arranged a hearing, which is usually when the case is set down for trial. It applies until the end of the case, either through a judgement or it being discontinued.
The convention applies when there is an appeal pending. However, it does not apply where an appeal is still possible, but has not been made at the time of the debate.
Tribunals, commissions and other investigations
The Speaker has applied the convention to debate on cases before the Victorian Electoral Commission, and the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, but not to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. The Speaker saw the commissions as judicial bodies and different from a tribunal.
There is a difference between matters before courts and issues more generally under investigation. For example, debate on something a government department is investigating is not sub judice.
Example of the convention being used
In 1971 the opposition moved a motion to debate the Royal Commission report into the collapse of the West Gate Bridge, and condemn the government for the accident.
Although the Royal Commission had finished its work, a court case had also started. The Speaker let members debate the motion, but stopped them discussing issues actually before the court.
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Samsung Galaxy Note Review: Head-To-Head With The Galaxy Nexus And Streak 5
If last week’s showdown between the Droid 4, Droid 3, and iPhone 4S didn’t get your blood pumping, prepare yourself for the heavyweight round. We’ve got the hotly anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note going up against the Dell Streak and the beastly Galaxy Nexus.
Obviously the Streak is a somewhat older device, but it’s very similar in size to the Note which should give former Streak owners a good idea of what to expect out of the Note. Meanwhile, the GalNex is yet another huge screen that Note enthusiasts are probably considering, as well.
Onward!
The Streak is just a hair thicker than the Note, at 10mm compared to the Note’s 9.7mm waist line, and sports a smaller 5-inch screen. The Streak can also be used with a capacitive stylus, though it really can’t compete with the pressure-sensitive Wacom-style S Pen. And to be quite honest, the Streak can’t compare with the Note in terms of performance either.
That’s not to say the Streak is a bad phone, but it’s simply too outdated to show any real competition in the spec department. For example, the 5-inch Streak display only has a resolution of 480×800 while the Note boasts a 1280×800 resolution on a 5.3-inch HD Super AMOLED screen. The Note is powered by a 1.5GHz dual-core processor whereas the Streak runs on a 1GHz single-core processor.
So again, the Streak is duking it out based on size similarities rather than performance, but the Galaxy Nexus is a different story.
Anyone who’s interested in the Galaxy Note is down for a giant screen, which means the Ice Cream Sandwich-flavored Galaxy Nexus is probably in the running too. Obviously the G-Nex doesn’t have a special stylus like the Note, but it does have Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich which could be way more valuable than an S Pen, especially for you die-hard phandroids. (Who knows when ICS will come to the Note?)
The Nexus is a bit smaller than the Note (but what isn’t?), measuring 8.9mm thick and boasting a 4.65-inch 720p display. That means pixel density on the GalNex is far greater than that of the Note — a difference of 316ppi vs. 285ppi. The Note has a better spec’d camera at 8-megapixels vs. 5-megapixels but that’s not the best determiner of quality. To be honest, neither camera is all that inspiring but the fact that the GalNex camera allows for so many extra cool features (like facial unlock and Google Hangouts) perhaps gives it a leg up.
At the same price, I’d have to say the value return is likely better on the Nexus unless your profession really calls for that S Pen functionality. As I mentioned in our initial impressions video, the Note’s S Pen only seems worthwhile in a few very specific circumstances. It’s fun and all that jazz, but doesn’t bring with it the same varied functionality as ICS.
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It Takes A Village Canine Rescue: WAHL Grooming
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Rudolph is a white dog who gets very dirty very easily. The products were used to make him look great.
Jackson County Animal Shelter: WAHL Grooming
The shampoo products were used to clean dogs who had either been abandoned, stray or owner-surrendered. The shampooing of the dogs helped prepare them for spay or neuter surgery as well as adoption.
This grant assisted in preparing dogs for spay or neuter surgeries. In addition, it assisted in preparing dogs for adoption.
Approximately 60-65 dogs
There was a stray dog who was found on the side of the road. The dog was so filthy there was no way the animal shelter’s veterinarian could make an assessment of the dog’s health needs. Once cleaned, the dog was evaluated by the veterinarian. Afterwards, the dog (Cotton) was eligible for adoption. The grant helped in assuring Cotton found a new home!
Ghetto Rescue FFoundation (GRFF): WAHL Grooming
Bathing and grooming for rescued foster dogs.
We are a small, relatively new organization and our resources have been limited. Your grant has helped us provide care for dogs whose grooming needs and basic hygiene has been absent in their lives. If we had not received your generous grant, our coffers would have been strained.
This grant helped over 10 dogs.
Peaches is a beautiful Lab/Pit Bull mix. She was found in a home by police officers where she had spent an entire week lying on the floor with two severely broken front legs. Her owners didn’t have the money to obtain veterinary care for her and they were “doing the best they could,” but Peaches was obviously suffering. The owners relinquished Peaches to GRFF, and two surgeries and a Wahl treatment later, her new life began.
Skye was picked up from a junkyard. She had just given birth to an unknown number of puppies, but she was unable to deliver two remaining puppies and they died inside her. Skye was septic and hours away from death. In addition, she had been given a backyard crop job on her ears, which were horribly infected. She was caked with filth and appeared to be gray. After multiple surgeries and a Wahl spa treatment, Skye is a shining white beauty!
Rifugio I Fratelli Minori - Lida Sez. Olbia: Shelter+ Challenge
The money will be used towards replacing the shelter’s roofing. This was blown away by hurricane Cleopatra, which hit Olbia in November (you can see some photos here: http://bit.ly/italian-shelter). The shelter was badly affected, too but luckily no animal was lost or injured. Many people pulled together to help the shelter so a good number of kennels have been replaced already, but the roofing for the pens is still needed and the prize money will help us buy the materials to replace it.
Without the roofing, the dogs and cats are left at the mercy of the elements, and we are in the middle of winter! Giving our animals a roof over their heads is a top priority to ensure they are cared for in the best possible way.
The shelter has 700 dogs and 150 cats.
Pirichitta (photo 1) is one of the oldies. She’s had more major surgeries than we can count, but she is a strong as an ox and still full of life. Veronese (photo 2) was probably the victim of a hit-and-run. He’s a beautiful cat and the volunteers have done their utmost to get him back in shape. Solo (photo 3) is the king of the piazzale (the central area of the shelter): He used to roam free in a district of Olbia, but one day someone reported him just because of his size. He wouldn’t hurt a fly, but he is now in the shelter, hoping for someone to give him a forever home. Ninno (photo 4) is but one of the hundreds of kittens that are rescued by the shelter. He’s lucky because he’s very healthy, but lots of kitties arrive riddled with cat flu. These are but four of the over 800 animals your prize money has helped by helping us putting a roof back over their heads. Thank you!
Safehaven Small Breed Rescue: WAHL Grooming
Getting mill rescues clean and smelling better
Many of our rescues have never had a proper bath, only a spray-down with a hose, so they are filthy, matted and often have skin sores. The oatmeal shampoo soothed their skin while getting them clean and smelling good for prospective adopters.
12 so far
Zoe was rescued from a puppy mill. She was filthy and matted to the skin. After a good bath and grooming, she was seen by our vet and cleared for her spay and dental. She received one more bath after her stitches were removed and found her forever home three days later. She is only one of many mill rescues who benefited and will benefit from this grant.
Baywater Animal Rescue: WAHL Grooming
We got six bottles of Wahl shampoo. This shampoo is used to keep the dogs looking very clean for meeting potential adopters. With all the rainy and snowy weather, the dogs get very dirty running around in our play-yards. We want adopters to meet a clean, good-smelling dog, and this shampoo has allowed us to keep them adopt-ready!
The money saved on buying shampoo has allowed us to buy needed straw and other winter items for keeping the animals warm and comfortable.
We are able to give baths as needed. We have an average of 17 dogs in the shelter, and all of these dogs are kept clean with this shampoo.
Teddy was an owner surrender who was not being well cared for. The previous owner had too many dogs, and Teddy suffered from her bad financial status. He came in all matted and dirty. We immediately got him a bath and he came out a handsome, white puffball. He was adopted a week after his initial bath. He is spoiled rotten and loves his forever family. He gets to play with a lot of kids and other dogs and lounge around the house all day.
Petra was owner-surrendered with her eight puppies. All of her puppies have been adopted. As you can see by her picture, she has very short legs, so when she gets to running around the yard when it is muddy, she is a mess. She loves to run, and even has some running-mates here, but she goes from white to black after about 10 minutes of playtime. She knows her bath-time routine, and once she is clean, she is ready to impress potential adopters. She is still looking for her forever home, but hopefully she will find a nice family before the holidays.
Delaware County SPCA: WAHL Grooming
The Wahl shampoo was used to bathe our adoptable dogs.
The Wahl shampoo allowed us to bathe our adoptable dogs before they were put up for adoption. Having clean and fresh-smelling dogs at an animal adoption center is extremely important so that potential adopters are not turned off from interacting with the dogs because of the smell. The grant helped place more animals into their forever homes. During the month of November, we had a record-breaking adoption month with 404 adoptions. We used the Wahl shampoo throughout the month of November.
The shampoo specifically helped a dog named Diggy who was very matted and dirty when he first came in. We used the shampoo on him and put him into a foster home to be placed up for adoption. He looked and smelled so much better after his bath. Thank you for choosing us to be the recipient of this grant.
Tri County Humane Society: WAHL Grooming
Making our shelter animals beautiful before adoption.
As a nonprofit 501(c)3 animals shelter, we rely solely on private donations, whether monetary or in-kind. With the Wahl grant we were able to groom, bathe and beautify the animals before adoption. Having the animals groomed before putting them up for adoption made the amount of time they stayed with us less and made the animals feel so much better.
Lilly was saved from a puppy mill and was so matted we couldn’t see her eyes. After our veterinary technicians shaved her and used the oatmeal shampoo, she was feeling much much better.
Dogtown Ranch Sanctuary, Rescue and Rehab: WAHL Grooming
To help sooth skin conditions on starved dogs coming in from the shelter
It helped them feel better and look better, and helped us get them ready for adoption faster using good products.
30 or 40 or more
We found Andy at [an open-admission] shelter, beaten down and defeated from neglect and lack of proper care, with wounds to his face and upper body. Andy is a German shepherd, but his beautiful coat was destroyed from lack of proper care. With good nutrition and high-quality skin and coat products, we were able to make Andy look and feel like the magnificent animal he was destined to be.
Second Chance Companions: WAHL Grooming
The Wahl shampoo is used by our foster parents to clean their dogs. The samples are put in the adoption packets for new owners to use on their newly adopted pets.
This grant helps clean the dogs in our foster care and make them presentable for adoption.
We received a litter of puppies from New Mexico. There were six of them stuck in a crate for a couple of days; needless to say, they were rather filthy when we received them. They were washed with the Wahl shampoo to clean them up. Even though they did not enjoy the bath, they did enjoy feeling clean afterwards. The pictures attached are before and after pictures of Elf — he was one of the puppies in the litter. The samples sent to us have gone in the dog adoption packages, so when a dog gets adopted, the new owner receives a sample of Wahl shampoo.
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Cherushii
Maria Minerva
Cherushii & Maria Minerva
by Harley Brown
Chelsea Faith Dolan perished in Oakland’s Ghost Ship fire in 2016; this EP of left-field dance music made with her 100% Silk labelmate Maria Minerva is a moving testament to her talents and legacy.
“A Day Without You” — Cherushii & Maria MinervaVia
In 2013, the Estonian songwriter and producer Maria Minerva (née Juur) toured the U.S. with Chelsea Faith Dolan, aka Cherushii. Both were signed to DIY dance imprint 100% Silk; label co-founder Britt Brown had set them up on a cross-country “blind date” of sorts, knowing that Dolan had a car and suspecting that the two might get along. Sure enough, the experience of spending hours together on the road between San Diego and Chicago, sleeping on air mattresses in strangers’ homes and reveling in each other’s dazzling live performances, night after sparsely attended night, brought them closer together.
But their artistic partnership was barely realized before Cherushii perished in the 2016 Ghost Ship fire, a three-alarm blaze that ripped through an Oakland warehouse and claimed 36 lives. Following her friend’s death, Minerva became a steward of her legacy, taking responsibility for posting on her Facebook page (along with Dolan’s sister and audiovisual artist David Last) and penning a thoughtful tribute that doubled as an introduction to Cherushii’s life and music. She also shepherded to completion six tracks that the two of them recorded and mixed with help from West Coast audio wizards Last, Adam Gunther, and Brian Foote, another 100% Silk labelmate.
Long after the initial rush of fundraisers and compilations to commemorate the dead and rebuild the community, the tragedy’s ache still lingers. “When the madness dissipates and you’re just left with the sad reality of what happened,” Minerva said in a recent interview. Cherushii & Maria Minerva is a testament to Dolan’s vibrant spirit and formidable talent, providing a glimpse of sunlight—and what would likely have been a fruitful collaborative relationship—through the residual smog of grief and loss. Most of the lyrics seem to be directed towards a male partner (perhaps the previous owner of the “Boyfriend Shirt” in one of the tracks) but post-Ghost Ship it’s not a huge stretch to read subtler, heavier meanings into some of them. Album centerpiece “This Must Be the Place” drifts along in a state of Friday-night ennui before the eerily prescient line “Greater than the fear of unexpected violence is the fear of everlasting silence” lands like a punch to the gut.
The EP’s robust basslines and glittering melodies are good foils for Minerva’s vocal stylings, a cross between Blossom Dearie, Brigitte Bardot, and the Estonian pop singers she grew up listening to. Despite the mournful connotations of the title, “A Day Without You” sets a bright tone as Cherushii buoys Minerva’s featherweight (and at times ever so slightly off-key) croon with cowbells, bongos, and a brisk beat. A strong showing from both musicians, “Out by Myself” is a strobing peak-time ode to hitting the club alone. Cherushii & Maria Minerva also repurposes a couple of tracks from previous Cherushii releases that fit in easily with their more recent counterparts: “Thin Line” is a Balearic-tinged highlight from 2015’s ambient dreamscape Memory of Water, while “Nobody’s Fool (Vocal Version)” originally appeared as an instrumental on a three-tracker of the same name, also in 2015. Each artist consistently brought out the best in the other over the years, and the process of listening to these tracks leaves behind a sense of longing for the full-length Minerva has said they were planning to work on next.
Foote’s haunting edit of “A Day Without You,” under his Leech alias, closes Cherushii & Maria Minerva on a sobering note: the comedown for a party that never should have ended the way that it did. Like most dubs, the track is built around absence, and Cherushii’s departure from this world can be felt the strongest here. It’s a reminder that she will be remembered not just by the music she made, but by the impressions she left on everyone around her.
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Charges Expected Against Alleged Drunk Driver In Fatal Penn Hills Crash
By Amy Wadas February 8, 2019 at 6:36 pm
Filed Under:Amy Wadas, Fatal Crash, Local TV, Penn Hills, Suspected DUI
PENN HILLS (KDKA) — Allegheny County police said the investigation into the fatal alleged drunk driving crash that happened in Penn Hills on Thursday is still ongoing. They expect to file charges once the investigation is complete.
The medical examiner said the victim in this tragic crash in Penn Hills is Steven Prazenica, 33, of Allison Park.
Prazenica was driving a Nissan SUV when he was struck head-on by a 48-year-old man driving a pickup truck on Frankstown Road near Advanced Auto Parts in Penn Hills.
Police said that man crossed the center line and crashed into Prazenica. Prazenica was taken to the hospital where he died from his injuries.
The driver of the pickup truck is still in the hospital and listed in stable condition. Police believe the 48-year-old man may have been driving drunk. That’s where Mother’s Against Drunk Driving, also known as MADD, comes in.
“A lot of victims aren’t aware that we are out there,” Robin Weitz, of the MADD Pittsburgh office, said.
Weitz said in a situation like this, she will work closely with police so she can contact a victim hurt in a crash or the victim’s family.
“The first thing they need is education, understanding the judicial system,” Weitz said. “I’m also there to go through the judicial process with them. So with the preliminary hearing, I’ll go to the preliminary hearing with the victim, whether they’re the victim of injury or a victim of being a loved one left behind.”
Weitz said there’s approximately 11,000 deaths nationwide due to DUIs every year. MADD helps a victim of drunk driving every 15 minutes at no cost to the victim.
“We truly believe, especially with today’s ways, that there’s never an excuse to drive drunk. It’s 100 percent preventable,” Weitz said.
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Making the $100m player
by Eno Sarris
Someone is going to win the nine-figure lottery this offseason.
Every offseason for the past 10 years, at least one MLB player has signed a contract for at $100 million-plus. Some of those players have actually proved to be worth the lofty dollar figure; others haven’t. Thus, the focus for every team is determining which guys to pay big money to.
We know, at least generally, that giving a pitcher nine figures usually doesn’t work out well. Both Barry Svrluga at the Washington Post and Ted Berg at USAToday have looked at those contracts and didn’t like what they found.
But position players are a slightly better bet. Of the 12 $100 million contracts that have been handed out to position players, either via free agency or as extensions, and have run their course by now, six of them actually turned out to be bargains compared to the open market. Another couple were relatively decent deals, and only three of them were absolute disasters.
(Quick aside: To judge these contracts, I summed up the player’s wins above replacement over the life of the contract, divided that number by the salary, then took the cost of a win on the open market over the life of the contract and compared the two. If the player was cheaper than the average win, he was a “good contract.”)
Even if you add in the contracts that expire after next year — meaning Ryan Howard is in the mix — teams spent less per win above replacement on those 15 players with $100 million contracts than the open market spent on all wins above replacement during those years. So there’s really nothing wrong with signing a position player to $100 million — as long as it’s the right player.
The best $100 million position players can provide us some guidelines for this year’s free-agent class and also for players who aren’t even free agents yet.
With that, let’s build the $100 million man.
Defensive Value
Your $100 million man should have defensive value. The seven good values with nine figure contracts averaged scratch defensive play going into their contract. The eight bad values cost their teams six runs a year going into the contract. The worst contracts generally belonged to the worst defenders, like Ryan Howard and Carlos Lee. The only double-digit bad defender that was even close to being worth his contract was Jason Giambi.
It’s not as easy as picking the outfielder or the shortstop over the first baseman. Yes, Derek Jeter and the first Alex Rodriguez deal were both good deals handed to shortstops. But the first Miguel Cabrera deal and Todd Helton’s deal, they worked out. And neither is a great defender.
But they weren’t terrible. There hasn’t been a good $100 million deal handed out to a defender that has averaged double-digit negative value. So the $100 million man has to have *some* defensive value, but doesn’t need to be a crack defender.
It’s hard to measure athleticism in baseball. Every number has a tinge of learned skill to it. Strikeout rate? How well does the player control the strike zone? Stolen bases? What about fast players like Dexter Fowler who don’t steal a lot of bases?
But Bill James did create a six-component speed score – it includes triples, stolen base attempts, stolen base percentage, runs scored, grounded into double plays, and defensive position and range — to try and evaluate speed, at least. 5.0 is average, and David Ortiz was the slowest player in baseball last year, with a 0.9 speed score.
Our good contracts averaged a 5.1 speed score. Our bad contracts averaged a 3.9 speed score. The only $100m player with above-average speed that was a bust was Alfonso Soriano. Between Ryan Howard, Mark Teixeira, and Manny Ramirez, the bad contract bin was full of slow players.
This one is obvious, and there’s not much a player can do to change it. He debuts when his team allows him to, and he plays as best he can, and every day he gets older. And yet the best contracts went to 26.7 year olds on average, and the worst contracts went to 30.3 year olds.
If you want to hand $100 million to a player, the birthdate is one of the most important stats.
It’s sort of amazing that you can’t take away more from yesterday’s big contracts. Both the good and bad contracts had power — a .230 isolated slugging percentage going into the deal for the good side, a .246 for the bad side, and .145 is about average. Both the good and bad contracts were better than league average when it came to making contact — the good contracts were a little better (16%) but the bad contracts (18%) were also above league average, and one of the better numbers belonged to the second-biggest bust (Vernon Wells, 13%). The good contracts were a year longer, on average, which might be surprising.
But take this mix to this year’s free agent class, and there’s a clear recommendation. The youngest free agent is Jason Heyward. He has above average speed and has been worth double-digit runs to his team on defense so far in his career. While Justin Upton is 28 and has some speed, he doesn’t have the defensive value. Yoenis Cespedes is fast, but is 30 and the defensive numbers are unclear. Alex Gordon is the second-oldest of the top-ten position player prospects.
Look at the contracts a little closer, though, and another thing pops up. The two best contracts for the dollar — Albert Pujols‘ and Miguel Cabrera’s first contract — were extensions. That’s part of why they were good values, and also why the players were young, but it also opens up every player on every roster as a possible $100 million value.
That opens up all players as comparisons, too. We have aging curves for all players, and we can split them up to see which types of players age best. Turns out, big players do not do well. Being fast is good. And, since the thing that ages the worst is contact on pitches outside the zone, it’s no surprise that players with plate discipline age better than the rest of the population. Ask Joey Votto, and he says he’s fashioned his career around these facts.
So who are the good young players with defensive value, a good sense of the zone, speed, and power? There are four under 25 that make the benchmarks in all four categories.
Reach Rate
Speed Score
Kris Bryant 0.213 7.1 30.6% 5.4
Mookie Betts 0.188 1.3 26.2% 6.7
George Springer 0.183 -0.7 23.1% 5.4
Carlos Correa 0.233 -1.6 32.4% 4.4
Kris Bryant, Mookie Betts, George Springer, and Carlos Correa — your next $100 million men. Along with Jason Heyward, maybe. And not a single one of them is your prototypical slugging first baseman, which have made up almost half of the previous group. Maybe baseball will learn from its past mistakes and get all of these right. Then again, almost everything looked right when the Cincinnati Reds signed Ken Griffey to eight years and $117 million.
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One Response to “Making the $100m player”
“Along with Jason Heyward, maybe.”
Why the maybe? Heyward is close to a $200M player.
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Andrew Motion was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain 1999-2009. His published collections of poetry include The Pleasure Steamers (1978), Independence (1981), Secret Narratives (1983), Natural Causes (1987), Love in a Life (1991), Salt Water (1997) and Public Property (2002). He has edited journals and poetry collections including Here to Eternity (2001) and has published prose fiction; his biographies include Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life (1993), Keats (1997) and Wainewright the Poisoner (2000).
The Immigrants - Margaret Atwood
The first port of call is Canada, and a wonderfully intense yet relaxed reading by Margaret Atwood. Her voice is rich with experience, melancholy but at the same time sprightly - and used to terrific but un-self-conscious effect in 'The Immigrants'. ...
The first port of call is Canada, and a wonderfully intense yet relaxed reading by Margaret Atwood. Her voice is rich with experience, melancholy but at the same time sprightly - and used to terrific but un-self-conscious effect in 'The Immigrants'. "Always they are too poor", the poem says - striking an eternal note of sadness. We can hear it again in her other poems in the Archive - in the elegy for her father, 'King Lear in Respite Care', and in 'The Moment', which puzzles over the simultaneous closeness and otherness of nature. And the sprightliness? That's most obvious in 'Siren Song' - but it's always checked by a characteristic gravity of thought.
by Denise Riley
Shantung - Denise Riley
Denise Riley is one of Britain's most interesting modern poets - modern in the sense of experimental, as well as simply 'contemporary'. The subtleties of her reading voice, with its mixture of English and Scottish cadences, helps us to follow the contours ...
Denise Riley is one of Britain's most interesting modern poets - modern in the sense of experimental, as well as simply 'contemporary'. The subtleties of her reading voice, with its mixture of English and Scottish cadences, helps us to follow the contours of poems which work upon us gradually. This is immediately helpful and rewarding in the comparatively straightforward 'Shantung'. But the same principle applies to a more discursive poem such as 'Dark Looks' or 'Oleanna', where she uses speech rhythms as a kind of steadying device, occasionally slipping in phrases from vernacular talk, or pop songs. These things are pleasures in themselves, but also springboards to a denser and more elaborate kind of enquiry. It means the poems are rich with the sound of sense, as well as sense itself.
All Day Permanent Red – an extract
by Christopher Logue
All Day Permanent Red – an extract - Christopher Logue
In 'War Music', Christopher Logue re-vamps and re-visions Homer; the poem has been one of the great unfolding poetic panoramas of recent years. The deep, gravely rush-and-pause of Logue's voice as he reads 'All Day Permanent Red', his sensitivity to the ...
In 'War Music', Christopher Logue re-vamps and re-visions Homer; the poem has been one of the great unfolding poetic panoramas of recent years. The deep, gravely rush-and-pause of Logue's voice as he reads 'All Day Permanent Red', his sensitivity to the play between hard and soft sounds, and the nimbleness with which he moves between the voice of something like a sports commentator, to a severe orator, to a lyricist, to a meditator on fighting and its follies, are all extraordinary. The result is a poem which quite properly catches Homer's relish for combat, but which (partly by the interpolation of modern anachronisms such as the names Bubblegum and Thersites' dog Nasty) also exposes the true face of folly and suffering. The whole poem is a tour de force - and so is this deeply sympathetic reading.
by Charles Causley
Eden Rock - Charles Causley
'Eden Rock', by Charles Causley is a much-loved poem by one of the best-loved poets of his time, and this reading reminds us why. The Cornish accent, the charming asides and explanations between poems, the steady circling of ballad themes and rhythms ...
'Eden Rock', by Charles Causley is a much-loved poem by one of the best-loved poets of his time, and this reading reminds us why. The Cornish accent, the charming asides and explanations between poems, the steady circling of ballad themes and rhythms (which we can also hear in 'At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux', and 'Timothy Winters') all lure us into feeling there might be something comfortable about the work. In fact it turns out to be full of disturbing memories and a troubling sense of evanescence. This marvellous recording demonstrates what is true and valuable about the Poetry Archive as a whole: it makes us feel intimate with Causley's poems, while at the same time lifting them into a brighter place for our delight and understanding.
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CfP POLLEN20 – Invasion/contagion : Entanglements of racialisation and biology in the making of policed natures
October 25, 2019 Amber Huff
Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN20)
Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration
Patricia J. Lopez (Dartmouth College) and Naomi Millner (University of Bristol).
Please send abstracts to Naomi Millner (naomi.millner@bristol.ac.uk) and Tish Lopez (patricia.j.lopez@dartmouth.edu) by 15 November 2019. We will respond to submissions by November 20.
“Contagion stories” (Wald 2008) and “invasive species” narratives articulate global and local fears of biological insecurity that at once depend upon, and reinforce, racialized anxieties about connectivity and intrusion. Taken together, these anxieties highlight ongoing entanglements of racialization and biology that begin with colonial encounters and stretch into the present through practices of identification, monitoring, bureaucratic ordering, policing and containment, to name just a few. Such practices are informed by, and continue to shape and inform, ideas of race — just as their racialization informs, and is informed by, how more-than-human species and environments come to be understood. In this panel we open up this entanglement of racialization and biology, focusing on how it comes to matter in the making of specific “natures,” including naturalized ways of perceiving bodies, and the spatial ordering of conservation environments.
Within political ecology, racialized natures have been explored in the making of National Parks (Byrne & Wolch 2009), the establishment of specific regimes of citizenship (Vandergeest 2003) and in terms of the identification and containment of populations as “out of place” or “risky” (Ybarra 2012). Decolonial approaches have mobilised “political ontology” as a way to open up and question the ways that particular ways of knowing natures, or “what exists” within such contexts to question and to change (eg. Blaser, 2013; De la Cadena 2010). Meanwhile, in complementary areas of cultural geography and anthropology, the ontological making of ab/normal bodies (Guthman 2012), of race and reproduction (Mansfield & Guthman 2015), and of interspecies relationships (Kirksey & Helmreich 2010) have been thought in relation to the racialisation of bodies at the microbiological level. In this panel we build on such rich scholarship, but focus specifically on practices of borders and bordering that are made possible through precocious entanglements of biology and discourse-practices of racialization. Our premise is that borders — which encompass not only administrative or political boundaries, but all “edges” that define an inside and outside — define the margins against which human-made natures collide in attempts to maintain an imagined form of security against invasion / contagion (Ahuja 2016). The (re)creation of this boundedness, knowable and maintainable, but always under imminent attack, serves as the site of technical management in efforts to mitigate intrusion.
However, while these frameworks seek to confer notions of agential infectiousness, leading to the abandonment of people and places by state and supra-state apparatuses, local contestations are marked by a refusal of essentialization and externalisation. In their stead, counter-narratives and everyday practices push back–offering alternative modes for imagining and creating worlds otherwise. In this session, we seek to engage with scholars, activists, and artists whose work attends to both the narratives and processes of abandonment, and modes of contestation and flourishing beyond abjection and/or abandonment in order to think through how the entanglements of racialization and biology inform pervasive modes of meaning-making.
To that end, we invite paper abstracts and creative treatments that attend to (but are not limited to) questions, such as:
How do the ways microbial life are thought and talked about affect how racialised and colonial patternings (re)materialise?
How do discourses of race affect microbial relations are thought and enacted?
How is race articulated within concepts of invasive species, contagion, virality?
What modes of contestation / thriving / flourishing emerge beyond dominant discourses about contagion or invasion (to include those that may or may not be recognizable to those outside)?
In what ways does the making of biological metaphors come to bear on practices and policies of border and migration (both human and more-than human) management?
How do racialisation and microbiology entwine in the making of imagined enemies / outsiders / threats?
Presenters will also be encouraged to read a few selections in advance of the session as part of a shared pedagogical praxis and engagement.
Ahuja, Neel, (2016). Bioinsecurities: disease interventions, empire, and the government of species. Durham: Duke University Press.
Blaser, M. (2013). Notes towards a political ontology of ‘environmental’ conflicts. Contested ecologies: Dialogues in the South on nature and knowledge, 13-27.
Byrne, J., & Wolch, J. (2009). Nature, race, and parks: past research and future directions for geographic research. Progress in Human Geography, 33(6), 743-765.
De la Cadena, M. (2010). Indigenous cosmopolitics in the Andes: Conceptual reflections beyond “politics”. Cultural anthropology, 25(2), 334-370.
Guthman, J. (2012). Opening up the black box of the body in geographical obesity research: Toward a critical political ecology of fat. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(5), 951-957.
Kirksey, S. E., & Helmreich, S. (2010). The emergence of multispecies ethnography. Cultural anthropology, 25(4), 545-576.
Mansfield, B., & Guthman, J. (2015). Epigenetic life: biological plasticity, abnormality, and new configurations of race and reproduction. cultural geographies, 22(1), 3-20.
Vandergeest, P. (2003). Racialization and citizenship in Thai forest politics. Society &Natural Resources, 16(1), 19-37.
Wald, Pricsilla (2008). Contagious: cultures, carriers, and the outbreak narrative. Durham, NC: Duke Uiversity Press.
Ybarra, M. (2012). Taming the jungle, saving the Maya Forest: Sedimented counterinsurgency practices in contemporary Guatemalan conservation. Journal of Peasant Studies, 39(2), 479-502.
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Years of pot, drug addiction and homelessness
May 15, 2019 editor
By H. Swan, co-author, A Night in Jail
Part 1 of a 3 Part Series. This article first appeared on MomsStrong.org
K started getting high at a young age. He smoked just a little bit, almost every day, through junior high, high school, college and graduate school. To him, it seemed like harmless fun. But within a few years after completing his higher education, he became a homeless drug addict and dealer with schizophrenia. He went to jail eighteen times. Relative to so many others, K’s story ends well. He is alive, out of jail, off the streets, and is sober. He is receiving psychiatric care. He lives in a group home where his meals and transportation are provided, and his psychiatric medications are dispensed. He is alive to tell his harrowing story. To warn teenagers that what seems like harmless fun can actually ruin their lives, K and I wrote a book which is inspired by his experiences.
Continue reading Years of pot, drug addiction and homelessness →
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Marijuana and Other Drugs: A Link We Can’t Ignore
by SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana) Smart Approaches to Marijuana’s 2017 publication references academic studies which suggest that marijuana primes the brain for other types of drug usage. Here’s the summary on that subject from page 4, Marijuana and Other Drugs: A Link We Can’t Ignore :
MORE THAN FOUR in 10 people who ever use marijuana will go on to use other illicit drugs, per a large, nationally representative sample of U.S. adults.(1) The CDC also says that marijuana users are three times more likely to become addicted to heroin.(2)
Although 92% of heroin users first used marijuana before going to heroin, less than half used painkillers before going to heroin.
And according to the seminal 2017 National Academy of Sciences report, “There is moderate evidence of a statistical association between cannabis use and the development of substance dependence and/or a substance abuse disorder for substances including alcohol, tobacco, and other illicit drugs.”(3)
RECENT STUDIES WITH animals also indicate that marijuana use is connected to use and abuse of other drugs. A 2007 Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology study found that rats given THC later self administered heroin as adults, and increased their heroin usage, while those rats that had not been treated with THC maintained a steady level of heroin intake.(4) Another 2014 study found that adolescent THC exposure in rats seemed to change the rodents’ brains, as they subsequently displayed “heroin-seeking” behavior. Youth marijuana use could thus lead to “increased vulnerability to drug relapse in adulthood.”(5)
National Institutes of Health Report
The National Institutes of Health says that research in this area is “consistent with animal experiments showing THC’s ability to ‘prime’ the brain for enhanced responses to other drugs. For example, rats previously administered THC show heightened behavioral response not only when further exposed to THC, but also when exposed to other drugs such as morphine—a phenomenon called cross-sensitization.”(6)
Suggestions that one addictive substance replaces another ignores the problem of polysubstance abuse, the common addiction of today.
ADDITIONALLY, THE MAJORITY of studies find that marijuana users are often polysubstance users, despite a few studies finding limited evidence that some people substitute marijuana for opiate medication. That is, people generally do not substitute marijuana for other drugs. Indeed, the National Academy of Sciences report found that “with regard to opioids, cannabis use predicted continued opioid prescriptions 1 year after injury. Finally, cannabis use was associated with reduced odds of achieving abstinence from alcohol, cocaine, or polysubstance use after inpatient hospitalization and treatment for substance use disorders” [emphasis added].(7)
Moreover, a three-year 2016 study of adults also found that marijuana compounds problems with alcohol. Those who reported marijuana use during the first wave of the survey were more likely than adults who did not use marijuana to develop an alcohol use disorder within three years.(8) Similarly, alcohol consumption in Colorado has increased slightly since legalization. (9)
Data on Marijuana Policy for 2017
Here’s the complete Data on Marijuana Policy for 2017 in pdf form.
Secades-Villa R, Garcia-Rodríguez O, Jin CJ, Wang S, Blanco C Probability and predictors of the cannabis gateway effect: a national study. Int J Drug Policy. 2015;26(2):135-142
2. Centers for Disease Control. Today’s heroin epidemic Infographics more people at risk, multiple drugs abused. CDC, 7 July 2015.
3. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health andPublic Health Practice; Committee on the Health Effects of Marijuana: An Evidence Review and Research Agenda (“2017 NAS Report”).
4. Ellgren, Maria et al. “Adolescent Cannabis Exposure Alters Opiate Intake and Opioid Limbic Neuronal Populations in Adult Rats.”Neuropsychopharmacology 32.3 (2006): 607–615.
5. Stropponi, Serena et al. Chronic THC during adolescence increases the vulnerability to stress-induced relapse to heroin seeking in adult rats. European Neuropsychopharmacology Volume 24 , Issue 7 (2014), 1037 – 1045.
6. “Is marijuana a gateway drug?” National Institute on Drug Abuse. Jan. 2017. See also Panlilio LV, Zanettini C, Barnes C, Solinas M, Goldberg SR. Prior exposure to THC increases the addictive effects of nicotine in rats. Neuropsychopharmacol Off Publ Am Coll Neuropsychopharmacol. 2013;38(7):1198-1208; Cadoni C, Pisanu A, Solinas M, Acquas E, Di Chiara G. Behavioural sensitization after repeated exposure to Delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol and cross-sensitization with morphine. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2001;158(3):259-266.
7. 2017 NAS report.
8. Weinberger AH, Platt J, Goodwin RD. Is cannabis use associated with an increased risk of onset and persistence of alcohol use disorders? A three-year prospective study among adults in the United States. Drug Alcohol Depend. February 2016.
This is the second recent article on the gateway effects of marijuana use. Since marijuana has already primed the brains of most people who get addicted to opioids, marijuana cannot replace pain pills.
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by Robert Charles, for Town Hall Magazine
The Christmas carol is poignant – reminder of Christmas, and beyond. “What child is this, who, laid to rest …” the carol begins. “Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, while shepherds watch are keeping?” it continues. The stanza ends, “Haste, haste ….” Lovely, lilting, full of promise – like the birth of a child. Here, a special child – but also every child.
In a season of joy, it is a message is joy. But the mind wanders, also to our mortal world. New numbers on drug addiction and drugged driving death, so many lost souls – mitigate the joy. They caught me off guard this week. My brother, a high school teacher, shared with me the loss of another student, another fatal crash, as drugged driving numbers rise. What is the season for heartbroken parents – but a season of loss? Each year, upwards of 100,000 parents lose a child to drug abuse.
What child is this? It is America’s child, and America’s childhood. How is it that we have, collectively, forgotten to keep watch over those entrusted to our watch – especially from high office? Last year, 47,055 Americans, most of them young, were lost to drug abuse – just statistics now. Why?
In part, because so many Americans have heard a mixed message from their leaders – with devastating effects. Led to believe drugs are “recreation,” something not different from beer or wine, kids try and soon die. Synthetic opioids, heroin, cocaine, high potency marijuana – and then a trip to the ER, or not even, on the way to a mortuary. Numbers do not lie.
The Dark Side of Marijuana Photoshop image taken from art of Edvard Munch
Drugged driving is now another epidemic. Drivers and helpless passengers are all at risk, along with everyone on the road. Near home, not long ago, several kids died in a terrible car crash. They missed a bend and hit a tree. The sister of a child known to my son was almost in that car – but courageously declined the ride. She knew the driver was compromised. That decision saved her life. Unfortunately, the searing truth caught others off guard. Drugged driving is death on wheels, period. Drug legalization is the unabashed promoter of that death. So, where are the shepherds? Where are the outspoken leaders, who know this – but are silent?
What child is this, who starts with marijuana, soon is addicted, ends overdosing on opiates or as a roadside cross? What child is this, who needed knowledge from someone they trust – but get misinformation? What child is this, who is force-fed popular lies, that drug abuse is “recreation?”
And what child is this, “greeted by angels,” who was forsaken here – by knowing leaders for political advantage? “Laid to rest” by parents’ inconsolable hands? Where were leaders, a thoughtful president, governor, congressman, legislator, mayor? How could we, in a blink, give up 50,000 souls – this year, again? Silence is not just holy – it can also be complicit. Permitting legal expansion of drug abuse, legalized money laundering, an insidious tax grab and a Federal blind eye – comes at the expense of young lives. That is the truth.
Needed in this season of change are new national and community leaders, who are unafraid to say: Do not compromise the future. Do not risk everything for nothing. Do not break faith with yourself, or those counting on you.
The mind wanders … from a Christmas carol to those not here to celebrate. To parents, siblings, friends and teachers sadly forced to ask “what if…” And bigger questions: What if the legalization pabulum and knowing disinformation were stopped? What if drugs that addict and kill were less available? What if policy indifference turned to saving young lives, not putting them at risk?
Said Henry David Thoreau, every child is an “empire.” But today, these empires are falling fast. The risk inherent in our indifference, disinformation, disregard for truth, and treating death as recreation. Addiction’s darkness comes on fast. Life soon narrows, ambitions die, dependence rises, users are boxed in, relationships and functions degraded, nightmares start and then the awful, big question – who cares?
Edvard Munch’s Death in the Sickroom, 1895, is still relevant today with the number of families watching their children hopelessly addicted or dying. Top image: Munch’s The Day After
These days, few seem to – not the president, Congress, many state “leaders.” They just go along. Meantime, more families are drained and left alone – victims of widening drug abuse, drugged driving, drug-related crime, and life-changing addictions. The Trump team has a chance to say: Enough, experiment over. That would help American families stop grieving, and save kids from this unparalleled dance with false information and societal indifference. That would be leadership – and long overdue. So, pull the Drug Czar back to Cabinet rank, put Federal resources and smart people on enforcing the law, and educate the country.
“What child is this?” It is America’s child. With new hope and real leadership – may we have no more compromises with evil, but truth spoken to power, and power to people. Let us stand watch, shepherds for young America. “Haste, haste …” in this and all seasons. There is a resolution for the new year.
Robert Charles is a columnist for Town Hall Magazine. He also wrote Return the Drug Czar to Cabinet. Robert Charles is a former Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement under George W. Bush, former Naval Intelligence Officer and litigator, who served in the Reagan and Bush 41 White Houses. He wrote the book “Narcotics and Terrorism,” and writes widely on national security and law.
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Kevin Sabet,Smart Approaches to Marijuana Hold Key to Solving Addiction Crisis
Most of the young people who overdose from drugs began their illicit drug usage with marijuana, according to government statistics which have quoted it at 71%. Parents Opposed to Pot receives anecdotal evidence suggesting this pattern over and over. Some teens develop marijuana addiction, but marijuana is also a gateway drug for many other people who become addicted to cocaine, heroin, opiates and other drugs.
Facing our nation’s growth in drug addiction, NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, and SAM, Smart Approaches to Marijuana, announced a new strategic partnership on August 25. SAM, an alliance of organizations and individuals Continue reading SAM Joins Forces with NAADAC →
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March 20, 2010 — Jacksonville
Deputies were investigating Rodney R. Newberry for an open container.
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When they asked him if it was alcohol, he ran. The deputies tackled him, but Newberry, 40, pulled out a gun and shot Deputy Ronald Bilyew in the hand and the other deputy, William Shrum, in the foot, officials said.
Bilyew fired back and hit Newberry in the lower back, but Newberry escaped. He was later found at his mother's house. Read more
He was sentenced to life in prison for two counts of attempted murder. After his conviction, Newberry was tried for a December 2009 murder.
He was convicted and is now on death row.
Bilyew and Shrum received the Purple Heart Award from the sheriff's office.
The same day, two officers shot one person in Clearwater .
Three days later, one officer shot one person in Lantana .
Newberry was shot after injuring an officer. That was true in 8 percent of shootings.
Newberry fired shots at police, which happened in 15 percent of shootings.
Officer approached Newberry after he was suspected of committing a minor crime. That’s true in 1 of every 12 cases.
Newberry was one of 36 people shot in the back by police.
Newberry was armed with a firearm. That’s true of almost half the people shot.
Newberry was shot after resisting arrest. A total of 114 people were shot while resisting arrest.
Newberry was drinking alcohol before being shot. That’s true in about 10 percent of police shootings.
Newberry was fleeing from police or a crime scene, which is true in a quarter of shootings.
Officer was chasing Newberry on foot before shooting him. Officers shot 105 people during foot pursuits.
2009. MARIANNA — Marianna Police Officer Bliss Moreau attempted a traffic stop on Mark Anthony Daniels around 7:20 p.m. Daniels, 31, had already fled a previous... 1 killed
2010. JACKSONVILLE — Reginald Rishawn Henley, 27, was shot in the back as he ran away from an... 1 injured
2009. EUSTIS — Ricky Cyrus Moriani, 62, wanted to return a set of keys to his former... 1 injured
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570 News: Women’s prison in Kitchener releases music album in a Canadian first
Pros & Cons March 13, 2018 Media, News
Talk about dropping bars behind bars.
Inmates at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener have released a 10-song music album, called “Undisclosed Location.”
It’s the first album written and recorded at a federal women’s prison in Canada and part of the Pros and Cons Program.
Founder of the program Hugh Christopher Brown tells 570 NEWS it all started by bringing music workshops into prisons, and it became popular in a men’s prison outside Kingston.
Read more at 570news.com…
New Video and Music from Pros and Cons – the groundbreaking prison music program
NOW Magazine: “…the first album made inside a Canadian federal women’s prison”
CBC News: Women at Kitchener’s Grand Valley prison release first musical album
The Morning Edition K-W shares Lost, from Undisclosed Location
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The role of hot-working on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the L12-type manganese-modified Al3Ti alloy
Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0921-5093(92)90222-M
Search for: Chen, Xiaofu; Search for: Chen, Shipu; Search for: Wu, Xiaohua; Search for: Fang, Lianhua; Search for: Hu, Gengxiang
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Proceedings of the Second International ASM Conference on High Temperature Aluminides and Intermetallics: Part 2
Materials Science and Engineering: A
Second International ASM Conference on High Temperature Aluminides and Intermetallics, September 16-19, 1991, San Diego, USA
The crystal structure of a manganese-modified Al3Ti intermetallic alloy has been changed from the tetragonal D022 to the L12 cubic structure. The cast alloy shows considerable compression ductility at room temperature. To improve its mechanical properties further, hot-working experiments have been conducted. The results showed that the Al67Mn8Ti25 intermetallic alloy maintains very good hot-workability, the cast alloy can be reduced 60% by a single hot-pressing stroke without cracking. The role of hot-working on the microstructure and the mechanical properties of the alloy have been studied. It was found that the hot-worked alloy shows a deformed structure and some work-hardening after hot-working. Experiments indicated that the starting temperature for recrystallization is about 1173 K and complete recrystallization of the deformed alloy occurs at about 1273 K. Good hot-workability and a high recrystallization temperature permit potential for elevated temperature use. A transmission electron microscopy study on the evolution of dislocation structures in the recovery and recrystallization processes is also reported.
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Engaging and Supporting a University Press Scholarly Community
Megan Taylor, Kathrine Jensen
School of Education and Professional Development
Department of Education and Community Studies
In this paper we explore how the development of The University of Huddersfield Press, a publisher of open access scholarly journals and monographs, has enabled the sharing of research with a wider online audience. We situate the development of the Press within a wider research environment and growing community of New University Presses (NUPs) where there is an increasing demand for demonstrating research impact, which drives the need for improved analysis and reporting of impact data, a task that often falls within the remit of library and academic support services. We detail the benefits of the University Press Manager role in terms of ensuring professional service that delivers consistency and sustainability. We go on to outline the experiences of engaging with different online spaces and detail the extensive support for student authors. We argue that in order for the Press to support building a strong and engaged scholarly community and provide new spaces for emerging research, continued investment in both platform development and infrastructure is required.
https://doi.org/10.3390/publications6020013
impact research
Taylor, M., & Jensen, K. (2018). Engaging and Supporting a University Press Scholarly Community. Publications, 6(2), [13]. https://doi.org/10.3390/publications6020013
Taylor, Megan ; Jensen, Kathrine. / Engaging and Supporting a University Press Scholarly Community. In: Publications. 2018 ; Vol. 6, No. 2.
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Chris Elliott (I)
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May 31, 1960 (age 59) | 6' 0" (1.83m)
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Arizona Republican Legislator On Tape Saying “There Aren’t Enough White Kids to Go Around”
progressnowaz June 13, 2018 Press Releases
“There aren’t enough white kids to go around.” “Immigration today represents an existential threat to the United States.” “Immigration is politically destabilizing.”
These are some of the racists and xenophobic comments that Republican Legislator David Stringer was recently caught making on camera. The video was shared on Facebook by David Schapira. In the video, Representative David Stringer claims there are too many “minorities” in our schools and that “there aren’t enough white kids to go around.”
The video can be viewed here.
“These comments from David Stringer show the true colors of today’s Republican party–it’s a party of radicalism, xenophobia, and frankly, racism. Stringer’s racist and paranoid comments that we must protect the white race or America will be taken over are dangerous, fear mongering and hateful. That he thinks it’s acceptable to attack children in our schools is despicable and he should be ashamed. It should go without saying that all children deserve an education, regardless of their skin color,.” said Josselyn Berry, Co-Director for ProgressNow Arizona
David Stringer has a history of making offensive remarks. Last March, he said teaching is an easy, part-time job. That same month he also claimed student newspapers were liberal propaganda machines.
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All Football All Year
NFL Announces Pro Bowl Skills Showdown
PRO BOWL SKILLS SHOWDOWN ANNOUNCED
— Airs Thursday, January 26 at 7:00 PM ET on ESPN —
— Pro Bowlers face off in an AFC vs. NFC skills showdown in Orlando —
— NFL Legends Captains will lead the Pro Bowlers in unique competitions —
The Pro Bowl Skills Showdown, pitting AFC and NFC All-Stars against each other in unique competitions, will air during Pro Bowl Week on Thursday, January 26 at 7:00 PM ET on ESPN, the NFL announced today.
The Skills Showdown is a part of the re-imagined Pro Bowl Week, culminating in the 2017 Pro Bowl, which features a return to the traditional AFC vs. NFC format following three years using a revised, “unconferenced” structure.
The 2017 Pro Bowl Legends Captains, JEROME BETTIS and RAY LEWIS of the AFC and TONY GONZALEZ and CHARLES WOODSON of the NFC, will lead their respective squads.
Each team in the Skills Showdown will feature a mix of quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, linemen, linebackers, and defensive backs.
Taking place at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports in Orlando, the Skills Showdown will be produced by A. Smith & Co. Productions, producers of such shows as American Ninja Warrior and Hell’s Kitchen.
Competitions include:
Epic Pro Bowl Dodgeball: Pro Bowlers will compete in a game of dodgeball.
Power Relay Challenge: Four team members will compete in a timed relay race.
Precision Passing: Two players on each team will battle it out, trying to hit moving targets of varying size and distance.
Best Hands: Quarterback and wide receiver duos from each team will show off their skills, connecting on as many pass attempts as possible before time runs out.
Fans are encouraged to join the conversation surrounding the new Pro Bowl Skills Showdown on social media using the hashtag #ProBowlSkills.
The Pro Bowl rosters are determined by the consensus votes of fans, players and coaches. Each group’s vote counts one-third toward determining the 88 All-Star players who will be selected to the Pro Bowl. The NFL is the only sports league that combines voting by fans, coaches and players to determine its all-star teams. It was the first professional sports league to offer online all-star voting in 1995.
The Pro Bowl players will be announced on Tuesday, December 20 in a live primetime special on NFL Network. NFL players and coaches will cast their votes on Friday, December 16.
