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Janey Wiggs Janey Wiggs janey_wiggs@meei.harvard.edu
Janey Wiggs
Dr. Wiggs received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley and her M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She did her residency in Ophthalmology at Harvard and fellowships in Glaucoma (Mass Eye and Ear) and Medical Genetics (Tufts). Dr. Wiggs is clinically board certified in both Ophthalmology and Medical Genetics.
Dr. Wiggs is a physician scientist whose research program is dedicated to understanding the molecular mechanisms of glaucoma, including both early-onset glaucoma caused by highly penetrant alleles and common age-related glaucoma with complex inheritance. Dr. Wiggs is the PI of the NEIGHBORHOOD consortium contributing over 10,000 samples for genetic analyses.
Email: janey_wiggs@meei.harvard.edu
Kevin Linkroum Lab Manager kevin_linkroum@meei.harvard.edu
Kevin Linkroum graduated from Colby-Sawyer College in 2003 with a BA in Biology and concentrations in Chemistry and Film. After taking a year to pursue film studies, he joined Dr. Wiggs’ lab in 2004 as a research technologist and served in that capacity until 2008 when he became the Lab Manager for the Wiggs Lab and the Vision Core Facility.
Email: kevin_linkroum@meei.harvard.edu
John "Simmons" Borchert Research Technician john_borchert@meei.harvard.edu
Research Technician
Simmons Borchert graduated from Bates College in 2012 with a degree in biochemistry. He then spent two years working in commercial brewing as quality control specialist and cellarman; during this time he earned a degree in British Brewing Technology. Simmons returned to research science when he joined the Wiggs’ lab in 2014, where he holds the role of senior research technologist. Simmons currently researches the functional effects of genes thought to cause primary open angle glaucoma and autosomal dominant optic atrophy.
Email: john_borchert@meei.harvard.edu
Edward "Ryan" Collantes Research Fellow ryan_collantes@meei.harvard.edu
Dr. Ryan Collantes received his medical degree from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines and did his ophthalmology residency at the Manila Doctors Hospital also in the Philippines. During Ryan’s residency training, he traveled to an island in the Philippines to examine a large family with a blinding condition called juvenile open angle glaucoma. This study led to an important discovery of a novel type of myocilin (MYOC) mutation which has been found to be responsible for the disease in this family. As a clinician scientist, his goal is to identify genes responsible for glaucoma and to use that information to develop methods to identify disease-causing mutations and to implement gene-based therapies.
Email: ryan_collantes@meei.harvard.edu
Baojian Fan Ophthalmology Instructor baojian_fan@meei.harvard.edu
Ophthalmology Instructor
Baojian Fan graduated in 2004 with a PhD degree, majoring in Molecular Genetics of Ophthalmology. He obtained a Master degree in Epidemiology & Biostatistics in 1997 and a Bachelor degree in Medicine (M.D. equivalent) in 1993.
Dr. Fan is primarily interested in gene mapping for Mendelian diseases (e.g., pigment dispersion syndrome) and complex diseases (e.g., adult-onset glaucoma). He is also interested in analysis of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions in complex diseases.
Dr. Fan is currently a PI on a grant given by the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund to study the functional effects of the mutations in newly discovered genes responsible for pigment dispersion syndrome in zebrafish models. He is also a co-investigator on a NIH R01 grant to identify genes for ocular quantitative traits related to glaucoma using whole genome sequencing of large consanguineous pedigrees. He was a PI for a project funded by the BrightFocus Foundation to discover genetic variants that contribute to pigment dispersion syndrome and pigmentary glaucoma.
Email: baojian_fan@meei.harvard.edu
Shisong Rong Research Fellow shisong_rong@meei.harvard.edu
Dr. Shisong Rong obtained his M.D. from the Capital Medical University in China and Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Since his residency training in ophthalmology at Beijing Tongren Hospital, he has been actively involved in clinical & epidemiological studies and is engaged in studying the molecular genomics of eye diseases with a focus on glaucoma. He is now working with Dr. Janey Wiggs to bridge the gap in our knowledge about the biological links between genetic variants and glaucoma pathogenesis, identifying potential therapeutic targets for clinical translation.
Email: shisong_rong@meei.harvard.edu
Elizabeth DelBono Genetics Clinical Coordinator Elizabeth_delbono@meei.harvard.edu
Genetics Clinical Coordinator
Elizabeth DelBono earned a Masters of Public Health from Boston University with a concentration in research and epidemiology. Previously she worked in the Epidemiology Unit at MEE on retina research, including coordination for the initial Age Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS). In 2001 she joined Dr. Wiggs’ genetics research group at MEE. Her responsibilities include the identification, recruitment and consenting of potential study participants who are seen in the Glaucoma Service as well as maintaining clinical databases for the Wiggs Lab research projects. Other responsibilities include study documentation and reporting to the Human Studies Committee, and being a liaison between outside providers and OGI for GEDI-o testing.
Email: Elizabeth_delbono@meei.harvard.edu
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MasterCard features El Ñaqui food truck in ‘cashless pioneers’ series
El Ñaqui food truck is parked near the Buchanan military base in Guaynabo, where it has built a loyal following. (Credit: www.facebook.com/elnaqui)
MasterCard WorldWide has chosen the El Ñaqui gourmet food truck as the Caribbean region’s sole participant in its “Cashless Pioneers” international series, an initiative that highlights the stories of businesses that stand out for their innovation and visionary take on electronic payments around the world.
El Ñaqui is part of the island’s gourmet food truck movement and was chosen because of its owners’s willingness to challenge the perception that street food is a cash-only business, credit card officials said. Their story was published this week in the MasterCard “Cashless Conversations” blog.
The “Cashless Pioneers” series is a social media initiative MasterCard WorldWide launched to showcase the stories of businesses in different parts of the world that embrace technology and electronic payments to offer customers a higher level of service, while strengthening their operation.
“At MasterCard we are deeply committed to the local business community, especially in Puerto Rico, because we see them as key allies in helping us achieve our objective of creating a world that moves beyond cash,” said Manuel Catedral, general manager of MasterCard in Puerto Rico.
“With this initiative we are showcasing businesses such as El Ñaqui that are new, fresh, modern, and share our vision,” he said. “This is why today we are telling their stories, up front and center, so as to show why electronic payment is the safest, simplest, and most intelligent payment method.”
Known for its creative menu and the quality and freshness of their dishes, El Ñaqui is part of the “gourmet gastronomy on wheels” trend that has grown in popularity over the past few years in Puerto Rico. These mobile kitchens, which began in cities such as New York and Los Angeles as a casual dining concept and known for only accepting cash, today have become an alternative that is modern, fun, and delicious, especially for lunchtime.
As part of its innovative concept, El Ñaqui has spread the word of its existence through social media, which they use to advertise their specials and menu.
“Technology is a big part of the market and it is changing the way business is done. This is why when we created El Ñaqui we wanted to adapt our business outlook to that of the modern consumer, offering the convenience of paying with debit or credit card,” said José Bengoa, owner and executive chef of El Ñaqui. “This sets us apart from the competition because it allows us to reach our customers in a different manner, it strengthens us as a business, and it gives us greater peace of mind thanks to the inherent added security.”
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The Buzzer: Avalanche land last spot in West
By James O'BrienApr 5, 2019, 1:44 AM EDT
1. Phil Kessel
This is actually a dual Penguins three-point scorer award, as both Kessel and Sidney Crosby (one goal, two assists) enjoyed three-point nights as Pittsburgh clinched a playoff spot.
Kessel gets the edge for a couple reasons, though. For one thing, he had more goals than Crosby, as Kessel’s points came via two goals and one assist. One of the winger’s goals ended up standing as the game-winner, too.
With 82 points in 81 games, this ties Kessel’s 2011-12 as his second-best output, behind only last year’s 92. While Kessel seems to find his name mentioned far too often in trade rumors, the guy just keeps delivering. In particular, he probably deserves more credit for being “clutch,” as he’s been dynamite for the Penguins in postseason situations, and also important regular season moments like these.
Also, he once filled the Stanley Cup with hot dogs for trolling purposes. Pretty good final tiebreaker, actually.
2. Alexander Steen
As An Increasingly Old, I can relate to Steen slowing down, as the Blues forward has done at 35.
It’s nice to see strong outbursts like these from Steen, then, unless you’re a part of the Central Division jumble where three spots still haven’t been decided. Then you’d probably prefer the Blues to be a one-line team, thank you very much.
Steen scored two goals and one assist on Thursday, with one of those tallies coming shorthanded. His 27 points are more solid when you realize he’s been limited to 64 games played, so maybe he can heat up for the postseason?
3. Petr Mrazek
It was tempting to go for Jack Eichel (one goal and two assists, and you’ll see that one of those helpers ended up being special) or Jaroslav Halak, who pitched a 26-save shutout. There were other nice performances, too.
With the Sabres eliminated and the Bruins already locked in place, the Hurricanes “needed” more out of Mrazek, at least for a while. The complications of clinching scenarios called for some changes, but the bottom line is that Mrazek played well enough to make the process more straightforward for Carolina, as the clinched a spot in the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs, ending a decade-long postseason drought.
Two moments of great passing really took the cake on Thursday. First, check out this sweet no-look pass by almost-third-star Jack Eichel to Sam Reinhart:
If you’re like me, you’re a sucker for fantastic breakout passes, and Dougie Hamilton provided exactly that to Warren Foegele:
There will be greater detail on this later, but in the East, the Capitals clinched the Metropolitan Division title, while the Penguins and Hurricanes locked down playoff berths. Out West, the Avalanche clinched their spot, punctuated by this goal from Nathan MacKinnon to Erik Johnson, thus knocking off the Coyotes. The West’s eight is set, while positioning is still to be determined in certain situations.
(Technically, this goal really secured the spot, but the Johnson goal was more fun.)
Joe Thornton recorded career regular-season assist 1,064, passing Steve Yzerman for eighth all-time in that category. Yzerman’s 1,514 games played was also eclipsed, as Matt Cullen played in his 1,515th career game, taking sole possession of 19th in NHL history.
Thornton’s teammate Brent Burns reached 80 points for the first time in his career. He’s the sixth player to hit 80 for the first time at age 34+, and only the second defenseman, alongside Yzerman’s teammate Nicklas Lidstrom.
The Capitals won the Metropolitan Division for the fourth season in a row, and they’ve really been piling up division titles since the Alex Ovechkin era really took off.
Leon Draisaitl has a shot at 50 goals, as he scored his 49th of the season on Thursday.
BUF 5 – OTT 2
TBL 3 – TOR 1
NYI 2 – FLA 1 (SO)
PIT 4 – DET 1
WSH 2 – MTL 1
CAR 3 – NJD 1
STL 7 – PHI 3
NSH 3 – VAN 2
BOS 3 – MIN 0
COL 3 – WPG 2 (OT)
SJS 3 – EDM 2
ARI 4 – VGK 1
Tags: Nicklas Lidstrom, Steve Yzerman, The Buzzer, Alex Ovechkin, Alexander Steen, Brent Burns, Dougie Hamilton, Erik Johnson, Jack Eichel, Jaroslav Halak, Joe Thornton, Leon Draisaitl, Matt Cullen, Nathan MacKinnon, Nicklas Backstrom, Petr Mrazek, Phil Kessel, Sam Reinhart, Sidney Crosby, Warren Foegele
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Every Step You Fake
A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security
Fitness trackers, wearable devices that track people's step count, heart rate, and calories burned, generate a lot of data that is sent over the internet (sometimes insecurely), and used by device manufacturers in often untransparent ways.
Every Step You Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security is a report by Open Effect, a not-for-profit research group, with significant contributions from the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The report describes security and privacy issues found in fitness wearables and their implications for consumers and policy makers.
This report is the product of a year-long study that used three different methodologies to better understand what fitness tracking companies are doing with consumer's personal inromation. We employed technical analysis to observe actual data transmissions, policy analysis to understand the rights companies give to themselves and others, and a method where research participants filed legal requests for access to their data.
All studied fitness trackers except the Apple Watch were vulnerable to Bluetooth MAC address surveillance
Garmin, Withings, and Bellabeat applications failed to use transit-level security for one or more data transmissions, leaving user data exposed.
The Jawbone UP application routinely sent out the user's precise geolocation for reasons not made obvious to the user.
Fitness tracking companies gave themselves broad rights to utilize -- and in some cases, sell -- consumer's fitness data
Data collected by fitness tracking companies did not necessarily match with what can be obtained through an access request.
Devices Studied
We studied nine different fitness tracking devices. We looked at the Bluetooth communications between device and smartphone, and the Internet communications of the device's companion smartphone application. We also examined each device manufacturer's privacy policy, and had research participants using the devices file right to information requests to the device manufacturers.
Basis Peak
Bellabeat LEAF
Jawbone UP 2
Mio Fuse
Withings Pulse O2
An in-depth presentation of our fitness tracker research motivation methodology, and findings.
Compare the trackers
Use our interactive tool to see how fitness wearables compare on privacy and security.
Access My Info
Use our interactive tool to create a legal request for your fitness data.
Create a PIPEDA Request
Examine the data
Have a look at the detailed policy analysis data for each fitness tracking company.
Explore the Full Question Set
Traffic Sniffing
Learn about our test network, Snifflab, that allowed us to analyze fitness tracker data transmissions.
Check out Snifflab
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Funding Acknowledgement
This project is funded by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC); the views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the OPC.
Open Effect has licensed this work under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada license. All brand and product names and associated logos contained within this report belong to their respective owners and are protected by copyright. Under no circumstances may any of these be reproduced in any form without the prior written agreement of their owner.
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Kelly Ripa Teases Ryan Over “LIVE” Halloween Spanx Experience and More
posted by Sierra Marquina - Oct 30, 2018
We’re already LOLing. Each year, Ryan Seacrest and Kelly Ripa outdo themselves for Halloween on Live With Kelly and Ryan and this year surely won’t disappoint. The dynamic duo have already teased a bevy of costumes for Live's Best Halloween Show Ever: the ReBOOOOt and it’s safe to say Ryan’s experimented with all kinds of lewks.
“I had to do a Spanx fitting,” Ryan revealed, teasing one of his unseen costumes for tomorrow’s show.
“You have only dated woman who don’t need Spanx so you have a false idea about what women are like,” Kelly teased Seacrest. “Actual women wear Spanx.”
The Spanx are likely involved for a multitude of characters: For their hour-long show, Kelly and Ryan are bringing back to life popular shows and movies like Friends, Top Gun, I Love Lucy, The Brady Bunch, Saved by the Bell, Laverne and Shirley, Charlie's Angels and many, many more.
Watch back the on-air moment in the video above and catch the reveal of all their costumes on Live With Kelly and Ryan tomorrow morning! Click here to check your local listings.
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Idina Menzel's Son Had the Best Reaction to 'Frozen 2': Watch
posted by Sierra Marquina - Dec 3, 2019
If your mom stars in Frozen, you have the coolest mom ever, right?! Not so fast. Idina Menzel hilariously shared with Ryan Seacrest in-studio on Tuesday, December 3, that her 10-year-old son, Walker, still gets embarrassed by her — but, he did throw her a compliment for Elsa’s role in Frozen 2.
“He’s totally into basketball and hates mommy singing … you know how parents sing and kids get embarrassed? He’s embarrassed of me even though I’m a really good singer,” Menzel shared with Seacrest while chatting about her holiday plans with her family. “… He came to the premiere with me of Frozen 2 and normally when I’m going into school with him he holds my hand until he sees a buddy and then he drops it — that’s this year’s new development — but at the premiere, he was holding my hand the whole time!”
In fact, Menzel shared that she scored rare approval from her pre-teen at the Frozen 2 premiere.
”He was very territorial and so the next day I said, ‘Honey, I’m just curious, you were holding mommy’s hand a lot?’ And he said, ‘Well, I was a little overwhelmed and also I wanted people to know that you’re my mommy because they were all acting like they knew you,’” she adorably recalled. “And he turned to me in the premiere and was like, ‘Bad ass.’”
Elsa’s role in Frozen 2 is indeed bad ass. The beloved Disney character and Queen of Arendelle faces an epic adventure in the sequel alongside counterpart Anna and as Menzel teased, Elsa lets her hair down and ditches her corseted dress for a pair of athletic leggings, fit to fight off whatever gets in her way. The feminist approach to the classic Disney “princess” or “damsel in distress” is also what Menzel applied when it came to her new Christmas album, Christmas: A Season of Love.
The songstress explained to Seacrest that she recruited the talent behind the Frozen soundtrack, The Lopez’s, to pen a feminist Christmas song in regards to Mrs. Claus titled "A Hand for Mrs. Claus" featuring Ariana Grande.
“I felt like it needed girl power and I met Ariana at the Wicked reunion show that Kristin Chenoweth and I were hosting and she’s such a sweetheart and then I just begged her to do this and she did it while on tour,” Menzel shared of the collab. “She found the time so I’m totally indebted to her. … She would constantly text me little things like, ‘How’s this?’ And then send me line-by-line [like], ’Is this OK? This medley? This harmony?’ I was like, ‘I do not care! I’m so glad you’re singing on it! Just do your thing! I love you!’ [She would send] little MP3s — so sweet.”
The entire album, which Menzel wanted to feel “nostalgic jazzy,” features a bevy of talents including Frozen costar Josh Gad, Billy Porter, and even her husband Aaron Lohr.
Watch back the full interview to hear more from Idina, who is also performing at the “Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting” on NBC at 8pm ET and hosting “A Home for the Holidays with Idina Menzel Christmas” on December 22nd on CBS at 9/8c.
Stream Christmas: A Season of Love now!
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Cardinal Schönborn: “All the [Dubia] Questions Can Be Answered ‘Yes'”
Steve Skojec July 14, 2017 278 Comments
On Thursday, July 13, Cardinal Cristoph Schönborn — the pope’s chosen interpreter and advocate for his apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia — addressed an audience at the “Let’s Talk Family: Let’s Be Family” conference in Ireland in anticipation of the World Meeting of Families in Dublin next year. According to Greg Daly of The Irish Catholic, Schönborn opened his talk by assuring those in attendance that both the exhortation and the pope responsible for it are Catholic:
Cardinal Schoenborn opens his talk by assuring us all that Amoris Laetitia – and indeed the Pope – is Catholic. pic.twitter.com/8F6G7n9NWj
— Greg Daly (@GregDalyIC) July 13, 2017
Later, Daly tweeted that Schönborn said that all of the dubia questions can be answered with a “yes”:
On the Dubia, Cardinal Schoenborn says all the questions can be answered ‘yes’. Indeed, he says he’s told one of the Dubia cardinals so.
If you don’t recall what the answers are supposed to be, let me remind you why this is such a problematic statement:
The Roman Pontiff, whom St. Catherine of Siena famously referred to as “Our Sweet Christ on Earth”, also has the power to calm the raging storm now buffeting the Barque of Peter. It is not the battering of wind and waves that endangers the vessel, but confusion, error, and doubt — and worse, a rapidly metastasizing schism, spreading like a deadly poison throughout the Mystical Body of Christ.
When it comes to the self-made crisis in the Church — the mounting battle over marriage, divorce, remarriage, sacraments for those in objective grave sin, and the question of the existence of objective sin itself — our Holy Father, like the very Christ he is duty-bound to serve, has at his disposal five simple words that would pacify the tempest:
“No. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.”
These are, of course, the only answers that a Catholic could ever give to the dubia. There are no other options. No exceptions. No pastoral discernment. No need for verbosity or for yet more nuance.
Distilled down to a crudely simple form, the dubia are essentially as follows:
Can the divorced and remarried who are still engaged in a sexual relationship receive absolution and communion without a change of life?
Do absolute moral norms still exist?
Does objective grave sin still exist?
Is the teaching still valid that however much circumstances may lessen an individual’s guilt, those circumstances cannot change an intrinsically evil act into a subjectively good act?
Does the Church’s teaching that an appeal to conscience cannot overcome absolute moral norms still hold true?
These five questions are so simple, their answers so obvious, they require no more than 30 seconds of Francis’ time. (If it would make things easier, the five words could be spoken from the pressurized cabin of an airplane, an environment that seems to stimulate papal loquacity.)
So let’s examine that one “no” in a list of “yeses”. The full question as presented by the dubia cardinals was as follows:
It is asked whether, following the affirmations of Amoris Laetitia (300-305), it has now become possible to grant absolution in the sacrament of penance and thus to admit to holy Communion a person who, while bound by a valid marital bond, lives together with a different person more uxorio without fulfilling the conditions provided for by Familiaris Consortio, 84, and subsequently reaffirmed by Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, 34, and Sacramentum Caritatis, 29. Can the expression “in certain cases” found in Note 351 (305) of the exhortation Amoris Laetitia be applied to divorced persons who are in a new union and who continue to live more uxorio?
My distilled and simplified summary is, again:
And Cardinal Schönborn — chosen for the job of explaining the exhortation by the pope himself — says that the answer to this question is yes.
The Austrian cardinal also had this to say about same-sex couples:
“Favouring the family does not mean disfavouring other forms of life – even those living in a same-sex partnership need their families”.
This is not the first time he has spoken favorably of unions that involve one of the sins that “cries out to heaven for vengeance”. In 2015, the Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna made shocking statements about such unions:
On the issue of how the Church talks about gays and lesbians, Schönborn also has been a champion of more inclusive approach.
“The Church should not look in the bedroom first, but in the dining room!” he said in a September 2015 interview with Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit-run journal in Rome.
“We can and we must respect the decision to form a union with a person of the same sex, [and] to seek means under civil law to protect their living together with laws to ensure such protection,” he said in that interview.
Schönborn spoke of a gay friend who, after multiple temporary relationships, now has a stable partner.
“They share a life, they share their joys and sufferings, they help one another,” he said. “It must be recognized that this person took an important step for his own good and the good of others, even though it certainly is not a situation the Church can consider ‘regular’.”
During the 2014 synod, Schönborn also argued that the Church can find positive moral elements in other non-traditional relationships, such as cohabitation outside marriage.
In 2016, Schönborn’s Vienna Cathedral bulletin positively depicted a homosexual couple with an adopted son. Schönborn has also stated publicly that if his divorced mother had remarried, he and his siblings would have understood it.
During his talk Schönbornn also took aim at the dubia Cardinals:
Asked about the reception of Amoris Laetitia within the Church and the “dubia” – a series of questions raised by four cardinals to clear up confusion – Cardinal Schönborn said the “process of reception is a long process” and needs negotiation and discussion.
But he also criticised the cardinals over the manner in which they raised their concerns. “That cardinals, who should be the closest collaborators of the pope, try to force him and put pressure on him to give a public response to their publicised letter is absolutely inconvenient behaviour,” he said.
He told journalists: “I fear those who have rapid, clear answers in politics and economy and also in religion. Rigorists and laxists have clear and rapid answers, but they fail to look at life. The rigorist avoids the effort of discernment, of looking closely at reality. The laxist lets everything possible go, and there is no discernment. They are the same but opposite.”
“St Gregory the Great said the art of the pastoral accompaniment is the art of discernment. It is an art and it needs training,” he added.
No reference was given as to where in his body of teachings Catholics could find St. Gregory’s admonition on “the art of pastoral accompaniment”.
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Batman and Superman are currently clobbering each other through cinemas around the globe, but where did it all begin? One Room With A View casts the Bat Signal back through time, past the Nolan-noughties, past Burton’s reign in the late-eighties/early-nineties, to the Swingin’ Sixties – a place where cinematic Batman Began.
‘He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster,’ Nietzsche warned in Beyond Good and Evil. ‘And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.’ A troubling sentiment, and one that is eerily echoed, almost verbatim, by Alfred Pennyworth as the light of 1993’s Mask of the Phantasm begins to dwindle.
Crumpled at his feet, caped but sans cowl, muscular but fragile, sits Bruce Wayne: half man, half bat, static between his two states of transformation. He is closing up his most recent case, one that has devastated him to his already fractured core, and is contemplating the notion of retribution. Pennyworth – butler, accomplice, confidant, and father-by-proxy – attempts to comfort Wayne, thanking heaven that vengeance hasn’t poisoned his surrogate son in the same way it has devoured his gallery of nemeses.
But even that balm of this seemingly familiar sermon catches itself on that Nietzschean caution, the same one that eats as the very heart of the Batman mythos: how long before this abyss-weary man finally breaks?
Courtesy of: Warner Bros.
In 1939, as planet Earth readied itself for a second world war, people were in desperate need of heroes. Superman, a character originally devised from another Nietzschean concept (the Übermensch), had proven to be a major triumph for DC Comics, and audiences were salivating for more. In answer to these demands, Bob Kane and Bill Finger began to develop a shadowy persona, known only at that point as “The Bat-Man”. Clad in a red suit and sporting a domino mask, he bore little resemblance to the eventual character that would rise from his ashes, but it was a start: the Bat had been born.
Kane and Finger became consumed with evolving their elementary sketches into a fully formed champion. Together, they concocted a thick soup of pulp fiction, adventure comic strips, and other herbs and spices from 1930s popular culture to pour through a pointy-eared mask. In doing so, the world’s soon-to-be most famous vigilante began to take shape as a Scarlet Pimpernelian Sherlock Holmes; an enigmatic alter-ego who stalked and sleuthed in the shadows, shrouding his acts of heroism in a plume of tenebrosity. The domino mask was replaced by a cowl (no doubt put into storage until Robin would come along) and the wings (inspired by Da Vinci’s ornithopter sketches) became a cape. Gloves were added and anything red became black.
Designed as a Zorro for modern, urban America, the Bat-Man borrowed further from the Californio nobleman’s background, by forming Bruce Wayne, the Man behind the Bat, as a wealthy playboy, thought to be an unlikely suspect to be a masked nocturnal vigilante. Kane and Finger clipped his name together from the jigsaw piece monickers of Robert Bruce, the Chief of the Knights Templar, and Major General ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne, a brigadier general who fought in the American Revolutionary; homages to valour, philanthropy, but also colonialism. Before the smoke could clear, they provided their character with his raison d’être by promptly orphaning him, reasoning there to be ‘nothing more traumatic than having your parents murdered before your eyes.’
Courtesty of: the Bob Kane estate
The Bat-Man, soon to be referred to as just “Batman”, was immediately embraced by the public and his comics continued to sell very well, even through the genre’s slump of the 1950s. Two serialised adventures were produced by Columbia Pictures in the ‘40s, and their moderate success led to the eventual development of the now iconic Batman television series, originally aired on America’s ABC channel.
Batman’s first full-length theatrical outing was originally envisioned to be a commercial-of-sorts for this upcoming TV show, the brainchild of producer William Dozier, but financial reluctances from 20th Century Fox resulted in its release being pushed back to between the series’ first and second season. Batman: The Movie, which pits the Dynamic Duo of Batman and Robin against not one, not two, but four of the show’s most loathsome villains, debuted in late July 1966 to a mixed box office reception.
Adam West, the television series’ Caped Crusader, continued with his role as it was spun-off onto the silver screen, despite his request for a more bumper pay cheque being met with a threat to replace him. The actor had been found by the producers after playing Captain Q, a 007-styled spy, in a TV commercial for Nestlé Quik, and apparently only won the cape and cowl by being the only auditonee to not dissolve into a cloud of laughter after reading the given lines. West remains the only man in history known to have been offered the parts of both Batman and James Bond (the latter of which he turned down due to ‘not being British’).
Courtesy of: 20th Century Fox
His Batman is not a vigilante; he is more of a “fixer” for Commissioner Gordon’s police force, an inverted Winston Wolfe type, always waiting at the end of of his pulsating red telephone, and Gotham City’s theatrical mascot of justice. West plays the Dark Knight as a stoic straight-man; an intensely moral figure who has a passionate and genuine hatred for law-breaking, but is never fazed by the fantastical hyperbole constantly erupting just ahead of him. ‘Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb,’ he mutters to himself in the latter stages of this movie, wielding a ridiculous explosive device that might look more at home in a Looney Tunes skit above his head, and we see this is truly just another day at the office for this Batman.
However, this Caped Crusader does not work alone, and West and Burt Ward (the series and movie’s Robin) make for an exuberant, incredibly watchable double act, easily the best Batman and Robin pairing in the cinematic canon (although this is hardly an incredible feat, all things considered). Bill Finger had wanted to introduce Robin into the Batman comics as a Doctor Watson-styled sidekick, someone plucky and loyal, a counterpart who Batman could confide in. Director Leslie H. Martinson captures this intention, successfully carrying over the natural, warm, paternal chemistry also shared by the duo on the television run.
Robin is always Batman’s apprentice in this universe, but Bats is never shown to be patronising in his thoughtful duty of care, and Ward’s Boy Wonder is neither callow nor a burden. He’s pragmatic, gets involved, and is constantly an asset to his guardian. ‘An old chum,’ as Batman constantly puts it, and we believe it. Their relationship is touchingly co-dependent.
Martinson also does a wonderful job in continuing the series’ wacky spirit while ensuring to turn the gas mark up to feature length: the plot sees the Dynamic Duo effectively enter Cold War politics via a dangerous, world-threatening device that dehydrates people to mere dust. His balancing of Batman and Robin, Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara, along with four rogues (and Catwoman’s assumed identity Kitanya Irenya Tatanya Karenska Alisoff, or ‘Ms Kitka’ for short) is Whedonesque: everyone gets their curtain call. Even now (especially now), the superhero genre tends to get hamstrung by a giddy need to stuff as many villains as possible into its films, nearly always to the point of choking, and the Batman cinematic canon is no different, but Batman: The Movie is one of the few exceptions that gets it right: the Joker, the Riddler, the Penguin, and especially Catwoman each have a legitimacy in their inclusion to this most fiendish of plots.
Despite a recent resurgence (the television series finally made it to home video in 2014 after being stuck in a messy rights-battle purgatory for 46 years), many still consider West’s Batman to be something close to blasphemy. However, such dismissals of the incarnation are almost always revisionist and perhaps do not take into consideration just how rooted this version was in the comics of its time. Many of Batman’s most famous hallmarks are omitted here, it’s true: no parents are butchered in dank alleyways; no young boys tumble into cavernous, bat-infested depths; and William Dozier’s Gotham City is not the Dantean Ring we would plummet into in future adventures, despite being, as always, a magnet for the criminally insane.
But the main reason the eldest child in Batman’s feature length canon is so obviously anomalous standing next to its younger brothers is simple: it’s pure, kaleidoscopic fun. Batman: The Movie tackles crime with an optimistic cheerfulness and a knowing, surreal sense of humour; it’s always looking at you out of the corner of wrinkled, twinkling eyes, tongue perpetually rammed in cheek, and it dares to laugh at the inherent ridiculousness of the genre. What other superhero films have had their stars duking it out with a shark while dangling from a helicopter, or pondering the ethical ramifications of blowing up a raft of ducklings, or having to sort the granular remains of the world’s most powerful leaders?
For better or worse, we’ll never quite see its like again.
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Southeastern Louisiana Lions vs Ole Miss Rebels - December 21, 2019 Recap
Lions Lions 3-8
Rebels Rebels 8-3
Lions 41 35 76
Rebels 42 41 83
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Sy scores 20 points to lead Ole Miss past SE Louisiana 83-76
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Ole Miss coach Kermit Davis was looking for a spark.
Khadim Sy provided one.
Sy scored 20 points on 7-of-11 shooting as Ole Miss held off Southeastern Louisiana 83-76 at the Mississippi Coliseum on Saturday afternoon.
''He's been getting better and better and today he was finishing around the rim,'' Davis said. ''We needed every basket he made and he needs to keep making that progress.''
Sy also grabbed seven rebounds, had one blocked shot and was 5 for 5 from the free throw line. His dunk with 50 seconds left put Ole Miss up 80-72 to seal it.
''Coach has been telling me to pick it up and I had to today,'' Sy said. ''This was one of our worst games defensively, so we had to step up on offense and execute to win.''
SE Louisiana led 34-30 with just under four minutes left in the first half, but Ole Miss ended the half on a 12-6 run to take a 42-41 lead at halftime. Ole Miss opened the second half on a 13-7 run through the first eight minutes, extending the lead to 55-48.
Blake Hinson added 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting, including 3 for 7 from behind the arc, for Ole Miss (8-3). Point guard Devontae Shuler chipped in 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting for the Rebels. He also had six assists, four rebounds, two blocked shots and two steals. Breein Tyree had 14 points for Ole Miss.
The Rebels have won three straight after losing three of four to end November.
Tyron Brewer had a game-high 30 points on 13-of-17 shooting and also had six rebounds for SE Louisiana. He had 17 points in the first half.
''He is a Mississippi kid and had something to prove and he kicked our tail every way possible today,'' Davis said. ''He hadn't the ball like that all year but give that team a lot of credit they've been in close games and will a lot of games in their conference.''
LaQuan Butler added 12 points on 5-for-9 shooting for the Lions (3-8).
The Lions shot 58% (32-of-55) for the game.
''At times I didn't know what team I was coaching. Couldn't get matched up and everything we could do wrong defensively we did it,'' Davis said. ''They made tough shots and had confidence to beat us. That's how college basketball is. They played better than we did and we are fortunate to come out with a win.''
Southeastern Louisiana: After making 7-of-8 three pointers in the first half the Lions were held to 3 of 7 3-pointers in the second half. The Lions were 2 of 5 from the free throw line for the game..
Ole Miss: The Rebels would score 28 points off 16 Southeastern Louisiana turnovers. Ole Miss was just 7-for-24 from three-point range and. Ole Miss is now 19-0 all-time against Southeastern Louisiana.
Ole Miss hosts Tennessee Tech on Dec. 29. Southeastern Louisiana travels to Oklahoma State on Dec. 29.
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Why are there so few ranked ar10 ?
posted September 5, 2014 at 9:02:46 PM UTC
FlyingKebab
FlyingKebab September 7, 2014 at 3:11:22 PM UTC
thedamntrain wrote:
I lose 1 IQ every time I read something this guy posts.
You are on a fun ride to retardation then, my friend.
A new thread every day keeps the forums trolls at bay :3.
nooblet
nooblet September 7, 2014 at 11:37:59 PM UTC
winber1 wrote:
praise me
master overlord have you come to our rescue pls teach us the path to transcendence
Faces September 8, 2014 at 12:23:01 AM UTC
jesus1412 wrote:
the only hard map in this game is the tutorial
Dat AR though.
AR 20.102410493049230590495604 too OP
Scintillate
Scintillate September 8, 2014 at 4:51:18 AM UTC
exozion wrote:
airman aint hard either
What Airman do you play?!
Rewben2
Rewben2 September 8, 2014 at 7:20:52 AM UTC
Didn't know IQ went into the negatives
B1rd
B1rd September 8, 2014 at 7:36:59 AM UTC
Rewben2 wrote:
rekt.
Vuelo Eluko
Vuelo Eluko September 8, 2014 at 9:45:51 AM UTC
buny
buny September 8, 2014 at 10:29:06 AM UTC
CDFA wrote:
Maybe if people didn't map ar10 so shitty we'd have more ranked ar10 maps.
Are they shitty in general, or are they shitty because they are ar10?
guro September 8, 2014 at 1:24:50 PM UTC
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buny September 8, 2014 at 1:38:51 PM UTC
[Air Man] wrote:
Probably not me, heh.
Anyways, "Can't Defeat Airman" is not insanely hard, if you are decent at the jump patterns. IMO, the AR 10 is not much of a problem there, just another matter of practice. I passed it myself, but my accuracy is awful, because I simply suck at those polygon circles, so yeah.. not very hard to pass.
It is HARD
The only reason why you are passing is the insanely forgiving HP drain, which literally allows you to miss over half the jumps in the map.
Airman and maps like it are more of a psychological thing to overcome certain patterns and how you follow them. But the people who overcome these barriers have a lot less problems in completing those maps well.
nooblet September 8, 2014 at 2:25:32 PM UTC
FlyingKebab wrote:
It's not a psychological thing, it's fullscreen jump spam and annoying patterns at 200 bpm.
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x_Co0ki420ezi_x September 8, 2014 at 2:47:41 PM UTC
Maxis September 8, 2014 at 3:06:44 PM UTC
I feel there should be a new rule saying that you can't call a map easy if you can't pass it satisfactorily--as in, achieve a score the community would agree to be "good" (to compensate for issues like Airman's HP3).
jump player
GoldenWolf September 8, 2014 at 3:16:14 PM UTC
Maxis wrote:
Now see the whole forum arguing for 6942 years to define what can be considered "good".
I would reckon that a pass with less than 10 misses and at least 90% acc so technically a strong B would be considered enough to argue about something? Getting only like 10 misses on Airman would be really good actually.
90% acc is terribad though, if you can get below 10 misses on this map I'd expect you to be at least decent overall and get 98%
Amianki
Amianki September 8, 2014 at 4:18:56 PM UTC
If you're getting a B, you're bad at the map. I don't really see how this can be argued outside of fringe cases on maps with like 10 objects.
Basically, if you're getting enough 100s or 50s that you're not getting at least an A, you don't have the rhythm down. If you're getting a ton of misses, you're not good enough to hit the notes.
Amianki ♥
Mismagius
Mismagius September 8, 2014 at 4:47:58 PM UTC
I'm a shit acc player but that doesnt mean i'm not good at the game
CalignoBot wrote:
Getting note locked on a full stream and getting x15 50s in 2 sec and ending up with 93% B on https://osu.ppy.sh/b/91037 is probably what I'd consider my argument.
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How a Little Boy’s Request for Milk Ignited a Movement in Bolivia
In our Soulfires series, we share the stories of people who have encountered God in powerful ways and responded by initiating significant ministry projects.
It was May 1989 and Rocky had had a tiring day. Selling new cars was something he was good at, but the hours were long and the pressures were enough to make a man scramble for some solace at the end of the day.
As he entered the apartment where he sublet a room from a friend, Rocky was eager to shut the door, fall asleep and let the day fall from him. But somewhere between the front door and his room, his friend was able to ask how Rocky was and mention something about how a church he had visited was looking for missionaries to join a team going down to Honduras.
That’s when Rocky did something that changed his life.
He asked, “What was that?”
Thousands of civilians were caught in the crossfire between the Communist Sandinistas who threatened to take Honduras, and the rebels, or Contras, who defended it. “It’s a humanitarian crisis,” his friend said. “People are desperate for help.”
Initially, it was something Rocky didn’t even consider. But as he lay in bed that night, the idea of offering himself for the mission knocked around in his brain. Later, he had a dream in which God told him he would meet and marry a blonde, blue-eyed Dutch nurse … in Honduras.
It wasn’t long after that that Rocky was on his way.
Two weeks after arriving in Honduras, Rocky lay on a rubber mat in a hut so thick with mosquitos it was like an interior fog. A raging fever from the malaria he had contracted was boiling his blood yet he shivered so violently, his teeth rattled. Each time the Sandinistas’ shells would land nearby, the ground would quake and shake the dust from the ceiling to cascade down onto his skin that had turned gooey and oozing from thousands of infected bug bites. He kept his arms pulled tightly to his sides to keep from touching the netting where the vampire bats would suck his blood and turn his arms and bedding into a bloody mess.
He was miserable. “I volunteered for this?” he chided himself through chattering teeth.
One day when he was better, Rocky was riding in the back of a military ambulance when it came to a stop. The back doors opened and there stood a Dutch nurse who was blonde and blue-eyed—the exact same nurse from his dream. His heart began to pulse a little faster. Suddenly, the harsh Honduran conditions got a little more bearable.
In the days to come, Rocky worked alongside medical teams from a field hospital to help burn victims that had been caught in the blitz of incendiary weapons meant to char the Contras into submission. Rocky was initially confused as to why none of the civilians who arrived at the unit were young men—only children, old folks and women.
Most of the men were dead.
The level of poverty Rocky saw in the Honduran jungles was shocking—dirty water, little food, the most crudely crafted shelters imaginable filled with malnourished people. Often times kids would show up to school hungry and naked. Most children had no idea why their fathers were gone or why heaven rained fire.
Rocky’s job was to do whatever he was told by the missionary leaders, and there was always more than could be accomplished. They battled the elements, the mosquitos, sickness, injury and the witch doctors who brought the people lies of healing from a dark underworld.
One day while Rocky was trying to comfort burn victims waiting to be treated, a little boy walked up and tugged on Rocky’s shirt. Despite only being able to speak the Miskito language of the Honduran jungles, he was able to communicate that he wanted milk. Rocky sent someone inside the field hospital who returned with some canned milk. The boy took it, and when he turned around to walk away, he revealed a severely burned back.
Part of the boy’s story became suddenly clear: The milk was not meant for him. If it had been, he would have stayed to be treated.
In the months to come, the boy would come back about every two weeks to find Rocky, who began to buy small cans of powdered milk to keep on hand. In the process, Rocky learned that the boy was taking care of his baby sister by himself. Because the Honduran villagers lived in small clearings in the jungle, they would often have to run into the jungle when bombs began to slam the earth. The night before the little boy tugged on Rocky’s shirt, he, his sister and mother had been fleeing from the shelling when his mother was struck. She was obliterated right before their eyes.
That is why the little girl never appeared with the boy to get milk. She stayed where she believed it was safe—in the jungle. To her, a clearing meant death.
Months later, the day came when Rocky was transferred to a different hot zone. As he got on the plane and the pilot began to power up, out from the jungle and into the gusts of wind stepped the little boy holding the hand of his sister dressed in a filthy white dress. They had come—to the clearing—to wave goodbye to the man who gave them milk—and life. Rocky had dealt with so many sick people in so many ways, it never occurred to him that the day he handed the little boy a can of milk would amount to this dangerous expression of thanks.
“They’re so little,” he whispered to himself as he broke down. He wept for their indescribable plight: on the run from the elements, starvation, disease and communist warriors.
Rocky’s soul had been marked by the eyes of that boy and his sister. He couldn’t shake their image. He forever had a heightened sensitivity for the dangers children face around the world. Would God use it?
Six years later, in 1995, Rocky and his wife, Joske, the Dutch nurse he had met in Honduras, moved to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where they would start a church motivated by what Rocky believed was a call from God to disciple the entire nation—no small feat.
They strategized that to hold services in a movie theater would allow them to take advantage of the free advertising the newspapers would give theaters around the city. So they included the playing of Christian movies as a part of the community outreach, and the movies quickly showed to packed houses. People began to come to Christ at a stunning rate. They traveled from far and wide to hear about Jesus and to be set free from hopelessness. In just six months, the church tipped 1,000 people in weekly attendance, and every six months saw another 1,000 people. But even at the pace, Rocky knew that if he were to reach all of Bolivia for Christ, it wouldn’t happen in 20 of his lifetimes.
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History of World Cup Cricket-
Name of Cup
No. of Country
1975 Prudential Cup England. 8 West Indies Australia Clive Lloyd
1979 Prudential Cup England. 8 West Indies England. Vivian Richards
1983 Prudential Cup England. 8 India West Indies Mohinder Amarnath
1987 Reliance Cup India & Pakistan 8 Australia England. David Boon
1992 Benson & Hedges Cup Australia & New-Zealand 9 Pakistan England. Wasim Akram
1996 Wills Cup India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka 12 Sri Lanka Australia Aravinda Desilva
1999 ICC Cup England. 12 Australia Pakistan Shane Warne
2003 ICC Cup S. Africa, Zimbabwe & Kenya 14 Australia India Rickey Ponting
2007 ICC Cup W. Indies 16 Australia Sri Lanka Adam Gilchrist
2011 ICC Cup India, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh 14 India Sri Lanka M. S. Dhoni
2015 ICC Cup Australia & New-Zealand 14 Australia New Zealand James Faulkner
2019 ICC Cup England and Wales 10 England New Zealand Ben Stokes
Objective Questions on World Cup Cricket History frequently asked in SSC, CDS, NDA, PSC, Railways and other competitive examinations-
1. Who won the Cricket World Cup in 1979 by defeating England in the final?
(a) Australia
(b) India
(c) West Indies
(d) Pakistan
2. In the World Cup History which country has won Cricket World Cup maximum number of times?
(a) West Indies
(b) Australia
(c) India
3. Whom did India defeated in the final to win the Cricket World Cup in 1983?
(b) England
4. Who won Man of the Match award in the final of the Cricket World Cup in 1983?
(a) Mohinder Amarnath
(b) Kapil Dev
(c) Sunil Gavaskar
(d) K. Srikanth
5. Which country host the Cricket World Cup in the year 1999?
(a) India, Pakistan & Sri Lanka
(b) Australia & New Zealand
(d) England
6. Who is the highest run scorer in a single Cricket World Cup?
(a) Ricky Ponting
(b) Adam Gilchrist
(c) Sachin Tendulkar
(d) M. S. Dhoni
7. In which year, overs in Cricket World Cup reduced to 50 from 60?
(a) 1986
(b) 1987
8. Which one of the following cricketers has represented two different countries in ICC Cricket World Cup?
(a) Kepler Wessels
(b) Gary Sobers
(c) Kevin Peterson
(d) Ian Botham
9. Who hold the record of taking 4 wickets in 4 consecutive balls in Cricket World Cup?
(a) Shane Warne
(b) Wasim Akram
(c) Chetan Sharma
(d) Lasith Malinga
10. Who set a world record in Cricket World Cup of hitting 6 sixes in an over against Netherlands spinner Dan Van Bunge?
(a) Jacques Kallis
(b) Herschelle Gibbs
(c) Yuvraj Singh
(d) Virender Sehwag
Answers - 1(c), 2(b), 3(c), 4(a), 5(d), 6(c), 7(b), 8(a), 9(d) and 10(b).
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The mission of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is to provide excellent clinical care, education, and research in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, leading to optimum quality of life for individuals with physical disabilities.
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation focuses on restoration of the body and mind after trauma or disease has occurred. In some cases the restoration is ongoing and the goal is to teach the patient how to live and cope with the effects of pain, or lack of function, and lead a full and productive life to the greatest extent possible.
Clinically, restoration and rehabilitation can be accomplished in different ways. Our philosophy is to assess a patient's bio/psycho/social needs and determine which diagnostic and treatment methods will provide the patient with the highest level of functional outcome. The approach is often inter-disciplinary.
Academically, we teach medical students basic treatment and assessment techniques and methods used in rehabilitation, along with advanced knowledge of anatomy. We train residents in the practice of physiatry and the diagnostic art of electromyography (EMG). We also offer a fellowship program to physicians desiring a refined knowledge of EMG and pain management.
Explore this website and meet our department members; learn about our residency training program and other academic endeavors; investigate out the research projects completed and underway, and observe our COM clinical practices.
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Sparrow Hospital and Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital have joined together to create Mary Free Bed at Sparrow, a joint venture providing advanced inpatient rehabilitation care for mid-Michigan patients. The rehabilitation unit at Sparrow includes 40 private patient rooms and two therapy gymnasiums. Enjoy this Grand Opening video, and hear directly from the first patients to benefit from our collaboration.
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Failings in public support, medical industry, started opioid crisis in '90s, doctor says
JACKSON, MI - A doctor speaking at this year's drug summit said identifying what led the country into the opioid crisis it's in today is not hard if you know history.
"This is just not now a problem, it's a problem that has been brewing for 20 years," said keynote speaker, Dr. Matthew Saffarian, an interventional spine, EMG and sports medicine physician for Michigan State University.
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The Real Twilight Zone
Secret Bases & Hidden Places
Burlington Bunker
Underground cities seem something of a fantasy and like something we would read about in a Jules Verne novel,
But are they ?
Ancient underground cities have been found all over the world such as Derinkuyu in Cappadocia Turkey, Dixia Cheng in Beijing, Shin-Au-Av beneath Death Valley in California, and possibly one inside Mt. Tsurugi in Japan. During the second world war the German's made use of Poland's Salt Mines in Wieliczka near Krakow for labatories and research.
More recently Amsterdam and Helsinki have both embarked on building underground cities due to lack of room above, and Canada has built a large underground shopping mall in Montreal called 'Reso' or 'La Ville Souterraine.
But the UK has had one for many years!
Burlington is a 35 acre subterranean cold war city that lies over a 100 feet beneath Corsham in Wiltshire.
I first heard about this place in around 1978. a fellow work colleague told me about his antics in the Army during his National Service. Of course even he did not know the name of it nor its exact location, those details were on a 'Need to know' basis. He had been assigned to drive a lorry, one of several in an Army convoy, each full to the brim with tins of Corned Beef, over the course of a week this convoy continually travelled back and forth from London, each time unloading their cargo into what he described as being "Inside a Mountain".
His story intrigued me, he thought it was somewhere around Salisbury but endless scouring of maps revealed nothing, and it was many years later (30+ years later) that the pieces of the puzzle started to come together and associate it with the Burlington Bunker.
A BBC video about the Burlington Bunker made after it's Declassification.
Views from the air
Although not that visible from the air, Burlington was a secret underground city which would house 4000 government ministers and civil servants, the Prime Minister and Cabinet Office, local & national government agencies, military intelligence, security advisors, medical and domestic support staff, (possibly Royals) in the event of a Nuclear threat. It included its own internal rail system and station that joined the mainline railway at Box Tunnel, that would enabling a train direct from London to enter.
The underground city or 'Base' not far from RAF Rudloe Manor was completed in 1961 and had its own water resevoir, power source, air filtration, hospital, workshops, communications centre, BBC studio, and included accommodation for the Prime Minister.
The bunker was decomissioned in 1991 and declassified in 2004
Box Tunnel
Top Entrance
Entrance Locations
The Lift Down
Box Tunnel East Portal
Below Rudloe Manor
The Burlington Bunker is the country's largest (known) underground shelter, made from a stone mine, it was developed to be used in the case of a Nuclear attack on Britain, and was designed to act as a control centre for Parliament and safe haven for the Royal Family and Prime Minister. It was fully self-contained with its own air filtration, power generation and water treatment plant.
It had it's own Bakery, Laundry, Hospital, and accommodation alongside the offices and communications control centres that would have kept the country running post nuclear attack. The area has over 60 miles of underground roadway.
A large section of this has now been officially declassified and was put up for sale, although not all of the areas are shown in the photographs and the news reports state only 10 miles of roadway were being offered for sale. This still leaves a substantial amount unexplained and off limits. What really lies in the remainder we still do not know for certain, we do know the adjacent quarry section had railway access from Box Tunnel and was used to transport munitions for storage, and it had been mentioned that there is a underground railway station within the Burlington complex, so trains carrying the Prime Minister and possibly the Royal Family could be brought directly from London and straight into the bunker. It even has its own underground pub, and according to maps its own water treatment plant and resevoir.. none of these are shown in the available videos or photographs, some of which are attached below.
The Internal Departments
Area 21 - Communications Centre
Declassified Maps of Burlington
News Article about Corsham.
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Declassified Maps of Corsham
Hand winched pivoting anti-gas valve
ASirdrift Tunnel with 11 ft Fan
Airdrift Engine
Entrance Stairs
Area 8 - Telephone Exchange
Area 21 - Communications Teleprinter Room
Area 15 - Radio Room
Area 15 - Lamson Tube Room
Area 11 - Compressor Room
Area 11 - Water Treatment Plant
Area 11 - Metal Workshops
Area 11 - Electric Vehicle Charging Zone
Area 12 - Kitchens
Area 12 - Laundry
Area 19 - Powerhouse - Boilers
Area 19 - Powerhouse - Generators
Area 9 - Hospital
Area 17 - Prime Ministers Quarters
Interesting current video showing the Burlington area and present new additions.
Even now there is a lot going on in he surrounding area
The locals only know it as the Corsham Computer Centre (CCC), but its real name is the Command and Control Centre. Its real purpose? Well thats on a need to know basis, but it is believed to be part of the SMC2 program, the Submarine Command & Control and linked to the UK's Trident Nuclear Deterent program.
See the seperate section about the Criggion Communications Base, one of its predecessors, to understand what it might do.
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Shepherd and Wolfe return with the right combination of suspense, fear, and fun
Fourth novel from Counios & Gane follows “two-man relay” approach to writing
Young Adult/Children By Shirley Byers Issue 75, Fall/Winter 2019/20
Shepherd’s Call
Counios & Gane
Your Nickel’s Worth Publishing
Like its three predecessors, Shepherd’s Call, the latest YA suspense novel from Counios & Gane, hits the ground running.
While at the high school graduation of his friend Tony Shepherd, Charlie Wolfe is threatened into a car by a couple of men who present like “thugs” from central casting, but who soon make it clear this is real life and it is scary.
$19.95 pb, pages
ISBN: 978--1--9887-83--
Nevertheless, the words coming out of Charlie’s mouth sound fairly relaxed:
“Are you listening to TLC? If you’re planning to kill me, don’t worry. I’ll do it myself if you keep playing this crap.”
That tight, terse combination of fear and fun works, as does the collaboration of the writers who produced it.
The Saskatchewan-based pair David Gane and Angie Counios have been writing partners for years. They also happen to be in-laws. Gane is married to Counios’s sister.
The partnership began with Gane asking Counios to read and comment on film essays. Then Counios asked Gane to come to the school where she taught “to be a fresh pair of eyes” on the big fall drama production. Next, they wrote several feature films together.
“Why did we decide to work together? For me, it was fun,” Counios says. “I had fun with Dave. Bouncing ideas off each other and getting excited about a turn a story or character would take, high-fiving when a story problem is solved. It really changes the idea of the solitary writer sitting alone at a computer, plunking away at the keys.”
Gane had had some experience working with other writers to produce a zine. “I enjoyed the process and thought that Ang and I could likely do something like this together and that’s how we transitioned into writing our first novel, Along Comes a Wolfe,” he says.
Counios explains the process they use to create a book.
“David and I build a very thorough outline. I begin. He comes in behind me editing all the way to the midpoint. I run out of steam there. He hurdles over me and finishes the back half of the book. I go in behind him and add comments, et cetera. It’s like a two-man relay.
“Sometimes I’m not even sure who has written what by the time the book goes to print. In fact, at the beginning of our third book, Wolfe in Shepherd’s Clothing, I read a couple of lines and told David I didn’t like them, and he laughed and said, ‘Well, you wrote it!’ So there, the words mesh together so well I can’t even tell!”
Gane describes how they handle disagreements. “In the first book, our main character, Tony, was flirting with a girl at a party and Angie wrote her draft in a way that I didn’t like, so then I had wanted to go in a different direction, which she disagreed with. It took a bit of us going back and forth until we got the moment to a way we [both] liked.”
Once the fifth book completes this series, the pair may try a series for adults and work on their own individual projects.
“I really have enjoyed this journey Dave has put me on,” says Counios. “No regrets and only positives in everything I have learned!”
Teen werewolf who couldn’t change deserved her own novel
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Offbeat, vibrant, and darkly comedic film Runaway adapted as graphic novel
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'Idol' Winner Carrie Shines in Finale
Sun | Features
By LYNN ELBER, The Associated PRess — May 26th, 2005
Bo Bice, left, and Carrie Underwood congratulate each other following their duet "Up Where We Belong" during the "American Idol" live finale in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Associated Press
@TEXT Dateline:Los Angeles Carrie Underwood, the country sweetheart who beguiled national television audiences with her strong voice and bright smile, is this year's "American Idol," defeating Southern rocker Bo Bice in the show's finale Wednesday night.
The Oklahoma native received more viewer votes than runner-up Bice, of Alabama, after Tuesday's final round, snaring the title and a record contract.
A tearful Underwood choked out a brief "thank you," then spoke with a song. She reprised "Inside Your Heaven," which both she and Bice performed in Tuesday's final round. The judges thought Bice outsang her; the voting audience obviously disagreed.
A 22-year-old college senior, Underwood became the talk of her hometown of Checotah — and the choice of fourth-season "Idol" voters — as she delivered almost uniformly consistent performances each week.
"She has more of the star quality," said Cindy Monteleone of Chicago, who was among hundreds of people who dropped by the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood to watch former "American Idol" contestants arrive for the show's taping.
Underwood couldn't compete with rock 'n' roller Bice on his style of music but shone in her favorite genre, country.
"American Idol" is the No. 1 series for the season in viewers (as opposed to households), averaging 27.3 million viewers a week.
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Question from Chloe - Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII's coronation
Here I have some questions about the coronation of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII, that I have been wondering about as COA is my fave Queen. Any information would be very welcome!
1. Was there a coronation book for Catherine of Aragon. I have seen one for Ann Bullen, but cannot find any information about one for Catherine.
2. What crown was Catherine wearing/crowned with, again I can find this info. about Ann Bullen but not for Catherine!
3. Did Catherine have an orb or septre, I think it's probably unlikely but I would like a definate answer please.
4. Were there any pagents/processions along the way to tminster Abbey? If so does anyone know what they were about/looked like?
If you have any good information about the coronation that I didn't ask about that would still be most welcome, and I would be so thankful! :)
In Six Wives, David Starkey says that "No oath was administered to her, nor, as a woman, was she invested with the sword or spurs. But she was anointed on her head and the breasts; the coronation ring was put on the fourth finger of her right hand, the crown on her head, the sceptre in her right hand and the ivory rod surmounted with the dove in her left."
In the procession beforehand, he says, "She wore her hair like a bride; long and loose and covered only with a 'coronal set with many rich orient stones [that is, pearls].'" The sources for this appear to be Hall's Chronicle, the Great Chronicle and Sir Thomas More.
No mention of any orb (Catherine's hands seem rather full), or which crown she was crowned with. Starkey says that all was in accordance with "The Royal Book" (Ryalle Book), which was also used I think for Anne Boleyn. I know people have issues with Starkey, but he's pretty obsessed with "The Royal Book" and I think he might be trusted in his account.
I left Roy Strong's book Coronation at the office and I'll check it tomorrow. It has an enormous amount on Anne Boleyn's coronation, I recall, and not much on Catherine. But he might have some more info.
PhD Historian said...
1) I have done an extensive search through some of my subscription-only rare book databases and found no mention of any surviving "coronation book" for Katherine of Aragon. I suspect there are two reasons for this. First, printing was still very new to England in 1509 (even compared to Anne's coronation in 1533), so it is unlikely that one was ever produced. Second, the one produced for Anne in 1533 had a very specific purpose: much-needed positive propaganda. The English Crown and court were very quick to appreciate the power of the printed word, and I suspect they had the coronation book issued as a way of presenting Anne in the best possible light ... something that was not needed at Katherine's coronation almost a quarter-century earlier. Because Anne was resented by the populace, it was necessary to legitimize her in the public eye as queen, in place of Katherine, and the coronation book (The noble tryumphaunt coronacyon of quene Anne wyfe vnto the moost noble kynge Henry the .viij, London 1533) "glamorized" Anne and put a "positive spin" on her assuming the role of queen consort in place of Katherine.
2) The crown worn by Katherine of Aragon is not described in any printed 16th century sources that I find.
Anne's coronation book does not describe the specific crown used for her either, other than to say that "her grace receyved her crowne w[ith] all the cerymonyes therof as ther unto belongeth." I would be very curious if you have any citation that refers to an identifiable and specific crown being used.
The crowns among the modern crown jewels were all made in or after 1660, so none of the crowns existing today was ever worn by either Katherine of Aragon or Anne Boleyn.
3) Katherine did not have an orb. There is a little pamphlet that survives, written by Stephen Hawes in 1509, that contains a poem of praise (a panegyric poem) on the occasion of the coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. It is entitled A joyfull medytacyon to all Englonde of the coronacyon of our moost naturall souerayne lorde kynge Henry the eyght, by Stephen Hawes, printed in London in 1509.
Within the pamphlet is a woodcut engraving showing the actual crowning. The image is already posted here on this site (http://tudorhistory.org/henry8/gallery.html).
In it, Henry is holding both an orb and sceptre. Katherine holds only a sceptre. Because the orb is called The Sovereign's Orb, it would make sense that there would be only one, to correspond to one sovereign. The second orb in the modern crown jewels, Mary's Orb, was made for the coronation of William and Mary in 1688 because they were co-sovereigns (unique in English history).
4) Pageants and processions ... yes, definitely! Lavish ones. For English sources describing them, check Fabyan's Chronicle (or "The Concordaunce of Hystoryes"), Hall's Chronicle (contains detailed descriptions of the clothing worn), Holinshed's Chronicle, or the Chronicle of the Grey Friars. Modern printed versions of each of these are usually available in large university libraries, and you might also find them online.
Another excellent source that probably contains very detailed descriptions might be the Calendar of State Papers, Foreign for Spain. I do not have them at hand, but I have to suspect that the Spanish ambassadors sent meticulously detailed descriptions of everything back to Katherine's relatives in Spain. Foose seems to have ready access to them, so maybe he/she can be prevailed upon to provide us with some excerpts.
Chloe, in doing some background research in follow-up to Foose's reference to Starkey and the "Ryalle Book," I ran across a new book just out from Cambridge University Press that may interest you: The Drama of Coronation: Medieval Ceremony in Early Modern England by Alice Hunt of the University of Southampton.
The book may be a bit dense and academic, since it deals with a lot of theology and how the Reformation impacted the coronation ceremony itself, but it seems the first chapter deals in great detail with the coronation of Henry and Katherine. It might provide the detail you are seeking, or the footnotes may refer to sources you can track down for that detail.
I checked Coronation this morning, and as I suspected Catherine of Aragon gets little attention. Interestingly, however, the author says that Henry dispensed with the orb in his coronation ceremony, although evidently he was pictured with one (as Phd historian notes). "It resurfaces in response to particular circumstances in 1547 for Edward VI" - perhaps Phd historian could elucidate?
I did rummage through Letters & Papers, and irritatingly there is no useful description of Catherine's coronation. Even her letters back to Ferdinand do not describe what must surely have been the supreme moment of her life. Perhaps verbal descriptions were provided by special envoys who attended the ceremony.
Possible other useful sources might be Holinshed's Chronicle, and Sir Thomas More, who did give an eyewitness description of the procession (but not of the ceremony).
i am currently reading "anne boleyn: a new life of england's tragic queen" by joanna denny.
in chapter 9, england's queen, denny states that:
"she was led across westminster abbey by the monks all dressed in gold, followed by bishops and archbishops in their jewel-encrusted copes and mitres. the crown jewels were borne in state by those of the highest rank. cranmer himself records: 'my lord of suffolk bearing before her the crown, and two other lords bearing also before her a septre and a white rod, and so entered up into the high altar, where diverse ceremonies used about her, i did set the crown on her head, and then was sung te deum'>
on a high dais before the altar, anne was anointed by cranmer, who placed the crown of st. edward on her head. this was a singular honour, for no other consort has ever been crowned with the same crown as the reigning monarch. effectively, henry was creating anne as his queen regnant. the king himself watched the whole ceremony from a hidden vantage point in order not to take pre-eminence."
that's not the first place i've read that anne was crowned with st. edward's crown. i also understand her to be the only queen consort in england's history to be crowned with the same crown as the monarch.
Thank you very much all of you for your responces. Foose I agree that it is very irratating there is little descripion of the coronation! I have read Hall's account, which is very good and goes in to deatil, and I have read some of More's account. Thanks for letting me know other sources and good books. Thanks again! Any additional info I did not ask for would again nbe most welcome!
Foose, I have not yet had time to consult a reliable description of Edward VI's coronation ceremony, but if the orb was re-introduced "in response to particular circumstances," I have to assume that the circumstance was Edward's title as Supreme Head of the Church. Edward was the first English monarch crowned after that style and title were created, and his own staunchly protestant inclinations would have leant the title significant personal meaning. The orb itself, surmounted with a cross, symbolizes Christ's dominion over the world, and its use in English/British coronations beginning with Edward have symbolized the Crown's dominion over Christ's earthly church in England. Edward's pro-Protestant "handlers" (Seymour et al) were no doubt keen to make use of the orb's symbolism in order to promote their own agenda for reforming the English church.
Nikki, without having immediate access to Denny's book and her footnotes (if she has any), I have to say I am VERY skeptical about how reliable her account is. Please remember that Denny was a novelist, not a historian. As such, she wrote fiction ... she made up huge portions of her stories. And while her biography of Anne Boleyn was sold as non-fiction, it is nonetheless undoubtedly comparable to Mary Luke's "biography" of Jane Grey and really little more than historical fiction. The book jacket alone indicates that Denny invented much of the detail, rendering the book fiction. So unless she is very meticulous in her use of footnotes, I have to caution you not to believe every word Denny says, including in regard to Anne's coronation. Hall's Chronicle, from an eye-witness account, does not state that St Edward's crown was used, for example, leading me to question Denny's account.
In reference to Denny's book and the question of the use of St. Edward's crown being used for Anne Boleyn's coronation, I found the source! :)
Denny, as well as David Starkey in his "Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII", cite Hall's "Chronicle". Denny uses pages 798-805 and Starkey used page 803 - they both describe the crown being used as being St. Edward's and that Anne did have a smaller/lighter one made that was substituted and worn for the rest of the ceremony after the actual coronation.
Other books had made reference to Anne being crown with st. edward's crown. Maria Louis Bruce's Anne Boleyn pg 226,and J.J Scarisbrick 's Henry VIII,pg 313. The orignal source comes from "letter and Papers,foreign and domestic,of the reign of Henry VIII by Gairdner Brewer,and "Chronicle by Edward Hall.
I don't have the Alice Hunt book but I do have Jean Wilson's review of it from the Times Literary Supplement. There's still no mention of Catherine's coronation, but there's an interesting but somewhat cryptic tidbit about Anne Boleyn's coronation relating to her annulment:
"... it is clear that her coronation is contingent on her pregnancy; the child in her womb is assumed to be a boy. (This may explain Thomas Cranmer's annulment of Anne's marriage immediately before her execution.)"
I'm not sure how the annulment could be conditioned on the sex of the child, unless perhaps there was a tortuous elucidation of "free consent" - perhaps Henry's consent to marriage had been obtained on the promise of a male child. Or mistaken identity - he thought Anne was the future mother of a male child, not a female one. But this reasoning seems very tenuous.
Thanks to both Ashley and Anonymous for those references.
For those how might be interested, you can read the account in Hall's Chronicle via scanned images of an original 16th century printing in the library of the University of Pennsylvania at
http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksNew/index.cfm?TextID=halle&PagePosition=1214
thank you for finding other sources! i know i've read it in other places, but didn't have a chance to google yet.
Marilyn R said...
Hall's Chronicle, page 798, describes how St Edward's Crown was used for Anne, but that after the singing of the Te Deum Cranmer replaced with the lighter model specially made for her. Anne Boleyn is the only consort to have worn St Edward's Crown.
Roland said...
Along the lines of 'coronation books', do take a look at the transcription I did of Wynkin de Worde's for Anne Boleyn in 1533:
http://www.geocities.com/coronation_book/
Julia Fox, in her book Sister Queens, states that Catherine of Aragon was crowned with "St. Edith's crown." She makes this comment not in the chapter on Catherine's coronation, but on Anne Boleyn's:
"But [Anne Boleyn] was not crowned with St. Edith's crown, as Katherine had been. For Anne, it was St. Edward's crown itself."
The endnotes for the chapter do not state a source for this specific statement, so I'm not sure where she got her information.
I'm not familiar with this crown, although the name might indicate it is the pendant of St. Edward's crown, a consort's crown - Edith being the name of Edward's wife. However, I don't believe that this Edith, daughter of Earl Godwin, was ever beatified; St. Edith more usually refers to various Anglo-Saxon princesses who lived and died as virgins. One source I looked at said that "St. Edith's crown" was actually made for Mary of Modena, in the 17th century.
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Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for monitoring appliances at a site, such as a household, business office, etc. The appliances can include, for example but not limited to, an electric oven, dishwasher, refrigerator, laundry washer, freezer, pool controller, light bulb, microwave oven, computer, television, telephone, etc. In many of the embodiments, the appliance has a computer based architecture or a controller that enables communication of data concerning the electronic appliance. In some embodiments the appliance is an apparatus with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag or other passive device that can be interrogated for information concerning the appliance.
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The present invention relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for monitoring appliances at a site, such as a household, business office, etc.
A home network connects various digital home appliances so that the user can always enjoy convenient, safe, and economic life services inside or outside the house. Refrigerators or washing machines called “white home” appliances have been gradually digitalized due to the development of digital signal processing techniques, home appliance operating system techniques, and high speed multimedia communication techniques integrated on the digital home appliances. Furthermore, new information home appliances have been developed, to improve the home network.
Home networks can take many forms and can be classified as follows, by types of services they provide: a data network, an entertainment network, and a living network. The data network connects computers and peripherals, and typically provides Internet service. The entertainment network connects A/V (audio/video) devices, such as televisions, audio equipment, etc. The living network connects and controls home appliances, such as an electric oven, dishwasher, refrigerator, laundry washer, freezer, lights, etc. In the past, systems have been invented for recording diagnostic and statistical information associated with household appliances. This information is recorded and can be used by a service person to monitor functionality and the wear status of such appliances. An example of such a system is described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,853,291, which is incorporated herein by reference. Another example of such a system is described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,336,192, which is also incorporated herein by reference.
A conventional home network system includes a master device which is an electric device for controlling an operation of the other electric devices or monitoring a status thereof, and a slave device which is an electric device having a function of responding to the request of the master device and a function of notifying a status change according to characteristics of the electric devices or other factors. Exemplary electric devices include home appliances for the living network service, such as a washing machine and a refrigerator, home appliances for the data network service and the entertainment network service, and products such as a gas valve control device, an automatic door device and an electric lamp.
However, the conventional arts do not suggest a general communication standard for providing functions of controlling and monitoring electric devices in a home network system. Also, a network protocol in the conventional art home network system does not suggest an effective method for receiving and transmitting a packet. However, U.S. patent application no. 2008/0164980, which is incorporated herein by reference, describes a control protocol that can be used to communicate among the various electric appliances associated with the data network, the entertainment network, and the living network.
Although significant strides have been made to fully automatic the home network, the foregoing prior art systems are not user friendly, and the art remains in a state of infancy. Better, more intelligent, monitoring systems and systems for taking automatic action, perhaps based on user preferences, are needed.
Many aspects of the invention can be better understood with reference to the following drawings. The components in the drawings are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon clearly illustrating the principles of the present invention. Moreover, in the drawings, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the several views.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of an appliance monitoring system in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the host computer system of FIG. 1 in which the appliance monitoring system is implemented.
FIG. 3A is a flow chart of a first set of embodiments of the appliance monitoring system of FIG. 2.
FIG. 3B is a flow chart of a second set of embodiments of the appliance monitoring system of FIG. 2.
FIG. 3C is a flow chart of a third set of embodiments of the appliance monitoring system of FIG. 2.
FIG. 3D is a flow chart of a fourth set of embodiments of the appliance monitoring system of FIG. 2.
FIG. 3E is a flow chart of a fifth set of embodiments of the appliance monitoring system of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of an example of a database that can be employed in the appliance monitoring system of FIG. 2.
FIG. 5 is a flow chart of an insurance business method that can be employed in connection with the appliance monitoring system of FIGS. 1 and 2.
FIG. 6 is a block diagram of an example of an event detection engine that can be employed in the appliance monitoring system of FIG. 2 for identifying events (changes in environmental conditions) at the site of FIG. 1.
FIG. 7 is a flow chart of an embodiment of the appliance monitoring system of FIG. 2 that utilizes the event detection engine of FIG. 6.
The present invention provides systems, methods, and apparatus for monitoring appliances at a site, such as a household, business office, etc. The appliances can include, for example but not limited to, an electric oven, dishwasher, refrigerator, laundry washer, freezer, pool controller, light bulb, microwave oven, computer, television, telephone, etc. The appliance can be anything that electronically monitored in connection with the various embodiments that will be described hereafter. In many of the embodiments, the appliance has a computer based architecture or a controller that enables communication of data concerning the electronic appliance. In some embodiments the appliance is an apparatus with a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag or other passive device that can be interrogated for information concerning the appliance. The appliance can even be a nonelectrical apparatus that has an RFID tag or other passive device.
A. Host Computer System
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of an appliance monitoring system 10 in a host computer system 12 for monitoring one or more appliances 11 situated at or near a site 14, such as a household, business office, etc. The appliance monitoring system 10 can be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination thereof. In the preferred embodiments, the appliance monitoring system 10 is implemented as software that is executed by a host computer system 12 situated at or near the site 14.
The appliance 11 is communicatively coupled to the host computer system 12 via one or more networks 16, which are wired, wireless, or a combination, depending upon the implementation. Nonlimiting examples are IEEE 802.11, Ethernet, infrared (IR), short distance wireless radio, CEBus, Lonworks, and X10 (over power lines).
U.S. Pat. No. 7,127,734, which is incorporated herein by reference, describes a system for home network communications over existing cable TV wires that can be employed in embodiments of the present disclosure, if desired, as the network(s) 16.
U.S. patent application no. 2008/0164980, which is incorporated herein by reference, describes a control protocol that can be used to communicate among the various electric appliances associated with a data network(s), an entertainment network(s), and a living network(s), all of the foregoing of which would constitute the network(s) 16.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,947,736, which is incorporated herein by reference, describes a home network that can be employed by various embodiments of the present disclosure as the network(s) 16. This home network is based on the IEEE 802.11 networking standard expanded to encompass home phone line media communications and/or home power line media communications.
The host computer system 12 is equipped with a suitable transceiver(s) (TX/RX) for enabling communication via the network(s) 16. The specific design of the TX/RX(s) depends upon the network design.
The overall system may be designed so that the one or more appliances 11 push data to the host computer system 12, intermittently or on a periodic basis. The overall system may be designed so that the host computer system 12 solicits, or pulls, the data from the appliances 12.
Optionally, the host computer system 12 may be designed to enable it to communicate with one or more remote computer systems 18 and/or personal communications devices (PCDs) 19 via one or more networks 20. The PCDs 19 may be a smartphone, etc. During these communication sessions, the host computer system 12 may, for example, request health data pertaining to an appliance 11, advise a service provider of a maintenance issue, etc.
An example of the architecture of the host computer system 12 is shown in FIG. 2 and will be described immediately hereafter. Generally, in terms of hardware architecture, as shown in FIG. 2, the host computer system 12 includes a processor 30, a memory 32, and input and/or output (I/O) devices 34 (or peripherals) that are communicatively coupled via a local interface 36. The local interface 36 can be, for example but not limited to, one or more buses or other wired or wireless connections, as is known in the art. The local interface 36 may have additional elements, which are omitted for simplicity, such as controllers, buffers (caches), drivers, repeaters, and receivers, to enable communications. Further, the local interface may include address, control, and/or data connections to enable appropriate communications among the aforementioned components.
The processor 30 is a hardware device for executing software, particularly that stored in memory 32. The processor 30 can be any custom made or commercially available processor, a central processing unit (CPU), an auxiliary processor among several processors associated with the host computer system 12, a semiconductor based microprocessor (in the form of a microchip or chip set), a macroprocessor, or generally any device for executing software instructions.
The memory 32 can include any one or combination of volatile memory elements (e.g., random access memory (RAM, such as DRAM, SRAM, SDRAM, etc.)) and nonvolatile memory elements (e.g., ROM, hard drive, tape, CDROM, etc.). Moreover, the memory 102 may incorporate electronic, magnetic, optical, and/or other types of storage media. Note that the memory 32 can have a distributed architecture, where various components are situated remote from one another, but can be accessed by the processor 30.
The software in memory 32 may include one or more separate programs, each of which comprises an ordered listing of executable instructions for implementing logical functions. In the example of FIG. 2, the software in the memory 32 includes, among other things, a graphical user interface (GUI) 38 for generating and driving display screens and exchanging other information with a display 34, the appliance monitoring system 10, algorithms 40 situated in the appliance monitoring system 10 for use in connection with triggering events, and a suitable operating system (O/S) 42. The O/S 42 essentially controls the execution of other computer programs, such as the appliance monitoring system 10, and provides scheduling, input-output control, file and data management, memory management, and communication control and related services.
The I/O devices 34 may include input devices, for example but not limited to, a keypad, keyboard, finger pad, mouse, scanner, microphone, transducers (sensors), etc. Furthermore, the I/O devices 34 may also include output devices, for example but not limited to, a printer, display, speaker, etc. Finally, the I/O devices 34 may further include devices that communicate both inputs and outputs, for instance but not limited to, a modulator/demodulator (modem; for accessing another device, system, or network), a radio frequency (RF) or other transceiver (TX/RX), a telephonic interface, a bridge, a router, etc.
A TX/RX 46 is provided in the host compute system 12 to enable the system 12 to communicate to the one or more remote computer systems 18 (FIG. 1). The specific design of the TX/RX 46 to be utilized depends upon the type of network(s) 20 that is utilized. The network(s) 20 can include one or more of any suitable networks, for example but not limited to, a wireless, wired, analog, digital, packetized, nonpacketized, cellular, Internet, etc.
U.S. patent application no. 2002/0021465, which is incorporated herein by reference, describes a home network gateway that can be used in connection with many embodiments of the present disclosure as an interface between the networks 16, 20, where the network 20 is a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network.
When the host computer system 12 is in operation, the processor 30 is configured to execute software stored within the memory 32, to communicate data to and from the memory 32, and to generally control operations of the host computer system 12 pursuant to the software. The appliance monitoring system 10 and the O/S 42, in whole or in part, but typically the latter, are read by the processor 30, perhaps buffered within the processor 30, and then executed.
The appliance monitoring system 10 (as well as any other software of the present disclosure) can be stored on any non-transitory computer readable medium for use by or in connection with any computer related system or method. In the context of this document, a computer readable medium is an electronic, magnetic, optical, or other physical device or means that can contain or store a computer program for use by or in connection with a computer related system or method. The appliance monitoring system 10 can be embodied in any computer-readable medium for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device, such as a computer-based system, processor-containing system, or other system that can fetch the instructions from the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device and execute the instructions. In the context of this document, a “computer-readable medium” can be anything that can store the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. The computer readable medium can be, for example but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, device, or propagation medium. More specific examples (a nonexhaustive list) of the computer-readable medium would include the following: a portable computer diskette (magnetic), a random access memory (RAM) (electronic), a read-only memory (ROM) (electronic), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM, EEPROM, or Flash memory) (electronic), an optical fiber (optical), and a portable compact disc read-only memory (CDROM) (optical).
Optionally, the host computer system 12 may be equipped with a global positioning system (GPS) receiver 48 for producing and updating GPS data 204 (FIG. 4) that is stored in memory 32. Optionally, the host computer system 12 may also be provided with map data 205 (FIG. 4), which can be stored in memory 32 and/or downloaded and updated via a remote computer system 18. The GPS data 204 can be used to determine the location of the host computer system 12, and generally, the location of the site 14, and the location can be correlated with the map data 205. Thus, the location data and/or map data 205 can be used by the appliance monitoring system 10 to, among other things, assist with diagnosing and repairing an appliance. As an example, if it is known that the site 14 is an outdoor but at a ski resort, then an algorithm(s) 201 (FIG. 4) associated with the appliance monitoring system 10 may reduce the lifespan of the appliance because of the extra wear that the appliance would bear due to the harsh weather conditions.
Optionally, a user preferences database 203 (FIG. 4) for storing preferences that are input, selected, or otherwise preset by a party may be associated with the appliance monitoring system 10 of the host computer system 12. This database 203 will be described in more detail later in this disclosure. The user can store the user preferences, for example, by interacting with the host computer system 12 via the GUI 38.
B. Appliance Monitoring System 1. First Set of Embodiments
A first set of embodiments of the appliance monitoring system 10 (FIGS. 1 and 2) will now be described with reference to FIG. 3A. In this first set, denoted by reference numeral 100, the appliance monitoring system 10 includes at least the following program code (or logic): program code 101 for monitoring health data concerning an appliance 11, program code 102 for determining that the appliance 11 exhibits a maintenance issue based upon the health data, and program code 103 for producing a notification regarding the maintenance issue. As nonlimiting examples, the maintenance issue can be any one or more of the following: a need for replacement of the appliance 11 or a component thereof, a need for repair of the appliance 11 or a component thereof, a need for battery recharging, lifespan expired, lifespan below a predefined threshold, power inadequacy, appliance inoperability for intended purpose, inoperability of one or more functions (electrical and/or mechanical), network connectivity failure, the appliance 11 or a part thereof poses a hazard, etc. The health data can be any type of data for enabling assessment of the health, or proper functioning, of the appliance 11, for example but not limited to, statistical information, an indication that one or more parts are nonfunctioning, diagnostic information, electrical information (e.g., power, voltage, current, and/or impedance of or at appliance circuit elements, etc.), length of service of the appliance 11 or parts thereof, age of the appliance 11 or parts thereof, an event that is detected by the event detection engine 215 (FIG. 6), etc. Furthermore, the notification can be anything that advises a person, device, or computer system of the maintenance issue, including but not limited to, a display of text on a local display screen, a message in an email sent to a local or remote computer, a text message, a local flashing light, a communication to a remote computer system 18 or PCD 19, a sound, etc.
The program code 102 for determining that the appliance 11 exhibits a maintenance issue may be designed with logic that, among other things, compares the health data that is detected/received from the appliance 11 with stored health data (reference), and then determines that the maintenance issue exists based upon the comparison. As shown in FIG. 4, the detected health data 202A and reference health data 202B are stored in a database 200. In some implementations, the reference health data 202B is obtained from a remote computer system 18 or PCD 19. One or more algorithms 201 FIG. 4 can be implemented for assisting in the determination, and they can be simple or complex. As an example of a simple algorithm 201, the reference health data 202B could be lifespan expectancy data for the appliance 11 and the detected health data received from the appliance 11 could be indicative of a length of time in which the appliance 11 has been in service or in use, or when it was manufactured. The algorithm 201 could be implemented to compare the received health data with the lifespan expectancy data, and when the received health data exceeds the lifespan expectancy, then the algorithm 201 would signal a maintenance issue.
Another example of an algorithm 201, which is more complex, performs the foregoing steps but performs the additional step of averaging lifespan expectancy data pertaining to several appliance brands in order to produce a resultant reference health data for the aforementioned comparisons. The appliance monitoring system 10 may be further designed with program code for engaging in a communication session over the Internet with one or more remote computer systems 18 (FIG. 1) for obtaining the brand data or reference data.
Yet another example, of an algorithm 201 involves using local weather data 206 measured with a local transducer (sensor) situated at or near the site 14 for affecting the maintenance issue determination. The weather data 206 may be indicative of temperature, humidity, pressure, averages of the foregoing measurements over a time period, etc. More specifically, the algorithm 201 may be designed to adjust the reference health data 202B to compensate for harsh conditions. For instance, if the reference health data 202B is a lifespan expectancy, then the algorithm 201 may be designed to perform the comparison(s) mentioned previously but, in addition, lower the reference health data 202B by twenty five percent (25%) when the average temperature has been over ninety (90) degrees Fahrenheit for the last 8 months.
The appliance monitoring system 10 may be further designed with program code for initiating a notification communication session with a PCD 19 (FIG. 1) and for communicating a report during the notification communication session indicative of the maintenance issue. The PCD 19 can be associated with any of the following (all of which are denoted by reference numeral 17 in FIG. 1 for simplicity): an appliance manufacturer, an appliance vendor, a repair service entity, an appliance replacement service, an appliance information provider, etc.
The appliance monitoring system 10 can be designed with program code to engage in a communication session over the Internet with a remote computer system 18 (FIG. 1) associated with an appliance manufacturer, an appliance vendor, a repair service entity, a replacement service entity, or an appliance information provider, and during the communication session, to request service, replacement, information, etc., in connection with the appliance 11.
The appliance monitoring system 10 can be designed with program code to store, maintain, update, and monitor the health data 202 (FIG. 4) for a plurality of different appliances 11. In this case, the system 10 can store different types of maintenance information pertaining to the different types of appliances 11. For example, the health data that is monitored in connection with a light bulb might be its life (which is compared with its expected lifespan or a percentage thereof to determine if a maintenance issue exists), whereas the health data that is monitored in connection with an appliance battery might be a power level when current is sourced from the battery (which is compared with a minimum threshold to determine if a maintenance issue exists).
The appliance monitoring system 10 can be designed with program code to turn off an appliance 11 with electronic functionality or disable one or more electrical functions associated with an appliance 11 based upon health data 202. This may be desirable, for example, in cases where the appliance 11 may be a hazard if not turned off or disabled in some manner.
The appliance monitoring system 10 can be designed with program code to provide a user interface to enable a party to input maintenance information (stored in user preferences database 203 of FIG. 4) pertaining to the appliance 11. This maintenance information can be used, at least in part, in determining when the appliance 11 exhibits a maintenance issue.
2. Second Set of Embodiments
A second set of embodiments of the appliance monitoring system 10 (FIGS. 1 and 2), denoted by reference numeral 110, will now be described with reference to FIG. 3B. In this second set, the appliance monitoring system 10 includes at least the following program code (or logic): program code 111 for monitoring health data concerning an appliance 11; program code 112 for comparing the health data with stored health data; program code 113 for determining that the appliance 11 exhibits a maintenance issue based upon the comparison; and program code 114 for requesting service in connection with the appliance 11.
3. Third Set of Embodiments
A third set of embodiments of the appliance monitoring system 10 (FIGS. 1 and 2) will now be described with reference to FIG. 3C and is denoted by reference numeral 120. In this third set, the appliance monitoring system 10 includes at least the following program code (or logic): program code 121 for identifying a plurality of appliances 11 that are connected to a network 16, such as a wireless network 16; program code 122 for storing an identity 207 for each of the appliances 11; program code 123 for receiving health data concerning an appliance 11 of the plurality; and program code 124 for determining that the appliance 11 exhibits a maintenance issue based upon the health data.
In some embodiments, the appliance monitoring system 10 may be designed with program code to pull appliance identities by broadcasting a registration request to the appliances 11 via the network, receiving a response communication from one or more of the appliances, and determining, or detecting, the identity of the one or more appliances 11 based upon the response. The program code may further be designed to assign an ID to an appliance 11 that is different than the ID information pulled from the appliance 11.
The appliance monitoring system 10 can be designed with program code to receive a registration request that has been pushed to it from one or more of the appliances 11, and to determine the identity of the one or more appliances 11 based upon the registration request. Again, the program code may further be designed to assign an ID to an appliance 11 that is different than the ID information pulled from the appliance 11. A nonlimiting example of such registration scheme that can be employed is described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,372,004, which is incorporated herein by reference.
U.S. patent application no. 2003/0149757, which is incorporated herein by reference, describes an identification (ID) code management system for a home network that can be implemented by various embodiments of the present disclosure in order to manage various appliances 11. The ID codes can be assigned during the appliance registration process.
Once the appliance IDs are assigned and/or identified, the appliance monitoring system 10 has program code for storing the appliance ID data 207 (FIG. 4) in a database 200 in memory 32 (FIG. 2). This ID data 207 is used to manage and track information associated with the appliance(s) 11.
In some embodiments, the appliance monitoring system 10 can have program code to engage in a communication session over the Internet 20 with a remote computer system 18, to receive appliance information from the computer system 18, and to determine that the appliance exhibits the maintenance issue based at least in part on the information. The information may include the expected life of the appliance or parts thereof, etc.
In some embodiments, after appliances 11 have been identified, the appliance monitoring system 10 can have program code to engage in an initial communication session over the Internet 20 with a remote computer system 18, and to provide registration information to the computer system 18 during the initial communication session. The registration information could be for the purpose of applying for or perfecting a warranty or insurance policy on the appliance, registering for future assistance with analyzing health data, etc. The program code may be further designed to receive and store warranty or insurance confirmation information (warranty data 209 or insurance data 210 in FIG. 4) from the computer system 18 after the registration information is provided. Further note that the communication session can be initiated at the request of the host computer system 12 or the computer system 18.
The appliance monitoring system 10 may be further designed with program code to engage in a communication session over the Internet 20 with a remote computer system 18 associated with a manufacturer or vendor (manufacturer data 211 or vendor data 212 in FIG. 4) in order to make a claim against an insurance policy or warranty based upon the maintenance issue.
4. Fourth Set of Embodiments
A fourth set of embodiments of the appliance monitoring system 10 (FIGS. 1 and 2) will now be described with reference to FIG. 3D and is denoted by reference numeral 130. In this third set, the appliance monitoring system 10 includes at least the following program code (or logic): program code 131 for engaging in a communication session with an appliance 11; program code 132 for monitoring battery information concerning an appliance 11; and program code 133 for determining that the appliance 11 exhibits a problematic battery condition based upon the battery information.
The appliance monitoring system 10 can be designed with program code that identifies one or more, but oftentimes a plurality, of appliances 11 that are connected to the network 16, such as a wireless network 16 at the site 14, that stores an identity for each of the appliances 11 in a database 200 (appliance ID data 207 in FIG. 4), and that stores the battery information in the database 200 (battery data 208 in FIG. 4) in relation to the identity corresponding to the appliance 11.
The appliance monitoring system 10 may be designed with program code that pulls the appliance identity information from the appliances 11 by broadcasting a registration request to the appliances 11 via the network 16, receiving a response communication from one or more of the appliances 11, and determining the identity of the one or more appliances 11 based upon the response.
The appliance monitoring system 10 may also be designed with program code to receive a registration request from one or more of the appliances 11 that are pushed to it from the appliances 11. The program code determines the identity of the one or more appliances 11 based upon the registration request.
Once the appliances are identified, the appliance monitoring system 10 stores an identity for each of the appliances 11 in the database 200 (appliance ID data 207 in FIG. 4).
In some embodiments, the appliance monitoring system 10 can have program code to engage in a communication session over the Internet 20 with a remote computer system 18, to receive battery information from the computer system 18, and to determine that the appliance 11 exhibits the problematic battery condition based at least in part on the information. The information may include the expected life of the battery, acceptable voltage level when a certain amount of current is sourced to a load, etc.
In some embodiments, after appliances 11 have been identified, the appliance monitoring system 10 can have program code to engage in an initial communication session over the Internet 20 with a remote computer system 18, and to provide registration information to the computer system 18 during the initial communication session. The registration information could be for the purpose of applying for or perfecting a warranty or insurance policy on the battery, registering for future assistance with analyzing battery data, etc. The program code may be further designed to receive and store warranty or insurance confirmation information from the computer system 18 after the registration information is provided. Further note that the communication session can be initiated at the request of the host computer system 12 or the computer system 18.
The appliance monitoring system 10 may be further designed with program code to engage in a communication session over the Internet 20 with a remote computer system 18 in order to make a claim against an insurance policy or warranty based upon the problematic battery condition.
C. Appliance Monitoring System Database
An example of a database 200 that can be maintained and updated by the appliance monitoring system 10 in the memory 32 (FIG. 2) is illustrated in FIG. 4. Although not limited to this configuration, the database 200 is preferably a relational database. As shown, this example database 200 can include, as applicable, depending upon the embodiment to be practiced: one or more algorithms 201 that are used for analyzing health data, battery data, and/or other data; health data 202 (which includes detected health data 202A and reference health data 202B); user preferences data 203; GPS data 204; map data 205; weather data 206, appliance ID data 207, battery data 208, warranty data 209, insurance data 210, manufacturer data 211, vendor data 212, event data 213 (which includes detected event data 213A and reference event data 213B), etc.
D. Insurance Business Method
A method of doing business in connection with insurance is also provided by this disclosure. The method can be practiced by an insurance seller in connection with appliances 11 that are monitored by the appliance monitoring system 10. The steps of the method can be performed by a person or can be performed, in whole or in part, by remote computer system 18 (FIG. 1) associated with an insurance seller. When implemented with a computer system 18, the steps can be performed by corresponding program code (logic).
As shown in FIG. 5, the insurance business method 300 comprises the steps of: at step 301, determining a predicted longevity of an appliance 11, which could optionally be based at least in part upon monitored health data; at step 302, offering for sale insurance based upon the predicted longevity; at step 303 receiving money as payment for the insurance from a payee; and at step 304, issuing an insurance policy to the payee. As an example, the predicted longevity can be an average life expectancy of the appliance 11.
The method may further comprise the steps of receiving an insurance claim based upon a failure of the appliance 11 and determining whether payment on the claim should occur based upon the predicted longevity and a time associated with the failure.
The method may further comprise the steps of determining a plurality of predicted longevities based upon the monitored health data; associating a different monetary purchase amount for insurance for each of the plurality; and offering for sale a plurality of insurance options for the electronic appliance, each having a respective monetary purchase amount.
The method may further comprise considering geographical location of purchase of the insurance or of a location of use of the appliance 11 when determining the longevity or purchase price of the insurance.
The method may further comprise considering the type of use of the appliance 11 when determining the longevity or purchase price of the insurance. The type could be residential, commercial, hazardous use or area, etc.
E. Determination of Appliance Maintenance Issue Based on Detected Event
The appliance monitoring system 10 can be designed to determine that a maintenance issue exists with respect to an appliance 11 based upon an event that is detected in the local environment of the site 14 with an event detection engine 215, an example of which is illustrated in FIG. 6. In these possible embodiments, as shown in FIG. 7, the appliance monitoring system 10 (FIGS. 1 and 2) implements logic 400 in connection with the event detection engine 215. More specifically, the appliance monitoring system 10 has logic 401 designed to sense a signal in a local environment associated with the site 4 using one or more transducers 34 (FIG. 2); logic 402 designed to convert the sensed signal to detected health data 201A (FIG. 4); logic 403 designed to detect that an event has occurred with the event detection engine 215 (FIG. 6) by comparing the sensed data 202A with reference health data 202B that corresponds to the event; and logic 404 designed to determine whether or not a maintenance issue exists in connection with an appliance 11 based upon the detected event.
As an example, the detected event could be a mechanical problem associated with a dishwasher. In this scenario, the transducer 34 could be a microphone, as shown in FIG. 6, for monitoring the sound associated with the dishwasher. When the sound changes substantially from the norm, the event detection engine 215 can detect this occurrence and cause logic 404 to determine that a maintenance issue exists in connection with the dishwasher. The sound change can be detected by comparing current detected sound data with reference sound data that corresponds with normal operation, and when they do not match, within predefined limits, abnormal operation can be concluded.
In some embodiments, the appliance monitoring system 10 may be designed with logic for storing identification information relating to a plurality of events and with logic for enabling the user to select which of the events will be detected.
FIG. 6 shows the one or more input devices 34, such as but not limited to, an audio microphone, etc., for receiving one or more event signatures (could be detected event data 213A or reference event data 213B of FIG. 4, depending upon the mode of operation) that are used to identify environmental events. The input devices 34 can include any transducer for sensing acoustic, thermal, optical, electromagnetic, chemical, dynamic, wireless, or atmospheric conditions, for example but not limited to, an audio microphone, video camera, Hall Effect magnetic field detector, flux gate compass, electromagnetic field detector, barometric pressure sensor, thermometer, ionization detector, smoke detector, gaseous detector, radiation detector, etc. The detection engine 215 may also receive reference event signatures from a remote computer 18 via the Internet 20.
The detection engine 215 stores the one or more reference signatures in memory 110 (reference event data 213B of FIG. 4) that are used to identify environmental events, that correlates sensed environmental signals with the reference signatures, and that detects occurrences of the environmental events. A nonlimiting example of such a detection engine 215 is described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,872,574, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety. The discussion hereafter will describe incorporation of the latter detection engine 215 in the architecture of the present invention.
The event detection engine 215 is designed to be operated in several modes. The architecture of the event detection engine 215 will be described as each of these modes is described in detail hereafter.
In a first mode, the remote computer 18 is connected to a reference memory array 260 by a switch 250. One or more reference signatures can be collected by the remote computer 18 and loaded into the reference memory array 260.
In this example, when an audio event is being detected, the event detection engine 215 is designed to transform audio recordings into suitable numerical arrays to create the reference signatures for recognition. The frequency range of 0.2 Hz to 20 KHz is sufficient for many applications. Furthermore, a time interval of several seconds is normally sufficient.
The preprocessor 270 extracts the reference signals from the reference memory array 260 and reformats them to facilitate rapid correlation. The frequency domain is a preferred format for sonograms. The preprocessor 270 analyzes each signature by a sequence of Fourier transforms taken repeatedly over a period of time corresponding to the duration of the signature. The Fourier transform is preferably a two-dimensional vector, but a single measure of amplitude versus frequency is sufficient. In the preferred embodiment, among many possible embodiments, the event detection engine 215 processes a 3-dimensional array of amplitude, frequency, and time. The transformed signature arrays are stored back into a reference memory array 260 for subsequent rapid correlation. Preferably, each reference signature array includes an identifier field associated with the signature. As an example, this may be the name and picture/image of an appliance 11 associated with the signature.
Second Mode
In a second mode of operation, event detection engine 215 can acquire the reference signature signal directly from the local environment via an input device 34, for example, the audio microphone 34, as shown in FIG. 6. Audio signals from the microphone 34 are amplified and converted to digital signals by amplifier and analog-to-digital converter (ADC) 240. The digital signal from amplifier and ADC 240 is selected by the user via the switch 250 and loaded directly into the reference memory array 260. Preferably, several seconds of signal are collected in this particular application. Then, the preprocessor 270 reformats the reference signal for rapid correlation, preferably by Fourier transform.
A gain control 241 associated with the ADC 240 can be controlled by the user to control the range of the microphone 34 (or another input device, if applicable, and depending upon the application).
Third Mode
In a third mode of operation, the event detection engine 215 monitors the environment continuously (at discrete successive short time intervals due to the computer-based architecture) for signals that match those stored in the reference memory array 260. To reduce computational burden, the preprocessor 270 is designed to monitor the microphone 230 for a preset threshold level of signal before beginning the correlation process. When the signal exceeds the preset threshold level, the preprocessor 270 begins executing a Fourier transform. After several seconds or a period equal to the period of the reference signatures, the transformed active signal is stored at the output of the preprocessor 270. Then, array addressing logic 280 begins selecting one reference signature at a time for correlation. Each reference signature is correlated by a correlator 290 with the active signal to determine if the reference signature matches the active signal from the environment.
The comparator 300 compares the magnitude of the output of the correlator 290 with a threshold to determine a match. When searching for events in the active signal, such as emergency signals, the correlator 290 is compared with a fixed threshold. In this case, the switch 310 selects a fixed threshold 311 for comparison. If the correlation magnitude exceeds the fixed threshold 311, then the comparator 300 has detected a match. The comparator 300 then activates the correlation identifier register 320 and the correlation magnitude register 330. The magnitude of the comparison result is stored in the correlation magnitude register 330, and the identity of the source is stored in the correlation identifier register 320. The fixed threshold 311 can be predefined by a programmer or the user.
After event detection by the event detection engine 215, the process is stopped and the array addressing logic 280 is reset. A search for new active signals then resumes.
Fourth Mode
In a fourth mode of operation, the event detection engine 215 searches for the best match for the sensed signal. In this case, the correlation magnitude register 330 is first cleared. Then, the switch 310 selects the output 312 of the correlation magnitude register 330 as the threshold input to the comparator 300. The array addressing logic 280 then sequentially selects all stored references of a set for correlation. After each reference in the set is correlated, the comparator 300 compares the result with previous correlations stored in the correlation magnitude register 330. If the new correlation magnitude is higher, then the new correlation magnitude is loaded into the correlation magnitude register 330, and the respective identifier is loaded into the correlation identifier register 320.
In an alternative embodiment, the correlation process can be performed by an associative process, where the active reference is associated directly with the stored references in a parallel operation that is faster than the sequential operation. New device technologies may enable associative processing. For example, reference memory array 260 can utilize content addressable memory devices for associative processing. ASIC devices and devices, such as the Texas Instruments TNETX3151 Ethernet switch incorporate content addressable memory. U.S. Pat. No. 5,216,541, entitled “Optical Associative Identifier with Joint Transform Correlator,” which is incorporated herein by reference, describes optical associative correlation.
This correlation process continues until all stored reference signatures in the set under analysis have been correlated. When the correlation process is completed, the correlation identifier register 320 holds the best match of the identity of the source of the active signal. The appliance monitoring system 10 reads the event detection data 321 from this register 320 and then determines whether or not a maintenance issue exists. In addition, the identity of the event can also be displayed as a photo or text description in a display 34, if desired. If the final correlation magnitude is lower than a predetermined threshold, then the active signature can be loaded into the reference memory array 260 as a new unknown source.
F. Other Variations and Modifications
It should be emphasized that the above-described embodiments of the present invention, particularly, any “preferred” embodiments, are merely possible examples of implementations, merely set forth for a clear understanding of the principles of the invention. Many variations and modifications may be made to the above-described embodiment(s) of the invention without departing substantially from the spirit and principles of the invention. All such modifications and variations are intended to be included herein within the scope of this disclosure and the present inventions.
With respect to variations, note that although not specifically described for simplicity, any combination of the various systems/methods that have been described under headings above may be employed in connection with battery remediation.
As another example of a variation, note that the comparing process that is performed by the detection engine 215 in order to detect an environmental event associated with an appliance 11 can be performed in the time domain as opposed to the frequency domain, and in some cases, this may be the preferred methodology.
As yet another example of a variation, many of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be practiced in the architecture described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,496,575, which is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing patent describes a server platform server that communicates with various appliances as well as various remote computers. This server platform server with associated software could be employed as the host computer system 12 (FIG. 1) of the present disclosure.
As yet another example of a variation, many of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be practiced in the architecture described in U.S. Pat. No. 6,853,291, which is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing patent describes a device F with a microcontroller that is designed to capture statistical and diagnostic information regarding various appliances. This device F with support circuitry and/or software can be utilized as the host computer system 12 (FIG. 1) of the present disclosure.
As yet another example of a variation, many of the embodiments of the present disclosure can be practiced in the architecture described in U.S. Pat. No. 7,336,192, which is incorporated herein by reference. The foregoing patent describes a monitoring device that communicates with appliances through the power lines that and also tracks work cycles of appliances, so that wear status of an appliance can be estimated. The communication method can be employed in connection with many embodiments of the present disclosure.
As yet another example of a variation, the host computer system 12 can be implemented remotely of the site 14 by utilizing the Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGI) specification. The OSGI provides technology to allow management of localized electronics equipment (such as appliances) by use of an external service server. The server, located on a wide area network, such as the Internet, provides management services for the localized electronics equipment through a gateway into the home or workplace where the equipment is located.
At least the following is claimed:
1. A method implemented in a host computer system associated with a site having one or more appliances that communicate with the host computer system via one or more networks, comprising:
monitoring health data concerning an appliance or an appliance part;
determining that the appliance or appliance part exhibits a maintenance issue based upon the health data;
accessing a remote computer system over an Internet;
receiving one or more suggestions on where to order, purchase, or seek repair for the appliance or appliance part from the remote computer system;
producing a notification regarding the maintenance issue, the notification including the one or more suggestions and price information pertaining to each of the suggestions; and enabling a user to select and purchase the one or more suggestions, based at least in part upon the price.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification is a message sent to a personal communication device or a remote computer system and wherein the message includes an identification of the appliance and detail concerning the maintenance issue.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the health data is a battery condition associated with a battery that provides power to the appliance or the appliance part.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:
initiating a notification communication session with a personal communication device (PCD); and
communicating a report during the notification communication session indicative of the maintenance issue.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the PCD is associated with any of the following: an vendor, a repair service entity, a replacement service entity, manufacturer, or an information provider.
maintaining a database having maintenance information pertaining to a plurality of appliances;
storing in the database first type of maintenance information pertaining to a first type of appliance; and
storing in the database a second type of maintenance information pertaining to a second type of appliance, the second type being different than the first type.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of automatically by operation of the host computer system, turning off an appliance or part or disabling one or more functions associated with the appliance or part, after determining that the maintenance issue exists and is a hazard.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of providing a user interface to enable a party to input maintenance information pertaining to the appliance, the maintenance information used, at least in part, in determining when the appliance exhibits the maintenance issue.
engaging in a communication session over the Internet with a computer system associated with a repair or replacement service business; and
during the communication session, requesting service in connection with the appliance.
10. A computer system communicatively coupled with one or more appliances at a site via one or more networks, comprising:
one or more memories that store computer program code; and
one or more processors that execute the computer program code, the computer program code comprising:
code that determines that an appliance or appliance part exhibits a maintenance issue comprising;
code that accesses reference data, the reference data comprising a first numerical array, the first numerical array comprising a first collection of related successive signal sample values that represent a time varying environmental signal;
code that receives appliance condition data, the appliance condition data comprising a second numerical array, the second numerical array comprising a second collection of related successive signal sample values derived from a time varying environmental signal sensed by a transducer at the site;
code that compares the arrays associated with the appliance condition data and the reference data in a time domain, frequency domain, or both; and
code that initiates a notification regarding the maintenance issue, when determined.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein the computer program code further comprises code that produces one or more suggestions on where to order, purchase, or seek repair for the appliance or the appliance part.
12. The system of claim 10, wherein the computer program code further comprises:
code that provides price information pertaining to each of a plurality of suggestions; and
code that enables a user to select and purchase one of the plurality of suggestions.
13. The system of claim 10, wherein the code that correlates the numerical arrays is designed to compare a correlation output and a predefined threshold in order to determine when the appliance or appliance part exhibits the maintenance issue.
14. The system of claim 10, wherein the transducer is a microphone and the environmental signal is an audio signal produced by the appliance or appliance part.
15. The system of claim 10, wherein the code that determines that the appliance or appliance part exhibits the maintenance issue makes this determination based at least in part upon a lifespan expectancy and a length of time in which the appliance or the appliance part has been in service or in use.
16. The system of claim 10, wherein the code that initiates the notification comprises:
code that initiates a notification communication session with a personal communication device (PCD); and
code that causes communication of a report during the notification communication session indicative of the maintenance issue.
17. The system of claim 16, wherein the PCD is associated with any of the following: an owner or user of the appliance, a vendor, a repair service entity, a replacement service entity, manufacturer, or an information provider.
code that maintains a database having maintenance information pertaining to a plurality of appliances;
code that stores in the database first type of maintenance information pertaining to a first type of appliance; and
code that stores in the database a second type of maintenance information pertaining to a second type of appliance, the second type being different than the first type.
19. The system of claim 10, wherein the computer program code further comprises code that causes an appliance to be turned off or that disables one or more functions associated with the appliance, after determining that the maintenance issue exists.
20. The system of claim 10, wherein the computer program code further comprises code that enables a party to input maintenance information pertaining to the appliance or appliance part, the maintenance information used, at least in part, in determining when the appliance or appliance part exhibits the maintenance issue.
code that determines that an appliance or appliance part exhibits a maintenance issue; and
code that initiates a communication session with a remote computer system associated with a manufacturer, vendor, or insurance company and communicates claim information in connection with an insurance policy or warranty associated with the appliance or appliance part.
code that receives appliance identification information from the appliance or appliance part; and
code that initiates a communication session with the remote computer system associated with the manufacturer, vendor, or insurance company and communicates the information so that a claim can be later made in connection with the insurance policy or warranty associated with the appliance or appliance part.
code that receives appliance identification information from an appliance or appliance part; and
code that initiates a communication session with the remote computer system associated with a manufacturer, vendor, or insurance company and communicates the information so that a claim can be later made in connection with the insurance policy or warranty associated with the appliance or appliance part.
code that receives an insurance or warranty registration request from the appliance or appliance part and that prompts the communication session with the remote computer system.
25. A method for a computer system communicatively coupled with one or more appliances at a site via one or more networks, comprising:
receiving identification information regarding an appliance or appliance part that is derived by interrogating the appliance or appliance part over the one or more networks;
receiving contact information for a personal communication device (PCD) associated with a user of the appliance or appliance part;
generating a lifespan expectancy corresponding to when the appliance or appliance part is expected to exhibit a maintenance issue, based upon an occurrence of maintenance issues in other appliances or appliance parts;
determining a length of time that the appliance or appliance part has been in existence or operation;
when the length of time approaches the lifespan expectancy, engaging in a communication session with the PCD of the user; and
during the communication session, communicating one or more suggestions on where to order, purchase, or seek repair for the appliance or appliance part and price information pertaining to each of the suggestions.
enabling a user to select and purchase the one or more suggestions.
27. The method of claim 25, wherein the lifespan expectancy is generated by averaging longevities of the other appliances or appliance parts.
determining a location of the appliance or appliance part; and
determining the lifespan prediction based at least in part upon the location.
determining weather information associated with an environment in which the appliance or appliance part are exposed; and
determining the lifespan prediction based at least in part upon the weather information.
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Masahiro Tanaka: Full Analysis, Video and Predictions
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Masahiro Tanaka has been posted and teams are scrambling to get their hands on the 25-year-old Japanese star. Like most hot items, though, is it availability that’s spurring the interest? Is it hype? Is it his gaudy 24-0 record pitching for Rakuten in 2013? Is it his ability? Or is it a combination of a multitude of factors that Tanaka and his new U.S. agent Casey Close are going to exploit to extract every last penny out of MLB clubs?
The loudest shrieks in favor of Tanaka aren’t based on any analysis. “I want Tanaka!” is not analysis and it’s based on nothing. So let’s take a look at the numerous positives and negatives of the Japanese sensation that could wind up being the next Yu Darvish or the next Kei Igawa.
You notice the different teaching techniques with every Japanese pitcher that makes the trek to North America. They step straight back as pitchers are supposed to to maximize leverage toward the plate. Many Americanized pitchers don’t step straight back. They move to the side or at a diagonal angle. The Japanese pitchers will bring their arms above their head and hesitate as if they’re making sure all their weight is on the lead leg before they move forward. Then they’ll very quickly and all in one motion pivot on the rubber, lift their legs and they bring their arms down, separate ball from glove and fire. Many have what appears to be a leg-based motion similar to that which was used by Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver and Greg Maddux.
But are they using their legs?
Looking at Tanaka, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yu Darvish among many others, they’re garnering leverage from their lower bodies, but essentially stopping halfway through and using their arms to generate power. With Seaver, he would explode hard off the rubber, using it as a foundation to launch himself toward the hitter. The energy would flow from his lower body all the way up through to his arm. Upon release of the ball, that energy would suddenly be compacted as he bounced and stood straight up. The arm was simply a conduit of that power that was generated by the legs, butt and hips. While Tanaka and the others are contorting their bodies and generating power through their legs, the brunt of the release of the ball falls on their arms because the legs stop working. You can see it when he finishes his release and the leg drags along behind him rather than whipping around after impact. His arm bullwhips as it’s not decelerating with the cushion of the lower legs. He has the flexible front leg Seaver, Ryan and Maddux used, but it’s a middling technique that’s done without completion of the intent of taking stress off the arm.
You’ll hear people who regurgitate scouting terminology and facts as if they have an in-depth knowledge of them. The inverted W and Tanaka’s wrist hook should become such terms you’ll need to understand when looking at Tanaka and whether these issues will affect his long-term health and durability. There’s a profound negativity surrounding the inverted W when the pitcher moves both arms simultaneously into what looks like and upside down W (which leads to the question of why it’s not called an “M”) and guarantees his arm will be in the optimal position when he turns and throws. For pitchers who have trouble maintaining their arm slot and release point when making a big circle with their arms or might have the arm drag behind their bodies when they throw, the inverted W is a checkpoint method to ensure the arm is in the proper position. The only time it’s a problem is if the arm is brought back further than is necessary and it strains the shoulder. If the pitcher raises the elbow above the shoulder, this too can be an issue. Tanaka does neither. Watching a quarterback with proper throwing mechanics is the correct way to use the inverted W. Getting the elbow to shoulder level is the point. There’s no issue with Tanaka there.
As for the wrist hook, it’s not something that can be stopped or fixed. Barry Zito does it and has had a successful career without injury issues to his arm. Rick Sutcliffe and Don Drysdale hooked their wrists as well. With Sutcliffe, it was part of a long and herky-jerky motion that was actually quite smooth. He had arm trouble in his career, but he was a top big league pitcher and quite durable for his 18 year career. Drysdale blew out his shoulder, but he lasted until he was 32 and averaged 237 innings a season with four straight of 300-plus innings. Was it the workload or his mechanics? I’d say it was the workload.
When there is a mechanical problem, it has to be repaired when the pitcher is in his formative years. The longer they throw a certain way, the greater the challenge in “fixing” an issue. It also has to be remembered that a part of the reason pitchers like Sutcliffe were successful was because of his unique throwing motion. Much like it can’t – and shouldn’t – be taught for a pitcher to hook his wrist up toward his elbow, it can’t be changed either once he’s established. Hooking is not going to be a health issue unless it’s a pronounced yank. I don’t see Tanaka yanking the ball.
Analysis: He throws mostly with his arm and I would be concerned about him staying healthy.
Tanaka has a mid-90s fastball with good life, a shooting split-finger fastball and a sharp slider. At the very least, no one is manufacturing a story that he throws pitches that either do or don’t exist as was done with Matsuzaka and the gyroball. The gyroball, for the record, is thrown with the wrist turned for a righty pitcher as if he’s waving to the third base dugout. From a righty pitcher, it would appear as a lefty quarterback’s spiral. The problem was Matsuzaka didn’t throw it. Hisashi Iwakuma does throw the gyroball and it’s nasty.
As for Tanaka’s fastball, it’s explosive when he throws it high and hitters will chase it given the downward action of his splitter and slider. His fastball is straight meaning if he doesn’t locate it and isn’t getting his breaking pitches over, he’ll get blasted. His breaking pitches are the key to his success. If hitters are laying off the splitter and his slider’s not in the strike zone, he’ll be forced to come in with his fastball where big league hitters will be waiting.
Analysis: With the velocity and breaking stuff, he certainly has the ability to be a successful, All-Star level pitcher in MLB.
The switching of leagues
In Japan, they tend to adhere more closely to the by-the-book strike zone. With that, Tanaka got high strike calls above the belt that he’s not going to get in MLB. If hitters learn to lay off that high pitch, he’s going to have a problem.
The ball in Japan is smaller than it is in North America. That hasn’t appeared to be a problem with most hurlers who’ve joined MLB and been successful. It’s not something to discount, but not something to worry about either.
Looking at Tanaka’s statistics are silly. A pitcher going 24-0 with a 1.27 ERA (an ERA he achieved in both 2011 and 2013) is indicative of a weak-hitting league. When studying a pitcher making the switch from Japan to MLB, the statistics might be a gaudy show to sell a few tickets, but few actual baseball people who know what they’re doing will take it seriously. Igawa was considered a top-flight pitcher in Japan and his stuff was barely capable of being deemed that of a journeyman Triple-A roster filler.
Analysis: Accept the statistical dominance at your own risk.
Much has been made of how Japanese pitchers are pushed as amateurs and expected to pitch whenever they’re asked to for as long as they’re needed. Two months ago, Tanaka threw 160 pitches in losing game 6 of the Japan Series then closed out game 7 to win the series for Rakuten.
Is this a red flag?
In North America, where pitchers are babied and placed on pitch counts and innings limits seemingly from little league onward, then are tormented by big time college coaches who couldn’t care less about their futures similarly to the workload Tanaka endured, then are placed back on their limits, it would be a problem. In Japan, it’s not unusual for pitchers to be used in ways that would be considered abusive. But that’s the way they’re trained. They’re expected to pitch and there’s no evidence that injuries and pitch counts/innings are correlated because the pitchers who’ve gotten hurt (Stephen Strasburg, Matt Harvey) were watched while others who weren’t (Maddux, Clayton Kershaw) have stayed healthy. With all the reams of numbers and organizational mandates steeped in randomness as to what keeps pitchers healthy, perhaps it’s all about the individual and his capacity to pitch. Japanese pitchers are conditioned this way and the workload wasn’t a jump from being allowed to throw 100 pitches to suddenly throwing 175 in two days.
Analysis: I wouldn’t worry about it.
With the changes to the Japanese posting system, Rakuten is guaranteed $20 million. That’s well short of the $51.7 million Nippon got from the Rangers for the rights to Darvish and a severe disappointment to Rakuten. They could have kept Tanaka, but instead chose to acquiesce to the pitcher’s wishes and let him go to MLB.
The new posting rules make more money for the players rather than the teams that are selling him. Darvish received a $56 million contract two years ago. Tanaka is expected to get over $100 million, but I’m expecting the bidding war to reach $130 to $140 million.
Is he worth it?
To hand this pitcher $130 million after the number of Japanese pitchers who’ve come over and failed is crazy. There’s an overemphasis on the fact that he’s a free agent that won’t cost a compensatory draft pick. But he’ll cost an extra $20 million to get his rights. Matt Garza won’t cost a draft pick either because he was traded at mid-season and he’s an established big league pitcher. Is it wise to spend $130 million to get Tanaka even if he’s 75 percent of what he was in Japan? Given the failures of Matsuzaka, Igawa and Hideki Irabu and the success of the less heralded pitchers who’ve come over like Hiroki Kuroda, Hideo Nomo and Iwakuma, the fact is no one knows with any certainty as to what they’re getting. And that’s important.
Is it preferable to pay for potential or to pay for what is known?
Let’s say the Yankees give Tanaka $130 million and he turns out to be an okay third starter. Was it worth it when they could’ve signed Garza and Bronson Arroyo, filled out their rotation with pitchers who are known commodities, kept their draft picks and had an inkling of what they were getting with arms who’ve succeeded in the AL East? Or is it better to go for the potential greatness of Tanaka and face the consequences if he’s Irabu/Igawa-revisited?
Other teams face the same dilemma. The Dodgers have their own 2015 free agent Kershaw to worry about and would like to sign Hanley Ramirez to a contract extension. How would signing Tanaka influence those issues? It’s more important to keep Kershaw than it is to sign Tanaka.
Analysis: I would not give Tanaka $100-130 million.
Tanaka is the first full-blown Japanese free agent with the new posting fee rules and it opens up a larger pool of teams that think they have a shot at getting him. The Yankees and Cubs are known to be hot for him.
The Mariners need another arm and it makes no sense to stop at Robinson Cano and think they’ll contend. Singing him would keep them from needing to gut the system to get David Price and a top three of Felix Hernandez, Iwakuma and Tanaka with Taijuan Walker, Danny Hultzen and James Paxton would be tough.
The Angels need pitching; the Diamondbacks and Dodgers are interested; the Astros could be sleepers with an owner holding deep pockets and trying to show he’s not a double-talking, money-hungry, arrogant cheapskate; the Rangers are all in for 2014; the Red Sox are always lurking; the Phillies need pitching; and the Orioles need to make a splash.
Analysis: It’s going to come down to the Yankees, Cubs and Mariners.
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Let’s look at some of the lesser-known players or rebounding veterans in the American League that are likely to play more than expected and could produce at a cheap price.
Eduardo Nunez, INF—New York Yankees
Nunez doesn’t have a position, but the Yankees are insisting he’s a shortstop so he’ll see time at shortstop while Derek Jeter is periodically rested or is the DH. Kevin Youkilis has been injury-prone in recent years and when he’s playing, will see time at first base as well as third with Mark Teixeira DH-ing against lefties. In a best-case scenario, the Yankees can’t expect any more than 350 at bats from Travis Hafner and that’s stretching it by 100-150 at bats. Plus he doesn’t hit lefties. No one knows when or if Alex Rodriguez will be able to play and his latest foray into the front of the newspaper puts into question whether he’s ever going to suit up for the Yankees again. Their bench is terrible.
All of these factors will open up at bats for Nunez. He can’t field and is a hacker, but he can hit.
Chris Tillman, RHP—Baltimore Orioles
He still runs up high pitch counts but his walks are decreasing incrementally. If examined as a step-by-step process, first comes the better control, then comes the lower pitch counts. If Tillman is able to continue improving in this manner, he could become a 30 start/180-200-inning arm for the Orioles.
The Orioles haven’t bolstered their starting rotation. Brian Matusz showed he’s better off out of the bullpen; they’re waiting for Dylan Bundy and hoping for a repeat performance from Miguel Gonzalez. They’ll need innings from Tillman.
Phil Coke, LHP—Detroit Tigers
In last season’s ALCS, with Jose Valverde shelved because he couldn’t be trusted to even hold a four-run lead, Coke was pressed into service as the nominal closer in a bullpen-by-committee. Valverde’s gone and the Tigers have a former closer on the roster in Octavio Dotel; they’re insisting they’ll give rookie Bruce Rondon every chance to claim the role. Rookies have emerged as closers in the past (Jonathan Papelbon, Craig Kimbrel) but manager Jim Leyland is not going to be patient with a 1-year contract, a veteran team expected to be a World Series contender and a rookie closer. Coke got the job done for Leyland in the post-season and the manager won’t forget it if he has to replace Rondon.
Greg Holland, RHP—Kansas City Royals
Holland will be the Royals’ closer, struck out 91 in 67 innings last season and saved 16 games after Jonathan Broxton was traded. The Royals stand to be pretty good this season giving him save opportunities and he’s arbitration-eligible after the season giving him the incentive of money at the end of the road or perhaps even a preemptive long-term contract to guarantee him at least $10 million-plus through his arbitration years.
Justin Morneau, 1B—Minnesota Twins
Morneau looked like his former MVP self for most of the second half of 2012 after a dreadful start, so perhaps his concussion/injury problems are behind him. Both Morneau and the Twins will have significant mutual benefit from him putting up big numbers. The Twins are in full-blown rebuild and won’t want to keep the pending free agent Morneau after the season. Morneau won’t want to stay in Minnesota for the full season because if he does, the Twins will make the qualifying offer for draft pick compensation and he might be in the same position in 2014 that Michael Bourn and Kyle Lohse are in now. It behooves him to have a hot start and be traded in July.
Aaron Hicks, CF—Minnesota Twins
The Twins’ current center fielder is listed as Darin Mastroianni. Mastroianni can steal a few bases and catch the ball in center field, but he’s a fourth outfielder and a reasonable facsimile of Jason Tyner.
Hicks is a former first round draft pick whom the Twins have no reason not to play after he spends the first month of the season in Triple A to keep his arbitration clock from beginning to tick.
Lance Berkman, DH—Texas Rangers
Berkman’s problems in recent years have been injury-related and if he doesn’t have to play the field, that will reduce the stress on his knees. 81 games in the hitting haven of Texas has made the likes of Mike Napoli into an All-Star. Berkman is a far superior hitter who still accumulates a high on-base percentage. As long as he’s healthy, he’ll post a .380 OBP and hit 25 homers.
Garrett Richards, RHP—Los Angeles Angels
Richards is currently the sixth starter for the Angels, but 3-4-5 are Jason Vargas, Tommy Hanson and Joe Blanton. They’re interchangeable and have major warts. Vargas was a creature of Safeco Field with the Mariners; Hanson’s shoulder is said to be teetering with injuries and horrible mechanics; Blanton allows tons of hits and homers. Richards will end up being the Angels’ third starter by the end of the season and could be the key to them making the playoffs and saving manager Mike Scioscia’s job.
Hisashi Iwakuma, RHP—Seattle Mariners
Iwakuma is what Daisuke Matsuzaka was supposed to be amid the media circus of the Red Sox winning the bidding and hyping him up. Iwakuma is just doing it for a minuscule fraction of the price and none of the aggravation. He picked at the strike zone as a reliever and allows a few too many homers, but as a fulltime starter he’s got the stuff to be a Hideo Nomo sensation. And, unlike Matsuzaka, he actually throws the Bigfoot of the baseball world (often sighted but never proved): the gyroball.
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First Aid Spray
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The First Aid Spray is a reoccurring Health Item found throughout the entire series, it brings the character to full health; but does not cure poison. Umbrella reached fame with one of its products. This particular type of product was able to heal wounds completely. A further factor that these cans have been used in Umbrella ads suggests that the product; "Cinatiropa" (found on the Sprays at the Spencer Mansion) may have been an Umbrella product. The tine under "First Aid" says "Life Safe," something similar to other Umbrella marketing tines.
The spray's design has changed little over the entire course of the Resident evil series. It's a silver spray can with a light green label.
A First Aid Spray will completely heal the player character. Sometimes they can be found inside of First Aid Boxes.
Examine: First Aid Spray
"A medicinal spray that can heal wounds completely."
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The First Aid Spray is first and foremostly a healing item. It is one of the most effective means of raising a characters Health back to full. However, it cannot cure the Poison status effect. Use of First Aid Sprays in these games can negatively affect the player's final rank for game completion, though other healing methods do not.
Examine: First-Aid Spray (Resident Evil Zero)
"Used to fully restore health."
"This spray will fully recover your vitality."
Known as the First Aid Spray. A few can be found throughout the game. The player will start with two in their inventory on Easy Mode.
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Unlike other games in the series, the First Aid Spray will only cure 3000HP of a character's health (although it cures most of the characters completely, however some 'extra' characters posses more than 3000HP) and it will stop the spread of the virus -of any character- for about 30 seconds. It cannot cure the infection however. Like previous games it also does nothing to stop Poison and in certain situations may or may not take a character completely out of "Bleeding" status.
"Completely restores health."
In Resident Evil 4, the First Aid Spray is a full heal item. Several of them can be found throughout the game. They can also be bought, although the Merchant will restrict his stocks if Leon has more than one full health restoring item (G+G+G, R+G or R+G+Y, Golden Eggs and L Bass). Each costs 5,000₧ and the Merchant has a max stock of 2. Alternatively, they can be sold for 2,500₧. Each spray takes up 1x2 spaces of inventory.
Leon starts the main game with one in his inventory. Each character in the Mercenaries minigame starts with one in each of their inventories. Ada starts with one in Assignment Ada and in Separate Ways.
"A medicinal spray that completely restores one's health."
In Resident Evil 5, the first aid spray is a full heal item that can be purchased for 1,000 gold since chapter 1-2 and onward, and can also be occasionally found throughout the game. It can restore and refill both characters health at once, though requires them to stand close to each other.
In Resident Evil 6, the First Aid Spray heals and restores all 6 blocks of health. Additionally, players can now stack it up to 3 cans of First Aid Spray. It can revive a dying player without the help of a partner provided that the player has equipped it before being sent into dying state since in this state, it restricts any other actions except for crawling and shooting. It can also revive a partner without resuscitating or wasting your tablets.
Umbrella Chronicles and Darkside Chronicles
In Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles, the first aid spray is an item that appears once per level and will be automatically used when the player's health drops to zero, completely refilling the player's health (similarly to an "extra life" item). Oddly enough, the game's instruction manual says that you can carry up to 3 first-aid sprays at a given time, however there is only one First Aid Spray per-level, and they don't carry over to the next if you manage to survive without using the one you have acquired.
Operation Raccoon City
First aid sprays are found scattered around the campaign maps and multiplayer maps of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City. You can only carry one at a time unless you are playing as Bertha, Harley, or Ada, and you have the passive ability First Aid Proficiency in which you can carry more depending on your level in that skill. The First aid Spray have an area of effect, which means you can heal multiple teammates depending on how close they are to you. They only cure about 75% Of your health unless you have the passive skill Field Medic in which depending on your level, you can cure up to 100% of your or your teammates health.
Further Notes
In the beta version of Resident Evil 2 and the Trial Version of Biohazard 2, there existed a purple Antidote Spray that was used like First-Aid Spray but it also cured poison. This was likely removed in the final version due to the similar effects with the Mixed Herbs (G+R+B).
In Resident Evil 3, there is a First Aid Spray Case that can carry up to three First Aid Sprays while only taking up a single item slot. In Easy Mode, Jill will begin the game with one in her inventory. In Hard Mode, two First Aid Spray Cases can be obtained by defeating Nemesis-T Type in optional battles - the first is dropped on his third defeat, while the second drops after his sixth defeat.
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Board index Class I National Freight Railroads Ferromex and other Mexican Operations
Mexico - Then and Now
Discussion concerning Mexico's Class I railroad, and other Mexican rail operations. Official web-site: https://www.ferromex.com.mx/index-eng.jsp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
KSC Mexican operations should remain in the KCS forum.
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Post by Gilbert B Norman » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:28 pm
A review of Today's New York Times prompted the inspiration to originate this topic.
First, some material I posted to the predecessor site"way back when"
For ready reference, here is a "brief passage" from the material:
Seems hard to believe today that Mexico has no passenger service other than Los Mochis-Chihuahua and Guadajalara-Tequilla, but let us turn the clock back 25 years to March 1975 when I took a ride on the Monterry-Mexico (City) El Regiomontano.
Even then, Monterry was a relatively prosperous industrial city (understnad it is quite the post-NAFTA boom town today). At that time, Mexican businessmen accepted that an overnight train with sleeping and dining service was how one got between a Northern Industrial city and the Capitol. The "fly/drive option" was simply not.
Today, upon reading the Times usual business travel colums, I note the following article relating to the proliferation of discount air travel in Mexico. The article is non-rail in nature and scope EXCEPT for these two 'brief passages":
For a decade, the Mexican government has had a virtual lock on domestic air travel through two state-owned airlines. Fares have been kept high enough that only the well-off could afford to fly, with the poor condemned to interminable bus rides.
Still, at this early stage, investors are focused more on demand for flights than logistics. "The road infrastructure is very insufficient. There are no trains. The bus takes a very long time," said Frank Aguado, a spokesman for Banco Inbursa, which is investing $25 million in Vuela. "There's a need for air travel, but it is very expensive."
Should it be of interest, here is the full Pinata
Mexico essentially has no passenger trains ("there's talk' of a Mexico, DF cummuter rail system); this condition came about when first, the Government desired to get on the "privitazation bandwagon', and solicited US investment in the state-owned rail system. Two US carriers, the Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific, made investments in the syster. However, needless to say a precondition of that investment was simply "no passenger trains'. The existing trains were to be discontinued, and the givernment was not even to THINK of anything resembling 'Mextrak'.
And so went an established, well used, passenger train system in a country where any measurement of either affluence or mobility does not even 'hold a candle' to that "Norte"..
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Post by AmtrakFan » Tue Aug 09, 2005 6:59 pm
Thanks for sharing Mr. Norman.
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Mexico, then and now
Post by bill haithcoat » Thu Aug 18, 2005 3:40 pm
I remember, and Mr. Norman probably does as well, when the pre-Amtrak Texas Eagle had a through sleeper from St. Louis to Mexico City.
The train to which it was transferred at New Lardeo(Nuevo Laredo--spelling) was the Aztec Eagle. Now that is an oldie goldie name from way back when. It ran from Nuevo Laredo to Mexico City.
The pre-Amtrak Texas Eagle originated in St. Louis rather than Chicago. Though it usually had a through sleeper or two from Chicago to some of the Texas points.
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Post by Scoring Guy » Mon Aug 22, 2005 10:53 pm
I have a Feb 1949 "Official Guide of the Railways" which has the schedules of ALL the North American pass trains, plus airline and ship schedules ; 1504 pages":
Here's more detail about the daily St. Louis to Mexico City train: Joint effort of Missouri Pacific and National Railways of Mexico.
Departs St. Louis at 5:30pm on Day 1, and arrives in Mexico City at 8:30pm on Day 3.
Return trip departs 7:00am, and arrives 8:20am on Day 3.
Stops shown on the route, north to south: St. Louis, Poplar Bluff, Little Rock, Texarkana, Palestine, San Antonio, Laredo, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey, Saltillo, Vanegas, San Luis Potosi, Emp. Esconbedo, Queretaro, Mexico City. (802 miles Laredo to M.C.)
Thru Pullmans: 10-Sec, 2-Cpt, 1 DR & 8-sec, 5 Br Also coaches and Dining-Lounge car, all cars with A.C.
Apparently the switch from one RR to the other is done at San Antonio - "Connecting at San Antonio with the Texas Eagle of the Missouri Pacific". (just reporting what it says - don't kill the messenger)
Also shown are two daily transfer schedules with Southern Pacific trains at Tucson/Nogales and El Paso, both terminating in Mexico City - both with sleeping cars. Example: Los Angeles, depart 8:30pm Sunday, arrive Mexico City via Nogales and Mazatlan (on the "Southern Pacific of Mexico route), at 8:10 am Thursday. Ironically the trip via El Paso was quicker, Depart L.A. 12:45pm Monday, and arrive Mexico City via Chihuahua and Zacatecas at 12:55pm Thursday.
There are five pages of schedules for National Railways of Mexico, way too numerous to list here - includes just across the border service available by Eagle Pass, TX, and Brownsville, TX (w/sleeping cars).
Plus there's also a page of the Mexican Railway (electrified- 264 miles M.C. to Vera Cruz - 12 hr trip) , and 3/4 page of the Mexico North-Western Railway (with it's own route from El Paso to Mexico City and appears to be freight only), plus a half dozen smaller lines, including the El Paso Southern Railway Company which "owns the bridge across the Rio Grand River at El Paso and the terminal in El Paso and is operated as a (1/2 mile) switch line .
Non of there time tables or the map showed the Copper Canyon route - maybe it was not competed in 1949.
Post by Scoring Guy » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:24 pm
Allow me to tie up the loose ends of my previous entry on this topic:
I did what I should have done earlier, I paged over to the Missouri Pacific timetables for more details:
It’s not a thru train from St. Louis to Mexico, nor are there any thru cars, but rather these are two trains operating end to end.
The (southbound) # 21 section (does that number sound familiar Amtrak fans?) of the “Texas Eagle” (details about the T.E. train to follow) terminates at San Antonio, and any passengers on it, that are going on to Laredo or Mexico have to change trains. The train to/thru Mexico, appears to be a joint operation of the National Railway of Mexico, which supplies most of the equipment, and the Missouri Pacific which supplies the lounge-diner. No way to tell from the timetable as to whose mode of power and crew is used between San Antonio and the border. The two sleepers that were shown as “thru sleepers” on the NR of M timetable, are NOT thru sleepers in the usual sense, i.e. they weren’t on the “TE” train from St. Louis to San Antonio. This train, south from San Antonio, is referred to as the # 21 “Sunshine Special”, but it should not be confused with the M.P. train, the # 31 “Sunshine Special” (#32 northbound) which arrives in San Antonio about five hours later than the “Texas Eagle”, even though it departed St. Louis only five minutes after the “Texas Eagle”.
In the process of investigating the above question, I became intrigued by the complex operation of the “Texas Eagle”. I shall address this in terms of the South/West Bound run, and you can extrapolate the North/East Bound run.
Upon leaving St. Louis, the “Texas Eagle” is three sections: # 1 St. Louis to Dallas & Ft. Worth to El Paso, # 21 St. Louis to San Antonio, and # 21-25, St. Louis to Houston-Galveston. In addition there’s a feeder train from Memphis, whose thru cars are attached at Little Rock.