Fan voting for the 2017 Pro Bowl will end tomorrow, Tuesday, December 13. Fans can vote online and on web-enabled mobile phones at www.NFL.com/probowlvote. Fans may also vote for who they want to see on the 2017 Pro Bowl roster via social media by using #ProBowlVote and the player’s first and last name on Twitter and Instagram. On Facebook, fans may comment on any official Pro Bowl Vote post by the NFL or a club. See official rules on how to vote at www.NFL.com/probowlvoterules.com.
The 2017 Pro Bowl will be played on Sunday, January 29, 2017 and simulcast live on ESPN and ESPN Deportes from Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. Fans may visit NFL.com/ProBowlOnSale to purchase game tickets.
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Posts tagged “World War II”
Elmo Tolbert World War II enlistment record…
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 about Elmo Tolbert
Elmo Tolbert
White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country:
State of Residence:
County or City:
Enlistment Date:
Enlistment State:
Enlistment City:
Fort McClellan
No branch assignment
Grade Code:
Term of Enlistment:
Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Civil Life
Civil Occupation:
General farmers
Married [to Louise Jones]
August 24, 2013 | Categories: Carolyn Murray Greer, Lawrence County, Peebles, Remembering the Shoals, Tolbert | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Elmo Tolbert, Georgie Marie Peebles, Lawrence County Alabama, Remembering the Shoals, World War II | Comments Off on Elmo Tolbert World War II enlistment record…
Roy Peebles World War II enlistment record…
Roy was a son of James Walter Peebles and May Belle Owens Peebles. James Walter Peebles was a brother to George Washington Peebles (Mage). His brothers who also enlisted were Ell and Grant Peebles.
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 about Roy Peebles
Branch Immaterial – Warrant Officers, USA
Farm hands, general farms
Single, without dependents
World War II enlistment record for James Arlander Murray… (rememberingtheshoals.wordpress.com)
Ell Peebles World War II enlistment record… (rememberingtheshoals.wordpress.com)
Sidney GRANT Peebles’ World War II enlistment record… (rememberingtheshoals.wordpress.com)
Luke Willis Peebles World War II enlistment record… (rememberingtheshoals.wordpress.com)
Luther Coleman Peebles World War II Enlistment Record…(rememberingthehsoals.wordpress.com)
Elmer Louis Peebles World War II Enlistment record… (rememberingtheshoals.wordpress.com)
August 24, 2013 | Categories: Carolyn Murray Greer, Lawrence County, Peebles, Remembering the Shoals | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Lawrence County Alabama, Remembering the Shoals, Roy Peebles, World War II | Comments Off on Roy Peebles World War II enlistment record…
Ell Peebles World War II enlistment record…
Ell was a son of James Walter Peebles who was a son of George Henry Peebles (Grandpa Dick) and brother to George Washington Peebles (Mage).
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 about Ell Peebles
Ell Peebles
1 year of high school
Semiskilled occupations in production of industrial chemicals
Single, with dependents
August 24, 2013 | Categories: Carolyn Murray Greer, Lawrence County, Peebles, Remembering the Shoals | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Ell Peebles, Lawrence County Alabama, Remembering the Shoals, World War II | Comments Off on Ell Peebles World War II enlistment record…
Sidney GRANT Peebles’ World War II enlistment record…
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 about Sidney G Peebles
Sidney G Peebles
Fort Mcpherson Atlanta
Skilled warehousing, storekeeping, handling, loading, unloading, and related occupations, n.e.c.
August 24, 2013 | Categories: Carolyn Murray Greer, Lawrence County, Peebles, Remembering the Shoals | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Lawrence County Alabama, Remembering the Shoals, Sidney Grant Peebles, World War II | Comments Off on Sidney GRANT Peebles’ World War II enlistment record…
Luke Willis Peebles World War II enlistment record…
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 about Luke W Peebles
Luke W Peebles
Enlistment for Hawaiian Department
Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Enlisted Man, Philippine Scout or recall to AD of an enlisted man who had been transferred to the ERC
Barn bosses
August 24, 2013 | Categories: Colbert County, Lawrence County, Peebles, Peebles | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Luke Willis Peebles, Peebles, Remembering the Shoals, World War II | Comments Off on Luke Willis Peebles World War II enlistment record…
Luther Coleman Peebles World War II Enlistment Record…
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 about Luther C Peebles
Luther C Peebles
August 24, 2013 | Categories: Carolyn Murray Greer, Colbert County, Lawrence County, Peebles, Remembering the Shoals | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Colbert County, Luther Coleman Peebles, Peebles, Remembering the Shoals, World War II | Comments Off on Luther Coleman Peebles World War II Enlistment Record…
Elmer Louis Peebles World War II Enlistment record…
but I do not think his height was 99″ or his weight was 996 lbs. There is some serious transcription error here.
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 about Elmer L Peebles
Elmer L Peebles
August 24, 2013 | Categories: Colbert County, Lawrence County, Peebles | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Elmer Louis Peebles, Peebles, Remembering the Shoals, World War II | Leave a comment
World War II enlistment record for James Arlander Murray…
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 about James A Murray
James A Murray
1923 [he was born in 1924]
Army of the United States – includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of
Semiskilled welders and flame cutters
August 24, 2013 | Categories: Carolyn Murray Greer, Colbert County, Murray, Remembering the Shoals | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Colbert County Alabama, James Arlander Murray, Remembering the Shoals, World War II | Leave a comment
Chepultepec was where there were Boxes…
but they do not seem to be but few of them there now.
Chepultepec, located less than forty-five miles northeast of Birmingham, was in Blount, County, Alabama. The name has long since been changed to Allgood and is less than five miles from Oneonta, Alabama.
This story article will give a little information on one of the sons of John Hatter M Box. This son, Milton Asbury Box, was born on 9 Mar 1841 and died 11 Feb 1918 in Chepultepec, Blount, Alabama. His obituary reads:
Co I 49 AL Inf, CSA Milton Asbury Box first entered the service as a private 22 Aug 1862 at Chepultepec, Alabama. Continued until 15 May 1865. Milton Box, one of Blount’s oldest citizens, died at his home near Allgood, Monday. Mr. Box was 76 years of age and was a member of the Methodist Church. He spent nearly all his life in the community where he died. The deceased is survived by one son L. W. Box. The funeral was held Monday and was conducted by Rev. W. L. Hendrix. [Southern Democrat, Thursday, February 14, 1918] Burial: Shiloh Cemetery Chepultepec, Blount County, Alabama, USA
Milton did not marry until age 44. He married a Mary Margaret whose maiden name is not yet known. He was a widower at the time of his death. He was a farmer by trade. His father, John Hatters Box was born in South Carolina and his mother Jennie Stovall Box was born in Virginia. The son mentioned in his obituary was Luther Worth Box.
Luther Worth Box lived to be 89 years old. He was born 18 Sep 1886 and died 30 July 1976 in Oneonta, Blount County, Alabama. Luther W Box married Nancy C Vaughan 1886 – 1976, and they had the following children: Leonard Leroy Box 1915 – 1952, Clarence Milton Box 1919-1981 , Clyde E Box 1920 – 1997 and Gordon Luther Box 1922
Luther and Nancy Box’s youngest son, Gordon Luther Box, entered service in the Army during World War II at age 20 on 3 October 1942 at Fort McClellan, Alabama. By age twenty-two he was killed in action. His death occurred 18 Nov 1944. He had only completed grammar school at the time of enlistment. He was single without dependents. He was 5’6″ tall and weighed 115 pounds. He served in the European Effort and was ranked as Private First Class at the time of his death. His gravemarker at Oak Hill Cemetery, in Oneonta has an inscription: “Killed in Service”.
Luther and Nancy Box’s son Clyde Earcy Box, Sr. served as a S2 in the U S Navy during World War II. He is also buried at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Son Clarence Milton Box died 17 December 1981 in Maylene, Jefferson County, Alabama. He, too, served in the Army during World War II having enlisted 12 Feb 1942. His release date was 20 September 1945.
Their son Leonard Leroy Box’s obituary was in the Birmingham News 29. 1952 on page 35. He had lived in Fairfield, Jefferson County, Alabama. When he died he was but 38 years old.
August 8, 2013 | Categories: Blount County, Box, Carolyn Murray Greer, Remembering the Shoals | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Clarence Milton Box, Clyde Earcy Box Sr, Gordon Luther Box, John Hatters M Box, Leonard Leroy Box, Luther Worth Box, Milton Asbury Box, Remembering the Shoals, World War II | 6 Comments
Because of them…
we are free. A least for a few days more if we are smart enough to hold on to the freedom they earned for us with their blood and buddies left on those faraway battlefields.
On this Veteran’s Day 2011, I want to pay respect to my Daddy. James A Murray — a member of the GREATEST GENERATION. He along with countless other Shoals area men, boys really, joined the cause of liberty during the war that was to end all wars. He was a member of the Victory Division. He served in battles that changed the history of the world in the South Pacific Theatre under General Douglas MacArthur.
A brief history of the Taro Leaf Victory Division comes from their website:
“The Victory Division”
24th Infantry Division, US Army 1941 to 1996*
There are some histories of the battles of the 24th Inf. Div. and its men and women over its 55 years of service to country, especially for the Victory Division who fought so valiantly in the Pacific in WWII. They were truly the greatest generation. And we are free because of them.
Nick named the “victory division” and the “pineapple army” because it was formed in Hawaii in early 1941. It also carried other nick names and mottos; “First to Fight; Last to Leave” and ” Taro Leaf “, which is now the name of its association’s news letter. They were boarded in Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. As the photos from his service bears out, they were mostly all just kids. Daddy could not persuade Granpa to sign for him to go to war, so like so many others he changed his birthyear so he could sign for himself; he was just a kid when he trained and then set sail to venture to Hawaii, Diamond Head, and onward to pivotal battles of the war.
Campaign Participation Credit of the Victory Division’s service during World War II:
1. Central Pacific;
2. New Guinea (with arrowhead);
3. Leyte (with arrowhead);
4. Luzon;
5. Southern Philippines (with arrowhead)
The website address is http://home.att.net/~victory24/Divhistory.htm
The Victory website welcomes us to the official Web site of the 24th Infantry Division Association, the Pride of the Pacific Theater. Our motto is, “First to Fight.” An Act of Congress confirms this. We were first to take arms against Imperial Japanese forces, and we were first to engage the North Korean aggressor in 1950. We are the division Japanese Army General Yamashita said broke the back of the Japanese Army at Breakneck Ridge on Leyte, and we are the division the liberated people of the Philippines called, “Victory”. Taromen have always stood ready to defend freedom and the democratic way of life, anytime, anywhere, against all aggressors . . . in the jungles, through the snow, or on the sands in far off lands. We are fiercely Proud of our heritage, and when our nation calls upon us once again . . . we will be, First to Fight!!! The 24th Infantry Division (Mech) inactivated on August 1, 2006 at Fort Riley. Its most recent operations included preparing Fort Riley for the return of the 1st Infantry Division, previously stationed in Germany.
The 24th Infantry Division was among the first to see combat in World War II and among the last to stop fighting. The Division was on Oahu, with Headquarters at Schofield Barracks, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, 7 December1941, and suffered minor casualties. Charged with the defense of northern Oahu, it built an elaborate system of coastal defenses. Pvt. James Murray arrived in Hawaii on May 17,1942. In May 1943 it was alerted for movement to Australia and by 19 September1943 had completed the move to Camp Caves, near Rockhampton, on the eastern coast of Australia. After a period of intensive training, the Division moved to Goodenough Island, 31 January1944, to stage for the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura)–Tanahmerah campaign. The 24th landed on Dutch New Guinea, 22 April1944, and smashed its way to and seized the important Hollandia Airdrome despite torrential rains and marshy terrain. Shortly after the Hollandia landing, the 34th Infantry Regiment moved to Biak, 18 June, to reinforce the 41st Infantry Division, and captured Sorido and Borokoe airdromes before returning to the Division on Hollandia in July. After occupation duty in the Hollandia area, the 24th Division landed on Red Beach on Leyte, 20 October1944, as part of the X Corps, Sixth Army, and driving up Leyte Valley advanced to Jaro and took Breakneck Ridge, 12 November1944, in heavy fighting. While mopping up continued on Leyte, the 19th RCT moved to Mindoro Island as part of the Western Visayan Task Force, landing in the San Jose area, 15 December1944. Airfields and a PT base were secured for operations on Luzon. Divisional elements effected a landing on Marinduque Island. Other elements supported the 11th Airborne Division drive from Nasugbu to Manila. The 34th RCT, landing at San Antonio, Luzon, 29 January1945, ran into a furious battle on Zig Zag Pass and suffered heavy casualties. On 16 February1945 the 3d Bn. of the 34th Infantry took part in the amphibious landing on Corregidor and fought Japanese under a hot sun on the well-defended Rock. After numerous mopping up actions in March, the Division landed on Mindanao, 17 April1945, cut across the island to Digos, 27 April, stormed into Davao, 3 May, and cleared Libby airdrome, 13 May. Although the campaign closed officially on 30 June, the Division continued to mop up Japanese resistance during July and August 1945. Patrolling continued after the official surrender of Japan. On 15 October1945, the Division left Mindanao for Japan.
I wish I had asked Daddy more questions about his WWII service. He did tell me that they were fighting and had to retreat. He turned and ran as he gripped his gun with both hands; he ran as fast as he could and without any warning he slammed into someone and knocked them down. He thought for sure that he was busted. The person he had knocked down was General Douglas MacArthur. Nothing came of the incident, and I am proud that Gen. MacArthur saw fit not to punish one of our heroes.
I did think to ask Daddy what was the hardest thing about being in the war, I got an answer that I did not expect. He said that, “the hardest thing was watching your buddies fall all around you, and stomping across them in the battlefield as battle positions moved.”
My most vivid memory of the war memories of Daddy involved sneaking a peek at pictures that were in a brown mailing envelope on top of the chifferobe when I was in 4th grade or such. These pictures showed palm trees, thatched roofed huts, a sandy beach………..and girls in grass skirts who were topless. I could not believe that any female could be so brassy with their dress…..and around soldiers. I now know it was the custom in their culture, but as a child I was shocked. There was a metal box of medals and ribbons that he had been awarded for his service; and a box of gold teeth.
List of Entitlements during WWII for James A Murray
And then there was the television show “The Big Picture” that would command his attention on Saturdays just when we wanted to go to town. Of course, I was a child at the time and did not know the importance of knowing.
And I did not hear Daddy talk about the war growing up.
I add to the above that when Taylor Anne speaks with the candidness of a child of two years of age that I see you. Her Dad was with her last Sunday in the very back row of the church and the preacher was touting something about the ‘pits of hell’ she said in her best voice, “Uh HUH!” and it was then that I could see that you still live within the ones you would have so loved to pieces.
We waited too late it would seem to have contact with those who were Daddy’s ‘Buddies’ during the war. With the graphic below, I salute them on this Veteran’s Day some sixty plus years later. Thank you, each and every hero of war, for serving the country that I so love.
Another Father’s Day without Daddy… (rememberingtheshoals.wordpress.com)
November 8, 2011 | Categories: Carolyn Murray Greer, James A Murray, Remembering the Shoals, Sheffield | Tags: Carolyn Murray Greer, Greatest Generation, James A Murray, Remembering the Shoals, Victory Division, World War II | Comments Off on Because of them…
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Rangoon (disambiguation)
Rangoon (2016 film)
Yangon (Burmese: ရန်ကုန်, MLCTS rankun mrui, pronounced: [jàɴɡòʊɴ mjo̰]; also known as Rangoon, literally: "End of Strife") is a former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the capital of Yangon Region. It also served as the Capital in Exile of Azad Hind. Yangon is the country's largest city with a population of over five million, and is the most important commercial centre, although the military government officially relocated the capital to Naypyidaw in March 2006.
Although Yangon's infrastructure is undeveloped compared to those of other major cities in south-east Asia, it has the largest number of colonial buildings in the region today. While many high-rise residential and commercial buildings have been constructed or renovated throughout downtown and Greater Yangon in the past two decades, most satellite towns that ring the city continue to be deeply impoverished.
Yangon (ရန်ကုန်) is a combination of the two words yan (ရန်) and koun (ကုန်), which mean "enemies" and "run out of" respectively. It is also translated as "End of Strife". "Rangoon" most likely comes from the British imitation of the pronunciation of "Yangon" in the Arakanese language, which is [rɔ̀ɴɡʊ́ɴ].
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Yangon
Rangoon refers to the city of Yangon, also known as Rangoon, the former capital city of Burma.
It may also refer to several things whose names are related to or derived from the city:
Yangon River, also known as the Rangoon River, which flows through the city of Yangon
Crab Rangoon, a type of dumpling found in American Chinese cuisine.
Short Rangoon, a British flying-boat of the 1930s
Rangoon (film), an upcoming Indian Tamil-language film
Rangoon, an upcoming Indian Hindi-language film
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Rangoon is an upcoming Hindi period romance drama film, directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The project is a period film set during world war two. It stars Saif Ali Khan, Shahid Kapoor, and Kangana Ranaut in lead roles. Also, Kangana Ranaut will be traveling to New York City to research her role, and will head to an island in Mexico to learn solo living. The film is scheduled for release on September 30, 2016.
Rangoon is a Casablanca-like love triangle set against the backdrop of the Second World War.
Kangana Ranaut as Julia
The film's shooting began on 18 November 2015 in Arunachal Pradesh. Many junior artists from Japan joined the crew for the first shift. As of January 17 the film shooting has been halted due to an injury to Shahid Kapoor and a Japanese artist.
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Describe the five main structural features of synovial joints. Your answer should include: articular cartilage, joint cavity, fibrous layer of articular capsule, synovial membrane, synovial fluid, and reinforcing ligaments.
*Synovial Fluid
Synovial fluid has a viscous, egg-white consistency. However, it thins and becomes less viscous during joint activity. The fluid derives from filtration from blood flowing through the capillaries in the synovial membrane. This fluid occupies all free spaces within the joint capsule. It is also found within the articular cartilages. Synovial fluid provides a slippery, weight-bearing film that reduces friction between the cartilages. Synovial fluid also contains phagocytic cells that rid the joint cavity of microbes and cellular debris.
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These band-like ligaments reinforce and strengthen the synovial joints. Most often these are (capsular ligaments), thickened parts of the fibrous layer. In other cases, they remain distinct and are found outside the capsule as (extracapsular ligaments) or deep into the capsule as (intracapsular ligaments). Intracapsular ligaments are covered with synovial membrane so they do not actually lie within the joint cavity.
What is the functional classification of synovial joints?
Classification: diarthroses (freely-moveable)
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Inverse relationship......the more stable the joint, the less mobile it is
Shape of the the articular surfaces, presence of strong reinforcing ligaments, and tone of surrounding muscles
What does it mean to be "double" jointed? What are some potential causes for "double" jointedness?
It refers to joint hypermobility- joints that stretch farther than normal. There is greater flexibility in the articular capsules & ligaments that results in an increased mobility (ROM) but less structural stability.
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Describe the structure of the knee joint. How many joints are in the knee, and which bones articulate in these joints? What movement does the knee allow? Your answer should include: medial and lateral condyle of femur, medial and lateral meniscus, tibia, fibula, patella, and ligaments (patellar, fibular collateral, tibial collateral, ACL, PCL).
It has a single joint cavity that is partially enclosed by a capsule but consists of three joints in one, two tibiofemoral joints (articulating surfaces: condyle of femur,meniscus, and condyle of tibia). One femoropatellar joint (articulating surfaces: patella, patellar surface of femur. The knee allows flexion and extension movements.
Describe the damages that occur as a result of a typical sports knee injury. In which way is the knee a stable joint, in which way is it a weak joint?
A common knee injury is an injury to the ACL. The tibial collateral ligament, medial meniscus, and anterior cruciate ligament are all torn. The knee is stable in that it can withstand vertical force but it is weak in that it is extremely vulnerable to horizontal blows.
What does a total knee replacement involve? What is the name for these type of surgical procedures?
A total knee replacement involves distal femur, proximal tibia, back of patella, and menisci. The name for these types of surgical procedures is anthroplasty- surgical procedure of replacing damaged joints with artificial joints.
Describe an alternative option for someone who needs a knee replacement.
An alternative option for someone who needs knee replacement would be to put donor ligaments and other knee places into the knee rather than artificial ones, also stem cell paste graft for the damaged surface. If a donor is not available then animal parts may work.
Describe the general structure of the shoulder, elbow, hip, and temporomandibular joints (as we discussed in class). Your answer should include the names of the articulating bones and their parts, the presence and strength of reinforcing ligaments and muscles. Your answer should also include whether the structure of the joint is well suited for motility or for stability, what structures in particular contribute to this, and what type of movement the joint allows.
*temporomandibular joint
combined hinge and planar joint formed by the mandible and the temporal bone
*Shoulder Joint
Ball-and-socket joint: head of humerus and glenoid fossa of the scapula (the glenohumeral joint); smaller joint is the acromioclavicular (AC) joint
Stability: sacrificed for the greater freedom of movement.
-permits the highest ROM of any joint
-most frequently dislocated (luxated) joint
the muscles that move the humerus do more to stabilize the shoulder joint than all the ligaments and capsular fibers combined.
-the tendon of the long head of biceps secures humerus to glenoid cavity
*Elbow Joint
hinge joint formed by the trochlea and capitulum of the humerus, the trochlear notch of the ulna, and the head of the radius.
the elbow joint is extremely stable because -the bony surfaces of the humerus and ulna interlock
-the articular capsule is very thick
-strong ligaments reinforce the capsule
anular ligament of the elbow surrounds head of radius
capsular ligaments of the elbow restrict side-to-side movement:
ulnar collateral ligament
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*Hip Joint
hip joint ball-and-socket joint formed by the femur and the acetabulum of the os coxae; good ROM, but limited by the deep socket
the articular capsule of the hip is extremely dense and strong, enclosing both the head and neck of the femur. reinforced by four broad ligaments
the hip joint is an extremely stable joint because the combination of an almost complete bony socket, a strong articular capsule, supporting ligaments, and muscular padding.
provided by the bulk of surrounding muscles
Describe the two types of arthritis discussed in class. What are their causes? What types of joints do they affect? What are their treatments?
1) Osteoarthritis- caused by aging, obesity, muscle weakness, wear and abrasion or putting stress on bones. It affects synovial joints that get worn down from "wear and tear"
Medications, physical therapy, and sometimes surgery can help reduce pain and maintain joint movement
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These are just a few of the beloved franchises that have introduced (or re-introduced) microtransactions to the latest title in the series—and people are pissed about it.
Shadow of Mordor’s sequel, Shadow of War, has introduced a marketplace where you can buy everything from new enemies, new equipment and experience boosts. It has yet to be released.
Deus Ex: Mankind Evolved has a store accessible through the main menu that took real-world money and supply you with anything your heart might desire, including PRAXIS kits, used to ‘level up’ your character.
The original Destiny had microtransactions, and were relegated to purely cosmetic changes. In Destiny 2, however, it appears that the creators have included some new items that might favour players who are willing to spend a little more.
A change in paradigm
Other than microtransactions, what all these games have in common that players were, or are, expected to pay full AAA game price in order to get their hands on the ‘base’ game: $60USD.
We may now be living in a time where it is common, or even expected, that microtransactions are in every game.
Where microtransactions were once only used in multiplayer, free-to-play games, to various levels of success, they have now made the leap to paid, AAA singleplayer games. We may now be living in a time where it is common, or even expected, that microtransactions are in every game: large or small, novice or professional, paid or free-to-play.
That makes this the darkest timeline for gaming. And there are a few simple reasons why.
1. A question of balance
One of the defining differences between “good” microtransations and “bad” microtransactions is whether the purchase actually affects the gameplay. Take two big names as examples: Overwatch and Call of Duty.
In Overwatch, the microtransactions are entirely based around cosmetics. You pay to open up a loot box, and you might get an emote, a skin, something that makes your character look different, but not play differently.
In Call of Duty Black Ops 3, on the other hand, the same process results in weaponry that is objectively better than free unlocked weaponry. That gives people who decide to pay beyond the existing $60USD price tag a leg up. The more you pay, the better equipment you have.
Both of these cases have microtransactions, but the game is affected differently. The community reacted differently too. Overwatch fans didn’t really seem to care, though there was a bit of grumbling in regards to drop rates.
Call of Duty fans threw up their hands and collectively said “fuck this“.
That’s because they disrupt the balance of the game.
It’s just become a battle of wallets.
When you’ve already spent a hefty amount of money to play a game, particularly a multiplayer game, it’s a real kick in the teeth to get online and find out you’ve already been left behind on launch day by the people with more money to burn.
It’s not a matter of “don’t like it, don’t buy it”, it’s a case of you will literally be walked all over every time you step into the arena. There’s only so gud you can git when newbies can just buy their way to victory.
That’s anathema to a competitive game like Call of Duty, where the fun is based fundamentally around a battle of skill. Now, it’s just become a battle of wallets.
Microtransactions that disrupt the balance in this way ruin the game for the majority of players, preferring to pander to those who are willing to spend more.
2. The disappearance of cheat codes
There’s the age-old excuse that gets trotted out every time a developer (or more often, a publisher) decides to squeeze their consumer just a little more through the implementation of micotransactions: that it gives people an “opportunity to speed up the game”, to get to the “good bits” faster.
Cheat codes have been essentially monetized.
These problems used to be solved by cheat codes. Level too hard? God mode. Want more cash? Motherlode. Want to just complete the game? Level skips. These were free developer tools that were left in the game for consumers to play around with.
Now, cheat codes have been essentially monetized.
3. To the grindstone
When you are trying to get people to buy something from you, you have every incentive to make playing the game without purchasing it as difficult as possible.
You ramp up the difficulty, or increase the grind, always floating that tantalising purchase just inches away from the player. It’s ironic really. The developers could end up spending more time making things that are intentionally boring rather than quality sections just to push microtransactions.
Hopefully, all that would do is result in people not buying the game. Indie developers have always been ready to fill the holes that AAA devs have been unable or unwilling to fill.
The developers could end up spending more time making things that are intentionally boring rather than quality sections just to push microtransactions.
But then consider the predatory practices that many microtransactions work on, such as the gambling mechanics of loot boxes (still unregulated as gambling) designed to make a game addictive rather than good.
Publishers might not care if the majority of the playerbase quits, so long as they get their ‘whales’ (a dehumanising term if ever I heard one) keep playing and buying. It’s much like a casino that feeds on addicts. Maybe that next loot box will have the jackpot within…
The examples I’ve presented here assume the worst, that we’ve stepped into the darkest timeline. A timeline where the games of the future are $60USD to buy, but a lot more to actually enjoy, unbalanced towards those with smaller wallets and full of boring content and predatory mechanics designed primarily not to give you entertainment, but to suck your wallet dry.
We have a choice. We, as consumers, can vote with our wallets and take our business to indies and other devs that don’t have microtransactions, or we can continue with the status quo and continue to watch the gaming industry slip into the most insipid kind of corporatism and anti-consumerism.
There’s room in the industry for microtransactions. It just sure as hell isn’t in full-price AAA titles.
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MoreFreedomLessFreeloaders says:
Great article. IMO, we as gamers and consumers need to stand firm against pay to win micros/loot boxes or the gaming industry as a whole will be completely destroyed. I’ve been gaming for over 30 years, owned pretty much every gaming system, and I can’t take much more of this. I’m about to call it quits if things don’t change.
Same here. As I get older, my patience for this shit just grows shorter and shorter. I find myself playing cataclysm dark days ahead more than any AAA game for the simple reason of the pervasion of scummy business practices
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Rafael Nadal Fans
Latest news, pictures and video on tennis player Rafael Nadal
Match Time
June 19, 2017 June 19, 2017 Rafael Nadal Fans
VIDEO: Rafael Nadal is back on grass
Rafael Nadal had his first grass-court practice today in Mallorca.
Previous PHOTOS: Rafael Nadal uses time off to take short holiday with friends
Next Rafael Nadal to prepare for Wimbledon with two exhibition matches
The time clocks will be tick-tocking at the Rogers Cup, Cincinnati, and the US Open, among other tournaments.
Warm-Up Clock – Transgressions will not be considered a time violation.
Serve-Clock – Transgressors will receive a time penalty from the chair umpire.
Detailed explanations of the rules covering the above can be found on the ATP site.
Nadalko says:
I wish you ‘ll be winter again at the US open tennis tournament.Take care of your self Rafa.
Sascha Zverev and Federer will square off for the title at Halle.
RAFA ROCKS
Feliciano Lopez and Marin Cilic will duke it out for the title at Queens after Feliciano toppled Dmitrov.
Rafantastic says:
Feliciano Lopez just won the title – Congratulations 👏🏻😃
A Spaniard done did it again… LOL [really awful grammar, do not imitate…LOL]
Yes, congratz to Feliciano. [sexy name] He is a happy camper today.
I don’t know what to make of Sascha who lost so badly at Halle. I hope he is not exhausted already so early in the season. But hey, he did win Rome.
Sooo hyped about Rafa playing again in two days.
Fan love says:
VAMOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! : ) : ) 🙂 🙂 🙂 CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!!!!!! : )
Navdeep says:
Sorry everyone I shouldn’t have bring that Dav Evans topic. I just felt sad because this is something that should not happen in this great sport.
Maria (England) says:
Navdeep, sorry it was my response that caused the reaction. My apologies to you Leigh .
I was the one came up with it. You just gave your views. So I guess mistake form both sides.
Rafas’s lead up to Wimbledon:
On Saturday the World No. 2 will have his last practice session on grass at the WTA Mallorca Open, where he has been training since Monday with high intensity and concentration, but at the same time tranquility: every day Rafa stops for several minutes to sign autographs and take photos.
He is rounded by security staff of the tournament, which is unusual for him in his native city where he feels a “normal person”. Rafa is working much on movement and footwork, showing to be doing very well physically, which wasn’t granted at all as he often had knee issued on grass.
As for the technique area, Rafa is trying to be more and more aggressive especially on serve, which was the key short for him this year where he won 43 matches and lost six. Without forgetting the volley game, improved a lot in the last years.
His preparation for Wimbledon will continue directly in London already on Monday. Then on Wednesday and Friday Rafa will play two matches in the Hurlingham exhibition event that will also feature Milos Raonic, Jo Wilfried Tsonga, David Ferrer, Tomas Berdych, Lucas Pouille and Tommy Haas.
I didn’t post anything on Hurlingham because RNF has stated that unless RNF confirms an event is shouldn’t be posted. They explained that they would be inundated with email inquiries. If RNF’s position has changed regarding the above it would be nice to let fans know.
You did not write that. I read the article hours ago and then find it here at RNF as if you wrote it.
Never stated that I wrote it , I think that would be quite obvious when reading it that it was from an article. Thank you.
@Leigh I agree wholeheartedly about the inappropriate nature of that subject matter on Rafa’s site. I couldn’t believe what I was reading.
Dan Evans banned for four years! because of cocaine
Hearing about Dan Evans, I can’t say I’m surprised .I have never liked him and his behaviour ( and mouth) on and off court, and always thought he was more suited to the game of football than tennis. A thorn in the side to the UK team.
TV news haven’t stated 4 years but have said he is looking at a lengthy ban after testing positive for cocaine in April and will be suspended from April.
He they throw the book at him.
What an unpleasant post. And an inappropriate site for it.
“Unpleasant” is an understatement.
Rafa at 16-years-old:
“My ambition? Well I guess it would be to go as far as I can, to be a great tennis player.
It’s difficult, I just have to keep on working hard every day. I know it won’t be easy. Just training hard every day is tough, there’s so much high-level competition out there.
Normally, when I play tournaments, because I’m younger than everyone else I always think they must be better than me. But then you get on the court and because I’m a fighter and I really hate losing, things tend to level out.
At the moment, I only ranked 112 in the world, so there’s a long way to go. I’ve got to continue improving but it’s not going to be easy.
[Video tweeted by Luigi Gatto]
At the tender age of sixteen, Rafa was already light years ahead of his age group, and on a path to tennis history.
As youngsters, I have to give great credit to them both; to Andy for his dogged questioning of Rafa, and to Rafa for being able to answer Andy even though neither spoke the other’s language. They most probably liked each other from the start; it had to have taken patience on both their parts. Surely Rafa holds a very special place in Judy’s heart.
Correction: End quote after easy.
Stan is looking to achieve a career grand slam. Stan has added Paul Annacone to his coaching team, for the next four weeks, to help him during the grass-court season.
RAFA ROCKS THE SLAMS
Rafa is a 150% guy. From opponents, to the media, to his fans, they all agree that Rafa plays as if his life depended on it. I have never heard anyone say that of another player, past or present. His passion for the game, his dislike of losing, his competitive nature, and his warrior spirit all combine to give us a 150% champion. He is in a league of his own.
Puma, I agree with you , Rafa comes top in the game and personality stakes but Andy comes runner up . They both give 100% out on court and are there because they love the game and ,not for the celebrity status. Andy is not everybody’s cup of tea and some people don’t get his dry (British) Sence of humour , but like Rafa he has a good heart. Rafa is a good judge of character and counts Andy as a good friend, so that must say something.
Counting down the days now until Rafa come to the UK, and performs his magic on the grass court.
In a recent interview with Tennis World, Federer said that Rafa was “probably the greatest clay court player ever. Really? Was he choking on those word? Was there any doubt? Was there any need to include the word “probably”? Tell it like it is, Fed. There is no doubt that Rafa IS the greatest….
Rafa’s practice sessions on grass seem to be going well and he’s having fun. I think he’ll surprise his rivals and critics this year. Rafa is on a mission and secretly he would love to win another slam and get back to no.1 this year. Come on Rafa! Go get that double!!
jas_uk says:
Apparently Rafa is playing exhibition matches at the Hurlingham Club in London next week on Wednesday and Friday. I haven’t seen anything official relating to Rafa, but Murray, Raonic, Tsonga and Berdych are confirmed. Rafa will also be practicing at Wimbledon. I’m hoping the quote below just means he thinks he needs more practice! Keep working Rafa and can’t wait for you to arrive in London!
‘ … valued the week as “positive” but pointed out that “the level I am now is not enough to compete as I want in London” remembering that “that’s where I have to finish propping up playing two exhibition games.” Nadal, who does not compete in the third major of the course since 2015, claimed that “little by little I have been trying to remember the sensations and adapt my game to the grass.” After raising his 10th Roland Garros wanted to be cautious with the adaptation of his knees and noted that “I am aware that I have been limited in grass in recent years” remembering that “the demand will come from next week when you start playing sets of training with professionals and have to force “.’
(Google translation (sorry!) from ttdeporte.com
It does confirm an observation I made about a practice video when I stated Rafa was more than likely working on getting the feel of the grass, in response to complaints about the court he was practicing on.
About his readiness for Wimbledon, we may not know until he actually plays his first rounds. He is the last to boast about how well he will do in any tournament. I am hoping for strong knees.
Even Rafa doesn’t know how his knees will behave, or not. I am just hoping Rafa will reap great rewards for all the work Carlos has done in getting Rafa in tip top shape. If Rafa does poorly at Wimbledon because of knee problems, which I feel he won’t, I don’t think he should attempt it after 2017.
PUMA says:
Judy Murray said “WE OWE RAFA” for Andy’s desire to improve in tennis. After Rafa A Murray has the nicest personality. His donations of his prize wins are proof if need be.
BTW I cannot stand the way RF keeps harping on about RAFA and clay court greatness. At Wimb I hope somebody, preferably RAFA, sticks a pin into his big balloon of an ego.
ROF LMAO
One voodoo balloon and a pin are on their way.
Shirley Taya. says:
Vamos Rafa. You are a brave young Spanish Matador n a raging young Spanish Bull rearing to have a go in Wimbledon. I pray your knees n your wrist stay strong. Win or lose Rafa, “they can’t take that away from you”, the big past wins on Clay, Grass n Hard Courts! Vamos once again Rafa my boy. God bless you. Good luck from your Aussie Abuela Nan Shirley. 🐂⏳👑😊😇😀
Arline Ostolaza says:
I find myself agreeing with Margo!!! VAMOS RAFA!!!!
Glad to hear.
If you’ve read any of my comments you will have realized that I much prefer to hear it from the horse’s mouth. With Rafa, that is not always possible because he gives so few interviews to English-language media.
When Rafa was unavailable for comment, there was always Toni but I find I must parse his words very carefully. He is such a rascal. He enjoys the cat and mouse games with the media, it seems.
Now that Moyá is on board, I feel his is a fresher look at Rafa. Even though he has been a friend to Rafa for so long, he said their relationship was not as an “insider.” Now, as friend and coach, he is “learning” Rafa. It is very possible that Rafa needed someone with whom he could feel totally free to express his most private thoughts. Things that perhaps he would not feel comfortable discussing with anyone else. In Moyá, Rafa may have found his voice.
CORRECTION: …. you “may” have realized
RAFA ROCKS AUTOGRAPHS
“Nadal ya ha dejado atrás todo lo que ha pasado en los últimos meses [títulos en Montecarlo, Barcelona, Madrid y Roland Garros] porque tiene otra cosa en la cabeza: Nadal está con hambre de Wimbledon.”
Rafa: “Por mi estilo de juego, o por todo el éxito que he tenido en tierra, la gente quizás nunca me ha visto como un especialista en hierba, pero he jugado cinco finales en Wimbledon.”
“Ahora llevo varios años sin hacer un gran torneo en Wimbledon y la tarea es más difícil.”
“Si soy capaz de llegar a Wimbledon sano y pasar los dos primeros partidos…ahí cambia la historia.”
[El Espańol, 20 junio 2017]
RAFA TIENE EL APOYO DEL MUNDO
Information from The Telegraph:
Andy is guaranteed to stay at the top of the standings for another three-and-a-half weeks. However, if he fails to deliver on a third Wimbledon title and thereby losing out on a chunk of last year’s 2000 ranking points, Nadal will have an opportunity to return to the top when the standings are announced on Monday, July 17th
Nadal only has points to gain after missing last year’s Wimbledon through injury. The Spaniard, who notched up La Decima at Roland Garros, withdrew from Queen’s last week to rest his body.
While, fitness and form permitting, Nadal has a chance in the next few weeks to return as world No 1 for the first time since July 6, 2014, Wawrinka is another breathing down the neck of Murray.
The Swiss No 1 would have to win Wimbledon for the first time coupled with an early exit from Murray. Wawrinka has never been past the quarter-finals of SW19 in 12 attempts but after suffering a second-round exit last time out could acquire plenty of points with a decent run.
Looking at these stats it looking like 2017 is just about to get even better for Rafa, With Andy’s present form I can’t see him winning the tournament so I guess Stan the Man is the only obstacle in the way of Rafa and the number one spot.
Information from Carlos Moyá:
Back in 2016, when Carlos said he believed a healthy Rafa could return to the top, I thought he was simply being loyal to his longtime friend and protégé. Little did I know of the tremendous influence he would have in helping Rafa to achieve the “top.”
Rafa’s Australian Open run made me realize that Carlos is not just a pretty face. He has the goods to back up that belief; a healthy and [an again] formidable Rafa. I said the best is yet to come.
I will not play with predictions. What I will say is that there is no one standing in Rafa’s way, except Rafa himself and I think he has tamed that alter ego of his. I see a self-assured and confident Rafa.
He has always been tops for me, through thick and thin.
Maria (snake Island) says:
Hmmn……..
But as always, we’d see…………….hmmn
Hmmnn……..
But as always, we’d see………….
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Trifectas
Trifecta Tornado!
‘Invader’ strikes with the Big 7 picks
By Brian Blackwell
Most punters like to have a go at trifecta betting. It's one of the exotic forms of betting that offers you the prospect of massive returns for a relatively small outlay. I have been attacking trifectas for some time now, using my Invader Ratings, and am happy to report substantial profits.
I have an easy betting operation. Firstly, I confine myself to Open and Welter Handicaps which have 12 or less runners. I then do my Invader Ratings workouts and concentrate on the top seven horses in the points list. This means an outlay of $210 to couple the seven horses in trifecta boxes so that no matter which three fill the placings I have secured the trifecta.
Over the past 12 months, I have averaged close to a 70 per cent strike rate on the trifectas on which I have operated. Unfortunately, the majority of them do not pay enough to cover the $210 outlay-but not to worry. There is always a regular big win to more than compensate! So much so, that my trifecta betting is proving a marvellous profitmaker for me.
I realise that for most punters, the prospect of forking out $210 per race is too much. That figure is for $1 units. You can operate the Invader Ratings trifecta horses on 50 cent units, which would mean a stake of $105 per race to couple the seven top selections.
You could consider forming a syndicate. Two or three punters chipping in together will make the idea easily workable and not too much of a financial strain on any member. You might even think about a bigger syndicate-say six to 10 punters.
You have to be prepared to exercise patience and also be ready to accept losses at some stage of the operation. The statistics show, however, that the big wins do come along, as you'll see from the February/March figures I have produced for you in this article.
All the details of my Invader Ratings have been published recently in P.P.M., and in the 1988 P.P.M. Annual. They are easy-to-follow and a race of 12 or less runners shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes or so to rate.
Let's look now at recent examples of how the Invader Ratings have fared with the 7-horse trifecta boxes:
You can see from this section of workout that 13 races have been bet on, with NINE trifectas being struck, of which three showed a profit. But the profits were huge, with two of the trifectas being worth $5,996 and $4700 (for $1 units).
In one race* only six horses were boxed because of the size of the field, reducing the stake to $120. Overall, the total stake on the 13 races was $2,640 for a total return of $11,616. This is a clear profit of $8,976.
The essence of this method of approach is this: You accept that about 30 to 35 per cent of all bets will lose. About 65 to 70 per cent will provide a dividend, and about 30 per cent of these will give you a profitable return.
The ultimate key, then, is the size of the winning dividends. My experience has shown that you can rely on striking very big dividends from time to time, certainly enough times to put you ahead with a very healthy profit over a 12-month period.
I have chosen a series of bets for my example which sort of mirror the events of a year. You will probably like to see the Invader workouts for the two big winning trifectas. They are as follows:
Top seven selections:
Brequillo-LOST, 7-2
Amstel King-2nd, 12-1
New Century-3rd, 9-2
My Good Fella-4th, 3-1
Royal Csaga-LOST, 14-1
Royal Exit-LOST, 12-1
Apple Tumover-WON, 100-1
This was a wonderful result. Apple Turnover squeezed in as the 7th selection and got home at huge odds. The Invader also was clever enough to nail down Amstel King, a 12-1 chance, for the second placing, as well as snaring 3rd and 4th placegetters.
This is the sort of mighty result that you can expect to achieve by going to the trouble of working out your Invader Ratings and coupling up the top seven prospects. Now let's look at an even more remarkable result, the T. S. Carlyon Cup (2000m) trifecta that the Invader struck at Caulfield on March 5.
Defying the odds, the Invader was able to neatly package this trifecta with the minimum of fuss.
The seven top selections were:
Bahrain 65.5
Black Charleston 62.0
Our Palliser 58.5
Island Spy 58.0
Happy View 57.5
Ideal Centreman 57.5 (7) Beau Trist 56.5 At first glance, and judged on early betting, it would seem the Invader selections were completely way out. Even as betting progressed, its two main selections were more or less unwanted in the betting. Bahrain was sent out at 7-1 and Black Charleston at 50-1.
Punters wanted only Island Spy and Our Palliser, who were 4-1 and 2-1 respectively at close of betting. As the race turned out, it was a triumph for the ratings, with Black Charleston winning from Bahrain with Happy View (20-1) snaring 3rd spot.
The trifecta paid $4,700 (in Qld), giving the $210 outlay an enormously profitable boost. Here, then, is an example of how strikingly effective these trifecta plays can be.
In fact, you could have snared the Caulfield trifecta by linking only the top six selections of the Invader. But I do recommend that for better prospects of hitting big~value divvies you stick with the seven selections. This gives you a chance to cover a wide range of selections in a field of 12 or less.
Even taking this section of action as an example, you can see that the profit you achieved in that brief period would be enough to cover you for another 42 trifectas at $210 each before the profit figure would be wiped out. I can assure you that in that time you will have struck many more trifectas, including some at very big odds.
Getting away from trifectas for a moment, those of you who might not want to adopt such a betting approach should consider backing the first selections of the Invader. They have a good strike rate. In a recent test, they went as follows:
3rd 16-1, 4th 7-2 and WON 6-1 (equal top), Lost 8-1, Lost 8-1, Lost 4-1, 4th 7-1 and WON 11-2 and 3rd 8-1 (all equal top), WON 5-2, WON 7-1, Lost 7-2, Lost 7-1, 2nd 4-1 and 3rd 5-2 (equal top) and 2nd 7-1.
Total stake: 16 units, total return 24 units. A nice profit here only and my records show that over a longer period you can achieve a much better result.
Keen punters will find much to keep them interested when examining the Invader Ratings. They are useful for all forms of betting. In the trifecta example I have shown, you are chasing the big money.
This means a larger outlay than normal, some regular losses, but over a 12-month period the chance of raking in some huge trifecta dividends which will see you end up a big winner.
I am always interested to hear from people with Invader Ratings queries, so don't hesitate to drop me a line if you have a query or can offer some positive improvements.
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Williams eyes perfect record on Amberino
Craig Williams will be trying to extend his unbeaten record on Amberino in the Listed Lord Stakes (1700m) at Caulfield.Trainer John Moloney said he...
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The course of true love stories – plot basics
The best love stories are more than morality tales. They deal with fundamental questions about our community and what that community should fairly demand of us. The greatest love story of them all is probably Romeo and Juliet, written by Shakespeare and enjoyed by lucky Londoners in the 1590s, about young lovers who fall in love on a glance and are kept apart by their warring families. Their deaths together shock everyone into accepting peace.
Community requires obedience to the law in respect for others. Biology however likes a bit of variety and throws in some unexpected passion now and again to strengthen our genetic make-up. So, forbidden love, defying boundaries, has been with us for centuries ranging from Paris and Helen, Ruth and Boaz, Abelard and Heloise to, who knows, Eve and the snake.
What’s the essence of a good love story?
‘Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again.’ Happy days. Notice that the lead figure in this old expression is the ‘boy’ or man. As I said last time, this corner of the fiction playground is not just for girls.
Falling in love is instant and overpowering for both lovers. If we go back to the classic story formulae, that moment is the ‘inciting incident’ compelling the story forward. Life can never be the same again.
The loving couple will give each other something of fundamental value for life, even if they can’t be together. Their love is a once in a lifetime chance for completeness without which the characters are lost. Austen’s Persuasion is a leading example of this.
The lovers learn that love is about more than pheromones. They genuinely ‘get’ or understand each other. This week I found myself watching Room At The Top, an 1959 film based on John Braine’s excellent novel. It’s not about shenanigans in a penthouse – the title comes from the phrase ‘There’s always room at the top’ for able people – but about how Joe Lampton tries to make his way in a world of connections and vested interests that are stacked against him. He plays two women against each other and ends up married to the young, rich one. Happy ever after? His climactic scene delivers him the insight that with the older woman he is truly known and could be lifelong happy. But he rejects it. As he and his young wife drive off from their marriage, we see years ahead of misery for them both.
A political context raises the stakes as well as bringing on a wider theme (Dr Zhivago, Dido and Aeneas, A Tale of Two Cities).
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare used street violence between the young men to raise the stakes to life and death levels. It also challenges Juliet’s love to her core when she discovers that her darling new husband has just killed her beloved cousin Tybalt.
Why do we warm towards love stories, whoever we are, wherever and whenever we live? Because it soothes are our loneliness, removes briefly the disjointedness in our lives? Or reinforces the happiness we’re blessed with? We’re human, we move toward warmth.
Types of love story
We love it whenever we hear that Grandma and Grandad fell in love at school, stayed married for seventy years and died within a month of each other. That satisfies our deep need for stability. But in fiction we like obstacles, preferably ones that raise our heart rate good and high. This is where forbidden love comes in:
Love triangles – tried and tested from the earliest times (Lancelot and Guinevere, Tristan and Iseult, anything with Zeus in it) through the 19th century (Anna Karenina) and 20th (Brief Encounter, Bridges of Madison County, Doctor Zhivago) and still alive and well today;
Sleeping with the enemy (Romeo and Juliet);
Love that is otherwise socially, politically or morally impossible (Pride and Prejudice, Dido and Aeneas, Antony and Cleopatra, the story of Frankenstein’s monster and his bride);
Love rejected when one rises in status and rejects the real love (Wuthering Heights, Gatsby);
Love otherwise torn apart by circumstances (Jane Eyre);
Unconsummated love (Gone with the Wind, A Tale of Two Cities, The Snow Goose);
Two characters who meet through work or similar, can’t stand each other and learn to love each other (African Queen, Guys N Dolls, The Philadelphia Story, Austen’s Emma and its marvellous film spoof Clueless, anything with Jennifer Aniston in it).
That last one fills cinemas regularly these days. See how small a part it plays in the whole picture?
It’s all what you want to make of it. Go ahead, try a new mix.
What about structure?
Set up the characters in their unfulfilled lives. Bring the lovers together. They notice each other and their connection becomes apparent. Their love faces whatever obstacles you can think up until both characters reach the necessary climactic insight about themselves as part of the process of deserving each other. They come together again – happy ending.
More about The Odyssey
Homer’s Odyssey is the story of an old soldier’s quest for home after a decade of dreadful war. His tests vary from keeping his ships safe from crashing rocks to escaping the clutches of a love goddess. Escaping a love goddess? Yes. There’s a marvellous bit where he explains to the goddess that, for all the delights of living with her, what he actually needs and wants is to be with his wife Penelope. He longs to grow old with her and watch the mortal furrows spread on her face.
When Odysseus arrives home, his old dog Argos’s last act is to snuffle around Odysseus’ feet in recognition of his master, and fall dead at his feet. Does this convince Penelope that he is her long lost husband? No. She is being tormented by gangs of ‘suitors’ who are taking over the place, being nothing but trouble, and the last thing she needs is another one lying to try and jump the queue. Odysseus’ longbow is so massive that no-one could string it but the man himself. She asks him to string it now, and he does. Is she convinced? No. He must tell her something that no-one else in the world knows but the two of them. He whispers to her that he made their marital bed himself from the living oak of a single tree. Now she has no doubt who he is and welcomes him home. His travails are over at last, and so are hers.
They have already been married at least twenty years. They are not young. She did not run to him the moment he staggered through the door, as he probably hoped. He had to win her over afresh and did it not with his words or strength but with that wonderful secret about their love. All exquisitely romantic and not, in my view, bettered by any other writer since.