Out of St. Louis, this train would have been a railfan’s dream: It carried 10 sleeping cars, six of which are thru cars from eastern routes (MP-StL to Ft. Worth; MP-StL to Galveston; 2-MP- StL to San Antonio, plus, PRR – NYC to Ft. Worth; PRR – NYC to El Paso; B&O – Wash. To Ft. Worth; PRR – Wash. To Houston; PRR – NYC to Houston; and PRR – NYC to San Antonio) while the two additional sleeping cars from Memphis, added at Little Rock are bound for Houston and Ft. Worth. Besides a host of coaches (probably six) there’s a dining car going to Ft. Worth, and two diner-lounge cars destined for Houston and San Antonio. Apparently to eliminate that confusion, there’s no baggage service.
At Texarkana, the #1 section is separated from the two #21 sections, and its operation is taken over by the Texas Pacific RR. Both of these two parts continue to follow the same route, at slightly different schedules, until Longview, where the #1 section heads west on the T.P. mainline. Running slightly ahead of the #1 section west from Longview is the TP’s # 1“Louisiana Eagle, coming from New Orleans. They both arrive at Dallas, and the appropriate thru cars from each are combined for the short run to Ft. Worth. West from Ft. Worth, for the daylight run to El Paso, the #1 (as a joint MP & TP train) is only coaches except for the lone PPR thru sleeper. Although the “Texas Eagle” timetable shows a termination in Los Angeles, this actually requires an overnight stay in El Paso, and a boarding of the S.P. Argonaut in the morning – there’s no thru M.P. equipment to Los Angeles. However the T.P. offers a thru sleeper from Dallas to Los Angeles, departing on their train # 5, which leaves about eight hours after the “TE” arrives.
Meanwhile, the two #21 sections of the “Texas Eagle” continue south from Longview, and the # 21-25 section headed for Houston-Galveston, splits off at Palestine. That leaves the # 21 to continue south to San Antonio, where the #21 “Sunshine Special” train is waiting for its transfer passengers going to Mexico.
Keep in mind that this is February of 1949, and no doubt this route went through many variations before and after that time. However, this railway guide is the only document that this Wisconsinite has in his collection that references the Missouri Pacific.
And Amtrak thinks it has its hands full with its connections at San Antonio, or Spokane, etc.
Post by Gilbert B Norman » Wed Aug 24, 2005 3:26 pm
The Chihuahua Pacific RR was completed during 1961.
I had the privilege to ride it Suffragio-Chihuahua during April 1975; it was indeed quite the ride.
http://www.trainweb.org/carl/CopperCany ... story.html
mexico-then and now
Post by bill haithcoat » Thu Aug 25, 2005 7:22 am
Like I say, Scoring Guy, this does bring back pleasant memories. I got out some of my old timetables last night. My sister used to live in Dallas(I lived in Chattanooga) so I had several Texas Eagle trips (Southern Railroad Chattanooga to Memphis, Mo Pac beyond). A beautiful long blue train! My first dome ride was on the Texas Eagle.
You are correct about San Antonio, rather than Nuevo Laredo, being the change over point. I was typing that from memory, at work(no timetables here!!)
The details of this massive operation did change a lot through the years, as you indicated it probably had.
There never was, so far as I know, a solid through train from St.Louis to Mexico City. But there was---at times---indeed a completely straight through sleeper. Some timetables before your 1949 show a New York to Mexico City Sleeper, via St. Louis and San Antone. But more in our lifetimes, the 1964-1967 MoPac timetables do indeed show a true through sleeper from St.Louis to Mexico City. (NOTE: my timetables are not complete for this railroad). And by that time it was a streamlined 10-6.
TRAINS Magazine once ran an article on just how involved all the switching in, switching out, separate sections, etc all were in the massive Texas Eagle (and, later Louisiana Eagle) complex . Certainly nothing like it today. That same article also detailed the C&EI and L&N Georgian and Humming Bird, entertwined operations.
Probably my favorite TE memory would be the layover in Little Rock waiting and watching for the two big sections to come down from St. Louis. I would have been in the Memphis to Ft. Worth coach. That Memphis section arrived LR well ahead of the two big trains from St. Louis. Watching those big long huge streaks of blue arrive was quite fascinating. Worth the price of the trip (well, my parents may not have thought so!). To make matters better, I usually traveled around the crowded Christmas season, so the train was even longer and more beautiful than usual. Somehow its extra equipment was of the same lightweight caliber as the regular.
What an operation!!
Post by Scoring Guy » Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:59 pm
Thanks Mr. Haithcoat, Facinating stuff for me. Up here by La Crosse, WI, in the 50's the closest things to complex operations were a Milwaukee Road train that shuttled a through sleeper off of the Pioneer Limited to Austin, MN, and the symbiotic relationship between CN&W's 514/514 and the Dakota 400. All the rest of the Milwaukee and Burlington (CB&Q, GN & NP) trains were just passing through on their way between Chicago and St. Paul.
From the details about the sleepers in the '49 timetable, they appeared to be all traditional heavyweight configurations - I wonder if the train was blue then?
Mr. Norman, I am going to be taking the AOE through Coppper Canyon this fall, (plus Amtrak from and to home) watch for my trip report in November - I was booked in February and the trip before me derailed and mine was canceled, so I had wait 'til November.
Mexico then and now
Post by bill haithcoat » Fri Aug 26, 2005 7:26 am
Uh oh, Scoring Guy, here I am at the office again without any timetables. I am not sure what year the Texas Eagle's streamlined equipment was put into service. I think it was streamlined and diesel powered from day one, whatever day one was (late 40's) . It in large measure caused the Sunshine Special to become a secondary train.
If any of those sleepers were 10-6 or 14-4(roomettes and double bedrooms) they were streamlined. Also six sections, six roomettes and 4 double bedrooms was a streamlined configuation. I am not sure if the TE had any signficant number of heavyweght sleepers in it or not--maybe one or two now and then, but I think it was more or less solidly streamliend its entire career.
Wish I had my timetables here.
Most other configurations would have been heavy weight.
As to your quesiton, it was my observation (and fragile memory) that most if not all MoPac equipment was painted blue regardless of whether it was streamlined, heavyweight or modernized. I do know that MoPac, like Illionis Central, for example, had some beautiful examples of modernized equipment.(which could fool a certain number of railfans).
Also, there would sometimes be some Pennsy tuscan red in the TE's long distance sleepers. And in later years a shiny unpainted silver slumbercoach ran from Baltimore to San Antonio. But it was still predominantly a long streak of blue.
Post by Scoring Guy » Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:36 pm
Sorry Mr. Haithcoat, I've been gone all weekend; I'll check on those pullman equipment listings and see you back here Wednesday; you're probably right.
Post by Scoring Guy » Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:40 am
There I was again, thinking with the wrong part of my body:
You're absolutly right on those sleeping cars on the MP Texas Eagle (circa '49), mostly 14-4's, with a couple 6-10's, and a 6-6-4. The lounge car (St. Louis to Fort Worth) also had 5 bedrooms - the lounge cars to San Antonio and Houston were also food service cars.
The two sleepers from San Antonio to Mexico City were listed as 10-1-2 and 8 sec, 5 br, which probably were heavyweights.
We've just about written a book here.
Post by bill haithcoat » Wed Aug 31, 2005 2:42 pm
Right on all points. And, yes, the 5 DBR lounge on the TE was lightweight.
ALso, the 10-1-2 and 8-5 to Mexico were indeed heavyweight..
As mentioned already, in later years when there really was a completely through St.Lous to Mexico City sleeper it was lightweight.
I have spoken so much about blue--that is the predominant color, part of it was gray, guess you know that.
I have enjoyed our TE conversations. I have many pleasant memories of the TE, some of them more family related, not just rail-related. It also kind of represented travel further away from my own immediate part of the country, for one thing. Like the time I rode it Dallas to St. Louis,change to L&N from St. Louis to Chattanooga, rather than the usual route through Memphis, and the Southern Railroad.
During that day spent I in St. Louis I saw a lot of neat trains and railroads for the first time. I had known they all existed but it was a treat to see them in person.
Post by Gilbert B Norman » Thu Sep 01, 2005 1:36 pm
MoPac Blue
The original: http://mopac.org/photos_passcar.asp
The "Jenks Blue"; http://mopac.org/photos_passcar/mp000020.NHill.mphs.jpg
Post by Scoring Guy » Sat Sep 03, 2005 3:15 pm
I came across this bit of information by accident:
There were 38 14-4 streamlined sleepers delivered by Pullman to the Missouri Pacific in 1948 - the four bedrooms were closest to the vestibule. At some point the MP converted four of them to 10-6 configuration. In 1971 most of what were still in service were sold to the Railway of Mexico. After that, , , ?
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Post by David Benton » Sat Sep 03, 2005 5:47 pm
I took a sleeper from Neuvo Laredo ( well from the mexican town across the border ) to Mexico city around 1990 or so . I belive it was a stainless steel budd type car , but am not 100% sure . it was definetly originally form north of the border , as i remember it has english signs in it .
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Occupancy certificate rule puts 7000 power connections on hold in Nagpur
A source in SNDL told TOI that 6,154 new connections had been put on hold due to HC orderAshish Roy | TNN | September 08, 2017, 16:00 IST
NAGPUR: The order of Nagpur bench of Bombay high court making occupancy certificate compulsory for new power connections is having the desired effect. Thousands of new power connections have been put on hold by SNDL and MSEDCL. This is, however, causing hardship to citizens.
A source in SNDL told TOI that 6,154 new connections had been put on hold due to HC order. “When HC made occupancy certificates compulsory, hundreds of applications for new connections were pending with us. We rang up the applicants and told them to get the certificates for releasing the connections. The new applicants were told it at the time of submitting the applications,” he said.
SNDL official further said only two applicants had submitted occupancy certificates so far. “We have begun the process to release the connections after they submitted the certificates,” he said.
Kundan Bhise, executive engineer of MSEDCL’s Congress Nagar division, said that 169 applications pending when HC issued the order were put on hold. “After the order around 350 applications for new connections were submitted in our three sub-divisions. All applicants have been told to submit occupancy certificates of the premises,” said the EE.
Occupancy certificate is issued when a construction is complete and has followed all norms. It has to be applied for in a format prescribed in the development control rules (DCR) of Nagpur. It has to be signed by the architect and the owner. The issuance of this certificate has been brought under Right to Service Act and has to be issued within 14 days.
The civic engineer has to inspect the building and check whether it was constructed as per the sanctioned plan. “He usually checks the balconies, fire safety, rain water harvesting, number of flats, etc. His mandate is to check exterior of the building and not the interior. It should not take more than an hour,” said a builder.
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While thousands of citizens are seeking occupancy certificates (OCs) from Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), the civic officials are yet to wake up. When TOI asked Supriya Thool, NMC’s assistant director of town planning (ADTP), about the time required for issuing an OC, she said she did not know.
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Turn the Beats Around
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Maybe you’re old enough to remember the disco era. Platform shoes, bellbottoms, don’t touch the hair. Vicki Sue Robinson had this great number called “Turn the Beat Around” that, if you’re too young to recall it in that incarnation, you may know from the Gloria Estefan cover that came later. Doesn’t matter. What matters is, you’re a screenwriter and you’re doing a beat sheet for your script. But you should do what Vicki Sue says and turn that beat around, turn it upside-down.
Here’s what I mean. I recently worked with some writers on a beat sheet for a feature they were writing. I read through their well-written and detailed beats – they seemed strong and well thought-out. But after reading it, I was left with a simple question: What’s the tone of this movie? Is this more drama or thriller?
When they said they were hoping it would be a thriller, the percussion started rat-a-tatting in the recesses of my brain matter. The Finale beat they had outlined was strong, but it would make the script better if they turned the beat around and moved it to the Midpoint.
This is another key to unlocking the beats. Making your All Is Lost your Midpoint challenges you to go into the story and answer the question: Where can we go from here?
The beat sheet can be a tool for outlining but it should also be a test for your story and a testament to your ability to challenge yourself to go further.
We worked with this idea – moving the Finale to the Midpoint – for a while, coming up with a new second half of the story that sparked some interesting ideas for the main character and her journey. But we weren’t done turning the beats around as it soon became apparent that this Midpoint would be a better Catalyst.
Within the space of a couple of hours of discussion and dissection, we found that the ending of the story was really the beginning. Turn it upside-down, like Vicki Sue sang.
Now all the ideas that we’d come up with for the second half of the story helped forge even newer, stronger ideas. Taking that big reveal we’d been holding onto for the Finale and making it the Catalyst was just the injection we needed to turn this into a really tense thriller with a strong hook.
The beauty of this is that it’s all happening at the beat-sheet stage, early in the process, allowing for these kinds of big changes without too much bloodshed.
Ask yourself: Is this the strongest version of this story I can tell? Can I boost things up and spur myself to take the story further?
So when you’re plotting your beats on the light-up dance floor of your mind, try this move. If it has a nice beat and you can dance to it, you’re on the right track.
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Alvaro Rodriguez is a writer living and working in Texas and Los Angeles. He is currently on the staff of NBC's Chicago Fire. His credits include the film Machete, the television series From Dusk Till Dawn, and the upcoming feature, The Last Rampage. He attended the beat sheet workshop and master class with Blake Snyder and has led the beat sheet workshop in Austin and San Antonio. Additionally, he has made several appearances on the Austin Film Festival television show On Story on PBS, in conversation with award-winning writers and filmmakers, and has appeared on panels at AFF, the Great American Pitchfest and others.
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Wow! lovely post Al! And it was great working with you! thanks for sharing your wisdom with us. Juan & Ananda
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Thank you for this! A writing mentor and friend (and my editor), Joyce Spizer Foy, sometimes says, “Your story starts earleir than you think it does.”
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Home Anthropology How early mammals evolved night vision to avoid predators
How early mammals evolved night vision to avoid predators
This image shows cone photoreceptors (green) in a slice from a mouse retina. A majority of the photoreceptors (97%) in the retina are rods (black). The black layer on top of the photoreceptors is retinal pigment epithelium.Credit: Jung-Woong Kim
Early mammals evolved in a burst during the Jurassic period, adapting a nocturnal lifestyle when dinosaurs were the dominant daytime predator. How these early mammals evolved night vision to find food and survive has been a mystery, but a new study publishing June 20 inDevelopmental Cell suggests that rods in the mammalian eye, extremely sensitive to light, developed from color-detecting cone cells during this time to give mammals an edge in low-light conditions.
Cone cells are specialized for certain wavelengths of light to help animals detect color, while rods can detect even a single photon and are specialized for low-light vision. “The majority of mammals have rod-dominant retinas, but if you look at fish, frogs, or birds, the vast majority are cone-dominated–so the evolutionary question has always been, ‘What happened?'” says Anand Swaroop, a retina biologist at the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. “We’ve been working for a long time to understand the fundamental mechanisms behind rod and cone development.”
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Previous work done by Swaroop and his colleagues showed that a transcription factor called NRL pushes cells in the retina toward maturing into rods by suppressing genes involved in cone development. “We began to wonder if, somehow, the short-wavelength cones were converted into rods during evolution,” says Swaroop.
To investigate the origin of rods in mammals, Swaroop and his team examined rod and cone cells taken from mice at different stages of development. Details of an organism’s embryonic development often reveal traits carried by its evolutionary ancestors; consider, for instance, how human embryos initially develop gill-like slits and a tail.
The researchers saw that in early stages, two days after the mice were born, developing rod cells expressed genes normally seen in mature short-wavelength cones (which are used in other animals to detect ultraviolet light). When the researchers examined the epigenetics of purified rod cells from mice, they saw that these aspects became repressed by histone and DNA methylations later in development, ten days after the mice were born.
In zebrafish, which are diurnal and cone-dominated, another set of experiments showed that the rod cells didn’t resemble cones at all. To investigate when the mammalian elements that turn cones to rods might have originated, the researchers reviewed genomic sequences from a variety of vertebrate animals. The team discovered that the genes responsible for the regulation of NRL became more refined in the placental mammals as the modern retina evolved and were lost in several non-mammalian groups. The origin of this regulatory system appeared to coincide with the evolution of nocturnality in early mammals.
The team concluded that in mammals, the transcription factor NRL became restricted to the photoreceptors in the eye, forcing the cells to change from cones to rods and giving early mammals the edge they needed to take up an active nighttime lifestyle. (Counter-intuitively, humans depend more on cones for our vision, but that’s because our ancestors later evolved to take advantage of the daylight hours again.)
“These rod photoreceptors retain the molecular footprint of short-wavelength cones,” says Swaroop. “We’ve provided evidence that by acquiring the regulatory elements for NRL to shift short-wavelength cones into rods, early mammals changed one type of cell from capturing UV light–which isn’t necessary at night–to something that is just extremely sensitive to light.”
Source: Cell Press
Journal: Developmental Cell
Research Reference:
Kim, Yang, and Oel et al. Recruitment of Rod Photoreceptors from Short Wavelength Sensitive Cones during the Evolution of Nocturnal Vision in Mammals. Developmental Cell, 2016 DOI:10.1016/j.devcel.2016.05.023
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How to Become the Most Interesting Company on Facebook
July 6, 2015 Russ Fradin
Facebook has become one of the most powerful brand marketing tools available, but the mechanics behind its advertising algorithm are shrouded in mystery.
Marketers depend heavily on Facebook to generate impressions, reach, and reactions from their target audiences, and any tweak the company makes to its model sends the entire advertising world into a panic.
While no marketer knows the true secret to success on Facebook, it seems the only foolproof way to beat the system involves generating interesting content that elicits audience viewership and solicits a response. This is easier said than done. Even if you’ve created great content, you still have to compete with mountains of other popular content.
Climbing to the top of Facebook’s content heap is a long, arduous journey down a dark and winding path. That said, I do know that being king of the content castle means identifying and understanding Facebook’s definition of the word “interesting.”
What’s Interesting to Facebook?
Facebook’s definition of interesting is based on a combination of statistical factors that include viewing time, likes, shares, and comments. However, Facebook’s algorithm also takes into account that not all users like, share, or comment on every post they find fascinating. This combination of tangible and intangible factors leaves marketers dependent upon a mix of trial and error, guesswork, and sometimes just plain luck.
It’s madness, but there’s still a method to it. Consider the following advice regarding your Facebook marketing efforts:
Be authentic and useful.
This is the golden rule of Facebook marketing: Speak to people the way you’d like to be spoken to. In other words, treat Facebook users like humans. Don’t oversell your product, and be sure to provide useful, valuable content that is genuinely helpful and enjoyable.
Don’t piggyback off what others are doing. Facebook is so saturated with content that it’s important to stand out from the pack. Blending in is social media suicide — you’ll most assuredly be ignored. Create a unique point of view and strategy for your brand, and stick to it.
Vary your topics and methods.
Stick to your originality, but make sure to mix up your messaging and style. Your audience will quickly tune out if you post the same content over and over again. Be sure to use an array of multimedia: images, videos, blogs, memes, GIFs, and so on.
Like any marketing campaign, test and retest your strategies to find the most effective. See what resonates with your audience, and fine-tune from there.
A number of companies have this down to a science. Nike, for example, uses an array of Facebook pages — one for each of its product categories. These subpages are updated daily, while Nike’s main corporate page is updated weekly. This provides the company with an extensive network through which to share content and an expansive data set to use to its benefit.
BMW is also mastering Facebook’s marketing method. The auto empire achieves massive outreach through daily updates that feature photos of cars, automobile reviews, videos, and other content. BMW regularly amasses 50,000 to 100,000 impressions with every post it makes.
In the end, while cracking Facebook’s code might be impossible, effectively navigating its marketing climate is entirely doable: Simply capture interest that provides value, and deliver an array of exciting content.
What type of content do you think is the most reaction-worthy and shareable on Facebook? Let us know by commenting below.
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Cinema Dispatch: The Revenant
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Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Huh. When you think about it, Iñárritu is kind of doing the same thing here that he did with Birdman. Take an actor who’s known for something specific, and really dig into that a subtext of the movie. For Birdman, it was about Michael Keaton trying to stay relevant as a genuine artist yet really only being known for his (in a certain perspective) more shallow performances. Here, it’s almost like a metaphor for Leonardo DiCaprio’s continued struggle to win that fucking Oscar, taking on challenging role after challenging role yet never getting quite what he deserves. That really does fit into this story about braving the elements in a quest for revenge that we can all pretty much assume doesn’t give him the satisfaction and validation that his character is so desperately seeking. Still, does the movie itself manage to be entertaining in the same way Birdman was while still giving us some really interesting nuances to the story? Let’s find out!!
The movie follows Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his struggles to get back to civilization after being left for dead by John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) who also killed his son Hawk Glass (Forrest Goodluck). During a hunting expedition led by Captain Andrew Henry (Domhnall Gleeson) the party was raided by a contingent of Native American Warriors and only a couple of them (including Hugh, John, Hawk, and Andrew) make it out alive. Because Hugh is the guy with the tragic backstory involving his Native American wife, he’s easily the best tracker in the group and so knows how to avoid the tribe while also finding the safest route through the mountains, though John doesn’t really trust him or his son due to almost getting scalped by Native Americans a while ago. Unfortunately for the party, Hugh gets the shit kicked out of him by a Grizzly Bear and is nearly dead after the encounter. The party tries to carry him along, but the strain becomes too great and he’s left with a couple men (Hawk, John, and one other dude Bridger played by Will Poulter) so that he can… die peacefully? I don’t know, but things don’t go as planned as the already suspicious John decides to kill off Hugh and ends up killing Hawk in the process… yet doesn’t feel the need to finish off Hugh I guess. Anyway, John convinces Bridger to leave and so Hugh is left for dead. That ain’t about to stop Leonardo DiCaprio though, as he crawls out of his shallow grave, and makes his way back to home base to kick Tom Hardy square in the teeth! Can he survive the stark and desolate countryside long enough to get his revenge!? More importantly, can Leo finally win his god damn Oscar!?
“Hey man, I heard Sean Penn left his Best Actor award down there.” “IT’S MIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!!”
This entry was posted in Cinema Dispatch and tagged Alejandro González Iñárritu, Captain Andrew Henry, Domhnall Gleeson, Forrest Goodluck, Hugh Glass, John Fitzgerald, Leonardo DiCaprio, Movie Review, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter on January 13, 2016 by Matt Vetrano.
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The Others: A Childhood Nightmare
I have a great respect for Spanish directors and their films. J.A. Bayona and The Orphanage, Guillermo del Toro and Pan’s Labryinth, Jaume Balaguero/Paco Plaza and REC (U.S. version – Quarantine). And now I can say Alejandro Amenabar and The Others. This film has a chilling take on demons/poltergeists/ghosts and the like. Set back in a time period where ghosts would have been an issue (WWII), this movie artfully uses fog as an extension of ghosts and beings that are not of this world. Transported through this fog, we find an ethereal feel and place where ghosts would most likely dwell.
But I was afraid to watch this movie for a long time. Do you wanna know why?
That is exactly why. The last few seconds of that trailer frightened me back when I was 11. And I know I was a young ‘un, but this movie chilled me somehow. I hadn’t seen that many horror movies and I was naive in the horror department in general. That young girl’s voice and ancient figure beneath the veil haunted my dreams for years. And now, I sat down and forced myself to watch it. Conquering fears and writing blogs. I should mark that off my bucket list.
The Others is a story about a secluded English family and their hardships without a father figure during the end of WWII. Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) is a strict and God fearing mother who feels it is necessary for her children to strictly follow the word of God. But there’s a problem. Her children cannot be exposed to natural light. (If that’s a real disease… didn’t check.) Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley) are
They’re like cute vampires. They can’t see light.
two sick children who have no hopes of seeing the outside world. But the otherworld has come to them. In the form of haunting ghosts.
With a new cleaning and housekeeping staff hired, Grace hopes to make things easier on the children with such a trying lifestyle. Bertha Mills (Fionnulla Flanagan) runs the house with her mute charge, Lydia (Elaine Cassidy), and the elderly garden keeper, Mr. Tuttle (Eric Sykes). With strange occurrences and Anne constantly seeing a young boy and old woman, Grace fears for her own children and wishes her husband were back and knew what to do.
A desperate mother.
What I found interesting that characterizes this movie is a sense/loss of innocence. The children are quite ignorant and innocent in their knowledge of the outside world, especially during a time of war. Their mother’s faith doesn’t waiver while their own teachings are questioned by themselves at all times. This movie seems to question God at the same time that it affirms ghosts and another plane of existence. The whole movie itself is an early 2000’s examination of religion and whether or not it is a viable means of explanation. It prodded it (to an exhausted point I found to be too overzealous) and wouldn’t leave it alone, even at the end.
Nicole Kidman gives a very mean and zealous performance as the mother in this film, a character who would do anything to protect her children from a heathen and sinful world. She escalates at quite a nice and even pace into hysteria (as I’m sure was intended) and leaves you questioning her merit and faith by the end. I also enjoyed Christopher Eccleston (the crazed military leader in 28 Days Later) and his role as the crestfallen husband returned from war. His haunting performance toned the film in a very depressing way that
Haunts. My. Dreams.
characterized a lot of soldier’s feelings after WWII. He wasn’t in it for much, but it was just enough. And Fionnula Flanagan was a fantastic caring/aloof housekeeper who comes off as creepy and nurturing at the same time.
I know you’re there…
After all was said and done in the film, and a lot was, I was overall impressed with the movie. It was done in a very minimal way with one location and a very haunting house. Old style houses like the one in the film from the early 1900’s (or earlier, I wasn’t sure) give me the creeps. The old pictures, the old furniture and dusty feel always have given me the creeps, just knowing someone had to have died in the house. That’s another thing. I really enjoyed the mention of photographing the dead and how that used to be a common practice in order to capture the soul of the person so they may live on. The overall old feel and simplistic nature of horror in the film came from a very human place. Dying and the afterlife, ghosts and hauntings in old houses in something we all are unsure about. And something we can’t explain. Very well done for a Spanish film with no Spanish spoken. 7.7 out of 10.
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David W. Springer, RGK Director, joins the 2018 class of Fellows of SSWR
The Social Work and Research (SSWR) welcomes Dr. David W. Springer into the 2018 class of Fellows. SSWR Fellows are members who have served with distinction to advance the mission of the Society -- to advance, disseminate, and translate research that addresses issues of social work practice and policy and promotes a diverse, equitable and just society.
The SSWR Fellowship has been established by the Society to honor and to recognize current SSWR members for their individual accomplishments, leadership and contribution to SSWR as a scientific society. It is anticipated that SSWR Fellows will serve as role models and mentors for individuals pursuing careers in social work research and will continue to actively advance the mission of the Society.
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Beth Angell, Rutgers University
Hyunkag Cho, Michigan State University
Sam Choi, Alabama A&M University
Monica Faulkner, The University of Texas at Austin
Cynthia Franklin, The University of Texas at Austin
Bridget Freisthler, The Ohio State University
Abbie Frost, Simmons College
Rachel Fusco, University of Pittsburgh
Meekyung Han, San Jose State University
Julia Henly, University of Chicago
Sheryl Kubiak, Michigan State University
Shanti Kulkarni, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Michael Lindsey, New York University
Nicole Nicotera, University of Denver
Jennifer Romich, University of Washington
Richard Smith, University at Albany
Joanne Sobeck, Wayne State University
Keith Warren, The Ohio State University
More details and a full list of honorees are available at Society for Social Work and Research.
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Initially founded in 1201 as a base for the Northern Crusades, Riga was a major hub for the Eastern Baltic regions during the days of the Hanseatic League, a fact which kept the city’s heart beating after the fall of the Hansa when it moved eventually into Russian hands until it emerged after the end of the Cold War as the head of state for the independent state of Latvia. Sitting along the Daugava River, the city has long boasted a distinctly German population, although these days it is mostly Latvians. Still, remnants of the past can be seen in the architecture and language. Visitors spend most of their time in Old Town, largely because of the beauty of the architecture.
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Latvijas Radio (Radio Latvia; shortened as LR) is a public service broadcasting network of Latvia. The organisation was founded 1 November 1925, and is situated in the Latvian capital of Riga. Since 2002, Latvijas Radio broadcasts five different stations on the FM band and the internet: Latvijas Radio 1 (news, talk, current affairs programmes), Latvijas Radio 2 (Latvian music), Latvijas Radio 3 - Klasika (classical, jazz), Latvijas Radio 4 - Doma Laukums (minority programmes, mostly in Russian),...
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“If you go through life seeing just what’s in front of you, then you’re going to miss a lot.” Pete’s Dragon (2016) and Florence Foster Jenkins
Sometimes Hollywood just makes sweet movies. Not often. Just sometimes. These are the movies that you remember from your youth, not completely great films, but kind-hearted ones where people’s common humanity is celebrated, where decency is rewarded, and where foibles are accepted and embraced, not pilloried in some sort of zero-sum football match – loving, slightly creaky movies you would have discovered at the far end of the television dial, some weekday afternoon, when you were home from school sick with the flu.
Two such movies are rolling through your local cineplexes now, quietly charming audiences in the shadow of more cynical, merchandisable fare like Suicide Squad. I happened to catch Florence Foster Jenkins and Pete’s Dragon in a double feature on a warm summer weekday afternoon, no flu required, and I’m glad I did.
Perhaps surprisingly, Pete’s Dragon is the much stronger film. The original 1977 Disney film combined one-dimensional animation, even more one-dimensional performances (who thought Helen Reddy was a good idea?), and treacly songs (“Candle on the Water,” anyone? nah, I didn’t think so) into a forgettable diversion consistent with the Mouse House’s lousy Me Decade offerings (Apple Dumpling Gang … blech).
The new Pete’s Dragon director David Lowery wisely jettisons everything from the original flick, save the boy and his dog … er … dragon conceit, giving us a smart and deeply affecting parable on ecology, tolerance, and the healing power of companionship. Pete (played with a feral wariness by Oakes Fegley) is orphaned in an unidentified Pacific Northwest woods when his parents run the family station wagon off the road to avoid hitting a deer (Bambi’s revenge?). Pete is discovered by large, green, furry, canine-like dragon whom Pete quickly names Elliot, after a puppy in a beloved book Elliot Gets Lost. (I said the movie was good; I didn’t say it was subtle.)
Years pass, and Pete and Elliot carve out a pastoral existence, spending their days at play in the woods, sheltered at night in a cave filled with the discarded refuse of humanity (think The Black Stallion meets The Goonies). However, this wouldn’t be a summer movie without some narrative tension, and it wouldn’t be a Disney movie without some wholesome, well-intentioned, plucky, small-town intervention narrative tension. Along comes Bryce Dallas Howard as Grace, a forest ranger, instantly more believable than the thousand false notes she played as an opportunistic theme park executive in Jurassic World, fighting a losing battle against the foresting company owned by her own fiance Jack (American Horror Story‘s Wes Bentley – about as creepily cardboard as he always is). Pete’s curiosity about these Disneyfied people gets the better of him, he reveals himself, and, in a series of predictable plot points, Pete and Elliot are separated by (in order) hospital rooms, child protective services, and Jack’s skeezy, gun-loving brother Gavin (Star Trek‘s sparkling Karl Urban, who knows how to play a ridiculous cad without chewing too much scenery).
Lowery borrows liberally from the Spielberg school of mid-80s family film-making, and Spielberg himself was beholden to an encyclopedic obsession with films of his youth. One might argue that every Spielberg children’s movie seems to be trying to right any emotional damage that Old Yeller may have caused a young Steven. Lowery even wisely sets Pete’s Dragon in a pre-cell-phone late 70s/early 80s (never completely defined), when a child would see nature with wonder and not as a backdrop by which to catch the latest Pokemon Go creature.
Elliot, the dragon, is a marvel of movie design and animation, rarely exhibiting any of the jarring disconnects from reality CGI can sometimes cause – the work here is fluid and warm and fantastic and heartbreaking. Elliot never speaks and relays sensitivities the way a dog or cat might, through undulating body language and heavy sighs, sideways glances and guttural noises. Elliot is at once the film’s center and periphery, a guide and a protector yet also a victim of the cruel whims of serendipity and fate … which is pretty consistent with how humans treat any and all animals, in fact.
And that is likely Lowery’s point. Robert Redford is cast as Grace’s father Meacham, the town eccentric whose claims of meeting a dragon in the woods decades prior have fueled a host of urban legends and have alienated him from all but the town’s youngest denizens. Early in the film, Meacham foreshadows what is yet to come with the line, “If you go through life seeing just what’s in front of you, then you’re going to miss a lot.” Toward the film’s conclusion, when it’s pretty damn evident there is a dragon living in the woods, Grace asks her father to tell her what really happened all those years ago. Meacham looks at Grace (after relating how Elliot hates guns … thank you!) and says, “I looked at that dragon. And he looked at me. And we were at peace. Something changed in me that day, and I could never look at you or any other creature the same way again.” Yeah, I cried buckets.
Florence Foster Jenkins on the other hand may change the way any of us ever look at amateur singers or any other aspiring creative type again. Or not. Long before American Idol, people in this country treated singing competitions like gladiator sport. We applaud and cheer the Susan Boyles or the Kelly Clarksons who may defy our expectations with voices like angels, but we guffaw and leer at the William Hungs or Sanjaya Malakars for whom “pitchy” is the best compliment anyone can muster. We can be exceedingly cruel as a culture; the dark side of our Horatio Alger tendencies.
The film, directed in workmanlike fashion by Stephen Frears (The Queen, Philomena), is a wartime snapshot of the title character’s days and nights as a wealthy patron of the musical arts in New York City and as a woefully untalented vocalist with a shockingly tin ear. Alas, as portrayed by Meryl Streep (Ricki and the Flash, Into the Woods), Jenkins comes off (no pun intended) as rather one-note. Not unlike an episode of the aforementioned American Idol, it’s unclear whether the filmmakers are making fun of Jenkins or celebrating her unabashed moxie. Maybe I’m a bit simplistic, but trying to have it both ways with a character who cuts a more tragic than comic figure could be mistaken for cruelty.
In fact, Florence, (spoiler alert) on her deathbed, asks her dutiful (yet dubiously motivated) husband St. Clair (portrayed with surprising nuance by Four Weddings and a Funeral‘s Hugh Grant) if all this time everyone has been laughing at her. It’s intended to be a devastating self-realization. In fact, everyone has been laughing at her, including us. The film takes comic glee is showing how Jenkins’ simian-like vocalizations send audiences into apoplexy, so it’s a bit tough (akin to emotional whiplash) to suddenly invoke our sympathy after indulging our baser instincts.
That said, the film is a pleasant lark with more sweet than sour at its core. Like the BBC production it is, the film is a clutch of fussy mannerisms and pop-eyed reaction shots. Streep is as hammy as we’ve seen her in years, if her Julia Child from Julie and Julia had spent a long afternoon with her Miranda Priestly from Devil Wears Prada. Grant does a fine job complementing and contextualizing Streep’s performance (partly it’s the design of his role as Florence’s major domo and consigliere), and there is a lot of joy in watching him out of love, sweetness, and survival clear one hurdle after another, shielding Florence from the worst of her detractors and hangers on. In hiring a new accompanist for his tone-deaf wife, St. Clair delineates to Cosme McMoon (a pleasantly neurotic Simon Helberg, playing a soft-spoken variation on his Big Bang Theory‘s Howard Wolowitz) some of the more eccentric rules of the house: “The chairs are not for practical use. They honor those who died in them. Are you fond of sandwiches? And potato salad? We have mountains of the stuff.” Grant’s delivery, a perfect blend of pragmatism, wonder, and self-interest, should have been the tone the entire film took.
Regardless, if you are seeking solace from a summer move season filled with smart aleck mutants and half-baked sequels, frat boy comedies and nihilistic explosions, go check out the dragon (and Robert Redford) and stay for the potato salad (and Hugh Grant).
Bonus: If you missed this summer’s production of Xanadu, enjoy this video footage!
Reel Roy Reviews is now TWO books! You can purchase your copies by clicking here (print and digital). In addition to online ordering at Amazon or from the publisher Open Books, the first book is currently is being carried by Bookbound, Common Language Bookstore, and Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room in Ann Arbor, Michigan and by Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan. My mom Susie Duncan Sexton’s Secrets of an Old Typewriter series is also available on Amazon and at Bookbound and Common Language.
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“She’s so little and sparkly … I want her as a key chain!” Bette Midler’s Divine Intervention Tour at The Palace of Auburn Hills
Key chain Bette
“She’s so little and sparkly … I want her as a key chain!” So commented my very witty pal and fellow Leadership A2Y (Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti) classmate Naomi Fink on one of the many photos I feverishly posted on Facebook while watching the Divine Miss M (Midler, that is) perform at The Palace of Auburn Hills.
Keep in mind, we were under strict instructions not to take photos, so what you see here is ill-gotten gain. I’m not sure how or why artists in this day and age even try to prevent images from being captured and shared.
Folks like Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga even encourage the practice, likely realizing that it provides fabulous, cheap, immediate marketing … but I digress.
Roy and Heidi
I was accompanied at the show by another wonderful A2Y colleague Heidi Fisher, who prepared for her impending audience with Queen Bette by listening to two days worth of her classic tunes on Pandora. Now that’s dedication.
Needless to say, we loved the moving, funny, ribald, political, sparkling spectacle that is Bette Midler’s Divine Intervention tour.
Both of us were likely in a sentimental mood, having just driven from Ann Arbor where we had spent our final day together as a leadership class.
The balance of the day, after receiving our certificates of merit, was occupied by a last blast scavenger hunt (cleverly designed by another classmate Peg Windsor and program director Barb Davenport): we met with as many different Ann Arbor business people and creative types as we could cram before we waved goodbye (or perhaps just “see you later”) to our beloved classmates and program.
So we were pretty spent before we even got in the door for Bette.
We turned that frown upside down
Fortunately, we fit right in – as Midler joked in her opening monologue: “So glad to see my fans can still drive at night.” Indeed, it was that most blessedly rare of large-venue concert experiences where a respectful audience sat the whole time.
Ok by me. And, not unexpectedly for the spirit of the crowd and our state-of-mind, we made some new friends in our row. A schoolteacher from Grand Rapids and her East Lansing mom. And a man who seemed really sour about being there, until Heidi took a selfie with him. See, Bette, social media does make the world go ’round.
Oh, right, the concert? It was an old-school hoot, dressed up with the latest in projection technology and a dash of Midler’s own trademark pyrotechnic raunch.
Divine Intervention stage
The show opened with a quick animation, highlighting a cause famously near and dear to Midler’s heart: the environment and how deeply we have effed things up.
Good for her. I don’t think I can stand to hear one more local yokel/short-sighted fool who makes their living destroying the planet say, “Why don’t you people mind your own business? What I do in my town/state/whatever is my business.”
It is our business because we share this resource; we eat your crops the world over; we breathe the same air; we drink the same water. Consequently, I was thrilled to see Midler lead with such a powerful and sobering message.
Care … please
In her inimitable style, she then launched right into a cheeky medley of “Divine Intervention” and “I Look Good” amidst the detritus of a disposable society – giant size Coke cans, burning tires, and other debris – all with that impish smile and twinkle in her eye. Yes!
Polluters, agribusiness, and big manufacturing weren’t Midler’s only targets through the evening, though.
With a wry touch, she took shots at Vladimir Putin, the Kardashians, Fox News, Dick Cheney, and even Caitlyn Jenner – and her wizened audience ate it all up with glee.
She reserved her sharpest barbs for social media in a tart skit about how we can’t live in the moment without documenting every moment, as she was wheeled too and fro reclining on a hot pink sofa shaped like a pair of lips. Touche, Ms. M.
She hit all the expected musical high points with a verve that belied her long history in the entertainment industry: “Beast of Burden,” “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Do You Wanna Dance.” You can tell Midler lives to be in front of an audience and her energy positively crackles. She also incorporated numbers from her latest album It’s the Girls, a salute to decades of so-called “girl groups” in pop music, the best of all being her poignant take on TLC’s cautionary “Waterfalls.”
She offered a fetching and frisky “I Put a Spell on You,” bewigged as her saucy witch character from Disney’s Hocus Pocus, and, in the show’s strongest segment “Bird in the Hand,” channeled her idol Sophie Tucker for a machine gunned sequence of the kind of filthy jokes twelve-year-old boys find hysterical. Since she was dressed for the number as if Mae West had made an X-rated appeared on Sesame Street, it was utterly delightful.
Yes, the high-schmaltz trinity of “The Rose,” “From a Distance,” and “Wind Beneath My Wings” rounded out the evening.
Bird in the Hand
I had a grandmother who was just too enamored of those tunes, in part due to some meddling family members who thought it fun to use the lyrics in rather passive aggressive fashion, so hearing any one or all of them always puts me on edge. (Not Midler’s fault obviously and apropos of nothing for this overview.)
I offer that context, though, to note that hearing Midler sing these signature tunes live redeemed them for this fan. In light of her passion for this planet and for all of us on it and in keeping with her parting wish for us to “be kind,” these ballads now make all the sense in the world to me.
I will add that the jarring juxtaposition of these saccharine hits against her “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” burlesque persona has always greatly amused me, and, in that sense, they are a sweet aperitif on her storied career.
In closing, she gave Detroit a glowing review, donning an “I [Heart] Detroit” t-shirt for the encore. She, the mistress of reclamation who joked earlier “I never get rid of anything … they say I put the whore in hoarding,” crowed about the reinvention of the Motor City and of its spirit of reusing and celebrating all that has come before.
She had visited Shinola (the celebrated watchmaker here) and took a tour of all the development along Woodward Avenue. She was breathlessly effusive, urging us to “keep it up” and to keep taking care of this city and each other. Will do, Ms. M. Will do.
On another note …
The Penny Seats summer season is about to launch, with not just one but two shows at Ann Arbor’s West Park. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged] runs July 9-25 and Urinetown the Musical (that’s the one I’m in!) runs July 30 to August 15. Tickets are available at http://www.pennyseats.org, and we’ve gotten some great coverage already…
BroadwayWorld – here
Encore Michigan – here
Talk of the Town – here
Legal News – here
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Point/counterpoint – Ann Arbor’s Rebecca Biber offers guest critique of The Grand Budapest Hotel
Roy Sexton and Rebecca Biber – Photo by Dawn Marie Kaczmar
So, I did not like Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel. I mean I didn’t like it … a lot. However, never let it be said that we here at Reel Roy Reviews aren’t equal opportunity reviewers.
My dear friend, the talented pianist, musical director, and instructor Rebecca Biber shared the following (beautifully composed) counterpoint today on Facebook, and I asked if I could pay it forward here. She graciously obliged. Her take actually makes me want to revisit this film … almost. 🙂
Bookbound April 26 Event
And, if you’d like a chance to meet the supremely talented Ms. Biber in person, Megan and Peter Blackshear of Bookbound, in Ann Arbor (1729 Plymouth Road), have generously agreed to host a Reel Roy Reviews book-signing/Q&A on Saturday, April 26 at 3 pm.
Rebecca will accompany me as I sing a few of my favorite movie themes and show tunes. She actually selected the numbers from our nearly decade-long musical partnership, so, if you like ditties from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, you are in luck!
(And be sure to check out this thoughtful response by my gifted mom – author Susie Duncan Sexton – to my review of Disneynature’s Bears.)
Here’s Rebecca’s delightful take on The Grand Budapest Hotel – enjoy!
[Image Source: ComingSoon.net]
In a made-up land resembling Germany or Austria (with Alps) on the eve of WWII, a charming, perfect hotelier played by Ralph Fiennes struggles to maintain his composure, help his friends, and avoid bad guys. His tale is narrated by his protege, Zero the Lobby Boy, now grown up into F. Murray Abraham. But this is merely the nugget at the heart of the story-within-a-story-within-a-story. Abraham is speaking with a writer played by Jude Law, whom we have earlier seen in his aged incarnation, telling the viewer that if you are a writer, there is no need to make up stories: they will come to you. Earlier than that, we have seen a young woman placing a tribute of hotel keys at the base of a statue honoring her favorite writer, and holding a book that contains, we think, the story Jude Law has retold from F. Murray.
This movie is a typical Wes Anderson confection in some ways, with fanciful lettering, folk-tale inspired landscapes, and gorgeous color schemes throughout, not to mention the usual rapid-fire dialogue and the panoply of famous faces. While it can be entertaining to play Name That Actor, it is distracting as well – just as we are settling into the story for its own sake, what’s-his-name pops up and we’re back at the level of being mere viewers. Characters are pretty much as they first appear, with clear goodies and baddies. Edward Norton gets to play a Nazi (again, previously having played the neo-version in American History X) and Adrien Brody gets to…weirdly…also play a Nazi. Tilda Swinton is unrecognizable, Bob Balaban pops up like a fairy tale imp, and Harvey Keitel has jailhouse tattoos resembling middle school doodles. Young actress Saoirse Ronan is perfect as the young Zero’s girlfriend and pastry chef. But the standout, and one to watch, is Tony Revolori, who plays the Lobby Boy not merely as a supporting character with some great lines (which he does have) but as a complicated, unexpectedly fearless and wise young man. He has an unblinking gaze straight at the camera that compels both laughter and serious attention.
Unlike Moonrise Kingdom, which had all of the Wes Anderson cute and very little of the sad, Budapest has some moments of real darkness. And they always come unexpectedly. This movie is probably not safe for devoted animal lovers or the very squeamish. There are several bloody fights and, for those with Holocaust survivors in the family, the train scenes were a bit too close to real history despite Anderson’s attempts to fictionalize the material.
With all that goes on in the film, I haven’t even mentioned the stolen art, murder mystery and contested will (with legal executor played by an uncomfortable looking Jeff Goldblum). There is much to enjoy, and I came away glad I had watched this quirky adventure/love story with true friendship at its core. It is a visual feast with some nice musical touches (nothing overblown) and, if the story doesn’t make perfect sense outside of its own world, well, it does such an excellent job of conjuring that world that I was delighted to spend a couple of hours among its inhabitants.
Reel Roy Reviews is now a book! Please check out this coverage from BroadwayWorld of upcoming book launch events. In addition to online ordering at Amazon or from the publisher Open Books, the book currently is being carried by Bookbound, Common Language Bookstore, and Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room in Ann Arbor, Michigan; by Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan; and by Memory Lane Gift Shop in Columbia City, Indiana. Bookbound, Common Language, and Memory Lane also have copies of Susie Duncan Sexton’s Secrets of an Old Typewriter series.
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Two by two … what did I just do to myself? Noah AND The Grand Budapest Hotel
I think I may have just given myself a year’s worth of nightmares as a result of this double feature I just endured: Darren Aronofksy’s Noah and Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel.
(Seriously, for once in the short history of this wee ol’ blog I toyed with the idea of just going to bed right now as opposed to trying to digest what I just saw … yet, here I type …)
I actually enjoyed (sort of … I think) Noah, which basically turns the outline of the Old Testament tale of a prophet who builds a big boat to save his quirky family and a sampling of every animal on the planet into a Lord of the Rings super-size fantasy epic.
God love Russell Crowe (literally) who is the only reason to see Noah. He gives this epic gravitas and heft, and, coupled with Aronofsky’s sly allusions to ecology, animal rights, and humanitarianism, he reminded me that the Bible is an allegory, not to be taken in slavish literalism, but as poetic metaphor for how we need to treat our planet and each other with respect and kindness. Just sayin’.
There is a shipload (literally) of unconvincing CGI effects, some painful emoting from Harry Potter‘s Hermione (Emma Watson), some bad eyebrow furrowing from Crowe’s perpetual “movie wife” Jennifer Connelly, and a number of multi-limbed rock creatures doubling as fallen angels (but looking more like cast-offs from the last Transformers flick).
What does work are Aronofsky’s explorations of man’s chronic insensitivity to the environment and all its denizens, Aronofsky’s metaphorical musings on humanity’s arrogance to believe “God” has somehow given us “dominion” over all living creatures, and Crowe’s heartfelt perplexity over a world (and a deity) that seems rife with cruel hypocrisy.
On the other hand, Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel just gave me a colossal headache. Between the Sunday funnies-style cinematography and the twee, “aren’t-we-precious” Keystone Cops antics, I quickly reached an apex of just not giving a fig as to what was transpiring onscreen. The slight narrative relates that a concierge (Ralph Fiennes, surprisingly funny) has inherited a highly appraised painting from one of the hotel’s guests (and a former concubine of Fiennes).
Said painting becomes a source of various hijinks as assorted characters (including a so-so Adrien Brody and a slightly better Ed Norton) try to reclaim the work of art in question.
Perhaps I was just worn down by all the sturm und drang of Noah, but I felt like jumping out of my skin while sitting through The Grand Budapest Hotel. Every aspect was so tortured, darling, overdone, cute that I could barely stand another scene. I felt positively itchy watching it.
I may add to this blog entry in the light of day tomorrow, but right now I’m just tired. Good night, all. (It’s rather sad that I could find more to say about Muppets Most Wanted than a Biblical epic and a highly anticipated art film.)
Coda … there’s got to be a morning after ….
So, this is what I was struggling to say last night, and just now it hit me like a bolt of lightning (not the supernatural but the human kind).
I have long struggled with both Anderson and Aronofsky as filmmakers, though I was never quite sure why. I loathed Black Swan, found The Fountain interminable, and thought The Royal Tenenbaums was the fever dream of my cloying “magnet” middle school classmates.
Both directors are blessed with distinctive voices; however, they are so wrapped up in the style of their films (cinematography, costumes, music, arch acting/writing) that we as audience members struggle to invest in the people, whether in the characters or in the filmmakers themselves. Further, both directors seem to be challenging their viewers to try to enjoy what they’re watching; it’s like Anderson and Aronofsky are standing on the cinematic playground screaming “Neener neener neener! I dare you to like this … or to even suss out what the heck is going on!”
That art of alienation is all well and good, but, when it is wrapped in what appear to be big-budgeted attempts at popular entertainment, it comes across sophomoric and kinda mean.
Reel Roy Reviews is now a book! Please check out this coverage from BroadwayWorld of upcoming book launch events. In addition to online ordering at Amazon or from the publisher Open Books, the book currently is being carried by Bookbound, Common Language Bookstore, and Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room in Ann Arbor, Michigan; by Green Brain Comics in Dearborn, Michigan; and by Memory Lane Gift Shop in Columbia City, Indiana. Bookbound and Memory Lane both also have copies of Susie Duncan Sexton’s Secrets of an Old Typewriter series.
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EXPLORING THE LEGACY OF BARACK OBAMA
By Adeyemi0670 on December 8, 2016 • ( 0 )
ADEYEMI OSHUNRINADE
Barack Obama became U.S. President on November 4, 2008 at the age of 47. The son of a black father and a white mother, that an African-American family would occupy the White House, was unfathomable for some. Republican opponents were planning his defeat the moment he took office and there was unrelenting opposition, coupled with a lack of respect for the President because of his race.
He came to office facing the worst economic crisis, a stunningly scary moment in U.S. history. Markets were collapsing, major banks were failing, houses were getting foreclosed on and unemployment going through the roof. To end the economic dilemma he inherited, Obama began the crusade of bailout.
The GOP establishment hated his idea. His decision to save the economy became politically toxic. Obama met with Republicans in the House to find a solution but all voted against the stimulus though, it later passed. There was a huge desire to stop him. They called him arrogant and unappealing, while some, called his bailout attempt an example of big government.
At the same time, General Motors was at the brink of collapsing. Chrysler was facing a shutdown and workers in the auto industry were getting laid off. To save the auto industry and others, the Obama administration injected billions of dollars in a rescue attempt. There was anger fueled by the GOP over the rescue plan, some say Obama was promoting government involvement in private business, while others believed the better approach was to allow the banks and the auto industry to fail.
The events led to birth of the Tea Party movement that became an arm of the Republican Party supported by the likes of Paul Ryan and Ted Cruz, two Senators with a goal to impose fiscal policy on government’ spending.
Amid the crisis, Obama faced another battle with a troubling social issue. The birther movement began spearheaded by the biggest mouth for the conspiracy, now President-Elect Donald Trump. Race relation was at the worst point in a generation with black youths being killed at an alarming rate, triggering the debate over police brutality and racism in America. One of the profoundly important moments was when Obama sang ‘Amazing Grace’ at a black church in Charleston after the killing of nine African-Americans by Dylann Roof, a white.
While Obama was dealing with domestic issues, chaos descended on major Iraqi cities with the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS). The world became troubled that few radicals could carry out some of the deadliest attacks and the most brutal beheadings ever recorded. The killing of Osama Bin Laden in May 2011, fueled more attacks, while ISIS threatened to avenge his death.
With the emergence of ISIS, the opposition blamed the Obama administration for the surge drawdown in Iraq. Unbeknownst to many of his critics, Obama’s predecessor George W. Bush had agreed with the Iraqi government that foreign troops would leave Iraq, after Iraqis protested against a residual force in their nation.
Soon after, the crisis in Syria began, triggered by the Arab uprising that started in Tunisia and later spread to Egypt and Bahrain. The opposition that was successful in Tunisia and partly in Egypt but crushed by the Saudis in Bahrain failed to materialize in Syria. The West including the U.S. miscalculated its effect on Syria and after realizing the opposition was failing against Assad, Obama initiated a ‘red line’ in August 2012 that the Syrian government must abide by to avoid a U.S. attack.
Meanwhile, Al Qaeda in Iraq took arms after the government of Nouri al-Maliki, failed to form an inclusive government, causing an ethnic clash between Shiites and Sunnis in Iraq. While the situation in Iraq became worse, the Assad government crossed the red line set by the Obama administration but, the U.S. refused to act and instead, Obama requested Congress approval with the belief that the American people were weary of another war.
In 2013 ISIS took over Raqqa and then marched into Iraq, while it created an Islamic State. Syria became a war zone with a massive flow of refugees to foreign nations especially of Europe. The death toll was beginning to rise as the Assad government unleashed attacks indiscriminately on the opposition.
Domestically, Obama struggled with 2nd Amendment issues with the breakdown of massive shootings here at home. The attack at Sandy Hook elementary became a tug of war between Obama administration and the NRA. The President became frustrated because the nation did not have reasonable gun control legislation, while the killings continued under his watch.
The Republican took leverage of Obama’ stance on gun control by mounting an opposition against his approach to guns. In 2010, the midterm election became a disappointment for Democrats by losing both the House and the Senate to the GOP.
Amid the controversies came the shootings in Aurora Colorado, where many were killed in a movie theater. The shootings at Newtown, finally made Obama to take Executive action on a bill that would make sure that all gun dealers are licensed and also ensure background checks are done on potential gun buyers. The NRA has not seized fighting the legislation till this day.
In the final days of his presidency, Obama campaigned relentlessly for Hillary Clinton, in a move to protect his legacy. But, with the outcome of the election on November 8, most of his social achievements now run the risk of being erased by President-Elect Trump.
His signature healthcare plan ObamaCare may face a repeal if Trump fulfills the promise he made during the campaign though, many believe a repeal would create outrage. The Supreme Court is now at the verge of becoming a majority conservative with the rejection of Obama’ nominee Merrick Garland, while it is unclear what would become of Gay marriage and the issue of abortion.
The Executive order to stop deportation of the undocumented and a Dream Act designed to protect child arrivals is now at risk with the election of Donald Trump. Obama’ foreign policy of none intervention and not engaging in unnecessary war, could be abandoned under the Trump administration.
His policy in Syria may soon change with a new leader bent on “bombing the s**t” out of Syria. And with so much opposition over the surge drawdown, American soldiers may find themselves returning to Iraq, while Obama’ nature of warfare with drones and new technology, may experience a change with Trump.
America’ policy in Iran may soon change under Trump who has promised to throw out the deal. The U.S. in a Trump administration may become closer to Russia, running the risk of giving Putin more leverage over Russia’ neighbors and complicating U.S. intelligence.
Obama’ success on Climate Change is now facing threat from a President-Elect that questions the validity of Global Warming with the nomination of Scott Pruitt, a critic of the Environmental Protection Agency as one to head the EPA. For years, Republicans have called Climate Change a “scam.” In 2015, Obama took Executive Action on Global Warming as a key part of his legacy but his move to combat Climate Change may now suffer defeat.
The largest reorganization of the financial industry, may suffer a set back since Trump and the GOP establishment are threatening to end Dodd Frank and other consumer protection laws that helped ease the economic crisis of 2008.
With Trump about to take charge in January, many of his supporters are waiting for him to deliver on his promises. And while fulfilling his promises may mean overturning Obama’ major achievements, one must agree that Democrats and Obama’ supporters would not sit and watch Trump destroy his legacy.
Adeyemi Oshunrinade [E. JD] is an expert in general law, foreign relations and the United Nations. He is the author of ‘Wills Law and Contests,’ ‘Constitutional Law-First Amendment,’ ‘Criminal Law-Homicide’ and ‘SAVING LOVE’ available on Amazon. Follow on Twitter @san0670.
Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA
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Female BodyBuilding & Fitness & Figure - Members Area => Records of Female Bodybuilding & Fitness => Topic started by: RobMash on March 28, 2017, 11:50:11 pm
Title: Best triceps photo of ever
Post by: RobMash on March 28, 2017, 11:50:11 pm
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Title: Re: Best triceps photo of ever
Post by: schillster1 on March 29, 2017, 04:59:50 pm
I honestly thought other parts of the body were hard to judge, but :wow: the triceps can be the hardest.
Post by: Patrick_Henry on April 05, 2017, 12:39:29 pm
Laura Binetti had killer tris.. I cast a vote for #62.
Post by: trengo on April 06, 2017, 04:08:18 am
tough choice indeed. can't help but vote for Zuzana Korinkova O0 (first time I've seen that last photo, where is it from?)
Post by: TheFranksterChannel on April 11, 2017, 02:57:18 pm
My 20 vote for Best Triceps are:
Post by: Saradas.Org on April 15, 2017, 11:03:56 am
(http://img172.imagevenue.com/loc54/th_542913417_vote_122_54lo.jpg) (http://saradas.org/index.php?topic=417228.0)
Post by: RobMash on April 16, 2017, 12:51:22 am
Most voted photos
1st Fabiola Boulanger 69 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/2bfdf8540641312.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/2bfdf8540641312)
2nd Aleesha Young 65 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/a7acb9540641131.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/a7acb9540641131)
3rd Laura Binetti 60 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/641eb0540641442.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/641eb0540641442)
4th Zuzana Korinkova 52 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/c0aaa1540643448.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/c0aaa1540643448)
5th Alina Popa 47 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/5ac119540641139.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/5ac119540641139)
6th Kristy Hawkins 45 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/1e050a540641440.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/1e050a540641440)
7th Heidi Vuorela 42 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/a516aa540641339.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/a516aa540641339)
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/2fc165540643451.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/2fc165540643451)
9th Elena Oana Hreapca 37 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/2702db540641304.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/2702db540641304)
10th Danielle Reardon 35 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/a4a2fd540641240.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/a4a2fd540641240)
10th Denise Hoshor 35 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/626a1c540641271.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/626a1c540641271)
10th Heidi Vuorela 35 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/f5d07c540641346.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/f5d07c540641346)
10th Marja Lehtonen 35 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/a8afba540641470.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/a8afba540641470)
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/3d8dcc540641242.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/3d8dcc540641242)
15th Aleesha Young 32 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/d9d9cb540641137.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/d9d9cb540641137)
16th Christine Envall 23 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/4d290a540641214.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/4d290a540641214)
16th Debbie Bramwell 23 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/fbbaf1540641255.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/fbbaf1540641255)
18th Dianne Solomons 21 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/37beb2540641291.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/37beb2540641291)
18th Kim Perez 21 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/447162540641425.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/447162540641425)
18th Sarah Hayes 21 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/449fd3540641524.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/449fd3540641524)
18th Tina Chandler 21 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/116b48540641578.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/116b48540641578)
22th Heather Policky Armbrust 19 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/48a748540641323.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/48a748540641323)
22th Kashma Maharaj 19 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/40d1ce540641406.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/40d1ce540641406)
22th Natalya Trukhina 19 votes
(http://thumbnails117.imagebam.com/54065/d2c704540641508.jpg) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/d2c704540641508)
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26th Denise Rutkowski 17 votes
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Recognizing excellence in land use and real estate development throughout the Southeast Florida and Caribbean region
Now Accepting Nominations for the 2020 Vision Awards
Nominations are being accepted until Friday, March 13th for Project of the Year and Young Leader of the Year categories.
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We present awards in three distinct categories: Lifetime Achievement, Young Leader of the Year, and Project of the Year.
The Urban Land Institute Southeast Florida/Caribbean’s Lifetime Achievement Award honors the top leaders in our region whose lifetime of work has significantly shaped our communities and changed our industry.
ULI’s Young Leader of the Year Award honors inspiring industry professionals aged 35 or younger whose outstanding achievements and contributions are advancing the industry and positively shaping our region’s communities.
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The Project of the Year Award recognizes excellent development projects in the region that represent the highest standards of achievement and highlight innovation, transformation, and above all responsibility in land use and development.
The 2019 Vision Awards
Took place on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019, 5:30pm – 8:30pm at the JW Marriott Marquis, Miami. See above for our event recap
About The Vision Awards
One of ULI’s guiding principles is that achievement of excellence in land use practice should be recognized and rewarded. Since 1979, ULI has honored outstanding development projects in both the private and public sectors with its Global Awards for Excellence, which today is widely recognized as the development community’s most prestigious awards program.
Through the annual Vision Awards, ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean recognizes the top leaders and best projects in our local region – those that exemplify ULI’s commitment to responsibility in land use and development. These honorees are the people and projects setting the standards for our industry, improving our communities, and guiding our future.
Shaping our industry and guiding our region’s future
Demonstrating a commitment to best practices and principles
Responding to local needs and positively impacting our communities
Pushing new ideas and best practices
The Vision Awards recognize the projects and individuals throughout the region that best exemplify the mission of ULI, promote best practices in development, and demonstrate a proactive commitment to excellence, with a focus on leadership, responsibility, impact, and innovation.
Leadership: Shaping our industry and our communities and informing and guiding our future
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Impact: Responding to local issues and needs and creating a positive impact in our communities
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Vision Awards News
Submit a Nomination for the 2020 Vision Awards
ULI accepting nominations for Project of the Year and Young Leader of the Year for the 2020 Vision Awards
Announcing the 2019 Vision Awards Finalists
ULI Southeast Florida / Caribbean announces five finalists for its 2019 Vision Awards Project of the Year Award.
2019 Young Leader of the Year Announced: Jaime Sturgis
ULI Southeast Florida / Caribbean names Jaime Sturgis, Founder & CEO of Native Realty as the 2019 Vision Awards Young Leader of the Year
Announcing the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Neisen O. Kasdin
Managing Partner, Akerman Miami and Former Mayor and City Commissioner, City of Miami Beach
The Urban Land Institute Southeast Florida/Caribbean is proud to honor Neisen O. Kasdin, Managing Partner of Akerman’s Miami Office and Former Mayor & City Commissioner of the City of Miami Beach with our 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Throughout his numerous leadership roles in our community – as Managing Partner of Akerman’s Miami Office, Former Mayor and City Commissioner of Miami Beach, Vice Chair of the Miami Downtown Development Authority, Former Chair of ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean, and Former Chair of the New World Symphony, Neisen has been instrumental in leading the revitalization of Miami Beach and Miami’s urban core. He is one of the most respected leaders within South Florida’s real estate community, and has had a transformational impact on the region.
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The Roman City
One of the best-preserved provincial Roman towns in the world, Jerash lies about 45 km north of ‘Amman, in a fertile valley with a perennial stream. Because of its water, the site has been settled at least since Neolithic times and Bronze and Iron Age pottery has been found on the original tell. Its early Semitic name was Garshu.
Tradition claims that it was re-founded by Alexander the Great (or perhaps his general Perdiccas) to settle Macedonian veterans; but the Seleucid king Antiochus IV (175- 164 c) is more likely. Renamed Antioch ad Chrysorhoas (Antioch on the Golden River, as the stream was rather grandiosely called), little remains of this Hellenistic era, nor of the brief Hasmonaean occupation, for the new Roman city of Gerasa obliterated most of what preceded it. As a city of the Decapolis, Gerasa entered a long period of prosperity.
In the 1st century AD a new town plan was adopted with a colonnaded main street, the Cardo, at the south end of which is the unusual and lovely Oval Piazza (in fact two unequal parabolas joined by a straight line). Above it is the larger of the two theatres, with seats for about 3,000 people.
Between them is the temple of Zeus, its Hellenistic version on the lower terrace, and its latest 2nd-century AD remodeling on the hill above. Also in the 2nd century the Cardo was made wider and grander, with Corinthian capitals crowning its columns – the old Ionic ones were reused in various parts of the city. Two cross-streets were made, the North and South Decumanus. West of the Cardo rose a handsome octagonal macellum, or food market; and also, just south of the North Decumanus, a second smaller theatre, or odeon. Two large bath houses were added further east, near the residential areas.
Dominating Jerash still is the great temple of Artemis, built and enlarged (but never completed) between the late 1st and mid-2nd centuries, and dedicated to the city’s patron goddess. It is set in a wide and spacious temenos, approached from the Cardo through a monumental gate and stairway.
In the Byzantine period many churches were built, mainly reusing Roman building material, but Gerasa’s heyday was already past when the Persians invaded in 614, After the Arab conquest of 636 the city was an Umayyad regional centre, important enough to mint coins under Caliph Abd al-Malik bin Marwan (685705) and graced with a fine Friday Mosque. But after the 749 earthquake and the removal of the Caliphate to Baghdad, the city faded into ruinous obscurity.
In 1806 a young German scholar, Ulrich Seetzen, identified the ruins as Gerasa, and he was soon followed by an increasing stream of western travelers. In 1878 the Ottomans allowed a group of Circassians to settle here; and their village grew into the modern town on the other side of the valley.
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Di Marzio: Donnarumma happy to stay at Milan with no pressure to sell
By MaaxiAngelo - 8 July 2019, 22:35
The future of Gianluigi Donnarumma has been widely discussed this summer, but Gianluca Di Marzio is now reporting that he’s set to stay at Milan, at least for now.
Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint-Germain had been touted as a potential destination for Donnarumma, with reports last month suggesting that they had opened talks over a possible swap deal.
However on Monday night’s Calcio Mercato L’Originale, the transfer guru himself – Gianluca Di Marzio – claimed that Gigio is now set to stay at Milan after being heavily linked away with a move to PSG.
Donnarumma himself has never expressed any desire to leave Milan. On the contrary, he’s expressed desire to stay but was made been aware that Milan might be forced to sell due to FFP reasons.
The Diavolo are not in the same need to sell after their Europa League exclusion, which gave them room to breathe on break-even demands on their books.
Di Marzio does however go on to say that it remains to be seen if negotiations between Milan and PSG re-opens. But if they do, it will be on different conditions.
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Sandhills Farm Life Elementary » About Us » History of SFL
A Very Brief History of Sandhills Farm Life School
Sandhills Farm Life Elementary School celebrated its 150th anniversary in the spring of 2010 so we have a very rich history! This is a very brief recounting of our educational heritage. We hope you investigate our Trojan Pride by reading our full historical account which can be found on our school website or in our school library.
In 1859, Allan C. McDonald gave one acre of land for a school to be built. The first teacher, John Black Ray, named the school Eureka - an expression of triumph at success.
The community donated land, resources, and labor whenever expansion was needed. In the 1913-1914 school year, nine students completed the elementary grades (grades 1-7) and the need for a high school was recognized.The first session of Eureka High School was held in 1914-1915.
On March 3, 1911, the North Carolina Legislature passed “An Act to Provide for the Establishment of County Farm Life Schools and for the Promotion of Agriculture and Home Making”.“It’s aim…shall be to prepare boys for agricultural pursuits and farm life and to prepare girls for homemaking and housekeeping on the farm.” (quote from the legislation)
The Eureka School, already a State high school with a central location and active patrons, was selected as a Farm Life School and the NC Legislature of 1915 granted to it a Farm Life Charter.
Day students had the option of transportation to the school via a pickup truck.Students who lived farther away were residential students who lived in the girls (built in 1916) or boys (built by 1918) dormitories. More teachers were employed to include Agriculture and Home Economics. The state mandated high school course of study was also taught which included English, Latin, French, mathematics, history, and science.
The James McConnell Hospital was built for the local community and to care for the students on the school campus as well as the local community. The hospital opened in April 1917.
Local schools began to consolidate and the number of boarding students dropped.By 1936, only local students were in attendance.
In 1939, a new one-story brick school building was constructed to be used by both elementary and high school students.It included twelve classrooms and an auditorium.
In the spring of 1942, Mr. T. H. Lingerfeldt arrived as the principal for Farm Life High School.He would be the principal for 32 years.
In 1954-55, the lunch room was completed. This building still exists on our campus at the back of the center courtyard and now houses two classrooms and restrooms.
The gymnasium was completed in October of 1956 and continues to be in use.The County Board of Education installed a plaque in the lobby of the gym designating it the Thaddeus Lawrence Blue Gymnasium.
Union Pines High School was opened in 1964 consolidating the high schools of Farm Life, Carthage, Vass, and Cameron.
With the closing of Pinckney School in Carthage in 1966, Farm Life School became integrated.
In 1974, the first kindergarten class was enrolled at Farm Life School.
In 1976 a library and two story addition were completed and dedicated to T. H. Lingerfeldt. This is our current library and all six classrooms are still in use.These were also the first air conditioned rooms on the campus.
While a K-8 school, our middle school students competed in a variety of team sports including football, basketball, baseball, and tennis.The tennis courts were built in 1977.The ballfield concession stand and cement steps were added in 1982.
In 1985, the Sandhills Farm Life School Nature Trail was created by Mr. Ken Loyd’s third grade class with the help of one of the first grants by the Moore County Public Education Foundation.
In 1992, the Lingerfeldt Extension (long hallway of classrooms we currently use) as well as the current cafeteria and office area were added to replace the aged brick high school building.
In the fall of 1995, Miss Nora K. McNeill became our principal and has guided our students and school for over 20 years.Only Mr. T. H. Lingerfeldt has had a longer tenure as principal.
Sandhills Farm Life School became a K-5 elementary school with the opening of New Century Middle School in 1997.
Six new classrooms and additional upstairs bathrooms were added to the courtyard side of the Lingerfeldt building in 2009-2010.Soon after mobile units began to be added back to our campus as our student enrollment continued to increase.
Although the facilities of our dear school have seen many changes- one constant remains: we have a group of parents, community members and patrons who support our school with pride and always work together for what is best for our students!
Sandhills Farm Life School Song
[Our school song has been in existence at least since the 1950s. It shares similar lyrics to other college and high school alma maters such as Cornell University and Fairmont High School in Robeson County, NC.
The original tune was Annie Lisle like the other schools but we now use a more modern melody.]
In the rugged hills, beneath the sky so blue
Stands our loved and noble Farm Life, glorious to view.
Lift the chorus, speed it onward. Let the music ring.
Hail, o hail, to Sandhills Farm Life! We will ever sing!
Days of toil, days of pleasure at dear old SFL
Still her praises we are singing, still her name we bless.
2201 Farm Life School Road, Carthage, NC 28327
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Wednesday, August 07 2013 / Published in General
It’s Not Too Late to Qualify for the 2013 Washington International Horse Show Championships!
WASHINGTON – July 31, 2013 – As competition heats up around the country this summer, the Washington International Horse Show (WIHS) would like to remind competitors that there are still many opportunities for horses and riders to earn points for the 2013 year-end championships. The WIHS qualifying period runs from shows starting on or after Sept. 1, 2012, through shows starting on or before Aug. 31, 2013. Don’t miss the chance to compete at one of the nation’s most celebrated horse shows!
As the country’s only metropolitan indoor horse show, the Washington International Horse Show hosts one week of world-class competition each year at Verizon Center in downtown Washington, D.C. This year’s competition, which includes six WIHS championship finals in the hunter, jumper, and equitation divisions, will be held on Oct. 22-27, 2013.
Championships include the $10,000 WIHS Children’s Hunter, $10,000 WIHS Adult Hunter, $10,000 WIHS Children’s Jumper, $10,000 WIHS Adult Jumper, as well as the Hermès WIHS Equitation Finals and WIHS Pony Equitation Finals for junior riders.
2012 WIHS Adult Hunter Champion Amy Zettler and Glad Rags are currently third
in the 2013 standings with 1,680 points. Photo © Shawn McMillen Photography
WIHS competitions are open to all who wish to compete, however points acquired only count for current WIHS members. Sign up today to become a WIHS member and start earning points toward the WIHS championship finals at Verizon Center.
WIHS Championship standings and upcoming shows
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WIHS Membership Application
In the WIHS Children’s and Adult Hunter and Jumper Championships, 30 horse and rider combinations will be invited to compete in each division based on points earned during the qualifying period. In addition, the children’s and adult hunter and jumper champions at the 2013 WIHS Regional Horse Show held on Oct. 18-20, 2013, at Prince George’s Equestrian Center in Upper Marlboro, Md., will automatically qualify.
Hunter and Jumper Leaders
Top competitors from around the nation continue to compete for the chance to show at Verizon Center in these coveted finals. Here are some of the current division leaders:
As of July 19, 2013, rider Mindy Wurzburg of Memphis, Tenn., and her mount Overseas, are well in the lead for the Adult Hunter Championship standings with 2,788 points. Fellow Tennessee native, and Wurzberg’s sister, Cheryl Rubenstein and her horse Riesling stand in second place with 1,694 points. From Virginia, last year’s championship winners Amy Zettler and Glad Rags sit third in the standings with 1,680 points.
Recalling their win from 2012, Zettler stated, “It was amazing. It was a great finish to the year, and my horse was everything that I thought he would be at the show. It was just a fantastic experience.”
Zettler looks forward to returning to Verizon Center to compete again this year with Glad Rags, who she has had for four years now.
“It is just so special to be able to show at the same place that [the Washington Capitals hockey team] plays,” Zettler noted. “I am local to the area, so it makes it even more special to be able to have friends and family come support you and be in that arena. It is a fun atmosphere.”
As a WIHS member, Zettler enjoys competing throughout the year to earn points toward the year-end championship and loves the camaraderie between all of the riders.
“It is fun because you get to know so many people and you get to support your friends,” she acknowledged. “All of the age groups at the Championships are a great support network. Everybody cheers each other on.”
In the Children’s Hunter Championship standings, Mary Claire Medeiros of Chevy Chase, Md., and her mount Olivia are in the lead with 2,658 points. The pair finished fourth in the 2012 championships and will attempt to improve on that placing this year. Mallory Hensley of Yukon, Okla., and Van Gough are in second place with 2,184 points with Lindsey Bland of Gloucester, Va., and Tribute sitting in third with 2,026 points.
In the Adult Jumper Championship standings, WIHS President Victoria Lowell of Brookeville, Md., and Tippitoo hold a solid lead with 3,444 points. Boston-based rider Alexandra Cherubini and EquiFit Carlos sit second with 3,057 points, and Phoenix Cooke, of Chardon, Ohio, has 3,051 points in third with Sky’s Burnin’ Blue.
The Children’s Jumper Championship standings are led by Kimberle Paige Burton of Huntersville, N.C., with 2,852 points riding Kolette. From Wayne, Ill., Giavanna Rinaldi and Juliette have 2,851 points in second. Andre Mershad, of New Albany, Ohio, sits in third with 2,599 points aboard Opera.
Equitation Finals Bring the Nation’s Rising Stars to WIHS
Two of the biggest highlights at WIHS each year for junior riders are the exciting Hermès WIHS Equitation Finals and WIHS Pony Equitation Finals. Riders compete throughout the year to earn a spot in the finals, and these classes have been a proving ground for future grand prix and Olympic riders.
In the feature Hermès WIHS Equitation Finals, 40 riders will be invited to compete based on points earned in WIHS Equitation classes held year round throughout the country. Thirty riders will be invited from the East Coast League and 10 from the West Coast League. Twenty-five riders will be invited to compete in the Pony Equitation Finals.
Talented rider Victoria Colvin, of Loxahatchee, Fla., currently has a firm grasp on the top spot of the East Coast WIHS Equitation standings with an impressive 6,578 points. Colvin placed sixth in last year’s final and has won multiple qualifying classes around the country this year on her journey back to Verizon Center in 2013. Ashton Alexander of Ocala, Fla., sits second with 4,700 points and Charlotte Jacobs of East Aurora, N.Y., is third with 4,678 points.
On the West Coast, Sydney Callaway of San Diego, Calif., holds the lead with 2,664 points. Alexis Graves of Coto de Caza, Calif., has 2,392 points in second, and Taylor Sutton of Austin, Texas, sits third with 2,324 points.
For the Pony Equitation Finals, Haley Redifer of Barboursville, Va., leads the way with 865 points. Coco Fath of Fairfield, Conn., has 861.5 points in second place, and Bernadette Chungunco of Fairfax, Va., sits third with 818 points.
It’s not too late to qualify for the championships at this year’s Washington International Horse Show. The team at WIHS looks forward to hosting many extraordinary talents from around the nation in 2013 and encourages all riders to continue their drive to qualify.
The official prize list for 2013 Washington International Horse Show is now available online at http://www.wihs.org/prize-list/, featuring some exciting new changes to the schedule and to prize money. Entries close on Sept. 3, 2013.
To find out more, please visit www.wihs.org, join us on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.
About the Washington International Horse Show (www.wihs.org)
An equestrian tradition since 1958, the Washington International Horse Show is the country’s only metropolitan indoor horse show and the pinnacle of the equestrian year with top riders, including Olympic medalists, and their world-class horses. More than 500 horses participate in show jumping, hunter and equitation events during the six-day show, with many competing all year just to qualify. Highlights include the President’s Cup Grand Prix (a World Cup qualifier), the Puissance (high jump) and WIHS Equitation Classic Finals featuring the country’s top junior riders. Exciting equestrian exhibitions, boutique shopping and community activities such as Kids’ Day and Breakfast with the Mounted Police round out this family-friendly event.
Since its debut, the WIHS has been a Washington, D.C. institution attended by celebrities, business, military, and diplomatic leaders, as well as countless horse enthusiasts of all ages. Washington International Horse Show Association, Ltd. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.
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Lennox International (LII) is a leading global provider of innovative climate control solutions for heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) markets.Beginning over a century ago, Lennox International has built a strong heritage of Innovation and Responsibility. Our position as an innovation leader continually inspires us to promote more efficient energy use and a healthier environment through our product operations. Our engaged and diverse workforce is committed to providing climate control solutions that provide the most value and comfort for our customers. We are proud to have instilled a shared sense of responsibility and commitment among our approximately 10,000 employees located throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Lennox National Account Services (NAS), wholly owned by Lennox International, a 120+ year old company and a world leader in the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) industry. NAS is a major, national player in the Commercial Heating Ventilating and Air Conditioning (HVAC) maintenance and service industry.
We have 100+ offices throughout the continental United States and are still growing and expanding. In the next 5 years we will double the number of Branch Offices and significantly increase annual revenue. In order to do that we need good people like you, who want to grow and learn. We consistently offer the best of both to all of our employees. We are an equal opportunity employer (EEOC).
Weekly Payroll
Company truck, phone, and uniforms provided
Overtime available to increase earnings potential
Ongoing Training and Development
Medical, Dental, Disability & Insurance coverage, + 401k Plan Match
Company paid vacation, personal days & holidays
Referral and rewards program
This technician performs field activities associated with installing, maintaining and servicing heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems for commercial customers.
Duties include, but are not limited to:
Perform on-site preventative maintenance, routine repair and calibration after installation.
Handle basic, non-complex products and/or problems, referring more complex problems to higher-level technicians.
Uses experience and technical skills with preventive maintenance and system operations to determine service requirements.
Advises manager of preventive maintenance inspections performed and corrective actions to be taken.
Works in a team-based environment to share information and workload while ensuring customer satisfaction.
Must work in a safe manner on a daily basis and ensure that all safety measures are taken at all times.
Flexibility to work overtime, on-call and weekends, as required.
2 to 6 years hands on Commercial HVAC Experience
EPA Certification- Type I & Type II or Universal Required
Valid Driver's License and acceptable driving record
Ability to climb ladders
Moderate lifting (up to 90 pounds)
Complete pre-employment drug test and background check process
Technical aptitude to perform maintenance, service, and troubleshoot equipment
Good Electrical and Mechanical Diagnostic Skills
Ability to complete repairs and required paperwork
Ability to work independently and self-schedule
Self-motivated to complete assigned tasks within time constraints
Driven to succeed and able to work with minimum supervision
NATE certification a plus
Periodically \u2018on call' for service coverage
Local travel required
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Russia bans texts by Scientology founder
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MOSCOW — Russian prosecutors said Wednesday that dozens of texts and recordings by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard had been ruled “extremist” and would be banned in Russia.
“Materials on Scientology by Ron Hubbard have been found extremist and will be banned from distribution in Russia,” the Russian prosecutor general’s office said in a statement.
The ban relates to 28 books and audio-video discs containing lectures by Hubbard, a US science fiction author who founded Scientology in 1954, the statement said.
The ruling was the latest blow to the Church of Scientology, an organisation that some countries treat as a legitimate faith but that others consider a cult designed to trick members out of large sums of money.
The ban on the Scientology materials was imposed by a court in the city of Surgut in eastern Siberia, which decided they should be added to a list of literature banned in Russia for extremist content, the statement said.
Tagged with: Church of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology
Strength in their numbers: More Church of Scientology defectors come forward with accounts of abuse
Posted in News by Skepdude on August 3, 2009
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT TAMPABAY.COM
They are stepping forward — from Dallas and Denver, Portland, Las Vegas, Montana — talking about what happened, to them and their friends, during their years in the Church of Scientology.
Jackie Wolff wept as she recalled the chaotic night she was ordered to stand at a microphone in the mess hall and confess her “crimes” in front of 300 fellow workers, many jeering and heckling her.
Gary Morehead dredged up his recollection of Scientology leader David Miscavige punishing venerable church leaders by forcing them to live out of tents for days, wash with a garden hose and use an open latrine.
Steve Hall replayed his memory of a meeting when Miscavige grabbed the heads of two church executives and knocked them together. One came away with a bloody ear.
Mark Fisher remembered precisely what he told Miscavige after the punches stopped and Fisher touched his head, looked at his palm and saw blood.
These and other former Scientology staffers are talking now, inspired and emboldened by the raw revelations of four defectors from the church’s executive ranks who broke years of silence in stories published recently by the St. Petersburg Times.
Those behind-the-scenes accounts from Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, the highest officials ever to leave Scientology, were buttressed by detailed revelations of highly placed former managers Amy Scobee and Tom De Vocht.
Now their stories have prompted other former Scientology veterans to go public about physical and mental abuses they say they witnessed and endured.
Some want to support and defend the initial four, whom church representatives labeled as liars attempting a coup. Others say they feel more secure now that Rathbun, Rinder and the others are on the record with their unprecedented accounts of life on the inside.
But fear still prevents many defectors from talking. For every former church staffer willing to speak out, one or two more refused.
Those who talked confirm the earlier defectors’ stories of erratic, dehumanizing treatment and provide a deeper view into the controlling environment in which members of the religious order known as the Sea Org live and work.
Four men joined Rinder, De Vocht and Rathbun in saying: David Miscavige assaulted me.
Church spokesman Tommy Davis said the new defectors’ accounts of physical abuse by Miscavige are “false and categorically denied.”
“It is clear that these new ‘accounts’ were stirred up by your recent articles,” Davis said in a written statement, “and are nothing more than the ranting of anti-Scientologists on the grassy knoll of the Internet corroborating each other.”
The church provided the Times two dozen written declarations from current and former church executives and staffers. Referring to those statements, Davis said: “You have been provided with volumes of evidence to show that your original sources are delusionary, bitter and dishonest; your new sources are more of the same.”
Those new sources are men and women who joined Scientology as children, teenagers or young adults and spent decades laboring to advance the mission envisioned by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Morehead, who drives a tow truck in Portland and spent almost a decade as security chief at the church’s sprawling base outside Los Angeles, described how Miscavige struck a church executive in the chest so hard, “I could hear the hollow thump and see (him) lose his breath from the impacts.”
How does Morehead manage such recall after 15 years?
“It’s just like you remember when you touch a hot stove,” he said. “You’re never going to do it again, right? It hurts, there’s pain …
“Well, it’s as clear and conceptual as that is. I have a hard time remembering my address, but I can certainly remember this. You hold on to this because what the hell could you have done then, and what the hell can you do now?”
Tagged with: Church of Scientology, Scientology
Scientology: Ecclesiastical justice, Part 3 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology
Posted in News by Skepdude on June 24, 2009
Skepdude says – Part 3 of the St. Petersburgh’s Times expose of the Church of Scientology – just keep in mind that as much as this agrees with what we skeptics think of the cult of Scientology, at this point we’re witnessing a he-said-she-said battle and it is hard to pick out the truth from simply anectodal evidence, so let us be good skeptics and not crucify them for this unless real hard evidence is presented.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT “ST PETERSBURGH TIMES”
The four high-ranking executives who left Scientology say that church leader David Miscavige not only physically attacked members of his executive staff, he messed with their minds.
He frequently had groups of managers jump into a pool or a lake. He mustered them into group confessions that sometimes spun into free-for-alls, with people hitting one another.
Mike Rinder, who defended the church to the media for two decades, couldn’t stomach what was happening on the inside.
The tactics to keep executives in line “are wrong from a Scientology viewpoint,” said Rinder, who walked away two years ago. “They are not standard practice of Scientology. They are just not humanitarian. And they are just outright evil.”
Church spokesmen confirm that managers are ordered into pools and assembled for group confessions. It’s part of the “ecclesiastical justice” system the church imposes on poor performers.
Rinder and the other defectors couldn’t cut it in the tough world of Scientology’s Sea Org, a group whose members dedicate their lives to service of the church, the church says. Rather than accept their own failings, the defectors are putting a sinister twist on something that is normal.
The Sea Org is a “crew of tough sons of bitches,” said church spokesman Tommy Davis, an 18-year veteran of the group.
“The Sea Org is not a democracy. The members of it agree with a man named L. Ron Hubbard. They abide by his policies . . . and we follow it to the T, to the letter, to the punctuation marks. And if you disagree with that and you don’t like it, you don’t belong. Then you leave.”
A better thetan
The order came about 10 p.m. on a winter’s night: Report to the swimming pool.
From around the church’s postcard-pretty base in the mountains east of Los Angeles, some 70 staff members turned out in their Navy-style uniforms. David Miscavige was unhappy with the troops, again.
Tagged with: Church of Scientology, David Miscavige, Scientology
Death in slow motion: Part 2 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT THE “ST PETERSBURGH TIMES”
The night after Lisa McPherson died, the leader of the Church of Scientology sent word for one of his top lieutenants to wait by a pay phone at the Holiday Inn Surfside on Clearwater Beach.
When Marty Rathbun answered the ringing phone in the lobby, David Miscavige let him have it:
Why aren’t you all over this mess? The police are poking around. Do something.
“Yes sir,” Rathbun said.
McPherson, a 36-year-old parishioner in apparent good health, had spent 17 days in a guarded room at the church’s Fort Harrison Hotel. Scientology staffers tried to nurse her out of a mental breakdown, but she became ill. She drew her last breaths in the back seat of a van as they drove her to a hospital in the next county.
Her death on Dec. 5, 1995, triggered nine years of investigations, lawsuits and worldwide press coverage. Alive on the Internet, it stains Scientology’s reputation still.
Now, for the first time, comes an inside account from the upper ranks of Scientology — from the man who directed the church’s handling of the case.
Rathbun, who defected from Scientology’s staff in late 2004, admits that as prosecutors and attorneys for McPherson’s family prepared subpoenas, he ordered the destruction of incriminating evidence about her care at the Fort Harrison.
He and others who have left the church disclose for the first time that Miscavige was involved in McPherson’s Scientology counseling. Just weeks before her mental breakdown, they say, it was the leader himself who determined that she had reached an enhanced mental state that Scientologists call “clear.’’
For years Rathbun was adamant that the church did nothing wrong. Now he says that McPherson’s care was a debacle from the start. It was a “perfect storm of incompetence and irresponsibility” within the church, he said. “You couldn’t justify it.’’
He disclosed that the church was prepared to pay almost any price to make the case go away. He said he sent an emissary to McPherson’s funeral in Dallas with authority to give her mother, Fannie, whatever she wanted. The approach was rebuffed because the family didn’t trust the church.
“Whether it was financially or any other thing, we’re taking care of that woman because it was on our watch. If she needed $5 million, we would have come up with $5 million.”
Church officials say Rathbun is a bitter ex-member who inflated his importance in Scientology and whose motives are suspect. They say Miscavige demoted Rathbun in 2003 in part for missteps he made in the McPherson case.
A settlement agreement with the woman’s family forbids them from providing specifics, said Monique Yingling, a long-time Scientology attorney and friend of Miscavige. Still, she said that Rathbun botched the case from the start, and “possibly caused the whole thing.”
Scientology: The Truth Rundown, Part 1 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology
Part ONE of THREE
The leader of the Church of Scientology strode into the room with a boom box and an announcement: Time for a game of musical chairs.
David Miscavige had kept more than 30 members of his church’s executive staff cooped up for weeks in a small office building outside Los Angeles, not letting them leave except to grab a shower. They slept on the floor, their food carted in.
Their assignment was to develop strategic plans for the church. But the leader trashed their every idea and berated them as incompetents and enemies, of him and the church.
Prove your devotion, Miscavige told them, by winning at musical chairs. Everyone else — losers, all of you — will be banished to Scientology outposts around the world. If families are split up, too bad.
To the music of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody they played through the night, parading around a conference room in their Navy-style uniforms, grown men and women wrestling over chairs.
The next evening, early in 2004, Miscavige gathered the group and out of nowhere slapped a manager named Tom De Vocht, threw him to the ground and delivered more blows. De Vocht took the beating and the humiliation in silence — the way other executives always took the leader’s attacks.
This account comes from executives who for decades were key figures in Scientology’s powerful inner circle. Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder, the highest-ranking executives to leave the church, are speaking out for the first time.
Two other former executives who defected also agreed to interviews with the St. Petersburg Times: De Vocht, who for years oversaw the church’s spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, and Amy Scobee, who helped create Scientology’s celebrity network, which caters to the likes of John Travolta and Tom Cruise.
One by one, the four defectors walked away from the only life they knew. That Rathbun and Rinder are speaking out is a stunning reversal because they were among Miscavige’s closest associates, Haldeman and Ehrlichman to his Nixon.
Now they provide an unprecedented look inside the upper reaches of the tightly controlled organization. They reveal:
• Physical violence permeated Scientology’s international management team. Miscavige set the tone, routinely attacking his lieutenants. Rinder says the leader attacked him some 50 times.
Rathbun, Rinder and De Vocht admit that they, too, attacked their colleagues, to demonstrate loyalty to Miscavige and prove their mettle.
You can also access the paper’s Special Report page for more info.
Tip of the Skepticap to PZ Meyers.
French prosecutor seeks dissolution of Scientology
READ THE FULL ARTICLE AT “REUTERS”
PARIS (Reuters) – A French prosecutor on Monday recommended a Paris court should dissolve the Church of Scientology’s French branch when it rules on charges of fraud against the organization.
Registered as a religion in the United States, with celebrity members such as actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, Scientology enjoys no such legal protection in France, where it has faced repeated accusations of being a money-making cult.
The Church’s Paris headquarters and bookshop are defendants in a fraud trial that began on May 25. Summing up her views on the case, state prosecutor Maud Coujard urged the court to return a guilty verdict and dissolve the organization in France.
The Church of Scientology denies the fraud charges and says the case against it violates freedom of religion.
Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology
Posted in News by Skepdude on May 29, 2009
READ THE FULL ENTRY AT “THE REGISTER”
Exclusive In an unprecedented effort to crack down on self-serving edits, the Wikipedia supreme court has banned contributions from all IP addresses owned or operated by the Church of Scientology and its associates.
Closing out the longest-running court case in Wikiland history, the site’s Arbitration Committee voted 10 to 0 (with one abstention) in favor of the move, which takes effect immediately.
The eighth most popular site on the web, Wikipedia bills itself as “the free encyclopedia anyone can edit.” Administrators frequently ban individual Wikifiddlers for their individual Wikisins. And the site’s UK press officer/resident goth once silenced an entire Utah mountain in a bizarre attempt to protect a sockpuppeting ex-BusinessWeek reporter. But according to multiple administrators speaking with The Reg, the muzzling of Scientology IPs marks the first time Wikipedia has officially barred edits from such a high-profile organization for allegedly pushing its own agenda on the site.
The Church of Scientology has not responded to our request for comment.
Officially, Wikipedia frowns on those who edit “in order to promote their own interests.” The site sees itself as an encyclopedia with a “neutral point of view” – whatever that is. “Use of the encyclopedia to advance personal agendas – such as advocacy or propaganda and philosophical, ideological or religious dispute – or to publish or promote original research is prohibited,” say the Wikipowersthatbe.
Admins may ban a Wikifiddler who betrays an extreme conflict of interest, and since fiddlers often hide their identity behind open proxies, such IPs may be banned as a preventative measure. After today’s ruling from the Arbitration Committee – known in Orwellian fashion as the ArbCom – Scientology IPs are “to be blocked as if they were open proxies” (though individual editors can request an exemption).
According to evidence turned up by admins in this long-running Wikiland court case, multiple editors have been “openly editing [Scientology-related articles] from Church of Scientology equipment and apparently coordinating their activities.” Leaning on the famed WikiScanner, countless news stories have discussed the editing of Scientology articles from Scientology IPs, and some site admins are concerned this is “damaging Wikipedia’s reputation for neutrality.”
Tagged with: Church of Scientology, Scientology, Wikipedia
Thank Xenu I’m not in the UK
Posted in Evolved and Rational by Skepdude on March 9, 2009
Scientology is a dangerous cult.
Now, saying this in the UK could result in an IRL V&:
The Crown Prosecution Service has decided that anyone who attacks Scientology can be prosecuted under faith hate laws.The move will for the first time provide the controversial Church of Scientology – described by some as a cult – the same protection as other mainstream religions.
Apparently the sensibilities of a dangerous cult (with the big $$$) is more important than freedom of speech. Big surprise there.
It means that any alleged offenders who ‘abuse’ or ‘threaten’ the Church of Scientology can be charged under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006.
It is understood the decision was made this month after the Police Diversity Directorate asked the CPS to clarify its position on the organisation.
It follows the arrest last summer of a 15-year-old boy for calling Scientology a ‘dangerous cult’ during a demonstration outside the Church’s £23million headquarters in London.
Just…RRRAAAGGGEEEE!!!
I don’t like protestfags, but I would never want them arrested for protesting against a dangerous cult. Freedom of speech is a fucking human right, and it speaks volumes for the lunacy and misguided political correctness of a society when criticism of a mere belief is made illegal.
What is so different about faith/religion/adacadabra that makes it so different from anything else that is open to criticism? How have people been made to unquestioningly accept that religious faith should be immune to criticism is open to debate, but if this trend is left unchecked, we are headed into dangerous waters.
Ian Harris, founder of the Cult Information Centre, said last night: ‘Scientology has always wanted to be recognised as a religion but it doesn’t even have a God. This decision is news to me and it is frankly quite upsetting and shocking.
No, stupid! The reason the cult of $cientology should not be offered the benefits of religion is not because they don’t have a god (by certain definitions, Xenu could be considered a god, but let’s not get into semantics here). The real reason should be because they are – as over 9000 people have pointed out – a dangerous cult. They actively endanger their own members. They separate families, destroy lives, abandon their sheep when they have sucked every drop of $$$ they can out of them, and the worst thing is that they have been complicit in the deaths of their own followers. They should be classified as a criminal organization, but as in various other cases, the $$$ and blatant corruption makes a huge difference.
Graeme Wilson, public affairs director for The Church of Scientology in the UK, said last night: ‘Scientology is the chosen religion of millions of people around the world, a point which has been recognised by numerous governmental bodies.’
Lying about your numbers again? Awww…just what I expected from a Scilon.
Yes, Scilons have every right to believe in Xenu and thetans as Christards have to believe in their zombie god. However, when a so-called ‘religion’ actively endangers (and kills) its own followers, this does not call for legitimization. It calls for a fucking investigation
Tagged with: Cults, free speech, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, Scientology
A Christian critique of Scientology
Posted in Edger by Skepdude on August 27, 2008
We’ve all heard about this strange new religion, this almost science fiction-like organization that worships its dead founder, blames all misfortune on some invading ‘force’ that came into our world millennia before any of us were born, demands money from all of its followers, has a long history of harassing and persecuting apostates, and has an obsessive fear of modern medical science, particularly where psychiatry is concerned. Today I sat down with one of these Christians and talked to him about Scientology.
“Scientology isn’t a religion, it’s a business,” he told me. “Look, it has a strictly-regulated hierarchical structure with a small leadership core- a secretive board of directors, an executive director, a bunch of subsidiaries and underlings that have to do everything that the layer of leadership above them tells them to do. I’m just glad that the College of Cardinals had the good sense to elect a Pope with the courage to stand up to all these New Agey, postmodern cults.”
“Off to a good start,” I muttered.
READ THE REST OF THIS ENTRY AT “EDGER”
Tagged with: Christianity, Christians, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Fervor, Religious Idiocy, Religious Intolerance, religious stupidity, Scientology
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Skyship Entertainment Signs Distribution Deal with China’s UYoung Culture and Media Co.
TORONTO, CANADA: Toronto-based Skyship Entertainment™ and leading Chinese children’s entertainment company UYoung Culture and Media have signed a distribution and merchandising pact for Skyship’s Super Simple™ branded preschool library.
In addition to the award-winning Super Simple Songs® series, the pact includes a number of titles from Skyship’s growing catalogue of preschool properties, including The Bumble Nums, Carl’s Car Wash, Mr. Monkey, Monkey Mechanic, and Sing Along With Tobee.
Morghan Fortier, CEO of Skyship Entertainment comments, “we’re eager to share our content with children and families around the world, so finding the right partner in China has been a priority for us. We are very excited to work with UYoung because they offer an unparalleled passion and focus on high-quality preschool content.”UYoung Media is at the forefront of China’s accelerating drive for world-class animated content. Founded in 2000, UYoung focuses its operations on creating and licensing content for the family market. Headquartered in Beijing, they are working to develop, produce and distribute high-quality animated content and to create brand management strategies that enhance the value of their properties.
Clara Yang, VP International Business of UYoung said, “we recognize there's high demand for English content for young children in China, so we have been seeking high-quality content to fill the need. We were excited to find that Skyship's approach and strategy of using nursery rhymes and songs to learn English would perfectly fill that need. As new partners, we are dedicated to establishing Super Simple as a leading preschool education brand introducing children to English in China.”
Skyship Entertainment™ is the creator of the beloved children’s brand, Super Simple™. Their award-winning Super Simple Songs® combines delightful animation and puppetry with original and classic kids’ songs to help make learning simple and fun. With over 10 billion views and 10 million subscribers on YouTube, their songs and videos are favorites with parents, teachers, and kids around the globe.
UYoung Culture & Media Co., Ltd is China’s leading children and family entertainment company. Focused in the market for kids under 10, UYoung develops, produces, distributes and licenses content for the global market. With our expertise and vast networking, UYoung has built the largest library of international kids’ TV animations in China. Our unique 360-degree business model and approach to managing IPs in China in terms media distribution, brand management and licensing and merchandising exploitation has allowed us to become a one-stop shop solution for our partners.
Amy Kitchen - Communications Manager, Skyship Entertainment
amy.k@skyship.tv
Cindy Wong - Public Relations Manager, UYoung Culture & Media Co. Ltd
weidong_wang@uyoung.com.cn
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Sunn O))) & Ulver - Terrestrials // Limited to 500 Silver / 1000 Gold Vinyl LP
Just found out that Southern Lord is doing another limited pressing of this album. So here’s a go on this one as well, in case you missed out on the first batch (or if you need’em all..)! The limited first run went OOP pretty quick, and this one seems no different. About 150 Silver and 500 Gold copies left after a few hours.
These two mastodonts joined forces back in 2008, and the 11th of February we finally saw the birth of their cooperative album “Terrestrials”. Very dark, brooding songs these, yet oh so beautiful… Guaranteed to haunt you for a long time, these are not for the faint of heart.
There’s also a second pressing of the limited Red Vinyl, limited to 300 copies! These seems Identical to the first 1000 Red ones pressed, though. All three versions can be found (while available) if you scroll down on the product page, through the “Buy Now”-button!
“Terrestrials is three movements which are fluid like the flow of magma beneath the Earth’s crust, sonically uninhibited, unpredictably cosmic, haunting and stirring yet simultaneously ceremonious and beautiful.”
SUNN O))) & ULVER Terrestrials LP (Silver vinyl)
180 gram Silver vinyl (limited to 500 pressed)
Thick Stoughton style tip-on jacket
SUNN O))) & ULVER Terrestrials LP (Gold vinyl)
180 gram GOLD vinyl (limited to 1,000 pressed)
SUNN O))) & ULVER Terrestrials
Oslo, Norway, August 10th, 2008. Following their 200th gig, playing before 2000 people at the Øya festival, SUNN O))) teamed up with Norwegian legends ULVER at their Oslo studio, Crystal Canyon. They recorded three "live in improvisation" pieces, starting that evening and ending at dawn, as Northern sunlight seeped in through the windows.
"We were sitting in the console room, early in the morning, listening to the takes. Someone said, 'ah, sunrise over Crystal Canyon,' as if the night had been a dark one. We all laughed and Greg proposed it as a title. In that setting it sounded perfect. The boys had mentioned wanting the music to orient towards the light, like some lost pilgrim stretching before the sun. We kept that mental picture for the processing." – Kristoffer Rygg
That take became the album's opening piece, "Let there be light," which builds up from silence and darkness and proceeds – ceremoniously, coruscating – O'Malley and O'Sullivan creating the backdrop for Rygg's Basso Profondo chants. The music unfolds over eight minutes before reaching a crescendo of bass and brass, introducing both Anderson and ULVER as we know them. The Sunn has risen.
"Western horn" accelerates on a single and austere note of sustained bass and low end, evolving gradually into a haunted soundscape. Crying violins, clusters of Fender Rhodes, guitar pickups, and metal plate drones are gradually layered beneath Anderson's augmented bass feedback.
"Eternal return" introduces Rygg singing a lyric evoking ancient Greece, Egypt and the Biblical lands. The song is palindromic, echoing the lyric, beginning and ending with the same bass line and musical pattern, though the guitars are ultimately reversed as the song implodes upon itself.
Terrestrials is three movements which are fluid like the flow of magma beneath the Earth's crust, sonically uninhibited, unpredictably cosmic, haunting and stirring yet simultaneously ceremonious and beautiful.
Cameron Aiken 2014/03/27
YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!
Benny Disco 2014/06/04
Grabbed the black version from my local record store. Would probably get the red one if I hadn't. Good stuff.
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What Airsoft Battery Should I Use?
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When getting into airsoft its hard to choose the correct airsoft battery, whether it is NIMH / Lipo / LiFe / Li-Ion, and then which format of cells you require for your Airsoft gun.
Below we have a short breakdown of the benefits and types of batteries available to help guide you through the purchase of your new airsoft battery.
What Airsoft Gas To Use?
It can be confusing when looking at the different types of gas available. There are many different types, and different brands but these all look very similar, with the only difference being the packaging. There are three common styles with different power levels, which provide lubrication for your seals and gaskets on your gas blowback airsoft gun.
So which one do you need?
Cost of Airsoft
Airsoft Prices – Prices to play Airsoft
There is a lot to consider when calculating the cost of Airsoft.
The question of how much you need to spend depends on how often you take part, what equipment you feel you need and if you have a desire to customise your weapons to improve performance.
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History of Airsoft
The beginning – A brief History of Airsoft
Airsoft began in Japan in the mid-1970s but the story starts before that.
At the end of WW2, citizens were no longer allowed to carry firearms so they turned to buying replica firearms which, at that point, had no purpose other than to look like the real thing.
Moving on to the 70s, replica guns were created to fire projectiles, small BB pellets, by a spring-loaded system which allowed the people of Japan to buy a weapon that could mimic the feel of firing a gun as well as copying the look.
While the skirmish sites weren’t really there at that point in time, these people now had an opportunity to play with their friends using these safe replica weapons, marking the start of Airsoft as a hobby.
Rise in Popularity
The growth in popularity among Japanese citizens was noticeable and companies in Japan soon latched onto it and began to create a marketplace for these weapons.
Airsoft grew further as Japan began exporting to other countries in Asia such as Korea, Taiwan and China, all of which had strict gun laws as well.
The spring-powered guns provided the firing ability but lacked the FPS to make the guns anywhere near as fast as their real counterparts.
The 1980s saw advances in the design of replica weapons and the technology used to propel pellets towards someone else.
Gas-powered guns, those with a blowback ability, came in to increase the velocity of the shot and still be safe to use against opponents.
It was during the 80s that Airsoft’s popularity began to spread outside of Asia, reaching the UK and US markets.
Cultural factors
Many in the UK and the US welcomed the idea of Airsoft where people could shoot at each other with realistic looking and feeling guns.
They could do this without ending up with bruises which were the case for the fairly new and popular battle simulation of paintball.
Action movies brought forward the idea of an action hero who relied on an arsenal of guns to take down the bad guys.
War history enthusiasts, whether through film, documentaries or books, would have gained an interest and knowledge of the guns used throughout history which these replicas could faithfully imitate.
The 2000s saw a boom in the number of video games released regarding war which introduced gamers to many of the famous brands of pistols and rifles such as the Desert Eagle and the AK47.
Many people wanted to feel like an action hero, a solider or like they were playing a real-life video game and Airsoft gave people this chance without being in any danger.
Growth of Airsoft stock
As the market began to grow, people’s interest in a gun’s look and capability grew as people sort to not only play Airsoft as a hobby but also to invest time and money into buying Airsoft guns and accessories which suited their needs.
With the constant innovation and increase of new military-style weapons since WW2, there was an ever-growing list of real weapons where a replica was demanded.
In the 90s, Tokyo Marui invented the first electric gun, the AEG, to improve the rate of fire further.
Since then, guns have been built and designed with a number of features, along with customisation options, for people to get everything they need from their gun.
Airsoft today
Airsoft has grown on a global scale with Asia, North America and Europe, in particular, embracing it with a huge number of websites selling Airsoft guns internationally.
Almost every European country has skirmish sites while the UK now boasts over 150 of them.
It is a popular market which is still growing with no signs of its popularity stalling or declining anytime in the near future.
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Global Airsoft
Airsoft around the world – Where can you do airsoft?
Airsoft is a hobby that has made its way around the world.
It’s reflected by the number of international Airsoft sites which are selling Airsoft guns and equipment.
The Airsoft Guns website caters for the whole of Europe but the actual Airsoft store is based in the Czech Republic which has been selling imported Airsoft goods for over 10 years.
Led by experienced professionals, they offer professional repair, upgrade and custom work as well as selling Airsoft equipment.
Airsoft Zone
Airsoft Zone may be based in Austria but it is far-reaching with distribution rights for famous airsoft brands like Krytacand Airsoft Innovations within the European Union.
It has been selling Airsoft equipment on the website since 2011, shipping orders from the warehouse which covers 2000 square metres.
Airsoft Shop
Airsoft Shop operates as an online retailer as well as having a shop located in Belgium covering the full range of weapons from pistols and rifles to SMGs.
Slovakian based AFG has exclusive rights to represent companies and to import certain Airsoft goods into Slovakia.
Red Wolf Airsoft
Founded in 1998, Red Wolf Airsoft claims to be the first international Airsoft retailer with the most diverse range of Airsoft weapons and equipment.
With offices in the UK and Hong Kong, Red Wolf is spread far and wide offering repairs, upgrades and other customisation options for Airsoft equipment.
Evike
Evike have an eye-watering number of Airsoft brands on their website providing you with plenty of variety when considering your options. They also offer the chance to book a place on a number of themed skirmish events across the USA.
Airsoft Atlanta
This store was founded in 2000 with a walk-in store opening the following year to provide a physical and online presence, specialising in high-end custom Airsoft guns.
Airsoft Atlanta not only provides Airsoft equipment but have their own skirmish site too with Power Ops Airsoft, which provides over 100,000 square feet of field space for skirmishes to take place.
Airsoft Station
Airsoft Station was founded in 2006 as a part-time hobby that soon grew to the point where the website was set up in 2008. They now operate online and from their Minnesota store to provide Airsoft equipment on an international scale.
This site is committed to cheap prices to make Airsoft accessible for as many people as possible without dropping the quality.
They also have a commitment to making their company as green as possible with eco-friendly packaging and procedures. This is an Airsoft site with a clear ethos that goes beyond selling Airsoft equipment to customers.
Echigoya
One of the oldest Airsoft shops in the world, Echigoya was founded in 1993 selling Airsoft replicas among other toys. It has grown to 4 branches across Japan supplying top brands to the worldwide Airsoft market.
Impulse101
Impulse101 has an international feel about it, made up of Franco-Japanese Airsoft enthusiasts who also speak English.
Its story began with Pulse Airsoft in 2013; the men behind the company’s rise left and set up Impulse101 instead which has been going strong ever since.
Airsoft Shop Japan
This online shop ships out Airsoft equipment to people all over the world. Its collection of Airsoft equipment is fair but it is a bit on the smaller side in comparison to its competitors.
WGC Shop
Hong Kong’s WGC started life in 1998 as an Airsoft forum, War Gamer Club, for people to share their experience of Airsoft weapons, equipment and skirmishes.
Two years later the name changed to WGC Shop and the website began selling Airsoft equipment and quickly grew with a number of offices and warehouses being owned.
In 2008, they opened their first showroom to display their stock to members of the public.
John’s Airsoft
John’s Airsoft owns 5 stores in the Philippines called Vincent’s Hobby Shop. With a focus on pistols and rifles, there isn’t as much gun choice with a lack of SMGs and grenade launchers and limited shotgun options.
Where it does excel is in Airsoft accessories with almost 250 items to choose from.
What is Airsoft Milsim?
What is MilSim?
MilSim is the abbreviation for military simulation. This can encompass a broad range of events and activities, however, within the Airsoft community, Milsim is a term that has become synonymous with long (sometimes 30h+) roleplay wargames usually including the use of military tactics, equipment and organisation, as well as a number of props, casualty simulations and pyrotechnics.
There are a number of companies that run these events in the UK and although these are normally privately owned these companies have deep military roots with most staff members and owners being ex or current service.
Where can I find second-hand Airsoft guns and equipment?
Buying second-hand Airsoft guns and equipment
Buying second-hand Airsoft guns and equipment can be a good idea for you to buy what you need at a cheaper price rather than a brand new product and means that these items can be reused rather than dumped.
There are a number of sites which specifically deal in used Airsoft equipment such as Prefired, Used Airsoft and Second Hand Airsoft.
These sites act as a portal between buyers and sellers of second-hand Airsoft equipment like a marketplace rather than these websites sourcing and stocking their own second-hand equipment.
Airsoft guns and equipment can be sent to you by the sellers through Royal Mail, there are no posting restrictions on them even though they look like guns.
The more you know about Airsoft guns and equipment, the easier it will be to pick the right second-hand equipment.
It is important for you to understand what you should be looking for and what questions you should be asking of the seller to ensure that you are buying equipment that still has plenty of life left in it.
Factors to consider when buying second-hand equipment
You should try to get as much information as possible from the seller which can be helped if the seller posts a detailed account of the item and its usage.
If there is a lack of information or the posting only contains vague details then it is up to you to ask questions of the seller to ensure you are satisfied that you will get good use of the equipment.
Sellers should provide basic information
Sellers should provide basic information such as the make and model of the gun they are selling and tell you all the items and components that come with it as well as photos to display the equipment.
When it comes to second-hand Airsoft guns and equipment, there are extra things to consider. You will want to know the age of the weapon and to know (roughly) how many rounds have been fired from it.
Having this knowledge will help give you an idea of how much usage and wear-and-tear there may be for the internals of the gun so you can judge if the gun still has a long life.
Having been owned by someone else, it is possible that the weapons being sold may have been upgraded from its original state.
Without knowledge of this, you might get a different gun than you were expecting. It may even be an upgrade that doesn’t interest you but will likely cost you more money than the stock version of the gun.
You should also ask if there is any damage to the gun, superficial or otherwise, to see if it may affect the gun’s performance. It is your call to decide if the damage is a deal breaker or not.
Second-hand Airsoft equipment should be cheaper than new equipment and the buyer/seller relationship on the sites allows you the chance to negotiate on the asking price set by the seller so you may be able to get it even cheaper.
Ways to test your newly bought second-hand equipment
If you are satisfied with the information you receive and go ahead on buy the weapon, there are a few things you can check upon its arrival to ensure everything is in working order.
You should check for any damage even if the seller said there was no damage or made you aware of some damage.
Check the condition of the barrel, it may be in good condition but in need of a clean.
For AEGs, make sure the fuse is in place and is the correct current rating for the gun.
If you are able to test out your weapon in an enclosed back garden for example, you can practice firing to make sure the rounds feed okay and don’t get jammed.
Top 10 Airsoft Sniper Rifles
Choosing an airsoft rifle is hard when there are so many options available.
Here’s a list of the top 10 and their features, to help you make that all-important decision.
10. Well 4402D sniper rifle Olive
The original price for this bundle is great although the rifle has been reduced as the scope and bipod are no longer included.
Without the bipod, it is a fairly weighty rifle to carry around but does possess a velocity of around 390FPS and the adjustable hop-up allows for a more accurate shot.
9. ASG 308 Accuracy International L96 sniperrifle
This sniper may not look as real as other ones with its blue coat but the full metal trigger box and full metal barrel give it the performance of a real rifle.
This is a powerful yet cheap sniper, at 420FPS, to hit targets from far away with an adjustable hop-up to improve your accuracy further.
8. JG G36 Counter Sniper RIS 608-sl85
This rifle is suited for spotting, targeting and neutralising enemy snipers which is why it has a low capacity magazine model.
When targeting other snipers, they will likely be stationary so you most likely won’t waste much ammo as you would if you were trying to snipe a moving target.
7. Jing Gong AK Dragunov SVD AEG
This has a classic AK47 rifle look but is indeed a sniper rifle. The only metal used in this rifle is for the controls so it is much lighter than other rifles in the AK range as well as other sniper rifles.
Having a pre-installed bi-pod and long metal outer barrel makes it a good weapon of choice for anyone undertaking a Designated Marksman role.
6. Well MB01 Warrior I l96 style Sniper Rifle (Black)
This is a good sniper for beginners to use to get used to this type of rifle and style of battle.
The top rail allows for the attachment of scopes to further improve the long-range accuracy of this rifle along with the adjustable hop-up.
Sling points at the front and rear as well as an adjustable cheek rest and butt pad make the rifle bend to the owner’s comfort.
5. Ares Amoeba Striker Sniper Rifle (Black)
This lightweight rifle boasts a number of features which makes it one of the top sniper rifles on this list.
The 45 round capacity magazine for this weapon is over double the ammunition capacity for most other sniper rifles while it has 30% shorter bolt pull over others as well.
The clockwise 23mm threaded barrel is ideal for attaching suppressors to make the noise from firing almost non-existent.
4. Ares Amoeba Striker Short Sniper Rifle AS02 (Dark Earth)
This Ameoba Striker takes everything that worked for the hugely popular AS01 model while making some external improvements to it.
The barrel is shorter than the previous version, a small groove has been added to improve the grip while it has a ¾ length pull in comparison to most other sniper rifles.
The 4 rectangular vent holes at the front are ideal for placing rails in to fit a number of accessories onto the rifle.
3. King Arms MDT TAC21 Tactical Rifle – BK – Limited Edition
The most expensive rifle on the list, the TAC21 value comes from its great craftsmanship as well as its great ability.
The Chassis system is made from aviation-grade aluminium with anodized finishing so a lot of effort has gone into the look and design of the rifle as evidenced by the Magpul PTS MOE grip and Magpul PTS PRS stock.
This gives the weapon an incredible level of authenticity and control.
You might expect a sniper rifle at this cost to have all its own features set out but it is still highly customisable to make it suit you further.
A top mounting rail, a built-in mounting rail as well as a side rail and bottom rail opens up the possibilities for a number of accessories to be attached
2. Tokyo Marui PSG-1 Electric Sniper
This is one of the few electric sniper rifles in the Airsoft market. The high price reflects the quality of this rifle over a long distance.
With a 4×40 rifle scope, it provides a high quality of magnification to allow you to shoot accurately from almost 300 feet away, helped even further by an adjustable sniper stock.
This sniper rifle is the ultimate in long-range combat because of this and only stays off the top spot due to its price tag.
1. JG VSR / bar10 G-Spec with scope
This deceivingly lightweight sniper rifle is top of the class when it comes to everything you look for in a sniper rifle.
An adjustable hop-up, a top rail for scope attachments (which comes with the rifle) and a barrel extension provide pin-point accuracy from up to 200 feet away at a rate of 400FPS.
On top of this, the rifle is fully upgradeable to improve its performance even further.
Top 5 2019 Airsoft Pistols
With so many pistols available, it is important to work out which pistols are new or still relevant in 2019
rather than ending up with a pistol with outdated features that have since been surpassed.
5. WE 3PX4 Compact gas Pistol
As suggested by the name, this pistol is one of the smallest on the market but it does still provide a great kick when fired.
Don’t be fooled by the simple design, the pistol is highly customisable.
There are replaceable grip pads to suit the size of your hands and the magazine release is removable to be fitted to suit left and right handers.
4. WE Hi Capa 5.1 Black Dragon GBB pistol ( Type B)
This semi-automatic pistol’s stand-out slide design gives the gun a unique look among other pistols but it has substance as well as style.
It can be run on both Gas and C02 magazines and is very comfortable to hold, providing an accurate shot with a sharp recoil.
If that’s not enough, there are a number of options to customise the pistol internally and externally with a number of compatible upgrades and extras available.
3. ASG CZ P-09 Black
This double action, full size replica of a pistol is designed to be held in a single hand without losing any of its functionality.
The pistol is comfortable to hold and fires smoothly.
This is thanks to a textured grip and the smoothness of pulling the trigger.
The rail is integrated into the design of the gun allowing for the mounting of accessories such as a light or laser.
The 3 dot ironsight makes it easier to identify targets which, along with the adjustable hop-up, improves the accuracy of shot.
2. Tokyo Marui USP GBB Gas blow back
The gun may not look special but there are a number of features which improve the performance of this pistol.
The 15mm cylinder mixes stable shooting with a powerful recoil whether you choose single or double action while the magazine catch lever can be adjusted to suit left and right handers.
The safety and decocking system gives the user the ability to lock the hammer in full cock or change from full cock to half cock.
An undermount rail is included in the purchase of the gun which allows for the adding of accessories to the gun such as flashlights.
1. TOKYO MARUI – Desert Eagle .50AE (GBB)
The Desert Eagle has a recognisable iconic look and name known among airsoft players and anyone who has played a warfare video game.
This is one of the largest Airsoft pistols available and provides the kick and blowback you might expect from a larger type of gun.
Despite this, the pistol is easy to use and carry as it is a lightweight weapon with a smooth grip, making it a good choice for running and gunning on the battlefield.
The adjustable hop-up allows you to improve its range and to add some backspin, making it capable of reaching targets accurately up to 100ft.
At a cost of £160, the pistol is in the medium price range of all pistols so it represents good value for all that it offers.
Top 10 Airsoft Assault Rifles
If you’re thinking of getting an airsoft gun, here’s a list of the top 10 models and their features.
10. JG Aug A4 AEG
This is a simplistic rifle with an impressive velocity rate of 340-370FPS.
This medium price ranged assault rifle handles well despite weighing almost 4kg with a sleek external coat that gives it the look of a real gun.
9.ASG M14 Wood effect AEG
This electric rifle comes with both semi and fully automatic firing modes with the wooden look and weighty feel of the rifle staying true to the original 1959 M14 it was based on.
It benefits from an adjustable hop-up and rear sight to improve range and accuracy. The stand out feature of this rifle is the butt plate which allows users to stabilise the rifle against their shoulder.
8.Cyma M14 Black full-length AEG
This rifle has a well-above-average velocity of 375 FPS with a long barrel improving the accuracy and range of the shot.
It also comes with an adjustable hop-up, a rear iron sight that can be adjusted horizontally and vertically and a rubber stock pad which stops the rifle from slipping as you hold it while the butt plate stabilises the rifle against your shoulder.
7. Jing Gong AK74U Metal Body
One of the oddest looking guns on the list is a compact version of the classic AK74 rifles making it easier to hold and carry while still producing a powerful shot.
The electronic blowback system gives you a real jolt as fire off your shots at a rapid rate of 400-450 FPS.
6. Ares Amoeba AM-009 long Rail
The Electronic Firing Control System used in the gearbox allows for semi-auto, a 3 round burst or fully automatic firing while the electronic trigger provides a faster trigger response.
It has a front and rear flip-up iron sight and an adjustable hop-up to improve range, targeting and accuracy along with a high torque flat motor.
5. JG G36 long JG1038 AEG
This replica is based on a very modern-day rifle currently used in the German army and it has the durability to match.
The folding stock can change the weapon’s length to suit your situation whether you need it for close-range or long-range combat.
The handguard rail allows for accessories to be attached while the rifle itself is compatible with a number of external and internal upgrade parts.
4. G&G Combat Machine CM16 MOD0 AEG
This rifle looks and feels like the real deal with a length of 86cm making it one of the bigger, more imposing rifles and an adjustable hop-up makes it dangerous over a long-range.
There are two 20mm rails, at the top of the receiver and the top of the handguard, for accessories to be added onto it. The modular handguard allows for even more attachments like Grips and Launchers.
The 6 position Stock, along with the Hand Guard, is replaceable and the rubberised rotating butt plate design is unique to this rifle.
3. Valken TANGO ASL Series M4 Airsoft Rifle AEG
This rifle may be towards the lower end of the price range but that doesn’t mean you don’t get a lot for your money.
This is a high-grade weapon suitable for short and long-range firing with front and rear iron sights while there are six positions the Crane Stock can be adjusted to make the rifle the length that suits you to achieve the range you desire.
The Nylon Fibre Receiver allows you to add a number of accessories such as flashlights and the ambidextrous magazine release and fire selector features allow it to be operated comfortably by left and right-handed people.
2. ASG CZ Scorpion EVO 3 A1 carbine – M95 vers
The selling point of this rifle is the attention to detail that goes into the design to make it look like and have the durability of the real thing while still being relatively lightweight.
While it has some useful features found in other rifles such as an adjustable hop-up, 4 position adjustment and features which make it ambidextrous, it has some unique aspects which sets it apart from the others.
It has four firing modes; safe, semi-auto, 3 round burst and full-auto while it also has a feature which prevents it from firing once the magazine runs out.
This rifle is right at the top end of the market in terms of price and quality.
1. Wingun co2 m44 Mosin Nagant with bayonet
This rifle is an exact replica of the 1944orginal and the detail is clear to see with the imitated wood colour and texture design adding to the realistic look of the iconic rifle.
It is a rifle that is useful for both short-range and long-range skirmishes with an adjustable rear sight to ensure high-precision accuracy.
This rifle is versatile, being good for close combat and long-range attacks with an adjustable rear sight to ensure high-precision accuracy while the sling mounting points make it easy to use for left and right-handers.
The most unique part of it all is the folding metal bayonet which is fixed onto the rifle to be used when your opponent is within touching distance.
Benefits of using Airsoft Conversion Kits
Airsoft Conversion Kits are attachments for your pistol which can alter the weapon’s feel, purpose and capability.
We offer a Pistol Carbine Kit which can be used on G17, G18 and G19 pistols.
You may be wondering what the advantages are for doing this are so below is an explanation of the main benefits you should see should you decide to buy a conversion kit.
It gives you two weapons in one
Airsoft Conversion Kits are a great way of turning your pistol into a whole new weapon while in battle to suit your needs.
This gives you two weapons in one with the kit being easier to carry around than a whole other gun for you to switch between.
On top of this, it is a quick and simple process to add or remove the conversion kit so you are not stuck with the choice of whether you would like to use it or not before you go into battle.
It is also easier for you to store away whether it is at home or it is on your person while it goes unused in battle.
Even if you don’t remove the kit when you are done with it, the kit may make your pistol more like a rifle or SMG but it is not quite as long so it takes up less space than the real thing.
Extras can be added to the gun
Conversion kits also give you the option to add extras to your weapon that might not be available for your pistol.
If under rails or side rails are a part of the conversion kit then that will allow you to add attachments to it such as lights or lasers to give you an advantage in battle.
Make improvements to your gun’s ability
The extra accessories are helpful but the conversion kits can make huge improvements to your current weapon dependent on your needs.
If you want to improve your accuracy or firing range, these kits can help you to make your weapon capable of achieving this.
Similarly, these kits can be used to improve the feel and comfort of holding the gun.
This could simply be by making the grip more comfortable to hold but can also lower the recoil you receive from firing your weapon.
Slings and mounts are common for bigger guns such as rifles and these can be used as part of the kit to help make your weapon ambidextrous, to suit whichever arm you want if your original weapon doesn’t give you that option.
Cheaper than buying two separate weapons
Ultimately conversion kits are a cheaper option than buying two separate weapons. You can get the benefits of a rifle or SMG without actually having to buy and maintain one.
Buying a simplistic pistol along with a conversion kit that includes extras may work out cheaper than buying an all-singing, all-dancing pistol where these are included in the first place.
The same can be said for buying a rifle or SMG with these qualities if your current gun doesn’t offer it to you.
Top 5 Airsoft Grenade Launchers
Grenade launchers are a great weapon to target a cluster of enemies rather than an individual.
They can be used for both close and long-range combat to engage opponents but some are better suited to dual combat than others.
5. S-Thunder Pistol Grenade Launcher (Metal)
This grenade launcher looks very unassuming with its small size and your opponents may not recognise it to be a grenade launcher on first viewing.
It is to be underestimated at your opponent’s peril as it provides an effective shot to match the power of bigger grenade launchers although it does lack their range.
Its shorter range and lightweight design means it is more suited to close-range combat making it a rarity among grenade launchers that it can be easily carried and won’t slow you down on the battlefield.
4. CYMA 40mm Airsoft Grenade Launcher
This is another compact and robust grenade launcher but the metal construction makes it slightly weightier than the S-Thunder but has the added benefit of customisation options.
The top rail allows for the attachment of accessories such as grips, lights and lasers to improve the feel and performance of the gun.
Both short and long type shells can be used for this grenade launcher.
3. D-Boys GP25 AK 40mm Grenade Launcher for AK Series w/ 1x Shell
When you see AK, you may think about rifles but this Russian grenade launcher is part of the AK series as a whole.
This looks like more of a grenade launcher than the S-Thunder to strike fear into your opponents and with the option to fire the full bb capacity of 36 in one shot, you can rain down a number of pellets on your opponents at once.
It is best used in close combat although it does have an adjustable sight to improve accuracy and can be used for under-barrel or stand-alone use.
2. Airsoft EGLM 40mm SCAR Grenade Launcher Black
This is an enhanced grenade launcher which packs a powerful punch but with that comes a heavy build.
It is still comfortable to use though for both left and right-handers as the barrel can be loaded from either side and it is quick to reload with the sideloading feature it possesses.
It can be attached to the barrel of a number of SCAR weapons which improves the overall impact of your shot.
1. Airsoft EGLM 40mm SCAR Stand Alone Grenade Launcher Black
It may be called stand alone but it can be fitted under a rifle although this won’t give you the full benefits that this launcher can provide.
This may be the most expensive grenade launcher we offer but there are a number of good reasons for it.
Many of the features listed for the above grenade launchers are included here along with extras which are unique to this model.
The fast, ambidextrous reloading and sideloading features are present as well as a top rail but it also has a side rail for accessories to be placed onto it such as a scope, flashlight and laser sight.
Also, it comes with an additional slide stock with butt pad, has an adjustable QD sight and is collapsible to give you a choice of 3 different lengths to choose from.
Top 10 Airsoft Submachine Guns
There are countless variations of Airsoft Submachine, so it can be difficult choosing the right one.
Here’s a list of the best available at the moment if you’re thinking about investing in on.
10. JG MC51 SAS – AEG
This compact SMG made of both plastic and metal is great for CQB and the velocity of 360FPS makes it one of the fastest firing guns around.
9. JG T3 G3 SAS CQB JG096 Sub machine gun
With a shortened barrel and the stock removed, this gun is light and compact.
What it lacks in additional features, it makes up for with a high-capacity magazine able to hold 500 BBs and provides a fast firing rate at 365FPS.
8. JG P90 with 1500 round box magazine
A slightly awkwardly shaped SMG where the main benefit is the large magazine that comes attached to the gun so that you can keep on firing for a long time.
The fire selector offers three options; safe, semi and auto.
7. Ares Amoeba AM-015 CQB Soundhog (Black)
This high-powered SMG is great for close-range combat with semi and fully automatic shooting mode and there is also the option of using a silencer.
The retractable buttstop can be placed in two separate positions and it also has a front and rear sight to improve targeting.
The 8 sided handguard comes with a 20mm rail for accessories such as lasers or flashlights to be attached to them to enhance the gun further.
6. ASG B&T MP9A1 Foregrip – Black
The appeal of this SMG lies in the gas blowback and the realistic look and feel of the replica.
With a folding stock to adjust the weapon’s length which, along with the adjustable hop-up, allows you to rapidly fire at a further range or in a more accurate manner while the integrated front grip gives you more control over it.
An added bonus is that the trigger has an active safety function.
5. G&G ARP9 with keymod rail AEG (Black)
The small size of the ARP9 makes it easy to carry and aim but looks can be deceiving. You might not expect it to have such great accuracy and range but it does, making it a popular primary weapon.
There is a rail for both the front and top allowing for accessories and sights to be added to the SMG.
It fires at a fast rate of 330FPS.
4. JG MP5K with m4 stock and rails JG206
This is a compact yet heavyweight SMG that has a lot to offer.
It has top, side and lower rails to mount sights, attach grips and other accessories to attach to it while the front and rear iron sight are adjustable.
It has a couple of ambidextrous features such as rear sling mount along with a fire selector making it possible for you to use whichever hand is your strongest when using it.
The velocity is also adjustable ranging from 290-320FPS.
3. Jing Gong MP5SD with retractable stock
This is a good starter gun for new Airsoft players to get their hands on a reliable, durable realistic-looking replica at a very affordable price.
A built-in suppressor and retractable stock make it easy to manoeuvre during close encounters on the battlefield with the ability to silently take out your enemies without them hearing a thing.
2. S&T PPSH-41 blowback aeg (Real Wood)
This mixture of steel and imitation wood provides a stylish look for a sub-machine gun with a 2000 round drum magazine.
As suggested by the name, the blowback system is a big part of the gun’s appeal but being an iconic Russian weapon of WW2 is also an enticing factor.
The adjustable hop-up allows you to improve the range and accuracy of your shots.
1. ASG CZ Scorpion EVO 3 – B.E.T. carbine, M95 version
This gun allows you to change the velocity easily so you can determine for yourself how fast the pellets shoot out while still providing highly accurate shots thanks to the front and rear iron sights.
The full-metal internal system makes the weight and function feel like the real thing as well as looking like the real thing.
It can detect when the magazine is empty while it has a 4 position fire selector with a genuine 3-shot burst and the custom electronics inside make it a high functioning weapon.
What Airsoft role should I be?
There are a number of different roles in Airsoft, each suited to a person’s character traits, fitness and what you might imagine being in a battle should be like.
Having the correct understanding of the purpose of each role can help you to decide which one might suit you best to lead you and your team to victory.
For those with patience and a flair for the tactical side of skirmishes, the Sniper role may be the best choice for you. Snipers are often far away from the action, using a sniper rifle’s long-range of vision and shot to hit enemies from a distance without them being able to see you.
With sniper rifles being one of the heaviest Airsoft weapons, it is advisable to pick a spot and stay there for long periods of time targeting people from afar.
This is where patience is key. Picking a good spot to lay low will help to ensure you are out of sight and may give you a good view of the enemies but there may be times when you see no one for long periods of time.
Add to that, you will likely be lying on the ground with your sniper rifle which might not be the most pleasant feeling depending on the terrain and the weather. A sniper has a less active role in terms of moving about the battlefield which might be appealing to you or it might leave you wanting more.
Designated Marksman
If you would prefer to be a bit closer to the action and keep moving, you might consider the role of Designated Marksman instead.
The idea is for you to work on the frontline, rather than far away, to take out people who are out of range of riflemen.
Unlike a sniper, the Designated Marksman role requires movement around the battlefield picking off targets rather than staying in one place, helped in part to the rifle being lighter than a sniper rifle.
For a sniper or a Designated Marksman, it is common that the role doubles up as a scouting role to identify enemies from a distance, report on the number of enemies in a location and point out any areas where the enemy is weak or lacks cover.
A rifleman is found on the frontline in the heart of the battle. The rifleman forms the main point of your team’s offensive work from gunfights with rifleman on the other side, clearing and securing a room or an area in order to fulfil your game’s main objective.
This role is one of the more active roles as you need to hit people, avoid being hit and cover ground quickly as you will likely be in constant battle. To put it simply, this role is where the action is. With that comes the fact that you will be in a role where you are at most risk of being hit.
Support Gunner
The Support Gunner is one of the more selfless roles in Airsoft. This role requires you to be in the heart of the action with the Riflemen but your job will be to help them succeed rather than aim for glory yourself.
One of the main jobs is to provide covering fire to pin the enemy down so that Medics and Riflemen can pass through an area without coming under fire themselves.
This role is a physically demanding one as you will have to carry a weapon and extra ammo for a number of different guns to provide to others on the battlefield as and when they need it.
When people are hit, they rely on the Medic to come and heal them so that they can continue playing again.
A Medic will often carry a gun for protection but usually won’t actively seek out battles.
Instead, they are required to move quickly and safely across the battlefield to help those who have been hit.
In real terms, the Medic may also provide water to teammates to keep them hydrated to prevent dehydration and exhaustion being a contributing factor to a team’s loss.
Another role for those with a tactical mind as the Grenadier makes use of explosives to disable, intimidate and flush out the enemy through the use of items such as smoke grenades and flashbangs.
This role comes with a choice of whether you use a grenade launcher to project these items or you can throw them yourself, allowing you to pin grenades to your attire while you carry a separate rifle or gun to give you an added option for attack.