Time and again we use stories to explore what is the best, sustainable kind of love and what isn’t. And how far wealth brings us happiness, which is where love stories overlap with another great plot structure, Rags to Riches. More of that next week …
Happy writing.
Tagged: Austen, classic love story, classic plots, fiction, love stories, love story plot basics, novel, Odyssey, plot, storytelling, writing, writing prompt
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petexa says:
You writing about Odysseus escaping a love goddess sent me on an odd track. I thought you meant Aphrodite, and it got me wondering if they could have had a child, and who it was. As a demigod, the child would probably have been credited with various heroic myths.
In fact I think you were talking about Calypso, is that right? She seems to be a nymph, and while she might have been metaphorically a love goddess, she wasn’t a goddess in the sense of the Olympians. Her father was a titan, though, if that changes anything!
rosiejpoet says:
Calypso is right – she’s generally translated into English as a love goddess. Glad that the post prompted you into an imaginative ramble, I hope you have fun with it. R
I just checked to see how Emily Wilson describes Calypso in her new translation, in case she brings a new angle, and she says ‘a goddess (or nymph)’ too.
In a way I’m surprised; I thought God(dess) would be saved for the Olympians and their direct descendants.
What I was really hoping was that there was an unused hook in the Greek myths. It would be interesting to be able to introduce a demigod no one had written about before, while anchoring it firmly to the existing material.
Hi, Petexa. The Ancient Greek and Roman myths have been picked over pretty thoroughly for the past two and a half thousand years but there’s always new research coming through. You could also have a look at other mythologies – maybe Viking, Hindu, Welsh, Irish – and blend a bit to see what comes to you. What’s to stop you inventing a new demigod(dess) from the shadows of what we know already? I wish you well with it, R
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History and Government Paper 1
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SECTION A (25 Marks)
Answer all the questions in this section
Give two examples of oral traditions used in study of Kenya communities
Name the major dispersal point of Western Bantu
State two social activities of the Oloibon among the Maasai during the pre- colonial period
Identify one Arab dynasty that ruled East African Coastal city states in the 16th century AD
Name two Roman Catholic Missionary groups who started mission stations in Kenya during the colonial period
State two ways in which the Maasai benefitted from their collaboration with British
Name one Kikuyu Independent Church that emerged in Kenya during the colonial period
Give one reason why Africans were denied equal educational opportunities with other races during the colonial period
Identify two features of African Socialism as spelt out in the Sessional paper No 10 of 1965.
Give the main reason why KANU refused to form the government after 1961 elections.
Give one reason why an aspiring candidate for a parliamentary seat in Kenya must be nominated by a political party
. Give one function of the sergeant-at-arms in Kenyan parliament
What is contained in the government budget?
. State two external factors that led to the formation of many political parties in Kenya in 1991
. Identify the main reason why suspected criminals are tried in a court of law in Kenya
State two ways in which the institution of presidency promotes national unity in Kenya
State two ways of becoming a Kenyan citizen.
SECTION B (45 Marks)
Answer any three questions from this section
. a) Give three reasons which led to the migration of the Cushites from their original homeland into Kenya during the pre-colonial period. (3mks)
b) Explain six results of the interaction between the Bantu and Cushites during the pre-colonial period. (12mks)
. a) Name three African communities that exhibited mixed responses to the coming of the British and their occupation of Kenya. (3mks)
b) Discuss the results of the Wanga collaboration with the British. (12mks)
. a) Give three roles played by women during the Mau Mau Uprising. (3mks)
b) Explain six positive results of the Mau Mau uprising on Africans. (12mks)
. a) Name three treaties that were signed between the British and the Oman Arab rulers at the Coast of East Africa to end slavery and slave trade. (3mks)
b) Explain six effects of the coming of Christian missionaries in Kenya. (12mks)
a) Identify five measures the government has undertaken to provide quality and adequate health services for all Kenyan since independence. (5mks)
b) Explain five challenges that face provision of health care services in Kenya. (10mks)
a) Identify three non-military functions of the Kenya Defence Force. (3mks)
b) Describe six measures that have been introduced to improve the work of National Police Service. (12mks)
. a) State three functions of the Judicial Service Commission in Kenya. (3mks)
b) Explain six functions of the Chief Justice in Kenya.
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Michaels Combines E-Commerce, Service and Marketing
Michaels is bringing its e-commerce, service and marketing onto one platform
The Michaels Companies, is bringing its e-commerce, service and marketing onto one platform to create connected customer experiences across every touchpoint.
The nation’s largest specialty provider of arts, crafts, framing and more is deploying Salesforce Marketing Cloud to engage and inspire its customers with personalized content, promotions and offers. In addition, Michaels is adding Heroku and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform to quickly build apps and create integrated, omnichannel shopping journeys. These new technologies combined with its current instances of Salesforce Commerce Cloud and Service Cloud, allows the retailer to combine its e-commerce, service and marketing into one cohesive platform.
"We want to take the friction out of shopping and help our customers engage with us in the easiest way possible, no matter where they are in their shopping journeys," said Steve Carlotti, executive vice president of marketing, The Michaels Companies. "With Salesforce Marketing Cloud, we will be able to better leverage all of the customer data we have to drive more effective audience engagement and ensure that every customer communication is timely and relevant."
Michaels operates more than 1,200 stores in the United States and Canada under the brands Michaels and Pat Catan's, and e-commerce sites including Michaels.com, MichaelsWeddings.com, AaronBrothers.com and MichaelsKids.com—all powered by Commerce Cloud.
"In order to deliver the experiences customers want, companies need to move away from mass marketing and invest in building deeper, one-to-one relationships," said Bob Stutz, CEO of Salesforce Marketing Cloud. "Marketing Cloud will allow Michaels to do just that with technology designed to understand customers, personalize their experience and engage them across channels."
Michaels also chose Heroku and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform to build an application network that integrates various back-office systems and types of customer data to enable the retailer to quickly build new apps and omnichannel experiences. By building an application network with MuleSoft and leveraging Heroku for application development, Michaels is able to reuse existing APIs and integrations to increase development speed and agilely adapt its customer engagement strategy to keep up with the evolving retail space.
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December 11, 2017 | By Daniel In All Categories, News
Best Birmingham Music Venues
Birmingham is a point of convergence for new music and there are loads of splendid scenes in which to see the cutting-edge performers in the locale. From a 100-limit storm cellar to a substantially greater space for the more settled acts, the UK’s second city provides food for all. From little autonomous Jazz evenings, to the most sizzling follows up on the planet rushing toward Birmingham’s greatest settings; Brum has a scene and setting for each kind. Here are some of the best music venues in Birmingham.
The Flapper not only boasts one of Birmingham’s best canal side beer gardens beer gardens, but also is a heralded independent music venue to boot. This 150-size place is the place you’ll regularly discover live groups on the heavier side of the range – gracious, and a Metallica themed pinball machine! Because of its closeness to the Barclaycard Arena, The Flapper is the perfect pre-indicate meeting point with inhabitant DJs playing tunes to get you in the state of mind.
The Sunflower Longue
Situated on Smallbrook Queensway, the Sunflower Lounge is an independent live music venue and eatery committed to exciting your taste buds with mouth-watering soul sustenance and serenading you with a portion of the best neighbourhood unrecorded music around. Consistently the Sunflower Lounge plays host to visiting and nearby groups who play live to an eager gathering of people in the storm cellar.
Barclaycard Arena
The Arena, which is retained by parent organization, the NEC Group, is positioned in central Birmingham. When it was opened in 1991, it was the biggest indoor field in the UK. The arena has an assortment of occasions including shows, business meetings and displays. It has a limit of up to 15,800 utilizing both changeless seating and transitory seating arrangements. Acts to have played here as of late incorporate Black Sabbath, Paul McCartney, Muse and Justin Bieber.
One of the more novel occasion spaces in Birmingham, Centrala is a multi-utilitarian, not revenue driven expressions setting which regularly plays host to experimental music. Set up in Digbeth by the Polish Expacts Association, Centrala’s point is to be a group centre for creatives, and houses two displays for live occasions and in addition an instructional hub and bistro.
Symphony Hall is a 2,262-seat show setting in Birmingham, England. It was formally opened by the Queen on 12 June 1991. Ordinarily well known for its multi-layered assembly room, the world-class Symphony Hall routinely plays host to a scope of international artists crosswise over kinds including established, pop and folk. About 400,000 individuals go to more than 320 occasions per year here, which is a demonstration of the expansiveness and nature of its programming. In 2016 the Concert Hall Acoustics master Leo Beranek positioned Symphony Hall as having the finest acoustics in the United Kingdom, and the seventh best on the planet.
In Birmingham you can find some of the finest sounding music venues and bars which host some of the brightest live nights- make sure you visit them!
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Lawsuit for Release of Key Arctic Offshore Safety Data
For Immediate Release: August 30, 2012
Contact: Kirsten Stade (202) 265-7337
Testing Results for New Blowout Capping System Sought
“Crucial” safety data on response to an offshore oil rig blowout in icy Arctic waters has not been released as required by law, according to a federal suit filed today by PEER. The unreleased testing data would shed some light on whether there could be a repeat of the disastrous 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico from the first wells to be drilled this summer on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf. read more
Shell Shuts-In Nigeria Pipeline To Nembe Creek Flow Station
By Obafemi Oredein: Published August 31, 2012: Dow Jones Newswires
IBADAN, Nigeria –Royal Dutch Shell PLC’s (RDSB.LN) Nigerian unit has closed off a pipeline into the Nembe Creek-2 flow station after a leak was discovered two days ago, a company spokesman said Friday.
The leak was observed on the flowline Wednesday, and booms quickly deplored to stop the spread of any spilled oil, said Precious Okolobo, a spokesman for Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd., the Anglo-Dutch firm’s local joint venture. read more
Shell can start drill prep in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea
By DAN JOLING, Associated Press: 31 August 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell PLC has been given a permit to begin preparation work at exploratory drilling sites in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast while it awaits certification for its oil spill response barge, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Thursday.
“We are allowing certain limited preparatory activities that we know can be done in a safe manner,” he said in a teleconference with reporters. read more
U.S. to allow Shell to begin prep work for drilling in Arctic
WASHINGTON | Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:10pm EDT
(Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) will be allowed to begin some “limited” drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea, the U.S. government said on Thursday, as the company struggled to keep its Arctic exploration plans this year alive.
The U.S. Interior Department said Shell will be permitted to begin preparatory work in the Chukchi, but cannot tap areas containing oil until the government certifies its oil spill containment system.
Shell’s long-delayed $4.5 billion effort to drill for Arctic oil looked close to fruition this year but the company has run into snags. read more
Feds give Shell green light to launch Arctic drilling
Posted August 30, 2012 by Jennifer A. Dlouhy
The Obama administration on Thursday agreed to immediately allow Shell to launch drilling in Arctic waters, even though a critical oil spill containment barge is still a two-week trek away.
Administration officials stressed that the company would only be allowed to begin initial site work and drilling, without penetrating underground oil reservoirs until that emergency equipment has won Coast Guard certification and is on site.
But environmentalists accused the White House of bending over backwards to satisfy Shell and oil drilling advocates in an election year. read more
Exxon, Shell Said Seeking Control of $46 Billion Kashagan Field
By Nariman Gizitdinov on August 30, 2012
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) and Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) are seeking bigger stakes in the Kashagan oil field and operating control before starting to expand the $46 billion project, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
Exxon and Shell also want Kazakhstan’s government to extend the production-sharing agreement for 20 years before investing more in the Caspian Sea field, touted as the world’s biggest discovery in four decades when found, the people said, declining to be identified as the talks are confidential. read more
U.S. To Allow Shell To Do ‘Preparatory’ Activities in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea
By Ryan Tracy: August 30, 2012
WASHINGTON–The U.S. Interior Department said Thursday it will allow Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSA.LN) to do ” preparatory” work on an oil well in the Chukchi Sea while still holding back on a final permit for drilling deep enough to find oil.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the company still has to meet “many outstanding requirements” before it can drill into rock formations that hold oil, but that the agency felt it was safe to allow the company to begin work on the well. read more
Shell Causes Earthquakes in the Netherlands
FROM OUR AUGUST 2005 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE
BLOOMBERG: Shell Causes Earthquakes in the Netherlands
“Northern Netherlands Trembles as Gas Extraction Triggers Quakes: The entire area is sinking…”
Posted 30 August 2005
Northern Netherlands Trembles as Gas Extraction Triggers Quakes Aug. 29 (Bloomberg) — Arie de Langen says he never thought he’d have to worry about earthquakes in his northern Dutch village of Sappemeer.
Quakes were unheard of and homes in the dozens of towns and villages that dot the region were built with wooden frames and beamed roofs. Then a venture between Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s No. 2 oil company, and Exxon Mobil Corp. began extracting natural gas in the region, triggering land shifts. read more
Retired Shell engineer played central role in reserves scandal
Financial Times: Retired Shell engineer played central role
“the company had been engaged in accounting manoeuvres since 1997-98, including a flawed internal audit function”; “Shell had engaged as [group reserves auditor] a retired Shell petroleum engineer – who worked only part time and was provided with limited resources and no staff – to audit its vast worldwide operations.”
By Adrian Michaels in New York and Carola Hoyos and Andrew Parker in London
US and UK regulators on Tuesday went several steps further than Royal Dutch/Shell in their dissection of what went wrong.
The Anglo-Dutch oil group had already presented the main findings of an internal investigation in April into its reserves debacle.
That report heavily criticised dismissed senior executives – Walter van de Vijver, the former head of exploration, and Sir Philip Watts, former chairman. But it had less to say on how the company had been engaged in accounting manoeuvres since 1997-98, including a flawed internal audit function. The US’s Securities and Exchange Commission and the UK’s Financial Services Authority delve into the origin of the problems. “ read more
Carson neighborhood calls on Shell to take action on underground oil
Elex Michaelson
CARSON, Calif. (KABC) — An environmental controversy surfaces again in Carson, where the city is locked in a legal battle with an oil giant.
Residents say oil and chemicals are oozing up again from the ground in their neighborhoods. AT&T crews came to look at a phone line and what they found underground was oil, just a few feet below the surface of the Carousel Tract neighborhood.
“I was speechless. I didn’t even know what to say because the oil was just oozing out of the sides of this hole,” said resident Barbara Post. read more
Africa Gas Rush Imperils $100 Billion in Australian LNG
By Eduard Gismatullin and James Paton on August 29, 2012
The discovery along Africa’s east coast of the world’s biggest gas finds in a decade threatens to undo investment plans on the other side of the Indian Ocean.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA), BG Group Plc (BG/) of the U.K. and France’s Total SA (FP) may scale back projects to build liquefied natural gas export plants in Australia and switch to Tanzania and Mozambique, where the new prospects lie and will cost about half as much, according to Jefferies International Ltd.
The LNG boom in Australia, where $180 billion of planned investment was set to make gas the country’s fastest-growing export over the next five years, risks losing strength as labor and material shortages force up building costs. As energy companies consider the next $100 billion of projects, a switch to East Africa would hold back Australia’s market share in China and India, where energy consumption is forecast rise more than 60 percent by 2030. read more
Russia: Shell-Shocked From U.S. Shale Over Shtokman
By Matthew Hulbert, Contributor
It’s been coming for a long time, but Gazprom has finally canned its 3.9tcm Shtokman gas development in the Barents Sea. France’s Total and Norway’s Statoil can breathe a collective sigh of relief as Gazprom’s triumvirate partners, ducking out of an increasingly expensive $20bn Arctic development. But as far as Russian Inc. is concerned, this is a strategic shocker. Far from dictating global LNG dynamics as the ‘swing producer’, Moscow is going to be kicked from pillar to post trying to set prices in Europe, and far more importantly, in Asia. That applies not only to liquid molecules, but pipeline gas as well. The reality of this hasn’t fully dawned on President Putin yet. When it does, expect the Kremlin to go for the quickest political fix it has to hand: The 63bcm South Stream pipeline specifically designed to stitch up South East European markets as the target of choice. Pathetic politics, but a sure sign of where Russia’s limited regional ambitions now rest. read more
In Arctic, Greenpeace picks new fight with old foe
By Karl Ritter on August 29, 2012
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Global warming has ignited a rush to exploit Arctic resources — and Greenpeace is determined to thwart that stampede.
Employing the same daredevil tactics it has used against nuclear testing or commercial whaling, the environmental group is now dead-set on preventing oil companies from profiting from global warming by drilling for oil near the Arctic’s shrinking ice cap.
The campaign took off in May 2010, when oil was still gushing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico. At the time, Greenpeace was startled by reports that a small Scottish energy firm was proceeding with plans to drill for oil and gas in iceberg-laden waters off western Greenland. read more
Shell: A shell game on drilling Arctic waters
By Joel Connelly: August 28, 2012
Shell Oil is asking the federal government to prolong the season for its exploratory drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea by at least two weeks, and to start work before a spill containment barge arrives in Arctic waters from its retrofit in Bellingham.
The oil giant has shelled out $4.5 billion on its planned drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, faced a year’s delay due to the Gulf of Mexico spill disaster, and is now planning just two exploratory wells instead of five.
Scientists from Shell predict that ice in the Chukchi Sea won’t be a factor until mid-November, weeks past the current September 24 deadline, the Anchorage Daily News reported. read more
High Stakes for Shell in Alaska
Shell’s containment barge waits to drill exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska. Associated Press:
Oil companies are used to being hostages to fortune. Pumping crude out of the world’s volatile hotspots and undertaking prospecting in deep waters mean firms like Royal Dutch Shell are old hands at juggling risks.
But in taking on the Arctic — in some ways the final frontier of oil exploration — is Shell biting off more than it can chew?
Shell has placed big bets on its controversial U.S. Arctic oil exploration plans and its success there is an important part of its quest to find new hydrocarbon reserves. Shell has already spent around $4.5 billion to drill in the Arctic, becoming the first company in several years to explore for oil there. read more
Shell seeks extension of Alaska Chukchi drill season
Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:59pm GMT
* Company hampered by logistics
* Needs to make progress soon to beat Arctic ice
* Working toward first Chukchi drilling in two decades
By Yereth Rosen
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug 28 (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell is seeking permission to extend its Arctic drilling season as it struggles with the logistics of exploring untapped oil reserves beneath icy waters off Alaska.
The oil giant, which so far has spent $4.5 billion on its Alaska exploration program, is seeking to drill the first wells in two decades in the remote Chukchi Sea, which sits between Alaska and Siberia. The effort is being closely watched by the energy industry. read more
Tar Sands – World’s Dirtiest Oil?
GUEST ARTICLE BY A REGULAR CONTRIBUTOR, A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF SHELL OIL CO
I read your article about the concern over the management of Royal Dutch Shell’s tailings ponds that result from the open-pit mining of heavy tar deposits in Alberta.
There are many lessons for the Canadian and Provincial governments to be learned about open-pit mining and reclamation operations from their nearby neighbors in the States.
The Canadian Rockies are not noted for their mineral deposits. In the United States however, vast deposits of coal, copper, zinc, gold, silver and molybdenum have been discovered and mined over the last 150 years. Many of these operations have been abandoned leaving behind heaps of toxic tailings that continue to pollute the environment today. read more
Shell ramps up Qatari gas-to-diesel money machine
Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:38am EDT
* Pearl GTL ramping up to full production
* Plant is world’s biggest gas-to-liquids facility
* Project development cost Shell $18-19 billion
* High oil price, free gas input make it a money-spinner
By Andrew Callus and Peg Mackey
STAVANGER/LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) – – A Qatari project that has been a drain on Royal Dutch Shell’s capital since 2003 is on the verge of turning into a unique asset that will produce billions of dollars a year in cash for the next 25 years. read more
NICE Shell Fizzback
NICE Fizzback Voice of the Customer Solution is Helping Shell UK Retail Increase Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty Across its Business
RA’ANANA, Israel, August 28, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ —
NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) today announced that the retail division of Shell UK Oil Products (Shell), Royal Dutch Shell plc’s largest global group of energy and petrochemical companies, is using the NICE Fizzback Voice of the Customer (VoC) solution to help the company take a more customer-centric approach across its retail fuel business. The solution gathers feedback in real time from various channels, with a focus on mobile, from across the entire UK Shell-owned retail operation. This allows the company to gain valuable insights from the voice of the customer – driving operations teams to immediately take action to address the customer experience. read more
The Shell Show, a tragicomedy in an unlimited number of parts
The Daily Telegraph: The landslide bringing down Shell grandees
The SEC and FSA reports, however, go back to the previous regime, when Sir Mark Moody-Stuart was chairman.”: Even Shell fell for the “group bonding” mumbo-jumbo, and he was videoed stumbling blindfold around head office during one such session, talking of his desire to “encourage the creativity of people” around him. He seems to have succeeded.”
(Filed: 28/08/2004)
The Securities & Exchange Commission has announced its intention to pin the reserves scandal on individuals, writes James Moore
The Shell Show, a tragicomedy in an unlimited number of parts, featured a powerful double act this week.
On Tuesday America’s Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Services Authority both gave the company a good kicking for wrongly booking billions of barrels of oil and gas reserves as “proven”.
Now Harold Degenhardt, the director of the Securities & Exchange Commission’s office in Fort Worth, Texas, is hard at work on the sequel. “What people need to focus on is that companies only act through people,” he says. read more
Arctic sea ice hits record low, scientists say
By Juliet Eilperin, Monday, August 27, 5:28 PM
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center – This visualization shows the extent of Arctic sea ice on Aug. 26, the day the sea ice dipped to its smallest extent ever recorded in more than three decades of satellite measurements. The line on the image shows the average minimum extent from the period covering 1979-2010. Every summer the ice cap melts down to what scientists call its “minimum” before colder weather builds the ice cover back up.
The extent of Arctic sea ice reached a record low Monday, according to the University of Colorado National Snow and Ice Data Center, and is on track to decline further in the next two weeks.The news that the Arctic sea ice cover had shrunk to 1.58 million square miles (4.1 million square kilometers) on Sunday came two days after Royal Dutch Shell’s drill ship, the Noble Discoverer, took advantage of reduced sea ice and started sailing from Alaska’s Dutch Harbor to the Chukchi Sea, in anticipation of final federal approval for oil exploration activities there. The area covered by Arctic summer sea ice usually reaches its low point around Sept. 13, when the region begins to cool. But it has been melting at an unprecedented 38,600 square miles (100,000 square kilometers) per day, and it is likely to decline even further before the ice begins to re-form. The last minimum sea-ice record of 1.61 million square miles (4.17 million square kilometers) was set in September 2007.Walt Meier, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said long-term warming coupled with recent weather conditions account for the new low. He noted that the long-term warming trend has produced more open water, which in turn absorbs more heat and makes the ice thinner.
“The thinner ice cover is then more easily melted during the summer, and more easily broken up by winds and waves from storms, which leads to more melting as well,” Meier wrote in an e-mail. “This year we had a pretty strong storm go through the Arctic in early August, and that certainly has been a big factor in the rapid loss during August. But before that storm, we were already tracking along the 2007 trajectory, so a record may have happened even without that storm because of the long-term trend.” read more
Shell Seeks to Extend ’12 Oil-Drilling Time in U.S. Chukchi Sea
By Katarzyna Klimasinska on August 27, 2012
Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) is seeking additional drilling time in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska as delays have cost the company about two months of exploration this year.
Shell has spent $4.5 billion to obtain drilling rights, purchase equipment and procure permits from various federal agencies in pursuit of an underwater supply of oil estimated at more than 20 billion barrels.
While the company initially planned to begin in July, ice that remained longer than usual and Coast Guard concerns with a spill-containment barge, the Arctic Challenger, delayed the start and caused Shell to cut the number of wells planned for this year from five to one or two. read more
Federal scientists still wary of Shell’s Jackpine oilsands expansion
Documents reveal concerns ahead of fall public hearings into northern Alberta mine expansion
The Canadian Press: Posted: Aug 27, 2012 12:18 PM ET
A demonstration tailings pond in Shell’s Muskeg River oilsands mine in northern Alberta. The company’s ability to store the byproducts of oilsands extraction in a manner that doesn’t harm the environment is one of the concerns raised by federal scientists worried about Shell’s plans to expand another of its mines, the Jackpine facility north of Fort McMurray, Alta., . (Handout/Reuters)
Regulatory documents indicate federal scientists still have significant concerns over Shell’s proposed Jackpine oilsands mine expansion north of Fort McMurray, Alta., even as the project heads into public hearings. read more
Shell seeks more time to drill exploratory well in Chukchi Sea
Shell says the Arctic Challenger will likely complete renovations in Bellingham, Wash., this week and set sail for Alaska (Handout photo / August 26, 2012)
By Kim Murphy: August 26, 2012, 4:24 p.m.
GIRDWOOD, Alaska — With its bid to launch offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean running up against a deadline to protect against sea ice, Shell Alaska has requested an extension in its window for drilling in the Chukchi Sea.
Peter E. Slaiby, vice president of the Alaska venture, said Sunday that the company has proposed extending the time allowed for drilling in the Chukchi by slightly less than two weeks beyond the Sept. 24 deadline set by the U.S. Department of Interior to allow time for cleanup of any oil spill before the onset of winter sea ice. read more
Report claims Shell paid warlords and militants not to attack its pipelines in the Niger Delta
By Rob Davies: PUBLISHED: 21:53, 26 August 2012 | UPDATED: 21:54, 26 August 2012
Shell paid warlords and militants not to attack its pipelines in the Niger Delta, contributing to armed violence in the troubled region, according to a new report.
According to evidence obtained from leaked US Embassy cables and interviews with local people, the Anglo-Dutch oil giant paid ‘protection’ money to dangerous militant groups.
Shell fights a daily battle against oil theft and the threat to its staff from kidnappers, forcing it to go to great lengths to resolve the security situation. read more
Exclusive: Iraq pipeline delays threaten Shell’s Majnoon
Published: Sunday, 26 Aug 2012 | 9:40 AM ET BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Delays in Iraq’s pipeline construction threaten to stall production at Royal Dutch Shell’s <RDSa.L> Majnoon oilfield for at least three months, forcing the field to miss a 2012 target of 175,000 barrels per day, oil ministry documents showed.Wary of losses, Shell has asked Iraq for a waiver to start recovering costs if Majnoon does not meet its first commercial production target by year-end – a contract requirement before costs can be retrieved, according to documents seen by Reuters.
Shell’s troubles illustrate infrastructure hurdles facing oil operators in the OPEC nation. Some oil majors have begun signing deals with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, which they say offers more attractive conditions than the country’s federal government in southern oilfields.
Majnoon is shut for maintenance. But lagging development could put off completion of the new pipeline until the first quarter of next year, according to a Shell document filed with the oil ministry. read more
Nigeria hits Shell with $1.5bn bill
Daily Telegraph: Nigeria hits Shell with $1.5bn bill
“Shell and Nigeria’s state oil company would ultimately be forced to increase environmental spending in the country.”
By James Moore (Filed: 26/08/2004)
Shell faced fresh regulatory difficulties yesterday as the Nigerian Senate called on it to pay $1.5 billion (£840m) in compensation to pollution-hit communities living near its oil field in the Niger delta.
The move comes a day after the US Securities & Exchange Commission and UK Financial Services Authority issued damning reports spelling out the reasons for imposing penalties of $120m and £17m after Shell overstated proven oil and gas reserves from 1998 until this year by nearly five billion barrels. read more
Federal scientists still concerned over Shell’s Jackpine oilsands expansion
By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press | August 26, 2012
EDMONTON – Regulatory documents indicate federal scientists still have significant concerns over Shell’s proposed Jackpine oilsands mine expansion even as the project heads into public hearings.
Five years after Shell Canada first proposed the 100,000-barrel-a-day project, it has been finally scheduled to go before a joint federal-provincial environmental hearing Oct. 29.
In their final submissions to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, several federal departments say they still have questions about Shell’s plans. They include how growth in the industry has outpaced the company’s assessment of cumulative effects, how changing flow in the Athabasca River will affect contaminant levels and how well Shell is able to control effluent from artificial lakes that will be used to store tailings. read more
Nigeria: Shell’s Oily Friendship With Human Rights Abusers
The leak of documents from Shell reveal its deep financial ties to human rights abusers.
Shell spent at least $383 million on security in Nigeria between 2007 and 2009, or a substantial 40% of the company’s billion-dollar global security spending, according to internal financial data leaked to oil watchdog Platform. Shell’s leaked data is analysed in a new Platform briefing, Dirty Work: Shell’s security spending in Nigeria and beyond.
The briefing, as reported in the Guardian and Data Blog, reveals the extent of Shell’s financial support for Nigerian government forces and other armed groups during a period of intense conflict in the Niger Delta. It follows Platform’s 2011 report, Counting the Cost, which showed how Shell’s reliance on government forces in Nigeria and its routine payments to armed militant groups had exacerbated human rights abuses. Amongst this report’s findings, contracts implicated Shell in the funding of militants; funding that helped to perpetuate ongoing conflict in the Delta region. The new briefing confirms the vast scale of Shell’s security expenditure and its devastating consequences. read more
Why Libya’s ‘sweet’ crude oil is not enough to tempt BP or Shell
Libya is now producing 1.5m barrels of high-quality oil a day. But with exploration by BP and Shell so far disappointing, British involvement in the country remains slow
Terry Macalister: The Observer, Sunday 26 August 2012
A decade ago Libya was at the centre of dramatic stories alleging cloak-and-dagger diplomacy between then-BP boss Lord Browne, Colonel Gaddafi and MI6 agents. And barely 12 months ago British warplanes were in action over Tripoli – this time fighting to topple the North African dictator former prime minister Tony Blair had previously decided to embrace.
But if these two events were seen by critics as the UK manoeuvring for an “oil boom” that would benefit both countries and an energy-hungry Blighty economy, it must be deemed a bit of a failure. read more
Discoverer drillship sets sail for Shell’s Arctic leases
Posted on August 25, 2012 at 10:45 pm by Jennifer A. Dlouhy in Alaska
The Noble Discoverer began a one-week trek to the Chukchi Sea on Saturday afternoon, moving Shell one step closer to drilling for oil in Arctic waters this summer.
The drillship, which left Dutch Harbor for Shell’s Chukchi drilling site on Saturday afternoon, comes one week after the company’s Kulluk drilling rig launched its own two-week journey north.
The vessels’ departure marks the first time that working drilling rigs have chartered a course for the Beaufort and Chukchi seas in roughly two decades, during the last era of oil exploration in U.S. Arctic waters. read more
Obama Admininstration Backs Shell in Supreme Court Case
by Puck Lo, CorpWatch Blog
The Obama administration is backing Shell Oil after abruptly changing sides in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that could make it even more difficult for survivors of human rights abuses overseas to sue multinational corporations in federal courts. The case will be heard on October 1.
Lawyers at EarthRights International, a Washington-based human rights law nonprofit, say they suspect that a new legal submission – which was signed only by the U.S. Justice Department – reflects tensions inside the government on how to deal with multinational corporations do business in the U.S. Significantly, neither the State nor the Commerce Department signed on to the brief, despite their key roles in the case. read more
Solitary part-timer conducted group audit
The Guardian: Solitary part-timer conducted group audit
“The FSA makes clear that Shell’s reserves difficulties began in 1997”
Terry Macalister
The crucial auditing of Shell’s global oil and gas reserves was undertaken by one part-time engineer.
The revelation comes in the report by the Financial Services Authority, which describes group reserves auditing (GRA) of a key value indicator as “deficient and ineffective”.
Shell’s decentralised structure needed a robust internal reserves auditing function. Instead, it “had engaged as GRA a petroleum engineer – who worked only part-time and was provided limited resources and no staff – to audit its worldwide operations,” the FSA says. read more
Shell settles fraud case for $150M
CNN: Shell settles fraud case for $150M
Oil company agrees to pay SEC for overstating reserves, also settles market abuse case in Britain.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Royal Dutch/Shell has agreed to pay about $150 million to settle charges by U.S. and British regulators that it vastly overstated oil reserves.
Under the settlement, Shell has also agreed to commit another $5 million to establish an internal compliance program under the direction and oversight of the company’s legal director, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement.
The company units cited by the SEC, Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport, neither admitted to or denied any wrongdoing, the commission said. read more
Shell still wrestling with its moment of shame
The Independent: Shell still wrestling with its moment of shame
“Shell is bluntly accused of making false and misleading statements about its oil reserves over a five-year period, of doing so despite internal warnings that the statements were false”
JEREMY WARNER
United Kingdom; Aug 25, 2004
SHELL CAN only hope that yesterday’s parallel statements from the Financial Services Authority and the US Securities and Exchange Commission on the reserving debacle that threatened to engulf the company earlier this year finally closes the chapter on one of the darkest and most disreputable periods in its history.
The statements themselves make humiliating reading for a company that invests so heavily in public trust. Where once you could be sure of Shell, there seems very little you can be sure of now. Shell is bluntly accused of making false and misleading statements about its oil reserves over a five-year period, of doing so despite internal warnings that the statements were false, and then of blithely failing to correct the misleading impression given. read more
Shell hoping for big returns in offshore oil exploration
CTV Atlantic Published Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012 7:10PM ADT
A company that pioneered exploration off Nova Scotia in the 1960s is back in a big way, but Shell isn’t interested in natural gas. It wants oil, and it plans on spending $970-million looking for it as part of the second largest exploration project in the world.
Today, Shell executive Erik Goodwin drew a sold out luncheon crowd to hear about the company’s offshore exploration plans, which were first announced in January.
“We really are bringing our best technology to this venture and bringing significant deepwater experience,” says Goodwin. read more
Shell: security spending or dirty work?
Published on : 23 August 2012 – 11:49am | By Saskia Houttuin (Photos: AFP/ANP)
Leaked documents show that Dutch-British oil and gas company Shell financed Nigeria’s security forces, which are often seen as corrupt and involved in human rights violations. A Dutch political party raised questions, calling Shell’s financing ‘irresponsible and unacceptable’.
The data, which was leaked by a former Shell employee, has been analysed by the British organisation Platform, in a document entitled “Dirty Work: Shell’s security spending in Nigeria and beyond”. The report writes that Shell spent over a billion U.S. dollars on global security between 2007 and 2009. It says that, out of that amount, 383 million went to Nigeria, including the notorious ‘kill and go’ police, a nickname for the Nigerian Mobile police, says the report. read more
John Donovan and Sakhalin Energy
Interesting to note that within hours of the Shell’s Enemy No. 1 feature being published on YouTube and this website earlier today, comment about the development was widely circulated by an enigmatic third party to senior people at Sakhalin Energy, Gazprom, the Russian Federal Government and other major Sakhalin/Russia players apparently deemed to be interested in such matters.
My activities are self-evidently still being closely monitored by this spooky third party (until recently connected with Sakhalin Energy) whose motives for an apparent obsession with my online activities is unknown.
WIPO panel allows use of SHELL trade marks in domain names of gripe websites
FROM OUR SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE FOR AUGUST 2005
Practical Law Company: WIPO panel allows use of SHELL trade marks in domain names of criticism websites
The World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Arbitration and Mediation Centre has refused to order the transfer of the domain names royaldutchshellgroup.com, royaldutchshellplc.com and tellshell.org from a registrant who used the names to link to a website critical of Shell’s activities, holding that the registrant had a legitimate right to use the domain names to exercise his freedom of expression and had not registered them in bad faith.
http://ipandit.practicallaw.com/1-201-1713 read more
Shell’s Enemy No. 1
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYusVi-qVRk
Feature about John Donovan in European Journal TV programme broadcast in English language across Europe in May 2012
European Journal is a 30 minute magazine on DW that delivers the inside take — reports on important political, economic and cultural developments in the EU with a strong focus on the European integration process. European Journal features issues that move Europeans and shows Europeans on the move.
Brief extract from narration by Nina Haase read more
The Kulluk Leaves Dutch Harbor for the Beaufort Sea
Shell Oil Pushes Ahead with Arctic Drilling: The Kulluk Leaves Dutch Harbor for the Beaufort Sea
Rhonda McBride11:14 p.m. AKDT, August 21, 2012 ANCHORAGE, Alaska—
Shell Oil could be gambling big with its latest move. Its Kulluk drilling ship left Dutch Harbor on Monday, heading to the Arctic on an uncertain journey. Shell says its second ship, the Noble Discoverer, should also leave Dutch Harbor sometime this week.
Despite this, federal permits are not yet in hand to drill individual wells — and an oil spill response barge, the Arctic Challenger, sits in a Bellingham, Washington shipyard. Drilling cannot begin until it’s stationed in the Arctic. read more
Demand an end to Shell’s human rights abuses
EMAIL CIRCULATED BY PLATFORM LONDON.ORG DEMANDS AN END TO SHELL’S HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
Subject: Demand an end to Shell’s human rights abuses
Over the past 48 hours, Shell’s active role in human rights abuses in Nigeria has been exposed in a new Platform briefing: Dirty Work: Shell’s Security Spending in Nigeria. The briefing analyses financial data from Shell’s security department, leaked to Platform by a concerned ex-Shell manager. The leaked data covers three bloody years of conflict in the Delta between 2007 and 2009. It reveals Shell’s deep financial links to human rights abusers in the Niger Delta, including soldiers, militants and other armed groups who perpetrated human rights abuses during this period. Shell’s data leak shows that people within Shell feel deeply uncomfortable about the devastating social impact of its operations. So far, we’ve had an overwhelming response. We made frontpage news in the Guardian, as well as reports by Reuters and AFP (see round up below). We gave several live TV interviews on Al-Jazeera (watch both here). The story has caught Twitter by storm and has been constantly tweeted about since Sunday night. But we can do much more. Our friends at the US online action site for corporate accountability, Sum Of Us, have launched an e-action demanding that Shell stop funding armed conflict and human rights abuses in Nigeria. Please add your name to their action. Together, we can hold Shell to account for its abuses. This is a historic moment to demand that Shell stops pouring money into the hands of human rights abusers. The US Securities and Exchange Commission is currently whether or not to require big oil, gas and mining companies to disclose the payments they make on a country and project level. Shell has enormous payments to hide in Nigeria, and is lobbying hard to defeat these legal changes. Let’s demand an end to what writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa called the “slick alliance” between oil companies and the repressive regime in Nigeria. As soldiers from Nigeria’s Joint Task Force (JTF) continue to deny human rights and block environmental justice, we stand firm in our opposition to the militarisation of the Niger Delta. Furthermore, we are appalled at the decision of the UK government and its allies to provide escalating levels of military aid to Nigeria to ‘secure’ Shell’s oil fields. Please share this story with anyone who may be interested. With your support, we can push back against the oil giant’s harmful activities. In hope,
Ben, Mel, Kevin, Mika, Emma and the Platform team
Platform | http://platformlondon.org/ Tel: +44(0)207 403 3738, +44(0)207 357 0055 Platform is on facebook and twitter @platformlondon
Recent media coverage:
AFP, Shell paid Nigeria millions to guard oil facilities: group
Guardian, Shell spending millions of dollars on security in Nigeria, leaked data shows
Telegraph, Shell ‘paying tens of millions to Nigerian security forces
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Shell spends $383m on security in Niger Delta read more
Royal Dutch Shell flags Australian cost pressure
By Ross Kelly
SYDNEY–A senior Royal Dutch Shell PLC RDS.B -0.08% executive said Wednesday the cost of building energy projects in Australia is becoming “very worrisome” as the European oil giant prepares to decide whether it will spend billions more dollars in the resource-rich nation.
Shell has already committed almost US$30 billion to Australian gas-export projects being built over the next five years. The company’s Australian head, Ann Pickard, said the figure is poised to become US$50 billion if final decisions are made on other projects that Shell has on the drawing board. read more
Arctic rig departs, Shell meets with US regulators on change of plans
Alex DeMarban | Aug 21, 2012
Attempting to salvage a shortened drilling season in the Arctic, Royal Dutch Shell is working with federal regulators on a plan that might allow it to do some preparatory drilling soon, according to Financial Times. In anticipation, on Monday Shell’s drilling rig, the Kulluk, departed Dutch Harbor, in the Aleutian Islands, heading for Arctic waters.
Europe’s largest oil company had hoped to be drilling in the US Arctic Ocean in July, but it now appears it’ll be lucky if it’s drilling next month. Shell had originally hoped to drill up to five wells in the Arctic’s Beaufort and Chukchi seas this season, but the company has scaled back plans to just one to two wells. read more
Shell Canada to go ahead with Kitimat LNG projects despite billion-dollar Chinese gas investment
By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun: August 21, 2012
Royal Dutch Shell’s decision to invest $1 billion a year in shale gas exploration in China has not changed Shell Canada’s plans to build a liquefied natural gas terminal at Kitimat aimed at the Chinese market.
Despite China’s potential for shale gas production, demand there is expected to outstrip supply, Shell Canada said Tuesday in a statement.
“The exploration and development of shale gas is expected to grow in China and Shell’s investments, largely with PetroChina, are reflective of that growth,” Shell Canada spokesman Stephen Doolan said. “However, the demand for energy in China and throughout Asia is expected to exceed domestic production. read more
Article by Charles Wiwa – Governor Amaechi and the War on Ogoni
Governor Amaechi and the War on Ogoni – by Charles Wiwa
Published 21 August 2012
“Our Lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”
These were Martin Luther King Jr’s summation on the injustice suffered by Blacks in America during the Civil Rights era. To many, such an era may be a thing of the past & history, and better imagined; but as of fact, some of the lives lived today in the 21st century are worse than the treatment or freedom enjoyed by domestic pets, particularly in Africa. Ironically, nations like Nigeria that boast of being sovereign and endowed with natural resources treat their citizens in sub-human conditions, thus placing such nations and their citizens at the mercy of other more serious minded polities. read more
Shell achieves production milestone at oil sands operations
By Shell Canada Limited Published: Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 – 10:06 am
CALGARY, Aug. 20, 2012 — /CNW/ – Shell, as operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project (AOSP), today announced that its oil sands operations have achieved the production milestone of 500 million barrels since production began in 2003.
“This is a tremendous achievement for Shell’s oils sands business,” said John Abbott, Executive Vice President, Heavy Oil. “This milestone is the result of the hard work and dedication of many thousands of employees and contractors. The oil sands are a secure, reliable source of energy for North America and an economic engine which drives employment, training and business development across Canada and beyond.” read more
Shell plans at least $1 billion a year China shale gas investment
Chen Aizhu and Judy Hua Reuters: 6:27 a.m. CDT, August 21, 2012
BEIJING (Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell plans to spend at least $1 billion a year exploiting China’s potentially vast resources of shale gas, the firm’s top China executive said, part of an aggressive strategy to expand in the world’s biggest energy market.
Shell in March secured China’s first product sharing contract for shale gas, hoping that getting in early will allow it to be a big beneficiary from the sort of boom in shale that has transformed the U.S. energy market. read more
Data leak reveals Shell’s deep financial links to human rights abusers in Nigeria
By Ben Amunwa: August 19, 2012
Shell spent at least $383 million on security in Nigeria between 2007 and 2009, according to company data leaked to oil watchdog Platform.[1] Shell’s leaked data is analysed in a new Platform briefing, Dirty Work: Shell’s security spending in Nigeria and beyond, which shows that a substantial amount of Shell’s security spending went into the hands of known human rights abusers in the volatile Niger Delta region.[2]
The briefing, as reported in the Guardian today, reveals the extent of Shell’s financial support for Nigerian government forces and other armed groups during a period of intense conflict in the Delta. It follows Platform’s 2011 report, Counting the Cost, which showed how Shell’s reliance on government forces in Nigeria and its routine payments to armed militant groups had exacerbated specific cases of human rights abuse. The new briefing confirms the vast scale of Shell’s security expenditure and its devastating consequences. Key findings include: read more
Shell paid Nigeria millions to guard oil facilities: group
US diplomatic cables published by Wikileaks indicated some of the company’s funds were channelled to militant groups in the Delta, according to Platform’s report.
LAGOS — An oil industry watchdog said Monday that Shell paid Nigeria’s military and police $65 million over two years to secure company facilities, alleging the firm had bankrolled forces widely accused of rights abuses.
Citing leaked company documents, London-based Platform said Shell spent a total of $383 million (310 million euros) on security in Nigeria between 2007 and 2009, when a rebel insurgency in the oil-rich Delta region was at its peak.
Those funds partly paid for the Anglo-Dutch company’s own 1,200-member force as well as the protection provided by some 1,300 government forces who guarded Shell’s facilities, Platform said. read more
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Gordon Shedden gets to grips with new Audi RS 4 Avant
April 7, 2018 RS246.com
Ahead of his first race as an Audi Sport driver, Shedden tests the latest Audi Super Avant on road and track
“Flash” Gordon races an RS 3 LMS for WRT in the FIA WTCR
First races this weekend (7/8 April) in Morocco
Audi RS 4 Avant available to order now, priced from £62,175 OTR
Scottish race ace Gordon Shedden has been testing the limits of the new Audi RS 4 Avant ahead of his first race as a factory-backed Audi Sport driver. The 39-year-old three-time British Touring Car Championship winner’s Audi race debut in the FIA WTCR series gets underway on 7/8 April, when he will be competing for Belgian team WRT Racing in Morocco.
Having tested the 450PS Super Avant during the height of the big March freeze, “Flash” has had plenty of opportunity to exploit the full potential of its quattro system and standard sport rear differential on challenging Scottish roads and around the famous Knockhill circuit. He is already an ardent fan of the car’s ‘no compromise’ combination of performance plus practicality and considers it the ultimate daily transport between racing commitments.
Commenting on the poise and pace of the latest Audi Sport star, Shedden said: “The RS 4 is a car that does everything. It’s understated, drives great and stops on a dime, which it needs because it’s mega fast!”
Going back to its roots with a V6 twin-turbo TFSI that echoes the evocative powerplant of the original B5 RS 4 Avant, the latest car benefits from a significant boost in torque to 600Nm, all of which is available from just 1,900rpm to facilitate a 0-62mph sprint of just 4.1 seconds and a top speed of up to 174mph.
Shedden logged his first laps in the RS 3 LMS last month at Zandvort (NED). In TCR configuration, its proven four-cylinder two-litre TFSI delivers up to 350PS, enabling it to hit 62mph in approximately 4.5 seconds and top out at 165mph. Power is channelled to the track via a six-speed sequential racing transmission and a multi-plate limited slip differential.
Limited Production of 999 Rear Wheel Drive Audi R8 V10 Coupé and Spyder Variants
February 27, 2018 RS246.com
AUDI SPORT TAKES A NEW TURN WITH THE NEW R8 V10 RWS (Rear Wheel Series)
UK examples of the first ever rear-wheel drive Audi will arrive next month
• Coupé and Spyder variants are first Audi production models available with rear wheel-drive, limited to 999 examples worldwide
• 50 kilograms lighter than R8 Coupé V10 (Spyder 40kg lighter)
• Available to order in the UK now, priced from £112,450 OTR as a Coupé and £121,140 OTR for the Spyder
• First deliveries begin during March
• R8 Coupé V10 RWS: 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds, top speed 198mph, combined MPG 22.8, CO2 283 g/km
• R8 Spyder V10 RWS: 0-62mph in 3.8 seconds, top speed 197mph, combined MPG 22.4, CO2 286 g/km
Front wheels, rear wheels or four wheels – Audi Sport is acknowledging that performance car enthusiasts have personal preferences when it comes to the way their power is transmitted to the tarmac by bolstering the acclaimed R8 range with the limited edition R8 Rear Wheel Series. Even more uncompromising in its pursuit of driver reward, this latest version of the much loved V10 super sports car makes history as the first ever rear-driven series production Audi model, following the global success of the R8 LMS GT3 racing car.
Priced from £112,450 OTR, the new R8 Rear Wheel Series (RWS) has been available to order in
the UK as a Coupé or Spyder since September, and first deliveries of UK examples, which are all built almost exclusively by hand at the Böllinger Höfe Audi Sport facility, will commence in March.
Despite the overtly rearward bias in the drivetrain, performance off the line and beyond remains reassuringly breathtaking, with the 0-62mph sprint being dispatched in just 3.7 seconds (Spyder: 3.8 seconds) and the pace remaining furious until v-max at 198mph (Spyder: 197mph).
The mid-mounted V10 engine, which is now one of the last naturally aspirated powerplants in the segment, produces 540PS and peak torque of 540 Nm (398.3 lb-ft) at 6,500 rpm. Its enthralling, visceral sound can be further enhanced by the fitment of a sports exhaust.
Combined fuel economy in the R8 Coupé V10 RWS amounts to 22.8mpg, corresponding to 283 grams of CO2 per kilometre. For the Spyder, these figures are 22.4mpg and 286 grams of CO2 per kilometre.
Specially tuned chassis setup
The Coupé weighs 1,590 kilograms (without driver), 50 kilograms (110.2 lb) less than the R8 Coupé with all-wheel drive which needs additional components like the propshaft, multi-plate clutch and centre differential. The Spyder is 40 kilograms lighter than the R8 Spyder V10, weighing in at 1,680 kilograms (without driver). The axle load distribution of 40.6:59.4 (Coupé) and 40.4:59.6 (Spyder) together with chassis and handling tuning specially adapted for rear-wheel drive provide for particularly entertaining driving. The electromechanical power steering is completely free of torque steer and enables precise handling.
The chassis setup and control systems allow controlled drifts if the driver chooses “dynamic” mode in the standard Audi drive select and sets the Stabilisation Control ESC to “Sport”. The ESC intervenes reliably at the limit to keep handling in check.
Focused yet full UK specification
The purebred character of the new R8 variant is underscored by the matt black grille of the Singleframe and the matt black air apertures at the front and rear of the car. The upper sideblade of the Coupé is finished in gloss black, with the lower blade in body colour. Similar to the R8 LMS GT 4, a red Audi Sport decal running over the bonnet, roof and over the rear spoiler can be optionally applied to the Coupé.
Inside, the driver and passenger sit in heated sport seats covered in leather and Alcantara. Bucket seats upholstered in rotor grey or black perforated Fine Nappa leather are also available as an option. As another visual identifier, the dashboard bears an emblem “1 of 999” indicating the limited number of units. The Audi R8 V10 RWS is fitted as standard with black-finished, 19-inch, cast aluminium wheels in a five-spoke V-design that are exclusive to the model, with 245/35 tyres up front and 295/35 at the rear. As an alternative, optional 20-inch forged aluminium alloy wheels in either matt titanium or gloss anthracite black are shod with 245/30 front tyres and 305/30 rears.