Airsoft Support Weapons
The top 5 Airsoft Support Weapons
5. S&T M1918 BAR Real wood WW2 AEG
The appeal of this support weapon is in its design and its history as a replica of a weapon used by the USA in both World Wars as well as the Korean and Vietnam War.
The rifle is made completely of metal yet features a dark wood furniture kit that gives it a realistic look, geared towards making it look exactly like the original.
It weighs 5kg even without having an in-built bipod and so is one of the heavier weapons to carry around without an integrated bipod to set it down on.
4. A&KM249 MK1 support weapon AEG
The MK1 is a full metal support weapon which gives it its sleek and realistic looking design.
It comes with an integrated bipod so that you can set it down and take up a position to provide cover for your team by continuously firing at the enemy.
This is helped by a generous 2500 round drum magazine and a quick change spring system so that you won’t be losing time constantly readjusting or reloading your weapon.
The adjustable stock can help you to spread your fire as far or as close as you want depending on the situation.
3. A&K M249 MK46 support weapon AEG
Like the MK1, The MK46 is a full metal support weapon with particular attention paid to the design to make it look like the real thing.
Overall there isn’t much to choose between this and the M1 as they share a lot of the same features and cost the same.
It comes with an integrated bipod, 2500 round drum magazine, quick change spring system and the adjustable stock just like the M1, providing the same benefits.
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When will films be mixed at 96K?
When do you think it will be standard to mix a film at 96K or possibly 192K and have it stay at that sample-rate?
Will Feature Films ever make the jump to 96K rather than stay at 48K?
Also, when you record dialogue or effects or foley, do you record straight to 48K or do you record at 192 or 96 and then downconvert? And how do you do the downconverting?
96k sample-rate quality film-mixing
"I hear a drop in quality going from 96K to 48K." In a double-blind test, with absolutely no other difference between the two mixes? – endolith Jun 22 '10 at 11:17
on a film dub stage with the X Curve? – user49 Jun 23 '10 at 7:31
"In [your] opinion?" That hardly seems definitive. – fluffy Feb 26 '15 at 7:27
@fluffy When I wrote that sentence 6 years ago, I knew some folks would take offense to it and stir up a pandora's box of discussion. This is why I prefaced it with "in my opinion", and asked "if I was alone when I say I can hear the difference". I apologize if this statement wasn't definitive. How would you like me to define it more? I'd be glad to. – Utopia Apr 29 '16 at 18:09
"I believe that I can hear a quality drop" is a factual statement (of your belief). Or you can say "In my opinion, 96khz sounds better." What you wrote is a mishmash that tries to have it both ways. – fluffy Apr 30 '16 at 18:47
96 kHz and 32-bit floating point aren't for the final mix. They're for intermediate processing. In the final mix you can't hear a difference between 48 kHz and 96 kHz (unless you're Batman or the mix was downsampled poorly or the 96 kHz mix contains ultrasound that's distorting in your speaker). Likewise, 20-bit is adequate to represent all of the 120 dB dynamic range you can ever get out of a real system (due to physics).
BUT, when putting a waveform through a lot of processing in a DAW, you want lots of headroom in both frequency and amplitude, to prevent unnecessary computation noise, aliasing, phase shift, etc. Like photocopying a photocopy, the better the quality of each copy, the less degradation there will be in the final product.
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@endolith, well said. – Jay Jennings♦ Jan 4 '11 at 7:27
Arguably there isn't even a need to go beyond 16-bit for the final mix - 84dB (IIRC) is plenty of dynamic range, and if something's loud enough to take advantage of it you aren't going to be hearing the quiet bits at all. – fluffy Feb 26 '15 at 7:28
@fluffy Yes, but to really match the dynamic range of the analog electronics, 16-bit requires specific noise-shaping. – endolith Dec 15 '15 at 20:26
@endolith Sure, but that's part of the 16-bit mixdown process, not part of the 16-bit storage. :) (Also with proper noise-shaping, many modern recordings would frankly sound just as good at 12-bit...) – fluffy Dec 15 '15 at 21:57
@fluffy Well DSD is 1-bit with noise-shaping, so where do we draw the line? – endolith Dec 15 '15 at 22:03
Actually, I don't feel the need of 96kHz mixes. Something that sometime I really need (and it's already here with digital cinema) is uncompressed audio. More than one time I found the (not so bad, for the time when it was born) Dolby data compression (the ac3 like compression that the DMU do for the MODisk) to be really annoying and changing a lot the sound. But in the end it really depends from the kind of movie; and actually, the real big deal is the sound system of cinema theater: 8 times out of 10, the cinema has wrong level, or outdated ampli and speakers, or wrong sound correction. Just my 2cent
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True true. I guess it's hopeless! =-( – Utopia Jun 22 '10 at 17:54
I'd say its pretty impossible in the near term and pretty unlikely in the long term.
First off, sample rate depth has serious consequences for the way that DAW and digitial processing work, and mixing is a processor intense activity. In order for a process like an eq or summing mixer or distortion to work correctly, it has to do its process at double or 4x the rate it would at 48k. Ever actually try mixing something complex at 192k? Give it a spin and let us know how your computer holds up.
Also, have you done a double-blind listening test between 48k and 96k? Are you sure you can hear a difference? I can certainly set one up for you. What if I use 48k source sample rate material recorded outdoors and then encode each into AAC? Because another issue is the production process: Most audio for films is not captured at super high sample rates. Its captured at 48k, so unless you're asking your location sound dept to run at 192k then you're just upsampling the dialogue and pfx anyway.
Actually, that first point is the biggest one. You're crippling your computing power and you are doing it for what will amount to zero sonic benefit. This is doubly true when you consider that location source audio is captured at 48k, and the final distribution master is encoded in a lossy format.
In the end quality is about content. Mixing decisions are about story, not sample rates. I'm not trying to be harsh, I'm just trying to steer you away from the placebo mentality that makes Monster Cables so much money. Trust your ears, but only when your eyes aren't involved.
ReneRene
@Rene, you are my kindred spirit! Well said, indeed. – Jay Jennings♦ Jan 6 '11 at 17:28
cool man, but have you tried a complex mix at that sample rate? How quickly do you max out dsp there? Just asking. I know my rig can get chokey at the higher rates when I try complex processing. I also know that I can't lock to black burst very well at those rates. The Sync I/O really kind of hates it. I'd like to hear about your listening tests though... – Rene Jan 6 '11 at 18:25
Wow. I must have struck a chord here. Thanks for the answer, but I disagree on the part about forwarding and upgrading our profession. Short answer is: Computing power is not an issue for me. All my dialogue/VO is shot at 96K, which is where I think we hit head-on because I do see your point that upsampled 48K has no point, but I've always started and stayed at 96 the whole way through. True, I've never worked a large dub-stage at a top film studio but what I've worked out and set up for myself works well and keeps my clients happy. – Utopia Jan 6 '11 at 18:25
Depends but my music mixes get pretty complex - nearly always maxes the voices and I use quite a bit of instances of Oxford and Waves plug-ins. The most complex mixing though was for a gigantic multicast audiobook I did in 2008 - way more involved than any film I've done. What about the tests would you like to know? – Utopia Jan 6 '11 at 18:33
A lot of the viability of test results depend on the methodology and techniques applied when setting them up. For example, did you do the tests as double blind? Were just testing to identify differences or were you testing for aesthetic? Did you include others in the test? What was the nature of the source audio and the recording of said source audio? Were the lower res samples simply downsampled or were the recorded at a the lower sample rate but using the same mic and performance? etc. – Rene Jan 6 '11 at 18:53
Good question, i'd like to A-B some 96k vs 48k myself.
Although from a theoretical point of view, a sample rate of 96kHz means the signal can carry frequencies up to 48kHz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_rate), and we can't really hear above 20kHz (most of us are lucky to hear up to 17kHz!). Whereas a sample rate of 48kHz can, theoretically, carry signal up to 24kHz, which is still beyond our range of hearing. Also, i don't think any widely used speakers are capable of reproducing any frequencies over 20kHz.
As to whether a higher sample rate affects the frequencies we can hear, i can't say. It may be possible, but i think the benefits to a typical audience would be negligible.
On the upside, FX recorded at high sample rates won't lose all their high frequencies when they're pitched down! (as far as i know...)
Roger MiddenwayRoger Middenway
That's true. I suppose it is adequate for theater speakers/TV systems... – Utopia Jun 22 '10 at 17:55
Someone mentioned Nyquist! Awesome. This would probably be the best reason why. Also, after the age of around 30, we significantly lose a lot of our high end frequency reception. So, I don't think I'd appreciate the difference much anyay – Hubert Campbell Jun 23 '10 at 1:02
Wow. I'm 25 and I take extra special care of my ears. It's an age thing? Really? You just scared me... – Utopia Jun 23 '10 at 2:34
Yeah, the little hairs that turn vibrations into neural signals get a bit beaten up as we get older. I'm 27 and can hear 17kHz, which is meant to be pretty good. By all means take care of your ears, and i guess take comfort in the fact that as you slowly lose the higher frequencies, your knowledge and critical listening gets better! LIke i say; a 5 year old can hear a lot better than i can, but you don't see any 5 year old mixers... – Roger Middenway Jun 23 '10 at 4:21
Ya, nothing you can do to prevent the loss in upper frequencies. Every human being will suffer this. There was an article on CNN a few months back about high school students who had their cell phone ring at a very high frequency that their teachers cannot hear. This is the classic example of that high frequency loss. Adults can't hear their students' cell phones ring but, of course, they can. – Hubert Campbell Jun 24 '10 at 15:09
"I'm a total stickler when it comes to quality."
So.....
you must have noticed the X Curve in every screening you have ever been to then?
and if thats such a worry do you also notice the sync difference between the front row and the back row in a theatre?
@Ryan why do you equate 'poor audio work' with a technical spec? My point is; If you so 'hate' films mixed at 48k where is the evidence in the actual final film soundtracks? Obsessing over hearing the subtle difference between 96k and 48k in your edit room on near field speakers is maybe not the best use of your time & energy... – user49 Jun 27 '10 at 1:27
I agree with your sentiment, but I'm tempted to -1 this because it'd have been better as a comment on the post rather than an answer. But my agreement with it balances that out, so ±1 (0) from me. – fluffy Feb 26 '15 at 7:31
Some Blu-Ray titles are offered at 24/96. So far, they mainly seem to be live concert recordings.
Given that major movie theaters are playing back basically mp3 quality audio, and that the film festival circuit is even worse (Sundance only supports Stereo LoRo or LtRt encoding for a phasey LCRS mix!), I have resigned myself to the fact that 48kHz is just the standard.
NathanNathan
Film festivals such as Sundance play DCP which is up to 24/96 for 16 discreet channels. It sounds like you are talking about SR (matrixed LCRS) and SR-D (AC-3) tracks on film, and film fests and first run theatres don't play film any more. A lot has changed in the 3 years since this post. – Evan Jan 24 '14 at 1:42
Also most movie theaters these days have pretty lousy audio treatments and have their speakers turned up so high that they rattle. Sample rate is the least of the problems with cinema audio. – fluffy Feb 26 '15 at 7:32
If i can I will always record at 192 kHz, and I can still hear 17 kHz despite being considerably older than 27. I have students who are considerably younger than 27 who struggle to hear 13 kHz.
The higher sampling rate does make a difference when it comes to reverberation, as it works in a similar manner to an LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator), so inaudible frequencies affect audible frequencies.
However, all of the cinemas I ever go to are lucky if they have the projector focused regularly, never mind having the audio properly calibrated.
We will move to 192 kHz eventually, but there is so much that has to catch up first.
The first thing that I would love is a loudspeaker with a flat frequency response even up to 17 kHz, even my favourite Genelecs colour the sound.
I hear all of you on this one, especially the OP. I can also tell a difference... ...Here's the deal: I grew up nearly deaf (and inching towards deafness). Sound didn't matter until a surgery gave me back full function in one ear. The other is bad, but with special equipment, can work up to 89% efficient, which, I'm told is average human quality for my age. I can only suggest that my experience of sound in such a manner has allowed me to articulate greater differences in how sound is experienced. To that I add the following: I play on both near field speakers, as well as on a full surround system that was professionally installed and engineered with microphone field balance (connecting to mics and testing at different fields of the room). I can tell a difference. However, it's not an articulated auditory response (not necessarily pure "Hearing" of the sound). It's more in the "Feel" of the sound. I use a USB enabled receiver, with 48, 96 and 192khz sample rates in WAV. With 96k there's a touch more entry feeling than 48, and the anticipated sound feels fuller, more complete; also, the roll into the next notes (I work performances and do live audio recording for video post production archival) is more fluid. However, this is only slightly more noticeable in 192khz, or, I believe, my specs are maxed (on the receiver) at 96 and it interpolates the data down.
The old 20khz human response is based on sound room in-ear otiology, which limits the sound to what you can hear in your ears alone, but hearing is done throughout the body, and processed by multiple systems in the brain.
If you're unhappy with the mixdown, check your dithering and antialiasing modes in your DAW. Do some reading on their balances. You might find a preset that works well for you. They sort of "Fake" the feeling of the sound, much like the blur\sharpening effects of photoshop do on photos. Play around with each audio style you work with. IF you have a compression GUI that will accept pure WAV and give you effects to choose from (like apple's compressor), you can encode several files and check the balance. I would invest in a USB surround receiver and\or usb playback device, then put your original WAV or full format files on USB, along with your mixed set. Know your receiver's limits (check it out online or send a support request with your questions to the manufacturer). Play Original sound, then a mixed sound in headphones, and repeat with each mix, making notes about how much closer they get. DO the same with near field speakers. Do the same with your wide room surround. Once you get "Close Enough" for your target output, check that mix, and create a preset if possible. This will give you the best results to your preference. Audition gives you only one output at a time. AME doesn't really allow you to add effects, and doesn't allow you to tweak the downsample. You're best off with a program similar to AME, or More like Compressor, that allows you to add basic audio effects to properly mix down or compress the range, with little perceptual loss.
Most audio systems are targeted to the ear, because it is the primary sensory organ for audio response. But most also include a SubWoofer that processes frequencies and builds a "Feel" of percussion or Force into the mix based on presets in the receiver. The better your subwoofer, the more natural and forceful the feel; but don't discount the receiver's algorithm, as it sends a processed range to the subwoofer. If you play a 96khz naturally recorded sound and a 48khz naturally recorded sound (both being the same sound), you'll not notice the difference on any really explicable level. IF you are so tuned, however, you might (6-28% average of professionals) be able to vocalize that the sound just "feels" different, and you'd be right. In recording digitally, you don't record all frequencies, normally. With this in mind as a hypothesis, I ran tests. My conclusions: With 48khz samples, some of the lower band is dropped to favor the higher bands, stretching to include them and provide headroom for editing. With 96khz, more of the lower is processed but it's still stretched up. And with 192, the lower band is almost completely covered, and there is no shift, so that it doesn't stretch to higher bands. Beyond this, I haven't seen any of them attempt to stretch. The bottom is usually about 100hz-300hz for 48k and below. With 96 it's more like 50hz-200hz.
I tested this by producing a varying tone and checking the waveform that was recorded. Everything that didn't reach a certain decibel level (about -15db) was ignored at 300hz with 48khz, and lower than that, it was down to -9db. This is where the drop comes in. I was able to pick up sound at -40db at 350hz. Upon trying to adjust where there was apparently drop, I tried to see if there was anything there to view at all, and there was nothing but signal noise. I checked my hardware by inputing the sound at full output volume into the capture device, which showed input even at 0 attenuation, then used it to input by usb into the computer across 48 and 96khz files. Same behavior. I had to attenuate to catch the sound and have the attenuation almost a quarter up to pick up anything (though not even audible). I then played the files back on my surround system, and noticed there was some vibration of the drivers on the subwoofer at a basic level (about 15 on it's volume). This is a "normal" level for basic ear hearing (according to the documentation it's the volume where you should be able to hear the sound in that size room if you have normal hearing), and didn't really "Feel" like much. I raised the volume slowly and got signal noise, but as I raised the volume I began to hear a smoother tone (up around the max, which was 40-50 on volume attenuation). This last test proves that those frequencies are played, even if we don't exactly "Hear" them. With a 96k playback I could actually feel a bit of a smooth effect in the sound, under the sound really. Does it prove everything? No. It does hint at the engineering of the hardware and software. Maybe my DAW is trying to allow for the sharp and shrill being balanced (vocals and high instruments that have a more "cutting" feel), and it's only filling the base or lows that can be played by modern hardware.
By the way, for future reference, the sample rate with digital audio has more to do with cutting up the sound rather than the frequency; however, since sound is a wave phenomena that can be graphically represented by plot points with numeric value, cutting it up does offer a way to capture the frequencies at a given instant. The difference is that everything in between is Guessed, as there is not solid algorithm for how the sound molds in between the two plotted points. The rule of thumb is: More plotted points, more accurate graph of the sound. With a continuous tracking (not sampled but continuously captured), the sound would be a nearly perfect representation, if such a tracking method could be done. However, tracking and plotting the points would be an infinitesimal task, occurring an infinite number of times per second. Since this isn't possible, we attempt to reproduce the sound using the wave phenomena as a guide, sampling the wave at points along the propagation, with similar frequency to the wave itself. This has the following effect: we can reproduce a 48khz width of sound with some accuracy, but as the sounds are piled together across frequencies, the samples don't perfectly match up and some of the information is lost, making the transitions sharper and less curved\smooth (graphically). When you increase your kHz, you can reproduce the sound more accurately, and capture the higher frequencies, but only if, at some point, you process and adjust the capture to pick up the right point of that frequency (the high and\or low of the wave) rather than an in between. Thus, you'll almost never be perfectly accurate. You'll lose quality when you drop your kHz, mainly because you're dropping the in-between points off the graph, and you'll find that your sound really loses more "Feel". However, by dithering and adjusting the Aliasing of the drop, you can provide a curvature to the interpolation, and "Fake" the feel a little. The samples on the recorder have nothing to do with the kHz of microphone or the sounds actual frequency, other than that you can sample at the same speed as the waves, and mark the amplitudes you measure. However, nothing says those amplitudes are right on the mark for the peak and trough of the actual wave. There is already a drop in quality. Add the fact that those measurements are plotted, and then connected crudely, and you can understand that its not the frequency you are measuring, its the amplitude of each interpolated sound frequency at that particular sampling moment (and they are all split into their respective ranges with varying accuracy of numerics; your bit width). For example, I can capture a 96khz sound at 48khz, and if it is a continuous tone over two or more seconds, it will sound almost the same when interpolated. If it varies at all, it will lose that variation quality. When playing back analog audio, the amplitudes are represented for the different frequencies over continuous waves. With digital, there is a conversion to a continuous format for the drivers to represent, as the frequencies are all split up and have to be mixed, and there is some shifting or inaccuracy of the timing. This is why most say that a Vinyl LP still sounds better than a CD.
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In my subjective tests, I can't hear much/any difference between 96 and 48k. 24 and 16 bit however is a different story.
Have you ABX-tested 16 and 24 bit? That's another case where two properly-mixed sources should be physically indistinguishable. – fluffy Feb 26 '15 at 7:34
If I were you I'd be more worried about audio compression than sample rate.
No way I could tell the difference between 48 and 96 myself, this might be my old battered ears but I doubt it. However I can tell if someone's used a wank compression algorithm.
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Erin Morse of Jamestown homeschools her 9-year-old son Christopher year-round to maintain a consistent routine and schedule. Christopher is on the autism spectrum and was evaluated through the district, but tested too high functioning to qualify for services. She too had to file a letter of intent and curriculum to the district that meets her son's needs.
The district is quick to point out that educators are trained to do more than just teach.
"There's huge emphasis right now on social, emotional learning. Taking care of the whole child, and that's what the school buildings are all working towards," said Brett Muscarella, Jamestown Schools' director of pupil personnel services.
These homeschool families are all part of the Chautauqua Thrive Cooperative, and coming up in Part Two of Alternative Learning - A Lesson in Homeschool Education, we'll take you inside that co-op as a way to help break the stigma often associated with this form of alternative education.
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Exclusive Content: Unpublished Photos Of The Tactical Art EK From SS Oct. 2014….
By stickydiljoe February 25, 2015 ( 5 )
Damn, I’ve been sitting on these photos for so long that I almost forgot about them. There has been so much going on lately that there is just some photos that managed to get lost in the mix. I still got some photos from HKS Premium Day to go over and post up but I really wanted to take a break from all the event coverage lately to show you guys some unpublished photos from a shoot I did for Super Street last year. I originally shot this EK when I was in Japan in May of last year for Wekfest Japan. The guys from Tactical Art had literally just completed this car in time for the Wekfest event and so I wanted to make sure I had the car shot before I left. I don’t usually shoot feature cars in Japan for print because I have such a short time there and the weather is usually horrible, but I felt that this EK3 build was an important one because it really helps to illustrate how much USDM-style has grown in Japan over the last couple of years. Honestly, if I didn’t tell you where this car was shot or who built it, you would think that this Honda was from California or something…and well, that is the entire point of this build. Tactical Art really wanted to show the world that they had an understanding of our car culture here and wanted to build a car in homage to the Hondas from out here. You can read more about it in the digital version of the Super Street feature that I’ve linked below. If you haven’t had a chance to see it, please give it a read…
May wasn’t a terrible time of year at all weather-wise in Japan. It was a bit humid but for the most part, it was like Cali weather. Sunny, cold at night, and some occasional wind. The problem with shooting in Japan is finding a location to do it. Local authorities aren’t the most generous people when it comes to shooting on location because they don’t want you to draw any attention to yourselves or cause a disruption with every day life. Shooting a car in a busy part of town or in an industrial area might cause some distractions that they would frown upon. I don’t really need to explain to you guys what Civics and Hondas in general mean in this part of Japan so cruising around in a Civic making all kinds of noise with a group of people is not a good idea, whether it be day or night. Despite all that, we made an honest effort to go shoot this Civic in empty sections of Osaka where we really wouldn’t get in anyone else’s way. Finding a location actually took so long that we ran out of sunlight and I ended-up having to shoot this car the following morning before I flew back home to America. You’ll notice the location changes in the photos below and towards the end, I shot a bulk of the detail shots and some exterior shots right next door to Tactical Art because the neighboring businesses were closed that morning. All of the stuff I shot the afternoon prior later became extras that were never used because the photos I captured in the morning were the ones that ended-up in the magazine. Ever since then, I’ve been holding onto them but now you get to see more of this car here on The Chronicles. We called it the “Tactical Art EK” in the magazine because the car was built entirely in-house at Tactical Art, minus the exterior paint which was shot elsewhere. This Civic is actually a customer car owned by Motoki Tsubouchi and not a shop demo vehicle. They put so much love into it that you would think it was their own car but isn’t. That’s a testament to their quality of work and how dedicated they are to their craft. Enjoy the exclusive content below…
Digital version of the original Super Street feature on the Tactical Art EK…
I had some build-up photos of this EK3 buried in my hard drive that I recently uncovered as well. Yasu from Tactical Art was capturing photos of the build whenever he had the time too and he sent them to me later in the year after I had already shot the car. I thought it’d be a good idea to post them up with the actual feature shots as well so you can see the car before it got torn apart and built…
Atsuki from Tactical Art meticulously cleaning-up the engine bay of Motoki’s EK3…
The engine bay shaved smooth and prepped for paint…
Seam-sealer and the underside of the wheel well painted…
Multiple-coats of signature “Tactical Art Grey” applied to the engine bay…
Re-assembly of the car after paint was applied and the K-swap installed…
K-Tuned accessories for the K-swap, clutch line installed, and engine harness plugged-in…
2.0L K20A from a DC5 Type R Integra….
Rywire Tucked Radiator Kit….
16×8.5 inche CCW D11L wheels with satin black faces and polished step-lip….
Custom-ordered ARP hardware in gold…
The Michelin Pilot Sport tires needed a bit of a stretch to fit…
Shot on location in Osaka, Japan…
The original styling planned for this car was to resemble a U.S. Civic built to look like a JDM EK9 CTR…
Instead of painting the shell a traditional Championship White or Frost White, they opted to spray the car in Audi “Suzuka Gray”, which is almost white but has a grayish-blue tint to it…
The completed engine bay looks just as good as any of the best engine bays from the U.S. which was their intended goal…
They also used a host of Skunk2 products to really give the car that USDM appeal….
Rywire Mil-Spec K-swap engine harness with quick disconnect and plate on the firewall…
A closer look at the Rywire harness and the Raychem DR-25 loom…
A glimpse of how the Rywire radiator is installed on the EK, tucked nicely under the core support at a slight tilt…
K-Tuned K-swap 4-2-1 exhaust manifold….
K-Tuned fuel pressure regulator and filter…
What might be the best feature of this entire build is the custom interior which was done by 9010 Design in Japan. You would expect a build like this to just be gutted and caged but the Tactical Art crew chose to go an alternate route and did the whole interior in suede…
Even the door panels have been re-wrapped in black sueded with white stitching…
Bride Strada II Japan Edition seats and Race Series Takata harnesses…
Suede-wrapped dashboard and a custom center console that surrounds the K-Tuned billet shifter assembly….
That’s a wrap. Thanks for looking folks!…
Categories: Civics, Exclusive ContentTags: ek3 civic, Exclusive Content, Phaze2, phaze2 japan, Super Street, super street magazine, super street unpublished, Tactical Art, tactical art ek, tactical art ek3, usdm
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Any reason they went with an NRG steering wheel after having all those other really nice details? No offense, but done NRG wheels bend really easy?
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The cart is a tribute to usdm style, hence the NRG.
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How Clif Bar Helps Employees Do Good in Retirement
Its 'Re-Ternship' program teaches pre-retirees about nonprofit work
By Richard EisenbergMoney & Work EditorSeptember 4, 2018
By Richard Eisenberg
Credit: adminKathy Shoden, the first Clif Bar employee in its Re-Ternship program
Many workers nearing retirement consider working part-time at a nonprofit as their next act. But a lack of experience in the nonprofit world stops them from applying. Here’s what could help: If more employers started doing something like what the organic food and drink company Clif Bar just began for its pre-retirees: its “CLIF CORPS Re-Ternship” program.
Here’s how it works: Employees at Clif Bar’s Emeryville, Calif., headquarters who are at least 57 ½ can apply for a nine-to-18 month paid internship (a prorated $65,000 annual salary plus benefits) in the company’s Community Department. During that time, the Re-Ternees spend at least 1,000 hours in Emeryville — a San Francisco suburb — getting mentored so they can learn how nonprofits work and prepare for what the company calls “a post-Clif Bar place in the world.”
The First Clif Bar ‘Re-Tern’
“I heard about the program when it was announced in 2017 and tucked it in my back pocket,” says Kathy Shoden, 59, Clif Bar’s first “Re-Tern” who has been a longtime member of the company’s sales team. “I thought it might be something I’d like to do when the time comes.”
During her career at Clif Bar, Shoden has also had fun participating in company volunteering efforts, including working at a food bank, cleaning a park and helping with dog rescues. When her mother developed health issues last year, Shoden started thinking seriously about retiring so she could spend time helping her.
That’s when Shoden decided a Re-Ternship could be a great way to make the transition. She’s now in the middle of her nine-month, four-days-a-week stint. She uses the three other days to travel to visit her mom in a rural Illinois town.
Filling Her Nonprofit Tool Belt
“I came to the Re-Ternship with an empty tool belt” regarding working at a nonprofit,” Shoden says. Before applying, she recalls telling the program’s coordinator Cassie Cyphers (Clif Bar’s Community and Planet Programs Manager) that “I want to learn a little about everything, so when I do go back to Illinois I will have a tool belt to work with.”
While “re-terning,” Shoden has been schooled in nonprofit grants through the Clif Bar Family Foundation, as well as nonprofit governance and partnerships. She has also been helping research new nonprofit partners for a traveling film festival, Lunafest, and has done logistics planning for Clif Bar’s annual all-company volunteer day at headquarters. “We close our doors and 400 employees clean up the largest park in San Francisco,” says Shoden.
Last year, more than 90 percent of Clif Bar employees did some volunteering on company time. The only requirement: getting approval from their managers.
The Re-Ternship Program: A Natural Evolution for Clif Bar
That’s why Cyphers says the Re-Ternship program is a natural evolution for civic-minded Clif Bar, which is family- and employee-owned.
“We feel it’s part of our responsibility to build passion around giving back and building skills,” she notes. “With the Re-Ternship, you get to take a deep dive into the world of nonprofits.” Then, adds Cyphers, “if you want to start an animal rescue or sit on a board, you’ll know the way it works.”
So far, only a few Clif Bar employees have applied for the Re-Ternship program. Partly, that’s because the benefit is new. Partly, it’s because most of the company’s employees are young.
To keep the program administration manageable, Clif Bar limits Re-Ternship participants to three at a time.
Matching the Candidate to the Re-Ternship
When Cyphers’ team interviews potential Re-Ternship candidates, she says, “we sit down and talk about what they’re interested in working on.” Then the community department looks to find tasks and projects that fit.
Clif Bar isn’t the only company in America doing something like this, but it’s certainly one of the very few. Just 10 percent of employers provide employees with information about encore career opportunities, according to a 2018 Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies survey (a figure that sounds employer-inflated to me). A 2014 survey by The Conference Board and Encore.org of 91 companies found that only five had programs to help retirees transition to paid jobs in nonprofits or community organizations that support social issues — encore programs.
Intel is one that does. Intel’s Encore Fellowships are offered to eligible retirees and over 1,000 retiring Intel employees have participated.
The Excellent Encore Fellowships Program
The Intel program is an offspring of the excellent Encore Fellowships run by Encore.org, where highly skilled experienced professionals at the end of their midlife careers are matched with social-purpose organizations looking to build capacity.
Chip Conley, author of the soon-to-be published book Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder, says programs like Encore.org’s are an example of “best practices” to prepare employees for the financial and social implications of retirement.
Encore Fellowships normally last six to 12 months and are either half-time or full-time. Fellows commit to 1,000 hours of work and earn a stipend of $25,000. Thousands of Encore Fellows have provided over 1.7 million hours of service to not-for-profits in more than 50 metropolitan areas.
An Exciting New Entry
“The Clif Bar program sounds like an excellent new entry to the space,” says Marci Alboher, vice president of strategic communications for Encore.org. “Given that one of our goals with the Encore Fellowship was to spur innovation, it’s pretty exciting to see a new program like this.”
Perhaps Clif Bar’s Re-Ternship initiative will help spur a trend.
“This is such a thoughtful, and well-though-out program. I hope it spreads to other companies,” says Shoden.
Richard Eisenberg is the Senior Web Editor of the Money & Security and Work & Purpose channels of Next Avenue and Managing Editor for the site. He is the author of How to Avoid a Mid-Life Financial Crisis and has been a personal finance editor at Money, Yahoo, Good Housekeeping, and CBS MoneyWatch.@richeis315
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Dating rules for 16 year old
My Son Is Dating a Minor: Should I Be Worried About the Legal Implications?
The Dos and Don'ts of Teenage Dating
Teen Dating Rules
Establishing Dating Guidelines for Your Teen
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Many parents set rules for their Christian teens about dating. While setting rules is a good idea, it is important for parents to think through the rules that they do set. Parents need to know why they are setting the rules, and they also need to discuss the rules openly with their children. Here are some of the most common dating rules and how they can be used most effectively to guide teens through the world of dating: You can set an age where most teens have a good maturity level and are able to think independently. Not all teens mature at the same rate, so even though your teen comes to that age, he or she may still not be able to handle it.
Researchers have known for a while that closeness to parents is linked to less risky sexual behavior by teenagers. Now, they're turning their microscopes on the dating rules parents set, with some surprising results: The limits you place on your teenager's dating may say more about your own love life than your teen's needs. Also, parents' satisfaction with their own life roles shapes the kind of rules they set.
Sue Shellenbarger answers readers' questions about how to maintain intimacy in a commuter marriage, short-term projects from home, and more. Parents who are involved in stable romantic relationships with spouses or partners tend more than other parents to set rules limiting teen dating behavior, such as curfews, minimum ages for dating, limits on places teens can go and explicit rules against sexual activity, says a new study of parents and teens by Stephanie Madsen, an associate professor of psychology at Maryland's McDaniel College.
While the reason isn't clear, the author suggests these parents may hold more conservative beliefs in general; many of the rules involved sexuality. Ironically, in what other researchers have called the "Romeo and Juliet" effect, such rules may tend to drive teenage lovers closer; teens of these parents reported closer, more positive relationships. Parents who are unhappy, dissatisfied or insecure in love, however, go beyond limits and try to dictate or control how their teens treat their dates, the study found.
These parents try to influence their kids to value certain things and act in specific ways. Parents would tell teens to open doors for dates, "act like a gentleman" or a lady , or resist letting a date "walk all over" them. The goal may be to launch their teens on a romantic path happier than their own, Dr. Madsen says. But kids often regard this advice as intrusive, and again, it tended to have the opposite effect. The teens affected weren't particularly content with their dating relationships.
The research rings true to me. As a single working parent of two, my love life is near the bottom of my list of priorities. Like the parents in the study, I find myself prescribing behaviors to my teenage son, like "be a gentleman" -- advice he listens to respectfully. But, I suspect, he keeps his own counsel. A better way for parents to expend their energy, Dr.
Madsen says, is to emphasize constant, warm oversight over just setting rules. She calls this setting "supervisory" rules, or keeping up a free flow of communication without intruding too much. This means asking teens to disclose plans, check in by phone and inform parents when plans change. In such cases, the adults were focusing on their roles as parents rather than their own love lives. These parents also had the healthiest relationships with their children.
Debby Shulman and her husband, Allen, fall into this category. When their year-old son dates, says the Northbrook, Ill. Madsen says supervisory parents also may arrange to meet their teen's dates and sometimes the date's parents. Madsen's study had dating rules for their toyear-olds, the age of the teens in the study.
The rest generally either had teens who weren't dating or gave their teens autonomy in dating. Marni Kan of the research group RTI International says many parents may be setting rules in response to research showing parental supervision and communication with teens protects against risky sexual behavior. More recent studies have fine-tuned those findings by drawing a line between supervision and meddling: Parental oversight seems to have positive effects mainly when teens volunteer information about themselves -- suggesting a trusting, respectful relationship is the real foundation for the gains.
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The teen dating scene has definitely changed over the years. Here's what you should know and how you can establish rules for your child. In some states, teens can date anyone they want once they reach 16, but in other states they don' t have that choice until Is Years-Old too Young to Start Dating?. During a young mom's conversation with her 8-year-old daughter In an informal teen survey, many stated that the only dating conversation they'd had with their parents was about curfew In , the average age was
This article was updated April 26, , but was originally published Feb. Read an updated feature story with information on how social media is affecting teen dating here. Perhaps the thought of all those sweet young couples slow dancing under paper streamers coaxes a nostalgic sigh or two. Ah, reality. What to watch for:
During a young mom's conversation with her 8-year-old daughter about her school day, the girl revealed she had a boyfriend. You should have lots of boys as friends at your age.
Researchers have known for a while that closeness to parents is linked to less risky sexual behavior by teenagers. Now, they're turning their microscopes on the dating rules parents set, with some surprising results: The limits you place on your teenager's dating may say more about your own love life than your teen's needs.
Whatsapp and why you do about how old man dating site launched around and a curfew. Our teenage years. Set ground rules and go on a date with restricting a teen. So your child avoid dating a curfew. Is that dating. Buy their own clothes.
Navigating the world of romantic relationships can be scary for both parents and teens alike. Not only is everyone trying to figure out the knew dynamic of raging hormones, but parents may questions the judgment and safety of their teen and the teenager resents any interference on part of the parents. This can lead to strained relationship in the family and, in some extreme cases, can push the young person to seek out unhealthy relationships. Every child is different, and what they want, need, and go about dating will be different for every teen. While some may want to start "dating" as early as 12, others may not even show interest until after high school. Embrace it, and use it to your advantage. What you do for your oldest may not work for your youngest—and that's ok. Rules may also change as each child get's older, develops better or worse friendships or as you get to know whoever they are dating.
She thought you were kidding when you said that you did not want her to date before she is At 16, your daughter is probably old enough for dating, but she is too young to know all the dangers and pitfalls that come with dating.
Being a parent means committing to guide your child through many complicated and difficult stages of life. You go from changing their diapers, to teaching them how to tie their shoes, to eventually helping them understand dating and love. As hormones fly, you can expect to deal with your fair share of conflict.
Your year-old son is dating a year-old female classmate — no big deal, right? Take, for example, the widely publicized case of Marcus Dwayne Dixon, an year-old high school honor student and star football player who had sex with a year-old female classmate. She claimed it was rape, he claimed it was consensual, and a jury acquitted him of the charges. However, because of their age difference, the jury still found Dixon guilty of statutory rape and aggravated child molestation, and sentenced him to a mandatory 10 years in prison under Georgia law. He walked out of prison on May 3, , at age 19, a free man. Prior to his court case and conviction, Dixon had been offered a full football scholarship at Vanderbilt University, which was revoked after his arrest. Upon his release from prison, Dixon enrolled at Hampton University in Virginia with a football scholarship. The Dixon case is just one in a long line of similar legal battles teens have faced in the last decade. A Hot Topic Among Teens The recent discovery that year-old actress Jamie Lynn Spears, the sister of pop star Britney Spears, became pregnant by her year-old boyfriend has again turned consensual sex among teens into a hotly contested issue. Parents, particularly those with teenage daughters, certainly have cause for concern. Research shows that teenage girls tend to have their first sexual experience with male partners who are three or more years older.
Dating customs have changed since you were a teenager. The most striking difference is the young age at which children now begin dating: However, you might not recognize it as dating per se. The recent trend among early adolescents is for boys and girls to socialize as part of a group. They march off en masse to the mall or to the movies, or join a gang tossing a Frisbee on the beach. While there may be the occasional romantic twosome among the members, the majority are unattached. If anything, youngsters in the group spend as much time interacting with their same-sex friends as they do with members of the opposite sex.
Already purchased one of my courses? Click here to sign in. My son is 16 and a good Christian teen. We are a Christian family. My son told me this week that he met a good Christian girl. Like all parents you think of that day being long before you but it happens really fast!!!!
While the premise of teen dating is the same as it's always been, the way teens date has changed a bit from just a few decades ago. Technology has changed teen dating and many parents aren't sure how to establish rules that keep kids safe. Here are five things every parent should know about the teenage dating scene:. While some teens tend to be interested in dating earlier than others, romantic interests are normal during adolescence. Girls are more vocal about the dating interest and tend to be interested in a greater degree at a younger age, but boys are paying attention also. There is no way around it; your teenager is likely going to be interested in dating. Your teen may have some unrealistic ideas about dating based on what she's seen in the movies or read in books.
Most Christian parents tend to fall into two different camps when it comes to teen dating. Some believe that dating is never appropriate and encourage their children to follow Josh Harris's "courtship" model. Others feel that dating can be a positive experience for teens provided they are mature enough and the parents know and trust the dating partner. Before deciding how you're going to proceed, it's crucial to realize that contemporary dating is radically different from what it was when the majority of today's parents were kids. Sexual promiscuity is rampant, even among Christian teens, and many young people receive little or no moral guidance from their parents. Binge drinking, date violence, and even date rape are far too common. In light of this, we would advise that boys and girls under the age of seventeen should not be allowed to go out on one-on-one dates.
What role should parents play to steer a child away from the traps in the most popular sport for many teens—the dating game? In the fading twilight, the headlights of an approaching car reminded Bill to reach for the dashboard and turn on his lights. As the horde of rush-hour cars streamed by, Bill reminisced about the teenage daughter he had just picked up from band practice. He smiled as he thought about all those after-school trips over the last few years: Her childhood has passed so quickly.
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Blog Columns Transfer News & Rumours Manchester United show interest in Borussia Dortmund denfender
Manchester United show interest in Borussia Dortmund denfender
aakriti 27 January, 2018 Manchester United, Transfer News & Rumours
Borussia Dortmund defender Marc Bartra is a wanted man. The former Barcelona player has fallen out of favour under new coach Peter Stoger and it is being reported that the Bundesliga outfit are open to the player leaving this month.
According to reports in Marca, Manchester City and Manchester United are among the clubs who have shown interest in the player. Juventus and Real Betis are equally interested in his situation. Real Betis are said to be extremely keen to sign the 27-year-old.
The 27-year-old joined the Bundesliga side from Barcelona in 2016 and has made a total of 51 appearances for the German giants. Dortmund signed Manuel Akanji from FC Basel this month, which would put Bartra further down the pecking order.
Stöger: Marc Bartra is a quality player who does well at times in training and at times maked criticial mistakes. We have quite a few good players available and I usually only want one CB on the bench, or two if they can play full-back (Zagadou LB, Akanji RB).
— Lars Pollmann (@LarsPollmann) January 25, 2018
A return to Spain would be exciting for the player, but an opportunity to play in the Premier League would be hard to resist as well. It remains to be seen whether the clubs linked to him will formalise their interest with a bid in this window.
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College Basketball’s Best Food Traditions | Sporting Life
Posted by: Little White on: March 29, 2013
In: Sporting Life
College basketball is a game of tradition. Fans line up days before a big game to make sure they get good seats, they do the same chants, wave their arms in the same way and cheer the same way all in an effort to propel their team to victory. The food fans eat is also a big part of the tradition, whether before the game, at it or after it.
There is one small problem, though, with college basketball food traditions: the weather. It’s cold outside and, while football breeds legendary tailgating and outdoor eating, college basketball fans are stuck indoors. Fortunately, the basketball arena itself or your local watering hole, restaurant or sports bar is there to be the cornerstone of your basketball eating traditions. Here are just a few of the more popular food destinations in great basketball cities.
Free State Brewery — Lawrence, Kansas
Free State is a local microbrewery in Lawrence that’s almost always packed full of hungry and thirsty Jayhawks. Known across eastern Kansas for its excellent ales, including the hoppy Ad Astra ale, Free State has been a Lawrence hangout for decades. It’s located on one end of Massachusetts Street, a five-block area in Lawrence filled with restaurants, bars and eclectic stores, making it a wonderful place to grab a good dinner and a beer before catching a bus to campus, cheering the Jayhawks to another home victory and then returning for a postgame celebration.
Eskimo Joe’s — Stillwater, Oklahoma
Eskimo Joe’s is an institution in Stillwater with a national reputation because of its simple, but always recognizable T-shirts with the Eskimo logo and sled dog logo. Eskimo Joe’s is a multistory, multibar, multi-TV eating-and-drinking establishment that is perfect for Cowboy fans to get to before, during or after the game. The food is amazing, the drinks cool and the merchandise is legendary. Game days usually feature food and drink specials, and the atmosphere gives Cowboys and Cowgirls plenty of reasons to stay and party long after the drinking is over.
KFC YUM! Center — Louisville, Kentucky
Perhaps eating KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut during a game isn’t the most gourmet of food traditions. Still, when you’re at a stadium named after the YUM! brands (the owners of KFC, Pizza Hut, etc.) you know that you’ll be able to eat well at one of the stadium’s concession stands which will sell you a Taco Bell taco, a Pizza Hut pizza, etc. Plus, KFC YUM! Center is fairly unique in that not a lot of basketball arenas are sponsored by large food concerns. At the very least, the presence of so many YUM! foods means you’ll never have to eat stale nachos and that weird yellow cheese.
Players Sports Bar — San Diego, California
Players tops the list of the best sports bars in California, which is no small feat given the huge number of places where one can catch a game in the Golden State. However, San Diego gets high marks because of its proximity to one of the best emerging college basketball programs in the nation (San Diego State University). Players, though, gets high marks not for its local clientele, but for the fact it always keeps some of its large number of TV screens tuned to games from the Universities of Missouri, Texas, Illinois, and North Carolina, giving visitors and people who move to San Diego a little taste of home. Try their fried green beans and a burger when you drop in.
Walk-On’s — Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Located within stumbling distance of LSU’s Pete Maravich Center, Walk-On’s is a local chain of sports bars named after three LSU walk-ons (two of who happen to be the bars’ owners.) Walk-On’s is perfect for getting some postgame grub because of its proximity to campus and because it prides itself on being a center of food and fun for all LSU sports fans. Some of the fun may not be of the family-friendly variety, but that doesn’t mean that the adventure seekers and college-students-at-heart won’t find a great meal at the place voted Best Sports Bar by ESPN.
(By Chris Perrin )
Tags: Basketball, Basketball Food, College basketball, food, Football, Sport, Sporting Life, sports bars, TV
The Top Ten Most Expensive Basketball Shoes in the World | Sports Fashion
Posted by: Little White on: January 31, 2013
In: Sports Fashion
Gone are the days when all a basketball player needed to do was to lace up a pair of no-frills Chuck Taylor All Stars and run down the court to play the game. Basketball shoes have gone a long way since then. Ever since Earvin Magic Johnson and Larry Bird revived the National Basketball Association with their team-first style of play characterizing the intense rivalry of their Lakers and Celtic teams, the technology behind basketball shoes have grown by leaps and bounds.
Converse initially ruled the roost, with Magic, Bird and Sixers star Julius Erving endorsing the brand. Even Michael Jordan sported a Converse when he first rose to national prominence by leading his North Carolina Tar Heels to the NCAA championship in 1981. Half a decade later, Jordan started endorsing the Nike brand. Suddenly, basketball shoes had air or gel underneath it to help lessen the impact of constant jumping and running, and design was further improved to help support a player’s ankle and soles.
All these improvements come at a price. Combined with the collectible factor of the shoes, some may fetch incredible amounts. Here are the top ten most expensive basketball shoes in the world.
1. Air Jordan I – $25,000
The Jordan I had two versions. The original had a red and black design that was banned by the NBA as the rules state that shoes must have some white on them. Jordan loved the Peter Moore-designed shoes, however, and insisted on using it during games. As a result, he got fined $5,000 each game he would play with the disallowed sneakers. Jordan and Nike eventually relented and replaced the design with a red, black and white combination. A black and metallic gold version was released in March 1985 in Asia. Only 12 pairs were created and these now cost $25,000.
2. Air Mag – $12,000
Air Mag
In 1989, the sequel of the smash hit Back to the Future was released. Michael J. Fox, the star of the movie, sported a pair of futuristic sneakers in the film. That pair is the Nike Air Mag. Nike eventually released it, though only 20 pairs were made. Michael J. Fox had previously appeared as a basketball player in the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, and he has been spotted watching the New York Knicks at the Madison Square Garden. Still, he is not a professional basketball player. Yet, the shoe that he made famous is the second most expensive pair of basketball shoes today.
3. Air Jordan V – $10,000
This featured a reflective tongue and clear rubber soles. It is also the first shoe that sported lace locks, thus allowing the user to easily strap the shoe. The mid sole has shark teeth shapes, which were probably copied from World War 2 fighter planes where Hatfiled drew inspiration. A version with the number 23 printed at the back in black and metallic silver was created in February 1990 specifically for Jordan and they now cost $10,000. A retail version was later released without the number 23.
4. Air Jordan I – $8,000
A pair combining metallic white and metallic silver was released in March 1985. It had pearlized leather and only 1,200 were created.
5. Air Jordan VI – $7,200
This is the last of the Air Jordans with the Nike Air logo. It featured reinforcement materials in the toe area, two holes in the tongue and molded heel to protect the Achilles tendon. It came in five different color combinations, namely black/infrared, white/infrared, white/carmine black, white/sport blue and off white/maroon. It was the shoe Jordan used when he and the Bulls won the championship against the Lakers. The white/carmine black version now fetches $7,200, as it was the color Jordan used during the 1992 Olympics that featured the original Dream Team.
6. Air Jordan III – $4,500
When the original designer of Jordan I, Peter Moore, was let go by Nike, Jordan almost went with them. He decided to stay however after seeing Air Jordan III, the first Air Jordan designed by Tinker Hatfield. It featured the now iconic Jumpman logo, an air unit at the heel and leather finish. Jordan went on to have a stellar year, winning a memorable Slam Dunk contest against Dominique Wilkins, grabbing the All Star Game MVP award the following day, and at the end of the year, bagging Defensive Player of the Year honor.
7. Adidas KB8 Selection – $3,000
Adidas KB8 Selection
It was named KB8, in honor of Kobe Bryant’s jersey number. The shoe was later renamed Crazy 8 after Bryant left Adidas in 2002. Bryant is also sporting a new number now, ditching his old number 8 for 24. Only 2 pairs of the golden shoe were made and they were intended for the 1998 Slam Dunk contest. Waning interest in the contest forced its cancellation, however, and Bryant never got the chance to wear the shoe.
8. Air Jordan XI – $2,700
Jordan first used this pair in 1995 when he made a comeback in the middle of the season after a brief fling with minor league baseball. Though he had several memorable games that season, particularly the buzzer beater against the Atlanta Hawks in just his fourth game back, and the 55-point game against archrival New York Knicks in Madison Square Garden, the Bulls fell short that year after losing to the Orlando Magic in the playoff. With the condura nylon top and carbon fiber plates allowing a lighter weight and better torque, Jordan used it again the following season. In his first full season back, the Bulls regained the title. He then used the shoes in his movie Space Jam with the number 45, his number in the season when he came out of retirement, printed at the back.
9. Air Force I Chamber of Fears – $2,500
Air Force I Chamber of Fears
The original Air Force I was created in 1982 and have been tagged as the most influential sneakers of all time. In 2005, a black, red and gold version was released, with half going to Asia and the rest remaining in the US. It is only available in auctions or as giveaway items.
10. Air Force I Four Horsemen – $2,500
Air Force I Four Horsemen
Nike designed this shoe especially for LeBron James during the 2004 ESPY Awards. Less than 12 pairs were made.
(From: The Richest)
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Top 10 Sports Stories of 2012 | Sports News
Posted by: Little White on: January 4, 2013
In: Sports News
Top Sports Stories of 2012: From the rise of Linsanity to the fall of Lance Armstrong we count down the biggest stories of the year
The Jerry Sandusky Scandal
Top sports stories of 2012: 1. The Jerry Sandusky Scandal
It was the scandal that shocked and horrified the nation. Jerry Sandusky, the long-time defensive coordinator under the legendary Joe Paterno at proud Penn State, is found guilty of 45 counts of sexual abuse of minors. Sandusky, who used his youth charity Second Mile to hand-pick his victims, will spend the rest of his life behind bars. The resulting scandal led to Paterno’s firing (JoePa died in January from lung cancer), and crippling sanctions against the Nittany Lions football program for turning a blind eye to the abuse.
The King gets a ring
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Top sports stories of 2012: 2. The King gets a ring
Nobody received more scrutiny than LeBron James before the 2012 season – and perhaps no one is more celebrated for getting the monkey off his back than the King. In a lockout shortened season, James played at a ridiculously high level through 66 games and all through the playoffs, bouncing his nemesis Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals and taking down Kevin Durant – his likely rival for years to come – in the NBA Finals. After all the All-Star Games and MVP award, King James finally earned the jewelry to fit his nickname.
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Top sports stories of 2012: 3. Linsanity!
No single player across any sport owned 2012 more – or for a shorter time – than Jeremy Lin. The Harvard grad is the ultimate underdog story. Undrafted out of college, Lin was sleeping on teammate Landry Field’s couch. His journey and a pun-able last name (check the DN back pages, why don’t you) led to a media frenzy when the struggling Knicks finally gave him a shot. A memorable 38-point performance against Kobe Bryant and the Lakers, game-winning shots left and right and overall enthusiasm in resurrecting the downtrodden Knicks endears him to fans and the media alike. We will all remember where we were when ‘Linsanity’ hit.
NFL’s uses replacement refs
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Top sports stories of 2012: 4. NFL’s uses replacement refs
Come NFL playoff time, if the Seahawks get in or get a home game and the Packers are left out or have to travel, everyone will point to the Sept. 24 game between Green Bay and Seattle. That’s because replacement officials called what appeared to be a clear game-ending interception by Green Bay into a game-winning touchdown for Golden Tate and the Seahawks. The NFL used replacement officials as it locked out its refs to start the 2012 season. After Seattle won 14-12 – which gave us the lasting image of one replacement ref signaling TD and one right next to him signaling an INT – the NFL reaches an agreeement with the real zebras.
Top sports stories of 2012: 5. BountyGate scandal in New Orleans
Sean Payton and Gregg Williams were above reproach before 2012, but that’s when the details of what became known as ‘BountyGate’ came out. A full-on investigation by the NFL revealed details of what the league said was players paying teammates for injuring opponents. At the center of it all is a playoff game against the Vikings and Brett Favre, of which the future Hall of Fame QB was knocked out. The findings from the league resulted in a year ban for Saints head coach Payton and GM Mickey Loomis and an indefinite ban for Williams, the Saints defensive coordinator. Players fought and appealed and battled and Jonathan Vilma, whose alleged money was on the table, is back on the field.
Top sports stories of 2012: 6. Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace
If there were any supporters of Lance Armstrong left in 2012, it seems they must have deserted him by now. The cyclist abandoned his fight against doping chargers, which resulted in a lifetime ban from cycling (and loss of seven Tour de France titles). In perhaps the biggest and final insult, Armstrong’s foundation, Livestrong, drops his name and all association with the disgraced cyclist.
Top sports stories of 2012: 7. Phelps swims into Olympic history
Michael Phelps takes his place among the all-time greats with his 18th gold medal – 22 total in his careeer – at the London Olympics. He indicates he won’t be back for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio De Janeiro, but whispers have begun that we may not have seen the last of him.
Top sports stories of 2012: 8. Super Giants pluck Pats… again!
Eli Manning and the Giants survive a thriller to beat the favored Patriots in the Super Bowl – no this isn’t 2007. The Giants did it again in February of 2012, besting Belichick’s Brady Bunch again in Super Bowl XLVII.
Top sports stories of 2012: 9. The rise and fall of Tebow
So your 23-year-old quarterback comes off the bench, breathes life into your franchise and leads you to a playoff victory by torching the Steelers with a long touchdown pass in overtime to win. So of course you give him away for a couple of draft picks, right? Doesn’t seem to make sense, but not much does in the world of Tim Tebow. The undisputed king of the 2011-12 season is banished to the Jets, where is forced to backup Mark Sanchez and play personal punt protector. His lack of playing time gets him to ask Gang Green for a trade or release, and Jets brass seems like they will oblige. The only certainty for Tebow seems to be uncertainty.
Top sports stories of 2012: 10. Mets finally get no-no in year of pitcher
It was the year of the pitcher – three perfect games happened in 2012, one each from the Giants’ Matt Cain, the White Sox Phil Humber and Mariners ace Felix Hernandez – so it was no surprise the Mets finally broke their no-hitter hex. On June 1, the lefty tossed the first no-no in the franchise’s 50-year history (even though he got a little help from the umpires, but we’ll let that slide).
(SOURCE:New York Daily News)
Tags: 2012, baseball, Basketball, Football, Jeremy Lin, Linsanity, NBA, NFL, Olympics, Sport, Sports News, swim
Christmas dinner: What would you eat? | Sporting Life
Posted by: Little White on: December 25, 2012
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Christmas dinner: What would you eat?
Christmas is a time for feasting, but how much is too much?
It’s no wonder waistlines expand at Christmas if past years are anything to go by.
In the 13th Century, the medieval occasion ran for 12 days, with lavish spreads every day.
Christmas excess today means that the average person consumes 6,000 calories on Christmas day.
This is equivalent to eating 4.8kg of egg-fried rice, or 42 bananas, or 23 and a half hamburgers. Or you could think of it as eating three 300g chicken korma curries, three 300g chicken tikka curries, three naan breads and 24 onion bhajis.
That is also the same amount that a Tour de France cyclist needs to sustain a day’s racing, professional athletes consume to propel them through a day’s training, Royal Marines need to fuel their missions, and Arctic explorers demand to endure a day on the ice.
For those of us less inclined to extreme endurance and more comfortable with staying indoors, there is little chance we will be burning 6,000 calories on Christmas day.
But there are ways to do things a little bit more healthily.
Christmas dinner itself easily fits in to the recommended calorific intake for a day, says Sian Porter, consultant dietician and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association.
In fact it contains 956 calories, and 48g fat, she says. The guideline daily calorie count is 2,500 for men and 2,000 for women.
But it’s not just Christmas dinner that we indulge in.
“Six thousand calories over the day includes smoked salmon and eggs for breakfast, buck’s fizz and wine and other drinks, liqueurs, also Christmas cake, mince pies, cheese and biscuits, cold nibbles, snacks, crisps, nuts and an open box of chocolates,” she says.
You know what will happen if you eat an extra 500 calories a day in December…
Is that so bad?
“Some people can rebalance that quickly and easily,” she says.
“But some people have already kicked off indulging in early December and go through until 2nd January, which can mean they gain around 5lb,” she says.
This is by eating an average extra 500 calories per day.
To burn off Christmas day’s calories alone you might need to do at least seven hours of hard exercise such as cycling. But keeping moderate exercise up before and after Christmas can help stop you putting on weight.
How to burn off 6,000 calories
burn calories
It takes a lot of work to burn off 6,000 calories.
Here’s how you can do it:
Average man:
Time needed
10 hours 20 min
Medium walking
Hard cycling
7 hours 15 min
8 hours 5 min
Fast swimming
Average woman:
Samba or Tango
28 hours 40min
(Sources: ONS statistics and British Heart Foundation calculator)
So how to avoid an unhealthy binge?
Do not skip meals and try to eat regularly to avoid overeating in one big meal, says the English Institute of Sport’s performance nutritionist Emma Gardner.
It can lead to excessive hunger and poor choices, she says.
“Ensure you have a good breakfast before going to Christmas dinners/buffets so you don’t arrive hungry – Christmas gatherings are filled with tempting treats, which you are likely to snack on if you arrive hungry.
“Add a protein source at breakfast, which will also help to fill you.”
Sian Porter says adapting old favourites also works a treat.
“If you flip the lid off a mince pie, which is 250 calories before adding cream or brandy butter, you can save calories there, or swap unhealthy snacks for satsumas, nuts, dates or other fruit,” she says.
“Pile up your plate with fruit and veg, and do things a bit smarter – on the day make gravy from vegetable water and only open one box of chocolates at a time.”
Emma says: “Whether at a buffet or a Christmas dinner base your meals around lean protein options and vegetables or salad.
“If you want to go that extra step, try dry-roasting potatoes on a non-stick baking sheet or use an oil spray instead of smothering them in goose fat.”
There are plenty of easy calorie-savers, such as not eating turkey skin or avoiding putting butter on vegetables.
Eat vegetable crudites or popcorn, provided it’s without butter or sugar, for low-calorie alternatives to crisps.
Swap calorific nibbles for satsumas to have a healthier day
Chef Laura Santtini’s cooking style is flash cooking – a healthy, quick alternative where the emphasis is on “fit fast flavours for busy people”.
Most importantly, “having a flavour arsenal” next to her cooker means she can make delicious dishes that are low on fat.
Laura says she adheres to an 80:20 principle of eating, where 80% of her diet is healthy and 20% is more indulgent.
She says Christmas is “a one-meal day, not a day for thinking about being healthy”.
Simple calorie-savers
Swap turkey legs/thighs and skin for turkey breast
Swap roast potatoes for new potatoes
Swap cauliflower cheese for boiled or steamed vegetables
Swap small roast potatoes/parsnips for large ones as they absorb less fat
Swap gravy for bread sauce of fruit sauces
Swap meat stuffing for chestnut or fruit-based stuffing, which are low in fat and a good source of potassium
Swap brandy butter sauce for low-fat custard
(Source: English Institute of Sport)
“If you do 80:20 then it flips and Christmas is an 80% naughty day. But on Boxing Day you have stopped grazing,” she explains.
She suggests that you can boil or steam sprouts or bake them in the oven, or instead of doing roast potatoes, do Persian jewelled rice in a slow cooker.
However for some there is no avoiding a big calorie counter of the day – booze.
“Be aware of consuming too many empty calories, such as those in alcohol,” says Emma Gardner.
Sian Porter says alcohol is “7kcal per gram versus 4kcal/g for protein or carbs and 9kcal/g for fat”.
“Alcohol is calorie-dense and, when drunk in excess, reduces will power meaning you are more likely to succumb to eating tempting foods,” nutritionist Emma explains.
It’s recommended to avoid sweet cocktails and creamy liqueurs. Or alternate alcohol with water, or drink small short spirits with diet fizzy drinks.
But if you are planning on over-indulging during Christmas, do not despair.
Chef Allegra McEvedy says: “Unless you have serious dietary issues, you should lay back and indulge. It’s not a day to count calories.”
So one day of indulgence is OK?
“It’s all about not making people feel guilty and taking it easy,” says Sian Porter.
“You can be bad and then be good over other days – it’s over in a short space of time, and you can rebalance those extra calories by cutting back elsewhere.”
On Boxing Day you’ll be eating salad and getting on your bike then?
(Sources: BBC Food)
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Top 10 most popular sports in the world | Sproting Life
Talking about the sports all around the world, there are thousands of sports with varying popularity in different countries. Sports like Basketball and American football in are most popular in America, Cricket in India, Australia and soccer in UK. Some of sports are local and some are global. The top sports that have dominated in terms of popularity around the world are football, cricket, tennis and others. So the top ten sports are:
Top 10 sports in the world
1: Soccer
Among all the globular sports named as the King of Sports football is the most popular sports in the world.Especially its popularity is high in Europe,Asia,Africa and South America.With around 5 billion viewers around the world Soccer is the highest viewed most popular and top sport among the top 10 sports in world.
2: Cricket
After football the sports after which peoples are more crazy is cricket undoubtly. Especially in Australia, England, Africa, West Indies, Pakistan and India craze of cricket is very high. Players like Sachin Tendulkar have expanded the popularity of cricket with their huge contribution. With around 4 billion fans around the world cricket is the second popular game among top sports after football.
3:Tennis
Tennis is another famous sport in the recent world. The prestigious tournaments like wimbledon, Australian open, French open, Shanghais Open and many others. The great players like Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Djokovic, and William Sisters are the icon for tennis. With around 2 billion viewers around the world it is 3rd most popular sport in world after cricket and football.
4 : Hockey
Mainly famous in European, Asian and Australian Countries Hockey is the fourth most popular sport in the world with around a billion fans over the world. There are many formats in hockey played like ice hickey, air hockey and field hockey. It is played between two team consisting 11 players each.
5 : Volleyball
Volleyball is the game played between two teams separated by a net with 6 players in each team. It is famous all over the world.With about 800 million viewers all over the world volleyball is 5th most wanted sport in the world.
6 : Golf
Golf is the longest of all the sports in world.It is played by individual players which includes spotting the ball into the hole by the golf bat.Players like Tiger Woods has expanded its glory all over the world.With around 600 million viewers it is ranked as the 6th most popular game in the world.
7 : American Football
American football is the game played between two teams with 11 players each team.It is mainly popular in U.S.A and other American countries. With around 400 million fans around the globe it the 7th highest most popular sport in the world.
8 : Basketball
Basketball is on the rapid increasing in terms of popularity. Especially among the teenagers of world its the most wanted game. Basketball is also a game between two teams with 5 players playing in court. It is most popular especially in American countries.With around 350 million viewers and fans it is the 8th among the most popular sports.
9 : Table Tennis
Table Tennis named as TT is the game played between two player in the tennis board with net between two players.It is world widely most famous especially among the youths and school students. With around 300 million total viewers and fans it is the 9th most wanted game of the world.
10 : Baseball
Baseball is also one of the most popular games played around the corners of world.It is also the game played between two teams consisting nine players each.It mostly popular in America and Japan.With more than 200 million fans around the world baseball is 10th among the list of most popular games played all around the the world.
(Source: http://www.sportapex.com/2011/05/top-ten-sports-in-world.html )
Which sport is your favorite? No matter what sport is, remember ”Enjoy your Sporting Life and sports for life“.
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Top 10 Exercises and Sports to Burn Calories | Sproting Life
Posted by: Little White on: November 7, 2012
Top 10 Exercises and Sports to Burn Calories.
1.Spinning and elliptical trainer
Spinning on a stationary bicycle and exercising on an elliptical trainer both offer the highest calorie burning benefits. A 260-pound person will burn 1,342 calories an hour. The average male or any person weighing 190 pounds will burn 980 calories in 60 minutes, and the average female weighing 163 pounds will burn 841.
2.Skiing (downhill and cross country)
Downhill and cross country skiing is an excellent winter sport that burns fat while one has fun. Someone who weighs 260 pounds will burn 1,030-1,342 calories an hour. The average male will burn 752-980 calories skiing, and the average female will burn 645-841. A ski machine comes in close, and the average man will burn 832 calories, while the ordinary women will melt away 714 calories.
3.Basketball (full court)
Full court basketball is a fun sport that will help one to lose or maintain weight. When wanting to hang out with friends and work together, basketball is a great, calorie blasting sport. The person who weighs 260 pounds will burn 1,295 calories for each hour they participate. The ordinary man will shred 946 calories, while the average women will melt away 812.
4.Rock climbing
Indoor and outdoor rock climbing offer a healthy adventure. Again, a 260-pound person can easily burn 1,295 calories an hour while enjoying this sport. Men, you will burn 946 calories, and women you will burn 812.
5.Soccer
Competitive soccer is another sport that involves team work and constant motion. Those who weigh 260 pounds will burn 1,186 calories per hour. Males can enjoy this sport while burning 866 calories each hour. Females will ignite their metabolism and annihilate 743 calories.
6.Running
Running at a speed of 6 mph will allow a 260-pound person to burn 1,186 calories every hour. Men who run 6 mph will burn 866 calories, and women will burn 743. Keep in mind that the faster you run, the more you burn.
7.Rope jumping
Rope jumping is hard work, but it offers high calorie burning benefits. The same 260-pound person will blast away 1,186 calories after jumping rope for an hour. Males who participate in this high intensity workout will burn 866 calories per hour, and females will burn 743.
8.Swimming
Swimming is a great sport that works the entire body in the water. Burning 1,154 calories in 60 minutes will happen without breaking a sweat for those who weigh 260 pounds. The average weighing man will scorch 844 calories when swimming, while the average woman will melt away 724.
9.Skating
Rather you choose to go rollerskating or rollerblading, you will be burning butter. For those who weigh 260 pounds, 1,076 calories will be shed each hour. Men, put on your skates and prepare to annihilate 787 calories each hour. Women, prepare to have fun while burning away 675 calories. Oddly enough, women (or those who weigh less) will burn more calories skating than swimming, whereas, men (or those who weigh more) appear to burn more swimming.
10.Vinyasa yoga
Vinyasa yoga is a type that involves breathing in synchronization to each movement. Yoga is my favorite exercise of all 10 listed, and vinyasa yoga will subtract 1,030 calories each hour from a 260-pound person. Men, pick up your yoga mat and burn 752 calories in just an hour. Women, join me by participating in my favorite form of exercise and burn 645 calories for every 60 minutes.
This article was written by Rebecca Bardelli, a Yahoo! contributor.
To choose your favorite exercises and sports burns calories.
Don’t forget keep safety with comfortable sport shoes and sport wear.
Enjoy your sporting life with doing exercise.