Its specification mirrors that of the R8 V10 quattro, featuring all-LED headlights and LED rear lights with dynamic indicators as well as the Audi Virtual Cockpit, the high-definition Audi Sound System, MMI Navigation Plus with MMI Touch and a suite of Audi connect Infotainment services. The Advanced Key, Cruise control and the front and rear parking system plus complete the standard equipment package.
Further enhancements can be made to the infotainment and assistance systems on board by specifying options such as Audi Laser Light extending the headlight range, a specially developed Bang & Olufsen sound system, the Audi Phone Box and Smartphone Interface.
Audi Sport also offers owners the opportunity for full personalisation, with a gloss carbon finish extending to the mirror housings, front spoiler lip and engine bay, while the Audi exclusive programme can also be comprehensively applied to various touchpoints on the interior to ensure that no two R8s are the same.
For the R8 Spyder RWS, a fully automated hood that retracts in 20 seconds at speeds of up to 31mph can be finished in black, red or brown, contrasting with the seven paint finishes, or even one of the 50 hues in the Audi exclusive palette.
Return of The RS Icon: The New Audi RS 4 Avant
September 12, 2017 RS246.com
– World debut of RS 4 Avant at the IAA 2017
– 2.9 TFSI engine offers substantially more power and efficiency
– Available to order in the UK later this month priced at £61,625 OTR
– First UK deliveries in early 2018
– Audi Virtual Cockpit and sport differential standard for UK cars
Neckarsulm, September 12, 2017 – Audi Sport GmbH celebrates the world debut of the new Audi RS 4 Avant at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, and at the same time Audi UK is enlisting the new figurehead of the A4 range in its ranks. Opening for ordering later this month priced at £61,625, the latest bearer of the RS badge combines tremendous everyday usability with exceptional performance from a 2.9 TFSI engine delivering 450PS and 600Nm of torque via standard quattro drive.
“The Audi RS 4 Avant is our RS icon with an incomparable history,” commented Stephan Winkelmann, Managing Director of Audi Sport GmbH. “In common with all our RS models, it blends immense power output with superlative everyday utility. In China, the Audi RS 4 will provide fresh impetus for growth as the only high-performance Avant in its segment.”
Roof edge spoiler creates distinctive rear end
When creating the fourth generation of the Audi RS 4 Avant, the designers took inspiration from many motorsport details of the Audi 90 quattro IMSA GTO. Massive air inlets with typical RS honeycomb structure and the wide, flat Singleframe grille define the front end. The optional Matrix LED headlights display tinted bezels. Compared to the Audi A4 Avant, the wheel arches are 30 millimetres wider and are given added emphasis by the quattro blisters.
At the rear end, the RS-specific diffuser insert, the oval tailpipes of the RS exhaust system and the RS roof edge spoiler make for a distinctive look. The exterior colour Nogaro blue, pearl effect available optionally from Audi exclusive recalls the first generation of the high-performance Avant from 1999. The new Audi RS 4 Avant rides on 19-inch forged aluminium wheels as standard; 20-inch wheels are available as an option.
0 to 62mph in 4.1 seconds, RS sport suspension and Audi drive select as standard
The V6 biturbo develops 450PS in the new Audi RS 4 Avant. Its peak torque of 600 Nm (442.5 lb-ft) – 170 Nm (125.4 lb-ft) more than the previous model – is available across a broad engine speed range from 1,900 to 5,000 rpm. It is key to how the Audi RS 4 is able to sprint from 0 to 62mph in 4.1 seconds. The top speed is 155mph. With the optional RS dynamic package, the top speed increases to 174mph. In the combined cycle test the RS 4 Avant is able to return up to 32.1mpg (199 grams of CO2 per kilometre) – an efficiency gain of 17 per cent over the previous model. The new Audi RS 4 Avant weighs 1,790 kilograms – 80 kilograms (176.4 lb) less than previously.
The power of the 2.9 TFSI biturbo is supplied to the permanent all-wheel drive via an eight-speed tiptronic with optimised ratios. Audi also offers a rear sport differential enabling torque division between the rear wheels for enhanced handling adjustability, and in the UK this feature is standard.
The standard-fit RS sport suspension sets the Audi RS 4 Avant another seven millimetres lower than the standard A4 with sport suspension. RS sport suspension plus with Dynamic Ride Control (DRC) is available as an option, as are ceramic brakes and RS-specific dynamic steering. Drivers can define their own individual personal driving experience using the standard dynamic handling system Audi drive select.
Interior with sophisticated materials and digital racing-style cockpit
The black interior underscores the character of the Audi RS 4 Avant. The RS sport seats with optional honeycomb pattern, the flat-bottomed RS leather multifunction sport steering wheel, the shift gate and the illuminated door sill trims are all adorned with the RS emblem. In the Audi virtual cockpit which is standard in the UK, RS-specific displays indicate the g-forces, tyre pressures and torque. The styling packages gloss black, carbon with aluminium attachments and carbon with black attachments provide further scope for customisation. The Audi exclusive programme caters for just about any other special request.
The Audi Supercar in its Purest Form: The New R8 V10 RWS
– Coupe and Spyder variants are first Audi production models with rear wheel-drive as a limited edition
– 50 kilograms lighter than R8 Coupé V10 (Spyder 40kg lighter)
– Available to order in the UK from Friday 15th September priced from £110,000 OTR
– Stephan Winkelmann, MD Audi Sport GmbH: “R8 V10 RWS successfully brings driving concept of our R8 LMS racing car to the streets”
Neckarsulm, September 11, 2017 – Audi Sport GmbH is extending its R8 model series to include new derivatives with rear-wheel drive. Limited to 999 units worldwide, and available to order in the UK from Friday September 15 priced from £110,000 OTR, the Audi R8 V10 RWS and R8 Spyder V10 RWS will be exclusively rear-driven (Rear Wheel Series) and will be built by hand at the Böllinger Höfe R8 factory.
“The R8 V10 RWS is made for purists,” said Stephan Winkelmann, CEO of Audi Sport GmbH. “A limited-edition special model for customers with an appreciation for essential driving enjoyment, the R8 V10 RWS is an absolutely exclusive offer. With its mid-mounted V10 engine and rear-wheel drive, it successfully brings the driving concept of our R8 LMS racing car to the streets.”
Matt black design elements, optional films
The purebred character of the new R8 variant is underscored by the matt black grille of the Singleframe and the matt black air apertures at the front and rear of the car. The upper sideblade (of the Coupé) is finished in gloss black, the lower blade in the body colour.
Similar to the R8 LMS GT 4, the Coupé is available with an optional red film running over the bonnet, roof and rear end. Inside, the driver and passenger sit in sport seats covered in leather and Alcantara. Bucket seats are available as an option. The dashboard bears an emblem “1 of 999,” indicating the limited number of units.
5.2 FSI engine – one of the last naturally aspirated engines in its segment
The mid-mounted V10 engine of the Audi R8 V10 RWS produces 540PS. It delivers its peak torque of 540 Nm (398.3 lb-ft) at 6,500 rpm. The 5.2 FSI engine powers the Coupé from 0 to 62mph in 3.7 seconds (Spyder: 3.8 seconds) and beyond to a top speed of 198mph (Spyder: 197mph). With the top closed, combined fuel economy in the R8 V10 RWS amounts to 22.7mpg, corresponding to 283 grams CO2 per kilometre. With the top open, these figures are 22.4mpg and 286 grams CO2 per kilometre.
Specially tuned chassis setup allows controlled drifts
The Coupé weighs 1,590 kilograms (without driver), 50 kilograms (110.2 lb) less than the R8 Coupé with all-wheel drive which needs additional components like propshaft, multi-plate clutch and centre differential. The Spyder is 40 kilograms lighter than the R8 Spyder V10, weighing in at 1,680 kilograms (without driver). The axle load distribution of 40.6:59.4 (Coupé) and 40.4:59.6 (Spyder) together with chassis and handling tuning specially adapted for rear-wheel drive provide for particularly entertaining driving.
The chassis setup and control systems allow controlled drifts if the driver chooses “dynamic” mode in the standard Audi drive select dynamic handling system and sets the Stabilisation Control ESC to “Sport”. The ESC intervenes reliably at the limit. The electromechanical power steering is completely free of torque steer and enables precise handling. The Audi R8 V10 RWS is fitted as standard with black-finished, 19-inch, cast aluminium wheels in a five-spoke V-design, with 245/35 tyres up front and 295/35 at the rear.
Having fun with an Audi S3 around Castle Donington
August 9, 2017 RS246.com
One of our days out with Circuit Days. We’re following in our trusty Clio 172 Cup 🙂
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Four more defendants sentenced in meth conspiracy that sent Baird to prison
Four more defendants have been sentenced in federal court this week for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1 million worth of methamphetamine in southern Missouri and in the Kansas City, Mo., area.
Travis Lee Bethel, 46, of Urbana, Mo., was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Greg Kays today to nine years and 10 months in federal prison without parole. The court also ordered Bethel to pay the government a money judgment of $1,060,070.
Jake Ian Nixon, 20, of Springfield, Mo., was sentenced on Tuesday, April 24, 2018, to eight years and four months in federal prison without parole ordered to pay the government a money judgment of $181,000. Two co-defendants, Tara L. Harken, 45, of Marion, Ill., and Kara Rene Baze, 25, of Springfield, were each sentenced on the same day to five years of probation and each ordered to pay the government a money judgment of $302,000.
On Aug. 11, 2017, Bethel pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine from Jan. 1, 2014, to Nov. 17, 2016, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Co-defendant Kenneth Bryant Lake, 57, of Strafford, Mo., was the original head of the drug-trafficking organization, coordinating vehicle transport shipments of methamphetamine from a Mexican cartel source in Texas to Springfield. Conspirators in Springfield divided the methamphetamine for distribution to the Lebanon, Mo., and Kansas City, Mo., areas. Lake has pleaded guilty and awaits sentencing.
Co-defendant Michael Ryan Nevatt, 28, of Springfield, subsequently became the head of the organization. Nevatt was convicted at trial on April 6, 2018, of all seven counts contained in a Nov. 17, 2016, federal indictment. Nevatt and other conspirators made regular trips, and sometimes travelled several times a week, to pick up multiple-pound supplies of methamphetamine. For example, Nevatt traveled to Texas regularly to pick up 10 pounds of methamphetamine and bring it back to Springfield. Nevatt would later return to Texas with approximately $100,000 in cash to pay for it. On one occasion, Nevatt met sources in Dallas, Texas, to purchase 40 pounds of methamphetamine. Mexican sources also delivered multiple-pound shipments of methamphetamine by truck or car to Springfield.
Bethel assisted Nevatt with distributing more than 50 kilograms of methamphetamine for Nevatt’s organization and with collecting drug proceeds for methamphetamine delivered. Bethel also provided Nevatt and others with salvage title vehicles. These vehicles were traded for methamphetamine and/or paid for with drug proceeds. Bethel also assisted Nevatt with repairs for vehicles, again paid for with methamphetamine or drug proceeds.
Nixon was arrested by Springfield police officers on July 15, 2015, for possession of approximately three ounces of methamphetamine and a .32-caliber handgun. Nixon had been purchasing quarter pound quantities of methamphetamine in Springfield every other day for $3,400. Nixon was arrested on three more occasions in 2016; at the time of each of those arrests, Nixon was in possession of methamphetamine and a firearm. He was arrested again on June 9, 2016, for possession of methamphetamine.
Nixon pleaded guilty on Aug. 8, 2017, to the drug-trafficking and money-laundering conspiracies and to possessing firearms in furtherance of drug-trafficking crimes.
Harken, who is Nevatt’s mother, and Baze, who is the mother of one of Nevatt’s children, both pleaded guilty to traveling across state lines in aid of a racketeering enterprise. Harken and Baze admitted that they facilitated the drug-trafficking and money-laundering conspiracies. Harken moved and stored property purchased with drug proceeds or used in Nevatt’s money-laundering and drug-tracking conspiracy, stored drug proceeds, and rented a storage unit used in the conspiracy. Baze stored drug proceeds and rented facilities, rooms and cars used in the conspiracy.
On Aug. 28, 2015, Baze and Lake were arrested during a search at a hotel room in Springfield. Officers recovered $102,787, a loaded handgun and a small amount of methamphetamine. Nevatt and co-defendant Jarub Ray Baird, 27, of Carthage, arrived in a black Corvette and after a brief chase were apprehended.
Bethel, Nixon, Harken and Baze are among 15 defendants who have been convicted in this case. Baird was sentenced on April 18, 2018, to 11 years and 10 months in federal prison without parole. Scott Bryan Sands, 53, of Springfield, was sentenced on April 12, 2018, to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison without parole. Aaron Randall Stull, 53, of Springfield, was sentenced on Feb. 8, 2018, to eight years in federal prison without parole.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Bruce Rhoades and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Ashleigh Ragner. It was investigated by the Buchanan County Drug Strike Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service, the Buchanan County, Mo., Sheriff’s Department, the Springfield, Mo., Police Department, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Central Oklahoma Metro Interdiction Team.
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By sending a purchase order through the Site, the Customer acknowledges that Abraham Industries is not bound by any general terms and conditions of sale and/or payment, save for these present, unless agreed upon in writing in advance with the Customer.
The T&Cs described here are considered to be applicable and in effect until they are published on the Site. Any changes made to them in the future will be published on the Site and will apply exclusively to orders made on the day following publication.
The Seller and Customer explicitly agree to recognise the valid electronic signature provided upon executing the sales contract, as governed in the relevant clauses laid down in these General Terms and Conditions, upon the Customer's selection of the tick marks and clicking of the “__[to be completed]__” button on the Site at the end of the purchase. It is understood that these General Terms and Conditions, published in a section that is visible and accessible from the Site’s homepage, also serve as the contract for use of the Site, and are considered accepted by virtue of merely using the Site.
By transmitting the purchase order, the Customer confirms that he/she is familiar with and accepts these General Terms and Conditions.
3. SELLER IDENTITY
Abraham Industries, with registered offices in Fosse Incrociate no. 284, Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN), Italy, share capital of €50,960.00, Rimini Companies’ Register, Italian Tax Code and VAT no. 01729810406, Economic and Administrative Business Register: Rimini, no. 327602, owner of the Semicouture brand.
4. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND TRADEMARKS
The Site, as well as all of the trademarks and distinguishing marks that Abraham Industries uses on the Site, are protected under the applicable intellectual property and trademark laws; any type of reproduction, disclosure, distribution, publication, alteration or transformation, in any form and for any purpose whatsoever, of the Site’s contents, trademarks and distinguishing marks used by Abraham Industries (such as, by way of example, the works, images, pictures, designs, videos, graphics, colours, functionality and design of the Site) is prohibited.
5. PRODUCT INFORMATION
Only products bearing the Semicouture trademark are available for purchase on the Site. Abraham Industries does not sell products which are used, irregular or which are of a substandard quality compared to market standards. The fundamental Product features are presented on the Site in each product description. The images and colours of the products available for purchase on the Site, however, may not correspond to reality, due to their appearance on the Internet browser or monitor used.
All Products are provided with an identification tag. The Customer must not remove said tag from the Product in case he/she intends to invoke his/her right to cancellation, which may be exercised in accordance with art. 52 of the Italian Consumer Protection Code. If he/she does, Abraham Industries has the right to reject the return of Products which do not possess the relative tag and whose fundamental and quality characteristics have been altered or tampered with, or which have been damaged.
6. PRODUCT ORDERS
A purchase order may be made through the Site by following the steps and instructions set out on the Site. Should this process be performed successfully, Abraham Industries shall immediately communicate that it has received the order, reserving the right to perform a standard check of pre-authorising the Customer’s credit card with the purpose of ensuring that it has sufficient funds to complete the transaction. The order shall be fulfilled once Abraham Industries has received confirmation that the payment of purchase was successful. Upon acceptance of the order, the Customer will receive written confirmation of having entered into the contract. It will contain information concerning the Products ordered, the amount paid, the detailed price of each Product, shipping costs, as well as the existence of the right to cancellation and information concerning assistance services and compliance guarantees for the Product(s) in accordance with current regulations.
Abraham Industries furthermore reserves the option to communicate whether it is possible to fulfil the order within 10 days from receipt of the purchase order. The order cancellation will follow immediately, and the entire amount reserved for payment, including shipping fees, will be released simultaneously. Such circumstances may occur in the event that merchandise sells out, if the order does not correspond to normal sales needs (by way of example and by no way of limitation, this will be evaluated based on the number of products purchased in a single order if multiple orders for the same product are received, etc.) or due to a case of force majeure.
Every payment that the Customer makes may take place exclusively using the credit cards indicated on the Site, or via PayPal.
The total order amount is authorised on the Customer's credit card or PayPal account as soon as the purchase order is sent to Abraham Industries, subject to its acceptance by the same in accordance with the provisions of art. 7 of these T&Cs.
With regard to payment, the Customer must:
- if payment is made using credit card, confirm the card holder data for the card used for the purchase; then communicate the 6-digit number and expiry date via the Site, as well as the relative CVC;
- if payment is made using PayPal, enter the log-in details into the appropriate fields on the PayPal pages, to which the Customer will be automatically redirected, to then complete the payment according to the methods indicated by the administrator of such payment system.
The order transmission process will be considered concretely completed following completion of the payment operations, once the Customer is redirected to the Site’s order confirmation page.
8. PRODUCT PRICE
The price for every single Product present on the Site refers to the relative product and is expressed in euros, including VAT.
Shipping costs are not included in the Product price; instead, they are indicated and calculated before the purchase order is sent and before payment is made. The Customer is liable for such fees.
Any offers or special conditions promoted by the Seller are valid until the date indicated on the Site or as long as supplies last; in each case, they are subject to the Seller’s actual availability for each Product.
Abraham Industries delivers throughout Italy via BRT S.p.a., and in other countries belonging to the Eurozone via UPS.
Together with the sales draft, the Product purchased will be delivered via courier to the address specified by the Customer once the online purchase order is sent. Delivery will be made at the latest within 30 days from the execution of the contract, in accordance with the provisions of art. 61 of the Italian Consumer Protection Code.
The Products delivered will become the Customer's property upon receipt, with consequent loss of or damage to the Products being the Customer’s responsibility from that moment on. Therefore, the Customer is invited to refuse the package or accept the delivery from the carrier under reserve, should the package have been tempered with or not be intact upon delivery. He /She is invited to promptly inform our customer service.
9.1 DELIVERY WITHIN ITALY
If the recipient is not available or if another authorised person is not available to receive the shipment upon first attempted delivery, the express courier shall leave a notice containing information on the attempted delivery, as well as the codes and contact information to allow for a subsequent delivery time to be agreed upon. Should the courier not receive different instructions from the Customer, it shall make a second delivery attempt, which, if unsuccessful, will result in the package being stored at the BRT location closest to the Customer’s address for the 10 subsequent days. Beginning on the storage date, the Customer may go to said location where the Product(s) is being held, with an ID, and pick up the package. If the Customer does not pick up the Product(s) by the end of the 10-day period indicated in the foregoing, the Product(s) will be returned to Abraham Industries, and the amount charged for the Product will be reimbursed, minus any shipping fees.
If the Product(s) is not delivered to the Customer within 5 working days from the date of shipping, communicated by Abraham Industries to the Customer simultaneously, and it is not possible to trace the item's location through the online system made available to the Customer, the Customer must inform Abraham Industries that delivery has not taken place by means of the Contact page in the Customer Service area on the Site. Abraham Industries commits to guarantee a new shipment of the missing Product(s) within 48 (forty-eight) hours following communication of such. In the event of the unavailability of said Product(s) or of force majeure, an order cancellation will follow immediately and the amount authorised for payment will be returned immediately.
9.2 DELIVERY ABROAD (EUROZONE COUNTRIES)
If the recipient is not available or if another authorised person is not available to receive the shipment upon first attempted delivery, if there is an access point within a 5 km radius of the Customer’s address, the courier will leave the Product(s) there, where they will remain stored for the 10 subsequent days; a notice will be left containing information on the attempted delivery, as well as the codes and contact information for the access point. The Customer must bring an ID in order to be able to pick up the Product(s) within this time period; alternatively, he/she may request that it be delivered to an address that he/she has communicated. If the Product(s) has not been picked up by the end of the 10 days referenced above, the order will be returned to Abraham Industries, with the cost of the Product, minus shipping fees, being reimbursed at the same time.
If there is no UPS access point within a 5 km radius of the Customer’s address, UPS shall leave a notice containing information on the attempted delivery, as well as the codes and contact information to allow for a subsequent delivery time to be agreed upon. After the first delivery attempt, two additional attempts will be made in the same manner (notice and option to agree upon a delivery time with the courier). If the recipient is not available or if another authorised person is not available to receive the shipment upon the third and final delivery, the courier will leave a notice stating that the order has been returned to Abraham Industries. The Customer will be reimbursed for the cost of the Product, minus shipping fees.
10. RIGHT TO CANCELLATION AND RETURN
In accordance with current legal provisions, and, in particular, in accordance with art. 52 of the Italian Consumer Protection Code, the Customer has the right to withdraw from the purchase within 14 calendar days from the date the Product(s) is received; he/she will then be reimbursed for the cost of the order in question after exercising such right, minus the fees required to return the Products in the case described in art. 11.1, equal to 9 EUROS, which the Seller shall withhold from the amount that it owes to the Customer.
Should the Customer decide to use a courier different from the one selected by the Seller, in contrast to the provisions of art. 11.1, and to independently return the Products in case of cancellation, he/she must directly bear the cost of returning the Products to the Seller.
Irrespective of the means of cancellation selected by the Customer, the Product must be returned intact and unused, along with the original packaging and any accessories, in the same condition in which it was received, within and not beyond 14 calendar days from the day the cancellation of purchase was communicated.
In particular, the Customer must ensure that:
- the Product has not been used or been damaged whilst being tried on;
- the Product is not dirty and has not been washed;
- the Product has all movable accents, labels and original finishes;
- the Product has not undergone changes of any type.
If the return does not satisfy the conditions laid out above, or if the Products returned by the Customer are damaged, incomplete, deteriorated and/or dirty, reimbursement will not be provided and they will be returned to the Customer, who shall bear the courier fees for the return.
The Customer will be informed through email whether the return was accepted or rejected.
To exercise the right to cancellation, the Customer may use the cancellation form under appendix I, part B of the Italian Consumer Protection Code, or complete and send said form online in accordance with the following methods:
10.1 RETURN VIA E-COMMERCE PLATFORM
The Customer who intends to avail of such right through the Site must access his/her account under the appropriate order section and fill out the return form by accessing his/her order history on the Site.
The Customer must also indicate on this form:
- his/her general information;
- the order details and select one of the indicated reasons;
- his/her choice on how to receive reimbursement for the amount paid, minus fees for return shipping, if paid in advance by the Seller, or a credit in the same amount to be put toward a new purchase.
Once this request is sent, the Seller shall without delay transmit a confirmation receipt of the exercised right on a durable medium.
For returns within Italy, the Product must be delivered to BRT, who will travel to the Customer’s address within 24 hours of the request.
For returns from other countries of the Eurozone, the Customer must apply the return label found in the delivered package and return it to UPS, who will travel to the Customer’s address within 5 days of the request.
The procedures for return to the courier engaged by the Seller are specified on the Site. The Seller shall pay in advance the costs to return the Products via the courier engaged by Abraham Industries on behalf of the Customer; the Seller shall withhold the cost from the amount owed to the Customer.
Specifically, if the Customer intends to avail of the courier engaged by the Seller to return the Products, such Products will be delivered to the courier engaged by the Seller at the location where the Products were delivered by the Seller at the time of sale. The Customer may contact the courier engaged by the Seller directly to agree upon a different location for such delivery, provided that it is located in the same country in which the Seller delivered the Products.
If the Customer wishes to use return methods other than those offered by the Seller, or wishes to independently arrange for the delivery of the Products to the Seller, he/she must bear all relative costs and fees directly.
11. REIMBURSEMENT IN CASE OF CANCELLATION OR ISSUING OF CREDIT
In case the right to termination is exercised according to the methods and terms and in accordance with the provisions of art. 11 of these General Terms and Conditions, the Customer has the option to either select a reimbursement for the amount paid, minus the cost of return shipping if the Products are returned via the courier engaged by the Seller in accordance with the provisions of art. 11.1, or he/she may opt for a credit for the same amount which can be used in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in this article.
If the amount paid is reimbursed, the Seller's agents shall ensure that the Product has not been used or damaged (for more information, see the conditions for returned Product integrity as set out in art. 11).
The Customer will then receive a confirmation email concerning the return’s status; Abraham Industries shall credit the corresponding amount paid for the returned Product(s), minus the cost of return shipping if paid in advance by the Seller pursuant to art. 11, by means of the payment method selected at the time of purchase and within 14 calendar days from receipt of the item, or within 14 days from the date the Seller was informed of the Customer’s decision to cancel, in accordance with foregoing art. 11.1.
If the amount reimbursed is incorrect, the Customer must contact Customer Service to quickly resolve the problem.
If a credit is requested, such credit will be sent via email to the address indicated by the Customer within 14 calendar days from the decision to cancel or from receipt of the Products if the return is arranged independently by the Customer; the credit will be valid for three months following its issue date and can be used by the Customer to make subsequent purchases. The credit must be used in one shopping session.
12. UNORDERED OR DAMAGED ITEMS OR ITEMS WHICH DO NOT MATCH ORDER SPECIFICATIONS
We wish to inform the Customer that the Seller subjects its garments and Product packaging materials to strict quality controls, guaranteeing that they are sold in perfect condition. Furthermore, to provide additional protections to distance shoppers, every single garment shipped by the Seller is checked before shipping.
If the colour of the garment received does not match the expected colour selected upon purchase, the Customer may return it according to the terms of the cancellation period (14 calendar days from Product delivery to communicate the request for cancellation and 14 calendar days following such communication to deliver the return to the courier), following the return procedure set out under art. 11 and 11.1, or by returning the Products to the Seller using a courier different than the one engaged by the Seller. If the Product is damaged or was not ordered by the Customer, it may be returned immediately following the procedures indicated in art. 11.1 and specifying the reason for return. The costs of return shipping shall be borne entirely by Abraham Industries.
If there is evidence that the package was tampered with or was not intact upon delivery, and that, consequently, the Product was damaged during transport, the Customer must refuse the package or accept it under reserve. Abraham Industries shall provide reimbursement for a Product that was damaged during shipping by the courier, provided that the Customer has communicated such damage in writing to customercare@abrahamindustries.it within the 48 (forty-eight) hours following the refusal of the package or its acceptance under reserve, pursuant to foregoing art. 10.
If even one of the conditions set out above is not observed, Abraham Industries shall not credit the amount paid, nor shall it replace the Product, which, in this case, will be immediately made available to the Customer to be picked up, at his/her cost. In this case, Abraham Industries shall communicate such refusal via email and shall indicate the location where it may be picked up.
Lastly, in no case can tailoring requests for purchased garments be honoured.
Similarly, Abraham Industries shall not provide reimbursement for costs borne by the Customer for tailoring adjustments and/or changes to purchased garments, which, therefore, shall be borne exclusively by the Customer.
In cases of defective products, the Customer is always and in any case invited to contact Customer Assistance as soon as possible, within the Product’s return period, in order to discuss any arrangements.
13. CONFORMITY - GUARANTEE
As regards conformity guarantees for purchased Products, in addition to the provisions of these T&Cs, legal guarantees are also applicable to the sale of Abraham Industries’ Products. Reference is made to articles 129, 130 and 132 of the Italian Consumer Protection Code concerning the Customer’s rights in relation to Abraham Industries in case of Product non-conformity and how such rights are to be exercised.
14. COMPLAINTS, COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION
For any information or complaint, or for any communication concerning the General Terms and Conditions, orders and/or Semicouture Products, for correspondence the Customer may contact Customer Service via customercare@abrahamindustries.it, in the Customer Service section of the Site.
The Customer may contact Customer Service free of charge via email by completing the appropriate form online.
Should the Customer decide to use a channel or form of communication (by way of example: ordinary post, fax or a reverse charge call to Abraham Industries) other than those described in the foregoing, Abraham Industries shall not be bound in any case to reimburse any relative costs borne by the Customer.
Abraham Industries’ execution of the services may only be suspended in a case of unforeseeable circumstances or force majeure, including acts of nature which prevent or delay execution. By way of example and by no way of limitation, war, uprisings, riots, strikes and Abraham Industries’ supply problems ascribable to third parties are considered such events. Abraham Industries shall inform the Customer in case of unforeseen circumstances or force majeure within 7 (seven) days from the occurrence of such events. Should the execution of services be suspended for more than 15 days, the Customer shall have the option to cancel his/her purchase and will be reimbursed for any amounts that have already been paid.
16. APPLICABLE LAW AND COMPETENT COURT
These General Terms and Conditions are governed by Italian law. In case of disputes arising from the interpretation, validity and/or execution of these General Terms and Conditions, the compulsory territorial jurisdiction falls to the judge of the Customer's domicile or place of residence.
17. PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA
Abraham Industries uses the personal data supplied by the Customer to sell the Products and services necessary to operate and make use of the Site, as well as to execute the contract between the parties, in accordance with current law concerning the protection of personal data. For any information on the methods Abraham Industries uses to collect and process personal data, the Customer may reference the Site’s Privacy Policy.
18. LIMITED LIABILITY AND LICENCE FOR SITE USE
Abraham Industries provides this Site as-is, when it is available. Abraham Industries makes no explicit or implicit guarantees of the Site’s operational status and/or contents, materials, information or products included on the Site. Furthermore, access to the Site may be occasionally suspended or temporarily limited in order to allow for necessary maintenance, repairs or updates with new services and Products. Abraham Industries shall attempt to limit the frequency and duration of such suspension and/or limitations.
Despite periodic checks of the Site, Abraham Industries does not guarantee that this Site, its servers or emails do not contain viruses or other elements that are potentially dangerous for users’ and/or Customers’ computers. By visiting the Site, the Customer accepts that he/she is using it at his/her own risk. Despite periodic checks of the content contained in the websites linked by the Site or which may be reached through the Site, Abraham Industries does not assume any liability concerning the contents of said sites.
Abraham Industries cannot be held liable for damages of any type arising from the use of this Site.
Abraham Industries grants limited access and personal use of this Site and shall not permit for it to be downloaded or modified, even partially, without its explicit written consent. Such licence does not include any use of the contents of this site for commercial purposes; specifically, it is not possible to use our product catalogues, descriptions or other materials. It is not possible to use the information on this Site for the benefit of other retailers; it is not possible to use data mining systems, robots, or software which permit the downloading and/or extraction of the contents of our pages. It is not possible to include our pages within frames, so that other trademarks may be connected to our own. The contents of this Site are published for the sole purpose of purchasing the Products published therein.
19. FINAL PROVISIONS
The provisions set out in the General Terms and Conditions are applicable within the limits of national consumer protection law.
Abraham Industries’ mere tolerance or failure to challenge any Customer non-compliance with the provisions of the General Terms and Conditions cannot be interpreted as tacit acceptance of such non-compliance, nor as a desire to deviate from the provisions agreed upon between the parties.
Should one or more clauses of these General Terms and Conditions be rendered partially or completely null or void, this shall not imply the nullification of the others, which must be considered fully valid between the parties.
For anything else for which explicit provision is not made in these General Terms and Conditions, reference is made to current laws in effect at the time in which the individual sales contracts are executed, where compatible.
“Sample cancellation form” as per Annex I B of the Italian Consumer Protection Code:
“B. Sample cancellation form -
pursuant to art. 49, paragraph 1, letter h) -
(to be completed and returned only if you wish to cancel the contract)
— Recipient [name, address and, if available, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses, which must be inserted by the official]:
— I/we (*) hereby disclose our desire to cancel my/our (*) sales contract for the following goods/services (*)
— Ordered on (*)/received on (*)
— Name of customer(s)
— Address of customer(s)
— Signature of customer(s) (only if this form is submitted in physical form)
— Date
(*) Delete meaningless phrasing”;
Abraham Industries S.r.l.
Abraham Industries S.r.l, owner of the SEMICOUTURE brand, is committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy.
This information applies to you if you are registered on our site, have subscribed to our newsletter or are visiting our website.
The data controller for your personal data is Abraham Industries S.r.l, (VAT No.01729810406) with registered office at Via Fosse Incrociate 284, 47822 Santarcangelo di Romagna (RN) in Italy (hereinafter "Abraham").
If you are already registered, are simply visiting the www.semicouture.it site, or have subscribed to our newsletter, your data will be lawfully processed in line with our decisions on how we use your data and the purposes for which the data is processed.
All that we ask is that you read this privacy notice carefully so that you are fully informed about how we process your personal data.
How and when we collect your personal data:
As soon as you interact with SEMICOUTURE, we start collecting data. Data is collected directly from you (when you register, subscribe to a newsletter or make a purchase), and automatically when you use our website (through the use of cookies).
We collect the following data:
Your name and surname, shipping and billing address, telephone number and e-mail address. This is data freely provided by you in order to use our services (sales and marketing);
Identifying data:
Your IP address, login information, browser type and version, time zone, browser plug-in types, geolocation information about where you might be, operating system and versions, etc. This information will be collected automatically by our site if you have registered and have consented to the processing of your data.
Data relating to the use of www.semicouture.it;
Your browsing path when visiting the www.semicouture.it site, the products and services viewed, page loading and response times, download errors, browsing time, behaviour and other actions, etc. will be automatically collected by our site through the cookies we have installed. To find out how to disable cookies, please refer to our cookie policy (https://www.semicouture.it/SC_GB/control/legalnotes#cookies).
We do not collect any sensitive data about you!
Why do we collect your data?
Only so that we can provide the service you have requested and only when we have grounds to do so (such as your consent or a legal obligation).
This is why we process your data:
To allow you to register with the Site and to purchase products available on www.semicouture.it including any administrative and accounting formalities associated with the purchase. In this case, the contract and our legitimate interest are the lawful basis.
To assist you in relation to the services you have requested (by e-mail), including the fixing of any bugs. In this case, the contract is the lawful basis.
To respond to your information and clarification requests: in this case, your consent is the lawful basis.
To send you advertising material and newsletters, to provide marketing information (e.g. send paper-based catalogues by post) on SEMICOUTURE promotional and commercial initiatives, to conduct market research and customer satisfaction surveys. In this case, your consent is the lawful basis. We will not send you anything without your consent!
We analyse www.semicouture.it site performance and usage. We do this for the sole purpose of providing you with a better experience on our site and offering you products and services that may be of interest to you. In this case the lawful basis is our legitimate interest in providing you with a better service!
In any event, there is no automated decision-making process in relation to your personal data.
What we mean by lawful basis:
Authorisation to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
Remember that you can always revoke your consent by clicking on the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the e-mails you receive or by contacting customercare@abrahamindustries.it!
We only process your data in order to obtain pre-purchase information and to execute the contract of sale!
Legitimate interest
We may process your data in accordance with our legitimate interests or those of third parties, while always endeavouring not to infringe your rights and freedoms in order to:
Collect information about user behaviour on our website;
provide, develop and improve our services;
allow us to enhance, customise or modify our services and offerings;
measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns;
improve data protection.
How we process your data:
Data is mainly processed by electronic means, except for product dispatch activities, which may also be processed manually.
You can always assert your rights:
You can choose not to provide your personal information. In this case, you can browse our site but we will be unable to provide you with any service without your personal data.
You can disable cookies by changing your browser settings, but if you do, site navigation may not function properly. To find out more, see the cookie policy at https://www.semicouture.it/SC_GB/control/legalnotes#cookies.
You can ask us not to use your data for marketing purposes. We will always request your explicit consent before using your data for this purpose!
You can always exercise your rights by asking us for more information. All your requests must be sent to customercare@abrahamindustries.it. Abraham will respond to your request within one month! We will let you know if we are unable to meet your request or if we need more time to respond.
However, you can always contact the Regulatory Authority for any request.
We endeavour to provide you with all your personal data as relates to:
the categories of data we process;
the purposes for which the data is processed;
the categories of any recipients to whom the data might be disclosed;
the data retention period or, failing that, the criteria used to determine the data retention period;
other rights regarding the use of your data.
You can also ask us to:
correct your data if it is inaccurate or out-of-date;
delete your personal data (right to be forgotten);
restrict the processing of your data, pending the exercising of your rights;
transfer your data to another organisation (data portability)
object to our processing of your personal data;
object to the use of your data through automated decisions, including profiling;
Your data security is our priority!
We process your data securely: we have taken suitable physical, IT and organisational measures to ensure that your data is protected.
However, please bear in mind that:
No data transmission is 100% secure.
Your username and password are personal and you must keep them safe.
For more information on our data security policy, contact us at customercare@abrahamindustries.it
How long do we keep your data for?
We will erase your data 24 months after last use of the service or account closure, without prejudice to any legal obligations (e.g. sales invoices) that impose a longer retention period.
For promotional activities, which you can always ask us to stop, we will retain your data for a maximum of 24 months from when you registered for the service.
Who else may have access to your data?
To provide our service we need to rely on external parties (infrastructure management, product dispatch, etc.). We rely exclusively on the best partners on the market and we ensure that they manage your data while implementing the security measures described in this Privacy Notice.
For more information contact us at customercare@abrahamindustries.it
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3 April 2019 / Arts & Entertainment / Jay Barmann
Avett Brothers' Musical, 'The African Mean Girls Play' Announced For Berkeley Rep's New Season
The first season at Berkeley Repertory Theatre under incoming artistic director Johanna Pfaelzer is beginning to take shape as four shows were announced Wednesday.
The shows now on the docket for the 2019 - 2020 season (much of which still remains TBA) are:
The Great Wave by Francis Turnly - a geopolitical thriller set in Japan that will be making its American premiere at Berkeley Rep this fall following its run at the National Theatre in London last year.
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh - the 2018 winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, following an off-Broadway run, that tells the story of Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana’s most exclusive boarding school and a hopeful for the Miss Universe pageant.
Culture Clash (Still) in America by Culture Clash - the latest piece by Bay Area-born, LA-based theater company Culture Clash that attempts to skewer the news and the American experience through the lens of Latin culture.
Swept Away, a new musical by John Logan and the Avett Brothers - this world premiere set for summer 2020 tells the story of two young men stranded in Massachusetts in 1888 after their whaling ship sinks.
“I am thrilled to bring this eclectic group of artists to the Bay Area for my first season at Berkeley Rep," Pfaelzer says in a statement.
It should be noted that Pfaelzer won't be doing the traditional duty of directing one or more shows every season as regional theater artistic directors — and her predecessor Tony Taccone — typically do. As she told the Chronicle upon her hiring announcement last September, she's not a director and "I won’t somehow one day become one. It’s not like a secret aspiration."
So Pfaelzer (pronounced like "Feltzer") will be playing the role of producer, editor, and curator at Berkeley Rep, without the ego associated with ferrying one's own work to the stage.
Prior to taking this job at Berkeley Rep, as the Chronicle previously reported, Pfaelzer had a hand in developing Hamilton, the Green Day musical American Idiot (which premiered at Berkeley Rep in 2009), and Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, which wowed Bay Area audiences (and me) at The Curran in 2017. The latter was developed partly at New York Stage and Film, where Pfaelzer helped to develop one last summer season of works in progress this year.
Stay tuned for more details as the next season at the theater is fully fleshed out.
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Hotels near The Carnivall Theme Park, Sungai Petani
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OYO 943 3Gs Hotel
Set in a prime location of Sungai Petani, OYO 943 3Gs Hotel puts everything the city has to offer just outside your doorstep. Both business travelers and tourists can enjoy the property's facilities and services. 100% non-smoking are there for guest's enjoyment. Each guestroom is elegantly furnished and equipped with handy amenities. The property offers various recreational opportunities. No matter what your reasons are for visiting Sungai Petani, OYO 943 3Gs Hotel will make you feel instantly at home.
Swiss-Inn Sungai Petani
Swiss-Inn Sungai Petani is located along Pahlawan Road in Kedah, with easy access to the city centre. Offering rooms with free Wi-Fi access, the hotel houses an Olympic-sized outdoor pool and 2 dining options.
Rooms at Swiss-Inn are equipped with air-conditioning and en-suite bathrooms with a spa tub. Rooms come with a cable TV and minibar.
Guests can exercise in the gym, relax in the sauna, or play a game of tennis. On-site parking is free.
The Garden Terrace Coffee House serves Asian and Western cuisines. Al fresco dining options are available at the restaurant, which offers steamboat and grilled dishes.
Swiss-Inn Sungai Petani is about 47 km from Penang International Airport.
Hotel Seri Malaysia Sungai Petani
Hotel Seri Malaysia Sungai Petani is set in the heart of Kedah, just a 10-minute drive to Cinta Sayang Waterpark. Relax by the outdoor swimming pool and enjoy free Wi-Fi access at all public areas.
This well-appointed property is located within a 25-minute drive to Merbok River and a 35-minute drive to Merdeka Kedah Beach. Penang International Airport is a 45-minute drive away.
Tastefully decorated, air-conditioned rooms are fitted with a flat-screen TV, ironing facilities and a personal safe. En suite bathrooms come with a shower and a hairdryer.
Seri Malaysia Sungai Petani offers a 24-hour reception, luggage storage and car rental services. Guests can also utilize the meeting/banquet facilities. Free parking facilities are available for guests who drive.
Guests can enjoy local Malaysian meals at Café Seri Perigi or choose to sample various local eateries nearby.
T+ Hotel @ Sungai Petani
T+ Hotel Sungai Petani is located in the heart of Sg Petani, a 10-minute drive from the train station and the Clock Tower. It provides spacious, air-conditioned rooms and free Wi-Fi in the entire property.
The rooms at T+ Hotel are modern and beautifully furnished. They feature a satellite LCD TV and modern shower facilities. Toiletries are provided for guests’ convenience.
The hotel is conveniently located within a 10-minute drive of Sg Petani Bus Terminal, Taman Jubli Perak and Pasar Tani. It takes an hour by car from the hotel to Gunung Jerai.
Guests enjoy free public parking at a location nearby. The T+ Hotel also provides newspapers and a 24-hour front desk.
Cinta Sayang Resort Kedah
Cinta Sayang Resort Kedah located at Kedah Sungai Petani area. Hotel offers strategic location and east access to the lively city has to offer hotel require 1 hour and 50-minute drive away from Penang International Airport. Hotel offers wide range of services and facilities to ensure guest have a pleasant stay. With it strategic location and convenient accessibility, it made hotel one of the ideal place of stay for both business and leisure travelers in Kedah Sungai Petani area.
Big Orange Hotel Sungai Petani
Situated in Sungai Petani, 38 km from Batu Ferringhi, Big Orange Hotel Sungai Petani features free WiFi access and free private parking.
Every room at this hotel is air conditioned and features a TV. The rooms come with a private bathroom.
The hotel also offers car hire. George Town is 36 km from Big Orange Hotel Sungai Petani, while Tanjung Bungah is 35 km from the property. The nearest airport is Penang International Airport, 50 km from Big Orange Hotel Sungai Petani.
CMN Hotel
Featuring free WiFi, CMN Hotel offers accommodation in Sungai Petani.
Some units have a private bathroom with a hot tub, while others have bathrobes and free toiletries. A flat-screen TV with cable channels is available.
There is a 24-hour front desk, a shared lounge and shops at the property.
Batu Ferringhi is 37 km from CMN Hotel, while George Town is 33 km from the property. The nearest airport is Penang International Airport, 47 km from CMN Hotel.
OYO 539 Dowifi Hotel Sungai Petani
Convenient location located about 15 mins away from city centre. 10 minute drive to nearest tollhouse of PLUS highway at shoplot in sungai petani town. With fragrance smell and small well maintained fountain when you step in to the hotel.
There are free-flow water dispensers with hot/cold water at both the lobby and outside the rooms at each floor respectively.
OYO 937 Lucky Hotel
Ideally located in the Sungai Petani Central area, OYO 937 Lucky Hotel promises a relaxing and wonderful visit. The property offers guests a range of services and amenities designed to provide comfort and convenience. 100% non-smoking are there for guest's enjoyment. Each guestroom is elegantly furnished and equipped with handy amenities. The property offers various recreational opportunities. No matter what your reasons are for visiting Sungai Petani, OYO 937 Lucky Hotel will make you feel instantly at home.
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There is no civilian airport in this city. You can visit a nearby city first, and then head to Sungai Petani using other means of transportation. It's easy to travel by bus in Sungai Petani. There are buses to surrounding cities available every day.
Sungai Petani is not a tourist city, so the hospitality industry there isn't very well-developed. Many hotels can only be booked on location. When looking for hotels in Sungai Petani, there are likely good options at a nightly budget of just 43 SGD. There are 1 five-star hotels in Sungai Petani at an average price of 60 SGD per night. There are 1 four-star hotels in Sungai Petani at an average price of 40 SGD per night. There are 7 three-star hotels in Sungai Petani at an average price of 50 SGD per night. There are 1 two-star hotels in Sungai Petani at an average price of 28 SGD per night. Unique local hotels in Sungai Petani provide guests a unique and fresh feeling. Wira Homestay Sungai Petani in Sungai Petani is a favorite among Trip.com users. Homestay in Sungai Petani is also one of the most frequently chosen hotels.
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True Blood: thanks for wasting our time
August 25, 2014 August 25, 2014 Penni Jones5 Comments
Many viewers feel completely cheated after last night’s finale. True Blood was a great show for the first season. And some of us hung in there after that. One reason was that we believed it could return to its early glory. Another reason was Eric’s frequently naked bum. Or for me, it was to see Lafayette and Pam.
Here are some of the highlights of the show that culminated in an utterly disappointing last season:
Remember that time in the first season when Jason punched Sookie and we were all, “Oh no!” He totally should have saved that for any other season, when we would have been fine with Sookie taking a fist to the face.
And then Tara turned that vampire who looked like he escaped from a methadone clinic into massive headwound Harry. That’s not how they die, dumbass. The head has to come all the way off.
Or when Tara ran off and became some sort of wrestler and a lesbian and she was FINALLY interesting so they turned her into a resentful vampire. On the upside, the turning scene with Pam in a sweat suit was kind of the best thing that ever happened.
And when Terry died there was an entire episode devoted to his funeral and flashbacks of his life, but when Tara died it was off-screen and then only person who really gave a shit was her crazy-ass mama. Everybody else was all, “Tara’s dead. This sucks.”
What about the whole Warlow season? What a crock of crap that was. “I’ve been looking for you for hundreds of years. I love you. Now do what I say or I’ll kill everyone.”
Do we even need to talk about Lilith, with her band of blood-covered naked chicks with pube goatees? Nah.
Or when Sookie put Russell Edgington’s dead lover’s remains down the garbage disposal just to be a massive bee-yatch?
And how about Jessica? She kills two of Andy Bellefluer’s fairy children (who apparently suffered from soap-opera-rapid-aging-syndrome), and then he presides over her wedding about eight weeks later. Why not? Time obviously has no meaning in Bon Temps, or Sookie wouldn’t have doinked Bill two days after Alcide was shot right in front of her.
If nothing else, True Blood gave us Lafayette. And our lives are better for knowing him. But why, oh why, was there plenty of Holly in the finale, and no Lafayette except for a flash of his lovely face at the end? If Nelsan Ellis doesn’t have a flourishing movie career soon and I’m going to sue Hollywood for punitive damages. I think that’s a thing, right?
We stuck with this madness for seven seasons, only to have it end with Sookie knocked up by a nameless, faceless beardy guy and spreading out food on an outside table a la Parenthood. And with Sarah Newlin chained up and not feeling thankful. I’m calling bullshit, Alan Ball.
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In Review: Supernatural, Episode 208 “Soul Survivor”
Big storylines are wrapped up and new stories can now begin--Thank goodness!
by Patrick Hayes October 22, 2014
Supernatural, Episode 208 “Soul Survivor” Broadcast on October 21, 2014
Written by Brad Buckner & Eugenie Ross-Leming
Directed by Jensen Ackles
After a quick summary of the previous two episodes of Demon Dean’s plight, viewers see a priest blessing the contents of a blood bank which “Doctor” Sam takes back to the Winchester brothers’ bunker, and to captive Dean. As the younger brother begins to cure Dean, his demonic sibling says he doesn’t want to be saved. “Sammy, you know I hate shots,” he says. Sam quickly replies, “I hate demons,” and sticks him with the first round of blessed blood. Dean writhes in his chair. Cue the title card.
Still on the road, Castiel and Hannah are driving along in silence until she asks how he is doing. She says she worries about him. She’s showing human emotion. Back in the Winchester bunker, the shots continue. Dean tells Sam he’s already like him. Crowley told Demon Dean how far Sam has gone to find him. Sam looks pained as an outstanding flashback begins in a bar, showing a familiar face from last week. Sam talks this sorry individual into summoning a demon to sell his soul. The demon that appears is the same demon that Sam was torturing in the season premiere. With the guilty flashback concluded, Dean asks Sam if he’s got the stomach to do what must be done if the blood won’t cure him. The camera closes in on Sam, looking worried. Cut to first commercial break.
With the exception of one story element, this was the most satisfactory episode of the season so far. Crowley makes several appearances, showing what it’s like ruling in Hell, and he is completely lost. It was equally funny and cool to see how two demons respond to his indifference to the job. The King of Hell also plays a key roll in one character’s fate, and that was the highpoint of the episode for me. Castiel and Hannah have a surprising action scene that does not go as they had planned, with the conclusion of it being exceptionally neat.
The good: Crowley, Castiel, Sam being completely devoted to doing what it takes to get Dean back to normal, the return of a “rogue,” and super lighting during the lock down sequence. There were also several outstanding lines, including, “I could be your wingman,” “I’m not sentimental,” Sometimes enough is whatever you have,” and “Why can’t you people stay on clouds and play harps like you’re supposed to?”
The bad: How can Sam be surprised at what happens to Dean when he’s in brother’s room? This was obviously going to happen and lead to some pretty creaky dialogue for the next five minutes. This sequence felt like something the show had done years earlier and held no surprises.
The final line: Big storylines are wrapped up and new stories can now begin–Thank goodness! Overall grade: B+
Patrick Hayes was a contributor to the Comic Buyer’s Guide for several years with “It’s Bound to Happen!”, he reviewed comics for TrekWeb, and he currently reviews Trek comics at TrekCore. He’s taught 8th graders English for 20 years and has taught high school English for two years and counting. He reads everything as often as he can, when not grading papers or looking up Star Trek, Star Wars, or Indiana Jones items online.
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In Review: The Flash, Episode 3 “Thing You Can’t Outrun”
by Patrick Hayes - Oct 22, 2014
In Review: Edward Scissorhands #1
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Paula R. Stiles
22 October 2014 at 4:13 am -
I’d give this one a D+. And the plus is for Ackles’ direction and acting. The script was absolutely terrible, filled with linear plot, plodding pacing, and the usual lack of concern about logic and concern this particular writing team always brings to the table. It wasn’t quite as bad as “Taxi Driver,” but it came close.
I was just happy to see the Dean and Castiel storylines ended. Now the series can go in new directions. I’m a sucker for Crowley and Castiel, so I was happy with their contributions. The Winchesters were the low point of the show, again, but since things concluded I didn’t feel so slighted with the story.
I thought they really ruined Castiel and his friendship with Dean this week. And I am beyond sick of Crowley. I don’t think I can make it through a whole season of him and his Bela Talbot Syndrome without liberal usage of the fast-forward button, so I sure hope he won’t be in every episode.
Not too much of the “new directions” they’ve been talking about particularly interest me. Kate the Werewolf needed to come back never. I have zero desire to see Charlie. Hannah could have been good, but there is something very, very wrong with the writing for the angels so far this season. Speaking of which, I am in no hurry to see Metatron again.
I’m kinda looking forward to the Jodie and Donna ep, but they’ll probably find a way to ruin it. Ditto the return of Jimmy’s daughter. The 200th episode sounds like a hot mess. And this new witch is probably going to be more attempted injection of bad Vampire Diaries stereotypes.
It’s a real shame that they generated all of this excitement with Dean’s storyline and then blew their whole wad in such an anticlimactic way so early in the season.
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The Punisher confirmed for Netflix series
Jon Benthal fans can rejoice with the news that Netflix will produce a Punisher spin-off series!
by Tye Bourdony April 29, 2016
Fans of the hugely popular Netflix series Daredevil, as well as of Jon Benthal, will rejoice with the official news (as was recently reported by superherohype.com) that Marvel and Netflix have confirmed a Punisher spin-off series centering around Frank Castle’s one man war against the underworld, with Benthal reprising his role as the fan-favorite Marvel anti-hero, The Punisher.
Steve Lightfoot has been hired as the series’ show runner as was recently confirmed by Cindy Holland, Netflix Vice President of Original Content, along with the head of Marvel Television, Jeph Loeb who had this to say about the upcoming Punisher series, “We want to thank the fans who are clamoring for more of Jon’s stunning and powerful performance as Frank Castle from ‘Marvel’s Daredevil.’” Loeb went on to say, “Now combined with Showrunner Steve Lightfoot’s compelling writing, we’re thrilled to bring ‘Marvel’s The Punisher’ to Netflix.”
Comic fans are also surely to be ecstatic with the news of the new Punisher series as it will add to an already impressive line up of quite a few Super Hero themed shows that are being produced by Marvel Entertainment and Netflix; Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders and now of course, The Punisher.
Presently there has been no announcement regarding when Benthal’s Punisher series will begin production or when it is set to air on Netflix. For now however comic lovers can simply bask in the knowledge that more Marvel greatness is soon heading their way. EXCELSIOR!!!
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Tye Bourdony is the co-owner of scifipulse.net as well as the U.S. based content editor for Sci Fi Pulse. Tye is also a Sci Fi cartoonist and creator of ‘The Lighter Side of Sci-Fi’, a mediator, deep space traveler, and the lead interstellar reporter for the Galactic Enquirer. He is also a graduate of the Barry University School of Law, SUNY Purchase and H.S. of Music & Art. Tye currently works in Florida’s 9th Circuit as the staff Family Mediator and has a regular self-published column in Sci Fi Magazine. You can visit Tye on facebook and at www.thelightersideofscifi.com or send your thoughts and story/article ideas to tyebscifipulseditor@aol.com.
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BMP-9 was initially isolated from fetal mouse liver cDNA libraries. The mouse and human proteins share 84% identity. They are part of the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) family of proteins, which are members of the TGF-β superfamily and play a key role in skeletal development, bone formation, and stem cell differentiation. BMP-9 is one of the most osteogenic factors of the family. It is synthetized by hepatocytes and intrahepatic biliary epithelial cells. It circulates in plasma in an unprocessed, inactive form, that can be further activated by furin as well as a mature and fully active complex form bound to its prodomain. BMPs signal through heterotetrameric complex receptors, which include four type I receptors (ALK-1, ALK-2, ALK-3, and ALK-6) and three type II receptors (BMPRII, ActRIIA, and ActRIIB). BMP-9 and BMP-10 bind to ALK-1 (mainly expressed in endothelial cells). BMP-9 inhibits the proliferation of endothelial cells induced by basic FGF and VEGF-stimulated angiogenesis by binding to ALK-1. BMP-9 also binds to ALK-2 in primary myeloma cells, and this binding can be inhibited by membrane-bound or soluble endoglin (an accessory receptor for the TGF-β family). BMP-9 activity is inhibited by crossveinless-2 (CV2), a member of the chordin family and an extracellular regulator. BMP-9 induces CV2 expression in endothelial cells and in a negative feedback loop inhibits its own activity by the binding of CV2 to BMP-9, which consequently inhibits its binding to ALK-1. BMP-9 and -10 possess tumor suppressing activity in breast and prostate cancer; BMP-9 also induces apoptosis in primary myeloma cells. In contrast, autocrine BMP-9 signaling induces proliferation of ovarian and liver cancer cells.
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Human BMP-9, amino acids (Ser320 - Arg429) (Accession# NM_016204), was expressed in CHO cells.
The 110 amino acid recombinant protein has a predicted molecular mass of approximately 12 kD. The DTT-reduced and non-reduced protein migrate at approximately 14 kD and 24 kD respectively by SDS-PAGE. The predicted N-terminal amino acid is Ser.
>95%, as determined by Coomassie stained SDS-PAGE.
0.22 µm filtered protein solution is in 0.1% TFA, 30% ACN.
Endotoxin Level
Less than 0.01 ng per µg cytokine as determined by the LAL method.
10 and 25 µg sizes are bottled at 200 µg/mL.
Unopened vial can be stored between 2°C and 8°C for up to 2 weeks, at -20°C for up to six months, or at -70°C or colder until the expiration date. For maximum results, quick spin vial prior to opening. The protein can be aliquoted and stored at -20°C or colder. Stock solutions can also be prepared at 50 - 100 µg/mL in appropriate sterile buffer, carrier protein such as 0.2 - 1% BSA or HSA can be added when preparing the stock solution. Aliquots can be stored between 2°C and 8°C for up to one week and stored at -20°C or colder for up to 3 months. Avoid repeated freeze/thaw cycles.
ED50 = 0.4 - 2 ng/ml, corresponding to a specific activity of 0.5 - 2.5 x 106 units/mg, as determined by induction of alkaline phosphatase in ATDC5 cells in a dose dependent manner.
BioLegend carrier-free recombinant proteins provided in liquid format are shipped on blue-ice. Our comparison testing data indicates that when handled and stored as recommended, the liquid format has equal or better stability and shelf-life compared to commercially available lyophilized proteins after reconstitution. Our liquid proteins are validated in-house to maintain activity after shipping on blue ice and are backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you have any concerns, contact us at tech@biolegend.com.
Shikatani EA, et al. 2019. Cell Rep. 27:2304. PubMed
Wang W, et al. 2019. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 116:15570. PubMed
Homodimer
Hepatocytes, non parenchimal cells of the liver, endothelial, stellate cells, osteosarcoma cells.
Induces osteogenesis, chondrogenesis, and differentiation of cholinergic neurons, regulates glucose metabolism.
Endothelial cells, microvascular endothelial cells, prostate cancer cells, ovarian cancer cells, osteosarcoma cells, primary myeloma cells.
Ligand/Receptor
Activin receptor-like kinase- ALK-1 and ALK-5 in endothelial cells; ALK-1 and BMPR-II in endothelial cells; ALK-1 and ALK-2 in mesenchymal stem cells; ALK-2 and BMPR-II in myoblasts; ALK-1 and endoglin in glioblastoma cells. Endoglin (CD105).
Induction of alkaline phosphatase in ATDC5 cells.
Neural Stem Cells, Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Hematopoietic stem and progenitors, Embryonic Stem Cells
Biology Area
Cell Biology, Neuroscience, Stem Cells, Synaptic Biology
Molecular Family
Growth Factors, Cytokines/Chemokines
Antigen References
1. Miller AF, et al. 2000. J. Bio. Chem. 275:17937.
2. Chen C, et al. 2003. Nat. Biotechnol. 21:294.
3. Scharpfenecker M, et al. 2007. J. Cell Sciences 120:964.
4. Luo J, et al. 2010. J. Biol. Chem. 285:29588.
5. Bidart M, et al. 2012. Cell Mol. Life Sci. 69:313-24.
6. Yao Y, et al. 2012. Blood 119:5037.
7. Olsen OE, et al. 2014. Blood Cancer J. 4:e196.
8. Herrera B, et al. 2014. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 15:5199.
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Does specific activity of a recombinant protein vary between lots?
Specific activity will vary for each lot and for the type of experiment that is done to validate it, but all passed lots will have activity within the established ED50 range for the product and we guarantee that our products will have lot-to-lot consistency. Please conduct an experiment-specific validation to find the optimal ED50 for your system.
Have your recombinants been tested for stability?
Our testing shows that the recombinant proteins are able to withstand room temperature for a week without losing activity. In addition the recombinant proteins were also found to withstand four cycles of freeze and thaw without losing activity.
How do you convert activity as an ED50 in ng/ml to a specific activity in Units/mg?
Use formula Specific activity (Units/mg) = 10e6/ ED50 (ng/mL)
How does the activity of your recombinant proteins compare to competitors?
We quality control each and every lot of recombinant protein. Not only do we check its bioactivity, but we also compare it against other commercially available recombinant proteins. We make sure each recombinant protein’s activity is at least as good as or better than the competition’s. In order to provide you with the best possible product, we ensure that our testing process is rigorous and thorough. If you’re curious and eager to make the switch to BioLegend recombinants, contact your sales representative today!
What is the specific activity or ED50 of my recombinant protein?
The specific activity range of the protein is indicated on the product datasheets. Because the exact activity values on a per unit basis can largely fluctuate depending on a number of factors, including the nature of the assay, cell density, age of cells/passage number, culture media used, and end user technique, the specific activity is best defined as a range and we guarantee the specific activity of all our lots will be within the range indicated on the datasheet. Please note this only applies to recombinants labeled for use in bioassays. ELISA standard recombinant proteins are not recommended for bioassay usage as they are not tested for these applications.
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Save Westernport
Caring for Our Children's Future
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There is No Gas Shortage
Posted on July 16, 2018 September 3, 2018 by Julia Stockigt
It is unbelievable to think that AGL has not even made their application to Government for the proposed Crib Point LNG import facility and pipeline to Pakenham, though remediation works on the Crib Point jetty and the roads surrounding it have been going on now for months. How this is even possible is yet to be determined.
Tenders for all such works are normally a matter of public record available online, but in this case they are still noticeably absent. It is not known why Port of Hastings have not made tenders for these remediation works available to the public. Premier Andrews has not followed through with an undertaking he made on ABC radio at the end of May to ensure that this information was made available.
The State Government, which faces an election in just a few months, must decide whether an Environmental Effects Study is necessary. Given the environmental sensitivity and significance of Westernport, and the appalling history of AGL concerning environmental accidents and degradation, it is clear that an EES is required as an absolute priority.
It was so disappointing to read our State Environment Minister Lily d’Ambrosio’s insensitive and out of touch comments in the Cranbourne Leader on July 11. In an article describing the anguish and frustration felt by the operators of a large market garden that will be ripped apart if the pipeline from Crib Point to Pakenham goes through, Ms d’Ambrosio expressed the view that the pipeline will be “a real game changer”, driving down energy costs and creating jobs.
But AGL themselves admit that the project will create few jobs, and it’s clear that many jobs in the affected agricultural and eco-tourism industries will be lost in the Westernport area. As for decreased energy costs, when was the last time that any energy company dropped their rates? It just doesn’t happen.
When the degree of public opposition to this project became clear, AGL decided to offer a “sweetener” to the deal. They recently announced that discounted energy prices will be offered to local businesses. Wow! Shake your body line Señora! But this offer, which would only apply once businesses sign up with AGL, will only serve to further fracture the community along the lines of those for and against this unnecessary gas import facility.
AGL’s glib indifference to the inevitable harm to the community only confirms the absence of any genuine concern for the well-being of the people they claim to serve.
Victoria’s Minister for the Environment Lily d’Ambrosio promotes herself as being “a leader in action on climate change, renewable energy and energy efficiency in Australia”. I don’t know how this claim can be reconciled with Minister d’Ambrosio’s support of this inappropriate fossil fuel dependent project. It is completely inexplicable.
How could someone with such an important Ministerial role, involved in updating “the Environmental Protection Act 1970 to focus on the prevention of harm to human and environmental health” be so unconcerned and uninformed about the unfortunate human and environmental costs of this proposal?
These claims of environmental awareness and action could not be more at odds with her recent comments, or the disastrous proposal in terms of how unnecessary, inefficient, and ecologically and socially detrimental it is.
At a federal level, Westernport’s important Ramsar listing requires action under EPBC Laws (The Environmental Protection Biodiversity Conservation Act ) “to determine whether an action is likely to have a significant impact on an area of national environmental sigificance”.
https://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/42f84df4-720b-4dcf-b262-48679a3aba58/files/nes-guidelines_1.pdf
The risks associated with this LNG regasification plant and pipeline should make the project inadmissible according to the definitions included in the Act.
Other than the unavoidable Environmental and Safety hazards, an undeniable reason for objecting to the AGL proposal is that we DON’T NEED TO IMPORT GAS in the first place.
AGL’s bogus misinformation campaign that claimed the project to be essential to “secure our energy future” was only designed to inflame and exploit public anxiety over energy security and prices. It’s no surprise that this has now been PROVEN FALSE.
The Premier admitted it on ABC radio, and more importantly the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) report released at the end of June has confirmed it, stating: “No supply gaps are forecast before 2030 under expected market conditions. The risk of shortfalls previously projected for 2019 has been reduced due to changes in the energy markets..”
http://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/Files/Gas/National_Planning_and_Forecasting/GSOO/2018/2018-Gas-Statement-Of-Opportunities.pdf
This proves that any information still supporting this proposal is deliberately deceptive and misleading, and is grounded in an implicit and inappropriate prior agreement between Government and Corporate powers.
Public Safety and the future of our priceless Environment and protected wetlands does not belong to the government or any corporation, and is NOT FOR SALE
Rory McGinley
Westernport is Recognized as Fragile and Valuable Both Internationally and Locally
Westernport: Paying for Government Error
AGL is advancing their plans quickly. See our "Take Action" page for information about how you can help.
Thank You and Best Wishes for 2020! December 24, 2019 Dale Stohr
Sign The Pledge – Put AGL On Notice! November 29, 2019 Julia Stockigt
Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry Into Ramsar Wetlands – public comments close Friday 29 November November 27, 2019 Dale Stohr
Stop AGL Westernport Summer Action Launch November 14, 2019 Candy van Rood
Urgent Please Make a Submission to EPA today October 30, 2019 Julia Stockigt
Sign the Pledge- Put AGL on Notice November 29, 2019 Julia Stockigt
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Tag: ancient history
On the awesomeness of Byzantine history
I’ve wandered back into one of my periodic obsessions, the Byzantine empire. I’m reading Vasiliev’s two-volume history and enjoying it for its Slavophilia and the utter weirdness of its sources. That’s the history geek in me, who can appreciate that primary sources for a large part of a thousand years of history are sermons and letters and biographies of saints. But I think a lot of what I like about the Byzantines is pretty accessible.
1) There’s a Perils of Pauline aspect to much of the history of the empire, with everything constantly teetering on the edge of complete disaster. When their many external enemies were not threatening them there were palace coups and revolts to deal with, and frequently both at once. One of my college professors commented that, whatever else you can say about Byzantine politics, nobody who wasn’t pretty competent stayed emperor for long.
2) The Byzantines were pragmatic and political. When it was more convenient to bribe than fight, they had no problems with sending a bag of money to a barbarian chieftain so they could concentrate on other things. Byzantine armies were small, and they hired lots of mercenaries, which created the usual problems. But not having the luxury of being overwhelmingly powerful, they often negotiated their way out of problems.
3) The internal politics of the empire are a unique blend of almost every kind of political system but democracy: feudalism, monarchy, Eastern despotism, mixed in with odd remnants of Roman forms. It’s hard to read about how much the Byzantines obsessed over races in the Hippodrome and not think about Ben Hur.
4) They called themselves Romans, right up to the end.
5) Q: Why did the Western Roman Empire fall? A: Because Constantine the Great wrote it off as indefensible and moved his capital east, where it lasted another thousand years.
6) There’s something really charming about the Venetians feeling condescended to because a Byzantine princess married to a Venetian noble wouldn’t eat with her hands. She had special tools (a fork) to prevent herself from touching her food. Chad Ward’s history of the fork (via Smithsonian.com) includes the lovely detail that when she died of the plague some of the local clergy thought it was punishment from God for her overweening fork-vanity.
Love the Byzantines.
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BIDDING FOR PARKING: The Impact of University Affiliation on Predicting Bid Values in Dutch Auctions of On-Campus Parking Permits
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By Grant Kelly
Parking is often underpriced and expanding its capacity is expensive; universities need a better way of reducing congestion outside of building costly parking garages. Demand based pricing mechanisms, such as auctions, offer a possible solution to the problem by promising to reduce parking at peak times. However, faculty, students, and staff at universities have systematically different parking needs, leading to different parking valuations. In this study, I determine the impact university affiliation has on predicting bid values cast in three Dutch Auctions of on-campus parking permits sold at Chapman University in Fall 2010. Using clustering techniques crosschecked with university demographic information to detect affiliation groups, I ran a log-linear regression, finding that university affiliation had a larger effect on bid amount than on lot location and fraction of auction duration. Generally, faculty were predicted to have higher bids whereas students were predicted to have lower bids.
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Advisor: Alison Hagy, Allan Collard-Wexler, Kent Kimbrough | JEL Codes: C38, C57, D44, R4, R49 | Tagged: Auctions, Parking, University Parking, Bidder Affiliation, Dutch Auction, Clustering
The Effect of Minority History on Racial Disparities in the Mortgage Market: A Case Study of Durham and New Haven
By Jisoo Yoon
In the aftermath of the housing market crash, the concentration of subprime mortgage loans in minority neighborhoods is a current and long-standing issue. This study investigates the presence of racial disparities in mortgage markets by examining two cities with contrasting histories of African American and Hispanic establishment: Durham, North Carolina and New Haven, Connecticut. This study examines data by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), and distills the effect of minority legacy on the perception of racial risk by using econometric instruments to separate the behavior of national lenders and local lenders. The econometric methods allow national lenders to reflect objective risk measures and neighborhood race dynamics, while local lenders reflect subjective attitudes towards certain races. With its longer history of African American presence, Durham shows a positive attitude towards Black borrowers at the local level, while New Haven shows a more favorable attitude towards its Hispanic residents. Nonetheless, racial legacy also materializes as a negative factor in the form of increased residential segregation and spillover effects. Furthermore, a temporal variation analysis of pre- and post-mortgage market reform data affirms the disappearance of racial bias and continued presence of spillover risk in Durham.
Advisor: Christopher Timmins | JEL Codes: C01, G21, J15, R21, R23, R31 | Tagged: Econometrics, Mortgages, Economics of Minorities, Races, Census, Migration, Population, Neighborhood Characteristics, Housing Supply and Market
The Impact of Suburbanization on Poverty Concentration: Using Transportation Networks to Predict the Spatial Distribution of Poverty
By Winston Riddick
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of concentrated poverty, a phenomenon where socioeconomically deprived groups are heavily concentrated in particular neighborhoods in a metropolitan area. Drawing on Land Use Theory and the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis, I develop a theory that identifies suburbanization as a principal cause of poverty concentration. Using interstate highway expansion as a source of exogenous variation in suburbanization rates, I evaluate this relationship in 240 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) from 1960-1990, with concentrated poverty measured at the tract level. Panel regressions with MSA Fixed Effects find a positive and significant relationship between highway expansion and increased poverty concentration under a variety of specifications, including alternative measures of highways and an instrumented measure of urban population decline.
Advisor: Charles Becker, Michelle Connolly | JEL Codes: I30, J61, R13, R40 | Tagged: Highways, Poverty Concentration, Spatial Mismatch, Suburbanization, Transportation Networks
The effect of Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program on Migration Decisions
By Aki Ishikawa
The Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, is commonly overlooked for long-term evaluations. One understudied effect of this poverty-reduction program is the change in migration behavior caused by the cash transfers. Using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey, this study outlines the effects of the social net program on international migration of low-income households in Mexico. The results suggest that the program causes a positive increase in likelihood for international migration for program participants. Within participating households, individuals who are responsible for grant income tend to migrate less compared to the other members of the households. This research provides valuable insight into existing literature on migration of low-income households in relation to the availability of the conditional cash transfer program.
Advisor: Charles Becker | JEL Codes: R2, R23, R28 | Tagged: Conditional Cash Transfer Program, Developmental Economics, International Migration
High Occupancy Toll Lines: Do They Reduce Congestion?
By David Wang
In 2009, according to data from the American Community Survey, ninety percent of workers in the U.S. used a privately owned vehicle when commuting. For an average commuter, the annual traffic delay in urban areas has increased from below fifteen hours in 1982 to more than thirty-five hours in 2007 (Winston, 2013). Furthermore, the annual cost of congestion, including travel delays and fuel expenditures, exceeds $100 billion a year (Winston, 2013). From a welfare standpoint, these travel delays cause a total welfare cost of $45 billion a year (Langer, Winston, & Baum-Snow, 2008). Governments have considered a variety of solutions to combat this congestion, the most prevalent being high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes and congestion pricing, including high occupancy toll (HOT) lanes.
The federal government heavily encouraged the construction of HOV (high occupancy vehicle) lanes, passing the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. It was thought that the speed differential between HOV lanes and general-purpose (GP) lanes would lead drivers to switch to carpools, thereby reducing the number of vehicles on the roads and the amount of congestion. However, in practice, HOV lanes have not been very successful and single occupancy vehicle (SOV) users often complain about underutilized HOV lanes. These observations mirror transportation researchers’ criticisms of the ineffectiveness of HOV lanes in reducing congestion. Dahlgren (1998) argues that adding a GP lane to existing highways is more effective at lowering delay costs than adding an HOV lane.
Another strategy, congestion pricing, involves placing a price on using roadways to offset the social cost arising from such use. Under Vickrey’s theory, the charges should match the marginal social cost of each trip as closely as possible (Vickrey, 1963). In a standard highway with only GP lanes, the personal cost of traveling, in the form of the value of time, often does not equal the social cost imposed on other commuters on the highway. This scenario gives rise to a mismatch in incentives and to a tragedy of the commons. In actual application, few tolling schemes for congestion pricing exist. Since technology has made collecting tolls cheaper, the main challenge now is public resistance. Current implementations of congestion pricing include Singapore’s Electronic Road Pricing system and U.S. HOT lanes.
High occupancy toll (HOT) lanes have potential as a politically feasible policy to improve utilization of HOV lanes and generate revenue. HOT lanes give solo drivers the option to pay a toll for use of HOV lanes. The HOT lanes help address several issues, for example balancing the load and reducing congestion by shifting some solo drivers from GP lanes to HOV lanes, giving drivers the option of traveling on less congested lanes, and generating revenue for highway operators (Poole & Orski, 2000). Many studies of HOT lanes use California State Route 91 as an example of a HOT highway and seek to model any welfare gains from its implementation (Liu & McDonald, 1998; Small & Yan, 2001). Opened in 1995, the SR-91 serves as a good case study because it was one of the first HOT operations in the U.S. The literature also explores the distributional effects of congestion pricing over the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, looking at a network of roads rather than a single one (Safirova et al., 2004). They emphasize that much of the benefit from HOT lanes comes from undoing the inefficiency created by existing HOV lanes. Safirova et al.’s study is one of few empirical ones in the literature. Nevertheless, theoretical models, such as that by Konishi and Mun (2010), could be used as a basis for future empirical studies. The economics literature covers welfare gains, but does not address empirically how the congestion reduction from HOV and HOT lanes has changed over time. Although theory may predict welfare gains in the short term, it is unclear what the long run effects may be. In this paper, we seek to examine the short-run effects of the conversion of HOV to HOT lanes on highway congestion.
Advisor: Charles Becker, Michelle Connolly | JEL Codes: R41, R48 | Tagged: Congestion Pricing, HOT lanes, HOV lanes, Tolls, Transportation economics
The Impact of Population Mobility on repayment Rates in Microfinance Institutions
By Allison Vernerey
Several studies have attempted to model the determinants of repayment rates for group-based loans administered by micro-finance institutions (MFIs). One of the main variables that have been identifies as playing a role in determining the repayment rate is social capital. Empirical research however has struggled with quantifying this qualitative variable, resulting in vast inconsistencies across studies, aggravating cross-comparison and objective interpretation. Instead, we argue that the use of quantitative, cross-country comparable proxy that is intuitively linked to social capital would yield more consistent and reliable results. We hypothesize that population mobility is such a proxy, and that lower population mobility correlates positively with higher social capital and thus higher repayment rates. Using population mobility as a proxy for social capital would allow MFIs to lower their cost of data collection for performance assessments and simplify the process for policy makers trying to evaluate the programs success. At the village level, we find significant evidence that higher emigration within a community is strongly linked to lower repayment rates in micro-finance. These results provide micro-finance institutions with a new and more cost effective way to monitor their performance as well as improve their capacity to make well-informed lending decisions.
Advisor: Genna Miller | JEL Codes: G, G2, G21 | Tagged: Bangladash, Microfinance Institutions, Population Mobility, Repayment Rates, Social Capital
Manufactured Housing Securitization
By Renan Cunha
Through prices of manufactured homes rose in the 2000’s, demand fell dramatically because of the boom in the stick-built housing market. One of the stated goals of securitization is to increase the supply of credit and decrease the cost of lending to make borrowing accessible to more homeowners. This paper will study the effect of securitization of manufactured home loans on the availability of credit for borrowers in North Carolina.
Advisor: Charles Becker | JEL Codes: E51, R3, R31 | Tagged: Credit Availability, Manufactured Housing, Securitization, Trailer Parks
Race and Pollution Correlation as Predictor of Environmental Injustice
By Marissa Meir
Environmental injustice is a theory that claims distributions of toxic, hazardous and dangerous waste facilities are disproportionately located in low-income communities of color. This paper empirically demonstrates an alternative cause of environmental injustice- that low-income minorities are less likely to receive sizeable enough loans to buy a house in a cleaner area. It highlights a significant time in history, from 1999 to 2007, when wealth constraints were eased and loan amounts increased for people with the same income. The results show that minorities increase their demand of environmental goods given an increase in loan amounts, suggesting that people of color care about environmental quality, but, due to wealth constraints, do not have the same opportunities
in the housing market.
Advisor: Christopher Timmins | JEL Codes: P46, P48, Q50, Q53, Q56, Q58, R20, R21, R31, R32 | Tagged: Air Quality, Environmental Injustice, Housing Market, Income, Loan, Wealth Constraints
Economic Racism: A Look at Rental Prices in 1930
By Basel Fakhoury
The Great Migration caused massive demographic changes in Northeastern and Midwestern cities as African Americans moved from the South to the North. These changes led to economic discrimination and segregation within northern cities. This paper compares African American and white rental prices in four major cities: Chicago, Detroit, New York City, and Philadelphia in an effort to see how this discrimination and segregation affected rental prices. The results consistently show that in the most precise geographic area, prices rise as the concentration of blacks in those neighborhoods rise, which I believe is a result of overcrowding.
Advisor: Patrick Bayer | JEL Codes: J1, J11, J15, R31 | Tagged: Economic Discrimination, Housing Markets, Segregation, The Great Migration
Understanding the Value of Amenities: A Study of the Land Value Determination Process in Hangzhou, China
By Ching-Ching Chen
This paper seeks to investigate the determinants of land within Hangzhou China. There are two main goals that the research paper will attempt to address. The first is to build upon existing research on land pricing in terms of the theories outlined by the monocentric city and hedonic pricing models. Second, the paper will use a dataset of Hangzhou land sales transactions between the years of 2003 and 2011 to investigate the possible existence of “luxury residuals” among commercial and residential land parcels. Nonetheless, due to the presence of large residuals, while Chinese consumers value certain amenities is not fully captured by these results. Rather, a number of case studies or outliers are used to fully examine the influences of these amenity variables in driving extreme prices. The result support the hypothesis that China, located at the bottom of Kuznets environmental curve, values amenities at extreme levels as a result of scarcity.
Advisor: Charles Becker | JEL Codes: Q51, R0, R14, R52 | Tagged: Empirical Analysis, Hangzhou Land Price Appreciation, Hedonic Pricing Model, Kuznets Curve, Monocentric City Model
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Week 10 Term 3 2019 Newsletter
The first performance of our musical, Night at the Library, has just concluded after months of preparation and building excitement. Thank you to all the staff and the students for the energy that has been brought to today and over recent weeks. Thank you also to the many parents and friends who have helped and supported to ensure it is a great success. It truly is something we can be very proud of.
Thank you especially to Laura Knight for her vision and passion for our musical. She has worked tirelessly to ensure we are all ready for the big day. It is a credit to her creativity and enthusiasm.
House Point Winners
Congratulations to all Houses for reaching their benchmark reward for Term 3! This Friday, 27 September, students are invited to wear free clothes based on the theme chosen by their House Group at the beginning of the term.
Fatima - Sport Jerseys
Lourdes – Pyjamas
Loretto – Favourite Clothes
Madonna – Movie Characters
The overall winning House for Term 3 is Lourdes!
On Friday, to celebrate their win, members of Lourdes will receive a Pizza Lunch at second break.
It is fantastic to see all the students embracing our Seeds of Growth to earn House Points in recognition of their efforts.
Last year we used the opportunity to collect supermarket vouchers, to purchase sporting equipment for St Joseph’s Bombala, as a way to support them. While it took a while, the equipment was presented earlier this year and I have received the following from the school leaders:
Dear Mr Tarrant and students and St Joseph’s O’Connor,
We would like to thank you for your hard work with the Sports for Schools Program. The sports equipment donated to us is greatly appreciated and will be greatly used across our school for many years to come.
Alex and Tanner
St Joseph’s Bombala School Leaders
Exciting Times
After a very long process, the planned Stage 2 Master Plan building works will begin very shortly. All tenders have been assessed and the successful tenderer is being finalised! Plans and architectual images of the building works are currently displayed in the front foyer of the school. As part of the building program, we have also secured two temporary classrooms that will be located on the lower end of the oval, adjacent to the Hub. These temporary classrooms will take the presure off the school while the building works are undertaken. They will be installed before the end of 2019.
We have also received concept designs from Wellspring Environmental Arts and Design who have been asked to prepare plans for landscaping, incorporating nature play space, at the Boronia Drive end of the oval. At this point, members of the School Board, staff and students have engaged in the consultation process to develop a brief and offer suggestions. The concepts look fantastic and following further consultation, we look forward to sharing these with the community.
It has again been a very busy term and one that is certainly finishing with a ‘bang’. Thank you to all the students for their hard work and wonderful contributions at school this term. I wish all the students, staff and parents a restful break and look forward to welcoming everyone back for Term 4 on Monday 14 October.
Have a great break.
Last week I shared with you the 4th Phase of the Evangelisation process: Making Disciples. Making Disciples is at the centre of our 2019 focus scripture- The Commissioning of Disciples (Matthew 28: 16-20). Making Disciples involves two parts:
Catechesis (Religious Instruction)
Incorporation in the Church (Community)
At St Joseph’s, the students receive Catechesis and Incorporation in the Church on a daily basis. While preparing for Sacraments, students also receive Catechesis and incorporation into the Church through our Parish-based Sacramental programs. For adults, Catechesis for those who have not received the Sacraments is available through the RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) program. See more information in the Formation section about the RCIA Program available through St Joseph’s Parish.
Where do you see yourself in your faith journey?
Liturgical Season: Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
Jesus told this story: “Once there was a rich man who had fine clothes and the best of everything that money could buy. He spent his time enjoying himself and feasting with his rich friends. On the street outside his house lay a poor man called Lazarus, who was thin and hungry and covered in sores. Lazarus would gladly have eaten the man’s scraps, if they had been offered to him.
One day Lazarus died and went to heaven where he was truly happy at last. When the rich man died, he went to hell and saw Lazarus so happy and cried out to him for help.
But God asked the rich man, ‘Did you help when Lazarus cried out for food? Did you care for him when he was ill and nowhere to go? You thought only of yourself and gave up the chance of everlasting happiness with me.’”
1. Why do you think the rich man did not share his riches with the poor man?
2. What do you think the rich man should have done?
3. What are some other ways we can help those who are less fortunate than ourselves?
Prayer in 2 Magenta
Grandparents and Special Friends Day
Invitations to our Grandparents and Special Friends have gone home with each student. We look forward to celebrating with you on Thursday 24 October from 9:00-11:30am. Guests can attend all or some of the events. We hope you are able to be a part of our Christ-Centred Community for this special occasion.
Upcoming Masses
This year we have been working to strengthen our connection with our Parish. One way we have been achieving this is for classes to attend one grade mass per term. Families are very welcome to join us for these masses. The upcoming masses are:
Friday 27th September: Foundation and Grade 5 9.15am
Sunday 3rd November: St Joseph’s Family Mass led by Year 6 9.00am
Last Saturday evening we gathered for the final formation session for the Sacrament of Confirmation. All are welcome to join us to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation on Sunday 13 October at 9am. We keep these children in your prayers:
October is Catholic Mission Month. October is also the Month of the Rosary. At St Joseph’s we will hold a "Day of Many Colours" event on Thursday 31st October where children will wear a colour representing the continent their family is from and come together as a whole to school to pray the Rosary.
The Social Justice Leaders are also working on a "Move for Mission" lunchtime Disco on Thursday 31st October. There will be one offered Break 1 for Junior Primary and one offered Break 2 for Upper Primary. It will be a gold coin donation entry and more information will be available early next Term.
Our strategic priority to deepen our St Joseph’s identity means to deepen our understanding of our Josephite Charism. We can learn much about our Josephite Charism through quotes from Saint Mary Mackillop. As we finish Term 3, the quote for this week is:
St Joseph’s Parish will begin its annual Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) journey this October.
Year 2 is preparing a lovely vertical garden reusing old 1.25 litre soda bottles. Purple kale, coriander and other lettuces will be a part of our new garden wall.
Year 2 Magenta has also won the compost bin decorating contest! For their prize, the have officially named our 2 hens Popcorn (featured front with white spots) and Flapper. Congrats Year 2 Magenta!
Coming soon...2 new members of our chicken family. Stay tuned to find out how your class can name the next 2 chicks!
Spring is natures way of saying, 'Let's party!'"- Robin Williams
What an amazing effort from all the children working on the school musical. Managing that nervous feeling before a big event can be easy for some kids….. not so for others. Below are a few recourses for parents that can be helpful for kids who sometimes feel anxious or worried.
Australian Childhood Foundation Resources -
https://professionals.childhood.org.au/resources/
Building parenting confidence - Bringing Up Great Kids:
https://professionals.childhood.org.au/bringing-up-great-kids/
BRAVE Program:
This online program providing parents and caregivers of young children with information and skills to help their child overcome fears and anxiety.
Teens (12 – 17 years) - https://brave4you.psy.uq.edu.au/teen-program
Young Child (3 – 7 years)- https://brave4you.psy.uq.edu.au/preschool-program
Child (8 – 12 years) - https://brave4you.psy.uq.edu.au/child-program
Remembrance Day Service at St Joseph’s will be held at 10.30 Monday November 11 in the courtyard. Please let me know if you would be interested in taking on a role during the ceremony. Morning tea will be served in the staff room following the service. All welcome.
Tennis Canberra Holiday Camps @ Old Parliament House Tennis Club
- Camp 1: September 30th, October 1st & 2nd
- Camp 2: October 9th- 11th
- Morning, Half & Full Day options available
Sign Up: www.tenniscanberra.com.au/holiday-program
Free Trial - Term 3 - Give Tennis A Go!
We invite new players to our sport to a free trial before Term 4. This is a great opportunity for all students to see if tennis is the sport for them. Please e-mail play@tenniscanberra.com.au to request a free trial and our team will get back to you with the best options.
After-School & Weekend Coaching - Term 4
Run by Tennis Australia professional at a Tennis Canberra Club near you. Our coaches are excited to see many new players hit our courts in the Spring. Learn a sport they can play for life.
Sign up: www.tenniscanberra.com.au/junior-tennis
Email: play@tenniscanberra.com.au
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The casino has a relatively familiar feel to it, and we liked the fact that it had some sort of index page to greet the player. It’s a site that offers both casino and sports, which we talk more about later in this review, so the index page allows you to choose where you need to be. In terms of design, it’s basic, but it’s functional. There’s not too much going on, which is a good thing, and once you jump into the casino proper, the site starts to come alive.
We liked that there are plenty of breakdowns within the menu section. It’s always a plus point being able to sort games by the game provider, especially given how mainstream these are to many players. As you become more familiar with a particular product, it allows you to see other products from those developers.
The casino loads and runs exceptionally fast. It’s pretty much instantly when you click on a special menu or game until you are where you need to be. It takes a little time for the games to load, but this is more to do with the game provider servers, rather than the Shangri La casino.
Finally, a nice feature is the favourites tab, and this allows you to add your favourite games here. It remembers which games you’ve chosen each time you log in. It’s a simple feature in terms of usability, but it’s the small things that can allow these smaller brands to challenge the more established online casinos.
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Registering a new account with the Shangri La casino is a simple process. You can do this via the online casino or the mobile casino. The process remains the same for both, and to be honest, they both take around the same amount of time.
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Click the “Register” button in the top right corner of the screen.
You will then need to enter a bit of information about yourself. That includes name, DOB, country of residence, title, email, home address, mobile number, currency, username, password and your security answer.
You will need to confirm your details and confirm your account.
Finally, you can make your first deposit, or you can skip this step and do it later.
One of the good things about the whole process is that it’s very straight forward. Be aware that you may need to verify your account at some point, so make sure the details that you enter are correct. If they don’t match perfectly, then there could be issues when it comes to banking, which no one needs!
Shangri La Online Casinos
The Shangri La online casino is what we’re here to talk about. It’s been one that’s continued to grow over the last few years, mainly by adding in more game providers to power it.
There are a couple of features that we wanted to note before moving onto the games on offer. The first one if the favourites button that linked to all games. It’s a simple process in that all you need to do is click the red star and then that game gets moved into your favourites tab.
The best thing about is that it’s saved for each time you log in. Given the vast range of games on offer, it makes finding your favourites that bit more manageable.
We also wanted to mention the new search function that’s been added. Again, it’s straightforward in that you just type in the game or genre that you want to play, and it will pull up the results for that query.
What Software Providers Power the Casino?
Like a lot of the modern-day online casinos, Shangri La utilises a wide range of game developers. There are fourteen in total, with some of the higher-profile names including Microgaming, NetEnt, Quickspin and Red Tiger.
What Casino Games Can I Play at Shangri La?
Given that they’ve got so many game developers to choose from, it means that they have a wide range of games as well. There are several hundred that infiltrate the casino, but what we liked is that they’ve not just taken all games from all developers.
For example, we know that Microgaming has around 1,000 casino games in their back catalogue these days, but we can see that they’ve not taken all these games. It means that some effort has gone into making sure that they handpick the best games for their players.
It’s also worth noting that the majority of games can access as free play. It allows players to test games before playing for real money, which is something we are keen to encourage.
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The new customer offer is one that broken down into your first three deposits that you make.
Your initial deposit is going to get you a 100% match up to €200. This bonus comes with a 40x wagering requirement which you need to fulfil within three days of the offer hitting your account.
The second deposit is then a 75% bonus worth up to €300. It then comes with a 30x wagering requirement on your bonus funds and again, needs to be cleared within three days.
For the final part of the bonus, you get a 50% match worth up €500. Wagering is just 20x your bonus, but again, you only have three days to clear the full amount.
It’s also worth noting that only bets of €6 or less will count towards clearing the bonus. It means that if you wagered €7, none of this amount would be eligible to clear your bonus.
While the amount that is on the line is impressive, the timeframe of 3 days to clear is very short. Make sure you take this into account and then work out how much you could plausibly clear within that timeframe — deposits of €20 or more trigger the offer.
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The no deposit bonus is one that allocated to players via SMS or email. That is why it’s essential to register both when you sign up for your account.
When you get the text or email, you need to click the link to trigger your free spins on the Starburst slot. Any winnings from your free spins will then need to wager through 35 times before you can withdraw. You have just 24 hours to complete this in full, or you will lose the whole lot.
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Jackpot games are always some of the best on any online casino, and Shangri La is no different. They have a good range of game developers on their side, which means their jackpot games are very impressive.
The big hitters include the likes of Arabian Nights and Mega Fortune from NetEnt, along with Major Millions and Mega Moolah for Microgaming. All of these games regularly get well into the mid to high 7 figure range, with life-changing sums of money on offer as a result.
The casino also includes smaller jackpot games, that aren’t always progressives, either. These come with lower jackpots, but with a higher chance of winnings, so might be more appealing to some players.
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Live casino is now an essential part of any online set up these days. The range of games a Shangri La is excellent, and with it, you can access a wide range of games as a result.
What Software Providers Power the Live Casino?
The majority of the games come from Evolution Gaming and Pragmatic Play. These are two of the biggest live casino game providers in the industry right now, and they’ve been used almost exclusively for their live casino games.
What Live Dealer Casino Games can Play at Shangri La?
The game types are vast with the likes of blackjack, roulette, baccarat, poker and the money wheel. It’s also worth noting that each of these games comes in a variety of languages, with English being the most popular and Russian another alternative.
Shangri La Sports Section
There’d be a little argument when we say that the casino side of the site is the main attraction to Shangri La. But as part of their expansion, they are also able to offer a sportsbook which compliments it nicely.
It’s not the biggest sportsbook you are going to find, and for those that are familiar with this sector of the gambling industry, you will note that it’s down on both sports and markets, compared with the best. But it does a job, and even though it’s limited, it’s still a decent enough addition to the fold.
What Sports Can I Wager On?
In terms of the volume of sports that you can bet on, Shangri La has a more than decent range. There are around two dozen individual sports at any given time, but they do add more in, with more disciplines in major sporting events. The Olympics is a prime example of this, where usually athletics would not be a sport they offer markets on, but when the Olympics is running, they will.
Aside from that, the usual suspects are all present, such as football, tennis, darts, golf, rugby and horse racing. You’ve then got some niche sports, such as handball, table tennis and Aussie Rules. You then finish off with the likes of Esports and various specials, to round out this section.
What is the Betting Coverage like?
The pricing on site is relatively average. They lack the consistency of most of the more prominent brands, and it’s not somewhere that you are guaranteed to get the best price.
They have quite high margins as well, and some of the bets we tested were astronomically high.
Market coverage is OK, but again, it’s not as good as the competition. To give you an example, the topflight football matches get around 200 markets, which is good, but as you start to drop down the leagues, they start to drop off.
What Features are on Offer?
The sportsbook is pretty basic, and it’s limited in terms of features. They have live betting, which includes an excellent match centre. That consists of a range of stats and data, as well a substantial collection of live betting markets
They do include a news section as well, that has an active sports following. They often preview the higher-profile upcoming sporting events, but we have to admit that it’s not updated nearly enough for it to be a daily fix of sports betting news.
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The sports welcome bonus is the best promotion on-site, and by some distance. You can get a 100% match up to €100, with deposits triggering this from just €20.
Once the bonus applied to your account, you need to wager through the amount ten times within seven days. Qualifying bets are at odds of 1.90 or higher, and accumulator bets of 2 or more selections must place at 1.50 or higher.
The max winnings that you can take from the bonus are €5000 and only pre-match bets can use with bonus money. The promotion, clearing rate and the minimum odds make it the best offer at Shangri La.
There’s no dedicated, downloadable app, which is a shame, but you can access the casino via your mobile. All you need to do is enter via your browser on your phone, and you will get immediate access.
You get to play a good range of games but be aware that it’s not the full catalogue that you see online. The vast majority are there, though, and the quality is excellent.
Along with the standard casino games, you also get to play live casino as well. Plus, the sportsbook will be a feature on the mobile version, allowing for a vast range of gambling options and making up for the lack of a dedicated app.
Payments and banking at the casino are one of their strongest features. Not only do you get a good range of options to choose from, but there are also no fees, and everything is processed promptly.
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Bank Wire Transfer €10 €2,000 3-5 Business days €20 €2,000 3-5 Business days Free
Neteller €20 €2,000 24 Hours €30 €2,000 Instant Free
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Jeton Wallet €20 €2,000 24 Hours €30 €2,000 Instant Free
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The Shangri La casino comes fully secured with an SSL certificate to make sure that any critical information you need to enter on-site (login and banking information) remains safe and not stored within the casino’s system.
They also use off-site servers that keep any sensitive information, such as documents needed to verify your account. It means that in the case of the site getting hacked, your data would be on a completely different server, not linked to Shangri La in any way.
Shangri La’s license comes from the Malta Gaming Authority. They are one of the biggest and most respected gaming authorities in the world and only accept companies who meet the highest possible standard, both in terms of player safety, but also game integrity.
Shangri La Affiliate Program
The affiliate side of the site allows players to earn a commission when they get others to sign up. They use a tiered commission process, which based on the amount of revenue you create each month.
That is as follows:
25% = €0 to €5000
30% = €5001 to €10000
35% = €10001 to €25000
40% = €25001+
Players earn money for you based on the lifetime they are on the site. They also include a 30-day cookie, meaning that if the player doesn’t sign up straight away, then they will still be linked to your affiliate account if they do within 30 days. You can learn more from Shangri LA affiliate program page, where you can read more details.
How do I activate and verify my Shangri La account?
You need to send account documents to customer support once you prompted to do so. This timeframe can differ from account to account.
Is it possible to recover a forgotten password in Shangri LA?
Yes, you can click the “forgot password” link at the top of the casino.
Can I deposit using Cryptocurrency?
There is not cruelty an option to use Cryptocurrency on Shangri La.
How do I claim my free spins?
Keep an eye out for an email or an SMS that will include a link for your free spins. Make sure you have access to one or both when you register your account.
What is the minim deposit I can make in Shangri LA?
The lowest deposit is €10, and this is via Bank Transfer. All other deposit methods start from €20.
Do I use the same account for the sportsbook as the casino?
Yes, your accounts linked for the casino, sports and live casino. You also only use one wallet for each section.
What does “Shangri La” mean?
It means a remote and beautiful place where life approaches perfection. Utopia.
Where does Shangri La have their brick and mortar casinos?
Locations include Tbilisi in Georgia, Yerevan in Armenia, Minsk in Belarus and Riga in Latvia.
Shangri La has had casinos since 1992 and in 2017 leapt to create an online casino portfolio as well.
A switch to gaming has been helped by the likes of Money Matrix Limited and Inter Storm, who take care of the running and payments within the casino. The expansion of the sports section has largely been down to the success of the casino, which often comes as a natural crossover.
Shangri La Land Based Casinos
There are four land-based casinos in the group, and they located in the following places:
Each of the casinos offers the highest possible standards, with most of them only allowing those 21 or over. They also come with a strict smart-casual dress code, and they strictly prohibit any sportswear or people who are heavily under the influence of either alcohol or drugs.
There are two customer support options at Shangri La casino. These include live chat and email support.
The live chat function is open from noon GMT through to midnight, seven days a week. Emails can be sent any time, but take longer to get a response. Support is generally pretty good, and the live chat is exceptionally prompt. If your case is anything other than something pretty basic (taken from the help centre), then they will escalate this to email support who then take over.
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Shangri La is an emerging casino, and they’ve some way to go before they reach the dizzy heights of some of the more established operators. That being said, they have been able to create a solid platform, although they do need to tighten the strings a little first. The range of games is good, but the lack of mobile app and the accessibility of some of the mobile games needs to be improved.
Five years ago, this would be up there with some of the best, but in the modern era of online casino, it feels a little dated. However, things like banking, the addition of sports and the welcome offers are all good enough reasons to give the Shangri La online casino a whirl.
Final score: 8.6/10
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Did You Know 07/15/2013 – These Women Invented………
1.Weaving Straw Into Hats.
Mary Kies was the first American woman to earn a patent in her own name. In 1809, she developed a way of weaving straw into hats that was an economic boon for New England. By receiving that piece of paper with her name on it, Kies led the way for other female inventors to take credit for their ideas.
2.Circular Saw
In the late 18th century, a religious sect known as the Shakers emerged. Shakers valued living communally (albeit celibately), equality between the sexes and hard work. Tabitha Babbitt lived in a Shaker community in Massachusetts and worked as a weaver, but in 1810, she came up with a way to lighten the load of her brethren. She observed men cutting wood with a pit saw, which is a two-handled saw that requires two men to pull it back and forth. Though the saw is pulled both ways, it only cuts wood when it’s pulled forward; the return stroke is useless. To Babbitt, that was wasted energy, so she created a prototype of the circular saw that would go on to be used in saw mills. She attached a circular blade to her spinning wheel so that every movement of the saw produced results. Babbitt didn’t apply for a patent for the circular saw she created.