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WADA's 2020 List of Prohibited Substances Enters Into Force
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Litvinenko Assassination: Reaction in Moscow
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1. (C) The November 23 death by radiation poisoning of former FSB agent Aleksandr Litvinenko in London has spawned a welter of conspiracy theories in Russia. The media have variously traced Litvinenko’s demise to XXXXXXXXXXXX, suicide, Putin’s Kremlin, Putin himself, those determined to undermine Putin, FSB agents unhappy with Litvinenko’s alleged betrayal of their organization, those unhappy with Litvinenko’s cooperation with Israel-based businessman Nevzlin on the Yukos affair, and the United States or “other” countries. This message recounts a representative sample of speculation, much of it self-serving. End summary.
Make Putin Stay
2. (C) Independent radio station Ekho Moskvy Editor-in-Chief Aleksey Venediktov, like many here, linked the murders of Litvinenko and journalist Anna Politkovskaya. (Politkovskaya, who had accused the GOR of human rights abuses in Chechnya, was murdered in Moscow on October 7 (reftel).) In his telling, both murders, with perhaps more to come, are part of an effort to force Putin to remain in office beyond 2008 by, in effect, making him persona non grata in the West. (Putin has repeatedly insisted he will leave when his term expires in 2008.)
3. (C) Venediktov pegged the two assassinations to rogue or retired FSB or military intelligence agents controlled by forces either within or without the Kremlin. Putin, Venediktov thought, is well aware of the game being played, but is powerless to stop it; in part because he is not certain whom to hold responsible. Venediktov subscribed to the generally-held view here that Putin values his reputation in the West, and that sabotaging it is one path to having him reconsider his decision to leave the Kremlin in 2008.
4. (C) Venediktov did not exclude the possibility that the culprit in Litvinenko’s poisoning may have been ex-FSB agent turned businessman Andrey Lugovoy, who has loudly advertised his innocence. Lugovoy met with Litvinenko in London November 1, the day Litvinenko was allegedly irradiated. Lugovoy’s rush to the Moscow British Embassy and into the Russian media immediately after the Litvinenko story broke in the press was designed to provide him with a measure of protection, Venediktov thought, should “others” –either those who commissioned the killing or those unhappy with the furor it has caused– want revenge. Venediktov joined National Bolshevik Party leader Eduard Limonov in finding it suspicious that a Moscow-based businessman and former FSBer like Lugovoy would want to cooperate commercially with a man like Litvinenko who was on the Kremlin’s –and the FSB’s– enemy list. Lugovoy may have been dispatched to cultivate, and kill, Litvinenko, Venediktov thought.
5. (C) In a separate conversation November 30, the Moscow Heritage Foundation’s Yevgeniy Volk seconded the version of events offered by Venediktov, and was at pains in his remarks to insulate Putin from any association with the murders. Volk described Putin as a “pawn in a larger game” being played by those in the Kremlin as 2008 drew nearer. XXXXXXXXXXXX saw Putin’s fingerprints on both the murders, although he admitted he had no evidence to support his allegations. Noting that Putin had appointed Ramzan Kadyrov Prime Minister of Chechnya, XXXXXXXXXXXX offered us his bleak assessment of Putin with the phrase “you know people by the company they keep.”
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6. (C) Stanislav Belkovskiy, political analyst from the National Strategic Institute also linked the Politkovskaya and Litvinenko killings, but thought they were designed to influence the succession struggle. In his far-fetched (but indicative of the conspiratorial mood that hangs over Moscow) telling, Kremlin “liberals” XXXXXXXXXXXX had engineered the assassinations in order to embarrass Putin before the West, and force him to sacrifice someone from his inner circle in order to salvage his reputation. Belkovskiy thought that victim would be Presidential Administration Deputy Head and leader of the so-called “siloviki,” Igor Sechin. XXXXXXXXXXXX understand that First Deputy PM Medvedev is a very weak presidential candidate, and that Putin remains unconvinced that he would make an able successor. Undermining the “siloviki” is one way to ensure the inevitability of Medvedev’s candidacy, Belkovskiy told us. He suggested that Putin could portray Sechin’s ouster as the first serious step in the fight against government corruption, noting, “Putin could credibly tar him with the Yukos machinations.”
7. (C) The victims to date, Politkovskaya and Litvinenko, had been selected because they were better known beyond Russia’s borders, where it was important that the murders resonate most strongly. Belkovskiy predicted more murders to come if Putin “failed to get the message.” He suggested that Garry Kasparov’s absence from the Russian media, ties to the U.S., and name recognition abroad made him a likely victim.
8. (C) Belkovskiy offered in support of his theory what he said was indirect proof of XXXXXXXXXXXX involvement. Belkovskiy told us he had been approached the week of October 2 by a longtime contact from XXXXXXXXXXXXX inner circle who warned him that he had been targeted and should leave Russia immediately, which he did. Politkovskaya’s murder that weekend had, Belkovskiy believed, the “liberals’” fingerprints on it. He doubted that he had ever been the actual target, and speculated that his contact knew of a plot to kill someone in journalistic circles, and had warned Belkovskiy “just in case.”
9. (C) The Institute for Globalization Problem’s Mikhail Delyagin added the November 18 killing in Moscow of Movdali Baysarov, Chechen “Gorets” division commander and critic of Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov; and the November 4 “Russian March” to Belkovskiy and Venediktov’s lists of recent, linked events. Delyagin joined others here in assuming that Baysarov’s killing had not occurred as described by the Moscow police. (Moscow Internal Affairs personnel claimed that Baysarov had threatened them with a hand grenade when stopped on a busy Moscow avenue. Russian blogs and the internet press are filled with alleged eyewitness accounts that claim Baysarov offered no resistance.) Baysarov’s protective detail had been suspended just before his murder, something that only could have been done, Delyagin said, by the FSB or “someone higher.”
10. (C) According to Delyagin, the killings of Baysarov, Politkovskaya, and Litvinenko combine to create an atmosphere of chaos desired by the “siloviki,” who would like Putin to remain in office. Delyagin discounted XXXXXXXXXX as possible authors of the murder of Litvinenko. XXXXXXXXXX In addition, he said, they lack the connections to confidentially procure the polonium 210 allegedly used in the SIPDIS killing. Delyagin joined Venediktov and Belkovskiy in seeing the polonium as the calling card of someone in Moscow.
No Theory Suffices
12. (C) In a December 1 conversation, the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Masha Lipman cautioned against falling prey to conspiracy theories. None of the ones available, she thought, fully account for what appears to be happening. She found it unlikely that the killings were being staged in an effort to force Putin to remain in office. If so, the strategy seemed shortsighted, as Putin who felt his hand had been forced would surely seek revenge if compelled by circumstances he did not create to remain. With little information available, the only thing that could be said with certainty, she thought, was that Russia had again entered a period, perhaps occasioned by the looming 2008 succession, where problems were being solved by force. Lipman noted that recent murders had not been confined to enemies of the Kremlin; she mentioned the assassination of Central Bank Chairman Kozlov, and suggested that factors contributing to the recent re-eruption of violence in addition to 2008 might be corruption, institutions unable to solve the problems of Russians, and the sense, at least in the Kremlin, that Putin no longer is fully in control as his power wanes with the approaching end of his term.
13. (C) The sense of unease here only deepened with news that former Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar had been poisoned November 24 while attending a conference in Dublin. United Energy Systems’ Chairman Anatoliy Chubais, who talked to Gaidar after he returned to Moscow, alleged that Gaidar had been the victim of foul play even before hearing the verdict of the Moscow physicians. Chubais implied that Berezovskiy was the culprit. Gaidar Spokesman Valeriy Natarov reported the evening of November 30 that Gaidar’s Moscow doctors believed that he had been poisoned. Gaidar’s daughter Mariya alleged poisoning as well in a November 30 Radio Moskvy interview. However, she cautioned that a complete diagnosis would have to await the arrival of initial tests on Gaidar conducted at the Dublin hospital. Other media report that Gaidar is recovering and expects to be discharged December 4.
14. (C) Masha Lipman believed that the well-connected Chubais’s early certainty that Gaidar had been poisoned might mean that he knows, or has reason to suspect that he knows, who was behind the attempt. Gaidar, she hoped, might shed some light on this when released from the hospital next week.
15. (C) All of the above putative versions of events are handicapped by a lack of evidence and by the existence of other motives for the killings and other potential perpetrators. Whatever the truth may ultimately be –and it may never be known– the tendency here to almost automatically assume that someone in or close to Putin’s inner circle is the author of these deaths speaks volumes about expectations of Kremlin behavior as the high-stakes succession struggle intensifies. BURNS
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BCCI Mulls Nine Teams For IPL Instead Of 10 From 2021
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BCCI Mulls Nine-Team IPL Instead of Ten from 2021:
The BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) has planned to bring out 2 new franchises in the Indian Premier League to make it a 10 team tournament in 2021. According to sources, BCCI is now thinking of introducing just one team in 2 seasons before introducing the 10th team.
Since 2008, IPL has been an eight-team tournament. BCCI tried to introduce two new franchises in 2011. However, because of multiple controversies, the tournament was back with eight teams in IPL 2014.
The possibility of adding two new franchises to IPL seems unlikely now. Firstly, BCCI is unable to host 90 plus matches at the moment because of the FTP (future tour program) of the ICC. As per sources, ” nine teams work well until a new FTP can fall in place (2023) and BCCI can introduce the 10th team.“
Second, the board is expecting the base price of somewhere around $300 m (approx. Rs 2000 crores) for the new franchise at present but is not sure that in the prevailing market that more than one venue can attract that kind of investment.
Sources said, “ There are buyers. That’s not the point. But are there enough buyers coming to the table where bidding can be a competitive process? For one franchise? Yes, for two? Let’s see.”
Third, with Ahmedabad’s Sardar Patel Stadium in Motera, reportedly the biggest and fanciest cricket stadium in the world when ready, is slated to be ready for cricket from March 2020. “There will be takers, given the following for cricket in Ahmedabad and the resources available there. So if a tender is bought out for one franchise right now, there will certainly be a great amount of interest and will set a future benchmark “ sources added.
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Meet The Ex-Breitbart GOPer Waging A Lonely Fight To Combat Gerrymandering
By Allegra Kirkland
June 24, 2019 6:00 a.m.
John Pudner is a bit of an anomaly.
The deeply conservative GOP strategist has managed to retain allies on the left despite stints running Breitbart Sports, helping Tea Party icon David Brat win a U.S. House seat, and defending President Trump after the Mueller investigation.
Now Pudner wants to use his skill at connecting across party lines to make the Republican Party change its mind about gerrymandering.
His group, Take Back Our Republic, is the only openly conservative group that wants bipartisan, independent commissions to take charge of drawing congressional and legislative maps. This stance is completely at odds with other national GOP organizations working on redistricting — like the Republican State Legislative Committee and Scott Walker-involved National Republican Redistricting Trust — who think that legislators should have free rein to carve up districts as they see fit.
For now, Take Back is fighting a lonely battle and has little sway on the issue. Several redistricting experts and national organizations pushing for reform told TPM that they’ve never heard of the group at all. But anti-gerrymandering momentum is gaining force, elevated in the public eye by a spate of recent Supreme Court cases. Pudner thinks history is on their side.
“As with almost anything in life, it’s better if people who have vested interests aren’t making the decision,” Pudner told TPM of his support for the commission model, which he called “the gold standard.”
Redistricting wasn’t initially a priority for Take Back. Founded in 2015 to make the conservative case for getting big money out of politics, gerrymandering eventually emerged as a relevant tangential issue. Pudner observed that it’s much harder to win a low-budget grassroots campaign in a puzzle piece-shaped district that’s been carved up to lawmakers’ liking.
The group’s gerrymandering work primarily involves funding and campaigning for state ballot initiatives and bills that aim to undo the practice. Take Back supported a New Mexico constitutional amendment to bar unfair redistricting, traveled around Ohio to gin up support for a bipartisan gerrymandering reform bill passed by the legislature last year, and backed a successful, hard-fought effort to establish an independent commission in Michigan via ballot initiative.
Dan Vicuña, national redistricting director for voting rights group Common Cause, called Take Back “a really really great ally around the country.”
“Right-leaning groups [working on redistricting reform], unfortunately, are few and far between at the national level,” Vicuña added. “We do have supportive groups or individuals within states that are right-leaning, but in terms of the national landscape, unfortunately, it’s become a partisan issue.”
Mia Lewis, a campaigns coordinator with Common Cause Ohio, visited Cincinnati with Pudner last year to get out the word about Issue 1, the gerrymandering reform bill. She told TPM that his “really strong conservative credentials” helped open doors to possible allies on the legislation that may otherwise have remained closed.
“We went and we met with the Catholic archdiocese and we met with the Chamber of Commerce and those kinds of people who may have been more reluctant if we were coming from just one part of the political spectrum,” Lewis said.
Some political observers are more skeptical of Take Back Our Republic’s efficacy, questioning why they are currently pushing redistricting reform in the blue state of Massachusetts. The Bay State’s 2011 maps are less egregiously gerrymandered than those in many other U.S. states, and an effort to use a ballot initiative to create an independent commission could not be pushed through by the time the maps are redrawn in 2021.
Skeptics wonder if the Republican group is just trying to muddy the question of which party deserves the most blame for partisan gerrymandering.
“There is certainly a broader theme over the past several years of Republicans pushing for reform in states that went for Democrats,” said Carolyn Fiddler, an expert in state politics who works as political editor at the Daily Kos.
“I think this move in Mass. kind of indicates how amateur hour they are,” Fiddler added. “Their timing is just embarrassing.”
Pudner said he’s more focused on forcing lawmakers and voters to rethink how gerrymandering works in Massachusetts and elsewhere than he is in scoring immediate wins.
“There are partial successes you can have,” he told TPM. “[Lawmakers] start going home and are surprised to hear from their constituents this has become more of a voting issue.”
Within his own party, Pudner is certainly playing the long game.
The National Republican Redistricting Trust insists that the independent citizen commissions Pudner champions are “easily and often gamed by Democrats.”
The Republican State Legislative Committee, which oversaw the 2010 effort to sweep statehouses and then gerrymander maps in Republicans’ favor, recently told TPM that the commissions are “a charade,” dismissing Katie Fahey, who led the successful effort to institute one in Michigan, as a “Hillary Clinton volunteer.”
Take Back, meanwhile, spent $60,000 on its outreach for Fahey’s campaign, going out to the state to rally support for it.
For now, there is a huge discrepancy in funding and name recognition between Take Back and the GOP outfits that oppose it. But Pudner thinks that more conservatives will get on board with reform if they take a beating in the 2020 elections. They’ve already done so in states like Virginia, where Democrats may flip the statehouse this year.
“I do think that it’ll be interesting if the Democrats do get a bunch more legislatures how much more mainstream among conservatives our argument will be,” he said.
Ultimately, in Pudner’s view, “It’s about insiders versus outsiders. If we get a system that works, whoever wins at the ballot box, God bless them.”
Correction: This piece originally said Take Back Our Republic donated $60,000 to Fahey’s campaign. The organization actually spent that sum raising awareness for the initiative, according to Pudner.
Allegra Kirkland (@allegrakirkland) Allegra Kirkland is a New York-based reporter for Talking Points Memo. She previously worked on The Nation’s web team and as the associate managing editor for AlterNet. Follow her on Twitter @allegrakirkland.
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by PolicyFellow May 9, 2012 1:12 pm
Federal contractors for Romney: Federal contractors have donated more than $1.2 million to the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future. The contributors work for companies that hold more than $244 million in federal business. (The Hill)
Cantor denies super PAC ties: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is working hard to untangle the knots connecting him to two super PACs. The YG Action fund is run by two of his former top aides and he donated $25,000 to the Campaign for Primary Accountability, but he has distanced himself from the actions of both groups in recent statements. (Politico)
Issa shedding light on IG vacancies? Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is holding a hearing on ten vacant Inspector General positions around the federal government after the GSA IG exposed fraud and abuse in the agency. (Washington Post)
A Wolf at the door: Last month, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) introduced the Foreign Lobbying Reform Act, which would prevent high ranking government officials, including members of congress and ambassadors, from lobbying for foreign governments for a decade after leaving office. (POGO)
Moving the OGP forward: Following the first annual meeting of the Open Government Partnership in Brazilia, there are several steps that can be taken to move the partnership forward. (Global Integrity)
Uphill climb to transparency in India: Many instances of major corruption, costing the Indian government billions of dollars, have been exposed in the past few years. The Indian public has shown frustrating, but the government and private sector have not taken action to become more accountable. (Transparency International)
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Hong Kong doctors join localist protest against one-way permit scheme, as mainland migrant influx blamed for stretched hospitals
Ng Kang-chung
South China Morning Post 10 February 2019
Hong Kong doctors joined localists on Sunday to call for the abolition of a controversial migrant scheme taking in 150 mainlanders daily – a policy activists blamed for overcrowding at public hospitals.
Some 20 protesters, claiming to represent about 30 concern groups and political parties, staged a rally outside the office of the city’s leader in Admiralty, decrying the so-called one-way permit scheme.
“Out of 10 patients I have to deal with in a day, at least seven are new migrants,” radiation therapist Ng Chi-kit, of Prince of Wales Hospital, said.
“You can tell they are new migrants by the spellings of their names and the prefixes in their ID card numbers.”
One-way permits for mainland China migrants ‘added 700,000 to workforce’
The tension was sparked by public hospitals being stretched to breaking point as medical staff battled the winter flu surge since the start of the year.
The overall occupancy rate for public wards across the city has routinely exceeded 100 per cent – meaning temporary beds were added between regular ones and along corridors.
On Saturday, the overall occupancy rate for medical wards was 102 per cent, with Queen Elizabeth Hospital and United Christian Hospital recording a high of 115 per cent.
Out of 10 patients I have to deal with in a day, at least seven are new migrants
Ng Chi-kit, radiation therapist
Queue times for non-urgent patients could stretch to eight hours at accident and emergency units, and prolonged waiting time at such places has become the norm.
Last month, some 100 nurses from public hospitals staged a rally to voice discontent with manpower shortage. More than 100 overworked doctors also held a forum to take the issue of overcrowding to officials.
On January 31, blaming hospital woes on the influx of mainlanders, localist groups launched an online petition and collected more than 12,000 signatures in 10 days in support of their call for a review of the permit scheme, or to reduce the quota.
Created in the 1980s to enable family reunifications, the one-way permit scheme allows up to 150 mainlanders each day to move to Hong Kong. It is administered by mainland authorities and Hong Kong has no say in who is admitted.
To mainland Chinese ‘Hong Kong drifters’, the allure of becoming a permanent resident in the city is fading
There are also no checks on migrants’ financial status and health conditions.
Debate on the influence of new migrants in society heated up recently after Dr Alfred Wong Yam-hong, a public doctor and member of the doctors’ group Medecins Inspires, said he heard from frontline colleagues that many mainlanders sought kidney dialysis in Hong Kong’s public hospitals immediately after arriving on one-way permits.
We are now like in a packed and overloaded lift. We only ask that no more people be let in
Roy Tam, protest group spokesman
At Sunday’s protest, group spokesman Roy Tam Hoi-pong, also of localist party NeoDemocrats, denied they were inciting hatred against mainlanders. “We are now like in a packed and overloaded lift. We only ask that no more people be let in.”
The Society for Community Organisation (SoCO), which advocates rights for new migrants, argued that family reunions were part of human rights and should not be denied. It cited official data indicating new migrants were young, while some 60 per cent of those who needed to stay in hospitals were aged 65 and above.
SoCO added that new migrants were a major source of low-skilled labour, thus contributing to the city’s economic success.
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Shorter service hours from Admiralty to Yio Chu Kang MRT stations on 1 June-1 July: SMRT
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Yahoo News Singapore 17 May 2018
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Five MRT stations along the North South Line (NSL) will close earlier and open later on weekends for a month to facilitate rail engineering and rectification works, said rail operator SMRT on Thursday (17 May).
From 1 June to 1 July, the affected MRT stations – from Admiralty to Yio Chu Kang – will close earlier at around 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and open later at around 8am on Saturdays and Sundays.
For the weekend period from 15-17 June, train services will run as per normal with operating hours extended on 14 June (the eve of Hari Raya Puasa), the SMRT added.
(SOURCE: SMRT)
While the five affected stations are closed from 11pm, commuters can travel on the NSL between Jurong East and Woodlands MRT stations, and between Ang Mo Kio and Marina South Pier MRT stations until the end of service.
The rail operator also added that two bus services will serve as alternative travel options for affected commuters.
Shuttle bus service 10 will operate along the stretch of the NSL between Woodlands and Ang Mo Kio MRT stations, stopping at designated bus stops near the affected stations to pick up and drop off passengers.
Express 17, which operates point-to-point between Woodlands and Bukit Panjang MRT stations, will connect commuters directly to the Downtown Line.
“Our engineering teams are making good progress on the renewal, maintenance, and rectification works along the North-South and East-West Lines, thanks to the additional hours available on weekends over the past six months,” said Lee Ling Wee, CEO for SMRT Trains.
The rail operator has been working closely with the Land Transport Authority to step up their renewal and maintenance efforts, he added.
“Where possible, we are adjusting the operational hours along the NSEWL in sectors and keeping the rest of the network operating regularly so as to minimise inconvenience to commuters,” he said.
In April, SMRT announced that seven MRT stations – from Khatib to Novena – along the NSL would also close earlier and open later on weekends in May.
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The Golden City Hotel (Foshan Jincheng Dajiudian) is situated in Foshan's downtown area, approximately 3 km (2 mi) from Foshan Railway Station.
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The InterContinental Foshan (Foshan Baoli Zhouji Jiudian) was the first international luxury hotel to grace the affluent Nanhai district, Foshan’s northern scenic area. The hotel’s marvelous architecture offers magnificent views of Qiandeng Lake and a tastefully landscaped garden will ensure you unparalleled views of nature. The hotel is only a short ten-minute drive from central Foshan, and a mere 18-minute drive to central Guangzhou.
With a variety of public amenities and services, such as an airport pickup service, rooms for disabled, free Wi-Fi and parking, bellboys and doormen, car rental and a ticket reservation service, guests will find everything they need at hand and friendly staff ready to help.
Guests can dine at the on-site restaurants which serve both Chinese and Western dishes, while a range of bars serve excellent snacks and fine wines.
Well placed to facilitate the needs of those in the city on business, the hotel has a business center, numerous meeting rooms and provides secretarial and translation services.
Guests who want to indulge themselves over their vacation can head to the spa for a variety of health and beauty services. Those who prefer something more active can hit the gym, take a dip in the swimming pool or play a game of tennis.
Sofitel Foshan
Lecong、Longjiang
French Elegance and Luxury is coming to Foshan!
Located in the Louvre International Furniture Exhibition Center, the landmark Sofitel Foshan is situated in the leading furniture city –Lecong of Shunde with convenient transportation accessibility. It is only twenty-minute drive to Foshan downtown and 60 minutes to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.
The Sofitel Foshan offers 325 stunning decorated and spacious rooms and suites, Sofitel MyBed, Lanvin, and Hermes bathroom amenities. Each room is equipped with the state-of-the-art facilities and will blend French and Cantonese “Art de Vivre” in Foshan.
Hotel guests can enjoy a diversity of local and international culinary delights at three restaurants on top floors. The all-day dining restaurant features sumptuous buffet as well as a la carte menu; Chinese restaurant offers authentic Cantonese cuisine in an elegantly-appointed ambience, a Sky Bar with live-music and DJ, the regular trendy events dazzle visitors nightly.
The Sofitel Foshan features a range of wellness options for traveler with an indoor swimming pool, a SoFit 24-hour fitness center, plus Sofitel signature SoSpa with L’Occitane. Indulgence has never looked or felt this good.
The pillar-less 1,000 sqm Louis XVI style ballroom creates the perfect setting for an extravagant Wedding or other celebrations.
Sofitel Foshan will open its doors in 2017.
Swissotel Foshan Guangdong
The Swissotel Foshan Guangdong (Foshan Heng'an Ruishi Dajiudian) is convenient to the Zumiao Commercial District Fenjiang Financial District and the Foshan Highway connecting Foshan to Guangzhou and Shunde.
This Foshan hotel occupies the top 15 floors of the 50-storey Foshan International Plaza, one of the Foshan's most distinctive architectural icons and the tallest building in the city. Each room features modern décor and deluxe amenities such as plasma TVs, evening turndown service, daily newspapers and Internet access.
Guests at the Swissotel can enjoy access to the hotel's sleek fitness center or indoor pool.
Wyndham Foshan Shunde
The Wyndham Foshan Shunde (Foshan Shunde Shunlian Wendemu Jiudian) is a 5-star hotel located in Chencun, about 30 km (~19 mi) from the Foshan airport, and about a 5-minute drive will allow you to reach Bijiang Station of the Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Railway.
With a continental design, rooms and suites in this deluxe Foshan hotel are complete with international direct-dial telephones, tea/coffee makers, mini-bars, mini-refrigerators, hair dryers and safes.
Diners may choose from Japanese, Chinese and Western cuisines in the on-site restaurants. Ten private dining rooms are also available for booking.
Event organizers are invited to make full use of the business center and meeting facilities. When it comes to relaxation, guests may enjoy a game of billiards or ping-pong, have a few drinks in the bar or head to the spa. There's even a gym for those that want to maintain their exercise routine.
Jiaxin Conifer Hotel Shunde
Gaoming District
The Jiaxin Conifer Hotel Shunde (Shunde Jiaxin Kangnian Huayuanjiudian) is located in Fushan, just a 10 minute walk from Shunde Convention and Exhibition Center. The hotel is about 30 minutes by car from Guangzhou South Railway Station, and an hour's taxi ride from Foshan Airport. Guests can dine on Western cuisine at the on-site restaurant, and unwind with a drink in the coffee shop or lobby bar. Business travelers are invited to make the most of the business center and meeting rooms. Guests looking to stay fit can head to the gym or outdoor swimming pool for a workout, while those simply wanting to relax can head to the spa for a massage. This Foshan hotel offers free in-room Wi-Fi and free parking.
Marco Polo Lingnan Tiandi Foshan
Located in the central Chancheng District of Foshan at the junction of Zumiao Road and Renmin Road, the Marco Polo Lingnan Tiandi Foshan (Foshan Lingnan Tiandi Make Boluo Jiudian) is designed with a modern and oriental touch.
It is adjacent to the Ancestral Temple and the beautiful Lingnan Tiandi historic redevelopment. It is only a short walk to the Zumiao subway station and 55 minutes’ drive to Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.
The hotel features rooms and suites, including three stylish villas with private gardens and a variety of 1-3 bedroom serviced apartments. All rooms have private balconies, either overseeing the Foshan Lingnan Tiandi development or the city center.
When it comes to dining, Café Marco, an all day dining venue, offers sumptuous breakfast, lunch and dinner buffets in addition to the extensive a la carte menu in a casual and relaxed ambience.
The hotel offers a magnificent 1,000 seat Marco Polo Ballroom, a Ceremonial Hall for weddings and 7 well-equipped function rooms with natural light and landscaped gardens.
After a long day of sightseeing or business meetings, guests can take a dip in the 28-meter indoor pool to unwind or visit the state-of-the-art gymnasium.
Osotto Recreation Hotel
The Foshan Osotto Recreation Hotel (Foshan Yuanshengtai Xiuxian Jiudian) is about 5 km (3 mi) away from Foshan Ancestral Temple, near City Plaza.
Diners can try the well-preserved Western and Chinese fare.
Room are of the standard variety and come with IDD dialing, mini fridge, central A/C and free bottle of water.
Well-equipped saunas and indoor pool provide a welcome respite from the daily grind while billiards and ping pong are available for some light fun.
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Which location do people choose for the internet access hotel the most in Foshan?
Zhumiao District is the most popular location for internet access accomodations in Foshan. Zhumiao District is also beloved by travellers.
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Foshan is a city that is both old and young. It has been named in the Tang Dynasty since its establishment in Jin Dynasty. From ancient times, it has had the reputation of being the Southern Capital of Pottery and the birthplace of Lingnan medicinal herbs. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the handicraft industry and commerce were quite developed in Foshan. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, together with Hankou, Jingdezhen, and Zhuxian town, Foshan was listed as one of the four most famous towns in China. During the Qing dynasty, "Beijing in the north, Foshan in the south, Suzhou in the east, Hankou in the west" were known as the four most important commercial cities in the country.
The prosperity of the economy has promoted the local culture and Shiwan Figurine arts and crafts have become internationally famous. In modern times, the city became well known for the famous martial arts master Wong Fei-hung. In addition, Foshan is also the birthplace of the Cantonese Opera. Therefore, Foshan, the birthplace of art, ceramics, food, and martial arts, not only carries traditional culture, but also guides the emerging trends of the future. Foshan is also the hometown of Wing Chun practitioner Leung Jan, and Bruce Lee, master of the Kung Fu world.
Foshan is located in the south-central part of Guangdong in the Pearl River Delta, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macau. The water, land, and air transportation of Foshan are unobstructed, and the land is vast and abundant. Since ancient times, Foshan’s fertile land allowed it to be the gate that opened southern China to the world. As early as the Eastern Han dynasty, Foshan's cultural and agricultural economy were quite developed. Foshan is known as the southern pottery capital. Ceramic production began in the Tang dynasty, laid its foundation in the Song dynasty, flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and today, Foshan has become China's largest ceramic production base.
Foshan ceramics has opened its historical prelude of burning pottery as early as the Shell Mound in the late Neolithic period. During the Qin and Han dynasties, Foshan's pottery-making techniques were at a relatively high level. A large number of locally-unearthed pottery figurines, animals, and utensils proved that ceramic arts were already being made at that time. During the Six Dynasties, Foshan locals had already mastered the ceramic glaze technology. In the Tang dynasty, Foshan produced commercial ceramic products. In the Song dynasty, Foshan ceramics products transitioned from the circular kiln production to the dragon kiln production and a specialized and scaled production system for ceramic products was gradually formed. In the Ming dynasty, Foshan ceramics entered a prosperous period. At this time, Foshan, as a focal point for the production of folk ceramics, was already unique in its method of industrial production. The use of Foshan ceramic manufacturing technology has continuously improved, and the appearance of fine arts ceramics with a local folklore characteristics also greatly enhanced the Foshan ceramic art. Tiles produced in Foshan, the world-class quality, which generally reflects the status of Foshan ceramics production at that time. In the Qing dynasty, Foshan ceramics embraced a boom, and a large number of various types of daily-use ceramics were produced.
The production of unique pottery tiles, construction decoration components, Buddhist statues, gardening supplies, furnishings, writing furnishings, artistic figures, flowers and birds, and ceramics not only opens up a broad market in many provinces and regions of southern China, but are also widely exported to markets in Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States through the Maritime Silk Road, becoming a highly developed production technology and commodity economy at the time.
The annual average temperature of Foshan is between 21.2-22.2°C. The climate is mild and the best travel time to Foshan is from April to October. There are many hotels in Foshan, ranging from high-end hotels to budget accommodation. Foshan hotels have a complete infrastructure. Middle level to high-end hotels also have meeting rooms, gymnasiums, and swimming pools. In addition, convenient transportation is available around the hotels in Foshan.
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Top doctors now recommending the new herbal cure to heart patients
Clear deadly plaque from arteries without statin medications, needles, or surgery; top doctors from coast-to-coast are now recommending the new SoftenClean™ herbal product to heart patients because it safely dissolves artery blockages
By S.H. Fisher
National News Syndicate
NNS — Over 3-million doses have been shipped to heart patients across the country and sales continue to climb every day for the new herbal supplement called SoftenClean™.
"We knew we had a great product, but we did not expect this much demand,' said Kenway Young President of Shebal Health Associates — the makers of this new artery-cleansing sensation. "People just keep placing orders. It's been amazing," he said.
But a closer look at SoftenClean™ suggests that maybe the company should not have been caught off guard by its success.
There are good reasons why SoftenClean™ sales are booming.
To begin with, the results of more than 35,000 patient case studies here in the U.S., and 27,000 in Germany, are impressive to say the least. Many patients taking SoftenClean™ report a 50% reduction in artery plaque. Some users report an incredible 75% reduction.
The active ingredients in SoftenClean™ are all natural extracts. Scientists claim they are both safe and healthy, as tested by hundreds or even thousands (in some cases) years of medical practices. They absorb into the veins so results can be seen quite quickly.
"Many patients notice better blood pressure and cholesterol levels within the first 30 days," said Dr. Alex Livshin, a former Staff Physician at North York General Hospital.
WHY SO MUCH EXCITEMENT?
Scientists believe they have discovered two amazing extracts from two species of rare plants only growing in pristine mountaintops of China and Indian. They can soften blood vessels, making them more elastic thus younger, and clear plaque blockages from human arteries. Yes, the same blockages that trigger deadly heart attacks and strokes, which claim the lives of almost 800,000 Americans each year!
These extracts are not drug. They are the active ingredients in SoftenClean™. Clinical studies show it improves blood flow in the veins. Many patients see blood pressure and cholesterol levels return to normal. Some are able to cancel costly drugs. Others avoid open-heart surgery. And many more report less chest pains and numbness in the arms, legs, and feet.
"My femoral arteries were 70% blocked," says James Yates of Vashon, WA. "but SoftenClean™ has pretty much cleaned them out now. It's relief to know I'm not such a high risk person for a heart attack or stroke anymore."
IMPRESSIVE CLINICAL RESULTS
Top scientists at the Cleveland Clinic, the University of California Berkeley, and Providence Hospital in Detroit (among others) have done more than 1,725 studies on SoftenClean's active ingredients. The results seem hard to believe. Yet the findings are published in the world's most prestigious medical journals for all to see.
The results show...
Plaque blockages in the arteries get dissolved...
Angina symptoms disappear...
Bypass surgeries get cancelled...
Cholesterol levels return to normal...
Blood circulation around the body is improved...
Blood vessels become more elastic and less fragile...
And while we all know there is no miracle cure for high blood pressure, one study did show a remarkable 100% of patients had their blood pressure come down to a safer level.
The findings are impressive, no doubt, but results will vary. Consumers are advised to always consult with a doctor. There is no substitute for medical advice.
But with results like these it's easy to see why thousands of people are clicking the mouse trying to get their hands on SoftenClean™.
Most people think plaque is like a rust attached to a pipe. And you can wash it off or dissolve it using some acid. It is not. It actually forms and grows WITHIN blood vessel walls — under a smooth delicate layer called Endothelium. Unnoticeable and painless, plaque grows over years, into an "EXTRA" layer of arteries. It slowly blocks blood flow in the arteries. Worse, a cholesterol plaque can suddenly rupture. The sudden blood clot that forms over the rupture then causes a heart attack or stroke.
The reason cholesterol plaques can form is because the endothelium is damaged. Endothelium is hardening and becoming fragile. It actually CRACKS like a man under pressure when you see it through microscope. It cannot fight off cholesterol plaque and keeps it from entering the artery's wall. White blood cells stream in to DEFEND arteries, but since the front line is lost and open everywhere, over years, the toxic mess of cholesterol and cells becomes a cholesterol plaque in the wall of the artery.
It gets worse with time. As cholesterol plaque builds up, the lining surface of endothelium becomes stickier, attracting even more substances circulating in the blood, including white blood cells.
Repair Damaged endothelium. SoftenClean's active herbal ingredients work by rebuilding arteries' defending line. They heal endothelium, and make its lining surface and layer texture smooth, elastic and stronger than before. A healthy endothelium now can keep cholesterol from entering and clots from forming. It now can handle high pressure of the blood flowing through the arteries.
The active ingredients also absorb into the plaque layer of arteries, and DISSOLVE the existing plaque.
Clogged Arteries Can Trigger A Heart Attack Or Stroke
Plaque deposits through the "cracked" endothelium layer, and grows larger with each passing year. If ignored, these blockages restrict blood flow to the heart and brain and can trigger a heart attack or stroke.
SoftenClean's Active Herbal Extracts Dissolve Blockages And Leave Your Arteries Clean
SoftenClean's active ingredients repair the internal layer of blood vessels, dissolve plaque blockages and then expel them from the body, leaving arteries clean so blood flows freely.
Then the healthier endothelium expels plaque from your arteries into blood stream, transporting it to the liver where it is processed and broken down to substances that can be filtered out of the body as components of urine.
This seems to be another reason why SoftenClean's release has sparked such a frenzy of sale. On one hand it cures the root of plaque blockage — the cracked endothelium. On the other hand it dissolves the existing clots and strengthens body's own function to become healthy. That's why it is 10 times safer and more long-lasting than most chemical medications.
WHAT DOCTORS ARE SAYING
"My files are full of success stories," says Dr. John Roberts, from Anacortes, WA. "One patient of mine had an 85% blockage in two arteries. He could not walk to his mailbox without symptoms of Angina. After a few bottles of SoftenClean™ he's mowing the lawn again without chest pains or numbness in his arms."
"It works wonders for high blood pressure," says Dr. John Terry, an M.D., from Seattle. "In fact I had one patient recently whose blood pressure dropped 18 points after using SoftenClean™ for just one week."
"I've treated over 500 patients with SoftenClean™." says Dr. Ralph Edwards, and M.D., from Tustin, CA, "and the results have been great. It's easy to use. Convenient. It's safe as well. In my mind it's one of the best health products I've seen in 30 years of practice."
Proof that it works:
Try this simple at-home test to see blockages that cause heart attacks and strokes getting dissolved and flushed from your arteries.
STEP #1: Use a small, clean glass bottle to store a urine sample. Do this the morning before you begin using SoftenClean™ supplements.
STEP #2: Take SoftenClean™ for two weeks.
STEP #3: Take a second urine sample.
STEP #4: Hold the first (before) sample in from of a bright light and swirl the bottle. You'll observe that the urine is clear.
Then, do the same with the second (after) sample. You'll see a white "tornado" of sediment swirling in the urine. This "tornado" is plaque that's been dissolved and flushed from your arteries: Plaque that might have triggered a deadly heart attack or stroke.
THE STATEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN EVALUATED BY THE FDA. THEY ARE NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE OR CONDITION. IF YOU HAVE A HEALTH CONDITION OR CONCERN, CONSULT A PHYSICIAN OR YOUR ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.
Copyright © 2020, Shebal All rights reserved. *Disclaimer: The products and claims including reviews made about specific products on or through this site have not been evaluated by the United States Food and Drug Administration and this site is not intended to provide diagnosis, treatment or medical advice. Read more »
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Having FOMO over Kehinde Wiley's Black Rock Opening? Here are 7 Places To See Art in Dakar
Journals | Art | Having FOMO over Kehinde Wiley's Black Rock Opening? Here are 7 Places To See Art in Dakar
Cheraé Robinson
If you pay any attention to the art world, you know that Kehinde Wiley just opened his new artist residency Black Rock Senegal in the grandest way. With a guest list that included the who's who of the black art and culture world including Naomi Campbell, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, and yours truly this splendid affair had everyone on the internet dying to teleport themselves to Senegal. If you're a collector or art afficionado heading to Dakar and curious about the art scene and vibe that inspired Black Rock's launch in Senegal, look to this list for the galleries and studios to visit while you are in town.
1. The Studio of Omar Victor Diop
Omar Victor Diop is a fine art and editorial photographer using this medium to capture and share the diversity of modern African societies and lifestyle. Born in Dakar in 1980, Mr Diop's aesthetic and perspective can be found in his recently completed residence and studio in the Yoff neighbourhood of Dakar.
Both a workplace and a community environment, it's a light-filled environment conducive to collaboration and the creation of lifetime "moments" and serendipity.
To arrange a visit send an enquiry at omarviktor.com
2. Galerie Atiss Dakar
The brainchild of legendary Senegalese painter and textile designer Aissa Dione, Galerie Atiss showcases the work of visual artists hailing from Francophone Africa. With a newly opened space in Medina, the cultural heart of Dakar, the gallery features rotating exhibitions with works from Ousmane Diop, Sérigne Ibrahima Dieye, Ngimbi luve, and other contemporary African painters, sculptors, and photographers.
Phone number: +221 33 860 65 08
Email : info@galerieatissdakar.com
3. Galerie Cecile Fakhoury
Originally launched to much acclaim in Abidjan, Galerie Cecile Fakhoury is more than a place to view art, it is billed as a home for discoveries, exchanges, and encounters. The gallery showcases individual and collective exhibitions with an ethos of connecting the continent to the world.
Strongly rooted in their respective identities and stories, the artists represented by the gallery distinguish themselves through the use of a language that abolishes barriers while rejecting geographical stigmatization.
Days and hours of operation: From Tuesday to Saturday, 10 am to 7 pm
Address: Rue Carnot x Béranger Féraud
Behind Hotel Pullman
Plateau, BP 23402
4. Galerie Le Manège
Hosting six exhibitions each year, Galerie Le Manège, an arm of the French Institute of Dakar, is an interdisciplinary home for contemporary African art and artists. With a focus on bridging the world of French, local, and diasporan perspectives the gallery also hosts a dynamic program and residents in addition to its exhibition calendar.
Address: 1-3, rue Parchappe - Dakar Plateau
E-mail: delphine.calmettes@institutfrancais-senegal.com
5. Galerie Créas I Am
Créas I Am is the brainchild of Senegalese Artist Haby Diallo who fuses her passion for sustainability with her desire for creating a space for children and budding artists to create and convene. Located in the heart of the Medina, the gallery focuses on artists using recycled materials in their works.
An artist in her own right, her studio, within the gallery space features furniture and visual art, including a piece on Nelson Mandela, all made from plastic products, used cans and cartons.
Address: Creasiam Rue 19 at Corniche Médina, Dakar
Email: art_evasion@hotmail.com
6. Musee de l’Art African – IFAN
The Musée de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire or IFAN Museum of African Arts in Dakar, Senegal is one of the oldest art museums in West Africa. It was promoted by Léopold Senghor, the country's first President.
Ritual masks, instruments, clothing, and weapons occupy the IFAN Museum, one of the oldest and most prominent institutions dedicated to the research and exhibition of West African art and artefacts. It is also the home to the Da'Kart Biennale.
Opening Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, from 9 am until 5 pm.
Address: Rue Place 18, Plateau, Dakar
7. Black Rock Senegal
Kehinde Wiley's brainchild for artists may not be open to the public, but it still makes our list of must-see places for art in Dakar. Located on Yoff beach. The part-time home Mr Wiley and luxurious residency is by far the most stunning development the art world has seen on the African continent. Sign up for the galleries newsletter to be in the know on public exhibitions or apply to be a resident yourself.
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written by Tiger Staff August 12, 2019
Foord will play as a right-side hitter for the Owls starting in 2021.
Story by Katharine Florence
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Junior Lola Foord recently announced her verbal commitment to play volleyball for Rice University on Monday, Aug. 8. She will receive a full-ride scholarship and begin her freshman year at Rice in 2021.
Foord began her career at age eight, playing at the YMCA while also participating in skills program at the San Gabriel Elite Volleyball Club (SGE). She has spent seven years of club volleyball at SGE and currently plays on the top team for her age group. Foord’s club team has been wildly successful, winning gold at the Las Vegas Classic and qualifying for Junior Nationals. She has also played for the SPHS girls’ varsity team since freshman year.
As early as eighth grade, Foord was highly recruited by colleges such as Harvard, Yale, and UC Berkeley. Rice, which ranks 30th in Division I women’s volleyball, offered to pay for her college tuition including books, meals, boarding, as well as traveling costs to play as a right-side hitter. Foord credits her coaches, parents, and club recruiting coordinator, Trent Tchang.
“The Rice coaches and representatives so welcoming and friendly,” Foord said, “They offered me an extremely generous offer that I couldn’t refuse. It’s a great medical school with a wonderful coaching staff.”
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TL;DR – From the setting to the characters to the story and themes, Deep Space Nine stands as one of the high points of science fiction
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This week we have the season finale of Star Trek: Discovery (see review) and it has been such a strong first outing for the new series. Because of this, I have been thinking back over the history of the entire Star Trek franchise and when I do that I can’t help but focus on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9). Now DS9 was always the odd one out of the Star Trek spin-offs for some. It aired at the same time as both The Next Generation and Voyager, so it never stood apart. It dealt with issues that the other shows either avoided or ignored altogether, and some felt started to walk away from the vision Gene Roddenberry established. Indeed, it was the first series where he didn’t have a direct control over the creation and direction of, though from all accounts he did approve of its creation. So what I want to do today is talk about the reasons that I love DS9, the setting, the characters, the themes, and the stories. But just before we move on DS9 has been off air for almost 20 years, but all that being said, I will be talking about the series as a whole so there will be [SPOILERS] going forward, however, I will also provide links to the Memory Alpha Wiki when introducing characters and races so you can explore it more if you are new to the show.
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New Year, New Product
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By Lloyd Graff
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) makes it almost impossible for a small company to develop an effective drug and bring it to the marketplace. It’s one of the main reasons drugs are so expensive in the United States and introduction of new drugs is so slow.
Yet once in a blue moon a relatively small pharma company, living on borrowed money and borrowed time, defies all the odds and slithers a potential blockbuster drug through the laborious regulation, testing, and lawsuits of fat pharma that wants to squash potential competition, and dashes to the finish line.
This happened a few weeks ago when Amerin Corporation’s Vascepa won expanded approval for heart patients, not only with elevated triglycerides but also for diabetics and millions of other Americans with elevated cardiac risk.
This is after Pfizer, which makes Lovaza, the current favorite artificial fish oil capsule (which I have taken for 10 years) has sued them, and the FDA has taken its sweet time to get the tests done to expand its recommended use for the majority of heart patients who currently take statins.
The first statins came out 30 years ago and have probably given heart patients worldwide hundreds of millions of extra years of life. Fish oil and synthetic versions have also helped, but the reduction of cardiac events shown by this fish oil substitute with some kind of secret sauce developed out in left field called Vascepa has stunned and confused the complacent drug companies and probably the FDA, which may explain why it has taken so long to get it into the mainstream pharma world.
Yet this is typical of innovation. It almost always starts in a garage or workshop as an idea.
I think of Google boys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who had no money after leaving Stanford in 1996 but had some goofy ideas about how to make the internet more useful for people. Sergey asked his future sister-in-law Susan Wojcicki, who had a home with a garage near the campus, if they could camp out in it and keep their computers there. Susan, who is now in charge of YouTube, probably said, “Sure, but clean up when you’re done.” Soon after Google was born.
Innovation is still coming from little people, tinkerers, creators who just hope they can solve a problem, make something better, or invent something cool. Often they are doing it not to make a mint of money but because they get satisfaction, joy, maybe a sense of fulfillment.
YouTube started that way, so did WhatsApp and Instagram. All were gobbled up by Google or Facebook long before they generated a profit because folks like Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg know the value of a great idea even in its nascent state. So did Tim Cook at Apple when he paid a billion dollars to Dr. Dre for his earbuds and fledgling music service, which were a great idea but a mediocre product before Apple put its name and technology behind them.
Big companies are generally lousy at innovating but good at improving manufacturing and marketing.
I was reminded of innovation when I read on the PMPA (Precision Machined Products Association) listserve a request by a reader of the Swarfblog, Randy Lusk. Randy had a part he wanted to run on a Miyano BNE-51SY, and he wanted to shave the part. His research indicated there was no tool sold that would do this so he was thinking of improvising with a 62H Slitters Shave he used on a 1-3/4” 6-spindle Wickman multi-spindle automatic. He figured it would work if he could build a base to allow it to fit the Miyano.
If there isn’t a product on the market, “well, there ought to be, so I’ll make it,” is the mindset of a guy like Randy and a myriad of other folks in the precision machining community.
If you take the macro view, this is what the Chinese are not good at, and they know it. Their approach has been, “If we don’t have it, steal it.” This approach can be very useful in the short run, but it is a failure long term unless America continues to allow them to steal technology in exchange for access to their market. An educational and political system which preaches conformity and orthodoxy at all costs ultimately collapses, I believe.
To Chairman Xi in China, trade issues can be negotiated, finessed, and circumvented. For him, the existential problem facing China is the desire for freedom exhibited by the people of Hong Kong. If he sends in the tanks and mows down the protesters, China will be seen as a hapless butcher that fears its citizens. It will be another Tiananmen Square disaster. And protest could spread to the mainland. If he lets it continue to burn and gain strength in Hong Kong it could spread to Macau and then to the mainland.
He has a huge problem going into 2020, and the U.S. should do nothing to help him with it. They haven’t been trained in China to adapt old shave tools to modern equipment.
They also don’t know how to deal with dissent.
Question: What new thing have you created?
Best of Swarfcast Ep. 39 – Machining Parts for the Amish
By Noah Graff
Happy Holidays! While much of the Swarfcast team is on vacation through the New Year, we’re sharing a few of our favorite podcasts from 2019. This week, we revisit Episode 39, in which Noah interviews Jay Sauder, owner of Sauder Machine in Plymouth, Ohio. This episode originally aired in May.
Noah writes, “One of Sauder’s specialties is making hydraulic wheel cylinders for Amish horse-drawn buggies using sophisticated CNC equipment. Sauder and his 10 employees are all members of the Mennonite church. Earlier in his life, Jay himself drove a horse and buggy, but today he chooses to drive a pickup truck. However, all of his employees ride bicycles to work.
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Jay told me that the company buys used equipment almost exclusively and seldom buys a machine for a specific job. He purchases equipment when he considers it a good value and fit for his company’s expertise. The company also is unafraid to use a variety of brands and controls, such as DMG, Traub, Haas, INDEX, Mazak, Matsuura, and Hurco because his workers are not bothered switching from one control to another. He enjoyed telling me about two 1988 CNC Traub TNA 480 Turn-Milling Centers that the company is currently refurbishing in-house.”
Question: What is the most unusual job you’ve had?
Our Take on the Machining World of 2019
By Lloyd and Noah Graff
In today’s podcast Lloyd and Noah Graff reflect on their experiences in the machining world of 2019. What did we see this past year? What did we learn? How did it feel?
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(2:07) Lloyd says when he thinks of 2019 he thinks of his “constant battle between despondency and hope.” He feels like one deal can make or break a year in the used machinery business.
(3:45) Lloyd and Noah talk about the importance of journaling about their days. Lloyd tries to do it in the middle of the work day while Noah prefers to do it at night. Both agree that by journaling they realize they did indeed accomplish things, and have significant conversations and experiences on a given day.
(6:00) Noah and Lloyd talk about the grim political news of 2019. Lloyd says everything is focused on conflict. Noah says in 2019 he found he was happier and more productive by minimizing his news intake.
(7:00) Lloyd says ironically one of the more fun parts of 2019 was watching the Chicago Cubs games and sharing the experience with family by texting and calling during the games. He also says one of his greatest pleasures is working with Noah, and that he would not work in the machinery business without having Noah question and push him. He says the day he can’t handle being questioned is the day he should retire.
(10:50) Noah talks about his personal growth with self-help books such as Dale Carnegie’s How to Make Friends and Influence People. Noah and Lloyd talk about their strategies on how to make others feel important and comfortable in conversations.
(15:50) Lloyd says one of the most significant experiences of 2019 was being conned by an international customer. It was a lesson in the importance of doing due-diligence and that it is impossible to know who to trust, even after meeting them in person.
Lloyd and Noah reflect on another year in machining
(23:13) Lloyd predicts what used machines Graff-Pinkert will focus on selling in 2020. He believes in focusing on the “unloved machines” such as multi-spindle screw machines rather than all late model CNC equipment because older equipment has potential for better margins. However, he still preaches caution because machines are “unloved” for a reason.
(25:00) Lloyd says the European automotive industry seems to be betting on electric cars much more than that in America. The unchartered territory has made high production machining companies in Europe nervous and indecisive about what work to go after in the next few years.
(28:30) Noah remarks that the values of multi-spindle screw machines seem to have fallen dramatically in the last year. High quality European screw machines sold for incredibly low prices in a few recent auctions. Lloyd says it demonstrates buyers are cautious, but he thinks people’s mindsets could change in the near future.
(36:00) Noah says he is grateful he gets to create Swarfcast. He thanks the show’s loyal listeners and proudly announces the podcast has its first paid advertiser, Firetrace. He gives his pitch for listeners to subscribe, share, and rate the podcast.
Question: What is one thing you will remember from 2019?
Ep. 64 – Automating a Machining Business with David Wynn
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Today’s podcast is part two of an interview we did with David Wynn, CFO of ABF Engineering and Machining, a third generation screw machine shop in South Fulton, Tennessee. Dave makes a lot of his profits on mechanical screw machines that are older than him, but he emphasizes using advanced technology to automate his business’s processes.
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Main Points of the Interview
(2:15) David says it is important that his employees be driven individuals. He wants people who can work independently in a loosely structured shop environment. His employees can divide their work amongst each other as they want and structure their time how they want as long as they meet production goals. Dave says the more power you give your people, the better they perform.
(3:55) Dave says his goal is to one day have someone else handle the day to day responsibilities of his company so he can focus on growing the business by improving customer relationships and automating business processes. He says he would like to be able to step off the face of the earth for 30 days and and then return seeing the company running smoothly as though he never left.
(8:20) Dave discusses his goal to automate every part of the business that takes his mind away from the key tasks at hand. He says his shop has one button that turns off the all the lights, regulates air conditioning, turns off exhaust fans and everything else necessary to leave the building.
(10:20) Dave talks about the parts he is making on his Brown and Sharpes. He says if he has a high production run he can often can get a closer tolerance on a Brown and Sharpe than a modern CNC machine because the machine is rigid like a tank.
(13:35) Dave says he does not see his company as competing with China. He says his parts are not commodity parts because he often does short runs of 500 pieces or less. He jokes that “a Brown and Sharpe was a CNC before CNC was cool.”
(14:20) Dave says he feels the machining business in his blood. He thinks the machining bug has been passed down to his 5-year-old son who has been coming to the shop every day since he was born.
(18:20) Dave says he is glad he went to business school rather than going straight into the machining business out of high school because it taught him to determine the values of assets. He says his dad had actually forced him to go to college.
(20:35) Dave says he sees purpose in the machining business because every mechanism people use has parts that have been machined. He appreciates creating tangible products rather than merely creating liquidity in the finance industry.
Question: Is a college education important for running a machining business?
Mobility is the Game
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I’m in the mood for sports today. In baseball, Washington won the World Series for the first time after losing Bryce Harper to the Phillies. And they won it in seven games, winning all four played at Houston’s ballpark. Never happened before. And the Nationals’ best pitcher, Matt Scherzer, got hurt in the Series. Unpredictable game.
In football, the traditional drop-back quarterback, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, is being gradually surpassed by the mobile, elusive running quarterback. The three most likely MVP quarterbacks this year are Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, and Patrick Mahomes. All were misjudged coming out of college and fell in the draft because they didn’t look like Brady or Brees. Wilson was a third-round pick for Seattle, Jackson was the last pick of the first round for Baltimore, and Mahomes was thought by many football savants to be a better pitcher than QB.
College football is also seeing change. The two top candidates for the Heisman Trophy this year are both transfer students who were not deemed to be good enough to start for the college teams they were recruited for out of high school.
Joe Burrow sat three years at Ohio State. He did study enough to graduate from OSU which made him eligible to transfer to LSU and play football without the usual NCAA baloney that restricts the transfer of athletes.
He played well last year but has been amazing this season, throwing for 55 touchdowns and leading the Tigers to the top seeding in the national playoffs.
The Ohio State quarterback, Justin Fields, also had an undistinguished career at Georgia. He graduated but had a year of eligibility left. OSU’s All-American from last year, Dwayne Haskins, was the first-round pick of Washington after his junior year which left an opening for Fields with the Buckeyes. This year he threw for 40 touchdowns with one interception.
Potential MVP Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks
It brings to mind the one season that Russell Wilson had at Wisconsin. He had had an okay career at North Carolina State, graduated with eligibility, and played minor league baseball till the Badgers called him for a last college hurrah. He was only 5’9” tall but played like a giant leading the team to the Rose Bowl and setting up his current NFL MVP status with the Seattle Seahawks.
To end this, let’s throw in a little NBA. Kawhi Leonard led the Toronto Raptors to the NBA Championship after a difficult, injury-riddled year with San Antonio. Some folks saw Leonard as temperamental and even faking the severity of his injuries while with the Spurs. He wanted out of Texas for his last season before becoming a free agent in 2019.
Toronto had an awful playoff record despite having good players. They gambled on trading for Leonard, knowing it might just be for one year. Kawhi recovered from his injuries, carried the team to the playoffs, and then played inspired basketball to help them win the NBA title. And in the off season he headed home to Los Angeles and signed a mega contract with the LA Clippers.
Sports changed a lot in 2019. The athletes took more and more control over their short playing careers.
Are today’s professional athletes too selfish?
Who is your NFL MVP for 2019?
Ep. 63 – Running a Machine Shop like a Tech Company with David Wynn
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Today’s Swarfcast is part one of an interview we did with David Wynn, CFO of ABF Engineering and Machining, a third generation screw machine shop in South Fulton, Tennessee. After earning an MBA, David joined his family’s business 17 years ago. His stated mission is to run a machining business composed of old cam screw machines as though it were a tech company.
(2:40) Dave gives a history of ABF Engineering and Machining. The business was started by his grandparents and father in 1976. They primarily ran Brown & Sharpe screw machines.
(4:45) Dave talks about the machines in his shop. He said the company has Haas lathes, CNC Swiss, and a CNC mill, but still more than 50 percent of the company’s work is done on Brown & Sharpe screw machines. The company is running 15 Brown & Sharpes currently, but Dave says he has about 100 in the building.
(6:30) Dave gives a brief education about Brown & Sharpes. He says what makes Brown & Sharpes productive is that an operator can work with the turret and other tools simultaneously. The machines are extremely rigid, and have a gear driven 5Hp motor.
(12:47) Dave explains how building a cam for a Brown & Sharpe screw machine is similar to writing a CNC program for a Swiss machine. The main difference is the CNC program is immediately implemented while the cam takes days to build.
(14:45) Dave talks about how he came into the business. He had never stepped foot in the shop before he turned 18 years old. While in college and grad school he began working at the company. He earned an MBA, but instead of going into the finance industry he fell in love with the machining business and decided to do it full time.
(18:40) Dave talks about how ABF Engineering and Machining changed after he and his father bought it from his grandfather. He says they chose to focus on creating a new culture based on teamwork and innovative work practices. They prefer to hire people who fit into the company’s culture rather than hire based on an applicant’s talent.
(21:55) Dave talks about the company’s unconventional practices for work hours. Its employees have the flexibility to work when they like and choose how many hours they work as long as they get their work done and work as a team. He says that most outsiders look at him like he is a space alien when he tells them about some of his policies.
(28:40) Dave says that usually the people who are most successful at his company are the ones who put in a lot of hours at the shop and also at home. One of the characteristics he looks for in a great employee is someone who is constantly trying to better herself.
Question: Do you know how to run a Browne and Sharpe?
Under the Tarp
Homeless people spook me. I hate it when somebody wearing a sign proclaiming their homelessness, holding a cup and looking forlorn, shoves the cup toward me begging for coins. Yet their plight, if they really are homeless, is a terrible thing.
It struck me hard recently when Noah and I were driving to a business conference in the city concerning hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of unsold screw machines. We drove by a tiny makeshift shelter covered by a couple of blue tarps next to an apartment building which appeared empty and possibly being prepared for demolition in an area in the process of “gentrification” in Chicago.
It was a raw day in November ahead of Thanksgiving. I saw nobody around it. The blowing tarps were a more hurtful reminder of the misery of life on the street without a roof to call your own.
It brought to mind a story my friend Jerry Levine had told me at one of our weekly Saturday breakfast idea fests recently. Jerry had volunteered to help kids at a Chicago high school several years ago. One of the kids who was a star student had a problem giving an address of his residence. The reason was that he was sleeping in a dumpster. We have a dumpster at Graff-Pinkert. Occasionally I haul a plastic bag of office garbage out to the dumpster. Every time I look inside I think of that poor kid climbing inside and probably covering up and trying to keep warm with a blue tarp he hid away.
By the way, Jerry said the kid ended up getting a full scholarship to a prestigious college, somehow.
Chicago homeless sleeping under tarps
For many years I volunteered at a local homeless shelter. It rotated among various churches and synagogues in the neighborhood I lived in. I came in at 5:15 a.m. and helped clean and put the mats away the shelter people slept on, gave out toothpaste and Band-Aids, and cleaned up after breakfast was served. It was a good education for me, that homeless guys (there were only guys at this shelter) were mostly just human beings who were at a down part of their lives. Some had jobs (fast food joints, car washes, guards), but usually the jobs didn’t last long enough to enable them to get an apartment that required deposits and credit checks. Many had drug and drinking problems. A lot of them hung around the local White Castle or McDonald’s till they were urged to move along. A few had cars; some of the younger guys rode bikes. I once hired one of the friendlier men, but he did not last long because of a chronic drinking issue.
The rotating homeless shelter no longer exists at the local synagogue. My friend Jerry Levine and other local people somehow managed a minor miracle. They found a mayor in the area who, rather than avoid a permanent shelter in his town, embraced the idea. He claimed his mother on her deathbed told him to do it. There was an unloved piece of real estate that the mayor obtained for granting zoning privileges to a developer who wanted to build a shopping center in the village. The three-acre piece was far enough away from neighbors that nobody yelled much. Jerry and friends with government connections got every grant the government had on the books and built a $18-million multi-story building for homeless people with good credentials to get nice temporary apartments.
Someday I hope the poor people under the blue tarps in Chicago or kids like the one living in the dumpster find their way out to that beautiful haven in Country Club Hills, Illinois, within walking distance of my office.
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The Rise of Revenue Operations: We all play for Team Revenue
How revenue operations helps drive alignment between Sales, Marketing and Customer Success.
Posted on November 6, 2019 | File under: RevOps
The age-old question of how to generate more revenue has given rise to a number of innovations in how companies organize their departments. Research from SiriusDecisions suggests that inter-departmental alignment between Sales, Marketing and Customer Success drives up to 36% of revenue growth. This is where Revenue Operations (RevOps) comes in.
As its name implies, RevOps is a department whose primary mandate is to grow company revenue. The unbiased umpire you never knew you needed, RevOps and the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) are able to align every layer of your sales funnel in large part through ownership of technology. RevOps keeps Marketing, Sales and Customer Success accountable to the same goals and metrics.
Before the Chief Revenue Officer, there was the “Nerdy Propeller-Head”
When looking at the development of RevOps, it’s important to understand shifts in departmental thinking. Marketing in particular has undergone substantial adaptations due to the ubiquity of the smartphone. The classic image of the marketing executive as slick, whiskey-swilling Jon Hamm with a faraway look in his eye has lost relevance as a result. This go-with-your-gut, visionary CMO is less effective in a marketing world as intertwined with technology and data as ours.
This digital landscape has necessitated what Chris Peacock, CMO of Traction on Demand, calls the “nerdy propeller-head” CMO. “If your CMO is not looking at dashboards as often as they’re being creative, they’re doing a bad job,” says Peacock.
With a heavier workload that includes content marketing and demand generation, Marketing is increasingly relied on for tech expertise. No longer the sole purview of IT, systems like Salesforce often live within Marketing while additional tools exist in silos within Sales and Customer Success. A structure like this is more likely to drive a wedge between departments, leading to poor organizational alignment and sub-optimal revenue.
Unify Systems, Measures and Purpose
The specific technology needs of Marketing, Sales and Customer Success have traditionally been supported by specialized employees devoted to operations within each department. Like the disparate systems they work with, these Business Analysts, Data Managers and System Administrators often lack a broader understanding of what is happening in other departments. Sales and Marketing may employ different metrics, while Sales and Customer Success may use the same metrics incongruously. Without alignment, even the nerdiest and most capable propeller-heads will be driving each department in a different direction.
This is where RevOps can make a big difference. Just as it’s undesirable to store customer data in silos, it’s also best to prevent your technology experts from working in departmental silos. Bringing all of those analysts and data wizards under one umbrella allows them to own all tools and systems, defining metrics that will be shared by Marketing, Sales and Customer Success. Free from operational duties, each department can focus solely on building pipeline, converting sales and generating opportunities with existing customers.
Incorporating RevOps
Incorporating RevOps into your organizational structure is one way to increase alignment between revenue-driving departments. Whether or not RevOps makes sense for your organization, there is a lot of value in defining consistent goals, metrics, processes and system ownership that foster cooperation between Sales, Marketing and Customer Success. Whether that means automating lead assignment or improving the hand-off process, increased revenue should be the end goal.
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May 25th 2019 at 7:57:17 PM
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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Peter David, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099, named him after his friend, actor Creator/MiguelFerrer.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Peter David, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099, named him after his friend, voice actor Creator/MiguelFerrer.
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kensu
May 10th 2018 at 6:31:32 AM
** The critically panned ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' cartoon was originally going to be an adaptation of ''Spider-Man 2099'', traces of the original draft remain, with the {{Cyberpunk}} world, and Peter's haircut, which resembles Miguel's.
** The critically panned ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' cartoon was originally going to be an adaptation of ''Spider-Man 2099'', traces of the original draft remain, with the {{Cyberpunk}} world, and Peter's haircut, which resembles Miguel's.Miguel's.
** Thanatos was originally going to be Aaron Delgado's corpse, animated by the soul of a character from the Age of Heroes. (And before that, he was going to be the Venom symbiote, who had evolved in the last century, using Delgado's corpse as a host. Peter David eventually introduced a more conventional Venom later on.) When Peter David eventually picked the story up in Capatain Marvel a decade later, he left out the part about Aaron Delgado's body and just made Thanatos Rick Jones.
Anicomicgeek
Jan 30th 2018 at 11:06:57 AM
** Evidence shows that Goblin 2099 was not originally intended to be Gabriel O'Hara but instead [[spoiler: Father Jennifer, Dana's sister. The 2014 pulls CanonDiscontinuity on the Gabriel reveal and subsequent imposter retcon, and uses Jennifer.]]
** Evidence shows that Goblin 2099 was not originally intended to be Gabriel O'Hara but instead [[spoiler: Father Jennifer, Dana's sister. The 2014 series pulls CanonDiscontinuity on the Gabriel reveal and subsequent imposter impostor retcon, and uses Jennifer.]]
Sep 25th 2017 at 1:36:40 AM
** Evidence shows that Goblin 2099 was not originally intended to be Gabriel O'Hara but instead [[spoiler: Father Jennifer, Dana's sister.]]
May 14th 2017 at 12:06:28 AM
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Peter David, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099, named him after his friend, actor Miguel Ferrer.
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Peter David, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099, named him after his friend, actor Miguel Ferrer.Creator/MiguelFerrer.
ShadetheMystic
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*NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Peter David, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099, named him after his friend, actor Miguel Ferrer.
Aug 26th 2016 at 10:14:19 PM
** The critically panned ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' cartoon was originally going to be an adaptation of ''Spider-Man 2099'', traces of the original draft remain, with the {{Cyberpunk}} world, and Peter haircut, which resembles Miguel's.
** The critically panned ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' cartoon was originally going to be an adaptation of ''Spider-Man 2099'', traces of the original draft remain, with the {{Cyberpunk}} world, and Peter Peter's haircut, which resembles Miguel's.
HerrBlitzDiktator
May 3rd 2015 at 10:26:09 AM
** The critically panned ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' cartoon was originally going to be an adaptation of ''Spider-Man 2099''.