3.Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ruth Wakefield had worked as a dietitian and food lecturer before buying an old toll house outside of Boston with her husband. Traditionally, toll houses were places weary travelers paid their road tolls, grabbed a quick bite and fed their horses. Wakefield and her husband converted the toll house into an inn with a restaurant. One day in 1930, Wakefield was baking up a batch of Butter Drop Do cookies for her guests. The recipe called for melted chocolate, but Wakefield had run out of baker’s chocolate. She took a Nestle chocolate bar, crumbled it into pieces and threw it into her batter, expecting the chocolate pieces to melt during baking. Instead, the chocolate held its shape, and the chocolate chip cookie was born.
4.Liquid Paper
Bette Nesmith Graham was not a very good typist but very innovative
It was the 1950s, and the electric typewriter had just been introduced. Secretaries often found themselves retyping entire pages because of one tiny mistake, as the new model’s carbon ribbon made it difficult to correct errors.
One day, Graham watched workers painting a holiday display on a bank window. She noticed that when they made mistakes, they simply added another layer of paint to cover them up, and she thought she could apply that idea to her typing blunders. Using her blender, Graham mixed up a water-based tempera paint with dye that matched her company’s stationary. She took it to work and, using a fine watercolor brush, she was able to quickly correct her errors. Soon, the other secretaries were clamoring for the product, which Graham continued to produce in her kitchen. Graham was fired from her job for spending so much time distributing what she called “Mistake Out,” but in her unemployment she was able to tweak her mixture, rename the product Liquid Paper and receive a patent in 1958.
5. The Square-bottomed Paper Bag
Margaret Knight didn’t invent the paper bag, but those first paper bags weren’t all that useful for carrying things. In 1870, she created a wooden machine that would cut, fold and glue the square bottoms to paper bags.
she was granted the patent for the device in 1871.
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Open Source Research Programme Launched by CSIR
by Kruttika Vijay September 27, 2008
Mid-month, the CSIR has launched the ‘Open Source Drug Discovery’ (OSDD) programme. Conceptualised by CSIR Director General Samir K. Brahmachari, the project seeks to initiate Tuberculosis research since there has been no major scientific breakthrough in its treatment since 1960. (Our readers will remember Mrinalini’s interview with Mr. Bramhachari earlier this year)
Drawing their inspiration from open source movements, the Programme seeks to build a consortium of voluntary researchers from across the world to work around the patent regime that makes drugs expensive . The OSDD has futher set up a website to share their collaborative research, data on pathogens, tools for data analysis, and discussion forum for members to share ideas and projects for students to participate in drug discovery.
The terms of the OSDD licence are also spelt online. The terms are fairly straightforward, and we reproduce some relevant conditions below for readers:
3 Proprietary Rights
3.1 The Portal, its services, the content, Information, and results of collaborative research including, but not limited to, the identification of drug-able non-toxic targets, in vitro and in vivo validation, in silico screening of molecules, lead optimization, pre-clinical toxicity and clinical trials will constitute �Protected Collective Information�. You agree that the ownership of Protected Collective Information belongs solely to the OSDD and is the proprietary right of OSDD, to be held in trust on behalf of OSDD by CSIR to be used to further the Vision and Mission.
3.2 Anyone accessing the Protected Collective Information has an obligation to contribute any addition or improvements made to or using such Protected Collective Information or any research result or proprietary rights generated out of the Protected Collective Information, except as provided in these Terms, back to OSDD through this Portal to add to the Protected Collective Information. Any appropriation of the Protected Collective Information to acquire proprietary rights which is in violation of its Vision and Mission to will be violation of these Terms, liable to legal action under the applicable laws.
3.3 By becoming a member of OSDD and using this Portal and in consideration thereof you agree that any Information submitted by you or generated using the Portal shall form a part of the Protected Collective Information to be shared and used by the OSDD members for furtherance of its vision, to be held by OSDD acting through CSIR (India) in trust as Protected Collective Information and you authorize OSDD acting through CSIR (India) to take any action in furtherance of the vision of OSDD. Such actions taken by OSDD acting through CSIR (India) will be informed to its members through the Portal.
3.4 You agree that Protected Collective Information is a valuable proprietary right of OSDD and in consideration of your accessing the Protected Collective Information you promise to submit all further developments or improvements made by you or your agents, to or using the Protected Collective Information back to the OSDD to add to the Protected Collective Information for others to work on it and make further improvements on it.
3.5 You assign to OSDD the worldwide royalty free non exclusive license on any Information submitted by you to Protected Collective Information for the sole purpose of use of OSDD members for furthering the Vision and Mission and for that purpose only. It is understood that if your intellectual property rights are used for any purpose contrary to the Vision and Mission, this assignment shall stand unconditionally revoked.
3.6 In the event of your acquiring any intellectual property rights by making improvements or modifications on any part of the Protected Collective Information, you shall grant an unencumbered worldwide non exclusive right to the OSDD for use of such rights for further research in furtherance of its Vision and Mission.
3.7 You agree that by virtue of using the Protected Collective Information, even partly, on your technology or invention, whether patented or not or kept as your confidential information or not, you shall submit back to the Protected Collective Information the out put or the result of such use, in whatever form, whether such output contains the Information contained in the Protected Collective Information or not.
3.8 You agree that OSDD acting through CSIR may license any research result generated out of OSDD for the sole purpose of furthering the Vision and Mission of OSDD provided that there shall be no direct monetary gain or other benefit for CSIR out of such assignment.
4.1 You may access the Protected Collective Information under the condition that for any use of it you shall credit the author or the contributor. You may contribute to Protected Collective Information and shall get credit for it, while not being considered responsible for modifications made by others.
4.2 You may make improvements, additions and modifications on the Protected Collective Information, and use it commercially or non-commercially, provided that you contribute all such improvements, additions and modifications, back to it.
4.3 You may submit your patented inventions (product or process) for the use of OSDD. You may retain the rights over the patents except to the extent to be used in the open source drug discovery process and for selling any product or process arising out of the use of your invention in that process. By submitting your patented invention for OSDD you agree not to place any encumbrances on the product or process arising out of the use of your patented product or process for fulfilling the Vision and Mission of OSDD. You agree that any use of your patented invention for the drug discovery process and any Information generated out of use of your patented invention while being used for drug discovery process on OSDD shall belong to Protected Collective Information.
4.4 You may use your patented invention or technology kept as trade secret to generate Information for OSDD without licensing or disclosing or in anyway parting with such invention or technology, but submit the Information so generated to OSDD to be a part of Protected Collective Information.
5. Other Terms
5.1 OSDD respects Intellectual Property Rights of others and expects the members not to infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party contributing to the Protected Collective Information or while involving themselves in the drug discovery process. If any infringing material is posted on the Portal, it should be brought first on the discussion forum so that appropriate action can be taken. If infringing materials are posted online, the administrator will have the rights to take down or remove them without any notice.
5.1 The source code of all copyrighted software programs made available on this Portal should be open, in the sense that it is available and any software derived out of the software available on the Portal should also make the source code available.
5.2 You agree not to indulge in any attempts to destroy or deface the Portal including but not limited to knowingly introducing viruses and to bear the cost and consequence of any such action arising from your account.
5.3 You agree to indemnify OSDD and CSIR India against all legal fees, damages and other expenses that may be incurred by a result of your breach of the Terms.
5.4 These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of India. Disputes arising here from shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the High Court of Delhi, India.
8 Limitations of Liability
You expressly understand and agree that OSDD and CSIR (India) shall not be liable to you for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if OSDD have been advised of the possibility of such damages) resulting from: (i) the use or the inability to use OSDD services; (ii) the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services resulting from any goods, data, information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from OSDD services; (iii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; (iv) statements or conduct of any third party on OSDD services; or (v) any other matter relating to OSDD services.”
We would greatly appreciate our reader feedback on this new and commendable venture undertaken by CSIR. We here at SpicyIP wish them the best of luck and hope to see several new breakthroughs in the field of research.
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errr… u mean reader feedback, not viewer feedback right? and i hope this blog, of all the blogs, is not too concerned about the journalistic equivalent of TRPs- readership. Following Shamnad’s lead, please express your views as you hold them even if it they are against “popular” opinion. kindly take this comment in a positive sense and continue the good work.
Kruttika Vijay September 29, 2008 at 6:25 am
Dear Anon
Sorry about that typo.
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Australian Kavanagh to conduct defenders camp for Indian women’s hockey team
Former Australian defender Fergus Kavanagh will conduct a camp for Indian women's hockey team defenders at Bengaluru from July 15-21.
New Delhi 15 July, 2019 14:33 IST
Fergus Kavanagh (extreme left) had conducted a training camp for men's hockey team defenders at Bengaluru. - Hockey India Twitter
Two-time World Cup winner Fergus Kavanagh of Australia will conduct a special seven-day defenders camp for the senior Indian women’s hockey team in Bengaluru.
Kavanagh, who arrived in Bengaluru on July 7 to work with the Indian men’s team, will now pass on his tips and experiences to the women’s side during the special camp, starting Monday.
Kavanagh will work with 14 women defenders during the camp, which will concluded on July 21. The camp is a part of the team’s preparation for the all-important Olympic Qualifiers to be held later this year.
The players identified by Hockey India who will be part of the camp are Salima Tete, Deep Grace Ekka, Lilima Minz, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Suman Devi Thoudam, Mahima Choudhary, Nisha, Gurjit Kaur, Rashmita Minz, Sunita Lakra, Manpreet Kaur, Nikki Pradhan, Karishma Yadav and Monika.
READ | 33 core probables named for Indian women’s national coaching camp
Kavanagh was part of the Australian dream team that won the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi and the 2014 World Cup in The Hague, Netherlands.
He was also a member of the Kookaburras’ gold medal winning sides at consecutive FIH Champions Trophy from 2008 to 2012 besides the 2014 Champions Trophy in Bhubaneswar.
“We had a great tournament at the FIH Women’s Series, but we still have to improve in a certain areas. We are looking forward to fine-tune our defensive game with Fergus (Kavanagh) ahead of the Olympics Test event in August. His experience in coaching will surely help our defenders get better,” India chief coach Sjoerd Marijne said.
“A good defensive unit can help the team create more attacking opportunities and subsequently help the side create more scoring opportunities. Therefore, it is imperative for our defenders to be on top of their game in big events such as the Olympics Test event and Olympic Qualifiers in October-November.”
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2012 World Voyages Aboard Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2
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Life is Good when cruising in the Caribbean
Cunard Announces 2012 World Voyages Aboard Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2
– On Sale 15 July
21 June 2010 – Continuing the company’s legacy of the annual World Voyage they pioneered 90 years ago, Cunard Line is proud to announce the 2012 World Voyage programme aboard The Most Famous Ocean Liners in the World. The Line’s newest ship, Queen Elizabeth, and its flagship, Queen Mary 2, will sail these legendary voyages to a combined 60 ports across 33 countries, featuring Queen Mary 2’s first circumnavigation around Australia.
The leader in World Cruising, Cunard offers itineraries calling on legendary ports, featuring overnights in Sydney and Hong Kong on Queen Elizabeth; and overnights in Cape Town, Hong Kong and Dubai on Queen Mary 2. These rich travel legacies, combined with the Line’s hallmarks of elegant fine dining, impeccable White Star Service™ and a wide variety of premier stateroom accommodations - including the award-winning Queens Grill and Princess Grill suites - provide unforgettable experiences.
“Not only are our guests seeing the wonders of the world while enjoying Cunard’s signature White Star Service, they are joining the Line’s nearly century-old historic travel adventure,” said Peter Shanks, president of Cunard Line.
Queen Elizabeth World Voyage
For her second World Voyage, Queen Elizabeth will once again offer a complete circumnavigation of the globe on a 107-day journey from Southampton. North American guests have the ease of embarking on their World Voyage experience from New York, Fort Lauderdale or San Francisco, after the ship transits the Panama Canal.
From the West Coast, Queen Elizabeth sails into the South Pacific and New Zealand before arriving for an overnight in Sydney. Next, she heads north to Singapore via Queensland, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, and makes an overnight stay in Hong Kong.
After visiting more of Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India en route to Dubai, Queen Elizabeth begins the final leg of her epic voyage, including the transit of the Suez Canal, as well as calls in Egypt, Greece, Italy and Portugal before returning home to Southampton.
Here, North American guests have the option to rendezvous with Queen Mary 2 and take in the Line’s iconic Transatlantic Crossing to complete their historic World Voyage. Fares for the full 107-day World Voyage start from $20,995 per person.
Segment Voyages offer the Queen Elizabeth experience and capture the essence of a World Voyage, ranging from 12 to 24 days, including New York to San Francisco (17 days), San Francisco to Sydney (24 days), Sydney to Singapore (24-days), Singapore to Dubai (12 days) and Dubai to Southampton (22 days). Guests can enjoy great value by combining two or more consecutive segments to create adventurous Liner Voyages. Segment fares start from $2,775 per person.
Queen Mary 2 World Voyage
Queen Mary 2 will begin her fifth World Voyage in Southampton, including a maiden call to the spectacular sand dunes in Namibia’s Swakopmund before a two-night stay in Cape Town. From South Africa, she sails to Sydney via Mauritius where she offers her first-ever circumnavigation of Australia and a maiden call in Darwin along the way. After returning to Sydney for a second visit, she is off to Japan, including a maiden call to Hiroshima, and China en route to an overnight stay in Hong Kong. Queen Mary 2 then visits Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and India en route to Dubai.
From here, Queen Mary 2 will call in Egypt and transit the Suez Canal before returning home to Southampton via Greece and Portugal. Full World Voyage fares start from $20,995 per person.
Segment Voyages aboard Queen Mary 2 range from 15 to 22 days and include Southampton to Cape Town (15 days), Cape Town to Sydney (20 days), roundtrip from Sydney (22 days), Sydney to Hong Kong (19 days), Hong Kong to Dubai (16 days) and Dubai to Southampton (16 days). Segment fares start from $2,995 per person.
Enhanced Benefits Programme
In addition to receiving a bonus 10 percent discount off Early Booking Fares (EBF), Full World Voyage and Liner Voyage guests will receive an on-board credit of up to $3,000 per stateroom when booking by 28 February 2011. Full World Voyage guests also receive complimentary Hotel and Dining Charges.
Further, an invitation will be extended to all Full World Voyage guests to join Cunard President Peter Shanks ashore at one of the ports of call during their time on board for the traditional World Voyage Dinner, an exclusive evening of world-class dining and entertainment. Cunard World Club members will receive an extra 5 percent savings off Bonus Early Booking Fares.
For more information and to book a 2012 Cunard World Voyage aboard Queen Mary 2 or Queen Elizabeth, consult your Travel Agent, call toll-free 1-800-7-CUNARD (1-800-728-6273) or go to www.cunard.com.
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Topic Software security
SubTopic Open source security
Application attacks
Application firewalls
Security patching
Open source security
Securing productivity applications
Secure SaaS
Social media security
bluebay2014 - Fotolia
Compromised NPM package highlights open source trouble
A compromised NPM package targeted a popular bitcoin wallet with cryptocurrency-stealing code and experts say the issue highlights the lack of a chain of trust in open source software.
Michael Heller, Senior Reporter
A highly targeted attack abused a lax chain of trust for an open source library and potentially infected millions via a compromised NPM package that averages 1.5 million downloads per week.
NPM is the package manager for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment, and a popular package -- event-stream -- had malicious code added to it without anyone realizing for more than one month. The malicious code was added to the NPM package on Oct. 5, went unnoticed until Nov. 20 and it wasn't determined what the code did until Nov. 26. The incident occurred after ownership of the module was transferred from the original developer to an anonymous user, who added the malicious code.
The malicious code was highly targeted and specifically searched for users with the Copay bitcoin wallet in order to steal cryptocurrency. Because of this, it is still unclear how many users were victimized despite the popularity of the compromised NPM package -- thousands of other packages are dependent on NPM.
According to Kevin Beaumont, a security architect based in the U.K., the reach of the compromised NPM package could be vast.
Almost 5k packages in NPM have the trojaned NPM package as a co-dependency. It has also been trojaned for several months. In other words, it is in apps everywhere, oops.
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) November 26, 2018
Gary Bernhardt, a software developer based in Seattle, said on Twitter that NPM was especially suited to an attack like this.
Why did this happen to NPM and not another system? Partly, NPM is just a big target. But partly because NPM modules are tiny, so there are more modules and maintainers, which means more attack surface area. Create-react-app 2.1.1 installs 1,770 dependencies (excluding dupes).
— Gary Bernhardt (@garybernhardt) November 26, 2018
Jarrod Overson, director of engineering at Shape Security, wrote in a Medium post that "[t]he amount of effort this took was not trivial. This exploit took a lot of research and planning and likely had backup routes in the case that event-stream wasn’t able to be hijacked. Given the way the attack played out it seems plausible that the actor had targeted Copay specifically rather than grabbing a valuable library and planning out an attack from there. The popularity of event-stream meant that the attacker had an easy route in to privileged computers in hundreds of companies across the globe."
Responsibility for the compromised NPM package
Ayrton Sparling, a computer science student at California State University, Fullerton, who goes by the username FallingSnow on GitHub, discovered the malicious code in the compromised NPM package and tied the issue to the original author, Dominic Tarr, handing over maintenance of the package to a little-known user in early September.
Tarr, a software engineer based in New Zealand, defended his decision to give up control of the package on GitHub by noting that he doesn't get anything from maintaining the module and hasn't used it "for years."
Others, like Jake Williams, founder and president of Rendition Infosec, based in Augusta, Ga., said Tarr shouldn't be blamed because "there's a serious supply chain risk here that we need to wake up to sooner than later."
That said, it's not hard to see that we need a better mechanism for evaluating trust in package management tools like npm. We really need to ask what we're trusting: the developer/development team or the package name. I would argue we're getting it wrong today. 6/6
— Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) November 26, 2018
Overson said blame for issues like this compromised NPM package was "so distributed that there is no use in placing blame."
"The problem is that so much software is built on the backs of people who are expected to work for free. They deliver useful software once but are expected to maintain it until the end of time. If they can't, either they go dormant and ignore requests or security vulnerabilities or they pass the baton over to someone else hoping that they can get away without getting tagged ever again," Overson said. "Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but no outcome can excuse the security vulnerabilities this exposes in the software supply chain. Even the discovery of, research into, and subsequent damage control for this exploit was done largely by unpaid volunteers of the open source ecosystem."
Mounir Hahad, head of Juniper Threat Labs, said one way to reduce lone threat actor attacks like this would be to use "mandatory code reviews and processes to approve code changes by committers."
"Enterprises must have their finger on the pulse of message boards regarding hardening packages they use," Hahad said. "It may not be an easy task given most companies rely on hundreds and sometimes thousands of open source packages. Having a dedicated staff for this task may make it feasible."
Craig Young, computer security researcher for the Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team at Tripwire, said this type of dependency management can be "particularly challenging in the NPM ecosystem where projects commonly include extremely long lists of modules from a wide range of authors."
"It is not uncommon for node.js/NPM projects to have upwards of 1,000 dependencies in a project. This has greatly increased the odds that a single malicious module commit can undermine the security of many end projects," Young said. "Organizations developing code with node.js/NPM need to really keep a close eye on what is being imported, who controls the code, and whether it is trustworthy. This is especially true when projects rely on free, community developed code."
Dig Deeper on Open source security tools and software
GitHub Enterprise security, monitoring tools target large orgs
Vet third-party apps to reduce supply chain threats
NPM security to use automated tools to boost community alerts
Recent open source flaw highlights danger of social engineering hacks
By: George Lawton
Michael Heller asks:
How does your organization use NPM, and how are you mitigating this threat?
A Quick Guide to Navigating the DevOps Journey –NetApp
Delivering datacentre performance and cost savings with Intel Optane technology –Intel
Vet third-party apps to reduce supply chain threats – SearchSecurity
Recent open source flaw highlights danger of social ... – TheServerSide.com
NPM security to use automated tools to boost ... – SearchSecurity
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Culinary Summit 2018
Seattle Public Schools » Our District » Calendars and News » News » Archived News » Culinary Summit 2018
Master Chef: High School Edition
Student chefs at Franklin High, Rainier Beach Skill Center, Roosevelt High, Ingraham High and West Seattle High School have been hard at work in the kitchen for the past month, learning new techniques and employing their creativity to whip up delicious dishes for professional review.
A select group of advanced culinary students from the five schools was selected to attend the Molly Moon Information Challenge on March 29 at the Molly Moon Headquarters on Capitol Hill. Chefs taught students about their ice cream, ingredients and demonstrated how a professional server assembles the perfect cone. Students returned to their campuses with a new fervor, charged with creating ice cream toppings that were organic, locally sourced, and above all else, outstandingly delicious.
Reunited at the first annual Culinary Summit at the John Stanford Center for Educational Excellence, culinary students toured the industrial-sized kitchen that provides food for more than 100 school sites throughout the district, received nutrition career planning from a registered dietician, participated in their own taste test experience and presented their crafted ice cream toppings to Molly Moon Neitzel, founder and CEO of Molly Moon’s ice cream. They were anxious to have their toppings judged for the “June Sundae” special challenge.
Franklin High School took home the prize with their topping: Wild blueberries with Molly Moon Dark Fudge, paired with a shortbread cookie and a sprinkling of kosher salt, cinnamon and sugar.
Their creation will be the feature sundae through the month of June at all Molly Moon locations across the city. The proceeds from “June Sundae” will be gifted to the Seattle Public Schools culinary program.
Making Magic School Menus
After the culinary summit, students were challenged to return to their classrooms and create a school lunch entrée item that would meet United States Department of Agriculture guidelines for the National School Lunch Program, appropriate serving sizes and budgetary requirements for the School Nutrition Challenge.
District Dietician Lindsey Danner paid a visit to the schools for an official taste test and evaluation of the student’s work.
Danner said of the student’s ingenuity, “Following the regulations for the National School Lunch Program is very difficult when you consider our budget, labor and equipment constraints. I was very impressed that the students were able to be so creative in their menu options and presentation.”
The high schools presented the following winning lunch entrees for evaluation:
Ingraham: Chicken and spinach quesadilla
West Seattle: Chicken street tacos with cilantro lime rice
Roosevelt: Chicken stir-fry
Rainier Beach: Turkey-BLT sandwich
Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs and courses, such as culinary arts, create learning experiences for students through career-focused learning opportunities.
“It has been invaluable to the Nutrition Services department to partner with CTE and bring light to the challenges we face so the students have a better understanding and appreciation for the food served in our cafeterias,” Danner said. “We are excited to continue this effort next year with ongoing student input on the school menus.”
The winning entrees created by students in the school menu challenge will be incorporated into the 2018-19 districtwide school menu.
Seattle Public Schools CTE and Skills Center culinary programs offer students first-hand experience and techniques they can utilize to further their learning and pursue a career and opportunities in culinary arts.
Learn more about Culinary Arts in Seattle Public Schools.
Learn about the variety of CTE courses offered in the district.
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Six Teachers Win Educator Award
Seattle Public Schools » Our District » Calendars and News » News » Archived News » Six Teachers Win Educator Award
Six Teachers Win Heroes in the Classroom Award
This fall, six educators from across Seattle were recognized for excellence in teaching. The honorees are nominated by their school principal, colleagues, students or student’s families; and selected based on their extraordinary efforts inspire and engage students.
Danielle Woods, Leschi Elementary School, Maret Poole, McGilvra Elementary School, Teresa Scribner, Cleveland High School, Jessica Torvik, Nathan Hale High School, Brian Robertson, Broadview-Thomson K-8 School, and Jennifer Morris, McDonald International Elementary School, were recognized as a 2017 Symetra Hero in the Classroom.
Each of these teachers were recognized for creating a positive climate for learning in the classroom. They all go above and beyond daily responsibilities to make a significant contributions to help students reach their academic and social potential.
Throughout the fall, the Symetra Hero in the Classroom awards and a donation for classroom books and supplies were presented to the educators in a surprise school assembly in each school. The honorees also received Seahawk home game tickets and acknowledgment during on-field presentations at the game.
Danielle Woods
“Danielle Woods has made a lasting impact on her students, the school and the wider Leschi community." said Heidi Trudel, who nominated Woods for the award. “A few years ago, Danielle, along with her partner teacher, spearheaded a movement to combine two learning environments at Leschi Elementary. The goal was to bring more cohesion and create equitable classrooms. The transformation she helped drive has had a positive impact, and I feel fortunate to have witnessed how our school and community have changed for the better as a result of her leadership and guidance,” said Trudel.
Maret Poole
“Mrs. Poole is able to differentiate for students at all levels, providing opportunities that meet each child's specific needs — from advanced learners to those who may be struggling to meet standard. She is what we call a ‘warm demander;’ she has high expectations of her students, but she also is warm and genuinely caring. Her impact upon her students is obvious as first- through fifth-graders regularly poke their heads in at recess to say hello and proudly share their accomplishments.” Maggie Burgess nominated Poole for the award.
Jessica Torvik
Science and Urban Horticulture
“Brilliant, creative and innovative, Jessica Torvik loves her work almost as much as she loves her students. Ms. Torvik teaches science and urban horticulture, and manages Nathan Hale's highly successful Urban Farm, where students who may have struggled in more mainstream classes find ways to be brilliant and successful. “[She] is a wonderful role model for young women who love science, and many of her students go on to careers in the hard sciences,” said Doug Edelstein, who nominated Torvik for the award.
Teresa Scribner
Cleveland High School
Journalism, Graphic arts, and Multimedia
“Ms. Scribner perfectly embodies Cleveland’s school motto: spirit, unity and progress. Everything she does is for students. Whether they have seen her running assemblies or selling concession at basketball games, every student knows who she is and how committed she is to Cleveland and to their education,” said Hewan Mengistu, a former student who nominated Scribner for the award.
Brian Robertson
Broadview-Thomson K-8 School
"Somehow, Brian knows what’s happening in every class; he knows when the science fair project is due, even though he doesn’t teach science. He knows that there’s a map test coming in Washington state history, even though he doesn’t teach that either. This information is crucial for his students and that’s why he knows it. He goes out of his way to have conversations with other teachers and other students about what’s going on so that he can make sure his students have the best chance to succeed,” said Emily Sugiyama, who nominated Robertson for the award.
Jennifer Morris
McDonald International Elementary School
“Jennifer Morris is an amazing teacher who works hard every day to make a real difference in children’s lives,” said Kate Koester, the parent of a former student. “Ms. Morris finds way to connect students to real issues impacting the community. For a social studies project around food insecurity in Seattle, she brought her students’ classroom learning to life by organizing a trip to a local farm where the children harvested spinach to donate to a local food bank.”
Read more about these six Seattle teachers who received the Symetra Heroes in the Classroom.
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Steve Kuban Music – Newsletter 2018
Thank you for being a part of this ministry! Almost 40 years ago, the Lord changed my life, while I was in music college. He did an amazing miracle, and turned this atheist's heart to Him! What has happened since then has been quite a wonderful journey, filled with miracles, that will require a book or two to explain, which I plan to write in 2019. But for now here are some highlights from 2017-2018, and what the Lord is asking us to do in 2019. Please consider how you might be able to help us fulfill what He is asking, including publishing these books. Also, if you have a testimony of how God has used my music in your life, please share it, for possible inclusion in the books.
I have now been in full-time ministry 36 years, praise the Lord! It was on Dec. 23, 1982 while kneeling that the edge of my bed, that the Lord spoke to me very clearly that I was to leave professional secular music and enter into full-time ministry. I was 22 years old at the time. I said "Yes" to Him, and the rest is history. It has been a fantastic voyage ever since!
Four things took place just prior to 2018:
I recently received two very special honors:
Honorary Doctoral Degree in Divinity from the Canadian Christian Theological Seminary in Calgary.
USA Delegate for the United Nations For Israel — I was elected to this position in Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles for the Jewish year 5778.
And introduced two new albums* (album #17 and #18, click the titles to hear samples):
YHVH I Love You (14 spontaneous songs of jazz worship); and
God is My Refuge and Strength (Scripture Songs Vol 1)
These albums are unique in my collection being Messianic using the original Hebrew names YHVH ("the LORD") and Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ). I introduced them in Israel, Qatar, UAE, Philippines, Trinidad, St. Vincent, Canada and USA, and in Messianic congregations as well as at the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America Conference (MJAA).
Here are some of the highlights of 2018: (Hover and click to see links for each)
Cassandra and I celebrated our 10th year of marriage on July 24th, 2018 and have now been travelling together in ministry ten years. Praise the Lord!
30 new songs composed and recorded live (many which will be included on two upcoming albums.)
45 events in various places including LA, New York, Miami, Trinidad, St. Vincent, and the Philippines
Live Radio Shows including FireFest in New York City and Bequia in St. Vincent
80 of my songs have been registered in the CCLI database, granting churches permission to show the words
FGBMFI events including a Valentine's Banquet in Trinidad and Caribbean Convention in Tobago, and Miami
50 new videos published on my YouTube channel (for a total of 325 YouTube videos to date)
160 new Facebook Live videos published (for a total of 300 facebook videos to date)
300 new music and live performance videos published in 2018! Thank You Lord!
3 million views of the recording Come Holy Spirit —a wonderful reminder how the Holy Spirit continues to touch many lives through my older albums. Praise the Lord! More about this in a moment.
Our website SteveKuban.com has been greatly expanded and now contains 333 songs and 20 worship albums
Family Events:
On June 20 my father-in-law Homberto Salan Sr. graduated to heaven. We attended his funeral in the Philippines where I sang and ministered for three days to all the Salan family and their community.
In July my mom Martha Kuban celebrated her 91st birthday in Calgary Alberta. She's doing quite well for her age. Please include her in your prayers: for continued health, and that she will open her heart to the Lord.
Anniversaries:
The 40th anniversary of my first professional studio recording at age 17. I wrote this composition right after the death of my father Steve Kuban Sr. at age 52, and recorded it in a professional studio playing all 15 instruments myself. It helped qualify me for entrance to the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, where I met the Lord and my life was changed forever. I recorded it on April 22nd,1978 (hence the title) and released it to the public for the very first time exactly 40 years later, in honor of my dad. It can be heard here.
36th Anniversary of when God called me into full-time ministry (Dec. 23rd, 1982)
21st Anniversary of when God called me to "Take Worship to the Nations." (Dec. 20th, 1997)
10th Anniversary of our wedding (July 24th, 2008)
STEVEKUBAN.COM – A STRONGER ONLINE PRESENCE IN 2018
The internet has led to a major re-focusing goal in 2018 — to create a stronger online presence. Here's why:
The Lord has given me a powerful testimony, coming to Christ from a life of atheism. He's also given me wonderful music, recordings and songs, and the gift of leading worship to bring people into His presence. He's filled my life with hundreds of amazing experiences and allowed me to minister in 40 countries serving Him, and so much more.
I earnestly desire to use all of what the Lord has given me, to inspire and benefit as many lives as possible for His glory. By God's grace thousands have been touched through concerts, church services, CD's and cassettes. I often hear people say things like:
"Brother Steve, your CD still plays every day in my car!"
"I go to sleep at night listening to your worship CD!"
"I start every morning listening to your albums." Praise the Lord!
Now, through the internet, I can reach thousands more souls for Christ, and lead millions of people in worship all over the world, bringing them into God's presence where He can speak to them and change their lives!
Here's a true and recent story that emphasizes this point: On December 8th, 2018 the title song from my album Come Holy Spirit passed 3 million views on YouTube. This is quite amazing when you consider Come Holy Spirit was first recorded as a regular Sunday night worship service at my church, Crossroads Cathedral in Toronto with about 400 people in attendance. But the Holy Spirit really showed up! I made it into an album, began distributing and selling the cassettes and CD's in bookstores across Canada (I had to visit 100 Christian bookstores myself because there was no record label financing its promotion), and people began buying them and word got around.
I traveled overseas and signed agreements with companies to manufacture CD's and cassettes (Praise Inc. in the Philippines, GLS in India, Alby in Singapore) and the Spirit of God graciously touched listeners, and albums began to sell, including 20,000 units of Come Holy Spirit in the Philippines, garnishing a gold record award, unheard of for an unknown artist on his own label. People made their own copies in Saudi Arabia (where Christian CD's and cassettes were not allowed), Hong Kong, Guyana, and Trinidad.
Now, many years later, the Lord continues to use the internet to bring these CD's and songs to the nations — for His Spirit is timeless, and there is no distance in the Spirit.
For the first time in history people can post songs and videos online, that millions around the earth can listen to, even on their phones. In 2018 it's no longer about concerts or physical CD's, it's about downloading and streaming music, and there are no borders or boundaries! The music can go anywhere in the world! This is the day and age we live in. Yeshua said, "This Gospel must be preached to the whole world, then the end will come." We are there now!
Today, the Holy Spirit is touching millions of lives all over the world, using the internet to bring worship music to them wherever they are! Songs and albums that carry His presence (like Come Holy Spirit) are now being shared online everywhere, causing millions to experience the living presence of God for themselves. Not just thousands, as in the days of CD's — but millions!
You may think, "Brother Steve, that's just wishful thinking," But here is just one example that proves this:
Three million views – and counting!
A couple in Australia (the Minniecons) made a nice video of Come Holy Spirit with lyrics and posted it on YouTube. God's spirit touched viewers powerfully, and people began sharing it. Already now three million views have taken place, meaning millions have been brought into God's presence, and are getting lost in His power and glory! Imagine this, from a simple worship service that took place 23 years ago with 400 people. Who could have imagined such a thing? Hallelujah! This is what God wants!!
Thus in 2018 we exerted great effort and spent much time to increase our online presence, by redesigning www.SteveKuban.com, adding and improving many features:
► MUSIC — We've added:
Hours of new songs and newly-recorded music including many scripture songs (to help people memorize God's word)
Concerts in many unusual places (Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Italy, Baraka Nuclear Powerplant at the border of Saudi Arabia, and more)
Songs from all my earlier cassettes (out of print, no other way to get these)
Songs from my child and teenage years — Want to hear me sing, play piano, drums or guitar at age 10? or play a Hebrew Folksong Tzena with my dad on the accordion when I was 12? Now you can view here! We've added some amazing music from many years ago as part of my personal testimony, demonstrating God's touch upon my early life!
►SteveKuban.com/STORE now offers:
333 downloadable songs
20 music albums
Physical CD's
Lyrics to 115 songs (with many more to come)
Bible in Songs section listing all of Steve's songs by Book, chapter and verse
"Touch the Nations" song — so people can sing and intercede for their own nation. Ten countries have been recorded thus far (with more nations to come) with sing-along and rehearsal tracks for public performance. God has used this special song in over 30 countries so far.
Events tab listing 300+ events I've done (including 160 events in the Persian Gulf countries)
Photos and links to thousands of photos, categorized by location in many countries
About section that includes
recommendations and endorsements by pastors and church leaders
a complete discography listing 15 cassettes, 23 CD's and 10 DVD projects I've recorded
newspaper and book articles
Links to blogs, prophecies, and personal journals
Posters of past events
Hundreds of pages of new information (more than 500 pages so far and growing daily)
Newsletter, Guestbook, discussion, poll, people's testimonials of how my music has been a blessing to them
Q & A section "Ask Dr. Steve" where people can ask questions about worship, music&ministry
...and many new categories and sections.
Our goals through this website are to:
Bring people into God's presence through worship music
Provide songs to help people memorize scripture
Make people aware of Christ's salvation, by sharing my testimony in every way possible
Bring prophetic messages and songs
Please visit our website and look around. You will be very blessed by all that is there!
1. ►Steve's 40th Spiritual Birthday Book Project
2019 will be my 40th spiritual birthday! Forty years ago I was an atheist, writing songs against God, mocking Christ and the Bible. But God stepped into my life and touched my heart. I said a 20-second prayer, asking Him to prove He is real—and overnight He changed my life! Forever! Glory to God! The Lord changed me into a lover and worshiper of the true and living God, who now writes songs for Him and leads people into His wonderful presence. In 2019 I believe God will have me write a book about my salvation and life's experience so that others can be blessed by reading what God has done in me.
2. ►Four Recording Projects
I plan to release three new albums in 2019, plus add new versions of the "Touch" song for nine new countries.
3. ►"The Lord is My Tower" Book Project
The 25th anniversary of the live recording The Lord is My Tower occurs November 11th, 2019. In honor of this the Lord has asked me to write a book explaining how He brought this amazing album into being, including testimonials of how the Lord has used it to bless peoples' lives
HOW YOU CAN HELP BE A PART OF THIS MISSION:
There are many daily operating expenses, plus major tasks and events in the coming months that will require our energy, focus and finances:
RECORDING PROJECTS
$10.000 Album # 19 Steve's Favorite Hymns Vol 1
$10,000 Album # 20 Steve's Scripture In Song Vol 2
$12,000 Album # 21 Touch America (Songs of God's promises for the USA)
$ 9,000 "Touch " Add 9 additional nations to the song "Touch" ($1,000/nation)
$ 8,000 Book: Steve's Personal Testimony (Write, edit, design and publish 40 years edition)
$ 8,000 Book: "The Lord is My Tower" story (25th Anniversary special edition)
OFFICE and STUDIO EXPENSES
$23,040 Website design and maintenance ($80/day x 288 days)
$ 1,020 Website hosting ($20/m), domains ($5/m), internet provider ($60/m) = $85/m x12m)
$ 7,200 Office Rental (recording studio, publishing studio) $600/m x 12m)
$ 4,000 Computer Equipment — Desktop Station for Video and Music editing
$ 3,000 Computer Equipment — Notebook computer for travels
$ 1,500 Software for Video Editing, DAW, Music & MIDI Transcription to publish leadsheets
$ 1,600 Software for Office, publishing, graphic design for 4 stations ($400 x 4 computers)
$ 1,500 Tablet, Lighting, Greenscreen, Teleprompter and associated software
TOTAL $ 99,860
You can be a part of bringing these projects into reality in 2019! It requires finances, and a lot of time and hard work by Steve and Cassandra working in their studios.
Our finances are usually generated by traveling, teaching seminars, performing worship concerts, and ministering in church services.
However to do these projects, we will need to spend several months in 2019 hunkered down in our studio, rather than traveling internationally. Please consider sowing into these projects, thereby enabling us to remain truly focused to accomplish these noble goals.
Please pray, and as the Lord leads, kindly donate using your debit or credit card (or Paypal) by clicking this link or going to www.stevekuban.com/donate
You can also send your contribution by WESTERN UNION to: Stephen Kuban, Orlando Florida, USA (kindly email the MTCN to steve@stevekuban.com)
4. ►The LORD is My Tower 25th Anniversary Tour
This is a very special album which has touched thousands of lives. It received a certified platinum award in the Philippines, and is known around the world. Glory to God! It is also the album and song that God used to bring His purposes to pass in my life to "Take Worship to the Nations"
The Lord has asked me in 2019:
►to return to cities where I've sung concerts before and share songs from this album. This will be a blessing to many who sang these songs in their earlier Christian days, and also to those young people who may not yet know the songs or the powerful flow of worship that characterizes "The Lord is My Tower." I sense strongly the Lord will bring a revival of worship through these concerts once again, as He did each time in every city.
►to write a book describing how this album came into being and include people's testimonials of how it has ministered to them through the years. (If you would like to share your testimony for inclusion in the book, please share it here, together with your email address. We will get back to you.)
Please pray God will reveal which of the cities I should return to, in the Philippines and other countries, to mark this very special occasion! If you would like to be a part of this event, and have us consider coming to your city, please send an email to steve@stevekuban.com explaining how you can help, together with your church and pastor's name and email address if they will be a part. This will be a wonderful journey together in 2019!
Please pray for these concerts, and consider sowing financial seed to help us
There will be considerable up-front expenses for each one of the "Lord Is My Tower 25th Anniversary Concerts" in 25+ cities in the Philippines and other countries. We are praying that each of these concerts will be self-supporting and profitable, and will budget carefully, get sponsors and organizers, and oversee proper ticket sales.
Nevertheless the upfront expenses are considerable because venues, sound systems, production costs, printing of tickets and posters, and marketing costs must all be paid up-front, while Incoming revenues are not fully realized until tickets are sold and monies collected. This is an opportunity for you to sow into these very spiritually fruitful projects.
Please pray how you can help us accomplish what the Lord is asking us to do in 2019. If the Lord speaks to your heart to partner with us and sow financially into our mission, you can do so at www.stevekuban.com/donate. Please partner with us to "Take Worship to the Nations."
Well, that's a little recap of what's been happening in our lives during the past year or so.
Please continue to pray for our safety as we fulfill God's call to "Take Worship to the Nations."
If you'd like to receive updates on our ministry, kindly enter your email address at www.stevekuban.com. You will receive a free song mp3, "Let Me See You Face to Face" which I recorded on December 3rd, 2018.
Please sign up to be on our mailing list (if you have not yet), and enter the code "Newsletter2018" to receive a 30% discount on all music downloads for a limited time at www.SteveKuban.com/store
Thank you for being a part of God's purposes in our lives!
Sincerely in Messiah!
Dr. Steve Kuban
Email: steve@stevekuban.com
Website: https://SteveKuban.com
Official Store: https://SteveKuban.com/store
Donate: SteveKuban.com/donate
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2020 KTM 1290 Super Adventure S
New Motorcycles • Travel
2020 KTM 1290 Super Adventure S • $18,599
F9975T5
UNRIVALLED PERFORMANCE.
Whether it's cracking the throttle wide open out of an exhilarating asphalt corner, or braking hard while tipping it into a gravel turn, pushing the laws of physics is what the KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S is made for. Its combination of incredible horsepower and torque and a mere 215 kg (474 lbs) dry weight is kept in check by the most advanced electronics in the world of motorcycling. All you have to do is focus on the road ahead and hold on tight, while enjoying every twist and turn as you push further and further.
Bodywork & Graphics
BODYWORK & GRAPHICS: The KTM 1290 ADVENTURE S is built to endure the most challenging long adventures - and it looks the part. The bike's graphics and bodywork reflect KTM ADVENTURE spirit and hint at the extreme performance you'll experience when you ride this ADVENTURE machine.
LED HEADLIGHT: Form and function are integrated beautifully into the 1290 S's design. The headlight for example has a central aluminum section holding the LEDs, which keeps the unit cool. Two more LED strips - acting as daytime running lights - surround it. Another set of LED cornering lights round things off at the bottom. They use the lean angle sensor of the MSC system to adjust their intensity in real-time. Unlit corners? A thing of the past. With a KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S, the direction is clear.
CHASSIS: With its ultra-lightweight tubular trellis frame, a high-strength, die-cast, open-lattice swingarm and top-quality WP Suspension components, the KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S offers outstanding stability and control in any situation. Keeping asphalt lovers in mind, the KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S is fitted with a 19-inch wheel up front and 17-inch at the rear, while excellent braking power is ensured thanks to world-renowned market leader BREMBO.
FRAME: The chrome-molybdenum steel trellis frame makes a major contribution to the bike's excellent chassis geometry. It's a rugged, laser-cut, robot-welded thing of beauty with a glorious surface finish. At only 9.8 kg (21.6 lbs), it helps to keep the total, unfueled weight at a spectacular 215 kg (474 lbs). All muscle, zero fat.
SWINGARM: The die-cast, open-lattice swingarm is not only particularly light, it's also precisely manufactured. The design has been optimized for stiffness and stability while still offering excellent flex characteristics.
ENGINE & EXHAUST: Each adventure is a true test of rider and machine. With a proven track record in the Dakar Rally, the toughest adventure of them all, KTM has gained the know-how to produce reliable powerplants that deliver top performance across a wide range of terrain. Whether you intend on pushing further, harder or more often, the compact and lightweight engines powering the KTM ADVENTURE range are built to take you to new extremes, and beyond.
ENGINE: The 1301 cc V-twin engine's power and torque are equally suited to lazy street riding as they are to full-throttle blasts onroad or off. The combination of lightweight chassis engineering and a compact but powerful engine take the KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S to the top of its class in terms of power-to-weight ratio and ride dynamics. A unique mix of the highest quality components combined with a fully developed and reliable engine allows extremely long service intervals of 15,000 km. That's a lot of adventures.
TRANSMISSION: A spread transmission on the primary wheel transfers the power to the clutch basket without any backlash, which eliminates vibration and reduces engine noise. On the intake sides there is a newly developed resonator chamber, designed to polish the torque output in the lower to mid-range rpms. This substantially increases the smoothness of the KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S's power train.
PASC CLUTCH: Not only does the slipper clutch open when the engine back-torque becomes too high, it also assists when you open up the throttle. The former prevents destabilizing rear wheel chatter when braking sharply or decelerating; the latter reduces the lever force required for changing gears, allowing the clutch to be controlled with one trigger happy finger – saving you energy while riding.
CYLINDER HEADS: A key element in the smooth power delivery of the 75° V-twin is each cylinder’s state-of-the-art 4-valve cylinder head. These combine twin plug ignition, flow-optimized ports and a slick low-friction valve drive train with cams from each cylinder’s twin overhead camshafts driving DLC-coated cam followers.
DLC COATING: DLC (Diamond-Like Carbon) is an extremely hard, durable coating used in many engine parts, such as cam followers, to assist sliding behavior. It improves performance and our engines love it!
TWIN IGNITION: The twin plug ignition system controls the two differently sized spark plugs in each cylinder head independently of each other. This results in more efficient combustion and a smoother, optimally controlled combustion sequence. What that means to you, is better-controlled power, lower fuel consumption, and reduced emissions.
PISTONS: The KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S’s forged piston structure is derived from Formula 1 technology. The result is a high loading capacity despite its extremely short and lightweight design. Although they have grown in diameter by three millimeters, the pistons are 47 grams lighter. This way, reciprocating weight is minimized, for responsiveness and a playful engine nature. The piston skirts have an additional state-of-the-art, GRAFAL® finish. It further reduces friction and is particularly hard wearing.
CRANKSHAFT: The extremely low crankshaft reciprocating weight enhances the responsiveness and free-revving nature of the engine. With a flow-optimized crank web shape, the particularly low-loss running of the crank drive is further enhanced.
OVERDRIVE: The sixth gear serves as a long overdrive in the KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S’s well-spaced gearbox. This saves fuel and adds to your cruising comfort.
RIDE-BY-WIRE: Smooth throttle response is what you get, beyond simply being free of a throttle cable, which is why the KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S's ride-by-wire system is so attractive. It ensures perfect dosage of the readily available and plentiful torque, while electronically translating rider throttle commands into throttle valve positions, which are perfectly adjusted to suit different riding conditions.
LONG SERVICE INTERVALS: A unique mix of the highest quality components combined with a fully developed and reliable engine allows extremely long service intervals of 15,000 km. That’s a lot of adventures.
POWER-TO-WEIGHT-RATIO: The combination of lightweight chassis engineering and a compact but powerful engine take the KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S to the top of its class in terms of power-to-weight ratio and ride dynamics. This fully equipped ADVENTURE bike tips the scale at 238 kg, while carrying a substantial 23 liters of fuel. This makes the KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S - in typical KTM style - one of the lightest motorcycles in its segment. Add an outstanding geometry, well-balanced stiffness distribution and high quality suspension components and you end up with a bike that's ready for anything. This also boosts safety, since it is far easier to fling a nimble motorcycle around a source of danger than a heavy one.
Ergonomics & Comfort
ERGONOMICS & COMFORT: The KTM 1290 ADVENTURE S has several adjustable features to enhance rider comfort, including seat and handlebar options. With lessons learned from KTM's Dakar Rally success, its performance-oriented, long-distance ergonomics were designed with comfort and control in mind.
HANDLEBAR: With two handlebar clamping positions: 10 mm forwards or backwards from stock; plus five reach settings of the hand levers, the rider has more freedom to set the bike up for greater control, and uncompromised comfort, which means a more satisfying adventure ride.
ILLUMINATED MENU SWITCH: Illuminated switches don't only look good, you locate the most important buttons in the blink of an eye. At night.
MENU SWITCH: Different modes for the various assistance systems can be selected using a menu switch on the left side of the handlebar. It's very simple and intuitive: "up" and "down" through the menu selection, select the desired menu item with the left button, confirm it with the right. Plus, you can make it even easier by personalizing your settings screens with two quick-select menus. Job done.
Software & Electronics
SOFTWARE & ELECTRONICS: The KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S provides you with all the information you need and allows you to precisely channel the performance to suit the terrain, the conditions and your riding mood. Even when you're pushing to extend your boundaries, KTM's combination of the most advanced software and electronics allows you to maximize the thrill factor out on any ride. Its racy looks and performance are matched only by the ease-of-use that modern electronics offer. All you have to do is focus on the horizon - and chase it down.
DASHBOARD: The KTM 1290 SUPER ADVENTURE S gives riders all the necessary and desirable information on a state-of-the-art, clearly arranged 6.5-inch TFT display. Even in direct sunlight, vital data is displayed clearly and crisply thanks to its bonded, anti-glare surface made of a strong sheet of glass. In addition to obvious data (speed, revs, fuel level etc), the computer can show different ride modes, ambient air and oil temperature, onboard voltage, trip info, average speed, fuel consumption stats, plus range and distance to next service.
USB PHONE POCKET: A convenient compartment keeps your smartphone safe on the road. It keeps it charged too, thanks to its integrated USB socket. The optional incoming call and audio functions link the phone to the bike via Bluetooth. It's always nice to let people know you absolutely have to take that enormous detour.
RIDER AIDS: Electronic rider aids provide more control, performance and enjoyment to the rider under a wider range of circumstances. The latest ABS and MTC (Motorcycle Traction Control) technology is designed to enhance your riding experience. Different ride modes are tailored for easy adjustment of the rider aid functions to suit a range of riding conditions. The simple adjustability of these features maximizes the powerful V-twin's innovative technology and equipment across a much wider range of terrain.
MSC WITH C-ABS: BOSCH's MSC assistance package is the world's first lean-angle sensitive cornering ABS system. It allows riders to always use the full power of their brakes while the system adjusts brake pressure to match the lean angle of the motorcycle, for more predictable braking across a wider range of conditions and scenarios. If required, not only can it be switched off, but also placed in "Offroad mode".
TPMS: As its name implies, the TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) monitors tire pressure (visible in the display) and warns the rider instantly of any pressure loss, whether sudden or gradual, whether tire damage or a valve leak.
MTC: The Motorcycle Traction Control (MTC) is a lean-angle sensitive system, which reacts in mere milliseconds the instant the rear wheel spins out of control. As smooth as it is quick, the system closes the throttle valves to regain grip for compelling yet completely controllable forward drive on all surfaces. The standard motorcycle traction control (MTC) offers four different ride modes - "Street", "Sport", "Rain" and "Offroad" - selected using the multi-functional switch on the left handlebar grip. Oh, and there's the off-switch for daredevils!