** The critically panned ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManUnlimited'' cartoon was originally going to be an adaptation of ''Spider-Man 2099''.2099'', traces of the original draft remain, with the {{Cyberpunk}} world, and Peter haircut, which resembles Miguel's.
comicwriter
Feb 28th 2015 at 1:22:48 PM
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Evidence shows that Goblin 2099 was not originally intended to be Gabriel O'Hara but instead [[spoiler: Father Jennifer, Dana's sister.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: WhatCouldHaveBeen
** Evidence shows that Goblin 2099 was not originally intended to be Gabriel O'Hara but instead [[spoiler: Father Jennifer, Dana's sister.]]]]
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How to Write Dialogue that Actually Sounds Good
Trisha / October 25, 2019
Writing dialogue can be tough. It’s a key part of any novel and allows us to show the reader what’s happening instead of telling them through narration. And, it lets the characters reveal things about themselves while moving the plot forward. But how do you do dialogue well?
The trick to writing dialogue in fiction is two-fold.
Dialogue should sound like real people talking.
Dialogue should not sound like real people talking.
Confusing, right?
Let’s break this down.
1. Dialogue should sound like real people talking.
A character’s dialogue should sound like who they are, and like a person talking. Every person speaks in a way unique to them. A ten year old child will speak differently than a 65 year old woman. In the same way, a person raised in the UK will speak differently than a person raised on the west coast of Canada.
A character’s dialogue should sound like that person, and not like the author writing them. I’ve read books where the 20 year old woman from Washington state sounded like a middle-aged British woman (the author), and where a seven year old child sounded like an elderly man (the author). Word choice is huge here! As is sentence structure.
A character’s voice needs to be developed with their age, location, personality, education, and goals in mind.
What words would they use?
Would they speak casually or formally?
What do they care about or want and what do they not care about?
Who are they speaking to?
The answers to those questions will impact what they speak about and how they speak about it.
5 Tips for making dialogue sound like real people talking
Use sentence fragments. We don’t always speak in complete sentences or with perfect grammar.
Use contractions like don’t, can’t, won’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t, etc.
Use jargon or slang (sparingly and where appropriate).
Have characters interrupt other speakers to continue or join a conversation.
Have characters not always say exactly what they mean.
You have my permission to go eavesdrop in a coffee shop or grocery store. Listen to how people talk, especially if you’re writing about characters in a different demographic than you. Listen to the words they use, the way they structure their sentences, and how the conversation ebbs and flows.
2. Dialogue shouldn’t sound like real people talking.
When we talk, we tend to use a lot of filler words. When we need a second to think, we say um or ah or like. And that is brutal to write and brutal to read. Dialogue in a novel should give the impression of real speech, but should be a cleaned up version that is easier to read. Just remove those filler words.
Another thing I see often in books I edit is long speeches by characters. I know that sometimes we go on rants or speak for a long time, but in fiction that doesn’t work. It’s boring to read. The reader wants to see action and tension. Break those long speeches up with dialogue from the other characters in the scene or with action beats.
What else does dialogue need?
All dialogue should have a purpose – to either reveal character or move the plot forward. And the best dialogue has tension or conflict.
Dialogue should have a purpose.
Now that we’ve cleared up that confusion, think about why you’re writing dialogue. All dialogue in a scene should have a purpose to either reveal something about the character (by what they say or don’t say) or move the plot forward. Be concise and ensure every line of dialogue has purpose. If it doesn’t, cut it.
One of the best methods I’ve heard of to trim dialogue is to start the scene late and end it early. This ties in well to dialogue shouldn’t sound like real people talking. When we greet people in real life, we say hello and then ask about their family or talk about the weather and so on. This is usually unimportant to the plot of a novel. So trim it. Start the scene and the dialogue where it’s interesting. And end the dialogue as soon as you’re tempted to get back into niceties or more of the that filler conversation.
Dialogue should have tension.
The most interesting dialogue has tension. Conflict creates tension. Characters who disagree create tension. Characters who say one thing with their words but another with their body language create tension. Characters with agendas create tension. This conflict and tension drives the plot forward and shows relationships and character personalities and motivations. Plus, it’s way more interesting to read than characters who agree about everything or put all the info on the table at once.
Dialogue is hard to write, but the effort is so worth it.
I struggle with writing dialogue too. But when I’ve worked and worked and worked on a scene and finally get to the point where I feel like the dialogue if great, man alive am I proud of myself.
Poorly written dialogue can break a novel. It can pull readers out of the story, make them put the book down and not pick it back up again. So take the time to write fantastic dialogue. Get to know your characters, give them each a unique voice and a goal in every conversation. Read your dialogue out loud, and if it sounds strange, keep tweaking it.
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Mavericks best the Trojans
April 23, 2015 April 23, 2015 EIC Account
Wes Fortson
The Troy University baseball team traveled to face off against the Mavericks of UT-Arlington Friday, April 17, but dropped the series 2-1 after losing an early six-run lead in the last game of the series.
That night in Arlington, Texas, got ugly as the weather pushed game one of the series into a doubleheader once again on Saturday, April 18.
The doubleheader was the fourth time this season that weather forced two games to be played on a Saturday.
“Anytime you’re on the road, that’s a challenge,” said assistant coach Mark Smartt. “Then we got up early Saturday for a long doubleheader day on the road, and I thought our players handled it very well.”
Game one was not in favor of the Trojans as they lost 15-4 to open the series.
Junior pitcher Grant Bennett dropped only his second loss of the season as he battled against the hot bats of the Mavericks.
Bennett stretched his outing to five innings after giving up six runs to UT-Arlington in the second inning.
However, Troy’s offense could not compensate for the large deficit as it put together just four runs against the Mavericks’ 15.
UT-Arlington put together a whopping 17 hits, including two doubles, a home run, and struck out only twice.
“I gotta give UT-Arlington credit,” said head coach Bobby Pierce. “They just started getting solid base hit after solid base hit, and mixed in a few bloopers to have some big innings throughout the whole series.”
Game two of the series was a different story for the Trojans as they fought for a 7-6 victory to tie the series on Saturday.
Junior pitcher Lucas Brown got the start for Troy in game two and was successful at avoiding the Mavericks’ bats through seven innings, but ran into trouble in the eighth.
The Trojans started out hot with some early runs in the second and third innings.
Senior first baseman Trevin Hall led off the second inning with a double and was quickly followed up by senior designated hitter David Hall who reached on a fielding error that allowed Trevin Hall to rush home on the play.
Two batters later, freshman shortstop Matt Sanders singled to left-center field and sophomore third baseman TJ Binder doubled down the right field line to knock home David Hall.
The third inning also led to three more runs for Troy with some help by junior left fielder Hoke Granger and junior right fielder Logan Hill.
Junior third baseman Bert Givens singled to left center and scored Hill.
Sanders stepped in again for Troy and came through with a sacrifice fly ball to left field that allowed Givens to score and put the Trojans on top 5-0 in just three innings.
Troy tacked on another pair of runs in the sixth to cushion their lead, but the Mavericks came back with a six-run eighth inning that cut things a little too close for the Trojans’ liking.
Senior pitcher Jeremy McGowan came in for Troy to close out the ninth inning and earn his fifth save of the season on the three quick outs.
On Sunday, April 19, Troy looked to take home another series win, but couldn’t find the pitching to close out the game and gave up an early six-run lead in a 10-7 loss to UT-Arlington.
The Trojans crossed home plate four times in the first inning, all with two outs.
The first run was thanks to senior second baseman Nick Masonia who singled to left field and allowed Hill to score all the way from second.
Binder followed up Masonia with another single to left field and scored David Hall from second.
Sanders also slipped a single through the right side of the infield and picked up two RBIs as Binder and Masonia touched home.
In the second inning, Troy added a pair of runs to the scoreboard, but was quickly answered by UT-Arlington, which scored a pair of its own runs on a double by freshman center fielder RJ Williams.
The Mavericks clawed their way back with multiple runs in the third and fourth innings that put them on top 9-6.
Troy closed the three-run gap by one in the sixth inning when junior pinch hitter Cameron Sanders ground out to the shortstop, but Sanders rushed home from third to give the Trojans a glimpse of hope.
However, the Mavericks put the nail in the coffin with a lone run in the bottom of the eighth that put the game out of reach for Troy and brought the final score to 10-7.
“They totally jumped right back in the game around the fourth and fifth inning, then extended their lead,” Pierce said. “We got one run after the first two innings to get to seven, and in the meantime they got to 10 and we couldn’t find a way to catch up.”
Troy defeated Kennesaw State 6-2 on Wednesday, April 22.
The Trojans will be back on the diamond at Riddle-Pace Field on Friday, April 24, against Texas State at 6 p.m.
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Desperate For A Victory, PFOX Paints ‘Duck Dynasty’ Controversy As Moment Of Awakening For America
Evan Hurst January 07, 2014
I’d hate to be an anti-gay bigot right about now. They are processing the grief of losing a culture war that they started, in a nation that increasingly views them as among the worst we have to offer. Of course, the first stage of grief is denial, and they seem to be intent on lingering around that stage as long as possible.
Right Wing Watch points out the latest missive from the Professional “Ex-Gay” Victim group known as PFOX, suggesting that the “Duck Dynasty controversy — wherein wingnuts were played like “harps from hell” by a network that may never have intended that the Robertson patriarch would be suspended for any length of time until they saw that they had an opportunity to profit off the dust-up — was some sort of “watershed” moment where America was exposed to the realities of “homofascism.” Let Greg Quinlan word salad it for you:
Will Duck Dynasty Controversy Awaken Americans?
The gay bullying and intimidation deployed against Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson is nothing new to the ex-gay community. For too long in this country, gay rights organizations have incorporated ex-gay bashing as an integral part of their mission. Christian ex-gays are ridiculed for their faith…
For their “faith?” No. It’s more that the “ex-gay” industry can never seem to produce any “ex-gays” that aren’t currently profiting off being “ex-gay,” which lasts until they either come back out of the closet on their own or are caught with their pants down, still as gay as the day they were born.
while people seeking therapy for unwanted same-sex attractions are painted as dangerously delusional.
Again, no. We mourn for those who have been taught by society that they are inherently evil, and who have been abused so much by their families, churches and communities that they feel that they need to hand their lives over to dangerous, lying charlatans who promise that they can change their sexuality, when such is simply not true.
On this one-way street of intolerance, former homosexuals are accused of being liars or fakes while transgenders are celebrated for changing their gender identity.
Transgender people don’t “change their gender identity,” Greg. That statement alone should disqualify you from attempting to say anything regarding the science of sexual orientation and gender identity for the rest of your natural life.
Using their political power and mainstream media support, gay activists work to keep ex-gays in the closet while demanding legal recognition of single-sex marriage as an equal right.
To keep them in the closet,” we would first have to be able to find them and then find a closet small enough to keep them comfortable and warm. Instead, the “ex-gay” industry claims that there are tens of thousands of them roaming around free range in the United States alone, without ever producing any evidence. When you point that out, they cry that it’s because they’re so “bullied” by “homofascists.” It’s an answer that works in the tiny echo chamber of PFOX and their like-minded cohort, but not with normal people.
Is bullying and persecution a gay civil right? No, it’s not; homofascism is wrong. Unless we stop it now as was accomplished with the Duck Dynasty backlash…
They still don’t know they were played.
no one will be spared. When irrational fears of male-female heterosexuality instigate demands for public censorship and obedience to the gay lobby, silence is not an option.
No one is afraid of straight people, Greg. People do rightly steer clear of those who drive people to depression and suicide by lying to them and telling them that they have to change something about them that is inborn so that a Loving God won’t send them to a flaming hell for all eternity. But then again, the purveyors of that nonsense often aren’t “straight” in any real sense of the word, are they?
This screed is so melodramatic, though. Finish it up with a fearmongering climax of epic proportions, Greg:
All who call themselves Christians must speak out against injustice and homofascism. Otherwise, we will lose America – and our souls.
Of course, “all who call themselves Christians” don’t agree with Greg Quinlan. In fact, the subset of Christianity that includes Greg Quinlan shrinks every day, and a group whose voices have been drowned out for far too long are rising up to reclaim their faith from bigots who teach that the hallmarks of a strong faith are hatred and discrimination.
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Two quotes from The Making of the English Landscape
W G Hoskins‘ The Making of the English Landscape is one of the best books on British history I’ve ever read. Packed with detail, it takes the reader from a time when England was populated by a few tiny Celtic hamlets and covered in forest, through the creation of villages and towns under successive invasions and through to the industrial revolution and beyond.
On the way the reader learns, at times open-mouthed with astonishment, at how English people lived and worked and eventually tamed enough of the forests and heaths to grow prosperous and, sometimes, healthy.
A couple of quotes in particular caught my eye. Hoskins romanticises the late seventeenth century, or more specifically 1688, as the finest time to be an Englishman:
Few boys lived beyond easy walking distance of thick woodland,or of wild and spacious heaths, where they could work off freely the aninal energies that in the twentieth century lead too manyb of them in the foul and joyless towns into the juvenile courts. There was plenty of scope for poachers of fish and game, and plenty of fresh air and space for everybody, and silence if they wanted it. No industrial smoke, nothing faster on the roads than a horse, no incessant noises from the sky; only three million people all told, spread thinly about the country. The largest provincial town (Norwich) could be described as ‘either a City in an Orchard, or an Orchard in a City, so equally are Houses and Trees blended in it’ – how infinitely more pleasant a place England then was for the majority of her people!
And then, in the best justification for exploring what’s on your own doorstep I’ve read, he writes:
So behind every generalization, there lies the infinite variety and beauty of detail; and it is the detail that matters, that gives pleasure to the eye and to the mind, as we traverse, on foot and unhurried, the landscape of any part of England.
While this book is rightly heralded as a classic work of local history, it also is important in learning about how the experience of living in England has changed over the centuries. Hoskins’ own views, including his distaste for much of the modern world, bubble up from the pages making for a lively read. He would have made an engaging dinner guest and near-unbeatable walking companion.
The Making of the English Landscape is a fine companion to exploring rural England, and is the perfect read this springtime to herald the excitement of summer.
A night in the giant colon
It’s not every day you get the chance to spend the night in a giant digestive system, but last week I did just that. At the Verbeke Foundation, midway between Antwerp and Ghent in Flanders, Belgium lurks CasAnus, the creation of Dutch designer Joep Van Lieshout.
Getting to the Verbeke Foundation by public transport was not easy. You’re made to work for your art. First, a train to St Niklaas, and unremarkable Flemish town on the Ghent to Antwerp line. Then a bus, packed with schoolchildren. Armed with instructions of where to disembark and then a map of what to do then, it was somewhat inevitable that I would first miss the bus stop and then take a couple of wrong turns before reaching the distinctly unusual entranceway that marks the entry to the foundation. It would be easier to approach the Verbeke Foundation by car. Once home to the freight forwarding business of Geert Verbeke, it is now one of western Europe’s edgiest art venues.
Here you’ll find artists in residents living on-site and working on ambitious projects, and a few unusual ways of paying the bills. And this is why I found myself sitting in a giant greenhouse at 6.30pm with an 8m long helium-filled fuselage of a plane to my left and various futuristic installations outside surrounding a man-made lake. Mr & Mrs Verbeke fund and operate the foundation themselves and were on hand during my visit. they seem both devoted to their work and immensely welcoming. Over dinner, I learnt more about their hard work to open and operate this astonishing place so far from Europe’s artistic heartland. It requires vision, dedication and not a little funding and huge amounts of hard work. It was impossible not to be impressed. Perhaps the remote location frees their hand to be truly innovative.
What brought me here in the first place is on an island in the lake. CasAnus is, as the name suggests, a huge human colon. It was made into a dwelling which, for a mere €120 a night – barely a three-star hotel in business-account Brussels – visitors can spend the night in. Before anyone reading this recoils in horror, staying here was a genuine pleasure, The small staff who work here, including Geert and CarlaVerbeke, are passionate about their foundation and the art being made and displayed here. On first arrival, a stroll around the grounds and through the large and important collection of collage works by artists from around the world sets the scene. There’s also the chance to have a drink in the bar-cum-cafe area with the resident artists and owners, who will happily fill you in on what’s new.
Then there’s the matter of getting your head around sleeping in CasAnus. You stroll through works of art including a huge white pod and a clutch of chickens (also a piece of living art, as it turned out) until crossing a small bridge to reach the intestines themselves. Once inside, the bed is comfy, there’s a shower and toilet and towels and bedding is provided. It is utterly silent and pitch black at night, so bring a torch if you want to creep around at night. It is as normal as sleeping in a slug-like space can be. I woke in the night wondering where on earth I was. Then I realised. It took me some time to get back to sleep as I digested the information.
Since opening, CasAnus has attracted everyone from curious hacks to overnighting artists to paying customers from many European countries. I asked how people take to the experience – apparently it is universally positive. If the novelty of staying in a giant polyester intestine wears off then there’s always the thrill of spending the night quite alone in an artwork. Not an everyday occurence.
The next morning you have breakfast in the large greenhouse and reverse the trip. for €120 a night you and a friend could enjoy a visit to what must be Europe’s oddest place to stay, surrounded by cutting-edge art in the most unlikely of locations.
Here’s a video of my visit to CasAnus.
Tagged antwerp, belgium, blogsherpa, ghent, giant colon, unusual accommodation
Behind the scenes at Talking Travel: Lonely Planet & PRI The World’s podcast
The latest Talking Travel podcast went live today, talking about the World Cup, South Africa and, just to broaden the appeal, the Houston Rodeo.
Bush House - from London to the world
Recording the podcast is always fun, and requires a trip deep into the labyrinth of studios and corridors of Bush House, the iconic home of the BBC World Service. The inscription above the door of this wonderful building reads ‘Dedicated to the friendship of English-speaking peoples’.
Bush House is on Aldwych (definitive articles need not apply), the oddly-positioned buffer between the Strand and River Thames beyond and Holborn and Covent Garden to the north and west. Best known to older Londoners as giving the name to a disused stub of Piccadilly Line, the area is also home to the London School of Economics, the Indian and Australian High Commissions. Two superb churches, St Clement Danes (with Samuel Johnson lurking round the back) and St Mary-le-Strand, marooned in the middle of the busy road, can be found close by. Robert records from BBC America’s studios in midtown Manhattan, while Clark drives from PRIs HQ in Boston, Massachusetts, from whence sprang musical genius Jonathan Richman.
The podcast is a joint effort between Public Radio International’s The World programme and Lonely Planet, and contributors reflect this. Here’s a little more about the voices on the recording:
Clark Boyd
Clark Boyd in Hungary
Location: Boston, Massachusetts USA
Favourite destination(s): Edinburgh, Scotland, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, Bryce Canyon, Utah, US
Next destination: Moving to Brussels, Belgium
What I like about recording the podcast: I normally cover technology for the show, so hosting Talking Travel gives me a chance to explore something new and different. I feel like I’m learning loads about one of my favourite things to do: travel.
Robert Reid
Robert Reid in Mexico
Favourite destination: Home after a long trip, when curiosity radar is still activated and you see familiar things in new light; or Mexico
Next destination: A hobo convention in Mississippi, seriously
What you like about recording the podcast: It is simply a pleasure to be a part of, and I enjoy listening to the result – and learning from Tom and Clark – as much as making it.
Tom Hall in X-Ray Machine, Manchester Airport
Favourite destination: Paris, Rome or anywhere in Africa
Next destination: Cardiff, Wales
What you like about recording the podcast: having a chance to explore themes and destinations in detail, and the transatlantic banter.
We’d welcome your comments and suggestions for what you’d like to hear on Talking Travel, so get in touch if you have any thoughts.
Tagged blogshepra, clark boyd, Lonely Planet, podcast, robert reid, south africa, the world, tom hall, travel podcast, world cup
Easter Island and the 2010 solar eclipse
This article first appeared, translated into Norwegian, in the March 2010 issue of Zine, hence Norwegian references.
Holidays are usually about chasing the sun. There may be the odd occasion when you choose to leave a beautiful country like Norway for somewhere wet and cold, but most of the time the quest takes us somewhere we can get a blast of tropical heat and a vitamin D overdose. It shouldn’t be a surprise then that eclipse chasing is, well, hot.
Earlier this year an annular eclipse – where the moon partially obscures the sun – provided a spectacular ring of fire visible from the Maldives, southern India, Sri Lanka and China. Many snowbirds who had flown south for the winter found themselves in the right place at the right time. The Eclipse lasted in parts for eleven minutes – the longest not only this century but also this millennia.
It’s not surprising then that Easter Island is proving quite a draw for eclipse chasers on July 11, when a total eclipse will pass over the heads of the islands famous statues for four minutes and thirty-nine seconds. The combination of somewhere utterly fascinating – and with a special pull for Norwegians brought up on stories of Thor Heyerdahl’s Pacific adventures – and an eclipse sounds almost too good to be true.
Hold on before you rush to book. Let’s consider what will await those who pay the inflated costs of getting to one of the world’s hardest-to-reach islands at eclipse time? I was lucky enough to visit Easter Island a few years ago, travelling from Santiago in Chile to Tahiti on the only international flight to pause and refuel here. In fact, the plane carries enough fuel to render the landing unnecessary, to counter the risk of there being no fuel available on arrival and the flight being stranded. There are also several domestic flights each week from the Chilean mainland to Easter Island.
I found the land of the moai a very special place, with an almost unbelievable history and sense of separation from the rest of the world. Visitors tour the island on horseback, on foot and by best of all by bike, and at night the main town of Hanga Roa rocks to a gentle yet inviting island ryhtmn. Like all remote islands it can have a lonely feel, and though I treasure having visited I was relieved when my flight came in. Now I’d return here before going anywhere else.
Tukuturi: aka the kneeling moai - and the only statue on the island with legs
Easter Island has only got more popular since then and flights haven’t got any less busy. Eclipse time will be the busiest of peak times. The islanders themselves are increasingly unhappy with the volume of tourists who visit – 70,000 came last year to a place with a permanent population of 2,500 – and it likely that every room on the island and then some will be filled up when with Eclipse chasers. This means big costs for those who do come. It may be the holiday of a lifetime, but be aware that it might take you that long for your wallet to recover. At least the enigmatic moai will be standing impassive and not asking visitors to pay a premium for a photo.
There’s one other risk worth considering. July is bang in the middle of the wet season and while blue skies are entirely possible, a cloudy day would not be unusual. The Total Eclipse which passed over the UK in 1999 did so through a blanket of cloud. I watched from the top of Parliament Hill in London, one of the city’s best vantage points, and the effect was a little like a series of progressively greyer clouds rolling over your head. Thousands of excited eclipse-watchers hooted and booed at the cloudy skies which seemed ridiculous at the time. We tramped back to the Lonely Planet office more than a little disappointed.
Viewing a solar eclipse may not be worth all the hype. There are certainly better times to come to Easter Island. But both are worth seeing and should have a space on every traveller’s must-see list. You could wait a year and see Easter Island at a quieter time, and make sure you’re closer to home on June 1 2011, when a partial eclipse will be visible over northern Norway. All this obeys one unwritten rule of travel: while you’ll want to go when everybody else does, it’s usually better to plan your trip for when the crowds are elsewhere.
Tagged blogsherpa, chile, Easter Island, Eclipse, London, Moai, Thor Heyerdahl
Morrissey Shot
Moving house for the second time in six months. Putting books away unearths memories again. Well loved old favourites get dusted down and packed off, destination another bookshelf. Some catch your eye and demand a leaf-through.
Chief among them is Morrissey Shot, Linder Sterling‘s spectacular photobook from Morrissey’s solo golden years, 1991-92. In this period Mozzer shed the seclusion of his early solo years, released a succession of wonderful singles and albums and formed an unlikely songwriting and touring partnership with a pack of rakish Kentish Town quiffed-up Rockabilly boys. The concerts, including the marathon Kill Uncle tours, were the first chance a generation of post-Smiths fans had to come together. The level of fervour and celebration has never been matched since.
Sterling’s photos capture the fun and curiosity of this time.
Morrissey looks fabulous throughout, mysterious and imposing on stage, at turns playful and melancholy off it. Boz Boorer and the rest of ‘The Lads’ as clueless critics dubbed them lark around in the background. Through it all fans provide constant inspiration for Sterling. Several shots capture fleeting, tender moments between fan and singer, a snatched moment indelible to the fan, one of thousands for Morrissey. The faces of the crowd, from Dundee to Tokyo, are potraits of wide-eyed excitement. There are a few examples here.
Morrissey went on to record two of the best albums of the 90s – Your Arsenal and Vauxhall and I – then end the decade in exile. Fans continued to believe and fight the good fight against lazy critics of a genius. His concerts are still wonderful, celebratory affairs – you’ll see quiffs, hearing aids and flowers harking back to the mid-eighties – and it would be a disaster to miss Morrissey when he passes through your town. But to see him at his most handsome, his most creative and most alive, seek out a second-hand copy of Morrissey Shot.
Notes from Northern Ireland: pubs, murals and an airport named after a footballer
As you might expect from a city at the northern tip of an island in the Atlantic Ocean, Belfast is not always a dry place at the end of February. It poured down from the moment I stepped off the plane at George Best Airport until I took off again.
An artful long pass from the city centre
George Best Belfast City Airport is the only one in the world named after a footballer. Unless Buenos Aires or Três Corações get around to renaming their air terminals after hometown boys Diego Maradona or Pele there will be no airborne association with a more gifted player. Best is everywhere in Belfast and a true unifying figure in a city which still has visible divisions, even if today’s Belfast is very much looking forward to a shared future.
King of pubs
I was only in town for one night but dropped in on the Crown Liquor Saloon. This pub is a Victorian folly that somehow made it as a boozer, complete with ornate woodcarvings, neo-Gothic decor and huge private booths that hide you from the outside world. I congratulated myself on snagging one, only to realise you’re totally left alone once inside and that it was more fun chatting at the bar. Strolling the city in the evening drizzle I happened upon bands setting up to play gigs in the bars tucked away in the cobbled Cathedral Quarter and hotels like the Fitzwilliam offering upscale drinking and dining that was too trendy for a soggy corduroy-clad hack like me.
Belfast Wheel by night
The next morning I had a chance to look around. City Hall, the visible expression of the nineteenth century prosperity, the end result of Belfast’s status as one of the world’s manufacturing and shipbuilding powerhouse has excellent exhibitions and a great guided tour. It’ easy to find, next to the Belfast Wheel which is the best place from which to see the changing skyline. If big ships are your thing – and the giant Harland & Woolf cranes which are visible from all over the city prove that it was Belfast’s thing for generations – then don’t miss the fascinating Titanic Trail and accompanying boat tour. Both take in sights associated with the ill-fated ocean liner which left here – working perfectly, as locals will point out with tongue firmly in cheek – a hundred years ago next year. You’ll also find an art trail hugging the banks of the Lagan River, including this fishy fellow below.
A visit to West Belfast, still home to large working class Catholic and Protestant communities, is the best way to get a handle on the Sectarian divide which shaped the twentieth century history of the Northern Irish capital. Many come on excellent and informative Black Taxi Tours. I opted to go on foot, and suspect I was the only person to walk down both the Shankill and Falls Roads that day. Both areas are aware of their attraction to visitors and the both local communities and the city council have signs and maps to direct casual visitors around and make you feel welcome.
Martin Luther in the hood
It is hard to avoid the sense that these murals belong to the last century, not this one. The first mural you come to walking west along the Shankill Road no longer homages the loyalist cause but makes a proud claim on the area being the earliest of Belfast’s settlements. Yes, you’ll still find militaristic and political murals, and other monuments while exploring both sides of West Belfast, but the more recent renewals are more benign and hopeful and in many places offer outlets for imaginative local artists. My favourite, found elsewhere in the city, is this one devoted to one of Science’s most philosophical questions. I passed it while out running so was camera-less.
Interesting place, Belfast. It has centuries of history, a few cracking hotels and anyone who grew up with Northern Ireland looming large in the news would do well to go and see it for themselves. The city sits in the shadow of some towering mountains and is close to some lovely coast, meaning with a few extra days you could see a lot of what Northern Ireland has to offer. Bring an umbrella.
Tagged belfast, blogsherpa, george best, Lonely Planet, mural, northern ireland, pubs, ulster
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Monaco and the wonderful Monte Carlo casino are only a short drive from Nice. In the other direction, drive to Cannes, Antibes and St Tropez. Watch the glamorous people, stroll past the yachts and flash hotels, and have dinner and drinks on the waterfront. The coastal drive itself is incredibly scenic - but make sure the driver's eyes are on the road!
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While Provence is accessible on a quick drive through on the A7 from Paris, try to get off the toll road, where there's no scenery. Drive the country lanes, and between the lovely towns of Aix en Provence and the must-do Avignon, you should also check out the villages of Saint Victor La Coste, Uzes and the small town of Orange.
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Within Nice itself, you can while away many hours simply wandering up and down the promenade des Anglais at different times of the day. There are also several good museums. You can buy a museum pass for either 60+ Cote D'Azur museums, or just one for the Nice museums. The price depends on the number of days for which it's valid. Nice museums worth checking include the Musee d'ArtModerne et d'Art Contemporain which has great works from the 1960s on. Also check out the Musee Matisse.
While large sections of the beach are private and for the use of the hotels and clubs along the shore, these are interspersed with public sections which are free to use. Many of the private sections allow anyone to use them, provided you pay around 15 euros per day to rent a chair.
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Top tourist attractions in Nice, France
• Walk the Promenade Des Anglais, which is a nice coastal walk with fantastic views. It leads to the Place Masséna that is the main square of the city with a variety of restaurants, cafes, and small boutique shops
• Place Garibaldi will particularly impress architecture buffs. It is a mainly pedestrian area with a large statue of Garibaldi in the middle
• In the heart of the old town is Place Rossetti that is home to some of the best ice-cream makers in France. It typically comes alive at night-time when it is lit up.
• Sainte Reparate cathedral dates from the 17th century and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Although its size pales in comparison to other more grand cathedrals around the world, the architecture is still impressive.
• Check out festivals for the time that you will be travelling because Nice has many festivals throughout the year including Jazz!
• Buy a French Riviera pass that will get you free access to a variety of establishments and the benefit of joining guided tours around the area.
• The physically fit should walk to the top of Castle Hill for an amazing panoramic view of the city
• Marc Chagall was a Russian painter and all his works are found in the National Museum
• The Phoenix Park is a great place to spend the day with family and kids. Introducing a green area as well as flora and fauna, it is cheap to enter.
• Get on a bus and visit the ancient Convent of Cimiez
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Why do many Jews love guns so much?
Change Gun Laws in Europe to Let Jews Carry Arms, Says Leading Rabbi - newsweek.com
Because of the Holocaus -. apparently - talking to a Jew about guns and politics
by Ben Sherlock
2 January 2017 04:10 2 January 2017 04:10
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Probably the only minority group to back President-elect Donald Trump on anything are the Jews backing his stance on guns. Jews love guns, apparently. I spoke to a member of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership named Chris. Their logo is an American flag embedded into a Star of David with two assault rifles either side, which should give you some idea of their Politics.
‘The law abiding citizen does not make a habit of shooting people’
Chris believes that even if guns were illegalised in America, the sadists who shoot people for fun would find a way to acquire arms and that legal guns ensure they’re in the right, non-homicidal hands.
He says, “Those who go around shooting people are gangstas and criminals, who regardless of laws remain armed. The law abiding citizen does not make a habit of going around shooting people. If he did, the penalties would put him away. The Second Amendment has been in its current form for over two hundred years.” Gun nuts love the Second Amendment.
Knife attacks in the UK are a ‘joke’
When I pressed Chris on the fact that countries like the UK that have illegalised guns have lower crime rates than in the US, he said, “The people who remain armed in the UK and attack others with a gun are generally criminals – it’s just perhaps that armed attack frequency is less than in [the] US.
Attacks by many other means, however, are rife and the joke is that a householder who may just happen to try and defend himself against some thug armed with a knife perhaps, finishes up himself being arrested. The victim, it seems, is often castigated while the criminal gets away with it. Every person has a right to self-defence.”
But every person should have the right to safety, too. And there are plenty of knife attacks in the US.
Chris speaks like knife attacks are exclusive to Britain, like we have knife attacks and they have gun attacks. We may have knife attacks, but they have knife attacks and gun attacks. They have both.
On defence, I asked Chris why he can’t just feel safe having a baseball bat for defence. He asked me, “So you would feel happy defending yourself with a baseball bat against an attacker armed with a firearm?
No contest I’m afraid.” But in an ideal gun-free world, the attacker wouldn’t be armed with a firearm because he wouldn’t have been able to pick it up at 7-Eleven on his way to kill me.
Chris says school shootings are ‘an American phenomenon’
I asked Chris about school shootings and how there has been one in the UK and, at the time of writing (probably a dozen more by the time you read this) 458 in the US.
He said, “Indeed they have been an American phenomenon, but that rather proves there are too many illegal guns, and that in turn makes the gun in the home or even on the person even more vital in order to save good people’s lives.”
So what Chris is saying is that basically, he thinks armed people going into schools to kill kids is fine as long as their teachers are packing so they can whip it out for a John Woo-style firefight if the sh*t goes down.
Teaching is one of the top ten professions with the highest rates of depression, so arming them would be dangerous. They could either snap and turn the gun on the kids themselves, or simply blow their brains out in front of the class while they do algebra problems. Either way, not great.
So why Jews and guns?
Finally, I addressed the elephant in the room and asked why Jews specifically like guns He explained, “There are so many Jews who seem to forget history and the Holocaust, and yet who are anti-gun, as if they would prefer to continue being potential victims instead of being able to defend themselves.” Hard to argue with that.
As Chris puts it himself, “Many people hate Jews.” Makes sense that a victimised people feel the need to defend themselves. As we wrapped up, Chris said, “I suspect you are a member of those groups who probably will never change their minds!” which is without a doubt the blackest pot to ever call the kettle black.
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Poor May weather hits Primark's sales
LONDON (Reuters) - Cold and rainy weather hit sales at Primark in May but the fashion retailer’s profit margins are still growing, its parent Associated British Foods (ABF.L) said on Thursday.
Shoppers walk past a Primark store on Oxford Street in London, Britain December 17, 2018. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
The group, which also owns a major sugar business, food brands such as Ovaltine, Ryvita and Twinings, and agriculture and food ingredients businesses maintained its forecasts for its 2018-19 fiscal year.
Shares in AB Foods, which is majority owned by the family of Chief Executive George Weston, rose as much as 1.4% after the news, extending their gains to 20% this year.
AB Foods said Primark’s sales in the 40 weeks to June 22 were 4% ahead of last year on a constant currency basis, driven by new store openings and partially offset by a decline in like-for-like sales.
Primark accounts for about half of group revenue and profit.
In the UK, Primark’s total sales grew 2.3% in the third quarter and it saw a significant increase in market share.
However, UK like-for-like sales were hurt by unseasonable weather in May which contrasted to last year when Britain enjoyed a heatwave and major events including a royal wedding, which boosted sales.
“May this year was a bit rainy, a bit miserable, a bit damp and a bit cold. Put in your mind (last May) that carriage going up the avenue in Windsor with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and a completely blue sky,” AB Foods finance chief John Bason told Reuters.
“We’ve outperformed the market, continued to take share, and importantly I’m not calling a trend here,” he said.
Official UK data published last month showed cold weather in May prompted the biggest drop in British retail sales this year as shoppers delayed buying summer clothes.
JUNE RECOVERY
Sales at Primark stores in the euro zone were similarly affected by the poor weather in May.
AB Foods said Primark’s trading in June had improved in the UK and “recovered strongly” in the euro zone. Sales grew in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy, but trading remained weak in Germany.
In the United States, Primark delivered “encouraging” like-for-like and strong total sales growth, the group said.
AB Foods forecast “good profit growth” for Primark in the full year, with a year-on-year increase in margin, thanks to better buying terms and lower markdowns.
Analysts at Credit Suisse estimated Primark’s third quarter like-for-like sales fell 2.8% and said the comments around margins were welcome.
Over the 40 week period group revenue rose 3% on a constant currency basis.
AB Foods’ overall full-year outlook was unchanged, with adjusted earnings per share expected to be in line with 2017-18’s 134.9 pence.
Reporting by James Davey; editing by Costas Pitas, Kate Holton, Deepa Babington
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#81 John Goodman
Height 6'3''
Weight 215 lbs.
Class Fifth Year
Hometown Fort Wayne, IN
High School Bishop Dwenger
2012: Saw action in 10 games … recorded seven receptions on the season, and three resulted in touchdowns and two exceeded 35 yards … registered 159 receiving yards and a 22.7 yard per catch average … hauled in a 50-yard touchdown pass from sophomore QB Everett Golson against Wake Forest (Nov. 17) … hauled in an 18-yard touchdown pass from to give Notre Dame a 21-3 lead at Boston College (Nov. 10) … registered a spectacular 36-yard, one-handed grab in the victory at No. 10 Michigan State (Sept. 15) … had a critical 10-yard grab on the game-winning drive in the fourth quarter against Purdue (Sept. 8) … helped the Irish convert a third-and-six play from the Notre Dame 49-yard line … started in the season opener against Navy (Sept. 1) … finished out the regular season with one catch against USC (Nov. 24) for 23 yards.
2011 (SENIOR): Played in all 13 games, starting the Champs Sports Bowl against Florida State, serving as a punter returner and reserve wide receiver for the Irish … caught seven passes for 65 yards … returned punts in four games, with a long return of 13 against Michigan … caught passes in six games, with a long of 17 in a win at Wake Forest.
2010 (JUNIOR): Played in all 13 games for the Irish, making starting appearances against Boston College, Pittsburgh and Navy … recorded 15 receptions for 146 yards … registered two plays (reception, punt return) of 20 yards or more … eight of 15 catches resulted in a TD or first down … four of four receptions on third-down plays resulted in a TD or first down … added 13 punt returns for 17 yards … completed one of two passes for 32 yards, including a TD … tossed a 32-yard TD pass to Michael Floyd against Western Michigan … caught five passes for 59 yards against Stanford … collected three receptions for 19 yards against Boston College … totaled 15 yards on two receptions against Pittsburgh … hauled in two receptions against both Navy and Tulsa … registered three punt returns against Army … hauled in a 30-yard catch in the Hyundai Sun Bowl victory over Miami (Fla.) … totaled 256 snaps on offense, fifth most of any Irish wide receiver.
2009 (SOPHOMORE): Played in nine games for Irish (did not play against Michigan, Purdue and Stanford) and recorded first career start against USC … saw playing time increase as season progressed … caught six passes for 104 yards and one touchdown … also rushed twice for 14 yards … returned five punts for 56 yards with long return of 24 yards against Nevada … caught one pass for nine yards and rushed once for 13 yards after lining up at quarterback against USC … recorded three receptions for 22 yards against Boston College … gained 73 yards on two catches against Washington State including 64-yard TD reception from quarterback Dayne Crist … TD reception against Cougars came in Alamodome, site of his last TD reception in 2008 U.S. Army All-America Game … logged 53:45 of playing time and made nine appearances on special teams.
2008 (FRESHMAN):
Did not see any game action.
HIGH SCHOOL AND PERSONAL DATA: Selected to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio … one of five Irish players placed on the EA Sports All-America third team … placed on Detroit Free Press[apos] Best of the Midwest Top 20 team as the 20th-best player and fifth-best wide receiver … moved to quarterback as a senior and guided his team to an undefeated regular season and No. 1 ranking before falling in the state semifinals … received all-state honors from the Indiana Associated Press as a senior … awarded the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel[apos]s PrepSports Football Player of the Year as a senior … named first-team all-state by the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette … considered by Scout.com to be the top player in Indiana and the 21st-best wide receiver nationally … rated by Rivals.com as the third-best player in Indiana (one spot behind teammate Braxston Cave) and the 51st-best wide receiver … completed 95 of 175 passes for 1,697 yards and 16 touchdowns with only two interceptions and rushed 98 times for 535 yards … during his senior season, totaled 199 yards on seven receptions, returned eight kickoffs for 191 yards and 22 punts for 309 yards … totaled 28 tackles while snagging two interceptions and averaged 35.3 yards per punt … named the state[apos]s best defensive back and was a finalist for the Mr. Football award … earned all-conference accolades as a wide receiver following his junior season and as a quarterback after his senior season … played for coach Chris Svarczkopf at Bishop Dwenger … son of Andy and Julie Goodman … youngest child (two older sisters, one older brother) … brother T.J. played football at University of St. Francis (Ind.) … graduated from Mendoza College of Business in May 2012, earning a degree in management-consulting … currently enrolled in graduate studies program.
Goodman[apos]s Career Statistics
Rushing Receiving Passing
Year G-S Att Yds Avg TD LG Rec Yds Avg TD LG Comp Att INT Pct Yds TD
2008 Did Not Play
2009 9-1 2 14 7.0 1 13 6 104 17.3 1 64 0 0 0 0.0 0 0
2010 13-3 0 0 0 0 0 15 146 9.7 0 30 1 2 0 50.0 32 1
2011 13-1 0 0 0 0 0 7 159 22.7 0 17 0 0 0 00.0 0 0
2012 10-0 0 0 0 0 0 7 65 9.3 3 50 0 1 0 00.0 0 0
Total 45-5 3 16 5.3 0 13 35 474 13.5 4 64 1 4 0 25.0 32 1
Kickoff Return Punt Return
Year Ret Yds Avg TD LG Ret Yds Avg TD LG
2009 0 0 0.0 0 0 5 56 11.2 0 24
2010 0 0 0.0 0 0 13 17 1.3 0 13
2011 0 0 0.0 0 0 8 5 0.6 0 13
2012 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 0 0 0.0 0 0 26 78 3.0 0 24
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Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades has pledged to revoke the country's passports found to have been "mistakenly" granted to wealthy overseas investors under its programme to promote investment in the country. After it was reported that fugitive financier Low Taek Jho, or Jho Low, got a passport of the island state back in 2015 as international investigators were closing him on him. Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2019/11/05/cyprus-to-revoke-passports-039mistakenly039-granted-to-investors-including-jho-low
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Cyprus ( i/ˈsaɪprəs/; Greek: Κύπρος [ˈcipros]; Turkish: Kıbrıs [ˈkɯbɾɯs]), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Greek: Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Turkish: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coasts of Syria and Turkey. Cyprus is the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean, and a member state of the European Union. It is located south of Turkey, west of Syria and Lebanon, northwest of Israel, north of Egypt and east of Greece.
The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains from this period include the well-preserved Neolithic village of Khirokitia, and Cyprus is home to some of the oldest water wells in the world. Cyprus was settled by Mycenaean Greeks in two waves in the 2nd millennium BC. As a strategic location in the Middle East, it was subsequently occupied by several major powers, including the empires of the Assyrians, Egyptians and Persians, from whom the island was seized in 333 BC by Alexander the Great. Subsequent rule by Ptolemaic Egypt, the Classical and Eastern Roman Empire, Arab caliphates for a short period, the French Lusignan dynasty and the Venetians, was followed by over three centuries of Ottoman rule between 1571 and 1878 (de jure until 1914).
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Cyprus may refer to:
Cyprus, an island country in the east Mediterranean, officially known as The Republic of Cyprus
Northern Cyprus, known as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (self-declared state)
Cyprus (European Parliament constituency), European Parliament constituency covering the state of Cyprus
Cyprus, London, area of London, United Kingdom, named after the island
Cyprus DLR station, a metropolitan transport station serving the area of London above
MV Cyprus C, an Empire F type coaster in the service of Malglaive Shipping Ltd 1948-50
SS Cyprus, US ship launched and sunk in 1907
Tabby cats were once known as Cyprus cats in England
Cypres, automatic activation device for parachuting
Cypress (disambiguation)
Cypris (disambiguation)
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The Theme of Cyprus (Greek: θέμα Κύπρου, thema Kyprou) was a Byzantine military-civilian province, located in the island of Cyprus, established in the 960s after the reconquest of Cyprus by the Byzantine navy. Prior to this the island had been a Byzantine-Arab condominium for three centuries, except occasional short periods where it was occupied by either power. A rebellion by governor Theophilos Erotikos in 1042, and another in 1092 by Rhapsomates, failed as they were quickly subdued by imperial forces. At the end of the 12th century there were again separatist tendencies in Cyprus: Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus proclaimed himself as "basileus" (emperor) in 1185. Cyprus remained under his command until its conquest from Richard I of England in 1191.
Gregory, Timothy E. (1991), "Cyprus", in Kazhdan, Alexander, Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, pp. 567–569, ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6
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Το κυπριακό Mama ? του Sin Boy από την ομάδα του Mix FM Concept - Διασκευή: Ηλίας Χαλντούπης Φωτογραφία - Μόντάζ: Ρένος Σπανούδης Sin Boy: Έλενα Ολυμπίου Με τους: Πλάτωνα Μουρατίδη, Ιωάννα Λαμπροπούλου, Κάλια Ελευθερίου Guest: Ντίνος Γεωργίου Θερμές Ευχαριστίες στον αγαπημένο Master Chef Χαράλαμπο Κοτσώνη Απόδοση από την κυπριακή διάλεκτο στην καθομιλουμένη: Διακόσια στη στροφή και με ρωτάνε "Μαμά"; Τί είναι αυτό μαμά; Λέω ότι δεν μου αρέσει όταν το ακούω ξανά Φτάνει πια Τον στίχο δεν μπορώ να δω σοβαρά Δεν έχει νόημα Διακόσια στη στροφή και με ρωτάνε "Μαμά"; Μαμά, μαμά τί είναι αυτό το "μαμά" Το βάζω τέρμα μέσα στο αυτοκίνητο Το έχω για ringtone και στο κινητό μου Γεμάτο paranoia είναι το μυαλό Τον εαυτό μου βρίσκω σπάνια σαν τον Νίνο Μες στο club το βάζει ο DJ Όλοι κουνιούνται τρελέ μου Το παίζουνε ωραίοι Στo youtube το βάζω everyday Τα λόγια έμαθα απ'έξω δεν είμαι πολύ OK Τα χωριατάκια το βάζουν και το ακούνε μες στην τάξη Ως κι η μαθηματικός δεν θέλει να διδάξει Αντί για συνημίτονα μιλά πια για Sin Boy Φοράει αλυσίδες και καδένες και τυλίγει joint Έβαλε κι ο καντινίερης μας να ακούσει "Μαμά" Και στα σάντουιτς πια αντί για λούντζα βάζει "πράμα" Κόλλησαν όλοι κι είναι πια σαν τα ζόμπι Όμηρους θα τους πιάσω σαν τη Ναϊρόμπι Διακόσια στη στροφή και με ρωτάνε "Μαμά"; Τί είναι αυτό μαμά; Λέω ότι δεν μου αρέσει όταν το ακούω ξανά Φτάνει πια Τον στίχο δεν μπορώ να δω σοβαρά Δεν έχει νόημα Διακόσια στη στροφή και με ρωτάνε "Μαμά"; Μαμά, μαμά τί είναι αυτό το "μαμά" Παλιότερα το ραπ είχε αξίαν bro Τώρα οι ραπερς πινουν μπάφους παίζουν pro Γράφουν στίχους για να πάρουν τα "τσέκκια" (checks) τους Τζιούλλα τ'άλλα γράφουν τα στ' αρ***** τους Που είναι B.D Foxmoor και ο MCD Οι TXC και οι FF.C Ο 2Pac απ'τον τάφο του πρέπει να βγει Να κάμει collab με τον Killah P Με ρωτούν όλοι αν ξέρω εγώ τον SinBoy Τους κοιτάω μες στα μάτια και τους λέω "ε όχι" Μα φαίνεται κανείς τους τωρά πια δεν το τρώει Προδώνει το tattou «μαμά» που έχω στο πόδι Ρωτούν με αν ξέρεις τί σημαινει πες το Και τους απαντώ σαν τον Πινοκιο στον Τζεπέτο Ο Παραδεισιώτης (DJ) το βάζει στο Ghetto (Party) Ο Dino G (Mix FM CEO) τον κυνηγάει με το όπλο Διακόσια στη στροφή και με ρωτάνε "Μαμά"; Τί είναι αυτό μαμά; Λέω ότι δεν μου αρέσει όταν το ακούω ξανά Φτάνει πια Τον στίχο δεν μπορώ να δω σοβαρά Δεν έχει νόημα Διακόσια στη στροφή και με ρωτάνε "Μαμά"; Μαμά, μαμά τί είναι αυτό το "μαμά" Στίχοι στα κυπριακά: Θκιακόσια πα στην κούρβα τζιαι ρωτούν με "μαμμά" Νάμπον τουντο αμμά; Λαλώ πως εμμ’αρεσκει αμμα ακούω το ξανά Φκάρτε πκιον πόνημα Το στίχο ενι μπορώ να δω σοβαρά Εν εσιει νόημα Θκιακόσια πα στην κούρβα τζιαι ρωτούν με "μαμμά"... αμμά, αμμά νάμπον τουντο "μαμμά"; Τταππώνω το μεσα στο αυτοκίνητο Έχω το τζιαι για ringtone τζιαι πα στο κινητό μου. Γεμάτο paranoia ένι το μυαλό Τον εαυτό μου βρίσκω σπάνια σαν τον Νίνο Μες στο κλαμπ παιζει το ο DJ Ούλλοι σούζουνται πελλέ μου, παίζουν το ωραίοι Μες στο youtube παίζω το everyday τα λόγια έμαθα π’όξω εν είμαι πολλά οκ Τα χωρκατούθκια βάλλουν τζι ακούν το μες στην τάξη .. Ως τζι η μαθηματικός εθθέλει να διδαξει. Αντί για συνημίτονα μιλά πκιον για sinboy Φορεί αλυσίδες, τζιαι καδένες, τζιαι τυλίει joint Εβαλεν τζι ο καττινιέρης μας να ακούσει «μάμμα» Τζιαι στα σαντουιτς πκιον αντί για λούντζα βαλλει πράμα Εκολλήσαν ούλλοι τζιαι πκιον εν όπως τα ζόμπι Όμηρους έννα τους πκιάσω σαν τη Ναϊρόμπι Θκιακόσια πα στην κούρβα τζιαι ρωτούν με "μαμμά" Νάμπον τουντο αμμά; Λαλώ πως εμμ’αρεσκει αμμα ακούω το ξανά Φκάρτε πκιον πόνημα Το στίχο ενι μπορώ να δω σοβαρά Εν έσιει νόημα Θκιακόσια πα στην κούρβα τζιαι ρωτούν με "μαμμά"... αμμά, αμμά νάμπον τουντο "μαμμά";
Why Greece And Turkey Are Fighting Over Cyprus
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Get more Tips here! http://www.destinationtips.com Divide your time between the island’s rich cultural history and beaches so beautiful you’d be hard-pressed to find their equal anywhere else. There are dozens of reasons to spend some time bumming around Cyprus; here are some of the most compelling. 1. It’s Bright and Sunny All Year Long The island of Cyprus averages about 326 days of sunshine a year. That means that even in the dead of winter, you’ll be greeted by bright sunshine pretty much every day. 2. Beaches of All Kinds Cyprus is home to a variety of different beaches. Rocky inlets and white sand beaches are scattered across the island. Even better, no matter where you drop your beach towel, you’ll have the opportunity to wade into the cleanest water in all of Europe. 3. But...
Support our channel and install the free-to-play PC game World of Tanks: https://rdr.wargaming.net/5i3h49oc/?pub_id=KingsandGenerals Our animated historical documentary series continues with a video on the Cyprus conflict of 1974, during which the local Greek and Turkish communities clashed and were supported by the armies and navies of Turkey and Greece. Cold War channel: http://bit.ly/2UHebLI Modern Warfare series: http://bit.ly/2W2SeXF Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/KingsandGenerals or Paypal: http://paypal.me/kingsandgenerals We are grateful to our patrons and sponsors, who made this video possible: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JlqSD0nyP64psCnaLrwFT3zVTZiordU1jnwXeZOu1to The video was made by our friend Benjin Pratt. This video was narrated by Officially Devi...
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Το κυπριακό Mama ? του Sin Boy από την ομάδα του Mix FM Concept - Διασκευή: Ηλίας Χαλντούπης Φωτογραφία - Μόντάζ: Ρένος Σπανούδης Sin Boy: Έλενα Ολυμπίου Με τους: Πλάτωνα Μουρατίδη, Ιωάννα Λαμπροπούλου, Κάλια Ελευθερίου Guest: Ντίνος Γεωργίου Θερμές Ευχαριστίες στον αγαπημένο Master Chef Χαράλαμπο Κοτσώνη Απόδοση από την κυπριακή διάλεκτο στην καθομιλουμένη: Διακόσια στη στροφή και με ρωτάνε "Μαμά"; Τί είναι αυτό μαμά; Λέω ότι δεν μου αρέσει όταν το ακούω ξανά Φτάνει πια Τον στίχο δεν μπορώ να δω σοβαρά Δεν έχει νόημα Διακόσια στη στροφή και με ρωτάνε "Μαμά"; Μαμά, μαμά τί είναι αυτό το "μαμά" Το βάζω τέρμα μέσα στο αυτοκίνητο Το έχω για ringtone και στο κινητό μου Γεμάτο paranoia είναι το μυαλό Τον εαυτό μου βρίσκω σπάνια σαν τον Νίνο Μες στο club το βάζει ο DJ Όλοι κουνιούνται τρελέ...
Since the tragic events of Sandy Hook in 2012, there has been a shockingly high number of school shootings reported in the U.S. Just how many shootings have there been? And how exactly do we define a “school shooting”? TestTube Daily takes a closer look. Learn More: Everytown For Gun Safety http://everytown.org “Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities. Gun violence touches every town in America. For too long, change has been thwarted by the Washington gun lobby and by leaders who refuse to take common-sense steps that will save lives.” This Map Shows Every School Shooting Since Sandy Hook http://www.vox.com/2014/6/10/5797306/map-school-shooting-sandy-hook There Have Been 87 School Shootings Since Sandy Hook And Zero Gun Law C...
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The tiny island of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean has been under dispute for a very long time. It has two administrations, one led by Greek Cypriots in the...
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Exploring the beautiful Republic of Cyprus in a week. -it has been recorded in April 2018 and I've structured it in a travel preview/sample format for people w...
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Nicos Anastasiades, President of the Republic of Cyprus, addresses the general debate of the 74th Session of the General Assembly of the UN (New York, 24 – 30 S...
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Cyprus' President Nicos Anastasiades has pledged to revoke the country's passports found to have been "mistakenly" granted to wealthy overseas investors under i...
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The question of national identity is a fraught and impossible one. To try and answer it - or at least get a vague indication of how Cypriots feel - we went on t...
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Tamta - Replay - Cyprus 🇨🇾 - Official Music Video - Eurovision 2019
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WaterWorld Ayia Napa Cyprus (All Slides)
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Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest, that is the theme of the day. Matt is reviewing and reacting to all songs from the year they first entered, up until 2018. Order the Eurovision 2018 album: https://amzn.to/2GX5aYF ------------------------------------- Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/escunited Join our ESC Forum: http://escunited.com/forum Follow Matt on Twitter: twitter.com/MattESCunited Follow ESCunited on Twitter: twitter.com/escunited Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EscUnited Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/escunited Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a us...
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Postcard of Tamta from Cyprus 🇨🇾 - KAN | Eurovision 2019
Kan 🇮🇱 | All the way from Cyprus, Tamta danced in Eilat, the southernmost city in Israel and the only one that resides on the shores of the Red Sea. Eilat serves as a central port and offers a vibrant tourist experience and nightlife. All the artists from the 42 countries participating at KAN Eurovision Song Contest 2019, have been on a trip to The Best and most interesting sites and places in Israel to film their #Eurovision_postcards. Hope you enjoy these short, wonderful hellos from our beautiful country. The theme of the KAN | Eurovision 2019 postcards is #Dancing_Israel Subscribe to Kan on YouTube ► https://goo.gl/oZXJl Follow Kan On Twitter ► https://twitter.com/kann Follow us On Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/kan_israel Follow us On our website ► http://www.kan.org.i...
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Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest, that is the theme of the day. Matt is reviewing and reacting to all songs from the year they first entered, up until 2018...
Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest, that is the theme of the day. Matt is reviewing and reacting to all songs from the year they first entered, up until 2018. Order the Eurovision 2018 album: https://amzn.to/2GX5aYF ------------------------------------- Please support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/escunited Join our ESC Forum: http://escunited.com/forum Follow Matt on Twitter: twitter.com/MattESCunited Follow ESCunited on Twitter: twitter.com/escunited Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EscUnited Follow us on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/escunited Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing.
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Kan 🇮🇱 | All the way from Cyprus, Tamta danced in Eilat, the southernmost city in Israel and the only one that resides on the shores of the Red Sea. Eilat serve...
Kan 🇮🇱 | All the way from Cyprus, Tamta danced in Eilat, the southernmost city in Israel and the only one that resides on the shores of the Red Sea. Eilat serves as a central port and offers a vibrant tourist experience and nightlife. All the artists from the 42 countries participating at KAN Eurovision Song Contest 2019, have been on a trip to The Best and most interesting sites and places in Israel to film their #Eurovision_postcards. Hope you enjoy these short, wonderful hellos from our beautiful country. The theme of the KAN | Eurovision 2019 postcards is #Dancing_Israel Subscribe to Kan on YouTube ► https://goo.gl/oZXJl Follow Kan On Twitter ► https://twitter.com/kann Follow us On Instagram ► https://www.instagram.com/kan_israel Follow us On our website ► http://www.kan.org.il
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2008 jewish exit polls are false (Jews aren't that libreal)
« edited: July 27, 2012, 03:20:50 pm by NY Jew »
according to this website
http://www.jewishdatabank.org/Archive/N-Jewish_American_Voting_Solomon_Project_2012_Main_Report.pdf
they only polled 952 people throughout the whole country (bet you not one was in a area that Jews actually voted for McCain).
and there was no significant difference in polling between any region of the country (the North East finished 2nd out 4 in highest % for Obama)
Since it's very possible that in NYC McCain possibly even won the Jewish vote (he had around 25 eds where he got over 90% plus many more in both the 80% and 70%). he also got 90% in eds in Nassau, Orange, Rockland, and Ocean (NJ) counties. he clearly (look at the results) also did well with jews in many other Jewish parts of the north east.
based on these facts those polls are 100% worthless there is no way that they could even be close to accurate.
In short McCain most likely actually did much better then the polls stated he did (and the Jewish vote numbers are not worth the paper their written on).
Comrade Funk
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Re: 2008 jewish exit polls are false (Jews aren't that libreal)
You need to accept that most Jews in this country are liberals.
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Not all Jews are ultra-Orthodox.
Quote from: Snowstalker on July 12, 2012, 02:40:58 pm
Only 13% of American Jews are Orthodox. Reform and Conservative Jews are much more likely to be politically liberal, and also much less likely to live in heavily Jewish enclaves.
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« Edited: July 12, 2012, 05:02:37 pm by phk »
The Orthodox Jews have much higher TFRs than the others. The Reform TFR is estimated at below the 1.8 that is recorded for US Whites, which is already below replacement. I would not be surprised if under-18 Jews were already more Orthodox than Jews at large, especially as Reform/Conservative meld into the American mean and already have low birth rates.
it's still mathematically impossible for those numbers to be accurate.
NE Jews would have to have voted much more liberal then Jews from SF for this to be remotely accurate.
argue based on math.
Quote from: Stranger in a strange land on July 12, 2012, 03:02:30 pm
first of all I think we're around 15% now (though in 2008 it was probably around 13%)
but that's irrelevant to my point
at least 80% of all Orthodox Jews (and they also probably also voted for McCain at a higher rate then other Orthodox Jews out of the NE) live in the NE and easily over half of all Russian Jews live in the NE. (do you want me to list neighborhoods where we can give actual numbers (not polls) of how strong the Jewish vote was against Obama)
the fact that the exit polls don't show any real difference between Jews for McCain from the NE and the West clearly shows that the polls underestimated the right wing Jewish vote in the NE. (and looking at Jewish areas in the NE and comparing it to the west also seems to show that the avg (non Orthodox ext.) NE Jew voted more for McCain (though he still voted for Obama) then the avg Jew in the West Coast)
and if you think it's irrelevant it would take around 28,000 Jews to vote 100% for Obama just to get back to the 74% after only including an area of around 50,000 mostly Jews (the non Jews most likely were a big chunk of Obama's 10%) in Borough Park. (now we would do this again for many other Jewish McCain neighborhoods (including the rest of BP) in NYC, LI, Upstate, NJ, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Mass, CT ext.
What amount of non-Orthodox USSR GOP Jews are there?
Quote from: phk on July 12, 2012, 04:31:39 pm
it was around 61% in NYC this past year. in Baltimore in 2009 there was a slight majority of all Jewish children under 5 were Orthodox.
in a few years from now I think the majority of all Jewish children born in America will be from Orthodox families. and a few years later you will be right. it will take a while till we're majority of the Jewish electorate though.
I don't know the number for the whole NE or country for that matter but In NYC there were 199,000 Russian Jews and 17,000 in LI, and Westchester (around 10% of this could be Orthodox)
and how conservative they are McCain got 80% in part of Brighton Beach (McCain's best non Orthodox ED in NY)
True Federalist
I haven't looked at the numbers, but your proposition that Orthodox Jews must be underrepresented in this survey of which you complain makes the assumption that Orthodox Jews vote at the same rates as non-Orthodox Jews. I doubt that is the case, since with other religions the degree of religiosity affects voting rates. Indeed, at one time evangelical Christians tended to shun politics as being too worldly. It's also possible that Orthodox Jews have different response rates to pollsters.
Quote from: True Federalist on July 13, 2012, 03:47:21 pm
Yes in Israel Orthodox Jews and Russian Jews are always underestimated in the polls
in addition the Jewish vote was determinedly by randomly placed exit polls (that weren't even looking for the jewish vote specifically) considering that Orthodox Jews (and for that matter Russian Jews) live in much less areas overall (even proportionately to their population) compared to non Orthodox Jews. It's much more likely that they were never even asked to fill out an exit poll.
my point is that if Geographically there isn't a major distinction between the NE and the rest of the country it's impossible that the total number's accurate.
for example it would take 28,000 votes 100% for Obama to counteract (back down to the 74% for Obama) just the heart of Borough Park (these numbers are based on the election results not polls)
The strong McCain vote (that doesn't exist anywhere else even close to what it does in the NE) should mean that if this poll was accurate NE Jews would be the most by far the most for McCain of all the regions listed. and that didn't happen
If you want to mathematically defend these polls (and say they didn't way underestimate the conservative voting Jewish demographics) you would have to argue that Jews (non Orthodox/Russian ext. Jews ) in the NE were voting for Obama at a 90% rate (the secular Jewish neighborhoods don't support that theory) but every where else at a around 74%. which is also impossible because the only way that could be shown is with a much highers sample size.
could you add up the total turnout in the orthodox Jewish EDs of New York so we can calculate what approximate percentage of NY Jewish voters live in these areas (using the exit poll for the statewide total)?
It's reasonable to argue that Orthodox Jews are underrepresented in exit polls, but unless they refuse/are missed by phone pollsters at unusual rates, you're going to struggle to dismiss the phone polls on the subject -- which are the superior evidence here.
« Edited: July 16, 2012, 10:20:56 am by NY Jew »
Quote from: Alcon on July 16, 2012, 02:03:03 am
in Israel Orthodox Jews are usaly underestimated in the polls as are Russians.
it's hard to do that because figuring out exactly what the % of Jewish vote was in some areas is next to impossible.
for example in Washington Heights in the most Jewish area McCain got 40% of the vote but the area also has gentrifies and Hispanics (mostly Dominican) which is why it was only 40%.
even in very liberal areas like the Upper West Side the Jewish vote (only) was most likely higher for McCain then the avg Jewish vote outside of the NE.
PS the are were no exit polls specifically for NY jews.
Could you at least try for an estimate? For instance, you could figure out the overall turnout in an area that's ~100% Orthodox Jewish, versus the 18+ population, and then extrapolate if there's an estimate for the number of Orthodox Jews in New York.
Jews were included in the NY exit poll, also being only 3% of the sample, the results were suppressed in the public release for MoE reasons. The data are probably available somewhere. I'm just trying to find some empirical evidence here, however rough.
I don't know why you didn't respond to the phone poll part of my post.
Quote from: Alcon on July 18, 2012, 08:11:55 pm
I'm including Russians (when I get to areas with them) and other types of politically conservative jews in this and leaving out the typical American Jew.
I'm doing this by neighborhood so someone can correct my work. and doing the easiest areas first.
please look at this to see if this looks accurate
Crown Heights I'm assuming it voted 90% for McCain
I'm assuming 3,000 people showed up
for a jewish vote of
2,700-300
Kiryas Yoel (I think there a quite a few votes outside of KJ that I didn't count)
2,757 - Obama 199
You need to find the population for those areas too so we can estimate what percent of orthodox turn out. Then, we can take a statewide projection and start empirically testing your claim here -- or doing a better job than we have so far this thread. Get me?
the problem is that the many Orthodox communities are unique from one another and the communities could have drastically different turnout%.
what I'm trying to do now is estimate the actual numbers of the Orthodox vote in different areas
Quote from: NY Jew on July 16, 2012, 10:11:54 am
This isn't really true, UTJ get the same as the exit polls, Shas are slightly underestimate (and most of their voters are not really Haredi), and Yisrael Beitenu are slightly overestimated
Quote from: danny on July 27, 2012, 08:56:35 am
I heard this from a Israeli pollster.
are you sure they don't weigh the polls in Israel to counteract this fact?
Maybe they do, I can only talk about the results that are published.
Though now that you brought up the topic I think the problem might be related to the direct elections. (there were some weird results in the polling in 96, 99, and 2003)
I think I might have heard this regarding the 2001 election.
Brittain33
There is no flippin' way McCain won the Jewish vote in NYC. End of story.
Quote from: brittain33 on July 27, 2012, 12:30:03 pm
any sane person who looks at the numbers will relize there is a very good chance that McCain won the NYC Jewish vote. McCain won almost every single majority Jewish ED and did very well in many other EDs that had a lot of Jews
If you don't see the possibility that McCain won the NYC Jewish vote either didn't look at the numbers or are don't know math.
How are the totals coming out for votes in the EDs and as a share of the population as a whole?
You can win 99% of Crown Heights and Brighton Beach and not have a majority of the Jewish vote in NYC given that there are 1+ million Jews in the city. I am counting secular or non-religious Jews, or Jews who go to services on the high holidays but arent regularly affiliated with a synagogue, as Jews if they identify as such to a pollster.
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25 Best Day Trips in North Carolina
By VI Staff on January 8, 2020
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From the beaches of the Outer Banks to the tallest mountains of the Blue Ridge range, North Carolina contains endless opportunities for sightseeing and activities. It’s home to some of the oldest towns and settlements of the United States, and its diverse small towns are absolutely worth a trip, whether for an afternoon or a weekend. From rock climbing at Chimney Rock to exploring the history of the Cherokee Nation in Cherokee to relaxing on the boardwalk or sunbathing at Carolina Beach, North Carolina, has so much to offer that is definitely not to be missed.