ATIR: After 10 seconds of movement and 150 meters of riding distance, the turn indicator will stop automatically. When pressed again, it recounts from zero. A big improvement in terms of safety, as it is now impossible to forget to reset the indicators.
OFFROAD RIDE MODE: Once this mode is engaged, the ride-by-wire limits the throttle response and peak power, putting you in full control wherever you take your bike. It also allows the rider to lock the rear wheel when required - a prerequisite for committed offroad riding and deliberately executed slides. The ABS function remains active on the front wheel, even in this mode.
OFFROAD TRACTION CONTROL: The Offroad TC mode allows up to 100% slippage - i.e. double rear wheel speed - for ambitious offroad use. Turn it on and master controlled drifts with ease.
OFFROAD ABS: The Offroad ABS mode allows the rider to lock the rear wheel as and when required - a prerequisite for committed offroad riding and deliberately executed slides or pivots. The ABS function remains active on the front wheel, but it intervenes later than on the street and builds up braking pressure in a different way to find grip on loose surfaces more easily.
CRUISE CONTROL: The standard cruise control is ultra convenient on long motorway journeys. Switches on the left side of the handlebar and a display in the TFT dashboard allow the rider to intuitively set and change the requested speed, so you'll arrive where the real fun begins with energy to spare.
KTM RACE ON: Forget about ignition keys and mechanically locked fuel caps. All you need is the "keyless" transponder in your pocket.
KTM MYRIDE: With the KTM MY RIDE system, a smartphone can be connected to the bike, which gives the rider the option of receiving phone calls, listening to music, and, using the optional app for navigation (further information available on www.ktm.com/my-ride).
Front - 320 mm disc, diameter
Rear - 267 mm disc, diameter
ABS - Bosch Bosch 9ME combined ABS (incl. offroad mode, disengageable)
Chain - X-Ring 5/8 x 5/16 in.
4-stroke, V 75°
PASC (TM) slipper clutch, hydraulically actuated
Keihin EMS with RBW and cruise control
Forced oil lubrication with 3 oil pumps
Chrome-molybdenum steel tubular space frame, powder-coated
WP Semi-active suspension USD Ø 48 mm
WP Semi-active suspension monoshock
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Home » Events » Coffee Chat
August 28, 2019 Kayla Fletcher Off
10/23/2019 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Stockbridge Library
Website:http://www.cadl.org/
Address: 200 S Wood St, Stockbridge, MI 49285, USA
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Connect with other community members on Wednesday mornings. Talk about local events, books and movies, or whatever comes up.
Wednesdays, Sept. 11-Dec. 18.11 a.m.-12 p.m.
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St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea to offer free Senior Fit classes in Manchester from January 6 through April 30
01/27/2020 1:15 pm - 01/27/2020 2:15 pm
CHELSEA, Michigan (Dec. 9, 2019) – St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea will offer Senior Fit classes at Emanuel United Church of Christ, located at 324 W. Main Street in Manchester, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. Senior Fit is a FREE exercise program for people age 55 and over that encourages senior adults to exercise their way to a healthier lifestyle. The program features standing and chair exercises that build strength and flexibility, as well as improve balance and cardiovascular fitness.
Space is limited and registration is required. Please call 734-593-5600 to register.
Stockbridge Area Arts Council
The Stockbridge Area Arts Council will hold their annual meeting Tuesday, January 28, 2020
at 7:00pm in Room 108 at the Middle School. The meeting is open to the public.
Coffee Chat (ADULTS)
01/29/2020 11:00 am - 01/29/2020 12:00 pm
Connect with other community members on Wednesday mornings. Talk about local events, books and movies, or whatever comes up. Wednesdays, Jan. 8–Feb. 26 • 11 a.m.–12 p.m.
Book Discussion Group (ADULTS)
01/31/2020 12:00 pm - 01/31/2020 1:00 pm
Enjoy refreshments and join the discussion! Last Fridays • 12–1 p.m.
Jan. 31: The Pioneers by David McCullough
Feb. 28: Educated by Tara Westover
Meet Audiobook Reader Lauren Ezzo (TEENS & ADULTS)
Hear some fun stories and amazing voices from Haslett native Lauren Ezzo, an Audie Award nominee with over 150 recorded books on her resume. Tuesday, Feb. 4 • 6:30–7:30 p.m.
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Kayla Fletcher
First Presbyterian Church,
101 S Center St, Stockbridge, MI 49285, USA
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/red-cross-blood-drive-2/2020-01-02/
The next Red Cross Blood Drive is Thursday, January 2, 2020 at Stockbridge Presbyterian Church from 1:00 p.m. to 6:45. Walk ins are welcome, but may have a long wait, appointments are recommended and can be scheduled at 1-800-Red CROSS (18007332767, or at recrossblood.org using sponsor code Stockbridge Presby.
Gregory Community Church Clothes Closet
Gregory Community Church
126 Church Street, Gregory, MI 48137
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/gregory-community-church-clothes-closet-3-2/2020-01-04/
Gregory Community Church Clothes Closet will be open by appointment only from December 9th, 2019 to March 6th, 2020.
Reopens March 7th, 2020 Saturday 10:00 -12:00 noon and Tuesday March 17, 2020 5:30 p m-7:30 pm. For appointment call:
Angie 734-498-2272
Nila 734-498-2719
Church Phone: 734-498-2591
St Mary Country Style Breakfast
10601 Dexter-Pinckney Rd, Pinckney, MI 48169, USA
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/st-mary-country-style-breakfast-2/2020-01-05/
On Sunday, January 5th, St Mary Men’s Club in Pinckney will be hosting our monthly “Country Style Breakfast”, at the Parish located south of M-36 at 10601 Dexter Pinckney Road in Putnam Township. Breakfast is served 8:30 until 11am and is a free-will donation. Proceeds will be used to help support our Parish Grade School. We have the best menu in the area which includes: fried or scrambled eggs, hash browns, biscuits and gravy, French toast, pancakes, quiche, ham, pork sausage, our renowned “waffle station” and new to the menu Breakfast Burritos! For further information call Heather at Parish Office 734-878-3161.
Emanuel United Church of Christ
324 W Main St, Manchester, MI 48158, USA
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/st-joseph-mercy-chelsea-to-offer-free-senior-fit-classes-in-manchester-from-january-6-through-april-30/2020-01-06/
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/st-joseph-mercy-chelsea-to-offer-free-senior-fit-classes-in-manchester-from-january-6-through-april-30-2/2020-01-07/
Drop-in LEGO Club
Capital Area District Library – Stockbridge Library
134 Wood St, Stockbridge, MI 49285, USA
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/drop-in-lego-club-4/2020-01-07/
Kids love getting creative with our LEGO collection! Imaginative play helps develop skills used for reading. Tuesdays, Jan. 7–Feb. 25 • 4–5:30 p.m.
SKY Theater Auditions
Stockbridge Town Hall
125 South Clinton Street, Stockbridge, MI, United States
http://stockbridgeskytheater@gmail.com
SKY Theater Presents
Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Auditions are Wednesday, January 8, 2020.
For more information, email SKY Theater at
stockbridgeskytheater@gmail.com
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/coffee-chat-adults/2020-01-08/
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/st-joseph-mercy-chelsea-to-offer-free-senior-fit-classes-in-manchester-from-january-6-through-april-30-2-2/2020-01-08/
St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Faith Community at Stockbridge Community Outreach
Stockbridge Community Outreach
370 Cherry St, Stockbridge, MI 49285, USA
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/st-joseph-mercy-chelsea-faith-community-at-stockbridge-community-outreach/2020-01-08/
Are you a good hand washer? Do you want to stay healthy in 2020? Meet with St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Faith Community Nurse Liaison, Patti Bihn BSN, RN to learn about proper hand washing technique with the GlitterBug demonstration kit. Wednesday, January 8th from 4-5pm at Stockbridge Community Outreach.
Auditions are Wednesday, January 8th and Thursday, January 9th between 5:30 and 7:00 pm.
SKY Theater is free to join and open to all area youth from 2nd to 12th grade. Come prepared to sing a couple of lines from your favorite song. Performances are March 20, 21 & 22 in 2020 at the Stockbridge Township Hall. Find SKY Theater on Facebook.
For more information, email SKY Theater at stockbridgeskytheater@gmail.com
Reading with Oliver (AGES 3–6)
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/reading-with-oliver-ages-3-6-3/2020-01-08/
Pre-readers and new readers can share books with our specially trained golden retriever. Wednesdays, Jan. 8 & Feb. 12 • 6–6:30 p.m.
Minecraft Game Nights (AGES 8–15)
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/minecraft-game-nights-ages-8-15-4/2020-01-10/
Drop in after hours to play Minecraft! Bring your own device with Minecraft installed, or use our computers (no account needed; seating on a rst-come basis). We’ll provide refreshments plus other activities like LEGO and board games. Younger children welcome with adult supervision. Fridays, Jan. 10 & Feb. 14 • 7–8 p.m.
Open Air Indoor Market
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/open-air-indoor-market-2/2020-01-11/
Saturday, January 11th the Open Air Market is indoors 11 to 3 at the First Presbyterian Church Education Building. Lunch is served 11 to 2. Soup, salad, and sandwich selections plus local musicians available. $5 per person. Proceeds of luncheon go to Presbyterian Women Mission Projects.
Contact Suzi Greenway for more info. at 517-851-7437.
Waterloo Village United Methodist Church Spaghetti Dinner
ORGANIZER 1
Waterloo Village United Methodist Church
8011 Washington Street Waterloo Township, Mi
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/waterloo-village-united-methodist-church-spaghetti-dinner-2/2020-01-11/
Waterloo Village United Methodist Church is holding a Community Spaghetti Dinner on Saturday, January 11th, from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.
The church address is 8110 Washington Street, in the Village of Waterloo. For more information please see our Facebook page or call 734-475-1171.
5:00 to 7:00 pm
$10.00 for adults
$5.00 for seniors & children under 10
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/st-joseph-mercy-chelsea-to-offer-free-senior-fit-classes-in-manchester-from-january-6-through-april-30-2-2-2/2020-01-13/
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/st-joseph-mercy-chelsea-to-offer-free-senior-fit-classes-in-manchester-from-january-6-through-april-30-2-2-2-2/2020-01-14/
Tactile Tuesdays (AGE 10 & UP)
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/tactile-tuesdays-age-10-up-3/2020-01-14/
Get creative with a different take-home craft project every month (while supplies last). 2nd Tuesdays • 5–6 p.m.
Jan. 14: Color Burst Fabric Design
Feb. 11: Twisted Wire Art
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/st-joseph-mercy-chelsea-to-offer-free-senior-fit-classes-in-manchester-from-january-6-through-april-30-2-2-2-2-2/2020-01-15/
Stockbridge Area Wellness Coalition meeting
Stockbridge Activity Center
305 W Elizabeth St, Stockbridge, MI 49285, USA
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/stockbridge-area-wellness-coalition-meeting-3/2020-01-16/
Stockbridge Area Wellness Coalition meeting, 5:30pm, SAC, room 108, Jan. 16
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/family-game-night-4/2020-01-17/
Take a break with family and friends to play Sushi Go Party, Codenames, Spot It Junior, Animal Upon Animal, Apples to Apples and more. Snacks, too! Fridays, Jan. 17 & Feb. 21 • 5–6:45 p.m.
Food/Clothing Pantry
Stockbridge Church of Christ
4783 s m 52 stockbridge, mi
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/food-clothing-pantry-2-2-2/2020-01-18/
Food/Clothing available at
4783 S. M-52
Stockbridge, MI.
Open every third Saturday of each month
10a.m. till noon
Tun-Dra Dog Mushing
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/tun-dra-dog-mushing/2020-01-18/
Meet some live sled dogs from Tun-Dra Kennels when their staff visits to talk about mushing and the Iditarod. If weather permits, we’ll also go outside for a demonstration. Saturday, Jan. 18 • 2–3 p.m.
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/gregory-community-church-clothes-closet-3-2-2/2020-01-21/
6th – 12th grade Band Concert
416 N Clinton St, Stockbridge, MI 49285, USA
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/6th-12th-grade-band-concert/2020-01-22/
6th – 12th grade Band Concert at the Jr/Sr High School at 7pm, January 22
4th Friday Community Dinner at the First Presbyterian Church
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/open-air-indoor-market-2-3/2020-01-24/
The Winter Pantry Market from the Open Air Market of Stockbridge will be in the back room selling cheese, produce, chicken, pork products, honey, maple syrup, jams, eggs, bread, baked goods and pies.
*Pizza & Pages (AGES 8–13)
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/pizza-pages-ages-8-13/2020-01-28/
Read any book that fits the theme, then come for discussion and pizza. Suggested titles available. *Registration required; call 517-851-7810. 4th Tuesdays • 4–5 p.m.
Jan. 28: Graphic Novels
Feb. 25: Science Fiction
Stockbridge Area Arts Council Meeting
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/stockbridge-area-arts-council-meeting/2020-01-28/
Stockbridge Area Arts Council Meeting, all welcome, 7pm, Tuesday, January 28, room 108
Old Middle School, 305 Elizabeth Street, Stockbridge, mI 49285
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/stockbridge-area-arts-council/2020-01-28/
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/book-discussion-group-adults/2020-01-31/
Teelightful Tees (AGE 10 & UP)
https://stockbridgecommunitynews.com/event/teelightful-tees-age-10-up/2020-01-31/
Transform old tee shirts into scarfs, tote bags, dog toys and more in this no-sew workshop. Please bring 2–3 old shirts, we’ll supply everything else. Presented by Karen Bonnici. Friday, Jan. 31 • 5:30–7 p.m.
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Inside the Internet
Netflix & Hulu Alternatives: 15 Niche Streaming Services To Know
There are some shows that *almost* everyone loves, like Game of Thrones. But the great thing about the internet is that there are *almost* infinite options to finding something new to watch. But when you’re caught in the vortex of Netflix and Hulu suggested content, it can be mysteriously difficult to find the exact show you want to watch, especially when you have, uh, particular tastes (horror addicts, we’re looking at you).
Want to listen to the dulcet tones of British accents - but don’t feel like the Great British Bake Off again? Maybe you’re trying to get scared out of your mind and Scary Movie 4 really isn’t it. Or you want to watch Like Mike (because any Michael Jordan cameo is gold) but there’s no way you’re going to find that while scrolling through cable channels or your run-of-the-mill content factories like Netflix and Hulu.
Check out this [non-exhaustive] list of streaming services that focus on and offer entertainment content in some narrow niches. They may be just what you’re looking for to satisfy your very specific craving.
Genre: Anime and manga
Cost: Free or $7.99/month for Premium
Audience: Crunchyroll is the streaming service for Anime and Manga -- if you’re just diving into the genre, this is the spot to start. With content from older anime like “Ruroni Kenshin” to popular current shows like “Dragon Ball Super” and “Black Clover,” they have a global community of over 45 million users. The content is professionally translated into multiple languages and fans can even stream events like Crunchyroll Expo or Anime Awards.
Toon Goggles
Genre: Kid-friendly
Audience: Sometimes, you just want to sit your kids in front of the TV and take a moment to breathe -- but cable and the auto “Continue to Watch” feature on YouTube or Netflix is fraught with “what are you watching?!” This streaming service ensures those panic attacks don’t happen. Material on the platform is screened and follows COPPA (The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) compliance, so parents can feel at ease to let their kid(s) surf through shows on Toon Goggles. You can create a profile for your child complete with an avatar and password to select age appropriate content.
Cost: $5.99/month, $56.99/year
Audience: If terror is your thing, Shudder has your back—watch out behind you! An AMC Networks company, they boast a collection of exclusive content, suspense, thrillers and more all curated and reviewed by experts. The interface is similar to Netflix, but their specific categories like Get Rad (80s horror), A Woman’s Touch (featuring women horror directors), A-Plus (Asian horror) really helps. They occasionally have guest curated selections from stars like Joe Bob Briggs and you can engage with other fans through their review community.
ScreamBox
Audience: While Shudder might be the spot for your mainstream horror movies, ScreamBox offers scary indie flicks, most of which you’ve probably never heard of before. They are starting to expand to the HorrorTube world as well - Homicidal Homemaker made her series available on the platform. The choice is yours, you just may be sleeping with the lights on from now on.
Genre: Educational/Wellness
Cost: $0.99/two weeks, $11.99/month, $29/three months, $99/year
Audience: A platform for more than just shows, Gaia boasts answers to life’s “deeper questions” as the largest offering of resources meant to “evolve your consciousness”. From yoga sequences, meditations, and Eastern spirituality to documentaries and films on alternative realities, crop circles and spiritual alchemy, Gaia has a wealth of content to satisfy those who are seeking it.
If you’re interested in learning about more online workouts that you can stream to your big screen, check out our article here.
Urban Movie Channel
Genre: African-American Culture & Entertainment
Audience: This streaming service, created by the founder of BET, offers a selection of exclusive black film and TV shows. You can browse feature films, documentaries, original series, stand-up comedy, and other exclusive content curated for African American and urban audiences. Current hits include “Love & Basketball,” “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do” and “Jacqueline and Jilly.”
BroadwayHD
Genre: Broadway
Audience: The theater is calling! But sometimes the theater’s call is long distance and way too expensive. Get your Broadway fix for less through BroadwayHD. You can stream an array of shows from over the years on your device anytime. Available shows include “Kinky Boots,” “Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance” and “Gypsy” (both 2015 and 1993).
Dekkoo
Genre: LGBTQ Culture & Entertainment
Cost: $9.99/month
Audience: While some areas have a thriving gay community and access to LGBTQ content through IRL shows, some may not. Dekkoo is a dedicated platform for gay entertainment. On Dekkoo you’ll have access to movies, shows and originals across a variety of genres and topics such as documentaries, drag, bisexuality, civil rights and more.
Audience: If Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon are just not giving you enough documentaries, CuriosityStream is for you. Created by the founder of the Discovery Channel, this platform provides a “journey through our world and beyond” with over 2,400 features and series. With a free trial, give it a go. Please start with “The Rise and Fall of T-Rex” because...dinosaurs.
Genre: Cinephilia
Cost: $10.99/month
Audience: Mubi is your go-to for exclusive releases, festival gems, and award-winning classics. It’s similar to a Netflix or HBO--but far more curated and selective. Each day they feature a film that you can view “live” and stays on the site for 30 days. Which means you always have 30 incredible movies at your disposal, instead of scrolling through suggested content spit out by Netflix and Hulu. Films fall into the independent, cult and classic segments from creators around the world.
Genre: British Programming
Audience: Calling all “Doctor Who” fans, BritBox gives you access to the first seven doctors, plus a bunch of colourful extras about the programme. There is also plenty of content about the Queen and her family. Either way, you can access more British telly besides The Crown and “Doctor Who”.
On Demand Korea
Genre: Korean Programming
Cost: Free, Plus is $6.99/month or $69.99/year, Premium is $10.99/month or $109.99/year
Audience: On Demand Korea is the go-to destination for Korean content--including news, TV shows, movies, K-pop and more. If you’re dabbling in Korean shows, they provide English (or Korean) subtitles on full HD videos. In a cool perk, content is made available on the platform within one hour of appearing on air in Korea.
[If you’re looking for more Asian-focused programming check out Viki. They offer Chinese, Tiawanese, Japanese, and Korean shows with subtitles.]
Pantaya
Genre: Spanish Programming
Cost: $49.99/year
Audience: This streaming platform serves Spanish-language entertainment from a variety of genres. Unique search filters include browsing by country or era, which is a great feature for when you want to try to source that old flick your abuela used to watch on repeat but can’t remember the name.
Genre: Bollywood
Audience: If you’re tired of Slumdog Millionaire being the only “Bollywood” film available on main-stream services, this is the streaming service for you. A one stop shop for Bollywood, it has programming in a variety of languages within and near India. Original productions include “Metro Park” and “Flip” and popular content at the moment is “Date Gone Wrong” and “My Name is Sheela.” As a nice bonus, you can also access music and music videos.
Genre: Christian
Cost: $10.99/month, $99.99/year
Audience: Pureflix streams wholesome family-friendly, Christian-focused original shows, movies, TV shows, documentaries, and more. It includes content for all ages, from kids’ animation to inspirational movies like “God’s Not Dead” and “Woodlawn”--and you can access it on a variety of devices. They even feature “Hillsong - Let Hope Rise,” a documentary about the rise and popularization of Hillsong UNITED.
If you’re shy about committing to streaming services, most offer trial periods, which is a great way to become familiar with the content and platform interface. Also, most streaming services don’t lock you in for extended periods of time, so you can pay monthly and cancel if you’re not a fan.
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Your home in the sky
About Skymaster
Regional Flight Operation
International Flight Operation
Dedicated Cargo/Freight Services
International Cargo/Freight Services
Consolidated Tour Provider & GSA Services
Princewill Ogbonna
Managing Director & CEO
Mr Ogbonna is the Founder, Managing Director & CEO of Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited. He graduated in 1999. He has been involved in the aviation industry for over 20years with formal and informal trainings in aviation industry.
His working careers span over many decades with stints at business development with Coahe Guinea, International Relations for Pride Air Network Humble Texas, Reliant Airways, Sky King, Memphis Airline. He was also the Managing Partner for the following Airlines;
Ready to Jet
Esijet U.S
He was a partner with the following Airlines;
Easylink Aviation
Star Aviation Services Limited
md@skymasterachievers.com
(+234)903-8708-561
Portharcourt
skymasterachievers.com
CHUKA UNACHUKWU
Mr. Unachukwu is the Deputy Managing Director of Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited. He graduated in 1999 with a B.Sc. in Business Admin from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. He also holds an MBA from Abubakar Tafewa Balewa University, Bauchi.
An experienced and successful finance and sales professional with excellent interpersonal skills. He has over 17years of banking and finance experience in Oil & gas, construction, asset & finance management. He successfully established a regional Oil & gas Upstream desk and became a Branch Manager prior to his exit from the Banking Industry.
His core competence include but not limited to Strategic Business Management, Marketing and Business Development, Operational re-engineering, Admin and HR services, structured finance, balance sheet and cashflow management, forensic accounting, cost rationalisation and Team leadership.
He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Loan and Risk Management (CILRM), Associate fellow of Chartered Institute of Financial & Investment Analysis (CIFIA) and a member of Chartered Institute of Bankers(CIBN).
dmd@skymasterachievers.com
BARRISTER JOSEPH OSEJI
Director for Legal and company
Barrister Oseji is the Director for Legal and company secretary of Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited. A graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Ogun State and Nigerian Law School with Bachelor of Law (LL.B) and Barrister at Law(B.L) respectively.
He is a product of many professional trainings and member of Equity Chambers, Member of Arbitration and Alternate Dispute Resolution Group, Advocacy Group, etc.
He has worked with various reputable chambers such as Adiele & Co. Chituru Chambers, Apha Juris Chambers, Bee Bassey & Bassey, and other corporate organisations. A Consultant to several companies and organizations like Osas & Oseji, Kegoz System Oil Limited, Benemis Nig. Ltd, Bear marine Services Limited et' al on Legal matters and on the Board of Directors of some companies such as Estrategia Invesmentos Limited, Jaycee Holidays & tours, P & R Global Services Limited, Star Aviation(A founding Director) amongst others.
He is currently the Principal Partner of JLN Solicitors & Advocates (Prime Juris Chambers).
He is proven leader of several organizations where he has meritorious served as President, Secretary and Secretary General. He is energetic and self-motivated. A determined team player with high sense of responsibility committed to deliver high quality and professional services. A convincing hard worker with proven leadership and management skills. He is also endowed with astute business acumen and oratory prowess and possess the ability to relate with all.
Ld@skymasterachievers.com
GODWIN OGEH
Finance and Chief Finance Officer
Mr. Ogeh is the Director of Finance and Chief Finance Officer of Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited.
He graduated in 1985, a Chartered Accountant, since 1998, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. (I.C.A.N). He has over 25 years working experience obtained in professional practice and the industries. He has held senior management positions for over 15 years in the oil and gas industry and has also attended various trainings, workshops and programs both within and outside the country.
fd@skymasterachievers.com
Barrister (Mrs.) Ijeoma Amadi
Barrister (Mrs.) Ijeoma Amadi is the Adminstrative Secretary of Skymaster Achievers International Services Limited. She is Legal Practitioner with more than 12 years professional experience covering litigation, corporate law, arbitration and corporate administrative responsibilities. She is responsible, energetic, intelligent with a clear logical mind, practical approach to solving problems and a drive to see tasks through to completion. She has served in several capacities such as a Managing Solicitor, Senior Partner in various law firms of repute. A very adaptable person in working with others to achieve set objectives/goals on time and with excellence.
Ls@skymasterachievers.com
MOHAMMED LAMIN KALLON
Mr Kallon is an accomplished graduate with various certifications and degrees spanning IT, Business Communication and Administration.
His working careers span over 35years which covers the following areas;
Managing Director "Lamin Telecom S. L." - Rubi – Barcelona
Teacher Freelance – Barcelona
Computer Technician Freelance – Barcelona
Managing Director "Jumkay International S. L." - Montornès del Vallès - Barcelona
Administrative Manager “Top Grade Management Services” - London.
Teacher "Good" - Mollet del Valles - Barcelona.
Linguistic Consultant "Institut Dexeus" - Barcelona.
Administrative Officer "Plantas y Flores" - Barcelona.
Manager "Madison - Bar Restaurante" - Barcelona.
Mr Kallon is a Sierra Leonean national and oversees our operations in Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone and Cameroon
dwaops@skymasterachievers.com
ENGR. ABAYOMI O. TALABI. (MNSE, COREN, MEng, B. Eng, HND)
Engr. Talabi is a Non-Executive Director in Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited. He graduated in 2010 with a B.Sc. in Engineering from the University of Port Harcourt. He also holds a Masters in Engineering also from University of Port Harcourt
A team player with over 10years working experience with the ability to face and tackle new challenges, with vigor to pursue, source and maintain new projects, analyze data to provide useful information for the management needs and the targeted goal, for the purpose developing and commercializing existing and new platform opportunities for the company growth. A hard worker with Computer skills, excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills coupled with a good understanding of the principles, philosophies and techniques of marketing and customer relations.
He has occupied various top management positions in the Oil & gas industry and is currently the Ag. Chief Operating Officer- Japaul Shipping Limited
He is a member of the following reputable associations;
Nigerian Society of Engineers (31258)
The Council for the Regulation of Engineering In Nigeria(R.28,751)
Nigerian Institute of Safety Professionals (NISP)
He also holds a Certificate in Computer Studies including AutoCAD (Engineering Designs And 3D Modeling).
nedabayomi@skymasterachivers.com
ANTHONY OLIVER BABAYEMI
Mr. Babayemi the Senior Business Development Manager of Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited. He graduated in 1989 with a B.Sc. in Arts in New York, USA.
He has over twenty (20) years of continuously maintaining strong performance and proven abilities to comprehend complex solutions, while managing and consulting for various minor and major companies; with the ability to lead with great level of oversight responsibility for multiple projects within high pressure environments. Well knowledgeable in project planning and management contract negotiation, project development and estimating. These are evidenced in the various positions he had held throughout his working career as follows:
Logistica Guinea Ecuatorial S.L - Country Manager
Batoni Energy Company S.L - MD/CEO
Grupo Franmar S.L - Business Development Manager
SOCOSEMA S.L - Marketing Director
Beatitude Services Malabo Inc - Assistant Director
LABIDOT Nigeria Ltd - Sales Manager
GACN Petroleum Company Inc - Logistics Manager
Global Aviation Commercial Network Inc - Marketing Manager
Mr Babayemi has undergone various trainings and certification both locally and abroad and has various recognitions and awards credited to him.
bd@skymasterachievers.com
CLIFF JARREL
Director of International Relations
Cliff is an American citizen and is the Director of International Relations for Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited.
He has a very broad work experience base of almost 50years spanniong various sectors of the economy in various countries of the world as shown below;
Assisted the General Manager of a major project at Lubbock International Airport, Lubbock, Tx
Construction, including being deputy suprintendent at an international airport, worked on two locks and dams as well as residential construction.
Has managed several different agricutural projects, including being the agricultural coordinator for a major food bank. This project provided fresh vegetables for clients, in a community supported farm using a voluteer work force that was effectively supervised with tremedous scuccess. Animal husbandry, crop production and horticulture as well as marketing of produced goods have all been expertly carried out by Cliff.
He has a pasion for humanitarian works and this has led him to oversee various aid programmes and activities. Here are some of his activities; he has worked with Children in Group home care for almost 32years, including 5 years full and part time with Childen and adults in a psychiatric hospital; 10 years in hospital including 5 years as a senior manager in a rural mission med-surg hospital. He is responsible for the business administration of a 100 + bed, rural mission hospital in Nigeria and a Member of the Executive Board of the Hospital. He is the Chairman of a foundation to help Orphans as well as a founding member of an internationally recognised humanitarian NGO.
He has worked with Church sponsored missions for many years in West Africa and Europe.
dir@skymasterachievers.com
+(234)802-3021-047
BARRISTER PAUL N. GBENEOL
Barr. Gbeneol is a Non-Executive Director in Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited. A Lawyer, businessman and environmentalist. He graduated from the University of Calabar with an LLB, BL.
He has vast knowledge in divers fields of human endeavor which positively affect society.
He is the CEO of Lemon-Vare Nigeria Limited and Anthai & Protha Nigeria Ltd. He also had worked in several law firms and adviser to corporate organizations amongst others in the city of Port Harcourt.
He worked as SA-media 2011-2012 and Head legal department /deputy Social safety nets 2013-2015 at the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Abuja.
nedpaul@skymasterachievers.com
skymasterachivers.com
OMANAKE MATHEW CLEVER
Mr. Omanake is the Head of Operations of Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited. He is a graduate of Transport Maritime Management Technology (TMT) from Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO Extension (2001)
A Lufthansa cargo trained in DGR CAT 7, 8, 10 ETD, WH ADVANCE with over 14 years experience in the freight industry. He worked as a marketing executive for S.chinax Ltd in 2003. He was also the head of operations on import for ALLGLORY CONCEPT LTD, an ad-hoc staff of Lufthansa cargo, a registered consultant to Lufthansa cargo, Airfreight consultant to Cronos Airline/Nahco Avianca Plc., Port Harcourt.
Managing director of Chymatics global services and CEO kleverhandling Global Resources ltd. (A THRIVING AIRFREIGHT CONSULTING FIRM)
hops@skymasterachievers.com
AKOTOR GODWIN
Head of Handling Department
Mr. Akotor is the Head of Handling Department of Skymasters Achievers International Services Limited. He holds a B.Sc in Marketing Management from the Rivers State University of Technology and an Advance Diploma in Business Admin
He worked as a Station Manager with Nahco Aviance Plc with over twenty years experience in the airfreight industry
His core competence include but not limited to skills in Basic Accounting, Baggage world tracer aircraft weight and Balancing Ramp cargo coordinator, Baggage cargo handling, Certified IATA cargo skills and procedures, IATA DGR for general cargo acceptance, IATA DGR regulations, Work ethics and organizational productivity and a good team player.
hhd@skymasterachievers.com
(+234)803-883-027
LAWRENCE A. UKEAGU
Head of Admin, Logistics and Protocol Department
Result-driven, self-motivated, agile and resourceful Business Consultant, Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Senior Project Manager (IAPM). A Fellow of the prestigious Chartered Management Institute London with excellent leadership, interpersonal, communication skills as well as expertise in stakeholder and change management. Lawrence has extensive experience in business management, project planning, training, reporting and monitoring, six-sigma, including program management.
A United Kingdom trained MBA graduate from University of Wales, Cardiff since 2009 with over 16 years work experience in various fields and different positions including Banking Officer MannyBank Plc (now Fidelity Bank Plc), Platinum Bank (now Keystone Bank), Project Sales Manager Cobra Group Plc (KMS Promotions) London UK, Energy Advisor EDF Energy (COSINE UK) Birmingham, Business Consultant RMDC Manchester UK as well as Chief Operations Officer Snapnet Nigeria Limited.
He has a track record of engagement up to director level; successfully delivered over £seven digits projects on time, within schedule and under budget in the UK. He has had several awards including Customer Service Award & European Outstanding Manager (Cobra Group Plc UK), Best Sales Manager EDF (COSINE UK), Student President Kensington College of Business London. He has volunteered in various social causes such as Head Technical Department, Head Media World Mission Agency Manchester, participated in Food Bank Project in Salford Manchester. Lawrence speaks English and Spanish with basic understanding of French and has attended different International Courses, Trainings and Conferences across the globe.
Lawrence is a big fan of football, plays lawn tennis every other day to keep fit and enjoys a game of chess to relax the mind and gain strategic skills. He loves travelling and enjoys playing golf - helping him to increase his coordinating skills.
With his research in Entrepreneurship and Innovation - empirical factors in economic growth of 21st Century emerging world.
halp@skymasterachivers.com
24 Olu Obasanjo Road, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Airport Office
Sahcool Building, Port Harcourt International Airport. Rivers State. Nigeria
+234-803-5511-446
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Is it Crazy To Charge People To Send You Email?
Maybe. But it sure would cut down on clutter.
Feb 24, 20137:00 AM
Too much email? There might be a solution.
Photo by John Howard/Photodisc.
How many e-mails do you have in your inbox? In general, each one represents a task—something to read, a query to answer, a meeting to schedule, a bill to pay, a request to fulfill or deny. Also on your to-do list: Facebook messages, LinkedIn requests, and Twitter direct messages. Whether it’s a social network message or old-school e-mail, all are items to handle, and all placed there by other people.
Is it fair that you have to prioritize these things, collect them in one place, or switch among them? Isn’t there some way that the senders could assume some of that responsibility?
Of course, this is already happening, in part. Facebook decides what to show you. You decide whom to follow on Twitter. LinkedIn charges people to send more than a certain number of introductory e-mails and penalizes people who send too many unwelcome messages. And Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft (among others) filter spam using everything from content analysis to sender behavior to various methods of authentication.
All of these are useful approaches, but none alleviates the recipient’s burden: The system still lets other people add things to my to-do list. But there is another way: The sender figures out what matters and puts money behind that choice.
The short version is that a sender must pay to send mail, while a recipient can set the price. Of course, this notion provokes angst: What happens to poor but worthy people? What about friends? Won’t it be confusingly complex? The answer is twofold. First, the recipient can decide what to charge, and set different prices (or no price at all) for different people or categories, and can even forgive the charges retroactively. Second, there will be services to handle it all for you. The basic service sets a single price, but higher-end services offer (and charge for) as much complexity as anyone could want. Or, if you want to avoid making a lot of decisions, you could select from a set of defaults. (And if you eschew commercializing your time, you could give the money to a charity.)
But the main question is why anyone should pay to send e-mail when they can do so for free. Isn’t it unfair to cut off access?
In the end, people are paying to get someone’s attention. You can go on sending free e-mail, but if you want to get the attention of certain busy people, you pay. Isn’t that more democratic than having to join a club or undergo an interview with their assistant to meet them?
The point of the payment is not so much the money as it is a signal of how someone values his time. For that reason, people will try to hide the mechanics when possible. For example, when messaging someone who charges, you may see a warning only if the recipient is above your payment limit. Another way in will be to join groups—most likely closed groups—that allow free messages among members.
From the sender side, the initial reaction may be, “Why can’t I reach this person without paying?” Soon, however, more people will say, “Hey, I want that service, too! I can’t afford a personal assistant to screen my e-mail, but now I can push the burden back to the senders, who have to consider how likely I am to want their message and to respond in the way they hope.”
Over time, a variety of specialist service providers will emerge—single-topic experts and general mail managers. Mail recipients will set their prices for different kinds of mail/requests/senders. The mail managers will also handle incoming messages and Facebook, LinkedIn, and other requests as specified by the recipient, and will collect credit card information from senders (or more likely charge their PayPal accounts or navigate other payment systems as they emerge).
The recipient is unlikely to see the complexities; most of this will be handled in the background. To start, you can simply set your price at, say, $1, along with a list of people who can reach you for free. There will be lots of glitches at the beginning, starting with people you know who have multiple e-mail addresses, old friends not on your current white list of free senders, and so on. But such challenges will diminish over time, and, as less mail gets sent, a higher proportion of it will be wanted and answered.
A couple of other useful changes will follow. Companies will insist on a more careful distinction between corporate and personal e-mail address use. For example, Yahoo may collect $1 on behalf of its employees when they are “disturbed” at work by mail from friends. But for actual paying customers trying to reach Yahoo, there may well be a white list of potential advertisers, all writing from their corporate e-mail accounts. (I am an investor in direct.ly, a third-party service that offers paid support from former employees and other experts in a non-e-mail version of this idea, and invested in Boxbe, which started out with sender-pays e-mail but eventually pivoted. I think the time is now becoming right.)
There is, of course, a risk that some people simply will try to get rich by charging for incoming mail that they never read. Caveat sender! The whole point is to get senders to consider more carefully to whom they send mail. The burden needs to go somewhere, and shifting it back to its creators makes sense.
This article was originally published by Project Syndicate. For more from Project Syndicate, visit their Web site and follow them on Twitter or Facebook.
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Callaway Match Play Championship at Dove Mountain in Arizona
A full scoring summary can be found at: golfstatresults.com
SECOND ROUND RESULTS:
From gostanford.com --- MARANA, Ariz. - Stanford's hopes of capturing the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championships came to an end today as the Cardinal suffered a 3-2 defeat at the hands of USC in the second round of the event being held at the Ritz Carlton Golf Club in Marana, Ariz.
Joseph Bramlett and freshman Steven Kearney accounted for Stanford's only two wins on the day. Bramlett defeated Matthew Giles, 1-up while Kearney downed Stewart Hagestad, 3 and 2.
The Trojans posted three wins at the top of the lineup. T.J. Vogel earned a 2 and 1 victory over Sihwan Kim, Steve Lim bested Steve Ziegler, 4 and 3 while Martin Trainer scored a 1-up victory over freshman Andre De Decker.
FIRST ROUND RESULTS:
Top seed Stanford beat Indiana 3 & 2 behind victories by Sihwan Kim (2 and 1), Steve Ziegler (3 and 2) and Steven Kearney (1 up). In the uniqueness that is match play, despite losing 3 & 2 Joseph Bramlett had the best first round scoring of any Cardinal player.
Next match is against Pac 10 rival Southern Cal which didn't get completed and will be finished up on day 2. Southern Cal was leading 2-1-2 well into the 2nd round --- the two tied matches of Bramlett and DeDecker will swing the result one way or the other. Once again Bramlett has played the best but again has run into a hot opponent.
Pre-Tournament --- From Gostanford.com news service:
STANFORD, Calif. - The second-ranked Stanford men's golf team has earned the top seed at the Callaway Collegiate Match Play Championships which will be held March 21-23 at the Ritz Carlton Golf Club, Dove Mountain in Marana, Ariz.
Stanford will meet 16th-seeded Indiana in Sunday's first round match beginning at 8:00 a.m., with the winner advancing to take either eighth-seeded USC or No. 9 TCU in the second round later in the afternoon.
Arizona State, the fourth seed, will tee off against Iowa, while fifth-seeded UCLA will meet Colorado State to complete the top half of the bracket.
Texas A&M, seeded third, will battle host school Arizona with the winner advancing to face the victor of No. 6 UNLV and No. 11 Middle Tennessee. Seventh-seeded Texas Tech will square off against San Diego, while No. 2 Washington will meet New Mexico in the first round.
Third round matches will be contested on Monday while the championship and consolation matches are slated for Tuesday.
Head coach Conrad Ray is expected to send out a lineup consisting of senior Joseph Bramlett, juniors Steve Ziegler and Sihwan Kim along with freshman Steve Kearney and Andre De Decker.
It will mark Bramlett's second event of the season, as the talented senior had been sidelined with a nagging wrist injury for the better part of the last two years. He made his season debut earlier the month at the USC Collegiate Invitational, where he finished tied for 16th.
Having Joseph Back has been great," said Ray. "He has been playing solid and his best golf is ahead of him. He brings leadership and intensity which we need."
Ray is also anxious to see how Kearney and De Decker perform in this marquis event.
"I'm excited for Steven and Andre to get a shot in the line-up. Both have been working hard and are competitive and it speaks to our depth that they are able to qualify at this point in the season."
The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Dove Mountain a desert golf layout which is the home of the Accenture Match Play Championships, opened in January 2009. The course features elevation changes from 2,300 to 3,000 feet, and distinct character that blends naturally among majestic saguaros that stand along the surrounding Tortolita Mountain Range. Jack Nicklaus' first in the Tucson area in 25 years, the 27-hole Dove Mountain facility offers three distinct nines - the Saguaro, Tortolita and Wild Burro.
The Callaway Collegiate Match Play is to be contested on the Saguaro and Tortolita nines, just as is the Accenture Match Play Championship. They form a par 72 that measure 7,833 yards.
Callaway Match Play Championship at Dove Mountain ...
Joseph Bramlett gets back in the swing for #2 Stan...
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640 Fifth Avenue - Structure Tone
640 Fifth Avenue,New York, NY
Renovating an occupied, historic building in the heart of Midtown Manhattan is tough. And the project at 640 Fifth Avenue was no exception, requiring a unique combination of construction management and logistics to redevelop the 267,000sf, 18-story office building, as well as add three stories on top.
Built in 1949, the limestone-clad building was occupied through the first eight floors throughout the renovations and additions. The team’s biggest challenge, then, was to devise the best logistical and construction approach to successfully perform the work without disrupting the building’s tenants and retailers, as well as the steady stream of nearby pedestrians frequenting Rockefeller Center.
The potential for disruption included all phases of construction, from erecting the new steel structure and glass curtain wall to building a temporary roof and reinforcing the steel columns. One solution was to eliminate the use of a hoist to load materials to the upper floors of the building during the construction phase. Instead, the team used a tower crane that also served to erect the structural steel.
To shelter the occupied floors, our team stripped the limestone façade from the 18th floor to the 10th floor and constructed a temporary protective roof. Construction then involved selective terrace and structural demolition, new structural steel and reinforcement of existing support members from the 9th floor up. We then replaced and relocated the mechanical and electrical equipment in a phased sequence, all while keeping the systems operating for the occupied floors.
With a standardized floor plate and common leasable floors, the new and improved building totaled 302,000 sf of gross office space in 21 stories.
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So long, Justice Scalia
Cara L. Gallagher, Weekend Contributor
Last week, the internet of trolls solace public opinion melted for a few days grounding every other political story to a halt. Justice Scalia suddenly died and a confluence of voices, both allies and foes, shouted loud enough to practically awake him from the dead. Once they quieted, the memorials began. Moments and stories told by those who knew him, Scalia “best-of” lists, and the resurrection of “argle-bargle” – Just when I thought we’d finally buried that phrase – dominated the news cycles, stealing the spotlight from Donald Trump. So many charming Scalia moments pointed to the complexity of a man I myself had complex feelings about.
My Scalia moment happened in July of 2012, my first year working at C-SPAN. My boss and mentor, Brian Lamb, knew my affinity for the Supreme Court and invited me to join him at the taping of a Q&A interview with the Justice, who’d just written his book Reading Law. After the interview, Justice Scalia’s handler shot me daggers as I hovered outside the green room. Had Mr. Lamb not intervened by introducing us, the picture below would never have happened. Here’s how one of my greatest celebrity moments went down:
One of us is thrilled. The other would rather be hunting. (Sigh)
Me (read with bounciest, gushiest pitch possible): Justice Scalia, my name is Cara Gallagher and I’m a huge, huge fan of your writi-…
Scalia: Ok, ok, Carrie. Let’s do this.
Correct, that’s not my name.
Brusque disposition aside, the Justice was kind enough to stick around, take the picture, and chat for a little while. I was and remain a loyal fan of Justice Scalia’s opinions and dissents. Regardless of whether the case was as high profile as same-sex marriage or lower profile like an EPA case, reading a Scalia opinion, especially a dissent, meant I was likely going to disagree with the opinion before I read it and end up virtually persuaded by it at the end.
I used to run from the Court, nearly stumbling on my walk, while thumbing past the majority opinions just to get to the Scalia dissent. In Court, I would strain my neck from the gallery to see his face as he read a dissent from the bench. His profound sense of American and European history always nearly convinced me why I should come his way. His dry wit and snarky use of “Really?” appealed to my millennial sense of humor in the same way SNL’s Amy Poehler and Seth Meyer’s Weekend Update series did. Scalia’s wordsmith-ing skills charmed me. Words like ‘perpetuity’ and ‘prudential,’ I’ve always thought of him whenever I’ve heard or read them.
His words could also feel like bullets when they were launched at colleagues he disagreed with. To offend with Scalia’s brand of intellectual supremacy not the person but their ideas would be aspirational for most. His emotions got the better of him and his barbed criticisms of other Justices, even Chief Justice Roberts, as well as his flare for hyperbole, invited the masses into a mainstream Supreme Court written for their soap opera-level of pleasure. I myself got a lot of mileage out of his opinions as well as his silly facial expressions and conductor-like hand gestures. In last year’s same-sex marriage case, he famously asked the majority to go “ask the nearest hippie” whether intimacy was a protected freedom. So, we did and wrote about what that hippie said about Constitutional law.
His inclination to answer critical legal questions with an original interpretation of the Constitution, most likely would’ve inspired another barbed conversation between him and former Justice John Paul Stevens’ regarding the latter’s book on how he would change the Constitution (Scalia: Pearl clutch!).
“So lemme get this straight. You wrote a book about performing CPR on the Constitution, brought it back to life, cut the parts you don’t like and edited it?” said Justice Scalia. “Mmhmm…like a boss,” replied Justice Stevens.
I could forgive his brand of conservatism and originalist reading of Constitutional text, but the version of Antonin I knew was out of bounds and indefensible during the Fisher affirmative action oral arguments last year. It was there that I was reminded of the intolerant Scalia, the one whose whitewashed version of a post-racial American history I am thankful not to have to read from him when that decision comes down this summer.
The “yuck” factor on the internet passed a shamefully low level of scrutiny last week in the hours immediately after Justice Scalia’s death. I get it. His opponents have ample reasons and opinions to support such opposition. If this was a Supreme Court vote count and a simple tally had to be taken, I would be one of those opponents. But that kind of oversimplification wouldn’t explain my position or the complexity of my feelings for the Justice. It also wouldn’t reveal the humor, or the warmth, the education, or the intensified appreciation for the text of the Constitution that I got from Justice Scalia. Such an oversimplification would be genuine argle-bargle.
Some of my favorite Scalia quotes below:
“Some might conclude that this load could have used a while longer in the oven. But that would be wrong; it is already overcooked. The most expert care in preparation cannot redeem a bad recipe.” (U.S. v. Windsor)
“the majority’s resolution of the merits question is so outrageously wrong, so utterly devoid of textual or historic support, so flatly in contradiction of prior Supreme Court cases, so obviously the willful product of hostility…, that I cannot avoid adding my vote to the devastating dissent of the Chief Justice.” (Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission)
“I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.” (Obergefell v. Hodges)
“The stuff contained in today’s opinion has to diminish this Court’s reputation for clear thinking and sober analysis.” (Obergefell v. Hodges)
“Welcome to Groundhog Day.”(Glossip v. Gross)
“Do not use the creative arithmetic that JUSTICE BREYER employs in counting the number of States that use the death penalty when you prepare your next tax return; outside the world of our Eighth Amendment abolitionist-inspired jurisprudence, it will be regarded as more misrepresentation than math.”
(Glossip v. Gross)
Follow Cara Gallagher on Twitter @SupremeBystandr.
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Category Archives: CARVALHO
Poetry from Rui Carvalho
Our beautiful island
We all live on an island, blue,
which is spacious is great … immense,
in its circular, rugged,
just like our dreams.
Mystic of the summer evening in Lisbon,
Rose near the Largo do Camões.
We only have this island, in a blue sea,
of a darkness berthed in the plains,
and mountains, where flowers bloom,
colorful loves, who are born, and they,
leafy, grow, bubble of life,
and die, and with them we, orphaned insects.
We only have this island.
We are this island.
We breathe this sea.
Over there we see the chalk color of the moon.
We slumber in this primordial water of our mother.
by Rui Carvalho
We invite you to participate at Literary Contest “Nature 2018-2019”
https://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt/literary-contest-soon-nature-75427?utm_source=posts&utm_content=1542838166
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Annual Nature Writing Contest sponsored by author Rui Carvalho
We are very happy to announce that the literary contest ‘Nature’ is about to start. This year’s theme is “The Nature of the Universe”,
with Earth’s terrestrial nature remaining central to the theme.
All are welcome to enter by submitting a piece of writing on the theme of nature and the natural world. This can be a poem, a short essay, or a short story. American author Janine Canan, who has a long and established reputation writing on these themes, will serve as judge, and Portuguese author Rui Carvalho sponsors the contest and prizes.
Further details and deadlines can be found at: https://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt/
Rui Carvalho’s Tales for Love and Synchronized Chaos Magazine’s Nature Writing Contest 2018
The Literary Contest For Nature 2017-2018 is back. It continues to
encourage writers from around the world to create poetry and short
stories to recall the importance of supporting nature as our mother
and cradle of humanity. It is a creative process that seeks to
stimulate new writers, creating a valid opportunity that can create
bridges for their future. This year also offers a small monetary prize
to support the purchase of writing materials.
Do not forget to participate, for more information see:
http://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt/literary-contest-nature-2017-2018-65904
Poem from Rui Carvalho
Flower Reborn (In Pedrógão)
Stubborn; As only a woman knows how to be.
Knowledgeable; As only a Goddess knows how to be.
Feminine and beautiful among the black of death,
reborn, alive, dependent on strength and not on luck.
Beautiful is your strength that gives color to the Morning.
Sunrise agape renewing Hope.
And the wind packs it, shrouded in gray dust,
that everything around him contemplates her Dance.
It is she, the Flower, who rises on the mountain,
Again, to prove that, who sowed her, was right …
To prove that a Goddess looks at us from the front:
without fear, despite the lives the wind took.
Slowly the human work is reborn in its surroundings,
but agile to the rhythm of green Grace,
it rises faster than all,
and sharp fits the future: Dull paint.
Goddess of the Morning, clothed with Hope,
dance in Grace; It balances in the air its Braid.
by Rui M.