1. Asheville
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Asheville, located in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is renowned for its arts and cultural scene as well as for its historic buildings. It’s a beautiful city with a thriving culture, and there’s no shortage of things to do in Asheville. Visitors can tour the elaborate house and gardens at the Biltmore Estate, visit the Asheville Pinball Museum, or sit back and enjoy a tasty beer at the New Belgium Brewery and Tasting Room. Those looking to get out into the great outdoors will find a plethora of opportunity within a short driving distance for hiking, biking, kayaking, and mountain views. Things to Do in Asheville
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2.Carolina Beach
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The boardwalk at Carolina Beach is famous nationwide for its shops, restaurants, rides, and entertainment for visitors of all ages. During the summer, weekly firework shows and regular concerts and events add even more to the experience. On the beach itself, there is ample opportunity for sunbathing and watersports, and at nearby Carolina Beach State Park, visitors can wander a sandy trail that leads to an awe inspiring view of Cape Fear River. Whether they are looking for a relaxing weekend away, or a day trip full of excitement, families, friends, and solo travelers will all find something to love about Carolina Beach.
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3.Blowing Rock
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With its quaint shops and stunning location (it is one of the only towns directly along the Blue Ridge Parkway), Blowing Rock claims the title of “Crown of the Blue Ridge.” In Blowing Rock, which is located near the impressive Grandfather Mountain, visitors can hike, bike, or boulder, but they can also relax and enjoy this charming town and all it has to offer. The Tweetsie Railroad, a Wild West themed park, is a great destination for families, and Blowing Rock Art and History Museum offers some cultural education for history buffs. And with over a hundred unique shops in its downtown area, Blowing Rock is a fantastic place to treat yourself to something new.
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4.Pisgah National Forest
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Nature lovers will delight in the thickly wooded slopes of Pisgah National Forest, whose 500,000 acres are home to hiking trails that extend for more than 1600 miles over rivers, past cascading waterfalls, and through the beautiful North Carolina wilderness. There are several tall peaks within the forest, including Black Balsam Knob, Cold Mountain, and Tennant Mountain. Trails to the summits of these peaks vary in length and difficulty for hikers of all ability levels, and camping in Pisgah National Forest is permitted at both established campsites and in backcountry locations.
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5.Brevard
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In Brevard, visitors can find all the outdoor activities they’d expect to find in a North Carolina mountain town, including hiking, cycling, and rock climbing, as well as a vibrant cultural scene with music, food, and festivals. Brevard hosts six festivals every year, and countless events on top of that, but it still manages to maintain the charm of a small town community, with locally owned shops and restaurants and friendly inhabitants. Visitors to Brevard will adore the atmosphere in the town, which is cultured yet quiet, and boasts a thriving music scene with everything from symphonic orchestras, live bar performances, and bustling music festivals.
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6.Bryson City
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North Carolina has lots of options for outdoor enthusiasts, from hiking mountains to swimming in the ocean, and a day trip or weekend excursion to Bryson City should definitely be added to that list. Situated just an hour’s drive from Asheville, Bryson City invites visitors to kayak or navigate the rapids in a raft on the Nantahala River, head to the famous Tsali trails for some mountain biking, hike or horseback ride through forests and past waterfalls, or spend a peaceful day fishing on Fontana Lake. The town is tucked away in the Smokies surrounded by steep slopes, rushing creeks, and stunning nature that is sure to leave visitors breathless.
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7.Atlantic Beach
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Atlantic Beach is one of only five communities located on the barrier island of Bogue Banks in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. With a beach that is nationally recognized as one of the best in the country and an array of state parks and attractions that offer a combination of history, nature, and fun, Atlantic Beach has something for everyone. A boat ride to Cape Lookout National Seashore allows visitors to explore a lighthouse watch wild horses on the beaches, and tour a historic town, while Fort Macon State Park is a great place to walk, explore, visit the beach, and learn about its history as a Civil War fort.
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8. Chapel Hill
A visit to Chapel Hill will show visitors almost immediately why it’s such a popular destination for tourists. It has everything, including restaurants, family activities, a music scene, parks, art and museums, and lots of history. Visitors can view collections of art from all over the world at the Ackland Art Museum, take some time to smell the roses at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, or head to the Carolina Basketball Museum for exhibits about the history of UNC basketball. Chapel Hill is also home to the Carr Mill Mall, a historic market, and the Weaver Street Market, where visitors will find not only shopping but also food and music. Things to Do in Chapel Hill
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9. Cherokee
Cherokee, North Carolina is a town inside the Eastern Cherokee Reservation, and it offers visitors an amazing look into Native American culture and history through museums, shops, and shows. Live demonstrations at Oconaluftee Indian Village will show visitors what life was like in an 18th century Cherokee village, and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian will teach about the history of the Cherokee Nation in the region. Cherokee is located at the doorstep of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, so it’s situated in some beautiful natural settings and also serves as a great jumping point for exploring the park. Things to Do in Cherokee
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10.Chimney Rock
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Located in Hickory Nut Gorge just beneath the towering hulk of Chimney Rock Mountain is Chimney Rock Village, a charmingly quirky town with plenty of shops, hotels, restaurants, bars, and services. Chimney Rock State Park is a huge draw for visitors, and the entrance to this beautiful park is laughably easy to find, as it’s located right on Main Street in town. The park features some amazing rock formations, including the one that gives it its name, as well as some great opportunities for rock climbing or hiking to the top of Chimney Rock, where some spectacular views can be found of nearby Lake Lure and the surrounding area. Not much of a hiker? No problem, because an elevator inside the mountain can lift visitors up to the top of Chimney Rock, so no one has to miss out on the view.
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11.Corolla
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Corolla, North Carolina, is located in the Outer Banks and has miles and miles of beachfront land full of rental homes great for family vacations, bachelor or bachelorette weekends, or gatherings of any kind. The town of Corolla has plenty to do, from climbing the stairs of the beautiful and scenic Currituck Beach Lighthouse to visiting the historic Whalehead Club. In town, visitors to Corolla will find an abundance of shops and restaurants to whet their appetites. The area is also home to a herd of wild horses, and visitors will love visiting their habitat and seeing them relax on the beach like tourists.
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12.Emerald Isle
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The entire family will love the town of Emerald Isle, which is part of the Crystal Coast just south of Croatan National Forest. Emerald Isle is home to over 12 miles of sandy shorelines with some pretty spectacular views of the Atlantic, and its waters are great for boating, fishing, and watersports. From the wealth of activities on the beach, from sunbathing to paddleboarding to miniature golf to zipping down the waterslides at Water Boggan, it’s easy to find things to do on Emerald Isle, where the island places special emphasis on creating an atmosphere suitable for family fun.
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13. Fayetteville
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Near the military base of Fort Bragg lies Fayetteville, a historic town with a lot of passion. From its proximity to the largest military installation in the country to its roots as a town named for the Marquis de Lafayette, it’s no surprise that Fayetteville received the title of “America’s Most Pro-Military Town.” Patriotism certainly runs strong in this town, where visitors can explore the Fayetteville Independent Light Infantry Armory and Museum, tour the Averasboro Battlefield and Museum, or check out some of Fayetteville’s nine historic districts to see evidence of the town’s proud past.
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14.Grandfather Mountain State Park
Grandfather Mountain is the tallest peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and this state park offers visitors the opportunity to see the towering mountain up close. Near the summit at exactly one mile above sea level is the Mile High Swinging Bridge, a suspension bridge that extends for over 220 feet over a chasm that drops beneath. A walk across this bridge is sure to get the adrenaline pumping, and you’ll see some pretty spectacular views along the way. For a more rustic, backcountry view of Grandfather Mountain, visitors can use one of the many nature trails or hiking trails that lead around the park and to the summit.
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15. Great Smoky Mountain National Park
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the area’s premier destinations for outdoor activities and natural beauty. It is the most popular national park in the entire United States, and within its borders visitors will find lush green trees, abundant wildlife, and of course, some truly awe-inspiring mountains. The hiking trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are vast and numerous and even include a portion of the famous Appalachian Trail. Hikers will wind their way up mountainsides and across rivers to see some of the most beautiful scenery in the country.
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16.Highlands
Highlands is a mountain resort town located along the southern border of North Carolina near scenic Highway 64. This town is so popular that during the summer its population grows by more than 600% on average, and one day in Highlands will tell you exactly why. The town itself is full of activity, from restaurants and shopping to galleries and the arts. The surrounding beauty of Nantahala National Forest offers hiking trails through peaceful woods and past waterfalls that are simply picture perfect, and fishing enthusiasts will find trout in the area’s many rivers.
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17.Kill Devil Hills
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The town of Kill Devil Hills on the coast of the Atlantic in the Outer Banks is a resort town with plenty of history and activities. Close to the famous town of Kitty Hawk, Kill Devil Hills is home to the Wright Brothers National Memorial, where visitors can explore the grounds and a reconstruction of the camp where the Wright Brothers built their first airplane, as well as a replica of their prototype. Out on the water, Kill Devils Hill is well known as a surfing destination and for being a great spot for kayaking, fishing, and boating. Equipment rentals are available on location.
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18.Lake Lure
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Lake Lure is a huge lake that approximates over 700 acres in Hickory Nut Gorge in the western part of the state. With over twenty miles of shoreline, Lake Lure is fed by the clear waters of Rocky Broad River as it makes its way through Hickory Nut Gap. The climate in the area is very warm, and Lake Lure and the surrounding region is well suited for hiking, boating, fishing, and swimming. In the charming town of Lake Lure, visitors will find plenty of shopping and dining options for when their day of play out on the lake comes to an end.
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19.Mount Mitchell State Park
Mount Mitchell reaches 6,684 feet in elevation at its summit, making it the highest point in America east of the Mississippi, and the park surrounding the peak is certainly one of the most beautiful in the region. Via the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, visitors can even drive to the summit, where they will follow the mountain road through twists and turns to the observation deck for a spectacular 360 degree view of the park and surrounding peaks and region. For the more athletically inclined, Mount Mitchell is also accessible by hiking trails of varying lengths and difficulties.
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20.Nags Head
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Nags Head is a part of the Outer Banks known for its beautiful beaches, but there is so much more to this North Carolina town than that. Located near the famous town of Kitty Hawk, where the Wright brothers first achieved flight, and the resort town of Kill Devil Hills, Nags Head is a great spot for vacations or day trips alike. With a beach that is perfect for swimming, sunbathing, or surfing and a town with world class restaurants and stunning galleries for visitors to enjoy, Nags Head also offers options like snorkeling, finding and exploring old shipwrecks, kayaking, and hang gliding.
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21.New Bern
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Near the coast of North Carolina, along the Trent and Neuse Rivers is New Bern, one of the oldest towns in the state. Founded in 1710, New Bern boasts fame for the invention of Pepsi in 1898, and for being the home of famous author Nicholas Sparks – the area serves as the setting for many of his novels, including The Notebook. History buffs will enjoy the North Carolina History Center and the New Bern Fireman’s Museum, while nature lovers or those looking for some fresh ocean air can take a cruise along the rivers or the coast with one of the many charter cruise companies in the area. In town, New Bern’s main streets are filled with boutiques and attractions set along the banks of the scenic river. There are plenty of places to eat a delicious meal.
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22.Ocracoke
Ocracoke Island is the southernmost island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, accessible by ferry. This idyllic place is perfect for a relaxing island vacation, with long stretches of sandy beachfront and a town filled with charming local businesses. The National Park Service owns most of the island, so Ocracoke Beach remains undeveloped, making it one of the most beautiful beach destinations in the US. Visitors to Ocracoke can sunbathe, swim, or get wild with watersports from surfing to waterskiing. On land, Ocracoke offers options for hiking, biking, and some amazing food at its restaurants, many of which have docks for guests coming by boat.
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23. Boone
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The town of Boone, situated in the Blue Ridge Mountains, is a historic area that, like many other towns on this list, offers countless opportunities for outdoor adventure. Visitors can go spelunking amongst the limestone stalactites and stalagmites of Linville Caverns or drive along the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway to get up close and personal with some of the most beautiful mountains in the region. There’s opportunity for hiking or biking on mountainsides, skiing and snowboarding in the winter, or spending a happy day sampling drinks along the Boone Area Wine Trail. There’s so much activity in Boone, it’s bound to be an unforgettable visit. Things to Do in Boone
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24.Roanoke Island
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Roanoke lives in infamy as the first attempted settlement in America by the English, a colony that was mysteriously lost. Today, Roanoke Island is a thriving place that draws people to its museums and historic site, as well as its current status as a fun town with plenty of attractions for tourists and locals alike. On Roanoke Island, visitors will find art galleries, a maritime museum, Elizabethan Gardens, Island Farm, and the Roanoke Marshes Lighthouse. Throughout the year, the town hosts events like the Shallowbag Shag Beach Music Festival, a bluegrass festival, and much more.
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25.Wrightsville Beach
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Wrightsville Beach consists of a four mile long island off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina, as well as an interior island, and a few bits of the mainland. On Wrightsville Beach, visitors can escape from life by the white sands and sparkling blue waters which are perfect for swimming, fishing, surfing, and more. Visitors can explore the history and ecology of the region at the Wrightsville Beach Museum of History or take a guided cruise on the harbor. Accessible by an iconic drawbridge, Wrightsville Island is a close enough drive from the mainland to make a perfect day trip, with restaurants in the village that serve amazing seafood.
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Tag Archives: Eric Dier
By Charles Richards / @spurs_report
For the past three seasons, Spurs have been engaged in a high-wire act, trying to bridge the chasm between the Premier League’s financial elite and also-rans, on a far smaller budget while investing £800m in a shiny new stadium.
Thanks to the brilliant work of Mauricio Pochettino, the discovery of a superstar striker from within the academy and the assembly of a strong and cohesive core of players, Spurs have managed to defy gravity. But now, with the new stadium rising from the ground and the end within touching distance, Spurs have started to sway.
Much has already been written about Danny Rose’s uncomfortable (you can pick your own adjective) comments about the club’s strategy and ambition, and I don’t want rehash these arguments. I’d recommend this excellent piece by Daniel Storey on the context of the comments, and this piece by Alan Fisher captured a lot of my torn emotions about the summer Spurs have had.
Instead, I want to look at what Spurs can do to respond on one of the key issues raised by Rose: the club’s wage structure.
(I’ve recently looked at transfer spending, as well as stadium spending — for new readers, there’s plenty in the archives to get stuck into on the stadium and finances.)
For the past three years, the Spurs wage bill has been more or less flat, hovering around £100m. It is the sixth highest in the league, per the last set of financials. Arsenal have the fifth highest wage bill, and at £195m it is almost double Tottenham’s.
The wage structure at Spurs is widely reported as being a series of tiers. Hugo Lloris and Harry Kane are on top, earning around £100,000 per week. Then there is a tight band of senior players on a tier below, earning between £60,000 and £80,000 — the likes of Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen and Christian Eriksen — followed by younger players such as Dele and Eric Dier, who are regularly rolled onto new deals until they reach the second tier.
It has been a structure that has worked — the team has performed on the field, and seems to genuinely get along off it. It appears that Pochettino has wanted to maintain this balance for the sake of squad unity, rather than risk bringing in expensive players on higher levels that may disturb the status quo. Up until now, Levy and Pochettino have done a good job of persuading current players to sign new deals and buy into this structure, even if at a discount to what they could earn elsewhere.
The approach was always going to run its course eventually. The question now is: has that moment arrived?
Daniel Levy is a stubborn man, and his reaction to Rose’s interview may well be entrenchment. After all, Rose only recently renewed his contract — no-one forced him to sign it, and contracts should be honoured. Pochettino appears to genuinely be on the same wavelength as Levy on wages and spending, and in his pre-match press conference on Friday, made exactly this point.
As principled a stance as this is, it’s also a losing one — players invariably end up getting what they want.
If the frustration was limited to Rose, perhaps he could be quickly shifted up to Manchester United, the money banked, and a new left back sought. But, as widely reported, it seems that Rose’s views on uncompetitive wages are shared by many within the Spurs squad.
Here’s a simple chart of revenue vs wages. The figures are from club accounts, until financial year 2016. For 2017, I’ve estimated revenue conservatively, based on known changes to PL and UEFA money; wages is harder, but I’ve attempted to gauge the shift in total wage spend based on the comings and goings and contract renewals in past 12 months as reported in the media. The figure that came out was about £115m — it’s very rough, but I want to at least illustrate it.
As you can see, wages are starting to diverge a long way from revenue. It’s really quite a big gap now — too big, from the perspective of the players.
WHAT CAN SPURS DO?
A few ideas have been floated in terms of how Spurs can address the frustration within the camp, and see off any potential mutiny. A unilateral wage bump, a lifting of the ceiling, or an expanded bonus pot for on-field performance. But these seem reactive, like trying to stick something that is broken back together, knowing it’ll never quite be the same.
It may simply be time to accept that the status quo has changed, abandon the wage structure altogether, and deal with player contracts on a case-by-case basis.
It’s risky, but if players are complaining in public about being underpaid and about a lack of squad strength, they are less likely to be disappointed to see new signings or current teammates suddenly earning a lot more than them. Instead of the goal of the wage structure being unity, it becomes about ambition — players see teammates’ earnings jump, and accept it in the knowledge that the club is trying everything to win (and that their turn will come).
Levy isn’t stupid — he knows that he’s had the benefit of a relatively low wage bill for several years, enabling him to shovel money into the stadium project. There was always going to come a time when this ended. For several years now, we’ve been talking about Spurs being a “young” team, and they’ve been paid like it. Relatively, Spurs may still be quite young, but actually, this is a group of players in their prime. Of the core 15 or 16, only Winks and Dele are under 23. Kane is 24, Eriksen 25, Trippier 26 — these aren’t kids.
The wage structure has increasingly become a limitation. Players who could have strengthened the team — Sadio Mane for example — have gone elsewhere, forcing Spurs to settle for poorer alternatives.
How would this new approach work in practice? Next up on the contract list is surely Alderweireld — he’s one of the best CBs in the league, so pay him like it, even if it is more than Lloris and Kane. Toby isn’t stupid — he knows what he is worth, and simply isn’t going to accept that what should be the biggest deal of his career is far below market rate. After Toby, it is probably Eric Dier’s turn — again, pay him close to what he is worth, or at least match the highest earners. Spurs need to be realistic — to lose one of the best back five in the league last season is unfortunate, to lose three or four would be careless.
(BTW, I utterly disagree with the “he’s earning more in week than most people earn in a year so he should shut up” complaint — elite sportspeople have enormously valuable skills and very short careers that can end in an instant. They are also humans — people want to earn what they are worth.)
Spurs can never top what these players could earn at Man City — clubs fueled by petrodollars will always be able to outbid those run rationally. But Spurs can offer a competitive wage, in a team that can contend for the title, a manager they respect, London and the best new stadium in Europe from next summer. It’s not a bad pitch.
CAN SPURS AFFORD THIS?
“Hang on”, you’re probably thinking, “how on earth are Spurs going to pay for this?”
I was going to go into a big spiel here with numbers and projections, but ultimately, there is no accurate information for individual player wages, and it’s hard to see where stadium funding begins and ends in terms of football-related revenue vs debt.
But at a higher-level, in the last accounts, wage-to-turnover ratio was 47.4%. Under my projection of the next accounts, the ratio drops to 41.3% — that’s incredibly low. Manchester United are the only other club below 50 percent. Arsenal stand at 55%, while Liverpool are at 69%. With a stadium to finance, it’s not realistic to expect Spurs to stand spending in an unrestrained way — but it is realistic to expect Spurs to spend in a competitive way.
If Spurs were to maintain the current 47.4% ratio into the next financial year, that would mean a wage bill of about £133m — that’s £33m more than is currently spent. Spurs could offer nine players £70,000 per week wage increases, and still the wage-to-turnover ratio would drop in the next accounts. (Of course it’s more complex than that with bonuses and so forth, but you get the point).
Spurs have issued a raft of new deals in the past financial year, including many senior players, but it would appear there is still significant room for more, if the club chooses. And revenue is going to climb further in the next two years — for example, Spurs will have the new Nike and AIA deals showing in the FY 2018 accounts. There’s also the chance to sell huge numbers of tickets at Wembley — all those outrageous £3.50 booking fees will start adding up — and then hopefully we’ll be in the new stadium.
With concerns over growth of TV rights income, fears of stadium cost overruns and no naming rights sponsor, plus an inflated transfer market where value is hard to gauge, let alone find, there are a lot of factors weighing on the club’s decision making. The hope is that Levy doesn’t get seduced by the complexity — Spurs have a team that is good enough to win trophies, and appealing enough to help sell those swanky premium seats at the new stadium. More depth is needed, but the core was cheap to assemble — if the price of success is that it is a bit more expensive to keep together than planned, then so be it. It’s a pretty good problem, in the grand scheme of things. It certainly feels there’s significant scope to increase wages before getting into the territory of the club spending money that doesn’t exist. Hell may need to freeze over first, but it may be that Levy and Joe Lewis reach a point where they accept it’s time to push the envelope a bit on football spending to take that final step.
Is Levy prepared to swallow some pride, and some cost, to keep this squad together? Pochettino’s masterful handling of Friday’s press conference — his “disappointed dad” tone was pitch perfect — showed both firmness, and a little flex. The fact the agency and club were able to get together on a statement to de-escalate the situation beforehand helped, and suggested plenty of work is going on behind the scenes. Pragmatism may yet rule the day — contrast that to the situation with Liverpool and the timing of Coutinho’s transfer request, designed to make Jurgen Klopp look a fool.
Danny Rose, in his hopelessly unprofessional (and scorchingly honest) way, may have done Spurs a favour. It’s time to recognise that the environment has changed, shift strategy quickly, and take a sledgehammer to that wage structure.
This entry was posted in Football Finance, Opinion, Transfers and tagged Daniel Levy, Danny Rose, Eric Dier, Mauricio Pochettino, Toby Alderweireld, Transfers, Wage Structure on August 12, 2017 by thespursreport.
Good problems: Five questions facing Spurs this summer
Nabil Bentaleb is a problem — but a good one.
A full-blooded draw at Stamford Bridge ended Tottenham’s slim title hopes, but the point ensured that Spurs will finish in the top three for the first time in the Premier League era.
Various mathematical possibilities remain, but at the very least Spurs have secured qualification for the Champions League qualifying round. A win on Sunday against Southampton and we will wrap up second place given our unassailable goal difference.
It has been an extraordinary season, and once the disappointment of being pipped to the post by Leicester fades, I’m sure we will look back on the campaign as one of the finest in the history of the club.
While us fans drink it in, and mull over what might have been, there is no time for Premier League clubs to rest.
The combination of the new TV deal and new eras at some of the richest clubs threaten an arms race the likes of which we haven’t seen in the Premier League era. Spurs and Leicester have usurped the elite, and they will be gunning for both clubs. At Spurs, we are used to it, but you sense Leicester are going to be in for an almighty shock next time around.
Champions League was the hope for Spurs in the 2016/17 season, but not the expectation. The potential to now compete for higher calibre players adds both potential, and pressure, to the business ahead. Meanwhile, Champions League football may necessitate new contracts, wage bumps or bonuses to ensure the players and their representatives are happy and focused for the campaign ahead.
As far as problems go, these are brilliant ones to have.
Put yourself in Daniel Levy’s shoes. What would you rather be doing this summer — fending off calls from Ed Woodward and Florentino Perez, or topping up a few contracts and shopping for a couple of new stars?
The wage issue is just one of a number of “good problems” facing Tottenham’s key decision makers. With such a young team, the scope for natural progression is evident. The strong team identity — the philosophy, if you will — provides a framework for strengthening that certain other teams lack.
This summer offers an opportunity to make a number of smart moves that can push us to the next level. In most cases, the choice will between something good, and something potentially even better. We are in a strong, and happy, place right now — that perspective is important in the months ahead.
I am going to sketch out a number of these “good problems” below. One thing that isn’t a “good problem” is the striker situation — we’ve walked the Harry Kane hamstring high wire once, but there is no way we can risk it again. Our forward options are just a problem, pure and simple.
Do Spurs stick or twist with Nacer Chadli?
Of the “Bale money” signings, if there is one who continues to defy judgement, it is Nacer Chadli. What is he? Is he a productive player who contributes when given the chance — seven goals and five assists this season in limited minutes? Or is he a player with tremendous physical and technical gifts who has never quite found the intensity to reach his potential?
After showing little promise in his first season at White Hart Lane, Chadli was widely accepted as having a fine campaign in 2014/15. He played just under 3,000 minutes overall — the amount a first-choice player would play — and contributed 13 goals and five assists in total, one every 163 minutes.
This season, he started the first five games — in which Spurs secured five points out of a possible 15 — and played 90 minutes in each (against Everton he was subbed off just before the end). But since then Chadli hasn’t played the full 90 minutes in a league game.
In all competitions, Chadli has played just 1,650 minutes — although an ankle injury in the autumn meant he was unavailable for two months. When he has played, he has often appeared off the pace and even listless. And yet, he has been extremely productive — with seven goals and five assists in total, one every 137 minutes.
Chadli is a walking, talking “good problem”. On the one hand, he is a squad player who has proven that he can produce goals and chances when called upon. On the other hand, he has done nothing in the past six months to put pressure on Christian Eriksen and Erik Lamela for a place in Pochettino’s strongest XI.
With his scoring record and the fact that, at 26, he is in his prime, Chadli is sure to have suitors. Spurs paid £7 million for him from FC Twente — given Andros Townsend, a far less productive player, went for £12 million, Spurs should comfortably command something in the £15-20 million range for him. This is money that Spurs could re-invest in, say, a young talent with a far higher ceiling.
On the other hand though, Spurs need productive squad players. The Europa League campaign highlighted the shortage of quality options in the squad, but Spurs did not need to prioritize the competition. There is no such room for easing off in the Champions League, and certainly not if the club is trying to sell out Wembley. A player like Chadli — who seemingly is happy to be part of a squad and playing limited minutes, yet contributing when he does — may be far more useful for Spurs next season.
It is a “good problem” if ever there was one.
How to add a new dimension to the central midfield?
Against Bournemouth and Liverpool, Spurs fans watched every Eric Dier tackle with trepidation knowing that he was one yellow card away from a two-game ban.
Dier’s transformation from makeshift to mainstay has been extraordinary, and is a testament to both Pochettino’s coaching and Dier’s intelligence and technical ability.
His adaption to the role is illustrated by the yellow card issue. In his first seven games as a Premier League central midfielder, he was booked five times, ruling him out of the home match against Liverpool. He has been booked five times In the 28 games since.
Dier has played 35 out of 36 games in the league this season, racking up 3,088 minutes. Along with Toby Alderweireld and Hugo Lloris, he has been the rock this miserly Spurs team has been built on.
In Dortmund, a Spurs midfield anchored by (and I still can’t believe Pochettino tried this) Ryan Mason and Tom Carroll was brutally and predictably taken apart. It showed that we sorely need at least one other strong midfield option in case of injury, suspension or need for rotation.
This isn’t a straightforward task though. The midfield trio of Dier, Mousa Dembele and Dele Alli offer a wonderful balance, and whoever comes in is likely to see limited minutes as a starter. In particular, both Dier and Alli have proven themselves durable in their early careers. More likely, the minutes will be in place of Dembele, who is never at his best playing back-to-back games.
While someone like Victor Wanyama is frequently linked, and would appear to offer value entering the final year of his contract at Southampton, Spurs would still be spending a lot in transfer fees and wages on a player who may see strictly limited action as a Dier replacement, or someone brought on alongside him to stiffen up the midfield and preserve a lead in certain games.
Likewise, Spurs may not want to sign a midfielder who primarily plays “forward” as this player may not offer quality cover for Dier when needed. Spurs already have Ryan Mason in the squad offering cover in that sort of box-to-box role.
You may be thinking, just buy two. But we have been down the road of expensive squad players, and it wasn’t pretty. Pochettino spent most of his first 12 months clearing out the likes of Etienne Capoue, Paulinho and Benji Stambouli.
Pochettino doesn’t want depth for depth’s sake, judging by his statements on wanting a smaller squad than he inherited. He wants first-team quality options, and if there are minutes going spare, he would rather give them to youngsters. The days of the “Mourinho mantra” of two experienced players in every position may be over — Spurs have tried it, and not only did it fail but it was expensive. Spurs will be looking at highly-targeted versatility, rather than a Redknappian “we need to get a few more bodies in”.
Spurs ideally would be looking for someone who can play in the deep role, but also provide some of the attacking thrust of Dembele (there won’t be anyone exactly like Dembele, he is a one of a kind). This isn’t an easy piece of recruitment by any means.
But if I was Paul Mitchell, this is exactly the sort of recruitment puzzle I’d get out of bed for. There will be quality players out there who can do both. It’s just a case of finding them.
Why is this a good problem? We already have a midfield that works, and there are all sorts of interesting ways Spurs can approach the task of making it even better without breaking the bank.
What do Spurs do with Nabil Bentaleb?
Of course, it may be that Spurs already have the central midfielder they need to cover Dier and Dembele in the squad. Step forward…Nabil Bentaleb.
In his first 18 months at Spurs, Bentaleb showed serious potential. While far from the finished article, he showed tenacity and looked like he may in time develop the tactical nous to be a quality defensive midfielder in the league. With that beautiful left foot and athleticism, he also offers something going forward.
However, something has gone seriously awry in the past 12 months. Do we even know what? Public demands for a new contract? Concerns over his representation? A falling out over an injury? None of them, in isolation, seem anything more than run-of-the-mill issues and far from enough to discard a young talent. Along with facts, what has also been noticeable in its absence is any significant leaking from Bentaleb’s camp about his unhappiness and desire to move on.
It is all highly curious. It makes me wonder, perhaps, if an olive branch, or promise of a blank slate, has been quietly offered. Maybe, it has all been some jedi-style mind training from Pochettino, a deliberate crushing of Bentaleb’s soul in order to harden him for the dreary defensive work that lies ahead as a deep-lying midfielder.
Honestly, I have no idea, like everyone else. But either way, Spurs are winning. They’ve either got a quality midfield prospect hungry to get his career back on track, or they have a midfield prospect with huge potential who will fetch millions in the transfer market. That’s a “good problem” alright.
Where should Spurs look to find an understudy for Eriksen?
If Eric Dier has been irreplaceable at the base of the Spurs midfield this season, so has Christian Eriksen at the pointy end. After a mid-season dip, Eriksen has hit top form in recent months.
Eriksen has played 33 out of 36 league games this season, notching 2,762 minutes. He has also played seven Europa League games. Last season, Eriksen played in all 38 Premier League games.
Spurs are a physical and intense team capable of blowing the doors off an opposition defence. But when more subtlety is required, Eriksen is the man to pick the lock.
He is comfortably the most creative player, averaging 3.7 key passes per 90 minutes, according to WhoScored. The next closest is Erik Lamela with 2.7 per 90. Chadli in limited minutes has 2.3 per 90.
We don’t really know what would happen to Spurs if Eriksen was out for an extended time, or needed to be rested in a big match. This season, the three games he missed came during Spurs’ slow start to the season — against Leicester (a), Everton (h) and Sunderland (a). But the team was in the early stages of its evolution then, and there were myriad reasons for the underperformance.
As previously mentioned, the Champions League won’t offer the same chance of rotation as the Europa League. Eriksen, surely, will not be able to play every Premier League and European game season after season. We will need another creative midfield option. The question: Do Spurs look to the academy, or do they use Champions League qualification to attract a world-class talent?
The three most likely contenders to fill Eriksen’s shoes as creator-in-chief in the current squad are all homegrown — Tom Carroll, Josh Onomah and Alex Pritchard. Onomah would appear to have the most “upside”, but has yet to provide any real end product. Pritchard was surely the understudy-designate before walking under a ladder and enduring a year from hell that last saw him lumping it about in the West Brom U21 squad.
A driving principle of the Pochettino philosophy has been about giving homegrown talent the same chance as expensive imports. But let’s not be naive: with Champions League football on offer and money to spend, Spurs could have some serious fun shopping for an attacking midfielder.
Go and Google “best young attacking midfielders in Europe” — you’ll land on a bunch of clickbaity galleries full of future superstars. Now, because of what’s been achieved, Spurs may be able to buy some of them — we’d be crazy to rule it out.
Do we need to talk about Kevin?
One of the many benefits of a strong season like Spurs have had is that it makes retaining key players that much easier. Of course, if Real or Barca coming knocking, that’s one thing, but the entitled talk coming from Old Trafford sounds frankly delusional.
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If there is one player that I am concerned about keeping hold of, it is Kevin Wimmer. I should probably explain why.
When Jan Vertonghen went down against Crystal Palace, Wimmer didn’t so much as blink upon stepping in as his replacement. In the 10 Premier League games Wimmer played, Spurs conceded seven goals (0.70 goals per game). With Vertonghen at the back, we conceded 18 in 24 (0.75 goals per game).
Is Wimmer better than Vertonghen? I don’t even begin to know how to judge it — defensive stats such as tackles and interceptions seem pretty meaningless, especially in context of a high press.
Vertonghen’s ability to carry the ball and his distribution may give him an edge, but in pure defensive terms, Wimmer perhaps is better in dealing with aerial balls and physical strikers.
Paul Mitchell obviously had Wimmer up his sleeve from the moment he arrived at Spurs, black box in tow. While the club was cautious in doing business early on, presumably waiting for as much data as possible to be gathered before making decisions, Spurs were always moving for Wimmer.
So why am I concerned about keeping Wimmer? It is a combination of the fact that he has proven his quality, the fact that he is unlikely to unseat Vertonghen as first choice, and the fact that there is a shortage of ball-playing, left-sided centre backs in the Premier League.
If you are wondering why Spurs are where we are, Wimmer is a pretty good illustration. He is our back-up left CB, yet would be first choice in that position at Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool.
The way Spurs split the CBs is oh-so trendy, and works a treat, and every Premier League side is going to be trying to do it next season if they aren’t already doing so. Wimmer has proven he can play out that way, while keeping things tight coming the other way. This makes him an extremely valuable commodity in the Premier League in 2016/17.
Why is this a good problem? Because if you are worried about losing a player, it is way better that it is your back-up centre back than, say, your only striker. And this whole potential scenario arises from the fact that Wimmer has been such a successful signing,
I hope Spurs keep hold of him, and use him more. The last thing we want to be doing is messing around with a settled and solid defence. But if that is not possible, we will at least get a massive wodge of cash — far more than the £4 million we spent.
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This entry was posted in Analysis & Data, Opinion, Spurs Youngsters, Transfers and tagged 2015/2016 season, 2016/2017 season, Champions League, Christian Eriksen, Eric Dier, Kevin Wimmer, Mauricio Pochettino, Nabil Bentaleb, Nacer Chadli on May 5, 2016 by thespursreport.
Autumn Statement: Some thoughts on where Spurs stand eight games in
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After a brief Indian Summer, it has turned autumnal in England this week. Wind and rain, temperatures dropping, leaves starting to fall from the trees. It feels like football weather, finally.
Of course, we are eight matches in — almost a quarter of the 2015/2016 season is already gone. For Messrs Rodgers and Advocaat, the game is already up, while the seats are warming under a few other managers, “Tactics” Tim Sherwood included. Eight matches may or may not be sufficient sample size from a statistical point of view, but it feels we’ve seen enough of the latest edition of Spurs to draw some conclusions about where we stand.
POCHETTINO SETTLES IN
I wrote last week about Mauricio Pochettino and how his philosophy finally appeared to be taking root at Spurs. I saw more evidence of this against Monaco. I wasn’t able to watch the Swansea game due to the ridiculous restrictions on broadcasting Spurs matches in the UK, but from what I read it sounded like Spurs played well and could have won. It felt a respectable point. Crucially, it appears that Poch may have found his solution to managing his squad through the Europa League. It always felt like a double-edge sword — play a weakened team in the Europa League and risk loss of momentum, or play a strong team and risk tiredness on Sundays. But, perhaps smartly, it appears Poch has focused on finding players he thinks are capable of playing back-to-back — the likes of Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Eric Dier. If you look at top teams, star players generally play almost every match — to be rested is a rare treat, and to be savoured all the more for it. It has taken a while, but Poch is finding players he thinks can survive the rigours of Spurs’ schedule.
UNSPURSY
Jamie Carragher’s comments about Liverpool “becoming like Tottenham or Newcastle” riled a few Spurs fans, but not me. It just showed the Liverpool delusion at its worst, and how supposedly insightful pundits like Carragher have missed the fact that Spurs are a rather different proposition nowadays. As one wag put it on Twitter (I’d link by can’t remember who it was unfortunately), Liverpool “saying they won’t do a Spurs then doing a Spurs is more Spursy than anything Spurs have ever done.” Gary Neville, on the other hand, has noticed, and was impressed by the foundations being built by White Hart Lane. We saw it in patches last season — all those late goals showed a toughness that Spurs fans aren’t accustomed to. It has stepped up this season. Aside from a narrow defeat against Manchester United, Spurs are unbeaten in the past seven (our longest unbeaten runs in the previous two seasons were six games. We managed a 12-game run in 2012/2013). We’ve come from behind to trounce Man City, when previously we have rolled over against them, while we also scored a late winner against Sunderland and ground out a win against a tough Crystal Palace side. On Sunday, Spurs came back twice against Swansea in a post-Europa Sunday outing. Spurs are among the group with the best defensive records in the league, and the advanced stats look pretty good in terms of underlying numbers. The squad is the youngest in the league, the camp seems united, and the exit of the Sporting Director, Franco Baldini, was handled smoothly with none of the public bloodletting that often occurs as reputations are fought for.
GOOD SIGNINGS
The transfer market has been a bit of an ordeal in recent seasons — Christian Eriksen is the last screaming success. But, for the first time in a couple of seasons, there is real excitement about a couple of the new boys: Son Heung-min and Dele Alli (bought in January but only arrived at the club this summer). Son has taken to the Premier League like a duck to water. His constant motion, excellent technique and ability to involve himself in the game have clearly lifted the team. Hopefully his foot injury isn’t chronic, because he could be a key player at Spurs for years to come and is a massive upgrade to our attacking midfield options. Meanwhile, Spurs may have struck gold with Alli. When I see him, I can’t help but think of Steven Gerrard — there is something about the rangy athleticism, deceptively good technique and the positive intent of his attacking play that reminds me of the former Liverpool captain. I know that is setting the bar impossibly high, but even if he never quite hits the heights of Gerrard, he looks like quite the player.
JURY STILL OUT
We’ve barely seen anything of Kevin Wimmer, so it is impossible to draw any conclusions — other than he may struggle to see serious playing time with the partnership of Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen looking stable. But, while Fede Fazio looked like he was playing in floppy clown shoes against Arsenal, I liked what I saw from Wimmer in that game. He looked quick, strong and composed, and I hope he is first choice once injuries and suspensions strike our Belgian duo. As for Clinton N’Jie, gosh he looks raw. There may well be talent there — he did a great job exploiting a tiring Man City defence to set up Erik Lamela. Also, he obviously has pace to burn. But, if Kane got injured and Son isn’t recovered, could he play up top in the Premier League? It feels like a big ask. He reminds me of rookies who get drafted in NBA because of their size or athleticism, but haven’t yet shown they know how to actually play the game. Some learn and become stars, but many just never make that leap from athlete to sportsman. We’ll see with N’Jie.
STRIKER SHORTAGE
On this subject, it feels like we are a striker light in the squad. On Sunday, with Son injured and Kane tiring, from the sounds of it Poch lacked a good option to send on and possibly win the game. I watched the Everton game, and thought the lack of a striker on the bench was glaring. I like Son as a replacement for Kane as they feel very similar players in terms of work rate and ability to play across the line. But it feels samey — I fear that Spurs are a touch predictable, and are reliant on superior fitness to grind down opposition, rather than having players in the match-day squad capable of causing opposition defences different types of problems. I think Saido Berahino would have been a huge addition to this squad — his all round play is good, but also he has that touch of the Jermain Defoe about him, sniffing out goals. It is hard to impress in the dreadful West Brom team Tony Pulis has assembled, but Berahino is still finding ways to score. I’m sure our chances of winning against Swansea and Everton would have improved with Berahino in the squad.
DIER WOLF AND OTHER SUCCESS STORIES
While Dele Alli has attracted the attention of Roy Hodgson, many of us Spurs fans would say that our player of the season so far has been Eric Dier. His superb midfield play has given the team the platform it needs, both defensively and in attack. He also seems an increasingly vocal part of the team — I loved his interview with Spurs TV after the Man City match, and his anger at the lack of respect he felt that Spurs receive. Watching the footage between final whistle and advert break, as “Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur” reverberated around White Hart Lane, I noticed Hugo Lloris make a beeline for Dier and give him an extra long hug. Hugo is as smart as they come, and knows Dier, as much as Toby and Jan, are the reason he is picking the ball out the back of the net a whole lot less this season. There have been other successes too. Erik Lamela has rightly received praise for his good form. In a team that risks becoming predictable, having someone like Lamela on song feels even more important. He may drive us mad with his inability to retain possession and with too many silly fouls, but he makes stuff happen. Also, I’d like to say a word about Ben Davies. Instead of being dispirited by falling behind Danny Rose in the pecking order, he has worked hard and made the most of Rose’s early season injury to establish himself as first-choice. He may not offer the attacking dynamism of Rose, but he is much better defensively and has been an important factor in Spurs’ tight play this season.
PLAYERS WITH SOMETHING TO PROVE
There have been a few disappointments among a generally very positive set of performances. I’ve not been pleased with what I have seen from Nacer Chadli. He appears to have drifted back to his form in his first season. Yes, he remains an occasional goal threat, but he isn’t involving himself enough in the attacking play. There is a lack of ambition in his play. I hope he rediscovers his fire, as he is a useful player. Andros Townsend, meanwhile, has done virtually nothing in his limited opportunities. I didn’t see him against Swansea, but from what I heard he was hopeless. I was very disappointed with his performance against Arsenal. He just doesn’t create enough. He was already running out of chances last season, but it can surely only be a matter of time before he is moved on. I’d also say that Nabil Bentaleb has something to prove. He started the season poorly and then got hurt on international duty. It could be a costly injury, as he has lost his place in midfield. With Dier suspended, Bentaleb may get a chance against Liverpool to restake his claim. I hope he takes it — he is a very good young player and can grow from adversity, even if he has been the subject of some overexcited buffoonery from certain Spurs bloggers in recent months.
RIGHT BACK CONUNDRUM
If there is one position where Spurs may be struggling, it is at right back. For the first time in what feels a long time, Kyle Walker is fully fit and has established himself as first choice ahead of Kieran Trippier. But I’ve never been convinced by Walker. While he has incredible athleticism, work rate and good crossing technique, he lacks game intelligence. Jefferson Montero is a tough opponent, and by all accounts Walker improved through the game, but for the first Swansea goal it was far too easy for the Swansea winger to get his cross in. Time and time again, Walker lets crosses into the box. Danny Rose is similar, which is one big reason why I prefer Ben Davies. He also continues to make dumb errors — he gave the ball away for the Man City goal, and nearly gave Crystal Palace a big opportunity. Now he is fit, he may benefit from an extended run and whatever magic touch Pochettino has for fullbacks. But I’m not quite sure he has the footballing IQ to cut out the errors. He reminds me a little of Younes Kaboul — when you spend so much of your early career being able to rely on your speed to bail yourself out of mistakes, you run a risk of not learning from the mistakes. As for Trippier, while he has looked generally quite good in his Europa outings, in both matches he has made big errors — he gave away a sloppy penalty, and allowed his man to score a header against Monaco. Let’s give him more time to settle down, but the jury is out. I wonder if, in his black box, Paul Mitchell isn’t looking around Europe for possible long-term upgrades at right back. Of course, there is a promising prospect at the club in Kyle Walker-Peters.
IS THE TOP FOUR ON?
Chelsea look terrible, and they must be at serious risk of missing out on the Top Four this season. I’ve actually thought Liverpool have looked OK in spells, but clearly the Brendan Rodgers “thing” had started to run its course. Jurgen Klopp seems an incredibly fit for that squad and city, so I’d certainly expect them to pick up. While the likes of Palace and Leicester look strong, I’d imagine they will fall away a little. Among the chasing pack, Spurs seem well positioned. We are two points off the Top Four, have the joint best defensive record and are unbeaten in the last seven games. This has been achieved with only one Harry Kane goal (OK, so maybe two if you count the Swansea howler), with first-choice midfielders Christian Eriksen, Ryan Mason and Nabil Bentaleb missing games through injury, and Son Heung-min arriving late in the transfer window. The trouncing of Man City will have been noticed: Spurs may not be seen as the pushover we once were among the Premier League big boys. I’d still back Liverpool to finish above Spurs, and suspect Palace, Everton, Swansea and Southampton will run us close, but I’m feeling more optimistic now than I was at the start of the season. I suspect that feeling is shared by many Spurs fans.
The next block of matches are rather interesting. We open at White Hart Lane against Liverpool, who will likely be under new management. It is a tad unlucky to face Liverpool in the first match under Klopp as you imagine they will be motivated. But Brendan Rodgers always managed to get Liverpool going against us, so it can’t really be worse. Then, we have two very winnable games — Bournemouth away and Villa at home. I suppose, though, there is a risk Villa are under new management by then as well. This is followed by the North London derby. Who knows which Arsenal will turn up? They won what was a battle of squads in the Capital One Cup. And it looks like Alexis Sanchez is back in business. But if Spurs can hang tough and avoid going behind early, spaces tend to emerge in the Arsenal midfield. Looking at the run, two draws and two wins would be a good return. That would take us on to 21 points going into the final international break, enough, I’d imagine, to see Spurs sitting within the Top Four. A good month, and things might start getting interesting. Is that excitement in the air, or is just the autumn?
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 2015/2016 season, Dele Alli, Eric Dier, Mauricio Pochettino, Nabil Bentaleb, Son Heung-min on October 7, 2015 by thespursreport.
Spurs 0-0 Everton: Six morning after thoughts
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Spurs vs Everton was the first Spurs match I’ve been able to watch in full this season on TV, without the inconvenience of pop-up ads and shaky streams. In general, Spurs played well, should have won but could have lost. It’s four games, three points, three goals and zero wins. It’s too early panic, but panic is definitely on the agenda.
Dembele watch: Before the game, I thought this was a huge game for Mousa Dembele. In my view, he rarely produces much of substance, and against Everton he was our primary creative player. It was time to put up or shut up. Sadly, his game ended prematurely with a nasty looking injury — I hope he recovers soon. But the game itself was peak Dembele — plenty of beautiful touches, enough effort, threats of creativity, but absolutely no end product. Personally, I think we are on a road to nowhere with Dembele, at least in a creative role. Oddly, I feel him reprising his forward role, which he had when he first joined Fulham, may be the answer this season. Even if Berahino comes in, Spurs only have two strikers. Dembele can hold the ball up brilliantly, has some interesting movement and can trouble defenders. A false nine, with the likes of Deli Alli, Nacer Chadli and Clinton N’Jie running past, may be a nice option in the Europa League.
Dier watch: I thought Eric Dier was superb. He broke up the play and shielded the defence superbly. Some of his passing was lovely, and he rarely gave the ball away. He pressed with good intensity. Ross Barkley was firmly in his back pocket throughout the game. If you had never watched a Spurs game and seen him play, you’d be hard pressed to know Dier is a centre back by trade. What, realistically, would someone like Victor Wanyama have added to the performance from Dier? And more to the point, what massive flaw am I overlooking in Dier’s game? I like the cut of Dier’s jib, to put it in a slightly daft way, but I can see why he is a big Mauricio Pochettino favourite — he’s Poch’s little engine that could.
Kane watch: Harry should have scored when Mason put him through one-on-one. It was a poor touch that caused the damage, and then it was a battle of nerve with Tim Howard over who would commit first. Howard won. Overall, his play was very good — as always. I would like him to dial down on the interviews and publicity until the goals come again, as he is leaving himself exposed.
Poch watch: Make no mistake, Poch is going to get the blame if the results don’t improve. But what, realistically, could he have done more? Kane missed a one-on-one, Mason missed two, and Chadli fired over from close range. The team executed his gameplan, worked hard, created chances and were solid. This was a well coached team. They just aren’t a very good team, yet. The only criticism I have is that Pritchard should have come on 10 minutes earlier as Mason was flagging. But let’s not kid ourselves, Pritchard was making his Premier League debut — we have no idea if he is going to be good enough to impact on Premier League defences.
Levy watch: Poch has been left out to dry by Levy through the failure to bring in another forward. This game was crying out for a second striker with pace to come on against an Everton defence that went 120 minutes in midweek. Berahino could have been brought in months ago — it is just poor squad management, there are no excuses. The lack of a second striker cost us two points against Stoke and could have been the difference against Everton. I’m not sure the striker situation made much of a difference against Man Utd or Leicester, and although perhaps an experienced midfielder may have helped, one point in these two games is probably par. Overall, I’d say the cost of the slow transfer business is four points. Let’s see what that ends up costing us in terms European positions and prize money.
TV watch: According to Thierry Henry, Spurs’ failure to keep Berbatov, Modric, Bale and several unnamed other stars has cost us the opportunity to win the league. Likewise, the failure of humans to master time travel has prevented us from exploring new galaxies. F**king Levy. Henry is the Erik Lamela of TV pundits — very expensive, looks fancy but desperately lacking in any end product. Looks ill-suited to the high-intensity Sky Sports style, may be better off back on the slower paced Serie-BBC, possibly on loan with an option to buy.
Next on TV: We have Sunderland away after the international break on Sunday afternoon. Too soon for jokes about relegation six-pointers, but, well, time for a win.
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This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Daniel Levy, Eric Dier, Harry Kane, Match review, Mauricio Pochettino, Mousa Dembele, TV pundits on August 30, 2015 by thespursreport.
Random thoughts as the new season dawns
I spent yesterday in cricket heaven (Pomicide!) and computer hell (Windows anything), so no time for any blogging. But I had a few thoughts flicker into my head in between Aussie wickets, transfer rumour tweets and smashing my sodding computer to bits.
When even Poch thinks Top 4 is unrealistic, we should accept that it’s not going to happen.
When even Poch thinks Top 4 is unrealistic, Levy should accept that it’s not going to happen.
When Baldini is ushered out, as Spurs are no longer looking to buy established players and are focusing on youth instead, we should accept that big-money signings aren’t going to happen.
Why is Windows 8.1 continuing to torture me, even now Windows 10 is available? I’m back to Windows 8.0, have lost access to Office and can no longer even type properly without the cursor jumping to random spots on the page.
When am I just going to buy a Chromebook?
Would Spurs be better off selling Hugo? It feels almost cruel forcing a keeper in his prime to stay in a team that is clearly rebuilding. He must be miserable. Why not sell him, use the money on a good keeper prospect (Timo Horn?) and then pick up one or two potential future difference-makers (Werner, N’Jie) with the remaining cash? Vorm is an OK transitional keeper, or someone solid like Brad Guzan may be available?
Is Charlie Austin a smart signing for Spurs, or is this just the very peak of transfer window desperation? I’m just saying, when was the last time Spurs had a reliable striker off the bench? Jermain Defoe before he was knackered? It’s been a while, so long we’ve almost forgotten.
Where is Bobby Soldado?
We are stuck with Adebayor. This guy no longer wants to play football, and would prefer to pick up his £100,000 a week this season without having to play or train.
I like the fact that NO-ONE is talking about Spurs in a serious way. When was the last time Spurs were so unfancied, and entered the season with so little pressure?
I can’t wait to see some of these youngsters in action, especially Deli Alli and Alex Pritchard.
I worry that Toby Alderweireld may block Eric Dier’s development. I think Dier could be a star, but needs to be playing Premier League football, not Europa League, and in central defence, not midfield or fullback. That said, when do we start thinking that Dier is a better option than Jan?
We aren’t going to beat Manchester United.
I love football, and am so glad the season is back, but as I get older, I just love cricket more and more. I reserve the right to reverse that opinion after Spurs’ 8-15 moment this season.
I can’t watch the match live on Saturday, and won’t be able to see Spurs again on British TV until August 29. The matches against Stoke and Leicester will likely combine for no more than 10 minutes of highlights on Match of the Day. How can this still be the case in 2015?
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Daniel Levy, Eric Dier, Harry Kane, Premier League, Tottenham 2.0 on August 7, 2015 by thespursreport.
Nabil Bentaleb: Tottenham’s next superstar
Last season, us Spurs fans revelled in the extraordinary transformation of Harry Kane into a mega star. As the new season nears, I believe another of our young core, Nabil Bentaleb, could be about to hit superstar status.
Looking back now, Kane’s development was as rapid as it was unexpected. Be honest now, how many of you will admit that you were worried at the start of last season over the prospect of Kane as the third choice striker in case either Roberto Soldado or Emmanuel Adebayor got injured?
Kane’s rise lit up what was otherwise a solid but unspectacular season. The jury is still out on whether Kane can repeat the trick, but personally I don’t think it was a fluke. Simply, I don’t think you can fluke a 30-goal season.
So dramatic was the Kane story, however, I wonder if it overshadowed another monumental event that took place through the course of last season, namely Bentaleb’s rapid growth.
A midfielder’s development is never going to be as sudden as that of a striker as there isn’t one single measure to gauge success like you can a striker with goals. But Bentaleb’s journey, in less than 18 months, from remote prospect to lynchpin at a Top 5 club, is pretty astounding in its own way and has few rivals in the English game at the moment.
I’ve been trying to think of recent comparisons. Jack Wilshire? He started with a bang but never really kicked on and has been slowed by injuries. Aaron Ramsey? Not as quick, and his breakout season was about goals anyway. I can’t think of any development of central midfielders at the Manchester clubs, Liverpool or Chelsea. Everton have Ross Barkley, but he is an attacking midfielder really, while Jack Rodwell is more typical of the path that young midfielders take – promise, a big transfer, lack of fulfilment, a move to Sunderland. My point is, what is happening with Bentaleb is RARE.
In his first half-season, Bentaleb proved that he had talent. Last season, he proved that he belonged as a Premier League midfielder. This season, my belief is that Bentaleb will prove that he has the potential to be a world-class midfielder.
Now, at this point any self-respecting blogger in 2015 would crack open the player radars and undertake a deep dive of the advanced stats to prove that Bentaleb is indeed the bastard child of Yaya Toure and Andrea Pirlo. I love the work of Spurs supporting stats guys like Michael Caley at CFC, James Yorke at Statsbomb and the people at Spurs Statsman, but sadly I don’t know where to even look for advanced stats, let alone gather them and draw any meaningful conclusions.
So, until I up my game, I’m stuck with the cognitive dissonance of old-style, say-what-you-see assessment of a player, and trying to sculpt the potentially conflicting conclusions into what is in all probability a subconsciously preconceived narrative. But for Bentaleb, and where Spurs sit at the moment with a young team and a manager like Mauricio Pochettino, I actually feel there is something to be gleaned from what can sometimes be dismissed as the “intangibles”.
I remember watching Bentaleb’s debut against Southampton, and the collective “Who?” from all Spurs fans bar Windy as he came off the bench with 40 minutes left to replace Mousa Dembele. But in the game, it was immediately apparent that he had something. His passing was very efficient and I don’t think he gave the ball away once. He seemed big and athletic, a real man, not scrawny like many prospects when they first appear. He appeared very calm, and didn’t shy away from involvement.
Bentaleb’s route into the Spurs first team is instructive. Unlike many coddled young wonderkids who populate academies, Bentaleb had to overcome rejection by his hometown club, Lille, before wandering to Mouscron in Belgium and then Tottenham in search of a place on the football ladder. Ask the likes of Alan Shearer what rejection at a pivotal age did for them: it can fuel a fire that burns for a whole career. Bentaleb himself has talked about the pleasure in gaining revenge.
Tim Sherwood’s repeated attempts to get credit for the emergence of Harry Kane have been extremely embarrassing, but no-one would begrudge Sherwood taking the credit for giving Bentaleb his chance. Ironically, the notion that Bentaleb was a Sherwood pet and consequent coldness from the White Hart Lane crowd became another thing that Bentaleb has had to overcome.
Bentaleb is, by every account, a beast in training. With typical hyperbole, Sherwood described Bentaleb as “training like every day was the last day of his life”, but this has been born out in every report and ITK account of how things play out at Hotspur Way on a daily basis. Reports that Deli Alli is going toe-to-toe with Bentaleb in the training stakes are hugely encouraging.
So why does this training attitude matter so much? It’s because in Pochettino, Spurs have a head coach who values training performance more highly that anything. Train well, and you will get the opportunities to play well. Bar Harry Kane, no-one has exemplified this simple philosophy more than Bentaleb.
In the quest to be just a little less Spursy, we need guys like Bentaleb
One of the joys of being a football fan in 2015 is being able to use social media to get access to players. Most players are, sensibly, conservative in what they put on Twitter, but even in limited interactions you get a glimpse of their personality. Harry Kane comes across as level-headed, polite but ambitious, even as his world has utterly transformed in the past 12 months. Ryan Mason appears to be a bit of a football obsessive — he was the one Spurs player tweeting about the Women’s World Cup, for example. Eric Dier comes across as wry and intelligent.
However, Bentaleb is my favourite Spurs tweeter — after every game, he does his #SoldiersNeverSurrender bit, and you can just feel that hunger for revenge bubbling away. In the quest to be just a little less Spursy, we need guys like Bentaleb.
This may be sorely overanalysing just a few tweets, I accept. But in sport, character matters — and in talent identification, character is both one the most important factors, and one of the hardest to assess.
I thought one of the most instructive games last season was the miserable defeat away to Manchester United. It was a dreadful showing — Pochettino was terribly slow to react to Louis van Gaal’s use of Fellaini, leaving Kyle Walker, Ryan Mason and Eric Dier horribly exposed. In this game, Bentaleb contributed to the mess by giving the ball away for a simple goal.
However, once Pochettino belatedly switched Bentaleb onto Fellaini, Spurs improved markedly. The game may have been all over, but still Spurs’ performance in the second half wasn’t too bad. They competed, they stuck at it, and avoided embarrassment. I was disappointed in getting so soundly beaten, and frustrated by Pochettino’s slow reaction, but overall philosophical — inevitably, with a young team, you are going to get matches like this.
The fact that Spurs recovered their poise in the second half, and that Bentaleb managed to draw the sting of a rampant Fellaini, I feel taught us more about the team and Bentaleb long-term than a bad 45 minutes did. Add this character to Bentaleb’s other assets — efficient passing, good ball retention, top-class athleticism and a wand of a left foot — and even an untrained eye such as mine can see that Spurs have something truly special to work with.
Going into the new season, Bentaleb is now the key man in the midfield. We await eagerly a further recruit to the Spurs midfield — but it is clear they are being signed to play with Bentaleb. Last season he had to prove to a new manager that he was a serious player and not just some political pawn in the game between Sherwood and Levy. Bentaleb saw off Capoue and Paulinho, again, and also Stambouli. This season, the path is clear: it’s now about proving not just that he belongs, but that he belongs at the top table.
Of course, as Bentaleb rises up in the footballing world, there may be issues ahead. He’s already been linked, albeit v loosely, with PSG and Barcelona. His contract negotiation felt prolonged and spilled into the public domain. We shouldn’t forget that, while he has come through the academy, he doesn’t have the same connection with the club as the likes of Kane and has seen how cold the world of football can be.
But with his new contract now signed and his status as one of the main men at Spurs, I feel confident in predicting that Bentaleb is going to have a huge season ahead, and us Spurs fans can revel in the glow of not one, but two, budding superstars.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Academy Prospects, Eric Dier, Harry Kane, Nabil Bentaleb, Ryan Mason, Tim Sherwood, Tottenham 2.0 on July 27, 2015 by thespursreport.
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Battle of the rallies: 'One Nation' vs. Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor'
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Tens of thousands of progressives gathered on Washington's National Mall on Saturday for the "One Nation Working Together" march, an implicit answer to Glenn Beck's Aug. 28 "Restoring Honor" rally at the same spot. Beck's large, ostensibly apolitical event was widely interpreted as a sign of Tea Party strength. So what did the "One Nation" rally — organized by 400 unions, civil rights groups, Christian denominations, and other left-leaning groups — achieve? (Watch The Week's Sunday Talk Show Briefing about the rally's impact)
This is the best all those unions can muster? The "One Nation" organizers "are proud of their diversity," says Byron York in The Washington Examiner. And the march was diverse, if you count the number of union locals bussed in for the event. But despite the clear determination of the organizers to outdo Beck, all that union "organizing muscle... couldn't turn out as many people as one man on talk radio and Fox News."
"At 'One Nation' rally, a unionized show of unity"
Liberals beat Beck at his own game: "One Nation" not only drew more people than Beck's "much ballyhooed" rally, says Nicole Belle in Crooks and Liars, but did so "without the benefit of months and months of advertising and promotion on Fox News." The "corporate media" is so enamored of the Tea Party that it will underplay this event. But if this "massive" rally is any hint, progressives are plenty energized ahead of the midterm elections.
"'One Nation' rally draws more attendees than Beck's 'Whitestock'"
Numbers don't equal relevance: The "impressive enough" turnout won't alter the media's midterm narrative, says Steve Kornacki in Salon. Nor should it. The Beck/Sarah Palin rally mattered because of Beck and Palin, whose success "perfectly represents this moment in American history." Face it, the Tea Party is just more interesting than the Democratic base. Is there a "relevant" liberal antidote to Beck? Watch Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity."
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Flirting With Casual Heroin Use
By Julene Huffman, February 27th 2013
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I grew up in a typical, idyllic white suburbia of the 90s. Everything I knew about drugs was fed to me through public service announcements and the D.A.R.E. program. As far as I know, their borderline-hysteric “Just Say No” campaigns didn’t keep anyone of my generation from trying cigarettes or beer the first time they were offered.
While the “this is your brain on drugs” ad featuring two eggs in a frying pan was a few years before my time, there is one warning in particular I recall with shocking clarity. The summer between fifth and sixth grade, the same ad ran on the back of every teen magazine — a 70s-styled daisy hogged most of the page. In the center of bulbous flower petals, each a different color of the rainbow, a big black hippie font cautioned: “It only takes once!” Beneath the bright colors and bubbly letters, fine print clarified: You only had to shoot up once to become a full-blown junkie. The message was further reinforced by the overweight she-cop that took over our class once a week, reciting material directly from the D.A.R.E. workbooks.
I remember it vividly because this was a horrifying idea.
Nothing else I came across painted a rosy picture of narcotic use and addiction, either. Young adult fiction was overflowing with stories of dysfunctional teens. There was plenty of delinquent behavior to savor in those pages: teen pregnancy, eating disorders, runaways, rampant drug abuse. The plotlines never varied much; a good kid met a bad kid and slowly spiraled into degeneracy. Teen relationships always started out well then went horribly awry; lots of short-lived break-ups and sex for cash, crying and sleeping in stairwells or doorways. Still, these books almost made it seem as if there weren’t any real consequences. Rarely did a main character return home in a body bag — the hero always wound up redeemed, somehow; reverting to their former, “good” self by the last page.
I realize the idea of runaway teen lovers becoming slaves to the needle and escaping unscathed is laughable, but these novels were my General Hospital — unlikely and unbelievable, a fictitious window into a world I’d never known. The message of those modern Aesop’s fables was thinly veiled, but effective. Though I toyed with dangerous behaviors throughout adolescence, when it came to heroin, I never made it past the terrifying mythology sold to me at age eleven. As a white middle-class fifth grader, I had no reason not to buy in. “Thanks, but no thanks,” I thought.
It’s probably for the best that these messages from Partnership for a Drug-Free America were drilled into my head long before I got my hands on a copy of Junky. William Burroughs’ book painted a radically different picture of heroin addiction than any of the anti-drug propaganda or documentaries I’d ever seen. I picked up a copy off a friend’s bookshelf one night and didn’t bother reading it until I was in the midst of an inexorable bout of depression.
In retrospect, this probably was not the best time to be reading a book written by a critically acclaimed addict. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disturbed by my heightened curiosity in the drug, but its sudden, intense appeal is clear to me now: in theory, it offered reprieve from the ever-present and overwhelming anguish I was experiencing. Heroin could be my escape hatch. “Perhaps all pleasure is only relief,” Burroughs wrote. The idea of anything resembling relief sounded a lot like pleasure to me.
While the complete lack of emotional sensation detailed by Burroughs intrigued me, I couldn’t get past the idea of putting needle to vein until I came across a pseudonymously written article. It detailed the author’s experiences of scoring (and subsequently snorting) heroin while holed up in New York hotels for weekend-long forays into the land of Zero Fucks Given.
“You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict,” Burroughs said. The line caught my attention. His statement rang true; certainly no one set out to be a junkie, just as no one sets out to be sad all the time.
Between Junky and the newly discovered article, I pondered the possibility of toeing the line between recreational use and addiction. Was it possible? “Michael” labeled himself a casual user, and even Burroughs seemed to agree it was possible: “It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all.” Furthermore, he insisted that a habit should not be confused with the creation of an addict — the fallen and resurrected types found in the YA Fiction of which I was so fond: “I think it no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict.”
Could I dabble like “Michael” without becoming William? Was the daisy from Drug-Free America spouting propaganda or the straight dope? As the depths of my depression grew, so did my efforts to learn more about the casual use of the big H. I wasn’t quite prepared to make the buy, but the idea steadily gained traction.
Until, as usual, reality squashed fantasy and I was forced to reassess.
While eyeing a pair of crust punks on the subway, a quote I’d underlined and later copied into my phone came to mind. “I tried it as a matter of curiosity,” Burroughs had said, and I felt that. What’s this all about? Is it fun? More importantly, could it give me the illusion, no matter how short-lived, that life is beautiful?
Watching the pasty girl slowly unwrap a Jolly Rancher lollipop, my heavily romanticized idea of drugged out apathy begins to fall apart. Either the layers of tattered clothing are really slowing her down, or she’s about to pass out in her seat. She struggles to shove the sugary red rectangle into her mouth before nodding off, her head snapping forward. I wonder if she’ll choke to death on that sucker.
Could anything about going out with the taste of synthetic cherry sweets in your mouth be as glamorous or fun as I wanted heroin to be?
“You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in the other direction. Junk wins by default.” The default was looking awfully depressing in the flesh. The crust-junky’s sweatered street dog crawled beneath the train bench, and my eyes were draw to the boyfriend’s catatonic, slackened face resting heavily against the pole to his right. Nothing about this couple looked happy — it looked like they were at the end of the road.
Hard as it was to watch them without feeling something between sympathetic and sorrowful, I didn’t feel compelled to look away. With their sleeves rolled down, I could barely see enough of their skin to think of them as people; tattooed hands and faces caked in dirt, weeks worth of grime beneath the edges of their ragged fingernails. Watching them swim in and out of their narcotic haze, it became hard to align the lifestyle of the two people before me with the affectlessness described by Burroughs. Perhaps this, like so many things I found tantalizing in print, was not all that desirable.
I could swear Bill also said that heroin was “not a means of increased enjoyment of life,” but if not a means for enjoyment, what was it? Surely all addicts relished in the sensation — at the outset, at least. But as Burroughs said, you don’t decide to be a drug fiend: you wake up sick one morning, and that’s when you’ve become an addict.
“I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked. Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. “
And that was my real issue: I desperately wanted to just drift aimlessly, safely enveloped by the fuzzy indifference I’d read about. I would be the type to nurture that lack of sensation, prepared to keep it from ending by whatever means necessary, anxious and always prepared to re-up.
The problem with shifting from idealizing to actively seeking that level of apathy, I realized, was the knowledge that once acquainted, I could never be convinced to give it up. Exiting the train, I put the idea to bed, much like the couple I last saw slumped over in the seats of the MTA.
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