This poem is spiritual and feminist to honor Janine Canan, a feminist writer from California.
Pedrógão is a locality in Portugal where 64 people died this June
during a wild fire.
This and other poems will be in a new book, Pieces of Hope (in English,
Portuguese and Spanish).
For more info about the book contact synchchaos@gmail.com
Film review from Rui Carvalho
Cinema Critique: Les Délices de Tokyo by Rui M. Carvalho (30 May 2017)
Full of poetry, Les Délices de Tokyo, a movie directed by NAOMI KAWASE, is a film that imprisons us inside the screen. Gradually we forget everything around us, until we almost refuse to be confronted with the end of this wonderful piece of art.
At first glance the story seems trivial: one Spring’s day, Tokue, a 76-year-old woman approaches Sentaro, the chef of a small restaurant. Sentaro mainly sells dorayaki, a small cake filled with red-bean (azuki) jam and Tokue explains him that she always wanted to make them, she implores him to let her have that life opportunity. He tells her “no” but she leaves a small sample… and he finally accepts.
Aditionally, there’s a teen named Wakana, a very perceptive person, a regular customer, who ultimately also applies to work at the shop. Together they are a family, Tokue, as the mother of Sentaro and Wakana, and a “mystic” member who seems to glue together all the feelings of these characters.
We can’t imagine a possible end to this story, but Tokue gives us very subtle clues, for example, when she speaks of the natural world in a way that might seem strange to us because she’s much more aware of nature than most folks inside a city… There’s a sense of being different, being isolated inside the grey walls of buildings in open air. Tokue’s eyes emanate compassion in a mysterious way.
We are only able to understand them when the owner of the restaurant learns that Tokue is a patient who lives in a leprosarium… and demands Sentaro fire her, something he refuses but must accept at the end.
When Sentaro and Wakana visit Tokue, for the first time, at her home, the leprosarium, the vivid Wakana alerts him that he will be seeing people with deformed faces. When they meet the patients, the lepers are talking together, smilling, happy despite their reality: they are also a family. That’s the power of being accepted as we are… despite our differences, our different ways to see the universe and the different ways others see us.
Also, there’s no victory against nature here ; the nature of disease. On the contrary, Tokue determinedly accepts everything… especially without words, simply with the way she looks to cherry blossoms. She sees herself as a piece of the natural world, destined to live and to die. Maybe the fact that the actress deals with cancer in real life helps her with this role.
At the end, we remember the moment when she explains she had to release the canary Wakana gave her… he asked her to do so… and this, combined with the fact that she confesses that after her death, through a cassette recording, leaves us a final thought: a timeless reminder that our mind wants to forget that we are sick for awhile so that we can be happy during all moments of life. That’s certainly the secret of her azuki jam.
This movie explains the human condition in depth: the capacity of small things to change our lives; the importance of simple ordinary people; the power of chance that can transform small moments into important parts of history. The photographic look of the film’s scenes additionally help the director with this therapeutic message. The random bubbles of the boiling beans and Tokue’s coat, with colors resembling cherry blossoms, look like living creatures. Visually, even minor background objects come to life.
This is a movie about the most important people: the simple people.
Rui Carvalho reviews Living Will, book collection by Andre Oliveira and Joana Afonso
Artwork from Living Will
The comics “Living Will” is an original idea by André Oliveira (writer) and Joana Afonso (graphic designer). I strongly recommend you to try this collection of seven small books because, I believe, their content is truly unique and, most of all, it is “an arrow to our hearts,” capturing our attention.
The very first sentences are revealing: “My pops used to say life’s just like a pint of beer. It begins as a sparkly refreshing nectar, bringing some kind of golden and sacred joy, and it ends with bitter taste.” There’s a depth of feeling or an unusual sacred revelation (or not) in these words that takes the piece to another level of meaning where time really matters. Especially if we take into account that old Will’s life as he understands it has “reached sort of a dead end, so it seems.” He is the main character, the hero of this adventure and all he feels is that something has happened that he should take into account. He misses Judith, his dead spouse, but, on the other hand he has a bag full of pieces of memories encrypted in small white papers…
Rui Carvalho, Portuguese artist and software developer, reviews Beatrice Tillier and Tehy’s comic book Fees et Tendres Automates
A Journey to “Fees et tendres automates”
Comics, or graphic novels, are considered the ninth out of the traditional, basic forms of art. In fact, comics can be seen as a result of the joint forces of several of the basic forms of art, for example, literature, drawing and architecture.
And, comics are certainly influenced by the world that surrounds the artist: the creator of the small world existing inside the book.
The book “Fees et tendres automates”, original title, in French, or “Fairies and Tender Automatons”, in English, by Béatrice Tillier and Téhy, is a portrait of a world dying due to a war provoked by man but, at the same time, it is a fairy tale, a platonic and electronic love story, between two robots: a tender automata boy and an ethereal robotic fairy. Both of them are a subtle sign of hope for that world. Interesting, is to notice that those two beings are the creation of a man, a scientist, and clearly behave more intelligently than most of the humans. They are Turing machines (Marcus du Sautoy, 1st April 2012), a concept of Artificial Intelligence; and although they lack the capability to feel physical pain, they experience emotional pain. This emotion-driven thought, according to António Damásio (1999), a neuroscientist, is obviously linked with intelligence.
At the end of the book, we clearly sense a strong frustration that might be the result of the deep enchantment of the magical brightness in the eyes of these two survivors, when they look to the crystalline light of the stars, in the dark night. All this, despite the menace of the end of “life” for these two creations, more human than those who fight around them. Yes, the story is a tragic conflict between violence and the automata, a creature so fragile that he has portable lips which he takes with him wherever he goes…
Furthermore, the magical and cool brightness of the synthetic skin, the red texture of the lips, the waves of the fire’s orange color, robots with celestial melancholic face expressions, a round drop of moisture and “illuminated” frustration, contrasting with the forgotten reasoning that could create a much better world, explains this possible feeling of seeing real people, not “created with sin”, as if they were a strange religious effort, but using science as its main (and unique) tool… a strange Dionysiac symbiosis.
Summing up, the book is far more than a collection of beautiful drawings, with subtle lines integrated with probably well chosen colors; it is a story, a romance, an adventure and, at the same time, an effort to make us think about our concept of life, emotions and logical intelligence, and if these two are separableor not. Something keeps us reading, maybe it is the search of a happy ending, due to the capabilities of our hero made of “silica feelings”.
Damásio, A. (1999), “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness”, Harcourt Brace, pp. 386
Marcus du Sautoy (1st April 2012), “AI robot: how machine intelligence is evolving“, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/01/ai-artificial-intelligence-robots-sautoy
Rui M.
29 October 2016 to 3 November 2016
http://talesforlove.blogs.sapo.pt
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October in Review
Happy Halloween.
A happy kitty pumpkin I carved… a long time ago actually
The strange traffic patterns here continued here for the fourth straight month and I am at a loss to explain it. It is unusual for no posts from the current month to make the list, much less four times in a row. And while a few posts on the list make some sense, you have to get down to 25th place before you hit a post from October. (Gamigo Buys then Guts Trion World, which was popular and linked elsewhere is in position 25.)
I cannot tell where some of this is coming from as the referrers count is much lower than the total visitors or page views, though that is not unusual. Some sites just don’t show up in that list for various reasons, including Massively OP. I can see the traffic hitting those pages in the Flag Counter reports, and it is from all over the US on Windows, iOS, and Mac OS, so it isn’t just one guy hitting refresh. So I just don’t know.
Meanwhile, WordPress.com continues with its ever encroaching ad placement. You won’t see it here, as I am on a yearly plan that turns ads off, but if I hit other WP.com sites with a browser that doesn’t have Ad Block of some sort (which I have to have for work), I end up seeing more and more ads. The latest is an add that drops down from the top of the page to obscure what you’re reading.
Fill in the gap between the top and the other ads
This is one of those things that makes me shake my head. Ad blockers were not created because people don’t want to support online content, they were created because the ads grew obnoxious enough for people to look for a way to block them.
And then there was this beauty. I took a look at my other site using Chrome on my iPad, where there is no ad block extension, to use a link from the sidebar and had my whole session hijacked by an ad.
WP.com lets ads take over your browser session
I love those faked comments at the bottom from two and three years ago. And this ad led into another and another. I couldn’t get back to my other site.
And so WP.com has inadvertently joined in on promoting ad blockers by becoming an ad shitshow. Well done. I could not recommend WP.com as a platform it you plan to blog. Go make a Blogger account for that, and make sure you have an ad blocker if you visit a WordPress.com site.
I wrote about how we used to yell and sell in Waterdeep back in TorilMUD, which predates that auction house stuff we have today.
RimWorld was eating up a bunch of my gaming time.
The then still in early access H1Z1 had King of the Kill removed from its name, reverting back to just H1Z1. This was due to as-yet-still-unrealized plans by Daybreak to bring the game to China where they couldn’t have “kill” in the name. They have since changed their mind and renamed the game again. It is now H1Z1: Battle Royale, or maybe Z1 Battle Royale. It is honestly hard to tell/care at this point. All I know is it will probably have another new name before this gets to the “Five Years Ago” section in 2022.
In New Eden I had finished up my time with the Warzone Extraction event. I also remapped my attributes, something that affects the learning rates of skill. You don’t do that lightly as you’re stuck with the remap for a year. I also went and rounded up data cores. I should probably do that again. It has been a year.
I was headed to EVE Vegas and wrote up my report when I returned.
The Reavers SIG turned three years old.
In space we went out to Aridia to clean up the neighborhood.
As the month headed towards its end CCP released the Lifeblood expansion for EVE Online which changed moon mining, upgraded The Agency, and added a bunch of PvE content. There was also a joke about lighting farts to be made.
However, following EVE Vegas, where VR was heavily emphasized, and the Lifeblood expansion, CCP had a round of layoffs and effectively stopped developing for VR. Among teams hit hard was the community team.
I hit level 30 in Pokemon Go.
And I returned to World of Warcraft, having taken a break. I once again failed to get the headless horseman’s mount. And I was wondering if Blizzard would announce the next WoW expansion at BlizzCon. It seemed pretty likely.
EverQuest: Mactinosh Edition was slated to shut down after a ten year run. Meanwhile, EverQuest Live launched Call of the Forsaken, the game’s 20th expansion. The Fippy Darkpaw server made it to The Buried Sea expansion. And in EverQuest II, insta-level characters were set to become a thing.
Also, Daybreak got DC Universe Online onto the PlayStation 4 where it reportedly continues to do quite well.
With the release of Pokemon X & Y, which required upgrading to Nintendo 3DS hardware, I was saying farewell to the series. Little did I know I would be pulled back in a few months down the road.
As part of some NBI event I attempted to recount all the guilds I had joined over the years.
Somebody was attempting to remake the old Kesmai game Stellar Emperor.
Path of Exile finished up beta and was officially live.
After a post-F2P boom, Trion went back to paring down the number of servers for Rift while its servers in China were shut down completely.
The instance group was still running Foundry modules in Neverwinter.
I was trying out War Thunder. After failing to get through the tutorial for World of Warplanes, I opted for its competitor, which seems better suited for the inept like me. I was able to get out there and be a target for other players while bombing at least.
In New Eden our gate camp deployment to the Curse region was wrapping up almost as soon as it started. It felt like we had just snuck in. It was time to go home to the quiet of Deklein for a while and wait for the Rubicon expansion. While there I finally bought my first capital ship, an Archon carrier. It went for its first jump and then stayed docked for almost a year. Of course, I found out I had a lot of stuff sitting in hangars around New Eden. Nine million things, to put a number to it. And CCP was setting up classes for new players… which was great if you lived in the European time zone.
I was pondering the “journey vs. destination” question with MMOs while feeling a bit wistful that World of Warcraft holidays were not offering much new.
Marc Pinkus, founder of Zynga, declared he was bored of games.
And we finally ditched AT&T DSL for Comcast cable-modem internet, resolving the bandwidth sharing problems at our house.
In one of the worst kept secrets in video game development it was announced that BioWare’s MMO project was in fact Star Wars: The Old Republic. Their subscription goals were, of course, quite modest.
I celebrated my 15 years of playing Sojourn/TorilMUD with the first in a series of posts. Nostalgia FTW! And I guess that makes this the 25 year mark. My, how time flies! I probably need a post about that.
And speaking of Nostalgia, Tipa was out looking for EverQuest blogs. I’m not sure any were discovered. EverQuest itself launched its fifteenth expansion, Seeds of Destruction, which brought NPC mercenaries to the game to assist players.
The instance group formed up a guild and was running in Warhammer Online. We had our best night and our worst night, plus a few that were somewhere in between. All in all though, things were not as exciting as we had hoped.
Mythic was trying out incentives to get better server balance while starting to talk about new stuff coming soon. Not a word about the quest log however.
In EVE Online Potshot, Gaff, and I were playing with fleets and I was flying a shiny new ship. Also the EVE Blog Pack was defined.
Finally, I stared logging into World of Warcraft again to get things lined up for the upcoming Wrath of the Lich King expansion. I managed to survive through the controversial scourge event and was intrigued by the shiny new achievements.
Fifteen Years Ago
A shooter named Call of Duty launched. Now Activision’s annual revenue pretty much depends on shipping a sequel to it.
Lineage II launched as well. The successor to the original Lineage, which was in last month’s post celebrating its 20th anniversary, it had the usual problem of MMORPG sequels in never living up to the success of the original.
Twenty Years Ago
The Rise of Rome expansion came out for Age of Empires.
Thirty Years Ago
The Sega MegaDrive launched in Japan. Mentioned mostly because I ended up with a Sega Genesis, the name used in the US, a few years later.
Forty Years Ago
Really, am I going back that far now? Yes I am! Back in October of 1978 Space Invaders arrived in North America. I posted about that event. It was a big deal back in the day.
Most Viewed Posts in October
Honest Game Trailers – Animal Crossing
Rift Prime Time
SuperData and the Rise of Fortnite
February in Review
Spring Movie League – Cats and Birds and Bruce
Do You Wear the Mask or does the Mask Wear You?
Rumors of Future Daybreak Projects and the End of EverQuest
H1Z1 – Going Live in Time to be a Zombie
Extra Credits – Picking at the Lockbox Thing Some More
Search Terms of the Month
seagels stop it now
[It is spelled “Seagal” and he’s just the cook]
what game has more people playing everquest 1 or everquest 2 in 2018?
[The original by all reports]
sylvana windrunner rule 34 animated
[Really?]
epic journeys and random encounters (world of warcraft) hentai
[I was with you until that last word]
china gay 3d game pc
[The state probably won’t okay that]
The Pearl Abyss acquisition of CCP was finalized and there was EVE Vegas. While the latter brought news of the future, my time in game was actually pretty low key. I did get my one kill mail in for the month as I joined in on shooting one of Pandemic Horde’s high sec structures. Otherwise I spent some time with the Crimson Harvest event and that was about it.
It has been a bit of a tough month on third party sites. First Total EVE went down due to a problem with their provider. Then EVE Files which, among other things, hosts the null sec influence maps, had a RAID failure and went down, taking with it a lot of New Eden history. The influence maps are created elsewhere, but have been publicly archived on EVE Files. There are backups, and Chribba started moving some of the videos stored there to YouTube, but how this will work out is unclear. And then there was a scare with the DOTLAN infrastructure earlier in the month. The EVE Online ecosystem is fragile and getting more so as it ages. [Total EVE is back up.]
And then there was the Monthly Economic Report for September, which failed to materialize this month. I don’t know if that is over as a thing, but this is the first time CCP has missed a month since they got serious about it over two years ago.
I made my way to level 100 at last, though that doesn’t seem like much of an achievement when I tell you I started at level 96. But that leaves out the real adventure of returning to the game, which is simply figuring out where to go. Anyway, I paused for a bit at level 100 to do some of the Halloween event stuff. That was probably to stave off deciding on which path to choose now that I am at 100. This is never easy.
I made my first “Best Friend” in Pokemon Go. It happened to be my wife, so true in game as in the real world. It turn out that making a best friend yields quite a good chunk of experience. Here is what you get by levels of friendship:
Good Friends – 3,000 xp
Great Friends – 10,000 xp
Ultra Friends – 50,000 xp
Best Friends – 100,000 xp
I was about 40K shy of level when the best friend event happened, which pushed me right into level 34. Still a long way to go to level 40, but I have some more friends on my list to help me along as our friendships level up. You do need to send 90 gifts to get to the best friend level, and my current problem is always running out. I need Pokestops to be more reliable at dispensing gifts.
There was also the introduction of 4th generation into the game, which gave us all new Pokemon to catch. That helped boost my Pokedex count.
Level: 34 (+1)
Pokedex status: 363 (+24) caught, 375 (+18) seen
Pokemon I want: Dragonite… pretty much no progress on this
Current buddy: Wailmer… past 330 candies now
Sort of stopped playing WoW it seems. This is me being me. At some intellectual level I want to finish up the Kul Tiras campaign and get my main to level 120, but somewhere deep within me is the bit that gets me to log in and play, and that bit isn’t having it. Oh well. This seems to be following my usual pattern of diving into a new WoW expansion, playing for a bit, then going away for six months or so until the issues are settled.
Hallow’s End did get me logging back in some, but the mount of the Headless Horseman still eludes me. While waiting for the queue to pop my main hit level 118. Who is the slowest to level now, eh?
BlizzCon is the day after tomorrow. Those at the event or watching from home with the Virtual Ticket don’t get a cute pet or mount in WoW this year. Instead it will be a chance to try WoW Classic. The Barrens and Westfall will be available to download and play. I expect this to be examined in minute detail and the topic of articles and blog posts for at least a week afterwards.
There was word that we might get the LOTRO legendary server on November 6th, but there is no official announcement that I have seen. And the LOTRO Twitter account later denied everything. It would be nice if there was a date front page, center on the LOTRO web site. The problematic nature of this server aside, SSG failing to do a decent promotional run up to its open… which, again, would be well served by something like a big count down timer to build up some excitement… is just typical of how the game has been handled for over a decade. There is a quote from Tolkien that I can’t find at the moment, about the race of man failing to live up to its potential that seems to fit very well to LOTRO as well.
There will also be the new expansion for EverQuest II coming on the 13th. I’m still too far back to worry about buying that, but it will unlock some new content and more crazy stat boosts.
And then the word is that WildStar will be shut down by the end of the month, so it is your last chance to take a look… before somebody gets an emulator project off the ground.
Finally, Daylight Savings Time ends in the US… for locations in the US that observe the change… this coming weekend. It will be slightly less dark when I drive to work now.
This entry was posted in entertainment, EVE Online, EverQuest II, Month in Review, Pokemon, Pokemon Go, World of Warcraft and tagged WordPress.com on October 31, 2018 by Wilhelm Arcturus.
Fall Movie League – Johnny Surprise
The pre-Halloween week, the eighth in our Fall Fantasy Movie League, is now in the past, but not before a bit of a last minute surprise.
The options for the week were:
Halloween $666
A Star is Born $243
Hunter Killer $202
Venom $201
Goosebumps 2 $128
The Hate U Give $100
First Man $89
Mid 90s $88
Smallfoot $86
Night School $57
Indivisible $39
The Old Man and the Gun $36
Bad Times $34
Johnny English Strikes Back $33
The House with a Clock $16
My gut last week as I wrote this said that the new stuff on the list was to be avoided. Sure, my Monday Hot Takes lineup went hard on Mid 90s, with 1x A Star is Born, 1x Venom, and 6x Mid 90s, but I got over that by mid-week.
Still, I was on the right track for an anchor. I couldn’t get on board with Halloween, even at the too-on-the-nose price of $666, and Hunter Killer was in the category of “new stuff” to be avoided, so I was left fiddling with variations of A Star is Born or Venom or some combination of the two.
In the end I decided to go all-in with Venom, anchoring on four screens of that, backed up with one screen each of Smallfoot, Night School, The Old Man and the Gun, and The House with a Clock.
Not a horrible selection, all things considered. The Saturday estimates put me in tenth place, while Sunday had me in ninth, but the gap between the whole sixteen player list wasn’t that big.
The perfect pick ended up being 3x A Star is Born, 1x Venom, 4x The House with a Clock. I was on the right track for an anchor at least. Nobody in the league hit that combo.
However, once the actuals thread announced the results I checked the league and found a surprise; a few people appeared to be doing much better than I expected.
Fall FML Week 8 – Initial Top Four Scores
Also, Johnny English was suddenly the best performer rather than The House with a Clock. A closer look showed Johnny English with a bit more than the $1.6 million box office it was alleged to have made.
Worth a K no doubt
That happened to be the same amount that Halloween made for the weekend, not to mention being about 20x what the Sunday estimate had it down for. This was clearly a data entry error, which led to a dream/nightmare scenario for somebody.
Always bet on Johnny
There were plenty of messages about that in FML chatter.
Once it was corrected, things shook out a little closer to how I expected, with the week’s top ten looking like this:
Po Huit’s Sweet Movie Suite – $60,377,241
Vigo Grimborne’s Medieval Screening Complex – $58,829,377
SynCaine’s Dark Room of Delights – $58,211,494
Skar’s Movies and Meat Pies – $57,408,588
Corr’s Carefully Curated Cineplex – $56,551,150
grannanj’s Cineplex – $56,522,357
Goat Water Picture Palace – $56,091,308
Darren’s Unwatched Cineplex – $56,091,308
Wilhelm’s Kul Tiras Kino – $55,421,160
I HAS BAD TASTE – $54,830,773
Po was on top with 1x Halloween, 1x Venom, and 6x The House with a Clock, the last being the best performer and worth an extra $2 million per screen in bonus. But the anchors in the top ten were pretty varied, and even 7x Goosebumps 2 as an anchor beat out my choice.
Still, the gap between first and tenth was less than $6 million, so the overall seasonal ranking did not change much.
Wilhelm’s Kul Tiras Kino – $580,296,393
Goat Water Picture Palace – $549,675,241
Corr’s Carefully Curated Cineplex – $544,151,551
Too Orangey For Crows – $540,773,830
I HAS BAD TASTE – $531,527,330
Vigo Grimborne’s Medieval Screening Complex – $516,275,892
Po Huit’s Sweet Movie Suite – $512,050,156
Cyanbane’s Neuticles Viewing Party – $511,935,067
grannanj’s Cineplex – $506,460,148
SynCaine’s Dark Room of Delights – $504,510,372
I think that is the same ten people as last week’s list, with a couple of positional changes.
The alternate score though, that ended up looking like this.
Wilhelm’s Kul Tiras Kino – 49
Corr’s Carefully Curated Cineplex – 45
Goat Water Picture Palace – 40
Too Orangey For Crows – 39
Vigo Grimborne’s Medieval Screening Complex – 36
Po Huit’s Sweet Movie Suite – 33
I HAS BAD TASTE – 31
Darren’s Unwatched Cineplex – 31
Cyanbane’s Neuticles Viewing Party – 28
SynCaine’s Dark Room of Delights – 24
Well, that was also the same ten people as last week with some changes in position, though not the same ten people as the overall seasonal score. Darren, who would be in eleventh in the overall score is in eighth with the alternate scoring.
Overall, everybody who has been playing has been in the top ten at least twice so far this season, so everybody has some score.
So that is how it stands at the end of week eight. Now to look forward to week nine. The options are:
Bohemian Rhapsody $510
The Nutcracker $260
Halloween $201
Nobody's Fool $180
A Star is Born $127
Venom $80
Goosebumps 2 $62
The Hate U Give $42
Smallfoot $42
Hunter Killer $39
First Man $35
Suspiria $31
Night School $24
Mid 90s $23
The Old Man and the Gun $17
Dropping off the list from last week are The House with a Clock , Indivisible , Bad Times, and Johnny English Strikes Back.
Replacing them are Bohemian Rhapsody, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Nobody’s Fool, and Suspiria.
At the top of the price chart is Bohemian Rhapsody. It has lots of buzz and a bit of controversy to go with it. It seems a likely anchor for the post-Halloween weekend, though it is priced so you can only get one screen of it. Long range forecasts had it at about $40 million for the three day weekend, and it seems likely to get there in my book.
Next up is The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, which I am shortening to just The Nutcracker for ease of typing and maximum confusion. This is the movie version of the literary adaptation of the famed ballet, done by Disney, so who knows how the story ends up. But it has lots of famous names, including Morgan Freeman and is projected at somewhere in the $20 to $25 million range for the weekend. Seems priced a little low compared to Bohemian Rhapsody, so might be a better anchor if you think we’re close enough to the holiday season to get into this kind of movie.
Nobody’s Fool is yet another Tyler Perry production. The man is a machine. And he has a regular following, so this is probably good for the $12-$15 million being projected for it.
And then there is Suspiria, the plot for which is… complicated. At least it is beyond my ability to summarize. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It is also being distributed by Amazon Studios, which means it won’t be on many screens. The expected count is 250 theaters. But I bet it will be on Amazon Prime soon!
Given all that and some tinkering with the Cineplex Builder, I ended up with the following picks for the Monday Hot Takes league; 1x Bohemian Rhapsody , 1x Halloween, 1x Nobody’s Fool, 1x First Man, 1x Mid 90s, and 3x The Old Man and the Gun.
That is kind of a shotgun pick in a world where the beginners guide suggest not having more than four or maybe five titles in your lineup, but it seems like that kind of week. Also, it used every dollar of my budget.
This entry was posted in entertainment, Fantasy Movie League, Movies and tagged Fall Fantasy Movie League on October 31, 2018 by Wilhelm Arcturus.
MMORPG Preservation and Reality
There was a bit of news last Friday when the Library of Congress announced that they would allow an exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act so that institutions interesting in preserving online games, MMOs and the like, could do so.
An exception had been previously granted for stand alone video games no longer published or otherwise available, so this was something of an expansion of that initial ruling. The Federal Register document is here for your perusal.
The document covers several rulings. The one you are looking for is labeled as section 8, but is listed out between sections 5 and 7, so it was probably meant to be section 6 as there is another section 8, concerning 3D printing, after section 7. Maybe this was an error… or maybe I just don’t understand how government documentation works.
This decision was greeted with almost universal acclaim in the niche genre that is fans of dead MMOs. The Museum of Digital Art and Entertainment (The MADE for short or The Video Game Museum colloquially) over in Oakland, about a 40 minute drive from my home, was particularly effusive. They were in the fight to make this happen, so were there to cheer once the ruling was announced. They tweeted out a couple of messages on Twitter that got a frenzy of support over in the comments at Massively OP, this one especially:
Hey Twitter fans: please go track down people who could legally get us Star Wars Galaxy's server code, and City of Heroes server code. If they agree to hand over the server code, we can bring those games back online legally.
— Video Game Museum! (@TheMADE) October 26, 2018
I am going to quote that tweet here, just in case it spontaneously combusts out of sheer naivety:
Hey Twitter fans: please go track down people who could legally get us Star Wars Galaxy’s server code, and City of Heroes server code. If they agree to hand over the server code, we can bring those games back online legally.
That note contains the seeds of the problem being faced here. If you take some time to leaf through the document I linked at the above, you might have run into a paragraph opening with this sentence:
The Acting Register found that the record supported granting an expansion in the relatively discrete circumstances where a preservation institution legally possesses a copy of a video game’s server code and the game’s local code.
Therein lies the rub. To be within the law, and thus legally protected, a preservation institution like The MADE needs to obtain a copy of the server software legally. So far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to get a copy directly from the companies who hold the rights to these games, and that seems an impractical and unlikely scenario for several reasons.
First, there is the question as to what sort of infrastructure such a server might require.
Yes, people who put together emulators of these servers do so on the cheap, using whatever is to hand, so you might think this is a non-issue. But the official server software wasn’t designed to run on your desktop machine. This isn’t an automatic pass. This could be a problem because things as simple as the operating system and patch version required to the database connectivity expected to be in place. The server software might not run as provided without the ecosystem it was made to run with.
The MADE likes to point out that they managed to get Habitat up and running, but that was not only a game from a simpler time, but they were given the source code to work with. I cannot see many MMORPGs doing that for reasons covered below. Still, at least this is a technical issue, and enough time and effort could garner a solution.
Then there is figuring out who actually has the software and what shape it is in.
Let’s take Star Wars Galaxies as an example. That shut down in mid-December 2011, almost seven years ago. At that point it was run by Sony Online Entertainment, one small cog in the giant machine that is Sony.
Time to settle up with Jaba again
A little over three years after that SOE was bought and became Daybreak Game Company. One might assume that all SOE games, past and current, went with that deal. But I don’t know if that was actually so. Given that SWG was a licensed IP, it might have been too complicated, too expensive, or simply not possible or desirable to let Daybreak have that. It could be stowed away still with Sony.
And, once we figure out who has it, we have to see if the software has been archived in a way that it can still be accessed. The server software isn’t like the client, existing in the wild on hundreds of thousands of install disks. This is likely tightly held, produce on demand software. Somebody might need to run the build system to generate a copy.
Let me tell you a story about that sort of thing.
Midway through the first decade of the century a company I used to work for once had a formerly famous consumer film company call up and ask for a patch for the server software they bought from us nearly a decade back. It was on IBM OS/2 and we had long since switched to Windows server. But that was fine, we had kept the OS/2 build system machines in the lab. Only when somebody decided to power the system on the drive on the main machine wouldn’t spin up. And while we had archival backups stored off site, there wasn’t anybody around who could re-create the build system. And that was all before we had to figure out the problem that company was having, update the code, and run a build.
Since the company calling us wasn’t current on their maintenance contract… we were surprised they were still running our software… we declined to put in the effort. We probably could of done it, but the work required was not trivial. Even with the company in question willing to pay us, we had more lucrative avenues to pursue. Software development is as much choosing what to focus on as anything, since there are always more plans and ideas than there is time.
If we weren’t going to do it for money, we certainly weren’t going to do it for free, which is what organizations like The MADE will expect. And no company is going to let outsiders troll through their company to look for such software, so finding it relies on a current insider getting permission from the company and using their own time to find things. This isn’t impossible, but the candidates able to perform this task are probably few.
And, finally, there is the question who can legally provide the server software.
The above are both solvable problems, things that could be made to happen if the right people were to volunteer some time and effort. Getting the right people to green light this sort of project though, that feels like the highest hurdle of all.
I am going to go ahead and declare Star Wars Galaxies lost to any preservation effort for the foreseeable future right up front based on this. At a minimum you need Disney, who holds the rights to the IP, to go along with this, and I cannot see that happening. Mickey Mouse doesn’t even get out of bed unless he’s getting paid.
So let’s look at City of Heroes instead. This is easier. NCsoft owns all the rights, so there is no problem dealing with IP problems. There should be no issue here, right?
The final plea
No server software stands alone. Even if the previous problems can be brushed aside, it is very likely that Cryptic, in developing City of Heroes, licensed third party libraries, utilities, and other assets in order to create the game. That licensing likely doesn’t allow NCsoft to give the server software out, even for a good cause.
This, by the way, is part of the answer to every question about why companies don’t open source their games when they shut them down. They cannot if they don’t own all the code.
In order to cover themselves, NCsoft would have to run down every third party aspect of the software and get the permission of the licensing entity. My gut says that NCsoft isn’t going to do this and, if they did, that getting every single third party on board would not be easy.
But if you can get past all of that, then you can have an MMORPG in your museum.
And I don’t even want to delve into the question of which version of a game ought to be preserved. The answer to that will only make people angry since it likely won’t be the launch version or the version from what you might believe to be the golden era of the game. It will most likely be the final version available from the build system.
All of that ought to be enough to make you say “screw it” and just start working on an emulator. That has to be easier, right? You can do what you want with that. Then you can put it up in your museum.
Well, there is a whole paragraph devoted to that in the ruling.
The Acting Register did not, however, recommend an exemption to allow for instances where the preservation institution lacks lawful possession of the server software. She found the record insufficient to support a finding that the recreation of video game server software as described by proponents is likely to be a fair use. A number of scenarios described by proponents do not involve preserving server software that is already in an institution’s collections, but instead appear to involve something more akin to reconstructing the remote server. She found that this activity distinguishes proponents’ request from the preservation activity at issue in the case law upon which they relied. Moreover, she noted, the reconstruction of a work implicates copyright owners’ exclusive right to prepare derivative works.
That sums up pretty much as, “No, you may not have cheezeburger.” Recreating is not preserving. You either get the real deal or you get nothing at all.
And so it goes. The door has been opened ever so slightly for the preservation of MMOs, but there are still many problems in the way.
Finally I want to call out what I consider a disingenuous to the point of being nearly deceptive part of the tweet above from The MADE. This phrasing irks me greatly:
…we can bring those games back online legally
Without the necessary context, always a problem on Twitter, one might assume that people will be able to fire up their clients and play their favorite shut down MMO if only The MADE can get the server code. However, this is covered in the document linked at the top as well:
Video games in the form of computer programs embodied in physical or downloaded formats that have been lawfully acquired as complete games, that do not require access to an external computer server for gameplay, and that are no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace, solely for the purpose of preservation of the game in a playable form by an eligible library, archives, or museum, where such activities are carried out without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage and the video game is not distributed or made available outside of the physical premises of the eligible library, archives, or museum.
The emphasis is my own.
So no, should any of this come to pass, you are not suddenly going to be able to play City of Heroes or Star Wars Galaxies or any other closed MMO. This whole thing isn’t being done just so you can play a video game. Unless you’re willing to schlep on over to Oakland to visit The MADE in person, you won’t be able to see what has been preserved.
And even then, I wonder what a visitor will be allowed to do. MMOs are strange beasts. They aren’t like Donkey Kong with discreet interaction parameters and a “Game Over” state after which everything starts again fresh. MMOs, at least the ones mentioned above, are MMORPGs, with an emphasis on the RPG part. You go into the world and play a role, interact with things, accumulate items and wealth. A story unfolds before you as you progress, and it doesn’t reset when you put down the controller and walk away.
How will a place like The MADE handle this sort of game?
Do you let every random person who walks in create a new character? Do you have some template characters available for people to wander around with? Do you let people wander around the world and die or do things that irrevocably change the nature of a character’s position in the world? Do you store progress? Do you wipe progress every night?
Probably the best case, within the law, scenario here is that a place like The MADE will get software that will let them setup a closed environment in their facility where the general public will get to see, maybe poke at, but probably not play in any depth, certain MMOs. The only people likely allowed greater access will be press writing articles or academics doing research… and the occasional big donor or volunteer who will get to make a character and play. The rest of us will just have to feel better that something has been preserved and move on with our lives.
Which is fine. I can live with that.
But I suspect that many people expect a lot more out of these efforts.
Addendum: Endgame Viable used a couple comments I made on Twitter in his post on this. This post is essentially an expansion by a couple thousand words on those two tweets.
Addendum 2: Ars Technica has a write up on this as well.
This entry was posted in Daybreak Game Company, entertainment, Sony Online Entertainment and tagged City of Heroes, Rambling Detected, Star Wars Galaxies, The MADE, Yeah well that's just like your opinion man on October 30, 2018 by Wilhelm Arcturus.
SuperData Shows the WoW Surge Fading and LoL Still Down
Here in the last days of October SuperData Research finally has their September sales chart out for us. I was a bit worried after they were acquired by Nielsen that they might stop feeding us this ranking regularly. Now if I could just get CCP to give us the September MER as well.
Anyway, to the chart.
SuperData Research Top 10 – September 2018
Last month saw the Battle for Azeroth surge for World of Warcraft, which jumped it up to second place on the PC end of the chart, putting it ahead of League of Legends for the first time in the history of this monthly report.
However that head of steam didn’t seem to last, even with Blizz offering a special mount if you would just commit to a six month subscription. WoW dropped to fifth position, though that still put it a bit ahead of its perennial seventh place slot, so maybe some people jumped on the mount bandwagon. Of course, if they paid for six months in September then they won’t have paid anything in October, so we’ll see if WoW drops more next month.
WoW’s loss was LoL’s gain though, as Riot’s game moved up into second place as the constant top four on the chart were locked in together again, having also pushed Monster Hunter: World down from fourth to seventh spot.
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds grabbed sixth position ahead of the so-popular-the-NHL-banned-it Fortnite, which came in at eighth. Rounding out the list are a couple of the usual suspects from the bottom of the list, World of Tanks in ninth and CS:GO in tenth. Hearthstone, which made the list last month, fell off for September.
In the middle, the console chart has Destiny 2 at the top, most likely due to the release of the Forsaken DLC last month. Marvel’s Spider-Man, a new release, captured second place, while FIFA 19 came in at third place. Fornite, last month’s top entry, sank to fourth place in the face of this new content, with NBA 2K19, another new release, close behind in fifth.
FIFA 18, apparently not completely sapped by the release of its successor, stayed on the list in sixth position. Call of Duty: WWII fell to seventh, but stayed ahead of the fresh Shadows of the Tomb Raider in eighth. 2013’s Grand Theft Auto V, which has stayed on the list, and even topped it at times despite its age, stayed alive in ninth place while PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds showed back up in tenth.
Among the titles pushed out of the way was Blizzard’s Overwatch.
Then on the mobile end of the chart, there was only a minor re-arrangement of last month’s titles, with Pokemon Go holding onto third position and Candy Crush Saga moving from tenth to seventh spot.
Other items from the report:
FIFA 19 scores best digital launch in franchise history. We estimate FIFA 19 digital console units grew 18% compared to FIFA 18 last year. Sales for the digital launch of FIFA hit another record, although the series continues to lag other AAA franchises in terms of download rates.
Destiny 2 gets a big boost from Forsaken. Destiny 2 topped our digital console rankings this month on the back of the new Forsaken expansion and an increase in deluxe edition purchases. Over 60% of all monthly active users purchased the expansion.
Marvel’s Spider-Man is Sony’s biggest launch to-date. Spider-Man sold 2.17 million digital units on PS4 in September, excluding download codes bundled with console sales, just edging out God of War‘s launch earlier this year.
NBA 2K19 marks a new franchise peak – but with a caveat. While NBA 2K19 digital console unit sales were up year-over-year from NBA 2K18, growth fell short of the rate seen in the past couple of years.It should be noted that this year’s iteration of the game launched earlier in the month.
This entry was posted in entertainment, SuperData Research, World of Warcraft and tagged Fortnite, League of Legends, PlayerUnknowns Battleground on October 29, 2018 by Wilhelm Arcturus.
A Fortizar Shoot in Perimeter
As I mention in a previous post, the null sec alliances brought their recent conflict to high sec using war decs, allowing TEST to assail Pandemic Horde’s trade hub in Perimeter. PH’s structures in Perimeter were reinforced while TEST dropped its own citadels, a faction Fortizar and a Keepstar.
War decs piled up between the groups as The Imperium joined in on the side of TEST and its Legacy Coalition allies while Black Legion jumped in to assist Pandemic Horde. Notably missing was the rest of PanFam, including Pandemic Legion and NCDot. Pandemic Horde has truly grown into its own entity.
It looked like there might be a fight brewing in high sec, just one jump from Jita.
Instead, Pandemic Horde decided to punt on its high sec trading empire. There is a post over at New Eden Report about the impact of this on the market. But for those of us just looking to shoot things, there would be no war. Pandemic Horde opted to contest neither the structures TEST deployed nor defend their own structures. At best there would just be a structure shoot to take them out.
Being in Reavers, structure shoots are clearly my bag. And since our war dec was still in place, I went out to shoot the PH Fortizar just because I could.
The Safe Trade Hub is no longer Safe
The nervous bit was getting there. I undocked from Jita 4-4 with my market/training implant clone to run to another station where I could install a jump clone. Then I ran back. Fortunately, the usual people who have us war dec’d and are generally camping the undock at 4-4 had joined us in the war. I was able to safely setup a local clone, jump to it, then roll back into 4-4 to pick up a ship.
I had a Jackdaw handy there and, not wanting to spend any ISK I didn’t have to, I rolled out of Jita to Perimeter in that.
Jackdaw on the way
When I arrived the shoot was already under way. TEST had a fleet sitting at range shooting the Fortizar. There was another group about 120 degrees off from them shooting the citadel as well. That group was putting out constant beams, which confused me for a bit.
Jackdaw spotting the red beams, TEST fleet ball visible
When I put the camera on that group though, the answer was clear. It was a small fleet of Leshaks, the Triglavian battleship, (supported by a few Nestors) responsible for those beams.
A Leshak at the shoot
The Triglavian weaponry, the precursor weapons, fire a continuous beam that puts out more damage the longer it stays on a target.
I had warped in at 50km and went into orbit around the citadel until the structure got down to about 25%. I only noticed after I arrived that the Jackdaw was fit for rockets rather than light missiles, which meant I would have to move in close to get my hits in. Even in sniper mode that meant being about 25km off the Fortizar. I was wondering if wandering in that close might draw the attention of the defensive weaponry.
However, that didn’t turn out to be an issue. I decreased the radius of my orbit to bring the rocket launcher in range and let fly. I am way down the list for total damage, but at least I got on the kill mail. It has been a quiet month with the peace agreement and PH not defending in Perimeter, so this is the only kill mail I am on for October. I try to be on one every month just to prove I am alive.
And so Pandemic Horde lost its foothold in Perimeter.
The PH logo shortly before the explosion
If you look at the kill mail, you will see that the five Leshaks in that group managed to get the top five slots for damage. Those precursor weapons work as advertised I guess.
This entry was posted in entertainment, EVE Online, Null Sec and tagged Pandemic Horde, Perimeter, TEST on October 29, 2018 by Wilhelm Arcturus.
Honest Trailers does Halloween
This past week, in celebration of the release of the sequel, Screen Junkies took a look at the original classic from 1978, Halloween.
I was too young to go see it when it came out, but I remember hearing about it. And, of course, when VCRs and video rentals became a thing half a decade later, my roommate and I watch it along with most of the movies it fostered with its success. So many of the tropes we associate with the genre started, or were solidified, with this movie.
And, if you really want to nerd out, there is the Honest Trailers Commentary where they talk about the film and making the Honest Trailer for it.
This entry was posted in entertainment, Movies, YouTube and tagged Halloween, Honest Trailers on October 28, 2018 by Wilhelm Arcturus.
FLEX Structures and the Return of The Eye of Terror
The first presentation on Saturday of EVE Vegas was from CCP Lebowski. Titled “FLEX, Decs, & What Comes Next,” it covered a stretch of topics, but opened with the latest round of structures from the Upwell Consortium. You can watch it here.
FLEX structures are set to replace the last few null sec infrastructure roles that still require Player Owned Starbases. After that the noble POS and the horrible code base that supports it, long complained about by CCP, can be retired. Maybe. A POS is still a pretty hand structure, so they may still need something to replace the simple ability to drop a safe spot in hostile space.
Anyway, the new FLEX structures are coming, FLEX standing for “Fast Logistical EXpansion,” and they share some characteristics.
The Basics of FLEX Structures
There are three FLEX structures coming, each replacing a POS function. There is the Pharolux Cyno Beacon, on which many an unwary capital pilot will probably die, the Tenebrex Cyno Jammer, which will let you stop capital drops in your territory, and the Ansiblex Jump Gate, which is going to open a can of worms we’ve seen before.
And it is that last one, the Ansiblex Jump Gate, that I want to bring up here, because it has some interesting features.
Jump Bridge becomes Jump Gate
There are some very spiffy aspects of this new structure. The model looks good, they align in space to the star system they to which they are connected, and the animations for it are superb. The latter will also be used with the upgraded art and animations for jump gates throughout New Eden.
But the thing I want to highlight is how unlike the old jump bridge the Ansiblex really is. It is the last two bullet points that are key here:
No Jump Fatigue
No Ship Size Restrictions
My first thought on seeing those two items was that these were, in essence, player made star gates, something that had been mentioned as a possibility quite some time back. I was kind of hoping that such structures would send us into new space, maybe with some new rules, but these seem to fit the bill if you get right down to it. Promise delivered on, if not in the way expected.
My second thought, which came very close on the first, and which I heard echoed by Dirk MacGirk amongst others, was, “Here is the return of the Eye of Terror!”
The Eye of Terror!
The Eye of Terror was a jump bridge network setup during the Great War. While I was playing EVE Online at the time, I was nowhere near null sec. It is, however, an item of legend, so I went to the Goon Wiki to get a description:
The original Eye of Terror was a series of jump bridges finished in December of 2007 during The Great EVE War. It ran from 46DP in Tenerifis to P8- in Feythabolis, enabling a constant stream of Goons into RISE’s living room for 24/7 harassment.
Since late August, RISE had been increasingly penned in to the “RIT Triangle,” their cluster of home station systems past the P8- choke point, and the constant presence of Black Ops and Pandemic Legion kept their station systems disabled and left them with no means of escape.
By the time the Eye of Terror actually opened RISE resistance had already been reduced to sitting in stations with the odd, terribly fit ship to attempt to escape. The stream of ships through the Eye rapidly destroyed their towers, many of which ran out of fuel as RISE logistics had given up or were trapped in stations.
That was the first Eye of Terror, and legend has it that its construction and effectiveness led to CCP changing the rules for jump bridges, restricting them to one per system so that fleet would at least have to expose themselves to gates along the way rather than just warping from POS to POS and jumping in relative safety.
Then there was the second Eye of Terror, the jump bridge line that I took so often back in the day, the one that first led to the beachhead in Cloud Ring for the invasion of Fountain. Later it was extended, first through Fountain, then Delve, and then into Querious.
If a fight was happening in way down south we could just hop in our ships up in Deklein and be down there in a pretty short time. And so battles like HED-GP came along and crashed the server. Yes, there were other factors, like the proliferation of drones and the Slowcats doctrine that were not helping. But the fact that people could log in anywhere in null sec and get to an escalating fight… all the easier because time dilation slowed the fight down while those traveling were moving at full speed… led to a pile on after pile on.
So CCP changed the way travel worked in null sec. The Phoebe update came along and introduced jump fatigue. Capital ships could no longer make jumps in rapid succession, and the same applied to jump bridges. Then we got Fozzie Sov, which sought to disperse battles over sovereignty. Small fights were going to break up the stagnation of null sec.
Certainly, some groups responded by consolidating their holdings. The Imperium drew back into a much smaller footprint in the north though, in the end, that was still more than could be held by the coalition. The Casino War proved that well enough. There was that and other shake outs, but in the end there was still something of an equilibrium. Outsiders and pundits still speak of the “blue donut” as though repeating it makes it so.
And then… something happened at CCP. I think they decided big fights were in their best interest. But the jump fatigue penalties started getting pared back. At the start, with Phoebe, you could make a character useless for months by taking too many jumps. That got reduced to five days. Now it is down to five hours. But it still injects a wait period between jumps. You can’t just jump or take jump bridges in rapid succession.
Only soon you will be able to again, and I am at a loss to explain why. Travel is a factor you must plan for in New Eden. Jump fatigue seemed to have a purpose in that. Now that whole “3 minutes per light year” travel time metric goal of just four years ago will be straight out the window.
When the new FLEX structures go in, when the Ansiblex Jump Gate becomes a thing, travel in null sec will lose its burden again. Subcap fleets will be able to cross large distances at will, giving coalitions the power to hold onto more territory. And it won’t just be subcaps, because capitals, supercaps, and titans will be able to take those new jump gates as well.
Yes, CCP points out that it will cost in liquid ozone. But I suspect they underestimate the abilities of GSOL, the miracle working logistical arm of the Imperium. I bet if The Mittani told them that there was a need to move every titan in the coalition in the next 24 hours, they would have supplies laid in and ships ready to refuel jump bridges along the whole route. I think we’ve already demonstrated that cost and effort are not really barriers.
So there we’ll be soon enough. But the gate animations will be cool. I’m tempted get FRAPS setup again to take videos of giant fleets passing through these new structures as the third Eye of Terror takes shape.
This entry was posted in entertainment, EVE Online, Null Sec and tagged EVE Vegas, Eye of Terror, FLEX Structures on October 26, 2018 by Wilhelm Arcturus.
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Prominent Conservative Steve Schmidt Drops GOP Over Trump, Family Separations
Steve Schmidt, senior advisor to Republican presidential nominee John McCain, speaks to the travelling press after McCain announced he was suspending his campaign September 24, 2008 at a hotel in New York City. McCai... Steve Schmidt, senior advisor to Republican presidential nominee John McCain, speaks to the travelling press after McCain announced he was suspending his campaign September 24, 2008 at a hotel in New York City. McCain said he was suspending his campaign and is seeking a postponement of the presidential debate to deal with the financial crisis. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
By Nicole Lafond
June 20, 2018 9:40 a.m.
A prominent Republican strategist, who worked on the campaigns of former President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), renounced the Republican Party early Wednesday morning, citing his revulsion to President Donald Trump and the administration’s family separation policy as the final straw.
Steve Schmidt, who is a political analyst for MSNBC and has been regularly vocal about his distaste for Trump, said he now plans to vote independently and align himself with Democrats. He called that party the “only party left in America that stands for what is right and decent and remains fidelitous to our Republic, objective truth, the rule of law and our Allies.”
With Trump at the helm, Schmidt said the GOP has become “corrupt, indecent and immoral,” with the exception of just a few Republican governors. He decried GOP leaders Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), invoking the spirit of Republican darling President Ronald Reagan, who he said would be “ashamed” of the Party for remaining complacent while “this corrupt government establishes internment camps for babies.”
“Today the GOP has become a danger to our democracy and values,” he said.
Read the full tweet thread below:
29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018
It is corrupt, indecent and immoral. With the exception of a few Governors like Baker, Hogan and Kasich it is filled with feckless cowards who disgrace and dishonor the legacies of the party’s greatest leaders. This child separation policy is connected to the worst abuses of
Season of renewal in our land is the absolute and utter repudiation of Trump and his vile enablers in the 2018 election by electing Democratic majorities. I do not say this as an advocate of a progressive agenda. I say it as someone who retains belief in DEMOCRACY and decency.
Establishes internment camps for babies. Everyone of these complicit leaders will carry this shame through history. There legacies will be ones of well earned ignominy. They have disgraced their country and brought dishonor to the Party of Lincoln.
This Independent voter will be aligned with the only party left in America that stands for what is right and decent and remains fidelitous to our Republic, objective truth, the rule of law and our Allies. That party is the Democratic Party.
Nicole Lafond (@Nicole_Lafond) is TPM’s special projects editor, based in New York. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and previously worked as an education reporter at The News-Gazette in Illinois.
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